Let's Party!

Happy Tuesday!  I'm just coming off a fabulous four day weekend - friends, family, shopping, exercise,  gardening, crafting, relaxation!  Hope you had a great one too.

Made another card for Seize the Birthday today.  Went masculine this time.  I love a cute penguin (which is weird cause I'm not usually a critter person) so couldn't resist this adorable image from Bugaboo Stamps.

Here is the sketch and all the challenge details are found on this post:

Thanks for stopping by, have a terrific Tuesday and a wonderful week.

Glenda

Card details:

Let's Party - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps:  Bugaboo Stamps Penguin, Paper Smooches Word Salad

Paper:  white card stock, SU! Cherry Cobbler, Pebbles Seen & Noted (patterned paper)

Ink: Hero Arts Graphite and SU! Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Copic Markers, Memento Marker (black)Lawn Fawn twine, JudiKins Diamond Glaze, SU! ticket corner punch, eyelets

Hello Friday

Happy Friday!  It's my turn over at Paper Made Bakery and here's a sneak of my 'no stamping' card. *Gasp*... it happened again... I might fall over from shock.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend.  It's a 4 day weekend for me as today is my flex and Monday is a holiday.  Bring it on... really looking forward to it.

Glenda

Seize the Birthday - Bugaboo Stamps

Happy Thursday!  Time for another sketch over at Seize the Birthday! This week's sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps!  They gave us some pretty fun images to play with!  You have the chance to win 7 digi images if you play along.  Here's mine... it's a belated birthday card for my great niece who turned two recently.

Here's this week's sketch.  I flipped it because I thought it worked withe the image a bit better.

All the guidelines are on the Seize the Birthday blog.  I hope you get a chance to play along. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Glenda

Card details:

Belated Birthday Wishes - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Bugaboo Stamps (image), Paper Smooches (sentiment)

Paper: Lawn Fawn Pink Lemonade (green), Stampin' Up! Elegant Eggplant and Whisper White

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: A Muse Studio buttons, Copic markers, scrap of ribbon, safety pin, SU! corner rounder punch, EK Success circle punches, Diamond Glaze

Seize the Birthday redux

Happy Monday!  Hope you had a great weekend.  A belated happy Mother's Day to all the fabulous moms out there.  I'm not a mom but am a proud aunt, great-aunt and step-mom/supervisor/friend.  Lucky to have some fabulous kids in my life.

Playing along with Seize the Birthday again today.  The full post and details are here.  You have until tomorrow to play along.  Here is the 'feminine' card I came up with....

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week.

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Cutting Cafe flowers, sentiment and frame

Paper:  PTI kraft and Basic Grey True Love (patterned_

Accessories: Lawn Fawn twine, Copic Markers, EK Success corner round punch, Copic Markers, A Muse black pearl, SU! modern label punch

Creative Camera

Happy Friday!  That means it's my turn over at Paper Made Bakery.  Here's the sneak...

Hope you have a fabulous day and a wonderful weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.

Take care,

Glenda

Envelope punch - video tutorial

Happy Wednesday! I'm doing a guest post over at Card Maker blog... another video tutorial. :)

You can check it out over there but I've also put it up here too...

Have a great day,
Glenda

Paper Made Bakery On the Go - Hello

Happy Monday everyone!  It's time to reveal the kit for May over at Paper Made Bakery!  You should have arrived here from the super talented Angi's blog. I'm positively giddy about this kit.  I was playing with it the other night and came up with so many ideas.  It's definitely my favourite kit to date and I think you'll love it too!  Here's my card for today.

I just love everything about this kit.  The gorgeous paper, the great stamps, the amazing embellishments (veneers, buttons, pins and puffy stickers - swoon), the fabulous ribbons... just blew me away. It's not always easy for me to make a 'stamp free' card but this was a piece of cake. That said, the sentiments in the stamp set are amazing.  Very versatile!  You will want this On the Go kit... I guarantee it!

I know the rest of the team has some amazing creations for you!  Be sure to check them out... next on the hop is the fabulous Julie!  Here's the whole list:

Paper Made Bakery

Amy Tsuruta

Angi Barrs

Glenda J. Wyatt (here!)

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Piali Biswas

Vera Wirianta Yates

Also, be sure to enter for a chance to win!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Have an amazing week.
Glenda

Card details:
Hello - 4.25"x5.5"
Everything on this card is from the Paper Made Bakery On the Go May 2013 kit.  Corner rounder punch from Stampin' Up!

A Note About Washi

Happy Friday!  It's my day over at Paper Made Bakery.... here's the sneak...

... and here's the little mini video tutorial too... hope you like it!

Have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.  I have been LAME at commenting lately and I apologize!  Life is crazy busy....I always appreciate your sweet comments and hope to get back at it soon.
Hugs and take care,
Glenda

Seize the Birthday!

Happy Wednesday and welcome to my very first post as a member of the Seize the Birthday Design Team!

So excited to be part of this team (and to build up my stash of birthday cards).  Here's the sketch for this week...

