Sunday, August 27, 2017

Wedding Cards

Well, I knew that we were entering wedding season in a while but I am not ready to go shopping for dress to wear to the weddings. I have gained so much weight after a heart procedure and limited exercise and medication that I am totally horrified and embarrassed at my body size right now. There that's out there....I'm at my all time weight gain...and am all time horrified....I am also working on healthy so no short cuts to dieting in any way for me. I'm riding my bike and the outdoor exercise is exhilarating. The weight results are not. I use to be able to instantly drop weight in my younger years but not now. I hate walking alone in this city with no lake. Anyway, wedding season...here are a few cards it necessitated so far with products I bought from Simon Says Stamp in preparation for this wedding season.

Both of these cards were
Made with Simon Says Stamp I think May card kit but I bought the items from the kit on my own individually and just the stamp set, Blissful Bloom and the Echo Park 6 x 6 pattern paper pack called Wedding Bliss. I used Waffle Flowers 5 x 7 rectangle die set, the Lacey one.

Here are two more wedding cards. I really had fun making all of these.





End of summer playdate with my craft room...welcome back to crafting....

Wow, I really did take the summer off from crafting and blogging! But the weather is looking fallish here with cool temps and all day rains. So I'm back in the craft room having a playdate! Here's the result from today: a fun play with some new and old items. The new: Honeybeestamp's Mermaid Song stamp set and Nuvo silver moonlight glitter embossing powder and the old: Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and MFT cloud stencils with tumbled glass distress ink on Tim Holtz watercolor paper.

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