Day 81: Stamped Flower Pot

My Mom's Book and Bible Study group is going to decorate flower pots for our United Methodist Women's Mother-Daughter Dinner.  I used a sponge paint brush to paint the terra cotta planter white, then used Ranger paint daubers to add blue and green to my butterfly stamp (Stampin' Up!).  It was a little hard to stamp on the pot, sometimes the edges of my wings are missing, but it looks cute.  Perhaps a smaller stamp would have stamped more fully. I added an orange ribbon with blue and green butterflies around the top of the planter (ribbon from Michael's). Once a flower is added, it will make a pretty centerpiece for one of the tables.

Day 56: "What Cancer Cannot Do" Book Mark

Unfortunately, my mother was recently diagnosed with stage two lung cancer.  I am trying to be supportive and positive for her, for my kids, for myself, and for everyone else who loves her.  I found this stamp when I was at Rubber Rainbows yesterday and thought I could make her a card with the stamp.  Then, on my way home, I stopped at Lulu's on Main in Morton, Illinois, and found a great book called There's No Place like Hope: A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mind-Sized Bites by Vickie Girard, so I decided to make her a book mark to go with the book. I almost didn't stop at Lulu's, but I just felt drawn there.  I guess God wanted me to find the book to send to her. Hopefully the book and book mark will bring her some peace of mind on those days when it will be so hard to carry on.


I used card stock, embossing powder, ink, and the butterfly from the "Strength and Hope" stamp set from Stampin' Up! and the What Cancer Cannot Do stamp from Verses Rubber Stamps.  Butterfly ribbon is from Michael's $1 bin and the sheer turquoise ribbon is from Oriental Trading Company.  The color for lung cancer is "pearl", but my mom's favorite colors are blues, so I chose to use blues to make this book mark for her.


Please keep my mom in your prayers.