Healing

Prayers for all the families that lost loved ones. So appreciative of all they did to fight for our freedoms. It reminds me of the ultimate sacrifice our Lord gave to save us and allow us a life with him and eternal salvation, great sacrifices have been given that I am so thankful for today and everyday!

 A lady at out church has been feeling very bad for a couple weeks and having a hard time getting over it so I sent her this card to let her know she has been missed and praying for healing.

I stamped the flowers, colored them with markers, used a punch for the corners and added another border punch to the background. Topped it off with some bubble gems I found at the dollar store.

• ODBD - Corner Flower stamp, colored w/markers
• Art Gone wild - Get well stamp set (sentiment)
• EK Success - Corner punch
• Martha Stewart - Border punch
• Memory box - paper
• Crafter's Square - Bubble gems

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

ATC's & Tags

 Our Challenge in my stamp group this month is to use ATC's (Artist trading cards) or Tags.  I went with two of each. I went searching through my dies trying to see if I had one that is a trading cards size, which is 2.5 x 3.5.  I finally came across these frame dies and the center portion that falls out of the frame just happened to be that size.  I had put the frames to them aside, but later colored them a little darker with some markers and glued them to the base of the card, I had already popped up the Center bits.

This first one I went with making a little winter scene using some small die cuts, I did a little inking on the deer and then added some white dots to his back because he looked like a fawn to me.

• BasicGrey - Blitzen papers
• Michaels - Rounded Rectangle frame die
• Taylored Expressions - Central Park dies (snow, deer and small trees) Evergreens die(large tree) and Sun and cloud dies ( I only used the clouds)
• Hobby Lobby - Country tags chipboard sentiment
• Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A die

Here is a little closeup of the scene.

Next I just used some snowflake punches and gems to decorate.

• BasicGrey - Blitzen papers
• Michaels - Rounded Rectangle frame die
• Martha Stewart - Snowflake punches and snowflake border punch
• Paper Studio - Gems Border
• Crafter's companion - Little gems center snowflakes
• Hobby Lobby - Country tags Chipboard sentiment

The last two uses some old tags that goes with this paper pack. I added some die cuts to the top of the tag along with a brad and some washi tape at the bottom of the card that says Merry Christmas.

• Daisy D - Papers and tag
• Bazzill - Brad
• Recollections - Washi tape
• Tim Holtz - Funky Festive dies (Branch and flower)

On my last card here I added the washi tape sentiment right to the tag above Santa and added some more die cuts at the top.

• Daisy D - Papers and tag
• Bazzill - Brad
• Recollections - Washi tape 
• Tim Holtz - Funky Festive dies (Leaves and Holly)
• Red Gem to go with the Holly

I would like to share my card today with the Peace on Earth Challenge 

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

Connie

Birthday Tags

 Another die and stamp set that I bought that would be good for cards and in my junk journals. I used quite a bit from the set on this card.  I stamped his name on the tag and they are just sitting in the envelope so he can pull them out and look at them.

• 49 and Market - Tag it stamps and die set, Creative Combo's Stamp and die set
• K& Co. - Paper
• Fiskars - Essential sayings sentiment stamp
• Studio G - Alphabet stamps
• Tim Holtz - Funky Floral #3 dies
• Vellum 
• Corrugated Cardboard, inked

Here are the tags out of the envelope from the die set, you can see the script I stamped on the background behind the tags and the faux stitched stamp that also comes in the set.

Close up of the card

I just love the little paperclips you can die cut from the set too, that is above the corrugated cardboard, I cut that from some silver cardstock. The red stripe at the bottom is also a stamp.  Really neat set.

I would like to share my card with

Simon Says Monday challenge Tag it

NBUS my new stuff is the 49 and Market Tag it stamps and dies

Word Art Wednesday Anything goes

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, my eye is healing well, still a little blurry but I can tell it is almost back to normal, so thankful!

Connie

Masculine Birthday

 I am a little late posting a new card.  I woke up Sunday morning with a ripping feeling when I opened my eyes, the vision in my right eye was very blurry. I called my eye doctor Monday morning and got an appointment and found out I had torn my cornea, she prescribed me antibiotic drops. It is still painful and very light sensitive. She said it would take about 48 hours for it to start improving. 

Thankfully I have a few cards done ahead of time so I have things to post, it is just hard staring at a computer screen for too long, even with the brightness turned down.

When I am not sure what to make for someone I tend to just start looking through all my goodies and I came upon this booklet that I got many years ago at a yard sale and it is full of papers and ephemera that you can put together to make a card, I found one that I thought would work.

I had to cut the window in the front of the card after applying the paper to the front. I then had to figure out what to put in the window and thought the sentiment signs would be neat but it was a bit too stark white, so I took Stencil I had to ink just the background around the window opening, that worked a lot better.

Here is is laying down to best get a sense of what it looks like closed.

• Hot off the press - Clearly Collage All Occasion Card kit
• Penny Black  - Background Basics Stencil (behind signs with Old paper distress ink)

Here is the card standing up, partly open.

Here is what it looks from the inside.

I would like to share the card today with Neglected Stuff Challenge 

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

Connie

Healing thoughts

 The Lady who owns the Stamp store in Missouri that I go to had emergency surgery, kidney stones had tore her insides up and she had really bad infection, she was in the hospital for quite a few days and even had to go back a week after for more things. She had to close down her store during that time because her only other worker was on vacation at the time.  I felt so bad for her and just had to make her a get well card. You know I had to use some papers that I bought from her store :) The flower ephemera was popped up with foam tape.

• Prima - Aquarelle 6x6 papers, Journaling note cards and Ephemera pack, inking around all the edges with Distress ink in Dusty Concord
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny Words Encouragement stamp set

I would like to share today's card with the following challenges:

Love those pretty papers optional fun fold

Triple B Challenge Birds, Blooms or butterflies

Simon Says Monday Challenge Things with wings

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and hope you have a wonderful weekend,

Connie