Thank You Cards

 

Hello! Hello!

A couple of weeks ago, I had a hysterectomy.  One week later- to the day- I ended up in the ER and then the hospital with a bowel obstruction.  Then, exactly one week later, I wasn't feeling so well and ended up visiting my family physician.

Although I would rather not have had any of these experiences ;), I have been extremely grateful for the amazing care I have received from all of my caregivers.

Earlier this week, I watched Gina K. Design's Stamp & Chat recorded live stream featuring the background masking technique I used here. 

Since my body is healing from a few things, I have worked on these cards in little spurts.  I finally finished them this morning and love the way they turned out!

I even made custom envelopes to send these in.

Hope you have a great day!

:) Dari

Christmas Nativity Bookmarks to Color

 

I drew these bookmarks to give as neighbor gifts for Christmas.  If you would like, you are free to download and print your own for personal use or to also give as gifts.  Printable PDF Version.

The true reason for the season is Christ.  Christmas means more of Christ (más is from Latin/Spanish meaning more).

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Bookmarks to Color

 

After our Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, I decided to create some bookmarks for Christmas.  I plan on placing one of these in each of my students' books I am giving them for Christmas.  These reflect some of my thoughts and feelings towards reading during this season.  

Feel free to download your own to color for personal use.  Or, maybe it will give you some inspiration for your own creation :).

Christmas Bookmarks

Have a wonderful day!

2 Artist Trading Cards: John Howard Bawden & Mette Kathrina Pedersen

 I have been creating little ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) featuring some of my ancestors.  I began thinking about this idea a month ago and decided to create cards for my direct ancestors who have birthdays in the month of October.  

As it seems with most everything in this season, I have not had the strength, energy and/or time to hunker down and bring this idea to fruition.  Last Sunday, the last day of October, I was finally able to start.  I completed an ATC for my 2nd great-grandfather, John Howard Bawden. He is my mother's mother's grandfather.

Later this week, I began an ATC for my 2nd great-grandmother, Mette Kathrina Pedersen.  She is my father's father's grandmother.  I was not able to finish this in a single sitting.  However, I really felt the creative "itch" this morning.  I am tickled with the way it turned out, and I think I might be able to convince myself to tackle some of the "have-to's" for the day now :).

Although these look really large in the photos, they measure 2.5"x3.5" in accordance with ATC standard sizing. My current thoughts are to put all of these finished cards onto a 2-page scrapbook layout.  Who knows? I may create some for all of my first 6 generations (where photos exist).

I have 4 more to go.  Hopefully, it won't take me another month before I get one done!

Tyler's Graduation Layout

 

It's crazy to think that my second child just graduated from high school.  I remember many days desperately watching the clock for the anticipated arrival of "daddy" from work, so I could have a "mommy" break.  My two boys are grown.  How exciting for them and for us.

I chose to do this layout in blues and greens, because his favorite color is dark blue, and his high school colors are green, black and white.

I only used cardstock as my paper resource.  To create the printed backgrounds, I used shimmer mists and color sprays.  The tag/flag stamps are all from Close to My Heart.  The accent embellishment stamps are also from Close to My Heart.  The thread like stamp is from Stampin Up.  I embossed these thread circles as well as the "Bravo" sentiment.

On a side note, I used Adobe Spark to create his graduation announcement (left side).  I have the free version.  It is so fun to work with and produces professional results!