Comfy Get Well

Hi Peeps!  Made a couple get well cards to share today.  I used a set from Papertrey Ink, die cut the sofas and then used copic markers to add some subtle shadows.  The card bases are just white cardstock, but I cut them to make 3.5" x 5.5" cards so the sofa image pops more. 

Hope you enjoyed the cards!

Dreary Day

It's been kinda dreary here the last couple of days.  It's a sign that I need to get my act together to create some festive goodies!  Yesterday my Get Well card tutorial was posted at The Hens Den.  Please stop by to check it out and while you are there, don't forget to link up a project-any project from this month- to the gallery.  You could win $10 to the store (which would be an awesome way to get that album you've had your eye on!!!).

So many of my friends have gotten a cold and it's soooo early in the season for peeps to be ill already!  I'm not prepared with any cards to give them to help them smile!!!!!  Also, I haven't stocked up all on the meds I'll need when I catch what they have. LOL!

If the weather is yucky take advantage of National Museum Day today.  If your weather is nice it is also National Parks Day instead. Can't fit it in today?  There are several NPD's during the year.  Click on the link to find other dates and have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

Then she'll want some flowers

Well my goodness, the day certainly got away from me!  I meant to post this first thing, but Cad did so well at his water therapy session today that we stopped by one of the locally owned pet supply stores and got him a bone (lots of customer love and some free treats from the staff).  They are collecting supplies for the GI dogs.  I can't believe I never thought about the military canines before!  There was a big list of needs so I bought some eye cleaner to donate.  Not as fun as a toy, but probably way more needed with all that dry desert sand and grit.  Now that I'm finally home and settled here's the next installment!

So these were the frames originally I thought I was going to use on the Mad Men in the Summer inspired and Mid Century meets Asian inspired cards.  I had each card with the daisy mae  paper at the same time 'cause the dies can go through multiple layers.  It was AFTER I cut that I realized that the frame wasn't going to frame anything because they were the same size.  Back to the drawing board...

I went back and cut these 4 Memory Box cards and this time I made the card window ONE SIZE SMALLER.  Ya know, so this frame could be glued AROUND the hole.  LOL!  Of course then there is the leftover set of shapes had after cutting the card window and the hole in daisy mae paper, but I'll show y'all that next week. :)

The envies got some pretty dressing too!  The mum I used on the insides of these cards was still out, sooo, I got out 4 different inks.  Each card has a different sentiment and it seemed like a fun idea to make each envie different.

Bless your hearts if you could follow all that!  Hope you have a great evening.  I'll be posting something July 4thish tomorrow! :)
 

Paying Wellness Forward

Where does the week go?!?!  We got back a week ago Saturday, got ready to rejoin the working world, I blinked and it was Friday!

This past Friday there was a crafty fundraiser at my LSS to raise money for one of the gals who works there.  Her husband has Leukemia and, as anyone who has had any need for medical treatment knows, the bills are expensive.

These are a couple of the cards I got done while I was there.  What was super exciting was to have a chance to catch up with lots of gals and find out that the treatment is working. :)

Hope things are well with all of you out in the blog-o-sphere.  Keep calm and brace for Monday 'cause she's a comin'!! :)

Rainy Day- No Snow Yet

It seemed like a good time to post something "not Christmas".   :)  I'm going to another tag swap tonight with some pals at my LSS.  It should be an awesome night cause we haven't all gotten together since the summer.  With that thought comes this color palette...

My friend Lisa would be so proud of all the paper piecing I have done lately!  Between the car tags and the other Get Well cards I'm a paper piecing fool! LOL!  I do adore the effect, but not so much the work.

So it is Tuesday and there is a challenge/tut from the "blue team gals" over at Top Tip Tuesday!  The theme this week is snowflakes.  I still have rain- but we are due for some white stuff on Thursday.  I LOVE snow- I know not something most folks say.  Snow to me is magical.  Think about it... White crystals that fall to the ground and stick to things but melt in your hand.  It really is a cool/magical/amazing event that millions of people in certain parts of the world dream about but never see in their lifetime.  Magic!

Multi-fold Challenge

It's another Tip Top Tuesday!

So this week the challenge is to use multiple folds.  Wait, you don't see that here on this get well card?!?  Oh yeah, that's 'cause I'm a little tricky like that. :)

I put the other folds inside the card by using an envie to hold some packets of tea inside the card.  I thought this would make a good gift card for a sick friend.  Can you believe that with only 11 days left of school we have a strep throat outbreak?????  Seriously!  It's running around tagging some kids a teachers in the rooms I work in at my school.  Wacky I tell ya, wacky.  Lucky for me I don't get strep (knock on wood).  I'm one-ah those oh-so-nice folks who is a carrier not a catcher. LOL!  But I digress...

I promised a pick of the new 'do!  Told ya it was short!  I've got 6 mini ponytails to send to Pantene where they will combine them with 5 other big ponytails to make someone a great wig.  I'll talk more about that later (and show pics of just how short it is in the back- seriously it's more short than you think).  ;)

 

This week Heike created a fantastic tut over at TTT to go with the Multi-fold theme.  Add your creation to the mix and you could win one of these great prizes below:

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