Royal greeting

My sister's father-in-law is English so I only saw it fitting to make him a royally inspired birthday card. I try to avoid making the card too dainty by choosing the decals and colors carefully. I love this card and the inside greeting reads: Hope your birthday is memorable and majestic. Oh! And he's turning 60! That's something to feel noble about! 

xoxo! Chris
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sunny half moons

I went through a brief phase: obsessed with half moon nail designs. I even purchased reinforcement stickers to try this method. 

Reinforcement stickers definitely help the process, the only problem is some of the glue stays on your nail once you peel off the reinforcement. Need a strategy for this strategy!! 

xoxo! Chris 

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Birthday garden

One of my favorite cards to date is this birthday card I was asked to make by a friend/co-worker. All she requested was that I use the picture of the birthday girl in the card. Given the pose (of the little girl pictured), immediately I knew that I wanted to use it to create a scene on the card. I had the image of her walking in a garden of flowers and birds- I also wanted to frame it somehow. As usual this card came to fruition as I was creating it. I started with the frame (punch-out), embellished it with flower decals, cut the silhouette and added the balloon to staple it as a birthday card.

cutting the silhouette 

Inside: My friend happens to be named Chris as well ;p 

xoxo Chris

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Motherhood

Card for my sister's first Mother's Day

It's been a while since I have posted and even longer since I have made a greeting card. Mother's Day is this weekend, another year has flown by. Last year I painted a vase for my mom at Color Me Mine. This year I have another cool gift planned. Not sure about the card yet...

Outside: Motherhood, Inside: Looks good on you. 

xoxo Chris 
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Male creativity

My inspiration board: rhinestone decals, blue bubbled card, silver marker, silver glue pens, wax letter decals and blue ribbon. 

It's been a while since I posted, and longer since I've posted one of my card creations. This is my 3rd male inspired card to date. The friend whom I made it for turned a quarter of a century young and only requested the use of blue and silver in his card. Knowing that he loves cars, and not much else of what to do for a male inspired card-after much thought, I ran with that idea.

Brand: Hooray, License Plate: DOB
My idea for the car was that it was parked and the night's sky was overhead with the rhinestone decals as the stars; and the balloon is floating out of the passenger side window.

 I felt the most pressure I ever have making a card, and not so much because I don't make many cards tailored for men but because this was the first card that I made where the recipient was expecting it (anxiously) and I so wanted to please in my final product. To my relief he was delighted. And so was I.

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xoxo! Chris