Thinking of You

This was a very simple-to-make card using the Florentine papers (so beautiful!) from Close-to-My-Heart.  I love the rich colors and designs!  The seam binding was from my stash, the rose stamp is from the CTMH Card Word Puzzle. I keep coming back to that set - it is so sweet and useful that I just ordered a second set to take up to the Minnesota studio!  I water-colored it by picking up ink directly from the ink pad with the tip of a water brush.

It's Thursday night (already!) and it's been a busy week!  The packing is coming along nicely.  My wall-removal project starts next week (yikes!).  

Did I mention that my darling daughter is finally engaged to "her beloved"?  I put that in quotes because at my wedding in December she wanted him introduced that way rather than "her boyfriend" and the status of "her fiancee" wasn't quite true yet!  He made the proposal a dream-come-true for her - asking her on her birthday and on bended knee . . . how sweet.  I think the world of this young man and am delighted that he loves my precious daughter.  He will make a good son in law!  Once again, I am blessed! 

More Fuchsias

I learned while in Minnesota that I completely blew it on coloring these fuchsias!  I'll post the photo of Steve's flowers to prove it!  However, that doesn't mean that this card isn't lovely - does it???  Artistic license??

This week has been busy and time has just flown by!  I only have 8 days left to get the house ready for the remodeling project - YIKES!  Part of the reason this is taking me SO long to prepare is that I'm relocating things into the craft room and I keep getting "distracted"!  LOL 

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Another graduation card

Hello!  I'm back from my fabulous vacation and am posting the other card I made for a graduation - this school's colors were . . . maroon and gold!  I had fun weaving the ruler paper (it was a design paper that I cut into strips).  I love how it turned out!  

My trip to visit Steve was just awesome!  The temperature ranged from mid-40's to 89 degrees and we had nearly 12 inches of rain while I was there!  Everyone kept apologizing for the weather - but honestly, it was a treat to see that delightful wet stuff that falls from the sky!  It's been ages since it's rained in the Phoenix area. 

This poppy is the size of a dinner plate!  It's just one of Steve's many flowers.  They bloomed early (everything is blooming early this year!).

This photo was snapped during a boat adventure to visit the Gull Lake chain of lakes.  We were approaching from the water a fun place called Zorba's (they make great pizza).  The sky was like a picture postcard with those puffy clouds!  So very pretty!

Well, I gotta get to bed!  Being back at work is, well, work!

Hugs!