Courage

Today's card was made for someone in mind, someone that is serving in the military and I thought she might like it. I find it most amazing that these young men and women are so willing to go through the gruelling basic training and the day to day hardships they do to defend their country. They are all my hero! Of course over on the Verve Parade for this month the challenge is to make items that reflect our heroes (is that spelled right?). The dSP came out of one of my K&Co paper books, the stamps is SU from a few years ago. I love it and like to leave it simple in black or brown.

I hope you enjoy it and have a blessed day!

Heidi

God Bless

So today's project is a bookmark! I have been having fun making a variety of different bookmarks for friends and I thought what better way to do this than for a HERO? (Verve Project Parade) So I used that wonderful Nestabilities label (funny story, I almost bought it the other day- only to find it tonight in my storage, I had forgotten that I bought it a couple months ago! ) and the rest is SU cardstock. Not sure about the DSP- a friend gave me the paper. This is really cute in person and easy to throw in the mail to a friend!

Thanks for stopping in!

Heidi

Hero

Good Day! I am glad that you are back, as I have mentioned most recently it has been a bit of a struggle keeping my blog up because I don't have as much time to craft it seems. So, I am going to give it another try and see if I can keep up- I had thought about taking a hiatus but I really enjoy the crafting and dang, I have SO much stuff I can't imagine not crafting. :) So today's card is another one I am doing for the Verve Project Parade. I just love this sentiment and what an honor for someone to receive this- I think that you could truly send this to your HERO, don't you? All the cardstock is SU.

I hope you enjoyed it and see you later!

Heidi

Just a CASE

So over at Verve they have had the project parade the last few days and the theme this month is making projects in recognition of your HERO. Well Amber made the sweetest card and so I decided to CASE it. :)
I know exactly who I will mail this to as well- one of my son's friends is in basic training right now and I thought this would be the perfect card to send to him next. I am trying to send him a card every few weeks. With that being said, that is all for today!

Have a great Sunday!

More Spring Please

Well are you ready for some cards with some flowers or what? I am in the mood for spring!Both of these cards are what I call simple and clean cards and so I am using them for the SSIC Challenge. Really not alot of layers or things to them. Basically a card you can easily make just looking at it.... or shall I say a card you can make in a matter of 5 minutes. Don't you just love them!

The flower on this card is made using banana on the middle of the flower and then I used brilliant blue for the very center of the flower and then I took the bashful blue and swirled it into the rest of the flower, pulling the brilliant blue downward. I really like the look it gives the flower.

Once again- hope you enjoyed your visit and hope to see you back. Please, feel free to leave a comment too!

Both of these cards fit the Verve Project Parade: Fun with Flowers!

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What am I thinking?

Ok, this will be my last Valentine Project I do believe. I am still trying to get all these little things done for the kids. Since I always take goodies with me on our vacation so the kids have Valentine goodies (we have gone away for Valentine's for the last 6 years or so, so they missed out on the school parties).

I am still focusing on not making them too girly, too mushy, and this one is a little more, Oh I don't know. Good for a girl but no frills. I put a string on the back covered by a heart punch and it pulls around to the front and wraps around the brad- this keeps it closed until the recipient decides to open it.

Happy Valentine's!

Conversation......

Here I am again today with another treat! This is a little bottle that I had some shower gel or something in (and yes I did wash it very very well!) I really liked it and originally thought I would put some rub ons on it and then use it on a daily basis with lotion or hand cleaner but then I thought that all these sweet little hearts would be so cute in it. I used my large heart punch to decorate it. These punches are so wonderful, I thought the regular size was nice and these are even more fun. I look forward to adding them to some scrapbook pages too!

PS: do you notice all my hearts are backwards? what was I thinkin?

Sweet Wallet

Today's post is a sweet little wallet that I made after seeing them on SCS a week or so ago. I even made it look like faux leather- that was alot of fun! You have all got to try it. I made mine black and then added the pink embellishments. Then for a little valentine treat I tucked this little package of conversation hearts in it. Verve is having a little treat and tin parade and I thought this would be a perfect treat!

Have a fabulous Monday!

NO Garbage

I have yet another treat box for the Verve Parade. OK, I talked my son into letting me make him and his friends (all 17 and 18 year old boys) Valentine's this year. I truly miss making little treats for the classroom and well............. I don't want to embarrass him by walking into his senior class of architecture and handing out heart treats. hm......... well maybe I would but I won't. Anyhow I asked him if I could make them all Valentine stuff and he promptly told me NO. I bribed him, told him I would fill them with LOTS of candy............. he thought momentarily and agreed. LOL. Those boys always come over and go through my pantry for candy so I knew THEY would love it. Maybe he thinks it will be fun but he did also tell me they would all throw them away. I told him I had one stipulation: they are not allowed to throw them away here at our house, they must take them home.
So to encourage them to take them home, they all seem to be nice boys, I thought I would give them all a little idea. What do you think?

Blessing in my life

I wanted to make this card for a friend of mine, after it was done I just thought it was such a nice card to send to anyone. The flowers are from my cuttlebug and the branch is MS punch. I believe this was a sketch that I had used in the past and really enjoyed it. I am going to post it for the Verve Parade Challenge as well- which is a challenge to make a card of inspiration for a friend.