Christmas in July

Our challenge this month was to use at least one stamp on our Christmas card.  I had this new stencil and even though it is a quilting template I imagined it all sparkle in my head and how that would make a pretty background for a Christmas card.  I ended up making 4 different panels when I was playing around so you will be seeing this background again soon I am sure.

This was my first time using Molding paste with a stencil, after lifting up the stencil I added the glitter to the wet paste and let it dry over night.  Although it doesn't show great detail I still think I like the results, other than I think next time I would use Ultra fine glitter, this glitter is a bit chunky.

Studio 490 -- Vintage Quilt Stencil
Golden -- Molding paste
Silver glitter
Inkadinkado -- Holiday Silhouettes stamp
Silver Detailed embossing powder
Cream Shimmer paper
Bazzill -- Brads

Our cat Jip (Anna's sister)  has passed away yesterday.  She had all the same signs that Anna went through when she passed, so instead of taking her through all the testing, we decided to just let her go.  The day before I spent the whole day with her, we sat out on the deck and she watched the birds fly around and we did a lot of cuddling.  She was a lot of work for me because of her seizures, and I just accommodated to it all over time, now that she is gone my husband and I were talking about all the things we don't have to worry about anymore and it just seems so weird.  Poor Peanut doesn't really know what is going on now that Anna and Jip are both gone, she gave Jip kisses before we left, I think with my crying she knew something was up.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend, we are back to summer temps again, in the 90's for the next week.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Get well

One of the girls from my on line cardmaking group asked if we could make a card for her friend that just had a heart attack.  She is single and doesn't have much family so she thought receiving lots of cards would help cheer her up.

I attempted to ink the stamp in different colors for the word rainbow and Blue, but I ended up going over that part with a blue marker and the portion that is green in rainbow is also gone over with a marker, it was just to light of ink to read.  The border has been colored with a marker, thought it needed a touch of color too.  The paper and the tag came from a British card making magazine, I just added a spellbinder die behind tag so it wouldn't blend in with the paper so much.

Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady paper and tag from Cardmaking and Papercrafting magazine
Spellbinders -- Classic ovals and Big scalloped Ovals dies
JustRite -- My Rainbow stamp set
Lace
Enamel Accents -- white
Brad

We spent the day yesterday over in St. Louis visiting Randy and baby Evelyn at two different hospitals.  Randy has his chest tube out now and his scraps on the outside are healing, his clavicle that he broke along with his ribs are still hurting pretty bad but they will be taking him off the epidural possibly today and if he can tolerate the pain, he may be going home soon. They have started Physical Therapy on his legs and have him walking.

Baby Evelyn is doing pretty good, they have given her a surgery date in a couple of weeks to try and connect her small intestine back up, she is just a little angel, even with all the wires I was able to hold her for a few minutes.  I forgot to ask her mom if it would be ok for me to share some pictures of her on my blog so I will have to do that and maybe share closer to the date of her surgery.

I thank you so much for your prayers for both of our friends.

Thanks so much for stopping by and saying hello, I appreciate it,

Connie

You're the best

I forgot to share the card I made for my hubby for Father's day!  He likes Owls and Ravens so I liked the idea of using an Owl for his card.  The owl was done on the Cricut machine, his branch had to come from a tree trunk right?  Hope that is what that looks like, it was so funny I didn't put the card in an envelope I just handed him the card after we got home from church that day and he said oh now that's cool, and I said well glad you like it and he said Oh is this one for me :)

Cricut -- Give a hoot cartridge, ink shading and Liquid Pearls in Chestnut for the eyes
Tim Holtz -- Woodgrain embossing folder, inking on the raised parts and sides
WeRmemory Keepers -- Anthologie papers
Hot off the press -- Dazzles- tiny words and phrases stickers, colored with markers

I need to get my cricut out and make up a few more things, I like having them done already so when I want to put a card together they are ready to add to my card.

I am sharing my card over at Stephanie's Roses of Inspiration link up, why don't you stop by and check out what the others are posting this week.

I want to thank all of you for praying for our friend Randy he is doing much better now, he is out of ICU, they had to drain his lungs of blood and that was quite painful but he is feeling better afterwards.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  We actually went a couple of days without any rain so that has been nice.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hello,

Connie

Birthday Daisy

When I had done the last card, I had two pieces that I had embossed, the first one I had a little problem with the vellum cracking even though I ran it through the embossing folder with a piece of light weight paper which helps with that happening, when I had to go make a card for my nephews wife I decided to just cut off that chunk and still use it.  I am apart of two cardmaking groups on line and this groups challenge was to make a card with green and yellow so that is what determined my colors here.

The daisy's have been colored with a yellow distress marker on the back side of the vellum and the brads were originally white so I colored them with a yellow spectrum noir pen.  The little gems and butterfly are also yellow.

Darcie -- Large Daisy Embossing folder
Vellum
BasicGrey -- Lilykate paper
Bazzill Brads -- colored yellow
Martha Stewart-- butterfly punch
Me & my big ideas -- gems

Hope you all enjoy a Fun and safe Independence day!! My hubby has to work, so we will be missing out on the fun this year.

I thought I would share a cross-stitching I did a few years back and I made it into a wall hanging.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and saying Hi,

Connie

Sending Hugs

A friend lost her sister at the age of 82.

I used vellum in the embossing folder and then colored the back side with a white distress marker.

Darcie -- Large Daisy embossing folder
Vellum
Distress marker -- picket fence
We R memory keepers -- Anthologie paper
David Tutera -- Celebrate sentiment pack

I thought I would also share a little visitor my husband came across a couple days after our flooding.  He was mowing and felt a bit of a jerk when he looked this turtle was there.  He didn't harm it thank goodness and he brought it up to the porch for me to have a look.  So I ran and got the camera, he never did pop his head out, and it is too dark in the picture for you to see his head tucked in there.  We have a pond at the top of our road so we were going to take it up there after my hubby finished mowing but we couldn't find the little guy.

He was about the size of a football I would say.
We have more flooding in the ditch today but it is a foot or so from our fence.  I wish so much we could share some of this rain with those of you that need it so bad.

A guy from our church in his 50's was in a bad motorcycle accident yesterday, I guess a car didn't see him, but he is in ICU, his wife is in my craft group at church, if you could take a few moments to pray for him I would really appreciate that, his name is Randy.

I also took a fall while carrying a box of kindling from our garage out back to our wood pile, I bruised the side of my eye where my glasses were pushed onto my face, my arm is quite sore, hard to hold anything to heavy, my knee isn't as bad and I also had a splinter of wood in my head, my husband was trying not to laugh while trying to get it out for me the next day, just imagining how I must have fell to get a splinter in the top of my head, he said that will be the last time I am walking while carrying stuff in that grass.  He thinks it was a combination of the ground being so soft from all that flooding and the moles making mounds too.  I am just thankful I didn't break anything.

Hope you all are doing well and having a blessed week!
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hello,

Connie