Thank you and Good Luck cards

 

Hello Friends! I hope you're having a wonderful week, it's almost Friday! Have you all started your Christmas shopping? I've picked up a couple of gifts so far but I still have a long list to buy for! I was able to complete my Christmas card samples for my peeps that purchase them from me, so I'll be posting those in the next few days.

 

Today's cards are still part of the 30 card series (30 cards really is a lot!) LOL! I made two very similar cards and just added different sentiments. I really love the color combos, that blue really stands out from the orange and yellow. I used a great patterned paper pad from Jillibean Soup and I just added the tags and those cute little chipboard buttons are from Webster's Pages, a few rhinestones and some twine finish up the cards.

 

I'm so excited for the weekend because my honey and I are going Christmas tree shopping! I love the smell of a real tree, it just puts me right in holiday mode! We're also going to hang lights outside so we can really be in the spirit. Many of our neighbors have already put their outside lights up so we really need to get crackin' over here! Well, I hope you all have a great day and an awesome weekend. I'll be posting again real soon, I promise! Thanks for stopping by! 

Get Well Soon card

 

Hello Friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Isn't it funny how a long holiday weekend, really doesn't seem so long? I can't believe it's already Sunday just one more day until the work week begins. But, let's not chat about that, okay? Today I have a sweet Get Well Soon card and cold and flu season is definitely upon us. My sweet husband has been under the weather the better part of the weekend, but he's been a trooper and has fought his way through it! This card is another member of the 30 card batch, and I used one of my favorite stamp sets, Tea for Two from Papertrey Ink. Speaking of tea, I actually got my husband to try Chai tea for the first time and he loved it! He says "this tea is really good, why have you been holding out on me?" LOL! He has jokes even when he's sick.

 

Well I hope you all have a fantastic day and I truly appreciate you stopping by!

WCMD Honorable Mention!

Hello Friends! Well, I have some very exciting news to share with you today. Back in October I submitted a couple of cards to PaperCrafts magazine for their World Card Making Day contest, and one of my cards won Honorable Mention! I still cannot believe it, I was in total shock when I received the email from one of the PaperCrafts editors! I feel so bad that I didn't realize it sooner because it was originally posted on their blog on November 6th. But, I know now and I wanted to share with all of you! Here is the post from the PaperCrafts blog WCMD Honorable Mention and here's a photo of the card that was chosen:



I am so overjoyed and humbled at the same time. This experience has given me so much confidence to continue to submit more and more cards/projects. You never know, I may actually get published one day, and that would literally be a dream come true!

I hope you all have a great day, and for those of you brave enough to go Black Friday shopping, I hope you get some GREAT deals!!! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Happy Thanksgiving friends! Don't you just love the look on this little guy's face? It literally cracks me up! This little turkey was one of the 30 cards I recently made for a co-worker so hopefully he made his way to someone's home and put a smile on their face.

 

I just love Thanksgiving, it's really a time to sit back and reflect on all those things we're thankful for. For me, I'm thankful for family, friends, good health, my job, my favorite passtime-papercrafting, this blog and of course all of you who swing by from time to time to get crafty with Carol! I'm looking forward to spending the day with my in-law's and eating some really good food. I'm going to try my best not to overindulge, but hey its the holidays! :-)

 

I hope you all have a great day and are able to spend time with those that mean the most to you. Be thankful, be blessed, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

 

I'll be getting started on my Christmas cards (can you believe it's almost Christmas?) so I'll be posting those soon!

TGIF!!

Hello Friends! Happy Friday to all of you. Friday's are always happy days in the Weatherspoon household, it marks the end of the work week (although sometimes my hubby works on weekends), the start of the weekend, and a day that's generally relaxing and fun!

Remember I told you that I was working on a 30 card order for a co-worker of mine and I finally finished about a week ago? Well, I'm going to spend the next few posts dedicated to those cards. Since her order was for quite a few cards I decided to make 2 cards using the same layout and just change up the colors or patterned paper a bit.

 

 



As you can see with the two cards above, I chose to use a kraft card base, and the same background stamp. One background was stamped vertically and the other horizontally, then I used the beautiful flowers from a Papertrey Ink stamp set and ahered those with foam adhesive. The final touches were making a mat for my sentiment and a little patterned paper along the bottom. It's a simple, yet elegant card. The inspiration for these cards came from the super talented Nichole Heady

(http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2011/12/introducing-love-marriage.html).

 

I hope you all enjoyed today's post, and I hope you have a great weekend!

 

Supplies:

Cardstock - Papertrey Ink

Stamps - Papertrey Ink (Rosie Posie)

Patterned Paper - Cosmo Cricket

 

P.S. I would like to wish both of my brothers (Gentry and Donnie) a Happy Birthday!

