Sending You Cheer!

Hi y'all!  Glad to see you!  I hope you're having a great week.    

I have an online friend who's really been having a hard time lately. She is currently in the hospital, so I thought a hand-made card might cheer her up a little!  

I shuffled through my papers and stamps looking for the right combination of sentiments and some cheerful papers.  I found the sentiments in our Pitcher of Daisies and Floral Cluster Summer Roses stamp sets.  

The "Gather at Home" designer paper pad from Carte Bella had a bunch of coordinating prints in soothing colors with a printed tag that will work just perfectly for Alexis.  I hope she'll be able to go home soon!  This JOY fold card is great for using various prints together because it gives you lots of surfaces to decorate!  It's definitely a favorite of mine!  Here's Beate's JOY fold card tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers.

I even had lots of little scraps of the paper tucked into the cover of the pad, and I was able to use a few of those to embellish the inside, saving the larger pieces for another project.  Nice!  

Here's another one of those printed tags adhered to the back of the card along with another little Farmhouse pierced heart.  

It would have been easier to mail without the bow on the front but I just couldn't resist adding one!  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Daisy Pitcher Bundle
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Floral Cluster Summer Roses
• Carta Bella Gather at Home 6x6
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Farmhouse Pierced Nested Hearts
• May Arts 5/8" Faux Linen Canvas Ribbon Sampler - 27 yards
• Copic markers

And now for those who are interested, a little follow-up regarding my Sock Madness progress since last week.  

That was a really cool pattern and joining it from flat to in-the-round was quite magical...but it was one size only and turned out to be absolutely ginormous!  

I continued knitting through the heel flap and gusset into the foot but in the end just couldn't stay motivated to continue knitting an entire pair of socks that I knew would not be wearable.  Too bad I could not get either of my fellas to agree to wear this hot pink!  ;)   

I stacked the qualifier and Round 1 socks on top of the pink Round 2 sock just to show their relative size.  The white ones are nice and snug and fit just the way I like, the blue ones are a little looser, and that pink one, whoa!  It will end up in the frog pile and maybe someday I'll knit a pair using modifications for a smaller size.  I haven't decided whether I'll use this yarn for the same but smaller pattern or if I will reclaim this awesome yarn for something else. Only time will tell!

Not finishing that pair means that I cannot advance to the next round of Sock Madness, but I'm ok with that, ready to get back to spinning and to knitting other things than socks!  So I immediately started spinning some "Lenten Roses."  This fiber is gorgeous and it's spinning like a dream!

Have a great week everyone!