Remembering Lindsey Blog Hop

 

Today, we are hopping in memory of our dear friend and fellow cardmaker, Lindsey Martin-Penny,

who sadly passed away last year from a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer. 

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Lindsey’s husband Burke thought it

would be a great time to sell off her many craft supplies, with all of the proceeds going towards

Lindsey's Legacy Fund for Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer Research  in cooperation with The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

The purpose of this hop will be to honour Lindsey, celebrate her life and all that she loved,

as well as help spread the word to raise funds for clear cell ovarian cancer research.

Lindsey loved cats, and I mostly sent her cat-themed cards.  I remember buying this MFT cat stamp set because I really loved those cats with eyeglasses.  I had Lindsey in mind when I bought this set, so I thought it fitting to use it in my card for this hop.  

I never got to meet Lindsey in person. She was meant to come over to Tracey's

house the next time Kim and I visited Tracey, but that visit was postponed due to covid.

Now, I will never meet Lindsey, but I like to think that her memory lives on in my heart.

Visit Emily Leiphart’s blog to discover many ways to help! 

If you get lost along the way, please return to Emily’s blog where she will have the

entire hop list.

How to hop:

💙 Like and leave a comment at each stop

💙 Learn a little bit about Lindsey’s connection to that person

💙 Share this post and help us save lives

The next stop on the hop is: Cupcakes, Cards and Kim

Please be sure to leave a comment at each of the stops where you can learn more about

Lindsey’s life, loves and her legacy.

Thanks so much for hopping with us!

My Crafty Week

 

Hello and happy Thursday.  I am popping in quickly to share some cards I made.  First up is this little cutie, featuring some of the stamps and dies in the MFT Cats and Plants card kit.  I was inspired by the colors in the MFT Color Challenge #170.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Next up is a water color panel I made following the tutorial at PTI Live at Five.  I used Royal Velvet, Dark Indigo, and Hawaiian Shores inks and swiped directly onto my water color paper.  After that I used my steamer and then a mister to get the paper really really wet, then moved and dried the color with my heat tool.

I was able to make 2 cards out of this panel.  I went in the direction of the tropical seas, since that is what these colors suggested to me.  First I used the Shape Shifters Oval die to cut through my panel and added some tropical fish and coral silhouette die cuts.  I fussy cut a sentiment from Salt Air Sentiments.  I am entering this card at the PTI Video Challenge to make a tropical card.

I took all the negative pieces from the die cut above and added them back into a white Shape Shifters die cut, then added some more tropical silhouette die cuts.  I am entering this card at the PTI Live Around 5 Challenge.

I am also entering both of these cards at Addicted to Stamps and More #410: Die Cuts and Stencils, Use Your Stuff #427: Summer Fun, and at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Next up are two wedding cards featuring one of my old PTI favorite stamps, Propose a Toast.  I think these champagne flutes are so cute, and this set has some of my favorite sentiments for wedding cards.  I will be entering both of these cards at PTI The Great Cover Up challenge to create a card with a touch of gold and also at Inkspirational #244: Spots/Dots (champagne bubbles), and at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Last up today is another wedding card using a sentiment from Propose a Toast and the Cover Plate Gem Stone.  I didn't have any silver paper handy, so I swiped my white die cut with Silver Delicata Ink.  You can't even tell that the paper didn't start out as silver.  I am entering this card at PTI What Do I Do With This challenge to create a card using rainstones, Addicted to CAS #202: Geometric, and at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

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Four Cards for Thursday

Hello and happy Thursday.  I had a bit of a play in my craft room yesterday, and my first order of business was to pull out my under used MFT Cats and Plants Kit.  Not a very catchy name, but don't let that fool you...the cats and plants in the kit are really fun.  I used some of the elements of this kit, plus the English Brick Wall stencil to create my first card, which was inspired by the sketch at MFT Sketch Challenge #548.

Next up is another take using that same kit, this one inspired by the colors at the MFT Color Challenge #168.  It's very difficult to see in this photo, but there are pink clouds outside the window, made with the MFT Cloud Mini Stencil.  I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #408: Birthdays.

I pulled out my old glitter tubes and mad a big mess with this next card.  I was inspired by the technique in this video of Jennifer McGuire's.  I used my Xyron machine, as I didn't have double sided adhesive sheets.  This card is way more bright and sparkly in person, so I paired it with a 'congratulation' sentiment.  I was inspired by the colors at Color Throwdown #649.

Last up is a card for The Great Cover Up, where the challenge is to create a card using only dies.  I grabbed one of my newer sentiment dies from PTI and die cut it out of patterned paper and again out of red cardstock.  I inlaid the red die into the patterned paper, and backed it all with Melon Berry, another prominent color in my patterned paper.  Although many travel restrictions have been eased, I am still sending long distance hugs to family and friends.

The challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is Anything Goes, so I am entering all 4 of these creations in that challenge.

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My Crafty Round Up

 

Hello and happy Sunday night.  I am popping in before my family barbeque to post some cards I've been working on this week.

First up is a card I made using these adorable kitties from the MFT Cats and Plants kit.  I followed the sketch at MFT Sketch Challenge #543 and the colors at MFT Color Challenge #166.  I am also entering this card at The Paper Players #543: Tic Tac Toe (birthday, twine, white), Addicted to Stamps and More #406: Make Your Mark, and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

I am still working on getting enough Father's Day cards before the big day.  I was inspired by the colors at Color Throwdown #644 to create my city scene.  I am also entering this card at Stay Crafty with Hero Arts #23: Fun in the Sun (Father's Day is a good excuse to have fun in the city on a sunny day), and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Last up is a trio of cards I made using my newest stamps and dies from The Greetery called Reflections.  I was just playing around with different colors of water and trees, and before I knew it, I had three cards.  I made 2 of them Father's Day cards and one a birthday card.  I am entering these cards at The Male Room #150: Water/Beach, and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

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