Let me know what you think and I will talk to you later. Hope everybody has had a great weekend and happy stamping!
It looks much lighter in the picture, but I can assure it is a very deep red on the paper. I didn't want to use any solids on this just so it wasn't so overpowering. Instead I used vellum and stazon ink. Hopefully we will be going to New York to visit them this summer. I am so excited and can't wait!
I took the idea from the new SU! spring mini (available March 1, 2007). They used the big blooms stamp set and I used the snowflake spot set instead.
I made one very similar to this for her sister Cacie. She likes the darker colors and I found the perfect paper for both frames at the Emporium, right here in lovely downtown Del Rio. I used the A light heart stamp set that was offered back in September. I love this stamp set as well. I use it a bunch as well. I think both frames turned out great. 
They are going to be moving in about five months or so and I asked what colors/theme their rooms will be done in. She said that it would be pink or purple. I just mixed both of them together that way no matter what color the room would be, it would match.
This is the card that I made to match the frames. After I made the card, I thought that instead of the ribbon I should have put the butterflies on the frame. It still turned out looking fine, but I can use the idea later or for something else.
His room is going to be done in a western theme. He has cow spotted curtains and it will be painted blue. I found some paper (the very last matte on the letters) with little horses on it (even though you can't really tell from the picture) and it was perfect because along with the horses, there are blue polka dots that are all over the paper. I made my own cow spots for the background. 
This is the card I made to match Shane's frame. I used the same sticker set as I did in the frame. I ran out of the horse paper, but I think it looks fine anyway. On the inside it says "Happy Birthday Buckaroo". I saw the sticker set and knew that I would use it for the frame. It was such a good match for the room as well.
I also made a frame for a friend of mine. She has a picture of her sons and her husband when they were all younger and they are wearing the same clothes in each of them. She picked out the frame and the paper that I used to make it. I think it turned out really nice. The only thing that I would have omitted is the way she wanted me to put each of their names below the pictures. But it was a gift to her mother-in-law and she wanted to make sure that she could tell the difference between the two boys (I spelled Isaac wrong by mistake, but I fixed it even though it is wrong in the picture. Oops my mistake). 
And this is the frame that I made for my husband's parents. His step mom's name is Joy and I made it for his dad. The Naturals Ivory card stock that you probably cannot see is what the dictionary definition of her name means.
Anyhow these are just a few of the things that I have been working on. I will hopefully post some more holiday gifts, that I have worked on, tomorrow.
