Life is good.

I have so many nieces and nephews and they just keep coming! I have 17 with one on the way to be exact. With all those kids come lots of birthdays. My brother’s son, Cole, will be 9 on Tuesday. He is such a fun and awesome kid.

I made this card for him for his birthday… It’s great for any dude in your life!!! It has a clean simple design. I inked the A Muse Rock Star in Stazon black and colored him in with Prismacolor pencils. The “grounding” oval is inked in Cool Caribbean. The main base is the Aida Cloth BG in Real Red. The brads are Queen & Co. If you aren’t familiarly with their brads, you really should try them. They are great!

I am trying to use some of my “less loved” sets…  I haven’t used this set in forever. Be Happy is a hard one for me to use. I don’t love it. But, I think this is a great card to mark some type of “celebration”. I also used the Spot On jumbo wheel. I am a big fan of jumbo wheels.

This paper is so much fun! I got it from Ecletic Paperie, it’s Fancy Pants Sublime paper. Lots of stuff going on and it’s very colorful! I used Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, and Gable Green paper. I used all Versamagic ink, in Red Magic, Cloud White and Tea Leaves. I popped up all the elements with dimensional tape and added a Queen & Co. Brad and tab. They organdy is by May Arts.

Today is going to be the start of a long week. I hope you all had a great weekend… don’t forget to file your taxes tomorrow. I filed mine earlier tonight *phews*

Andee