We're back

We had such a great trip to visit my family back in Alberta. Before we left I wanted to make a little something for our sweet dog sitter Claire who would be staying at our house and looking after our 9 year old dog. Claire is constantly taking notes about dogs she looks after and I thought I cute notebook would make a nice gift. She likes an Asian influence so I thought the Sweet Pea DSP in Taken with Teal would be nice for her. Since I snapped this photo in the middle of packing, I did't show that I also covered the inside covers with the same paper as the bands on the front. At the last minute I also decided to add a knot of So Saffron ribbon on the top ring, also didn't make it into the photo (I had to prioritize the packing of all our stuff into one suitcase over pictures for the blog - yes that's right, 10 days worth of stuff for a 3 year old, a 1.5 year old and myself into one suitecase - luckily my son would happily wear the same dirty clothes, or nothing but a diaper for 10 days, my daughter on the otherhand, wanted to pack every princess dress she owns).

Easy Gift

Next week I am headed to visit my sister for 10 days - Yippeeeee! Since I will be invading her home with 2 little ones (or 2 little hurricanes) I thought I'd whip up these cute little note cards for her. They seriously took only 15 minutes to make 8 of them. If my sister is checking this out, it's the thought not the time right!? Again I am using some old retired DSP in addition to Tempting Turquoise and Pixie Pink card stock and since I don't have a set of alphabet stamps, I printed the "a" onto card stock from My Digital Studio using the school house stamp set.
Back in a couple of weeks!

Teen Boy Birthday - Yikes!

So if making a masculine card is tough, how about a card for a teen boy? That is what I was faced with knowing that my nephew has a birthday coming up. Thankfully, my nephew has always expressed an appreciation of my handmade cards. He is now taller than me, speaks in a deeper voice, has girls calling (oh my) and the puppy dog cards I sent in years past no longer seemed appropriate. Extreme snowboarding was just calling and I thought that the old (retired so long ago that I can even remember the name of it) DSP looked like a snowboarding jacket and allowed the stamp to be the highlight of the card.