September Anniversary

Dear friends have been married a year, and I wanted a special card for them to enjoy, so I got this together. Though they have been together for a long time, they decided it was time to get married and just basically went to a district magistrate with only a few friends knowing.  

Its also been a year since I had surgery on my thumb. I fell in late July (2015) and tried all the therapy and braces, but it was inevitable that I needed surgery. So, September 25, marked a year since that day, in which needs to be celebrated. I am a very dominant LEFT HAND gal... so there was a HUGE LEARNING curve. I managed with the help of elastic skirts, dresses, flat shoes and short hair

The following picture may make a sensitive stomach turn, so be warned. They sliced both sides of my thumb and put a pin in it. I had an ace bandage wrap after surgery for about 10 days and then they put me in the big blue one, and then after 8 weeks, I had it removed.  It has been quite an adventure, on in which I learned alot - good and bad.   

   

Have a great day! 

Hug the ones you love! 

In my thoughts

I love finding new ways to use up scraps when I am cleaning up my craft cave. 

I used some flowers & leaves for this sympathy card. The DSP was perfect size for the middle of the card & I just had to add a sentiment.  

  

Here is the latest addition to the family... my daughter recently got a puppy. It is really her puppy (she paid for it after much research), and I am thankful since I am looking forward to doing less since my children are teens now.  

Puppy is a Yorkshire terrier, now 9 weeks old, her name is Haven, since my daughter would like to attend Lock Haven University. Haven is alittle sassy, so catching her like this is few & far between. 

 

Thanks for stopping by! Hug the ones you love! Have a great day! 

Sprays of Birthday Flowers

Three cards... all punched out.. and went to three important women! I hope they enjoyed them as much as I did making them.

Shades of Pink

 

Shades of Orange

 Shades of Purple - that doesn't want to turn for me! 

 

Great way to use up scraps too!! 

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Hug the ones you love! 

Whoa Wednesday

When I first started putting this card together, I kept walking away from it and coming back and tried to add numerous other items......

 

 and at almost my breaking point, I finally decided to just let it go....

 

So the challenges that this was to be apart of my have expired but I really like the way it came together! 

I used the Our Daily Bread Challenge Colors and one of the last Taylored Expressions sketch challenges. 

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You mean the world to me...

It wasn't but a few days ago that I was able to get back into my craft cave. It was a mess... not because I left it that way {{wink wink}} but someone thought decided to use it as their temporary man cave... with hunting gear, camo clothing, and things I do not know what they are but I didn't want to touch. 

Its funny since he is an artist as well. I know how he gets about his charcoals, pencils, paints, and heck his drawing table - so I did snap a few cell phone pictures of his mess on my crafting area, and then had my teens photoshop my stuff on his desk... talk about FREAK OUT! ... so eventually he was able to get his gear back into places and I had atleast a table to use again.

In the meantime, I  grab the scraps and put together this little card ... that ended up in his briefcase for his business trip this week.

The little Make a Monster set is one of my go to's with him, since he sketches out little ugly guys all the time. It was just alittle fitting for me to add this guy - and pretty him up into a her!

I used the colors from the Colour Q. I had the best intentions of getting it linked before closing but that didn't happen. It happens to all of us I know!

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Hug the ones you love!

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Time for Tealight holders

OK, so maybe its just time I get some stuff done. To my defense, I spent the last few days before my surgery, visiting a friend of mine in South Carolina, participating in a 4 mile Beachathon and then road tripping it home.. with ZERO FAT consumed in my diet... yes, and you can think "Oh how bad can it be?"... not a LOWFAT DIET... A NO FAT DIET.. not even the GOOD FATS!! .. Let me tell ya, it wasn't pleasant, but I made due.. now I am going through recovery and its still not pleasant... after all, I would like to say I usually eat pretty CLEAN anyways.. but not even the good fats.. it was TOUGH! ... I am getting better.. every day.. a new day!

If we can rewind a bit, on Mothers day, I came home from the weekend with my kids at the shore to have my sister drive me to the hospital, since I couldn't shake this ill feeling I had with EVERYTHING I ATE and really drank.. so there wasn't much of a Mothers Day for my mom, or my sister that drove me to the ER at 5 pm, but I have for you their belated gifts.

And now the tealights holders:

The tealights weren't totally ready for photos but I had to get them while I remembered. They are really easy to make, and while I would like to say I will make a few more.. it will be done when I have a bit more time on my hands.

Tealights holders: Galvanized sheeting (for roofing); Big Shot Flower Folds, crystal effects

Mothers Card: The Stampin Up! Success Magazine had a clock in it using some of the new colors, with all sorts of flower punches.. I duplicated the look for a card, using some soon to be kissed goodbye- colors!

Thanks for coming back to look!!!