Sorry for Your Loss

My least favorite cards to make are the most important that I have to make.  I make sympathy cards to share with my friends who have lost someone that I am thinking about them.

Sorry for Your Loss Card Recipe

This is not the original planned design.  I started cutting out a background of butterflies using my Cricut Explore, but that did not turn out.  In the meantime,  I scribbled some yellow Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker down on some watercolor card stock.  I spritzed some water on it so it would blend.  I used a new Taylored Expressions butterfly die set to cut out the small butterflies.  I colored the butterflies with Zig Clean Color Real brush marker in my favorite blue.  I spritzed them with water, too.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and was stamped on yellow card stock with Versamark Ink and heat set with white Nuvo Embossing Powder.  The mat is a watercolor yellow from Lawn Fawn.  I hope the card brought some peace to my friend who lost his mother.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Galatians 1:  7  which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 

You Can't Be Sad When You Are Holding a Cupcake

This is one of the cards I made on the last Saturday of the month at Craft Saturday.  I used some paper from a 6 x 6 paper pad from Lawn Fawn and a sketch.  The sentiment is from a set that my BFF Diane had with her.

You Can't Be Sad Holding a Cupcake Card Recipe

This sketch is a pretty simple sketch, but with the right paper it looks good.  The paper is from Lawn Fawn and is matted in coordinating solid card stock.  I put the sentiment on a circle to add some interest.  Oliver decided to 'help' me photograph the card in the lightbox.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 4:  14  The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! 

With Sympathy

These cards are my least favorite to make because it means that someone has lost a loved one or someone very special.  But I do want them to know that I am thinking about them and understand how they feel.  Until a few months ago I didn't really understand, but now I do.  I also struggle with what colors I should I use.  Today I chose blue and yellow.

With Sympathy Card Recipe

I started with watercolor card stock.  I remembered a butterfly stamp from Lawn Fawn that kind of reminds me of stained glass so I pulled it out.  I stamped it in Versamark Ink along with a sentiment from Avery Elle.  I heat embossed them in a gold from Ranger.  Using Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers - I put some color on the image.  I added water by spritzing.  That caused a little splatter, but I wanted more.  I put some color down on my craft mat and spritzed.  Using a brush I flicked more color on the card.  I matted it in yellow and put it on a card base.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 4:  8  So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

Love You Even When You Annoy Me

Yep - you're probably starting to wonder when the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow 6 x 6 paper pad will be all used up.  I'm not even close.  I am love this awesome paper.  Paper is the reason I got into scrapbooking which morphed into card making.  This paper just makes me smile.

Love You When You Annoy Me Card Recipe

I have used another sketch to create this card design.  This is one of those pattern paper 6 x 6 pads that is perfect for this technique because all of the paper coordinates together.  I added a sentiment (thank you Diane) and added some enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 3:  7   When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down.

Heck Yes It's Your Birthday

This is it!  This is the last card using Lawn Fawn's Really Rainbow 6 x 6 paper pad.  For a while anyway.  This one is kind of cool because it has a little masculine feel to it.  I always have issues making masculine cards, but this one just seemed to happen.

Heck Yes It's Your Birthday

Again - a sketch.  I just love sketches and with this paper they just come alive.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.  Enamel dots are from Doodlebug.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in tomorrow for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 3:  3  Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

Really Rainbow Thank You

We are almost through the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow paper cards.  Almost.  And I reserve the right to make more cards using that paper cause I love it!  Here is a Thank You card made with what is my current favorite paper using a fun sketch.

Thank You Card Recipe

This is a pretty classic sketch.  I just can't get over how all the cards I made using this paper turned out the way I wanted.  Part of the success was matting each layer of pattern card stock with a coordinated solid card stock.  Thank You from My Favorite Things was stamped on white paper and I cut out the flag.  Yeah, I know - not perfect, but what hand made card is?  Enamel dots complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else’s field you might be harmed.”

Nothing Goes Better with Cake Than More Cake

Lawn Fawn has come out a new paper release called Really Rainbow and as you know I love this paper.  I'm getting towards the end of the cards I've made which probably excites some of you.  But I don't care because I am in love with this paper.  I'm getting more so you will see it for as long as I can find the paper.

Nothing Goes Better with Cake Card Recipe

I actually came up with this design on my own.  After cutting up paper for the other card designs, I had these strips left over.  I stacked the strips on top of each other.  I matted these with a green card stock.  I cut the white card stock and stamped it with a sentiment from My Favorite Things.  The sentiment was matted with red card stock.  Matte enamel dots in red top off the card.  This card is special because I gave it to Veletta for her birthday.  And since it was for Veletta - there was a red mat on the inside of the card and also a stamped sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate

April

Ruth 2:  17  So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.

Every day may not be good

Yep - another card using a sketch and Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow paper.  I told you I wasn't getting tired of this paper.  I can't wait to get the 12 x 12 version!  Yay!

