Life is Happening

Hey everyone:

I hope all is well with everyone.  I apologize for not coming by to see everyone and know that you are all putting out some beautiful work, but I just haven't been able to do this like I had hoped.  I'm going to have to hang up my blogging hat for a while :(  As you know, my father-in-law passed away the latter part of April and my mother-in-law is struggling with not just that, but she isn't healthy herself, so we have been keeping her company (luckily our daughter Elizabeth stays with her, but we still need to make sure she is comfortable, etc.).  This summer was extremely busy and I was hoping the school season would slow it down a little bit, but that hasn't happened and I don't see it happening anytime soon; therefore, I am going to stop blogging because I just can't seem to get it done like I wanted.  I do plan on being back, but am not sure when that will be.  I do hope that you will email me from time to time to see how things are going and I am planning on doing that as well because I can't stop talking to the awesome friends I have met throughout the years.  Hopefully creating will start back up again and I have tried over the past week, but every time I sit down and try, it just doesn't work - I not only have so much going on, my mojo has said good-bye :(

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers, especially my mother-in-law.  I will be back as soon as I can.  Sending love to each of you.

~~HUGS~~

Janet

It's a purple challenge :)

Hi everyone:

It's almost the weekend and am very excited - Patrick is coming back home this weekend.  He has been staying with my parents some this summer and I have missed the little man:)

The card I am showing you today is being submitted for a DT call for Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Combo and Sami is asking that we submit a project using the color purple.  I have participated in Sami's color challenges throughout the years and love each one of them.

I hope you all have a great Thursday.

Janet

Stamping 411

Hey:

Can you believe it?  I have posted 4 days in a row now and I'm kind of liking that :)

 

My card today is, guess what, a birthday day card :)  I used the sketch challenge from Stamping 411 and was totally surprised by how difficult it was for me - I just couldn't get anything to look right, but it finally came together :) and do like the outcome.

This is going to be a short post because I have some other cards I need to get started on - everyone have a great evening and I'll hopefully see you tomorrow.

Janet

Jennifer's birthday and Just Tracys Crafts Challenge

Hey there everyone - it's Tuesday, man this week has gone by so fast already :)  I was catching up a little bit (I'm slowly but surely getting there) and came across Just Tracys Crafts Challenge blog again and saw that they have a new Design Team member and when I saw her name, was so excited.  Karen, who is the sweetest lady, was asked to be on the DT when another friend Claire left at the end of July.  I have known Karen, Jill, Linda and Claire for a few years now and it has been such a pleasure getting to know them and look forward to many more happy years with them all.   CONGRATULATIONS Karen.

I am using their theme challenge "Happy Birthday", which is perfect for me this week because as I have mentioned already, I have tons of birthday cards I need to make this month and picked this one to submit for the challenge.  I made this card for my great friend Jennifer; we have known each other for almost 9 years now and I am so blessed to have her in my life and thank God for her daily.  Jennifer, I hope you had an awesome birthday and I love you !!!  

I really enjoyed doing this card and it was the first time I used Kimberly Crawford's Mint Motif Cake Shoppe I and II sets I purchased months ago from i{heart}papers (they are FABULOUS).  I CASED this card, but am so sad that I can't remember from whom - I have to do better about writing these things down when I am going through them.

I'm going to work on more cards tonight and surprisingly, they aren't birthday cards :)

Enjoy your evening.

Janet

Debbie's birthday

Happy Monday everyone:

I hope you all had a great day - it was very busy on my end and can already see that the week is going to be that way, but not to worry, that just means the weekend will get here faster :) As I stated in my post yesterday, I have many birthdays coming up this month and the card I am showing you is one I gave to my awesome friend Debbie, whose birthday was yesterday (I'm sorry for the delay in getting this to you Debbie). I used the sketch from CPS and color challenge from CR84FN34. This was my first time doing a challenge for CR84FN and can see that I will be a frequent visitor - I loved both the sketch and the colors in this card (unfortunately you can't really see the celery color in it, but it's there) and it was great fun making. Debbie, I hope you had a great birthday and am very privileged to have you as my friend.

 

  

I hope you all have an enjoyable evening and I'll see you back tomorrow.

Janet