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So glad her surgery went well. That fabulous card will definitely brighten her spirits.
Flowers for My Sister-in-law
When I saw the challenge for Just Us Girls go up, I knew I'd make a floral card for my sister-in-law who had major surgery today. She came through it well, and actually went home this evening. Knowing her, that's what she'd want to do. I think I would have opted for a night of nursing care befor...
Oh my word, how stunning. The texture you have achieved is so lifelike.
Happy Mother's Day
Today is Mother's Day in the States, and I have one last card to share. While we were in Hawaii, I got an order from The Greetery which included the earlier released Bontani-cut Strawberries. The Postal Frame was also in that order. A friend had die cut a few of them for me, and I knew they'd b...
Great color combo for a thinking of you card - looks serene and calming.
Color Hues #40
Hard to believe there have been 40 challenges now at the Color Hues Challenge! Carol has chosen the colors for the next round: It's a lovely color combination, but I struggled this time to come up with an idea for a card. I finally settled on a design from an old favorite from Simon Says, "Be...
From crazy cute to fabulously floral - you've got mad skills, lady!!
Happy Easter!
It's a cold one this year, but there's much to celebrate. After visiting the girls this morning, we attended in-person Easter services at church for the first time in two years. The beautiful music with timpani and brass is always so special, and just didn't have the same impact the past two yea...
Well, these will perk up the person on the receiving end. So happy and fun!
Color Hues #37
One thing I love about the Color Hues Challenge is the challenge to use colors I would never think to use. Nancy's choice of Yellow and Pale Teal would never occur to me, but as it often turns out, I'm a new fan. In fact, I ended up with two quite different cards. The card I started out to mak...
Oh, stunning!
You're the Best!
I'm on a mission to get cards created for the challenges I've been thinking about all month. Today's card is for the Pinkfresh Studio Monthly Challenge, and the emphasis is on frames. In addition there is a color palette to use as well. I knew right away I wanted to use one of my new hot foili...
Lovely, I am really liking the sentiments that are close cut with the dies like that.
Magnolia Ballerina
As soon as I saw the Altenew "Magnolia Ballerina" I knew I would find a home for it. When Ellen Hutson had a sale a week or so ago on all Altenew products, I put the embossing folder (and the accompanying stamp set) in the cart. I'm not disappointed. Altenew's 3-D embossing folders are just gorg...
These are lovely; isn't it nice to craft quickly sometimes. Enjoy your vacation.
Now that you mentioned Papertrey and kit - I think I may have one lurking in the back of one of my cabinets - I should get that out and play.
Don't Forget to Write
Years ago I purchased my first large stamping kit from Papertrey Ink called "Don't F0rget to Write. It was packed with preprinted card fronts, preprinted florals with accompanying dies, and a stamp set with dies. I have all the components in a cute red paper "suitcase" sitting on top of one of m...
Very pretty. Stenciling is all the rage now, I need to pull my old ones out and use them in new ways. Thanks for the inspiration.
Mirrored Triangles
Pinkfresh Studio's "Mirrored Triangles" offers multiple design options. I had my first opportunity to play with it this week, and know I'll be returning to it with different color combinations, and different configurations. Although my first idea was to create an ombre effect, I ended up cutt...
Love the cards. Thanks for supplying the name of that plaid embossing folder. I have been on the hunt for one for months, but can never catch any in stock.
Prayers and Cards for Ukraine & A Double Challenge
Nancy, the creator of Color Hues, asked the Design Team if we'd like to create a card using the colors of the Ukrainian flag. This week has been so horrific---loss of life, lives scattered as mothers and children flee leaving behind their husbands to take up arms against the unprovoked aggressio...
Love the card, geometrically stunning.
Happy Birthday, Matt!
Today is my son's birthday, and I had a lot of fun creating his card this year. He's a fan of graphic designs so I'm pretty sure he'll enjoy this card. Although I've been an incredibly lucky winner with Pinkfresh Studio in the last several months, this is a hot foil plate I purchased along with ...
How do you do that? You always know just how much is enough. I would never had thought to use these elements together - and you whip them into such an eye-catching card. Fab!
Freshly Made Sketches & More
There are often times when my blog is quiet for quite a few days in a row. It is unusual, however, for me to post twice in one day. My son's birthday post was scheduled over the weekend, and I had hoped to find time on the weekend to create a card for the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches....
Happy birthday, Alexa. Enjoy the extra attention and celebration. I found that on paperwork, the more I really think about it the less I really need to save. I had a major shred fest the other day. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to be as brutal in the housewares and home decor departments.
Simply A Moment (15.02.22)
It's a little while since a mid-month Simply A Moment has made its way on here ... a chance to stop, catch breath, just notice what's around and within, and record the small, the inconsequential (or even the very consequential underneath) while it's still bright and fresh. This week has been one...
Pretty card, so professionally colored. I will have to remember that color combo.
Color Hues #35
Valentine's Day has come and gone, but Kristie has a great new color combo for you for the 35th Color Hues Challenge. My card was inspire by this beautiful design by Betty Wright. If you click through to it, you’ll see how I was inspired. Not long ago, Ardyth Percy-Robb had a great post on t...
I loved that first one when at first glance I thought it all black and white, it is even more stunning in color. You make the simplest designs stand-outs!!
Lots of Shiny Hearts!
My new Spellbinder's Glimmer machine is proving to be a lot of fun---and occasionally a source of frustration. There definitely is a learning curve, but I did get some good results when making valentines. I have two more valentines to share. I used the Pinkfresh Studio hot foiling plate, Heart G...
