UPDATE

 My last post was April 9th. The next day my mother passed away. She was 98 years old and had a wonderful life including graduating from college at the age of 80! The last year+ has been very stressful on many levels.  Now I will be serving as executor of my mother's estate.

After losing my mother I feel a need to take a break from posting.  I will return but not sure when. To complicate things it looks like the service on my blog says that the service will be discontinued. I think that leaves 2 options.  You may have to find my blog each day or periodically OR let me know your email address and I will send out group messages each time I post. Hopefully I can figure some other alternative.

Thank you for your patience while I take some time to regroup and calm my life. 

Vicki

ANOTHER MYSTERY MONDAY PROJECT

I really like this one.

I had some additional scraps from the Stampin' Up! 6 x 6 Flowers for Every Season so I made this second card.  I like this one too but the definitely like the Navy one the best.

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MORE PAPER FROM SCRAPMANIA

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BIRTHDAY TULIPS

As I mentioned in earlier posts, when I went to Scrapmania this is one of the papers I bought.  It had a Spring feeling to it with the tulips and the reverse side is the pink and white checked design.  I had four pieces stamped and ready to color in my card parts.  I trimmed it down and matted it with the checked design.  Both of those layers were cut with stitched rectangles.  The card consists of four layers onto a white card base.

I sent this card to my friend, Georgia, who is celebrating her birthday today!  Thank you for coming by today!

RETIRED STAMPIN' UP! - HELLO SPRING

I'm not sure when Stampin' Up had this set, but I saw a card for it one time on Pinterest.  I just loved what I saw and went in search of the stamp set on eBay.  This is a CASE of the card I saw on Pinterest.  I'm not really happy with my "bow".  

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A MYSTERY MONDAY PROJECT

 

On most Mondays Sharon Armstrong has a Mystery Monday project.  A list of supplies needed is sent out on the day before and then on Monday in a live video giving one clue at a time for finishing the card.  This is the card I made for it a couple of weeks ago.

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EASTER SUNDAY

 

HAPPY EASTER

Card Front

Bottom Edge of Inside

 

TAYLORED EXPRESSIONS - Splash Stencil

Yesterday I told about my trip to Scrapmania.  I saw a card there similar to this.  I bought the Taylored Expressions stencil for the background and sponged SU Crumb Cake ink over a portion of the stencil.  Then I stamped the three green leaves and the sentiment.  The design was then matted with the Olive Green card stock and added to an Ivory card base.  I've not done much with the plastic stencils but I really like this one.

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STEAM ENGINE CARD FOR A SPECIAL BOY

Last week I had the chance to do some "fun" shopping instead of just grocery shopping.  I wanted to go to Scrapmania (Cedar Rapids, IA).  When I pulled into the building where the business had been I discovered they had moved but was given directions to the new location.  When I walked in the door of the new store it was definitely WOW!  It's much bigger and I think they have a lot more merchandise.  Fortunately after spending a long time in the store, I was able to escape without having the national debt on my credit card.

I did get a about a dozen other sheets of designer paper - some for Easter next year and three for autumn cards.  You'll be seeing some of them soon.  But the main reason I was there was to see if they hopefully had some kind of designer paper with a train.  Luck was smiling on me!  Even better than "just a train" it was a steam engine.  

(Here's the back story)  In July of 2019 there was going to be a big, old steam engine passing through our town.  When the day came huge numbers of people were along where the train would be passing.  My card making friend's family was here from Maryland and my friend's grandson was very excited to see it.  He's a huge fan of trains and wanted to see this one.  My husband placed a few coins on the tracks hoping to get one smashed.  He found one and gave it to Jacob who was as excited as if he had won the lottery.

Recently my friend told me that Jacob was in need of a very important surgery and when the surgery was done a few days ago, I wanted to send him a card....the reason for my visit to Scrapmania.

To get the full range of the steam coming from the engine, I had to make the card larger.  I folded an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of card stock in half and then lightly traced around it on the designer paper.  I cut it out and added it to the front of the card base.  All I had to do was add the sentiment and it was done.  I typed a letter to Jacob and added it to the inside of the card as a "liner" reminding him how we had met.  I also enclosed a package of dimensional stickers that were all railroad designs.  This was a really fun project to do for him.

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(P.S.  I got a call yesterday from Jacob's grandmother.  She said Jacob texted her, "Tell Mrs. Vicki thank you for the card."  He never texts his grandmother so it must have been important to him for me to get the message.  What a great boy!