"SUMMER SPECIAL" BLOG CROCHET FLOWERS CANDY GIVE AWAY

On August 2nd I will be giving away some crochet flowers again to 3 winners!  I have also created a new flower!  You will receive 2 packages in assorted colors & sizes of crocheted flowers and butterflies.  

If you would like to win the flowers, please sign up & become a follower and add a link to your blog.  Also, leave me a comment as to why you love to do crafts.  I will have my grand daughter pick 3 names and announce the winners on Aug. 2nd.  

Good Luck!

Thank you card

What a nice surprise in the mail yesterday.  I received this beautiful Gorjuss Girl "Thank you" card from Denise.  She sent this to me for sending her some of the crochet flowers that I made.   Since May 2009 I have met alot of awesome blogging sisters and have yet to meet you all in person.  Today I went to J's and met Jen for the first time in person.  Hopefully someday I'll get to meet you (Denise) in person since you were the first to follow my blog and commented me.  She also sent some Himawari babies too!   It's so great that we can all share all our creations through blogland and meet alot of awesome friends.  You all inspire me with all your creative ideas!   Thank you all for stopping by and visiting my blog whenever you can.  

Also 'THANK YOU" all for the get well wishes and comments!       

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Scary ordeal

Had a scare yesterday and went to the Queens ER all day yesterday.  I was having chest pains and wasn't sure if it was my heart, heartburn or problems with my asthma.  Thank goodness it wasn't my heart!!  Problems with my esophagus. I stayed home today to rest and had no energy for any crafts at all.  I did nothing all day and just relaxed all day.  

Anyway here is a simple gift card holder that I did and didn't get the chance to post it.  I just tied the ribbon around the gift card then tied the bow to pull out.  Love purple too!

 

Sympathy card

Kept putting this off but I needed to make a few simple Sympathy cards.  Very recently, a few of our good friends has recently passed away and wanted to make the card instead of buying it.  I just recently got the set also from SU because I knew I would make good use of it someday.  I also used the SU pastels chalk for the flowers but need to practice with it more.  It's good enough for me for now.

Purple Fever

Here's a bunch of cards that I worked on last night for Martie.  Purple is one of my favorite colors too besides pink but thought I could use up the purple that I have and make a set of 5 cards.  I also wanted to create a bag for it.  I didn't have a template for it and probably could have looked for one but decided to make one for it.  I used the Curved Rectangles Nestabilities but it was actually not wide enough but improvised and cut it in half and added the border right down the middle.  Hope she likes this set! 

Animal fun

For the month of July for PCP I'm supposed to create a card with animals and send some goodies to Lyn the person I am partnered with.  Well I had this stamp that has 4 different type of animals so I thought this would work ok.  Since she lives on the mainland I thought maybe a box of chocolate macadamia candies would be good too!  I hope she likes them all!

Wedding Card

My sister came over today to show me the card that she was making for my son that is getting married.  I had to post this card to show you because it's such a beautiful handmade card that is detailed and so special.  She used the same ribbon for the tie and also glued the sequins on the ribbon.  The purple card is embossed with the cuttle bug paisley's.  So very creative....

Clothespin Memo holder & HK Favors

My youngest son is getting married on Thursday and we decided to make 30 favors for our family members and friends that will be attending the dinner.  It was a last minute thing and she loves Hello Kitty so he asked me if I could do something with a hello kitty face.  This is what I came up with and he loves it.  I used a pearl white card stock for the head.  The paper is Kaleidascope Violet color paper and I stamped paisleys with eggshell white color on the background.

I made a couple of memo/picture/ receipe holders with the clothespins that are 9" tall.  I painted them white and covered them with DP paper and used Mod Podge to give it a little shine.  

    

Cards I received

I love this card!  I received this Thank you card from Teri for the crochet flowers that I made and sent to her.  She is just so talented!  I love the colors and everything about the card.  Thanks Teri!!

For the month of July I was partnered with Michelle U. for Teri's monthly OCS.  I like how she glittered the images, and placed the ribbon.  The mermaid is so cute too.  So very talented!!  Thanks Michelle you are so creative!

This card is from Linda to Thank me for the crochet flowers that I sent to her.  I just love how she did this card.  I need to try this one day.  I really like the stripes and colors on the card and of course the Gorjuss girl.  I really like her images.  Thanks Linda you are so sweet!

I received this RAK from Ineke in Holland yesterday.  I love the images that she sent to me along with other embellishments.  I really need to learn how to color and shade images in the right places.  She was so sweet to have sent this to me.  Thanks Ineke!!