Handy-Man Card

Hey there! 

Once again, it's been too long since I've posted.  In my defense,  it's been a long time since I have even crafted though.  I have had so many ideas, and so many reasons to craft, I just haven't felt good enough for the past few months.

 Over the past couple days however I actually was able to make this really CAS (clean and simple) card! 

I used a digi stamp by The Greeting Farm called 'Handy Man Ian' which was perfect for this card because it is for the maintenance man at our complex!  (He got a new job, so we wanted to wish him luck.) 

I also used the leftover bolt paper (that I used for the background of this card) to make a matching envelope liner.

Hopefully he likes the card.  

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you are having a great week!  

-Lori
"Don't glue anything I wouldn't glue!"

A Few Cards

Hey crafty friends!!

I hope everyone is having a great week!  I just wanted to share a few cards that I have made recently.  Between the 200 birthday cards that I made, and the other huge project over the summer, I didn't have much time to craft for myself.  Which is totally fine...crafting is crafting, right?!  :)

Here are some cards:
This first one is a card that my mom requested for a friend of hers who just had surgery.

I absolutey LOVE the sentiment!!  I feel like saying that to people some days. (lol!)  The image is from Bugaboo stamps (which I also LOVE!)

This next card is a birthday card for my oldest brother.

I love this image, and all of the "Gus" images from Bugaboo stamps!  They just crack me up!

This next one is also a Bugaboo Stamps image, (gee, maybe that should have been the title of this entry! haha)

Sock Monkeys are one of my favorite things.  They remind me of my childhood.  My grandmother had made them LONG before they ever got popular!  Ha.  I think she had been making them for at least 60 years.  Who knows.  I should ask my mom about that.  All I know, is that I LOVE seeing them in the crafty-community again!

Here is the last card for this post:

I believe this is the first card that I have ever made using a sketch.  Can you believe that?!  And now I know why I never used them.  My GOSH it was a challenge for me!  I have no clue why, either!  It just seemed like nothing fit together properly, and it was rough.  But I do like the finished card.  I think this one took me around 14 hours to make.  And there isn't even any cricut or stamping involved!  Yeah, I'm pathetic. LOL!

I do have to mention that the colored images on the first three cards were not colored by me.  I purchased some digi stamps and asked my mom if she would color them for me.  She did, of course, because she is the best mom ever!!  And she actually enjoyed it so much that she wants to get into card-making with stamps and digi stamps! YAY!  I am STOKED!!  We used to scrapbook together, but she never got into the card making side of it.  So I am THRILLED!!  I do wish I could do a good job coloring though! You all know that I'm "blind," and I just can not color in the lines.  Besides that, I don't know what color I'm even using!! 
I just thought of something.  Someday I should post some of the images that I've attempted to color, just for laughs.  You would all crack up, seriously!  My 2 year old niece can stay in the lines WAY better than I can!  Some day soon, I will post two pictures, one colored by me, and one colored by my niece and have you all guess who did which.  That would be pretty funny!
Alright, thanks for stopping by!  I hope you all have a fab week!

"Don't glue anything I wouldn't glue!!"