Hi, Guys!!!! Happy Wednesday!! I hope you guys are enjoying your day! What a difference it makes when you feel like normal. I finally am getting back to my groove, still, have a slight cough but my energy level is back thank goodness. I am trying to catch up on housework and work on projects too. I finally was able to clean the front of my refrigerator today
It’s so funny how this is such a huge accomplishment for me. Does anyone else feel the same? We upgraded our refrigerator about 3 years ago and I love it. It’s so much bigger than our older one but sometimes I find I still need more room. lol, I have two boys 8 and 12 and I can not keep the outside clean or the inside filled. I don’t know how moms do it with more than 2 kids and a full-time job. I feel like I do not have enough time to get things accomplished now. I remember working full time when my oldest was little and I hated it for one, and two I felt like I couldn’t get anything done and thought if only I could be a stay at home mommy I will have a spotless house and dinner on the table every night. Ha I laugh now! I am so lucky that my husband has a good job and I am lucky enough to be able to stay at home. My crafting is my escape from the daily grind of life. I am so happy when I am creating. I was able to make a few cards yesterday. I recently purchased through Stampin Up the lovenotes thinlits. I already had the Sealed with Love stamp set. I love this combo set. The love notes thinlit dies are currently on back order with an estimated availability date of February 27. I can see so many things I will use this with beyond valentines day. You need to think outside the box to find the full potential of something lol. I am going to use this to make my kids goodie bags for valentines day. Here are the cards I made yesterday
These are A2 cards (4 1/4 by 5 1/2) The top one used Real Red as the card base, pool party card stock cut at 4 x 5 1/4 then I ran it in the big shot machine with the 3d card heart edge. I used the Sending Love designer series paper cut at 2 1/2 x 5 I cut out the heart from pool party and the arrow was the Gold foil sheet. I had a little scrap of that and I ran it in the falling petals folder. The stitched square is from the stitched shape framlit dies, it is the second to smallest square. I used vellum for the envelope which is in the love notes dies. I used the Sending love paper for the envelope lid. I used whisper white to cut out the little note and stamped it with Real Red. The second card used Black cardstock cut at 5 1/4 x 4 and 4 3/4 x 3 1/2. Real Red cardstock was used for the card base and one was used as a layer which was cut at 5 x 3 3/4. The strips were cut out at 1 x 4 1/2 and the Sending Love designer paper was used. I used a white gel pen to hand draw all the stitching and I cut another envelope using vellum. I used whisper white to cut the little note and used Real Red ink to stamp the note. I love how these turned out and I want to keep making cards with this set and paper. Dont forget about my Card Club for the month of February. I have not had anyone take advantage of my free card kit yet. Will you be the first one?? I really want to mail these out to someone!! Please let me know what you think of my Card Club. Happy Wednesday!!!!
