I finally ordered and received another set of 1000 plastic sleeves and this time I added larger sized sleeves in order to prepare the large heap of non-A2 sized cards I've been holding on to.

So, without further ado, I'm going to let the pictures tell their own story of how another 229 cards made their way to the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House tonight after work.




Most of these cards were donated by my friend Wendy C from her DT days.  They're gorgeous!









And a large portion was donated by my blogging friend Lynn McAuley.  For those of you familiar with her work, you'll recognize many of these Lynn classics!




And here are the rock star notebooks with pen holder my friend Quynh made!


I met this lovely lady, Suzie, at the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House tonight after work.  She was so thrilled at all the cards and then she ohhed and ahhed when going through the cards.

The larger box is the general everyday themes such as Thank You's, Thinking of You, I Miss You, Get Better/You're Brave type of cards.  The smaller box is full of holiday themed cards such as Valentines, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas that they can put out later on in the year.

Susie told me that they've never received HANDMADE card donations before.  Whoohoo, we're the first ladies!


I'll have to admit, this location is the most gritty of all the RMH locations I've visited as it's to the East of Downtown LA.




This one is definitely the LARGEST of all the RMH locations I've visited with a very large children's area.  They are in two large buildings and can house up to 75 families.



Within that 3-4 block radius, it was thick with lots of hospitals, i.e. Kaiser, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, and acute care nursing facilities.  I've never seen so many located in clusters like this before! As I was walking around, I saw quite a few small children, no more than 7 years old, running around with various types of bandages.  Bless them and I hope they're getting better.


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Thank you for visiting!! 

I'm excited to be participating in yet another year round exchange with a few of the SCS ladies.  This swap involves putting together an entire kit of pre-stamped images along with coordinating patterned papers and embellishments to shower the recipient.

My month is April so I've begun receiving a few kits from the other ladies already.  This first one is from Pansy (C-mouse) and here's the lovely kit contents of what she sent me:


Lots of yummy stuff!!

Here's the first card that I was able to create at the all day crop I was at yesterday.


I had so much fun using my Pastel Chalk Pencils that I pulled out of my stash. I don't remember using this set much.  I don't even remember where I purchased them or why I even own them. They were definitely purchased in the 200-2005 era though.  Well, they saw the light of day yesterday.

I tried using grey and black first at the top of the ears, but didn't like the way they were blending when I laid down the white chalk so I quickly abandoned them for the blue.  Unorthodox coloring for a bunny using blue to highlight his depth, but it came out better than I hoped.  Interesting that chalk doesn't spread or dilute in color like other color mediums I've played with.


Out of the set of 12 pastel chalk pencils, the ones pictured above are the colors I used on this High Hopes Bunny with Bouquet.

I tried to do the cute little guy justice by making him as fuzzy cute as possible!!

I incorporated the lovely coffee stained MFT Decorative Doily diecut and the lovely olive green grosgrain ribbon Pansy included in the kit she sent me along with some scraps of Basic Grey Persimmon PP.  The rest of the embellishments came from the goodie bags I received from the hostess of the crop.

I used this SCS Card Sketch as inspiration for my card layout design.  Please excuse the fact that I forgot to retake a photo of my card AFTER I corner rounded the right top of the card. That's what lack of sleep from a whole week will do to you...don't see things clearly.



There's still plenty of materials from the kit Pansy sent so I'll be working from this stash for quite a while.

Thanks for visiting!





"Bunny with Bouquet" Card
Paper: BSU Kraft CS; Basic Grey Persimmon PP; Best Creations Gold Glitter CS
Stamps: High Hopes "Bunny with Bouquet" 
Ink: Cretacolor Chalk Pastel Pencils; Ink/EP Unknown 
Embellishments: Target $1 Bin Colored Twine & Paper Clip;  Prima flowers;  Kaiser Rhinestones; MFT Die-namics Decorative Doily Duo Dies
Size: 4.25" x 6.5" rectangular