We had another
night of thunderstorms and another abrupt change of temperatures here in Ontario. Yesterday it
was close to 100ºF with the Humidex but last night we had several thunderstorms
roll through – for about two hours – and this morning, brrrrr, everyone was
wearing sweatshirts or jackets. Oddest weather I can ever remember. This has
definitely been the year of the thunderstorms!
Seeing as the
weather turned cool today I thought I would make a card for the www.christmascardchallenges.blogspot.ca
challenge. I love having all my Christmas cards completed by late fall which
means I don’t have to do Christmas cards and nothing but Christmas cards then. I actually made a Christmas card for the Stamping Bella challenge due on Friday and I could have posted it on more sites but I'm a little behind on my Christmas cards this year so I made two today.
This
is another Magnolia image. All the paper is from the “never-going-down” stash.
All dies were various Spellbinder dies. The sentiment is from Hot Off the
Press. This image was coloured with the Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I’ve
been playing around with my new alcohol markers but quite honestly, I could do
without them. I’m glad they were all on sale. I’ll use them but once they dry
up I don’t think I’ll bother replacing them. The candy stripe was on a sheet of
mixed designs in a Christmas pack from Studio G and I thought they looked nice
there. They and the sentiment label are on dimensional glue dots.
Wow, this was
a short post, especially from someone who usually has lots to say! I pretty
much spent the day in the lower studio (aka the basement) making cards today so
not much to talk about.
I was asked
to be on the committee that is organizing a first (and likely last) family
reunion. Groan! Has anyone done this before? Any tips or suggestions….besides
backing out of it!!!
Cheers
Violet
I think it really depends on the interest level of the participants. Take my family for example : Only a few people really wanted one and no one wanted to help so it quickly fell thru never to be revisited.
ReplyDeleteMy hubby's family on the other hand had one for years and years. Then some people felt that they were doing all the work while everyone else had fun. And no one else would pitch in. It wasn't long before it fell apart. So if i had any tips it would be to get LOTS of people involved. Rotate duties so noone feels overburdened. Oh! And have FUN! Hugs! deb