Get Well Soon

Awhile back, Mike needed a get well soon card for a co-worker and I whipped this up for him.

 

 Super simple, but I love the way it turned it out :)

Thanks for stopping by!!  See you soon!

New card.

Hey there!! I meant to get this posted last Friday and I just haven't gotten around to it until now.

I picked up a package of doilies at Michaels about a month ago or so and I've been so excited to try them out!!

Hope you are doing well. Things are good here. Abie had her last tournament Sunday, but we've had something going on every night this week still. How does that happen??

I have a fun project I want to share to. Hopefully I'll get that posted early next week!! Until then, have an awesome day and I appreciate the visit :)

Dad's birthday card

Good grief I had this ready to post last week and I just didn't get around to it. Sorry about that!!

My dad's birthday was a little over a week ago and I made this card for him. I have a few 6x6 paper pads that are more masculine than my others and I always turn to those for projects like these :)

We had a great weekend here. It was a little more chilly than I would have liked, and we woke up to *just a bit * of snow on Sunday morning.

Hope things are great where you are!! If I can remember, ha, I'll be back Wednesday with a birthday project for one of Landry's friends. Until then, have an awesome day!!

Simple birthday invitations.

Happy Friday friends!  My sister and I combine Abie's birthday and my two nephews and have just one party for our family every year.  That party is next Saturday.  We decided on Tuesday to have the party next Saturday.  Haha!  We've both been super busy :)  That meant whipping up some quick invites to send out.

I found these embossed card bases at Michael's, six in a package for $1.50, with envelopes!  I stamped the sentiment on PTI Hawaiian Shores cardstock, rounded one corner and popped the piece up with foam tape.  Done.  The older the kids get, the easier the invites are to make :)

What are you plans this weekend?  We're supposed to get more snow, yuck.  Ours had finally melted and now we're getting more :(  On the bright side, we're puppy sitting a sweet little guy tonight.  I can't wait to see how Dirk does with him!! 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day and happy Friday!  Do you have big plans tonight or are you staying in??  We're having our annual candlelight dinner with the girls and a special dessert :), but not until Sunday.  Abie's school Valentine dance is tonight so after we drop her off, it will be a normal Friday night for us.

Today I wanted to share one more Valentine with you.

I started off with a pre-made base that was embossed and then layered on a cute polka dot bag.  I filled the bag up and layered on Valentine themed embellishments.

I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day and be sure to tell your loved ones you love them EVERY day, not just today :)  We have a big weekend, Abie's birthday party/sleepover is tomorrow and then we have Monday off too!  Yay!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon!

Valentine Card

Good morning and happy Tuesday to you!!  Just wanted to pop in for a minute today and share a quick card with you.

Sorry for the wonky angle, I couldn't get this picture right.

This was a pre-made base with a small heart pre printed on the bottom.  I covered it up with the red doily and then layered on some fun Valentine pieces.  I love those enamel dots!

We're headed to volleyball practice tonight and I'm super excited for tomorrow because it's supposed to be ABOVE freezing!  Hahaha!

Thanks for stopping in today and I'll be back tomorrow with Landry's Valentine's for her class.  Have a great Tuesday :)

Lunchbox notes.

Hello Wednesday, I'm sure happy you're here!  Today I wanted to share some lunchbox notes I made for the girls.  I periodically make a stash of these to throw in Landry's lunch.  Well yesterday I decided to throw one in Abie's binder (since she buys her lunch at school).  She loved it!

These cards started out at 2.5 x 2.5 purple polka dots with flowers.  I quickly covered them with black card stock and then embellished them with post it note flags.  I stamped a few different sentiments and added some fun embellishments on a couple.  So quick and simple, but the girls love them!

That's it for me today.  I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday and I appreciate the visit!!  Thanks for stopping in!

Veteran's Day.

Hey all.  I just wanted to share with you the Veteran's Day card I made for my Dad.  He was in the Vietnam War and I made this card after the Vietnam Veteran's Flag.

The card may look pretty simple, but it actually took me awhile to figure out the proportions.  Haha!  Math major I was not.

I kept the inside very simple and then wrote a separate note to enclose.

I want to say thank you to all the Veteran's for their service.  Hope everyone has a wonderful Monday.  Thank you for stopping by today.

Friend card.

