Sunflower Birthday Card

You can never have too many  birthday cards so I always try to keep some on hand.  This one I used Cricut Design Space to create. 

Card Supplies:

5X7 Card Base

Background - Butterfly background from an Anna Griffin cartridge

Flowers - layered flowers.  This image is also from a digital cartridge by Anna Griffin, "Vintage Flowers".  You can print then cut this image with Cricut Design Studio.

Sentiment - 

Thank you for visiting with me today.  I hope you have a special week.

God Bless You !!!  Peggy 

Elegant Fall Colors

Here's another card featuring the AG Beribboned Dies.  I love these fall colors.

Card Supplies:
5X7 Card Base
Die - Anna Griffin Beribboned Dies
Flowers are an Anna Griffin collection also (can you tell I love Anna too much)
Ribbon to mach stamen of flower

Thank you for stopping by.  I love hearing from you.

God Bless You!!!  Peggy 

Still Playing With My HSN Purchase

Like I said the other day, I've been playing with my HSN Craft Day purchases.  This card features one of the dies from AG Fretworks 2 Dies.

Card Supplies:
5X7" card base
Blue and cream die cuts are from the AG Fretworks 2 Dies.  I love how the cream colored one works as a pot for the flowers.

Thank you for visiting with me today.  God Bless You!!!!  Peggy

Challenges for this card:
Cuttlebug Mania W, 3E -  May Flowers (Week 2)
Lemon Shortbread 2W, E3, no digital projects Always Anything Goes (Week 2)
Retarte 2W, E3 - #77 - Anything Goes (Week 1)
Tuesday Throwdown W- #294 -  Embossing
Artistic Inspirations - 2W, E3 - (Week 2) Anything Goes  / Die Cut
Crafting from the Heart - W, E3, F - Always Anything Goes

Iris Card

Lately, I will get an idea for a card in my head and I will start working on the idea, only to end up with something only a little like my original thought.  This card is one of those cards.

The original idea was to layer lace cut outs all across the card.  However, when I tried it, I felt like the lace was too big.  So I just used 1 piece for each side of the card.  I added pink ink to the edges so they wouldn't look so stark.  The lace is from Martha Stewart's Elegant Cake cartridge.

The flower is an Anna Griffin embellishment, layered and put together with foam adhesives for dimension.  The bow is from the Cricut cartridge "Anna's Ribbons and Bows".  This card can be used for so may different occasions.  It would make a lovely Mother's Day card.  My Mom is not living or I would give it to her.

Thank you for visiting with me today.  I love your comments.

God Bless You!!! Peggy

Challenges for this card:
Artistic Inspirations - 2W, E3 - (Week 2) Anything Goes 
Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (April) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Crafting from the Heart - W, E3, F - Always Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges - 2W, 3E, C10 - (Week 2) Girlie
Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes

Scroll Frame-Tall

One of my best friends in NC lost her husband last Saturday.  I know she is devastated.  I wanted to send her some comfort so I decided to send a poem my doctor sent me after my husband died.  I decided to create a frame for it so she could have it on display.

I made this frame from an svg file from My Scrap Chick.  It is called Scroll Frame-Tall.  I added some Anna Griffin flowers and some pearls for bling.  

This is the poem I sent  her.  It's comforting to know they are in the "next room" waiting for us.

Death Is Nothing At All

Death is nothing at all

I have only slipped away into the next room

I am I and you are you

Whatever we were to each other

That we are still

Call me by my old familiar name

Speak to me in the easy way you always used

Put no difference into your tone

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow

Laugh as we always laughed

At the little jokes we always enjoyed together

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was

Let it be spoken without effort

Without the ghost of a shadow in it

Life means all that it ever meant

It is the same as it ever was

There is absolute unbroken continuity

What is death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind

Because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you for an interval

Somewhere very near

Just around the corner

All is well.

Nothing is past; nothing is lost

One brief moment and all will be as it was before

How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

Canon Henry Scott-Holland

Thank you for visiting with us today.  I hope this poem brings my friend some comfort.  I love you, Deena.  God Bless You!!!! Peggy

Floral Embellishments/Cuttlebug Card

This card features another of Anna Griffin's Floral Embellishments.  I used the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Folder to emboss the card base.  The pink background was cut with one of Anna Griffin's Dies.  These dies add so much to a card.  I added a bow to the flowers.

Thank you for visiting with us today.  God Bless You!!!! Peggy

AG Floral Embellishment

Anna Griffin has release several packets of Floral Embellishments and I think I own most of them.  The flowers are put together with foam adhesives to give dimension.  This card features one of them.

I used one of AG's border Cuttlebug Folders to decorate the edge of the card, then applied Wink of Stella for shine.

Thank you so very much for visiting us today.  God Bless You!!!! Peggy