Hope Cancer Card Set

Hi friends! Don't ask me where I've been because I don't know either. I've been working a lot for products to add to my darling Etsy Boutique. I hope you visit me and take a look around. Right now, I only have one item up of my Hope Cancer Card Set, but I have two of these available. These sets were very labor intensive. I will be adding many more projects for a larger selection over the next few days. I've also been working on my personal Project Life for 2014 and my puppy is filling it up by herself almost with everything that's been going on with her. I have my knee reconstruction pictures I need to add. I would also like to thank YOU for all of the cards you've sent me! I love them all so much and knowing that you thought of me and took the time to make a get well card really touches my heart. What a blessing.

Today I will share with you what the Hope Cancer Card Set looks like and how beautiful they are. What do you say to somebody with cancer? There never are the right words but you can give them a handmade card to set on their nightstand and they can look at it when they are feeling down and know that they are loved. Isn't that what hand crafted items are all about?

Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and take a look around. I will have so much more in my boutique than cards. I have wonderful ephemera kits that I'm currently putting together for you with such fun items that you will love full of vintage beauty. I have a new hobby of junking and antiquing (more junking – it's much more fun and I get the coolest stuff!) and I love the items I've been able to find. One woman's junk is another woman's treasure. I've also been using some of my junk items to organize my studio better giving it more of a vintage feel. As I see my personal tastes evolve, I'm also seeing it with my art veering away from cards, although that will always be my first love, to scrapbooking more of my life and my kids as they've grown up. I always kept up when they were little but now I'm into their early teens. I am also scrapbooking my marriage as I was married for over half of my life and now that has ended, it was still part of my life and those are the hardest pages to scrapbook because we had so many future retirement plans that my husband is rapidly approaching and they will not happen anymore. I put love into everything that I make but I find that pictures of myself and my husband at certain events and holidays are taking on a life of their own and are more on the vintage side. I start with a blank canvas and a color  palette and don't think about what I'm doing. The memories are going through my head and an hour later, I have a perfect scrapbook page that came together effortlessly. I keep my journaling on these pages short becaue the wounds of my pending divorce are raw after a 25-year marriage. With my kids, I think there's more journaling than pictures since there are so many stories. I've been texting the kids a lot and telling them those stories. The marriage pages are too personal to share that are about US, but the fun one, like leaf raking day and smoking a cigar that include the kids, I will share those when they are completed. I'm downloading everything from my phone that I plan on scrapbooking and sending them off for printing and the pictures that I took with my camera are all very organized on my laptop as I select what I want and have those sent off for printing too. With my divorce and the kids grown and gone, it is very hard to do all of these pages, but they have to be done. 

I am really hoping that my next album will be one of my grandson. That is so important to me and I am hoping and praying that my son shares his pictures with me. My grandson will be here soon. I do wish I could have done a first time pregnancy album for my daugther-in-law and let her do the journaling. 

With the kids in college, I think the only pictures would be driving to and from school and studying at home but an album can be made for anything and everything, don't you think?

Tomorrow I will show you Grandma Series #4 card. It's just too stinkin' cute. I used a few techniques on the card that I haven't done in years, discovered that my puppy chewed on the handle of my brand new blue Cuttlebug and now I must find another handle for that. The sentiment is set up like a baby mobile and while making the card, two star sequins just fell out of somewhere directly onto the card in perfect placement so I went with it. 

I also have a new Product Review coming up too, so there's a lot to catch up on. 

Now onto the Hope Cancer Card Set pictures. Thank you for stopping by to visit me today and God bless you. 

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