Deepest Sympathy

 Sharing the card I made for my sister after her hubby passed. It felt so weird not to go to the funeral but my sister said she knows how long that drive is and we had just seen them the week before he passed and how much he appreciated us stopping by on our way back home from Michigan. Hubby was having a very intensive week at work so I would have gone by myself and that would have been rough.  

She had gotten a new walk in shower put in that she has to make payments on so we sent her the money we would have had to use for gas to get back there and she was much appreciative of that, helps me feel a little better about not making it but still felt strange not to be there. So sad he passed before it was installed but she is having hard time getting in and out now so it will be nice for her.

• 49 and Market - Vintage Artistry Essentials 6x8 papers and Ephemera bits
• Fiskars - Essential sayings sentiment stamp
• Nuvo Crystal drops

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

Connie

A dream

 For my purple loving friend :)  She has mentioned before how she likes sentiments that aren't always the expected so when I saw this sentiment on one of the journaling cards I thought that would be a neat birthday sentiment, as we dream for what we think the next year will bring :) 

I also added some ephemera to the top of the journaling card using some foam tape to lift it up, also a butterfly since she loves those too on the left side.

• Prima - Aquarelle Dreams 6x6 paper, Ephemera (flowers and butterfly) and Journaling cards

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, hope you all have a great weekend. I am all excited that next week we are supposed to have a cool down, no more 90's feels like the 100's!! I am going to get a lot of yard work done, I hope anyway.

Connie

Get Well

 I have had to make so many get well cards here lately that when our group got together for our teams meeting this week, I didn't have anyone in mind for this card, just thought it would be good to have a card on hand. The technique we were to do is get a stamp with line drawing, and some bright or busy pattern paper for the base. Stamp the stamp onto the pattern paper, paint it with white ink and then paint the whole inside of the stamp with white paint. Well I couldn't find my white paint I wanted to use, but did find some distress paint in white so I tried using that and it just came out clear, don't know if it needed shaking or what, so I went to pink paint that I had, but when stamping the paper moved and when I went to stamp again it was all messed up.  Instead of trying again and having to wait for the paint to dry, I just stamped it and colored it again. Of course I didn't have a full sheet of that paper left so I found two scraps and used them on the front.

I took a picture of it standing up, but with the fold you couldn't see very well how the embossed card stock shows a little bit, so I tried laying it down, the fold still didn't allow it to lay fully flat.

• Hero Arts - Magnolia (flower and sentiment)
• Elizabeth Craft designs - Flower Mosaic embossing folder
• Inside - Inky Antics - Simple sentiments stamps

The card base measured 11 x5.5 and scored at 3 1/2, 5 1/8 and 6 3/4

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

Connie

Butterfly wishes

 I don't know if you remember or not but awhile back I collage a sheet of pattern paper with strips of washi tape and then used my dies to cut out birds, butterflies and such. I brought one out again for my next card. These papers were from JoAnns and these tags were also in the paper pack. I like the gold touches it has to it.

• Park Lane - Old world paper and tag
• Paper Pazazz - Butterfly die cut from washi strips collage
• Fiskars - Essentials Sayings sentiment stamp
• Diamond dots

I would like to share my card with Triple B Challenge birds, blooms or butterflies

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

Connie

Special Couple

 I forgot to share the card I gave to my niece for her wedding. I got a thank you note in the mail from her and she said as soon as she opened the envelope she told her hubby I know this one is from my Aunt Connie before she even looked at the inside of the card.  I was trying to figure out what to do for her card and when I was going through my Diamond Art stuff I saw this and thought it would work for their card.

• Craft Buddy - Crystal Art card kit
• David Tuteria - sentiment sticker (Joanns)

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

Connie