A Few Birthday Cards and A Tear Panda For My Mom

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! I actually was able to spend some time in my craftroom this weekend and this is what I came up with. This first card is for my mom. For those of you that don't know, my mom is in a rehab and has been diagnosed with lung cancer and her only option is chemo, which she has opted not to do. I wanted something that she could set on her nightstand and when she looked at it she would know that she is in our thoughts and in our hearts. It had been awhile since I did a tear bear and I thought this little panda would put a smile on her face. Aside from the panda, the rest of the card is pretty simple. I used heart and circle Nestibilities along with the Spellbinders lattice border, pierced the background on the heart and added a few tiny flowers. The sentiment is computer generated---

I had this next card done for quite a while but didn't want to post it until our good friend Bob had received it. He is a train enthusiast so I thought the digital train image would be perfect for him. You can't tell from the picture but the train is popped for dimension. The edge punch is Stampin' Up, as is the paper. The little ties were around a silverware setup where we had lunch with him and Kathi awhile back...I wonder if he recognized them--- 

Our good friend Gigi loves birds so I used one of my new favorite dies, Memory Box Perched Reed Bird for her card, added a bit of a flourish, a couple of tickets and called it a day ---

And finally, our friend Eduardo,who is Gigi's husband and 1 day younger than her, also loves birds. I'm not sure the buzzard kind but I thought this would be appropriate for a man's card and he will appreciate the humor. I found the clip art image on line and colored it with Copics---

That's it for now...Thanks for stopping by. If you need more information or if you have questions on the recipe or the supplies I used, please don't hesitate to email me. Til next time...Enjoy your day, have a great week and I'll see you when I see you!

Something Other Than Christmas

Good Morning Everyone! Thanks so much for stopping by!  Remember when I posted the cards that I made for our neighbor with the heart bride and groom? I told you that was the last you would see it for a while. I guess I knew then, that wouldn't be entirely true. I knew in April that I had an anniversary card to make for our Disney enthusiasts Bob and Kathi. I wanted to put a little different twist on it using the Mickey heads cut with My Cricut--- 

I knew last month when Gina K of Stamp TV posted a video for the "Sunshine Background", I wanted to use it to make a card for my mom. Here is what I came up with. The flower and clouds are dies from My Favorite Things and the doily is a die from The Scrapping Cottage. The sentiment is computer generated---

I always try to keep a few quick Thank You card in my stash. I used a Michael's $1 bin stamp and A Cuttlebug embossing folder for this one--- 

Here's a Tiddly Ink image that I colored with Copics and paper pieced the dress. I added 2 different EK scalloped edge border punches, a Nestibility heart and and a few brads---  

I used a embroidery floss bobbin as a template for this card. I inked and added the swirl and flower from an EK  punch and added a pearl and embroidery floss The sentiment is computer generated, cut with an oval and inked---

That's it for now. I've got a few Birthday's cards to do for September then I'll be finishing up my Christmas cards. Working on my Christmas the whole month of July has really given me a good head start and I had so much fun, I want to finish them. Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day, I'll see you next time...have a great week.

A Few More Christmas in July Cards

Good Morning...I hope everyone is having a great week. A BIG Welcome to my new followers. I'd love to see your work, but there isn't always a link to your blog when you sign up to be a follower. When you sign up to follow my blog, please leave a comment with your blog address so that I may visit you and become a followers as well. 

I haven't had much crafting time, but I wanted to share with you the cards I've made since my last posting. I'm having so much fun doing Christmas cards and have a pretty good start on them. Hopefully I won't be overwhelmed come Christmas time...so keeping with the "Christmas in July" theme this is what I've come up with. We had the chance to spend some quality time with our good friends Kathi and Bob on Saturday. Kathi was able to take a look at our camera settings. The first two cards were taken after the adjustments...while not great, much better...at least the reds are not orange! I am sure with a few more adjustments it will be perfect! Thanks Kathi! Since I am pressed for time, I will keep the chit chat to a minimum but, if you need more information, you can always email me for the recipe or supplies used. I used Memory Box dies for the bird and the swirl for this first card, along with Peachy Keen holly stamps colored with Copics and Glossy Accents added ---  

The tree on this card is a Quickutz die. I THINK the sentiment is from Inkadinkado that was heat embossed with gold embossing powder---

I love this "Deck the Hall" song sheet background and would love to share the link with you...however, I failed to save the web site...BUT I did save the picture to my computer. If you would like a copy, please email me. The image is from Mo's Digital Pencil.