Morning everyone!  Hope you had a nice weekend.  We had a rainy day Saturday and it was perfect!  I'm ready for slightly cooler fall temperatures and a few cloudy days here and there.  I don't want EVERY day to be like that, just a few ;)  Mike got tickets from a customer to go to the American Royal Rodeo Saturday, lived here all my life and I've never been.  It was pretty cool.  We had a great time!  On Sunday, I spent the day  cleaning, deep cleaning not my normal daily cleaning I've doing, and hanging out with Mike and the girls :)

Today I wanted to share with you a card that has been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks, unfinished.  I had everything on it, but the sentiment.  I just wasn't sure how to finish it off.  Then it struck me to stamp a sentiment in the middle of the journaling card.  Genius, right?  Haha!  So I found the perfect sentiment, thought I would use black ink, so it would show up, and then I was immediately unhappy with the results.  I feel like the bottom line isn't clear enough and I really wish I would have used a different color of ink.  I'm also wondering if the font isn't appropriate for the style of card...

I really liked the way this card was BEFORE the sentiment and now I just like it okay.  Ha!  I'll just make a more awesome one next time!

Thanks for popping in for a minute today.  Abie has volleyball tonight so it's a quick dinner and then off we go.  Speaking of dinner, you see how I did that there?  I've been working on a meal planning notebook, post later this week, and I'm thinking about doing some freezer meals.  Do any of you do this?  Right now, we'll cook some things on the weekend and then reheat later in the week if we need something fast, but I'm wondering about the freezer thing.  Would LOVE your input!

Have a beautiful Monday friends!  See you tomorrow!

Baby card.

Hey there! Sorry to go missing on you for a few days, but this is one of those weeks when life had gotten in the way.

I did want to stop in and post a quick card I made Monday night for Abie's volleyball coach who just had a baby last week.

I was going for a banner look here and then realized I didn't really have any banner die cuts. Hmm, must go shopping. Haha!

I won't be around tomorrow, but I should be back at it on Monday. Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have beautiful weekend!

Lunch box notes

Happy weekend eve!! For as slow as last week was, this week is flying by foot me!!

My youngest loves to take her lunch to school and I love to put notes in her lunch box, but the start of this school year snuck up on me and I didn't have a stash ready to go. So imagine hire horrible I felt when she came to me and said, "mommy, why don't you put notes in my lunch anymore?". Aaahhh!!!!

I whipped up a couple to get me through, and thought I would share with you just how quick and easy they can be.

I made these in the perfect lunch box size, 3x6, added some washi and a card stock stickers. Bam, done!  Probably took me longer to write this post. Haha!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you'll come by tomorrow. I have a fun fall decoration I whipped up with a great clearance find!! Have a fabulous Thursday!

Thank you for a coworker.

Happy Friday everyone.  Today I wanted to share with you a thank you card I made for a coworker that did a nice thing for me last week.

I pieced together some bits and pieces I had leftover and I really like how this turned out.  I wish I would have taken a picture of the inside.  I stamped a big "thank you" on the inside in a pretty red and I I loved the way it looked!

We're here at the end of the week.  One more event, and we'll have made it!  Meet the teacher for the middle school tonight and then we're going to take the girls out to dinner.  Mike is headed to St Louis tomorrow with some friends so the girls and I are going to have a girls Saturday/Sunday :)  What are your plans for the weekend?

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend.  I'll see you soon!

Mom's Birthday card.

Happy Tuesday friends!  Today I want to share my mom's birthday card with you.  Her and my dad have just gotten back from a month long Harley trip and they were gone over her birthday.  I didn't want to  post her card until they got back and I was able to give it to her.

I used some old Crate Paper paper, my favorite, and a matching journaling card.  Then I added some ephemera to the top of the journaling card and popped the whole thing up with foam adhesive.  I stamped the sentiment onto the journaling card with a dark red Momento ink called Rhubarb, I think.  It matched the flowers almost perfectly!

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday!  I'll be back tomorrow with either another card or a fun new find I meant to post last week :)  See you then!

Tracy's Birthday card.

Hey there!  So happy it's Thursday today!!!  Yesterday was my friend TRACY'S birthday and I wanted to share the card I made for her.

This was not quite how I expected it to turn out, but no card I make ever is.  Haha!  I stamped on a very pale patterned paper, but it didn't photograph well.

Thanks for stopping by on this awesome Thursday!  I hope you have a fantastic day!!  See you tomorrow!

