Saying Good bye!

Envelope and card.

    Members of our church are moving to Massachusetts  to be closer to their son. We are having a good -bye party for them after church so I have been working on a card that will tell them how much we are going to miss them.  Gail and Truman have been such a wonderful blessing to us and to my parents. We are going to miss them alot.

   I found this card and cased it from a blog that I have lost the address to, so I cannot link to it. I hope they will forgive me for not mentioning them. It's a great design. I changed it slightly, but it's essentially the same. I also wanted to add some drama to the envelope, too.  On the envelope I just continued the theme and made a few more trees with autumn leaves from the Branch Out set.
     I used Stampin Up's Branch Out set. I love the tree in this set. I also used the stamps for the sentiments  from Short & Sweet and Upsy Daisy. It's a fun card to make since you can use different patterned paper of the hills.
   On the envelope I just continued the theme and made a few more trees with Autumn leaves from the Branch Out set.
    I found a poem and changed a few words here and there to help make

Praying for a smooth move.

it apply to our friends' move. I used the butterflies from the stamp set.
   I didn't have room to add our names to the bottom, so I used my Spellbinders die cut to add it to the top with our names typed out.
I hope they like the card because it expresses how we all feel about them. They will be sorely missed.

Now you See it... Now you don't!

Lovely paper...

Doesn't it look organized...

All my individual stamps...

   Well, I finally had to "bite the bullet" and pack my craftroom. No more cardmaking, scrapbooking, or papercrafting for a little while.. Boo Hoo... Here's some pictures of my fabulous room before my sister, Chris and I demolished it.. I mean packed it.
Oh well, I will be setting my craftroom up in a cool place. I will post pictures while I am setting up and
when it is completed. I can't wait.. My sister, Chris volunteered to help me set it up.. What a nice sister... Here are a couple of
pictures of my craftroom after we finished the packing. The big furniture will be picked up by a moving company. Hope it's not too hot when we move all the boxes...

Looks so bleak...

My worldly goods boxed up....

   This is where I will be setting up my craftroom once we move in and get settled a bit.    

Waiting for me..

Nice natural light.

I am looking forward to papercrafting again. Wouldn't you know that I've seen all kinds of ideas since I packed the last box.. I'll take some pictures of moving day.. Pray for good weather...

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