Every day may not be good Card Recipe

I used another card sketch along with the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow paper pad.  blah blah blah . Same thing I have done for the last week.  Or more.  :-)

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  12  May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord,the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Get Your Party On

Loving this Lawn Fawn Rainbow colored 6 x 6 paper pad.  These colors are so bright and cheery.  They make card making easy and those colors are appropriate for so many occasions.

Get Your Party On Card Recipe

You know I've been loving this Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow Paper pad.  I can't wait to get another pad.  I found a sketch and came up with this card.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.  I actually put Happy Birthday on the inside of the card;  Veletta will be so proud.  This must be the year of rainbow colors because Lawn Fawn came out with this release and my mystery block of the month club quilt uses primary colors, too.  This is going to be a good year.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  10  At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”

You Aren't Normal - I Like That

At craft Saturday a couple weeks ago I brought my new Lawn Fawn 6 x 6 paper pad, some sentiment stamps, some solid color card stock and sketches and went to work.  I made 11 cards which is pretty good for me.  What's more unusual is I liked all of them.

You Aren't Normal Card Recipe

This is going to sound like a broken record.  Card Sketch, Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow 6 x 6 paper pad and a sentiment.  Along with some enamel dots.  Yep - just that simple.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  9   Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”

Life is Tough, But So Are You

Lawn Fawn recently released some fun new products.  One of those is some paper that is in the colors of the rainbow.  I LOVE this paper.  Saturday was craft Saturday at church so I took my new 6 x 6 paper pad in Really Rainbow and set to make some cards using sketches.

Life is Tough Card Recipe

Now I've said it before and I will say it over and over again - I LOVE paper.  I think that is what drew me to scrapbooking and then morphed into card making.  It's been a while since I've been this excited about a new paper release.  I will be buying lots of this paper.  I used a sketch to create this card.  I find that matting the pattern paper with solid card stock just makes the patterns pop.  You is from My Favorite Things and was die cut multiple times and stacked to give dimension.  Matte enamel dots were added for interest.

Here is the 6 x 6 paper pad - it's been well used and I just got it.

And here is Pumpkin guarding the door.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  3  So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.

Butterfly Get Well

I needed to make some cards this weekend for several situations.  I needed Get Well, Sympathy, Miss You and birthday.  That is quite a range.  I just purchased a butterfly set from Lawn Fawn and was excited to use it.

Butterfly Get Well Card Recipe

I started with white card stock cut at 4 x 5.25.  I ran the card stock through my die cutting machine with the butterfly dies.  Using Distress Oxide ink in Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch and Picked Raspberry, I sponged some watercolor card stock.  I spritzed it with water and set it aside to dry.  I stamped the white card stock with Get Well from Paper Smooches.  Then I splattered the front with a purple spitz from Tattered Angels.  And then Oliver walked on my card.  Ugh.  Not what I wanted, but what are you gonna do?  I cut down the water color card stock and placed the card front on top.  Then I put a pink mat behind that.  And that went on a card base.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:   1   Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz. 

Christmas Will Be Here Before You Know It

Thank goodness Dee spent some more time in her craft room.  She used Lawn Fawn and made another adorable card.

Card Recipe

"Season's Tweetings"

Images, Sentiment and paper from Lawn Fawn. Colored with Copics and Wink of Stella. Scattered snowflakes from Recollections. Snow drifts die from My Favorite Things used at bottom of card with Sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by the blog today.  Tune next week for a new theme.

Have a great day and be inspired.

April

Psalm 95:1 - 2  Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;  let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.  Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

It's Butterflies All Week Long

Diane came up with this week's theme and I cannot think of a better theme than butterflies.  Butterflies and flowers are my favorites.  And I am currently obsessed with watercolor.  Nothing goes together better than butterflies and watercolor.  Except for maybe flowers and watercolor.

This is a butterfly from a Lawn Fawn stamp set called Flutter By.  I used gold embossing powder from Fun Stampers Journey to create the stamped butterflies.  I used my (I know you're gonna be shocked!)  Zig Clean Brush markers to color the images.  I topped off the card with splatter using Gold Silk from Fun Stampers Journey and gold sequins from Doodlebug.  The cardstock that frames the card front is from Stampin Up in the color of Strawberry Slush.

I've entered the above card in the NBUS challenge.  My 'never before used schtuff' is the Flutterby stamp set from Lawn Fawn.

This is a glimpse of another card front that I am working on.  The stamp is from the same Lawn Fawn stamp set, same embossing powder, same Gold Silk and of course the same Zig Clean Brush markers.

Ditto on this card front.  I am still working on it, but will share it when it is complete.  Same Flutter By stamp set from Lawn Fawn.  Same markers and embossing powder were used on all three cards.

I still have some more butterflies up my sleeve.  But don't worry, they are okay.  My sleeves are very loose.  ;-)

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in tomorrow for WOYWW.

Have a great day and enjoy the journey.

April

Psalm 55:22  Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you;  he will never let the righteous be shaken.