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Hi all,
I don't use Gmail myself but it seems any emails I try to send to Gmail accounts are being rejected. I just wanted to let you know I am trying to respond but it does not seem to be letting them go through. They are sent back as undeliverable. I never had issues before so I wonder if Google + elimination is making things difficult.

I had someone wanting to know if I broke my foot. Well, I did not. I have extreme arthritis in the one foot by the arch and between that and the fact I got a blister from wearing new shoes caused it to be difficult to walk. But it is getting better.

 In fact, I was able to go Sunday and attend the birthday party for my youngest grandson Jack who turned one year old. He had an extra busy weekend as he was in the Baby Crawl in their area and he took first place. Oh, and he did walk before his first birthday. But when in crawling position he cannot get up unless he can find a chair or a table to pull himself up with. It was fun to see him in action and how he has come so far after his rocky start a year ago.

So thanks everyone for the wonderful comments for the past few days. I guess maybe eliminating my Google + account did cause some issues in the email respect and I don't know if there is a solution to fixing it.

I hope to get some card making in again this week. I also have a doctor's appointment for a six month check up so that will take care of one day at least. And, this stupid weather we are having says another storm coming in tonight. I hope you can tell how thrilled I am about that. LOL

Take care and God bless,
Verna

All Occasion Geometric Heart

Today I spotted my Gina K. Designs set called Geo Thanks and decided to make a card using an inspirational photo from the Double D's Challenge. I also thought by using a vellum strip for the sentiment I could also add this to the Mod Squad Challenge too. I hope you like it as much as I do.

The heart was colored in with Bic Markers. But around the heart and in the inner portion I took my white paint pen and outlined it to make it pop a bit more. I used Gina K. Designs Dark Chocolate, Warm Cocoa and Sand card stock to make the layers behind the colored image and added it to a card base of Ivory. The sentiment is one from the Gina K. Designs Assorted Greetings set which was stamped with black ink onto a strip of vellum. The Sand and Warm Cocoa layers were die cut with a Cottage Cutz double stitched die and then layered to the Dark Chocolate. The last thing I added was some brown rhinestones to fill in the center of the geometric heart design.

We are in a blizzard so we are hunkering down. I don't think I will be posting any more this week as I bruised my bad foot somehow and I am in lots of pain when I walk. So I plan to take it easier tomorrow and just sit as much as I can with my feet up. This old age thing is not fun! LOL

I thank you for all your visits. I so appreciate them. So until next time, take care.

God bless,
Verna

Hello My Deer

Another wonderful and fun digi design from Tiddly Inks beckoned to me when I was perusing their website so I had to buy this cute digi too. I really love the way it turned out and I used Zig Markers to color it in.  This digi is called Hello My Deer.

I die cut it with an Unbranded scalloped stitched die and then  layered the scene to a piece of black card stock. I ended up making six of this design and again they are note cards. But one could easily make them for a birthday or get well card too. I think it is such a cheery little scene. And every note card was added to Dandelion Yellow card stock from Gina K. Designs.

Well,  here we go again. It is snowing and the wind is picking up. It sounds like it will last overnight until around midnight Thursday. I am hoping they are wrong and with the winds we will once again drop way down in temperatures. But we are fine here and nice and warm again as long as we stay inside.

I hope all  who are out in the elements are faring okay too. I especially am praying for a little girl who wandered away without warm clothes in western South Dakota and has been missing for four days now. I hope those who are searching for her will be okay as well.

Thanks so much for the visits and I love viewing all the comments you leave.

God bless,
Verna

Caterpillar Hello

Normally I am not one to use many digital images but I recently got a $3 gift certificate to a company called Tiddly Inks where they carried both digital and acrylic stamps. Well, I wanted something ASAP so I went with a few digital images and I love them. They are so cute and I wanted to share a CAS design I did with one of them for some note cards.

The name of this image is Nice 2 C U. And, that one cute caterpillar just looks like he is saying Hello to the other one. I colored it in different ways and no matter how I did it I loved the way it looked. I used Copic markers.  The sentiment is one from Gina K. Designs. And the oval double stitched dies are also from Gina K. Designs.

Well, I did some tweaking because of Google + so I am hoping all is going to work fine with this blog. I deleted my Google + information so hope I got rid of it everywhere. Thanks so much for the visits over the years and for being my blogging friend.

God bless,
Verna

Stars, stars and more stars!

I finally got my Gina K. Designs order and inside was the wonderful All Stars set illustrated by Beth Silaika. I had to work up a design while hubby watched the Super Bowl with it. I also am entering this in the Turner Syndrome Awareness Inaugural Blog Hop. Check out all about that and maybe like me you will learn a few things. Ooops! I guess I am too late and it has closed. But at least you can still learn about this syndrome. I know it was very new to me.

And since I used a lot of the Coral Reef color from Gina K. Designs it will also be entered into the February challenge at Stamp TV too.

I also carried the design over into the inside. You can see a peek of it showing off to the left. I was not quite sure what other colors to use and then I saw the photo showing off the colors used for the Turner Syndrome hop so I went with them.

Well, I guess that will do it for me tonight. I am ready to crash soon. It has been a busy day for me as I made out my Valentines and wrapped up a birthday gift and now made a card. I consider all of them in the paper crafting line. LOL Doing that and making meals took up my day pretty much. Thanks for dropping by.

Take care and God bless,
Verna

Loads of Love

Today I made a quick Valentine just  using dies. I chose to use the Cheapo Loads of Love die set to create this card and I also used an Unbranded scalloped stitched frame.

I added a piece of white card stock inside the card to stamp or write a message and along the bottom of the white panel I added some red hearts. You can see a glimpse of one in this next photo.

I am entering this in the Dies R Us Challenge #114-Use the Color Red.

I hope this works okay. I was using Google Chrome but lately it has been not working so well so I am  using Edge for this post. It is a learning experience for me again as it is different somewhat. I hope my Google doesn't go wrong as I really like it. Anyone else having issues? I noticed a lot of the Google emails I sent to people were returned as undeliverable too. So if you have a Google email address and did not hear from me that is probably why.

Well, believe it or not it is 35 degrees above zero today. What a change. They predict rain tomorrow. This Winter weather is really a different bag of tricks this year.

Have a great weekend and thanks for visiting and for commenting.

God bless,
Verna

Yappy Birthday!

I bought a darling Stampendous Puppy stamp and die set about a year ago when I knew we were going to have a new grandson. So today I made a card for Jack who will soon be turning one. I can hardly believe how fast that birthday came around. He got off to a rough start but he is doing great now. I made a card without a lot of bling on it as I still think he stuffs a lot of things into his mouth  yet. So it is just a simple little scene but I really like it.

The body and the head of the puppy come as two different stamps so you can position the head in any direction you please. I wanted to have him looking like his head was cocked to one side. I also used the bone from the set and added that to the grass which was some Gina K. Design pattern paper which I cut out using the MFT Die-namics Grassy Edges die set. My coloring medium used was Copics for the puppy and for the sky I used Gina K. Designs ink which was blended on with a Life Changing Blending Brush. The sentiment was only Yappy Birthday but I took the liberty of adding the #1 to it with a Bic fine line black marker.

I think this will work well for a toddler who still likes to shove everything into his mouth. I don't know if he will be walking by his birthday on his own but he sure can walk around things. In fact, his Dad has to use a walker to walk so when he goes walking Jack hangs onto a lower bar below and walks with his Dad. That is so cute.

We warmed up to 25 degrees above zero. And, it sounds like that will be the case tomorrow too. But I think it will be short lived. Anyway I hope you have a nice weekend.

Take care and God bless,\
Verna