2 beautiful thinking of you cards; Sympathy and Get Well.

Last week I made two cards. Hubby and I got word that our surrogate mama was back in the hospital due to a few health problems. We were not happy to hear this. she has been having a lot of health issues lately, so I figured I would make her a card to cheer her up. We also got word that a friend of ours mother had passed away. I wanted to make a card for her as well. I wasn't sure how well it would be received, as I'm always scared to give someone a sympathy card, but hopefully she likes it! I always say, it's the thought that counts, even if someone just throws it in the trash.

Here are the 2 cards... a small preview, clickety, click, click below to see the full deets. :)

Thinking of you get well...

 Thinking of you with sympathy...

very rough days, but made a card!

Been an extremely rough past month for me, been off my bipolar meds cause I couldn't afford them. I finally got to fill them yesterday, but this past week has been so rough for me, today is the first day I've been out of bed since monday. I'm contemplating admitting myself to the psych ward, this is something that my husband and I are weighing heavily. It's definitely NOT an easy decision to make.

aside from all this crap my mind is putting me through, I woke up today and I was extremely anxious. I needed to be busy and do something, so I made a card for my BFF Leslie, she just had surgery. sadly, it only took me 15 minutes to make it so it didn't keep me busy long enough. I went to the dr, went to the post office, went to the bank and then got home and was still really anxious, but i just couldn't stop crying either. I ended up walking around the block 2 times with the dog just trying to keep my mind off things. too bad it didn't help much :(

anyhow, here's a sneak peek of the card, click below to see the rest of the pics.

Long Distance Love, for my daddy! AND a funny-but true- FISH story!)

Since I made a card for my ma, I HAD to make one for my daddy! I miss him SOOO very much and he is working SO hard!
As I've said before, it's no secret that everyone in my family (ESPECIALLY my daddy and I) love fishing! When I lived in vegas, before hubby and I moved here to the sticks, Uhm, I mean kentucky, My daddy and I would go fishing almost every sunday! he would come pick me up at the butt crack of dawn, and we'd go out on the boat. the days were always long, but fun... sometimes we would just stay out at the lake and sleep in our favorite cove on the rocks in our sleeping bags. No tent, no nothing! that was the real roughin' it for us :)
Anytime we went fishing, we always had my grandma's chicken salad for sandwiches, it was SO delicious!! I make some good chicken salad, but not near as good as grandma's!

One thing I've never learned to do, no matter how many times my ma and daddy have tried to teach me, is docking the boat. I can get it close, but instead of "lining up with the dock" I end up ramming it. LOL.
Well, this one time, (don't ALL great stories start like that?!?!?! HAHA!) My daddy told me, you are GOING to dock this boat!!! well, he went to park the truck and left me with the boat. yeah, I finally docked it!!!! WOOO HOOO!! but, tragedy struck and the engine died. (DUMM DUMMM DUMMMM) so, the boat was being pushed further and further "up" towards the boat ramp and the bottom of the motor was starting to scrape the pavement under the water. well, I tried and tried to start the engine (THAT, I did know how to do, it just wasn't working!) so, there was only one thing to do in order to save our propeller. I JUMPED into the water and pushed the boat backwards. YAY, I saved the day, and our propeller!!! yeah.... well when dad came walking down that hill, he was like WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN THE WATER???? I said well, it was either me jump in, in this WHITE t-shirt and my bra in front of all these old dudes, or we end up with a bent and busted propeller. he was just LAUGHING so loud, and some of the other guys around actually stood up for me! LOL turns out, I could have started the engine all along, I just got so flustered I forgot to flip the choke switch! :-/ UGH!! leave it to me to be a duffus! and this my friends, is why my daddy says I need to wear a special helmet. LOL anyhow, that day turned out to be a WONDERFUL day, and we caught LOADS of fish (including one 16 inch catfish and one 14 inch catfish--and that's NO fish story!) and we even enjoyed some of grandma's great chicken salad!!

Ok, enough of my boring old fish stories.
On to the card!
sneak peek, click clicky to see the rest of it...

Punched Hearts!

A couple of months ago I got the heart to heart punch by Stampin' Up and I've been dying to try a few things out. I did this rainbow heart punched card and it came out SO cute :D

I did 2 of these cards, but used the punch facing down on one card, and then turned the punch over and punched the paper with the punch facing up on the other card. So, one card has hearts facing one way and the other card has them facing the other way.
this card really is a fun patchwork card to do, and it makes doing the inside fun as well!

Here is a sneak peek of the card, click the clicky to read the rest and see more pics!

CASED a card, Thinking of You...

I saw a card similar to this set of cards, on Pinterest, and fell in love with it right away, so I saved it and decided to CASE it. now, I know there are many meanings to "CASE" a card, but I like to call it "copy and selectively edit" a card. when doing a scrapbook layout, it's the same thing, but I call that scraplifting. LOL
Anyhow, I did make a few changes to the card, such as the circle the image is in, and I also used a different embossing folder, and I used ink to slightly distress my edges and give them dimension. I also did the ribbon differently, so that it would give the INSIDE of the card a finished look, and I added cardstock to the inside where the message would be written.... so a few subtle differences to my card from the original.

I actually made 2 of these, with different colors and different sentiments on the front...

Here is a sneak peek, read behind the clicky to see the rest...