Cheerful Summer

Hello! I finally had some time to play in my stamp room, yay! It was some much needed escape now that baseball season is over and we're home again! It took Patrick and I all last weekend to get the house clean so I could get away and stamp, now if only we can keep it that way, lol.... Anyone know how to convince a 2 year old she doesn't need to get out every toy she owns in order to choose to play with the same dolly : )

Sorry, back on track! It took me quite awhile to get my mojo to focus, but I love how this card turned out! It's 4.5x4.5, I really love the size, I'll have to make these more often. I chose one of the cuties from ATS, I love their sweet images. I colored the cutie with Copics and added some spica glitter pen to the cherries, although the pics don't pick it up. The Echo Park Hello Summer paper and the ribbon and gems are from June's KI kit. The Prima flowers and CTMH brads were from my stash.

The layout is Mojo Monday #248. This is also my entry for ATS Wednesday Challenge:Anything goes. I'm taking a chance and trying out for their DT. What can I say, I love Challenge sites and their sweet images, it's a great combo... check it out!

Thanks for looking!

Birthday Blessings

Hello! My great-aunt is visiting this week from North Carolina. We celebrated her 70th birthday on Sunday and this is the card I made her. It was such a beautiful day, and a very nice reunion with all the different generations there!

For my card I used a super sweet image from CC Designs and a sentiment from Verve. The patterned paper and ribbon is from a past KI kit. I just added some Prima flowers and CTMH brads and button. The sketch is Mojo Monday #241, only flipped. This card is also my submission for ATS Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Thanks for looking!

Wishing you...

Hello! I have had such a relaxing weekend, I hope you've enjoyed yours too! Yesterday while we were watching the Iowa-Iowa State game (Hawks lost) I colored this little cutie for a birthday card for my mom to give to one of her best friends. I tried to take my pics outside, and it was definately too bright, so sorry about that. Anyone looking to get rid of a light tent, haha! When I first saw the August Key Ingredients kit and saw there were stickers in it I thought "well great more stickers to sit in my binder." I'm not the best at actually using them.... So I have really tried to make myself actually use these ones. It says "Wishing you... good times, happiness, friendship" One card, 4 stickers down : )

Image: CC Designs DP:Echo Park Copics, GKD ribbon, MME twine, gems from the KI kit

This card is my submission for ATS Wednesday Challenge: anything goes, and Stamp Something's LAST challenge : ( Thanks for looking!

Oh Happy Day!

Hello! This is going to be a quick post because I'm headed out to meet my mom and grandma to see The Help. I've heard some great things about it so I'm excited! But I just HAD to post the card I made last night because I JUST LOVE IT! haha I have no idea what it is about the card, it just really makes me smile : ) I was on the ATS Wednesday challenge blog and saw the inspiration picture: I loved the pretty pink with the beautiful teal of the shutters. I decided to use the September SFYTT. My husband was using the computer last night so I was trying to go off of memory, and obviously something didn't transfer because as I was uploading the picture I realized I have the panels mixed up... sorry! Thanks for looking anyways! And have a great holiday tomorrow, I'm so excited to have it off. It still makes me giddy after all the years working holidays in the hospital.... perks of a clinic job!

Image: Sugar Nellie, DP: Echo Park, Prima flower, MME twine, and misc sparkles and pearl

Birthday Girl

Hello! I made this card for my mom to give a friend for her birthday. I was given instructions to not "make the card mean just because it's her 60th birthday." I don't think this cutie could be mean if she wanted to : ) I used last week's Deconstructed Sketch, although I did flip the embellies a bit. This is also my submission for ATS Wednesday Challenge: anything goes. While I was looking through some of the past challenge's I was shocked to find one of my cards had won week 75 and I didn't know it... oops! Figured that one out a little late! Lesson learned: if I'm going to enter a challenge I should probably keep better track of them, lol.

Image: CC Designs
DP: CTMH
Copics, Prima flowers, MS edge punch, CTMH ribbon, swirl and brad.

As always, thanks for looking!

Mother's Day Tilda

Hello! I placed an order for a bunch of Tilda's about a month ago (ATS had a coupon code and I couldn't resist, lol) So I've been busy coloring lately, love them!! I used Sketch Saturday #153. I also used A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge #150 to use white and 1 other color... I chose blue : ) This card is also my submission for the ATS Wednesday Challenge: May Anything Goes. Thanks for looking!

Image: Magnolia Tilda with Amaryllis

DP: CTMH Blue Ribbon

Copics

misc pearls, ribbon, butterfly

Sitting Pretty

Yay it's Friday!! I was running out of time to get my Valentine's in the mail, so I had to spend some time last night in my scrap room working away, sigh... This one will be going to Arizona to my grandma. She isn't much for the Iowa winter so she heads south : ) We sure do miss her though and I'm sure this card will make her smile! I used Friday Sketchers #140 (this week's is great too, I'll have to play again later!) All That Scraps has a great Wednesday Challenge: to make a Valentine with no pink or red. There is a tiny bit of red for the roses- but all the other flowers are more orange than they look in the picture. I also used Cute Card Thursday's challenge 151- Hearts & Flowers and Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #104- Button up! I hope you all have a great weekend, thanks for taking the time to look at my card : )

Image: CC Designs

Paper: CTMH Key to my Heart

Copics: sorry I misplaced the paper they were written on...

CTMH button & brads, Prima flowers, misc ribbon, lace and heart sticker