Happy Monday! Spring is here, as my tulips and daffodils are in full bloom! I was inspired to make some flower themed thank you cards, using ideas from Pinterest and some of my older SU stamp sets. My mom and I actually made a grand total of 50 thank you cards as a wedding shower present for my niece, since she'll be writing a lot of thank you notes! Have a great week and enjoy some crafty time!
Happy Monday! I'm attending a wedding shower for my beloved niece next weekend and am having fun making her some gifts. Here's the card that will accompany all the gifts. I pulled out a Stampin Up set called Lasting Lily for the lilies and the sentiment is from another SU set called Beautiful Friendship. Both these sets are from 2019 (I think). I used my SU Stamp-aratus plates and sponge daubers to do a multicolor gradient on the lilies. I had seen this technique on Pinterest, but never tried it myself. While I think I could maybe have blended the colors a bit better, overall I like how it turned out. I like a pretty envelope, so I stamped another lily with her name on it to jazz it up!
Happy Monday! Who's ready for spring? We had 70 degree weather....then it snowed. Again. But second spring is coming this week, lol! Last week was good though, enjoying having my younger two sons home from college for spring break.
I had fun making this train layout for my scrapbook for pictures of the family riding the Amtrak from KC to Chicago in December. We had never taken the train before and it was actually a very pleasant way to travel! Less stressful than flying. The train is from the CTMH You Are Here collection and the titles are all from Boys Will Be Boys. My sons (who were all obsessed with trains as toddlers) were thrilled like little kids when the train conductor actually said All Aboard as we pulled out of the station, so that HAD to be the title, lol. I hope everyone has a good week ahead!
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Happy Monday! We've had a quiet week just cozied up at home! Lots of hot tea, books, and crafty time! And a little shopping online....I bought an image collection from Close to My Heart on cricut.com called Everyday Moments and made this pre-designed layout from it for a Valentine's Day photo. (We had a quiet Valentine's Day romantic dinner at home with our favorite Chinese takeout, so I only took one selfie of the two of us.) I changed the design up some, adding the Love title and extra hearts and made one of the photo mats into a journaling space instead. It took a bit to cut all the pieces, but turned out cute! Have a good week and notice the small special moments!
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Happy Monday! I've got a ski layout to share this week. My hubby and I went skiing in Vail last week for a much needed vacation and it is so very beautiful there! I took some great pictures! We had a good time right up until hubby tore his ACL, bringing our trip to an abrupt end...no more snow skiing this year. Sigh. At least we got some fantastic days in before the injury! The Vail ER apparently sees this injury a lot-there were several other people with skiing knee injuries in at the same time as hubby.
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Happy Monday! My college kids are home for spring break this week, so I'm looking forward to spending some time with them. I've been doing lots of reading and crafting the last couple of weeks and completed another travel themed layout for some NYC pictures. Why is cutting out cute little yellow cab die cuts so ridiculously fun? The yellow cab was making me laugh the whole time I put it together. It's from the Beep Beep image collection (the name also makes me laugh!) and I found the NYC icon on cricut access. Here's hoping you all have a good week too!
Happy Friday! With the end of the BBTB2 blog (where I was a design team member), I took a few week blogging break but plan to continue to share some projects a few times a month. The hospital I work at has been absolutely crushed with covid cases in January. It has been the most difficult point of the pandemic in KC, with record numbers of cases and deaths, overwhelming the hospital. I've been working some extra shifts and had zero creative drive. While things are still pretty bad, KC has crested the peak and I'm eager to get back to being creative, which is my happy therapy!
I had some post-Christmas thank you cards to send, so here is a snowflake themed card. The snowflake is from the Winter Lace image collection. Since Kansas City got snow this week, it felt very appropriate, lol! I hope you all have a good week with time for some self care moments!
