Loving Memory

 My friend I have known all my life just lost her last furbaby, she had 3 cats and now she has an empty house. I took a picture from her facebook and asked hubby to do another AI, it was kind of hard because most of her pictures were all close ups or she was in the picture too and I wanted just the cat.  She was very touched by it, so that is what matters.

• Picture that has been AI'd
• PPD - Wavy Stitched Rectangle die
• Memory Box - papers
• Taylored Expressions - Care & Comfort II stamp set
• Altenew - Nature's wonder enamel dots

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

Connie

Thinking of you

 More cards for my friend she asked if I could do a couple Thinking of you cards too, so I did very similar layouts on these cards. On the first card I cut out of white cardstock then colored the die cuts and put the little pieces back into the center of the flower, the leaves had a bit of inking on them too.

• Memory Box - Zinnia Bouquet and Distressed Baptisia collage dies
• Stampendous - Orchid Greetings stamp set

This second one I just cut the flowers out of Vellum, I added them to the background by putting a little bit of glue on my craft mat and then taking a sponge and dipping it in the glue, and sponging off a little to the side and then sponging the glue onto the back of the vellum, it dried pretty clear and I can't see the glue as much that way, but you want to make sure you use a glue that dries clear, I used the Nuvo glue.

• Memory Box - Bella Bouquet and Distressed Baptisia Collage dies
• My Sentiments Exactly - Thinking of you sentiment stamp

We went to Michigan this past weekend, I didn't get any pictures, even of family, I totally forgot, so sad. It was so Hot that we even didn't do our normal go somewhere for the last day, we just came straight home.

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

Connie

For Friend

 A friend of mine asked me if I could make some cards for her, she wanted all sorts and this first one I wasn't sure what she would want to use it for so I didn't add a sentiment.

• Graphic 45 - Steampunk Debutante paper pack and image, butterfly fussy cut and added to top
• Martha Stewart - Border punch

This second card uses some papers and tag from a magazine and a pack of sentiments.

• Hot off the press - Cardmakers' Card Quotes
• Scallop die unknown
• Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine - Country Diary of Edwardian Lady, paper and tag
• Brad
• EK Success - Flower punch w/ Liquid Pearls, copper for center

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

Connie

Sketch

 When I was looking through Pinterest the other day a sketch came up with 3 overlapping circles and I had these cardstock circles in my scraps from some project I didn't end up using them, and thought I could use them on the next birthday card I needed, I just had to come up with a third circle, what should I use, then I thought about a flower, which led me to my ephemera pack that I new had flowers in it and found one that was just the right size to use :) Of course saw this bird too that I thought would be nice.

• Paper Studio - Die Cut flower and bird ephemera
• Scrap circles
• Crafter's Square - 24 piece sentiments
• Paper Studio - Wildflower sticker pack (dots w/nuvo crystal glaze added)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, Have a great weekend!

Connie

Vintage

 For those of us in the U.S. Michaels has been selling some of their own brand of ephemera, embossing folders, dies, I have bought a few of them and this ephemera pack was just my style, it  has a Vintage feel to the ephemera and it is both images like this bird and the pack also had acetate pieces like this lace piece that I mounted onto some cardstock that I did a little faux stitching on.

• Recollections - Ephemera pack
• Spellbinders - A2 Matting basics A dies
• Crafter's Companion - Advent calendar paper

Just incase you decide to go looking at their new stuff, the backs of the packs show a few pictures of what is inside, but there are many more that they don't show.

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

Connie