Happy Mother's Day

Hello, everybody!  

I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's day!  I know I did.  I treated my mother to brunch.  My Uncle Tommy and his wife Linda joined us.  Tommy was married to my Aunt Carol, who passed away last year, and I never had the chance to meet his new wife.  She was very nice and I think Carol would agree that she is very good for Tommy.  

After brunch, we stopped at the cemetery to place flowers on Carol's grave.  I was amazed by all the flowers that were out today.  We took the time to look at some of the arrangements.  

I also had the opportunity to go through a lot of Carol's old pictures.  There were quite a few pictures of my family that I had never seen before.  The scrapbooker in me was getting excited!  

 As my friends know, I have a delayed emotional reaction so today was one of those "healing" days for me.  I've really started feeling the loss of Carol in these last few months.  But I deal with it in my own way, positively, which is the only way I know how.  I take pleasure in seeing the blooming peace lily that my friends gave me at Carol's visitation.  

Believe it or not, I do have a card to show you!  

I got the digi stamp from Pink Cat Studio.  I loved it instantly because it had the shopping bags and the cute hat.  Shopping is a past time that my mom and I love.  And my mom is a part of the Red Hat Society so I knew I could red hat this bad boy up.  

The inside digi stamp came from Rainbow Stamp Club.  The center of the flower is a polka dotted brad that I accidentally shoplifted from the Reminisce store in Coralville several years ago.  

Thank you, Mom, for giving me life and being supportive.  I appreciate all that you do for me, including doing my laundry...still,  washing my dishes and providing me with endless laughs.  

XOXO, 

Julie Bulie Butts 

Under My Umbrella-Ella-Ella

I just got back from a delicious dinner with my friend, Stacy.  We have been friends since the 3rd grade, all the way back when we were Garfield Wildcats!  

Me on my 10th birthday with Stacy behind me, almost 25 years ago.  

Stacy and I recently went to the Mall of America and while we were there, Stacy was looking at the Hello Kitty umbrellas at the Sanrio store.  So when I saw this digi stamp Birds Cards, I knew exactly what I was going to do with it.  

I cut and folded Color Mates card stock in "Deep Orange Dreams" into a card.  I had the red and white polka dot paper in one of those bulk pads of paper.  I printed the cute umbrella digi stamp.  They also offered a stamp with just the umbrella which I also printed off so that I could use it as a template to cut out this...

The Hello Kitty paper is from Sanrio and it's called "Red".  I used some 3D pads under the Hello Kitty umbrella so that it hovered off the paper.  

Copic pens used for the digi stamp: 

Outline-V09 (Violet)

Words-YG03 (Yellow Green)

Inside-RV11 (Pink)

Rain drops-B14 (Light Blue)  I also used Marvy Pigmented Caligraphy pen in Sky Blue

Handle-EK Success Writer Metallic Collections in "Silver" and American Crafts Precision pen in "Red"

And I used Distress Stickles in "Faded Jeans" on the rain drops. 

Birds Cards also had this sweet sentiment available in digi stamp.

After using the lemon card stock, I felt like the inside needed a little sumpin' sumpin' so I added the cutesie cupcake in the corner.  

Birthday girl with her card

Happy Birthday, Stacy aka Anastasia Beaverhausen!  And just remember, Australia, in our forties, it's going to happen!  

L.Y.L.A.S.,

Julie