Feminine Sympathy

 Today I am sharing the cards I made for my hubby's Step Sister and a lady in our church who lost her last Aunt that she was very close to.  I went with the same thing I did with the guy cards, made two very similar just changed them up a bit.

I used some ephemera pieces and framed it with a die I cut from Vellum. 

• Tim Holtz - Botanical Layers, TH93554
• Carta Bella - Metropolitan girl papers
• Hot off the Press - 4 Lacy Rectangle Frames die
• Vellum
• Spellbinders - Oval die
• Stamped sentiment

On the next card I used the center portion of the frame above and used that for the base of the flowers.

• Tim Holtz - Botanical Layers, TH93554
• Kaisercraft - Sweet Pea paper
• Hot off the press - 4 lacy rectangle frames - Vellum
• Recollections - lace on a roll
• Ki - Black gems
• Spellbinder - oval die
• stamped sentiment

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and letting me know you have,

Connie

Sympathy prayers

 I am saddened to tell you that there has been 3 more losses to Covid.  A friend from church had 5 people in his family get it and 2 passed away.  His brother passed away first and by the time I could get a card made and write inside it his Dad passed away, 36 hours apart from one another, so heart breaking for his family. His mom, his brothers wife and he niece have seemed to recovered.

My husbands step sister and brother lost their mother to Covid too.  The sad thing is they were eligible for the vaccine and had decided not to get it, this has my husbands step sister so upset.

Since I had a couple of these to make and I like to get them out in the mail quickly, I heard a little voice of Donna Phelan telling me to make the same type of card :)  I used different papers and layout but it helped using the same image to go faster. One I stamped in browns and the other in black ink.

• $ store - praying hands stamp
• Spellbinders - Lg. Deckled Rectangle and Classic rectangle lg dies
• Our Daily Bread designs - Vintage Ephemera paper
• Taylored Expressions - Care & Comfort II stamp set

• $ store - Praying hands stamp
• PPD - Distressed Edge Rectangle die
• Memory Box - Stitched Rectangle Layer die
• Best Occasions - Mixed media paper
• Stampendous - Sincere Sentiments stamp
• Spellbinders - Grommet tags
• Recollections - Brads

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

Connie

Earth day challenge

 Our card making group had an earth day challenge to use those items we usually throw away, since organizing my room I couldn't find some of the supplies I had saved but I had some more calendar images like I used on a card not too long ago, these are were on the back to show what each calendar page looks like. I can't remember if this banner sentiment was from a bag of goodies at the yard sale or if it was given to me, I just cut a tail on the end and cut off the string they had on it.

• Old world stack paper
• Butterflies from back of calendar
• Thanks banner
• sequins

I keep our cat Opie out of my craft room because he likes to chew on my clear stamps and other things, I have never had a cat that chewed on things like this one does.  Hubby came in to talk to me one day while I was making cards and Opie jumped up where I take my pictures, so hubby took a picture of him, he was on the move trying to figure out how to get down and away from my hubby so it is a bit blurred.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and I hope the week ahead is a good one!

Connie

Basket of Tulips

 I went to my first store since surgery, hubby suggested a place were I wouldn't have far to walk from the parking lot, and what I like to look at is right up front so we went to Barnes and Nobles, he knows I love to check out the stamps and dies magazines from the UK.  When I saw this spring stamp set with the little basket, I had to get it.  I have a couple other baskets but they are much bigger.

I stamped, colored and cut out 4 sets of tulips to put in the basket but ended up only using 3 it was just a little too much with 4.  The handle at the very top is very thin so that was a little tricky for me to cut out, and then the flowers ended up covering most of it in the end.

Just before making the card I had done a zoom meeting with my stamp group and we were doing backgrounds on the Gelli plates, and this one didn't work out like it was supposed to and it was laying on my desk and I had put the basket on it, while I was getting other supplies and came back and thought it didn't look to bad so I decided to use it and wanted to add a little something so I got out my embossing folder and made a frame for it.

• Crafts Beautiful magazine - March 2021- Spring stamp and die set, colored w/markers
• Stampin up - Frame tulips embossing folder
• Prima - 8 point doily die
• Vellum tag
• Queen & co. - Gold Jellies

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Have a wonderful weekend,

Connie

To have and to hold

 A young lady in our church is getting married soon and the church had a wedding shower for her this past Saturday, I did not attend it but did give her this card along with some money for their honeymoon on Sunday after the service.  It was so good to be back in church after 5 weeks, I am so thankful that I can watch the services on line but there is nothing like being in a room with your fellow believers praising God together.

I was totally stuck on what to do for their card when I remembered this birds stamp I had, I have used it before for my Daughters anniversary card.  I picked out the paper I wanted to use so I just took from those colors for the stamping.  The die cuts I used for framing the image and sentiment are from the same set.  There was a bit more white space then I would like so I added a few leaf die cuts to finish off the card.

• American Crafts - Seeds stamp
• Gemini - Torn edge circle die
• Spellbinders - Splendid Circle dies
• Basic Grey - Periphery paper
• Fiskars - Just Married Quotes sentiment stamp
• Tim Holtz - Funky Foliage dies

It felt so good to get to my die cutting machine again.

We ended up with half an inch of snow, a few times it was coming down in thick, big flakes, it was pretty, but the snow has melted and the weatherman has assured us that should be the last of the snow we see this season.

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

Connie