I cherish our friendship

Hello!

I made this card a while ago and never shared it.

It is made with

"Lg Best Friends Sitting" (#5906) and

"I cherish" (digi#24605)

both from Eureka! Stamps

 

The friends were stamped onto white card stock

and colored with water color crayons.

 Then fussy cut and adhered to the blue background paper.

I simply printed the sentiment, trimmed it and adhered it to the inside of the card.

I thought this card was particularly appropriate as tomorrow

April 13th is Krop 4 Kids 2013.

This is a big fundraiser for a couple fabulous causes.

We will be having a 12 hr scrapbooking event to raise money to support

The NICU Parent Scrapbooking Group

at Mercy Children's Hospital in Toledo, Ohio.

This group was started and run by my good friend, Mary.

It is a totally self funded group, no monies come from the hospital and the families of the babies in the NICU are able to scrapbook their baby's journey through the NICU at no cost.

The other cause we support is a new one.

It is the John T. Schaeufele Asthma Camp Scholarship Fund

John was Mary's husband, we lost him October 19, 2011.

This scholarship fund helps to send children with asthma to camp.

Camp Michi-Mac gives these children a chance to experience camp as any other child does.  They provide doctors, nurses, respiratory therapist, pharmacists and more to help these children learn about and control their asthma.

Half our proceeds will go to the NICU group and half to

 John's Scholarship Fund. 

 

Mary and I met online on a scrapbooking board several years ago.

The first year that they had Krop 4 Kids, my daughter, Kelsie, and I attended as scrapbookers.  That was in 2007.

The next year, I was asked to join the committee and I've been on ever since and Mary and I have become like sisters.

I value her friendship and that of the other gals on the K4K committee.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  If you have any questions about our fundraiser or would be interested in attending our next event, please don't hesitate to ask.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Favorite things

Have you heard the latest fun party craze?

It's a

My Favorite Things Party!

This is how my invitation arrived.

A "brown paper package tied up with string"

Inside were all the particulars.

How fun is this?

Now to figure out what my favorite thing was going to be.

You may not think this is a tough thing, but for me it is.

I don't have a favorite color or food.

Don't ask me my favorite designer or perfume.

I just have a lot of things I like, but not favorites.

I knew not all the people there would like scrapbooking,

stamping or papercrafting, so that was out.

Then one evening at the dinner table

I was telling my family about the party

and that I didn't know what to take and my son asked

"What's your favorite movie Mom?"

Well that did it!  I DO have a favorite movie.

"To Sir, With Love"

From there it was easy,

add a bottle of Diet Pepsi and some popcorn and all set.

Well almost.

I had to incorporate papercrafting,

so I added a few handmade cards to each gift

and made toppers for the packages.

 

Here are the gifts all ready to go.

All the images were colored with FlexMarkers.

Here is a close up of each of the toppers. 

"Lg Teapot" (#11702) from Eureka! Stamps

Celebrate from "Friends" set (#46202) from QKR Stampede.

"Sm Harvest Basket" (#22203) from Eureka! Stamps

"Lg. Roses" (#23301) from QKR Stampede 

Friends  from "Friends" set (#46202) from QKR Stampede

"Lg Best Friends Sitting" (#5906) from Eureka! Stamps

 

The party was a blast! 

Everyone seemed to love the "favorites" that they went home with.

We played some fun games.

We ate a lot of yummy food.

And we laughed more than I have in ages.

I have some of the "most funnest" friends!

(I know that isn't really proper English, but it fits!)

 

Thanks for stopping today!

Leave a comment and let me know if you've ever been to a

My Favorite Things Party.

Be sure to ask if you have any questions about it,

I'll be glad to share, just shoot me off an e-mail

 and I'll be back to you as soon as I can.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Make new friends

"Make new friends, but keep the old.  One is silver and the other's gold"

Do you remember that song? 

I remember singing it in rounds when I was a girl scout. 

That's what this image,

"Lg Best Friends Sitting (#5906) from Eureka! Stamps,

reminds me of.

The kids in my area just went back to school about a week ago

and this makes me think of when I was young

and when my kids were young.

Each year we'd wonder about our old friends,

what they did over the summer,

if they were going to be in our classes etc.

As well as if we'd be meeting new friends,

who they would be,

were they new kids to the school

or just to the class?

Some wonderful memories!

So enough reminiscing, about the card.....

I used Distrress inks to make the background of sky and grass.

Then I stamped the image onto that background and also onto a piece of white card stock.

I used a bronze Creative Memories pen to color the bench

and colored the 'friends' with FlexMarkers, then fussy cut them.

I adhered the 'friends' right over the stamped image on the background.

I used a Martha Stewart all around the page punch set for the border.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will and be sure to come and visit again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!