Find your wings and follow your heart

Hey there y'all! Whewww it's been a LONG time since I've updated. But I have plenty to share with you, I can assure you that. Recently I got a new customer who is ordering cards in bulk from me, 50 at a time. I've completed 2 orders in the last month, that is some crazy crafting time. I duplicated a lot of cards and just made the layout, colors and embellishments a bit different on each one.

For this first set of cards, they are replicates of a card I made a few months back. They turned out so beautiful just as they did the first time I made them.
Here's a sneak peek, click below to see the cards!

A Happy Birthday Hello

 Howdy! I've made a set of 4 Hello, Happy Birthday cards. These cards had a LOT of steps to them. Here's a preview of part of the card(s). Click below to see the full set. 

Oh Deer! Christmas!

Here are 3 mini cards that I made for Christmas! Click below to see the pics.

Wonderfully Water Colored

For this set of 8 cards I pulled out an older card I had that was like these and decided to make a large set of replication of the first card I did a few years back.
I really enjoy making cards like these, they always turn out so beautiful, I'm a sucker for anything water colored!

**These cards are FOR SALE! $30 for all 8 and each comes with an envelope.

Click below to see cards...

Card for Hubby-NON Valentine-But Lovey Dovey

A card for my Hubby Hazen. Not a Valentine's specifically, but still something meaningful.
Hubby and I don't do anything to "celebrate" Valentine's day. I do greatly enjoy making cards for others for it and I do make him a card every year, but we don't actually do anything to celebrate. It's more of a Hallmark Holiday in our opinion.

I actually JUST made this card in the last 2 hours this morning. I had a card in mind that I wanted to make him, but I ran out of printer ink so I couldn't make some of the components the card needed, so I didn't make him anything when I was making other Valentine's cards. But I told him that and he wasn't mad at all. But, I came in my craft room to work on a Birthday card for our Nephew and just couldn't get my mojo together. Went to put back some supplies and saw my "anchor" stamp sitting on the top of a pile of block rubber stamps and the idea just popped into my mind.

Click below to see the card

Almost Caught Up! 2 Halloween Cards

Hi again! I'm back with another update, still catching up on my Halloween card posts. I have 2 Halloween cards to show you here, and then I only have 1 Halloween card left, and can move on to my couple of Thanksgiving and Christmas card posts.
Whewwww, I've gotten a lot of my blog posts done over the last couple days. I hope you like everything I've shared with you.

Check out the previews for these 2 cards and then click below to see the rest of the details and the pics!

Card # 1 Preview

Card # 2 Preview

Some More Catch Up-2 GREAT Halloween Cards!

Hey there! I'm here to show you 2 more Halloween cards that I made. One was for my nephew, it was his 1st Halloween! And the other was for his mama and daddy (my brother and his wife, my fav. SIL).

Here are some previews, click below to see the full details and pics.

Card # 1 Preview

 Card # 2 Preview

Still Catching Up...Sharing more Halloween Cards

Hi there! I'm still trying to play catch up on all the blog posts that I'm behind on. Here are 2 more Halloween cards that I had made.

Sneak Previews, click below to see the full pics!

Card 1 preview:

Card 2 preview:

Halloween Happened...

And so did my crafting time making Halloween cards!!!
As I said the other day, I know that I'm very far behind on sharing projects, so here I am with an update and some cute Halloween cards that I made for Halloween.

Here is a sneak peek, click below to see the rest.

A 'mini' bit of Elegance!

Here is another set of cards that I made that never got posted. These are little 4" x 4" cards, good for including with a gift, or just a quick note to mail to a friend or family member. These cards were SO fun to make. :)
Click below to see the pics...

You're on my mind, Friend.

When my friend Mona sent me the Stampin' Up! Upsy Daisy set I was so happy. It's been a very long time since I've got to play with this set, since mine is still in storage clear across the U.S. Maybe one day I'll be reunited with my stuff. :( I miss all my awesome, amazing craft stuff. And plus, it's difficult to have stuff and know it's just sitting there unused, unloved, and so very much wanted! LOL

I have many friends, all of whom are very much loved. So, I used the Upsy Daisy stamp set to make a thinking of you card for a friend of mine. I am sure she will love it as much as I love her. :)

Here's a sneak peek, click below to see the rest of the pics.

Hello...Zombie?! Hello Kitty...Zombies!!

2 more of my 20 Halloween cards!!

I don't much like "Hello Kitty". I mean, she is REALLY over utilized. In the last few months, I've seen Hello Kitty blenders, microwaves, laptops, hair dryers, curling irons, and even Hello Kitty SHOES. 

But, I do have a few friends who really adore her. I mean, when I was a teenager, I was all about how adorable she was, but I've just totally outgrown her, I guess because I see her EVERYWHERE!

anyhow, I made my friend Denise and my Auntie Erica a Hello Kitty ZOMBIE card for Halloween. I do think she is absolutely adorable...as a zombie! LOL

Here is a sneak peek, click below to see the rest!

Cards come in boxes, too!

Woo Hoo, I'm actually updating on a regular basis over the last week! LOL Hopefully, this will continue to happen, because I have SOOOOOO much to share with y'all, the stuff I've done over the last few months!

And, to keep me company, I have my little Stormy kitty. This is pics of her, RIGHT NOW, that I jsut took. She's helping me write this blog post. Well, mainly she is telling me to stop taking pics of her and get back to writing this blog post. But, she is really saying, stop writing that blog post and PET ME!!! lol

 

Anytime I'm in my "craft cave" (my craft room, I call it my craft cave, cause sometimes, I lock myself in here for DAYS crafting!) she is always in here, SOMEWHERE. Usually, it's either on my lap, or on my counter somewhere. I really do try hard to keep her off the counter, and/or off the items I'm working on, because I don't always know if someone is allergic to cats. She is the only one allowed in here with me, out of all our furbabies, because she doesn't play with my stuff, or STEAL IT, like her sister does. LOL

Anyhow....So, My baby sister had her 22nd birthday on December 2nd. WOW, weird! 22 on 12-2-14 LOL. Anyhow, I've always just made her regular folded cards, and this year I wanted to try something different.

