The good thing about being 30 is you are generally in good company. Before you know it your friends will be turning the big 3-0 as well, if not before you.
I have several friends hitting this milestone. YEAH! I’m not alone.
Turning 30 has really pushed me into pushing myself further, and wanting more from life. In a good way. More like making the MOST of life I guess you could say. One of those changes-We found a house we REALLY want to buy. Now comes the dilemma and the possibility of selling our home. BIGย STEPS!!!! The market is NOT a sellers market so I have no idea how this will all work out, or if its even possible. Jason has a meeting with our bankers to see where we stand with it all! I believe everything happens for a reason, and if it’s meant to be, it will be. So time will tell. Anyway-I don’t need to get into all that right now. Long story. Just pray we make the right decision and if we do go to sell, it goes FAST!
BACK TO 30 stuff.
One of our good friends Sean, just had his 30th b-day. There was a big surprise BBQ for him. So I had NOTHING done for him and had 45 minutes to pull it all together.
So this was my creation-done in a half hour, including photographing!
I recently got this scrappin kit from my friend Paulette. It was the PERFECT colors for a GUY card. Since I needed a quickie card I used the large sticker as my focal point.
Now notice the “3” and the “0” I used the stickers in the set, and put them on chip board. I used my Red Tag Alpha (cuttlebug) and cut the numbers. Now the “3” has a “0” in the pattern, and the “0” has a “3”. Just a neat little touch I thought.
I used the Papertrey Ink Wedding Dayย for the month and year. Then Birthday Basics for the sentiment ๐
The rest is ALL stickers. Crazy but I liked it.
We got him a gift card to Best Buy. It came in a CD case (which I contemplated keeping that part! LOL!). I needed packaging to go with my card, and the card was whipped out, so I created a CD pocket to put it in, to match. It was a fast & easy alternative
He seemed to like it all. Mission accomplished with time to spare!! YEAH!
Well I am off to start prepping for my classes on Saturday! There are still spots in 2 of them, so if you can join us, call Michelle!!
Have a great Thursday. I’ll be back tomorrow with a Blogger’s challenge!
29 Responses for "THIRTY"
What a cute card!
Nicely done girlfriend! How funny – I just used the same exact kit to make a card last night!
Great card!!!
Fantastic card, love all the special details, wonderful! Great colour combo too! Good luck with the house decisions! Kim
That’s great. Hey stickers would just fine, who says we have to use stamps all the time! Great job as usual. Good look planning the classes.
Happy Birthday, you are just a “youngin” but it is all realative. Love your card, the colors and papers are fantastic.
Oh Lauren….this is so cute. I love the 30 card. I love having friends my age. But what makes me feel a lot better are those that are older than me. They help me out in so many ways. Just always love the time you are in! (no matter what that time is) ๐
HEY…no matter what age you are, PLEASE just keep those great cards a-coming! ๐
What a great card. It is so fun and bouncy. Love all the little bits of it!
Thanks Lauren – this is just the inspiration I needed – my son is turning 20 tomorrow and I wanted to make him a special card … and there you go posting this one! Good luck with your classes this weekend. Marta
Fabulous card. I love this kit. I love what you did to the 30 chipboard. You are so clever & quick!
Awesome!
Good luck with your classes on Saturday – and I hope that the whole house thing works out, whatever way it is meant to be!
big {{{HUGS}}} chat soon!
What a great card – sometimes last minute things come out the best! Can’t wait to meet you on Saturday – and to make all the fabulous projects!
Good luck with the house issues – it’s so hard to know what to do in this market!
Love the cards! That kit is great.
By the way, I know of a lovely home in Ohio that is for sale. Great spot for 3 kids and Daisy. hahaha………….
How fun, love the way you dressed the card up, great colors!
Enjoy your 30’s – I loved mine!! Best of luck on the house purchase too. One little bit of advice, don’t but a new house until your house is sold (or it’s a subject in the purchase of the new house) because you don’t want to have to carry two mortgages at once. Had some friends that had to do that for 5 months – ouch. Card is great – you are a pro at cranking something out in a small amount of time that looks wonderful.
this is the perfect masculine card!
Perfect guy card! Great colors and as always, wonderfully designed!
Oh my gosh — this card is so much fun!! I love the layout and the way you used the stickers! Brilliant! ๐
very cool card! I have that scrappin kit – and havent used it yet… hmmmmmm
I love it!! You never cease to amaze me!
Your card is just beautiful. I love all the details you added and the saying is just great. Another masterpiece!
Super card! Wish that I had thought of using the rest of the Scrappin kits on cards….I just kept making more and more pages that really don’t go together. Now I know! Thanks!
30 is a great age, especially with the nice little family that you have! Enjoy!
I know just how you’re feeling Lauren! We are thinking and praying about the same thing here. We’ve found a few houses we like, still have some work we’re doing on this house to finish. We would love to have room for our little one to play when she gets older & all those other things that are on the dream house list!
I think your card is great…very masculine. And the colors are fun too!
Happy Almost 30… or are you 30 already. I’ll be 45 this year… but feel 30 (well, not lately)… anyway… Love that card.
Very very talented.
Thanks for always inspiring.
emily
OMG Lauren, what a gorgeous card! Loved everything about it.
This is gorgeous Lauren, I have gifted you an award, on my blog, if you choose to collect it, I know how busy busy you are xx
How cool is this the b-day card. I love using the “Simply Scrappin’ Kits” for cards you can make so many cards with them and still have left overs for scrappin’…
Good luck with your classes. You’ll rock ’em I’m sure.
amazing! and speedy too. what don’t you do?!
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