January and February cards

Well the new year is here and I wanted to make a few Thank You cards....not as many as I should but not enough time. I also started the january and February birthdays. Valentines will be here before we know it!

I used a corner punch that I received as a gift from my daughter. This is for my Mom who made me a "garland" of Snowmen for my Christmas gift.

This card will be for my sister and brother-in-law who sent us great gifts as well. I think the play on words is cute.

One of the February Birthday cards. The "pattern" had a bird on a triangle card but as I started adding the bands at the bottom I decided to extend them and make it into a party hat instead.

I got a great gift from my son....money!!! I was able to get a new pair of shoes, house shoes, a couple pairs of sweats and ....of course....some new paper books!

This card is for a January Birthday and I used the patterend paper as the background. I then cut one of the butterflies including the insides of the wings and mounted it.

Another January Birthday for my father-in-law. again I used the new patterened papers to layer.

This is for my neighbor and friend. Her Birthday is on Valentines Day.
This was in one of my mags as a black and white with "color pop". The sample showed yellow flowers and it was actually a journal front. The "binding" was black. I wanted to bring in red for the color due to the Valentines date. I used ribbon for the color. The black and white strips were cut from various papers and added to white cardstock.

Another February Birthday using the "Safari" cardstock.

I chose this pack for the more masculine colors and prints available.