Friday, June 8, 2012

BRAN comes to Sargent!

Wow! Our little town of Sargent (Pop. 577) has been busy this week!! Sunday was the kick off of our annual Chokecherry Jamboree and that lasted thru Tuesday with parade, pancake feed, little girls beauty competition, carnival, salad luncheon etc. The week was full of lots of hours in town and coming home exhausted but it was fun. 

Then on Wednesday the BRAN group biked into town.  BRAN is Bike Riders Across Nebraska.  The bikers started out in the far west part of Nebraska and they spend a week biking across the whole state of Nebraska and end up close to the far east part of the state.  Wednesday evening they spent in our little town. 

There were 600 bikers registered this year and 200 supporters that follow the bikers so our town bloomed to almost 1,400 people!!  All of the churches served wonderful meals for the group: Catholics had fried chicken dinner, Methodists had Smorgsabord, Church of Christ had Tacos and Runzas, E-Free had Spaghetti and they all sold out which is wonderful for our churches!!  There were also various organizations that had snacks, drinks etc. for sale also.  The local businesses also went "all out" decorating their store fronts with posters and decorated bikes to welcome our visitors.  Where I work, we had an old rusty bike with a basket in front of it filled with flowers.  It was cute!

Go to this link and it tells all about the BRAN coming to Sargent and has photos!! I was too busy working to get many photos so this link shows some.

Next year the BRAN group will choose a different route across Nebraska so we won't be on the route but it was great to have them visit.

I hope to have some cards to show you soon.  I have been crafting but have not had time to post.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.  My Dad's 81st birthday is tomorrow so we are taking him out to eat- YUM!

Gail S.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

CASED Card From Chat

Today I cased a card from the blogger Chat Wszelaki from Me, My Stamps and I.  She has CASED the card from someone and I CASED the card from her!  I have a former co-worker that is having a birthday on Tuesday and this card was perfect for her.  She loves her flowers and was always bringing fresh flowers from her garden to work to share with others.

The colors used are Daffodil Delight, Real Red and Lucky Limeade along with Whisper White.  the DSP are from scraps that I had as well as the bow.  I used the herringbone embossing folder and the Mixed Bunch stamp set as well as the Mixed Bunch coordinating punch. The flower pot I just cut out by eyeballing it.  The bottom of the pot is 2" and the top is 3" and I just took scissors and angled my cut on both sides.

Of course, I had to decorate the inside of the card!

I used the same colors and the scallop border edge punch (I also used it on the flower pot on the front)

After I took pictures, I noticed I did not add any leaves to the flowers so I real quick made a couple of leaves out of lucky limeade and attached those.

I also added tiny brads from the brights collection to the center of two of the flowers and used the retired stamp set Circle of Friendship to the center of the middle flower.

Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Gail S.

Monday, April 30, 2012

A Box Of Sunshine!

I have a very good friend that has been in the hospital since February.  She has been in Lincoln, Nebraska which is about 3 1/2 hours from us and I have been unable to visit her.  Now she has been moved to a hospital closer to us and I was able to visit her this past weekend.  While she was in Lincoln, she celebrated her birthday down there and so I sent her a "Box of Sunshine!!" another idea I got off of Pinterest.  The idea is to gather as much items that are yellow or that are happy!  I came up with this!


I sent her some bath gel and lotion, a pack of tissues which I decorated the outside, candies, a candle, tic tacs, a notepad and pen ~ whatever you can find that will put a smile to someone's face.  I printed out a sign and adhered it to the top of the box.  You can click HERE to go to the website where I got this idea and download the sunshine printable for your own use!

 

Then I made a card for her using a retired SU!stamp set that I love!  It is simply called "Smile".


I made the card very simple & just added a get well sentiment on the inside and decorated the top and bottom with some yellow scalloped pieces of cardstock. 

I hope this inspires you to add a little sunshine to someone's life!

Thanks for stopping by!

Gail S. 


Thursday, April 26, 2012

With Heartfelt Sympathy

Unfortunately, I have had to make some more sympathy cards so I went to my new favorite hobby, Pinterest and found some new ideas! 

This card used my old time favorite stamp set - Thoughts and Prayers and I used the setiment from the set Close as a memory.

I like how the "branch" is stamped going upward and I also like the simple idea of just using black ink/cardstock on white.  The camera didn't pick it up but I used the score plate to emboss a square inside of the white cardstock.  You can see it slightly on the image below.  I really like how it outlined the card.

I added some mini pearls to give it a little texture but other than that, kept it real simple.

Thanks for dropping in!

Gail S.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Fresh Vintage Butterfly

In the most recent Sale-a-Bration flyer for Stampin' Up! they had a card that I thought was so beautiful using the Everyday Elegance DSP paper that was a special during SAB.  I wanted to make the card using different SU! papers and came up with this birthday card.

The camera did not pick up the versa marked images on the green cardstock but I did stamp  on it to give it more depth.  This is the inside of the card.  I used the little butterfuly embosslit that SU! sells.

Til next time!

Gail S.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Wow! Where Has The Time Gone?

I have not been on Blogger since April 1st and just like Facebook is changing to timeline, Blogger changed how to post!  So when I just got on, I was shocked and I am just trying to figure it out...so hope this post looks okay.

Where does time go in our lives???  I ask this because I cannot believe that it is almost the end of April.  Life here in Nebraska is well.  Very busy but well.  I have been having some minor health problems but hopefully we will get those figured out and be good as new soon.  We have eliminated that there are no serious problems so now we have to work on small deductions to figure out my problem.   

I have not be in the craft room very much due to horrible headaches that have been keeping me down but I did manage to make a few cards while I have been gone. I will be sharing those in the next few days. 

Last weekend, we traveled to Omaha to attend a wedding reception.  The Bride's father graduated with my husband and her mother graduated with me.  In spite of the horrible weather that was predicted for Omaha last weekend (weather channel predicted a 9 in 10 chance for a tornado!)it just rained although there were tornados spotted in other parts of Nebraska. The reception was packed full of people and we were served wonderful food.  Above is the card that I made for the new couple.  Below is the inside of the card.

  I left the inside pretty simple and wrote a few encouraging words inside.  The new couple will make their home in Florida.

Thanks for stopping by!  If you have any helpful hints for throbbing headaches, please let me know :)

Gail S.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Good Sunday!

It actually feels like summer in Nebraska today! Temps in the 80's and I mowed the lawn today - and that is not an April Fools Joke! Beautiful.

For Sunday dinner I made this



Sweet & Tangy Chicken

I got the recipe off of Pinterest but you can go to HERE to get the recipe.  It was easy and the family loved it.  I served it with rice, salad and fresh strawberries. I will make this again.

Glad you stopped by today.

Gail S.