I made my first ever CARD IN A BOX! These things are all the rage right now. Well, I guess they were earlier this year, and I'm not really seeing them as much now. Anyhow, this was my first one, and I LOVE how it turned out!

I would have much rather liked having used a cupcake stamp, but I thought something other than a stamped image for the major focal point, would be best. So, a fuzzy cupcake it ended up being! lol

Here's a sneak peek, click below to see the rest!!

You Rock, Dad!

So, I know this post is a little late, LOL... but here's the father's day card I made for my daddy this year! I figured I better post this before the year is done. :-/
I actually didn't realize that I had missed posting this, until I was creating back-up discs of all my posts. WHOOPSIE!!!!!!!!!!    FYI, he loved it!

here's a sneak peek, click below to see the rest...

Cute Kitty Graduation!!

It's that time of year again, all the youngin's are graduating High School. My cousin-in-law, Lizzy is graduating from a magnet technical academy. She will be going into the Air Force to be a CSI. totally cool!!!!
I haven't been around her for YEARS because hubby and I left vegas when she was little to move to Kentucky. But seeing her now, she is so grown up and I just remember the cute little one she was, now I see the grown up, funny and smart one she is. :)

Her mama told me that she really likes Hello Kitty and the color purple, so I knew I had to make her a graduation card with the Hello Kitty theme. So, here ya go... here's a sneak peek...click below to see the rest of pics...


I wish this pic would have come out a little better... She has a PURPLE bow. :) I embellished the pieces.
My cricut machine is back east in storage, so I went to my LSS (local Scrapbook Store) Scrapbook Kyndyland and picked my cardstocks and she cut it for me. :) she came out so cute once I put her all together.

A Sweet Hello and a small update...

Hey all, thanks for stopping by to see me and my creations again. As you can see, I was not only busy making cards over the last few months, I've also been super busy with my blog posts. I had been seriously neglecting my blog because most of the time, I just didn't have time to update after making stuff, or I just didn't feel like.

I've been on and off my psych meds, mostly off, for the past year since Moving back to Vegas from Kentucky. It was a pretty stressful move, we actually left Kentucky and took us, our furbabies and all our stuff on a very long (but beautiful) trip further up the East coast through the Adirondacks and up to Vermont. Unforeseen circumstances arose and we had to leave Vermont to come to Vegas. Needless to say, neither hubby nor I were very happy about that, Vegas was the last place we ever thought we'd move back to, for any reason! Vermont was absolutely gorgeous, the weather was AMAZING and our close friend was there.
But, we are here... ever since we got here, it's been nothing but a fight with the system and the doctors. The mental health system here really sucks. I've been fighting with them for a whole year, yes, a year this month, to get in for med treatment and counseling. Being bipolar is hard, but even more difficult when I live to live with the stress and voices and such and deal with all the anxiety and not get any help for it, especially when I WANT and NEED the help.

Crafting really is my ONLY outlet for my stress and frustration. it takes me to a place where I can be free to express myself, whereas I can't do that in my everyday life, because well, let's just say I'd probably get locked up a lot more than I do. :-/

Anyhow, after a year of fighting with mental health, and after them involuntarily putting me in the hospital the first time I got in with them, I finally got in with them again, and am now on new psych meds.
Not on what I was on before, but on 3 new meds, so hopefully this combo will start helping soon. It's been a week since I started on them. and I can't wait for them to start working.

Anyhow, here is a CARD update. I had a really fun time making these, so here is a sneak peek, click below to see the full cards. I made 3 of the same layout, just different colors...

Wild Birthday!

Next month is my little sisters 20th birthday! Sadly, with everything going on lately with my health, I completely spaced on it. I'm such a horrible sister, I know. pfffttthhhh. :-/
Well anyhow, I worked on this card last night, and I did get it done on time and it went out to her priority mail this morning. It will definitely make it to her on time and for that I'm glad.

It's ALWAYS difficult making cards for my sis because she isn't froo froo girly girl. LOL (isn't it always hard making cards for girls like that?) So, I decided to go with a multilayer layout that has some womanly touches to it, but that is fun and funky as well! the way this card came out isn't exactly how I sketched it on paper, but anyone that knows me will tell you I am HORRIBLE with measuring, so it actually came out a little different than I had wanted. the layers of the card on the bottom came out too big, and the top layer with the images came out just right for the card, when I had envisioned them bigger. so in the end it worked out!

Here is a sneak peek, click below to see the rest.

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.

St. Paddy's Cards!

I had a custom order for a couple of cards and while I  had my sketch book out I decided to sketch some cards of my own. the 3 cards you see here are for sale! Since St. Paddy's day is too close, if you would like to purchase these I can send them to a recipient of your choice, with a personal note from you inside, as a surprise gift. :) See prices at end of this post.

First up is a Card #1: Lucky Shamrock!

A lovely lavender birthday

Howdy! this morning I'm posting to share a birthday card that I made in the wee hours of the morning yesterday.
the card came out very lovely, but after i took the pictures of it, and uploaded them to my computer, I noticed that I forgot to adorn the center of the flower with anything. So, today I put a gem in the center and took new pics. The card looks more complete now! I'm very happy with how it turned out, and I know the recipient of this card will love it, too!

Here is a sneak peak, read more below the link to see the full card! :)