I was so lucky to receive this handmade birthday gift box and card from my friend Jan recently! Such a happy thing to see after opening the mailing box! So many gifts now are given in gift bags, which are fine, so it was an extra treat to see a package to “open”! And of course my friend made it herself plus the card! So pretty! She makes such beautiful cards and things!
The box is made with the pretty Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper from Sale-A-Bration several years ago. There are lots of instructions online of how to make a box out of paper, very simple. You can find directions to a box I made recently in THIS POST.
The birthday card she made me is made with the stamps, dies, and stickers in the Eastern Palace Suite. This suite was released the month before the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog came out, but of course it is still available now. You can make very pretty cards and projects with this group of products, and the stickers are such high quality and fun to use.
We made it through Hurricane Harvey just fine last evening and overnight. We’ve gotten almost 5″ of rain at our house in our rain gauge. It’s just the outer bands of rain from the hurricane, not anything like the people close to the eye had. So it might rain lightly or more heavily for a few minutes and then let up. No heavy wind, maybe some light wind gusts, like we had last night when we tried to go for a walk after dinner and misjudged the radar! There was a tornado that struck at 1:00 am several miles from here in a very nice neighborhood with lots of young families, about fifty homes damaged. The pictures on TV look pretty horrible but I’ve heard only one minor injury. They say these tornadoes drop down quickly and go back up quickly, but this one looks like it was pretty strong. As long as these bands of rain keep moving through and don’t stop over one location they think things will be much better. Every break in the rainfall gives the water time to drain. Still a mess and the storm can do whatever it wants, no matter the weather predictions, so who knows! Our power just blipped off for a second last night but we are very lucky at this moment to still have power, internet and air-conditioning!
Here is a screenshot of the radar on my phone at 9:00 am today, Saturday Aug. 26. I’m the blue dot!
That’s the hurricane update for now! Keep your fingers crossed for us! The worst is yet to come I think for our location and the city of Houston.
Wouldn’t you love to receive a beautiful handmade gift box and card like my friend sent me? Make one for your friend and send it! It really only takes a little bit of time to make something like this and you know it will be very much appreciated! Love it, Jan! And the gifts inside! Guess I should say……if you are curious….she sent me a cute candle in a little bottle with a birthday cake scent and a cute boxes of matches – which we may have to put to use this week!! – and a cute little Halloween decoration because she knows I love Halloween!
Don’t forget to use your Bonus Coupons before August ends!!