A Mix of New & Old

Hello & Happy Sunday!

Hope your enjoying your weekend!

Our Saturday was jam packed with things to do and we did go for a 6 mile bike ride late in the afternoon! Our weather was most beautiful and perfect for a quick ride!

Today we have a few things to do then i'm going to try my hand at stuffing banana peppers.

Shawn made them a few weeks ago and they were so good!

Today i've got a simple sympathy card to share.

My card rack is getting low in them so I need to replenish them.

I used a mix of new & old stamps for this one....

The flower panel is from a few weeks ago when I made my customer a pack of blank note cards. Somehow I ended up making an extra one.

The card base is Balmy Blue and I stamped that with the Birch Background Stamp in the same color ink. I put the flower panel on and added my sentiment from Close As A Memory in Soft Suede ink. Added some rhinestones and called this one done....

Card Details:

Stamps: Beautiful Friendship, Birch Background, Close As A Memory (retired)

Ink: Balmy Blue, Old Olive, Soft Suede

Cardstock: Balmy Blue, Old Olive, Whisper White

Accessories: Rhinestones, Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue

Later today I am going to try to spend some time in my stamp room doing some reorganizing.

I have been working on Halloween treats this past week and my entire room is a mess.

I also have lots of cards that need to be added to my card rack.

Yep, gonna be another busy day and i'm tired just thinking about it! LOL

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My thoughts today....

I think this will be me today!

Thanks for stopping by & have yourself a wonderful day!
~Wendy

Sympathy Set

Hello & Happy Saturday!

A rainy day is on tap....again!

I am going to take the day and work on my calendars for 2019 that I never got around to making.

I have a few people asking for them so better late than never, right?

Back before Christmas my customer called and asked for more cards but this time she needed Sympathy. Once I got the Christmas cards completed I moved on to working on her next order.

I had this pack of Frosted Floral Specialty DSP that I had not opened yet so I broke it open and got to work.

I have SO many Stampin Up stamp sets that I usually go back into my stash to use something different. The sentiment on this comes from a set from years ago called Close As A Memory.

It is one of my favorite sympathy sets!

The DSP is beautiful!

It has a shimmer to it that reminds me of winter.

Card Details:

Stamps: Close As A Memory (retired)

Ink: Blackberry Bliss

Cardstock: Blackberry Bliss, Mint Macaron, Whisper White, Frosted Floral Specialty DSP (retired)

Accessories: Stitched Shapes Framelits, Oval Layering Framelits, Mint Macaron 3/8 Taffeta Ribbon (retired), Mint Macaron Faceted Dots, Glue Dots, Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue

I left my DSP do all the work since my hands were bothering me.

I need to learn to make alot of my cards this way!

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My thoughts today....

No puddles for me but lots of calendar pages instead! 

What better to do on a dreary day?!

Hope your doing something fun!

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day!

~Wendy

Heartfelt Autumn Sympathy

Hello & Happy Sunday to you!

Hope your enjoying the weekend!

We woke up to rain this morning which was a welcomed thing but boy of boy, is it ever humid out!

Blah blah blah!

Today we are kind of having a lazy day!

We ran for some groceries this morning and I cleaned Ryan's room and washed his bedsheets while Shawn slept in his Lazy Boy! Yep, him & his dogs!

While we are waiting on football to start at 4 today (Go Ravens!), I wanted to do a quick update to share another card we made yesterday at World Cardmaking Day in my stamp room!

This card uses all retired things....stuff that I cannot find it in me to let go of and the ladies loved this one, too!

Heartfelt Sympathy Card:

Stamps: Close As A Memory, French Foliage, Woodgrain Background

Ink: Early Espresso. Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Whisper White

Accessories: Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue

I still have 2 more cards to share from yesterday so tune in tomorrow!

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My thoughts today....

Yippppeee Skipppee!

That is all for now!

Thanks for popping in and have yourself a wonderful Sunday!

See you tomorrow!

~Wendy

With Heartfelt Sympathy Card Set

Hello & Happy Thursday!

Hope your all doing well.

I'm a bit off schedule this week. Started my week with the dreaded house cleaning chore that lasted Monday & Tuesday. Wednesday, I finally found my way downstairs to stamp a bit. I was starting to work on a few Halloween things then got side tracked. Today I am in slow mode. My back is giving me some grief after 2 days of housework and tons of laundry. I haven't complained too much about it because it is what it is! 

Today Kelsey is leaving for Pittsburgh and no....she's not going to see the Steelers! Haha!

She and a friend are taking the train to Pittsburgh to see a friend that lives out there now and they are going to a Shawn Mendes concert which I believe is over the weekend. Lucky her! His music has grown on me over the last year or 2 and as much as I hate to admit it...I like it!  She has been planning this trip for over a year so I know she's excited! 

I have 2 chores to do today.....mopping the family room, stamp room & bathroom downstairs and then doing 2 loads of laundry before this evening. Football is on again tonight! I can hardly wait! I have been working on getting the Ravens Room (my family room) up to snuff. Got all kinds of neat things for football season to put down there! 2 winters ago I started working on a 1000 piece puzzle of the M&T Bank Stadium where the Ravens play. My hubby built a frame so we could hang it on the wall down there. Plus here & there we 've been picking up knicknacks to put in our room. Now all I need to do is find some purple furniture! LOL No, but wouldn't that be funny!

