Cottage Lane Stamper

 Hey friends!  Spring has finally sprung!  This past week we broke a record temp for April, 85 degrees!  And yesterday during my video, it started thundering and I was just hoping that the rain would hold off until I finished my FB Live since I had all my windows open!  And it did!  Praise God!   Stampin' Up!© has a monthly card challenge called #simplestamping where you make a simple card with just paper, ink and stamps.  It wasn't my intent when making this card.  My inspiration was actually a card I received from Joyce Meyer Ministries.  Where do you get your inspiration from?  Sometimes for me, it's something I see in a store or even in my neighborhood.   This is yesterdays card, and it uses a simple masking technique.  The colors I used in the card are "Pretty Peacock" (a 2019 - 2021 In Color, which is retiring), "Crumb Cake", "Garden Green" and "Just Jade" (a 2020 - 2022 In Color). The sentiment is from the...

 Yesterday I turned 70!!!! Hard to wrap my mind around that one!  In my mind I'm still 35.  LOL  Physically I feel about 90.   I was sick for a couple months this year and so I decided for my 70th birthday I wanted to do something special and throw myself a drive-by birthday party and opened it up to any of my friends and family on Facebook. It was the best birthday I've had in years.  When I turned 60 my friends threw me a birthday party at my favorite Mexican restaurant And when I was 50, I planned a trip to Florida and my friends threw me a surprise birthday party!!! I was TOTALLY surprised by that one.  I have some great friends. Yesterday I had a surprise too.  My pastor showed up at my door with a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my church and a card.  Another friend showed up with some chocolates from Abdullah!  Candy and flowers, such a deal.  And I was just about to get rid of all my vases.  Silly me.  ...