Christmas is coming...

These are cards cut with my Silhouette!!  Woot, woot!  I have not used my Silhouette to it's fullest potential so this was quite exciting to complete.  AND, it fulfills my monthly challenge to make at least five Christmas cards a month.  I made SIXTEEN of these...

The tree is a semi-circle that the Silhouette cuts folding marks into so I'd know where to fold.  Pretty darn cute!  And quick...

 

But, I have to share about my paper choices.  I went to Michaels' and Hobby Lobby looking for Christmas paper pads with double-sided paper.  Could not find ANY, anywhere!  Are you kidding me?  These used to be a dime a dozen.  Apparently, not anymore!  My husband would say, "Follow the money..." and I guess he's right.  It must cost more to create a doubled-sided pad of paper than a single-sided pad of paper.  SO, the last three years when I was determined NOT to buy any of those double-sided pads until my three were gone, has turned out to be a bad idea... :(

 

Anyway, my friend Susan had some leftover double-sided pieces in her stash that she gave me to do this project.  Thank goodness she had something or these trees would have had alot of white showing...



All my "Get Well" cards...

 Here's all the "Get Well" cards I received when I returned to New Jersey from my emergency surgery ordeal while out in Ohio.  They are displayed on our mantel in New Jersey. To say I was overwhelmed would be an understatement. There's nothing like snail mail to help with the healing. I'm STILL beaming... :)

I was so touched, I decided to pay it forward by sending each and everyone who sent me a card, a card in return.  I made eighteen of these.  I picked a couple "Fall" papers at Hobby Lobby and combined them with papers I already had and created this Starburst.  I stamped the "thoughtful" sentiment, added the burnt orange ribbon and bada bing, bada boom, ready to mail!!  These all went postal Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week.  I think the majority have been received by now so I can "Go Live!" with this post... :)

 

This was relatively quick for me to do that I could easily do more for my final shipment of the year to Operation Write Home.  And with only recuperation time on my hands until the middle of November... well, my not?



Get Well Soon...

Good Grief Charlie Brown!!  Look how long it's been since I did a blog post... yikes!  Three weeks... three very LONG weeks.  While visiting my husband in Ohio last month, I ended up in the hospital having an emergency appendectomy!  Yowza mama!  Talk about painnnnnful!  When I returned to New Jersey, I was greeted with over a dozen "Get Well" cards.  I was sooooo happy... and it did wonders to cheer me!

 

So, yesterday, when a request was put out in one of the groups I belong to on Facebook by a fellow crafter to send her son a "Get Well" card... Well, I was all over that like white on rice!  It's amazing the power of snail mail to a recuperating body. :)

 

This is a CASE of a card I saw on Pinterest.  Relatively easy EXCEPT for the washi tape.  Trying to fold it over the string without it sticking to me was a nightmare!  If anyone has any insight on how to do it with less agita, please share.  I would make many more of this design with different sentiments if I knew a better trick... :)