This last card features a snowman die from Go Kreate with Cuttlebug embossing folders and a computer generated sentiment---

That's it for now...Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day and have a wonderful week. See you next time!

More Christmas in July

Good Morning...Happy Friday! Here's a few more Christmas cards that I'd like to share with you. I am, once again really pressed for time, so this will be really short without a lot of chit chat, but let's face it most people only look at the pictures anyway. If you need more information or if you have questions on the recipe or the supplies I used, please don't hesitate to email me. I know these pictures are horrible, I've had to revert to our dinosaur of a camera until we can get to our good friend Kathi's to have her take a look at the settings on our SLR--- 

 

That's it for now...I hate to post and run but that has been my way of life lately. If you leave a comment, I'll be sure to stop by your blog this weekend to see what you've been up. Til then...Have a great weekend...see you next time!

Christmas In July

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a great week! The words "thank you" just isn't enough to say how touched  I am for all the well wishes and prayers that you have sent for my mom. Your continued support means more than you will ever know. We met with the Oncologist and without going into details, it's not good. My mom's only option is chemo and I'm not sure she is strong enough, mentally or physically to withstand the treatment.

I had a few extra minutes this weekend to make a few cards and because I don't know what the future will bring at Christmas time, I wanted to get a head start. I will probably be working on Christmas cards every chance I get through the month of July. The pictures are horrible, there must be something wrong with the settings on the camera. Everything that is red...looks orange...grrr! This first card features a Penny Black image colored with Copics. The birds are sitting on holly leaves from Peachy Keen, also colored with Copics and Memory Box grapevine die---   

The Cardinal on this card is a Heartfelt Creation stamp and die. The window is a Memory Box die and the "tree" under the acetate on the window is the infamous Martha Stewart branch punch---

This image is a Mo's Digital Pencil stamp colored with Copics and the layers under the image is Cuttlebug Swiss Dots and Snowflake embossing folders--- 

 And finally a Penny Black image with a computer generated sentiment with a Scrapping Cottage holly die---

That's it for now...Thanks for stopping by. If you have a question on the recipe or supplies that I have used in my posting today, please feel free to email me. Enjoy your day and have a wonderful week...I'll see you next time!

A Few Family Birthday Cards

Good Morning Everyone! Thanks for stopping by...I hope you are having a great week! Many of you know that my mom has been in a rehab for the last 2 months because she was unable to walk unassisted due to several compound fractures of the spine but what you may not know is she has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer. We will know more when we meet with the Oncologist on Thursday. Needless to say, with her 100 miles away and no hopes that she will move closer, my crafting and blogging time will be drastically cut so my postings will be very erratic. At one point I had even given some thought to giving up my blog all together...we'll see how it goes. Here's a few birthday cards that I'm not real happy with but my heart just wasn't into it. Time permitting, I may redo them. The first 2 are for the twins who will be 2 next month...can you believe it...where has the time gone? The image is the infamous Bugaboo Digital Stamp colored with Copic Markers and popped--- 

I just LOVE that monkey from Bugaboo, so much that I just couldn't resist using him in a different pose for this 5x5 Easel card for our grandson, Kenny Michael. This would not have been my 1st choice for color combo but his favorite colors are yellow and red. The banner is from MFT and the Happy Birthday background is from The Cutting Cafe--- 

 Finally, this last one is for my sister in law's husband. The hot air balloons are MFT stamp and die---

I've got birthdays covered through August so I am hoping to be able to work on some Christmas cards next month.That's it for now... if you need more information, please, don't hesitate to email me. Thanks for stopping by. I will close by saying...Have a great week...I will see you when I see you. 

