Best Friend

 Our friends lost their German shepherd the other day, he was getting quite old had arthritis and was ready to go but we are never ready to let them go are we.  I wanted to make an uplifting card, one that makes them remember when he was full of life running around their farm chasing squirrels so I decided to make a little scene reminding them of the fun times he had and he is no longer in any pain.

I am linking this to the Challenge on the Impression Obsession Blog .

Impression Obsession - Country fences, Dog set, Squirrel set, Bare tree and Oak leaves and rake dies

Do you see the little acorn the squirrel dropped when he saw the dog coming :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and I hope you all enjoy a very safe and fun holiday weekend!

Connie

WooHoo

 When I went to make another masculine birthday card I still had out the paper pack my sister in law gave me and this piece was light enough I thought I could use it for another coloring on pattern paper for our challenge this week.  I thought it would make great sky if I just added some clouds to it using my home made cloud stencil. So I went looking through my stamps for something that could work on a masculine card and I think this may be the first time I used this plane from this stamp set.

We are going to imagine that he is flying over a flowering tree :)  I just had to add some pearls to the center of the flowers, hope it still feels masculine :) Hoping the sentiment looks like the banners that fly behind the planes.

Technique Tuesday - All aboard stamp set, colored w/pencils
Simon Says Stamps - Tiny words Birthday stamp set
Home made cloud stencil
Pearl Pen - Salmon

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

Connie

Hope and Prayers

 Our challenge this week in our stamp group was to stamp and color on pattern paper. One of the ladies in our church lost her grown daughter with a family of her own to cancer this week, so I used this challenge to make her a card. I am using more of the paper my sister in law gave me that I don't know who makes it.

Hot off the press - Mystic Garden stamps, colored w/Spectrum noir markers
Taylored expressions - Care & Comfort II
Paper unknown

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

Connie

Water color Roses

 The last time I shared a card using this stamp set I had colored it with Daniel Smith watercolors.  Shortly after doing that one I colored another using my Spectrum Aqua markers by coloring them onto a non stick mat and then picking up the color with my water brush.  At the time I didn't like it as well as the Daniel Smith one so I put it aside in my unused pile of goodies, I came across it again the other day and since I didn't have the one colored with the Daniel Smith to compare it to, I liked how this turned out, so I thought it would make for a nice Thank you that I needed.  I only had to add the sentiment and the butterfly, a little wink of stella clear sparkle pen to the flowers and some pearl drops.

I know I used a red distress ink to stamp it but never wrote down which color.

Hot off the press - Watercolor roses stamp set, colored w/Spectrum Aqua markers
Wink of Stella, clear sparkle pen on roses
Pearl Pen - Salmon

Thanks so much for stopping by and don't forget to save your items that you aren't happy with right now, because later you may like them!

Connie

Decoupage

 Now that we are having our services at church once again in person I can start making more cards for friends that have a bit of dimension since I can hand deliver them :)

I bought this card kit last year at Barnes and Nobles that have all these decoupage sheets that you have to hand cut the pieces and layering them with foam tape.  I could have done more layers but I just stuck to three. The card is a little larger size 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches.

Joanna Sheen - Vol. 10 Decoupage papers
Pearl Pen - Salmon

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

Connie