Challenge 493 Snailed It, Stampin Up

I had so much fun making this card for the challenge at:

Try Stamping on Tuesday

Optional Theme: Peek a Boo

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Snailed It  

I debated over putting the die cut

mushrooms on the doors of the little 

windows.  First I was like, just emboss 

them, so I did, then I used pink card stock

with the gold background, then as you can

see I went with the mint color.  I don't know why

the littlest details cause me the most trouble.

I love the inside as much as the outside of this card.  

I think it would have been clever had I 

glued down a penny, a nickel, dime, and a quarter, 

 behind each of those doors.   Well next time. 😉

Today I was on a mission to try and save my prayer plant.

I was told to move it to smaller pots, and then put a plastic

bag over it.  Well we will see what happens.  It can't 

hurt.  The poor thing, just went from bad to worse over the

past 6 months.  It was gorgeous and I actually received 

many compliments on it.  I have had it about 10 years,

and it was huge, then about 6 months ago, YIKES.  

There were no bugs, or mites, I didn't change it's location,

The only thing I can come up with is perhaps it was root 

bound, so I transplanted it, and that's when it took a fast 

slide to it's demise.  I managed to take a leaf and use 

water propagation to grow roots, so hopefully it will 

come back beautiful again.  But truly I'd appreciate any

advice on this prayer plant care.  

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

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SSC250 SPLIT IT UP~ Sweet Ice Cream, Stampin Up

 

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone.  

How fast we are moving through the calendar year. 

I think perhaps the older I get the faster it goes.  

I made this fun ice cream card for the challenge at:

Sunday Stamps

When I read the words "split it up"  I immediately

thought of banana split dessert.  Also, being 

we are in a bit of a deep freeze here in WI, my mind

just sort of went to ice cream.  

The Stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Sweet Ice Cream 

What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

For a cone I like the chocolate, vanilla mix,

in a bowl I like butter pecan.  

I like how this card turned out.   It didn't show up

good in the pictures, but that is ribbon under the embossed

horizontal piece of card stock.

My sweetheart and I ordered pizza today,

and we got a lovely treat with it too.  

  I love how our daughter gives 

compliments.  Our son too, sent me the 

sweetest text.  So did his girlfriend.  

Our son in law is such a delight also, 

he plays the piano and sends me clips of that. 

Those are my daughter's real nails.

They are gorgeous.  She is quite the nail artist. 

One time she even painted a "Bob Ross" scene

on her nails.  So amazing. 

These are the treat boxes I mailed out to all

the kids.

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

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TMS #592 Beautiful World Stampin Up

Sometimes it is hard for me to think of content

for my blog.   I don't want to get to personal, but 

I do share about my health, perhaps in hopes to 

encourage and help others.  

I try not to post to much about my adult kids,

without their approval.   With that being said

please keep my son and his girlfriend in 

your prayers, they drove out to Cleveland 

for a bike comp.   I'm so proud of my son, 

he got a helmet.  I've been concerned for years

about this, he is a BMX rider.  (extreme sports)

My daughter the nail artist, and her husband are

doing well, getting settled into their 3 year of marriage. 

Today while I was making this card, I was thinking

the world is such a different place then it was

a year ago.    Sometimes it just makes me 

sad, then I remember the old Sunday school song

we use to sing, He's got the whole world in His hands.

and I'm reminded God is in control.  Let it go. 

I made this card for the challenge at: 

Tuesday Morning Sketches

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Beautiful World

The card is very simple, just a little stamping

mostly die cutting. and the hard part always

choosing the colors to work with. 😉

I'm also adding a picture of HP sleeping 

in the sun.  A good thing to do, since, 

temperatures are below zero. 

 I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

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Sketch #407~Oh Snap, Stampin Up

We woke up to -23 degrees below zero today, 

then by 7am we warmed up to -11 below,  so there's 

progress in the right direction.  haha

I made this card for the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Oh Snap

I'm so happy to have a stampin up customer, I earn

a few dollars to get extra stamps for myself, and this 

is one of them.  It's so fun.  

The sentiment on the front was one stamp, but 

I used tape to cover the part of the stamp I didn't 

want to ink.  It worked out swell.  Then I switched 

out the tape to stamp the other part. 

I thought I'd share a few pictures of my plants. 

I belong to this group about succulents on fb.  I don't 

know much at all about them, however I am blessed 

to have an elephant bush, that is happy and a kalanchoe 

that is blooming.  Just wish my prayer plant was happy again. 

Also including a couple pictures of precious HP.  He was 

sniffing my plants.  Such a good boy.  I have a fake lizard

in one of them, my kiddos always dressed up the plants for me. 

 I should find that video where HP wanted to play with the lizard.

I'm happy to say that both of my adult kiddos now have many

plants of their own.  I think that's wonderful. 

Here is HP all tuckered out.  I love that his one hind leg 

is just hanging out of his bed.  What a little doll. All

Cozy.  Those captions on snapchat, crack me up. 

 I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

* Please stop in at my Etsy shop.   You might just find a stamp or stamp set you NEED to purchase.  Perhaps even a card.  I know I'd greatly appreciate the sales.  So make sure to check it out. 😊

 

FUSION - Valentine Gnome~ MFT, Sending Smooches, Snailed it, Heartfelt, Gnome for the Holidays, Stampin up

I thought it would be fun to use what I have 

to make a gnome card for this challenge at:

Fusion

So I had to get rather creative.  

