This Little Card of Mine

106 years young...

No, not me.. yet.  :-)  I was sitting here reading a newsletter from St. Paul's .. a Contiuing Care Community serving older adults in Northern PA.  My father has volunteered on their board for decades and this is an amazing place.  For any of you who were involved in the Cards That Care drive for seniors many of your cards went here.   I was reading about a resident who celebrated her 106th birthday in February.  When asked what she wanted for her birthday she said "a cat" and laughed.  A woman after my own heart.  :-)   I am going to make a card for her (even a little late).  Remembering how much the residents loved the Christmas cards I thought it would make her smile.  I am hesitant to put her name out on the web without her permission.  If anyone wants to send her one ? Email me and I'll send the info.

I have the most talented friends...

Who sent me cards to thank me for organizing a recent retreat.    Each so beautiful...

from Nichol M

from Kathy R

from Stephanie K

from Joy O

from Sandi N

Many thanks to my wonderful friends.

Thank you to my "vet team"

Recently my sweet boy, Bailey (feline! :-)), was sick.  It took several weeks to get things under control and I am happy to report that he is doing great... thanks to the help of three vets and specialists.  I am so grateful that there are people who chose to go into that profession and who understand what our pets mean to us.  I am surrounded by several who could not be more caring.  I wanted to express my gratitude to them for all they did to help Bailey (and me!) through the process.   So I made a few simple cards to send them:

 

Supplies:  Hero Arts note card; My Favorite Things Big Greeting set, Inky Antics Charming Kitty #1 set,  Copic markers (to color the kitty), Lily Bee Design Buttercup paper

She has a kitty! :-)

So I had to have this stamp set.   Like I don't have enough of the Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things.  And I am late to the party -- my first card with something chevron on it!

Supplies:  My Favorite Things Pure Innocence Purrfect stamp set ; Lily Bee Designs Buttercup patterned paper; Copic Markers; SEI buttons

Are you shocked? A new post

I have been wanting to use this stamp but just didn't seem to get around to it.  Love how bold it is, especially colored red!  And so easy - just some coloring and then some Distress Ink around the edges.

 Supplies:  Hero Arts - notecard, greeting, dot (flower center), Pom Pom flower stamp; Twinery twine; Ranger Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass)

When you don't know what to do to help...

Recently a co-worker and friend passed away unexpectedly.  He was just 39 years old with a wife and two small children and we were all shocked and heartbroken.   Still are...   It is hard to know how to help.  So I decided to make his wife 20 thank you cards, figuring she would need them along the way.    I will send them to her with the postage stamps she will need so it's all there and ready to go.

I decided to do something simple and pulled out some scraps of paper for the butterflies.  I used the Paper Shapers butterfly punch and layered 3 on top of each other to give it just a little dimension.   For the center of the butterfly I used Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls.  Just the right touch but not too thick to go through the mail.  I hope she likes them. (some day I will learn how to photography white cards)

Sending smiles

This is one of those cards that started out totally different than it ended up!  Oh well... I just kept adding stuff.  :-)  Here was my first attempt to photograph the card!  heehee

Take two!  :-)

The little girl was colored in Copics.  I used one of my new favorite things on the shoes and heart in her hair.  I wanted them to be shiny and usually I would try my best to use Glossy Accents in these tiny spaces to get that look.  Until I discovered Sakura's Gelly Roll Glaze pen - in clear.  Magic!  Love!  And the rest is pretty self-explanatory I think:

Supplies:  My Favorite things die and Pure Innocence Aim High stamp set; Hero Arts notecards, greeting (oldie but goodie), red gem flower and black gem; My Mind's Eye patterned paper (Miss Caroline); Cotton string; Penny Black Warm Wishes cling stamp (on daffodil diecut); Distress Ink (Scattered straw); Signo Uniball white pen.  Sakura Gelly Roll clear glaze pen; Copics (E51, E53, E35, E37, Y26, Y35, R27, BG18)

 

Happy Birthday Colin!

Here is a quick tag for Colin's birthday present.  I had this creative idea and I didn't seem to have any of the right things on hand to do it.  So, simple it is.  I didn't have a "C" that was the right size so I took a chipboard oval and cut it to make it what I needed (Sandi N's idea  :-)  ).    Got out  my Claudia Hellmuth paints -- I don't know why I don't use those more often - they are like butter!   Anyone recognize that dot Scenic Route paper?  An oldie but goodie that I found in my scrap drawer.

 

Too many sympathy cards to make

Sadly, I have a list of people to whom I need to send sympathy cards.   This one didn't take too long to make. 

Supplies:  Hero Arts notecard, Hero Arts With Sympathy clear stamp set; Tim Holtz die; Memory Box Minuet paper; Versamark Ink; Memories black ink; clear embossing powder

Playing some more with monochromatics...

For this card I wanted to create a background with dies cuts.  Loving the blue/brown combo these days so I thought I'd play around with that.  The brown is the same paper but photographed a bit odd.  You get the idea!

Supplies:  Hero Arts note card, layering paper, greeting and butterfly;  Tim Holtz dies for blue piece and scroll background; Clear embossing powder; white embossing powder; Memory Box Minuet paper (butterfly stamped on it)