Happy Birthday ... to ME!

Well, today is my birthday. It's almost over but I thought I would share my birthday cards with you:)

This first picture is all of the cards that I got. I know at least a couple more are coming.

This second picture shows the hand-made cards I received. The first one is from my granddaughter - how sweet!

Thanks so much to everyone who sent me a card or birthday wishes. I had a wonderful day!

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!! I wish you all wonderful times with friends and family, and safe travels!

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Thanks for the Cards!

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! And Happy Hanukkah, too!

I thought I would post pictures of the wonderful hand-made cards we have received this year. We appreciate them all SO much! We also appreciate all of the non-hand-made cards, too!!! But, since this is a blog for hand-made cards, that's what I am sharing:)

This first one is from Georgia. I will post the names under the other cards, with links to blogs if there is one.

In no particular order, here we go!

Leslie

Vicki

Nancy

Michele

Annie

Donna

Bea

Gloria (But I think it was made by Karen.)

Kris

Sheri

Terri

Pam

Donna

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Celebrate

Kind of a boring card, but it was really nice to have a few minutes in my stamping room and use some new stuff. A few weeks ago, I got some new Gina K stamps, patterned paper and cardstock.

I used one of the new stamps and some of the patterned paper. I matted the image and the background paper with olive cardstock. I mounted the image panel on foam squares. I colored the image with Copics to match the paper and also added a bit of sparkle with my Wink of Stella pen.

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Happy Birthday, Sheri!

Today is my friend Sheri's birthday. This is her birthday card, even though it doesn't say "birthday" on the front:)

The stamps are all from a Tim Holtz set, and the bird is cut out with a die that came with the stamps. I colored the bird with Copics and mounted him on foam squares. I matted that panel with matching cardstock.

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Happy Birthday, Owen!

Here is the card I made for one of our grandsons for his birthday, which is today. He is now six already!

He loves Legos, and especially Star Wars Legos. A friend of ours lent us his Lego Death Star for Owen to play with. So, I thought I would put a picture of it on his birthday card. I cut it out with a circle Nestability and mounted it on a square piece of black cardstock. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Happy Hanukkah!

Here is my Hanukkah card for the year. I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut out the "Happy Hanukkah" from "holographic" paper. (The paper/cardstock was from Crayola. I bought it MANY years ago from a dollar store. I THINK that this is the same stuff, from Amazon.) I added the cut-out to an almost navy cardstock, then matted with shimmery silver paper and mounted on foam squares. The background - with shiny silver snowflakes - is from a large matstack from several years ago from Recollections. I matted it with the almost-navy cardstock.


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Christmas Blessings

The last of my Christmas cards for the year. I made a total of twelve of these cards - with various embossed backgrounds and orientations and slight design variations.

The sentiment and the image are from the same Stampin' Up! set. I used detail gold embossing powder for them. I cut the image and the sentiment with stitched rectangle dies. I mounted the sentiment panel on foam squares. I matted each embossed background with shimmery gold paper.

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December Calendar Page

And my last calendar page for the year. :) Next year's pages are done already, thank goodness. It's so nice to (mostly!) get them done in the corresponding month - doing next year's January page in January of this year, etc.

My December page is almost always embossing on white. This year is no exception. However, I usually use silver embossing powder and this year I went with gold. The embossing folder I used is from Darice. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I matted with shimmery gold paper.

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