Birthday Wishes

It felt good to do a girly card again....

It was a gloomy day when I took this picture so it isn't nice and bright.

Cloud 9 design-- Flower 1 stamp set, colored with markers, frosted Lace stickles in center of flower
Spellbinders Circle, Labels 3 and Nested Poinsettias dies
Recycled ribbon
BasicGrey Sweat pea Alyssa collectionn paper
Little flowers are $ Michaels punch
Dew Drops for center of poinsettia flower and Diamond stickles on little flowers
Lace from stash
SRM sentiment sticker

We had an excellent weekend, Beautiful weather, did a little Christmas shopping and we went over to St. Louis to a little stamp store over there and she had a lot of new dies in so my husband bought me some early Christmas presents :)  Can't wait to try them out!  We ended the weekend by having a little fire in our backyard, figured we might not have this great of weather for awhile.

Hope you all had a great weekend and the week ahead is wonderful!
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,
Connie

Fathers Thanksgiving

I used the same Northwoods Rubber Stamp for our Fathers Thanksgiving cards, but I used different mediums to color them, I have my favorite, let me know which you like more.

This first one I colored using Stampin Up chalks.
7 Gypsies Conservatory paper
Spellbinders Labels four die
Impression Obsession sentiment
I had this piece of Fabric left over from a quilting project so I used it instead of ribbon, added a leaf button to it

This one was colored with pencils
Spellbinders Long classic rectangles small dies
Fiskars cameo ovations sentiment stamp
Fiskars border punch
More scrap fabric I had, used a pin to attach the sentiment to the fabric

My husband has a 3 day weekend this weekend and we had a few plans but he caught a nasty cold so I don't know how much he is going to feel like doing.  Isn't that how it usually goes when you have plans :)  I hope you have some fun things planned and that it is a good Weekend for you.

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

Praise

The gentleman I mentioned a few times from our church that has cancer on his hip, was able to come home from the hospital after many surgeries and 12 weeks and 2 days of being in the hospital.  It is just amazing what God has done in his life and how through his life has spoken to so many that has seen him go through this.  I had to send him a card when we got the news he would be coming home, he has a very long road ahead of him with radiation and learning to walk again after having his hip removed.

I thought this sentiment was good for what he has laying ahead of him in his recovery.

Stampendous, Blessing stamp set
Spellbinders, Long Classic Rectangle small die
BasicGrey Oxford paper
Spellbinders M-Bossibilities, Regal embossing folder, inked the raised portions
Dragonfly button

Thank you so much for stopping by,
Connie

Thankful

Yes I have started doing some Thanksgiving cards, I am hoping to get the rest of them done today :)

My Sister in law tried her hand at stamping cards but ended up not liking it so she gave me her old cling stamps but none of them had any manufacturer details so I don't know who the maker of this stamp is, so if anyone knows I would love to know.  When I stamped it out the word thankful was just outlined so to make it a bit bolder I colored it in with my copic marker, I think it matched the ink I used almost perfectly :)

I border the sentiment with a Martha Stewart punch around the page punch and shaded the edges with my distress inks.

The detail at the top is also a Martha Stewart punch that I punched 3 times. This also started out as white cardstock and I inked with my distress inks.

Rasberry Road Designs paper for the background.

Well the winter temps have come back again, woke up to 32 chilly degrees this morning, but the sun is back out today after a full day of rain yesterday.

Hope your week is starting out sunny and good,
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

Silhoutte Flower

This card and the last one I posted both were made for the church's Craft and Bake sale they have and the money made goes toward a fund to help the Single mothers and children of our congregation.  After making the first one I thought I would do another one along the same style.

Hero Arts -- Silhouette Flower stamp, chalk ink and stickles for the centers
DCWV-- Linen closet paper
My sentiments exactly--thinking of you stamp set
Brads

We had a Beautiful day yesterday, in the 70's, today they say we could reach 80, it is 68 at 8am so I beleive that could happen, then a big storm is to arrive tomorrow and take our temps all the way down to 43, talk about a change of temperature, YIKES!!!  That is what  is so special about this time of year, you enjoy every little taste of warm weather you receive!!  I sure hope the East coast is able to get some of this warm weather, especially since so many are still without power.

Hope your enjoying a wonderful weekend,
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie