Quick Saturday

This day sure went fast! Dave had a meeting at church from 9-4:00 and I thought I'd get lots done while he was gone! It just didn't happen!! After my shower, I finished reading a book that I just started on Thursday...The Rapture of Canaan. This book was on Oprah's reading list some time ago and at the time, I didn't have any desire to read it. But for some reason, I inherited two copies of it, so I thought maybe I should give it a shot. It was a good book - easy reading, which is a surprise because lots of the books that Oprah chose were NOT easy reading. Maybe they were just too deep for my simple mind!?

I did get some pictures uploaded today. Here are pictures of the cards we made at club yesterday. Since most of the supplies were furnished by the demonstrator, I have no idea where the papers and stamps came from. I think she said the stamps were from PaperTrey. Anyway, I think they turned out really cute. I also think they'll be hard to mail! This first one, I furnished the blue background - it is a cardstock that I got in a big pad of cardstock (from Walmart). The inks I used were all from SU. Shirley had already cut out the clouds from a die that she has. We were asked to bring buttons of a certain size, but weren't told what we they would be used for. I think this card turned out really cute.
This is probably my favorite of all the cards. Shirley furnished the red and white circles. I had the cherry paper (from Designs With a View). Her sample had us putting the two circles with the cherries on a white cardstock base. I thought that was a little too plain, so when I got home I finished this card by adding a Cherry Cobbler base to my white card and then adding the cherry paper on top of it. The ribbon is the Cherry Cobbler seam binding from SU. I LOVE this color!!

This third card is another one she showed us. Again we brought buttons, but didn't know they were for flowers. I ended up using some of her buttons because I brought mostly red and green buttons and green flowers just wouldn't have looked right. The ink is Certainly Celery from SU as is the green square. The ribbon is one I picked up at Hobby Lobby or Michaels somewhere!
I hope you enjoyed my cards. I love doing these cards. I hope I will be able to take some of my stuff with me to Florida next year so I can continue to make cards and/or maybe even package some of them and sell them. At some point, I may have too many!! They're just like fabric - they seem to multiply easily!

At one time today, I looked out my window at the big lot just west of us and there were 18 robins out there, just hopping around! It was like a flock of them had landed out here! It's so fun to see them. I wonder how far north the hummingbirds are? When we get back from C'water, I've got to get my feeders out. I want to be sure they have food when they get here! The experts say that if you don't have food out for the orioles when they first arrive, you won't have them at all...they'll go elsewhere!

Tomorrow is church and Sunday School and then Bible Study in the afternoon. It'll be a busy day! More later...