Birthday Card for Helen

My mom is going to Georgia this weekend to celebrate her friend, Helen's, birthday. I offered to make her a card and wanted to try something I saw on someone's blog. "Gasp!" I know, I cased a card. In the card making world, casing is perfectly acceptable as long as you give the original maker credit. And, of course, I would never sell a card I cased.

I did this because I need to get more comfortable with layering and her card provided a great template for me to try. Her card is here and her name is Carolyn and she is part of the House Mouse blogging designers.

I think it turned out great and gave me a tutorial to get more comfortable with layering. What do you thik?

Wow! Cards.

I have cards to post--can you believe it? My wonderful husband gave me time on Monday to get these finished before my oldest and I left for Cincinnati.


This is for my Secret Sister, Angie. I'm in an online local online group of paper crafters and we did a three month secret sister exchange. On the 15th the girls met for the reveal and we were to make a card to give our identities. This was for mine.



My Dad's wife will have a birthday next week. Since we are seeing her in Cincinnati, we brought a blue and white bowl for her to go with her collection and I made this card for her. She likes to garden and I thought she would enjoy this one.

My aunt's 87th birthday is the same day as my step mother's. We will be with her on Saturday for a family reunion. I wanted to give her a card from us when we saw her and I thought she would like this sweet mouse.