Happy Day!

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My sister just got married!!! It was such a happy day for the entire family. And to top it off a few days later, my husband and I celebrated the 15th year of our marriage.

This family pic is awesome. It includes my sister and I along with our parents, my husband, my daughter and son and my brand new brother-in-law! This was a great day spent with family and friends. The cool thing is that my sister and her new husband live in an old church. They have spent many months renovating it so that they could get married there.

I was busy too. Helping assemble and mail the invitations (that my sister – a former web designer – created), helping with decorations, shopping for all of us that needed clothes and shoes to be included in the special day, communicating with the florist who was local to me but 4 hours away from my sister. Wow!

So, I have been pretty preoccupied the past few months! I designed a new card the other day and will post it soon. I am ready now to get back to work so I hope I will be spending more time with all of you here!

Til next time!

 

Feature #9 – thepaperflowershop

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OK…here we are again! The last feature of this challenge. #9 and I saved my favorite for last! Now don’t get me wrong…I have had so much fun this challenge and have even blogged about how much I have enjoyed everyones shop (and even bought a card from one of them!). This challenge has been so much fun for me this time around because I have loved all of the artists. I loved featuring them, I loved their work, I respect them so much and I had such difficulty with every one of them in trying to pick just one favorite shop!

But Sheila … well we met during the last 10 / 10 / 10 challenge. And I just love her, I love her designs and I love her selection of papers and stamps and mostly I just love her style!. (while going through her shop this time I found several more stamps that I own along with some paper that I have used recently too!). We have communicated a bit during the challenges and she just seems to be so much fun and just like me! I love that we have the same sense of creative style but I also love that we both stay at home and take care of our children and that we both “take care of our less than beautiful home”. That was on her profile page and I don’t know what she means by it, but I have been known to put mopping the floor on hold to spend time with my kids, volunteer at their school or make some fun cards! I think we really are two peas in a pod!

That has been my favorite part of this challenge. Not only reconnecting with Sheila, but making friends with everyone on the etsy greetings team participating in this challenge. The internet is a grand thing. I love being able to make friends with people from all over the place.

Now back to Sheila! I love this card (and once again could only pick one which was very hard!). It would be perfect to give my husband! I like how she created the flower using the punched out hearts and I love the script on the word LOVE! It is just classy!

Check out Sheila’s shop! thepaperflowershop.etsy.com I know you will love her store!

 

Listing #9 by me – Jemily!

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I decided to list this I love you mom card because 1. I love it and 2. I love my mom!

I just took a few day trips with my mom. One to Chicago and one to Cleveland. She is so much fun and like my best friend. I gave her this card for Mothers Day and never got around to listing them so this challenge has gotten me in gear!

I am so grateful for this challenge and my etsy greetings team friends in it! They have motivated me beyond belief!

 

pinkycreations

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Yet another shop that I love. I have loved Lisa’s shop since the last challenge. Everything she makes is just awesome! She is also moderating the challenge this time around and is doing a great job I might add!

Her motto in her shop is “Where the art of letter writing is not dead”. I know that I and many of my fellow etsy greetings team artists are in agreement with this. In todays day and time with internet and email and facebook and twitter, I think letter writing has been put on the back burner per say. But isn’t it so much nicer and personal when you get a hand made card in the mail with a special hand written note inside? I thought so! Send someone a “real” card today!

Back to Lisa! She really is one of my favorite etsy greetings teams artists. She does such great work. I picked this awesome modern and fun circle card. (There I am back at my circle phase again). But her shop has so many more fun and creative designs. Check her out at pinkycreations.etsy.com and www.pinkycreations-pink.blogspot.com

 

Listing # 8 by me – Jemily!

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As I mentioned in my last post, Ed and I were selected to be Godparents to a very special little boy. Even though he is almost 2 months old already, I have selected the “It’s A Boy” card today!

Check all of my cards out at jemily.etsy.com or www.1000markets.com/shops/jemily

 

Feature of the Day #7 – crickleberrycottage

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Oh my gosh! I just cannot say enough about the members of this challenge! I love everything in this shop too!

This great card is by Wendy at crickleberrycottage. She is so talented! I wanted to pick all of them but ended up on this one. The flowers are so beautiful and reminds me of summer! I love this card! Once again someone has come up with such great color combinations! I have such problems with that so always find myself using some type of patterned paper to help me. I wish that I could just see color combos like Wendy does. And the design is awesome! (Can you tell I like this card a lot?)

