Climbing.

Dear Friend and Readers,

Wow, we made some progress with our kitchen project, but there is still a lot to get done. I have nothing left of my old kitchen. All cabinets, appliances, and flooring are removed. A bit more electric work, plumbing, and dry wall and we will be all ready to install the new cabinets and appliances. I am excited!

Despite all the work around the kitchen, I have found time to craft a bit and I am happy I did. Nothing like some card making to recharge my energies.

I am loving the new Climbing Orchid bundle. For one thing, I have always loved orchid and use to have a collection of them when we lived in Florida. Now I have a few of them that sit happily in our school room. I wanted to create an Ikebana type of floral today and for that I use the Christmas Pine for the leaves and the Frozen Threats for the vase or bowl. I covered the bowl with a piece of velum cut from the Layering Ovals framelit. The center of the orchid was coated over with Wink of Stella just for a subtle touch. Hard to see on the picture, but it gave a nice effect. This card really did not need anything else.

Thank you for visiting today. Take care.

Miriam


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Party month.

Well, March comes to a close and so do the avalanche of birthdays I had during this month. It is fun and I get to send out lots of cards. now I can start to stocking up for the rest of the year!

Today I am participating in The Paper Players 337 and using supplies that I received from DoStamper to create a fun card. The sketch came handy and I used the Christmas Pines for the sentiment and focal image. Now I did fussy cut the image, which I think totally enhances it. The sentiment is from Birthday Blossoms and it was stamped in Dapper Denin. The beautiful and fun Party Animal DSP served as a background and also the vertical portion of the sketch. Another element from the same suit is the little hat from Party Animal Embellishment. It is so cute.

I hope you are making, and sending, plenty birthday cards this year. Go ahead, get inspired, create something, and make someone smile.

Thank you for visiting today. Be well

Miriam

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Dreams of love.

Oh, how nice it is to be slightly better in our routine. We still have an outside class that starts this week and that means that we have this to add to our routine. I am planning so I am not caught short, but will have to make sure I get meals prep ahead so we can all have lunch and dinner.

This week there was a class in church about family. One thing that I got our of it is that we must invest in our families with love, compassion, care, truth, and mostly time. Another thing is to not create expectations on the children that they mus be the best in everything.  When I was preparing this card for the PP312, I was thinking of all that and the sentiment from Picture Perfect jumped at me and I thought it suitable. The card, giving it is so neutral it can go as masculine or feminine, which is always a plus for me. I used the new Christmas Pines stamp set for the fern in the corner and the edges was stamped with the Playful Background along with the splashes from the Swirly Bird stamp set. A simple card as far as embellishments are concerned, but artistic in its own merits.

Thank you for your visit today. I wish you a very happy week and please do come again. Be well

Miriam


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