So enough on that subject....how bout some stamping!

Here is a set of cards I created for a customer. 

I pulled out this pack of DSP that has so many pretty prints & patterns in it but sadly it is retired. I believe the name of it is Succulent Garden DSP. My customer said she recently sent out 6 Sympathy cards in one day all to the same family so she was desperate for more Sympathy cards. She really liked these with that diecut flower and pearl on! She too is a sucker for lots of bling! My kinda girl!

With Heartfelt Sympathy Card Set:

Stamps: Close As A Memory (sentiment)

Ink: Sweet Sugarplum

Cardstock: Sweet Sugarplum, Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Succulent Garden DSP

Accessories: Flourish Thinlits, Stitched Shapes Framelits, White Pearls, Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue

I love that piece of Sweet Sugarplum Gingham on the card. I wish Stampin Up carried more Gingham DSP in other colors! I am a sucker for Plaids & Ginghams! 

Anyone else?

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My thoughts today.....

Yep!

Well, that is all for me!

Lots to get too today so I better close this out!

Thanks for stopping by & have yourself a wonderful day!

~Wendy

Color Challenge 553

Hello & Happy Tuesday!

I'm feeling much better today so it's time to hit the craft table and get caught up on what I have left go for the last week!

Today is Color Challenge day over at SCS and I always try to play along.

Here are the colors this week:

Elegant Eggplant, Calypso Coral, Old Olive & Bermuda Bay

with the dessert option of using rhinestones or pearls.

I can usually handle 3 colors but when there are 4 or more that usually throws me off.

Today I had to think about this for awhile. I decided to go with flowers since there was a green in the mix. I also went with my funky angled panel just for some interest. I added a Bermuda Bay Thick Twine bow with a glue dot and added small white pearls on the flowers. I'm not real sure on it and hopefully it will grow on me. 

What do you think?

Color Challenge 553 Card:

Stamps: Close As A Memory

Ink: Elegant Eggplant, SU Markers- Old Olive, Calypso Coral, Bermuda Bay

Cardstock: Calypso Coral, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White

Accessories: Bermuda Bay Thick Twine, Glue Dot, Small White Pearls, 2 Sided Tape

That's all I have for today!

My hubby made me a cubby holder for my craft show coming in November. He did an amazing job with it!! Today I am going to package up some items and start filling it up! I will share a picture in due time.

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day!
~Wendy

Color Challenge 469

Hello & Happy Tuesday!

Time for another Color Challenge from over at SCS.

Here are the colors and my samples...

Always Artichoke, Pistachio Pudding & Marina Mist

I used today's beautiful colors for a sympathy card for a neighbor that had passed away last week. I had been on the fence thinking of a nice card to send his family since we really do not know them. We lived here in Red Lion for 2 1/2 years and only met the man that passed a few times out in the yard during the summer months. We knew his health wasn't too good but towards the end of summer last year you did not see him out & about as much and with our winter being as brutal as it was, we never seen him. Last Tuesday we seen the ambulance there early in the morning and just kinda knew. Anyways, we just wanted to let his wife & family know that we are thinking of them so this is the card I made to send out today. I love these soft soothing colors! 

Color Challenge 469 Card:

Stamps: Close As A Memory, Beautiful Tomorrows

Ink: Always Artichoke, Marina Mist

Cardstock: Neenah White, Pistachio Pudding

Accessories: Circle & Circle Scallop Nesties, Stamp A Ma Jig, Pistachio Pudding Taffeta, Silver Dragonfly Brad, Glue Dot, Liquid Mono

Well, that's all for me today!

Thanks for stopping by & have a wonderful day!
~Wendy

Color Challenge 306~Beautiful Sympathy

Hello & Happy Tuesday!


I'm off to a late start today!
It's sorta gloomy & dreary here so I felt the need to stay in bed this morning with the covers over my head! :)

Anyways, first thing I did was run to my computer to see what today's SCS Color Challenge was. The colors are: Bravo Burgundy, Baja Breeze & Pear Pizzaz. Since I don't have Pear Pizzaz I used Certainly Celery instead. At first these colors stumped me so while I showered I kept thinking what I could do with them. It all played out very well in my mind and sometimes whats in your mind doesn't come out on paper quite as well but i'm happy to say that I do like the outcome once it hit paper! :)


Take a look...

I also used another set in my own personal challenge to make sure all my stamp sets see ink in 2011. This is set # 11.


Color Challenge Card #306:

Stamps: Close As A Memory (set #11)
Ink: Bravo Burgundy, Baja Breeze & Certainly Celery SU Markers, Memento Black
Cardstock: Bravo Burgundy, Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, White
Accessories: Square & Square Lacey Nestibilities, Martha Stewart Doily Punch, Gold Dragonfly Brads, Baja Breeze Seam Binding Ribbon, Scor Tape


Hope ya like!

That's all for me for today! Thanks for stopping by!
Hope you all have a great day!
~Wendy