Taking A 3 Month Break To Get Well

I have been debating hard and long about this and after deep thought and discussions with friends and family I've decided to agree with the doctor and take 3 months off from stress and just try to get healthy.  I've smoked for almost 60 years and did not realize the damage that had been done to my lungs until I got bronchitis this time.  I knew I had COPD and emphysema but it never bothered me.until I got so sick over a month ago. I have absolutely no energy and can hardly breathe and I need to work on getting my lungs up to a capacity to where I can function again.  

YEAH!!!! NO CIGARETTES IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW.....

AND I HOPE NEVER AGAIN.....1 DAY AT A TIME

Will not be shutting my blog down and will be around to visit when I get a chance as I plan to try and keep in touch with my followers, it just will not be often.  Hoping I feel like creating some cards soon but so far, I just don't have the energy. Keeping you all in thought, love, and prayers.  May this Mother's Day be the best ever for you, spent with family and close friends.

"Love & Hugs"

Carol (Granny)

May CCAYR DT Cards

Santa Clause Is Coming To Town

Happy May Day!

May your baskets be filled with love and flowers!

We have such a fun and easy challenge for you this month at The Christmas Cards All Year Round Blog.  It's all about your favorite Christmas Carol or song for inspiration made into a card.  Please be sure and let us know what song is inspiration for your card(s). If entering multiple cards, you can use a different song for each card.

My cards are pretty easy peasy this month without lots of bling and details, which is a real change for me, but I'm trying to do less fuss to cut down on postage this year.  Inside I will add our Christmas letter with some family pictures of special events and special moments this year.  Be sure you hop on over to CCAYR to see all the wonderful designs by my DT sisters.  We are looking forward to you joining us this month.

I'll Be Home For Christmas

Oh Christmas Tree

Don't you just love these little House Mice.  They are so cute and sweet.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon.

"Love & Hugs" Carol (Granny)

THE CANDY WINNER IS.......................

First I want to thank all of you that left such wonderful comments on the candy page and also the fantastic comments you leave on my posts.  You all have enriched my life so very much and I so appreciate you for sharing your talents with me.

Secondly, I'm amazed at all the new follows as that was not a condition of winning the candy and I hope you all come back often to visit.  If I missed getting to your blog please let me know as I try to visit each new followers blog to say hi and thank you.  At the risk of sounding old..... I think I might have been there when in actuality I may not have been.  Think hubby's dementia is rubbing off on me...

SO.........ARE YOU READY TO SEE WHO WON?????

DRUM ROLL PLEASE

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CONGRATULATION PAT!!!

Pat is from Lancashire England, United Kingdom and you can visit her blog HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon.

"Love & Hugs" Carol (Granny)

GDT Card for The Digi Bells Team

If you haven't heard, the Digi Bells are having a GDT call that ends April 28. The term is from May 1 till July 31.  Just think, 3 wonderful months to design for the amazing artist, Elisabeth Bell.  Well, you all know how much I love her stamps so I'm throwing my hat in the ring and crossing my fingers....

When I saw this stamp from Elphine House Australia I knew I had to have it for Lilly's mom for Mother's Day. It is named "It's A Girl" and there is "It's A Boy" on the way to my house as I write this.  I left the sentiment off the outside so you could see that it can be used for a variety of cards.  Wouldn't this also make an adorable announcement card for a new baby.

Side View

Inside

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I am entering the following challenges:

The Digi Bells GDT Call - Use Ribbons & Lace

Elphine House - It's a Girl Thing - Add some Purple and Pink Colors

Card Deets:

• Stamp -  It's A Girl - Elphine House
• DP - StampinUp
• Coloring Medium - Copics
• Lace, pearls, heart, appliqued flower cluster, butterflies and brad from stash
• Flower is made from ribbon. My very first ribbon flower (not too bad for first one) and can't wait to make some more.....

A grandiose welcome to my new followers.  So glad to have you and hope to see you back again soon.

I am finally over strep throat and upper respiratory infection - almost back to normal.  Oh boy, that is not something I want to ever experience again and I sure hope none of you do.

Thanks so very much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon.  If you haven't entered my anniversary candy hop on over to HERE and leave me a comment.  Only 3 days left!

"Love & Hugs" Carol (Granny)

Pastels for Spring-Edited

How in the world I managed to forget to include the challenge at Elisabeth Bell's World Challenge with this card is beyond me so I'm including it now.  Shabby Chic, Distressing and lots of white.  
Must have been half asleep when I posted..  So sorry all.  


Happy Saturday and Weekend!

Welcome to my wonderful new followers that I haven't gotten around to visit yet, nor anyone else lately.  I tell ya, life is just in the fast lane right now and I don't know how to slow it down.

Oh Geez, I hope you all never experience designer block.....LOL  After 3 days of working on this card it's  still not what I had visioned but I decided to go ahead and post it anyway.  Far cry from posting as I had hoped  but I did get 4 DT May cards done for CCAYR.  

I've used the new Elisabeth Bell image that I won at the Digi Bell's March blog hop.  Her name is Lil Lillian and I think she's almost as cute as my Lil Lilly.  I've been wanting to use some of the new Memory Box, Cheery Lynn, and Poppy Stamp Dies I got a few weeks ago and just got around to it.  Thanks to Selma for the inspiration for this card.  I know I saw something similar awhile back on her blog.  She does wonders with these gorgeous dies and making flowers, so if you haven't been to her blog drop in to see the beauty she has to share.

Inside of card

Haven't got my light box figured out yet so the quality of these pictures are not what I had hoped for but I'll get it figured out sooner or later.  I've always said you are never too old to learn new things, but for sure,  it's not as easy as it used to be.

I'm entering this card in the challenge at Elphine House - Pastels for Spring

Anything Goes - Anything Goes

Thanks so very much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon.

"Love & Hugs" Carol (Granny)

Sharing My Precious Easter Bunny & News

Happy belated Easter to everyone.

Hope your Easter day was filled with much love, family, friends, fun, good food, and a renewed faith that life is ever lasting if you Believe.  We had a wonderful day with family and in-laws.  My little Easter Bunny Lilly is 6 months of age, sitting up, knows how to get what she wants and let you know what she doesn't want..The minute she sees the cameras come out she is hamming it up for you and full of smiles.

I'm so excited to now have 300 wonderful  followers and congratulations Annie for being #300.  I'll be getting a little surprise in the mail to her once she sends me her addy.  Will also be posting a Follower Candy Only for all my amazing friends and followers as soon as the Blog Anniversary Candy ends, but it won't last long so be sure to check back.  Think I can only keep up with one candy at a time.

I'm devoting the entire day tomorrow to the craft room and getting caught up on some much needed cards to share and some DT cards.  The beautiful weather, me thinks, has given me Spring Fever and I have just been outside puttering around the yard and working on the patio along with some much needed cleaning.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon.  Will be back with a card to share tomorrow.

"Love & Hugs" Carol (Granny)

April DT Cards for CCAYR

First and foremost, I'm so happy to see so many new followers lately and want to welcome you to my blog. If I haven't been around to visit you yet I will do so next week. Gee, if 7 more come come aboard I'll have to have another candy draw for followers only as that will make 300 wonderful sites of inspiration to explore..  You all are going to keep me hopping and I love and adore each one of you.

The CCAYR challenge for the month of April is an inspiration challenge based on the following picture.  We want you to show us your creativity and see what awesome Christmas cards you see based on the picture.  It can be colors, texture, shape, but really, anything goes.   Be sure to stop by the CCAYR Challenge Blog and see all the wonderful projects by the DT.  They have some real beauties to share with you.

Kind of went over the top with my 2 cards and used a six fold pattern that I thought could also be hung on the tree as an ornament.  I love this fold so made 2 of the same thing using different DP and embellishments.  I chose to use colors from the eggs.  I don't know who colored all these but they did a spectacular job of decorating them.  The tutorial for the 6 fold card is by Monique at SCS if you'd like to give it a try.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I sure hope to see you again soon.  Now don't forget to hop on over to the CCAYR blog and leave my teamies a little love for sharing their gorgeous designs.
The DT will be back April 15th with a more inspiration for our April challenge..

"Love & Hugs" Carol (Granny)

WOO HOO.....FINALLY A NEW POST FOR CHALLENGES

Happy Monday Everyone!

I'm so excited to be back and share this adorable new image by Elisabeth Bell named Fresh and Fun, just in time for spring..  She is available for purchase at Whimsy Stamps along with 3 of the other new Cottage Girls.  FF is colored with Copics and Spica pens were used for the flower centers.  The sky is done with Color Box Ice Blue Fluid Chalk using a template from Bev Rochester, and flower soft added to the base of the grass.  Teal card stock from Bazzill and Orange from CM, with DP from the Maricopa pack by .DCWV.  Butterfly punches by MS adorned with Stickles and Liquid Pearls.

Peek at inside of card

This card was created for the following challenges:

CMC Birthday Bash Challenge - Sketch

Bells 'n Whistles - Butterflies

Flutter By Wednesday - Anything Goes (with wings)

The Pixie Cottage - Easter or Spring

Whimsy Stamps - Anything Goes

Simon Says - Bingo (lace, glitter, punches)

Elphine House - Rain or Shine

Whoa, can you believe I'm playing in this many challenges at once...........LOL  Think it's my first for this many and probably my last.  Don't seem to be able to get much posting done lately so I'm taking advantage of having the opportunity to play in so many wonderful challenges.  Thanks so very much for stopping by and I hope to see you again.  

"Love & Hugs"  Carol (Granny)

Don't forget to enter to win my 3rd year bloganniversary candy if you haven't already done so.

Blog Deleted by Unknown

OMG....Someone from Japan got into my blog and deleted it.  How utterly rude.........LOL  Just got it back up and running and now have to go check my accounts and change all of my passwords in case anything else has been compromised.  Boy, just when you think everything might be settling down from just life in general something comes along and smacks ya in the face again...........Hope to be back with a post soon and get around to visit everyone.

Have a wonderful weekend!  "Love & Hugs" Granny

Apple Blossom for EB World Challenge

Welcome to my new followers.  So glad to have you and hope find a little inspiration for creating and sharing.  Will to be around to visit you soon.

Have you seen these adorable new images from Elisabeth Bell?  OMG, I can't believe how sweet and cute they are. The Little Cottage Cuties are now exclusively available at Whimsy Stamps and you can see them all there..  There are four (4) Cottage Cuties and I am in love with them all.  Have been busy coloring them up and working on my CMC Copic Class 3 so I haven't been posting much.  I really want to finish my class cause I think I'm learning something and I hope my coloring is improving somewhat.  It definitely takes lots of practice.  Sure is cutting down on my blogging time and visiting though.  Hope to be by soon to visit.

This cutie was colored with Copics, Colorbox Chalk for the sky, and Chocolate Spica Pen for the barrel staves and faux stitching.  I used so many Copics that I forgot to write them down for you and apologize. The DP is Glitz-Pretty in Pink with a card base from SU but I don't know the color as it was in a neutral pack.  The adorable little flowers were from Janiel and the flourish die by Cheery Lynn.

Challenges:

 Elisabeth Bell's World Challenge - Stitching and Swirls

CLP - Sketch (I didn't include a sentiment so not sure it will qualify but I'm trying)

Paper Sundaes Challenge #111 - Feminine Flair

Allsorts - Say It With Flowers

Totally Paper Crafts - My Favorite Things

(EB Images, Pink, Flourishes, Flowers, Apples)

Thanks so very much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon.

"Love & Hugs" Carol (Granny)