Single Layer with a Pop

Boy, I had a busy and FUN weekend!  Friday, I went shopping with my mom and sister all day.  That night I had club, and I always have fun stamping with my club members.  Saturday morning, the boys had tennis practice for two hours and then we went shopping again.  My sister had to leave Saturday afternoon, so my mom and I hung out for the rest of the day.  Sunday morning was mass and then my parents left.  The rest of the day was spent cleaning and doing laundry.  I did watch a couple of movies in between those two things.  I love Netflix and instant download.  I saw Becket and Bounty Hunter.  Both were good, but totally different.

As you can see I didn't have much time to stamp over the weekend.  My father-in-law had surgery on Friday and he is home already.  I needed a fast card, so I decided to make some single layer cards.  I added dimensionals to the image or the sentiment to give the a POP.

My hubby thought I bought the little band-aids and put them on the card.  No, silly!  That is a stamp from the Wellness Wishes stamp set.  I am glad he thought it looked like a band-aid.

This set was Trendy Trees.

Color Throwdown #90

I took last weekend off to celebrate my birthday and to nurse a bad cold.  I woke up Saturday morning with congestion and sneezing and have been in a daze since then.  My birthday was Sunday and we celebrated both days.  That is what is awesome about having a birthday on the weekend.  The celebration carries over to both days.  The boys and DH took me out for Chinese on Saturday afternoon.  Then I got a nap in while DH took the boys to his parents, so we could go out that night.  I really felt like just laying in bed all day, but thought we better do something.  We went to a movie and went to bed before 10 p.m.  I took some cold meds, so I was out in no time.  We continued to celebrate on my actual birthday and took it easy most of the day on Sunday.

I still have time to play along this week at the color throwdown, so after cleaning all morning I sat down and created a card for my friend, Kay.  This week the colors are barely banana, rich razzleberry, old olive and pale plum.  These colors worked perfectly for Kay's card.  Kay is having surgery on May 10th to have her kidney removed.  Please put her on your prayer list.  They found cancer in her kidney and instead of doing a biopsy, they opted to remove the kidney.  I made this card to send to her next week.

I got to play with some new goodies from the summer mini on this one.  The small stamps on the side of the card are from the stamp set, Itty Bitty Bits.  I punch them out with the new punch pack that matches the stamps.

Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted

Stamps: Wellness wishes, itty bitty bits

Paper: old olive cs, rich razzleberry cs, whisper white cs, barely banana cs, cottage wall dsp

Ink: old olive,

Accessories: organdy ribbon (other), button & thread (other), dimensionals

Punches: punch pack (summer mini)

Techniques: basic stamping

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Get Well Soon

I found out today that my neighbor is going to have surgery and realized I don't have any get well cards.  I didn't have a lot of time to create, so I thought about using my Movers & Shapers Die from SU!  You know how I love my punches and these fit perfectly with them.  In addition, I have been wanting it use my new stamp set Wellness Wishes.  It is such a cute set for get well cards.  Another great thing....it took less than 30 minutes to make.

Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted

Stamps: wellness wishes (#115356), fast flowers small wheel (#109679)

Paper: tea party (#113992), green, yellow

Ink: green, yellow

Accessories: baby pink striped grosgrain ribbon (#113882), pink button, green thread

Punches: large oval (#107305), scallop oval (#114889), movers & shapers (#114506), magnetic movers & shapers (#115953)

Techniques: punching

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