more cards

Happy Wednesday.. Wow what a week already. Unfortunately my FIL is back in the hospital which throws a monkey wrench into our evenings.. YIKES... oh well, he's doing ok.. barely ok.. but ok.. It makes for long nights stopping in to see him, trying to get to the gym and still do everything that needs to get done in the evening. Needless to say.. the cards I need for this weekend... are still in my head. May be tonight I can get up stairs and get a couple done.

Here's a few more cards from the assortment I made for girls day out last weekend.. (for those of you who missed yesterday's post.. I made goodie 'pails' for my friends that I was meeting.. all cards coordinated with their pails... green, yellow & blue).. I apologize for the pictures... They come out kind of dark when I take them at night.. :)

For all of the cards here today I've used..

J's... soft sky, cosmo cricket ds & very vanilla card stocks, chocolate wide satin (or) aqua mist ribbon, close to cocoa ink..

E's... spring moss, K & Co. ds & very vanilla card stocks, spring moss ribbon & brocade blue ink...

M's... lemon tart, K & Co. ds & very vanilla card stocks, lemon tart ribbon & brocade blue ink..

This particular card uses assorted brads as an embellishment & the images were stamped with 'All Holiday's from SUP and leaf tendrils from Memory box. To make the bow I actually tied 2 pieces of ribbon and then separated them after making the know.

For this next card I cut out the scalloped ovals using my nestabilities scalloped oval dies. The sentiment is Live, Laugh, Love from Daisy Buckets and this card was embellished with 3 copper brads.

And this final card for today uses.. cuttlebugs textile texture embossing folder (the image what then distressed with a little coordinating ink to pull the image off of the page..) and Daisy buckets best days stamp...

How could I not include a couple fun pictures from Saturday... Here's Estelle modeling hats... She sure can wear one..

And our very own.. Domestic Diva Jeanine.. Hugs sweetie..

I hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday. Happy Stamping :)

I've been soooooooo busy

Wow... I can't believe it's been a week and a half since my last post. Boy has it been crazy here.. Let's see.. Big ole' audit at work last week. I was here most days till after 6 (and was here at 7 in the AM)... YACK.. that puts a damper on your stamping time. But I did have time to finish a few projects for Saturday. They say that common bonds draw people together. I have 3 very good friend that I met through having WLS.. We all decided to get together Saturday for a 'girls' day and wander the streets of Saratoga to see how my fun we could have.. And did we ever. I haven't laughed so hard in ... well I can't remember when the last time was I laughed like I did on Saturday. I wanted to put together little care packages for everyone. Over the next few days you'll see everything that went into them.. Here's a start..

I had 3 pails that I put everything into .. 1 light blue, 1 green and 1 yellow.... So every one's packages were color coordinated with their pails... Their first gift was a monogrammed note book...

For Jeanine's I used... soft sky, cosmo cricket and very vanilla card stocks

Estelle's... spring moss, K& Co. ds & very vanilla card stocks and

Michelle's... lemon tart, K & Co. ds & very vanilla card stock..

The scalloped ovals were cut out using my marvy punch. The smaller ovals were made by stamping the oval from PTI's "Wedding Day" stamp set in versa mark & then were embossed with (J's) gel-a-tins chocolate bliss scented embossing powder, (E's & M's) black embossing powder.. I then simply cut out the ovals.. Each were tied with coordinating PTI ribbon... After adhering the rubon's.. E's and M's monogram were stamped in coordinating PTI ink with my new favorite Memory Box leaf tendrils stamp. To make the sentiments I stamped my Daisy Buckets best day stamp in chocolate chip and going gray and distressed the edges with coordinating inks.

Each package also included 5 coordinating cards.. Here's just 1 to start.. Again, each card coordinated with the monogram notebooks.. These cards used...

J's... Soft sky, cosmo cricket & very vanilla card stocks, close to cocoa ink, aqua mist ribbon & the daisy buckets live, laugh, love stamp with Stampin Up's garden silhouettes stamp.. For the other two the differences are..

E's.... spring moss card stock & ribbon, K & Co. ds card stock, & brocade blue ink and for

M's ... lemon tart card stock & ribbon, K & Co. ds card stock & brocade blue ink.

I'm sure I'll be flamed for this picture but we had so much fun... This was us tearing it up in Eddie Bauer trying on hats.. Here we are from L to R... Me, Estelle, Jeanine and Michelle.. Estelle.. girlfriend, you sure can wear a hat..

And finally.. Carter just wanted to pop in and say.. HELLO everyone..

So what are the plans for this week? Cards for 2 birthday's, a communion card, 3 mother's days cards, the gym, FIL in the hospital, Mother's day, Birthday & Communion shopping HMM... I hope that's it.. stop back for more of the care packages from Saturday and the cards from this week...

Happy Stamping everyone...