Jessica made a card for her Grandma Taylor

First, I want to apologize for my loooooooong absence. My family got hit HARD with the flu and we are barely getting back to "normal".... at least OUR "normal" (which isn't very normal at all!) LOL We've had this flu in our house for about 2 months. Jess got extremely sick and almost didn't make it.... but she did! *whew*! Now... on to bigger and better things:

Jessica was so happy to make a card for her grandma Taylor for Mother's Day. I helped her stamp the image and cut the special shapes, but she did the coloring and wrote her own note to Grandma on the inside of the card.



My mom had surgery a few months ago and Jessica is so happy that Grandma is feeling better.


Here is our messy work space in my craft room. We enjoy watching movies while we do our crafty projects. I'm so lucky that Karl made this craft room for me! :-)

I hope you enjoyed Jessica's card. My mom absolutely LOVED it! Everyone was saying how precious the card was - especially because Jessica made it. It is one of those things that Grandma will cherish forever. I just feel bad that I didn't have my camera with me so I didn't get a picture of Jessica giving the card to her grandma. But here is a recent photo of the two of them together:

Answers to some questions

Here is a better picture of the card that I made for my card exchange. The stamp is from Stampin' Up and is from the set: "Snow Swirled". I used white pigment ink and SU's and Iridescent embossing powder. I then used glitter glue for the different colors of ornaments. The white card stock is punched from one of Martha Stewart's decorative punches. The "Merry Christmas" stamp is SU as is the punch I used to cut it out with. The decorative paper is some I've had for YEARS. I've been finding lots of fun stuff as I move into my new craft room and try to organize my stuff. The operative word is TRY to organize. LOL



Ann asked me in the comments section in my last post about the "luggage" in the corner of the picture. Well, Ann, it's storage boxes! Below is a picture of the two boxes. You are right... I sure wish the lady image was a stamp too! I have quite a few decorative boxes that I use as storage. The trick is remembering what is in which box. hehe...


I've been using the top of a large "basket" to place my cards to photo graph them. Karl did such an excellent job on the beadboard on the wall, I think it makes a great background for my card photos. On top of three square baskets I usually keep three decorative boxes. They are situated alongside a book case that Karl made for me quite a few years ago. On top of the book case is a hatbox that contains all kinds of goodies... like brads, stamps and other shinny fun things. It's a card maker's treasure! I have a "Big Shot" and I have collected quite a few sizzix, cuttlebug, quickutz and spellbinders dies. The white storage box with the pink, silver and tan containers are for Quickutz alphabets. I have yet to organize them in the containers but I got the set on sell and am looking forward to having all my alphas in there.



I hope you enjoyed the sneak peeks of my new craft room! I hope I can get more organized! I've gotten my desk pretty much cleared off but I have two tables with tons of stuff on them, including LAUNDRY! That's the problem with the laundry room being right off my craft room. There's no room to fold the laundry in the laundry room so it gets stacked on my craft table.

I'm realizing that trying to clean my house and do laundry while raising 4 children is like trying to rake leaves during a hurricane. haha!

Have a great Sunday!