That STINKS!

Well,unfortunately this is for some friends of mine, who's 19 month old little boy, who has been very healty until Saturday morning, when his parents were awakened to him having a 10 min. seziure. What a terrifying thing as a parent. He is still wiped out and has been running fevers and the Dr.s don't know what is going on. So I know he is a little to young to enjoy getting the card, but his parents will enjoy it. So please keep him and his Mommy & Daddy in your prayers. I just hope this silly little card will be more of a blessing to them but fun for him to look at.


I used:
Animal Kingdom Cartridge for skunk cut at about 3"
Gypsy Wanderings for the larger flowers cut at about 2"
Stampin Up! Burst into Bloom, Polka Dot Punch
Cuttlebug Folder: Polka Dot
Martha Stewart Punch: Hydrangea
Stickles: Yellow, Orange Peel
The sentiment and paw prints are computer generated

Well, I hope you have terrific kind of day, today, and thanks for stopping by!

Happ-BEE Birthday/Tent Fold

This tent fold card is for my wonderful MIL! She is a special lady to me.  I could not have asked for a better MIL!   I have never done this type of "tent fold" card before.  I'd say, not bad at all for a first time!  I love how the details of the bee and the hive turned out.  I also watched and saw a video of how to make one of these, and saw that they had not placed anything in the center on the "stand part" of it.  I thought that was a perfect place to "suspend" something in that space.  So if you can tell from the one side picture, that the bee hive is pushed up through the mountain fold of it.  I am very pleased how this turned out. 

I used:

Christmas Cards Cartridge: For the card

Forever Young Cartidge: For the flower frame shapes
Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge: For the grass
Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge: For the circle cuts

Sentimentals: For the bee and hive

K&Company Life's Journey Paper

K&Company Hannah Scrap Pap Paper

DCWV: The All Dressed Up Stack (Glittered Paper)

Light Tan Cardstock
Reflections Rinestones from Michael's

Ribbon from my stash

Paper flowers from Oriental Trading company

Thank You so very much for stopping by and I hope you have a very terrific day!

Snowflake Christmas

Well, Thanksgiving is coming up soon and my family on my mom's side gets together like a family reunion.  Unless, of course, if there are weddings or funerals or baby showers and such we only see each other at Thanksgiving!  So during this time of the year we all (the women that are "crafty) start making a handmade "gift" to give to each family.  Last year I made some very time consuming glass ball ornaments with teeny tiny trees all the way around and made them look like snow globes.  Well this year I think I may make ornaments again but hopefully less "work" and time.  I hope!  I do have my idea, I just need to go out and purchase the materieals for it.  I will tell you this, that it does have to do with snow flakes and glass and stamping!  Oh I know, I can almost hear you going, "Oooo, and Ahhh!"  I can show what will go with them, that I have already started making...can you guess!  Did you say "CARDS!"  You guessed right!  Well, I am putting snowflakes on the cards to reflect what I am making as my craft.  I made 6 cards today!  I need to make about 25-30 ornaments and about the same for the cards.  And that is just for this part of my family...I better get crackin, if I am going to get this all done before then.  Plus, my family knows and loves that I make the "sweets/desserts" for Thanksgiving.  So I don't have alot of time to spare between now and then.  Anyways, here is what I am making for cards.


I used:
Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge (scalloped edge)
Stampin Up!  Snowflakes stamps
The sentiment stamp, I have no idea where I got it
Ribbon from my stash last year (Michael's)
The paper is from my collection of Card stock
DCWV The Homemade Christmas Stack paper for the scalloped edge
The buttons are from my stash of collecting them through the years
Stickles: Silver, Xmas Red, Green

Thanks for taking a look and have blessed day!

A Merry Christmas

Well, this one was dreamed up in my sleep!  Yes, I obviously went to sleep thinking about my next cards, and this is what I "dreamed" up.  LOL  Not a bad dream at all, if I do say so myself.  I am very pleased with this one.  As I make many of the same cards, I get better ideas and more creative.  So since I am making about 4 of the same, then next three will be slightly different than this one and probably better! 

I used:

Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge for the oval cut
Christmas Cartridge

Stampin up for the Holly leaves and sentiment, Bells & Boughs

The house stamp is one I got at my neighbors garage sale a few years ago

DCWV the glitter card stock stack for the snow

Clear glittered embossing powder

Ribbon from Michael's (last year)

Thank You so much for taking a peek, and I hope you have a blessed day!

The Most Precious Gift of Christmas...

I LOVE this sentiment!  It is so true!  I was shopping around at Michael's for some Christmas stamps, and supplies to help broaden my Christmas designs for cards, and I saw this sentiment and fell in love with it.  I just had to have it!  My plan is to make four of the same cards and just changing them up a little bit.  That way there are no two alike, and I won't get bored doing the same one over and over.  I am very pleased with these.  I will be reusing each of these stamps on other cards, but they will be different in their layout!  

I used:

The Nativity was a set is Recollections Cling Stamps from Michael's

The Sentiment stamp is a Stampendous! Stamp and is also from Michael's

Gold Embossing ink and Powder

Cuttlebug Folder "Stars"

Various different Christmas Papers

Christmas Ribbon from last year

Well, thanks for stopping by and taking a look at what I have been doing and I hope that you have wonderful day!

Christmas Ornament

I have begun making my Christmas cards!  I am so excited!  I love Christmas, it is such a beautiful time with all the lights and sparkly stuff.  If it sparkles, I love it!  LOL  Well, this is a very simple card to make.  As I went along, I got a little more creative and detailed with each card.  Or if you want to say, maybe a lot better.  Either way, I really like the last two but mostly the last one is my favorite! 

I used:

Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge

Christmas Cartridge

Stampin Up! Stamps: Snowflakes/Bells& Boughs and another set from years ago (and I can't remember its name)

Silver/Gold embossing ink and powder

Stampin Up! Crystal Effects

DCVW Papers: The Homemade Christmas Stack, The Christmas Combo, and O Christmas Tree

K & Company Yuletide Paper

Red, Green, blue, and white Cardstock

Cuttlebug Folder Stars (for the brown snowflake one)

Christmas Ribbon from Michael's last year

 This is the first of the 4/my experimental one!

#2

#3 getting better!

#4 The best!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek at what I have been doing!

Flutterby Birthday!

My niece turns 14 today!  Woohoo!  On my husbands side there are three cousins, that all turn the same age within a few months of each other.  One of those girls is ours!  Each girl is so special to us and they have a  somewhat close bond with each other too.  To think that they all are starting high school this year and that they will all three graduate the same year too!  That will be a very busy year!  They are all growing up into such beautiful young ladies!  I hope and pray that they all will follow where ever the Lord leads them for their life. 

Any who, I made a Diamond fold card for the one.  I had to do some editing to mine because I wanted it to fit in a "normal sized" envelope.  So I added the layers of paper/cardstock to the two outside folds to make it the right size.  I am fairly pleased with how it turned out!  I still think it needs something else but I have fussed with it enough, and now it is late getting it in the mail.  Oh well, better late than never!

I used:

DCWV The All Dressed Up Stack

Cream and red colored card stock

Sentimenals Cartridge (butterflies, scalloped circle)

Plantin SchoolBook (for circle cut)

Textile Cuttlebug Folder

Silver Stickles

"Old" Crystal dye based ink for the inking and the stamp

The Happy Birthday stamp is really old, so I have no idea where I got it.

I hope you have a wonderful day today!

Getting Corny!

Well, it has been a little while since I last posted due to a nice fast family vacation and family reunions and life in general!  I was beginning to feel really guilty about not spending time in my "Craft Corner"!  But life has other plans for us...like this time of year is making creamed corn to put in the freezer for the long winter months. The wonderful results are yummy corn, that tastes like it is fresh off the cob, in the middle of the winter!  MMMMMM!  Well, we did 1 short of 11 dozen ears of corn.  Which made about 27, 2 cup bags of creamed corn, that are now in the freezer.  With a lot of help from my wonderful kids, we got it all done in just about 3 1/2 hours.  The kids worked hard at husking it all for me, while I worked hard in the kitchen over hot corn and scrubbing it all and cutting it all off the cob and packaging it away.  I just thought that I would share a few pictures of what we have been up to lately!

Family Reunion!

 Well, as you can see we stayed in a very nice cabin in the middle of the woods, but it was in Hocking Hills, Ohio. 

My family and I climbing around on the rocks of Hocking Hills!

 Hocking Hills, Ohio on the Old Mans Cave trail.

 My wonderful kids working very hard husking the corn!

The end result of what the corn looks like after everything is done!  Lots of work but ohhhh soooo good!  Makes me look forward to winter more!

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a very wonderful day!



Get Well, Pastor

Well, this is for my pastor who was hit by a car, while riding his motor cycle!  He ended up with 5 broken ribs, a broken collar bone and a broken shoulder blade and lots of road rash.  He is currently still in the hospital.  He has already had a rough road to recovery.  With having congestion on his lungs, and not being able to cough because of the pain from the ribs, landed him back in the ICU with very low oxygen levels and shallow breathing.  But through the power of many prayers being heard he has improved greatly in one day!  Praising the Lord for that!  So hopefully he will be able to come home in the very near future.  I know that he has a LONG road to recovery even once he gets home, I just so thankful that it was not alot worse then it could have been. 

Anyways, this card is what I made for him right after he went into the hospital.  I wanted something that was masculine yet simple.  I think I was able to capture that! 

I used:

Pottpouri Basket Cartridge

The Paper Studio: Mirabelle

DCWV:  the Bon Voyage Travel cardstock stack  ( I ♥♥♥ this paper!)

Stampendous! Stamp from Michael's

Tan and brown ribbon from my stash

"Brown"grommets

Sentiment is computer generated

Brilliance Pearlesent Chocolate ink

Well, thanks for taking a peak, and please keep my Pastor in your prayers as he heals and recovers!



Twisted Anniversary

I know, it has been a while since I posted anything, but I have been VERY busy with life in general! During the summer we seem to try to pack in as much as we possibly can in just a few short months!  I can not believe that summer is now almost over and it is now time for me to start preparing my mind and the kids minds for the beginning of school!  Noooooo! 

Either way, I made this card for my sister who just recently celebrated her wedding anniversary!  Woohooo!  She lives so far away, and I can't get as "elaborate" with her cards because they are extra postage. :-(  So, I decided that I was doing some of my flowers anyways for her.  I really enjoy doing handmade flowers.  I need to learn how to make lots more of them!  I also choose to make the twisted easel card because it is different than the traditional style cards.  I think it turned out really nice!  What do you think?

I used:

A Child's Year Cartridge

DCWV: The All Dressed Up Stack (Glittered)

Gray cardstock

White velum paper

Stickles:  Crystal

Reflections Stamp

Delta Dye Based Ink:  Bluebird

Martha Steward corner punch

Blue satin ribbon from my stash

Well thank you stopping by and I hope you have a very

nice day!