VBS week

It has been a crazy week at Vacation Bible School, but it has been fun too!  We have quite a few kids from outside the church and a couple of the kids told me they really like this church, so I pray they bring their parents back.

Art Impression was at CKC this year and I bought a couple of their stamps, I like how the sentiment is around the image.

The stamp has been colored with Distress inks, and cut out with a spellbinder die.  For the background I embossed a piece of Tim Holtz Shabby chic paper with Cuttlebugs Forest Branches Embossing Folder, used Tea Dye Distress inks over the raised bits to bring them out.
It still needed something more so I went digging through my stuff and found these corner stickers that I had purchased a couple years back.  Tied some string around it all.

Well I need to get ready for another day at VBS, hope you are all having a great week.
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

Dragonfly for Dad

My Husband and I went to a park thursday over in the St. Louis area, and there were a couple of Dragonfly's chasing each other around and it reminded me that I had this cross-stitched allready, so I decided to use it for my FIL's Father's day card. 

The cross-stitching is from the book Two Hour Country Cross-Stitch, although they can work faster than I can because it took me over two hours to finish this.  The brads I believe are from Making Memories.  Paper is from DCWV Old World paper stack. 
I added a Vine along the bottom with the Sew easy, but I couldn't seem to capture it very well in any of the pics I took, should have went with a darker green floss I guess, or maybe more strands, I only used two strands on this one.
The sentiment is from Impression Obsession stamp set, cut it out with the spellbinder square die.

Well it has finally cooled down around here, we have been in the 90's for so long and this morning was a very nice 68 degrees, my garden has received a very nice watering last night which was greatly needed, it is so nice to be able to have the windows and doors open and listening to the birds outside. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope your enjoying a wonderful start to your weekend,
Connie

Inspired card

I needed to get this card made and in the mail, but since it had been so long since I have made a card it was hard to get back into the swing, I had the Papercrafts May/June issue on my desk so I opened it up and came upon a card by Ashley Harris on page 45, (for those of you with the issue :)  

I used DCWV Garden party stack for the background bottom piece.  Stamped Glitz designs stamp of distressed music for the top portion. Stampendous sentiment was stamped onto a spellbinder circle die and then I shadded with Old Paper distress ink.  Queen & co. Chocolate Delight Pearls added to top left.  The lace I found at a Flea market and I added Salmon Pearl Pen to the centers of the flowers.

  Here is another view of it, I took the pictures in different modes with my camera, in the second I feel it made the look of the designer paper more vibrant.  Still getting use to the new camera and how to download the pictures but I think it will be a good camera, I am one of those people that doesn't care for change, well on most things anyway, sometimes it is nice to change things up a bit.

Thanks so much for taking the time out of your busy day to stop by and for any comments you leave, they are much appreciated,
Connie

Back from the wedding

Well we really made it home Sunday night but have been to busy since to post. 

The wedding was just Beautiful, had a few worries there a couple of times but it turned out lovely.  It was a very HOT day in the Chicago area, and just after we made it back to the hotel that afternoon we had a Severe storm come through.   My camera just quit working the evening before I went to take pictures at the dinner that night and it just wouldn't take pictures anymore, by the time we made it back to the hotel stores were closed and the wedding was at 11:30 am so there wasn't any time that morning to run out.

The picture here is one that my brother in law took, it is a little blurry but you can get an idea.

My daughter didn't want to wear a veil, instead she had fresh white flowers throughout her curls.  The happy couple just made it to Vermont last night, yes they got lost once, at least that we know of, hope they enjoy there week and have good weather, they are hoping to get some hiking in.

Spent all day yesterday looking through ads and at stores for a new camera and I ended up with a Canon.  I use to have a Kodak and there are some new things to learn on this camera, so hopefully by the time I have to take pics of cards I will know what I am doing, it better be soon because I need a few birthday cards for next week.

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

Pastor Thank you's

My daughter is having the Pastor of her Fiance's church and one of their Professors that is also a Pastor marry them so I made two Thank you cards for them.  My Daughter and her Fiance go to a Christian College and the both became very close to their Professor, this first card is for him.

I used the Spellbinder Cross Collection on Metallic Paper, and added some alcohol inks to it to tone down the metallic. Behind that is HOTP paper, cut out with spellbinder deckle die and for the sentiment I used Hero Arts stamp and cut out with Spellbinder Grommet tag, I believe the square brads are from Making Memories.  The corners are what I had laying on the table after cutting out the crosses and thought they would make good corner embellishments.

Here is another view trying to show some of the dimension.

In the second card I used the two smaller crosses from the collection on metallic paper.  It has been framed onto Labels eight die. Hero arts sentiment for this one also.  Added some twine and rhinestone sticker gems to it.  DCWV Paper.

It is getting down to the wire, so I probably won't be posting again until I am back from my daughters wedding.  Hopefully I will get some good pictures, I tend to forget pictures when I am excited.

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie