Playing with Papers: New Cards

Hello Friends:

Happy June! It certainly feels like it here in Miami. The rain is back and the humidity is high. For those in the North East experiencing cooler temperatures, send some my way please.

Thank you for the lovely comments on my Sunflowers in Summer project on my last post. I do love the design. I just tend to work on it in spurts. There are a lot of little motifs in the design too which seem quick to stitch, but they take longer than they look.

Today was an exciting day as my little one graduated from the 5th grade. It was an adorable little ceremony. Some of the students wrote speeches thanking their teachers and parents. It was so sweet listening to them. Some made me teary eyed. I'm very proud of my son for his hard work this year. Now onto the new adventure called middle school.

A couple weekends ago, I decided to treat myself to some fun new paper stash. This promptly motivated to get out my neglected stash and play with it a little bit.

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It was a nice creative change to play with my paper stash. I find that when I'm making cards I zone out everything else on my mind. I am so focused on the layout and design of the card that I can't think about anything else. It really clears my mind.

Thank you so much for visiting me today. I always enjoy your sweet comments. I hope you all have lovely rest of the week and weekend. I've updated my Etsy store with these cards and some other new items. Feel free to take a peak. ;)

**Hugs and Love from Sunny Miami**

Jen

A Quick Birthday Card

Happy Sunday Everyone:

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend.

We were invited to a birthday party yesterday for two of our good bowling friends. It was loads of fun filled with good food, games, dancing, karaoki, and laughing. My son entertained the other kids, played in the pool and on the slip and slide. Thank goodness the weather was perfect as well. Not a drop of rain at all. Today was a different story though. It stormed with a vengeance earlier today.

This is the quickie birthday card I made yesterday before the party. I used paper and embellishments from a CupCards to Go kit. I tried not to over do the embellishments. I let the papers be the focal points. I decided to leave off the Stickles glitter glue since I was pressed for time. I didn't want to risk the glue not drying in time before we had to leave. Anyways, the green part of the paper that looks like grass was actually glittered paper. Just perfect enough. I love the bow don't you? It makes the middle look like a birthday present.

Today has been a lazy Sunday. I will now get back to working on the scarf I showed in my previous post. Truth be told, I actually unraveled what I started and started again. The scarf was actually too wide so I decided to start again. You craft and you learn right? Right...

Thanks for visiting me today. I'll be back soon. :-)

**Hugs from Rainy Miami**
             Jen