Check out her shop at crickleberrycottage.etsy.com and her blog at www.crickleberrycottage.blogspot.com

 

Listing #7 by me – Jemily!

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I happened to have a great day at church yesterday. My husband was the worship leader at the contemporary service and has not played for several months. He lead worship for the first time in a long time and rocked the house! I also got to relive some memories and experiences that I had as a youth long ago. My old youth pastor came through town for a visit with a group of kids he took on a mission trip. I had a little mini-reunion with some old friends and “went back in time” to those mission and volunteer experiences that I had at that age. Those experiences really made me who I am today. It was great! And to top it all off, my husband and I were asked to be Godparents to a very special baby that was just born to friends of ours! What a Sunday!

And therefore, I have decided to list this Christian inspired card today!

Enjoy!

 

Feature of the Day #6 – Harmonia30

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Hi!

This card is so cute – don’t you think? I have been enjoying this challenge so much! I have loved looking in other peoples shops and this time around I have to say I have loved every single persons items I have seen so far. Don’t you know how sometimes you take a look at someones work and although you think it is nice it’s just not your style? That is not the case this time AT ALL!! I even have one card creator friend (Sheila at thepaperflowershop.etsy.com) that is like my card making soul mate. We found each other during the last challenge and I swear we do our shopping together and converse about our purchases even though we live several states away! I was just checking out her shop again the other day and she used the same circle paper for one of her cards that I picked for one of my monogram cards….We also have a lot of the same rubber stamps too…Crazy…!

Anyhow…I am off topic again…that happens late at night I think! This GREAT card is by Harmony at Harmonia30.etsy.com. She started the challenge with us and life got in the way for her (wasn’t I just talking about that in my last post?) Anyway, the poor girl had internet problems for the first four days and then had to go out of town for a death in the family! Whew! Talk about life getting in the way! Poor Harmony…I am featuring her…well because I think she deserves it! Hers was yet another shop that I loved everything in. I looked at so many cards and loved them all. They are even named after people so I decided to narrow my search based on people I knew with those names…That didn’t work, because I picked this card and I don’t think I know anyone with the name in this title! I love it though! I love the brown and pink and the cute stripe paper and I especially love the font on the word “hi”.

So “hi” and “goodbye”! I have 10 minutes left to list my card and gift bag combo on etsy!

See you tomorrow!

 

Listing # 6 by me – Jemily!

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OK…it’s 11:37 p.m. … I am getting this in under the wire! I have yet to list and blog today for the 10 day challenge. I have been busy – I spent the day with some girlfriends working on my scrapbook…it doesn’t happen often and when it does, I take full advantage! I was there ALL DAY and it was GREAT! I am way behind on my scrapbooks…life gets in the way…I am just now working on my vacation pics from our family vacation to Orlando and Disney / Sea World (and we took the vacation about 18 months ago!). But I got a lot done today – 3 days at theme parks down – 1 day left…then I can get to the other scrapbooks I have that are way behind…I think I just finished my daughters 3rd birthday pics and she just turned 7! Oooppppsss!

Speaking of Birthdays, I thought I would list this Birthday card / gift bag combo. I love creating sets like this because it makes the perfect addition to any gift.

OK…running out of time – 11:41 and still need to blog my selection of the day and list these on etsy… gotta run! See you tomorrow!

 

Feature #5 – nypapercrafter

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OK…enough about me! Time for the featured artist of the day and it is….drum roll please… Debbie at nypapercrafter! Obviously Debbie is from New York! If I remember reading her profile correctly she got into card making as part of a sewing project and liked making the card better than the sewing so found her niche and started creating!

I picked this card among the many cute ones in her shop well because the weather here in Toledo, Ohio stinks! Mid July and barely hitting 70 with rain rain rain. Now this card is what I’m talking about! I want some fun in the sun! And who would have thought that you can make your own sun? I am heading to a scrapbooking weekend today and tomorrow and might just use this to feature my vacation photos! I love love love the contrast between the orange and yellow and really wish I had a better eye for color like Debbie does. I can never quite figure out what colors go together properly. I really like this shop a lot. My favorite (besides the SUN of course) were the awesome journals! I want one! (there I go spending my money again!)

Check Debbie’s shop out! She does some great work! nypapercrafter.etsy.com