Flower Soft Toppers, Winner, New Sweet Stuff AND the Great Unveiling!!!!

Happy Sunday AGAIN!!! And I hope your day has been a wonderful one because mine certainly has been!!! Also make way for a marvelous week!!!

This card is not a typical "Jacque" card but I wanted to use one of the NEW Flower Soft Toppers from the Recipe collection which will be out very soon. They are so easy and quick to use to make such a delightful card!!

I used Bazzill for the base, all double matting is PTI, the DP is strawberry gift wrap, and the topper was propped up for dimension. I added a touch of Strawberry Ultra Fine Flower Soft to give added texture to that beautiful Strawberry Shortcake. I then only added a red satin ribbon with Bow-Easy bow,a strawberry charm, tiny strawberry flowers to the top, and a few red gems. What do you think?

Yipppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeee, more SWEET STUFF!!!! I would love to offer a pack of the Recipe Toppers, a jar of Strawberry Ultra Fine Flower Soft, a jar of Sage Ultra Fine Flower Soft AND a Bow-Easy for some lucky commenter!!!! Jacque's back!!!! Just please leave a comment before Wednesday, March 31 at midnight DST.

WINNER!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO...

Knerten said...
Oh, what a beautiful card with a perfect bow !
A great candy you are giving away (again), thanks for the chance :-)
Hope you're not cold on your head these days :-) Take care !

GOSH!! This package is going to Oslo, Norway!!! Knerten, please send me your address before Wednesday, March 31 so I can get your package to you right away!!

And now for the Great Unveiling...laughing here...BALD IS BEAUTIFUL...isn't it??? Do you think I could sell head rubs???



Thank you all for your visits, your sweet comments, your lovely notes and emails, and beautiful cards!!! I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your support and love!! Have a beautiful week and come back soon...I may not get balder but we might have more fun!!! BIG HUGS!!!!!

Happy Sunday!!

Happy Sunday, everyone! I hope that you are having a splendid weekend and I personally am looking forward to a magnificent week!!! I have received many notes regarding my absence and I would love to share with all of my friends here that a horrible week befell me this past week.

At 3:30 AM on Monday I had a call from the Life Care Center that my Dad had peacefully slipped away...so my sincere thanks to each of you who had him in your thoughts and care. He opened his eyes one last time to tell my Mom, "Hi Honey" and after she went back to her room he passed peacefully shortly afterwards. What a blessing that we no longer have to see him suffer the demons that befell him with the Advanced Alzheimers. At 7:30 that same morning I had to leave for the 5 1/2 hour chemotherapy session which was no picnic this time. And on Tuesday I had to have the dragon shot which again was a real eye-opener!!! The remainder of the week I planned the US Navy service that Dad had requested...not easy since we are in a land-locked area. But through our US Congressman, everything came together, buglers, gun detail, US Navy Chaplain, US Navy flag detail, a lovely honor guard, and about 100 Vietnam veteran flag bearers from all over NC, SC, GA, VA, etc. He would have been so proud of the way we finally released the Eagle to sail the skies for his Last Sail. The Life Care Center brought my Mom and she handled everything with such dignity and grace...and of course afterwards, my Dad had left money for everyone to go out for a nice lunch...which is what we did...Even Mom participated. Please keep my Mom in your thoughts as it has been very difficult for her to lose the love of her life after 63 years. For those of you who would like to check out the obituary I wrote for my dad you can go HERE and click on Jack Lancaster on the right.

For those of you who have asked here is the tribute I wrote for my Dad's Service; and hopefully this will give you a little peek into his daughter also...smile

TRIBUTE TO DAD AND POPS
BY
Jacque and Stan

We are both so appreciative of the many lessons you inculcated in us and hopefully we have lived up to your every expectation. Your obituary says you were a "sailor's sailor", likewise we were taught by your example, to care for those less fortunate than we are. We appreciate your care and concern for the downtrodden and those in distress and hopefully we will remember the responsibility your example taught us. You gave us the charge to be responsible, honest citizens, knowing the difference between right and wrong, with more concern for others than ourselves--hopefully we both exemplify that teaching. Doing for others without any demands or expectations that others do for us. You taught us that no matter what misfortunes befall us, that there are always those less fortunate. We shall never forget. You taught us the love of knowledge and pointed out the many doors such knowledge would open for us. You taught us a love of country, a genuine respect for her, and an unwavering patriotism. Although the demons of Vietnam were so painful to you as the advanced Alzheimers took over your body, we still know you taught us, my country, right or wrong, my country.

