Friendship

Friendship:  /ˈfrɛndʃɪp/ [frend-ship] –noun 1. the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person's friendship. 2. a friendly relation or intimacy. 3. friendly feeling or disposition. Friendship is one of the most wonderful gifts we can ever be given. Friendships come naturally with your family members, some friendships become what they are because we share common interests with people, many people make friends as children and form friendships that last a lifetime. I will be sending this card to one of my childhood friends who is having a tough time right now.

This card was created for the Mojo Monday 76 challenge. The base cardstock is a very light aqua blue shimmer. De-lish! The print paper is from the SEI Brigeport collection. The sentiment stamp is from Stampendous and the butterfly is from Northwoods. The ribbon is from Amuse and the bling is from my stash. If you see something you like/need, you can get it here.

Happy Monday,

Vote Earth! Switch Off Your Lights For Earth

Vote Earth! Switch Off Your Lights For Earth Hour by Shepard Fairey Originally uploaded by Earth Hour Global

Don't forget! From 8:30 - 9:30 pm on March 28th turn off your lights and spend the hour doing something fun. If we all do this, we can make a huge impact.

I will spend the hour relaxing with a glass of wine and reading by candlelight. What will you be doing? I would love to know.

For more information, you can go here.

Hugs,

Mojo Monday 75

Well here it is! Better late than never. Remember, I said I was going to do them all this year. I actually had this one done the day Julee posted it, but never took the time to photograph it. I really need to get a lightbox set up so that I don't have to wait for sunny days to take pics. For this card I used the Spirograph cs from Kaisercraft. The flower is from Verve's Thankful Blossoms set. I stamped it 3 times on different pieces of the Spirograph paper and then cut and layered to the square panel. The solid cs is from Bazzill. I tied skinny twine though the button, but first I colored the twine with a Copic marker to make it match the cardstock. Finished it off with some light green Dew Drops from my stash.

hugs,

I thought it was Spring?

I guess someone forgot to tell Mother Nature that the first day of Spring was Friday and it wasn't supposed to snow! Saturday night we had lots of rain, thunder and lightning and when I woke up on Sunday everything was white outside. It snowed off and on all day long. We ended up with about 4 inches of the white stuff. My poor daffodils are in shock!

The card I am sharing today was created with some random bits that were left after I made this card. The snowflakes are covered with glass glitter and are so purtiful in person. The saying is from Verve's Beautiful You set. I just love the stamps in this set!!!!

I have a few more cards that I have made and I will get them photograped and uploaded in the next few days.

hugs,

I'm okay, just had my panties in a ruffle...

but I am better now. As most of you know, I have been stamping and crafting for along time and I love, love, love this hobby and the friends/people that I have met and gotten to know. I think stampers are some of the kindest people I have met. With that said, I placed and order with a company that I really love and immediately realized that I made a mistake and e-mailed them. This is where the deal went south...........keep in mind, I did make a mistake and did not read a policy thoroughly. After several days, this is part of the final response I got:

"I am very sorry that you are disappointed but we must maintain our policies. We do bend over backwards to help our customers when we can but we cannot do anything once the order has been processed. Please understand that during release time we have so many orders to pack and we do our very best to ship them out as quickly as possible. I have to interject that our delayed shipping time (which is only during the release) is a lot less than the regular shipping time of many other companies and they generally charge for shipping.

With all of that said, unfortunately what we cannot do is spend hours looking for your package so that we can cancel your order because you agreed to Terms & Conditions that you didn't read. I truly don't mean to sound ungrateful for your business but I strongly feel that many customers are ungrateful for all of our efforts. When we don't break the rules for someone we are punished. It seems spectacularily unfair. I don't like to dwell on anything negative as it only brings more negativity, so please accept my wishes for your success and happiness in all your future endeavors."

So, this is what ruffled my panties and caused me to loose the old mojo. I guess I was a bit surprised at the sassiness of their reply. I am better now and ready to start stamping and sharing again.

hugs to all,