Owl I want for Christmas is you...

My sweet friend and fellow spouse, Kat is due with her first baby a couple days after Christmas.  She had a baby shower a couple weeks ago, this is the card I made for her...

I used Perfect Plum, Going Gray, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake and White Card stock. Perfect Plum ink.  Sentiment is from Michael's.  I made the balloons with a circle punch and hearts from the SU Owl Punch.

My initial inspiration and color combination for my card came from my baby gift for Kat.  I knew I wanted to make something with an Owl in it.  I've had that Owl Punch for a couple years and that was my first time using it!  I went hunting on pinterest for card ideas and found this one created by Susan...and loved it!  I just had to CASE it!  

We made lil' onesies for baby-Alice-to-be (can you guess which one is mine?).

Kat, Kellye & Me

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Sparkly Snowflakes... #KindnessChallenge

I made this to thank the person who lent me their knee scooter while I was recovering from surgery.  For some reason this time around my insurance company didn't cover it, we were fighting with them to cover the cost as I was going in for surgery.  When I came out of surgery my hubs told me that an email went out at his work and someone we didn't know offered to lend me theirs.  I welled up with tears.  I wasn't sure how I was going to get around for 3 months without it.  Inside was a gift certificate to thank him for his kindness =)

I kept it very simple.  Sentiment is from A Muse.  I got the ornament from Walmart, attaching it with a brad.

Thank you for looking, enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Blue Moon...

In October our spouse's group went to a painting class.  We opened up the painting session to our husband's unit (and a few of them joined us!).  I made this card to thank the newbee's for attending our spouse's social.

I took inspiration for my card from the painting we did.  We were actually suppose to paint a different one but everyone liked this one so much we decided to do this one instead.  I used Going Grey, Basic Gray, and Black for the sky, Night of Navy, Pacific Point, and Tempting Turquoise for the moon.  I sponged in the cliff with a torn piece of paper.  Pacific Point Paper, sentiment from SU Noteworthy, tree from Denami Design.

My BFF Kellye =)

Our group photo...notice one is not like the other ;)

(Photo credit to Barb, thank you Barb!)

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Have a wonderful day.

Fancy Grubbin'...

I made these cards for some pretty amazing people!!!  These went out to all the wonderful people who made my hubs and I meals while I was on bedrest recovering from surgery #2.  I honestly don't know what I would've done without them...  Not too bad for making these in bed, eh?

I used a Very Vanilla card base, crumb cake card stock.  I stamped the silverware from A Muse in crumb cake and the sentiment from SU's Because I Care in Soft Sky.  Ribbon is from Michael's.  

Photo taken on my zebra lap desk my hubs got me to eat my dinnah on =)

My sweet hubs decorated the boot I had to wear and also my crutches=)  Following that are a few pictures from my my surgery, so if you're faint at heart, you may not want to look beyond the crutches=) 

Before & After

2 weeks post op.

2 weeks post op, stitches removed. 

6 weeks post op, healing nicely. 

I'm currently 17 weeks post op.  I'm in physical therapy twice a week building up my strength and stability in my ankle.  I have a long way to go until I'm fully recovered (Dr says a year at least) but look forward to the day where I'm not walking with a limp and am able to return to my fitness classes and run again!

Thank you for peeking at my blog today, I appreciate it!

Have a terrific day!

Hot Blue...

I made a couple dozen of these to welcome all of the new spouses to our unit.  I try to make sure to make them a card to welcome them here shortly upon arrival, but sometimes life (like a couple of surgeries) doesn't let that happen as quickly as I'd like. It's the thought that counts tho, right???

I kept it very simple.  SU's Brilliant Blue, Whit, Cherry Cobbler and Black card stock.  My Favorite Things Die-namics InstaFrame, Cricut 50 States  Cartridge, Sentiment is from a local craft show.  I want to say Stamp Out who does these awesome Southwest and Western Stamps but couldn't find them when I looked online.  Anyhow, made my tag with SU's Square Punch, finished it off with a button and twine.

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Have a wonderful day!

 

Caught in the Moonlight...

Yay...finally...I'm caught up!  This is the last card to catch me up to 2014.  I didn't craft or blog for a year so I only have a handful of cards for 2014, but I'm glad to have finally got all of 2013's cards done, yay!!!  Anyhow, this was made for a friend of mine who ordered some cards from me.  

I of course drew inspiration from Michelle Zindorf, the queen of brayering!  I used Night of Navy, Marina Mist, Tempting Turquoise and Black ink.  SU's Nature Silhouette stamp set, Black and Marina Mist card stock, and brads.

Have a wonderful day!  

Devious Darla...

Another birthday card for one of the spouses in our spouses group =)

I stamped Jamie from Stamping Bella on Crumb Cake in Memento Ink, colored her with copics.  Ribbon and Linen Thread from SU.

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