Created by Gracie blog candy

Hurry on over to "Created by Gracie's" blog, because she is giving away some blog candy in celebration of Kae's first holy communion. 

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My In laws Wedding Anniversary card

Here is the card that I created for my in laws (sadly it isn't a great picture of the card), can't wait to give it to them tomorrow :)!!  I cased this card from Shannan Teubner's blog, the colors of my card look way better in person...not too sure what happened with this picture :(!  

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Neil and Sally's Engagement Card

I had friends a few weeks ago get engaged, I just have been sick and also hadn't seen them at church the past couple of weeks. I am now getting to make a card for them, that I can hopefully give them tomorrow at church :)!  I LOVE this new SU stamp set that I used to create this card called "Thoughts and Prayers".  I cased this card from Silke Ladlow (Our Creative Corner blog), and this is what I created using her card for inspiration.

Congratulations you guys, am very happy for you two :)!  

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Bday card for a friend of mine

Yesterday, I found out on Facebook that a good friend of mine was having a Bday and so I just HAD to make her a Birthday card for her.  She is an amazing person, and has helped us in many ways with questions or advice or just supporting us regarding what is going on with our middle son (possibly even our youngest now too).  Thank you Jane for all the help, it is greatly appreciated and HAPPY BIRTHDAY :)!

I know here is a shocker I even did the inside of the card too, talk about stepping outside the box here...lol :)! I just thought this card needed something else, and decided to do it on the inside of the card.  I also just HAD to use one of my new Ketto stamps, that I got from She Runs with Scissors.  Go check her site out, she has free shipping for those of us living in Canada :)! 

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Easter Card for my Nephew Levi

Here is a little card that I made for my lil nephew who came to visit my in laws for Easter, and so I thought I should get him a little Easter treat.  So I got him this cool stacking cup toy, and boy did he like it :)!  It was great seeing you guys, look forward to seeing you for a longer visit the next time you come down.  

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Here is what Yvonne's project for us last night

We did 3 projects in all last night, I did one and Yvonne created 2 for us to do last night at our monthly crafty night get together. Here is the first project that Yvonne did with us, and you can find the tutorial for it over at the Splitcoaststampers forum (sorry I don't remember the name of this project for you to look up, but am sure once I post this one of my gals will let me know).  I had fun making this project, gorgeous patterned SU paper too :)!  

The second project that we made with Yvonne, we used the new Sizzix die from SU...she ran black cardstock through the Cuttlebug and using the new die.  Then we had to cut out around the embossed flowers, next we turned it over so the negative embossing is up.  We took some pen glue she had and glued in all the valley's of the flower that was embossed, but on the negative embossed side (clear as mud right?).

  Yvonne then gave us different colored glitter to sprinkle over the glue we had just used, we got rid of any excess glitter by banging it and then brushing off the rest that was where we didn't want it.  We also embossed our sentiments on using black embossing powder, then we used our double sided tape to attach the glittered flower on to part of the cards base.  

Once we finished doing our 3 projects we drew names, so that we could exchange our "challenge cards" with eachother.  Yvonne drew the names

 for us, and she drew Kim's name for me...here is the gorgeous card that I recieved from Kim :)! I put your card up on my crafty room wall, so that anyone who comes to visit us will see what all of my friends have created.   

Before we started our crafty night, we all exchanged the stamps we borrowed from eachother or anything else we had for someone else in our group.  Kim gave me back my Impression Obsession stamp set back that she borrowed from me and she also gave me a beautiful journal that she altered.  The journals 

pages also had 3 corner bookmarks, that had: Hope, Journey and cherish stamped on them. Thank you so much Kim for this beautiful journal, I can't wait to use this for something special :)!  

I also forgot with being sick and all to post

Deborah's card that she made for an extra challenge we put out to our group of gals last month.  Deborah was away from her crafty room visiting her grandchildren, so she made me a beautiful digi card that had the "faux stitching on it" (which was the challenge, to make a card with faux stitching or paper piercing on it).  Thank you so much for this beautiful card Deborah, I have put it up on my crafty room wall so that all might see it :)!

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Crafty night out with the gals

Tonight, is our monthly get together with some of my very crafty friends...sadly tonight we will only be having a small group out.  We are going to miss our usually larger group of gals that come out, I will keep a project of mine for each of you who couldn't make it out tonight. 

 Every month we take turns teaching a project to the rest of the gals, so tonight is my turn and let me tell you the bar was raised high!!  But since I was sick for the past couple of weeks, I decided to do something somewhat simple but still fun to do :)!  Next time I will do something more challenging ;)!

So here is what I created for the group to do tonight, I cased it off of Waltzingmouse Makes blog...you should all seriously check out all her tutorials of projects you can make because they are amazing :).

Also, we always have a challenge card that we have to make for the fun crafty night too...so tonights challenge was to use chipboard somewhere on your project or your project could be made out of chipboard.  So here is my card for that card challenge, love how it turned out :)!!  I will also post what other projects we will be making too...

Inky Hugs,