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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More Birthday Cards

Here are SIX birthday cards I worked on while here in Connecticut. In a few days I'll be going to Florida to visit my nephews so I wanted to make sure that my card for my nephew Geovanni was ready. He turns 15 on July 2nd and that is the day we are traveling. I made him Christmas card  before and he really enjoyed it

I made this birthday card for my father-in-law, Pashito. I bought some new goodies from JoAnn's and Michael's and this cupcake sentiment is one of them. I love it. The stamp is from Lili of the Valley (of course) and I colored it in myself. Pashito's birthday is next June 7th.

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I made this card for my sister-in-law Gladys (she's the one that loves purple). I used the "How many fingers are you?" sentiment because she saw it once and thought it was so cute. The outer image is also from Lili of the Valley. Since Gladys likes filmmaking and movies I put a little film reel embellishment on the outside. Glady's birthday is December 31st. I'm going to have my parents give her the card since I won't be here for that.

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This is Geovanni's card. I put a little rabbit stamp from my clear stamp collection an I also used the "How many fingers..." sentiment inside. I don't know. I think he kind of resembles the rabbit, lol :p Geovanni's birthday is July 2nd.

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I made this birthday card for my daddy. I used a stamp from LOTV and colored it in using colored pencils. I have a MUM one too. I think they are just too cute. Again I used the "How many fingers" sentiment inside and the button on the ribbon inside kinda reminds me of a hog's nose. LOL! My dad turns 62 on August 24th.

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This is Little Miss Vicki's birthday card. Her FIRST BIRTHDAY! Can you believe it. It was only yesterday that she was born! And in three months she'll be 1. Glady is throwing her a big First Birthday bash but I don't think I will be here. I'm getting married in September and I might just be on my honeymoon during Little Misses party. I made her an easel card and used a stamp from LOTV. I think she sort of looks like this little tyke! The poem inside in from a batch I bought from ABCDistributing. It was longer so I had to cut it down. I love the flowers on this card. Vicki turns 1 on October 22nd.

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I made this card below for my mom's birthday. She likes pretty things like nice clothes, shoes, and purses soooo.... I found this cute template for a purse and I decided to make her a purse card! I've never made one for her or anyone. I absolutely love the way it turned out and it wasn't very hard to do. Originally, I had planned to use LOTV's MUM stamp but I forgot along the way. When I did remember it was too late. The DP had too much going on by itself, for me to add that stamp. I love the giant orange gardenia too. My mom turns 63 on October 15th.

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Three Birthday Cards (One's a redo, one's a recycle shhhh)

Okay so I'm back in the states from Ecuador. Henry and I got married last month and I came to visit family and gush about my lovely husband. While here I figured I'd get some cardmaking done. I'll be gone again in 5 weeks and I really miss crafting.

We'll begin with three birthday cards. The first one uses Tilda and it's actually a redo. If you recall, I made CARD 632 for my cousin Lizbeth. She need a quinceañera card and I made two. She choose CARD 631. Soooo I redid 632 for my sister-in-law Adamaris. She turns 14 next January 23rd.

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This next card was given to me when I won a contest. I decided I would recycle the card and give it to my sister-in-law Anabel next year when she turns 19 on June 7th. The outside stayed the same, the inside I took out and added my own sentiment and stamp.

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I made this card for my mother-in-law, Laura. She likes things like flowers and handmade things so I found a pretty template and away I went! Everything is in English and my in-laws only speak Spanish butttt..... it's not hard to see what they mean to me :)

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Two Father's Day Cards And A Sporty One

Okay so I'm trying to catch up with old cards. Cards 637 and 638 are two Father's Day cards I made for my cousin Lizbeth in June. The first is for her father. He loves Virgin Mary from Guadalupe. For his card I wanted to try a card I've never done before. The image I found online, I honestly can't remember from where though. The second card is for her grandpa (my uncle). For him she wanted something fun so I decided to use my cute square cards from Lili of the Valley (love them!!!) For his card I decided to use a new template as well. It took a while but I was able to complete everything by the deadline. I also created a box using my Martha Stewart scoring board so that the card/box would fit.I really liked the new templates and want to use them  more often!

Card 639 is a sporty birthday card I made for my co-worker, Mal. She asked me to make a birthday card for one of her friends. He is a fan of the New York Red Bulls soccer team, and the Juventus soccer team from Italy. And for each team she wanted me to add a certain image. Below, my creations...

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CARD 638

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