Happy Birthday Billie

Yesterday was Billie's birthday. All the girls gathered at Cedars for Rum Barrels to celebrate. It turned out to be a great time. We were able to snag a table outside, and the weather was beautiful. It started out a little on the warm side, but there was a great breeze, and then when the sun went down, it was just lovely outside. We had lots of food and drinks, but even more catching up, chit-chatting and laughing our tails off. It was good of Billie to have a birthday...a great excuse to have a girl's night out :)

I wanted to make Billie a card with a cherry theme...I just had this idea in my head, but it didn't come together until I saw the oven mitt (Thanks TeriBeri http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/TERIBERI2/CARDS%202/IMG_7262.jpg).

I also ended up altering a small Christmas gift box to match, and put a couple 'cherry' odds and ends in it. All in all, it turned out pretty cute (I thought). I may have to make another one of these 'oven mitt' shape cards while it's fresh in my mind.

Happy Birthday Billie - I hope you had a good day!!

Happy Administrative Professional's Day!

Happy Day to all of you Administrative Professionals out there!

So in our office now there are eight of us Administrative Professional types. Although none of them work for me, I wanted to show my appreciation of them, and let them know how much I enjoy working with them.

First I made each one of them a 3x3 card. Then I made little cupcake boxes, each one decorated slightly different. I filled them with a notepad/pen set with their initial, a cupcake magnet, a pack of decorative alligator clips (all from Micheal's dollar bins!), and their little card.

It was a lot of work, but I had so much fun making these. I hope they liked them! :)

Love You With A Cherry On Top

Yesterday was my niece Kendra's birthday, and this is the card I made to send her. I found both the cherry ribbon and stamp in the dollar bin at Michael's (my favorite place to hang out lately), so I knew I wanted to do something with a cherry. But, I searched through my inspiration photos and found one that did in fact inspire me...so I can't take all the credit for this. Check out Sharon Caudle's very cute version in her gallery on Hallmark Scrapbook:

http://www.hallmarkscrapbook.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=414&si=cherry