He's a cutie!
Happy Valentine's Day!
I have just one last valentine to share today. It's almost entirely made with die cuts of one kind or another. I started with a pink panel die cut with the Honey Bee "Fluttering Hearts Pierced Cover Plate." I die cut a heart from that panel with one of the Hero Arts "Infinity Hearts" dies, an...
Love the eclectic photo selection. And how nice to turn a yucky necessary thing into a game for the little one. Knocking soundly on wood here that I have not had occasion to need a test as yet. Hoping 3 shots in the arm keeps it that way.
Having worked on my sis-in-law's estate in 2021, means I am hoping to do a little of that forward planning this year as well. With more and more online, the amount of actual paper in the office has thankfully steadily been shrinking the last several years, but there is still progress to be had.
Hubby and I just started Wordle this week - and he is ultra-competitive about it - which was no surprise to me. So far his streak is unbroken, mine not.
Me on a Monday ... (07.02.22)
This dark and damp Monday morning finds me, very early, saving and keywording (New Year's Resoution) photos from the week, and enjoying again the memories ... This wonderful ship-in-a-bottle at the Maritime Museum in Greenwich always makes me smile ... A glimpse through a hawthorn hedge on a hi...
Love it! (That would be the most appropriate comment, obviously.) :-)
Color Hues #34
It's my turn to be the hostess at The Color Hues Challenge. I chose Red and Black. Since Red and Pink has already appeared as a challenge, I thought Red and Black would also work for Valentine's Day which isn't all that far away. Valentine's Day was my father's favorite holiday, and I have con...
Lovely snapshots - especially that second one. As an accountant, I applaud balance as your one little word - it's all about equaling out debits with credits in my world.
OLW: Balance
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton This post has been percolating for several weeks now, and the middle of January is quickly slipping by so it’s time to take a look at my OLW for 2022. I had no trouble finding my word this yea...
What a stunning effect on that card. Fab!
Color Hues #33
Julie has a sparkling challenge for you at the Color Hues Challenge this time around. My card evolved during the rush of making holiday cards. I had recently purchased the Simon Says "Triangle Burst" 3-D embossing folder, and embossed this silver paper after seeing two cards, one Instagram and...
You had me at purple!
Watercolor Anemone
In preparing for my Guest Designer jig on the CAS Mixed Media Challenge, I watercolored this Honey Bee "Winter Anemone" as well as the one I finally submitted. This was done with loose watercoloring. I got each petal and leaf wet with clear water, and dropped color in and let it do what it wante...
How wonderful to have been at Chatsworth, definitely smile-inspiring, and yours is a welcome sight.
On the "tolerations" front, I have made progress in that some things that have been so long ignored even through nearly 2 years being mostly at home, are now clearly no longer necessary and I am finding it easier to clear them away in one way or another. I have this quirky habit of loading up a to-do list on my phone when hubby was going to be away and I knew I could get through lots of little projects. But I never got to even 1/3 of them when at my most productive. So I have taken a new tack, and those long lists are being dealt with in groups of 5 - I have a spot for 3 weekly projects in my planner. So each week 3 of the projects get put in the planner, and 2 projects are deemed to not be necessary and are forgotten and the objects discarded as appropriate. It worked wonderfully in Week 1 of 2022, wish me luck in continuing.
Me on a Monday ... (10.01.22)
(... though it is, in fact, Tuesday now, but hey ...) You find me smiling as I edit the photos of a wonderful five-mile walk to and around the splendid Chatsworth estate, and so grateful that the Duke and Duchess allow ordinary people access to the land they look after and care for, for free. Yo...
How lovely to see you back. I had spotted your post a day or two ago, but consciously decided to wait until I had a little more time, as your posts, more than most, make me want to linger and reread and fully take in the photos and words, and in this case your lovely start on your journal. That bit of washi tape made me smile, as I usually want to make sure I have all my new supplies put away right away, but I have left 4 small rolls of floral washi sitting out on my desk just for inspiration. (And a way of "planting flowers" as one of the other gals mentioned.) Here's to a happy 2022 for all of us "making" it into what we want.
Starting over in hope ...
Wishing you a very Happy New Year, full of good things and plenty of happy moments! And thank-you for popping in, when I have been absent for such a long time. All is well - it is just that creativity took itself off into a parched and barren land, and inventive energy slunk along behind. Someho...
Such a fabulous variety! Those tag cards are iconic, of course, but my favorite is the white snowflake with the large red merry and little black Christmas sentiment. I think red, white and black is my all-time favorite color combination.
If I am stamping cards, I cannot do more than about 8-10 before I am ready to move on. I much more enjoy "scrapping" the front of cards, that way they can all be a bit different. Doing Christmas cards every month doesn't appeal to me, but I can certainly see the benefit of it being a July or September project instead of a December one. 2020 was the year I came closest to having them done ahead of time (in September), but of course there were still a few add-ons in December.
I am saving photos of several of yours to my card inspiration folder.
Christmas Card Roundup
I made far too many Christmas cards of a single design this year. My goal for 2022 is to make a set of Christmas cards each month, so there's not a big rush at the end. I post a few as I go along if I create one for a challenge, but typically wait to post until I know they've been received. So t...
Looks like quite the celebration was had by all. Super cute cards!
Happy Birthday!
Each year when we're lucky enough to travel to celebrate Christmas with Sarah and her family, we're also able to celebrate with Caleb and Hannah when they celebrate their joint birthdays. And today was the day! It started early with (requested) scavenger hunts. Caleb asked for a challenging hunt...
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