Grandmother's Birthday Card

I made this lovely card for my very special grandmother's birthday.  She is the sweetest lady and is always there for her family no matter what.  She LOVES birds so I always know what will make her smile.  Hope you enjoy.

Engagement Card

A friend of mine finally found her soul mate and he recently popped the question. I am so happy for the two of them so this is the congratulations card I made her.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!  Mine was spent with my crazy family.  We put the "fun" in "dysfunctional"....lol

 

Sympathy Card with Photo Finishers

Haven't updated in quite some time, life got ahold of me.  I lost my best friend, Jackson, my baby for 13 1/2 years, my chocolate lab back in July and I have had some health issues for many months.  Just now trying to get my motivation back.  I can always count on PTI to help me with that.  I had a friend of my mom's that lost her mother-in-law so this is a sympathy card that I did for her.  I used the Holiday Photo Finishers & Botantical Silouhettes.

Favorite PTI Project of the Year

Over at Papertrey Inc they are celebrating their 4th anniversary.  As part of the festivities we've been asked to post one of our favorite projects.  I don't have a full year of projects to choose from and it was still hard.  But here is what I came up with.

I used PTI Embellishment and the woodgrain impression plate and the mat stack 4 die to come up with this card.  I think it is very simple and classy.  I have it to my grandmother on her birthday.

Finishing Up the Week

Good evening everyone!  Another week is almost over and another weekend is about to begin.  I have a project this weekend.  I got the Clip It Organizer and I am going to organize my clear stamps and dies on it.  I've already gotten started and with my collection this could take awhile.  I need someone to help me get my room organized.  I've just let it get away from me.  I think I have my sister convinced to help me....yeah me!  Anyway, I did a set of note cards for my sunday school class and then I did a card inspired by the wonderful Amy Kolling.  I saw her Love Birds card for the Blog Hop using the Mat Stack 5 and I had to go right way and make my own up.  I was so excited.  So this one is CASED from Amy with my own little simplicity to it since it was almost midnight.  Hope you enjoy.

Papertrey Ink January 2011 Blog Hop

This month's challenge is to dust off a set that has yet to see any ink or hasn't been used for a while.  I used my Daily Design for the heart. I have only used this set maybe one time and I'm starting to wonder what sparked me to have to have it.....lol.  The sentiment is from Embellisments.  I stamped the sentiment on PTI Fine Linen cardstock and layeryed the heart on the MFT Doily Die in Happy Spots PTI patterned paper and Spellbinders Labels 13 in PTI Bitty Dots patterned paper.  The card base is PTI Rustic Cream.

 

Two More to End the Weekend

I made a card for our dear friend Katie Rentz.  I am hoping this will bring a smile to her face. The other card is one of two sympathy cards I made for two friends of mine one being my best friend.  They both lost their fathers recently to lung cancer which is also what my stepdad is currently battling.

That's all for now.  I hope you all have a great night and a great week!

Goodnight Friends,

Catching Up

Hello everyone!  I haven't posted lately had family stuff going on as most of you know.  Thank you so much for your thoughts, prayers, and cards for my stepdad John.  It is truly touching of the compassion that you have shown.  I can't begin to tell you how much it means to me and I know it is already lifting my stepdad's spirits and that is saying alot with the way things have been lately.  We are all praying for a miracle.  I want to say a special thank you to Ted.  I was so upset the day I posted about Operation Rainbow because I felt so helpless and Ted, your prayer helped to comfort me so much and I had my mom read it as well.  I worked on a few things this weekend that I have posted below.  Hope you enjoy!

I made this card for my stepdad John in hopes of lifting his spirits.  He is such a wonderful pain and I hate to see him in so much pain and sadness on his face.  I took some inspiration from a card Dawn had posted in the gallery.  I love these colors and love this set (PTI Star Prints).  Me and my stepdad have a joke between us.  I had put SD on a card a sent him a while back which I was meaning Stepdad, but he said he is not my stepdad and that he stood for Super Dad so that is what we have agreed to now and he has been such a Super Dad to me.

I made this card for my Sunday School teacher who is also a great friend to me.  She has been dealing with a kidney stone for the past week and I wanted to let her know I was thinking about her and sending her positive thoughts.  I love this new Mat Stack 3 Collection.  I have all three so far and wil continue to get the others as they come out.  I can see me using this quite often as you will see in my next card.

I made this for my sister to give a friend of hers that just had back surgery.  She loves my cards and I was hoping this would bring her some cheer to her day.  I love polka dots!!!

I made the above thank you cards as a set for my mom.  She has several thank you notes to send out and hasn't had the time to make any herself so I thought I would help her out.  These are pretty simple but I thought they turned out pretty cute.

I made two of these cards for my nephew and neice.  I saw this on Geny Cassidy's website and fell in love with it and just had to order to the stamp set right away.  It is from My Cute Stamps.  I thought it was precious so this is definitely a CASED card but I could do it any better than she did so I went with it.  My nephew is 4 and he loves to get cards in the mail from his "Aunt Elle".

Well that is all I have for now but it is the most I have posted in a while.  I am hoping this means I am getting my motivation back.  I know I am at least working on it.  I hope you all have a great week.  We are supposed to possibly get snow again this week which does not happen very often for us here in SC but we have had it twice in the last month which is quite a surprise.  This last time I didn't think it was ever going to go away.  It made it difficult for Jackson to get off the deck to go potty.  He loves the snow but he was even ready for it to be gone.  It is getting harder and harder for him as he is getting older and he almost has completely lost his sight due to his diabetes but as long as I am around he feels safe and knows his way around just by following me.  He is such a comfort to me and I love him so much.  We are best friends and I don't know what I will do without him.

Gift for a Friend

Hello all! Haven't blogged in about a week.  I have had the perfect opportunity as we have been snowed in here in South Carolina, but rather than be productive I have just been plain lazy.  However, I did make a Favor Box and a bookmark for a friend of mine so I thought I would share with you. In the box I included the Signature Series Cupcake Stamp Set.  I hope everyone is doing well in the new year and I'm filled with excitement for PTI's January Release.

Goodnight everyone,