Happy 60th Birthday, Mom!

My Mom is celebrating her 60th birthday this week and I have had it in my mind for a couple years that I wanted to throw her a surprise party! So last night we had 40 of her closest friends and family at a banquet hall with a band for a great party! If you have ever hosted a surprise party, you know it is nerve racking up to the last second, but once my Mom arrived, the stress was so worth it! She was very surprised and had a great time! It all worked out wonderfully, I don't think it could have gone any better, except if my sister and her family would have been able to make from out of state! So finally, I can post a picture on things I have been working on for the past few months! I started with the invitations in October! I knew I had to have them done before the holidays or my life would have been even more hectic! I used Groovy Guava, Wild Wasabi and Sky Blue on her card. I bought the Top Secret stamp on eBay. The other images are from Stampin' Ups! Eat Cake stamp set. On the inside I paper clipped a picture of my Mom from when she was in her 20s, its a great picture! I used the "sweet" stamp from the So Very set and the 60 is from Brushstroke Numbers set. For the map to the party, I used Google earth to create an image of the location and printed it in black and white and put an x on the spot. After Christmas I was able to start working on the other stuff for the party. The book on the left is Stampin' Up's on board art journal. I decorated it with Groovy Guava Designer Series paper, Groovy Guava ribbon, Sky Blue Ribbon and Wild Wasabi Ribbon. The flower in the left hand corner was made using my cuttlebug and some flower dies and I attached a clear button in the middle.

I also used my cuttlebug to make the title on the journal: Patti's Sweet 60 for the title. On the inside I stamped Happy Birthday and some various images on the first several pages and I used that for a guest book. I will fill in the rest of the pages with pictures, later. In the middle of the picture are some of the party favors. I bought some little Tins that Wilton makes and cut strips of the Groovy Guava Designer Series Paper to go around them. The top is a piece of Groovy Guava cardstock cut out using the scallop circle punch and then on top of it is just a white piece of card stock. I printed Patti's Sweet 60 1-26-08 on the white card stock using my color printer then punched them out with a circle punch. I used a dimensional to adhere the white to the Groovy Guava. I filled each tin with 60 red hots (my mom loves red hots!) To the right of the party favors is the centerpiece. I took old coffee cans and covered them with Groovy Guava Designer Series paper and Groovy Guava Ribbon. Inside the cans I put a Styrofoam block. I used my cuttlebug again to make the flowers and I attached them to skewers using glue. I made them double sided so even if you were looking from the back, it looks like a flower. Then I printed out a picture of my mom from when she was 3 and on the back is her senior picture. I glued them to a skewer also and then filled the can with some moss. A lot of thought and hard work went into this party, and it was so worth it. My mom was very happy and we all had a great time! Plus, now I can finally share all my goodies with you all!

Secret Sister Revealed!

My SBS2 Sisters are having a Secret Sister Swap. Each person that wanted to play was given a name of another person that wanted to play. If you are the "secret" sister it is your job to send a few cards to your "little" sister. A small gift is optional. The other day my package arrived from my secret sister! Yay! I was so excited. My secret sister is Tina at Moonlight Scrap and Stamps and boy did she send me some great stuff! Plus she is from Germany, I don't think I've ever gotten any mail from Germany! Here is a picture of everything she sent:

She sent five cards, a sheet of alphabet stickers and a bunch of stamped images of stamps that I have never seen (other than on her blog, of course!) I am so excited about all the images. I didn't even photograph all of them, because I didn't have enough room! There are 3 images on each sheet. Plus the cards she sent are so adorable. She is very talented! This was/is so much fun! Thanks again Tina!!!

Merci Target!

I was at Target yesterday and found this cook matt of adhesive paper. I didn't know that they made anything like it. It is basically a matt pack but you pull the backing off the back and voila it adheres to your project! So cool!

I used Pink cardstock for the base (from Valentine pack at Michael's). Then I trimmed the adhesive paper to fit the front. The ribbon was from the $1 spot at target and I had some little buckles that I added to that. The stamp set is from the upcoming SU Sale A Bration catalog. I used Tempting Turquoise, Pixie Pink and Gable Green markers to color in the image. The white is layered on a piece of Cool Caribbean card stock. There is a pink Gemstone bling from Hero Arts in the middle of the flower. I didn't put a sentiment on this card, but I think it would work for any ype of card, including, valentine, birthday or thank you. I really like this paper. I can't wait to use more of it!

I'm a bad blogger =-(

I've been looking at blogs lately and noticed that people have won blog candy and posted pictures on their blog and I won some blog candy in December last year and it didn't even occur to me to post about it. I'm sorry Kathleen, will you forgive a newbie blogger for her mistake? Since I have used some of it and put it all away, I will try to link to her blog with the pic: http://kathleenh-myhappyplace.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-candy-celebration.html. I really appreciated all my goodies and wanted her to know. Plus, I just won some blog candy from Betsy and I will post that when I get it! I was going to offer some blog candy at 5,000 hits, but maybe I will do it at 3,000! That should give me some time to come up with something, so keep checking back!

Look at this one!

I was reading through my comments for my last card (the masculine one) and noticed a lot of people have a hard time with masculine cards (myself included). Well I have one that is way better than the last one I posted. I made this one for my hubby's birthday and I really like it! I made this a couple weeks ago when I was playing around with a splitcoast challenge (SC155). I am going to do my best to tell you the colors, I believe it is Always Artichoke as the base and the two circles in the middle, Mellow Moss on the Strip and the big circles and River Rock for the circles with the stamped images. I used Always Artichoke ink for all the stamping! Stamp Sets used where: Favorite Teddy Bear, Time Well Spent, It's All Good and It's Your Birthday. I used little heart brads with the label holder (non-SU) in the corner. I used the hearts cuz it's for my hubby, but you could just as easily change that if it was for a friend!

Masculine Birthday

I needed a masculine birthday card and remembered
I hadn't used this sketch in a while. I am sure it was a sketch challenge at Splitcoast, I just don't remember which one. I really like it because it's different and very easy to do. You could use it with any size card and the layered panel could be any shape! I decided to round the four corners of the base for something a little different. All the stamps are from the SU Eat Cake set, except the Happy Birthday, that is from It's Your Birthday set. The base of the card is Ballet Blue and I stamped using White Craft Ink. The 1st layer is Brilliant Blue and the 2nd layer is White. I colored the base of the cake with Close to Cocoa, then Brilliant Blue, Ballet Blue and the candles are Brilliant Blue and So Saffron.

JammyBella!

Isn't she cute?! I decided to do another challenge over at splitcoast

stampers in the Bella forum. It's BSC09, you can find the link

here. Base card is a miscellaneous purple and the four corners are Flowers for You SU designer series paper. Since the paper is double sided I used one side for the two opposing corners and the other side for the other corners! After I was done I felt it was missing something so I added the flower with a pink brad! I colored her in using SU stampin' write markers. I belive it is Pixie Pink and Lavendar Lace. I used So Safron for her hair and Chocolate Chip for the teddy bear. Doesn't she make you want to have a slumber party?