January 23 2020

Hello and welcome back to another day on the blog! Today I'm sharing a Valentine card that I made, with 80lb white cardstock, watercolor paper, and some stamps. I'll get to that in a moment. But Bill and I had a great time walking through Home Depot.  The tile for the kitchen still needs to be figured out. I want that, he wants that kinda problem. I stopped and asked the guy in windows and doors about a style I really like, for the kitchen window. It's a picture window on top and an awning window at the bottom. So even when it rains we won't have to close the window during the fall, and late winter/early spring (Arizona for you).  We were looking for a pocket door, to see what they cost, but couldn't find any for the laundry room.  Next time we will go with a shopping list.  Bill also took me to lunch as an early birthday present, it was lovely.  We don't have many chain restaurants in town, so going to one of them is nice to break from fast food outings. Anyway, let's get to that card. 

As I said above, I watercolored the heart I made on watercolor paper with the 36 half pan set from Altenew. set it off to the side to dry and went to work on my background.  The Sweet Friend stamp set had these cute XOXO and a little typeface font love. So I used them together to make a custom background for my card.  

After that, I took out this mini envelope from my stash (you can get them from your local craft store).  Die-cut the U from Caps Bold Alpha on black cardstock.  I used Magenta mini ink cube to stamp LOVE from Label Love and Obsidian Black for the Hello Gorgeous sentiments Sweet Freind stamp set.  I added an eyelet from my stash in bronze and there you have it.  A fabulous card ready to send out.  Below is a shot of the greet on the heart. 

So that's it for today, still hoping to get some of my paintings up on the blog and soon... sadly today is not the day.  Thanks for stopping in, and seeing what I've made.  With that, I offer up a short prayer:  Among us, there is the greatness, the Lord our Father gives us the grace to move mountains. We must rise to the moment and give God our very best.  We do this not for ourselves, but for those we love, our Father in Heaven, our family, friends, and angels who could be a stranger no longer.  Amen. 

:)