My Neighbor

I made this card for a neighbor of mine. When I moved into our new neighborhood, it took me a while to make new friends. Immediately, Kim and I hit it off. We're both mothers, teachers, and North County girls at heart. And, we are only a year apart in age and suckers for Big Brother (yes, the trashy reality tv show). Today is her birthday, so I whipped up a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday sketch with Simple Stories paper. I am also sending over a batch of lemon bars. Yum.

The Birthday Boy

The kids and I had so much fun spoiling Brian for his birthday. We decorated the house, made him an angel food cake (yes, it's a little crooked), surprise-attacked him with water balloons, and made him one of his favorite dishes, lasagna. His birthday always has a way of kick starting our summer. We love celebrating our favorite guy!

Baby Boy Burp Cloths

My hairstylist is having her first baby next month, a boy. I really wanted to give her a little something when I get my haircut tomorrow, so I sewed up a few burp cloths and made a card for her. I used the Simplicity pattern 2924 for the burp cloths, with flannel and terrycloth. For the card, I used my Papertrey Ink - Hanging Out set with Authentique papers. I hope she likes it!

Lovebirds

This weekend I'm attending a coed wedding shower on the beach. I'm so happy for the two getting married and am excited to celebrate their bliss. These little Amuse stamps always come in handy when I create a card in the name of love. I used last week's Sweet Sunday Sketch, along with Bo Bunny coordinating papers.

An Apple for You

I actually found time to do a challenge. Yes, today is the last day, but I did it! I used this sketch as the inspiration for Paige's teacher's thank you card for giving her a great year of kindergarten. Paige got truly lucky to get her as a teacher. The image is from All That Scraps and the papers are Cosmo Cricket, along with some good ol' kraft paper. And I sewed on the card too, woo-hoo!

And here is Paige with her teacher, Ms. Gilbert. It was taken last night at the school's Open House. I have to be honest, I choked up when we arrived. I was reminded of that first day of school, dropping her off. Now the school year ends in two weeks. It has gone by so fast. It didn't help that on her desk was a note Paige had written, "I am special because my mom and dad love me." Arrow straight through my heart.