Gratitude Card

Good day!

Today I'm showing you the cards I designed for 

our Girlfriends and Gratitude Crop at
My Happy Place Scrapbooking and Crafting.
Each cropper got a kit in their goodie bag with all

the elements for the card.  

The card base is a simple white card stock, cut to

8.5" x 5.5" and scored at 4.25 to make a standard A2 card.

I cut pieces of kraft card stock slightly smaller than the

size of the card base.

The flowered piece is a strip of beautiful vellum

that I wrapped around and adhered to the back of the

kraft card stock.

I decided to give everyone a choice of sentiments to use.

I stamped them and cut them to size and cut the 

white card stock to mat them also.  All they need to do is 

put them together and they have a lovely card to send

to a friend or as a thank you card.

I wanted to show how easy it is to make a 

pretty card that someone will love to receive.

I think they turned out lovely.

Thanks for stopping in today.

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

show gratitude.

 

Thanks

Hello fans!

I'm back, it's been a while since I've posted any

new projects, but I'm back at it.

I have had some time to create and will try to

post often again.

Today I'm sharing a card I made for friends that 

we visited on our trip south.

I, like many others, have become enamoured

with the string pulling that has become the

latest rage.

I am having a lot of fun with this technique,

if you are interested, check on YouTube for 

"string pulling"

you will find a lot of great videos there.

For this image I used plain white string,

you can use any kind you like, and 

Dylusions Bubblegum Pink Paint

The "thanks" is embossed with

 silver embossing powder

In this picture, you can see the shimmer and shine

that the mat around that pink image has.

I love how this card turned out and have

plans to make more cards with these 

string pulled images.

Thanks for stopping in today,

come again soon.

Until next time,

try something new!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

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!