Thank You to Our Vet

Good Morning Everyone! Thanks for stopping by...I hope you had a great weekend. Thank you for all the well wishes I received for my mom and Charlee. Hopefully Charlee has turned the corner and is on her way to recovery. It has been a long 4-5 days. Here's the thank you cards I made for our vets. I used the same papers and elements for both. The dog is a die from The Scrapping Cottage, the flowers are Nellie Snellen and the "thank you" is Spellbinders font. This first one was for Dr. Van Lue, the vet surgeon that was called in to do the surgery on Charlee's ear. It's a  standard A2 card. I have to say he is one of THE most kind and considerate professionals that we have encountered. The only contact we had with him was by phone but he explained all the risks with such compassion and concern, we were certain that our furbaby was in the best possible hands---

 

This 5x5 easel card was made for our Vet, Dr. Kirven and the staff of Hunter's Creek Animal Hospital, who has always provided her with the best possible care and a high level of care and concern for us as well---

That's it for now, thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed your visit. I am not sure when I will be back as there will be precious little time for crafting but I hope not to be gone too long. Enjoy your day and have a great week.

A Couple of Fun Cards

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a great week. Me...it's been very busy, with my mom in a rehab over 100 miles away with numerous trips back and forth and our sweet Maltese, Charlee with yet another ear infection that we have been treating since March...things have been very hectic. Many of you may remember last year she had to have surgery, they removed everything from her ear drum out because we had battle chronic ear infections. She is now having the same problem with what we refer to as her "good ear". She is scheduled to have the same surgery this morning. I've got a ton of unanswered emails and I have not had a chance to visit my favorite blog but I did want to do a quick posting on a couple of fun cards and to welcome my new followers. I'm really pressed for time this morning so I will close by saying...Don't give up on me...I'll answer my emails and visit my favorite blogs within the next day or 2...or 3. If you have any questions on the recipe or the supplies I used...please feel free to email me! I'll be back the first part of next week with the Thank You cards I made for our vet---

Til then, enjoy your day and have a great week...what's left of it!

I Know...I've Been A BAD Blogger!

Good Morning...Happy Friday!  I know I've been a BAD blogger...I was suppose to be back before the end of last week with this posting but life got in the way (how dare life get in the way of crafting...lol!) and I wasn't able to get to it until now. I needed a couple of quick Thank You cards and a Support card and this is what I came up with. I've been playing with my Copics and having SO much fun. This first card features the ever lovable Chagito from Stampendous. You can't tell from the picture but it is stamped and popped in 3 layers and stickles added to the rain--- 

For this card I used a Whipper Snapper stamp along with the Martha Stewart fence edge punch. I added a few flowers from a Memory Box die and the grass is a MFT die. I punched the corners with Stampin Up corner punch then filled the corners with EK Success photo corners and added  some flowers from Scrapping Cottage Sugar Egg die. The "thanks" is a Cuttlebug Babyface die---

This sweet little mouse is a Penny Black stamp and the background is a layer cut with Martha Stewart Heart Punch All Over the Page. The embossed layer is Cuttlebug Love Language embossed on Core'dination paper and lightly sanded. The edge punch is from Martha Stewart and the sentiment is computer generated using Cupid de Locke font---

That's it for now...Thanks for stopping by. If you have any questions on the supplies or recipe that I haven't addressed please feel free to email me. Enjoy your day and have a wonderful weekend!

A Couple of Father's Day Cards

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a great weekend and for those of you that are mothers and grandmothers, I hope you had a wonderful day! Here's a couple of Father's Day cards I'd like to share with you. I'm really pressed for time, so this will be a really short posting... if you need more information or if you have any questions on the recipe or the supplies I used...please feel free to email me---  

That's it for now...Thanks for stopping by. I hope to get back before the end of the week with a couple more cards that I have been working on so be sure to check back...Til then enjoy your day and have a great week!

For My 3 Favorite Girls

Good Morning Everyone! Thanks for stopping by...I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Here's a few cards I made a couple weeks ago but I wasn't able to get to the post office to get them mailed until late last week. I didn't want to post them until they were received. I brought my Copic markers out of hiding and wanted to do a few girly cards for my 3 favorite girls...my granddaughters.They are all pretty simple and speak for themselves but if you need more information, please, don't hesitate to email me---  

That's it for now...Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day and have a great week. Hope to see you again soon!

