This is the most awesome and hardest card I've made...

It is for a very amazing woman who is battling cancer...and it's spreading....but God is BIGGER than cancer!

So for her is this her card. With my love and prayers! She has a great reward waiting for her, but her grandson and my daughter are not ready to say 'see you later' yet. I just pray God will delay her departure from us.

The pictures do not do show the detail. It has 3 frames and layers of vines and flowers. The verse I got from a yahoo group I'm in and it is perfect!

I used so many cartridges, I will try and remember.

I think the frames came from Accent Essentials, the viney thing came from Home Accents, the flower from Pagoda, the Faith from Home Accents (?) and the Angel from Joys of the Seasons.

I didn't write them down the cartridges--and it took me all day to detail the flowers, layer them and ink all the edges....but she is worth all my time.

Please keep Dolores in your prayers. She is such an awesome Christian lady.

Hugs, Storylady

Oh, I had the best Birthday ever.....

spent the day just talking and using my new lil Cricut and working on a card (hubby asked me to make) and eating two of my very favorite things---pizza and cheesecake with cherries! And then a beautiful handmade card from my best friend Shelly and presents--a birthday bag full of awesome papers and some bling ribbon and white ribbon with black pokadots (perfect--I had black ribbon with white pokadots--but not visa versa!)

And then the Pagoda cartridge that hubby got me was in the mail! And dd Laura took me to see the Eclipse (twilight series) movie after a wonderful shrimp dinner at our new Cheddars with hubby and daughter! Dear Dau got me the new book on cd of Stephenie Meyer (author of Twilight series) the short second life of bree tanner! Will be listening to that. She reads alot so I made her a rather big bookmark. She loves Japanese food and their culture--so this was off the new Pagoda cartridge.

I've had soooo much fun today....

I got my Cricut back just in time. Sunday is Hubby's B-day (Monday is mine) and I wanted to make his card...then our wonderful daughter picked out one she wanted me to make for her to give him....

so here is what we came up with and I thank Loraine and Tammy for theirs posts.



The little birdie card is for Laura to give to her father. They have such an awesome bond.



The Owl card is my way of saying he's just getting better! After 39 years of marriage, he's decided he gets the last word in every argument--it's 'yes dear!' (Gotta love him.









I can't believe all the kind comments I got on my post yesterday! Thank you all sooo much--made me feel G-R-E-A-T (as Tony the Tiger would say!)

Hugs--Storylady (Linda)

Guess what I got....guess what I got...

Yup---my Cricut--it was so funny--I hadn't talked to anybody since Thursday--and was going to call them yesterday--but decided to give that day to them....so I was loaded for 'bear' this morning when I called about 9:05am and the wonderful Heidi told me it was being delivered today--she said, 'infact it shows it's setting at your front door on the poarch'! Well, it was, and being handicapped--it wasn't easy getting it in the house-but I was determined. So here is the card I made today--I think it is the best I've ever done. I guess I learned alot watching Youtube for 3 weeks learning new techniques!!!

I used my little finger dabber and brown ink and gave the 'distressed' look to everything.

I used the Doodlecharm cartridge for both the basket and apples.

I added the little white dots. I removed the 'holes' that were suppose to be there by using my Gypsy.

I used the Tags, Bags, Boxes and more cartridge for the border around the sentiment. I printed it out on my computer.






I'm so happy now.

More to come later!

Hugs--Storylady (Linda) with :-D (happy face!!)

Still no Cricut.....but I couldn't stand it any longer..,..

so, thank you again Mary from CardzTV (I say that a lot, don't I!)

I made two Quilt cards. I didn't have any of that pretty purple paper she had so I took some from DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack.







so, thank you again Mary from CardzTV (I say that a lot, don't I!)

I used my new Irock and put a little bling on both cards. The flower on the first card is a 2 piece set punch a bought a few weeks ago. The other flower is one I've had awhile--I believe prima. The ribbon is from M.

Thanks for looking!

Hugs--Storylady (Linda)

Oh, I've gone and done it now!

My Expression (somewhere in Fedex LALA Land!)

My newly reconditioned Cricut Personnal Electronic Cutter! (probably in LALA Land, too!)


I found a Cricut® Personal Electronic Cutter on Provo's web site and bought it--with the bonous $'s they gave me--I only had to pay the last $9 of shipping--it's a reconditioned one---soooo---I won't be without a cricut again, EVER!!!--STILL NO CRICUT!!!

But I think I have some ideas (thank you Mary and your quilt cards) to make some without my Cricut.

I wonder which one I will get first?

And what have I been watching? I have a new best friend and she doesn't even know it! Card Crations by Lorraine. While I was trying to get a baby blanket done (crocheting) I watched almost all her videos! Love them! Check them out--and she also is a wonderful teacher!

(I didn't get the blanket done--but just found out about it a week ago and the shower was today!)

Hugs--Storylady (Linda)

STILL NO CRICUT, but

because of all the trouble, they are giving me some shopping credit! Yeah!!!!
Just wish I had my Cricut!

Hugs--Storylady (Linda)