Cards & life--busy busy

Many of you know what I did yesterday but I have family that looks too so I am going to tell it again! Sorry to bore some of you! Yesterday was a busy day for me! It was Jack's birthday so we were having a family party here for him. I asked him his favorite meal I make so we had Busy Day Casserole, made a birthday cake, did a card (of course I waited until last minute!), straightened up for my parents coming over, got gifts wrapped actually told hubby to do this! I show you some shots of the silly boy and his gifts! LOL

The first picture he is opening the Ihome Ipod dock etc from James and I. The second is the Mario Baseball Game for Wii he wanted that Taylor got him! He loves monkey so that is from me. My parents got him a Target GC plus a baseball digital photo frame and Antonia got him a remote control card and balloon! As you can see he what happy with everything! He said he had a lot of fun!

Here is a picture of him and Taylor with his sign she made!

This is another Christmas card I did for the swap! I decided to go non traditional colors and remember a friend, Karen, doing a blue challenge! So I decided to try it!

Paper - Making Memories (Striped) & SU

Stamp - Rubber stampede

Watercolors - Primacolors, SU

Metallics - Gelly Roll

Markers - Bic, Sugarloaf

Diamond Glaze

Embossing folder - Cuttlebug

Glitter - ?

Snowflake - Walmart

Ribbon - Joann

Stickles

I used which ever techniques listed above to do the ornaments! I used the glue pen for the green area and added glitter to it. I will probably re do it since the glitter did not stick that well. I also took a white snowflake and put diamond glaze on it then covered it with blue glitter! I let it dry for a while but made sure that I opened the areas in the center of the flake. Then I just assemble the card and Voila it was done!

I actually have been liking my latest cards which I never like stuff I do! I did not plan for the silver bulb to be covered with the silver metallic marker but it happened! Oh well, C'est la vie!

Okay my next card will be my sketch challenge I have going at Never been kissed scrappers! This sketch is from the Cardmaker's book I bought! I could not come up with these idea's!

Paper - SU

Stamp - Stampendous & Perfectly clear & SU

Ribbon - From a rak (wish I had more!)

Markers - Sugarloaf

Ink - SU

Pencils - Joann's

Stickles

Okay I started using the sketch which is 3 blocks across the an inch thick line underneath. So this is my take! I stamped the 3 monkeys the colored in the monkey & banana then stickled it yellow. As it dried I sat and thought now what! I decided that I would do the saying "Go banana's, It's your birthday" Okay so that meant using my little acrylic letters you know the dollar ones to do the first part! Of course they would not stick to my block!!!! I, those of you that know me, cursed and pouted! I now was feeling the stress of the day! Anyway, since they would not stick I decided I would do them kinda crazy looking like the little monkey! I must have changed the design of this card a million and one times! Finally a brain fart came to me to do the ribbon down the side then I stamped the bottom! But I still did not like it! Ask Taylor for help and she said it needed something. I said what about fake stitching? "Cool", she said. Well I decided to do dots around just two edges of the squares. My hand shook like crazy and they came out all different sizes! I was ready to scream. So I connected them that sucked too! Finally after many mistakes I did the solid blocks and if you look carefully you can see my boo boo's! But after all the mistakes which really helped me make a card I liked, I loved it!

Well this is pretty long so I won't bore you all to death! I will say good night and please stop back! I hope tomorrow I will have my next non traditional card & Taylor's birthday card for Jack uploaded!

Thanks ladies you are all terrific!