Some Heart to Heart, a Dutch Dare Does Double Duty and Boy, Do I Need to Clean Up My Work Table!

I finally finished my card for Carolyn King's Heart to Heart (be still my beating heart) Blog Candy Extravaganza Giveaway (yeah, I came up with that name). The card is going to my mom--she has a lovely neighbor named Lucy who is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. Lucy doesn't have any children or grandchildren to help her out and there isn't anyone in her extended family who makes sure she remembers to eat and pay her bills. So, my mom takes her dinner every night and spends some time with her. Lucy usually remembers who mom is and she's always very grateful. She's the nicest lady and she has lived in my mom's apartment complex for longer even than my mom has, over 20 years probably. I've known her for about 16 years and I say a pray for her everyday. The saddest thing is to see when she gets that moment of clarity, she still gets them, and she realizes that she has to have help--you can see her inner struggle. So this card is for my mom.



This next card is for the Dutch Dare challenge this week. The challenge was to make a card for a boy or a man. My friend's nephew is turning 11 tomorrow and Caitlin and Collin are going to send this card to him in the mail. Kids LOVE to get mail. I know, the robots have rhinestones...I had to, shut up! :)



Finally, the aforementioned friend has a wedding to go to tomorrow and she asked me to make an accordion album for the bride--the pictures she gave me weren't the greatest, so I decided to make two smaller picture thingies (help, word please?). I love how these turned out! The bride is a real girlie girl, she'll love them.




See the mess underneath my card photos? I need a bulldozer, I've been working on so many projects with no time to clean up in between. Also, I've used about 20 bucks worth of GLUE this week...can someone help me with a cheap glue the isn't messy and actually sticks? Thanks so much for stopping by, I'm going to try to get the 10 cards I designed for HoneyD photographed and edited tomorrow.



thank you so very much: PTI kraft, SU! red, Cosmo Cricket patterned, American Crafts rub-on sentiment

you're cool: PTI kraft, Ampad black, Cosmo Cricket Cogsmo PP, Doodle Factory Sentiment

For Crooked Stamper's Contest

Crooked Stamper, Leslie (Hi, Leslie), has reached a blogging milestone, and to celebrate she's issued a challenge...i actually made these all on the day of the challenge, but i just got to photograph them today. Also, I didn't realize there were so many! All of my sentiments are rub-ons, bless the heart of the person who invented the rub-on! Here they go--all with green and some ribbon:


















Visit My Etsy Shoppe!!
Thanks!

Striped Birthday

A simple birthday card for my friend's mom's assortment. The patterned paper is Cosmo Cricket Cogsmo. The ribbon is gorgeous vintage deliciousness my mother snapped up for me at the Salvation Army. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the red paper. The card base is Georgia Pacific white. Simple dimple.

****edits to add: this one is her favorite