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Mother's Day Gift: "All Dressed Up" Backpack

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 Well today I thought was going to be a surprise for my FB Live viewers, turned out it was a surprise for me.  I bought a used iPhone just to record my FB Live videos frontwards. All the words have been backwards with the Android phone and with an iPhone there is a feature to flip the video.  Well I flipped it, when I had the phone horizontal and then when I used the feature it flipped it to vertical so my video was sideways.  On top of that there is a buzzing noise throughout the whole video. So I apologize for the sound.  I hope I can get it figured out before next week. Today's project was so much fun to make.  I thought it would make a great gift for mom with a gift card to her favorite store and maybe some chocolates.  A couple years ago I made something to hand out to all of the ladies of our church on Mother's Day.  I thought this would be fun to do for this year, maybe with simpler on the embellishments.  I paired this with the "Fine ...

"Forever Fern" #simplestamping, April 6, 2021 "Tuesdays At Two"

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 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...