Sharing in your Sorrow

So in true manly fashion my husband turns to me this morning, literally minutes before he is walking out the door, and asks so do you have any sympathy cards in your stash for a lady whose husband just passed?  Now that is just about the only card I don't keep around, of course.  So this morning I whipped up a quick card for him and got it in the mail today.  I just love the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set and the sayings in it were just perfect for what I needed to do.  I don’t normally do much to the inside of the cards because I like to be able to write a lot if I actually write on the card.  Well mostly I put a post it or two in the card and write on those so that the recipient not only gets a card but they can reuse it too!  This card was just a short one liner from the office so I felt it needed something on the inside and I really wanted to use the quote.  It says “Praying for friends to comfort you, faith to uphold you, and loving memories to heal your heart.”

  Hopefully I can get back on track with posting, I just have to fix the formatting of the pictures on most of the posts that I had to redo but they are mostly back up on the blog now.   Have a great night!

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip Textured Cardstock, Baja Breeze Patterns DSP

Accessories:  Chocolate Twill Ribbon

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Good News!

I am so happy right now. My friend told me that she reads my blog through Google Reader and that it still had a copy of all of my posts so I went and subscribed to my own reader and sure enough they are all there! Now I just have to go through and copy and paste them all back into my blog. So please bear with me while I work on getting them all in there! I am going to try and get them all back in the same order with the original dates and times so it will probably take a while to get it all back to normal.Pin It Now!

AAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

If the kids weren't asleep I would so be screaming right now.  Earlier today when I posted my last posts I noticed that there were items missing from my blog but thought that it was some sort of glitch or something and had to go get kids ready for dinner and stuff.  After getting them in bed I came back to check and see exactly what was up and my blogs have been screwed up.  I don't know what happened every post on our family blog was deleted prior to today and upwards of 50 posts between today and last August were deleted from my stamping blog.  I have no idea what could have happened to them and I am having no luck finding any help within blogger help support.  I have emailed them about it but who knows when I will hear back if ever.  It seems from reading the help forum that they don't respond with anything other than a generic form back very often.  To make matters worse, I cannot find a way to contact Blogger directly and read in a lot of the posts that you just have to post a message in the help forums and hope that someone that works at blogger reads it. 

I don't see how one of the kids could have done it because not only would they have to delete each post you have to confirm the deletion.  I cannot imagine them doing it 65-70 times either on accident or on purpose.  I did find two posts that I had drafts saved on my computer one for each blog but that was it.  I am just going to go crawl into bed and cry, there is just so much gone.

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Bows and Holders

Sorry guys, with the recent holiday and other chores I didn't get to do much stamping last week.  However I did complete one project that I am proud of so I wanted to share it with you.  I generally like to keep things here Stampin’ Up! and other than a half of yard of light pink grosgrain ribbon(a layer in one of the bows that you can’t even see in the picture), everything else is non-Stampin’ Up!   I saw the cutest bow holder over on Etsy.  It was just adorable but they wanted $30 for it and I don't have that type of money to spend let alone on something as frivolous as a bow holder.  So I had to figure out how to make one with stuff I already had at home.  I figured it out with stuff I already had except for the fact that I had to go get some tulle.  And here is what I came up with, isnt it cute!?

This bow dress has 5 ribbons to attach your boutique bows and clips for storing and displays.  3 of the ribbons are white and the other two are hard to see they are a pink organza (I think that is what it is called) with a kind of loopy eyelet border.  Here is the close up of the three bows I made to give with the holder.  

This was so much fun to make but it sure took some time figuring it out.  I hope you all enjoy.  Hopefully tonight I can get some stamping time in and will have something to show you tomorrow!

 

Have a Stamperific Day!

Kirsten Brown

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Treat Holders

These are some quick little treat/candy holders that I did for my class.  We affectionately named the class the cavity class since everything we did involved candy.  These were both super simple and quick to do thanks to the Big Shot.

This cone is made from the Scallop Circle Die (the big one) and you just fold the end into a point and use sticky strip to hold it together.

This little box uses the Box #2 die.  It folds together quite easily and also takes just a little piece of sticky strip to hold it together.  This showcases the SAB papers and stamp set.  The assembled box is 3 3/4 inches across, 2 inches tall and 1 5/16 inches deep. 

Stamps:  Best Yet, Yummy

Ink: Riding Hood Red, Basic Black

Paper: Riding Hood Red DSP, Rididng Hood Red, Whisper White, Delicate Dots SAB DSP, Bashful Blue

Accessories:  Riding Hood Red Striped Ribbon, Dimensionals

Tools:  1 1/4 inch circle punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Die, Big Shot Machine, Box #2 Die

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