Sending Smiles

Yesterday my family received a postcard in the mail from some dear friends of ours notifying us that they just purchased their first house!  I have been feeling better day by day (thank you Jesus!) and have been dying to get into my new Stampin' Up! goodies.  What better way than to make my friends a congratulations card!

I have been missing some of my favorite challenges lately so I thought I would use this week's Mojo Monday sketch which shows off two of my new goodies quite nicely.  The first is my Lift Me Up bundle from the current Occasions catalog.  

Despite being deathly afraid of heights, I am fascinated with hot air balloons.  I am one of those that admire from afar. This particular die is so beautiful that I wanted to showcase it.  It looked way too flat alone so I cut another one out in Calypso Coral cardstock and glued two of the edges together and squeezed them to make the balloon more balloon-like.

I love how it turned out!  Like always, the picture does not do it justice.

The other thing I love about this card is my new Cupcakes & Carousels Designer Series paper which is also from the 2017 Occasions catalog.  I have a class coming up March 11th and it will be featuring this gorgeous paper but I had to take a little and have some fun with it.

I sponged the edges with Chocolate Chip ink to give it more of an aged look and added some Assorted Metallic Sequins and some Bermuda Bay Thick Bakers Twine to dress it up a bit.

I hope our friends love this card as much as I do! :)


Product List

Lift Me Up Clear-Mount Stamp Set [142896] $21.00	Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122925] $8.00	Chocolate Chip 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102128] $8.00	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650] $9.00	Cupcakes & Carousels Designer Series Paper Stack [142744] $10.00
Chocolate Chip Classic Stampin' Pad [126979] $6.50	Metallics Sequin Assortment [138390] $5.00	Bermuda Bay Thick Baker’S Twine [138413] $3.50	Sponge Daubers [133773] $5.00	Up & Away Thinlits Dies [142748] $30.00

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From Me To You

Happy Valentine's Day!!

For many today is a day of flowers, candy, and oodles of romance.  My husband is the most non-romantic person I've ever met.  We have never celebrated Valentine's Day together.  The fact that he even wished me a Happy Valentine's Day before he left for work this morning was shocking in and of itself.

It does make me sad because I love flowers, candy, and romance (what girl doesn't?!) but I like to say that I traded all that for true love.  Just knowing that my husband is the love of my life is a gift in itself and he doesn't need a day to show me that.  He shows me every day that he loves me and for that I am blessed. ❤️

I am also blessed with two amazing little boys that have been awesome since Mom has been sick.  I wanted to do something special for them since these past few weeks have been so rough so I made them each a card to show my love and gratitude.  I posted my oldest son's Valentine's card a few days ago and today I am showing the card I made for my youngest son.

Since I still hadn't cleaned up my scraps from my last card I decided to stick with last week's Color Throwdown Challenge colors but used this week's Mojo Monday Challenge as my sketch.  I wanted the cards to be similar yet different.  Just like my boys...

I kept many of the same elements like the die-cut hearts and the two silver sequins but changed up the sentiment, paper, and ribbon.  I chose the black ribbon for a specific reason that I think my youngest will find amusing.  Right now he is obsessed with dressing up, particularly in dress shirts, and he is obsessed with ties.  I tried to make the ribbon look like a black tie so his card is "dressed up" like he always is.

The sentiment is from Verve Stamps Love From Me digital set which is free but TOMORROW is the last day for you to download it so head over there and snag it while you can!

Thank you to everyone for your get well wishes over the past several days.  I am still pretty sick and actually have a doctor's appointment this afternoon to see if I still have the flu or if it's turned into something else.  My chest hurts pretty bad and I have a horrible cough so I'm sure it's turned into an upper respiratory infection or bronchitis.  Fun, huh?  Hopefully my doctor can get me on an antibiotic that will kick this crud for good!  So many people are sick right now!  I don't know what's going on this month but I am ready for all of us to be better!

Here's to a wonderful and blessed day of LOVE!

Stamps:  Love From Me Digital Set (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Brights DSP (SU)
Ink: Black, Copic Marker
Accessories: Big Shot, Silver Metallic Sequins, Sweet and Sassy Framelit Dies (SU), Wide Black Grosgrain Ribbon

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Groovy Kind of Love

Happy Sunday!

Today is the first day that I have been out of bed and sitting up.  I was officially diagnosed with the flu last Thursday and it's been rough to say the least.  I've been in bed almost two weeks.  I've done nothing.  Nothing.  My poor neglected house and poor neglected family.  :(

I'm not well by a long shot but with Valentine's Day only a few days away I was motivated to get up and stamp today!  Just stamping took it out of me so I am going to post this and then its right back to bed.

When I saw this week's Color Throwdown Challenge I knew I had to play along since this is one of my all-time favorite color combos.  I decided to make my oldest son's Valentine card first.

The sketch is this week's Mojo Monday Challenge which really was a challenge for me.  I blame the cold/flu medicine I'm on. ;) I feel so spacey!

This sentiment is from one of my favorite Verve Stamps sets Feeling Groovy.  Each sentiment is a song lyric and since my son and me share our love of music I thought it would be fitting.  I plan on playing this song when I give it to him.

I kept the inside simple and used a sentiment from one of my other all-time Verve favorite sets, Hearts on Fire.

Thanks for checking out my creation today and I promise to be back this week with more Valentine's Day eye candy.

Stamps: Feeling Groovy, Hearts on Fire (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Brights Stack DSP (SU)
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Big Shot, Circle Nestabilities, Orange Simmer Ribbon, Paper Piercer, Silver Metallic Sequins, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Sweet and Sassy Framelit Dies, Triple Banner Punch

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