Graduation

Happy Friday everyone! This week went SUPER fast for me. How about you? There are things that I haven't gotten done yet that I'd still really like to get to but I'm not sure that will happen. Such is life, huh?

Anyway, I thought I would post the card I made for Jon for his graduation. I haven't even given it to him yet because I was sorting out in my head what I wanted to write inside. As it is I took up more than half of the inside and could have written more but I needed to leave room for Todd to write something too.

You know what I hate about when I stamp sometimes? When I look at something and think to myself...I should have done it "this" way. I did that will the "class of" stamp. I should have just bent the stamp to go "around" the image at the top instead of straight across. Maybe next time.

Well, there you have it. I hope he likes it! Have a wonderful Friday and a great weekend everyone!

My Brother's Birthday

Morning all! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Ours was pretty good here but yesterday was more exciting...Todd got the new flooring (same as my craft room) put down in the hallway to the kitchen/Kyler's room. My word it looks fabulous! I think this is the last of the work before our Memorial Day party/Jon's graduation festivities. I didn't work nearly as hard as Todd did so I know he's tired!

So, I needed to make a card for my brother's birthday. I remembered the old Chevy stamps I had gotten awhile back so I grabbed this one out. It isn't exactly what he would favor as far as cars go but I think he will like it anyway. How fun is that paper and those brads? They all fit so perfectly, huh? This is for CardPatterns: Sketch 65. You should go check it out as there is a wonderful prize for the person that wins the sketch challenge!

I haven't posted a How To Pray For Your Children in a couple of weeks so here you go!
1. Pray that they will know Christ as Savior early in life.
2. Pray that they will have a hatred for sin.
3. Pray that they will be caught when guilty.
4. Pray that they will be protected form the evil one in each area of their lives: Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical.
5. Pray that they will have a responsible attitude in all their inter-personal relationships.
6. Pray that they will respect authority over them.
7. Pray that they will desire the right kinds of friends and be protected from the wrong friends. (Proverbs 1:10-11) It seems so obvious that we want our children to not have friends that do drugs, drink, or have sex right? But what about the other side of that? We want our children to have friends that on purpose stay away from those things...turn their heads when something comes on television that isn't appropriate for them...not swear...I could add so many things to this list. The fact that our kids friends have more of an influence on our kids (at least in their pre-teen and teen years) then we do should take you to your knees in prayer about this often.
Well, ladies...I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday!

Thanks Punch Card

Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope your Monday was a great one!

Today, I just have a quick post for you. I needed to make a couple of thank you notes for Todd to use so first I decided they needed to be yellow as that is his favorite color. After choosing the color the card fell together quickly especially with my new Thanks punch. Isn't that punch fun? I'm not sure why I put the button where it is but I think it adds an interesting element to the card.

Well, tomorrow is stamp club so I'll show you one of our projects then. I have to say that one of them is a complete CASE from Becky Roberts and and our 3-D project is from SCS. My brain just is not working this week. We have stamp club three months in a row this time (we are usually every other month) so I better get out of this fog, huh?

I wanted to tell you guys that we had the Steak Hash recipe for dinner last night and while it was good and everyone liked it...I think it could have had a bit more taste to it. I'm thinking I'll add more seasonings to it next time. Tonight is Dirty Rice (Zataran's) with Turkey Kielbasa. It is actually a large serving for not a lot of points and everyone likes that dish, too. Yay!

Anyway, have a SUPER Tuesday and I'll see ya back here tomorrow!

Cute & Cuddly

Good morning everyone! Did you make it past your Monday in good spirits? I had a good, laid back, kind of day with the kids home from school. Gotta love days like that at the beginning of the week, huh?

I'm sharing with you today a set that I made on Sunday for our friends who just had a baby. They were having a "come meet the baby" party and we had a gift for them so I whipped these up real quick and away we went.

As you know I can't link you to the company that these sets are from but needless to say it hasn't stopped me from ordering from them, creating with their products, or wishing I could tell you but...such is life. I'm sure if you have any specific questions and would like to e-mail me that would be fine!

Well, that is it for today. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Liberty Sophia

Good morning everyone! Whose happy it is Friday? ME! I get to go pick up Kyler today...woot! Actually, I have quite a few things to do today so it will be a busy one. I like that though...keeps me out of trouble! LOL!

