Card Goal Update; Weeks 22 - 28 & TGIF; Thankful Friday #137

My card box is thinning out! I donated 26 cards to Scrapbook.com on their cards for kindness drive. (If you're interested in contributing to this drive, check out my earlier post HERE.) That helped a lot, but I'm still making cards and sending them out.  Woo Hoo!

I've been gathering cards based on the occasions that I prepare for and put them aside to send out weekly. By the end of the time period, I not only send out the predesignated cards, but also other cards as reasons come up. So for Set 3, I gathered the following cards:

Week 22: RAK to Bianca; Get Well to a coworker
Week 23: Stacey's Birthday; DS2 Graduation; Thank You
Week 24: Father's Day and Thinking of You to a friend (she had surgery)
Week 25: Oops! Skipped this week by accident
Week 26: Just Because to my friend Katie and birthday card to a friend's son
Week 27: Thank You card for a friend
Week 28: Nephew Marcus' Birthday

And additional cards that I sent during this timeframe:

My granddaughter made this card with a little help from the Circuit. To be fair, I did not send it, she did, but I thought it was worth adding to the weekly card list! (Her cousin, my niece broke her leg hence the crutches.)

This was made using the Elements 1

stamp set from Bloom Art

This was on a YouTube Video

(Click HERE to see the original post)

If you are interested in receiving a handmade card from me, let me know.

This is also my TGIF; Thankful Friday post. This week I'm thankful that I'm sending these cards out. It's been great hearing from people that have been blessed by handmade cards. I'm having a lot of fun with this! Many are being encouraged to start sending their own cards (and many have purchased cards from me). Although selling them was not my intention, but hey...a little bit of green never hurt anyone.

WOYWW #579

Hello and Happy WOYWW! Click on over to Julia’s blog at Stamping Ground to see more desks. Basically every Wednesday we share a photo of our desk/work area with others and say HI!

My desk this week:

I am in the process of making a 40th birthday card commissioned by a friend for her cousin, but I’m just not sure exactly how I want to finish it. I stamped, masked and colored the flowers in the mason jar and added a clear overlay on top. I thought I’d put the “40” and happy birthday on that, but I’m still working on it. I also need to incorporate gold. I’ll try to remember to post the finished card next week.

Until then...click on over to Stamping Ground to see more desks! Have a great week!

BBTB2; Stars

Another great two week challenge theme at Bitten By The Bug 2 (BBTB2) has been posted and it is...STARS! The girls in my family have been decorating cups and I made one using a free cup wrap from Brinnykdesign. Some we purchased from Walmart (color changing) and some from Starbucks. They are the same size so it made it easy to work on the designs.

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I used the contour tool to remove the 'MERICA letters within the circle since I wanted this to showcase Mrs. Incredible. I also added the smaller center yellow circle so I could cover the Starbucks mermaid. The Mrs. Incredible silhouette was made by downloading the clipart into Design Space and making it into a SVG.

Be sure to join the challenge at BBTB2 before the two weeks are over and show off your STAR project!

Here are some other cups that we made:

TGIF; Thankful Friday #136

Happy Friday! Today is a nonwork day for me since tomorrow is the Fourth of July holiday. I decided to take Thursday off as well since my mama is coming to stay with us for a few days. 

This week has flown by and I hardly had time to think, so this week I'm thankful for the quick, short week.

I hope you enjoy the holiday weekend - be safe!

WOYWW #578

Happy WOYWW! Happy Hump Day! and Happy Wednesday!

Today is the day that we share a photo of our work desks at the Stamping Ground blog.

Here's my desk this morning...

Actually pretty clean! There's some random things spread all over, but basically I cleared the area to place my laptop earlier this week. 

Those two Halloween stamps on the top middle are two that I'm still considering to keep or gift as part of my Bash Your Stash series (click on the label to the right to read more about this series).

I'm sorry to say that my cute red and black polka dot scissors are on it's last days. They were cheapo ones from Walmart, but I love them! I'm not sure if you can tell, but I bought a small shelf to place the Lazy Susan tool holder and items. It's about 4 inches high but gives me more space to tuck in my "go to" stamp pads and other things. There's a drawer that I can also place some items. It's still pretty low so I can still see my daughter on the other side too!

Click on over to the Stamping Ground blog and share a photo of your work desk! Have a great week!

Love To Scrap Challenge Blog; July Challenge

Happy July! Today is the first day of the monthly challenge at Love To Scrap Challenge Blog (LTSCB). This month's challenge theme is Anything Goes! (Every other month at LTSCB the theme is Anything Goes.)

I created a two page layout spread of our road trip to Arizona last year. I purchased this stamp set since my sister and mom moved to AZ a couple of years ago and finally had a chance to use it.

I used it to stamp in the top left and bottom right corners of the left side of the layout.

 I cut the title and signs with my Cricut. I had them for years since I made them for another project but decided not to use them at that time. They were perfect for this project!

I used the stamps & used them on layered punched circles to add embellishments to the right side of the two page layout. The cactus scenery and title were also cut from my Cricut. The two stickers on the bottom were purchased at the Grand Canyon.

I used 4x6 flip flaps adhered to the outside of the page protector for these photos. When they are flipped, there are two more on the back side of these photos and then the photos of the two of us together on the actual page. I love using flip flaps to add more photos to a 12x12 spread.

Be sure to create something fabulous and link it to the LTSCB before the end of the month. Remember the theme this month is...anything goes! Have fun and Craft On!

Love to Craft Challenge Blog; July Challenge

The challenge at the Love To Craft Challenge Blog (LTCCB)as always is Anything Goes. For this month, I decided to make some cards using the Baby Wipe technique.

The technique is to create your own ink pad. To do this, you need to drop ink on a folded baby wipe. I used five different reinkers in fall colors and dropped ink around the baby wipe closely together.

I know it doesn’t look like much but wait until you use it. I used three different foliage stamps and stamped randomly on two white pieces of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2” cardstock.

Then I used a neutral ink pad & dauber to add shading around the edges

Once I did that, I cut those pieces into 2” and 2 1/4” strips. I matted each with different colors and adhered to the card fronts.

I stamped two different sentiments, added twine and some Nuvo drops to complete each card. I love them so much. I love the variety of leaves when making your own ink pad - so pretty!

I used three stamps in my Nature stamp drawer. If you are a regular follower of my blog, I’m working on a new series called “Bash Your Stash”. Click on the label on the right to see more posts. Can you believe this is the first time I used these awesome stamps!?! Yup...keeping ‘em!

Now it’s your turn, create and link a project of any kind to the LTCCB site before the end of the month.