#FMS535~Sweet Strawberry Stampin Up

I made a quick summer card for the 

challenge at:

Freshly Made Sketches

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Sweet Strawberry 

I love how that little strip of DSP really pops

this card together.   

It reminds me of a little picnic.  A summer 

strawberry picnic.  I can almost taste the 

strawberry shortcake. 

Of course I know the berry flowers are white,

but I wanted them to stand out a bit so I gave 

them a soft pink coloring then added a 

little embellishment to the center. 

I've read that strawberries are good for 

inflammation, so I've been trying to eat more 

of them. I need to do better with my food choices,

perhaps that would bring some healing. 

Here is a picture of sweet HP.  All tuckered out

from being outside.  He had to make sure 

his little toy is right next to him, even though

it's hard for him to play like he use to.   Breaks

my heart.  

Thank you for your continued prayers and

encouragement as I recover from covid.  

And also,  for my dog, HP.

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

 

Sketch 472~Hope Box, Plentiful Plants, Swirly Frames, Stampin Up

I made this card for the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Paper Pumpkin Hope Box

and Plentiful Plants, Swirly Frames

I used that fabulous linen paper to make the plant 

hanger.  It is wonderful, sort of gives it a real 

authentic macrame look.  

Now if you look closely you will notice my mistake. 

Sigh, as usual I have little hidden, "oops" 

This one happened in the corner of of the large 

rectangle.  I inked too much and then tried to 

correct it with a white gel pen.  Which only made

it worse.  So I pondered what to do.  The embellishments

didn't look so good going down to that corner.  

So I came up with the winning idea.  I used my corner 

rounder on the green card stock and saved the pieces that 

I punched out and glued it to the inside of the corners.

It worked perfectly.  

One of my friends posted this lovely scripture

dress. and I thought it was a lovely reminder 

to say yes to the dress for the Lord.  

I had to share this funny picture of HP 

He is watching Robb move our raspberry 

bushes to the little garden we made 

last year.  We aren't the best at the 

skill of gardening yet.  But we are still trying. 

That is my sweet husband working hard.  

I tried to do as much as I physically can

by pulling weeds.  I also Planted  a few 

pumpkins, and sunflowers. 

 Robb moved all the blocks

together and it looks much better then last year. 

Now he is putting up fence, since the 

little critters eat everything here.  He decided

to put the posts on the inside of the blocks so 

he can trim around it easier.  I hope that works,

those bunnies are quite smart at getting the 

garden goods.  

Update: !8 Weeks out and still not much improvement

from this nonsense we call covid.  I'm 

apparently a long hauler as "they' say. 

I have decided to make an appointment to 

see another doctor.  Please pray she can 

help me in this recovery process.  

Thank you for your continued prayers and

encouragement as I recover from covid.  

And also,  for my dog, HP.

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

 

Challenge 554~ Friendly Hello, Stampin Up

We are having such nice weather here.  

I don't want it to end.  But atlas we live in WI.

so that means it could possibly still snow yet.  

We have witnessed snow in the middle of May,

but I'm hoping it won't happen again until late fall. 

I'm ready for green, green grass and blue, blue

skies, and warm, warm weather.  

Reminds me of George Ezra's new song.  haha

I made this card for the challenge at:

Try Stampin On Tuesday

The stamp set featured in this card is:
Stampin Up:  Friendly Hello

I love the sketch design, it makes for such a nice

clean card.  I had to cut off the little leaves on 

the top of the branch so that the "H" in hello could

be seen, I used the leaves on the inside by the flowers.  

So it all worked out.

My daughter had HP out for a little walk in the yard and 

took this darling picture, so I wanted to share it.  He's 

such a little cutie.  Still battling his MMM but he is

not in pain the vet says.  

Thank you for your continued prayers and

encouragement as I recover from covid.  

And also,  for my dog, HP.

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

 

Sketch 471~Wildflower Path, Hope Box, Stampin Up

We had a lovely Saturday.  The weather 

cooperated and we went to get flowers 

for the yard.   It was so expensive, even

though it didn't make Robb happy to spend

that much money he allowed it because he

knows how much I love it.  Pretty sweet guy.  

The place was just packed, it was like the early

days of covid with the toilet paper shortage.  My gosh the people

were greedy and wanted their plants.  

Something has changed in society, I use to be a people

person, but people aren't so kind lately.  It's a rare 

courtesy.   Any ways we went and got it done, 

then I realized perhaps everyone was trying to 

get plants for their moms.

My mom didn't like flowers or plants, inside or out.

She use to say house plants have bugs and I don't want

them in my house.   Which is somewhat true.  But I 

still like my jungle inside.  haha.. Also mom had 

the funniest rock with an engraved message outside

where a flower garden could go, it said, "I tried but it died"

I don't know where I got my love for plants.

OOh and I have the most amazing story to tell you all.

But first let me mention that I will submit this card

to the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set featured in this card is

Stampin Up:  Wildflower Path
Stampin Up:  Paper pumpkin, Hope box

I love this stamp set, it came as a kit in paper pumpkin

which I don't usually purchase but I love the sentiments

so much.  Any ways I made my card a smaller slimline 

so I could hopefully take a better picture.  Even though

I'm having technical difficulties with the iphone SE 2020.  

Apparently I take too many pictures.  sigh. 

The stamping on this card is pretty straight forward. 

I gave a little texture to the one piece of card stock 

behind the circle by using an embossing folder.

The sentiments were a bit bigger then I intended, 

but I suppose I didn't take into consideration I scaled 

down the whole card.  haha.

Here's a picture of the flowers we got for the yard 

this summer.

