More Sympathy Cards - April 2007

I made several of this cards to stock up on some sympathy cards since it seems like the events requiring such cards come in batches and I would hate not to have an appropriate card on hand to express my deepest sympathy.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Close as a Memory, Watercolor Joy Wheel
Paper: Marigold Morning, Whisper White, Garden Green
Ink: Markers, Garden Green, Rose Red, Marigold Morning
Accessories: SU Markers
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 1

Get Well Soon - April 2007

I made these cards for some sick little girls who had great report cards and missed out on their spring break trip due to having chicken pox. Hopefully, the cards will cheer them up some.

Card Recipe #1:

Stamps: Bundle of Joy, Mini Mates
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Designer Paper from Kit, Pale Plum, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black, So Safron, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Pink Gingham Ribbon

Card Recipe #2:

Stamps: Bundle of Joy, Mini Mates
Paper: Ballet Blue, Designer Paper, Whisper White, Rose Red
Ink: Basic Black, Rose Red
Accessories: Corner Punches

Ahoy Matey, It's your Birthday - April 2007

I cased this card from another SCS user so I would have some birthday cards for little boys. I tend to have alot of girly cards on hand but never any masculine or little boy cards, so I made several of this one just to have some on hand.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Ahoy Matey
Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Basic Black, Sahara Sand
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: Markers, Silver Brads
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2

Greatest Sympathy - February 2007

I made this card for one of the customers on my husband's Schwan's route who lost her son.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: non-SU
Paper: Vinatage Violet, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla
Ink: Bashful Blue
Accessories: Markers (non-SU), Silver Brads, Ivory Ribbon (non-SU), Paper Piercer
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2

Bounce Back to Health - March 2007

I made this card for a RAK request. A little girl who is an avid soccer player had recently been diagnosed with cancer and the family was having a hard time with everything, so I sent this card out to help add some cheer to a depressing situation.

Card Recipe:

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories: Computer generated soccer balls, circle hole punch
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 1

With Sympathy - March 2007

I made this card for my boss when he lost his father-in-law. It is basically cased from the 2006-2007 Big Catalog & Idea Book, though I changed the colors to better suit my likes.

CARD RECIPE:

Stamps: Close as a Memory, Fine Lace
Paper: Pale Plum, Lovely Lilac, True Thyme, Very Vanilla
Ink: Lovely Lilac, Pale Plum, True Thyme
Accessories: black brads, Ivory Organza Ribbon, SU Markers
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2

Alphabet Soup Birthdays - March 2007

I made several of these cards for upcoming birthdays. I love the Alphabet Soup and Alphabet Stew stamp sets. At the time I made these cards all I owned was Alphabet Soup, but since then I have also bought Alphabet Stew. I plan on making a lot more cards using these two sets in the near future. I also love the Au Chocolat Designer Paper SU had in the spring mini, and am terribly disappointed by the fact it didn't make it into the new 2007 Idea Book.

Recipe for Card 1:
Stamps: Alphabet Soup
Paper: Designer Papers - Au Chocolate & Loves Me, Cardstock - Whisper White, Cool Caribbean Ink: Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Pewter Hardware, Corner Rounder Punch, Chocolate Grosgrain Ribbon
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2

Recipe for Card 2:
Stamps: Alphabet Soup
Paper: Designer Paper Pool Party, Garden Green, Brocade Blue, Sage Shadow
Ink: Brocade Blue
Accessories: Silver Brads, Square Brads(non-SU), Corner Rounder Punch, Ticket Corner Punch, Paper Piercer
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2

Lots of Changes

I have made quite a few changes to the layout of my page and will be making more as I figure some of the tricks out. There will also be a lot of new posts coming soon with the latest designs and some of my past stamped designs as well. I'm going to try to make them more user friendly with recipes and dimensions and everything. I'm even going to try to put up some tutorials. Anyone with pointers please let me know because I'll probably need some help.

Sorry

I am so sorry that I haven't posted more to my blog. I do plan to start posting more regularly again very soon. Right now things are a bit hectic. I will spare you all the details.

My goal between now and then end of July, I was going to say June but that isn't really realistic... anyway... the end of July is to get my current blog enteries updated with the copyrighted photos, and to start posting new blogs with my newly designed cards. I have several that have been created for a while and I haven't taken the time to post them. This is the plan. I also plan on offering different blog events and tutorials. We'll see how it all goes. Hopefully things will work out in the long run.

Back to work I go. ... I'll try to post or work on updating the blog very soon.

Life's Frustrations

I'm not even sure where to begin this blog but I figured I needed to post something in regards to why I haven't posted anything in over a month. It's not because I haven't had anything to say or have forgotten about the blog sitting here... it's just because I haven't had any time. Nothing has gone right lately and though I have tried to have some me time it just gets ruined. Take this past weekend and week for example... since I don't honestly remember anything before that... so I have a rough week at work and plan on doing some household cleaning and a lot of relaxing over the Easter weekend, since there will be no family gatherings in Springfield, and I'm not traveling to the Quad Cities for any either... sounds like a great plan and would have been had I not been sitting at my computer trying to get some things caught up on and talking to my best friend in the whole wide world when my brother's girlfriend mentions the water on the floor. I'm like what water?!? Then I see it... the hazy dank water that comes from the sewer drain in the laundry room. Damn thing backed up again... mind you this happened once before less then a year ago. I'm not a happy camper. I quick get off the phone and call my landlord who doesn't answer the phone... typical... then I call the emergency line he has set up for his business and tell them I have sewage in the basement. As they put my hold and I'm trying to figure out where to put my stuff and what stuff definitely has to be moved so as not to come in contact with the "stuff" while doing this I realize not only do I have this black icky substance which I'm sure is some form of sewage moldy stuff that builds up in the drains... but this time I also have actual pieces of poop sitting on the floor. This makes me even more upset and the poor lady had to hear about it when she picked the phone back up. Needless to say we couldn't stay at home and had to stay at a hotel for the night, which the landlord is going to pay for... thank God. The plumber came out and unclogged the drain on Saturday but the clean up crew didn't show up until Wednesday. We've been living with this stinky icky smell for 6 days. Next time it happens I'm moving out and the landlord can deal with it all on his own.

This is not the only frustrating thing that has been occurring in my life as of lately... it's just the most recent and there for easiest to remember. I mean who can forget the mess and stink when the basement still has an eerie musky shitty smell to it. I've been frebreezing and lysoling and air freshening the basement like crazy. Even lit a few candles for a bit when I was home and trying to work on my crafts. I'm going to try to fix a few of my blogs with the photos in them so bear with me as I work on that and hopefully I'll get to blog more often now that things are supposedly calming down and becoming more relaxing. Not sure who honestly thinks that but I'm having a hard time believing them. I wish it was Friday already.