You are so special

 It is hard to write this one, I try to make all my cards ahead of time, like a month ahead of time if I can, because I never know if things are going to get busy and I won't make it into my craft room, or other things come up that I want to make a card for get well, thinking of you ect.  Well I had just finished making this card for my brother when I got the news that he was going into Hospice care.  I thought about sending it very early but then I told myself hang on wait you never know what God's plans are.  Then as time got closer to his passing my mind was on that and not on his card.

After I got home from his funeral and was getting around cards to send out, I realized that I still had his birthday card. I finally decided that I could not send this to anyone else and as I hadn't written inside it yet I decided to send it to my Sister in law and wrote a note inside to her.

• Hot off the press - Instant Card Art (pretty colors)
• Ms. Sparkle & co. - Wood paper pad
• Starform - Silver text stickers sentiment
• Brads - Copper and silver screw 

Do I wish now that I would have sent the card early, yes I do, but I know he knows how much I loved him, and that is the main thing.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Stay cool!

Connie

Bloomin Birthday

 My great niece is turning 15, I was stumped for what to do for her so I just started going through all my goodies and came across these watercolor birthday panels and thought that would be cute. I went with coloring them with my sparkle markers to add a bit of shimmer to the flowers and sentiment. I also used some Aqua tint markers.

• Taylored Expressions - Birthday Watercolor Panel, colored w/ Spectrum noir Sparkle markers and Aqua Tint markers
• PPD - Postage stamp Rectangle die
• Papers from friend

Thanks so much for stopping by today, 

Connie

Get well

 My brother in law has been going through some terrible health troubles ever since February of this year, just before he went in for yet another surgery I sent this card to him.  I didn't put a sentiment on the front it just already seemed quite busy to me.

• Hampton Art - SC1029 Fern & Specimen stamps
• 49 and Market - Pascale's 3x4 Grammar Stamp on striped pattern paper
• Memory Box - Stitched rectangle layer die
• Wintertime Crafts - Old Papers (Background) Mini decorative (dots stamp)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, hope you are able to keep cool for those in the extreme heat areas.

Connie

Butterflies

 I saw this set of stamps at JoAnn's I believe and thought they were so cute with their different patterns.  I paired it with some 49 and market papers and ephemera. That is faux lace that was in the paper pack, I used it between the two papers I chose to use as my background.

• Park Lane - Butterflies stamp set (stamped with a gray color ink)
• 49 and market - Coral Mini 6x6 collection (paper and lace)
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny words birthday sentiment stamp
• Martha Stewart - Pastel mini pearls

I am sharing today with the Triple B Challenge 

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

Connie

Snowflakes

 Maybe the thoughts of snowflakes will cool us down with most of the country dealing with HOT temps.

Once again I am using some lovely laces my sister gifted me, there were two kinds of laces with snowflakes and that just happened to be the challenge in my Cardmaking group, so I made two cards with each of the laces and just changed up the way I used my snowflake dies.

• Wrights - Keepsake Snowflake lace 
• Memory Box - Winsome snowflake die
• Sara Davies - Frosty Christmas snowflake die
• Dieverson - Joyeux Noel sentiment die

I used all papers from my bin that I had cut down my scraps to card front sizes.

• Wrights - Keepsake Snowflake lace 
• Memory Box - Winsome snowflake die
• Sara Davies - Frosty Christmas snowflake die
• Stampendous - Chainletter Christmas sticker

These last two cards used a piece of ribbon that had wire in it but I was having a hard time adding it to my card, so I just removed the wire on the ends and it wrapped around to the back much easier. Now I have my mind thinking what to do with the wire I pulled out :)  If you have any ideas let me know.

Tis the Season - Laced with Frost Ribbon

Spellbinders - Holiday Sentiment  dies

Taylored Expressions - Snowflakes dies

• Tis the Season - Laced with Frost Ribbon
• Memory Box - Winsome snowflake die
• Stampendous - Chainletter Christmas sentiment sticker

I would like to share my card with Peace on Earth Challenge blog

Well I am caught up with my May Christmas cards so now I need to get busy on June to catch up, that will have to be the challenge in my other group.

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

Connie