Well, I got the answering machine message late Friday when I walked into the bedroom -- my MRI was clear! Nothing like finding out on the 8th anniversary of your mastectomy that the MRI is clear! Praise God!
I apologize for not posting in so long. Andy is here to celebrate his 18th birthday and we had a blast with my family. He received gift cards and cash -- what better gifts! -- and he has already spent all of his Kohl's gift cards on clothes. (God is smiling on me these days!) He even bought ... GASP...DRESS CLOTHES! He bought plaid shorts versus sports shorts. He bought sports shorts too, but this is a first and I'm lovin' it!
The worst part? I haven't stamped in over a week and when I hit my stamping room yesterday, I had to clean up after the cyclone went through. When I finally started stamping, I HAD NOTHING! I lost my mojo! The more I stamp, the more quickly the ideas come. The less I stamp, it's like my brain goes on vacation and I can't come up with anything. I am hopeful I can come up with something today, but I've got three days worth of ironing to do as well so we'll see if that hinders the creative process!
You've probably seen these all over the web and that is because they are easy and fun to make. This is a quilt card, made using 1 1/4" punches and the Top Note Die. I started with a base of Bashful Blue and ran a piece of Chocolate Chip through the Big Shot using the Texturz Plates. You can barely see the texture -- I should have rubbed some Whisper White craft ink over this to bring out the texture, but this will have to suffice. I punched twelve 1 1/4" squares from the retired DSP from Christmas and adhered them to a piece of Whisper White, making certain they were all glued down very solid. My trick is to just punch the squares and cover the Whisper White with my adhesive and then place the squares. Next, I ran this piece through the Big Shot using the Top Note Die and voila! I adhered this to the base with mounting tape. I used the Oval Scallop Punch to punch a piece of Tangerine Tango, stamped the sentiment from the Oval All set onto Whisper White and colored it using my inkpads and blender pens. I turned my oval punch over so I could see proper placement for punching and punched it out. I adhered this with mounting tape to the scallop and then used mounting tape to adhere the scallop to the front of the card. Call that one done!
Hopefully, I'll get some things worthy of blogging stamped today. Andy goes home this afternoon and it is always hard for me to get over him leaving. However, his father loves him as much as I do and he has to be back for school. He'll officially be a senior starting on June 3 and I think he can't wait! I absolutely positively can!
Enjoy the remainder of this holiday and stay safe!
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