CAS Watercolour & Stencil Card Challenge ~ February

Hi friends!  

I made a card for the CAS Watercolour Challenge that my friend Marcia is hosting this month!

I think in honor of Valentines day and because she loves COLOR challenges, she chose red and black.  I was inspired by Loll's card...pretty much copied it!  And I mean that in the nicest way!

I used zig watercolor markers to color this flower from Gina K called Whimsical Flowers.  I added a piece of black and white striped paper too!

 And while I am here at the CAS Challenges, I decided to try my hand at foil stenciling with the CAS Stencil Challenge!
I used the Flowing Hearts stencil from Altenew that was given to me by my BFF for Christmas...it has two sizes, I used the smaller of the hearts for this card and used red foil to cover it.

It came out perfect!
My sentiment is from The Greetery: Sentiment Suite Love


 One more card, not for a challenge, just because it is Valentines coming up!!

I used the larger Altenew Flowing Hearts Stencil and I also used Gina K Glitz Glitter gel and it is so shiny and sparkly!  I added the sentiment from a die cut.
all of my Nuvo pastes dried up on me and I am not happy about that...I do love this Gina K, sure hoping this doesn't dry up just because I don't use it every day until it is gone!
Well, that is it for me, hope you all are having a wonderful Wednesday!!

Heart Hugs, friends!

CAS January Stencil Challenge

Hi friends, have you been over to the new CAS challenge called CAS Stencil Challenge?

This is going to be a fun one because knowing Loll, she will inspire and have lots of ideas for using those stencils we have stashed away.  I pulled out this PTI balloon stencil that was a NBUS!  It was pretty fun to stencil it and make a quick and easy birthday card!

The cue word is sponging this month, so I sponged on some  CPD inks and did darker on one side and lighter on the other side of the balloon to give it depth.

 

I know I have been missing here in blog land. But the day after Christmas we had devastating news from our older daughter...her cancer is back.  We thought she had beaten it, it will be 7 years this month that she had her last chemo and it took a few more months to clear up the last of the cancer that was in her spleen, but since then she has been great.  Until now.  It has been confirmed with a PET Scan and she had a biopsy and will get the results next Wednesday...I am praying it is a treatable and curable lymphoma.  It is hard to wrap my head around this again, and I need to be there for her especially once she starts chemo.  Her oncologist said it will be harder on her body this time around.

Fortunately her family lives right next door to me, so it is easy to just sit with her or go over any time she needs something.  She has an amazing support system with so many friends and people from our community.  I know she is strong and will pull through this again, but boy is is hard to see her in pain.

So if I don't visit as often as I should or post too many cards, this is the reason.

If you could keep her in your prayers for healing it would surely be appreciated!

Her name is Dina, here is a picture from Christmas Eve of her family at my house:

Ellie (17 the volleyball player!) Dina, Jalen (11) Jamie (husband) Lily (15 also VB player)

Thank you friends, I know I have a lot of prayer warriors already keeping her in their hearts and prayers and it is so appreciated!  And for those of you who have left comments on the Caring Bridge site, thank you, thank you, thank you, it warms her heart to read what you write and to know so many people are praying for her, even if she has never met you!  God Bless, you!

Heart Hugs, friends!