It's My Party....

This weekend I was kept busy making the invitations to Georgina's birthday. I have seen some examples of a criss cross card floating around here and there and thought I'd give it a go. I took Georgina to Michaels at the weekend to choose some paper - and the RockStar paper pack was on sale - luckily it also went quite well with chocolate, twilight and kiwi cardstocks from Close To My Heart. I also used their (CTMH's) Playful Flourishes stamp set on the actual invitation. I am posting them here - which obviously means I'm quite proud of them (otherwise I wouldn't share!!!)


The "G" was my first attempt at embossing - EVER! I totally loved it - and can't wait to have another session!

Card # 6, 7 & 8

Oops - I have been lazy - well - more like life just got in the way of my creativity - (man!) Hopefully I am back on track again now and there will be some very swift catching up going on!
Here are cards 6, 7 & 8 in the meantime:

Four More!

Kari likes to send hers in bulk so here are the latest four from her:

Cards 5 & 6 (Jenn G)

A little late, but here are my "Cheerful" cards for day 5


and 6

Stay tuned for cards 7, 8 & 9.
Show me Yours!

No cards from any of us for #6....yet - but here's Maggie's Card#1! Maggie is a card maker not a scrapper by craft - & this is great!

All that yellow reminds me of a bridesmaids dress I once had to wear......!

Card #5

This was actually done yesterday morning - just never got around to posting!

Show Me YOURS!

Card #4

He is my (Jenn G) 4th installment in the "Cheerful" card challenge...

Show me Yours!

Kari's Caught Up

Here's Kari's cards for the week so far:

Card #3

Well, I guess I am the first today. So here is Card 3, from me, Jenn G...
Show me Yours

Here's mine (Karen):

Card 2 - Jenn G

Card #2

I sit and I think and I play and sometimes I miss fire but when I'm done - there's nothing to beat that feeling when it all comes together and you know it's finished.

I guess it looks like I'm trying to make my stack co-ordinated - in truth I AM using my scraps - and there's a lot of this (CloseToMyHeart) paper pack in there - I think this pack makes me happy!

Show me YOURS!

Card #1

I just love it when things go according to plan!

Hot off the press from JennG:

Are you ready for tomorrow?

Tuesday September 4th is the first day of 52 days of happiness I made my cover page this morning - I was up and awake too early today!

Of course there's Prisma Glitter on it - anything I do is never finished until is has glitter all over it!

See you tomorrow.

SHOW ME.....YOURS

Oh Me Oh My!

I am SOOO excited - I am in the middle of mindless blog surfing (which are, of course, all scrapbook blogs) and I happen upon one which lists our 52 days of happiness challenge! You can see Allisons blog Stampin' When I Can here.

It's coming - my head is buzzing!

Edited August 28th
It's going to be BIG - but it's going to be small. It's something I'm hoping new & old can have fun with - for just a few moments a day! Any ideas yet?
(in case you haven't noticed I am trying to tease you - but it's not working is it??)
Two more days and I'll tell all - promise.
Edited August 30th
It is going to be an altered pack of cards (I'm thinking this is what you guessed Jenn) That's why there's a 52 in the picture above. 52 cards - 52 days - that makes it a BIG project. A deck of cards makes it a pretty small piece of art (everyday!). I'm thinking this is something old scrappers needing something different will love it, I'm thinking new scrappers will enjoy the smaller canvas.
It's going to be called "Reasons to be Cheerful" and yep, you guessed it, everyday you have to scrap a reason to be cheerful on an altered playing card. Even if one day the only reason to be cheerful is because the sky is blue - or the phone didn't ring - or the baby didn't puke!

I bought my deck of cards at the dollar store last week. I think a 2" binder ring should be man enough to hold all the cards together - and tied up with the (optional) ribbon. This is an ideal time to use paper scraps we've been saving - this does not need to be a colour co ordinating exercise - it's about realising how much we have to be happy about!

I'm using a joker to make the front & back covers in advance. That gives me 52 full days of fun.

We start on Tuesday September 4th. Any ideas why?

Are you with me - or am I doing it alone?

I don't want to be the only one posting a card every day - so I want yours too!

EDITED AGAIN August 30th
I've nearly finished Jenns challenge - anyone else. Send it to me to post!

EDITED EVEN MORE TO SAY:-
Stamp club is next week Friday September 7th at fionas - did everyone get the email?