Yesterdays, Thursday challenge on Kerry's blog is to make a no layer card. Kerry's sample is a card made with Liberty Riley from Hannah Stamps. All I have to say is...I see your Liberty Riley and raise you a Libery Sophia, Kerry!! I got this image from Paper Pretties about a month ago and I just love her!Isn't the deep embossing on this card wonderful? Gina K's Stamp T.V. has a video on how to use your Nestibilities to do the embossing in your Cuttlebug this week. I have a Big Shot so I just adapted it a little. The sentiment is actually from PaperTrey. A few red pearls from limeLIGHT and sparkly black dots really pull this card together.

Alright everyone, I'm off to link my card up to Kerry's blog and let her know about my raising the stakes in the card makin' game and then I'll probably be off to get Kyler!




**This card got a "me likey" from Allison on Stampin' When I Can!**

50th Wedding Anniversary

Morning friends! I hope you all had a wonderful start to your week. Kyler got dropped off at camp yesterday and I'm sure he is having a great time. The camp has a super hero theme and what boy doesn't like super heroes? It should be a fun week for him!

On Sunday our dear friends Al and Nancy had their 50th wedding anniversary. What a feat it is to make it to 50 years now a days, huh? I truly look up to this wonderful couple. I know that they have their times, too, but they are what a Christian marriage looks like. I thank God for bringing them into our lives!

As I was making this card for them I wasn't thinking that it should really be gold as that is the "gift" for 50th anniversaries. Ends up I used Summer Sunrise (from PTI) anyway so it kinda looks goldish (right? just go with me on this one!). I can honestly say I have no idea where this paper is from but it had the "look" I was going for...homey and comforting. The bow turned out perfectly (thank you Kristina Werner for having a tutorial on tying bows) if I do say so myself.

Anyway, there you have it. I'm off to get things done today. Have a super day!

Card Deets:
Stamps: Whishing You, PTI
Ink: Summer Sunrise, Ocean Tides, and New Leaf
Cardstock: PTI Vanilla, Ocean Tides, Summer Sun, Patterned (??)
Accessories: Summer Sun Satin Ribbon, Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Nestibilities

Soft and pretty Tilda...

Morning everyone! I got up much later than I had anticipated...silly alarm didn't go off. Hate that! Anyway...I'm now and probably all day feeling behind. Anyway...I have a card for you...woot! On to it!

One brand of stamps that I absolutely love is Magnolia. Now...I don't use them a lot because I just don't color the images that well. I see so many cards that are just beautifully colored with sweet Tilda and adorable Edwin and I'm always disappointed with mine. This time I took the tutorial on how to color her face (from HERE), printed it out, and put it in my special page protector area...this way I can use it each time I color Tilda. This card is for the KL Stampin' and Scrappin June challenge on Papercraft Planet. Oh, did I mention I won last months challenge? Yep, I did but with a non Magnolia stamp...so glad she lets us do that if we don't have Magnolias that will work!

Anyway, this Tilda is called Flower Skipping Rope and is just completely adorable! The challenge is this sketch so why don't you join the KLSNS Papercraft Planet group and try the sketch? You could win a "surprise" stamp and a 6x6 pad of Basic Grey Lime Rickey!

And I'd like to share this weekend's Psalm of the day...
Lead me in a plain path. Psalm 27:11
Some days I'd just like life to be simple. (Isn't that the truth! And, just so you know...the little comments are not my words they are on the calendar too. )

Okay, so I have to get moving (literally because I need to go exercise). I hope you have a fantastic day! See you soon!


Card deets:
Stamps: Flower Skipping Rope Tildak, PTI Wishing You
Ink: Palette Noir
Cardstock: PTI White, Basic Grey Wisteria
Accessories: Kaisercraft Pearls, Stampin' Up! Organza

patriotic birthday CAS

Good morning girls! Can you believe it is Friday already? That means it is Kyler's last day of school. He is one of those kids who is excited and disappointed at the same time. It is so strange around here though...they end at 10:30 a.m. It will be the same thing next week when Jon is done on Friday. Is 10:30 a.m. an official half day or something like that for teaching purposes? Anyway, I'm finishing up a cute little gift for his teacher and then it will be good bye to elementary school and hello to middle school. That just made my heart beat a little faster! Boy, time sure does fly...especially with Scott and Jon both seniors next year!

Okay, enough of that! Onto the card! I've SO been wanting to participate in the Clean and Simple challenge on SCS. I saw what it was this week and decided to go for it. Our cards are to be based on some beach towels from Lands End. The towel I chose has the pattern of my strips of paper. I had to, of course, add a little something to the card so I added the stars (both popped up and stamped) and the sentiments. I used the free down loadable paper from Gina K for the paper strips. The stars are different sizes as I printed the paper different sizes...I didn't think about it ahead of time. I think it gives added visual interest, though. I have to tell you I really love this card! It will be going to a friend of mine for her birthday and it needs to go in the mail today!

