Memory Box Challenge

Yes I have been doing a lot of challenges here lately, with my cardmaking group, ODBD and now with Memory Box.  This is the first for the Memory Box blog and it is for the whole month so you have time to give it a try all you need is memory box dies, and the challenge this month is butterflies.   I love this butterfly die because they are great proportion to most of our stamps and dies and with one past in your machine you have many to choose from.  I also used one of their flower dies and once cut out I watercolored the dies with distress inks. The sentiment is a dazzle sticker that I colored with  a marker to try and match the flower color.

Check out the challenge HERE !

This is going to one of the ladies in my group that had a heart attack at age 57 and is recovering from a quadruple by pass surgery, we were all in shock as I imagine she was, she seems to be doing well and I am sure she will be receiving many cards here soon.

Memory Box -- Butterfly delights and Zinnia Bouquet dies
Distress inks
My Mind's eye -- indie chic paper
Hot off the press -- Tiny words and phrases dazzles

We had a bit of flooding here yesterday our house was surrounded with water but luckily we had just a little that made it into the garage and we have a small drain in there that was able to take what came in.  I will share pictures of that later.

Hope you are having a nice weekend, with hopefully a bit of creativity in there somewhere :)

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

Connie

Back to Beginning Challenge

Our last challenge I did with my group is to pull out all those items you used when you first started card making, before you even started stamping.  We were to use no stamps, inks or dies on our cards.  Well I went back to products from 2005, yep I can't give anything away, LOL!  Even though a Stampin up party was what got me started in the stamping world, I didn't buy them too fast, instead I used stickers and papers (they were cheaper).

A couple of months ago I shared a baby shower card I made for a couple in our church who was having a baby girl, well a little over a month ago she was born but had very bad intestinal problems and the poor thing has endured two surgeries already in her young life.  She is scheduled for another next month.  A praise to report is that the surgeries so far have done her good and she is even eating from a bottle now a couple times a day instead of all from a tube in her stomach, everyday there seems to be more good news.  This card will be going to her parents.

The sentiment came with the sticker set and the tags were in the paper pack, and yes all that inking was already on the tags and paper so no ink was used by me.

K&co. -- Red Tulips stickers
BasicGrey -- Sweet Pea, Alyssa papers and tags
Paper Doily
Lace scrap

Thank you to all who are praying for me and have given me advice too, it is so appreciated.  I am feeling much better, still getting dizzy spells but my mood and level of what I can do has improved so much and that I am so thankful for.  Praise God!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and comment, it means so much,

Connie

Father's Day

I was going in the process of making a totally different card for my Father in law when my hubby bought me these dies he knew I liked.  I think he was feeling so bad about the way I had been feeling the past week he was trying to bring some sunshine to my day.  I will go more into that later.

I am sharing this card over on Stephanie's Roses of Inspiration link up. Head on over for Inspiration from all area's of interest!

This is the card that I saw Pam make here when I saw that card I showed my hubby and said isn't that just beautiful, He thought it was pretty cool too.  I tried doing the technique of inlaying the background trees into my water colored background I did with tumbled glass distress inks which is hard to see in this picture, but it didn't work for me, not sure what I did wrong but may try it again with regular paper.  The trees in the foreground have foam adhesive to give it some lift off the card for adding dimension, just love that look.  Everything but the leaves have been inked :)  I loved adding the leaves for a guy card, I may even add little flowers for a guy card if it were in the spring, I am sure you will be seeing that too.

Memory Box -- Grand Forest Archway, small forest archway and Grove leaves dies
Poppystamps - Stitched landscape die
Impression Obsession -- small deer dies
Distress inks --Tumbled glass, walnut stain

I am doing much better this morning, I hadn't shared but I have been having chest pains at one point when I was just at a used book sale, I had shortness of breath, pain run down my left arm and was dizzy, when I came home I called my doctor that got me in that afternoon and he sent me to the heart doctor the next week.  I went through all the testing and he said I am all good but he was still concerned why I was still having a burning feeling in my chest so he put me on some meds that he said if I felt better after a month of taking them that it had cleared things up.  I felt ok the first 5 days but then it hit me and hard.  I had bad dizziness headaches (which are side effects) nausea, couldn't get normal things done around the house and have had no exercise for over a week now.  At first I didn't associate it with the meds because my hubby and girl friend and later her hubby was complaining about the same symptoms, but they were lucky and started feeling better after 2 days.  Then I just thought well it is lingering longer with me as things seem to the older I get, but my hubby encouraged me to get off the pills and talking to others that is what I decided to do and I think it may be working.  The only problem is my chest burning seems to be coming back so we are thinking it has something to do with something else.  All I know is I can't feel that way any longer and won't go back to those pills again.

Well that was probably more than I needed to share but just thought I would let you know, that I am very hopeful I am on the right track now.

Thanks so much for taking the time out to stop by and say Hi!
Have a wonderful week,

Connie

Mistakes Challenge

There are so many mistakes we can make when creating our projects and there was a whole list of them that we can make while card making.  One of the girls in our group gave us a list of mistakes and we had to use at least 3 of them in a way that looked pretty on our card.

My mistakes were
 torn paper
Embossing powder spots
Crooked cutting (on tag in corner)

Rubber Stampede: 15205 sunflower stamp Colored w/ markers
Hero Arts -- Birthday messages stamp set
Queen & co. Sunflower yellow gems
Gold embossing powder

In the first picture you can't see the shine of the embossing on the bottom that I also did so I had to angle the card a bit to capture it in this next picture.

I can tell I am getting better but not quite my normal self yet, but very thankful to be this far. Thanks for all the good wishes and prayers that were said, it really means a lot to me.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and I hope your having a good weekend!

Connie

ODBDSLC242

I will finish sharing my other challenges from my group but I wanted to get this sketch challenge that I did over at Our Daily Bread Designs posted today. You have until Sunday evening if you want to play along.

This card is going out to my brother for his birthday, He is going through some health issues and I am hoping that this sentiment is good for both birthday and what he is going through.

Our daily bread designs -- Surging Sea and All occasions sentiment stamp sets, image colored with distress inks and water and watercolor paper
Stickles -- waterfall added to the water
October Afternoon -- Seaside papers
Fiskars -- Upper crest border punch with added gold ink
Brad on compass

I have not been feeling well ever since Sunday it gets better and worse depending on what I am doing. I have started some new medicine so I am wondering if that is what is causing it but my hubby and best friend had a touch of it too, just not as bad as I have it so I really don't know what is going on, so hard when you want to do things but your body is telling you no.

Hope you all are well and thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and sharing your thoughts,

Connie