What an honor....

I was nominated for the Liebster Award by one of my blog readers...Suzanne from Beauty and Blessings.  Liebster is German a word for beloved, dearest or favorite and this award is shared only among those of us with 200 or less followers.  I am so overwhelmed by this, I love making cards and connecting with so many other talented ladies who are so inspiring and creative.  I have met so many talented ladies and made so many awesome online friends which I am so blessed to have.  This is the second time that I have been nominated for this award...I feel bad because I never did acknowledge Renee from It's A Patchwork Life, I had the flu and saw the mention and then forgot all about it.  Renee is one of those women who inspires me every time I check out her blog.

Part of the honor is to pass it along to five others who are  encouraging me and others through their sweet comments as well as inspiring us with their own beautiful projects. So I gladly pass this honor on to:
Joyce,  Cards-by-the-Sea
Renee, It's A Patchwork Life
Cathy, Empty Nest Crafter
Katie, Our Charmed Life
Maureen, Buttons and Bling
It is so hard to select just five ladies, there are so many more that I could list.  Be sure to stop by each of these blogs and check out the fabulous creations! Suzanne and Renee, thank you so much for the honor.

I spent part of the day today working on some Easter crafts for my kids at school, we are going to make Easter baskets using the PTI Front & Center Die. I cut them all out and closed up the sides and I will have the students decorate with color crayons and some fun Easter stickers I purchased today.  Since I was in the cutting out mode, I decided to cut out a few extra to make for a few of my friends but I added a bit more  and made  a seed packet filled with Jelly Belly's and a touch of Easter grass and glitter.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Berry Sorbet

Stamps: PTI - Garden Variety and Sweet Spring

Ink: PTI - New Leaf and Berry Sorbet and VersaFine - Black

Dies: PTI - Seed Packet and Front & Center

Glitter: Martha Stewart

Ribbon: Michael's 

Jelly Belly's: Costco

Up......and Market Street Blog Party

Up...who doesn't love this Disney movie?  My favorite parts of the movie are Fenton's Ice Cream (this is a local place for us, about 20 minutes away in Oakland) and the house being carried away by all of the many colored balloons.  I have seen many cards on different blogs using this theme and was so jazzed that I had all the tools to make a card.  It was a quick card to make too, so that was a bonus for me.  I only have one stamps set from MSS so far and don't you just love this little house! Actually the stamp has three houses together to look like a neighborhood and I only used the one for my Up house. I was realized that MSS was having a block party and wanted to add my card. Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Hawaiian Shores

Stamps: Market Street Stamps - Neighborhood and PTI - Congrats All Ways

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Buttons: PTI - New Leaf, Orange Zest, Hibiscus Burst and Autumn Mix

Bakers Twine: Martha Stewart

Bling: SU

ColourQ Challenge #130

When I saw the color combinations for this weeks ColourQ challenge, I had to play along. The colors are so bright, cheery and just scream spring.  I used PTI's Egg Hunt stamp set, I have had this set and egg die forever and have never used anything other than one of the sentiments so it was fun to stamp the eggs with the bright color inks.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White, Hawaiian Shores

Printed Paper: PTI - Simply Chartreuse

Ink: PTI - Hawaiian Shores, Raspberry Fizz, Memento - Dandelion and VersaFine - Black

Stamps: PTI - Egg Hunt

Dies: PTI - Egg

Pearls: SU

Ribbon: Michael's

The 12 Kits of Christmas - March 2012 Challenge

Another fabulous kit, this month Suzanne was the host and she put together an awesome kit filled with what I call a "Traditional Christmas". Each month one of us is assigned to be hostess and put together the kits and mail them off to the other talented and creative ladies. We all make cards from the kit and post to our blog with links to all of the others. One of the things I enjoy most is seeing how different all of our cards are from each other. I also love having leftovers in my kits too, to be able to make cards after seeing all of the wonderful creations.

This kit has so many wonderful pieces of printed paper and the stamped images, they are just so perfect with all of the stripes and holly berries.  My favorite stamped images is the one with Santa on his reindeer...I was so excited when I was cleaning my craft desk and found this adorable reindeer charm, just perfect for this card.

Here is a picture of the fabulous kit...

Photo courtesy of Kara

It took me awhile to dive into the kit...what I was really hoping for were some of Joyce's self assembling cards, but someone else must have received this kit. Anyway I left all the supplies sitting on my desk and then it happened, 4 cards made in one evening! I was so excited and very happy with how they turned out.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Merry Christmas

Noel

Santa and his Reindeer

Season's Greetings

Be sure to check out the other blogs for more cards, below is a list with all the links...

Amy - Stampin-n-Paradise

Cathy - Empty Nest Crafter

Christina - Sea Glass & Sentiments

Jeanne - A Kept Life

Jessica - The Paper Parade

Joyce - Cards-by-the-Sea

Kara - K and R Designs

Marybeth - Marybeth's Time for Paper

Renee - It's A Patchwork Life

Sharron - On Papillon Wings

Suzanne - The Card Yard

PTI March 2012 - Blog Hop

 

March is here and so is spring...what a fabulous inspiration photo for this month's Blog Hop, it just screams Spring and Easter to me.  Yellow and blue are a great color combination for a spring card and I decided to make my card an Easter card.  It was fun to play with some new toys and my card the colors are just a bit softer but the same idea.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Inspiration Photo 

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White, Spring Rain and Lemon Tart

Ribbon: Michaels'

Dies: PTI - Christmas Label and Memory Box - Piestra Tile

Ink: PTI - Spring Rain and VersaFine - Black

Buttons: PTI - Spring Rain

Stamps: PTI - Sweet Spring

Blog Hop for Janelle

Thank you both Laurie (Soapbox Creations) and Dana (Kismet , Art, and Life) for organizing this blog hop to let Janelle and Ken know we are all thinking and sending good thoughts for them. Janelle was diagnosed with a brain tumor last spring and her sweet husband Ken has been by her side for support and strength, and now a blogger. He updates her blog on a regular basis and here is the link to Janelle's blog, Show and Tell to read their story or if you would like to leave her a message. Here is the card I made to send to Janelle...

 Janelle, stay strong

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Ink: PTI - Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse, Hawaiian Shores and Memento - Dandelion and Tangelo

Ribbon: PTI - Raspberry Fizz

Buttons: PTI - Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest, Hawaiian Shores and Harvest Gold

Stamps: PTI Flower Fusion #7 and Stamps of Life - Get Well

Die: PTI - Flower Fusion #7

With Heartfelt Thanks

Today I was just overwhelmed by the friendship from wonderful group of talented and creative ladies in Blog world.  Although I have not met any of these fabulous woman yet, I am just in awe of the time they put into making my birthday a special one.  Thank you so much Joyce Cards-by-the-Sea, for being the ring leader, you are just so sweet and I am really looking forward to July Stamp-A-Faire when I can finally meet you.  So I made this card for you to say thank you to all of you, Joyce, Cathy, Jeanne, Jessica, Marybeth, Kara, Renee, Laurie Beth, Lee Anne, Sharron, Michelle, and Katie. You are all just so sweet!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Printed Paper: PTI - Raspberry Fizz Patterned Paper

Stamps: PTI - Script Sentiments, Flower Fusion #7,8,9 and 12

Ink: PTI - Raspberry Fizz, Spring Moss and Simply Chartreuse and VersaFine - Black

Bling: Kaiser

Dies:  Memory Box - Window Box

Good Morning...

 

Good Morning...I have been so excited about getting my order from Waltzingmouse Stamps.  I have only been using their stamps for a short while and since following them, this is the first release they have had and I was so jazzed to be able to order.  This card is made from the French Country and Chicken wire sets, they are both just too adorable and I just love all of the french sayings on the French Country set, but it was the rooster that sold me on this one, not sure why but it did. Thanks for taking a peek!

