Roll Up the Rim 2016

I take great pleasure in keeping track during the Tim Horton's Rollup the Rim season. This year I thought it seemed to produce slightly fewer winners. Anyone else find the same?
So here's the tally...
29 large coffees purchased : 6 coffee wins and 2 donut wins
I guess that's almost 1 in 4 so not as bad as I thought.

Freshly Made Sketches 226

Sympathy - I never seem to be able to stockpile enough of these cards. I would say people ask me for this genre the most. And since I need to make a little extra to pay for the Vet bills that keep cropping up, I thought I'd better get busy. Lindor has had a sickie belly and Maya had some minor surgery and a tooth extracted resulting in this...

Despite the dreaded "cone", getting soft canned dog food for the week kind of made up for it.

So enough about the dogs, here's the Sketch I worked with from Freshly Made Sketches...

I like to follow the sketches pretty closely and here's the card I ended up with (actually I made 6 of them)...

So that is my FIRST challenge in 2016. Pretty pathetic since my goal was to do 4 a month. Oh well, one has to start somewhere.

Hockey cards

I was asked to make up 5 hockey cards in the team colours, so when I found the hockey paper last week at my local scrapbook store, I thought I better get working on them. I used a cute image from Your Next Stamp and tried to match the jersey colours as best I could. I loved the cheery colour combo and I think the recipient really liked them too.

They turned out much brighter then they appear in the photo and I glossed his helmet and skate blades.

A couple late Valentines

So I'm a little late posting but I wanted to show the cute cookies that I bought for the boys at the Dog Rescue Foster event....

Aren't they the cutest? My love for you is stronger than the Force. Love it!

And I got a little Valentine package myself...

Some of my favourite things... butterflies for my cards, a Mason Jar Stamp and chocolate. Thanks Cor.

A Random Act of Kindness

What a beautiful weekend. Hard to believe it's not even March yet, feels so much like spring. We could still be in for a nasty surprise but let's hope not. The dogs couldn't believe their luck because they got several long walks. A path I like to take goes through a small woodlot and someone put up a couple bird feeders. Since I can't have a feeder at my home, (due to bird-dogs) I thought I could take some seed and make a contribution to the wild ones in my community.

Don't worry, Lindor got her walk in also. Sometimes I like to take them one at a time so they can enjoy the route.

There is a lovely little brook babbling along and when we approached the feeder area, I was thrilled to see a pair of my favourite cardinals.

I just had my little point and shoot but if you look very closely you can see the speck of red in the branches.

Once I filled up the feeder, we went down the trail aways and stopped to look back. The cardinals swooped down, a Blue Jay and of course the brave Chickadees. Hopefully the birds enjoyed the snack and it will get them through these last days of winter.

Happy Valentine's Day

It is too cold to walk the dogs today. Minus 23 C this morning so it's a good opportunity to do a quick blog post. Busy working on cards for a Swap later this winter but that's a secret so I'll show you the baking that we made yesterday to donate to a Local Rescue. Nothing too elaborate but hopefully, it helped raise some funds for Save Me Rescue.

I always like to take the items packaged. I'm not big on open containers etc. Plus, they look much cuter in their packaging especially for Valentines Day.

We did some Funfetti cookies and some chocolate peanut butter Haystacks. They were a little chewy but good flavour and quick and easy to make.

Thinking of You

I've been fairly productive lately and once I get going on an idea, I usually make a bunch.
I saw this idea on Pinterest and since I had both of the dies decided to make up a few. I originally did them in this colour combo...

but when my friend Robin, did one with the red birds, I had to copy it since the Cardinal is my favourite bird.

Either way, I think they are both lovely cards and I've been trying to add a little interest on the inside of my cards lately so a little bird diecut was perfect...