Good Morning! It's time for another Easy Peasy Valentine card featuring these fantastic K and Company die cuts!

I just loved this lovely die cut,,,,,so precious. I added some matching rose die cuts and a spellbinders die cut for a very easy, quick card!

Card Recipe:

Papers: Scraps
die cuts: K and company vintage valentines, spellbinders lacey ovals
ribbon: the ribbon carousel
button: Bazzill

Thanks for looking!  I'll have more Easy Peasy valentines later in the week!

Love Is In the Air!

Good Evening!  It's that time of year.  Christmas and winter holidays are over,,,,,,,and our minds turn to Valentines.  At least mine does!

I wanted to send them to a larger number than normal this year, so I knew they'd have to be quick and easy to put together. And this one is so fun, and yet so elegant too!

Here's the first one!

I just fell in love with these K and Company die cuts. So pretty, a touch of vintage and so easy to slap together. Some pretty papers, a bit of punching and a ribbon or two,,,,,,so easy!

Card Recipe:

Papers: K and Company
Die cuts: K and Company
Punches: Martha Stewart Doily Lace Punch
ribbons: Hobby Lobby

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed the card!  I'll have more in the coming days!

2013 Calendar.

Recently, I was in a swap with some great "fake" online friends. The talent was amazing!

My swap buddy was in Canada,,,,,,,,and I knew I wanted to make a desk calendar,,,,,,so I had to go digging for a few Canadian holidays.  For instance,,,,,,,,Canada Day is on July 1st and is the equivilent of our 4th of July,,,,,,,,,,,and Thanksgiving is in October.

So without further ado,,,,,,,Amanda's calendar,,,,,,month by month.

I hope Amanda really enjoys it,,,,,,I even put a little poem on the back.

I hope that you've had

a wonderful year.

Now that you're done

don't toss me on my ear

Take a picture you love

for each of the months

and glue over top

of each calendar fun.

So keep me forever

don't throw me away.

A mini book I'll make

of some sweet, precious days.

The hardest part about this little project was keeping the embellishments down so it wasn't too thick to sit nicely on a desk.

Calendar Recipe:

Papers: variety of scraps

Ink: Versafine

Stamps: Justrite (several sets)

dies: Grand Labels 23 for the months, 2010 snowflake pendant, nested hearts, Memory box open loralai leaf, postage stamps, labels one, squares large, picot edge circles, Cottage Cutz filigree leaf, Marianne Designs poinsettia die, ovals large, lacy squares, Labels 3

vintage images: Crafty Secrets

punches: Martha Stewart butterfly punch (large and small)

Binding: Cinch 1 inch binding rings and bound with the Cinch.

Happy Birthday, Hannah!

Good Afternoon! I hope you and yours have all had a lovely holiday season and a very happy new year!

I am so sorry for being gone so long,,,,,,,,,but I am finally feeling SO much better. I had a bit of catch up to do with my housework, and then there were holiday decorations to take down. But, I actually made several cards this week. I am so excited to share one of them with you today!

My youngest daughter celebrated a remarkable birthday yesterday! She is 21!  She's turned into such a lovely young lady, and I am so proud of her! It amazes me to think that all of my children are now old enough to vote, drink, and kill themselves for our country WITHOUT my permission LOL.  I am proud of all my children,,,,,,,,,all of whom have faced struggles to become the amazing people they are.

So, without further ado, my daughter's 21st birthday card.

Here's a close up of the focal point,,,,,

My focal point is made up of spellbinders layers and a Memory Box flourish,,,,,

The paper is all MME Lost and Found, both the Blush pad and Madison Avenue,,,,,I love how delicate and feminine this is,,just like my daughter!


Card Recipe:

Paper: MME Lost and Found Madison Avenue and Blush, plain white card stock
Stamps: Justrite Happy Everything kit
Ink: Versafine Onyx black
Dies: (from the bottom up) Spellbinders Floral Ovals,  Memory box elegant scrollwork (cut in two), spellbinders lacy ovals, spellbinders ovals large
ribbon, lace, velvet trim: Hobby Lobby
Pearls and flowers: Recollections from Michael's

I hope you enjoyed the card! And thanks to all of you who thought of me, checked on me, emailed me, etc. I am doing so much better,,,,,,,,the right meds in the right amounts have certainly given me my life back!

Happy New Year,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and Happy Birthday to my gorgeous daughter, Hannah!  I love you more than you'll ever know!

