A Special Request

My good friend Char put the call out to send on some cheer in this post. Here is the card that answers the call. It is so scary how cancer touches so many of us these days...but also so wonderful that there are so many survivors out there! And I am sure Kerrianne's mom will join those ranks.

I love it when I can be part of crafting for a cause. A few months ago Charlene and I sent 60 cards to Stephanie Nielson. If you don't yet know the story of Nie Nie click here. This woman is amazing and her blog inspires me with every post.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great week! And if you get a chance please send a card off to Kerrianne's mom.

LSC #43

The Loonie Ladies were at it again with another great challenge this week . Pink, yellow, and grey would not jump out at me to put together, but the result is beautiful. AND the challenge gave me an opportunity to try PTIs Smokey Shadow cs, which I love. AND isn't it a strange coincidence that I bought Heidi Swapp felt flowers on clearance in BOTH yellow and pink just this very week? I had to use them.

Please visit Char's blog to see her great card and she has links to all the other Loonies super cool creations. Polka dots seemed to be a secondary theme this week.

As for my card, simple as usual. Somehow turning a simple card into a set of note cards makes me feel better about my basic cards. Thanks for stopping by.

Blueberry Mini Tarts

Despite the fact that it is snowing out right now and not looking good for tomorrow, we are going to a lobster party tomorrow. I had planned on bringing a fruit pizza on shortbread crust but due to the weather today I didn't get to the grocery store. I had to come up with something with ingredients I had on hand. I had pastry for a half a pie crust in the freezer and some fresh blueberries. These are what I made:



I was only able to get 16 tarts from my pastry so had to do the rest with ready-made Tenderflake. I have never made fruit tarts before and was a little too generous with the filling, as you can see in the "after" picture below. Oh, and this handy device was awesome to use. I didn't even have to roll out my pastry...just formed it into balls and squashed each with the tool. The filling is simply blueberries tossed in sugar, cornstarch, and lemon juice (exact filling recipe here). Easy peasey!



And yes, there ARE a few missing in the after picture ;) Soooo yummy.

Thanks for visiting!

The Best Thing I Ever Made

This is my son Jake. He HATES getting his picture taken but I forced a photo op following his receiving an award at his school Athletic Banquet yesterday. This is the closest thing I get to a smile these days as he is a cool teenager, afterall.






Maybe when he is acting too cool for mom I need to remind him of this silly business...















Thank Goodness he doesn't read my blog!!

But I'm glad YOU do!.

Happy Friday!!

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #8

I have been wanting to make another button tree card for awhile, since making this one some time ago. I absolutely adore pink trees and really want to put a flowering crabapple tree in our back yard. Unfortunately, they get quite big and our yard is small. AND we have already planted four trees back there...but I think we may be able to get just ONE more back there ;).


This picture is of the tree right outside my office window at work. I am not sure what type it is, but it's lovely. It blooms a beautiful bright pink then fades to almost white. It could be a flowering crabapple for all I know!

Needless to say, my card was inspired by my love of pink trees (and Dawn McVey's colour challenge of course!!).

Thanks for visiting!

LSC #40

I made this card a couple of weeks ago for the LSC #40. I loved the challenge, but not my card. I thought I would post it anyways.

It was very warm and sunny here today and I sure could go for an iced Starbucks right about now.

I hope the sun is also shining for you today!

Hey!

Well, it's Monday and that means back to work for me. I didn't do as much cooking and crafting as I had hoped to over the weekend, but did manage to make a few things

including this recipe and the card above.

I picked up the wood grain stamp (by All Night Media) from Michaels over the weekend and this was my first project with it. I hope to find some time during the week to play with it some more as it's very fun. Even my 13 year old son thought it was cool!



Have a great day!