Sympathies

 I have 3 cards to share today I am sorry to say. These were all before Christmas.

First my good friend lost her cat, it was so hard for her to decide to let him go, so I wanted to do a card of thoughts that her little guy is in a better place now. She had an orange cat so this ephemera was perfect.

• Stamperia - Create Happiness Ephemera ( cat and flowers)
• Poppystamps - Stitched Landscapes die
• Wooden bird with some inking
• My Favorite Things - Cloud stencil

Next my nephews wife lost her mother. Her mother had been sick for quite some time.

• Photoplay - Beautiful Junque ephemera (flower image on tag) paper instead of ribbon through tag
• Graphic 45 - Christmas past paper
• Anna Griffin - Advent calendar tag die
• Washi Fabric, inked to tone it down

Lastly a lady from our church lost her son, and he leaves too small children. It was a very sad situation and out of the blue so I went with a more solemn card, by very lightly coloring the image.

• Christians Art Gifts -  Psalms in color, colored w/markers
• Basic Grey- Periphery Papers

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Snowman

 When I saw that Double D Challenge had snowman this time for their challenge I new I had to play along. I just got this cute snowman free with an order I did before Christmas when I shopped for my Christmas presents :) I just had to get him out and make a little scene. I didn't put a sentiment on it because I am not sure if I will be using this as a Christmas card or a winter card just yet.  

• Simon Says - Bundled Snowman
• Frantic Stamper - Oregon Fir
• My Favorite things - Cloud Stencil
• Crafter's Companion -  Iridescent Glitter
• White gel pen for patterns on the snowman's scarf and hat

In the close up you can see the glitter a little better, I added a little gel pen to his hat and scarf, hubby said they were too plain :)

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!!!

Connnie

Time to Party

 I think this set is cute for anybody but I especially like it for kids cards, it is a stamp and die set, so I stamped, colored them and then cut them out, I added a little bit of grass with my marker at the bottom to go with the cute flowers. I stamped the balloons twice since the die does not cut out the strings.

• Mama Elephant - Up We Go stamp and die set, colored w/markers
• Echo Park - Fine and Dandy paper
• Spellbinders - Labels 29 die
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny words Birthday sentiment stamp

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Enjoy every moment

 I brought out some pretty ephemera for the next birthday card I needed, I also added a flower I had cut from a piece of smooshed background I had done with inks. I placed a piece of vellum behind the frame.

• Photoplay - Beautiful Junque ephemera (frame and sentimentw/butterfly)
• 49 and Market - Coral Mini 6x6 collection paper
• Fiskars - Vellum
• Tim Holtz - Funky Foliage die
• Pearls

We had very strong winds all day yesterday and all night, luckily we didn't lose power as parts of the city did because of down lines, there were a few tornadoes that hit an hour or so north of us that did some damage to homes. We went to being in the 70's yesterday to this morning of -7 windchill. Winter is back again with a vengeance.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Get Well

 One of our teen boys at church hurt his leg during Football season and ended up having to have surgery on it, tried to make it a bit masculine without being too childish either.  I have had this stamp set for quite some time.

• Art Gone wild - Get well 3D simple circles stamps
• Words to the Rescue - Get well stamp (Middle of the circle)
• Gemini - Torn Edge Circle die
• WeRmemory keeper - For the Record papers

Sharing my card today with Simon Says Challenge Add a Sentiment

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie