Wedding Card for John, and Emily

The wedding was wonderful! So pretty for an outside wedding. 

72, and sunny. Just perfect! 

This is the card I made for John, and Emily. 

The center part is made from acetate. Love how it turned out. 

Really tired from long day, so I'll end this post. Hopefully back

tomorrow with more pics. 

Stamping trails

Karen 

Wedding Album, and Cards from Friends

Happy Anniversary to me, and my hubby Joel. We have been

married for 37 years! WOW! 

Big thanks to Kathleen for making me this beautiful wedding album. 

You outdid yourself Kathleen! 

Lots of pages inside for photos and journaling. Hoping I get

time soon to fill it up. 

More beautiful pages. Love how so many open up. 

Did this one out of order. The photo above shows it open. This is how

it looks closed. 

Just stunning! 

and that page open. 

Kathleen also made this very pretty anniversary card. 

Speaking of cards my friend Lisa made this card for us. 

Lisa, and her hubby Geoff share the same anniversary date. 

Love the cats! 

Thanks ladies! 

Stamping trails

Karen

Mailable Monday #236

Happy Monday! 

Haven't done a Mailable Monday card in a long while. 

I designed these clean, and simple star cards to send out

for the Optimist youth appreciation event. 

Some of the families I couldn't reach by phone so

I'll be mailing them the event info. 

Theme of the event is "kids are stars". 

We had a lovely Easter with our kids yesterday. 

Emily received her box of wedding invites that I made. 

And here they are. Not going to show the inside view

as it has all their info printed. 

Lots of embossing going on! 

Leaf was heat embossed with gold. The gray

layer was done with a leaf folder. 

The white gate folded base card had to

be done on each end using a birch tree folder. 

There is also some very fine gold thread under the white

leaf panel. 

Let me tell you I'm so happy that I have a gemini electric embossing machine. 

Made the work lots easier! 

Stamping trails

Karen

Burlap on a Cane?

I was going through some photos before I went in for surgery and

saw that I didn't post this one. 

I had decorated my cane for Sarah's wedding. 

I didn't want it to look so medical! So I covered

it with burlap and added a sunflower with navy ribbon. 

I used it like that a week after the wedding and was still getting

good comments on it. 

It matched the centerpieces we had on the tables. They were not

really vases, but wine carafe that me and Sarah bought at Old Time Pottery.

These were wrapped with twine filled with blue rock chips and had a sunflower

in the center of the twine bow. Here you can also see the wedding favors 

Kat made. So cute!

Kitchen Decor, and Salon Photos

Look what I got! 

Kat brought me my birthday gifts this year. 

Even though the birthday isn't till the 30th I got 

to open gifts early! Gotta love that! 

I'm decorating the kitchen in a wine and grape theme. 

This is the water pitcher from the Tuscan style decor I'm going with. 

The little grape teacup in the background I got at Pat Catan's. 

Kat got the pansy design. She helped me so much with the wedding

I wanted to get her an extra thank you so I got her the pansy teacup with

matching teapot. Didn't think to take a photo of it. I'm going to keep 

checking back at Catan's for the grape teapot as they were out of that design. 

And she got me this wonderful spoon rest. I needed a new one. I was

using a smaller one that had a goose on it. Totally 80's! Couldn't wait 

to put that in the trash and replace with this pretty one. 

Thanks Kat! 

Here are a few photos of the morning at the salon. Sarah, her maid of honor, and 

me all went to get our hair done. Kat came along and took some great photos.

pinning the veil on. 

Back view of my do. 

Front view. You can see Kat in the mirror behind me snapping this photo. 

I can't believe its been a week since the wedding! 

Sarah and Jason are coming home today from NC. They went to Myrtle Beach.

 

Stamping trails

Karen 

Wedding was Beautiful!

The wedding was beautiful, but

I'm so tired. 

Be back later for tons of photos.

Stamping trails

Karen 

Guess what I'm Working On

So guess what I've been working on? 

The kids are coming over today so we can finish up the 

wedding invites. 

I'll be back tomorrow with Mailable Monday. 

So many projects that I need to get completed. 

Wish me luck. 

Sending a shout out to my friends Kat and Joe. They

are vacationing. Have a great time you two!!!!

Stamping trails

Karen