I'm usually really good at remembering people's birthday and sending cards.  This year is a bit different though... I'm remembering the birthday but not getting the card into the mail box!  This card is quite appropriate I thought... I will definitely use it!  This week's sponsor is the Cutting Cafe.  I LOVE this adorable camera.

Hope you can play along with this fun sketch!  All the details are here.  Be sure to check out the blog to see what the rest of the fabulous team came up with.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

Glenda

Card details:

Oh Snap - 4.25"x5.5"

Digital Stamps: The Cutting Cafe (sentiments and camera)

Paper: white card stock, PTI Kraft, Pebbles Seen & Noted (green polka dot)

Accessories: Lawn Fawn twine, Tombow marker, corner rounder punch

Some good news...

Happy Sunday! I'm happy to announce that I'm joining the Seize the Birthday design team!  Love playing with sketches to this is right up my alley. Also, I never have enough birthday cards so this will help my stash.  ;)

Hope you are having a fabulous day.
Glenda

Light me up

Happy Friday!  It's my turn over at Paper Made Bakery... here's the sneak....

Have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Glenda

Hanging note

Happy Friday everyone!  Friday means it's my turn over at Paper Made Bakery... here's my sneak....

Don't look too closely at my fussy cutting... not my specialty!

Have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend.
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Take care,
Glenda

Birthday Butterfly

Happy Thursday!  Just a quick post today.  I made this card a while ago but didn't get a chance to blog it.  Playing along with the Hero Arts Contest this month (Just for Her and a sketch).

Well... turns out I am a first round winner with this card!  So excited!  Thanks Hero Arts!  Was pleased with how this card came together.  Not my usual colour combo but it seems to work.  The wood veneer butterfly was coloured with a Copic, then I used some spray adhesive and sprinkled on some Hero Arts Prisma Glitter.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Hero Arts Say It All, Lattice Background
Paper: white card stock, SU! Calypso Coral, A Muse Papaya
Ink: VersaMagic
Accessories: EK Success corner punch, A Muse white embossing powder, A Muse pearls, Copic Marker, Hero Arts Prisma glitter, heat gun

Run & triumph

Welcome.  I am going to digress from crafting for a moment. Last Friday, I asked people to leave 'a random fact' about themselves in the comments section.  This was one of them..

So, when the bombs exploded in Boston yesterday, I thought of this comment.  I don't know Karen and I have no way of contacting her but I do hope she is ok...  I've been thinking of her a lot.  Some of you may know that I'm a bit of a runner.  I do short distances (5 to 10 km) and have a fabulous running group (the 'Divas') that gets me out of bed early on Saturday mornings.  Sending a big hug out to my Divas today... and all runners. I know how triumphant a feeling it is to finish a run, what a sense of a accomplishment it is. To have such a horrible thing happen to take that feeling away from so many people, from all over the world... it makes my heart ache.  Fortunately, none of my running friends were there and none of my Bostonian friends were either... but my heart goes out to all those who were impacted by this shocking event. I'm happy to hear of all the kind gestures that brought people together afterwards. I'm happy to hear that upcoming runs here and around the world will continue as scheduled. To run and triumph in the face of adversity. 

ETA:  Karen did post a comment that she is ok (see comment below).  Thanks Karen!  So happy you stopped in and that all is well with you.

ETA: I did have a video tutorial up earlier today but had some technical issues.  It will be up again sometime in the near future!  My apologies.

Have a great day.

Thanks for stopping by and big hugs,

Glenda

Paper Made Bakery April Release and Blog Hop

Happy Monday everyone and welcome to the Paper Made Bakery Release Day and Blog Hop!  You should have arrived here from Julie Tucker-Wolek's blog.  For the complete list, head to Paper Made Bakery or see the list below.

The kit is full of all sorts of fun bits!  Two of my favourite things are included, wood veneers and washi!  The washi is not the typical rolls but sheets!  How cool is that?  I've made a card full of a bunch of the little goodies you can find in the kit... tags, flowers, buttons, sequins and wood veneers.

Be sure to check out the rest of the fabulous creations from the team!

Vera Wirianta Yates

Piali Biswas

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Glenda J. Wyatt (here!)

Angi Barrs

Amy Tsuruta

Paper Made Bakery

Here's a picture of all the fabulous goodies in the kit.  Have to mention the Crate Paper/Maggie Holmes paper and washi tape sheets.  So fabulous!  I got to meet her at CHA... lucky me.  She seems so sweet.

Be sure to enter to win a fabulous prize pack from Paper Made Bakery !

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I have a winner to announce today too!  I gave people the opportunity to with the Paper Made Bakery March kit, Signs & Symbols,  for my 800th blog post. So... the winner is....

Congratulations and wow!  What an interesting start to your life.  I too have not stop talking since I was young.  I will email you shortly for your details.  Thanks again to everyone for sharing their 'random facts'!  They were so great to read, I really appreciated it! I shared a bunch of my 'random facts' here...

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Glenda

Card details:

The entire card was made with supplies from the April "Vintage Daydream" kit.