Mojo Monday Sketch 432

This Monday's
Mojo Monday Sketch

This is what I came up with...

And then I did one more...

Viva La Verve ~ Sketch 1 Challenge

This is what I finally came up with...

Using My Favorite Things dies and stamps

Joy and Simon Says dies.

A little paper piercing, embossing and glitter.

And paper from DCWV ...the Sweet Stack.

Oldie but Goody!

Viva La Verve ~ Sketch 2 Challenge

For more information about 

Viva La Verve Card Challenges

Click Here. 

What a terrific card challenge and 

I was able to use some left over scraps

 from another project. Yeah!

Sizzix Dies, Spellbinder dies, SU! Punches.

(old) DCWV paper.

Sheer pink ribbon, Pearl and

 Rhinestone accents.

Mojo Monday ~ 431

This is what I came up with using this layout for inspiration.

Items I used:

 Sizzix Snowflake embossing folder, 

Spellbinder various dies, 

Greeting Farm and Verve stamps,

pink foil, glitter stack papers, 

Tim Holtz and SU! papers.

Not your typical colors for snowflakes.

But if they had winter in Florida

 it might loo like this.

Will be sending this to my Parents in Florida.

Mojo Monday 430

Mojo Monday 430

And this is what I came up with...

Authentic papers, Marvy XL Circle Punch, 

Simon Says & Spellbinders Dies.

Prima Sparklers and Misc. Buttons.

Mojo Monday 429

The End of 2015 to 2016

has brought me to a few new to me discoveries.

One - Verve Stamps 

Two - these Card Challenges

over at Mojo Monday.

 Mine is a double challenge for me since this is

 my least favorite of  Greens 

and since I am not one to throw 

perfectly good card stock away...

I needed to see what I might come up with.

I ended up pairing it with Prima coffee paper. 

Used one of my Anya Greeting Farm stamps,

Pulled out the copic markers to color her. 

Grabbed a Martha Stewart branch punch,

Marianne Designs flower punches, Spellbinder die, 

and my newly acquired

 Verve coffee themed stamp and dies.

Added few embellishments and glitter to finish it off.

I've enjoyed card making for years.

And challenges like this ...well,

they are just fun!

Thinking of You Cards

Plain Blank cards transformed into

Thinking of You cards.

Got out images I had printed for other projects

 and scrap bits of this and that.

Kept them real simple and flat for mailing.

Several years ago I had my motto  made into a stamp.

(Funny thing is I hardly ever use it.)

But it seemed to work for me here.

Now to get busy and send these out.

Death, Death, and more Death

I've had my share this year of losses.

First my cat, then the sudden death my older brother 

and then my friend Cathy. 

Another friend lost his wife a month ago

and then just recently his grown daughter.

Yet another friend and Elder in my congregation

lost his mother to death recently.

Now another friend had to make the painful decission to 

take her husband off of life support.

And then Yesterday my girl friend, Johnnie, who 

I have know since I was 9 years old 

just lost her father.

Each loss is different and each one heart wreching.

Several years ago Johnnie's dad and my hubby, Chip

were in the hospital at the same time.

Chip to reattach his bicep muscle and 

her dad for quadruple bypass surgery.

 We helped each other then.

I hope I will be able to comfort her now.

Needless to say...

I needed to make alot of sympathy cards. 

Didn't have enough creative energy to 

make them all different. So I made them all the same.

Half of them are gone already.

The beautiful photo was taken my my niece Kelly.

Having to deal with the pain of death 

is not the way God intended things to be.

Thankfully under Christs Rule

1 Corinthians 15:26  will be fulfilled where it says..

"As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing." 

Simple & Sweet

Two years ago our dear friends

Ron & Kathy's son Matt and

Jesse & Dorothy's daughter Twylah

were married.

It's had to believe that much time

has passed by already.

So a last minute Anniversary party is in the works! 

5 days ago it was a pot luck at a friends house

and about 18 people.

 It is now grown to about 

30 or so friends and family.

and now will be held at a club house.

It is amazing how much can get done

 in such a short period of time!

Congratulations to the happy couple,

Matt and Twylah!

May you be blessed with many many more.

Cards for a Friends

An unexpected surprise came to me this week. 

I had two different friends request that I 

make some cards for them.

I was delighted and honored to fill their requests.

The first two were for an engagement and an anniversary.

