Zizzie Happenings

 

   

A few months ago an older gentlemen at church came to me with a great "man"card idea he thought up one night.  The idea was to have one card that could be used for all occasions.  The card came together quickly once I sat down to work on it.  I remembered I had these brads that look like screws and then that made me think about duct tape.  I didn't think I could make this "man" card without putting some duct tape on it.  I hope he gets a good laugh out of this card.

 Kathy had the day off work because of the holiday so we decided to make some cards. While we were in the craft room stamping away I had a brilliant idea to do a little challenge between me and Kathy.  We make a card with the same stamp set and then put it up for a vote to see who likes which one better.  We were talking on Skype with my 9 year old niece and she wanted to join in on the challenge.... so here are all of our finished cards.  Leave a comment with your vote for each challenge.  We will pick a random winner from those who participate and they will receive some of our cards as the prize. This stamp set is called Fun Pun.    Which do you like better A1 or A2? A1 A2 This challenge is between Kathy and Rachel.   Which birthday card do you like best...B1 or B2? B1 B2 This stamp set is called Birds of Prey.  It's a really old Stampin' Up set but I really like it. Do you like C1 or C2 best? C1 C2 One l...

May has always been a big month for celebrations in our family.  We have 3 birthdays, Mother's day, and my anniversary. To add to the celebrations I thought I would have a 20% off sale on my Zizziecards .  Use coupon code MAY2012  to get 20% off of your total Zizziecards order. Hope you all have a fabulous May!

I went over to a friends house and had a fun day of stamping.  My dear friend has an awesome craft room and we have great fun when we can stamp together.  This is the card I made while at her house.

My brother made a button for my Zizziecards site! I am so excited! If you have a blog or website would you please grab my new button. I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks to my two very talented brothers, the Zizziecards website has a new look. Check it out and let me know what you think. I am always looking for feedback, so be sure to share some with me. My goal is to spend more time on creating new cards this year and possibly networking my site more. Thank you Philip and Michael for all your hard work! And thanks to my readers for looking and for all your feedback! I greatly appreciate it!

What a wonderful day I had today. Last year I had a group of girls from our church over to learn how to make cards. My plan was to have them over every few months to learn a new technique or card layout, get to use my tools and have fun fellowshiping with each other. Well, I regretfully say it has taken me almost an entire year to get another card class planned. They made three cards and they even got to enjoy some play time with the chicks we have in our basement.

I try to show Mike how much I love him and not just on special occasions like Valentine's day. I enjoy coming up with things throughout the year. While I was traveling this past week I decided to mail Mike some cards. Here is one of the cards I made him and this is what I wrote: Because I want to tell you just how dear you are to me, Because my every thought of you is as loving as can be... Because my heart is filled with things that words alone can't say, This comes especially for you with all my love today. The saying is not my original, I read it somewhere and thought it was perfect for this card. So what have you done lately to show your love to your husband? I would love to hear from you! PS - There are still a few days left to enter my giveaway .

I thought it would be nice to present a thank you card to the Camp staff at the end of our stay. They cook all our meals for us and do an excellent job! I have had this camping stamp set "Happy Camper" for at least a year and I've never used it until today. This card is one of my large cards so that every family that attends this week can sign it.

A family at our church just lost one of their cats. It got killed by a dog, so the sudden death of the cat really hit hard. I wanted to make a card of encouragement. I don't have any cat stamps so I went online and found a picture I could print. Then I stamped the words "In Sympathy & Friendship" I think it turned out really good and the More Mustard Stampin' Up card stock I used matched perfectly with the cat.

I had some young ladies from church over on Thursday to make some cards. I thought they would enjoy making cards and learning different techniques. They made 3 cards and I sent them home with lots of extra paper so they could make more cards at home. Grandparents day is September 7th The girls are coloring their grandparents card.

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you. Philippians 1:3 I made 2 large (5 1/2 X 8 1/2) cards today to take to church tomorrow night and have all the families sign it. The first one (flower background) is for Grandma Dot. She has been away visiting her children in South Carolina. I just wanted to remind her that we are thinking of her and we miss her. She is a great blessing to our church. The second card (heart background) is for the Burrell family. We haven't seen them at church in a while and I wanted to let them know we are praying for them.

I received a birthday card that inspired me to stamp this card. I think this is a great card for anyone... young, old, male, female... What do you think?

I found some long envelopes and thought I would try to make a card to fit the envelope. I actually had a great time making this card. It just fit perfectly with what I wanted to use. I had about six 12x12 pages of this background paper and I pulled out two stamp sets that I had never used before. I am always in need of some guy cards so that is what I focused on this time. I really like how this card turned out and I'll be making more of this size soon.

Trying to get some cards made for July birthdays. Had some miscellaneous papers that I thought I would use. I made a total of 10 cards, no two turned out exactly alike.

My Grandmother (my Mom's Mom) is turning 80 on July 1st. I decided I better make her a special card... so I pulled out some stamps and started looking through the S plit C oast S tampers ( SCS ) website and I found a card I liked so I made one very similar to the one on SCS. Happy Birthday Grandma!

Mike's daughter Brittany is graduating High School this weekend. Mike will be heading down to Gainesville Florida to celebrate with her. Brittany is a huge Tennessee Volunteers fan so Mike wanted me to make a graduation card with that theme. Here is what I came up with. Hope she likes it. Congratulations Brittany!

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