Back on your feet

 One of my favorite get well stamp sets is the Back on your feet set ... such cute renderings of animals. This turtle on his back was perfect for my friend who just underwent surgery.

No Cone

 

I think this sentiment is soooo cute and bound to bring a smile to my sister-in-law, recovering from a broken leg.

Bloom where you are planted

 I made this card for my SIL who broke her leg and is in rehab. I had just watched a video not long ago about using glitter on cards in a way that limited the amount of sparkles that usually end up all over everything, so I tried that and it really did work well. My end problem stemmed from finding a way to photograph the glittery background that still allowed me to see the rest of the card! 

You can't see it very well, but I heat embossed the word with a sage colored embossing powder and it actually goes really well with the rest of the card.

Thank you again, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, for the stamp set I used!
 

G is for GET WELL

I almost never have a card that is suitable for a get well card for a man so I decided to make at least one to have on hand for those occasions when we want to send a card to one of our friends but don't want a flowery card.  Here is what I came up with:

I die cut the word "hello" from black card stock three times and glued them together on top of each other then attached it to the front of the card using foam tape, which accounts for the shadow you can see.  The inside of the card just says "get well soon" and I stamped a faint brown leaf outline to look like the leaves are coming out of the words.  Simple, but by using the blue and green striped paper as the background on the front of this card, I think I accomplished my goal of making it pretty masculine!

Sleepless nights

Once in a while I find myself unable to sleep, usually after about two hours of good sleep I'll wake up wide awake.  If I find myself tossing and turning, I get up, get a drink of water and either read or watch a movie on my Roku, but last night when I had one of "those" nights I decided to go into my  (newly re-organized) craft room and do some card-making.

I have been going through all my stash of materials, getting rid of things that for one reason or another I am pretty certain I'll never use.  In the process, I have rediscovered some things such as some Dazzle stickers from one of my favorite online craft suppliers, Paper Wishes.  I decided to use them on a couple of cards ... I ended up making three cards!  Went back to bed around 3:30 a.m. and although I know I'll feel the lack of sleep later today, at this point I am just enjoying seeing how productive I was in my sleeplessness!

See what I mean?

The little sewing machine is obviously a get well card...

Then there is the card that could be just a "glad you are my friend" card or could be a birthday card, depending on what you put inside.  I choose to make it a friendship card.

And, finally, I made this friendship card (I guess it could be a thank you card, too, come to think of it!).

I don't think I'll be so slow to go into that crafting room the next time I can't sleep, but I must admit, that is NOT what I want to make a habit!

Thinking of mew

I love the cute stamps that one of my newest discoveries, Newton's Nook, has to offer.  Of course, a big part of my reason for falling in love with their stamps is the delightful plays on words that they use.  For example, the stamps I used in the card I made yesterday using a "get well" set I purchased  recently.  Here is how it turned out:

Newton's Nook has a weekly challenge and I decided to submit this card as my take on that challenge.  This is the sketch for the challenge:

Dragonflies

This week the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches is a simple one, and fit perfectly for a get well card I wanted to make for a friend.  This is the sketch for the week.

Here is the card I made:

I had some paper that had dragonflies on it, then I added a dragonfly sticker.  I backed the wings with metallic mirrored blue paper,

One the inside of the card I used another piece of the same background paper and added another dragonfly prepared like the front one along with a tiny little pink-winged dragonfly to add a touch of other color.

Using my new embossing folder

When I received my new issue of Papercraft magazine yesterday, it contained a neat embossing folder that includes a grid of bows and a field of flowers all in one along with some neat ideas of using it, so I tried it out on a card for sil Lois who has been sick with the flu.  I embossed a piece of pink paper then rubbed white ink over it and it was really pretty when it was done. Backed it with a piece of silver foiled paper so set off the pink and white.  I have put it into the mail ... hope she likes it.

My personal card challenge

A couple of months ago I purchased a Lemonade Stand Artful Card Kit 
from my favorite on-line crafting store, Paper Wishes.  I have purchased various ones of their Artful Card Kits, but this time I decided I would get it out of my storage box and not put it away until I had used everything in the kit.  The kit included 7 sheets of papers, 74 die-cuts, and a sheet of cut-outs of messages to include in the cards such as Happy Birthday, Thinking of You, etc.

Well, it took me a while, but today I made the final, the 12th card, using the last of the papers.  I used all but one die-cut and most of the message cut-outs but not all of them... I made some of my own messages.

Here are several of the cards, all but one I used my own messages, but I was pleased at how many I was able to make.  I made birthday, thinking of you, and get well cards.  Those are the kind I use the most,  So here goes... BIRTHDAY CARDS:

GET WELL CARD:

THINKING OF YOU CARDS:

Monochromatic efforts

This has been a full week for card-making.  Lots of illness as well as birthdays among our friends which has kept me busy making cards, plus the incentive I mentioned yesterday concerning encouraging others with cards.
When a friend had emergency surgery yesterday, I decided that was the time for me to try my hand at making a monochromatic card, i.e., using shades of just one color.  I've always shied away from doing that for some reason, but I was glad I shed my fears and made this card:

I embossed the top panel and just added the white flower for a spot of contrast.  Will definitely try this again!