A sympathy card and Valentines card

A genealogy friend and cousin lost his wife last week. They had a rare, close and loving relationship and he is going to need lots of prayers to deal with his loss. I made this card for him.

My inspiration was a card by Tammy E. with a few tweeks of my own. She is such a wonderful Christian example of how cards can be used to pass on the love of Jesus Christ. Thanks again Tammy for your beautiful work and your loving soul!





I used paper from a pack that my friend Shelly had given me a while back
the card base was cut from A Childs Year (card function 3rd row-7th button over-3.7)--cut at 5 1/4 in.
I printed the words off the computer and used the center cut on the expression (sorry--I forgot what I cut it at) with the scalloped oval from Forever Young

I got a new butterfly punch from Martha Stewart (at Michaels) and used a 40% off coupon so it was under $6! It has one small butterfly and two smaller ones--I love it.

I used my Irock and was having trouble--then realized the batteries where going dead-dah!
I used the Mother's Day Bouquet to make the little flowers.



I couldn't sleep last night so I designed this card on my Gypsy (love that little tool and just got the 6 foot cord that connects to the Cricut--nice!


Here is the card I designed about 3am! Love the pop-up



Here is the card I designed about 3am! Love the pop-up

The front I used the two backgrounds from Storybook and the Hugs & Kisses from Wild Card. I used the lips and the "Smack" from Indie Art.

Thanks for stopping by and leave a comment if you have the time.

{Hugs}--Storylady--Linda

My daughter's good friend's birthday is today...

Thank goodness she told me last night and is in Summer School until 4 today...so I had time to come up with a card. Little Lena (she is soooo pettite) is 17 today.


I put a mat on the top inside with my embossing 'happy birthday', but it didn't come out in the pix!

I embossed swiss dots behind the models...I used foam deminsions on both the girls and the swiss dot squares.

I used a Martha Stewart's edging punch (I got on sale at WalMart last night (WalMart is changing their scrapbooking area and have most their old stuff on clearance!) and I used the 'with love' embossing edge above the edging--I did a lot, but I don't think it looks like too much! What do you think?

Hugs,
Linda