Moms 75th birthday card! It was worth the time

I really wanted to share this card, an extreme card I made for my Moms 75th Birthday. My mom is simply the best. I love her TONS and wanted to take the time to really make her something that shows how I feel about her. She is amazing!

I started out with the Amberley Grace collection of papers, and used the line of coordinating ribbons, hardware and cardstock. It was super easy, all went together without me worrying about it. The coolest thing is you can just run through the catalogue to see which paper collection is perfect for your occasion and go from there. I know my Mom, and she loved it. Its simple, classy, elegant and just plain perfect. I just loved giving it to her!



I used my scorpal of course to make the parts fit perfectly and without breaking the cardstock. The scorpal is so cool for that. I have lots of cardstock that just didnt fold right, until now:) I also used my cropodile to set all my hardware. TIP!!!: keep the instruction page from the package for both of the tools nearby. It has saved me TONS of time and I have great results! Inside, I used tons of tags and fun stamps to decorate, with thoughts for my Mom. Really expresive thoughts that make me smile:)
Then I used cute little pockets created again with that fabulous scorpal! It just Scorpalicious:) Everything just lays flatter if you know what I mean by that. Its a huge difference.
This is one of my fave sets, and was an amazing hostess set last year so I got it free. Just one perk of being an angel with TAC.

And finally a little love note for Mom, to make it super personal with real handwriting! I love you MOM!!!

Awesome new project

I just love these books now, and my grandbaby angel Michele had some cut for me. So here is the latest one that I made this past weekend. WOW I love it. Its a composition book, cut down to half size and covered with papers. I just adore the new papers in our collections, with everything coordinating you can whip out a project like this in no time! In fact last night I did two more for my girlfriends birthdays. We went out to the Olive Garden to celebrate our birthdays. We have been great friends for over 14 years now. WOW!

So here we go:) First I covered the comp book with the papers from Amberley Grace. I also love how the paper matches out stamp set Butterbees and more! Its a new fave for me.

I stamped with my alltime fave stamp from Curls and Swirls. And then using a glitter gel pen traced and highlighted some of it to really bring out the curls.

This was such a breeze to coordinate, cause I used the matching ribbons in the Amberley Grace collection! You get 5 cool matching ribbons, one yard of each. SO EASY!

I also punched out some tabs with our Mini File Tab punch, in coordinating papers from the Amberley Grace papers. Again, its all matching so you dont have to think a bit about it.

The Be Authentic stamp set is another that really never leaves my stamptable. Its perfect for tons of projects and I used the BLESSINGS word from it to stamp the front piece for the book.

I used a bit of the black ink to distress the edges and its finished. You just have to get one of these going...think of the possibilities.

baby shower or wedding, where guests give their advice

wish lists for christmas and the kids reasons for wanting what they have written

grateful for family book, and have each person have a section so that others can write about them

graduation is coming! I am planning to have some of them around for guests to write in

there are so many occasions to create one, and with such an abundance of papers to choose from? You just cant go wrong...

To get your own TAC catalogue where there are bazillions of new paper collections and so many featuring coordinated ribbons, hardware, cardstock etc...contact me:) Or visit my site at http://annette.ismyangel.net/