Floral Photo Note Cards

What's almost as nice as enjoying the summer's outdoor floral blooms? Creating floral cards from the blooms' photos!

Summer is coming to an end prematurely with very cool temperatures and falling leaves. I planted chrysanthemums yesterday and those will be our next blooms. The coneflowers are still bright and the yellow finches love their seeds. The monarch butterflies and hummingbirds are still flitting and buzzing around here, but probably not for long. No, I definitely don't look forward to digging out the socks and flannel jammies.

These past few days I've been filling orders for floral note cards. Here are a few without their coordinating ribbon accents. I'll be making a wall collage of some of these photos to brighten my studio wall as reminders of the cheerful blooms in our gardens.

We'll have friends visiting us for the Labor Day weekend, all the way from Cleveland. It will be such a blessing to see them again! Maybe I can even get them to play a while with the paper trimmers, inks and stamps--the guys included! Or will they prefer to run off with their fishing gear?

Have a safe & restful holiday weekend!

September 1st! New Idea Book Is Here!

With a brand new month comes the brand new Close To My Heart Fall & Winter Idea Book!

It includes four new paper packets, each one prettier than ever, new stamp sets and embellishments, and LOTS of items to help you have simpler, easier, and faster scrapbooking and card making times!

On the front cover are some of the new papers from the "Jingle" paper packet--the designs and colors are scrumptious!

Click on the Idea Book in the left sidebar to browse the pages with a click of your mouse. Want an Idea Book of your own? Email or phone me!

Be sure to email me any questions you might have. Or leave a comment...I'll get right back to you.

Ordering couldn't be easier from my CTMH site!

Be sure to check out the "Everyday Celebration Card Kit"--a special offer to celebrate National Stamping Month. You can get this kit FREE!

Happy viewing all the new goodies~I guarantee you'll love what you see!

Shadow Shot Sunday

Check out some terrific shadow shots on Tracy's blog at HeyHarriet!

I've really enjoyed seeing things and people in different ways since participating in Tracy's SSS meme.

Shadows have been very muted here lately--you'll have to look hard for them in some of my photos.

We had an energizing walking morning at our beautiful city park, site of the 1904 World's Fair, and captured a few shadows at the pavilion and at the zoo too. So many of the animals were having a lonnnnnnng siesta ... something we humans should really do more often!

The 1904 World's Fair Pavilion--concrete ball sculptures at the entrance ...

Shadows inside the pavilion--it's a massive structure, now used for receptions and dances--what fun!

A view from the pavilion looking over the fountain and lake near the Boat House ... after photographing this, a group began their "boot camp" on the grassy lawn. Groan. These steps made a great place for lunges. DH can verify I lunged up all three flights of them. I'll feel it tomorrow.

Leafy shadows on Rajah's back in the dusty but peaceful elephant habitat ...

A sea turtle napping underwater along the River's Edge ... can you find him?

The zoo train tracks that never end ...

Enjoy your Sunday and happy new week ahead, wherever your tracks lead YOU. Blessings!