I made somethin' today!

My Saturday didn't go completely wasted. I actually got off my lazy can and made a card today... and an Easter one at that! I woke up this morning with the sneezes, and thought that wasn't a good sign, so I stayed in bed for awhile longer. Needless to say, I've been using almost a whole box of tissues today and tonight I'll be taking Nyquil before I go off to bed... it can't get any worse because I've got food to prepare for tomorrow nite's SuperBowl matchup. I'm not at all thrilled about either two teams playing in it this year, but hey, it's always a great excuse for a party with good food! We'll be going to our friends' house, where we've gone for the past 3 years in a row. My guy has already given me my orders weeks ago that I'm to make my Country BBQ Pork Ribs (well, actually my mom's recipe)! Ohhh, and just so you know where I stand... I hope the Giants knock the living crap outta the Patriots :)

Okay, onto the card I made. The other week when my mom was in here visiting us,her and I went over to The Street of Shops in Lewisburg, which is one of our favorite places for antiques and all types of crafty treasures. So there I rummaged through a huge box of old vintage cards and I picked out 3 really cool ones that I decided would be really neat to give a revamp... make them into new greeting cards. Two of them are Valentines and the other is an Easter theme.

Here's the 2 Valentines...

(This one is a fold out card, and it didn't have a year on it... but I'm assuming it's from the 60's)

(And this one is a post-card... very unusual on a chipboard-like backing and made with velvet and ribbon with sculpted flowers and gilded heart... so pretty!) I may leave this one just so and put it in a frame. I couldn't find a year on this card either, and it wasn't sent through mail, so no postmark either.

Now here's the adorable Easter post-card and this one did have a date... it was postmarked from the year 1913! Yea...real old!

I also found these vintage floral ribbons and thought they'd be sweet for card making and on scrap pages...

And here's that Easter postcard that I translated into a card for today..

I used some of that golden yellow floral ribbon along with some baby blue stretch lace, a chipboard flourish that I painted and antiqued from Making Memories and {Note}Worthy paper too. I didn't want to adhere the backing of the vintage card to the "new" card, so I used photo corners to hold the post-card. Cute, eh? I'll be making more of these type cards!

And before I forget, I've been tagged by my ohh so talented friend, Allison!

Here it goes... (I'm making this part short and sweet).

FAVORITE SITES

* Most all are listed on my side-bar, along with

QVC.com ( where a good portion of our income goes...)

The Thrift Shop Romantic (My latest favorite blog site)

The Polka Dot Pixie (A second latest fav. blog site)

The Scarlet Lime (I don't subcribe... but I drool :)

Target.com (= all of what's left of dh's paychecks :)

CHALLENGE FAVES

*How Much Is Too Much

Scrap My Scraps

GUILTY PLEASURES

*Sleeping in til noon :)

Mucho Mud-Slides or Pina Coladas from Applebee's :) :)

Babysitting Faves

* No need for any!

Creative Faves

* Way too many to name, but Allison would top it off I believe!

Clothing Faves

*Sweater and jeans... but I must wear my jewelry too!

Now I will tag...

Rachael

Aleta

and Stacy

Good night all! :)