*Simple Sundays*

Hello, sweet friends! 

 

Our weekend just flew by and in the blink of an eye,

here it is late Sunday eve!

We've been having wonderful family bonding time

and enjoying the splendors of the outdoors,

my favorite place to be ♥

Although the weather here is simply beautiful,

we know in a short few weeks it will be scorching hot

 so while that tropical breeze surrounds us with all it's splendor,

we take full advantage! :)

 

 

I have a card to share today for my Simple Sundays,

heading to a friend of mine who is battling cancer.

My card ended up being a little busier and brighter

than I had intended, but I just kept layering and layer

the different dsp scraps I had one hand {and burlap} to see which ones I wanted to use and ended up using all of them :)

 

 

I added buttons and twine to finish it up,

along with some ric-rac.

This is one of those 'made with lots of love' cards ♥

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

I'll enter my card into:  WordArtWednesday - Anything Goes
Hiding in my craft room - Super Scraps
Chocolatecoffeecards - Stripes

 

In the *spotlight!*

Hi, peeps! :)

Today's card is one I made just for fun ~ a spotlight card! 

I'm blessed to belong to a crafty group called the Stamp Addicts and asked our sweet leader, Lynn, if I could toss a challenge out this month :)

 I have been wanting to make a spotlight card for awhile - 

safety in numbers, right? :)

Yup! I'm that far behind in the crafting world! 

While everyone has moved on to Craquelure and Gesso, 

I'm still taking baby steps through techniques 

I meant to try and never did ;)

 Here's a better side view of the spotlighted area - this card has 8 layers!

                                                               ... and the inside of the card :)

 This card is heading to a special friend and I couldn't think of anything 'owl' related to say at the time ;)

The owl stamp is from Unity Stamp Co "Hoot of a Day"

  and I stamped out a tree branch for the owl to rest on ... the tree is

from Taylored Expressions stamp set called "Branching Out" ~

a set that I love dearly!  When I first bought it upon it's release,

part of the proceeds of the sales went towards a tree charity called

the Eden project - isn't that wonderful!  

Now, I bought this set in 2009 but you can read about it here - 

still warms my heart :)

I added a strip of burlap ribbon, used some yummy papers from 

Cosmo Cricket called S'more Love - oh. my. word!

This is the yummiest paper on the planet!!  I've used this 3 times already for cards and a swap and I keep peeking to make sure I have at least one sheet left of each one :)

In addition to getting my jog in, I have a PTA meeting (already!)

this morning and a quick meeting with the bible study ladies - school pick ups and drop offs, Tae Kwan Do across town after school for little man

and if I'm lucky, the library! :)

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly

I'll enter this card into:  Little Red Wagon - Lots of Layers

 LEJDesigns - Inspired by Nature and

Try it on Tuesday's Create a Scene...  lots of fun this week! :)