Being a part of your fan club

Months ago I ordered some more sentiment stamps from TAC and decided to start using them. You have to make the right card or the sentiment doesn't seem to fit. Some of these are just phrases and need another word before or after.... like AMAZING could be the one before this phrase... there are others but since I don't have them in front of me right now I can't remember them! This is quite the simple card with no embellishments other than the ribbon, a relatively flat card. That is AMAZING, it's easy on the postage!

Weather report: It's a sunny cold morning (29 degrees)! I'm drinking my hot Chai tea before I bundle up to take the dogs for a walk. DH put up the bird feeder out the kitchen windows, which is right next to the kitchen desk with my computer. Always out of the corner of my eye I see movement... the seed attracts little finches. They are fun to watch and fun to view close up, I can see all of their different feathers. Every once in a while a squirrel pops out from beneath the bushes as he gathers up what has dropped to the ground below.

Thinking of you

Whipper snapper design.... I believe. I'm just having fun making cards, all kinds of cards, CASe-ing cards, tags for packages, drawing doodles of cuteness from where ever I can find inspiration.

Wow! October was my worst month as Creative Greetings, although I gave away over 20 cards and paper craft items, I did not sell anything. Notta, zilch, zippo, null! This really surprises me, and well, greatly saddens me! But I have to move on, it's November.

High school volleyball is over. Sissy's team had their last tournament last weekend, and the won the entire thing. I believe overall all with their season they had 2 losses.

Happy Halloween

Easel Cards

Hey Lady! have you ever tried the easel cards from SCS? This type of card was one of their challenges last week or so. Making a card, that eventually props up to show the front and the greeting inside. How cool is that?

So, the little 'pop up" on the inside holds the correctly folded card up. I made a few of these and used a button, a flower with a brad, and here just two punched circles on the inside, popped up to be the 'prop'.

The card looks perfectly normal closed, open it and it can be propped up to display.

Annual Fall Family Photo Shoot

Oh, there are tons more, after we got in the swing of things and with the digital camera, how fun is this having everyone smile on a beautiful fall day!

Two weekends ago we trekked out to take some family pictures. It was a little chilly. There were tons of families out at this local park. We even had to re-arrange shots so they didn't get in the pictures.

I wont bore you with the rest.... some time, I'll compare pictures from 12 years ago to now... then we lived in Tennessee and have some pics from a Cival War Battlefield.

Have a great day!

Celebrating Small Victories

Saw this simply adorable layout (I made a few versions of this card and sent them out to special people)and decided I would do it in the 'pink' with the sentiment Celebrating Small Victories.... since it is breast cancer awareness month.... I sent this card out to a friend who has survived breast cancer, or a term I heard recently become a warrior! Think pink!

Although the coverage of different Breast Cancer runs, and events are everywhere during the month of October, since it is very hard for me to relate to this devastating disease, I'm trying to open my eyes to become more aware... yet it is still so distant from me. At this time, all I can say is to those experiencing this horrible disease, with hope and courage and support from the entire world it seems the battle continues to beat the odds and this does not overcome every victim, it is won!

Let's Talk Turkey

Cute little fellow ... whose soon to have his head chopped off and the feathers plucked outta him, his limbs twisted apart and his eyeballs popped out of his head!!! Yikes! Where did that come from... I must be angry or something... or I've seen too many Halloween movies lately!!!

Tom here is part of something really cool this year! I had three friends sign up for the Card of the Month. Each month this past year they received a 'surprise' blank card that they in turn could send to someone of their choice. The cards related to the holiday of the upcoming month or the season. So the last card they received was good ole Tommy boy.... next month is the last month, and they will get something Christmas related or snowy or something like that.