You see the stamp set I have with 

gnomes is intended for Christmas.  

So I just had think outside the stamp and make it work

I paper pieced the hat so to cover up the snowflakes,

and the little Christmas lights on the tree, I turned into 

Valentine Heart lights, and where there was a little

jingle bell on the gnome's hat, I punched out a heart. 

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

MFT:  Sending Smooches

Stampin Up:   Snailed it

Stampin Up:  Heartfelt

Stampin Up:  Gnome for the Holidays 

I told myself I would actually write out my Valentine's

today, and yet here I am still making cards, that's just

so much more fun for me.  

 I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

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Sketch #406 ~Snailed it, Wishing you Well, Woven Heirlooms, Flowing Fountain Stampin up, CTMH Welcome Home

I was excited to play with this stamp set.  

I was not going to get it at first because 

snails kind of remind me of slugs, and those

little things gross me out.  

Many years ago before back surgery, I use

to love going strawberry picking.  I'm 

just that crazy, loved being up that early

in the morning and in the fields, on my hands

and knees crawling in the sand.  Anyways,

after picking all the berries, I came home 

and there were slugs everywhere.  EWW. 

But snails have a cute little house they carry on their

back so I guess that's what makes them a bit more

cute.  haha.  Plus they remind me a little bit of hermit

crabs, to which my kids always had as pets.  

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Snailed It

Stampin Up:  Wishing You Well 

I'm going to submit this card to the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

I used an embossing folder on the white.

I love that look.  

Now for this next card.  I have to share a story, to

set the scene of what happened.

I have two facebook pages.  One for cards

to try and grow my stampin up business, and 

my etsy shop. 

The other is for family and friends I truly know. 

So on my Card fb page, I've friended many many

people and quite frankly I don't know but perhaps a 

dozen of these people.  Any ways because of the 

election, I started getting a bit political on my posts.

That grinded some peoples gears, and they'd 

lash out quite harshly, and during the 

whole campaigning/election it was getting

a bit ruthless.  I tried to keep my tongue tamed,

any ways I also posted a few things about faith.

So as you can imagine that view point got attacked too.

I really like it when two people can have completely 

different views and yet come together in a friendly way. 

So this is my story of how Jill and I met on line.

She was a firm democrat and I a republican, 

I a Baptist Christian, and her not believing in God,

and at one point she said to save my prayers.  

Then one day out of the blue, she asked if I would

pray for good weather on Sunday.  I said of course Jill.  

I didn't ask why, I just put it in my little prayer journal

and prayed for Sunday's weather to be lovely.

The following week I messaged her and asked how 

the weather was on Sunday.  She said it was 

lovely and that it was for her Son's wedding.  It blessed

my heart so that she trusted me to pray for her

son's wedding day weather.   She told me to look 

for pictures to come on fb.  I was most excited to see the 

pictures. Well, folks I never told Jill this but I felt

led to pray for her salvation.  

Now here's the part that brings me to tears, you see,

Just yesterday I was thinking Jill has been so quiet, 

and I've been posting all sorts of things that would usually

get a comment from her.  So I went to her page. 

and was shocked to learn that she had passed away Dec. 14th 2020

during and emergency surgery.  

I was stunned, I knew her only a couple months, 

but for such a time as this I do Believe God 

had us meet, and I trust Jesus heard my prayers 

and the door was opened to salvation.  

A person just never knows who they will meet 

in this journey in life, but Jill touched my heart 

in the most profound way, and I'm so thankful that

God gave me the opportunity to pray for her.  

Now for this sympathy card it might seem strange.

but you see she owned her own business.  

A lamp store, so in honor and memory of 

Jill. I made this card  for this beloved woman.  

May she rest in God's peace. 

One more little note, each time I posted my cards on

fb she would like it or leave a lovely comment.   

I hope she would be pleased with this one.  

Wish there was same way I knew the address to send it to 

her family.

 I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

* Please stop in at my Etsy shop.   You might just find a stamp or stamp set you NEED to purchase.  Perhaps even a card.  I know I'd greatly appreciate the sales.  So make sure to check it out. 😊

 

Final CAS(E) this Sketch #405~ Woodland Wonder, Stampin Up

What makes a perfect card?   What makes a card 

get so many likes on instagram?  These are the 

questions I ask myself, and then my husband. 

Did you ever think about it?  I have a different 

style of stamping.  I imagine, it's just comfortable for me.

Like a pair of comfy yoga pants, or like using the same

burner on the stove top.  There are four, but I tend

to stick with the one in my comfort zone.  Any ways,

that's like stamping, I tend to stamp what I'm use too.  

And immediately when I saw this sketch:

CAS(E) This Sketch

I knew I had to stamp something familiar, 

and even though it's a new stamp set, I'm a lover 

of all things outdoors, birds, squirrels, etc.   So

hence my take on the sketch. 

And like all things familiar, sometimes it has 

to come to an end, to try something new.  I'm so 

sad to think this is the last sketch challenge here.

I loved playing along, and growing in the 

card community, we just all have that common bond. 

and CAS(E) challenge will be missed terribly. 

Wishing you all the best. 

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Woodland Wonder 

 I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

* Please stop in at my Etsy shop.   You might just find a stamp or stamp set you NEED to purchase.  Perhaps even a card.  I know I'd greatly appreciate the sales.  So make sure to check it out. 😊