Cammie's Blog Give Away

Hello!

I wanted to tell you about a great thing happening over at Cammie's blog.  She is doing a wonderful give away in honor of her grandmother who died a few years ago of complications resulting from Alzheimer's disease.  Cammie wants to build awareness of the disease and what goes into the caring of people with it.  One of the requirements of the contest is to make and send a card to a caregiver.  I work in a nursing home/ rehab center and have first hand experience of how difficult yet rewarding it can be to care for the elderly, no matter what their diagnosis may be. 

I used the leaf print from the Signs of Autumn Stamptv kit.  I wanted to do an embossed resist technique with the stamping underneath it, but I didn't have a small print or background stamp, so I made my own background using one of the mum stamps from the Lean on Me set.  I stamped the mum in pumpkin all over the cardstock, then stamped the leaf in versamark and clear embossed.  Then I sponged over everything with caramel, then navy inks.  I wasn't sure how to fit on a sentiment, so I just put it on the inside of the card.  This sentiment is very appropriate!  Caregivers do make the world a better place!  So hop on over to Cammie's blog to get all the details, make a card, and send it out to a caregiver deserving of a great THANK YOU!

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Recipe:
Stamps:  Signs of Autumn, Lean on Me, Thanks a Million GKD
Ink:  SU pumpkin, navy, caramel, Versamark
Paper:  PL kraft, navy, pumpkin, ivory GKD
Other:  Button from GKD, ribbon, EP





Thinking of You

Hello!

Today I have a card I made for my brother-in-law's birthday which is later in the month.  I CASEd the main image/scene from a card Theresa Momber made here.  Theresa has great tutorial pictures on her blog for sponging and coloring images.

I used Theresa's set from GKD called Life is Good.  This set is special to me because it was the set I was assigned when I was one of StampTV's Centerstage Designers.  The leaves on the background are from the StampTV kit Signs of Autumn.

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Sunflowers

Happy Saturday!

I hope everyone is having the same wonderful weather we are having here in Upstate New York!

A few weeks ago, my kids and I , along with my mom, sister, and nephew, traveled to Oregon and Washington for a family reunion.  While we were in Washington, we stayed with my aunt and her husband.  The card I made today is to thank them for putting up with us ( especially with 3 teen/twenty year olds, lol).  They fed us and took us sightseeing for 3 days, while during that same time, unfortunately, their 6 week old grandson was in the hospital with a fever ( he's okay).  So they had a lot on their plates, but still showed us a wonderful time :))

All images, sentiments, and cardstock are from GinaK Designs.
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