Get Stuffed! BBTB2 Challenge

Good morning my crafty friends! I hope your Monday is off to a good start. Today at BBTB2 our talented Melanie has asked us to make a project with a turkey on it. Turkey day is right around the corner so this was a great challenge for this week. I decided to make a card using my SU Envelope Punch Board, which is exactly the same and made by  We Are Memory Makers Punch Board-except for the color. I made the file folder card that can be made with the punch board, I think it is so cute. I used the CTMH Cricut Artiste cartridge for my turkey silhouette. My cute bow is from My Creative Time called Small Stitched Scalloped Bow and you can get that here.  My sentiment on the file flap is also from My Creative Time called Small Talk and you can get that here. My little stamped pumpkin and "happy thanksgiving" is MCT and is called Piles of Smiles and you can get that here and the "lets get stuffed" is MCT stamp from the set of Mixed Holiday sentiments and you can find that here. My designer paper is from a Paper Studio stack called All Season from Hobby Lobby.  I hope you like my little file folder card. If you have any questions please feel free to email me. Need some more turkey inspiration? Then stop by BBTB2 and see what fabulous inspiration my design team sisters have for you too! Thanks for stopping by to visit me today, I hope you get some crafty time in and can join us in this challenge. Crafty hugs from me to you-Brenda

 Yes, my turkey is on a homemade wobble! That way he can gobble and wobble! lol 

Anything Goes-Jo's Funday Friday Challenge

Hi my crafty friends, hope this Friday finds everyone well and happy for the weekend. Today at Jo's Funday Friday our theme is anything goes. Love when it is anything goes! lol The design team is working with Fitztown Digi's and I chose this cute girl out in the snow. I just love her! I started off coloring her with my Spectrum Noir markers, then I added some stickles for my glimmer and snow as well as on my stars. Some glossy accents for her eyes and lips as well. I embossed a black mat with a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder and mounted that on to a white card base. Why black do you ask??? Because I wanted it dark to go with my night sky and I just liked her on the black better than the white. Stamped my sentiment from MCT called Mixed Holiday Sentiments and you can get it here. I stamped it on this oval die shape called the Stitched Oval die and you can find that here. My girl is pop dotted as is my sentiment. I love this sentiment! Please check out what other inspiration my design team sisters have for you and then link up with us over at Jo's Scrap Shack! Thanks for stopping by and visiting me today. I hope you are able to get your craft on this weekend! Hugs from me to you-Brenda

Thank You

Hello my crafty friends, I wanted to take the time to thank everyone who has left me lovely comments along with hugs and prayers while DH and I make this journey. I am touched by all the wonderful comments and emails, I so feel the love and the prayers. We will get through this!!! With that said DH had his first round of chemo yesterday and is on his pump. He did get a little sick feeling and still doesn't feel so hot. Understandable as the chemo kills the bad as well as the good. Thank goodness he hasn't gotten really sick (yet) and I pray he doesn't. We go for a cat scan tomorrow on his lung and then go and get the pump removed. Then he is good to go until the 22nd which will be round two. Week on, week off.  Keep those prayers coming my friends!! 

 I also have some very simple and plain thank you cards that I sent out to people who have done things for us since this journey began. They had to be simple and plain because I just didn't have the time to work on something more. But I think they turned out nice and made for a nice thank you card. At least everyone has said they loved them and I really love them. I made these in "mass production" when DH napped. I cut my bases and layers one day, then stamped my layers one day, then punch and assembled my pumpkins one day, etc. I needed a lot and couldn't just be in my room the whole day, so I worked on them as time allowed. I also popped my pumpkins up on one dimensional.  I used my oval SU punch and the modern label SU punch to make my pumpkin using only scraps, so all my pumpkins where different. These are just a few of them. My chevrons were stamped with MCT Build a Chevy Background stamps and you can get that set here. The sentiment is also MCT, Vintage Sentiments and you can find those here. I kept the inside plain because I wanted to write in the cards. Kraft card stock for my base and a white layer. So there you have it, very plain, but I think pretty cute too. Less is better right? As always thanks for stopping by and visiting me today. Crafty hugs to you from me-Brenda

Sympathy Card

Hello my crafty friends! After hubby came home from the hospital our neighbor's mother died and I knew that I needed a sympathy card for them. So back to my room I go to make a sympathy card that was quick, but elegant and comforting. What was I going to do? Well I grabbed my rose embossing folder from SU and my stamp set "So Sorry" from SU and got busy. I kept it simple-very simple and fast, but I think it is a little elegant too, black and white is always elegant and classy to me. I used another SU stamp set on the inside of the card, I can't remember the name off hand but I'm sure there will be those of you who will recognized it right away. Here is the sympathy card I came up with. Thanks so much for stopping by today and visiting me. Crafty hugs to all-Brenda

