Thank You

My very sweet college friend, Sharon, came over today to give me a tutorial on selling on ebay.  I have about 15 years of retired Stampin’ Up! stamp sets and it’s time to sell some.  (If there’s a specific one you are looking for, let me know and I might have it.)  Anyway, Sharon got more than she bargained for, not realizing it would take 2 1/2 hours to get me up to speed.  OK, so we did have problems with my very old iPad.  Superman if you’re reading this, I could use a new iPad for my birthday!  Spending $500 will somehow save you money on ebay sales in the long run. 🙂

Well, I knew  I needed to make Sharon a card and I love this week’s Global Design Project sketch shown above.

Here’s the inside of Sharon’s card.  I’m going to write on a post it note instead of inside the card, so Sharon has a cute thank you to pass on to someone else.  I should probably add a couple more cards to thank her also.

I love adding something to the envelope to make it special.

We had such a busy weekend.  Superman and I took Abby to her first college visit on Friday.  I didn’t bother to tell the college that I will miss Abby terribly and I’m not actually letting her leave home next year. 🙂  On Saturday we went to the district Individual Speech contest.  Abby has never participated in this before and was quite nervous before it started.  She did a memorized public address and also a lit program.  She was thrilled to get a “1” on both and will be moving on to the state contest.  Keegan was busy with a jazz competition for part of the day on Friday and was happy to have the house to himself.

I’d love to hear your questions or comments.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

Card details:

Paper- Cherry on Top DSP, Watermelon Wonder and Whisper White cardstock

Stamp Sets- Apple of My Eye, Honeycomb Happiness

Ink- Cucumber Crush, Watermelon Wonder

 

 

For the first time ever, I used two challenges to inspire my card.  Pals Paper Arts provided the color challenge and Freshly Made Sketches gave me the sketch challenge.  I’ve never used these three colors together, but I must say I like it!

A Whole Lot of Lovely is a Hostess set from the 2015-16 annual Stampin’ Up! catalog.  I can see many uses for this “Thank You” stamp.  I used clear embossing powder on the sentiment and punched out flowers and used Candy Dots on some of the flowers.  I’ve included links to the supplies I used below.  Please let me know if you have comments or questions.

Believe it or not, today Steve and I took down the Christmas tree and put all the other Christmas decorations away.  I loved my tree this year decorated in bright and happy colors.  Every time I came in the house or walked downstairs, seeing the tree would make me smile.  I was telling a good friend about this and she told me seeing her tree up made her think of “work” as in work that needed to be done.  Since it is more than a month after Christmas and we heard the kids trying to explain to their friends why we still had a tree up, we decided it was time.  Steve did mention if we just left it up, we wouldn’t have to put it up again next year.  I decided the tree would get very dusty and I’ll try to survive the rest of this cold Iowa winter without my smile inducing tree!

Blessings,

Beth 🙂