Valentine's Day cards

Hello Friends,

Love is in the air... :-)

Just a quick post to show you the Valentine's Day cards I made last week.

I love you!

Love

No Vacancy - Front

No Vacancy - Inside 

That is all for today.  Have a good night.

Take care,

Pictures from my first craft fair

Hello Friends,

I wanted to share with you  pictures of my first craft fair.  The fair was held at the YMCA in my town last month.  I had a blast.  I got to meet so many nice people,  and I had a lot of my friends come by to support me.  I loved the experience and I will be participating in more fairs in the future.

I worked very hard during the month and a half leading up to the fair.  I only had a few handmade cards done when I was invited to participate in the fair, so I had to get my act together and make everything you see in these pictures in a very short time.

As you can see from the pictures I also offered Hallmark ornaments at the fair.  I collected the ornaments for many many years and I have over 1000 ornaments for sale.  Michael, my better half, was very glad to see that I am finally putting out the ornaments for sale.  The ornaments attracted lots of people to my table and it really helped the bottom line.  :-)

That's all for now.  I hope you have a great week!

Take care,

Thank you!

Hello Friends,

This will be a very quick post today.  I just want to say a big THANK YOU to all of you that came by my table at the Y today and made my first ever fair so successful!  I also want to say thank you to all my friends that came by to say hello and gave me a hug.  It means so much to me, and I am so lucky to have you in my life.

I will be posting another entry soon with pictures from the fair!

Have a great night!

My first Card Set

Hello Friends,

Today I worked on my first Christmas Card Set.  I am donating this set to the 2nd Annual Rosa's Pursuit for Hope Charity event.  I met Rosa at the LIVESTRONG program at the Y.  Rosa is a wonderful person and I wanted to do something special to help Rosa's fundraising.  The money raised will be donated to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Jimmy Fund in Boston.  You can read all about Rosa's story and the charity event here.  If you can, please make a donation for Rosa!

Below are the 3 designs I created for my first card set.

Christmas Card Set

And here is the final product.

Finished Set

Detail of the Tag

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you have a great week!

Joshua and Priscilla's Birthday today!

Happy Birthday to my 2 wonderful kids, Joshua and Priscilla!

Priscilla

Joshua

Joshua's theme this year was Toy Story and Priscilla's was Thinkerbell.  These were quick cards I made for them. I used Paint Shop Pro X2 to create the design around the images.  It came out nice!

Joshua's card

Priscilla's card

Take care,

Birthday Cards and Grandparents Day Card

Hello my friends,

I have some cards to share with you today.

I made this card for my mom for Grandparents day

Last Saturday we celebrated my niece Amber's Birthday.  I made this card for Amber.

My niece Candice loves Japanese animation.  This card was made to celebrate her 17th birthday, which is today!

And the last card I want to share with you today, is the card I made for a dear co-worker that retired from work a few months ago.  I miss her.  

That is all I have for today.

Have a good week!

My first published card!

Hello friends,

I wanted to share with you my first published card.

Cancer Cannot

The card was published in the Paper Crafts - Card Ideas for Paper Crafters  magazine and it went on sale today.  The card is very special to me because it my first published card, but also because it was inspired by my own fight with breast cancer.  I completed my treatment July 29th.   What better present than finishing cancer treatment and getting my first card published!  :-)

Take care,