Thanks for the Hits!

Wow! I can't believe I reached 15,000 hits so quickly! Thanks to all my readers who have made blogging so enjoyable! And special thanks to my husband who convinced me to start a blog (it only took 2 years for me to listen! LOL), and who by total coincidence was the 15,000th hit when he logged on to see how many hits I had tonight! Being the computer guy that he is, he even thought to take a screenshot so I could post it on my blog.

My card contest is officially ended, and now the hard part (for me) begins. I'm just blown away by the caliber of cards you all sent. They are all just beautiful! Thanks so much for participating! I've recruited hubby to help me deliberate over the winners. We're going to hash it out this weekend and announce the winners on Sunday night.

Today's card is one I made for Cindy. I just love this A Muse sentiment. The card measures 4 x 9" long and fits in a regular business sized envelope. I used two different patterned papers from my new Daisy D Beacon Hill Paper Pad and distressed with a foam sponge and a Ranger Vintage Photo distress inkpad. I then tied some BoBunny lacey ribbon around the card in a bow.

I stamped the A Muse A True Friend stamp with VintagePhoto, punched out with a Mega Scalloped Square punch, inked up the edges with my foam sponge and then mounted on a Not Quite Navy Giga Scalloped Square. I used the mega scalloped square punch to create the two corner tabs and glued them to diagonal ends of the card and stamped one of the flourishes from Fancy Flexible Phrases in Very Vanilla Craft ink. I used a D-ring and two brads from my Hodgepodge Hardware tin to secure the sentiment panel and then added crystal effects to the words friend, blessing and the two corner flourishes. I finished by rounding all of the corners with my corner rounder.