Be Brave With Me

My husband and I are going through a challenging time right now and this is the card I made for him over the weekend.  I included some heartfelt thoughts inside for him.  I am so glad I am a cardmaker...aren't you? For this card I used this sketch from Sugar Pea Designs:

Well....that is it for tonight.  Thank you for stopping by my blog.

~~Sandi~~



A Cup of Kindness

I am still plugging along on making my Christmas cards....I have roughly 30% of the cards I need to send out this holiday season already made and if I keep making them at the rate of 3-4 per week, I will have all that I need by early December. For this card I used this lovely sketch by Kerry Urbatch for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog:

Friends who know me are probably shocked to see me use ribbon on my card.  I rarely do so but I love the way it looks on this card. If you would like to play along with this sketch, you can go HERE for all the details.

Happy weekend....I hope yours is lovely and restful.

~~Sandi~~

We Mermaid to Be Friends

Mermaids are very trendy this summer so I stocked up on mermaid stamps and supplies because I have been infatuated with images of mermaids for a long time.  This is one of my favorites of the new stamps to have come out this summer. This stamp set is by Reverse Confetti and I used their August sketch:

I am entering it in their sketch challenge which you can get all the details HERE  There are a couple more days left to enter.

I am also entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Go Fish Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by tonight. I hope you are enjoying your weekend.

~~Sandi~~

A Cup of Kindness Just For You

It was after 9pm but I got in my room tonight to do some die cutting for card s I want to make this weekend and I ended up putting this card together. I used this awesome sketch from the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog:

For a quick card, I really like how it turned out. The sweet coffee cup, hot chocolate mug and the sentiments are digitals that were offered free by Julee Tillman, owner of Verve Stamps.  I think she actually created a stamp set from these images and sentiments and I really need to add it to my Verve collection.


 Thanks for stopping by tonight.

~~Sandi~~

MFT Color Challenge 51

I usually shy away from color challenges....not sure why but I find them very difficult.  But recently I have picked up a number of stamp sets from My Favorite Things and in addition to their weekly sketch challenges, they also run a color challenge twice a month.  So recently I was at my local scrapbook store and I saw that she had some 6x6 MFT paper pads which will make entering the color challenges easier for me.  I decided to give the current challenge #51 a go. Here are the colors:

You can see I used all the colors....both in my coloring of the little girl (and her paper pieced skirt) and on the card.  After putting this card together last night, I realized it was not as had as I had first thought.  I am actually looking forward to the new challenge this Thursday.

I used this awesome card sketch again from Corri Garza at Paper Issues.

If you read my blog regularly you will remember that I made the birthday card for my grandson Jacob with the same sketch.  I rarely do that but I REALLY loved that card.

That's about it for tonight.  Thanks for checking out my blog.

~~Sandi~~



Happy Birthday Dude!

I cannot believe that my grandson is turning 15 years old on Labor Day. And he is still as sweet and thoughtful as he was when he was little. What a blessing it is to have GOOD kids with big hearts. This card is for Jake and we bought him a cool geeky gift too that I think he will like....he and my hubby speak the same language....geek. LOL

I used this awesome sketch from Corri Garza at Paper Issues:

I am entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Make for the Border Challenge because I used my new fringe border die....I LOVE that die...so fun!

I am also entering this card in the Seize the Birthday Anything Goes Challenge


And finally the last challenge I am entering is Mod Squad's Challenge The Die's The Thing.

That is it for tonight.....this Monday is in the books and I am sooo glad. Thank you for stopping by.

~~Sandi~~

I'll Love You Forever. Literally

I love crafting Halloween cards and crafts.  When I saw the new stamp set Frightful Friends from My Favorite Things I knew I had to have it.  I love the fun sentiments and the images like this vampire I am sure to be using over and over again. I used the weekly MFT Sketch :

I am having a lazy and relaxing weekend this weekend and hope to get into my creative space for some crafting.  If so, I will be share to share it on here soon. Have a wonderful weekend.

~~Sandi~~