Nurse Mom

Hello!  I have not fallen off the earth.  I have been busy and not creating (sniff sniff).  My parents were here over the weekend.  I like to just hang out with them and not create.  We had a nice weekend.  Then.....Tate had a sore throat on Saturday and Sunday.  It developed into an ear ache in both ears that had him up crying in the middle of the night Sunday.  I took him to the doctor on Monday and he has a really bad ear infection.  He is on meds now, so hopefully that will get better.  This morning he woke up with a slight fever.....Ugh!

Tanner has a croupy cough, which is fine during the day; however, he woke up last night and coughed for over an hour.  I just sat there and held him until he went back to sleep.  Needless to say, I haven't been creating.  I have club tonight and Friday night, so they boys will be quarantined upstairs.

I did want to continue to inspire you to create, so I am sharing a beautiful card I saw at the Regional Stampin' Up meeting I went to last month.  Remember....I didn't make this.  I will probably CASE it some day.  I love this stamp set Day of Gratitude and the matching Specialty Designer Series Paper, Autumn Spice.

Blessings Box

I made this box at my friend, Kim's house with one piece of 8 1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock and a stamp set.  The technique on this box is the baby wipe technique.  I want to show my club members how to create with this technique; however, I don't have this stamp set, French Foliage.  I used the stamp set Day of Gratitude.  To add a little extra interest to the box, we spritz it with the log cabin smooch.  I love that name "smooch".

This is the box I created for my club members to make in November.

I wish I would have stamped a few more images on the cardstock, so I will remember to tell my club members that at our meeting.

Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted

Stamps: day of gratitude, french foliage, seasonal sentiments

Paper: crumb cake, very vanilla, cajun craze, pumpkin pie

Ink: old olive, early expresso

Accessories: cajun craze marker, cherry cobbler marker, crumb cake marker, early expresso reinker, old olive reinker, cherry cobbler reinker, yellow reinker (other), white stitched 5/8" inch grosgrain ribbon (retired), old olive grosgrain ribbon, log cabin smooch spritz, library clip (retired)

Punches: none

Techniques: baby wipe technique

Day of Gratitude

I went to my card stash the other day to find two thank you cards and......................didn't have any.  I couldn't believe it!  I make cards all the time and don't have any thank you cards.  Well, I decided to make 10 cards of the same design, so I could have some in my stash for this fall.  I don't usually mass produce a card with the exception of my Christmas cards.

The main image on this card is from the Day of Gratitude stamp set in the holiday mini.  I ordered this stamp set by mistake.  How did I do that?  Well, I put it on my order and decided I didn't want it, BUT I forget to remove it.  I am so glad I forgot.  This set is perfect with the specialty paper, Autumn Spice.

Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted

Stamps: day of gratitude, sincere salutations

Paper: old olive, autumn spice DSP, very vanilla, cherry cobbler

Ink: daffodil delight, cherry cobbler, early expresso

Accessories: gold brad, dimensionals, chocolate grosgrain ribbon (other), square lattice impressions folder, tasteful trim xl die

Punches: key tag (retired)

Techniques:

See the bigger scallop in my card above?  It is from the XL Tasteful Trim Die.  Love this die!  You can use the negative scallops for another card.  I used the reverse scallop for the card here:

I used the third scallop and the negative on the die below for this project.