Birthdays and Bows!

Long time no post!  Yes this is why I have my reservations about a blog!  I get super crafty for a while and then whamp back to reality I have 3 kids and a full time job which requires more than 24 hours in a day!  So, I had to get my mother-in-laws gift ready since her birthday is this week (time crunch!!!). 

I have been on a bow kick since I made the wine basket, I am in search of the best bow tool!  I LOVE my bow easy for my cards and have thought several times about making a BIGGER version of it to use.  I went out and bought the Bowdabra, which my user rating on it is O.K. I am not super excited about it but, I have not really worked with it a lot so that may be why I am not super thrilled (good thing there was a coupon involved with the purchase!).  I refuse to buy a Jiffy bow because my super handy Dad can make me one much cheaper than I can purchase one!  I also hate to purchase the star bow maker thingy because again why not just make your own! I say all of this because I played with the Bowdabra to make the bow for the present.  So check it out and see my 1st attempt at it! 

I would try to make it prettier but, I have a time issue they are droping my son off and I want to have the present ready to go in oh, lets say a hour (yikes)!

Since I am in such a time rush the card had to be super simple!  Thank goodness that while on my shopping day with my Mom yesterday I was able to stop by Sassy Scrapper.  I have been dieing to get a "negative image" stamp after I was inspired by another bloggers card.  So I happen upon this awesome Hero Arts stamp, my original plan was to stamp it then emboss with white embossing powder and then color with Copics as I saw on the blog.  Well, I don't have time to color so..... here it is stamped with Close to My Heart inks, I added the Happy Birthday stamp after the base stamp had dried.

Well I guess that wraps up the post for the day!  I swear I will try to post more offten!  Trust me as soon as I get to try the embossing and coloring this image I will put it up for you to see it!  It is an awesome look!