Butterfly Wishes

Another week has flown by! More laundry, more rain and more stamping!! The truth is, I never have minded laundry and I love the rain. Stamping is always the highlight of my day. It doesn't have to be physically stamping on cards, but anything to do with stamping will do. I love to watch You Tube videos of other stampers creating cards or scrap book pages. I also love to read stamping magazines. One of my favorite things to do is to go online and visit Posh Impressions where I have a bunch of friends that I talk to almost daily. It's a good time.

I have stamped the card for this week using stamps from the new Posh Asian set. I really do love these stamps. You can find them at the IBFS website. They are a great buy. This card was made using a 5 1/2 by 4 1/4 inch card base that opens from the bottom up. Each consecutive layer is 1/4 inch smaller than the last. The last pink layer is embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. I used Marvy Blending Blox to stamp the images. The butterfly has Star Dust Stickles on it. Each corner has a small rhinestone flower.

Hope you enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed making it!

New Cards!

Della from I Brake For Stamps is soon releasing two new Asian Posh Impressions stamp sets. These sets are very pretty. I've made these 3 cards for everyone to see. There are tons of stamps in the two sets. I really love them all. There are lots of borders, a frame, flowers and many other neat images. If you want a sneak peak, go to www.clubposh.com and become a member. Click on the IBFS logo and you can get a peak and even buy the sets before everyone else has a chance! Club Posh is a really neat place. There are lots of techniques and fun people to visit with. Check it out.

I really had fun doing these cards. I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the backgrounds on each card. I got these Asian CB folders by using my Cricut rewards points. There were 7 of them and basically I just paid S&H and got them for free! I love to get free stuff. These folders are really neat.

The stamp I used for the Asian writing in 2 of the cards is made by Just For Fun. I used CTMH cardstock and ink on all the cards. I'm ready to go make more! Hope you enjoy them.

HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

It has been so HOT here in Texas! It is just too hot to do much of anything. I got a new stamp from I Brake For Stamps and it made me start thinking of cooler weather and Christmas time. So, I made a card that is absolutely COLD! I used a Martha Stewart punch on the corners and Stickles glitter for the snow. These penguins are so cute!

Go to the IBFS site and look around. The stamps are the cutest! They will have POSH stamps soon. If you order from them, use this code and get a 10% discount! SAVE10LAELA

I am doing quite well now. Still have to watch my food intake. Meat does not agree very well, so I've turned into a semi-vegetarian! Strange for me since my favorite food has always been steak! I've lost 133 pounds so far. Wish it would come off faster. Need to do more exercise!

Till next time, stay cool!

Stamping Again!

I am so excited to be stamping again! After my surgery, I just did not feel like stamping or doing much of anything. I am now feeling so much better. I got in my stamping room and gave it a quick clean so I could begin creating again.

I decided to do my first card for my Posh Design Team card. I am so happy to be on this wonderful team with some great ladies. I am looking forward to designing some cute cards with Posh Impressions stamps as well as some I Brake For Stamps products. They are now sponsoring and manufacturing for Posh.

The background on this card is done on Close to My Heart card stock. I used the Martha Stewart Scoring Board to score the diagonal lines and then I sanded the cardstock so that the white core shows through. All the stamps are Posh. I used Stampin' Up dimensionals to raise the panda up just a bit.

Feels great to be stamping!

Well, I'm alive and well after being gone from home for 3 weeks. I had surgery on May 20 and am recovering well. I had a gastric bypass done. I have been working for 6 months to lose 100 pounds and finally did it! To date, I have lost 126 pounds and hopefully still going. I'm ready to get back to stamping and doing some creative things.

As a member of the Posh Design Team, you will be seeing weekly cards and hopefully hearing a lot more about what I am doing and how I am feeling. I am ready to get busy and do things!!

Hope you are having a wonderful summer wherever you are. Hope you are healthy and living life to the fullest. I have learned that you should never take anything the good Lord gives you for granted!!

See you soon!

I'm still alive!

Just taking a moment to give you an update. Sorry I have not posted in such a long time. It has been really hard for me to adjust to Katy and Darin being gone from Texas and all the way to Pennsylvania! I miss them terribly. I just really lost heart in posting after they left and I'm just now getting back to caring about it!

I am probably going to have surgery sometime in May. I am having bariatric surgery to by pass my stomach so that I can lose more weight. I currently have lost 90 pounds, but I need to lose much, much more. I am hoping and praying for a successful procedure and quick recovery so that I can get on with my life. I have missed out on so much. Hopefully, I will get a new outlook and even do some things that are now not possible for me. Two things come to mind: taking a trip in an airplane and wearing jeans!

I am still stamping and making cards. I have a new Cricut machine that I really am having fun with. It is amazing what you can do with it! I am just learning, but it is so much fun.

I've finished knitting a pair of socks for my friend in California. I've been working on them for way too long. Now I am ready to start a spring/summer sweater for Katy. Maybe I'll feel closer to her if I'm working on something for her to wear!

I guess that's it for now. I'll put some pictures up soon of what I'm making. I'll let you all know when the surgery is scheduled!

Well, it's crying time again. You're gonna leave me...

I just got an e-mail from my sweet daughter informing the family that in spite of our denial, she and her husband, Darin, are leaving Texas in less than 2 weeks. They are going to move to Pennsylvania where Darin will work in the family business. I could be mad at Darin for taking my baby away to a foreign place (I've never been there), but I love him too much to be angry. So, it's finally here and finally real. I am feeling so sorry for myself. I miss them already.

All the stamping and knitting in the world will not make this better. My son and his family, however, will make me able to tolerate it. My sweet grand daughters are going to have to talk to Nana and play with Nana a whole lot more. Andy and Stacie are going to have to put up with me twice as much! That will make it better.

By the way, the picture at the top is of Andy and Katy when they were about 2 and 3 years old.

The other thing that will help, will be making plans to visit them in the near future. They leave on the 13th, I'll start planning on the 14th. Too soon? Not for me.

I pray that Darin, Katy and Dillon will have a wonderful, fulfilling life in PA. I wish for them good health, prosperity and much, much happiness in everything they do. I also wish for them to remember their family in Texas who love them so very much. You can't get rid of us. You gave me a map of PA for Christmas!