Fairy Cards

Back, sorry for the delay. It's been a pretty low key summer but i have been working a lot! Yesterday i photographed a wedding, i will try and share some images later.
Here are a couple cards. The Fairy stamp is from Sweet November, isn't she adorable?

I am sorry but i can't remember the paper line for this one, colored with Copic markers, big Prima flower and Glimmer Mist on her wings.

With this card i alcohol inked a piece of a Quickutz metal sheet and then embossed it with the Celtic Knot embossing folder. Also used Copic Markers, Prima flowers and Glimmer Mist.

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer, I'll be back soon...promise!

Card for my surgeon

About 2 months ago I had surgery for a tumor on my Perotid gland. Everything turned out great because I had an amazing surgeon. I made this card for her as a small token of my appreciation.

I used:
Heidi Swapp Butterfly Mask
Glimmer Mist
Tim Holtz Sizzix butterfly die
Basic Grey Rub-ons
Thank you stamp, flower (folded in half), gems, black shimmer card stock, patterned paper.

New Cards

Here are three new cards I made as Thank You cards for dear friends who were so kind to me during my recovery (after a surgery I recently had). I used the Thank You embossing folder by Cuttlebug as the background and the stamp is by CC Designs. They're simple but sometimes I like cards that way. I am still practicing with my Copic markers and having a great time.
Thanks for looking!

Lazy day off & some creative.

Happy Thursday afternoon! It has been one big lazy day off. I had planned on doing some cleaning or creating in my craft room but that hasn't happened and i still have to do laundry! YUK!

I made this for my mother for Christmas. Her and my stepfather both retired from the post office so when i saw this stamp i had to do something with it. The image is colored with Copic markers and stitched around the outside. Hope you like.

Cat and Card

Hello, first i am very excited to share that Animal Outreach in McHenry had 8 adoptions this weekend (my husband Joel is one of the adoption counselors). One of the adoptions was our foster Summer (sorry so far away, this was taken early on when she didn't like us getting too close). We still have 4 kittens in our foster room, photos to come soon.


I thought i would share one of my Thank You cards that i made for one of my amazing friends who thought of me while i was healing after my surgery. I was so lucky to get so many beautiful flowers, cookies, gifts and well wishes.

This is a C.C. Design from All that scraps.
Paper-KI Memories.
Flowers-Prima
Copic Markers

And one with black hair.

Have a great day!

I 'think' I'am back...

It's Sunday morning and I am sitting on the couch in my pajama's watching Jurassic Park. I have been thinking about getting back to blogging and decided today was the day.

The last 8 months have been, well, interesting.
Joel has been out of work now for almost 2 years, my job is going very well, but i sure wish we were busier. I had surgery a month ago to remove a tumor from my Perotid gland under my right ear. That was not fun, but I survived and am on the mend.

I haven't done a lot of creative projects (just haven't been in the mood) but I think I am back to that, too. I have discovered Copic Markers and I am in love. Lot's of card making going to be happening here.

I promise to share some samples soon.

See Jenn, I told you I'd be back eventually!

It's been a long, long time...again.

To both my readers (Wendy and Jenn) sorry i haven't been on in forever!
Just had a fantastic girls weekend in Peoria with a stop in Normal IL. I promise i will post some photos in the next few days.
Thanks ladies...it was a super fun weekend!

Auntie Em, Auntie Em...

Quite an interesting afternoon here in our town. We're just sitting here on my day off watching a little TV when a Tornado Warning comes across the TV saying that there is a tornado headed in our direction and would be here in about 15-20 minutes.

We just chilled for a few minutes more then the sirens started going off. We ran upstairs, threw the foster cats in a carrier, caught our cats and brought them all into the basement and waited. Luckily my scrap room is in the basement so we turned on the TV to the weather channel and i straightened up my scrap desk.

It was defiantly a little scary but everyone is okay and we survived. I don't even know if a tornado actually touched down, but there was a sighting. I would prefer to not have to go through that again.

Right now the sun is shining. Stange!

Here is a card i made for a wedding we went to on Saturday. The groom works at the company that Joel was laid off from. It was a lovely wedding and we really enjoyed ourselves. I will try and post a few photos later.
Not much else has been going on.
Hope all is well with everyone.

Hi all!
I just wanted to post this photo i took the other day. Today i am going to Rockford for my nieces bridal shower.
The kittens are truly a handful, much more work than we thought they would be. They are growing and becoming more social which is wonderful.
I've been scrapping our Hilton Head vacation pretty regularly, i will try to post some of my layouts this week...no guarantee, you know how i suck at this blogging thing.

Have a great weekend!