One Proud Mama!

My daughter has started her own blog!

Lady Lemondrop's Sunroom!

She is a very creative and fun young lady!

She is such a sweetheart,

(of course I'm not at all biased!)

And my best friend!

If you have a moment, stop by and say, "Hi!"

Also sharing a couple cards made

in the past couple weeks.

For my friend, whos sunny disposition and love of PINK

was the inspiration behind this card!

Even when the rain is falling,

she is always there with an encouraging smile!

And this one is for my dad's birthday.

You're the best, Papa!

Wishing you all a safe and restful

Labor Day weekend!

Hugs!

Lori

Holy Cow, It's Another Birthday!

Ever since my youngest daughter was a wee one, my dad had a running dialog with her about holstein cows. Anytime he was with her (which wasn't often enough since my parents live in Colorado), sometime...somehow the conversation would turn to holstein cows. And then they started exchanging holstein gifts at Christmas! It's very cute, and something she

will always remember about her Grampa.

So that is what has inspired the birthday card I made for my dad! I used the Taylored Expressions card sketch #78:

And here's what I came up with:

Stamps are from TAC and everything else is from my scraps. The inside says, "It's just another birthday." I think it will get a chuckle! Happy Birthday, DAD!

Cards for Dad's Birthday

Yesterday I realized that both my dad's birthday AND my father-in-laws birthday are coming up quite quickly...like within the next week! So I needed to get busy making a couple cards. I decided this year to make the same, but slightly different cards for both...mainly because I am running out of time for getting my dad's card in the mail! This is what I found to "lift" from an old ideas file. On the left side of each card, I swiped Bamboo (CTMH) and Chocolate (CTMH) ink pads to "skuff" it up. You would never guess that I DID NOT use red on the card on the right! That was an accident, but just goes to show that even when you do something you didn't expect (whoops! I goofed!), it all works out! I think what happened is that on the left card I swiped the light color first, and for the card on the right I swiped the light color last and it picked up the Chocolate, mixing the colors to tint it red. So I just used a scrap of Barn Red (CTMH) for the center accent! Perfect! If I had said nothing, you would have never known it was all quite by accident! :)

This card will go to my father-in-law since he used to be in the Navy.

And this one will go to my dad...for no particular reason!

I've been working on scrapbook pages from a recent trip to a women's monastery in Michigan. I'm almost done so I will wait to post them all at the same time.