Broken Arm

My "niece" Emily broke her arm at a soccer game recently.  Poor girl had to sit out on the sidelines and got trampled when players ran off the field.  Emily is a trooper so I had to our girl a special get well card.

Stamp Set: It's A Wrap Occasions
Cardstock: Pretty in Pink and Melon Mambo patterned DSP
Ink: Regal Rose and Melon Mambo
Accessories: Sponge, paper snips and Stampin' dimensionals

Overall it's a simple card, I wanted to put bandaids over broken paper.  It's shades of pink for a young girl.  

Hope your arm heals fast, Emily!

Happy Retirement, Gaylene!

I was fortunate to have two BFFs in Idaho.  Today, one of them is retiring after many years of dedicated work at Farmers Insurance.  Happy Retirement, Gaylene!

This is the card I made for her.  It's a CASE from Kathy LeDonne and you can view her card here.  Gaylene's favorite color is green.  She's an Irish girl to the core even exchanging gifts on St. Paddy's Day!

Stamp Set: Perfect Blend

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, and Just Add Cake DSP

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: 5/8" Certainly Celery satin ribbon, TIEF Divine Swirls, 1-3/8" x 5/8" oval punch, Big Shot, and Stampin' dimensionals.

Happy Retirement, my friend!

New Photopolymer Stamp Sets

The parents flew home to California yesterday.  My Dad is in his 70s and wanted to make sure his girl had her house and yard in order.  He worked hard on this vacation!  Mom just visited with her girls.  It was nice being with them again.

Big news today: new photopolymer stamp sets from Stampin' Up!

Greetings From photopolymer $13.95
Map It Out photopolymer $13.95

These two sets coordinate together to create fabulous vacation cards or scrapbook pages.

Cheers to You

Happy Friday, Everyone!  Are you ready for the weekend?  Our parents are flying in from California to spend some time with their girls.  My sister and I will be picking them up from O'Hare tomorrow.

This is a card I made for a co-worker who loves beer and darts.

Stamps: Cheers to You

Cardstock: Crushed Curry, Pacific Point, Whisper White, ret. dsp

Ink: Basic Black and Crushed Curry Marker

Accessories: circle punches and liquid applique'

Have a safe and enjoyable weekend!

Coffee, anyone?

I've got a great friend who's like a little brother to me.  He and his wife have birthdays one day after the other.  Brian loves his coffee so, I created this "perfect blend" of coffee just for him.

Stamps: Perfect Blend

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Comfort Cafe' dsp

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: paper snips, scallop square punch, postage punch, TIEF Stripes, stampin' dimensionals

The stamp set is perfect for paper piecing.  I used scraps of cardstock and dsp to create the coffee containers and popped them up on dimensionals.  I used the postage punch for the words and trimmed off the top and bottom for a different look, then layered it with the scallop square punch.

Happy Birthday, Brian!

Good bye Elm tree

Today my Elm tree will be removed.  It suffered some damage from last week's storm and needs to go; like so many other big, beautiful trees in the neighborhood.  In memory of the lovely trees, I'm posting this card I made for a co-worker a few years ago.

This card uses Lovely as a Tree set, a timeless Stampin' Up! stamp set.  So good bye tree!

First Big Storm

Friday evening, we had our first big storm here in Illinois.  Well, it was a doozy!  Our neighborhood had a thunderstorm with a microburst that had 80 mph winds.  By the time it was all over, the place looked like a war zone.  Down power lines, uprooted trees, branches and limbs everywhere.  Power has been out for a while, but the great folks at ComEd worked tirelessly to restore power as soon as they could.  We got to enjoy the sound of power saws chopping up tree limbs and generators humming for a while.

We're thankful no one in the neighborhood was injured.  Cleaning up this week.  No cards to see today.