Praying for You/Thinking of You!

A very special lady in our church has received a awesome job opportunity and is moving far away.  She has no family where she is going and is a bit scared, but yet very excited, too.  She will be greatly missed in our church.  So this week is her last time with us in church so we are having a special meal and cake as a kind of like going away party.  So I wanted to give her a special card from just my family just to let her know that she is and will be in our prayers and thoughts as she makes this huge change in her life.  I am very pleased how this card turned out.  My pictures just don't do it justice at all.  Dark, cloudy, windy days here in Ohio no sunshine, so that doesn't help at all with my pictures. 

I used:
Cuttlebug Folder from the Love's in the Air pack
Martha Stewart Punch:  Lattice
DCWV The Linen Closet Stack for the BG paper
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy
Pebbles Chalk for the extra little bit of sparkle on the chandelier
Paper Flower from my stash
Red Satin and black Ribbon ribbon from my stash
I-rock gems
Stickles

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking a quick peek at what I have been up to lately. 

 I hope you have a wonderful day!

Loads of Fun Birthday!

Hey dear followers, I hope everyone is doing great.  Here in Ohio, we are having crazy weather.  One day it is in the 60's and the next we are having high winds and snow!  Keeps you on your toes right??? 

This card has a story, I hope you like stories!  I made it for my BIL, and it caused a lot of laughter from me.  So in the wee hours of the morning after my hubby left for work, I stayed up and enjoyed the silence of our home.  That is when I do my best work, when the house is quiet, which is very rare when you have 3 kids.  Anyways, I decided to make a wagon full of the words "fun".  So as after I had cut out all these tiny words "fun", the fun began.  I would move a piece of paper and it would cause the the words to fall/move around on the table...and I would say, "Oh no my fun is getting blown away!"   Or I would misplace them and that would cause me to say to myself, "Where did the fun go!"  I started laughing at myself and wishing my kids were around to hear the "fun" I was having. It went on like that the whole time I made it.  What a great story I had to tell my kids when they got up that morning!  It was fun!  0.0   Oh well, when you are sleep deprived, apparently strange things happen and you tend to get a little silly!  I can truly say that I had fun making this card! 

I used:

A Child's Year Cartridge for the Wagon

Sweet Treats Cartridge for the word "Fun"

Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge for the grass with flowers

Blue Cardstock

DCWV The Spring Stack for the BG paper

Flower Soft for the Grass and the the flowers

Stickles

Some pennies

Dimensional Dots

I hope you enjoyed my little story of fun! 

 Have a terrific day!

Valentiny Cards for Daddy!

 Hey everyone, I hope everyone is doing well!  I have been really busy and just haven't had the time to get in my crafting corner as of lately.  But I just wanted to share what my kids and I did for their Daddy on Valentine's Day.  As I said in my post with my Valentine card, I wanted to put my card in his lunch box.  Then I decided that all of us would make a card to put in his lunch box.  Well, we scrambled around the day before Valentine's, trying to get 3 little cards made after school and before their Daddy came home from work.  Whew, what a task!  I had to help a little with each one, but for the most part, they did them all on their own.  We got them done and had to hide them somewhere that I would have easy access to them when I packed his lunch the next morning!   After that he came home and such, and as we were packing the leftovers from dinner into a bowl that would fit into his lunchbox for the next day...he informs me that he does not need a lunch for the next day (Valentine's Day), because work was having a special meal for them.  Agggghhh!  Now what do I do???  Well, lucky for me he still needs to take some kind of breakfast food, because he leaves so very early in the morning.  So the time came to pack his lunch, and I realized I was out of his "normal" breakfast item and he says to me, "I will be fine without breakfast, or I can get something from the machine....NOW WHAT do I do???  So then I did come up with some kind of breakfast item for in his lunch and made it so he HAD to take his lunch box, and I successfully got his cards into his lunch without him knowing!  Yeaaaaa!  Whew!  I never knew that it was so much work to sneak cards into a lunch box!  LOL  Anyways, he enjoyed getting them and was pleasantly surprised!  So now that I shared with you all my challenges of trying to do something special for my hubby, here are the cards that they made. 

Thanks for stopping in and

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Some Bunny!

This card turned out really adorable! Aren't those bunnies cute?  I guess I am ready for spring, because it has a lot of the colors of spring.  I was going for a springy, fresh looking card!  This was my first time using Flocking, which is on the tails of the two bunnies.  They are so cute and inquisitive looking, just like the real thing! 

I used:
Stretch Your Imagination Cartridge for the frame 
Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge for the flowers and the grass
Bunnies are Digi Stamps which are colored with water color pencils and blended
The sentiment is computer generated
Polka Dot Cuttlebug folder
Ribbon from my stash
Cotton Candy Stickles on the noses of the bunnies and around the heart
I-rock rhinestones
Sweet Pea, and Meadow Flower Soft
White Flocking powder

An up-close of the flower soft and flocking!

Thank you so much for stopping in, I hope you have a fabulous day!

Happy Decade!

I have a really big problem that can lead to insomnia for me!  Creativity as I am going to sleep or during my sleeping is a problem...I laid in bed worrying about all the things I needed to get done before my daughter's 10 birthday party.  Knowing that I had to find time without her around to get her card done, and I only have just a couple of days.  I had the basic idea but I did not know how I was going to do it was the problem.  Well, last night I was very tired and wanted to got to bed early!  Then it happened!  Thank goodness for the Gypsy!  I laid there in bed flopping around and more ideas of creativity came to my mind...and I knew if I didn't get up and start creating it, at least on my Gypsy, I would forget or never get any sleep!  So this was the plan and how it all came about. 

You may ask, "Why did you do a house for a little girl?"  And, "Why does it say Happy Decade, instead of Happy 10th Birthday?"  Well, I am so glad you asked! 

First I will start with the house idea.  At Christmas my sweet, soon to be 10 years old, in a couple of days, received a much wanted doll house for Christmas.  She was delighted!   She already knew what color she wanted the outside to be and what color the door is going to be and such.  All very planned out, just moments from opening the kit with her Daddy.  Well, once Daddy and her saw how many pieces there are and what all they have to do, they soon began the task of painting it with a coat of primmer and such.  They have dreamed up so really great ideas and now they just have to make them a reality!  So that is my inspiration to why the house!  As you can tell, she wants her house to be a reddish color with a white front door!  Plus, I bought for her birthday, a miniature dog with a dog bed and food, for the doll house.  So that is why the dog on the porch!  
 
Okay, now to answer the decade question.  Well this same sweet, soon to be 10 year old, is full of love and laughs, and hugs and lots of personality, she says on New Year's eve/day right after we had just watched the ball drop on T.V.,  "I am turning 10 this year, so I want everyone to say Happy Decade, not Happy 10th birthday!"  She was very serious!  Boy did she get a laugh from all of us!  She is so funny and always ready to laugh at anything.  She is still holding to that idea though, so much so, that her birthday cake even says that, too. 
So there you have it!  A long story/reason, to why!  I hope I didn't bore you to sleep, but I just wanted to share it with you all.

I used:
Winter Woodland Cartridge for the House
Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge for the flowers
Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge for the bike

Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge for the picket fence and the grass
Gray and black and yellow card stock for the basic card and the roof and the windows
Core'dinations Super Assortments Sandable Card stock for the red house front
Dimensional tape
Red, silver, and black Stickles on the bike
Green Copic Marker for the window treatments
Flower Soft:  Delphinium Blue, Sweet Pea and Meadow
Gold brad for the door knob
Paper flowers and iridescent rhinestone from my stash
The sentiment is computer generated

I am very happy at how well this turned out!  Way better than I thought it would! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!

You Make My ♥ Flutter!

After 18 years of marriage my heart still goes crazy when I know that my wonderful hubby is coming home from work or from where ever.  He is such a treasure that God has given me!  I plan on putting this into his lunch box on Valentine's Day!  I just hope he doesn't get to embarrassed by it...actually he may show it off to his co-workers.  He has really supported me in my creations and is encouraged me to keep going. I love easel cards too!  So naturally, he gets one of those. 

I used:
Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge for the hearts
Gypsy Wandering Cartridge for the butterfly
Cuttlebug folder from Love's in the air
Red and White Card Stock
Printed paper from my scraps
Pink I-rock Jewels
Pink Satin Ribbon from Michael's

For Challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut
Exploring Cricut

Well thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Pretty Lady Birthday!