Now that you fly with the eagles on high, watching over all of us, doing what you can to the continue insuring our freedoms, please know that we will always take good care of our Mom, will honor, cherish, love and respect her, not because you asked us to do so in your last breaths but because you taught us to.

Thanks Dad and Pops!!

Sail Away, sweetly in our memory!!

Now I can report to you that this round of chemo has not been the best BUT I don't know how much is the chemo and how much is because of all the other bumps in the road...I am already feeling MUCH MUCH better so lets just hope that things are going GREAT GUNS!!!! Thank you so much for your sweet notes, emails, and lovely cards...they have brightened my each and every day!!! With great big hugs for each of you!!!

I will be back a bit later today with the last Winner...and will have some new Sweet Stuff up real soon!!!!

Tulip Tilda at Just Magnolia and a Wee Bit of Sweet Stuff!!

Happy Day everyone and welcome to your weekend, wherever you may be!! I hope your weekend is starting off with a bang and will be most enjoyable!

This week over at Just Magnolia the Design Team was asked to make an easel card and of course the constant requirement is to use at least one Magnolia stamp on our cards. I hope all of you Maggie lovers will join us this week in showing us your easel card using at least one of your Maggies!!!

For my DT Sample Card, I used Bazzill for the base, all matting is PTI, and the DP is the cute cute cute For Peep's Sake-Hot Chicks by Imaginisce. Thank you so much, Suzan, for finding this precious Easter paper for me!! The DP is so darling that I decided to use only the one layer on my card so that the chicks and bunnies and tulips could be seen!! Both major panels were machine stitched. Tulip Tilda from Magnolia-licious was stamped twice on Cryogen White and I cut out one of the images (minus the tulip) to prop up for dimension and she was colored with Copics. The ribbon is PTI and the bows are made with the Bow-Easy. I added a little Easter Basket charm to the front panel bow...notice that I colored the ribbon on the charm with Copics to match the peach color of the DP. The yellow roses in 2 sizes were added on MS punched fronds. Finally I added the Magnolia Happy Easter Squiggly from the Easter 2009 Collection and yellow pearls to soften all corners.

And Now for a touch of SWEET STUFF!!!!

So many of you have asked me about my bows and organza ribbon that I wanted to share with you a little bit of Sweet Stuff from my stash. I CANNOT make a bow without the Bow-Easy...this is the best miracle tool ever made!!! I also have an extra little Tilda like I used on my card that is a part of this little package...so here ya go....


1 Bow-Easy
1 yard of each of the 29 colors of organza ribbon I have in my stash
1 Tulip Tilda

All I am asking that you do in order to be eligible for the Sweet Stuff is to leave a comment and make sure all of your Maggie lover friends know about it so they can come try for it. The cut-off for comments will be Monday, March 22 at Noon DST. Good Luck!!

Thank you so much for dropping by today to see my little creation! I appreciate your visit very much and love to read what you have to say!! Please come back often to see me! Have a magnificent weekend!! Big Maggie hugs from me to you!!

It's an Eastertime Hanglar at Friday Sketchers 94 and WINNER!!!

A very happy Friday to everyone!!! I trust that each of you has had a magnificent week and are looking forward to a marvelous weekend! I have some VERY good news and some not so good news...so I will give you the good news first!! I went today for my pre-chemo labs and conference and I have been deemed by the oncologists as their "Poster Child" for my first round of chemo...let's just hope the next round goes so well...which is Monday the 22nd....eeeeek...lol...And now for the very sad news...Hospice has been called in to the Life Care Center where my 81 year old Dad has been since this past July suffering from advanced Alzheimers...he is not expected to make it through the weekend so please join me in hoping that it is fast and very painless. My sincere thanks and appreciation to the professionals with the local Hospice and the Life Care Center where both my Mom and Dad are residing!! My thanks to each of you also for your concerns and continuing support...Hugs!!!!

This week at Friday Sketchers Week 94 we are hosted by the magnificently talented and creative Claudia who has provided us with a challenging and fun sketch so I hope you can join us. Thanks to Plum Purdy for sponsoring this week's challenge with a $25.00 gift certificate to shop over at her store. Just remember to link your posting with MrLinky and also be sure to link back to Friday Sketchers in your posting.

I would not have been able to make my DT Sample Card this week had it not been for my special friend Carole who sent me this darling Easter hÄnglar & stÄnglar stamp as a gift. Please visit Carole and share a bit of smooches with her...you will be amazed at the beauty of her cards and the talent she always demonstrates on her cards!!! I stamped this little cutie twice on Cryogen White and cut out one image to prop up on dimensionals...they were colored with Copics and a touch of Shimmerz (thanks, Claudia for the sweet gift and for the introduction to Shimmerz). I used tiny satin ribbons for the horizontals and added a Bow-Easy bow, a few flowers, and a dangling Easter Basket charm. I hope you like my interpretation of Claudia's magnificent sketch!! I bet you may be able to win a Bow-Easy and some more Sweet Stuff if you check back with me tomorrow...smile!!!!

I hope you like my little creation and will want to try your hand at the sketch. Please visit the other DT members and check out their magnificent interpretations of Claudia's sketch:

Aud, Beatrix, Carole, Claudia, Jacqueline, Jeanette, Tanja

WINNER!!!!! Where is this package going???? CONGRATULATIONS to...

Gosh to the UK again!!!! Diane J said...
What a beautiful card... its gorgeous. Thanks forthe chance to win the candy... the flowers are so lovely... I have linked your candy on my side bar. Glad to read that you are okay at the moment.. Take care xx

Diane, please contact me before Sunday, March 21, at Midnight DST so that I can get your little package to you real soon!!!!

Thank you all so much for dropping by to check on us today! It is always such a joy to hear what you have to say about what you find here. I hope you will come back often! I may even have some Magnolia surprises for you tomorrow....smile...Big hugs to each of you!!

What's New at Just Magnolia? Winners!! Sweet Stuff!!

Happy Saturday and a wonderful weekend to all of you!! Gosh it feels like spring here today and nobody is happier than I am about it!! We had rain yesterday and FINALLY all the snow from December is washed away!! Yippppeeee!! Thank heavens we have warm weather just in time for my bald head!! LOL I don't have to be concerned about having a "bad hair day" any time soon...smile So many of you have asked how I am doing that I am happy to report that I am now feeling GREAT and expect to have a marvelous week before my next chemo on the 22nd....talk about "making hay while the sun shines"...this is living by a schedule!!! hahahahha

I wanted to show you my DT Sample Card for Just Magnolia this week where we have a wonderful sketch by the magnificently talented and creative Bev Rochester of All The Things I Love. We would love for you to come over and join with us this week in using this fun sketch! The only requirement is to use a Magnolia stamp when making the sketch and you will find that a lovely prize is being offered this week.

I used Bazzill for the base, all matting is PTI, and the DP is all from the My Mind's Eye Home Glitter Book. All background panels are machine stitched. Little Love News Tilda from Magnolia-licious was stamped twice on Cryogen White, colored with Copics, and one of the images was cut out and propped up for dimension. This cute little Maggie can certainly be used for all kinds of occasions and news announcements. The wide lace is from Wild Orchid Crafts and the inserted ribbon is PTI. The green Cherry Blossoms are Magnolia and the peach roses are WOC also...and all the flowers were Stickled and Shimmerzed to match the glitter of the papers. Finally light green pearls soften the corners.



For the inside, just a bit more of the lace and ribbon, a dangle flower charm, a small bouquet of the same flowers for the jotting spot, and smaller pearls on all the corners. I'm sorry that my photography is not so good because these papers have such a pretty glittery look that is not captured in the pictures.

And now for the WINNERS...First my sincere thanks to everyone who drops by to visit me...it is such a joy to read your sweet and kind comments! I wish I could send Sweet Stuff to all of you and I am trying my best. Let's see where these packages are going...

CONGRATULATIONS to...

Flower Soft Sweet Stuff Winner......Rosie in the United Kingdom said...
This is such a beautiful card, and just love how you have used the flower soft to accent the image. Rosie x

Magnolia Sweet Stuff......Donna in Indiana, USA said...
Beautiful card, Jacque. You are such an inspiration in so many ways! I've added your candy to my blog. Thanks for the chance to win!

Rosie and Donna, please contact me by email before Wednesday, March 17 at Noon DST so that I can get your little packages out to you right away!!

And now for a touch of SWEET STUFF!!!! Nobody loves flowers as much as I do...I mean nobody, unless you do!! so....I wanted to share a bit of my flower stash with you as well as make available the darling little stamp of Love News Tilda like I used for this card! So if you might like to have this little package, please leave a comment for me and let all of your Maggie friends know that she is a part of my Sweet Stuff! The closing for this is Thursday, March 18, at Noon DST. Good Luck!!


My sincere thanks to you for dropping by today and I hope you will put your sweet Magnolias to good use and join us this week over at Just Magnolia. Have a delighful weekend and please come back to see me soon! With great big Maggie hugs for each of you!!