Summer Blooms and Blossoms Challenge

This week the challenge on the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

is "Summer Blooms and Blossoms"

I chose to make a project using several different stamps from

Eureka! Stamps

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801) flower, blue butterfly and grass

"Butterfly Background" (#58501) for that little purple butterfly

"Eureka Butterfly" (#9702) yellow butterfly

"Sunshine Day" (#15003) sentiment

I also used 2 stamps from

QKR Stampede,

sister company of Eureka! Stamps.

"Sunflower Border" (#17501) and

"Flower Border (#17915)

These 2 image are the same, but different sizes.

I used red rubber for all my images,

but they are all available in digital format.

I started with a 6 pack pop carrier

and covered it with card stock.

I then stamped all my images onto white card stock.

I colored them with FlexMarkers and fussy cut them all.

The Sunshine Day sentiment was stamped

directly onto the card stock on the carrier.

 

I thought this would make a cute carrier for utensils when I have a picnic.

 

I hope you will stop by the

 Eureka! Stamps Blog

 where you will find all the details about the challenge.

Come and join the fun of our weekly challenges!

Our design team has lots of inspiration for you,

so pop over and take a look.

 

Thanks for stopping by today,

leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

 

Thanks to the wonderful staff at Sisters

Hello all!

Today I have a story to tell you and I'll try to keep it as short as possible,

 yet get the important parts told.

On June 2nd, I got a call from my Mom's friend that she was supposed to pick up Mom for church, but she couldn't get an answer on her phone or at the door and she was worried.

My hubby called my brother, who lives closer, and then we took off in a panic and got to Mom's house faster than is legally possible.

When we got there, my brother's wife told me she was okay.

Well, not really okay at all, she was on the floor with what we found out later was a shattered proximal femur. She had an extremely bad break of the top part of her right leg.

Poor Mom had gotten up at 3:30 to go to the bathroom, didn't realize that her leg had fallen asleep and when she stood up, down she went.

By the time the ambulance people got her up, she had been laying on the floor for 7 hrs.

On Monday, the 3rd she had surgery and had a rod put into her leg and the whole thing was screwed in place.

She is now in a rehab center, working on getting as strong as possible.

Everyone from the first responder till she left the hospital was amazing!

I don't have a single thing that I can complain about.

The people in the ER were wonderful and let us be with her

and even went and rounded up enough chairs for all of us.

The nurses, aides, even the cleaning people were fabulous, helpful, courteous and just all around pleasant.

The day she was leaving the hospital for the rehab center she asked me to make a card that we could send to the people on the unit.

Below is the card I made for her. 

I took her picture just before leaving the hospital

and I'm going to include that in the card.

I know names fade away, but I know they will remember

who she is when they see that picture. 

Mom is one of the sweetest people you'd ever want to know

and there were several workers that said they'd love to take her home.

They would come in to visit her even if she wasn't one of their patients. 

So if you are local to me, that would be around Buffalo, NY and you want good care, go to Sisters of Charity Hospital. 

They are fabulous!!!

At least that was our experience.

 

For the card I used

"Flower Border" (#17915) from

QKR Stampede

I colored Flower Border with FlexMarkers, fussy cut it, adhered it to brown card stock and fussy cut it again.

For the "Thanks" I used the Cricut,

but don't ask me which cartridge I used. 

Sorry, I just don't remember and I don't have the cartridge here at home.

I cut it out of white card stock and colored it with FlexMarkers,

fussy cut it and adhered it to card stock and fussy cut it again.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Love Those Sunflowers!

I know a lot of people who really love sunflowers.

They aren't my favorite flower, but they are up there!

I do love this "Flower Border" (#17915) image from QKR Stampede.

There are actually 2 sizes of this particular image and this is the larger of the two.  It measures 4.5"x1.5" the smaller version "Sunflower Border" (#17501)measures 3"x1"

I am a huge fan of Kristina Werner and she often uses

Color Box Fluid Chalk Ink, I finally decided to give it a try.

I'll tell you, now I know why she uses it so often. I love it!

I stamped the Flower Border onto water color paper and colored it with water color crayons.

I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the brown paper.

The ribbon is cream grosgrain and I finished it off with a

large goldtone brad that I had in my stash.

I'm pleased with how this card turned out, I do love those sunflowers!

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you wish

and please do come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Life is Good!

The other day I got some new stamps from QKR Stampede and today I would love to show you one of the cards I have made with one of those new stamps. 

"Flower Border" (#17915) comes in two sizes, this is the larger size which measures 4.5" x 1.5"  The smaller one is called "Sunflower Border" (#17501) and measures 3" x 1"  I have both of these images and plan to make a card with the smaller image soon.

I recently purchased a blender pen and wanted to try it out, so once I had stamped the image onto white card stock, I used the blender pen and inks to color this image.  I do like the control it gave me and liked the results.  I don't think I would use a blender pen for larger areas, but for small images it works great.

I knew I had some scraps of the yellow plaid paper and the flowers matched perfectly with it.  Once I adhered the yellow paper to the kraft card base, I fussy cut around the image and put that on with foam tape.

The "Life is Good" (#16307) sentiment is also from QKR Stampede.  That is also adhered to the card with foam tape.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you have enjoyed my card.  Stop on over to QKR Stampede to see these images and so many more.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!