Happy 50th

We got invited to a 50th birthday party for one of the guys at Bret's work. He said he didn't know what his hobbies were and I was having a hard time coming up with the card but remember Rachel Tessman made a birthday card with Bone Appétit September 2019 kit and since I had the kit out it was perfect idea so this is what I made. I made the inside using Mixed Up Craft's idea of easy pull and slide idea that I loved

For the front I used double stitched rectangle dies by Kat Scrappiness, I stamped sprinkles turnabout by Concord & 9 with new sprout, lulu lavender, summer sky and angel pink inks; the message is by Northwoods Rubber Stamps with VersaFine Clair nocturne, the skeletons are from the paper pumpkin kit I used the stitched of the layer as the "floor" where the skeletons were dancing

for the inside used the same layers but were mounted on foam so I could attach my pull tab which I stamped the message from the gifts 4 U set by Endless Creations with VersaFine Clair nocturne, the happy birthday are part of the happy stamp & cut set by HA also with same ink, the numbers were die cut 5 times out of the whimsy set by Spellbinders one magnet is attach to the back of the skeleton and one magnet to the tab which makes them slide

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's project I have a very simple Halloween card. All stamping was done with distress ink picket fence, the top message as well as the skeleton border are by Northwoods Rubber Stamps and the Happy Halloween is by Holly Pond Hill Uptown. To ground my skeletons I tried a white gel pen but it didn't work on black cardstock so I went over it with Copic opaque white but it's been a while since I used it so it was kind of dry.

One of my girlfriends had an EK Success Zig Memory System white writer chalk pen so we were able to do the card better

Feliz Dia de los Muertos

Today is the day of the dead so here is the card I made. The top message was stamps with tuxedo black and I only used the first part of the Feliz Cumplaños stamp by Stamp A Mania; the dancing skeletons are a stamp by Northwoods Stamps and I stamped with white ink pigment ink and white embossing powder and color Copic Markers; the message on the bottom is from the set Dia de los Muertos Marcy by La-La Land

Pet sympathy

While searching Split Coast Stampers saw that May's card for a cause was Rose's Fund for Animals. Since I found it quite late I just checked my stash and found a couple card designs that could work for them so send them right away.

This one was a pretty clean and simple the dies are Spellbinders and the message is Northwood Rubber Stamps

And this one, the stamp is a by Stamp Gallery a King Charles Cavalier, the background is from a Hero Arts tiny backgrounds and the message by Stamptastic

9th day of Christmas

Today is the 9th day of Christmas and since my sister is leaving before the celebration we celebrated Día de Reyes...King's Day or Epiphany today.

We had an unusual meal for this holiday, as Bret wanted to do some BBQ, so we had hamburgers. For dessert we had our traditional Rosca de Reyes

This was this year's rosca

This year we got it at the same store in Auburn and they only put 2 of the little toys that represents baby Jesus. As tradition we each had to cut our own piece and Bret was the first lucky or unlucky one depends on how you see it and BIL was the second and last one :0)

Originally this meant that on Día de la Candelaria, February 2nd the godparents would get clothes for the nativity's baby Jesus, then we'll all go to the special mass where we get our baby Jesus blessed afterwards we went to a tamale party hosted by the godparents. In the States they don't do any of this so we just have the rosca and whomever gets the little baby Jesus hosts a dinner, sometimes we have tamales other times whatever we feel like it :0) since my sister and Bret work we not always do it on February 2nd either :0)

My other sister arrived early and since we were cooking some Mexican food for tomorrow we ended up making some tamales norteños. It was a lot of work but not hard to make after all...well, we'll know when we try to make them again LOL

I made this card a while back, the stamp is Northwoods I believe