Happy Halloween

Decided to make a card at the last minute for my Daughter and Son in law, I sent along some coupons I thought they could use inside :)

I love the Scrapbook Calendar for those times when I want to get a card out quickly and I don't have much time, the papers and images are from the Calendar.

Here is a pic of my Daughter and I at the Farm we went to a couple weeks ago.

I still have to carve my pumpkin for tonight and get the candy ready to hand out,
Have a Great week,
Thanks for stopping by,
Connie

28th Anniversary

My Hubby and I are celebrating 28 years today.  A small town south of St. Louis over in Missouri is having an Apple butter Festival and are advertising alot of craft booths, so we are heading over there today :)

I used DCWV Rustic paper stack.

Sentiment is from Hot off the press cardmakers quotes.  Highlighting some of the words with chalk.

The heart  from Paperbilities had a country theme plaid print on the top and I added glitter from the Art glitter dawn to dusk set.  The heart was in a package of things my sister sent to me that she had bought thinking she would use them but when cleaning out decided to give to me, that is how we are different she can give away her stuff, I just hoard it all thinking I may use it some day, that's why her craft space looks cleaner than mine :)

As you can imagine I had glitter all over the place, but I love how it matched the paper and goes along with the sentiment!

I feel trully blessed that the Lord has blessed me with a wonderful husband, who is so Loving, understanding and caring.  He makes me laugh every day!

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

Blue Flowers

I really need to find something a little more original to name my post, LOL!

My husband asked me if I would make cards for his Dad's Christmas gift this year. We found him a really cool box at Hobby Lobby to give them to him and he can use it after he is done with sending out the cards.  I feel funny about giving cards as gifts, and I am use to only making cards for the person I am giving them to, I hardly ever make a card not knowing who it will be going to. I figured this will give me hopefully confidence to make the cards for our church's craft sale next month.

I will be making two of each type of card, hopefully one that can be more  for a man and one more for a woman, we will see how that goes :)
In both cards Images and Papers are from the Scrapbooking calendar, maybe I should post a picture sometime so you can see what I am talking about for those who don't know.
This card uses the spellbinder Fleur DeLis Rectangle for framing and spellbinder die for the Hero Arts Everyday sayings sentiment stamp set.

This one used the Spellbinder deckle edge for the framing and the sentiment is from Hero arts Birthday wishes sentiment stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
Connie

Birthday Birdie

Sketch from Papercrafts card ideas page 34. I used DCWV, Basicgrey and Cardstock for all  the panels.
Hero Arts Birthday message stamp set for the Sentiment and little birdie, I colored it with Copics and Tombow markers.

The buttons are a Flea market find.  Used Floss to stitch them together.

Such a Beautiful day yesterday was able to get my garden ready for winter, except I need to get some Hay to go over my strawberries, my hubby said he will take care of that though :)  I still have some green peppers on some of my plants but they were too small to use.  We didn't like how the topsy turvy did with the tomatoes, don't think we will try that again.

Hope your week is going well,
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,
Connie

HOTP Tags

Good Monday Morning, it is nice and sunny and 59 this morning, AHHHH Fall, I love it!!!  Although they are telling us it is going to get to the freezing point at night by the end of the week.

I have alot of Male Birthday cards to make each Fall.  This tag came from the Tag Art book #2 from Paper Pizazz and Hot off the press. I stamped Birthday using PSX alphabet stamps and embossed in Gold to go with the leaves that were allready on the tag.  The Happy happy stamp from Hero arts was also embossed in gold.

 I wish the copper metalic background would have shown up better in the paper from DCWV Natural stack.  The torn piece of DCWV Once Upon a time paper was scored too and I inked over the embossed areas.

We had a great time with the kids on Saturday at the Farm, we couldn't have asked for nicer weather, of course the time went by way too quickly and now I am looking forward to seeing them at Thanksgiving :)

Wishing you a GREAT week ahead,
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie