The story of her life!

My grandmother turned 80 this April and her kids and grandkids thought about a personal present for her. So we made her a photo album where we used old pictures of her and how she met my grand father, how she got her 3 kids, and so on and wrote little stories to all of them.

I created the cover with using Paisleys Wise Dies from Paper Smooches and die cut some words like "memories, mother, wife, love, grand mother, 80 years, kids, grand kids and wonderful. On the picture you see my grandmother holding my mother.

She loved the present with the story of her life!

I enter this project into the following challenges:

• Not just cards #33: June Challenge
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #282: Anything Goes
• Ruby's Rainbow Challenge #131: Anything but a card

Masculine Birthday Card!

I love the `boxed up birthday greeting die` from Lil'Inker which I use frequently. I love this masculine birthday card, as I very much like the patterned paper I used.

I enter this card in the following challenge:

• CASology # 202: Masculine

Yellow is for summer!

I made a monochrome card for the summer challenge of Crafty Sentiments Designs:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge, June 14: Summer
• Craft Your Passion #316: Always Anything Goes
• TTCRD challenge, June 14: Always Anything Goes

Fancy Ribbon and Bow!

I haven't showed you a Valentine's Day card I made for a friend of mine this year using a beautiful sentiment:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Allsorts Challenge Blog #367: Fancy Bows and Ribbons
• CAS on Sunday #85: Butterflies
• Crafting from the heart challenge blog #116: Anything Goes

The music is on!

The reduce my scraps I made dozens of small and large owls with my Marianne Design Family Owl dies. I have enough now for the next two years I think. You will see lots of cards with those cute owls from now on. ;-)

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Cardz 4 Guys Challenge Blog #124: Music
• Creatalicious Challenges #93: Anything Goes with optional animals as main focus
• ABC challenges, June 15th: J is for "Just as you like it"
• Eureka Stamps Challenge #197: For the Guys - Masculine of Father's Day

Calling all critters!

The second new challenge blog I came across tonight is "Lawnscaping Challenges" with their current challenge #129: calling all critters. I enter this card to their challenge as I was using the bunny from the Lawn Fawn set "critters in the burbs". I don't know if you can see it on the picture but the easter egg has a floral pattern created with the heat embossing technique.

Bunting!

I jsut came across a new challenge blog called Cupcake Inspirations and their current challenge is called "bunting". So I thought I enter immediately as I have just the right card for it:

I used the boxed up birthday greeting die from Lil'Inker Designs and made a shaker card using sequins for it.

I enter this card in the following challenge:

• Cupcake Inspirations #359: Bunting