Final design team post :(

Today is a sad day for me because it is my last post as a design team member for Cardabilities :(  Karan has been so wonderful and her sketches are always so much fun and amazing to work with.  She has truly made me think outside my box with the ones presented to us.  I do hope you head over and join in all the fun.  I wish the best to the new design team and hope you have as much fun as I did.  Thank you Karan for the opportunity you gave me in being on this great design team.

 

I hope you all have a great weekend.  I am in store of creating some fun projects with my daughter and two wonderful little girls this weekend.  I'll make sure and post pictures of what we do once finished.

Janet

The Pink Elephant scrapbook challenge.

Well, lookey here :)  I was going through some blogs after I did my last post and came across The Pink Elephant's scrapbook challenge and since I have been wanting to get back into that again, decided to drop everything and make a layout.  Now mind you, this isn't the perfect layout, but it's a start and can't wait to do more this week.  My Memories Suite is a wonderful program and is so easy, so if you have been thinking about going digital, give this a try, you'll love it.  TPE's challenge this week is a theme, Happiness.  When I hear happiness, I always think of the Peanuts cartoon and those little books that are titled "Happiness is ..." so I decided to create something like that.  I RARELY put a picture of myself on a layout, but at the beginning of this year, my great friend Lori (who does the TPE challenges) and I were talking about just that thing, so I decided to take a huge step and put my picture on this layout along with a few of the things that make me happy.  There are so many more, but I just couldn't put them all on there, but I can say that God has truly blessed me and I am thankful knowing that He loves me enough to do that.

Have a great Monday.

Janet

Finally ...

Hey everyone:

Man, it's been way too long since I've been on my blog and I have truly missed it.  I do have some good news to start off with - my mother-in-law is doing much better and is now in a rehab center working on getting home.  She didn't suffer from a severe stroke, but does have some loss in your left eye vision, which is okay.  She is a strong lady and determined to get home within 7-10 days.  We thank you all so much for keeping her in your thoughts and prayers and ask that you please continue to do so.

Our Thanksgiving was wonderful and so relaxing, which is something we all needed.  While Jim worked in the yard, I worked in my craft area making some cards and little fun things.  I went over to my friend Jennifer's house on Saturday and tried to do something for about 3 hours.  I didn't do much, just watched what she was doing.  She did, however, use my Lovely as a Tree stamp set and what she did was so beautiful, I had to try it out today.  I have come to realize that I have way too many stamps that I haven't even used yet - how sad is that.  We have an abstractor at work who suffered from a heart attach last week and I was asked to make him a get well card, so the Lovely as a Tree set came to mind.  I love it and using it with the blue is just wonderful.

The other thing I did this weekend was something new for me.  I made some 3D projects.  The first is a tiny triangle box using a tutorial from my awesome friend Deb Felts and the second is a note card holder using the tutorial from another awesome friend, Beate Johns (both of these ladies are amazing at what they do and I alwasy enjoy talking with them.  Head over to their blogs and listen to the tutorials and give them a try - they were tons of fun.

Well, I have talked enough, so I'm going to head off and go create some more - I have some baby cards I need to work on.  More soon.

Janet

Patriotic card using Cardabilities Sketch #63

I can't believe it has been two weeks since my last post - where does the time go?  It has been so busy here that I just haven't realized it until today.  Patrick is now finished with marching band (so sad to see it end, but am so excited about next year) and we are trying to get back into an afternoon routine, which is a little more difficult with a 13 year old :)  My mother in law suffered a stroke last week so we have been worried about her and sleep hasn't come easy this week; but I can report that it wasn't a severe stroke, she is doing well and even got up today to do some physical therapy, which is wonderful.  Lastly, my boss is being deployed for six months and tomorrow will be his last day at work until his return.  He was deployed for a year 5 years ago and was so missed, but this time it seems so much harder to watch him leave.  When I looked at my calendar last weekend to see what was going to happen this week, realized that I had a deadline to meet on my design team responsibility so busy I got :)  Monday, November 11th was Veterans Day and it is very special to our family because Jim is a veteran; he served for 4 years in Germany as a military police officer and I couldn't be more proud.  Since my boss is leaving tomorrow, we had a going away get together today for him and his family, so I made a patriotic card for Veterans Day and my boss using Karan's Cardabilities Sketch #63.  I have been enjoying creating with Karan's sketches because each one has allowed me to think outside my box.  This was one of those cards, but I believe it turned out pretty good.  I do hope you will grab this sketch and have fun creating something wonderful.

 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I have so much more to post, but for now, I'm going to head out for a while.

Janet

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