HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

To me this is the epitome of a loving mother. This greeting card was waiting for me in my "Inbox" today from a very dear friend that has helped me "Mother" my furry children by sharing all kinds of wonderful advice. She is so sweet to take the time to use her computer mouse to add the sentiment below the photograph before attaching to the email.

My husband ROCKS!! I woke up to a beautiful and super yummy breakfast-in-bed and him wishing me "Happy Mother's Day". I'm so blessed. Hope your day is filled with blessings too.

Help Heal Hearts - Animal Rescue

Please check out this blog and donate! A PLACE TO BARK

Your donation is Tax Deductible. If they can raise $10,000 they will receive a matching grant of $10,000. The funds will go toward completing the shelter being built. They plan on providing low cost or free spay and neuter programs for the communities that surround the shelter. The blog is full of pictures and stories about the animals they have rescued, rehabilitated and adopted out. It would bring me such joy to see this happen for "A Place To Bark".

All animals should be as content and loved as this. Please help and spread the word.

Treetop Clown

Last weekend one of the many things I did was hang with crafty friends. My "out of the box" designs landed me the opportunity to play with a brand new stamp set released by Close To My Heart. I was a little worried I would disappoint my stamping buds. After a few hours of sleep and my handy sketch pad, I conquered my fears and came up with a few designs. After receiving awesome feedback, I decided to share with my blogging friends. The stamp set is shown above. It's called TREETOPS. The first thing I designed was a clown!!


CLOWN

* eyebrow - curved tree trunk, stamped and colored in black marker
* light pink cheeks, blue eyes and orange hair all different tree tops.
* mouth Stampin Up large oval punch w/top portion cut off & white gel pen
* nose 1" circle punch
* free hand cut his overalls from scrap paper
* buttons and faux stitching on overalls
* Fiskars star template for star
* Cuttlebug font for number 3

GOOD TIMES set for the "Celebrate" sentiment embossed in white and used stars w/ Versamark for background interest.

What do you think?? Are you interested in seeing the other designs I made from this set??

You forgot the crunchies!!

Our morning feeding routine consists of canned food while we are getting ready and as we are walking out the door we give the babies hard food that we refer to as "crunchies". Our little angels remind us very sweetly every morning to be sure and give them "crunchies". Thursday morning I decided they could stand to lose a little weight, so I left without giving them any "crunchies". This is what we arrived home to. A not so sweet reminder that we forgot their beloved "crunchies". Someone decided to take out their frustration on the paper towel roll. How's that for Cats With Attitude! Gotta love em! ;-)

Secret Stamper Club Candy Lane

I am part of a Secret Stamper Club. The rules are you are assigned one lady and are committed to sending her one gift item per month for three months. This gift item is NOT a purchased item - it's a hand-stamped item by you! All supplies used need to be from Stampin' Up! (SU) so that your person may easily duplicate it, if they wish! A "gift item" can be described as anything 3D - what we sometimes refer to as a "project" - and anything that ISN'T a card!

This is one of the gifts I sent. The purse is my own template design. I used SU Candy Lane DSP and the Love You Much stamp set. The faux stitching on the corners and flap are created with a paper piercer and SU white signo gel marker to draw the lines. I made a few little Valentine note cards to include and only AFTER I mailed it off, did I realize the "your" should have been "you're". Yikes!! Oh well, you get the gist. I filled it with some truffles and sent it on its way.

Blessings,

Two more cards available!! The birthday card flame is from CTMH Playful Petals. I thought it looked like a flame, so I used it as one. Then I cut apart the flourish and used just one side to add some whimsy to the sentiment. It's no secret. I frequently cut my stamps apart and use just a portion of the design for my designs.











For the butterfly card, I wanted something quick and simple. Used CTMH Butterfly Kiss set stamped in Stazon. Colored pencils and paper piercer to add a flight pattern. Rounded the corners and I'm done.

Box with Handles Template

I have an extensive collection of templates I have created over the years and after many requests, I decided to start creating templates to share on the web. In the past I just traced my template onto card stock to share my designs with others. Let me know if you have any questions about this first template. I hope it is easy to understand. To make this box you need just one letter size sheet of card stock. 8-1/2" X 11". Picture above shows my latest creation with this actual template. This link will take you to my template.
Box with Handles Template





All Stampin Up! products. Paper is Gable Green with Tea Party DSP (item # 113992) alternated around the box. Stamp set is Playful Petals (item # 113728) colored in with Stampin Up! markers with blender pen, daubers, and direct marker to paper. Sentiment stamped directly on the leaf is from One Of A Kind (item 113624) Visit my Stampin Up! website if you would like to purchase products from me. Stampin Up! Website

Happy Stamping!

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