And the winner is...

Hello Friends! I'm happy announce the winner of my Birthday Giveaway, and that person is Sonya Montgomery!

Birthday Giveaway
1st drawing held by Getting Crafty with Carol
Completed on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 02:41:54 UTC
10 entrants, 1 winner

The winner of your drawing is…

1st	Sonya Montgomery

Congratulations Sonya, you will have some goodies arriving to you soon!

 

Have a great day everyone!

We learn something new every day

Hello Friends! I have a little trivia to share with you today. Did you know that the United States Marine Corps (USMC) is older than the United States of America? It's true, my co-worker shared this tidbit of information with me recently and I was utterly surprised. The Marines were created on November 10, 1775 and as you know the US declared it's independence on July 4, 1776. Pretty interesting, huh? You can read more about the USMC here: Wikipedia.

That bit of info brings me to my card. Not only did my co-worker share this fact with me, but she also asked me to make a card for her boyfriend. Her boyfriend served in the Marines and every year they celebrate the USMC birthday which is today. I thought that was so sweet and I was more than happy to whip up a little something for her. This is what I came up with:

This card was really fun to make. I love using patriotic colors because it just makes you feel so proud to be an American. I used a star print embossing folder for the base pattern and just built the card on top of that. I found these great Marine Corps stickers at my local scrapbook store and they fit perfectly onto my card. While we're celebrating the birthday of the Marine Corps, I would like to take this time to thank all of our brave men and women who are serving and have served in the armed forces. I appreciate all that you do!

I would also like to take this opportunity to wish all of our veteran's a Happy Veteran's Day tomorrow! My husband served in the Army so I have so much gratitude for all of those who risked their lives for our freedom.

I hope you all enjoyed today's post, and I thank you so much for stopping by!

Coasters, and cards, and note cards oh my!

Good Morning Friends! Today I'm back with a fun coaster/card project. You all have heard me talk about my sweet friend Chi, well that girl has been keeping me super busy lately! She recently asked me to make coasters and card as a birthday gift for a special person that is turning 90! She's a martini drinker so I took that idea and ran with it!

 

Her favorite color is purple so I tried to incorporate both into the coasters and the card. I mentioned before that I make these coasters using tiles from Home Depot (who knew Home Depot was a crafty place!) and I actually used clip art from Word to add the martini glass. For the card I used the same patterened paper but used a stamp of a martini glass and cut that out of cardstock, colored with Copic markers and voila, we have a matching set!

 

I also made a set of note cards for Chi just to thank her for all of the business she has given me. I sent them to her about a week ago and I think she liked them! ;-)

 

 

That's all I have for today, thank you so much for stopping by!

Election Day!

Hello Friends! I just wanted to pop in and remind everyone that today is election day and you should all be exercising your right to vote. I know the lines may be long and the day may be cold and wet where you are, but it truly is our civic duty. If you are unsure of your polling location, check out this site Polling Locations. Okay, I'm getting off my soap box now, but please go vote!

It's my Birthday + A Giveaway!

Hello Friends! I just wanted to pop in for a quick post because today is my birthday! I absolutely LOVE my birthday and I've been smiling and humming since last night just thinking about it! So, since it's my day I thought I would offer up a little birthday giveaway! As they say, it's always better to give than to receive. :-) What I decided to do was giveaway a few of my favorite things...

 

 

What do we have in this little bundle you ask? We have a Starbucks gift card - I'm loving the pumpkin latte! We have a beautiful nail polish from Essi called Swept Off My Feet, it's a pretty raspberry color that's perfect for fall. And we have two note pads, you all know how I feel about those note pads! So, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post you can wish me a happy birthday, tell me what you like about the blog, tell me what you would like to see on the blog, etc. If you post anonymously, please be sure to add your email address so I can reach you. I will select a winner through Random.org on Tuesday, November 13th. Good Luck!!

 

This giveaway closed.

I have a new nephew!

Hello Friends! I'm so sorry that I've been MIA from the blog lately but I've been working feverishly on a 30 card order for my co-worker. Whew, it's pretty much all of I've working on for the last couple of weekends. I'm almost done and of course I'll be sharing lots of photos very soon!

In other news, my sister recently had a little baby boy his name is Mekhi Samuel and he is a real cutie! I made this card for her shortly after she had him and she has it displayed in his room. I can't wait to meet him (they're in Ohio) but I will be traveling there real soon. I have a photo to share of him as well from Halloween.

 

Isn't he beautiful?! I just want to hug him and squeeze him, and kiss him!! I can't wait to get up there! Well, I hope you all enjoyed today's post and I'll be back tomorrow with a little giveaway so stay tuned! :-)