I know I just shared one of my little Psalms thoughts yesterday but I thought you guys might appreciate this as I did...

Wait on the Lord. Psalms 27:14
I think I've already had this lesson. (And, no, I don't think I've mastered it.)

Anyone else struggle with the wait on the Lord part? Goodness that can be SO hard! Only good will come out of waiting for the answer God has for us though. I'm still working on it for sure!

Well, I hope you have a fantastic day! I think I'll share a couple of pictures from our trip to Leavenworth tomorrow...basically a couple of my favorite places to go when we are there.

And don't forget...you have until 5:00 p.m. tonight to enter your card with my sketch for limeLIGHT anniversary blog candy! Check it out HERE!

Until then...tah, tah!

Card deets:
Stamps: Let Freedom Ring (PTI)
Ink: Real Red, Night of Navy
cardstock: Red Stars, Navy Stars GinaK
Accessories: Dimensionals

PEO book

Morning everyone! After I got done with some stamping for a workshop I'll be holding this weekend I decided I wanted to make a card soooo...I sat down at my desk and promptly saw my PEO yearbook which reminded me that I wanted to make my cover look nice so I picked out the Weekend Sketch on Lori Craig's blog as it has the long main image which is perfect for this 4x6 book.

I choose a combination of Papertrey Ink and Sweet N Sassy Stamps. I used Lemon Tart with the Ocean Tides as yellow is a club color. I couldn't knot the ribbon as I didn't want too much dimension and I figured the buttons would be enough under the pocket. The letters are from limeLIGHT Papercrafts. Speaking of limeLIGHT...did you check my sketch challenge for LLPC's One Year Anniversary? Well...check it out HERE? Oh, yeah! Make a card with my sketch and win some Prima's!

Short post today I guess. I have things to do and places to go...okay, things to do! Places to go would be tomorrow!

Have a super day everyone!

lovin' it

Good morning everyone! Nope, I'm not thinking about McDonald's (remember the I'm Lovin' It theme song?) I'm thinking about the Textured Impression Die!

Remember the other day when I showed you THIS card and said I had one more to show you? Well, here it is! When, I first saw the roses cut around the detail of the rose I LOVED it. There is nothing like being able to show off your patterned paper on a card!

Anyway, I have some paper left from my Walk In The Park bulk buy pack and decided to try the cut out technique. I'm not sure why I chose the Basic Gray patterned paper but I think it is lovely! The vellum is called Linen Vellum Cardstock and I get it from PaperTrey Ink. I love the added texture it gave this card. I left off the sentiment not wanting to conflict with the prettiness of the card. I also completely love the ribbon that I used. It is from SU! and I SO hope they don't retire it! If they do...on June 1st I'll be purchasing myself several more rolls of it!

I know today is a short post but I have lots to do today. Kyler gets his Character Award today at school. The teacher chooses a positive character for each child in the class that best describes them. It is always a neat thing to see. I can't imagine finding 16 different character traits that would work for these kids. After that I help with pizza lunch at his school (last one...yay!) and then I'd like to get some work time in at church (but I'd also really like to stamp!).

I hope you'll stop back tomorrow to check out my limeLIGHT sketch and product challenge card. It is a great sketch and the challenge is to used patterned paper so how could you not like to do that one? Mandy, as always, has some wonderful sales going on in the store right now...something about color (teehee)...so go ahead and check it out! AND, starting June 1st limeLIGHT will be celebrating it's 1st birthday with games, sketches, and a store wide sale you won't want to miss! I'm excited to be joining in the fun, too! Oh, and I just noticed that if you post on your blog about the limeLIGHT Anniversary fun you'll be entered in a chance to win a bottle of Shimmerz Spritz. Check it out HERE!

Friday is my day for the Sweet N Sassy Stamps blog hop so stop on back then to check out a super fun card! The hop starts today, though so be sure to start your hopping by clicking on the links I have for you to follow along with in my right sidebar!

last one

Good Saturday morning! Hope you all had a wonderful Friday and that your Mother's Day plans are all set to go!

This is the final sympathy card that I'm going to show you. I'd like to say that this is my own design but it is not. Of course I can't find the blog that I got this idea from but just know...it is not my original design.