 

I forgot to add a a few more things...this card was made for this weeks Waltzingmouse Sketch challenge.  Here is the sketch, and it was so much fun to get inspiration from, thanks Renee.

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI Pure Poppy and Rustic White

Ink: SU Real Red

Stamps: WMS - Chicken Wire and French Country

Buttons: PTI - Pure Poppy

Bakers Twine: PTI - Pure Poppy

Dies: Spellbinders - Fancy Labels and Labels #18

Sending You Happy Thoughts

Today I wanted to finish up a get well card to send to Joyce's mom (Cards-by-the-Sea) who has been in the hospital for a while.  I wanted to make something bright and cheery since it is springtime, I thought this would be a great time to break out the tulip die! Renee (It's A Patchwork Life) was so sweet to send me a lifetime supply of these wonderful windows and window boxes and they go so well with the beautiful tulips, my favorite flower. The inside of the card reads, "sending you happy thoughts, feel better!" I hope this card brightens her day...thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients 

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White, Spring Rain, New Leaf, Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest and Yellow

Dies: Memory Box - Tulips,. Window, and Window Box and PTI - Clouds

Stamps: The Stamps of Life - Get Well

Waltzingmouse Blog Party March 2012 - St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I love this holiday, not quite sure why...maybe it's all the green and all the fun crafts you can do.  Anyway, I was so excited when I saw what the theme was going to be for this month's blog party, you can never go wrong with St. Patrick's Day, Irish or green.  My card came together rather quickly too, just like Joyce's cards that assemble themselves.  I used the WMS Eat Cake set and used some beautiful printed paper that a sweet friend sent me, they just seemed to go so well together.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Spring Moss and White

Ink: PTI - Spring Moss and VersaFine _ Black

Stamps: WMS - Eat Cake

Embossing Powder: Hero Arts

Bling: Kaiser

Seam Binding: Renee

Printed Paper: Pink Paislee - Queen Bee

Four of a Kind #7 - On My Couch and On My Couch Additions

This months kit came from Joyce - Cards-by-the-Sea and she used stamps and papers I do not have so that always makes making the cards fun. Each month one of the four of us host the challenge, sends out all of the kit supplies and then we all post our cards or creations at the same time. It is always nice to see what each other has made using the same supplies and if we have any supplies left over, more ideas to use up what is left.  I have had my eyes on this set for awhile so it was a fun challenge to be able to play with the stamped images and give them a test run.  The first photo is of the fabulous kit Joyce sent...

So many wonderful goodies in the adorable container.

I was able to get 5 cards made from this kit, I still have some supplies left over for a few more cards once I see what the other ladies have come up with. Thanks for taking a peek!

Be sure to check out all of the other cards made by the rest of theses incredibly talented ladies...

Joyce - Cards-by-the-Sea

Renee - It's A Patchwork Life

Cathy - Empty Nest Crafter

Ingredients

Stamps: PTI - On My Couch and On My Couch Additions

Printed Paper: October Afternoon - Farmhouse

Solid Card Stock : PTI - Vintage Cream, Pure Poppy, Ocean Tides and Smokey Shadow

Dies: PTI - On My Couch, Filigree Border, Happy Day, Limitless Layers Oval, Mat Stack 4 Layerz,

Waltzingmouse Christmas Card Challenge - March 2012

This month's theme is to make a Christmas card using blue and brown paper.  Neither of these colors are in my 10 ten favorites to use but when paired together, what an awesome combination.  I used WMS Santa's Coming to Town for this card and this is one of my top favorites of WM stamp sets, I just love the cameo of Santa, and I even glittered the buttons, so festive.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Card Base and Envelope: Club Scrap

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Spring Rain and Ivory

Stamps: WMS - Santa's Coming to Town

Buttons: PTI - Spring Rain

Glitter: Hero Arts



Get Well Soon! ColourQ Challenge #128

I saw this card this morning on another blog, Lucy's Cards and just fell in love with it.  I am not really a butterfly person but I could not pass it up.  It was quick and easy to make and I am just so happy with the way it turned out.  Thanks for taking a peek!



