Hubby's Valentine card...

Hello Craft Friends!

Just a quick card for hubby.  This worked up fast using stamps and die cuts from one of my Card club kits from The Stamps of Life.  Stamped on the inside is All of me Loves All of you.  My husband dedicated this John Legend song to me when it first came out.  Kind of our theme.  Love him so much.  <3 <3 <3

I just purchased my first pack of water color paper and tried to do a water color look wash with my Momento pens and sprayed some water on a big Ziploc freezer bag then transferred to the paper.   Not exactly what I imagined it to be.  But I try not to let things go to waste.  Including the background papers.  ;)  (They were from an old bridal shower order and wedding scraps.) Besides...purple and green are my favorite colors. I will keep practicing.

Side note: I did clean it up after I saw the close of  the photo. ;)
I think I need stronger readers!  Noooo!!!  LOL!

Hope you had a wonderful ❤day.  

Our Anniversary

Hello Crafty Friends!

April 5th was our 28th wedding anniversary.  We spend a lovely weekend in the beautiful Monterey Bay area.  I love our beautiful coastline.  The coastal drive from Half Moon Bay down to Carmel is gorgeous and we had perfect weather.

I love this picture of the lone cypress tree on 17 mile drive.  Way back when I was
young a great uncle of mine who was an artist painted this
tree as a mural on my grandparents living room wall.  I always
thought it was so cool!

Here is a cute little card I made my hubby.  I couldn't wait to get this stamp set from The Stamps of Life because for the few weeks previous and up to our anniversary we had joked about going together like (blank) and (blank).  (You can fill in the blanks.) I kept saying Peanut butter and jelly.  Well then I saw the stamp set we were getting were about peanut butter and jelly and couldn't wait to get it to make this card. LOL!  Literally got it the day before we left.

pb&j2enjoy and the matching die set.
I masked the sentiment.  

 I hope you enjoyed my share today.  Until next time...

Anniversary card...

Hello Crafty Friends!!!

It was our wedding anniversary this month.  :)  It was very low key this year.  Here is the card I made my hubby:

I finally got a background word stamp that I liked.  :)

Sentiment stamps from The {Stamps} of Life
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words4family

Purple flower birthday card...

Hello Crafty Friends!

Well I am going to try to put together some blog posts tonight.  Lot's to share with you all.  :)  So I will start with one project at a time.  I have done so many I am going to have to go back over the blog and see what I have already shared.  LOL!

I made this little lovely card for one of our really good friend Scotia.  :)

The leaves stamp in the background
is a
The {Stamps} of Life stamp set.

I stamped, colored and then outlined the whole stamp image with gel pens to give it some pop.  Tried to get a good picture of it.  You can probably see it better if you enlarge the pic.  :)

I am working on a picture tutorial for a fun little (super easy) star ornament that looks like tin.  This might take me awhile.  LOL!  I took lot's and lot's of pics.  They turned out soooo cuuuttteee and I am excited to share them with you.

Stay tuned!!

Mom and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary...

Hello Crafty Friends!

I can't believe I never got these pics up of my parents "50th Anniversary" dinner.

There anniversary is the same day as my husbands birthday...I mean exactly the same day!  LOL!  ;)  They went back to Tennessee to visit my moms family, so we celebrated when they got back to town.

We have a wonderful little Italian place here in town call Vinces that has been here for as long as I can remember.  They were so generous and let us have the little family gathering in there fireplace room.  It was a very beautiful area.  (No charge, btw.)  And they let us decorate and have a cake table.  :)

The cake made by the wonderful Kristine!

The centerpieces!

One of the many gifts was a photo of them cutting

their wedding cake.  One of my favorite

pics of them when the were sooo young.  :)

My brother, me, dad, mom and my sister.

My hubby, me, dad, mom, sister and brother in law.

Just missing one of the grandkids (the oldest one) she lives
in So CA now and couldn't make it up.  

Cheer's to the Happy Couple!!

Here is a closer look of the centerpiece I made.  It has
little LED lights in the glass.  Looked really pretty in
person, but couldn't get a good camera shot.  :(

 Have a great day!

It's our 26th Wedding Anniversary!

Hello My Crafty Friends!

Today is my hubby and my 26th Wedding Anniversary!  Woo Hoo!  I love him soooo much.  :)

Keeping it low key today ... he had to work today... :(

I did make him a card today.  :)

words2color (inside-Happy Anniversary)
words4family
stamps4fancylabel
Sizzix Framelits Die Set 5PK Fancy Labels
all from
The {Stamps} of Life

Until next time...

Today is our 25th Anniversary...

Hello friends...

Today is our 25th Wedding Anniversary!  :)  Wow.  We have come a long way.  It's amazing how much more we love each other.  My hubby is truly my soul mate and best friend.

Here is a card that I made for our anniversary.  I love this Iris digi that I got from Delicious Doodles.  The Iris is the flower that represents the 25th anniversary.

We are off celebrating at our favorite coastal inn for a couple of days.  I will post pics when I get back.

Hugs,

Our friends 30th Anniversary...

Hello everyone,

Our really good friends are celebrating their 30th Anniversary this week and I made them a card early before they left for their Las Vegas trip.  :)  I meant to share, but was waiting for them to open it before I posted it.  LOL!

Happy 30th Delene and Gary.  Have fun in LV!

Hugs,

CDAC color challenge...

Hello again,

2 posts in 1 day.  I have been very busy today in my craft room.  :)  Here is another card I finished for a Color challenge-cdaccc16:

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I hope you like.  Hugs,