Remembering Those in Boston - Sympathy Card

I sit here and keep erasing everything I write. What can you say? It was such a horrible thing to happen. And to think that someone planned this, with the hopes of hurting people is unfathomable.  I suppose the fact that I cannot imagine why someone would do this is reassuring.  There is no justification or excuse for the brutality of releasing a bomb.

As a parent my heart breaks for the 8 year old who was cheering on his father, and makes me ever so grateful that I can put my arms around my son, which I am doing a lot more these days.  I'm certain that I'm not the only one. When you sit back, you cannot help but mourn for the parents and family of the other victims, the woman who was going to be married and the young man whose parents sent him to another country to go to college.

The card I am sharing with you today is a Sympathy card for those who were lost and all those poor souls who have survived and are fighting to make their way back from the terrible wounds and gut wrenching maiming.  I have a friend who didn't make it to the marathon this year and I have a friend whose cousin was one of those hurt, one of the lucky ones who will get to go home soon.

For the card, I mounted one of my favorite photographs of the dogwood tree outside my front door.  I love butterflies and what they symbolize for me, hope.  I read a quote somewhere that I will have to create into a printable "Butterflies are self propelled flowers" by R.H. Heinlein or "Butterflies are flowers with wings" I think this one is an adaptation of a Robert Frost poem.

As I leave you today, I hope these butterflies bring you some hope today.

Linking Up Here:
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
The Answer Is Chocolate - BFF Link Party

Be Safe!

Free Easter Subway Art

I have been having some fun this weekend, and am happy to share a quick Easter Subway Art with you today!  It is perfect to print and put in a frame, I printed mine on parchment paper.  I really like the texture that parchment paper adds to what you print on it.  I have been using parchment paper quite a bit lately. Apologies for my pictures of late, my camera isn't working and I am using the camera on my phone... just isn't cutting it... that and the fact that I am taking photos while on the go so I haven't exactly staged them... :-)

I hope you like it!

Oh, yesterday I mentioned that these would look nice as cards.  I think this project would look cute that way too.  I do have to make quite a few Easter cards for the kids, and the nieces and nephews.  What do you think? Maybe that will be my next project?

Click here for the PDF with the free printables

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables (and now cut files) with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Fabulous Friday Free Easter Printable

What a pretty day it is outside today, and such a strange week it was snow in the beginning of the week and sunny to end the week - lol.  I am glad to have it end on such a bright note, and hope that you had a beautiful Friday too.

I know, we've all seen these "Keep Calm" printables floating around the internet. C'mon, admit it, you've been looking at them same as me :-) and, if you are like me you have been planning to make one too, well I  I finally did!!! I am so excited to share this with you, and I'd love to see what you make with it.  I framed mine in a 5x7 frame that I put on the mantle, but I am thinking that I could make a card with it too... Looks like I have another project to do.

I couldn't decide what colors to make, so I created a collection, I hope you enjoy them.

Click here to open the PDF file with the free Easter printables 

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables (and now cut files) with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Happy Valentines Free Silhouette Cameo Cut File

I Love You  Card

Happy Valentines Day!!! I know, it is a little early, but I wanted to share this card I made with everyone today.  I used so many of my fun toys with this project.  I chose a white card base and ran it through my cuttlebug to emboss it.  Then I attached my "I Love You" frame with heart pendants (check it out below, I made this myself).  I mounted it with pop dots to give it depth.  I knew that I wanted to soften this a bit more by adding some ribbon, so I ran over to my fibers and since I was thinking of "love" I grabbed my pink ribbon and tied it to the card - phew, the color matched the pink I used on my cut file.

Yeah! I have played around with my Silhouette Cameo and I have this free cut file for you (this is why I had to post so early)! I knew that I wanted to make something for Valentines and I am drawn to all the frame cut files I see so I think I will make many more of these :-) You cannot tell from the picture, but the first heart has a flower in the corner.  Please know that I do not have the designer software, so this was created with the software that ships with your Silhouette and I have used the basic shapes and fonts to create this gift for you.

See below for your free Silhouette Cameo studio cut file.  For the card I made I used only the frame cut file and then created a complete card because I thought some of you may prefer that (Note: I haven't tried to cut that one yet, so I hope this is ok).

I Love You - Free Silhouette Cameo cut file

Click this link for the free Silhouette studio cut file

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables (and now cut files) with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, because I would love to hear from you
• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)
• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.
• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!
• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 
• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

I am sharing this project with:
Joan's Garden - where we had to create a card that is pink and white, uses at least one heart, and has a pretty border.

Linking up at Marvelously Messy! and making a marvelous mess - lol

Also linking at The Answer is Chocolate Link Party #89

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Ribbon

Alderberry Bill - Make the Scene Monday