Good Morning!

who's excited about Christmas? I know my grand children are!

We at Party Time Tuesdays want to wish all of you a very very merry Christmas!

and what better way to celebrate than a color challenge!

  

We want to see your cards and projects in Red, Gold and Green!

Here's mine!

  

Card Recpe:
Papers: Webster's Digi Papers, Waiting for Santa, Recollections red card stock
Ink: Versafine black onyx
Stamps: Justrite
dies and punches: Spellbinders Holly motifs, circles large, classic ric rac, Martha Stewart winter branch punch, and Memory box elegant scroll work
ribbon and berries: Michaels.

Here's a close up of my focal point!

  

I hope you have a lovely Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Run right over to Party Time Tuesdays   and link up your red, gold and green project for a chance to win!

Dear Santa!

Good afternoon!  I hope all my Jewish friends had a lovely Hanukkah,,,,,and I hope all my Christian friends are busily preparing for Christmas!

It's coming so fast, and I am SO far behind this year! Thanks, of course, to the flare I had in November that struck me down and out for nearly a month.

I did manage to get some Christmas cards made for my grand children :)  They look forward to them every year, and keep them year to year, so I couldn't disappoint.

Card recipe at the end :)

  

Isn't she darling? I couldn't help but use some stickles to really make her shine :) My six year old DGD will love her.

  

And I think my grandson will love this little guy!!!!

Here's a close up of the darling Bugaboo images!

  

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas (Or Hanukkah) season! May God bless you all,,,,hold your babes and grandbabies a bit closer this season, and be thankful you can.

Card Recpe:
Paper: scraps, mostly Recollections Christmas stack
Ink: Copics and computer generated  ink. Versafine for the sentiments
Stamps: Bugaboo digi images, 1$ bin sentiments, Crafty Secrets Dec 25 cancel
Dies and punches:2010 snowflake, 2010 ornament, layered poinsettia, MS winter branch punch
Stickles: Diamond and Candy Cane
ribbon and pearls: Michaels

I'd like to enter these into the Bugaboo Bingo Challenge   

  

I've made Bingo along the bottom,,,,,,,pearl, Bugaboo image and sentiment. I've also Bngo'd the second line up, LOL, Flower, red and green and ribbon.

Have a wonderful day, and thanks for looking!!!!

Party Time Tuesday!

Good Morning!!!

If you're seeing this, I finally fixed my computer! (fingers crossed!! but I do think it's fixed!)

It's Tuesday and time again for Party Time Tuesdays,,,,,,,,this week's amazing challenge is Kids Christmas cards, and I have a darling card using Flonz stamps for my contribution!

Isn't she darling??? I double stamped the image, once on white card stock, and once on patterned paper, and cut the dress out of the patterned paper, adhering it to the white card stock,,,,,,,the rest of the image, I colored with copics. she looks like she just saw Santa come down the chimney and she can't WAIT to empty her stocking!

Paper: MME Christmas pack
Ink: copics and Onyx Black
Dies: 2010 spellbinders snowflake, spellbinders scalloped ovals, Memory Box Crystal Snowflake
stamps: Flonz. I highly recommend them, they stamp BEAUTIFULLY!
bow and jingle bell: Hobby Lobby

I hope you run right over to Party Time Tuesdays and load up your darling kid's Christmas card and join us for this fun challenge!

Now, on to something more serious,,,I've had some pretty painful arthritis issues for several months that have really interfered with my life,,,,,,,I've found that keeping up with Design Teams, all the commenting that requires, and my home life has simply been impossible. I'm doing better on new medication this week,,,,,,,,but still,,,,,,I miss crafting just for the fun of crafting,,,,,

and so,,,,,,,I've given up both my design team posts with Party Time Tuesdays and Sugar Creek Hollow. I dropped SCH several weeks ago,,,,,,,,and Party Time Tuesdays will be up at the end of the month.

I've truly enjoyed both these amazing experiences,,,,,,,,,but for the good of the teams and for my own good, I've simply come to the end of my rope, health wise. It's time to step back and get my health in order,,,,,,,and enjoy my crafting again.

I hope to be able to post some fun stuff regularly,,,,,,,,but I will no longer be posting for either of these amazing design teams.

as they say,,,,,,,,I'll see you on the flip side!!!!!

and Happy Hanukkah to all my Jewish friends!!!!!!!