Weekend away

I have been gone since last Friday, my hubby took me to Arkansas for my birthday weekend, he had read about a pretty garden there called Garvan woodland gardens, and that there would be blooming Daffodils and Tulips, the temps were a little below what he thought they would be but it was just perfect in the 60's.

The trail through the park was almost 4 miles, now let me just say I haven't walked 4 miles all at once since last summer or fall and oh boy was I way out of shape, but I still enjoyed it so much it was the best part of the trip and it was the first thing we did the morning after we arrived.  I will post about our trip to the gardens in between posting cards.

This park had many beautiful waterfalls throughout so you were almost always coming up to another and I just love the sound of water flowing so I loved that part too.

There were many blooming bushes and trees too so that was such a nice surprise.

They had a really easy to walk through path and then more that was like this one that you could take if you wanted to explore more.

A lot of the trees had buds or leaves just forming, there just isn't anything like spring after a long winter.

This tree was leaning over the pond and it was so white that the area under it just glowed.

This was one of the biggest waterfalls, the others were smaller.

Are you seeing pops of spring where you live?  To those of you who visit from Australia, I appreciate that you share your summer photos when we are going through the depths of winter, reminds me that soon we too will be enjoying beautiful flowers and warmer temperatures once again :)

Thanks to those of you who gave suggestions on what to write on the inside of my cat card too, I will write them all down and use on future cards too :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Connie 

Meow Meow

Ok I haven't written on the inside of this card so I have decided to see if you all can come up with something cute to put inside for a young teenage girl.

I was thinking something like, that is Happy Birthday in cat talk. As you can tell I am not that clever :)

These papers were all in my scrap bin so I went with polka dots, a friend gifted me a few of these speech bubble stickers, so I white embossed the sentiment onto the sticker and the balloons are dies and everything from the cat set were stamped and die cut. I threaded the jute string through the cat before applying it to the background using foam tape.

Sizzix - Tim Holtz -  Cat Chat, stamp and die set, colored w/markers
Taylored Expressions - Balloon dies
Jute for balloon strings

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today and all that celebrate St. Patrick's day, have a safe and fun celebration!

Connie

Pink flower

My friend loves pink, so that is what she gets every year :)
Used another of my daily coloring calendar images.  Added a little gold accenting to the center of the flower.

Coloring for Calm daily calendar image, hand cut and colored w/markers
Wink of Luna - gold (flower center)
Quick cards magazine - Parisian dreams paper
Lace
Sequins

Hope you all enjoy a very nice weekend!
Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie

Lots of Love

Using images and papers from another card making magazine today. I realize I need to break out my stamps I have been using a lot of magazine stuff lately. Probably because I have been slowly trying to organize my craft room, hoping to better use what I have and I have been organizing and going through all my magazines and seeing what I want to keep and what I want to get rid of.

This one will be going to my younger great niece.

All I had to use out of my stash was the button, some floss and nuvo drops and a die to cut the paper for the background.

Make special cards magazine  (tag, sentiment, paper and die cut balloon border)
Lawn Fawn - Fancy Scalloped Rectangle die
Button and floss
Nuvo Drops - Carnation pink

I want to thank you all for your comments and prayers, on my last post, that means a lot to us.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Sympathy

Sending this to my hubby's sister. Her son was struck by a hit and run driver and was killed. All we know is that it was just after dark and it may either be a white or silver car that hit him. He was 38 years old.

I had recently bought this kit with a set of card bases that have preprinted images and die cut pieces that go with them and sentiments, since they didn't have any sympathy I stamped my own sentiment inside the wreath and then added the diecuts, they are so thick I didn't need to add any foam tape.

I also added some of those enamel shapes that Gina sent, they matched perfectly with the greenery in the background I thought.

Crafts Beautiful magazine - Floral Fancy foiled card kit
Stampendous - Sincere sentiment stamp set
Stampin up - enamel shapes

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

Connie