One card for Monday...

Happy rainy Monday! I just love this kind of weather, but prefer to be home in it rather than driving back and fourth to work.  This is my second post of the day, you can see my 12 Kit cards here. My card today is for ColourQ challenge #234 and what a gorgeous color palette they choose! Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my card...enjoy the rest of your day!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Hawaiian Shores

Patterned Paper: MME - Miss Caroline

Stamps: PTI - Sweet Life, Bigger Blooms and WMS - Chicken Wire

Dies: PTI - Sweet Life and Filigree Border

Ink: PTI - Summer Sunrise, SU - Calypso Coral and VersaFine - Black

Enamel Dots: MME - My Girl

The 12 Kits of Occaions - March/Spring/Easter Edition

Today is the final day of March and that means it is time for our 12 Kits of Occasions - Spring/Easter Edition. And what an amazing kit it is, there were so many wonderful and incredible ingredients, really enough to make a couple dozen cards easy!  So much fun playing with so many fun goodies that I don't have. Kelly from The Gingham Girl is our amazing hostess with the mostess this month and she totally out did herself with this kit.  Thank you Kelly for all the time you put into making our Spring/Easter kit so incredible!  Be sure to head over to our blog, The 12 Kits of Occasions to see what the rest of our talented group has made.  We also have a special guest joining us this month...
Thank you so much for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your week!

Two cards for Sunday...

Hoping that everyone had a wonderful weekend...this past week was so busy I never had much time to be crafty but today I had a bit of time and I have 2 cards to share with you. They are for Serendipity - Stitching Challenge, CASology - cue card "Lucky" and Paper Crafting Challenge - Sketch Challenge (this is a new one for me. I love their sketch and thought it would be fun to play along). Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy your week!

This is as close to "lucky" as I could get, I don't have any stamps with lucky on them so I pulled out a PS alphabet set and had Lucy help me cut a sweet little duck.

This card is for both Serendipity and Paper Crafting Challenge...I love this tree from Serendipity, it reminds me of a tree you might see in Whoville.  

Ingredients

Lucky

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White, MFT - Lemon Drop and SU - Pumpkin

Duck: Lucy

Stamps: PS - Alphadots

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Rectangles

Ink: VersaFine - black

Merry Christmas

Solid Card Stock: Michael's

Stamps: Serendipity - Christmas Tree and Verve - Holiday Treats

Ink: VersaFine Black and VersaMark and PTI - Spring Rain and SU - Real Red

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Circles

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

One card for Sunday...

Well the weekend is just about over and I have one more card to share for the day. This one is for the current challenges over at Retro Sketches #107 (have not played along with them in a while and love this weeks sketch) and CASology #87.  Not that I really needed another wedding card, don't go to many weddings anymore, I guess that is one of the things that happens when you and all your friends get older but with this week's cue card at CASology "Blush", what else could I make.

This past week I celebrated my birthday and some time back Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea came up with this brilliant idea "husband kits". There are 4 of us in our group and we made a kit for one husband/children and this way we receive cards for birthday, Mother's Day and so on. It is an amazing idea and so far we are all loving it. Cathy from Empty Nest Crafter sent to my sweeties...the cards are just amazing and it was so much fun to actually receive cards this year from my family, thank you so much Cathy! 

I also wanted to thank my sweet and wonderful blogland friends for taking the time to send cards and wish me a happy birthday...I am so blessed to have so many amazing friends...you are the BEST!

I also wanted to share a photo of this sweet Golden Story book that my sister gave me for my birthday, it has been re-purposed into a water color book with special paper inside. Cinderella is my favorite of the Disney princesses so the book will sit with the rest of my Cinderella trinkets. Here is the link to the wonderful lady who made my book....Tangie Baxer & Co.

My husband went fishing again this past week and I had to share the photo of his latest catch, it is just amazing!  It measured 58 inches long and weighed over 50 pounds. Good thing we love to eat fish!

Thank you so much for stopping by...have a wonderful week!

Surprise!!! Happy Birthday Maria

Happy Birthday Maria!

Happy Sunday...it is also Maria's birthday (rieslingmama) and she turns 50 today so we are having a surprise party for her.  To see all the amazing and creative cards you will need to head over to Shirley-Bee's blog at shirley-bee'sstampingstuff...Maria is an amazing card makers, so many fabulous cards, so grab a cup of your favorite beverage and scroll through her blog, you will see so much wonderful inspiration.  You have plenty of time if you would like to play along too, Shirley will keep Mr. Linkie open for 2 weeks.

I am using Maria's card for 3 other challenges, ColourQ #233, The Card Concept #6 and One-Layer Simplicity #3 - Just Add Water. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your weekend!

It is hard to see but my little bits of confetti are heat embossed in silver, I tried to get a photo of them but just did not seem to get one.

Inspiration Card

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Stamps: PTI - Simply Chartreuse, SU - Smoky Slate and Calypso Coral, VersaMark and Memento - Teal Zeal

Stamps: PTI - Stylish Birthday Sentiments and  Birthday Style

Happy Birthday Anita....Surprise!

