Wedding Gift and Card

I posted recently about my brother-in-law's wedding that we attended in Southern California in August - it was just such a nice time of family and friends.  Today I want to share the gift packaging and card I made them.  I found this roll of SU wrapping paper from a while back and thought it would be perfect.  Her wedding was lavender and purples so I added the tulle to bring in her colors.

Here's the outside of the envelope for their card - thought it looked lovely decorated like that.  Since I didn't have to mail - it worked out perfect to put the flowers and pearls on the outside of the envelope too.  Really pulled it all together - had I been super creative or had tons of time, I could have put flowers and pearls on the package too :) but alas, that did not happen.

And here is the card - it uses a retired SU set called,"Your Perfect Day" - I especially love the wreath and flowers - just so pretty and you could make it to compliment any wedding colors!

Then, we were also giving them a gift card out for a nice dinner for the two of them, so inside I made this little pocket for the gift card to slip into and pulled it all together with the flowers at the bottom.

Here's the card and envelope together - I really like how it turned out.  Hope you like it too!!!

Stop back soon for more inspiration!  ~Maureen

Great Christmas Cards

Just wanted to share a couple more Christmas Cards that I think I missed sharing earlier.  I love the handmade cards I get and these two are just lovely -

From Elaine

From Kathy B

Thank you ladies for the lovely wishes!! ~Maureen

CSL gifts - Part IV

Another round of great gifts -

Here are the beautiful hand-stamped coasters that Kathy B received in the gift exchange from Laura.  Kathy had to leave early so was not in the picture!

Kathy S got this beautiful tea set and hand stamped card and bag from Elaine.

Here is Kathy W. with her decorated coffee thermal mug and beautiful hand-made package and card from Kathy B.

See you tomorrow  ~Maureen

CSL gifts - Part III

Here we go with another round of gifts ~Maureen

Here is Elaine's with her adorable tissue holder from Christel, using our Storytime paper.

Heidi's is a Secret Sister gift so a bit more - Julie made her this great apron in a jar using our SU fabrics - how cute is that!

Here is Karen's great Secret Sister gift from Lois - it's a pot with paperwhite bulbs in it for the holidays - and a set of our adorable SU ornaments from Convention.  Karen was not able to make it, so wasn't able to be in the picture.

Lovely Happy Birthday Cards

Thought I'd share with you today, some of the beautiful cards I received from stampers for my birthday - tomorrow I'll share some more.  Thank you to these ladies for the beautiful wishes!!

Christel's - http://craftychristel.blogspot.com/

Elaine's

Diane's

Heidi's - http://stampinking.blogspot.com/

Secret Sister Gifts - Part II

Next I want to share the adorable gifts that Elaine got made by Annette - it was a set of a tea holder; a notebook and pencil; and a holiday planner.

Inside of the Holiday Planner!

All three - the tea holder; notebook and planner

Elaine opening her present.

Karen got this gift from her Secret Sister Lisa.  First this great Christmas card.

All of the gems really made this card sparkle

And a decorated card box - filled with stamped cards! 

Such fun - stop by tomorrow for some more great gifts!

Secret Sister Gifts - Part I

Long week - so glad it is Friday (actually almost Saturday :)  I'm finally getting around to sharing our Secret Sister gifts from last week's downline party.  I have to apologize up front for the blurriness of this first picture.  These cards were clean, simple and LOVELY.  Wish I were a better photographer.

Annette's Gift from Kathy B.

Cards, A lovely calendar and a smile from Annette!

 Next was this great Fall Family picture frame that Diane received!

Diane with her frame and beautiful card from Elaine.

A closer look at the card!

Stop by tomorrow for more SSS gifts from our exchange. We had a great time - and we have such a talented group of stampers.

Downline Christmas Party

Yesterday was our annual Crazy Stamping Lady Christmas Party and as usual we had a great time.  Several of our regulars couldn't make it due to a family death; family illnesses and illness of one of the ladies - so our group was a little small - but those of us who were there made the best of it.  So for today I'm going to share a few pictures of all the goodies we had to eat - everyone brought something, and the food was WONDERFUL!!

Looks Yummy Huh!

More goodies!

Virginia, Theresa, Lois and Annette working on their project.

Kathy and Theresa.

Kathy, Heidi and Bobbie (Kathy in the background)

Elaine, Bobbie, Sandy, Kathy and Diane working away!

Virginia and Heidi getting the perfect embellishments!

 

And here is our final project - a rolled paper Christmas tree - this was mine, but each lady had an assortment of papers to roll and could add whatever embellishments they wanted.  If they send me pictures - I'll post their final projects!  The paper sizes are all 1 1/2" top to bottom rolled around a pencil and taped closed - the lengths were   4 1/2", 4", 3 1/2", 3", 2 1/2", 2", 1 1/2", 1" and 3/4" from bottom to top; but you could adjust for any size.  I think they turned out so cute - we put them on a paint can lid as the frame.  Let me know what you think! 

I'll be adding more pictures of some of the great Secret Sister gifts we exchanged through out the week so be sure to check back!  Thanks for stopping by.  ~Maureen

Couple Cute Cards to Share

Hi All - today I have a couple adorable cards to share - this first one was made by my friend Elaine for Zamarah's B-day - This next one was a RAK from Annette - great color combo -

Thank you ladies for sharing your talent with me!