Garden Thanks - Creative Card Chicks

 Hello my friends. Happy Friday. I hope you all have a great weekend.

I'm finally getting back to doing some more card making and playing in my craft room. It's been a trying month and a half. I can't believe June is almost over.

I spent some time in my craft room last night working on this card. It's very plain, but I had a hard time coming up with something that didn't include stamping. I could have stamped a sentiment, but decided to use my thank you die instead. This card is for the Creative Card Chicks monthly challenge. Each month there is a hostess who either sends us a kit or gives us a theme or idea to use to make our card. Then we each post our card between the 21st and 23rd of the month. Yes, I am way late getting mine done. On the 20th I had a cortisone injection on the side of my left hand right where the thumb meets the wrist. Yes, OUCH! It was painful, but it has helped so I'm not complaining. 

This month our hostess was Sue and she sent us some designer paper and some corresponding card stock. We were to make a card using just the dsp she sent - no images and no stamping. The products are all from Stampin Up - Fresh as a Daisy designer paper; Garden Green, Wild Wheat, and Daffodil Delight card stock; brass butterflies. I used a strip from each color of the cardstock to make a pennant and then added a brass butterfly at the point. I don't recall where the Thank You die is from, but I used a bit of the Daffodil and then some white card stock and layered the words. I love flowers so I'm sure I'll use the rest of the dsp at some point to make more cards.

Beautiful You - Challenge Your Stash

 Hello again, my friends, This is my second post of the day. I'm playing catch up for May now that June is here. I hope to  be back in my groove as days go on. 

This card is for the Challenge Your Stash group. In this group, we have a hostess each month who posts a theme for us to follow that month and then we use the items that are already in our stash to create a card for the challenge. We are not to buy anything new to use. The month of May our hostess was Vickie Y. Her challenge was to create a card using black and white. It turned out to be pretty easy for me because the designer paper I chose was perfect for the image.

The image and sentiment are from Stampin Up Beautiful You. I used black cardstock for the card base and for the oval mat for the image. The image and sentiments were stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black. The designer paper is from Black Market Ebony and Alabaster. Simple and sweet. No Copics were used in the creation of this card.

Kitties on the Prowl - Creative Card Chicks

 Hello, my friends. I hope you are having a fun and relaxing Sunday. It's been quite the month of May. On May 16, we had a "Derecho" storm come through H Town. If you don't know what that is, it is a "widespread, long-lived wind storm associated with a rapidly moving shower or thunderstorm." There was also a tornado associated with the storm, but the Derecho moved through H Town and headed into Louisiana with winds up to 100 mph. There was widespread damage along it's path and people lost power from a few hours to a week. I was without power for six days. Dealing with all that, I then had a surgical procedure done on May 20. I've suffered with bursitis in my right hip area for many years and finally decided to have it removed. So now, I'm recovering from that. I haven't been able to sleep on that right side yet which is terrible because that is the side I always fall asleep on although I wake up sleeping on my left side. As my doctor said, "It was surgery." So I just have to let it heal. The storm did some damage around here - a small tree in my back neighbor's yard took my fence down. Luckily I had already decided to replace it so I had an appointment with a fence company to replace it. It took down a small tree in my front yard that had replaced an old oak tree about 8 years ago. I also had damage to my pecan tree in my back yard and ended up have most of that cut back yesterday so none of the remaining limbs would fall on my house. I did have one limb fall out of the tree during a previous storm about a week before the big one. It had a pointed end which came down directly over my dining room and punctured a hole in the roof and caused a drip from the ceiling. Luckily at the time it wasn't raining that hard, so I was able to catch the dripping and it didn't last long. I did have a roofing company come patch it, but they didn't fix it. After having my insurance adjuster come on Friday and telling me I could get a new roof, I called a few roofing companies to come give me estimates on cost to replace it. So, it's been quite the month. I haven't spent a lot of time in my craft room, but I did get a few cards done before all this happened. This is one of them for Creative Card Chicks Monthly Challenge.

This kit came from Terry Serman our hostess for May. We are starting our17th round (or 17th year). We only have six in our group now, but it works out and each of us have two turns during the year to be hostess. For one month, we must send a kit with images, sentiments, designer paper, and any embellishments we care to include. The second month, we can send a kit, post a challenge, post a layout or a theme - whatever you want to do. 

The images and sentiment are from Colorado Craft Company. The card stock is from Stampin Up - Crisp Cantaloupe and designer paper also Country Floral Lane. I did include a couple of enamel dots on the side and popped up some of the images with dimensionals. I used Copic markers to color the images. It was fun to play with the images that Terry sent.