Gone too long

Hi, So sorry it has been so long since my last post. It has been very busy here for my husband and myself. We are settled in here at my Dad's place. It has been a challenged to come to terms with the loss of Dad. He has blessed Scott and I so much! His home is now ours. It may be a small place but we can and intend to increase its size in our future. I miss my Dad and Mom. There are so many memories in this place. Every room is filled with their presence. Sometimes I still cry but the memories are so precious to me.

I have still been crafting. Sometimes I accomplish a lot and other times not so much. It sure is different living with only one other person. Yep you guessed it. Our children are all grown now. Our youngest is renting the apartment we were renting when Scott and I came to live with Dad during his last days. The empty nest thing feels kinda good actually. I get to listen to my music as loud as I want to now too. No neighbors to worry about offending. We still help Nate out ... we give him rides to and from work (in Bangor). He is working on getting his license. Yahoooooo. But then I will be worrying about him on the road. There are so many irresponsible drivers out there today it is scary to be on the roads. I am working on giving that to God now.

Ok, so now that I have babbled on I will be back later to try to post some of the projects I have taken pics of. Gotta go for now to take Nate to work. I think I will work on some more organization as well. I am trying to get my craft supplies and tools together in a more usable way. So bye for now. God bless you all. Hugs!

Dad

Dad in a happy moment. I wish I could remember what he is laughing about. If you could hear him you would just have to laugh too.

We just had Dad's funeral yesterday. Tomorrow he will be buried with full military honors. Though he has gone from this life, he is now living a new life with Jesus. He is now celebrating his arrival in Heaven. Those in attendance are friends and loved ones, Grampa, Nana, Maybel, Brian, Mom, Billy, and Rachel and many others. Though I have not mentioned there names they are missed none the less. We will see each other again one day and we will celebrate too. I will miss you Dad.

Cards From February MW Express

Hi everyone! I have been playing today with my Feb. 2010 MW Express Kit. Mamma Mia. I made five cards related to love. The pics do not do them justice. This card was made with the CS in the kit and the Sentiments were also part of the kit the Flowers are Petaloo from MW. The bling in the flowers are zva crystals also from MW. It is hard to tell but, I embossed the card base using my cuttlebug and hearts folder. I also use zva dots to pop the sentiment.
Oh you can see that I did emboss it on this pic. The brownish flower has sparkles on it makes it so shinny. I really like the pink! Don't know why. I don't usually like pink. Hmmm I wonder if it is my age? Well we won't go there. lol.


Oh and I should mention that the pearls are not from MW. They are from my stash. I have more to post a little later. I have something else pressing me at this moment, so I will try to come back later to post the rest.

A New Project

Hi everyone. It has been a challenging 2 months. At this time my DH and I are staying at my Dad's while he is recovering from an infection. He has emphizema (spell). When he has a cold or in this case bronchitis, the empizema stirs up as well. It is taking a very long time for him to overcome this set back. Meanwhile I stay with him to help him like with cooking and real basic stuff for him. The cleaning that I cannot do for him gets down by people from Helping Hands. Thank God for them. After getting into a routine, I have begone to work on some of my paper crafting. So this post is to show you what I have been able to accomplish during quiet times. In the photos above you will see the Giant Nugget Box I made. I found the directions to make the box from http://inkingidaho.blogspot.com/2009/11/giant-nugget-boxes.html It is fun to make, but hard to resist the chocolates. Most of the products I used to make the box, cards and nugget wrappers come from my own business; MemoryWorks. I have placed a sizable order from "myself" and am now creating different things to showcase the products I sell. If you are interested in checking out my website please go to http://patsscraps.memory-works.com/ Create you own account to get your very own shopping cart. Then go to "shop our products." There you will find a large variety of scrapbook supplies from many companies. Check out Simple Stories, the exclusive scrapbook system by MemoryWorks. As soon as I get my kit and supplies I will be posting my simple story here as it progresses. If you are looking for directions for the cards, envies, and nugget wrappers, go to "my blog" on my website. I will be posting the directions there soon.
I hope you are having a happy scrapfilled day.
Thank you for stopping by.

This is a new card I created last week for my husband's boss. We were invited to an end of summer party at their beautiful home. I wanted to bring a hostess gift and this is what I gave them. The party was great and there was lots of yummy food to eat.

This is a card but I thought it would be a perfect place for a couple of photos too. They said they loved it too!

Here are a few cards I have made recently. I just love the 3d punchouts!

The first two were made using the suede paper. I just love that paper! Got to have more! I really like making these kinds of cards.

Card for Heros

Here I used a peircing tool to make the design on the velum piece. Makes it look so lacey. Thanks Kathy of CTMH, (and my Sis) for that new technique. Well its not new but, to me maybe.

This card I made for a card challenge on the Cricut Message Board. Hmmm, I don't remember posting that on the board. Boy, this last month has been a very busy one. I'm surprised I even got a card done. Any way I used papers from MW Dreamy 2 promotion. Love that Cardstock. I cut out the sunflower using the Walk in My Garden cricut cartrige.

This is another card I made for the same challenge on the Cricut Message Board. Hmmm, don't remember posting this one either. Oh well, I used all MW paper from the Dreamy 2 promotional kit. and the flowers are from Petalo and Dazzles. I cut out the "Thinking of You". with the Walk In My Garden cricut cartrige.

Ok I am back. I had to go do some errands. So now I am going to post some pics of the cards I have been working on this past month. There are quite a few so here goes.

Here are a few cards I made for our troops overseas. I also had made some at a crop for heros about a month ago, but I didn't get pics for them. Instead I left them to be mailed out with a whole lot more. I am going to another Crop for Heros at the Scrap and Yack Shack. I am so excited I can hardly wait. This place is a brand new place. We are hoping the store will be opened. If not, then that will be ok too. That will just give me another excuse to check it out when she has her openhouse. Congrats to you Patsy! Can't wait to see your shop all set up.

woo hoooo!

Ok coming back to earth.