One Sweet Cookie

Believe it or not, I have nothing to say today. I'm all talked out. So, I'm just going to share this card that I made over the weekend.

The paper is from the Basic Grey Scarlett's Letter pack that I used last week. The stamps are Close to My Heart and I'm pretty sure they are retired, but I haven't seen a catalog in a while.

I hope you are enjoying or have enjoyed your Monday, depending on when you see this.
Have a blessed day! Choosing Joy, Jacki

ETA: I have cards published today in the Hero Arts Cardmaking section of the website today. Here's the buzz on the Blog.

a Tag of a different color...

I'm thinking about the Wizard of Oz for some reason.. a horse of a different color...

The tag I'm thinking of is a name tag! Lately when you see "tag" on a blog, it means something else.
Anyway...

Remember when I said I was working on something for the ladies that participated in my Leap Year challenge. Yes, I'm referring to the challenge that was last month. I'm slow, but I have good intentions... Hopefully all the ladies have received these by now.
Anyway, I sent them each a name tag just for participating. The stamps on the top six tags are all Hero Arts clear stamps. The main image on the bottom tag that looks like a stamping supply label (for Julie) is by a company called Stamps in Motion. I also used CTMH, Hero Arts on that one.
I bought unfinished wood rectangles from Michaels. They were painted, stamped and then varnished. I used Scrabble stickers from Jolee's to spell out the name.


By the way ladies, if you are reading this and you aren't happy with the way I spelled your name, email me, I can send you more stickers. If you are happy, you might want to use a stronger glue to permanently attach the letters. I just used the adhesive that is already on them( because I wasn't sure of the spelling). When I made my own several years ago the letters started to fall off after a couple of wearings. I don't remember if I used Goop or hot glue, but they haven't fallen off since and I wear it all the time.

Blog business:
Anybody wanna pray with me -As it approaches the end of the month, I'll be updating the prayer list. Please contact me with any requests you'd like me to add to the list. Please send me any updates if you've already been on the list.

Comment Moderation:
I'm still periodically getting junk comments so I'm going to keep screening comments for now.

ABC Challenge: Is anybody still playing with me? I'm up to G and I can't think of a G category so I may go to G stamps. I have a category called Girlfriends. Unless anybody has any great ideas, I'll pick up with G after my surgery.

The last week before the surgery. I am down to the wire. I'm excited that I'll get to spend time with one of my new friends Deb. S this week. I also still plan to get more of my Hero projects done before the surgery. As you know I can't share those, but I'm sure I'll still make cards that you can see. Making cards isn't where I struggle. I need to get the rest of my house in order before the 9th.

I don't know if I'll be back today with a card or not. I know I promised that I would have a tulip card each day until I see tulips in real life so, in a half hearted effort to keep my promise, I'm going to link you to the many tulip cards in my gallery. One might get the impression that I like purple or tulips after looking at this collection. Tulips in my Gallery

Thanks again ladies for participating. Enjoy your day.

More on those Christmas cards....

Yes. Dawn, you read it right! We will send out 150 this year. Each time we move we add a few more people we want to keep in touch with. I think I sent out 125 the last time I sent out a Christmas letter. And then we moved again....

Ok, I don't know why I'm even posting this because it's more of a process and not a finished project. Remember the stamping on the envelope I mentioned?? My bright idea involved this stamp by All Night Media. It is one of the very first stamps I bought 9 years ago. I was so excited when I saw it because ... count the stockings.... I thought it was so cute because there was a tiny pair (I had a 3 month old) and several in between. These days they would all almost be all the same size. I'm not mentioning any names but there is at least one young man in my house whose feet are larger than his big sisters and mom's and soon to be bigger than dad's!

Back to the process. So, I stamped my stocking image on a Cut and Dry pad with a permanent ink. (I used StazOn). After applying the first color reinker I remembered that I probably needed to use the resist reinker so that the colors wouldn't run together.


After I got all the colors on and stamped it a few times, I decided that it was going to take too long. It was cute, but it didn't really go with the design of the card. So I scrapped that idea.


Before abandoning the idea of stamping on the envelopes all together, I tried again with another less detailed stamp.

After doing a couple of envelopes, I decided it was going to be too much work indeed to stamp all the envelopes. I do like the way this one turned out, but I'm running out of time.


The last idea, consisted of this set of stamps that I haven't used in years and the return address labels. Stamping on the label will technically be a little faster because I can stamp a whole page of many labels instead of having to move the envelope after each stamping. After all, I had just finished stamping all the letters when I started this.

Now after all that, and stopping to take pictures and blogging about it, I'm behind in my card goal for today. Am I the only one who complicates everything?

ETA: That last stamp set is by Close to My Heart and the ornament is by Inkadinkado.