8/17/22

Hello-

I am sneaking in almost at the wire to Cupcake Inspirations. The challenge is a color challenge for pink, gray and white. 

I have such a hard time with those darned slimline cards and photographs. I played again with Pink Fresh's Floral Notes.

 

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8-14-22 +1

 Hello-

Two challenges come together to provide the inspiration for this card. 

I used Pink Fresh's Floral notes Stamp, Stencil for coloring and Die to cut the image out.  It makes for quite a quick card, and I love the big image.

My card will visit the galleries for:

Just us Girls - Stencil  

Addicted to Stamps and More - Die Cuts and Stencils

   

Thanks so much for visiting.

8-14-22

 Greetings-

I have two cards to share today.  They'll be visiting a few challenges.

This card will be visiting Can you Handle the Pressure  where use of an embossing folder is required and the optional twist this challenge is Dogs/Cats/Pets! and Festive Friday also with a dog theme, I've included elements of Dog, paw prints, and texture.

   

My second card is:

This card will be visiting Two Old Bats Halloween challenge. I'm not one for scary Halloween, but I do like cute.  I liked the black and white in the lower left photo.

   

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8-11-22

 Hello there-

The temps are starting to come down some, so I am spending more time upstairs. It seems the humidity seems to linger upstairs so even with the AC the stickiness bugs me and I tend to stay  downstairs where it is cooler.  

Again I have two cards for you which were inspired by three challenges.  In order of challenge closing:

Less is More has a theme of Butterflies.  I hope just one will do... I used the sketch from Just Add Ink for the card design,

 

My second card goes to Double D Challenges with a Theme of Lighthouse.

 

Time to go make some food, thanks so very much for stopping by!

 

 

 

 

 

 

8-6-22

 Hello-

I finally found the umph to sit down and play with some challenges.

First up is Color Throwdown using white, black, brown and green.   

 

Next is Time Out with a photo inspiration. Its a gorgeous photo and I took a literal approach to my card.

 

                                                            

Time to get ready to visit the farmers market, so these are it for today.  I am quite happy with both cards. Thank you so much for visiting.

7-26-22

 Hello-

I finally found some energy and time to sit at my desk and make a couple of cards.  I am determined to keep to my 5 cards a month for Christmas.  These two will bring me current to 36 (1 extra, so I'll just need 4 next month).

Two challenges provided the inspiration for the cards, one Less is More - traditional Christmas, and Christmas Kickstart - snowfolk.

 

 

 

      

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7/16/22

 Hello-

Finally the wash is done, the suitcases are unpacked a couple of organizing projects and house straightening is done. So I am back at my desk to make a card.

This one is going to a young lady I met in Utah, she is the granddaughter of my Dad's wife.  I hope she likes it.  I got my inspiration from the Tic Tac Toe Challenge, using the middle row Birthday, Flowers, and Sequins.

It took quite a bit of time for me, well over 90 minutes.  I am so out of practice after more than a month.

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

7-11-22

 Hello-

No card, just a life update...

We drove to Utah to visit my Dad and meet in person his bride of two years, while we have face timed during that time, its not quite the same.  We stopped in Ohio on our way out. 

It was brutal driving. I have mobility issues and my knees were not happy. But it was worth it to see my Dad after 3 years and meet Dianne in person. Those were some of the best hugs.

We got to Utah in time for Father's Day, which was nice. Dianne cooked up a lovely roast meal and we watched Downton Abbey's new movie.  I cuddled the cats and met Snickers the pup. He is a hoot!

Then we had loads of sight seeing planned.  Until... hubs started feeling unwell on Monday.

On Wednesday, he tested positive for covid, I followed on Friday along with my Dad and Dianne. We soon found out that hub's folks also came down with Covid on Monday.  As far as we can tell our dinner out Saturday night was the point of infection.  Hub's folks also had a dinner that night where subsequently several attendees came down with Covid.  

So no sight seeing was done, we extended our stay a week longer than originally planned to get over it. Fortunately no one had to go to the hospital, we were able to fight most of it off with fluids, musinex, and rest. We all have a bit of a cough still, it sneaks up and hubs and I still feel some tiredness.

As we drove back east, we planned on stopping in Ohio to spend some time with hub's folks but were concerned about having each caught differing strains of covid.  Fortunately all 4 of us tested negative the day of our arrival in Ohio so we could spend some time together. It was the best visit. Very low key.

 

Hubs and I made one bad decision, to go out to a restaurant without masking. After being hyper careful for more than two years, we paid for that bad decision.  Please be careful out there. Even the less deadly strain of Covid will kick your butt for a week. I don't wish that on anyone.  Our nephew had covid in October, was ill for close to a month...and he caught again while we all had it. Much less severe the second time...but who wants to battle it again?

So if you've stayed with me this long, I have no energy to go back through more than a month's worth of posts, but look forward to seeing your lovely creations and commenting on them going forward tomorrow. I hope you are all well and stay that way.

Hugs.

6-08-22

 Hello-

Today I have a lil' project and a useful web page link to share with you.  I wanted to have  a couple of boxed card sets for hostess gifts, just a little something.  Each has 5 cards and envelopes and I made a coordinating box envelope for them.  It was not smooth sailing...lol.  I was determined to do it though.

I often buy on clearance card bases and envelopes from Stampin up. They are never flimsy.  But they are oddly sized 4.25 by 6.25 inches. I have clear boxes for A2 card sets. 

Now I could just cut off  3/4 of an inch to get an A2 card...but then the coordinating envelops will be off and I still have the box size to deal with.  So I tried working with the new size.  I had to  make layers the space was just to odd for me to get a good CAS card. Then I had to search for 12x12 paper that somehow coordinated...

My last hurdle was the box envelope, made preferably with the envelope punch board. Lots of A2, 4bar tutorials on you tube but I didn't easily find on for non-traditional sizes.  So I went with the punch board provided measurements for an envelope that was an inch bigger than my cards and added a second scoreline inside the recommended that was 3/4 an inch from the first by increasing the first score mark by 3/4 of an inch.  It worked out okay. 

Today as I was perusing you tube I came across The Crafty Owl and her dandy box buster program.  Problems solved, you can make an envelope box for any size card.

I used the note cards from Stampin Up that coordinate with the Hand Penned Petals Suite. The purple set contains the flower images from that stamp set.  The sentiment on both sets and the image on the teal set is from Wishing You Well.  The box flap tucks into the large circle for a soft closure.

No challenges today, this was just for fun.

Thanks for popping in.

 

06-06-22

 Hello-

I have a couple of cards to share with you today and they'll be visiting a few challenges. 

At Double D its white and one color (I hope my shades of brown as my one color works.)  

 

 

At Fourseasons - its June anything goes Summer. 

                                                                      

And lastly, at Challenge up your life, it is a Summer, fun in the sun theme.

   

It was a good crafty day- while catching up on the laundry.   Hope you are all doing well.  Thanks so very much for visiting.