While hubby's away.....

My hubby left on Thursday to attend his family reunion. Originally I was going with him and the three kids too! Then I realized that traveling with two crawling babies an active three year old and ALL the equipment was too much for us to cope with. So I've stayed behind while he went to South Carolina. As it turned out, it was a good thing, since his mother had become deathly ill just a few days prior to his leaving and he and the family have spent the entire time sitting at her bedside in ICU the entire time. No place for kiddos.

My eldest sweet daughter brought her three year old, Kyle, and spent the weekend with me helping me with the load. I really needed her too! She just pitched in and helped in every way and even let me go back to bed both mornings and get a little more shut eye. Bless her sweet heart.

So while I have several brand new Maggies sitting on my desk just crying out for me to use them, I decided to go back to some cards I'd already made and finish the inside of each of them and make an envelope to match.

So here we go...

If you remember this card...


Here is the inside and matching envelope...



Okay now, if you remember this card...



Here is the finished card and matching envelope...



Did you notice the charm on the inside. I found these at the bead shop in Salado, Texas. They just looked like little Magnolia Tilda's to me so I bought a little bag of them. 10 for $1.00! You can't beat that price...

And here's another...



I had used some water color flowers on this Tilda, but some way or another some water got splattered on the card and the flowers ran. So to save the card, I used some of my Flower Soft to place over where the watercolor flowers were. Ohhhh! I like this so much better.

Here's the inside and very plain envelope...




More recently I did two digital image cards. I just wasn't happy at all with the Prairie girl I did, so I took off the Dew drops and added buttons tied with Crafter's Floss and I also punch out some leaves in Old Olive and Really Rust, painted them with Copper Stickles, painted the petals of the flowers with the same and it looks much better. I'm not all that sure that it suits the style of the card, but it sure looks better than my first attempt! Here is my revamped card...



That's all I accomplished this weekend. It took me quite a while, longer than I first thought because of all the kids in the house and the constant demand of two three year olds and two 14 month olds. Even with the extra pair of hands it was still a harrowing experience. My hubby ows me big time!