Thomas Kinkade card

My husband colored this Thomas Kinkade image for me with copics.  I used a Cuttlebug and a Darice embossing folder to make a frame around the image.  I stamped and heat embossed the fish, and then did some fussy cutting.  I added a dragonfly brad which was a gift from my crafting buddy, Kathi.

Sympathy card and a Birthday Idea

I Know my Subject title sounds strange, to share a Sympathy card, and a Birthday Idea...

The Sympathy card, I made for my Aunt.  I recently lost my Uncle Bob, My favorite Uncle.  He was one of those people that everyone liked.  Always had a sense of humor, and could make you smile. 
My parents divorced when I was a young teenager, and my Uncle Bob was there for me through the difficult times.  Always supportive always trying to lift my spirits. 

As I was going through my family albums and scrapbooks, looking for pictures of my Uncle...

I found copies that I had made of a Birthday Present I did for him.  He had moved out of state, and I was trying to figure out how I could have a birthday party for him.  I came up with the idea of a Birthday Party in a box.  I think I have seen since that idea on party sites on the web, that you could buy gifts that would be a birthday party in a box.  But when I came up with my Birthday party in a box, I didn't know that you could buy something like that...or maybe in wasn't available in 1999, when I sent him his box. 

Some of the photos I took and scanned of his scrapbook (I made a copy for me too, so I could remember all that I sent him)  Didn't post for me...so I only ended up with a few...

The first page that didn't post was a page that said Surprise, and showed a group of people yelling surprise, I then showed on the next page, pictures of his family, and some wrote on an autograph page for me. I went to different family members and asked them to write some birthday messages on a page for me.

I then had this cover page that you see below

 The Next page in my book, had a paper birthday hat that I made for him and I told him to put on his birthday hat...

I then had a color page of a birthday cake with the candles lit...told him to blow out the candles
and make a wish.

 The next page was the same picture of the birthday cake with the candles no longer lit
I told him "good Job" and I hoped that he got his wish.

The next couple of pages, had printed birthday puzzles, games and birthday jokes.

The next page in the scrapbook was titled  " your gifts", and I had made a flat box and put a gift certificate in it, and some other small mailable gifts that other family members had given me to enclose in his box.

I also had a picture of a memory jar, and told him some things I remember from growing up, and enclosed some more pics.

It was Happy to have this as a memory, of something I gave to him.  He enjoyed it so much...

God Bless you, Uncle Bob!  You will be greatly missed.

CC195 Wish card

This is a card that I had entered into a Split Coast challenge back in November. I'm posting this today because I thought it went well with my Favorite things Friday post showing the beautiful music box that My husband gave to me.

The card is rubber stamped with a Thomas Kindkade stamp, and embossed with cuttlebug small folders, I added ribbon and brads to the card. I used the cracked glass technique on the Wishing Well image.

"Life is like a coin, you can spend it any way you WISH, but you only spend it once."