A new card for Friday!

Yay Friday!!  What are your plans this weekend?  Mike and Abie are going to the Royals game Saturday night, he won two tickets and we couldn't get a babysitter so he's taking her :)  Landry and I are having a Christmas in July night!  We're going to order Chinese food, watch Christmas movies in our PJ's and drink hot chocolate :)

Today I'm sharing a card I made for my Grandad's birthday earlier this month.  I knew I wanted to use this background stamp and I already had the aqua base cut out.  The rest of it just sort of came together.

This stamp is so weird, because of the texture.  I think I would use it more if it was just solid.  I wonder how I would like it on patterned paper?  Hmm...

I hope you have a great Friday night and a wonderful weekend!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Guess what I got back...

My computer!!!!  Mike got the call yesterday afternoon that it was ready so after the girls and I finished up at the library we ran over there and picked it up.  Let me tell you, I have never seen a more beautiful thing!  I was so grateful to the two men who fixed it and I promised them that I would never stick my ear buds where they don't belong.  Haha!  (remember, that's how I cracked my screen)

So, I'm happy to say, today I'm posting a new card.  I created this almost two weeks ago and took a photo of it with my big camera.  It's been long gone in the mail, so there was no way to retake the photo with my phone.

No stamping on this.  I just used a, Simple Stories I think, 6x6 pad and added a couple of embellishments.  It really doesn't get much easier than that, now does it?

I have Project Life updates to share, a birthday book the girls made from Landry's slumber party, another card, a chalkboard, all kinds of fun stuff this week!  Landry has her last week of swim lesson this week and Abie has her last two summer volleyball games.  Busy week, but good :)

Thanks for sticking with me through my lull and I'll be back tomorrow with another project or card or something!  See you then!!

I'm here, but maybe only for today...

Good morning! We had a wonderful week last week and I'm sad to see it come to an end. We did lots of fun things around the house and city and lots of relaxing too.

One thing we did was drop my laptop off to get the screen fixed! Yay! It should be ready by the end of this week. The problem with blogging is, I took pictures of my crafty projects last week with my camera and not my phone, so I'm not sure how I'll post, until I get my laptop back.

I snapped this photo last night, after Landry and I finished working on her Thank You Cards. 

Hopefully I get my laptop back soon and things are back to normal around here!

Thanks for stopping in today and I hope to see you soon!!

Birthday Invitations

Good morning!  I'm finally finished with Landry's birthday invitations!!!  Whew, I feel like I was down to the wire on this one :)

I found a design similar to this online, the card shape with the pull out part, and fell in love with it.  It didn't have dimensions or anything so I had to guess.

Here's a peek at the insert.  I kept these pretty simple since I was making so many!  These are doubling as birthday invites for Landry and a barbecue to follow.  Are you planning a patriotic party this year?

We had a fabulous day/evening yesterday.  I was super productive at work and home, had a WONDERFUL visit with friends last night and just enjoyed the beautiful weather. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great Tuesday and I'll see you tomorrow!

New card

Happy weekend eve!!  I just love Thursday's.  I think it stems from when Mike use to be out of town every Wednesday and we would be so excited on Thursday because it meant seeing him and an early start to our weekend.  Funny how, years later, I'm still excited for Thursdays.

Today I'm sharing the Father's Day card I made for my dad.  It's a bit non-traditional, in that it doesn't say "happy Father's Day"

But it does say Life is Good and that's because it is.  Good for my dad and good because of my dad, and my mom :)  I used one of my favorite Simple Stories lines for this, just paper and some foam tape.  Love it!

Lots of swimming going on here, and volleyball, and just enjoying summer.  That means not a lot of crafting.  But I do have a lot of ideas!  Haha!  I hope you're enjoying your summer and spending your time the way you want to!  Thanks for stopping by today to share a minute with me.  I appreciate it :)  See you tomorrow with an organizational re-do of my Filofax tote!  Have a great Thursday!

A new card.

Good morning!   Today I'm sharing a card I made with a few fun pieces in my stash.

Some washi tape, a journaling card, a tiny tag and a bit of twine.  I picked up this cardstock, that I used for the base of the card, at Joann's and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.  I usually use Papertrey Ink cardstock for all of my bases because of the nice thick weight, but this will definitely do in a pinch!

Thanks for stopping by today and I'll see you tomorrow! Have a great Wednesday!