"I'm Thinking Of You"

Good Friday, Cinco De Mayo 2017 Everyone,

Weekend ready, here I come.  This has been a fast pace week doing a lot of things and forgetting about the time and/or day.  It was enjoyable!  How was your week and what plans do you have for this relaxing weekend?

On this Friday I created a card with three things in mind:

1. To use items in my stash.
2. To continue the mix media theme I had been using all week
3. I'm thinking about you and used this card for someone (male) in the future who may be doing the same thing.

The background tag was done a couple of weeks ago.  I used a combination of distress oxide, distress inks and gelato inks just to see what they would look like together.  I used an old toothbrush to apply gesso to the top of the tag (imitate the look of clouds). 

I pulled out a die cut of a building from my die cuts bag.  I remember doing this  from a piece of water color cardstock that I didn't like.  I had used the Paper Smooches die to see what it would look like using different colors.  This morning, I did use this die to cut out the building in brown cardstock to layer as a shadow.

The male silhouette came from my die stash bag.  It was originally cut from the Cricut Suburbia a couple of weeks ago when I was doing the Cricut projects.  This was saved from those projects.

The car has been in this stash bag for a long time.  I want to say it came from Pinterest (but I'm not so sure) when I was doing Father's Day cards about two years ago.  I never threw it away because my DH is into old cards and I thought eventually I would make him something using this "OLD  CLASSIC".

I adhered the building to the tag, placed the car at the bottom of the tag, and added another piece of cardstock behind the tag so I would have a place to put the silhouette.  Searching through my bag of sentiments, I found this one that would appear as if the male is thinking about someone in the city or while he is in the city, thinking of someone in another place. 

entry for http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com

Thanks again for visiting and please come again.

Enjoy your wonderful weekend and don't forget I'm Thinking Of You.

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois

"Love Brings Us Home"

Wednesday, February 7, 2017

Hello to all!!
We made it to the middle of the week.   Some of us have been having fun getting those Valentine's Day cards ready.  Some have been collecting cards for children at a hospital.  It's all in showing LOVE!
I'm going to just place this card I made today in the "LOVE' category.  It can be used for February 14th but it doesn't have to.  It can be used for anyone who goes away from home but will eventually return...why?...LOVE always brings us back to our roots. 
When viewing this card, can you think of another way it could be used?  Let me know in the comment field below:

entry for Word Art Wednesday

Anything Goes - Challenge Weeks #268-269

close up of image

items used in making this card

Sizzix Big Shot

Sizzix Thinlits Celebration Words: Script

Sizzix heart dies

Paper Smooches Super 2

Stampendous Family Home clear stamps

American craft, Neenah white, Recollections black and Bazzill cardstock

NUVO Autumn Red crystal drops

foam sheet

Some of us get to go out to explore what we call the greener pasture or to see what is on the other side of where we are.  Sometimes things don't work out the way we thought they should or life throw us a lemon and we have to prioritize our situation (Christian people will remember the story in the Bible about the Prodigal Son).    When we have run the race, LOVE will bring us home.

Thanks always for your time and your viewing.  Come again my friend, follower, visitor or viewer.  I enjoy having you to be with me. 

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois