Best Wishes for your future...

I have a bridal shower coming up next week and I wanted to try the white on white technique...boy that is hard.  As you can see, I failed at doing all white!  LOL  What can I say, " I love color!"  Anyway, I succeeded at making it look soft yet elegant.  So I guess you could say I am pleased with it! 

I used:
Cuttlebug and the Stylized Flowers folder
White and pink cardstock
I-rock and gems
Cotton Candy Stickles
Pebbles Chalk
Ribbon from Michael's

Thanks for taking a look at my work!  Have a great day!

The most difficult decision to make...

I am sorry to post this, but if you have had a pet and had to put it down, you will relate to this, but this may upset you.  So please read at your own discretion.  

I hate to share this but I feel I must...I have had to make a very difficult decision, for the very first time in my life, and it probably is one of the hardest ones I have ever made.  Last Friday (Good Friday), I had to put down my almost 18 year old, ever constant, companion, my cat.  He has been with us since our 1st. wedding anniversary.  He has watched children come into our lives and seen our family move into a new home.  He always greeted me in the morning with a sweet loud "meow", like as if to say, "It is about time you got up!".  Always, about 9 or 10am he was ready to play tag/fetch...I think he thought he was a dog or sometimes a person.  He tolerated the kids pretty good but never to long on the teasing part.  He was my sweet companion and I miss him terribly. 

He started aging pretty fast in the last year or so, but mostly in the past few weeks.  In the past 6 months he had been extremely cuddly, which was unusual for him.  He got to the point that he had a favorite blanket and he loved sitting on anyone who sat on the couch with that blanket.  But his age really started creeping up on him.   His hind legs started getting pretty stiff and he had a hard time getting around. But suddenly he went from being a little stiff to a lot stiff, then he couldn't hardly walk and stopped eating and such in just a matter of a couple of days.  Then he couldn't lift his head anymore, and I knew I did not want my friend to suffer, but yet I didn't want to let him go.  But I knew it was time to let him go, but that was so hard to do.  I don't know if I will ever have a pet put down again or not, and I don't even know if I will ever have a pet inside again, either.  My kids hearts were broken when I told them what we had to do.  One kid was angry and yet crying and one was wailing to the other was emotionless.  We had him put down and had him put in a box with some of his ever favorite toys (pipe cleaners) and my youngest made a quick goodbye card to put in his box.  Then we took him to my in-law's farm and buried him right under a tree.  Oh how this has been so very difficult for me. I never realized how much he has become a constant part of our lives until now that he is gone.  I guess the old saying, "You never know what you've got ,until it is gone.", is so very true.  I miss seeing him on the chair and hearing his meow, and feeling his cuddly soft fur.  When I was lonely he was there to pet and love on.  Oh how I miss him.  I never dreamed I would have him this long...and I was raised on a small farm, so kittens would come and go without much thought, so having a cat for nearly 18 years was just unreal to me.  I didn't think I would be this attached to him.  I loved him because he was my first "child".  I remember saying to my new hubby, that if I could keep him alive, then I think I can take care of children and raise children.  Well apparently I did well, and I have successfully cared for him so that he could have a full life.  Thank you God for giving him to me.  He was a precious little furry gift of joy and love.  I miss him and I will always love him. 

He always loved Christmas time to sleep under the Christmas tree!

This was after a time of playing roughly with me and exhausted himself so much, and is sleeping on his favorite chair with his favorite blanket!

Rest in peace my dear sweet kitty!  I will always love you and miss you!

 I hope that this post doesn't upset you all to much.

Thank you all so very much for being patient and letting me share my morning of him with you. 

Happy Anniversary!

Okay, I made this card for my sister and her hubby!  I thought I would try out the flip card.  This is such a simple and fun card to make!  I love how it looks, with the vibrant pink flower against the black!  I did some black embossing on the black cardstock with the same stamp as the center to add texture.  Then the flower is colored with Copic makers. 

I used:
Black, white and purple card stock
Copic markers: RV13(Tender Pink), RV69(Peony), V05(Marigold)
Black embossing powder
I-rock and gems

Thank you so much for stopping in!  Have a wonderful day!

Thinking of You!

Ok ,I know it its a miracle, especially posting twice in less than a week...but I am on a roll right now.  I go on Pinterest and see tons of beautiful cards and drool and almost get overwhelmed after a while.  Now, I am having tons of card ideas bombarding my sleep, and as you know, that is where my best cards come from.  That half asleep state, is where my cards are created, and if I don't come down and make them right away, I forget what it was.  Kinda like a dream, if you don't write it down or tell someone right away, it is quickly forgotten.  Well, these cards have been in the works for a few days along with a bunch of other half done cards...I am sure that I am the only one with that problem! 

Well, these cards are the same but opposites in colors!  Plus, I have found this really unique stamping technique that is called, Spotlight stamping!  Really cool!  I thought I would give it a try, and I liked it so much that I ended up making two.  I don't know which card I like most...one minute I like the pink and the next I like the blue one...Oh well!

I used:
Gypsy Wanderings Cartridge for the green scroll like leaves behind the flowers
Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacy Squares
Core' Dinations cardstock for card base and also the lacy squares
Me & My BIG Ideas specialty cardstock
DCWV The Linen Closet Stack (I LOVE this paper!)
Grafix Vellum paper for the flowers
Stampin' Up (purchased years ago at a yard sale)
Stickles:  Cotton Candy and blue
Ribbon and Lace from my stash
Rhinestones from my stash

Thank You so much for stopping by and checking out what I have been doing!  Have a wonderful day!

Turning 13 You Are!

Well, I now officially have two teenage children in my home!  Isn't that wonderful!  We celebrated his birthday a few days early, with family and friends.  I think he had a great time.  For whatever reason my camera did not like me at all that day.  So most of the pictures are a little blurry.  Very frusterating...RRRR! 
Anyways, lets talk about his card.  Did you know that you can get tons of free printable coloring pages, and put them on a document into a text box and make them the size that you need it to be....  That is what all the images are on this card, just simple free printable coloring pages!  So cool!  I don't know of anyone that makes stamps or digi stamps of "Star Wars" characters, at all.   Well, as you can see I improvised, so that he could have "Yoda" on his card. 
He later came and told me that, "This was the coolest card I have made!" 
I would say he loved it, and was very happy with it!

I used:
Green Pre-made Card
Making Memories Wedding Paper Pad
Cuttlebug Polka Dot Folder
Google search for free printable coloring images for both Yoda, and the Light Sabers
Green Ribbon from Michael's
Copic Markers & Water Color Pencils
Crystal Effects from Stampin' Up on the Light Sabers
White stamp pad to highlight the dry embossing

My 13 year old son!  Happy Birthday, Nathan!

Well, thank you so much for stopping in, and enjoy the wonderful spring days!

Get Well

This has been a very long and exhausting week for my family. And I am so glad things are now finally settling down some.  Let me explain what has been going on.   My dad had to have a heart Catheterization done and then he had have a stint put in.  That was on Monday, then after the surgery his Dr. informs us that he has gone ahead and scheduled him for his hernia surgery for Wednesday, and he will stay in the hospital and will be transferred to the other hospital till then.  Then they released him on Tuesday evening late, and he went home that night and then on Wednesday morning, he went back to the other hospital for his hernia surgery.  Before his surgery that day he was having a bit of tummy troubles, and we all just thought it was due to just nerves or side effects from bad hospital food or something.  Well, he went and had his surgery done and seemed to be doing just fine in recovery.  But because he was just put on blood thinners and had, had a heart Cath. done, they wanted to keep him overnight.  Then things got a bit scary for us all.  When he was finally transferred from one bed to the other, he got really sick, he ran a fever and was throwing up and feeling very light headed.  Poor guy...  He was really sick.  But praise God for friends and family who were praying for him, because those prayers were heard and answered in a wonderful way.  The next morning, he was doing just fine and no more fever and throwing up.  I just praise God for answered prayers!  We expected that they would not discharge him until late that evening, but he was discharged that morning!  He is now home resting comfortably in his own easy chair and bed!  I am so glad that he is okay and mom can rest too.  Still am praying for healing and recovery with no problems for him though. 

Anyways, I said all of that to share the "Get Whale" card I made for him.  I know you probably have seen this style of card before but I am pleased at how well it turned out and wanted to share it with you all. 

I used:
Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge for the waves
Gypsy Wanderings Cartridge for the Whale
Cuttlebug Folder: Polka Dots
3 Shades of blue cardstock
Gray Cardstock
Yellow Cardstock
1 inch circle punch and then I snipped around the edge to make the sunshine
DCWV The Spring Stack for the BG paper
Stickles:  Turquoise, for the whale's water spouting
Light blue ribbon from my stash
Green I-rock gems
And the sentiment was computer generated

Well thank you so much for taking a quick peek at what has been going on in my life lately. 

I hope you all have a great day! 

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!