My Favorite Things Blog Hop!

Welcome to My Favorite Things Blog Hop hosted by Krystal of Krystal's Kreativity!  We are actually hopping for Krystal's 37th birthday (which is actually Monday) so please join me in wishing her the happiest birthday yet!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRYSTAL!!!

If you have arrived here by way of Darlene, you're on the right track! If you just happened to stumble upon this hop, please be sure to start HERE so you don't miss any of the fantastic projects.

Krystal asked us to showcase some of our favorite things and boy was this difficult for me!  I have SO many.  For my project, I decided to create a cute little card for my husband that he can keep on his desk at work (plus, he's one of my favorite non-crafty things <3).  He is a VERY simple man so I couldn't go too crazy :)  So...here are some of my favorite things:

Favorite Thing 1: Pinks and Brown, especially together :)

Favorite Thing 2:  Glitter.  Who doesn't love a little sparkle?

Favorite Thing 3:  Pop-dots--so fun!

Favorite Thing 4:  Stamps! I am just starting to enter the stamping world and I love what it adds to cards and layouts!

Favorite Thing 5:  A finished product you LOVE!  Isn't that the best feeling? :)

   I love how it turned out...and so does my hubs :)  And because it really doesn't matter how many paper-crafitng favs I have, my life would not be complete without these 3 MOST favoritest (yes, that is a word today) "things" in the WORLD!

Your next stop is Gayle!  

P.S.  What do you think of my "new" blog?  Looks great huh?  Make sure to visit me tomorrow for a giveaway in honor of my new look :)

Operation: Man Card in a House of Pink

Happy Thursday everyone!

So, Operation: Man Card was much more difficult than I anticipated.  It's kind of funny really because this card is as 'plain-jane' as they come so you'll probably laugh at the fact it took me so long to decide what to do!  (It's ok, I was laughing at myself!)  


The card is for my brother-in-law who moved to AZ for work late last year.  I have pictures of my girls I need to send him so I thought it would be fun to whip up a card for him.  HA!  There wasn't much 'whippin' up' going on.  Let me just say that it is really hard for me to make a card with no 1) ribbon 2) sparkle 3) heck, anything related to girls!  I think it could have used twine or something, but I didn't have any on-hand so I just made do with what I could find at the moment. 

Here it is:

  The lighting is kind of wonky, but the colors all match perfectly. 

I don't think it turned out *that* bad.  For my first Man-Card, I think it worked and if you knew my brother-in-law....the plain-ness (is that a word?) fits him perfectly.


I have another project almost done and it is so super cute (and really special)...hopefully I can post that later today :).