Happy Belated Birthday

Hope you all are enjoying the Shop Pumpkin Spice Hop!!! Go to yesterday's post HERE if you haven't hopped and make sure to leave a comment on the Shop Pumpkin Spice blog where you can win $25 to the store! That's a LOT of goodies!!!

I am participating in another last minute challenge. It has to be up today! whew! 

So I made this quick card for a friend. It has to travel across the world and I realized it only has 5 days to get there and probably won't make it on time. So I made it a "belated" one just in case. I hope she likes it! It's clean and simple, but full of a LOT of love!

The challenge was to use a grid and it was a for the Paper Posies Kit Club.

Ugh! I didn't push hard enough with my stamp and left some blank-ish spots, so I went back with a pen and made little dots to kind of fill them in. USER error! haha. It's good to laugh at oneself. 

Here is my entry:

Recipe:

• I used items from their July kit. The papers are: 
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Life of the Party "Charmed" Trees Paper™ (green stripes and floral)
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Life of the Party "Charmed" Ric-rac Paper™ (ric-rac and woodgrain background)
• i-rock™
• Glam Rocks in Pearl™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fabulous Phrases™ 
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store (THANK YOU to the people who have let her know that you have come from my blog! It means a lot to me and she appreciates it too! :)

I Truly Appreciate All You Do ... SPS Blog Hop and **GIVEAWAY alert**

Welcome to the Shop Pumpkin Spice September Blog Hop! You should have gotten here from Lenae's blog! If not, start at Shop Pumpkin Spice's blog HERE.

First of all, we have to give a GREAT BIG SHOUT OUT to our WONDERFUL sponsor Denine because yesterday was her BiRtHdAy!!!! So be sure to leave her some birthday love on the Shop Pumpkin Spice Blog!!!


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Well, my posts have been a little short recently and that's because I have been spending a lot of time in Monterey supporting my mom and visiting my grandfather who is dying of cancer. He is the BEST patient and always so upbeat and so brave. He says he is feeling fine every day no matter how much pain he is in. He has been an incredible example to all of us in the family and we are so proud of him. I am thankful for every moment we get to spend with him. 

I made this for the physical therapist who is helping him to walk. We had a not so great one before her and this one is just SO fabulous with him and really understand him. They brighten each other's days and he makes splendid progress with her. I just wanted to let her know how much we appreciate her.

This month's theme for the blog hop is My Mind's Eye!! The girls were to use ANY My Mind's Eye products in their projects as they are one of the chief lines that Shop Pumpkin Spice carries AND this month's kit that Carissa designed is made with My Mind's Eye! 

I think I should have used black ink because you can barely read the sentiment on the bottom! I promise it's clearer in real life. :) 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Everyday Pop-up Cards™
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Life of the Party "Be You" Bloom Paper™(blue polka dot)
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Life of the Party "Charmed" Trees Paper™ (green)
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Life of the Party "Love" Scallops Paper™ (pink)
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Happy Go Lucky "Together" Dotty Paper™ (dark blue houndstooth)
• Echo Park: Victoria Gardens "Cheerful Words"™ (yellow)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fabulous Phrases™
• Stickles: Turquoise
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Rose - from the Rose Garden Trio (if you order from her please let her know I sent you in the comments section)
• Twine: PTI
• Buttons
• White Gel Pen
• Foam Dimensional Adhesive
• Ink: Momento in Rich Cocoa

AND this is a new month which means we have a NEW kit from DT member Carissa! There are sneak peeks at all the blogs on the blog hop so check it out! 

Here is my sneak peek! 

Now, head on over to my fabulous friend June's blog! 


When you get to the end make sure to leave a comment on Shop Pumpkin Spice's blog leaving some birthday love for Denine and thereby entering yourself in the giveaway! I think it will be just what your "Mind's Eye" wanted! :) 

Sympathy card using Little Yellow Bicycle's Twig embellishments

Well, I have been doing a lot of little details on my cards recently and I just had the craving to do a truly clean and simple card. 

I loved the butterflies that came with this Artful Delight Kit for March and really wanted them to stand center stage. The sentiment from My Pink Stamper's: Fabulous Phrases was a perfect match and voila! The card was done. :)

Recipe:

Artful Delight: March Kit

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fabulous Phrases™

Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa™

Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink™

Thank you card set

My husband recently had a birthday and needed to write a few thank you notes. So I thought - perfect! I'll use Artful Delight's March Kit which has some great manly colors in it to create some! I am very happy with the result and while he still said that it "had a bow on it", I consider it a compromise! :) I couldn't help it! But at least it's made out of rope! :) haha. 

Recipe: 

Artful Delight's March Kit

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fabulous Phrases™ (I used the first half of the phrase)

Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa

Cartridge: Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons™

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Don't forget about Artful Delight's giveaway on their Facebook page! Today is the last day!

And make sure to come back this evening for the Pinkalicious Blog Hop! The Pink Designers have worked super hard to bring you some wonderful inspiration and I have an AWESOME giveaway for someone super lucky!