HP is doing pretty good.  We noticed summer might 

be a bit difficult for him because when dogs breathe

heavy their mouth is open which means his eye stays

sunken in and looks quite uncomfortable, so 

we kept him in the shade and he got quite dirty 

with the gravel driveway, but he loved it.  

This is the little darling resting his chops on

our daughter's leg.  

Now back to the story.  I know this is a super long post.

But I found a treasure in the yard yesterday.  I felt 

like a real  Indiana Jones.  haha.  

I'll try to make this quick.  We live in a very old home.

We have found many treasures over the years, nothing 

of real value just interesting stuff.  Old tavern signs,

necklaces, pictures, old pieces of beds and curtain rods,

lamps, x-rated movies, and of course the rifle in the wall.  

Honestly you never know what would show up here.  

Our home is over 100 years old, we have logs, not beams

in the basement,  an old tree which looks like a telephone

post is the center for support. So just to give you a clue

we live next to the rail road, and on the other side of the tracks

were brothel homes.  I think that is the correct wording.  

anyways.  I'm sure this house if it could talk has much to say.  

I've had 3 experiences in this house that I refer to as guardian

angels, I don't believe in ghosts, but there was for sure something 

here, that scared the life right out of me.  So no I've set the 

scene a little bit.  We had a huge tree removed in our driveway

years ago, and now we refer to that area as the pond, because 

we can never afford to fill it with gravel, so when it rains it's 

a mess.  but now it's dried up and yesterday as I was walking out

to the garage I noticed a shiny silver rock that I just had to have

I'm such a child, so I went to get my hoe to dig it out and when

I did I found that it wasn't a rock it had writing on it.  So I asked my daughter 

to read it to me, she said Chicago princess hat.   So I was looking 

at the little thing and noticed it must come apart, so I got my husband's 

pliers and opened it, and it was all black or so I thought.  

My husband walks by and asks what I found I told him, he says

without missing a beat.  Looks like lipstick.  I was like I bet you are right. 

So I cram it back together put on my gloves to plant flowers and kept 

thinking about it, then I noticed my vinyl gloves were all red,

I'm like drats I cut my fingers again, ( I don't usually feel my cuts,

because of my hands condition)  but I had not.  It was that lipstick.

So at that point I came in the house and started researching it.

FOLKS, it's from the early 1900's made in Chicago, Princess Pat. Red

So fabulous.  Of course I went out to the garage to collect my prize and 

put it with all the other little gems I've collected from the house.  

Guess what?  We couldn't find it.   All of us formed a search party

and nothing.  to which my daughter says maybe you planted it with the new flowers

and you'll find it all over again next year.  Can you believe that. 

Something that we didn't even know existed all these years living here.

I have it for a few short hours and now it's missing again.  Cracks me up.

Anyways dear friends, never a dull moment in our little 945 square foot home

it is always surprising us.  Hope you got a smile out of my silly little story. 

Have a blessed Sunday. 

Thank you for your continued prayers and

encouragement as I recover from covid.  

And also,  for my dog, HP.

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

#FMS534~ What's Cookin', On the Horizon, Stampin Up

I made this card for my dad.  We love to 

talk recipes and food.  

He loves his beans, I on the other hand 

can't take a bean of any sorts, so it's quite 

funny we discuss food so much. Our taste

buds are very much different. 

I will submit this card to the challenge at:

Freshly Made Sketches

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:

What's Cookin'

On the Horizon 

I love the wood background.   It just makes 

it feel so rustic.  The mixing bowl reminds

me of the kind my grandma would use in

her kitchen.  Big Grandma had a wood

burning stove in her home.  As a child 

I loved to lift the plates and check

on the blazing fire. 

Big Grandma also had a party line telephone.

Oh friends, the good ole days, I use to think

that was so cool.  

Got a little side tracked there going down memory

lane.  Back to the card.

It was quick stamping and die cutting.  I 

thought the little rolling pin and spatula were

adorable on this card.   The wooden spoon 

on the inside looks so realistic that I almost 

could lick the chocolate cake mix off of it.  wink 

What's a blog post with out Roni?  also 

know as HP.   He's holding his own pretty good

We are now weaning him off of prednisone, so 

we shall see what will happen.  

He moved his bed into the middle of our

dining room/living room to watch me type 

the blog,   That is until he fell asleep. 

Thank you for your continued prayers and

encouragement as I recover from covid.  

And also,  for my dog, HP.

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

 

Sketch #470~Wildlife Wonder, Stampin Up

You know I had this idea that the DSP was 

going to go lovely with the design I had 

planned in my head. Well of course it's not quite

what I envisioned.  It's a bit more bold and stormy 

looking.  But after much deliberation and 

concentration.. ( haha that rhymed)  I didn't 

change it.  So here it is.  

I do think the silver washi tape helped to brighten 

things up a bit.  

I wasn't sure how to go about coloring in the wolf.

So I had to research them to know exactly what

color they can be.  It was interesting to me,

because it depends on where they live. 

So your guess is as good as mine as to where

the wolf I colored lives,  I went with grays and 

a little bit of brown tones too. 

I think they are so pretty, and I'm one of 

those people who would probably 

 give him a milk bone treat and  think we'd 

become fast friends.  

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

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Stampin Up:  Wildlife Wonder 

I'm excited to use the bear in this set.

I bought myself a kit, I don't usually do that.

This one had me at the word "HOPE"  

It is a delightful and springy pack. 

I also thought I'd share a couple pictures of 

HP.  The little rascal was pooped out from

making a hard decision on what toy to pick.

As you can see in the below picture,

he was wanting me to help.  To which 

I did and we got out many of his little 

toys.  He just has a hard time with the 

MMM condition, and chewing on them

is difficult for him,

 but he keeps trying, bless his heart. 

Thank you for your continued prayers and

encouragement as I recover from covid.  

And also,  for my dog, HP.

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