Creative Grace

Sunset

I made a card!  Ha ha! :)

Life is slowly returning to "normal", whatever that means.  My summer jobs are in full swing, but I'll admit I'm truly enjoying having my evenings off and being able to turn off my brain.  This has given me a little bit of time to start catching up on some birthday cards I've needed to make.  

I love this coat, featured in this week's Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World.  

I'm usually not a big fan of yellow clothing, but I imagine this coat bringing a lot of sunshine to a cool grey day.  With this in mind, I have a friend who has taken up sailing lately, and I thought this might be a fun inspiration for her birthday card for her.  I love how striking the coat is, but also how delicate the lines are.  I tried to keep that in mind when making the card.  Pretty and flirty, in a subtle way.

Hopefully this does the trick and she will enjoy lots of sunny days!

Card made with a•muse|studio products.  

Reach for the sky Joshua!

 

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If you saw my last post, you know a little about Joshua.  Hopefully this card will do the trick to put a smile on his face.  I don't have a stamp of a tripped out race car, but I do have a rocket!

I remember how much my nieces love interactive cards, so I thought this shadow box card would be perfect.  I wanted to keep the card cheerful and, well, uplifting ;)

Please consider making a card for Joshua and sharing his story.  For more information, click here.  

 

a•muse|studio products were used to make this card (along with some Washi tape and one of my favorite old A Muse sentiments).  

Mr. Harley {Kitten} Shurkus

Yes friends, today I blog about a cat.

You heard me right, a cat.

But this isn't just any cat.  This is for the one and only Mr. Harley Kitten Shurkus, who, on this day, is celebrating his third birthday.  When my good friend Jenn decided to challenge a few of us with doing a blog hop on his birthday, how could I resist?

I mean, come on, look how stinkin' cute he is!

(Apparently he loves to squeeze into this paper scrap box Jenn keeps on her crafty table.)

So, without further adieu, my happy birthday Mr. Harley card:

I'm told he really loves sunshine, so I tried to add a lot of that on the card.  I'm also told he loves to watch the birds, so I added 3 since, you know, he's 3 (I KNOW, wicked genius, right? LOL)

So, happy birthday Mr. Harley.  Thanks for spreading so many smiles because you are so darned adorable (even though you would make me sneeze like crazy, give me itchy watery eyes, and I've always been a dog girl... but I'll overlook all of that because you make my heart melt).

I wish you many days filled with sunshine and birds and boxes and maybe a bunny or two frolicking in the yard.

 

PS - I stole all the Harley photos off Jenn's FB page ;)