3 spotted Owls sending Birthday Wishes

Day 27 and I am doing this challenge.  Today I created a Birthday card which I need many of for my friends.  I used Spotted Owl Soup by Jillibean Sup which is one of my MOST favorite lines of paper.  The only other things I used was twine, circle punch and a circle scalloped punch.  I was inspired to do this by a challenge on My Scraps and More issued by Lisa.  She wanted us to use a bird and my bird is the owl.

the gang

Day 26 brings a layout I wanted to do for My Scraps and More.  They posted a monthly sketch and I have never tried it, so it was time.  I used 1 of my retirement pictures, some Canvas Corp paper, cardstock, some trim and some letters from Nikki Sivils.  Later I added bling and a doiley.

This is the sketch: 

and here is my take on this.  Totally out-of-my-box with the paper I used.

Happy Fall

Day 25 brings us to fall.  I decided to make fall card using a Bingo card I had in my stash, some leaves with glittered edges, cardstock and some mini alphabet stickers.  I did not use a sketch on this only an idea.

4 x 4

Day 24 is going to be a card since my card stack is going down.  I have been doing lots of pages and ignoring all these scraps I have, so I decided to make a few cards.  This card was made with a prize I won from Wendi.  I found a challenge on My Scraps & More which said to make a card a different size.  You could not make an A4 sized card.  I also combined a change-it-up sketch from My Sketch World using this sketch and using 2 patterned papers.




This is what I came up with to send to a friend who has been having a hard time.

Celebrate in Style

Day 23 of this challenge and it is getting a lot easier and I am making time to do this.  This is important to me and my viewers, so please leave a comment so I know you stopped by.
Today's layout is from a Retirement Party the Red Hat's threw for me.  I used the Bella Blvd line called Birthday Girl and it was not a Birthday Party but Retirement with perfect colors, twine, buttons, bling and eggplant cardstock.
I found this sketch on Lets Get Sketchy and loved it.

and here is my take on it:

Dubland, Ireland

Hi and this is Day 22.  I was going to do a card, but My Sketch World had a 1 hour sketch and this is what I came up with.  I am scrapping some of the pictures my son sent me from Ireland to start their album.  I used the name of the castle as the banner and the city and Ireland.  I also put Day 1 so they won't forget.

Here is the sketch:




And here is my take:

I used simple Bo Bunny paper with the dots and a banner die to cut the fish tales.

District Recognition

Day 21 and ending the week.  I am working on a Retirement Album so I started doing this one which was the first of a train of parties.  Since I wore black & white I decided to carry that theme and then add red for a pop of color.  I used Washi Tape, bling, flowers, not sure of the line of paper, cardstock and wrote my journaling on the computer on vellum.  It was a good memory to do of myself.