You got this

 My nephew who is only 46 had a couple strokes a couple weeks ago.  From what I understand they have his blood pressure under control but his left leg and left arm needs PT, and he also needs OT, and he can't work right now. I made him this card using these sentiment panels that I thought may be encouraging for what work he has ahead of him. I added a metal turn fastener to the panel I glued down.  I popped up the other panel with foam tape.

• Ciabella - Engine of the future 12x12 paper and Creative pad A4
• Metal turn Fastener and brad

After I sent the first card one of their friends made a GoFundme page for him to help with all the medical bills since he can't work now. I was texting with his wife and asked her if it would be better to send her a check or do the go fund me and she said a check would be great, I couldn't just send a check so I made another card for him using an image from my old Thomas Kinkade daily calendar from a few years back.

• Thomas Kinkade Painting of light- Daily calendar image
• SRM sticker - Thinking of you sentiment sticker

I would appreciate all prayers you lift up for my nephew to heal.

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

Connie

Today is a good day

 It has been too long since I have used one of my birds, I cut all the layers from pattern paper and cardstock that I had in my scrap container.  The paper and sentiment are from the same pack and were from JoAnn's I will have to say I miss having that store in town. Gold stickers from a cardmaking friend that no longer is in our group.

• Simon Says stamps - Sweet Songbird die
• Park Lane - Old World paper and sentiment tag
• Gold stickers, corners and flowers

Isn't she a pretty bird :)  

I would like to share my card with the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday challenge featuring Simon stamps or anything goes

Triple B Challenge Birds Blooms and Butterflies

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, I know how busy everyone is this time of year!

Connie

Cheerful thoughts

 I was in need of another card, this time for a cardmaking friend going through hand surgery.

Hubby found these Stickers on Amazon he thought I might like, there are some really cute ones in this booklet.

• Peter Pauper Press - Enchanted Forest Woodland stickers
• DCWV - Once upon a time Paper
• Prima - 8 point doily die
• Memory Box - Stitched Circle layer die
• Stampendous - Sentiment stamp

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

Connie

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