Since Valentine's Day has passed and Valentine's have been delivered, I am going to post a couple of ones I made.  The first card was made for Jen and Mark.  The bunnies remind me of Easter, but the heart-shaped tennis racquets screamed "Valentine"!  The front of the card is actually a digital image that I purchased at Whimsystamps.com.  Whimsy Stamps does have a black and white image available, but I went for the colored image.  

The second one includes cute penguins from Sunny Studio Stamps’ Passionate Penguins stamp set.  I also used Lawn Fawn dies and stamps on this one for the envelope and typewritten sentiment.  I really like the pink and black color combination. The plaid paper is from Scrap Book Customs.  Have a great day!

It has been 10 months since my last post.  Since then, we have sold our Elgin home and moved to Rogersville, TN.  We have completed the majority of items that needed doing, both inside and outside.  My scrap room is gorgeous.  Being on the main floor, I have windows~~windows with the prettiest views!  When I am at my island, this is what I look out at.  And in the back of the house, I get to watch the cows.  I have really enjoyed watching the cows.  I laugh when the little calves run around.  It is adorable.  I will say, it is getting harder and harder for me to eat beef!                                                                                                Matt now lives a couple of blocks away.  Sydney was accepted at North Carolina State University which means she will only be 5 hours away.  John, Charlie and I can take little road trips whenever she wants us to visit or she can come here.  She was accepted at the five colleges she applied to, NCSU being her #1 choice. That being said, I am not into football, but two of the Bengals went to NCSU, so I will root for them on Super Bowl Sunday!  Jen and Mark can have the upstairs any time they want to visit TN!  Our decision to move to Tennessee has been a good decision.  Have a great weekend!

Tweet Birthday

We have been busy getting our house ready to put on the market and taking care of things for the closing of the house in Tennessee. But yesterday, I decided it was time to get into my craft room to make a card. The image is from Stampin' Up's Free As A Bird stamp set and the sentiment is from the Sweet Chirps set from Stampendous. I stamped the image in Memento Gray ink and colored it with Prismacolor pencils. I cut it out with my Scan N Cut. After tearing the edges of white cardstock, I sponged the edges with Soft Sky ink and adhered that to a Pool Party card base. I used dimensionals to attach the image to the white cardstock, but the card lacked something. After thinking about it, I added a little texture by adding little splashes of Soft Sky ink using an image from SU's Gorgeous Grunge stamp set. Have a great day!

Something New

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I have not been posting very much lately.  That is because John and I have been  busy going thru our "stuff".  We have talked about moving to Tennessee for a while now, so we decided it would be time well spent if we started getting ready for that move.  That time has arrived sooner than I thought.  We went to Tennessee last week for the inspection of a house we put under contract~~from seeing pictures.  I know that is crazy, but we have missed out on a few houses because we didn't act fast enough.  Not sure when we will move, but as soon as our present house sells, we will begin our new adventure.

I thought we were going to down-size, but we did not.  We will have plenty of room for scrap weekends.  The new house is in Rogersville, TN, about an hour east of Knoxville.  It is a small town but it does have a Walmart SuperCenter.  (It is not as "SuperCenter" as the Walmart I am used to shopping at!). The house is gorgeous and the view is awesome.  We will even have cows for neighbors!  The video is our backyard view.

I will still post cards, but not sure how frequently.  My scrap room will be the last thing I pack, but now I have to keep it clean!  Have a great day!