The Ultimate Compliment

I recently starting sharing my cards with people I work with. I have so many cards and can't possibly use them all, so I thought, I'll sell them to friends and help pay for more supplies! Win - Win, right?
One of my friends, bought a Valentine's card from me and sent me this really nice note this morning. It really made my day and I hope she doesn't mind me sharing it...

I just wanted to let you know that my husband just loved his card. He just went on and on about how beautiful it was and how much he loved the fact that it was homemade. I wanted to be sure and tell you. I will definitely be a repeat customer.

For me, it doesn't get any better than that! Thanks friends for buying my cards and making it easier for me to make more!

Scrapping

I'm not much of a scrapbook person yet, which really just baffles me, but I'm trying to learn.

These are a few pictures from when our wonderful friends the Tompkins and Furman's came out to visit for Liz's second birthday. We had a ball the next day when it was nice and blamy and warm for a November day. We jumped in leaves and talked and had a great time.

Masculine Card Swap

I made this card for a Masculine Swap I was in. Donna was going to send cards to soldiers, so the name of the game was to make 25 identical cards that were not birthday or holiday cards that were masculine in nature. I chose one of my older, retired sets because it showcase my love of horses as well! This was done with Equestrian Dreams stamp set from SU, certainly celery & Close to Cocoa SU cardstock, gold eyelets that I used for holes to tie the twine in. I LOVE my paper piercing tool and used that on the corners as well. I was very pleased with the cards I got back in the mail from the swap as well. I'll definitely try and case a few so I can post them as well. It's harder for me to come up with "male type" cards, but I definitely have a bunch to use as inspiration now.

January Crop time!

I went to my very first crop this past weekend. So much fun!

Here are a few things I made. I'll share more later.

OK to WOW

Hello! I've joined a swap (several lately!) called Ok to WOW. Hopefully no one from the swap reads my blog. Does anyone? haha

I made the following two cards for that swap, so if you did join it, don't look any further! The object of the swap is to make a card that is ok. Then make the same card layout and make it WOW. Hopefully I achieved that!! I think they turned out pretty cute, what do you think?

I'm so in love with the Happy Heart Day stamp set from SU. I've made so many cards with it lately.

I used Real Red, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, and Black cardstock. Colored in using my SU markers, Real Red, Bashful Blue, and Creamy Caramel.

Inky Antics

One of my sweet friends (who isn't stamp crazy, therefore, I doubt she reads my blog) is having a c-section on Wednesday to have her second child. I made this card for her and I love the way it turned out.

Everything is StampinUp! except for the stamp itself. It's from Inky Antics, and I just fell in love with it.

I used Groovy Guava DP on top of white card stock. Cut the hole using my Coluzzle. If I did this card again, I wouldn't have cut the Kanga out as well, I would just paste it in, but live and learn, right? I used Blue Bayou double stitched ribbon to add a little color. I also used the watercolor crayons to color the picture in. (I love to watercolor using my AquaPainter!) The words come from the So Many Sayings stamp set. The inside reads, "Sharing in the happiness of your wonderful news!" from the Cheery Chat set. I just love it!

I've decided to add a little "life" to my blog as well. So let me start by saying, that I am Gretchen, from KY. I have a wonderful husband, Steve and we have a beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. She's 4 and full of life. She's an angel when she wants to be and a BEAST when she doesn't! lol I must say that I thought the "terrible twos" were a breeze up until about a month before she turned 3. The threes were a little more trying, but the 4's are very unpleasant! The tantrums, oh my! Elizabeth and I have been watching "Jon and Kate Plus 8" for awhile now, and I always tell her to look how good 8 kids are being compared to one! *grin* We do love that show though!

Hope you all have a great day.

Happy Heart Day!

I've been enjoying this stamp set recently. I love the cuteness of the set and hope to come up with lots of ideas to use it.