Here is my take on the challenge....

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Ivory, Greens and Gray SU

Printed Paper: KI Memories

Dies: PTI Butterfly and Pinking Edge

Stamps: The Stamps of Life

St. Patrick's Day Treats

I love St. Patrick's Day, to me it is a fun and festive day (even though I don't drink), maybe it is all the green, my favorite color...I spent the morning working a few little projects, one for a friend of mine and the other, a rainbow of Twizzlers and a pot of Rolo gold for my kids at school.  The tin will be filled with lots of fun treats to celebrate the day with, sock, beads, green candy and more! The rainbow made of Twizzlers my kids will be making these on Friday and we will have Lucky Charms for our snack.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Printed Paper: Reminisce - Green Day

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and New Leaf

Stamps: PTI - Luck of the Irish

Dies: PTI - Limitless Layers and Double Ended Banners

Ribbon: Michael's

Make It Monday #56 - Die Cutting Partial Images

I finally got around to getting my MIM card made and what a fabulous technique to try out.  I tried Betsy's version several times but I guess I just don't have her magic touch, I could not get it to work.  I tried a few other ways to get the partial image cut and finally had success.  I have to say I would do this again, I really love the look of the finished card.  Thanks for taking a peek!



Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Raspberry Fizz
Printed Paper: PTI - Raspberry Fizz Patterned Paper
Dies: Heart-2-Heart and Heart Border
Stamps: Heart-2-Heart #1
Ink: VersaFine - Black and PTI - Hawaiian Shores and Raspberry Fizz

CAS-ual Fridays #42 Challenge...Hey Baby!



It has been several weeks since I have participated in a CAS-ual Friday challenge and when I was checking out Joyce's blog, Cards-by-the-Sea and saw that she made several baby cards.  We must think a like because just out of the blue I made a baby card today too. I had no clue that this was the theme for this weeks challenge, just decided to pull out the set and dust it off, so here it is and thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Spring Moss

Printed Paper: PTI - Polka Dot Parade

Stamps: PTI - Background Basics - Music and Bundle of Love

Ink: PTI - Spring Moss and VersaFine - Black

Ribbon: Michael's

Flower Fusion Birthday

I have just about every set of the Flower Fusion series but have to admit have only used them once or twice.  I decided to put them all out and dust them off and put them to good use.  I saw this idea on Pinterest and fell in love with it.  I knew I had all of the supplies so it would a quick and easy card.  Renee from It's A Patchwork Life was sweet enough to share the window box die with me, in fact she sent me a baggie filled with those and the adorable windows too! She truly is a sweetheart!  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White
Die: Renee - Memory Box Dies
Stamps: PTI - Flower Fusion # 2,5,9 and 12
Ink: PTI - Raspberry Fizz, Spring Moss, Simply Chartreuse and Memento - Cantaloupe and Tangelo, and VersaFine - Black
Buttons: PTI - Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest and Harverst Gold



Happy Birthday Chrystle

Happy Monday! I was so happy to be able to have time this past weekend to make a few cards, in fact I got 8 made! Five of them are for my monthly "4 of a Kind" challenge and will be posted later this month.  I am really looking forward to posting these cards because all five of them use supplies I do not have and it is always fun to play with new supplies and not have to spend any money for them, thanks Joyce!
Tonight's card is a birthday card for a co-worker and she loves to garden so I thought using Rosie Posie from PTI was the perfect set. Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White
Stamps: PTI - Rosie Posie & Movers and Shakers Sentiments
Ink: PTI - Berry Sorbet, Raspberry Fizz and Simply Chartreuse and VersaFine - Black
Pearls: SU