Remember Brayering?

I took 2 classes with Nancy Zindorf and brayered every card for a month. I pulled out the brayer for this card, which is a direct result of her tutorial found here.

the Happy Brrrrrrr Day was my own addition

Steve's 30

My adaptation !

Card from Technique junkies

Cards for Amanda

Each of my kids receives 30 cards the month of his/her birthday - so I have to get in gear since my BABY will be 30 next month.

Amy, Dee and I spent a fun afternoon making cards yesterday.


The cardinal card was one Amy found in Technique Junkies from last year, and we figured it out and created the card here.

Cards for Steve

 I made the owl one as an extra ... my daughter Amanda said she used up the cards from her 30th, so I decided a collection of birthday cards would make a nice Christmas gift for her.

It is amazing

It is amazing how many cards I can get made when I have a briefcase full of papers to correct! It is my best inspiration ever!

I made these for 2 reasons ... my son is having his 30th birthday next month and our family tradition is to send 30 cards for the 30 days leading up to the big day. What WAS I thinking when I started that tradition 3 kids ago I will never know, but can't let down the third one. ( as if he would notice ...)

Also my daughter mentioned that she had finally used up all of the 30 cards I sent her for her birthday 3 years ago by erasing my name and putting hers in place of it so I thought a collection of manly birthday cards would be a good Christmas gift for her. Perhaps I will throw in a few of my ladylike ones too just to round out the collection.

Karen's sketch

This sketch is one of my favorites ... it came from a card made by Karen over at Splitcoast ... link and really makes a nice quick card with pretty paper.

These boots are made for birthdays ...

Isn't this a fun card for a birthday? I can add one more to my stack for Steve!  Never thought I would be using rhinestones and pearls on a card for a 30 year old male, but they seem to work.

 I colored the washer with my copics with a lot of dibbing and dabbing.

Sketchy Wednesday penguins

I really enjoy the sketch challenge at Splitcoast. It gives me a chance to play with all the papers that I just have to buy ...

You can grab this image if you like

Plus dear husband's birthday is tomorrow and I waited till the last minute to make this card. Thinking I will make TWO and use one for my son's 30 cards with shoes...

I have been practicing that dotty surround for images with copics. I kind of like it!

If you would like to see some other free digi images, click on the words "Free digi" below.  I draw cuz I enjoy it and it makes me so happy when people like my images enough to grab 'em!

Steve's shoes, card 1

I used the Wednesday sketch at Splitcoast to begin my collection of 30 cards for 30 days when my baby boy turns 30.  I would like to have a theme of shoes for Steve since he is a marathon runner - and Mutnik created this darling design of a cow with shoes just like Steve's.