This card was made for my wonderful SIL! I used my first digi drawing and some Copics and lots of stickles and I-rock and ribbon...I tried to go for the "Vintage" look. I don't know if I achieved that or not, but I am happy how it all came together.  I used a lot of different things on this one.  I hope she likes it!  I am not sure how much she follows my blog, but I am taking a risk and posting it.  I wanted to get it entered in a challenge so I need to take that risk!  Well I hope she likes what she sees!

I used:

Colorbok Pattern Pack Rosewood Background Papers

1920"s Lady from Vintage Digital Stamps

Vintage Flowers

Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacy Squares

Pink I-rock
EK Success Punch
Martha Stewart Corner Punch

Sentiment is computer generated

Ribbon from my stash

Well thank you so much for stopping in and seeing some of the new things that I am discovering! 

I hope you are having a great day!

Snow Girl Birthday Card!

This is a simple birthday card for a family member!  Can't say until they receive it!  I have about 4-5 birthdays that all seem to land in about a week of each other!  Whew!   Some people may just get their cards a little late!  But hey, it makes their birthday seem to last a little longer... and maybe they have given up on getting a card from me and then...surprise!  LOL  Since it is still very much winter here and I just love making Christmas cards and I am having a hard time changing from them...I thought that I would keep that theme going!  Right?  Well, here is what I came up with!

An up-close of her hat!

I used: 

Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge for all the circle cuts

Sweet Treats Cartridge for the tag

Stand and Salute for the nose, I trimmed it up to give it that not so perfect look

Black and White cardstock

Pink Ink

Dimensional tape

Cotton Candy and Icicle stickles for that little something sparkly

Paper flowers and the ribbon are from my stash from collecting for years

Pink Rhinestone from my stash

For Challenges:
Birthday Sundaes

Well, thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a  wonderful day!

All Occasion Cards

Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing really well!  I have been very busy as of lately, but somehow I have managed to squeeze in some time to do a little card making/therapy.  I need that sometimes!  Well, at Christmas time my family gave me a gift card to Michael's...and I had to choose between several things that I wanted and needed.  Oh decisions, decisions!  I am not very good at making them, plus when there are soooo many things I would like to have and such. I really struggle with that!  Do I buy, ribbon, sparkles, tools, stamps, ink, embossing stuff, embellishments....you get the picture!   Well, I decided on giving the Copic markers a try!  I always have loved what people have done with them and such.  The ability to "shade" with them and of course color appeals to my artistic side. 
Also, on top of that my wonderful hubby and family bought me the I-rock tool.  So naturally, I NEEDED the rhinestones to go with it.  So that was something else I HAD to buy.  Plus, a bunch of paper stacks were on sale and there was some very sparkly paper that I had never seen before....so again I HAD to get some of that.  The list just kept growing as I walked around and the money kept getting smaller and smaller!   I bet none of you have that problem! 
Any who, these cards are my first attempt at using my Copic markers and the I-rock!  So of course, I had to have a reason for using them all.  Naturally an all occasion cards are a perfect occasion!  Right?  Well, this is what I came up with and I hope you all like it!  They are basically the same card the only difference is the coloring of the stamps and the I-rock studs and the first one I did a little bit of "distressing" with a bit of silver ink.  I guess, I was just having a little bit of fun and playing around with my new necessary toys!

Well, stay warm and have a great day!

Liebster Blog Award!

I have a blog award I want to share with you!  Sarah at Sarah's Crafts & Stuff was so sweet to honor me with the "Liebster award! Thank you so much, Sarah! “Liebster” is a German word meaning dearest, beloved or favorite, and the Liebster Award is sort of a chain letter among bloggers that’s intended to showcase exceptional up-and-coming blogs (typically, those with 200 or fewer followers). Now, there’s no evaluation committee or formal award process for the Liebster, but in a way it’s even nicer – it’s recognition that a peer has noticed and appreciated your hard work.

Here are the rules:
Choose 5 up and coming blogs of fewer than 200 followers to award the Liebster to.
Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
Post the award on your blog. Link back to the blogs you have given the Liebster to so everyone else can pay them a visit.

So here are the 5 blogs I have chosen:
Gracenotes For Today
Fairly Crafty
Mindless Creativity
A Day InThe Life Of A Horse Bunny
Imaginational Wonders