I'm telling you that I am really getting addicted to the darling stamps at 2 Cute Ink.  I am lovin' this little guy.  Today I am using the Celebration Penguin from 2 Cute Ink.  Such a happy dancing penguin.

These sugar cubes are from a digital stamp set from Doodle Pantry.  The set is called Tea-rrific and is so beautiful.  I went today more with the funny side.  I printed the sugar cubes three times.  I flipped one of the sets and cut out one cube from the third set.  I am not good at all with girly flourishing cards.  That is what this card is supposed to be.  I feel so much more comfortable with boy cards.  The little tea pot charm was the perfect addition.



Happy Memorial Day to everyone.  It's a beautiful day here to be remembering our Veterans.  Today my card is using a digital image from 2 Cute Ink.  They have an Esty store and can be found here.  I just found them not too long ago and think their images are just adorable.  How fun is this little guy just floating along.  Hope this brightens your day.

 

 



Awe, isn't this darling.  This sweet image is from Bugaboo Stamps.  Love that pacifier in her mouth. 



New this month to Doodle Pantry is a French sentiment and digital paper set.  Well, I can guess at a few of the sentiments and I believe this says Joyous Anniversary.  If not, please let me know.  I don't want to use it for that if I am wrong.  The digital set is called Salutations Francaises.  I have to also admit that I was looking forward to this long weekend.  But, everything I had planned on doing is done and I am bored already.  I need to add some more jobs to my "to do" list. 



I have a birthday shaker circle for you today.  I grabbed some nuts from the garage and placed them inside the circle.  As you can tell, they don't slide around too easily but they do move.  These wrenches are from Doodle Pantry.  The set is called Classic Tools and I think this is the third card I have made this month with this set.  Check out the sentiment.  Can you see the "i" in "birthday", its a screwdriver.  hehe love that kind of stuff. A fun birthday card for any man in your life.



First of all I must say I really struggled with this sketch.  For some reason the different angle was so much for me. =)  I am happy with how the card did turn out even with the stuggles.  The sentiment is a scripture from Doodle Pantry.  It is part of a set called Genuine Love.  I love the pink and teal together - so 50's.



A happy crab to start of the long weekend.  This cutie is from Digital Delights and is called "crab".  I purchased all the glitter dots at Michaels last summer in the dollar bins.  They are really fun and add alot to this happy card.



Today I have a special card to show you.  I made this card for one of my Aunts.  In February my Grandpa passed away.  He was 94.  He was so ready to go home but it was still so hard to let him go.  I know many of you know exactly what I am talking about.  One of my Aunts is a beautiful seamstress, she found a pattern to take men's shirts and make them into aprons.  So after things had calmed down after the funeral she brought up this idea and asked all of us gals who would want a apron out of Grandpa's shirts.  Well, we all jumped at the chance!  They brought his shirts out and we all cried again.  We could see him in all those shirts again.  He was in a nursing home at the time he passed away so his name is on the tag of every shirt, which just makes it more special.  We all picked out or shirt - oh, by the way they are all plaid, we would like as our aprons. Just yesterday I received a package and there it was my apron made out of Grandpa's shirt.  It is something that I will treasure forever.  So this card is going to the Aunt who made me a keepsake I will keep till I pass on.  I wanted a very special card to thank her for such a wonderful gift to me.  I thought the pie was perfect because Grandpa loved pie. =) 

I have a newphew that is in the Navy.  He is going to be deployed again soon and his Mom is making him a deployment box.  She has asked several people to send a card with some encouraging words.  Then when he is gone he will be able to open a letter whenever he is feeling down.  I choose to make him a card using the Doodle Pantry digital set called USA Freedom.

I had so much fun making this card.  The challenge of moving parts from "The Male Room" was the inspiration of this card.  The hammer and sentiment are from Doodle Pantry.  The set is new this month and is called "Classic Tools".  I think the sentiment is great.  I was thinking of all the different things it could be great for, a graduate, someone moving into a new home, completing a tradeschool class.  The ideas are so many.  I printed the hammer twice and cut out the second one.



This card is going to one of my friends after I spent a couple days at her new home.  I had a great time and that deserved a pretty thank you card.  This card is made with an image from Bugaboo Stamps.  I printed the image twice, I cut out the flowers and they are popped up.  I don't use purple very often but this card uses the new purple Copic markers I got with this friend.  The die cut didn't fit because the die is a square and my image is a rectangle so I cut the die cut down the center and overlaped one of the loops.  Now it fits great. 



I was in love with this digital set when it first came out and it made me smile today being able to color it up again.  The set is from Doodle Pantry and called Windowbox Wishes.  I printed the windowbox three times.  The box is layered up then the flowers are the third layer.  This set comes with a winter windowbox, a strawberry windowbox and this flower windowbox, plus several different sentiments to go with the images.



Chocolate...some days it is my best friend. =)  This cute image and sentiment are from Bugaboo Stamps.  This week at the Catch the Bug challenge they wanted a "pick me up" card.  I cut out the candy bar and popped it up.  The stamp and sentiment are perfectly called "Chocolate".  This would be a perfect pick me up card for one of my friends.



Poppies are such a pretty flower.  I think I like them so much is because of the color - love the red.  These beautiful poppies are from Doodle Pantry a set called Poppies.  The sentiment is also from the set.  This is the same poppy.  I use Microsoft Word to work my digital images and I flipped my image.



Happy Mother's Day to you all!  I am spending time in my craftroom today and having a great time.  I made this fun birthday card today using a digital stamp set from Doodle Pantry.  The set is called A-maze-ing Words 1.  I usually pop things up more on my cards but held back so this puzzle can we worked on a flat surface.  This is a really fun set, it comes with 7 different puzzles.  You will want to check it out for sure.