Peace and Comfort For a Friend

Hi Ladies! How's your Wednesday late afternoon going? It's such a beautiful day today, I just love the sunshine! I made this card for a friend at church. She has had it very, very, rough for the last 6 months or so. Her young daughter just finished up all her treatments for breast cancer. She just returned from out of town after celebrating the last treatment and came home to some very sad news that her mother only had a few months to live. Well, this past week her mother died. She has really gone through a lot and I wanted to make her up a card. I hope it picks her up even if it's for only a few seconds.



Close up...I really like using pearls!...(I think you know that by now.)



Card Size 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
Supplies:
Stamp-JustRite Stamp Thinking of You Borders and Center Ovals
Paper- PTI-Sweet Blush, Smokey Shadow, Select white, DCWV-Adhesive Mat Stack Prints
Spellbinder Ovals, EK Success Punch, MS Metallic Weave Ribbon,Kaisercraft Pearls, Copic Markers-YG03, YG 07, Stickles-Diamond

Thanks for taking the time to stop and read....I really do appreciate it!

Brenda

It's the Little Things...

Hello Again! Hope you had a great day! I did a little shopping and had lunch with my best friend from high school. It's always so much fun spending time with her! Time goes by so fast when we get together! We have a blast catching up! I just finished this card before she came over. Hope you like it!


Card Size 5 1/2 x 4 1/4

Supplies:
Stamps- Inkadinkado Butterfly Flourish, SU Happy Harmony
Paper- PTI Select White, True Black, Spring Moss, DP Colorbok
MS Punches, PTI Spring Moss Ribbon, Kaisercraft Pearls, Stickles-Crystal
SU Watercolor Crayons-Earth Elements

Thanks for looking!
Brenda

Thank You Stephanie!!!!

Yeah! I received my Blog Candy from Stephanie on Saturday! I was one of 6 people that won her smaller, extra give-a-ways! Perfect to use for making summer cards! If you get a chance
visit Stephanie's blog MyCardShack.blogspot.com. She does such beautiful work! Thank You Stephanie!!! It was fun!



Thanks for stopping by!

Brenda

Thinking About Paris

Ahh, Paris!!! Love this city!!! With what's going on in the news with all the flights being canceled, it's making me think of our trips to Paris, and many more places in Europe. Our first trip overseas was for our 25th Anniversary. Can't believe it's been almost 5 years ago. We flew into London and rode the EuroStar Train over to Paris. What memories we have made with all the trips we have taken! Here's to Paris!



Supplies:
Stamps-Hero Arts-Collage Take Time, Sentiment-PTI Mixed Messages
Paper-PTI-Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Chocolate Remix
Ink-Color Box-Chestnut Roan
Spellbinders-Circle, Kaisercraft Ivory Pearls, Fiskars Punch,PTI-Dark Chocolate Ribbon. Small Grommet Big Bite Crop-a-Dile 2, Chalk, and PTI Dark Chocolate Buttons

One of our many pics of Eiffel Tower!



Have a Great Night!

Brenda

Check it Out!

Look what I found...some amazing blog candy! It's a business that's 6 months new!!! Go and visit their site! Ends May 1st!!! So hurry!!! http://in2stamps.blogspot.com

Thank You Card

I have so many people that I can give this too! I am so thankful for all of my friends. I think this card will go to my Faithful Friend, Eva from church. She gave me the nicest Easter Gifts last Sunday! Eva was so good, that she even gave me a couple of clear stamps set (which I didn't have) and some yummy candy! I'm heading to a meeting this morning, and I hope she's there.


Card Size is 5 1/2 x 4 1/4

Supplies are:
Stamps-Papertrey Vintage Picnic, Inkadinkado Clear Stamps Round Frames
Paper-AC Patterned Paper Christmas
(Yes! Christmas!) Smokey Black, White, Pure Poppy-all 3 Papertrey
Accesories- Spellbinders Squares and Scallops, Kraisercraft Rhinestones, McGill Multi Tags- Punch-Scallop,Copic markers

I also stamped the tulips again, cut them out and popped them up on the card. Next, I paper pieced the basket with the red polka dot paper. Here's a close up...



Thanks for stopping in Today!

Brenda

Yeah, I won some Blog Candy!!!

I'm so happy and can't wait to see what I won. Stephanie from her blog posted this yesterday....I just saw it today. Check out her blog when you have sometime.www.MyCardShack.blogspot.com
Thanks again Stephanie!!!

Candy Winner

OK, so enough talking …. you all want to know who won right? Well, I had said that for each additional 25 followers I would have more candy and that equates to an additional SIXwinners!

The winner of the main candy is ………

Jeri of Crafty J’s place

Winners of the smaller candies are:

• Melia – Random Creativeness
• Michelle – Plum Tuckered
• Brenda – Brenda’s Agenda
• Tany Sol – Tany Sol
• Harawa – Natashikk
• Wenche – Wenches Cards & Paper

I'll keep you posted when it arrives.

Brenda

May Your Day Be Filled With Happiness!

Hello there! Yesterday was a fun day! I made a couple of cards! I only have pic of one. Rachel ran off yesterday with the other one for her friend's birthday before I could take a picture of it. I went to my notebook with pages of my stamps and since I was looking for birthdays, I decided on my JustRite stamps....the birthday set. I made it fancy!



My Supplies I used:
Stamp-JustRite -Birthday Wishes Set
Paper- DCWV All Dressed Up, Papertrey-Cream
Cuttlebug, Spellbinders, Kaisercraft clear Rhinestones,Ribbon from Walmart and
Petaloo Dazzlers Collection-Small Glittered Florettes Black.

Thanks for peeking in today!
Brenda

The Bulletin Board is Up!

Well, here it is! I went to church
today and went back to the nursery
and my niece, Angela had put up the
bulletin board! I think she did an
awesome job!!! They are going to
take pics of the kids and I am
going to use a scalloped punch to
punch out their faces and put them
in the center of the flowers. Now it
looks like Spring, just in time for
Easter.


Below are close ups of it. The flower
and bugs were made with the Walk
in My Garden Cartridge. I think I
used the Plantin Schoolbook cart
for the letters. I will check later.

I had fun making these up. I love
using my stickles.

I stickles everything here. Even
used some rhinestones for eyes!

More...The 1 set of bees has yellow
stickles, & the other set has black
stickles, along with all the lady bugs.

I used 7 and 7 1/2 inch size for the flowers.


I cutout 3 different kinds of stems. I
used the Swiss Dot Embossing
Folder for the top of the pot. The
top lip of the pot, I used Bazzill
shiny copper looking paper. (you
can't really tell in the pic...no
sun in my sunroom that day.)

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I
had making it!
See you later!

Brenda

Tonight's the Night!!!

Wow!!! Have I been busy preparing for our Faithful Friends Night at church!!! The boxes are packed and full of goodies to play with. I have made up 3 cards and our Pastor's wife, Vicky made up a gift card holder and a card. The ladies will be busy tonight! If some really like it, we can start having crops more often. These are the cards we will be making! Wish you all could be there!!!



Recipe:
Stamp-PTI Everyday Buttons Bits
Paper-PTI Raspberry Fizz, White, & Raspberry Fizz Mix
Ink=PTI Raspberry Fizz, SU Kiwi Kiss
Ribbon & Buttons-PTI Raspberry Fizz
Cuttlebug, Swiss Dot embossing Folder, Spellbinders

Close up



For this card I stamped the leaves and flowers on
the Kraft paper. Then I cut it into 4 pieces.



Recipe:
Stamp-Stampin Up Treasury of Memories for
the leaves and stems, PTI Floral Fusion
(which I got for free at this past summers CHA)
PTI Labels for the spellbinders
Paper-PTI Vintage Cream, Lavender Moon,
& Kraft
Ribbon-PTI New Leaf
Rhinestones-Kaiserkraft, Spellbinder with Cuttlebug



Recipe:
Stamp- PTI Wishing You
Paper- PTI Berry Sorbet & White
Ink-PTI Berry Sorbet, SU Kiwi Kiss, Black
Martha Stewart Punch, Ribbon-From HL
Spellbinders
Added Stickles after the pic-Star Dust

Oh, here's something for fun, Rachel
stopped in my room and took this
from last night getting it all ready,
WHAT A MESS!!! This is just what's
in front of me. I'll clean it up and
post pics later....promise.






I had a great time and they LOVED
making cards! I had several people
say they were very interested in
meeting on our own. I told them
let's do it! How Fun!
Thanks for looking. Brenda

YEAH, I was Featured on SSC!!!

Wow, I woke up this morning and I had emails telling me that I was featured on Simply Scrapping Crafts!!! I just joined this week and I was one of the two named as Guest Designer of the Week!!!! How cool is that???? The card they featured is the Happy Birthday card. So both of my circle cards was Featured at two different times this week. How's that for starting off! See below what they posted on the main site. You go to www.simplyscrapping.ning.com to view the front page and it's on the left side bar just down a little.

This is what they have on the front page if you don't go and see.

Visit our Guest Designer Page for their Creations. Is is located in the subtab of Featured Designer's at the top of the page.

SSC is proud to present Jenny Bavaro Our Guest Designer of the Week! Stop in and visit her page and Gallery.

Our Second Guest Designer of the week is Brenda Raleigh and her Card-"Happy Birthday"

Check out her Gallery here! Way to go! Simply Scrapping DT

Thanks for letting me share the good news!
Brenda

My Card was "Featured " Today!!!

I joined another awesome site www.simplyscrapping.ning.com (click the link and go to the bottom of the page) last night and this morning I woke up and found my card on the Gallery's front page, Top Line!!!! I shared the Top with 4 others and it has remained there all day!!! It's pretty exciting!!! I took a pic, yes I know I'm silly but that would be the only way you could see it without going there and joining.....which you should if you love to scrap.



See it on the left!



OK enough of this. Thanks for putting up with me today.
Brenda

TAKE TWO!!!

Just another take from the card below, I made it a birthday card. Will make more because it's fast and easy. I really like the Spring Moss paper from PTI. I'm starting to use the spring colors. Bring on Spring!!! Wanted to show everyone, Enjoy!



Close up



Recipe for this card is:

Stamp Unknown bought it years ago
Paper True Black and Spring Moss from PTI and the
circle paper is from ColorBok (from Michaels)
Ribbon Spring Moss from PTI
Kaisercraft Pearls

Thanks for looking!
Brenda

My Latest Card

We went to a wedding this past weekend and I went into my room and could not find a wedding card. I had to do the unthinkable...go buy a card. Enough of that!!! So last night I made this card up. I think I will make several of this one using different colors with the black and white. I like putting all the pearls on.



Close up of the pearls



The products I used are:

Stamp- unknown(bought it 4 years ago at Archivers)
Paper-PTI Lavender Moon, The Paper Studio-Black and White
Ribbon-PTI Lavender Moon
Kaisercraft pearls, Spellbinders,

Thanks for looking!

Brenda

Think Spring, Think Spring!

Well, today I took advantage of an empty house. Mike is out and Rach went sled riding. So it is just Bo and I hanging in my craft room. What a nice time we had. I wanted to use my new Copic markers, so I had to find a stamp that I could color. I had this heart one out because of Valentines and decided to use it. I always like shades of purple, lavender, and greens together, throw in a little yellow and this is what I came up with today! Hope you enjoy it!

A Spring Hello


Close up using my Copic Markers!


Bottom of the card


These are the Copic Markers that I used! I love them, they are the best! I only own 46 out of the 334 that they make!!! I have a ways to go to finish my collection of them. I purchased a set of 36 off of Ebay and then I go to Hobby Lobby with a 40% off coupon and buy 1 or 2 at a time. So, if you ever need an idea of what to ever give me, now you know!!!! teehee


Products used for this card:

Green paper- Stampin Up
Lavender and purple paper unknown
Stamp- Stampin Up
Kaisercraft rhinestones
Spellbinders fancy tags
Ribbon- Stampin up
Punch-Martha Stewart
Stickles-Diamond (glitter on the ribbon)
Copic Sketch Markers

That's all for today, might start another card later tonight. Oh, one last thing, I went over to http://copiccreations.wordpress.com/ and saw this and thought it was cute;






I should print it off and make up a card....
Brenda

HOW WAS YOUR VALENTINE'S DAY?

Mine was pretty uneventful until we got home from church and lunch. I was busy talking on the phone to a friend and had noticed that Mike had disappeared upstairs for a long time. After I got off the phone, I called up there and asked him what he was doing. I thought he said laying, which I thought resting. I headed up and I saw him rushing out of my craft room "Laying down I said???" and he told me he said "PLAYING!!!..not LAYING!!!" I said "What are you doing in there?" He said "Oh, you just couldn't stay downstairs for a few more minutes." What for I asked while I was walking in the room. And then I saw what he was up to!!!! He was making me a Valentine's Day card. Can you believe it??? Along with the card, he gave me a flowering plant too! This is the most special card that I have ever received. How cool is this??? Isn't he the greatest!!! This is why I love him so much. Thanks Mike your awesome!

He said he didn't get to finish it, that he was looking for a small alphabet set to stamp "Mike" in the middle of the heart. I told him to go ahead and finish it be he said that was OK. So, below is his finished card that he made. I hope it's not his last. It was such a great surprise. Love ya, Mike. Bren

Mikes Man Card!!!


Now for the recipe for this card:

Mike used the Diamond embossing folder with the cuttlebug.
(For his background...Look hard and you will see..Didn't show to well in pic.)
He cut the heart out with the cricut
He used Color Box Cat's Eye Cranberry Ink
Papertrey Ink Paper
Stamp set is Be Mine from Hobby Lobby

This is the plant he gave me. Too cute!!!

My First Card Post for this blog!!!

Can you believe it? I finally got to make a couple of cards this week. This is the reason I started up my blog. It feels great! I really need to clean up my craft room and when I do I will post a few pics. Mike has made me a few things to help organize all of my things. Matter of fact he has been working on one this week in the garage. Can't wait for him to hang it in my room!!!

My first card to post is a Valentine card.



Here's a close up



The supplies that I used are:

Stamp-Stampin Up
Paper- DCWV
Pearls- Kaisercraft
Punch-Martha Stewart Heart
Stickles
Square Spellbinder, and cuttlebug heart dies

My next card today is a birthday card



Close up



Close up



Inside the card is Celebrate



Stamp set is unknown--I will try and find out
Paper- DCWV
Copic Markers
Rhinestones-Kaisercraft
Spellbinders, ribbon

That's it for today. Hope to make a couple of more cards this weekend. Thanks for looking!!!

BO IS FEELING BETTER!!!

Bo in the snow

Rachel gave him this Valentine Heart