Thank You Cards To Replenish My Stash

Good Morning Everyone! Thanks for stopping by. The day that I have dreaded has finally come...that is  the OLD blogger interface is a thing of the past so I am forced to use the new and improved (?) Blogger which is suppose to streamlined the blogging experience. That's easy for them to say...I'm so very computer illiterate it's going to take a while for me to fumble my way through. In addition, Blogger no longer supports my browser of choice...IE...so I am also going to have to get use to Google Chrome..so bear with me while I struggle through it! I have been working on replenishing my Thank You card stash. With my husband's birthday yesterday, Mother's Day and Father's Day just around the corner I realized I have no Thank you cards to send so here's what I came up with. I just love this bird house from MFT--- 

This one is a little "cheesy" and a lot out of focus ( I guess I moved when I took the picture) but it's for our grandson's and I'm sure they will love it---

Sometimes you need a quick and easy thank you card with a minimum of embellishments so these next 3 fit the bill. This 1st one was inspired by my son (yes...my son) He made some gorgeous cards for their trip to the flea market a few weeks ago. The layout of one in particular stuck in my head so I cased it---

A simple image found on the internet then embossed with an added sentiment...if just doesn't get any quicker and easier than that---

I come across this digital paper from The Sweet Shoppe a while ago and have been wanting to do something with it so here is what I come up with---

That's it for today...If you have a question on the recipe or supplies that I have used in my posting today, please feel free to email me. Thanks for stopping by...enjoy your day and have a wonderful rest of the week!

A Few Mother's Day Cards

Good Morning and Happy Monday to all my friends and followers in blogland! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I'd like to share with you a few of the Mother's Day cards that I will be sending out. This first one features that fat cat image from Penny Black that I colored with my Copics. I think my new favorite color combo is aqua and peach---

Here's another using that color combo with a computer generated sentiment and my favorite Martha Stewart edge punch, Vintage Floral--- 

For this last one I used the Heart to Heart Doily die from Cherry Lynn. Anyone that has this die knows that it was a real labor of love to make this card. I cut and glued together 5...yes...count them 5 of the dies to give it a shadow box effect---

That's it for today...Thanks for stopping by. If you have a question on the recipe or supplies that I have used in my posting today, please feel free to email me. Til next time...enjoy your day and have a wonderful week!

A Few Cards for the Girl Next Door

Good Morning Everyone! Thanks for stopping by...I hope you had a great weekend! When the girl next door came over and asked me to make her a few cards, I had no idea what I was going to do because she didn't know what she wanted. She only knew that one of the cards needed to be special and needed the sentiment to be in Portuguese. Here is what I came up with...I hope you like them Stef. The first one is the "special" wedding card that is a 5x5 easel card, using one of my favorite Martha Stewart punches, Vintage Floral edge punch, Petite Oval/Scallop from Spellbinders and Cuttlebug Swiss Dot embossing folders. Because of the embellishments, I needed to make a box for it. It didn't photograph very well, what you can't tell from the picture is the background paper is paper that I made using the silk paper technique and is gorgeous in real life and really adds texture. You also can't tell I heat embossed the edges of the card and the branch punch in the flower spray with gold glitter embossing powder---

She had seen the wedding cards I had sent to my son and daughter in law and thought it would be nice for a friend's wedding that she had missed. I promise you, this will be the last of the bride and groom hearts you'll see for awhile. A very simple card, using another of my favorite Martha Stewart edge punches, Lace Hearts and the embossing folders from the Cuttlebug Love Language, Emily's Bouquet and Quick Kutz Stripes Label---

She also needed a card for her daughter's teacher who is pregnant. The image is She's All That Brush Set from Stampin Up---

This last one, she picked from my stash so those not new to my blog may have already seen it---

That's it for today...Thanks for stopping by. If you have a question on the recipe or supplies that I have used in my posting today, please feel free to email me. Til next time...enjoy your day and have a wonderful week!