CTD223; FMS67; Pixie's 54 ~ I'm Thinking of You

How's everyone in the Funny Papers this Sunday?

 

I'm thoughtful today and full of positive energy forces pulsing through cyber space for my friends who are in need.  I wanted to also make cards and I used these recipe guidelines:

 

Here are the colors for this week's Color Throwdown (CTD223):

 

 

Perfect colors for a Mask U. Lynn card.  Also, perfect colors for a thoughtful card.

 

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I used snippets from my, duh, Drawers of Snippets, so I get to go over and play on the swings with my friends at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Week 54.  I hope you'll use some of your snippets and come play!

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And over at Freshly Made Sketches (FMS67), we have a wonderful sketch by the very talented Jennifer Timko:

I added a sediment to my card, but I think that's okay, so until I hear otherwise, here you go:
 

 

 

The little thingie on the right is supposed to be a new little flower bud coming up, but this morning, on my monitor it looks like a little green fire hydrant.  Which is fine.  Our take on the sketch can be any shape.  What does it look like from your monitor?

I used the Memory Box die "Crisp Bows."  I used one bow for the flower, and I used the other bow for the leaves, cutting off the bow tails.  For the bud, I use the same die as I did for the flower, but I trimmed the sides and backed the opening.  Here is what the die packaging looks like, so you can see what I mean:

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Another of our blog friends is in need of your prayers and your positive thoughts flowing her way.  She is Bernie of Bernie's Craft Closet.  She has been a long-time friend of mine through this blog and I know a lot of you have had the same blessing.  Bernie has been her husband Jim's caregiver this past year, following his serious health issues.  Now Bernie has cancer and Jim is trying to care for her.

Bernie particularly loved a long-ago post I wrote where I commented that, while I love and applaud the philosophy that when one is given lemons, one should make lemonade, I felt that more often than not, life doesn't give us lemons.  It gives us onions.  Onions because our problems or troubles are usually multi-layered; they don't just affect us, they affect our families, our friends, our jobs.  And they don't always get resolved by a single action, rather one peels a layer of the problem, only to find another layer under that, and another layer under that.

And peeling onions often makes us cry, just like life can make us cry.  Our friend Bernie has been handed more big stinking onions to peel and she could use your positive thoughts to help her keep peeling.  It's what we do.  We keep on peeling.  And when others are thinking about us, we can feel their hands peeling, too, right alongside us.  Thank you.

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Enjoy your day!   No, seriously, enjoy your day.

As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.  Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!

 

Paper:  SU! very vanilla, kiwi kiss,
  crumb cake, and soft suede
Stamps:  SU! unknown set
Ink:  SU! kiwi kiss
Ribbon:  SU! very vanilla
Punches:  SU! scallop and
  Corner Chomper
Die:  Memory Box
Bee:  K&Company