Gonna Need a Lot of These.....

I don't know where to start, so let's just say I'm going to need a lot of thank you cards (more than normal) over the next few weeks and months. My sweet hubby, who has never had surgery or been really sick in his whole life, is having major surgery on Wednesday. If they don't relieve the pressure on his cervical spinal cord, he will end up in a wheel chair. Cervical Laminoplasty is a scary thing, and they have to do it on three (just found out) four vertebrae.

I'm going to need to thank the doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and so on, for the care he will be receiving, so I'm going to need a LOT of thank you cards. The problem is, I'm so worried about him, my mojo is hiding.

I decided I could clean and organize my stamp room while my mind was elsewhere, and whilst straightening I found a few colored Pleasant Poppy images leftover from Convention 2012. (You know, cleaning my stamp room is not unlike an archaeological dig....the deeper I go, the further back in time it goes.) LOL

I also found a bunch of Cherry Cobbler Labels Framelits already cut (what was I planning to do with those?), and some Very Vanilla panels already imbossed.  Well, heck, there's a card almost ready to be put together right there!  Just add some Gold Foil Paper to make it fancy, a Tiny Tags thank you, and there ya go! Okay, one down, a dozen more to go.

I hope you will keep my hubby in your thoughts and prayers on Wednesday. He is the love of my life, my rock, my everything.

If you don't hear from me for a while, you know why.  I'm going to try to schedule some posts in advance, but can't promise anything.

Stamps: Pleasant Poppies, Tiny Tags (retired)
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Shimmery White, Cherry Cobbler Core'dinations, Gold Foil Paper
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green
Accessories: Big Shot, Labels Framelits, Circles Framelits, Fancy Fan folder, 1-3/4" Circle Punch, Ticket Duo Punch, 1/16" Punch, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon, Blender Pens, Stampin' Dimensionals, gold thread (non-SU)

SUOC45 - 3-D Flowers!

This week's challenge at SUO Challenges is to make a project using 3-D flowers. It can be flowers popping off a card, or a scrapbook page, or a whole bouquet of paper 3-D flowers (and I've seen some really lovely ones!).

I wanted to do a full bouquet, but unfortunately didn't have time due to my trip to Montana. So, this card with water-distressed flowers will have to do!  The flowers were made using the Boho Blossoms punch, with 3-4 layers each. Had a larger punch been used, I would have added more layers for fullness.

The Design Team has made some fabulous samples for this challenge. I hope you'll play along, too!

Stamps: Apothecary Art, Loving Thoughts
Cardstock: Concord Crush, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White, Flirtatious DSP
Ink: Lucky Limeade, Concord Crush, Wisteria Wonder, Basic Black
Accessories: Big Shot, Labels Framelits Collection, Perfect Polka-Dots embossing folder, Boho Blossoms Punch, Old Olive 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Rhinestones Basic Jewels, Blender Pens, Stampin' Dimensionals