Personal update: moving day is August 15

Hi! to my crafting friends:

Because I have accepted a teaching position 100 miles east of where my husband and I have been living for the past 5 years, we will be moving next week. I'll be offline for several days as we transition and get utilities turned on.

We are planning on closing on a small home and lot property next Monday morning at 10 am and moving in an 18' long trailer full of furniture and boxes that same day! We are concentrating on what I need to "camp out" initially since I have teacher's meetings starting Wednesday.

We were hoping for an earlier closing date but the loan officer at the bank we are using in our new town took the last 2 weeks of July for vacation! So that caused us to have this incredible time crunch next week.

I'll try to be back on the computer as quickly as possible to follow my favorite blogs and crafting friends! And I've made a personal vow to myself to create a new crafting area and to start crafting again as soon as possible!!!

friendship support card for fellow PW mb crafter

One of the New York crafters involved with the message board through Paper Wishes suggested that several of us send cards to one of our mb crafter friends from Pennsylvania. Her family has been displaced from their home for several months as it gets fixed after an 'act of God'. She's been on a roller coaster of emotions.

So in the spirit of all creations made for the message board swaps and challenges, I have used mostly PW/HOTP items to create this card. They are: denim paper (Paper Pizazz/HOTP),yellow and orange pigment ink pads (Page Craft through PW), large blue floral brad buddy and yellow brad (HOTP), white/yellow daisy stick-ons (PW), 2 yellow patterned papers for small scalloped circles (Paper Pizazz/HOTP), basic white card base, 'possibilities grow' and full quote on the inside as well as the blue flower art images (HOTP).

The rest of the supplies used include: blue felt flower gems; blue jewel stick-on, yellow satin ribbon, and bright yellow paper. The "A special hello" stamp comes from CardMaker kit of the month.

I like the cheeriness of the yellow with the calming blues for this summer-y relaxed looking card. I'm sure it will bring a smile to our "Irish Lady".

Topic: 2 different looks from mixing papers from 3 companies

Last night I experimented with combining analogous colors shown in papers/cardstock from 3 companies and into 2 different layouts.

From Paper Wishes/Hot Off the Press' Paper Pizzaz is the yellow paper with circles. The ruby red mini brads shown on the gate-fold card.

From K & Company's Wild Raspberry double-sided paper pack are: patterns shown in the small 4 x 6 card are in the circle cut-outs (both inside and out) and in the gate-fold card are the folded pieces (reversed for 2).

From CardMaker's Kit of the Month brown patterned cardstock and "best wishes" tag shown in the gate-fold card and more of the brown patterned cardstocks shown on the small 4 x 6 card. Also from different kits of the months are the stamps used for the 4 x 6: "You made my day" and "thanks so much" and the 'floral spiral' (used 3 times with 3 different inks).

From my stash: gold metallic pen, metallic staples, adhesives. silk leaves, plain cardstock, orange satin ribbon, scissors, trimmers, & punch/stencils.

Here's the 4 x 6 thanks/made my day card:

(sorry=scanning has casted shadows)

Here's the gate-fold card: (I was experimenting with the double-sided papers and chose to use the 'arrow points' like tags. Don't think I will do it this way ever again. However I do like the mix of analogous colors!)

(sorry for the skewed point on the front; didn't want to take the extra minutes and re-scan)

Give me some feedback: do you like either card? do you like the mix of colors and papers?....