Birthday Surprises!

       My husband celebrates his birthday tomorrow.  Very close friends drove up from Charleston to help celebrate the occasion.  To top it off, they brought shrimp that came straight off the trawler...doesn't get any fresher than that! We had a feast and fun!
       I designed the card, but I will warn you up front, I couldn't get the flower burst to come out right so don't write or fuss at me..haha  Hey, if you can make better, please do and send back to me...that would be wonderful.  The card would do better with 2-sided paper, but I just made do.  You also don't need the 2 flower burst..I just forgot to delete one.  I used a MS punch and fits into an A2 envelop, but tight.

The tag is silver foil, but looks gold.

Opened (inside)

Download: Flower burst card carola

Do Not Disturb the frog...

....... Chocolate Fantasy in Progress!!!!  The base is a 5" circle card that opens.  All the svgs are under one svg.... frog, lily pad, and cattails.   I also have them in groups in SCAL 2. Comments so welcomed.

Download: Frog svg (set)
Download: Frog Fantasy (SCAL 2)
Download: Cattails svg

UPDATE:  Here is my card I made from Monday's Hammock Set.  (I did the frog again and had him laying in the hammock.)

Flower 3-D Pop-Up Card Template

       Someone was wanting a 3-D pop-up petal flower card, so here is my version.  It follows the same concept as the butterflies yesterday.  It makes a beautiful little 3-D pop-up flower petal card.  Hope you can use and enjoy.  Comments are most welcomed.

Download Flower petal pop-up card Cely

Butterflies Are Free

.......and so are these.   So many wonderful card templates out there in the web world that I had to design one myself.  I like a card that doesn't take too long from start to finish and where I can make 4 or 5 for later use.  If one card takes me an hour, I generally will never do it again and don't want to give it away .....sounds awful of me, doesn't it!  Anyway, that's what I have in the back of my mind when I make these templates and svgs for you and me.  

      COMMENTS are most welcomed.

Download Butterflies Card Template

This is a 3-D or some would say a pop-up butterfly template card.  The butterflies stay attached to the paper.  The extra 3 butterflies separate so you can place on top of the paper to give it a "special effect" as  I have done to my cards.

Japanese Little Girl (Part Two)

       Yesterday, I displayed the words "Forever Friends" in Japanese.  Today, I added a little Japanese girl to the card.  I chose to cut her out and added extra background and layers. I didn't show my final picture since I am away from home.  Download HERE for the little girl. Thanks for dropping by today and taking a look.

Japanese "Friends Forever" (Part One)

       This will be a two part card.  Today, I'm downloading the Japanese words "Friends Forever" AND I will show you how I also used the words as a template on a curved card template. Or, you could cut the letters and glue to  the front of a card.  There are lots of neat options.  Download HERE for words and HERE for words and curved card template.  Thanks for dropping by to take a peek and "stay tuned" tomorrow to see what I add to this.