BBTB2 Challenge and Update on Hubby

Hello my crafty friends, I just wanted to do a quick update on hubby. Friday he got his port placed in so he can start chemo today. It went really well and he was done in no time. Our surgeon came out and told me and my son that all went really great, and someone was stitching hubby up for him. He said they had to get an x-ray and then we could soon go home. So my son and myself get the signal that we could go back to see hubby. He was getting his x-ray as we got back there. Then we waited, and waited, and waited. Then nurse comes in and tells us that our surgeon wants to talk to us before we can leave. Finally doc comes in and closes the sliding glass door. He tells us that there is a shadow on the x-ray on hubby's lung. He said it wasn't there a month ago and he needs a cat scan done again. So we are all praying that it is only a shadow or scar tissue and not more cancer. Hubby is getting chemo as you read this. 4-5 hours of chemo, then a pump for 48 hours and then chemo again. Next week he will have off and will go back and do it all over again the following week and this will go on for 6 months. So I think we have found our new normal, with a cat scan thrown in for good measure. Hubby is in great spirits as he knows there are so many people praying for him all over the world. How can he lose?!! So if you are one that has been praying for DH thank you from the bottom of my heart. This man is everything to me along with our 6 boys. I can't even imagine life without him.

Ok now that we are getting into a somewhat normal routine once again I am back to crafting! Yay! I love taking care of hubby but so needed some crafty time again. So I'm officially back at BBTB2! Today our sweet and very talented Julie has issued the challenge of "white on white". I love white on white, especially cards. So I just got the Anna Griffith Winter Wonderland cartridge in the mail and of course I really wanted to cut something from it. So I opted to embossed a white layer with snowflakes and then popped that layer up on my white card base. I cut the number 2 ornament at  3 1/2 inches tall out of white card stock. The layers I used a little glitter holographic gold paper, dark green and a slightly lighter dark green. So a little color on this card. I used clear iridescent sequins on some of the embossed snowflakes for some more sparkle. The base layer of my ornament I embossed with embossing glitter from SU. So this card really sparkles and shines in real life! Not so much in the photo. lol I tried, but so hard to capture all that sparkles and shine. 

Looking for some more inspiration? Well look no farther than my design team sisters, I tell you they have some amazing white on white inspiration for you! Then why not give this "white on white" a try and link your project up with us over at BBTB2! As always thanks for visiting me today and thanks for hanging with me while I was on leave taking care of my sweet hubby. Happy crafting and crafty hugs to all. Brenda

A New Normal?!

Hello my crafty friends, just wanted to give you an update and let you know what all is happening. Hubby and I met with the oncologist and we have a chemo plan that will take action next Monday. Tomorrow hubby meets back with his surgeon to get a port place in his chest on Friday. After that port is in then he goes and gets his first chemo treatment. It will take 4-5 hours each time he goes. After getting his treatment they will hook him up to a pump that will delivery meds for 48 hours. He will do this every other week for 6 months and then we will see where we go from there. He is in great spirits, not so sure he is ready to do this, but still great spirits just the same. So as we find our new "normal" around here, I hope to soon be back to some light crafting. As long as chemo goes well for him that is. There might be some tweaking going on and then again there might not be any. We will see. So hang in there my crafty followers, I hope to be back soon!! Crafty hugs, Brenda

Update on Hubby-Warning Incision pic

Hello my crafty friends, I just wanted to give an update on my husband. We went to the surgeon's office today and he took out Dwayne's staples. Dwayne said it feels so much better with those dang staples out. Doc is pleased at how well Dwayne is doing  and told him that he could drive in about a week. No driving in the tractor or combine in the fields though. On Nov. 11th he can return to light duty at work. Light duty means no pulling, pushing or lifting anything over 10 lbs. Our appointment was also made for the cancer doctor today for next Thursday. I am ready to get going on this because I don't want to give that cancer to much time to grow. Our doctor recommended a cancer doctor that he would send his own family to. So that is a good thing. Dwayne has a wonderful outlook on this and is very confident that all will be fine. He has promised me that he isn't going anyway. I needed to hear that and pray that is the way it will go. So that is about it for now. Will give updates as we get started on this newest journey. I hope to get crafty some too. Dwayne has already told me to go to the card club on Monday. I think I will as I feel confident that he will  be good to go without me for a couple of hours. Thank you to all for your prayers, keep praying cause it is working!!! Love and hugs to you all-Brenda 

Pic of the staples and yes folks, it goes even lower! Nice to have them gone!!!