Everything you see here is from PaperTrey Ink. I, again, used the With Sympathy set for this card. The card I copied just had two white panels but I wanted a little color so I added the Aqua Mist panel to my card. A little bit of Aqua Mist ribbon and the card was all done...whew!

I'm happy to be moving onto happier cards this weekend. I think today I will be sitting down to make a flower pot card...yep, just like (well not just like) the ones you've been seeing on different blogs. I do believe mine will be a little different as I'm going to try and add some scripture from my Sweet N Sassy sets. Hopefully it will all work out as I have it envisioned. I also need to exercise, dust, plant some rose bushes and pickup the house a little bit today so I should probably get started!

Have a super day everyone! If I get that flower pot card done today I'll be posting it tomorrow. If I don't post tomorrow...have a very Happy Mother's Day!

sympathy butterfly

Happy Thursday everyone! I hope you have a fantastic day all planned out for yourself! I'm looking forward to the National Day of Prayer gathering in our downtown. I hurt one of my thigh muscles when exercising on Wednesday so I have to give it a little break today, too.

So do yo think you can stand another sympathy card? I know I'm having a hard time making them. This is just a real simple card (that honestly I'm not sure if I like or not) that I used PTI's Background Basics Spots and Dots and Everyday Classics as well as the SU!'s Bigz Beautiful Butterflies Die on. I then made the antenna with some real thin wire and added a little body to it with pearls. The colors are PTI chocolate brown , spring moss, and then Palette Fresh Snow Ink. And the original idea for the layout came from a card that Nicki Estes made.

This is going to be short as I need to get moving with my day but I hope that your Thursday is wonderful!

with sympathy

Morning friends. This has been a rough week for some of the people that I care about. I have to make four sympathy cards. Well...really I'm going to make seven total but I'm not sure I will show you all of them. Anyway, today I have two that I'm going to show you.

When I was in 3rd grade my family and I moved to a house just outside the Milton/Edgerton WI area. The house sat at the front of a rather large out in the country cul-de-sac and just behind and off to the right a little sat a house that I was soon to become familiar with. The Cameron's lived there. My mom and Pat "met" the day my mom sent me to the Cameron's house to borrow a cup of sugar (true story). My mom and dad and the Cameron's became fast friends. Interestingly when my grandmother was (my mom's mom) sick, Pat's mother was ill at the same time. I remember babysitting for Scott, Julie, and Kelli when I was a teenager. Although I had grown apart from the Cameron's over my adult years Kelli and I had recently begun to connect again and it has been amazing to get to know her again. Anyway, all this to tell you that Steve, the head of the Cameron family, died suddenly on Thursday. So, the card on the right will go to Pat. I will also be making separate cards for the kids but am not rushing right now as the visitation is today and funeral tomorrow so I can't get them there before those events. I'll get them out next week for sure though. If you care to know about Steve I have a link to his obituary HERE.

The card to the left will be heading to a woman at my church whose 32 year old granddaughter died of a brain aneurysm last weekend. Marcy left behind a husband and four beautiful girls (13, 9 and 3 year old twins). I had just talked with Marcy a couple of weeks ago and honestly was just shocked when I heard the news. If you'd like to know more about her you can see her obituary HERE.

While I know this post is already a little long I just want to mention a book that I have here at home. It is called What to Say. 52 Positive Ways to Show Christian Sympathy to Those Who Grieve. Why mention this book? Because, every time there is loss of some sort in my life a certain person in my life says something that may seem comforting but in reality is "bad form" if you will. Upon initial contact with the grieving person the best thing you can say is simply..."I'm so sorry for your loss"...then if you would like,"would it be okay if I give you a hug?". That is it...nothing else is needed at that time. You can tell them "I'll just be over here for a while." If they want to talk with you...they will and it is at that time that you need to sit and listen. Say nothing. Listen. Listen to "the story" again and again. Now...say these three phrases again and again until they are committed to your heart. Ready?

Hug them, hang around, hush!
Hug them,_____ around, hush!
Hug them, ____around, ___!
Commit them to memory:
____ them, ____around, ____!

I really hope that someone will get something from this part of my post. These tips for the initial contact are really right on center. The book I mentioned above has 52 ways to show you care and has been an invaluable resource for me. I hope you will take a look at it.

So, I'm sorry for the mostly sad post today but you get my posts as my life goes and sometimes sorrow comes in waves...just like happiness. Take some time to hug your loved ones today!

send over sunshine

Happy Friday morning! Woohoo...I'm so glad the weekend is almost here!

