Happy Birthday Mom!

Yesterday was my mom's 73rd birthday!

 

Here is the card that I made for her..

 

 

I used the Sagittarius image from Simply Betty Stamps.

Colored her with Copics, used papers from a Taylored Expressions kit,

and flowers from recollections.

The ribbon is Snug Hug seam binding that I colored

with inks after spraying other things with different sprays!

OK what that really means is whenever I use any of my sprays

on stuff I will keep seam binding, cheesecloth or other materials and

use them to soak up the extra spray. Viola I get all kinds of

crazy colors when I decide it's done!

ANYWAY

My mom said she liked it, so made me happy!

Happy Creating!

 

HUGS

Kim

 



Little Monster's Birthday!

I made this card for my nephew Jeremy...he is my nephew; Brandon's boy. He is a little monster but absolutely adorable!

He will be 5 this year...he was only 3 in this picture! I couldn't find any of the latest pictures.

And here is the card. I used an image from Dustin Pike that I received in one of the bulk packs that ordered form him...I think it fit Jeremy perfectly!

I used Prisma Markers to color my little monster and added some white gel pen for accents.

The paper is Confetti from K & Co and the extras are from my stash!

I used the sketch from Sunday Sketch Stamp.

I am going to enter this card here:

Sunday Sketch Stamp  Sketch

A Spoon Full Of Sugar  Birthday

Anything Goes Challenge  Birthday/Celebrate

Tuesday Throwdown  Birthday

Hope you are having a wonderful hump day! One day closer to Friday! WAHOO!!!

HUGS

Happy Birthday Honey!

OK today is my wonderful husband's birthday! I have to say that I am extremely lucky to have Dave in my life. This is my second marriage and in my case 2nd time was the charm! We met through work...back in 1999 and fell in love...married in 2004 and still going strong! So I made him a card...tried to keep it simple...I have such a hard time with manly cards...do yo add ribbon, bows, flowers...what do you do with a manly card! Well here's what I did:

I chose this image "Kisses" is from The Paper Shelter. I just think it is so sweet and just love it. On the inside cover I added a few sayings and then a poem on the other side. I even decorated the envelope...just didn't take a photo of it, but here is the one of the inside:

I am going to enter this card in these challenges:

KB Cute Monday   Anything Goes, using a digi

AI Factory  Anything Goes
Stamp Something Use a Digi
Make It Monday   Anything Goes

used copics, TLC, and several other sentiments, wood paper from McMahon5 and paper from K & Co, Confetti

HUGS Have a great day!!

Get Well Soon Kendra!

My beautiful niece Kendra is a very special young lady. She was born with arthrogryposis. Yeah ain't that a mouth full! It is a big word that covers a lot of anomalies. She had club feet, scoliosis, decreased muscle tone, and contracted joints. It is a hell of a lot for one kid and one family to deal with. My step sister Tonya and her husband Kenny did everything you are supposed to; no drinking, stopped smoking, watched what they ate and still Kendra came into this world with this disease looming over her. This was their second child and was in no way expecting this.

We were told that Kendra would not walk without a walker if at all until she was at least 10 and I have to say that she beat that statistic. She danced at my wedding when she was 3…she had braces on her legs but she just kept going!

Kendra is now almost 10 and just had another surgery on the 17^th of this month. She has had so many surgeries I can't keep them straight. She is awake and talking and is doing pretty good. She will be going home probably the 20^th. The bad part besides the surgeries is that they have to go from Naples, Florida to the Shriners Hospital in Tampa…about 2 and half hours' drive. BUT this hospital is amazing! They do all of the surgeries at no cost and even have housing while you are waiting for your child to recuperate. I never realized what the Shriners did until Kendra came into our lives.

Tonya and Kenny have done wonders with her as well as the therapy she goes through and the weekly trips to the Naples Equestrian Challenge. She has a horse named "Dottie" that has become a special friend to her but also has helped her with balance and strength in her legs.

Kendra is one special girl, who is strong and determined! Can be sassy too! Becca, her sister has been a great help to family and is so special in her way! I love them both so much! And am so glad that Kendra's surgery went well!

Here is the card I made for her: (a few pictures too!)

She has made me realize that God gives us what He thinks we can handle and what He thinks we need to learn to handle.

Above is at my wedding in 2004
And this one was just the other day before her surgery!

Happy Birthday Brittany!

Wow do I feel old! My lovely niece Brittany turned 20. I remember when she was first born. My mom and I flew to Florida when she was about 2 months old. So to now see her hit the big 2-0 it shows how time flies! Living this far from my sister and her family is hard, I missed out on a lot of their milestones, but even with that distance we are close. Maybe more so because we don't live down the street, there is no time to fight! LOL

I was lucky enough to see Brittany graduate. AND my sister had me make Brittany an album of her life for her graduation present. I think she really liked it. Here are some pictures of my darling niece and of course her card!

 

I used the Sassy Studio Designs Denim Skirt image. I didn't want to just put happy b-day so I typed a bunch of words that I felt represented her and cut it to fit.

 

Here's a close up 
and the inside



 
The papers are from K&Co Confetti pack and I used my new prismacolor markers.
 

Happy Birthday Sister!

Hey all of you wonderful bloggers out there in cyber land! I wanted to show you a card that I made for my sister, Kris. But first I will give you a bit of background information…

My sister is my best friend. We grew up as typical siblings do; fight, fight, fight but as we both grew in to wives and mothers things started to change. We saw each other as people rather than her seeing me as the tagalong, bratty little sister or me seeing her as the bossy know-it-all. (and yes we were both those things). There were four of us Kranz children…Kevin, 2 years later Keith, 5 years later Kris then me 3 years. Our parents divorced when I was 6 and life as we knew it changed. My sister went back and forth to my dad's while I stayed with our mom. My brothers were old enough that I never saw them! Anyway Kris and I finally became more than sisters, we became best friends.

We both divorced at the same time and I think that brought us even closer. And of course both of us have kids. The hardest part is we are so far away from each other. She lives in Florida and I live way out here in Arizona! We have been lucky that we have been able to visit each other as often as we do. But I miss her every day! She is single with 2 wonderful kids…well one is 21 and the other is 20…so I guess kids is the wrong word! LOL She is a strong beautiful person and I am so proud of her and the life that she has built.

Here are some pictures of us as well as a picture of the card I made her.

Kris and I with our grandma
on Tiger Tail beach
Marco Island, Fl
This was in 1974

This is Kris and I at
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Fl
This was in 1977

This was taken at my wedding
November 26, 2004
She was may matron of honor 
(for the second time)

Happy Birthday Kris!

I love you!

I used the Beach Babies from E.Bell (not sure of the correct name)..the papers are from well can't remember the name but it is from a kit! LOL The flowers are prima roses and the rhinestones are from my stash!

Hope you like it! HUGS