I neglected to to take a picture of them 

before she came to pick them up.

Then I got a call from one of the the friends 

that she given the cards to.

And she wanted 3 cards for her family. 

So this is what I created especially for her. 

The smaller cards are done with her color requests

Winter Tea

Planning a Winter Tea Party for January.

for some of the elderly ladies

 in our congregation.

We have 18 including ourselves.

My friend Katherine and I decided on 

a Snowflake theme.

Thought I would share some of the projects 

we have been working on for the party.

 A simple snowflake embossed  invitation.

Sizzix embossing folder, Martha Stewart snowflake punch,

Pink glitter paper from DCWV, star brad & sheer white ribbon.

A tea cup made out of recycled mat board.

Sizzix tea cup XL die, DCWV Luxury stack papers,

misc. trims & embellishment.

Katherine is going to crochet scarves for the ladies.

 I was going to do earrings. 

But some of the ladies either don't wear them 

or wear clip-ons.

So I'm gifting the ladies with this style of scarf pin.

Another Creative Friday

So I've had a late start to visiting all the blogs that signed up for 

Where Blogger Create.

Because that Friday I spent the day with Deb creating cards.

I wanted to play with some new images I bought from

Lilly of the Valley

I'm embracing and complaining all at the same time 

as to why it takes me so long to create.

So it took all day to create these two cards and to make a 

paper purse using one of Deb's new

Sizzix Pro dies

It's assembled and partially decorated.

I have to add a few more embellishments to it. 

So I'll wait until it is finished to post it.

 This was created for a friend who loves to fish.

This is for me to have on hand for any occasion.

Lolli ~ an Older TGF Stamp

I got the last one of Lolli Anya 

at Funky Kits of the UK 

Apparently she is an older Greeting Farm stamp.

Since I just started getting these stamps last year.

 She was new to me.

I choose to put the sentiment inside

and there sufficient room to write a little note.

Then I played with this free digi stamp from 

The Greeting Farm.

I removed what I didn't want and kept the rest.

Admittedly not the best cards I ever made.

But I still had fun putting them together.

Thanks for Looking!

Kraftin' Kimmies Card Challenge #66

Just got some of the new Kraftin Kimmie's stamps. 

This one is Abigail Apple.

Thought I would go ahead with the latest 

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge 

and that 

I would challenge myself to also use some paper 

that was gifted to me as a hostess gift. 

I have no idea who makes it.

I have her holding the sentiment that says 

You're as Sweet as ...

Inside it will say

... apple pie!

 Is there more that can be done to this card?

Of course.

The question I ask myself is...

Will I?

Greeting Farm Cards

4 x 4 Easel Cards

I Don't Know Card

 Having fun with this image "Wednesday" from 

The Greeting Farm.

Card Holder

I had purchased several of these paper mache cardholders from Stampington some years ago for a class. Last time I checked they no longer sell them. I had two left over and decided it was time to to decorate them. So I kept one and gave the other one to Deb. What a week she had. Hopefully this project cheered her up a bit.
So we painted and decorated our cardholders to our liking. I had some rusty elements that I had purchased and these rusty hearts Deb had given me in a R.A.K. I used specialty papers from Tim Coffey's Tuscan Sunflowers by K&Co. That beautiful lollipop flower that matched perfectly was made by Deb and she gifted it to me. I was in the mood to use up what I have...what am I holding on to it for...So I did.

Some Simple Cards

The last two Artistic Fridays that Deb of It's All Good and I had we made some cute cards. The first four you see here are images that Deb stamped and colored with our new Copic markers. These were less than perfect to she gave them to me. Yippee for me.... half the work is done. So I couldn't let them go to waste. Just had to pick out some pretty papers and embellishments. I tried to keep them on the simple side so they can actually be put in an envelope and use. I doubt anyone will know what's not right about them. The last three I stamped and colored. It was great to get out our embossing folders, punches and Sizzix and Spellbinder dies and actually use them. We just love these images from the Greeting Farms, Lili of the Valley and Pure Innocence.

Deb stamped and colored the Image. I embellished

Deb stamped and colored the Image. I embellished

Deb stamped and colored the Image. I embellished

Deb stamped and colored the Image. I embellished

I stamped and colored the image and embellished

The above card was

Recently selected by Greeting Farms 

for an Upcoming Trade show.

I stamped and colored the image and embellished

I stamped and colored the image and embellished