Hey everyone! It's almost time for a long weekend! Hope all is well in your part of the world today. We have absolutely no plans for the long weekend, and guess what? I'm totally okay with that. I seriously need to recharge my batteries and sleep in – and hang with the hubs. Who knows what the weekend will bring. For now, I'm happy just knowing we have a holiday! Our American flag is already hanging out front and I already bought groceries too. Bring it!
Thank you so much to everyone who has sent me an email, or a card or a text… I really am so grateful to have friends out there pulling for me and lifting me up. I'm hanging in there! There are several Bible verses that talk about being grateful for past hard times, because they remind us that God always pulls us through. That has been my focus and my Bible study the past few weeks. And, I know it to be true and right. Music, friends, The Word, and crafting….always get me by.
Today's card features a new stamp set I got from Altenew Stamps and it's called Painted Flowers. It's so delicious. Seriously. Awesome. I am finding that I'm really into florals right now – nice, graphic, pretty florals. This fits the bill perfectly. And, I am all on board with the current trend of mixing a bold, black sentiment strip in with florals. If you look on Pinterest or some of your fav crafty blogs, you'll see this a lot. Me likey. My sentiment is from the Stampin' Up set called A Happy Thing. I stamped the words onto black paper and heat embossed with crisp white embossing powder.
I popped my sentiment strip up with some foam tape. Then I added some clear raindrops (These are from Papertrey Ink). I chose two shades of pink and two shades of light green from the Fresh Ink collection. This project reminded me that I really need to buy some more clear blocks!! LOL. This is actually about 10 different stamps and I had to keep taking them on and off my clear blocks. MESSY!
Before I sign off I have a couple of announcements! Saturday is the next installment of my Tim Holtz Color Pop Feature over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog. I LOOOOOOOOVE sharing this with everyone! This time it's Fossilized Amber as the feature color. I hope you will pop over and check out my card there.
Second Announcement! The lovely and talented May Flaum has invited me to be a contributor this year to her Camp Scrap! YAY! I'm making a card tutorial. There is SO MUCH CONTENT on this class for such a great price. I hope you will CLICK HERE to read all about it and sign up! Lots of crafty gals involved in this awesome project. Can't wait!
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9 responses to “Our friendship is a very happy thing….”
Beautiful card – love that sentiment. Hope all is well! Congrats on the contributor thing!!!
Happy weekend to you both. I’ll be sure to check the SSS blog tomorrow and leave some love. No plans here either, except for art day tomorrow w/friends and time in the treehouse this weekend. I’ve finished the term–that chapter is over!
LOOOOOVE it, Wanda! This is the prettiest stamp set, and I’m adding your card to my “collection” on Pinterest! I agree, a black sentiment looks great with this design!
This is gorgeous, Wanda! Always a delight to see your work!
Happy weekend my dear friend!
I love your card..and love the sentiment in black…I did it in brown..since the cat was in brown ink..but I love the whole trend now..
HUGS Holly.
So pretty! I like to hear what you Ladies use for inks, I purchased the Altenew Vintage Roses, (beautiful)! and did not have luck with crisp inking using SU! or MFT Hybrid. Hmm, discouraging! I’ll try others as these imges are just darling!!
Such a feminine and pretty card! Love the colors!
Such a beautiful card, Wanda! (And a beautiful friend you are!)
Have a wonderful Friday!
This is stunningly gorgeous! The black on the pink just pops! The flowers are just beautiful and this card would be fitting for any lovely friend. Super impressive! Take care!