Papertrey Ink Challenge #8

One more card for the Papertrey Ink Challenge #8.  This girlie is beat so this is the last one I am doing.  Time to get the jammies on....that is for sure!
I had my jar all cut, stamped, and colored, so that is what I started out with.  I had made a bunch of jars up one day when Lady Di and I were stamping at her house.  I was sure glad to just grab one and start working!  This challenge was to cut off your card stock an inch or two so that part of the back of the card shows and you can put pattern paper, a strip of glitter, what ever, along the edge.  I have made a lot of cards like this, in fact, the anniversary card for my mom and dad that I showed on a previous post, uses the same technique.  And I have taught it to my stamping groups in the past.  Any who...I decided to scallop the edge and then pierce it, and add pattern paper to the inside edge of the card.  The grass was made with a Martha Stewart punch, and I free hand cut the sun and did some faux stitching with a marker.  The verses are from PTI Garden of Life and the Jar is from PTI Friendship Jar.  The flower/fence inside the jar is from Friendship Jar Spring Fillers. 
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!  Elaine

Noble Deer

 One thing I need to make more of is masculine cards.  So I made 6 of these.  I really like these colors together.  Here's the recipe:

SU Noble Deer and PTI Friendship Jars (greeting)
Card Base Sahara Sand
Next layer 4" x 5 1/4" Chocolate Chip
Next layer 3 3/4" x 5" DSP
1" x 5" Certainly Celery (with trees stamped on it.)
1 1/4" x 5" Mat of Chocolate Chip
3" x 3" Sahara Sand (Deer stamped on this)
3 1/8" x 3 1/8" Mat of Certainly Celery Card Stock
3 1/4" x 3 1/4" Mat of Chocolate Chip
1 1/4" Circle Punch (it's you Day stamped with Chocolate Chip In on Whisper White Card Stock)
1 3/8" Circle Punch Mat of Chocolate Chip Card Stock

Canning Jar #3

 

Hello!  I am back down in Reedsburg tonight.  I feel rested and ready to be back at it!  I worked on packaging and pricing things for the Dells and the flea market this afternoon at home before I left and I got a lot done.  I stopped at Nadine's on my way out of town and dropped off an embossing folder that had been back ordered.  After dropping off a bank deposit, I met Doris at the Easton Town Hall to giver her order to her and Sue Paape's.  My next plan was to stop at the Craft Mall and stock my booth, but when I arrived, the clerks were walking out the door, they had just closed.  I did not realize that they had winter hours, and that they close at six in the winter time.  The hours change back to ten am till eight pm on April 1st.  So I will stop there on Thursday morning on my way home.  The kids were talking this weekend, and now that Sarah is getting around better, we think that I can be here from Sunday night till Thursday morning and if we get things ready and make a few changes, Sarah can be here by her self on Thursday, and Friday during the day.  If Zach were not going to school, they probably could handle things but it would be too much for him to handle with school right now.  As it is, he is going to take a half day off tomorrow to try to be ready for Monday nigh's classt.  He has school on Mon. and Wed. nights, and fire drill on Tuesdays.  He was on ambulance call Sat night.  He went on one call so now has three out of the five that he needs to do done.  I will take Sarah on little outings on the days I am here, and will we do some cooking, make sandwiches, switch to bottled water, etc. so that she can stay on her own.  So we are going to try this out and see how it goes.  I think Zach's class ends the beginning of May, and the first weekend of May, he wants to take a water rescue class that weekend, so I will probably be here then.  He wasn't going to take it, but we both told him to go ahead, that we would be fine.  Tomorrow, we will make a trip out to Jimmy's for her shower, and she mentioned that she would like to go to the grocery store also, so maybe we will do that too.  She sure has made leaps and bounds this week and is getting back to her old peppy self!  It is great to see!!!  Elaine

Canning Jar#!

 

Hello!  I ordered this stamp set with some of my birthday money.  Doesn't it look like I made a birthday card for myself !?!?!?  Tee Hee!  I love it.  It is so stinkin' cute!

I took Sarah out to the Green house today, and she was thrilled to walk through it and see her "babies" as she calls them.  Everything looks so nice.  They have it all set up so nice.  The two flower green houses, connect to a head house that is in between them, to form a "U" shape.  Their check out counter's are all in, and it is coming along nicely.  When we left there, we went over to Jimmy's so that Sarah could take her shower, and then we made a stop at Viking grocery store.  This is the first that Sarah has walked around on the crutches any where besides the house, or hospital.  She has made such rapid improvement this week.  I cleaned things up around the house, and when Zach got home from work around 5, I left for home.  Jenna and I talked my whole way home, and probably another half an hour after I got into the driveway.  The kitties were so glad to see me, they looked at me in disbelief, I don't think they really expected it to be me when I came in the door.  The poor things, they sure do not like my gallivanting!  But I gave them lots of attention since I have been home. 

Sarah was going to dinner at Pedro's for Deanna's bachelorette party and I so wanted to call her to see how it went.  Zach and Mark were going to be there too at another table eating so that Zach would be close by if she need anything, and to take her home when she was ready.  She was excited about going, but also nervous about it too as she wasn't sure how she would do.  I saw on facebook tonight that she did okay, but that her foot is very swollen, and hurting

and she was very tired.  It is very uncomfortable for her when it is not elevated.  The blood rushes right to it.  Any who, I will get a full report when I go back on Sunday night.  It's crazy, I have only been gone a few hours but I miss the kids already, BUT....it is very nice to be in my home too!  Until tomorrow.  Elaine