Real Hydrangeas At Home....

No crafting card to share with you at this moment.  I just wanted to quickly share something with you.  Hydrangeas are truly one of my most favorite flowers.  These are real dried hydrangeas on top of my wall unit.

My sweet girlfriend Carol gave them to me when recently visiting with her.  She loves to garden and she had them hanging in her garage and insisted I take the home with me knowing my love and desire for them.  Not being a Gardner myself I didn't know that they could be dried and saved.  Dah!  So I wanted to put them somewhere in my home that I could enjoy!  So I found this cozy little place for them and will think of Carol each time I look at them.  Thanks so much Carol.

Hang tight everyone because I will soon have another pretty card to share with you. 

 This inspires me to get working on a card made with hydrangea's?  Maybe later?

Hugs.....Leanne

Sundae Delight...

My sweet daughter who originally introduced  me into stamping had surgery this past week.  So I saw this cute little gift idea on Pinterest and ran away with it.  I couldn't resit.  I thought what a cute little idea for a gift to give her when I see her.  I gave her the white one and attached 3 Mylar Get Well helium balloons and tied them to the neck of the glass.  I thought it made a cheery presentation for her for after her surgery.  It truly did put a smile on her face when giving it to her. 

I added the cute little circle flowers that read...happy thoughts to the straw and attached a daisy flower and a cute pearl to the center.  I then hot glued the bath scrubby around the glass rim and hot glued a red pom pom for the cherry on top!  I used a small cello bag and filled it with bath salts which is hard to see in the picture. 

The verse and tag is the cutest.  I copied the verse that someone graciously handed out on the internet and generated it on my computer and cut it into a tag that I was able to download on the internet.  

The Verse Reads:

This very special sundae,

will leave you feeling great.

It's chock full of good things

even though it can't be ate.

Take it to the bath with you.

Of Course don't take a sip,

cause it may look delicious, 

but it's made to take a dip!

My daughter is on the mend now and is healing quite well so mom can once again return to home after spending time helping her and getting my sweet grandson on and off to school each day.  Only three more days of school for him and then summer fun begins for him.  Yea!

These really do make a cute little gift.  Don't they?

Wedding Wishes Long Over Due....

It's been a couple of weeks and I've been away so that is why you haven't seen anything new here lately.

I've been away to a wedding back home.  Actually my brother tied the knot after 32 + years with the same women. This has been the longest engagement in history, I think?  LOL!!!   It was a very beautiful and jubilant wedding celebration. Close friends and family attended.  I wanted to give them a special card from me, to enjoy and hopefully cherish?  

I again used my favorite heart die cut and background die cut to help this card look wedding-ish but not to over done.  This card may look quite similar from another card I had did recently for another 50th Anniversary celebration we had attended.  However, I did change out the center to look different than the last card.  

I just had to show you a close up of the cute little rings that I found at JoAnn's Fabrics.

Adding a few roses and tiny leaves helped surround the rings quiet nicely.

Hope you've all had a great couple of weeks and I'll be back again next week to show you another cute project I made for my daughter.   See you then!

Numbers 6:25...

Good day sweet friends!  It's always a pleasure knowing you stopped by for a peek again this week.  May the good Lord smile upon you and be gracious to each of you!  May your week be a blessed week?

Below I wanted to show you a little close up of my flowers.  They are not the greatest flowers I've ever made but I did use my Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch for these and added the black centers with a black fine tip pen. I wanted small flowers for this card so using this Martha Stewart punch I tried making the smallest flowers I could with this punch.   The verse is computer generated and I cut it out with my Spellbinders die cut called Labels Twenty.  I truly do love this color blue paper used here.  I don't know the papers color name or who made the paper.  Sorry!   It's quite like a periwinkle blue color, though?

For the white lace I used Ellentina Cutting Die (Classic Collection) #DCB002.  However, I did take a oval die cut from Spellbinders and cut out the center of it and then added a white frame from the same die cuts while adding the computer generated verse for the center.  I then used my Stampin Up' punch around the page and made a sweet little frame to frame it out nicely.  I also took Iradecent Stickles and added it to the butterfly for some extra bling. 

If you have any questions on any of my cards feel free to email me and I will be happy to answer any questions.   You can find my email at the right side bar where it says "Contact Me".  I love hearing from you and better yet, you can also say hello by a comment below.  

Oh So Daisy...

Good day sweet blog friends.  Hope your weather is improving where you live?  If not.... just settle back into your craft room and go create!  Here's my spring creation.  What could be better than daisy's to bring on spring flowers and spring creativity.

Actually, Selma Stevenson from Selma's Stamping Corner gave me inspiration from a previous post of hers with her home made daisy's.  So I happened to have daisy punch and gave it a try to make similar daisy's.   I also had a this fence stamp that I hardly ever use and decided I should use it and create a fence to go along with the daisy's like Selma's card had. 

Thanks for your sweet inspiration Selma.  Without your inspiration this card probably wouldn't have been created.  Sometimes visiting others blogs are just what we need to get those creative juices flowing.