BUSY, BUSY SCHEDULE

I'm sorry to say there will be no card today.  If you saw my post yesterday, you saw the "reservation" card that we made for tables at a Hot Stove Banquet tonight.  I had 5 of them to finish off this morning and was extremely careful not to spoil any because my daughter would not be able to get the letting done again in time.  

Wouldn't you know I still had one thing happen that made me hold my breath.  I used Copic markers to color the designs and my red marker started running out of ink!!!!!  Fortunately I had another marker the same color to finish the job.  You may not know it but Copic markers might be difficult to find right now.  My distributor is only getting only about 10% of the ones they want and I saw another Internet site that must be having the same problem.

The week has been very busy!!!  My husband has had me doing some things helping him to prepare for this banquet.  There were 22 signs to make (double sided) and 18 place cards for the 2 VIP tables.  He needed labels for the silent auctions and help putting things in the large basket of baseball items for the door prize.

As if we weren't busy enough, both of us were also dealing with insurance situations, financial matters and other things for our elderly mothers (93 and 96)..........making phone calls and dealing with paperwork.  

I was hoping to get something made for today, but I finally just burned out!  I'll concentrate on next week.  It sounds like we are going to be in for some weather on Sunday and possibly a REALLY BIG snowstorm on Tuesday so I should have time to make some cards again.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

A BASEBALL PROJECT

The local baseball diamond was recently deeded back to our town from the school.  A baseball association has been formed and they are in the process of fund raising to make improvements there. The diamond is what we locals refer to as "the REAL Field of Dream" because we actually had several great baseball players go on to play minor and major league baseball.......including Bruce Kimm and Mike Boddicker.  Mike was actually the Most Valuable Player the year the Baltimore Orioles won the World Series.  You have to understand that at the time our high school baseball teams won 20 State Championships we had only about 100 kids in the entire high school so having the number of players go on to the minor and major leagues was very special!!!

Enough bragging.........the baseball association is having a "Hot Stove Banquet" tomorrow night and some individual families and business bought tickets for an entire table.  Those tables will have reservation signs on their tables.  My daughter cut letters with her Cricut for all of the signs (double sided) and I used two old Stampin' Up!  baseball sets to decorate them.  This is the one that will sit on the table for a local business.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JENNIFER

Today our oldest daughter is celebrating one of the anniversaries of her 29th birthday.  (This has become a standard joke about her age.)  This is not the card we are giving her but I did want to post a birthday card today.

I have so much SU dp and just need to start using it instead of hoarding it.  There is always something new coming out that I need (want) and some of the hoard just has to go!  This is one of the very first dp papers I got from Stampin' Up!.  The Martha Stewart punch provided a nice border between the dp and SU Marina Mist card stock..  Butterfly is from the Spellbinders "Wonderful Wings" die set.  The layout is certainly one that can be used for many different occasions.

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BLUE AND GRAY COLOR SWAP

Our Yahoo group's color swap this month was to use gray and light blue on a card.  I pulled out my SU Gorgeous Grunge set and it made the card easy to do.  I used a Spellbinders die to cut the butterfly with Marina Mist card stock.  I also had coordinating "dots" to use and added three.

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STAMPIN' UP! - A Cherry on Top DP

The dp used on this card is from an SU paper pad.  I wanted a card that would work for young, old, male or female.  A die from a Penny Black set matched the shape on the dp so I cut three with coordinating papers from the same pad.  I had a narrow strip of the green dp so added it behind the layer with the balloons.

I made up a kit of three additional cards in a similar layout for my young helper.  Since I wanted to get the card kits to my helper ASAP, I cut some white card stock to 4 x 5 1/4 and stamped designs on them for her to color.  I'll mount the colored images on appropriate dp when I get them back from her.  Friday I delivered the 9 card kits and 9 stamped designs to her and told her to have fun.  She is such a sweet girl!!!

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SYMPATHY CARD #2

I had a piece of the Wild Wasabi dotted paper left from yesterday's card so I changed up the layout on this one and used the flower from the SU "Love & Sympathy" stamp set instead of the three little flowers.  I really like the soft pink blossom along with the two green colors.

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CASING A SYMPATHY CARD #1

I'm not sure why, but I rarely have sympathy cards made up ahead of time.  Somehow to me it feels wrong to have them waiting for someone to pass.  I found a need to have two cards for people who passed away recently.  Because I was in a hurry to get one made, I turned to Pinterest and fell in love with a card I saw.  I believe I used the same colors.  The main difference in mine is that I didn't add a white ribbon and bow across where the two colors meet.  I tend to keep my cards pretty streamlined.  

The same papers will appear on the second sympathy card I made tomorrow so I hope you will come back and visit again.  Have a great day!