Numbered Cards

 Every year I make special cards for my great granddaughters.  This year Luna turned 3 right before Christmas

This is a top fold card with an inside step to pop up the cake.

Unfortunately, I built the inside on the back of the front so when you open the card you see this.  Whoops! I could not figure a way to fix it, and I was not starting only.

and Lahna turns 5 in a few days.

Here are my girls decorating Christmas cookies.

Right before Thanksgiving, 

they welcomed a new baby sister, Lia, to their family.

That makes 4 great-granddaughters, Laila, Lahna, Luna and Lia!

 

 

 

Challenges: 

Unicorn Challenge #94 - Birthday

Crafts Galore Challenge #119 - AG 

Crafty Animals Challenge #79 - AG with an animal

Critter Crazy Challenge #82 - AG with a critter

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Luna is 2 and Lahna turns 4

 It's hard to believe my great granddaughters are growing so fast.  With only 2 years between them, they are inseparable. 

I though I'd share the birthday cards I made for them this year.

 

Lahna said I could borrow her witch hat for next year's Red Hat Witches Ball.

 

 

Challenges I am entering: Fab n Funky Challenge #564 - shaped cards; Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Too Cute; AAA Birthday Challenge Game #45 - AG; 

 

Have a wonderful day.  I appreciate your visit.

Happy 3rd Birthday

 It was just the week before Christmas that we celebrated my great-granddaughter's first birthday.  Today we are celebrating the 3rd birthday of her older sister, Lahna.

She should like this card.

 The papers, including the sentiments and cute elephant, are from a paper pack by The Paper Boutique called Wild and Wonderful.  

I used the same paper and same design for her 1st birthday card and her 2nd birthday card.

I traced the three from a stencil and handcut all but the top section where I die cut the "THREE" using dies from MFT. 

Challenges:

Shopping our Stash Challenge #461 - something beginning with "s" (shaped card, sentiment) 

Through the Craft Room Door Jan. 4th Challenge - AG 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge # 58- AG with a critter

Cut It Up Challenge #242 - Birthday with a die cut (Although I fussy cut the image, I used dies to cut the word THREE )

 

 

 

Here's a picture of Lahna from Halloween.

It is so hard to get her to stand still!
 

Happy 2nd Birthday

 Yesterday my great granddaughter, Lahna, turned 2.

 The papers are from a paper pack from The Paper Boutique called Wild and Wonderful.  

I used the same paper and same design for her 1st birthday card. 

Lahna is pretty hard to photograph these days.  If she's is not asleep, she is moving and the only time she is not moving is when she is asleep.  

Her mother is holding her in this photo, but looking at the camera was not on Lahna's agenda.
 

Lahna is no longer the newest member of the family.

On December 18th her sister Luna Noelle was born, 

my third great granddaughter!

 

Lahna's birthday card is being entered in the following challenges:

Crafty Creations January Challenge #417- AG; Creative Crafters Challenge #35 - AG; Crafty Hazelnut's January Patterned Paper Challenge - AG; 2 Crafty Critter Crazies January Challenge - AG; Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Make It Cute; 613 Avenue Create January Challenge - AG; Crafting Happiness Challenge # 78 - A for animals;

 

 Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Week of Jan 5th - AG

 

Happy 1st Birthday

Happy New Year!

It's hard to believe that my great granddaughter,

Lahna, will be one in a few days.

Here's the birthday card I'm sending her:

 

 The papers are from a new paper pack from The Paper Boutique called Wild and Wonderful.  

The animals in the pack are adorable.

I found a diagram of a card base in the shape of a number '1', which I followed.  Before cutting the indented area on the right, I die cut the word 'one' along the edge.  I traced the card base shape onto patterned paper and then cut within the line 1/8" all around.  I stamped a small banner across the upper corner before it was embossed and then attached to the base.  The koala was a circular embellishment that came with the paper.  I fussy cut and then popped it onto the base.  The die cut 'Happy Birthday' was added next.  The flowers around the koala received a bit of shine with a Wink of Stella brush.  And finally, I added liquid glass to the koala's nose and eyes, the dot over the 'i' in Birthday, and the center of three of the flowers. 

Here's a recent picture of my little cutie.

Challenges:

Double Trouble Challenge #46 - Something, Anything, Everything; Something new (paper pack); also entering  partner challenge ...

2 Crafty Critter Crazies January Challenge - AG with a critter

Creations in Pink Challenge #17 - AG

Make My Monday Challenge 112a - Female Birthday

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something new (Wild and Wonderful Paper Pack)

 

New Big Sister Card

My goal today was to make a birthday card for my son who will be marking another year in a few days.  Unfortunately, my head is a bit fuzzy from cold medicine and my creativity went in a whole different direction.....

(The card is lying on a piece of red cs for the photo so you can see how the front window exposes the inside image.)

 

My second great granddaughter was born over the week-end, promoting my first great granddaughter to Big Sister.

I know she will be a wonderful big sister, although I hope she doesn't carry her new baby sister in the same manner she carries her dolls.

Quite a while ago, I won this Mo Manning stamp but haven't used it until now.  It captures Laila's hair perfectly. 

Her new baby sister has quite a head of hair herself, also very dark, but very straight.

The die cuts for the flowers and the letters are from 
My Favorite Things. 

The stitched circle dies are from La La Land. 

The CONGRATULATIONS stamp is from the 

CTMH January SOTM.

Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Week #501 - Hearts and Flowers (heart paper, die cut flowers and stamped flowers) 

Challenge Up Your Life Challenge #103 - All New (new big sister, new sentiment stamp)

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #563 - AG

Die Cut Divas January Challenge - Something New (new big sister, new sentiment stamp)

Scrapy Land Challenge #105 - AG with a die sold by Scrapy Land (La La Land)

  

 Hopefully, I'll get that Birthday Card made tomorrow.