Happy Birthday Anita...are you surprised??? 

This is so much fun to have a surprise birthday party for you, you are one incredible and talented lady.  If you don't know Anita, you have been living under a rock...she is an incredibly talented card maker from France and you can see all of her amazing creations on her blog My Papercraft World. Bev from GottaDoTheHappyDance our fabulous party planner and Darnell from djkardkreations is the Linkie Laday where you can see all the wonderful cards made for Anita.  They are so sweet to have taken the time to organize this surprise birthday bash and so glad I got an invitation to play along.

My card doubles as homework from Day 6 of Clean and Simple - One Layer Cards class. I have to say this was a fun card to make and I used colors that I see Anita use a lot. This was my first attempt as making a graffiti card and I have to say I am pretty happy with it.  

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Ink: PTI - Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold, Winter Wisteria, New Leaf and Aqua Mist and VersaFine - Black

Stamps: PTI - Background Basics - Sheet Music, Birthday Bash Sentiments, Stylish Sentiments - Birthday and Birthday Style

Happy Sunday....

Well the weekend is just about over and back to work tomorrow. Did not accomplish much this weekend, spent most of my time trying to do what I could to rid myself of a migraine...started Friday night and is just about gone. I did not get much homework completed from class, Clean and Simply One Layer Cards. Started to make one and did not have any masking paper, so I ordered a package and will get caught up once it arrives.  I love the look of all the class samples using the masking technique and am looking forward to playing with it soon. I went ahead and used the supplies I had planned for my class card anyway, heat embossed white embossing powder and used Inktense pencils with a water brush.  Love, love this flower background stamp from Hero Arts but will say that my arm is still a bit sore from being twisted to buy it but it is well worth it! This card is for the current challenge over at Colour Me and House of Cards. The colors are just amazing, so vivid and beautiful together.  Thank you so much for stopping by and enjoy your week!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White

Stamps: Hero Arts and A Muse

Buttons: PTI - Orange Zest

Twine: Twinery

Embossing Powder: Stampendous - White

Dies: PTI - Double Ended Banner

One card for Saturday....

Happy Saturday...hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.  I have one card to share today and it is for 2 challenges, ColourQ and Fusion plus I finally had the time to watch the first video from day 1 of Clean and Simple One Layer cards.  Although my card is not one layer, I loved this technique so much!  For this week's ColourQ card one of the ingredients is newsprint...some time back Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea gave me some pages from a book she picked up in Italy and I have been saving it for the perfect card and I finally got to pull it out today. 

Yesterday I took the day off and spent it with Darnell and Harriet at the Scrapbook Expo and then lunch. As always, we had a wonderful time...even though I have not known these lovely ladies very long whenever we get together it is like we are old friends and can sit and chat forever...so much fun! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy your weekend!

Harriet, Darnell and me

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White, Kraft, Limeade Ice and Black

Stamps: PTI - Harvest Berries

Die: SSS - Hello and Lawn Fawn - Speech Bubbles

Embossing Folder: Anna Griffin - Brocade

Ribbon: Britex

Enamel Dots: MME

Ink: PTI - Limeade Ice

Two cards for Thursday....

Only one more day until the weekend starts...but I have tomorrow off so a nice 3 day weekend is in store for me.  Not too much going on, hitting the Scrapbook Expo with a couple of friends (can't wait!) and I am hoping to get caught up on my online class, Clean & Simple, one layer cards, so far it looks like so much fun and I need to get caught up before I am expelled for skipping class.
I have 2 cards to share today, my first card is for the current challenge at Paper Players #186...I love this color combination, do bright and festive with spring right around the corner.

My second card is for our new challenge at Simply Create Too, challenge #57...using animals.  I ordered Zoo Crew from Paper Smooches so I would have a cute and adorable set to use for this card. This little giraffe is just so cute and I have him chomping on a leaf from a tree. You have plenty of time to play along with this new challenge so pull out your animal stamps and go WILD!  Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your week!

Ingredients

Paper Players

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White and SU - Crushed Curry and Smoky Slate

Patterned Paper: Pebbles - Family Ties

Stamps: TE - Graphics - Thank You

Enamel Dots: MME

Rose: Michael's

Simply Create Too

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White

Patterned Paper: PTI - Simply Chartreuse

Dies: PS - Zoo Crew and Lil Inkers: Stitched Rectangles

Stamps: PS - Zoo Crew and Sentiment Sampler

Ink: PTI - Simply Chartreuse and Ripe Avocado and SU - Chocolate Chip

One more card.....

One more quick card for the day....I wanted to get it in for Lesley's challenge, The Challenge before it ends in a few hours and my second entry for Color Throwdown. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - White, Pure Poppy, New Leaf and Lemon Tart

Die: SSS - Thanks and PTI - Bigger Blooms

Pearls: SU

Stamps: PS - Sentiment Sampler