Everything Is Better with a Friend Birthday Card

I pretty much love everything about this card, if I do say so myself. I even like the photograph. And, everything IS better with a friend.

 

Again, I was thrifty and used scrap paper! The stamp is from the Girlfriends line by Art Impressions titled "Laughing." The sentiment is from CTMH's "Better with a Friend" stamp set.

Both the image and sentiment are matted in black cs, and I used a miscellaneous flower and some bling from my stash.

 

I used Copics to color the ladies and the open areas in the word "friend."

One thing I like to do when coloring with Copics, which was probably taught to me at my first Copic class, is to outline everything in light grey. I use C1 Cool Grey. It gives the image a little depth. Also, the pool of grey color around their feet grounds them so they aren't hanging in the air.

Lunch Group Gifts

Today was my Lunch Group Christmas exchange.  Three fellow court employees and I used to gather for lunch almost every day.  We don't anymore, and we're not all still even in the same building, but we still get together from time to time, and for years we have gathered for a Christmas gift exchange.  Because there are four of us, we're not young, we're not thin, and we probably looked this excited to go on our lunch breaks, I thought this stamp from Art Impressions Girlfriend line would make a great tag.  I colored it with copics.  The giftbags--lunch sacks, of course.  And it's hard to read, but the license plates are LNCHGRP. 

Explosion Boxes

Last weekend three friends from high school and I roadtripped to a girls' getaway weekend in Galena, Illinois.  I love this "Girlfriends" stamp and used it to to top off explosion boxes I made for each of us.

The weekend before we went, I made the four explosion boxes, which were the same except the color combos.  I added cute stamps and sayings representing a girls' getaway and left spaces blank for pictures.

I took my camera and my mini printer with us to Galena, and in the morning before we drove home I added pictures from the trip and gave one to everyone:

Art Impressions Girlfriends Cards

I love this stamp, "Girlfriends," from Art Impressions.  I colored it with my copic markers, and the papers are all CTMH.  I think this is how my fellow Parrothead gals will look at future Jimmy Buffett tailgates.