10 Cards by breakfast

I could not sleep last night and got up and made cards.

I had 10 done by breakfast.

By suppertime, I had completed 23 cards.

I used a 6x6 pack of foil paper that I got at A C Moore

while in Pennsylvania.  I struggle with foils and wanted

to just use that whole pad up.  

My dies helped to use up a lot of that paper.

By suppertime I had done it.

I would say it was a productive day

and I even stopped for a bit to go

to the farmer's market.

Here is one of the cards I made and I am posting it so you

can see the foil paper a little better.

Foil does not photograph well, so try to improvise.

50th anniversary card

We are going to a 50th anniversary party for 

John's Uncle Mike and Aunt Bonnie Varga.

I wanted to do something in gold and struggled 

to come up with an idea.

I finally came up with this.

I put hearts and the number 50 on the inside,

then stamped "Happy Anniversary"!

God Bless America

July 4 was always a favorite holiday of mine.

We would got to my Uncle Freddy's and have the best time.

He would cook us lamb on the skewer 

and that was a treat for us all.

Of course, there was tons of food and family.

He invited anyone and everyone.

My cousins would come from Kentucky!

Aunt Lilly would get out that paddle ball and go crazy.

Of course there were card games, Skip Bo and Phase Ten.

Then at dark we would do sparklers on the porch

and walk to Lake Ann for fireworks.

Oh the memories, sure do miss Freddy and Lilly!

Napkin thank you

I had knee replacement surgery 3 weeks ago and I needed

some thank you cards for all the people that did kind

deeds for me.

Today was the first day since my surgery that I felt like coming to the craft room.

I had these napkins Mod Podged for a while and never used them,

I decided to get them out and make a card with them.

Then I remembered I got a new die and the light bulb went off.

This is the final project.

Sorry you cannot see the glittery napkin in this photo.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get to my craft room 

and make a few more.

I have a lot of napkins to use up!!!

Big Rose

I got this new rose stamp and background die

in the mail this week.  I thought I would play with them,

I am not sure I like the die with the rose as the card is a bit busy.

I love the rose though and will be making many cards with it.

Sucker tags

My girlfriend asked me to make her

some tags to put on suckers 

for a baby shower.

This is what I came up with.

She will tie a pretty ribbon on them

and finish them up.

I like them!

Zentangle flowers

I took some flowers and stamped them 

and then did some zentangle doodles on them.

I thought they turned out kind of neat.

Here they are on the finished cards.  

I like how I popped a little red in the middle to 

bring it all together.

Here is a close up if you want to see the scribbles better.

Something different than just coloring.

Enjoy!