Thank You Cards

So...while I was in the U.S. this past June-July... my sister-in-law Gladys surprised me with a bridal shower! She made me believe we were going to a Martha Stewart lecture. I LOVE Martha Stewart. Like really and truly love her! She is such an inspiration to me. She knows about everything there is to know about home decor and cooking and I just adore her. I was so excited for this talk and then.... we walk to the back of this hotel in Fairfield, and I start to see some familiar faces. I think, "Oh cool. My friends are here too!" Then, I see no one else is there and they're all staring at us... me... and I'm like, "Waitaminute!!!" 

Gladys threw me a bridal shower! ME!!! I never even had a clue! She made realistic tickets and everything! I hope I can find pictures of the tickets because she did a DAMN-GOOD job on them! They had little barcodes and everything! 

Needless to say, I was amazed and humbled at the same time. All my favorite people were in this one room, excluding my bestie Marjorie but she has an excuse 'cuz she lives in Ohio!

Here is a shot of the souvenirs she made:

So, before I came back here to Ecuador to be with my hubby (we already did our civil wedding, now we just need to have our religious wedding), I decided I would make all my friends Thank You cards for thinking of me that day! So voila! They are below! I made about 10 of these but since they are all the same, I only took a picture of the first one. Enjoy!

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Thank You For Being A Friend...

So recently Mal, my co-worker asked me to make her a card for one of her friends. A "Thank you for being my friend" card. She looked around my site and found a card I had made last year for Vanessa and asked me to make something similar. Thankfully, I had a lot of the same supplies as the one I had previously made. I had to make a few adjustments but overall it came out great and Mal was really pleased! Yay!

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An Avett Brothers Postcard and a Baby Shower!

Today I'm posting up two cards. The first I made two weeks ago the second I made this past weekend.

First up we have Taryn's card. Last month Taryn was kind enough to let a bunch of us (more than 10 people) stay at her house upstate when we went to see The Avett Brothers perform in Ithaca. For her hospitality I decided I would thank her with this awesome card!!! The front and back are DPs that TAB uses in their artwork so I found it fitting to use it for this. I continued with the black and orange and red color scheme throughout. She e-mailed me and let me know that she thought it was really awesome so I'm really happy :) I have to admit it was a little hard to part with this one. I really love it AND it's a great reminder of the fun I had.

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Next up is my co-worker Eryn's (Trouble as I call her, 'cuz she is!) card. She asked me to make her a Baby Shower card for a boy so I decided on this one here. I love the DP, it's from the DCWV Nana's Kids and I used rub-ons, stamps, and more embellishments. I'm glad I used the brown and tan colors.

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  This monkey is the cutest thing ever.





 The envelope has the same monkey and some of his friends...Overall I really love this card. I made another one so she could pick of the two but I'm glad she picked this one because it was the one I liked the most as well :)

More of Vanessa's Order

These are Vanessa's Thank You cards with her company logo inside. I picked up a lot of techniques from Cardmaker magazine. I think my favorite technique is the paper collage.   CARD 469

 




  This was an old Thank You piece that I was going to use a long time ago but never did and recently found. I thought it went perfectly with this card.  CARD 470
 






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 I really need to figure out the settings on my camera. Not happy with the way some of these pix turned out. Some were too light and others too dark.   CARD 473












 This Angel Tilda came out perfectly with this card. Def. one of my favorites.  CARD 474








 This card was so much fun to make! I loved making this paper. I want to use this technique more often because I have so many scraps!   CARD 475





 This card is another favorite of mine. It was featured in Cardmaker as a way to incorporate the making paper out of scraps. I'm so glad I had all the materials needed so I could make a replica. The love the chocolate and pink color scheme.  CARD 476









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 Another favorite of mine. This one took a very long time to make but I think it was well worth it.  CARD 478