May Birthday Cards

Good afternoon. Life has been busy for my family, this past month. My daughter graduated from her first year of preschool yesterday. It was so cute to watch her sing on the stage with her little classmates. She did pretty well for just turning 4. My son graduated from kindergarten and today was his last day. They are my proudest achievements.

I have found a few opportunities to craft, though. So today, I would like to share a few of the birthday cards that I created this month.

I love the stamps that came with my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge. I decided to showcase our Hooligans paper so you could see that it isn't just for Halloween. It is still available in the "While Supplies Last" section of my website for just $3.00!

I used some of our fun Sunset Mini Medley ribbon, and I found this gorgeous purple ribbon at Hobby Lobby (actually the only thing I found worth buying there from the scrapbook section). My fondest wish is that we start carrying more purple accessories in our upcoming idea book that will premier August 1st. Also used on these cards are retired stamps "You & Me" and "Somethin' Special". I love our Wishes cardmaking program for creating cards when I hit a creative road block.

I made these cards for some of my wonderful customers that have May birthdays. I appreciate each and everyone of you. Hope your birthday was special. Have a wonderful holiday weekend.

Casandra

You & Me Preschool Graduation Layout

Good evening! We woke up to a foggy, sunny day.

On the way to daycare this morning, the kids were chatting back and forth about it. Izzy kept asking what that was and why she couldn't see. Jack, in his authoritative (almost kindergartner) voice, calmly explained that it was fog. When she asked what fog was, he replied "You see that white mist? That's fog." Wow! I couldn't have described it any better. How'd he get to be so smart?!

This past weekend, I finally got around to adding some photo's to some of my kids' layouts. I believe 12 layouts are now complete and in their albums. Wow, huh?

I worked on this layout on Saturday, and even printed the photo's for it on my own printer.

It is from the You & Me kit (May's National Stamping Month promotion). It came with instructions to create 2 scrapbook layouts, exclusive stamp set, dimensional elements, mocha opaques, yummy chocolate striped ribbon and gorgeous papers. It was a steal at $15.00.

I added some stitching because I prefer it to stamped stitching designs.

This layout design was perfect for my son's preschool graduation photo's. I can't believe how big he's getting. He refused to wear that sweater vest for class pictures but agreed to wear it for graduation. LOL

Hope you like my latest creation.

Casandra