You're My Cup of Tea

I've been waiting for the "Nook & Pantry" line by Basic Grey to hit the store shelves. I love the vintage colors and feel that this paper collection has, and the matching stamp sets and embellishments are all so fun! I've already been back to Archiver's to buy a few more sheets of paper and I've had fun throwing a few things together.

This card uses a card sketch that was posted over at Two Peas. Such a simple sketch but it's a fun one! The adorable little tea pot and sentiment are from Basic Grey Nook & Pantry line and it's called "Cup of Tea".

Autumn Greetings

I made a few Autumn cards to send out to family, but a day after I made the cards it snowed! I was rethinking my idea to send Autumn cards and thought maybe I should have made happy winter cards instead. For those of us that live in Minnesota we know that if you wait 15 minutes the weather will change. So I went ahead and mailed my Autumn cards. I will however start some happy winter cards to have on hand for our next snowfall which as we all know could be any day now!

There is not much stamping on this card, I bought the cuttlebug leaf die cut and embossing folder last fall and thought it was about time to bust it out and use it. It was a fun little card to put together. I have this strange obsession with buttons...have to use them on everything lately.

Hope everyone is doing well, seems like I've been out of the "loop" for such a long time. I haven't done any card making for so long, it felt good to get going again.

On a personal note, my sweet hubby was diagnosed with Stage 4 Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma on September 15th. It's been a rollercoaster ride since his diagnosis, one that I would never wish on anyone. It's been a tough month since finding out, so much to think about and learn, and so many things running through our minds. He has had two chemotherapy treatments so far and is really doing quite well considering all that he has gone through this past month and a half. As of now there is no cure for the type of cancer he has, but the Oncologist is optimistic that Tom will respond well to chemotherapy and that the cancer will go into remission.

So we have been really challenged this past year, first with trying to run our business which is directly affected by the housing market in this down economy and now cancer. At least we both have a very strong faith in God and we are thankful for all that we have, things could always be worse.

Thanks for stopping by!

Fall

Well fall has definitely been in the air here in Minnesota. We haven't had much of a summer with the exception of a few warm days in June and a few weeks ago. I'm not complaining though, I love the cooler weather. I always look forward to fall, it's my favotire time of year.

I went shopping today with my Sister-in-Law Tammy, we just went to Archiver's and Michael's but we always have fun together. I was looking for some cute fall paper and couldn't find any, so I came home and went through all my paper and found this paper that I had bought last year. It's by Debbie Mumm, her stuff is always so cute.

Anyway, on to the card. This chair image is from Lockhart stamps, available at Ellen's store, it's the stamp of the month for August. So cute and so fun to color. I wanted to paper piece the little quilt on the back of the chair but I didn't have any fall paper with a small pattern on it so I'll have to do that another time.

Have a wonderful weekend, thanks for stopping by!

Peony

I wanted to share this card that uses a beautiful stamp set that I won as blog candy from Kim Teasdale. She designed this stamp set, available from Clear Dollar Stamps, she is so talented and this peony stamp was so much fun to color and layer. I mailed the card to Kim along with a note of thanks for the goodies!

Copic markers were used to color the flower that was stamped in Memento Black ink onto Papertrey Vintage Cream cardstock. I cut out the image using Spellbinder's label 4 die. The patterned paper is from a 6x6 pad of Basic Grey Bittersweet.

Have a Swingin' Day

This is such a fun set, it's from Our Craft Lounge. When I first saw this card on Carol's blog, I just had to have this set; you're a great enabler HB! I loved the card she did and borrowed her layout for my cards. It's hard not to be in a happy mood using this set, it's just so dang cute! I love the little bows on the girly owl's ears.

For this card, I used some fun Making Memories paper and accessories from their Chloe's Closet line, it has fun summery colors and elements. I found it at Michael's and right now it's on clearance. I bought the paper with a coupon when it first came out, but picked up some fun embellishements to go with the paper on clearance. I love anything on clearance...well most anything!

Thanks for stopping by...have a wonderful day!

Day Dreamer

I love this stamp from Sugar Nellie, she is one of 6 stamps I ordered a while back. They have super cute stamps and if you like to color these stamps are great for that! I love to color, I find it to be very relaxing.

I colored her with my copic markers and paired her with some Basic Grey Urban Prairie 6x6 paper. This is one of my favorite lines from Basic Grey, I just love the colors. I used a Fiskars border punch for the little decorative strip, added a few buttons and bling from my stash.

Our refrigerator is running again, the compressor was seized so they had to replace it. Luckily it had a 5 year warranty on the compressor so it cost us nothing for the repair! Now I hope that nothing else decides to participate in the appliance quiting show.

When Life Hands You Lemons

When it rains it pours. So about 2 weeks ago my less than 3 year old clothes dryer decided that it didn't want to dry clothes anymore so we had to repair that, just prior to that, the spring broke on the door of my less than 3 year old dishwasher; had to repair that. Now the dishwasher decides that it doesn't want to stay closed through the whole wash cycle and pops itself open, have to repair that. Now last night, our refrigerator decides stop keeping things cold and just quit. We had to scramble last night to try to save some of the food. Of course I had just gone grocery shopping yesterday morning so the fridge was full. They are coming tomorrow sometime between sunrise and sundown...you know how that works!

On top of that, last week our phones and internet stopped working. We have bundled service with Comcast for our TV, phone and internet. Luckily the TV still worked, so I didn't have to miss American Idol and the other reality shows I watch, I did however suffer great pain from blog surfing withdrawls!

So I thought that this card fit the bill today...When life gives you lemons, make lemonade or in this case; a lemon card!

The lemons stamp is from Lockhart and the paper is from the DCVW Citrus Stack. I colored the image with my Copic markers and added a little Martha Stewart glitter to make it sparkle. The layout was one I saw several weeks ago on Jen del Muros blog . She posts a sketch each week to try, and I loved this one with the little strips of paper going down and across. It's always fun to try a new layout.

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