Pickles for the win!

Today I'm here to tell you to rethink your stamps.

I have this older, retired set from Cornish Heritage Farms,

and it's a peanut.

I didn't need a peanut. I needed a pickle.

If you think about it, they look fairly similar.

I gave it a go and was happy with the outcome.

This is what he looks like as a peanut. I needed a thank you card for a sweet

girl at school and she's a soccer nut. This was her card and envelope.

This time I wanted a pickle. He's much greener in person. I LOVE my phone

but after seeing my son's new camera on his updated version of my phone, I'm

very envious.  Several of my coworkers love pickles like I do, so I got a couple 

of them a little gift.

I hope they like these!

3 Bee Shaker Thank You cards

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I have a trio of Bee themed thank you cards.

I feel like I always need a thank you card for someone, which is a GOOD thing!

It means I have so many wonderful people in my life who I feel I need to thank 

all of the time for being there for me.

The embossing folder is Recollections Floral Embossing Folders - Set of 2.

My cards are shaker cards and I used a variety of black, yellow and clear seed beads in them.

On the inside I used long retired bees and pussy willows from Cornish Heritage Farms. 6021 FUM Sweet Bee.

Just Bee-cause I'm Thinking of You

Hello everyone!

Today I'm sharing a bee thinking of you card that I made for a coworker.

I made a shaker card and added lots of black, clear and yellow beads. The bees are from retired stamps Sweet Bee 6021FUM from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Thanks teach!!

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I'm sharing a gift that my son asked me to make

for a professor he had at school that went above and beyond

to help him out.

My son didn't really know what his professor liked so he took

a chance on these hard coffee drinks. (It's okay, my son is 22)

My son is a writing for the media (mar-com) major so he wanted 

that theme to be on his gift.

If you haven't tried this I would strongly recommend them!

I'm not even a coffee drinker and I love them.

Hap-BEE Birthday!

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I'm sharing a birthday card that I made for one of my son's friends.

I just picked the stamps because they seemed cheery and fun.  I later found out that sunflowers are her favorite flowers and she loves bees!

I used a discontinued stamp from I Brake for Stamps called Daisy Border.

I colored them yellow because I wanted a little more color this time.

The bees are from a very old Cornish Heritage Farms set called Sweet Bee.

It was Janae's 20th birthday so I also used Filigree Numbers from Spellbinders.

Happy Birthday Golf Nut!

Hello and happy Thursday!

Today I'm sharing a golf card that I made for a raffle basket.  

My husband has a friend who is ill and there is going to be a benefit for him.

He's an avid golfer and so are many of his friends so we put together a basket with some Titleist golf balls, a GC to a local sporting goods store and some of my golf themed handmade cards.

This is a retired set called Golf Nut from Cornish Heritage Farms.

I'll be sharing several other cards over the next few weeks.

Here's the inside of my card.

Thank you! Thank you very much!

 Hello and happy Tuesday!

Today I'm sharing two thank you cards that I made.

As you probably know, I work in an elementary school.  This year two of my students went above and beyond with their Valentine's Day gifts so I felt I needed to make a cute thank you card for them.

One was a boy and one was a girl.  The olive green card went to the boy.

The stamps are long since retired Cornish Heritage Farms Elvis stamps.

This was the inside of both cards.

The aqua colored card went to the girl. 

I'm so lucky to work with such wonderful children.  Not because they give me gifts but because they're such thoughtful children.  This has been a year where I feel I've met some of the sweetest children I've ever known.

Who's birthday is it??

Hello and happy Tuesday!

Today I'm sharing a card the I made for my friend's daughter. (who also happens to be my daughter's best friend)  Her favorite colors right now are purple and gray so this is what I chose for my color palette. 

I used the Kim Hughes Owl set from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Happy Birthday Tara and Braedyn!

Hello and happy Tuesday!

I have two nieces that were born 12 days apart so my birthday post for them falls in between their birthdays.  One was born on Nov. 3 and the other on the 15th.  Since they're turning 10 this year (and that's a big one) I wanted to put their age on the cards.

They spend A LOT of time together so I decided to make them basically the same card.  It's all the same papers, just in different places.

The inside was the same on both except that I reversed the direction of the punched birthday border.

The numbers are cut with Sizzix Sizzlits dies.

Here's a close up of Kim Hughes' cute little owl.

As usual...I was too impatient to wait for my Stickles to dry.

Sending Well Wishes horse card

Hello and happy Wednesday to you all!

Today I'm sharing a card that helped me realize how lucky I am.  I have a friend who recently challenged her other friends to help out a man she knows.  He has MS and has been struggling both physically and financially lately.

She was asking for everything from a kind word, prayer or as little as a $1 donation to help him out and let him know that people are thinking of him and he's not alone.

I was challenged to that darned "ice bucket" challenge going around on FB and for many reasons I didn't want to participate in it.  I chose to help Carl out by making this card and sending a donation to him instead.

I was told he's a "horse guy" so I hope he likes this.

The beautiful horses are from the long since "retired" PSX company.  The verse is from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Here's the inside of the card. 

Here's a close up of the leather lace, twine and metal embellishments.