Always in My Thoughts

Hello all.  I'm not sure who might still be out there reading but I have a few cards to share today.  I didn't do much in the way of stamping during September.  Once the kids went off to school, I found myself incredibly busy with meetings and errands and chores.  And my evenings are now filled with baseball games and homework so I am exhausted by 9 pm!

One thing I did during late September was an Online Card Class - Kick Start.  I really feel like I needed  jumper cables to get back to stamping much.  This class helped me reorganize some things and pilfer through drawers and such.  I even felt like going through some inspiration snippets that I had been keeping for a while in order to compile it all into one space.  Sometimes taking a step back and evaluating all of the stuff helps.  In this case, it helped me get four cards made!

I finally found a zebra stripe background stamp!  I had been looking for one ever since my mom gave my youngest daughter a pair of zebra stripe socks almost two years ago.  This card was inspired by her socks; not just the print, but the color combination, too.

This card I used a layout from an old sketch I found in a notebook.  I modified it a little to fit the card and it isn't what I envisioned, but hey, that is ok!  I used the old chalk-inks-with-colored-pencil-shading technique here.  Coloring is so relaxing.

This card is also from a sketch.  I love different fonts/type when mixed together over a common theme. I had plenty of Halloween sentiments that fit together nicely to make a background.  A fun card destined for some great kids I know.

Lastly, a card based on a card I saw in a Paper Crafts magazine recently.  I love the look that mounting a die cut shape on the same color of paper gives a card almost like an embossed image.  This card I made while thinking about my sister.  She would be enjoying life with her husband a two girls today had cancer not taken over.  She wanted to be remembered by us whenever we saw butterflies.   I miss her every day, but today especially.  Four years later, she is always in my thoughts, some good, some sad, but always there.  I hope I see lots of butterflies (or moths that look like butterflies) today.