Awhile back I showed you guys a card I made for a one on one swap that I am in to bring sunshine into each others lives during a gloomy spring here. Anyway, I finally finished my gift for my SOS sister. I made her a "from the desk of" ensemble. It includes this wonderful holder (template from PTI), four cards with envelopes, some flower seeds, a band aid tin (with stamps and address labels inside), and some of those wonderful, new gourmet M&M's.

Most of the supplies I used are from Papertrey Ink except the letters for the name plate. For that I used a Just Rite stamper. Oh, and the flowers wrapping around the ribbon are from SU!'s Filigree brads set.

The card set includes four cards that look just like the card you see here but all have different sentiments.

I truly hope that my SOS sister likes this! I hope you will stop back tomorrow. I have a pretty card to show you that I, unfortunately, had to make for a friend who just lost a family member. I actually have two more sympathy cards to make today as well as plan a little Mother's Day card for an impromptu class tonight. Yikes!

So...you all have a super Friday! See you later! *Yay...my box got a shout out on Susanna Boyd's blog today. Exciting!*

Project deets:
Stamps: Just Rite Stamper, PTI Everyday Classics
Ink: Palette Burnt Umber, Melon Berry
Paper/card stock: PTI Dark Chocolate, PTI Green Tea Leaves, PTI Bitty Dot Basics
Accessories: PTI Dark Chocolate Satin Ribbons, SU! Filigree Brads, Band Aid Tin, Melon Berry Twill Ribbon, PTI Dark Chocolate Buttons, Kaisercraft Silver Rhinestones

sassy wedding and some candy

Morning everyone! We are on the downward slope towards Friday...woohoo!

Today I thought it would be fun to show you some of the wedding items that limeLIGHT Papercraft carries. I bought this cute set called Sassy Wedding Set by Stampendous some time ago to make a card for a co-worker of Todd's that was getting married. Yeah...we decided not to go to the wedding and I slacked on the card. Shame on me. But, I just knew this set would be cute so I pulled it out along with some great Pebbles patterned paper called Wedding Words and made this card. I have to tell you that this is the 5th image that I stamped. The first three weren't spaced correctly but the fourth one...wonderful...until I smudged it with God knows what....grrrr! So, I have to go with this 5th image. Anyway, I added some fun silver rhinestones from KaiserCraft. Gotta have some bling on the card ya know. Whatcha think...kind of a fun card, huh? While you are over checking out the items I've hyperlinked you too make sure you click on "home" so you can see the fun specials Mandy has going on right now!

Oh, wanna know something really fun? Mandy, over at LLPC has given me the okay to give away TWO packages (two winners) of silver rhinestones...yay Mandy! Soooooo...wanna win? Okay, just leave me a comment on THIS post, with a way to get a hold of you (otherwise you can't win) by Friday night at 5 p.m. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell strangers in the street (okay not them) to come on by and comment for their chance to win. Only one comment per person please. And as a gift from me if the first person whose name is chosen would like the above card as well as the rhinestones then it is for you!

Now, go...have a super day and don't forget to comment!

Card deets:
Stamps: Sassy Wedding by Stampendous
Cardstock: Pure Poppy, PTI White, Pebbles Wedding Words, True Black
Ink: Palette Noir
Accessories: Silver KaiserCraft Rhintestones, Pure Poppy Satin Ribbon, Dimensionals, Nesties

thank you

It's Friday! Woohoo! Gotta love the end of what, for me, has been a busy week, huh?

I finally decided to buy the new PaperTrey Ink set called Damask Design. I have loved all of the wonderful cards I've seen with it so...here is my first try. I'll be honest...I'm sure I saw this somewhere but I don't recall where.

The cardstock is all PTI as well and the sentiment is from the same Damask set just stamped separately instead of in a line. And, yes...the ribbon is from PTI as well. I really love the rich, classy feel of this card. Wouldn't it be great to use it for wedding or anniversary thank you's?

Anyway, I hope you have having a great week!

Card deets:
Stamps: Damask Design
Cardstock: PTI Pure Poppy, True Black, White
Ink: Pure Poppy
Accessories: Satin Ribbon in True Black (PTI), Tiny Twinkles from Taylored Expressions

today is the day...

Morning everyone! Today is the first day of the Sweet N Sassy Stamps new release blog hop...yay!

This month we will be giving away 4 stamps sets via challenges that you will find on the blog of the challenge host (or if the design team member is participating then each individual will post it as well).

