A much overdue project

I know it's been awhile since I've posted a project.  As I explained in my last post, I was pretty busy taken care of the old folk.  Things are getting back to semi normal around here.  Mom goes on Tuesday to get her hand checked, hopefully she'll be able to get the cast off.  She's still walking with a surgical boot on her left foot.  Dad's cataract surgery went well and he can see much better.  Next month he gets his other eye done.

I finally have a card to share with you.  My sister that lives in Florida sent me up some wonderful cardmaking supplies as a thank you for taking care of mom and dad.  So with some of the paper she sent I made a thank you card to send to her.

The paper is from a pack by Making Memories called 5th Avenue.  I paired it up with some simply chartreuse felt using a flower die by PTI.  I added the pearl in the middle which I had in my stash.  The sentiment is from Communique Curves stamped in smokey shadow.  The card base in also smokey shadow.

It has been unbearably hot here and this weekend will be no better, so I plan to stay in my nice air conditioned craft room and get some much needed crafting done.   I hope to share some of those projected with you soon. 

Hugs

Lisa

thanks so much

You may remember a card that looked similar to this that I entered in the August GSS. I just loved the layout and look of the card and decided to make a few more using that same layout.



For this card I used berry sorbet as the accent color. I stamped the large fancy flourish in fresh snow onto a kraft card base and inked up around all the edges. Then I cut a piece of bitty dots paper, scalloped the bottom and sewed a straight and zigzag stitch at the top and adhered it to bottom on the card after I inked up all the edges. For the focal image, the top layer is some lace that I gathered to resemble a flower and attached a button in the center. The second layer is a piece of In Bloom paper cut in a circle. For the third layer I stamped background basics text style on white cardstock and cut it out using my nesties scalloped circle. For the sentiment, I just cut a "V" at the end of a piece of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment from the mega mixed messages set in berry sorbet.

After making a few lace flowers to have in my stash, this card came together rather quickly. Stop back tomorrow when I will show you another take on this came layout. Thanks for popping in!

Thanks so much

Well it's been awhile since I've posted. Sometimes life just gets in the way. I have a little thank you card to share with you this evening.


For this project I used a flower from the Green Thumb stamp set for the main image and for the background I used the Background Basics Retro set. I decided to use spring moss, hibiscus burst, spring rain and summer sunrise colors in the flower image, cardstock and ribbon. The background is stamped with spring moss on spring moss cardstock and I rounded off the two corners to breakup all the squareness (is that a word?) of the piece. I matted the white cardstock with hibiscus burst and summer sunrise. The tag is from Cuttlebug's tiny tag die cut set and the sentiment is from the Mixed Messages set. I also added some Starburst Stickles to the center of each flower.
I hope you enjoyed my project and thanks for stopping by.

Supplies
Stamps: Green Thumb, Background Basics Retro, Mixed Messages
Ink: spring moss, hibiscus burst, spring rain, summer sunrise
Paper: spring moss, hibiscus burst, spring rain, summer sunrise, white
Other: corner rounder, spring rain twill ribbon, Cuttlebug tag die, Stickles

Thanks So Much

In my opinion, you can never have enough thank you cards. I always like to send a thank you card when someone has done something kind for me or for a gift I've received. I chose to use the new Guidelines Two set for this one.


I decided to use summer sunrise with spring moss and dark chocolate. The card base with embossed the Cuttlebugs swiss dot, the spring moss cardstock was distressed and the dark chocolate was trimmed with scalloped scissors. For the focal image, I used Nestabilities Label One and stamped the flourish at each point in summer sunrise and the sentiment in dark chocolate. Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:
Stamps: Guidelines Two, Mega Mixed Messages
Ink: summer sunrise, dark chocolate, spring moss
Paper: summer sunrise, spring moss, dark chocolate, vintage cream
Other: spring moss twill ribbon, pearls, swiss dot embossing folder; Heidi Swapp edge distresser, Fiskars scalloped scissors
Finished Size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Thank You

This is a thank you card I made for my sister and her family for inviting me to join them for a little weekend get away.


We went to Lancaster, Pa and stayed on a working dairy farm (no we didn't have to actually work). They have a guest house they rent out. Here is a link to their site http://www.meadowviewkfarm.com/. This is the third time I've been there and just love it. If you are looking for a little R & R, I would recommend it. The family that owns the farm is just wonderful. You have full access to the farm, you can watch them milk the cows and you can have a hand at it if you wish. They have a little chicken coop where you can collect fresh eggs. They have little calfs that you can help feed. This is a great place to take the little ones. My nephews just love going to "The Farm". Here are a few pics of our trip.


These are my two nephews feeding the calves.

This is farmer Barry taking the boys for a ride.

These next pics were takin first thing in the morning from the front porch. Notice in the second photo the amish buggy. I think they were all heading off to church cause there were quite a few buggies passing by that morning. In the third photo, off to the right is one of their barns.




This place is off the beaten path, but if you're looking for more to do you can go into the city where there are pletty of things to do there.