Pirate Party Thank You Notes & Pics

It's been an extremely busy March for our family!  The pirate party was a huge success - lots of fun was had by all, especially the birthday boy.  Here's a photo of the thank you cards I made up for him to send out to all of his generous friends and family.  It was really fun stamping and creating pirate themed items.  I still have to do his scrapbook pages for the party pics.  I'll post those when they're finished as well!  For this card, I used the Ahoy Matey stamp set (retired), along with Sunflower, Cranberry, Black, Colonial White and Desert Sand carstocks and inks.   I also used the Thank you stamp set and some Black bigger brads.  Simple and cute, does the job I think!

Here's a photo of the pirate cake I made:

Wishes!

One of my favorite things in the new CTMH Summer Idea Book is the card creation book - Wishes! It was originally not going to be released until June 1, but CTMH has it in stock now! I got mine Monday night and just could not wait to go through all of the gorgeous new card patterns and artwork inside! I whipped up this card this afternoon for my son Alex's preschool teachers as a thank you for the entire class to sign. It is the 5x7 size pattern "Circle Collection" and I used the new paper packet - Bella. The book even comes with a CD with templates for making the circles and other shapes for your card creations. I absolutely LOVE how easy CTMH makes creating gorgeous artwork so quickly! Other supplies I used include: Thank You and Boutique Borders stamp sets, Chocolate Designer Ribbon, Olive, Creme Brulee and Vanilla Cream cardstocks, Chocolate brads, 3-D adhesive squares and Desert Sand, Hollyhock and Olive inks.

Thank You Card and Envelope

Here's a card I made with the new, fabulous Tickled Pink kit - CTMH's current special for National Scrapbooking Month! I used the Tickled Pink glitter stripe paper, reverse side of the Tickled Pink floral paper, Crystal Blue Textured cardstock, White Daisy cardstock, Foundry Bookplates, and floral die-cuts from the Tickled Pink kit in White Daisy. I stamped the "thank you" with A Huge Thanks stamps and the floral and leaf stamps are from the Tickled Pink kit as well. I raised the floral and leaf die-cuts up off the card by using foam squares to add dimension. To find out all the details on this special kit - only available now through May 31st - click on the icon to the right on this blog, or here.