The moment I saw these flowers...

 I knew I wanted them.  I just fell in love with the design and size.  I think I may have mentioned that I make a lot of thank you cards.  This falls into the category.  Since my husband had surprise open heart surgery in March, I have a long list of people I need to thank for their love, support, and generosity.  I don't think I'm quite half through my list, but after wiping out my card stash, I made this card to go out to someone on the list.  I pray and kind of wait for the Lord to direct me to the right person.  A lot of times, He has already spoken it my spirit while I'm in the process.  

There are SOOO many things I love about this card.  I love the arched details I made using my arched dies from Spellbinders.  The flowers are a set from Simon Hurley and Spellbinders.  The papers are from my stash.  The sentiment is from a gratitude stamp set I got from scrapbook.com. I embellished with white pops of colors.  (if you like nuvo drops, check out pops of color from scrapbook.com, they have quickly become my goto, such a great product.) 

Personalized Card

 I love to add personal  touches to a card.  I think it just makes it a little more special.  I had the opportunity to make a card for someone I also happen to know.  I took some time studying photos of her pets and incorporated them into her card.  I love how it turned out.  So fun.  She really enjoyed the card and that makes me so happy!!

I will never tire of making these butterfly cards

 You know I love my butterfly dies.  I had a request for a beach themed birthday card.  I went straight to my butterfly dies and decided to build a scene.  There are so many things I did to make the scene come to life.  I inked the name in the sand to give it some attention.  I used a snow pen to create the surf on the beach.  (is that the right word?) I heat embossed happy birthday in the water to give it a "wet" appearance.  I was really pleased with the outcome.  I like a good scene and to top it off I got to use my butterflies too!  

When your words come back to bite you

 I made this beautiful sympathy card for my Mom to have on hand in her card stash.  The flower is a Tim Holtz color layering set.  I got it at Hobby Lobby, several months ago, at a deep discount.  When I pulled out the die set, I was astounded at the number of dies there were to create the composition.  It was a time-consuming process.  As I showed my Mom the card and described it, the first words out of my mouth were, see this card, this one here will not be a repeat. There were so many teeny pieces it took me forever to assemble.  Well, don't you know, my Mom sent that card to a friend of mine who suffered a recent loss.  She reached out to me and asked me for 4 of those same cards....I just have to giggle.  I guess the Lord is building my patience/tolerance level and maybe teaching me to never say never...LOL.  I will joyfully make my friend those 4 cards and be glad in it!  

I love to make cards for kids

 A friend of mine reached out to me for a birthday card for her little granddaughter.  The theme of the party was mermaids.  This particular friend will also send me a party invitation so I can kind of match the theme.  I also enjoy making the cards interactive because I want the child to love the card until it dies...LOL if you get my drift.  This card turned out so stinking cute.  I used an old Spellbinders card kit ephemera  for most of the sea pieces.  I cut some of the sea weed with dies and the mermaid is a die set that came in the same kit.  When I make a kids card, I like to add glitter, dimension, and like I said interaction.  This card, when pulled on the sides, the "swimming" creatures move back and forth.  The background papers are from a paper pad I purchased at Hobby Lobby many years ago.  Everything came together so nicely for this card.  

Butterfly Notecards

 I have been excited to make some notecard size butterfly shape cards.  Yesterday was a rough day and I really needed to create to help myself.  Cardmaking is absolutely therapy for me (which in hindsight is probably not cheaper than therapy. ha!) It provides an outlet for me and also allows me to send a card to someone who might also be having a hard time.  

I wanted to make a set of note cards for a friend that is precious to me and bonus, she sends me lots of cards so I know she will enjoy receiving them as well as sending them out to others. It's a gift that keeps on giving.

I used I set of note cards in craft to create the bases.  I used multiple embossing folders from spellbinders to emboss the largest mat.  I used a paper pad I recently purchased at Hobby Lobby.  (Their 6 x 6 paper pads are doubling in price, I almost swallowed my tongue) The tiny florals are from an old Spellbinders small die of the month club kit.  The sentiments were heat embossed with coordinating colors from my stash.  The inside of the cards are stamped with a small scripture at the bottom.  I added clear pops of color from scrapbook.com to the centers of the flowers and some of the flowers got glitter stickles.  

Happy Birthday Granddaughter

 Today one of my grandchildren is celebrating her 3rd birthday.  Born at the start of the pandemic, I was scared to hold her for fear of passing something on to her that might make her sick.  That quickly passed.  This girl is spunky, smart, funny, and a carbon copy of her mother, our third daughter. 

 I have a picture on my phone of a card I made with a bear on it.  She asks me every time I see her, if she can see the beera. So, Nana made her, her own birthday "beera" card.  I cannot wait for her to open it.  

Her bear is adorned with a pearl necklace holding a gift I colored with my alcohol markers.  I love that I even had a die with a tiny bear head balloon.  I almost couldn't stop myself with the glitter brush pen.   I used my ink drops paper in pinks in purples.  I think it is the candy pad.  Of course, her little bear has an epoxy bow on her ear and hand drawn eye lashes. The happy birthday is a die from the stamps of life.  The bear and present die are also a set from The Stamps of life company.  Gold cardstock from my stash as well as balloon dies.  You know I had to add an action wobble to the bear so she can make her wobble too.  I used a gold glitter pen from spellbinders to draw in balloon strings.  I used a small ball point stylist to add dimension to the balloons.  This card came together very quickly and I love that the bear can hold things in his arms.  I'm including the original card that I made so you can see the differences.  Thanks for stopping by!