Saturday, March 2, 2024

Bees & Honey

 The Bee Happy collection from Echo Park is way too cute!  I have been following Echo Park for a couple of months and I have been seeing that their paper designs and add-ons can be used alone or with products from other companies.  Below are two card I created.  

The first card includes paper from Echo Park used together with the stamp set and coordinating dies, Unbearably Sweet, from My Favorite Things.  After stamping, coloring and die cutting the bear, honey and sentiment, I used a card design I saw on the internet for the arrangement of all. I also used retired Stampin Up oval dies.

The second card was created using a 3 x 4 journaling card from the Bee Happy Collection.  After putting everything together, I stamped a sentiment, punched it with a circle punch and adhered it using a dimensional.  The Bee Happy card was quick and easy while the bear card took more time to complete.  

That being said, by going online I found a large number of cards others created using the paper collection, just a single sheet of paper or making many cards using the coordinating 6 x 6 paper pad.  One of these days, I will make a variety of cards using the 6 x 6 paper pad.  Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

50 Years

 Last week John and I celebrated our Golden wedding anniversary.  The card I made for him was quite simple, but it was perfect for our 50th.  I used Lawn Fawn's Radiant Heart Backdrop die and Stampin' Up's Little Numbers dies.  The little gold hearts were diecut using the hearts included with the Radiant Heart Backdrop set.  


I can still remember the day we were married.  It was a bright, sunny day and an unusually warm 65 degrees.  We spent a few days at the Abbey in Lake Delavan, Wisconsin planning on doing some of their winter activities.  Surprise!  It was even too warm to snowmobile on the Lake!  We wondered around town and enjoyed the unusually warm weather.  When we got back home, it got cold and snowy!  

Jen and Matt took us to Yoder's for lunch on the actual day.  It was a little chilly but to add to the celebration, two F-16s flew over!  I love that sound and to see our military jets.  Jen said, "Oh no, they lost the banners that were supposed to be on the jets in the flyover we arranged"!   Saturday we will have a celebration in Pigeon Forge.  

Monday, February 12, 2024

Excited and happy to write that I will be teaching a card class at The Farmhouse In The Valley on     March 9th!  We will create the cards in today's photo.  There will also be a cute favor, but I need the candy to make it!  The cards and colors make me happy!  Have a great week!


Thursday, February 8, 2024

Valentine Dragon

My pick for this year's cutest Valentine stamp was from MFT Stamps in their Darling Dragons set.  I made a number of the pictured cards, all in shades of red and pink.   I colored the dragons with Copic markers.  The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn's Love Letters stamp set. The background on the white cardstock was sponged with Distress Ink and then the white cardstock was cut using Stampin' Up's Deckled Rectanglesdies.  The finishing touch was the little hearts added since there was so much open space.  These cards are very simple and very cute!  Have a great day.





Saturday, January 27, 2024

 Today’s card was made on one of the previous cold, snowy days when the temp was zero here in Tennessee.  And today I am writing about the card on a day when it is cloudy and right now the temp is 61 degrees.  The neighbors told us that the last time we had so much snow and cold was back in the early nineties.  

Jen and I had just signed up for the Galentine Day luncheon tea at the Farmhouse which prompted me to get out the Stitched Teapot and Stitched Cup dies from Lawn Fawn.  This might be a card for future Mother’s Day card class.  Have a great weekend!


Wednesday, January 10, 2024

I posted this on Facebook and I am also writing about it today on my blog.  Jen and I have been attending classes at the Farmhouse in the Valley in Rogersville,  Classes we have attended included decorating cupcakes, making food for charcuterie board displays, creating fun Easter cakes and goodies and others!  The Farmhouse in the Valley offers many classes, including painting, basket-weaving, jewelry making and so much more.   Tammy and Bret's Farmhouse also offers shopping for unique and/or antique items.  The Farmhouse reopens after the holiday on January 27th.  It will be a fun day at the Farmhouse!  I am teaching my first card-making class since before our move to Tennessee.  Today's photo is that of the w cards we will be making.  Very excited to have been offered this opportunity. Have a great day!


Friday, January 5, 2024

 Another card I really loved this past year is one of several Christmas cards I made this year. The products used were from the Magical Meadows bundle from Stampin' Up's holiday mini catalog that expired at the end of 2023.  The printed paper is one from the Winter Meadow 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper. I cut a circle on the right side of the paper and layered it on top of another piece of the pattern paper from this collection.  The sentiment is from  the Magical Meadow stamp set, cut out using a deckled rectangle from the die set in Stampin' Up's annual catalog. The prettiest part of the card is the bow.  This ribbon was so pretty and soft.  I wish there were others just like it.  Have a great day!