Forgotten Treasures

The Last day of 2015, the years just keep going by faster and faster don't they. Well I started out the year thinking I was going to use a lot more of my forgotten treasures, so maybe I should extend that into the next year because I have a lot more that I can use.  Do you remember the rain dots, those were a big thing a few years back and yes I have a few left.

My facebook group sends birthday cards to each other and this is for one of those girls.  The image is a diecut from K&co. it already had glitter on it, and the corner treatment is from the same package.

K&co. -- Flora & Fauna diecut cardstock and vellum pack
Glitter Tulle (Walmart)
Penny Black -- Sprinkles and smiles sentiment stamp
Cloud 9 design -- rain dots

I hope however you spend the evening celebrating the year to come that you will stay safe.
Prayers continue to go out for all those effected by all this flooding.  I am so thankful that we have not been effected by it.  This is the highest we have ever seen the Mississippi since we moved here and it is just amazing to see how far it has gone off it's banks.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I want to thank all of you that drop by and give such encouragement and friendship to me, I truly appreciate each one of you, and wish you a very Blessed New Year!

Hugs,
Connie

Quilted Birthday

Wow can you believe another year is almost over.  The rain has stopped here and that is cause for great Thanksgiving.  Also the drain behind our house worked great this time so we had no flooding in our yard which means our shed was saved from being flooded again.  Our pump is running almost constantly still the ground is one big sponge but the rain has stopped!!  I can't imagine how much snow we would have had if that was would have been snow and not rain.  My daughter and son in law had to spend one extra day with his parents since the weather was so bad yesterday, they are hoping to head to North Carolina today.

I forgot to share the card I made for my friend to go with the place mats I made for her birthday,  I wanted to do a quilted look, the stitching is all pen work, no real stitching on the card.

Taylored Expressions -- Hexagons dies with Faux stitching
K&co. -- Classic K paper
Spellbinders-- Rose Creations and Back to basics tags dies
Hero Arts -- All Occasions messages sentiment stamp
BasicGrey -- Brad
Gem on tag

I hope your week is off to a wonderful start, Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

I thought I would share the following with you just in case you don't have a google account and still want to follow my blog:

An update on Google Friend Connect

Posted: December 21, 2015

  

In 2011, we announced the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow blogs.

As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.

We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a blog post), that if they use a non-Google Account to follow your blog, they need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.

We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers.

Posted by Michael Goddard, Software Engineer

Little Princess

My great niece turned 3 earlier this month and she is a little red head so I tried to color the princess's hair with some red touches.  It was so neat that I picked this theme for her card this year because when viewing pictures of her party I see they had a princess cake for her :)

Hero Arts -- Magical Castle stamp set, colored w/ markers
Carta Bella -- Alphabet Junction paper
Poppystamps -- Stitched Landscapes
Wink of Luna -- Gold for the stars

I also was going through my pictures and realized I had forgotten a card for a close friend.  I had bought the Christmas ornament  for Colorist and this is the only card I had managed to do using that pack, I am hoping this year to color the whole pack so when next Christmas rolls around all I have to do is make up the cards.  I am sharing it this year to just share a few points just in case you are thinking of buying the pack, I had to cut this down to fit on an A2 card, it was a bit too big, so the whole border has been cut off.  I colored with my Spectrum noir markers and even though I didn't use much ink, the paper kind of bunched up while coloring, but once it was done it all laid flat again, it is pretty thick paper so I was surprised by it but happy with the results once the ink dried. HERE is a link to the product in case you haven't heard of them, they have other books I might get also.

Hot off the press -- Christmas Ornaments for Colorist colored w/markers
Wink of Luna gold
Wink of stella -- clear glitter pen
Queen & co.  Irridescent Rhinestones

Hope you have had a nice relaxing weekend.
Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie

Merry Christmas

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called, Wonderful counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
Isaiah 9:6

This is a Cross-stitching I did a few years ago, everything you see is a stitch, and it measures 14x8 inches.  My hubby made the frame out of old wood our friend was throwing away, looked like barn wood to me, so thought it would work perfectly. I hope it gets passed down to many generations in my family.

Wishing you a wonderful day of celebrating the most precious gift our world was given, our Lord and Savior, Jesus!!

Connie

Holy Night

These went out to my Nieces and Nephews, I did nine of these, if they live with their parents they all got the same card, I did not send multiple cards to one address this year like I have done in past years.

I used 3 different papers on these, I think I liked the lighter ones more.

I bought the border stickers with these cards in mind, I thought they made a pretty chain for the ornaments to hang from.

Dreamweaver Stencils -- Nested Ornaments Used Gold Pilot marker for the topper
Stampendous -- Holy Night stamp, embossed in gold embossing powder
Impression Obsession -- Pine die
DCWV -- Wild splendor for branches
Anna Griffin -- Christmas Scrapbook pack
Starform  -- border stickers for ornament hanger

Thanks so much for stopping by, I know how busy everyone is now,  Wishing you relaxing moments to reflect on the precious gift we have been given in this baby boy.

Connie