Loving the butterflies

Hello my dear friends!
I am sorry for being away for such a long time. My hubby and I are expecting our first baby this summer. And because of that I've been extremely tired for the first few month of the year and just did not have any strength to do anything once I got home from work.
I totally did not make any cards, did not log on to my computer at home and really didn't do any of my normal stuff for few months... Once I got my strength back I had to catch up on so many things that I just didn't have time for cards and the blog at all. And for that - I am so sorry!!!
I'm back now! :) And I am so excited to be entering into the blog world once again.
Today I'm going to share a card I made for my hubby for anniversary last year...
I just love this Cuttlebug folder and thought it would be perfect for the "love" theme card :) "Love" was cut using cricut

Well, that's all I have for today. I'm going to be back with more cards and can't wait to visit each and everyone's blog to check out your gorgeous creations.
Hugs!!!

Simple anniversary card

My MIL asked me to make a card for her sister's wedding anniversary. The only preference she had was to use red (as that's her sister's favorite color). So I made a very simple card...I used my new border punch and Stickles (don't you just love Stickles? I sure do - it seems they make everything much better!!! )

I'm enrolling this card for Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday challenge - clean and simple.

Thank you for dropping by. Have a great day!!!

Sassy challenge

This card is for a sketch challenge at SassyStudioDesign. After I took a picture of this card I realized that last 3 cards I made are all blue...hmm, I wonder what my is favorite color :)

I had no clue what sentiment to use :) And since I have an anniversary coming up (my hubby and I exchange cards on monthly basis) I thought I would do "Anniversary" :)
Here is my closeup to the sparkly jewels my sweetie is wearing (AKA glitter pen)

I just bought this Martha Stewart lily punch, so I had to use it right away :) And I LOVE it!!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

My first Anya card...this year

Hello girlies! Hope you're having a good day.
It is super cold here and a lot of snow came down over night. I was so hoping that we'll get like super a lot of snow and our office will close, but that didn't happen... bummer. So I only got to stamp and craft after I got home from work.
Have you guys ever visited a Aly's Sunday Challenge blog? This sweet 11 year old stamper comes up with some cool sketches. And here is one of them:
I always have difficulty following sketches, so last year I decided to play with as many sketches as I can. And here is what I came up with:

Instead of just a circle, I used this dahlia flower by Spellbinders. And I embossed "Anniversary" with Ranger iridescent embossing powder. I made a bow with my ribbon, but I'm not too thrilled with this bow.... Oh yes, meant to layer my green card stock on top of that burgundy one only on two corners, so it was not a glitch :)

Here is the closeup on my Anya. I hope the Greeting Farm will not be upset with me for adding extra full lashes to my Anya :)

And here is the inside of my card. I received this poem by email from one of my friends and changed the last line to read "wife" instead of a "friend", as I'm going to use this card for my hubby

Thank you for stopping by! Hope you're staying safe and warm!

My first Glitter Bees challenge card

Happy Saturday!
I made today's card for the GlitterBees Challenge! I am super excited because this is our very first challenge :) But there will be more to come (1st and the 15th of every month). Tami came up with this awesome sketch for us to follow:
And here is my attempt:

I made this card for my hubby for our anniversary (well, technically it's not until March 16th, but there is a reason I'm doing it now). We recently printed a copy of our wedding album at Walgreens and when we received it in the mail it came with a confirmation letter which had this little picture printed on it. And being a recycling freak that I am, I decided I needed to use it somehow... So I did on this card...

The picture itself it pretty small, so I layered it on top of blue and white card stock and then used dimentionals. As for paper I used black/light blue core-dination card stock and two Cuttlebug folders. And cut out "Love you" using Cuttlebug as well.
I could not find a way to work a bow in, so I used three flowers instead...

And of course I used a lot of glitter, but since it's for the Glitter Bees, I used whole LOT of glitter :)

Hope you guys like it and I hope hubby likes it too (well, when it's time for him to see it) :)

Enjoy your weekend!

P.S.

Girls, did you have a normal day today? I sure did NOT! :) In the morning I tried to email Jeannie my address, so she would know where to ship my cookbook (that I won!) and I emailed her like 3 times and never included the actual address... then I went out to Hubby Lobby and Dollar store, could not find anything, everyone was pushing, there were like 50 people in the ribbon isle... hello???... and people were driving like crazy... and to top it all off - I made a card and started working on this post, typed everything and it kicked me out...and didn't save anything. Odd right? Specially since blogger normally automatically saves things like every minute or so.... Anyway, I do hope you are having a MUCH better day!!!!