Not so quick thank you card I made for several of the staff members at Athletes' Performance.  I have ample time these days with the changes that have been occuring in mine and Topher's life.  The Thanks sentiment was cut from Beyond Birthdays cartridge I believe.  The cricket from the Stretch your imagination cartridge.  Assorted ribbon and paper.  The main green paper was stamped with a papertrey ink stamp using a Versamark inkpad to make it look like a watermark.  added little white details to the crickets legs with a white souffle pen, as well as faux stitching with a black souffle pen.

I made about 5 of these and they were quite time consuming!  Either way, I loved them for how "creative" I felt I was making them.  Not bad for crafting for 2 months!

So after my best friend's girlfriend saw the cards I posted on facebook, she asked me to make her a card.  Ironic how in my previous post I stated how I wanted to make a card just because I wanted to without worrying about what other people think...she gave me a long lists of her likes and dislikes. 

Here are some of the stipulations she had

All kinds of pink, especially hot pink or fuschia
Paisley
Girly flourishes (think anthropologie)
Birds
Alice in Wonderland
Toadstools

Now as previously mentions in a previous post, I'm not very girly when it comes to my color choices, especially when it comes to pink.  So this was quite the stretch for me!  Nonetheless I plodded on. 

The bird and the flourishes came from the Heritage cartridge and the paisleys came from (what else?) the Paisley cartridge!  I bling blinged it up a bit with the stickles.  I also added little toadstool magnets as a little birthday gift.  Hopefully she likes it!

Toadstools come from the Paisley Cartridge!  (What would I do without it?!)

So I was getting kind of stressed of making cards on the fly for occasions so I decided maybe I should make some blank cards that I can just add sentiments to when I need them!  It was kind of nice not making a card without worrying whether someone would like it or not.  To be honest, it's probably my favorite one yet!

The little turtle is from the Stretch your Imagination cartridge.  and the pattern paper is from DCWV baby boy stack.  The ribbon is from the dollar bin (yes, I did go a little ribbon buying crazy recently!).  I stickled the turtles shell to give it some interest and pop dotted him up!  Love the card!  Hopefully I'll be able to part with it when the time comes!

Here's a simple birthday card I made for my sister-in-law.  Their wedding was a dark grey and yellow theme, and she loves birds.  So I tried to carry that theme through this card.  The bird I believe is cut from the Heritage cartridge and so is the flourish.  Border punch is Martha Stewart and just added a strip of yellow to bring out the pattern.  I tried to stamp the happy birthday (from the dollar bin at Michaels), but it didn't come out all that well.  I decided to trace over it with a Sakura gelly roll silver pen and I was happier with the result.  I also included two little birdie magnets I made but sadly I forgot to take a pic before sending them! 

Topher's teammate, Jay got engaged this offseason and his fiancee flew down to Arizona to spend a couple days out here for spring training.  We were able to get together with them for dinner, so I decided to whip up a card for them to to say congratulations.  Once again I tried to be creative with my color combinations, but ultimately I wasn't all too crazy with the green, purple, pink one I settled on.  Too Barney for me.  I definitely need to work on my proportions, alignment and folding skills!!

The silhouette was cut from the Sweetheart cartridge.  Totally don't remember where the pattern paper came from.  Stamp was a dollar bin stamp and the border punch was martha stewart!

Not my finest card, but hey, I hope Jenny and Jay appreciated it.

Here's a little quick card I made for Coach Mike Roberts.  I was his athletic trainer for his team in the Cape Cod League, and he was nice gentleman who gave me the opportunity to work here at Athletes' Performance.  He also helped acquire a position for Topher to work out there for free in return for catching some pens (not a bad deal since it costs 6000 a week to work out there!!!).  So this is a little thank you card I made depicting us (Topher in his Angels uniform and me decked out like an athletic trainer!).

I used the Everyday Paperdoll cartridge for the people and the thank you was from Sweethearts I believe!

I loved making those magnets so much that I decided to make a whole garden's worth of lil' bugs! 

Most of these critters are from the Paisley cartridge but the caterpiller and cricut are from the stretch your imagination cartridge!  All I did was cut them out, stickle the antennae for some bling, and slap some magnets on the back!  Now our black fridge doesn't look so blank now, Topher loves em.