Cottage Lane Stamper

Sadly, this morning, I learned of the death of a husband, of my former roommate and friend.  They moved out of state a while back and have lost touch.  He was such a sweet dear man.  I remember him, and have a photo somewhere, of his joy of receiving chocolate chip cookies from me, one Christmas.  The world has lost a little sunshine today. I perused Pinterest for a sympathy card and discovered a beautiful card, that I CASE'd from Holly Krautkremer.  The supplies are basically the same as I used on my previous post this week. The background layer is Crumb Cake, 4" x 5-1/4", the top Whisper White layer is 3-1/4" x 4", The vellum leaves are left overs from the August Paper Pumpkin "Blissful Blooms", the (I'm not sure what they are called, they look like Poppy heads to me) are in Night of Navy, the larger flowers are in Merry Merlot and the small flower is in Balmy Blue.  The background fronds are die cut out of Mossy Meadow with the Fros...

A good friend mine lost her brother, suddenly, this week.  Right now, on top of that, she and her husband are both in the midst of health issues.  Unfortunately/fortunately it happened on the day that I had signed up on Meal Train to bring them a meal.  It was good to be able to visit with her for a little while. I almost felt like I was imposing during her grief. Then I think about when I have lost people in my life, my husband, my dad & mom and it would have been nice to have someone there just to sit with me. I love this "First Frost" set that Stampin' Up! blessed us with in the 2018 Holiday catalog and then further blessed us by carrying the stamp set and Framelits (though no longer bundled*) forward after the holiday catalog ended.  The only disappointing part is that the Designer Series Paper is no longer available, and it's absolutely gorgeous, with a beautiful shimmer to it.  Here's the card that I created for her and her husband. I wante...

Last Tuesday was our regular monthly stamp club.  This was the first time we tried a 3D project.  Last month I had shared with them the ones I was working on for the craft fair and asked it they would be interested in trying to do something like that.  They were eager to try so the one they picked out was on of my Milk Carton/Baker's Box projects. Milk Carton/Baker's Box I created an instruction sheet for the Milk Carton and if I could figure out how to upload a pdf file to my blog I would post that for you too.  In the meantime, if you are interested in having it, send me an email and I will email it back to you.  We also made two cards, a black and white sympathy card using the Detail Floral Thinlet dies and a cute Get Well card using the Weather Together bundle.    Weather Together Bundle "Wishing you brighter days"   Black & White Sympathy with Detail Floral Thinlet, Butterfly Basics  (butterfly) and Te...