Peaceful Christmas Paper Pumpkin

https://www.paperpumpkin.com/en-ca/sign-up/?demoid=1000271

This looks fabulous for pulling together a group of Christmas cards in a fun session of crafting. It has 10 cards (2 designs/ 5 of each) and promising to coordinate with the beautiful Peaceful Place Suite. This is a beautiful calm bundle including beautiful papers with silver accents and Black and white images, snowy velvet sheets of paper etc. I'm excited. This is a great time to give Paper Pumpkin a try (maybe, again!) No commitment, you can suspend any single month or your whole account whenever you want. A whole lot of craftiness and happiness in a box! Let me know if you have questions! (subscribe early, just in case this one sells out by subscription deadline of October 10th !)

Sweet Farewell ~ Travelling images for Sailing Home Dies

I challenge myself each weeknight on my LIve@9 to create something. Using a variety of things to give me all my ideas through the year. I've rounding into my first full year of making ove 250 cards! I'm just adding the picture taking and blog posting to this. So I don't recall wha the exact starting point was for this card, but my love of this new Annual Catalogue stamp set, Sweet Farewell might have been all it took? I checked out the dies that go with Sailing Home stamps and they worked perfect with this very different image of sailboat! I thought I'd further twist things by using Fresh Freesia in the Maritimes mix of Blues and whites! Do you know which dies the shapes are from? A favourite group of dies of mine is the hint, I'll give you on that! Thank you for stopping by! I'm planning for continual content, stop by again to check it out. smiles, Laurie

Celebrating Rosh Hashanah with a Honey Bee card

Many Jewish Canadians will observe Rosh Hashanah, known as the New Year in the Jewish calendar, September 6-8, 2021. This is a time of family gatherings, shared meals and prayers among loved ones. A time to reflect on the past and make a fresh start for the New Year. Rosh Hashanah greeting cards are also sent. I created this special card to wish anyone celebrating, a "Happy New Year"! 

  L'shanah tovah (say “le- sha-NAH to-VAH”) 

 is how to say “Happy New Year” to someone who is observing the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. 

Jewish Canadians traditionally eat challah bread, pomegranates, and apples dipped in honey on Rosh Hashanah. The challah bread, symbolizes the continuity of life. The apples that are dipped in honey symbolize sweetness and good health throughout the New Year. Pomegranates symbolize an abundance of goodness and happiness. People wish for blessings in the New Year as plentiful as the seeds of a pomegranate. I found several examples of cards using any of these symbols for these greeting cards.

  smiles,

 Laurie

Flowers of Friendship for my Mom's Birthday

To help celebrate Mom's birthday, I chose these pretty little flowers and added the spray of leaves from Forever Flourishing Dies. I get a feeling that these are kind of peeking out from a tree with the Bark Embossing folder...

One of my favourite fonts of the new catalogue is from the Sweet Ice Cream stamp set.

I put this card together 'just in time' in a special Live at a weird time over on my facebook Business page If you click, you can scroll and find a couple hundred videos you can peruse. I started doing Live@9 last fall each weeknight to connect with fellow stampers during this crazy year.
I've had so much fun sharing some stories as I create on the spur of the minute. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, it's all part of the process of creativity, though! : D

Most sad is my rural internet, but I am forever hopeful that we'll get connectivity one day!

Thank you for stopping by!

Smiles,

Laurie

Facebook link to Live https://fb.watch/7XZyQWFUxJ/

 

Fancy Fold Blossom Card

 

I have been busy working with this paper for a bit now, and it isn't getting old! Both sides of every sheet is just wonderful. (and a little versatile with a couple different colours and patterns that might not be expected in the pack) This little fancy fold really makes for a showcasing of the focal image you'd choose. Chose the blossoms over a Peach image today. I go through the steps https://fb.watch/82Jq9novSC/ in my Live@9 over on my facebook page thanks for stopping by! smiles, Laurie

Posting some Christmas in July Ideas _ Inspiration needing a twist

So the product is from last year, but shifting boxes today, I found a few cards I loved putting together on the Live@9 's. I'm going to pull these into some new Livecasts this Fall, using the ideas with new product. Watch for them! Thanks Smiles, Laurie

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day

 International Non-Binary People's Day is observed annually.

I made this card to celebrate a friend on this day. I had not known there were many multiple Pride flags and meanings behind all the colours. A search online to help make a nice card enlightened me to the idea of using these colours.

Non-Binary is an umbrella term for people who don't identify with the binary categories of male or female.   I hadn't heard a lot about non-binary people.  Nonbinary includes people who may identify as having two or more genders, moving between genders (gender fluidity), or not identifying with any gender. We are becoming more accustomed to the idea of transgender people, maybe it’s easier to explain the idea of feeling more attuned to the ‘opposite gender’.  Non-binary brings in the understanding that gender identity is a spectrum.

It isn’t hard to be supportive and respectful of non-binary people, even if we are just started to learn about them. Being supportive and respectful of nonbinary people can be as simple as showing respect for someone’s identity by following their lead and using the pronouns they’ve asked you to. You don’t have to understand what it means for someone to be non-binary to respect them.  Saying something like, "I use the pronoun she/her, what pronouns do you use?"    It's like asking, "my name is Laurie, what's yours?" 

Non-binary gender acknowledges and celebrates individuality. Sending a card letting someone know you see them can really put a smile on their face.  By learning more about and celebrating other people’s differences we can create safer environments. We each do make a difference!