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Not quite sure where the time has gone. Lots of stuff put on the back burner these past few months but think I’m getting to a place where I can once again spend time doing some of the things I so enjoy - cardmaking and blogging being a couple of those things.

Nurse Gillian is a digital stamp available from Prairie Fairy Designs. I colored her with Copics and for sure this cheerful little nurse will bring a smile. I’m wondering about her thoughts - needle in one hand and bedpan in the other - seems she’s having a little too much fun! I’ve touched up her glasses with glossy accents and since taking this photo, I’ve also given her tiny pearl earrings.

Sadie is a digital stamp from Mo Manning. I’ve colored her with Copics as well and again - after the picture was taken - given her tiny pearl earrings. Love this image and had so much fun coloring her up.

• bandana Y11, 13, 15, 23
• apron Y6, 11, YG 13
• t shirt R81, 85
• flowers R27, 59, YG 61, 63
• pants E42, 43, 44
• hair E30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37
• skin E000, 00, 21, R20
• ground W1, 3

I am now selling my cards locally. These are both 5.5″ square cards and sell for $2.50 apiece.

My grandchildren call their Great Grandma GiGi (GG for great grandma - we stuck the i’s in there for spelling I guess). I thought GiGi was pretty cute until I heard about Big. The little ones in a friend’s family call their Grandma Nan. Great Grandma was Big Nan, but got shortened to Big. Now that’s cute.

Here are GiGi and Max. Mom celebrated her 80th yesterday and today we’re all getting together for supper. Mmmmmm! Can’t wait.

I’ve been spending some quality time this week with sister, Jackie, who is here for Mom’s birthday. We are all getting together this coming weekend to celebrate her 80th - a simple family dinner as per Mom’s request. She doesn’t want any ‘foolishness’. Kay, my older sister, will be arriving later in the week. My two sisters are fabulous in the kitchen - a talent/interest I don’t share. Something we do share, however, is a life long interest in crafting - thanks to Mother probably - and right now, Jackie and I are both paper junkies. We’ve been having sooo much fun in the loft. In spite of incredibly high winds and a chill in the loft that the old wood stove just can’t dissipate, we’ve spent hours up there this week ‘playing’.

Jackie has created some darling little purses using the pattern Tres Chic Handbags by Becky Roberts and has taken advantage of my various sentiment stamps to finish off quite a few of her own cards.

I’ve been trying to finish off a few cards as well but keep coming back to these little note cards. They’re fast, easy and oh so cute. I bought my 3 x 3 envelopes from Stampin’ Up. Jackie, however, made her own - over 100! I told her she was nuts.  You color in front of the TV, Jean; I cut envelopes in front of the TV. Fair enough! Anyway, I used the Martha Stewart apple punch - easily one of my favorites. Punch one red apple, trim off stem and leaf, punch one green apple and glue the two together. The yellow notepad is a Snag ‘em stamp from imaginisce (2 or 3 dollar stamp) and  just a little note is from the Apple Blossom Stampin’ Up set.

The Hello stamp used in this one is also from a Stampin Up set and the telephone is cut on the Cricut (Kitchen cartridge) at 1-1/4 inches.

I did get a couple cards done - had some help with the housework which freed me up for play.

Haha. Max loves to help out, saving Grammy all kinds of time to work on her cards. These are all great digis I’ve used before and I’ve colored them all with my much loved Copics.