Today, my card qualifies for one of the first challenges which is to use birds on your card. Chris is the host of that challenge so be sure to make your card, upload it to the Sweet N Sassy Stamps gallery for a chance to win the Dream Silhouettes set that you see featured on my card. (You can enlarge the picture to see more detail.) This will also work for another challenge that will be hosted later in the week. I messed things up a little though and should have used the sketch challenge that Suzy has today but you'll see that tomorrow. Silly me!

So, if you are following along with the blog hop you came here from Suzy's blog and will be heading to Faith's blog next. Have a super time!

Card deets:
Stamps: Dream Silhouettes
Card Stock: PTI Vanilla
Ink: New Leaf, Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, Lavender Moon, Plum Pudding from PTI and Pacific Point from SU!

It's Friday!

Happy Friday everyone! Phew...I didn't think we'd ever get here this week!

Just a quick post today to show you the card I made for my stamp club card swap. We decided on a "thinking of you" theme. I had absolutely NO idea what to do but I knew I wanted to use my Dream a Little set from SU! so I went to SCS and checked out what others have done. I would like to say that I combined a whole bunch of stuff...but I didn't. This is pretty much a CASE but I don't recall who it belonged to. I just know that I thought it was pretty and calming. The other thing that I found out when I went to stamp a "thinking of you" sentiment is that I didn't have any current SU! sentiments. Hmmm...how did that happen? I decided to use my PTI Everyday Classics set (the anniversary set for this year...that I earned... 'cuz I love PTI) as this sentiment is so classic and really...says what you want.

Below will be the details of this card and I must run now. Hope you have a super weekend! I won't "see" you tomorrow but I'll be back on Sunday!

Card deets:
Cardstock: PTI White
Stamps: Dream a Little, Everyday Classics
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Not Quite Navy, Regal Rose
Accessories: Kiwi Kiss Satin Ribbon, Paper Piercer

pretty flower pots

Good Monday morning everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful weekend and that you got lots done! Today's post will be photo heavy and probably text light but I hope you enjoy it anyway!

My friend, Janel, dropped off this super cute flower pot card to me for Valentine's Day last month. How cute and ingenious, right?! I knew I was going to have to make one myself so I put the card to the side only to pull it out a few days ago to start working on my own. All I did to make this card is to make a regular size card (5 1/2" x 4 1/4"), I then laid Janel's card on it and used my pencil for the cut marks. I just took it to my cutter lined up the pencil marks and cut it. So, no I do not have a template. Just play with it a little and I'm sure you'll come up with the angle that is perfect for you!

Anyway, this is the card I was working on for the flock/fuzz challenge with limeLIGHT when I realized that I needed to use the sketch that Mandy provided (again, duh for me!). I used Chocolate Box Cherry Cordial Core'dinations cardstock from limeLIGHT. The flocking is at the top of the pot for the dirt. Another fun element of this card that I got from limeLIGHT is the beautiful butterfly from Prima. My goodness it is lovely. It really would make anything that you use it on special. I made my little "happy spring" sign on my computer (and yes...I had to use the same seed packet that I got from Janel in my flower pot as I forgot to buy one when I went to the store). The patterned cardstock is from SU!. The stamps are from a new PTI set called Wishing You.

Now, how fun would this be to send? Obviously you can't used a regular envelope but I'll be sending this one to my grandparents in a bubble mailer hoping the USPS doesn't ruin it. I know they will love it though!

I have another busy week this week so I will probably be sporadic with my posting. I hope you have a wonderful Monday! See you soon!

page plans day

Good morning everyone! I hope you've had a wonderful weekend so far! I'd like to thank you all for your kind words and funny stories regarding Scott's wisdom teeth removal. He is doing quite well but he's still tired. Tomorrow is the third day and it is supposed to be the worst day so we'll see what happens.

As you know, today is Page Plans sketch day on my blog. I had fun with this card/sketch. My card is 5"x5" and is perfect for this fun Emma stamp from Paper Makeup Stamps. Isn't she just adorable? To make it a little more special I used Shimmerz (from limeLIGHT) on her wings and gloves as well as a glaze pen on the raindrops. For the center of my buttons I put some Silver Rhinestones (again from limeLIGHT). The cardstock and patterned paper, buttons and ribbon are from PTI. Oh and the little twinkle on the pockets are from Taylored Expressions as well as the sentiment. Boy that is quite the assembly of things isn't it?

So...whatcha waiting for? Head on over to the Page Plans blog to take a gander at this weeks sketch and then make your own card! Oh, and have a super day while you are at it!