A Good Day

Happy Tuesday! Time for another fabulous challenge at the brand new SCACD Friends With Heart Challange!!! Our challenge this week is "April Showers Bring May Flowers... use the color blue and flowers in your card/project!


I'm so happy to finally have my own set of Little Peekers by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD to play with. Every single one is adorable, so get ready to see them all here soon! I'm longing to get them all colored up!

My card features Hey Birdie Peeker. I love birds. :) I followed the April Sketch For You to Try.

I hope you'll come along and play with us this week at SCACD Friends With Heart Challenges. There's a $50 gift certificate up for grabs as a prize for one lucky player this month!!! This is the last challenge in April and the last chance to enter for a chance to win, so come on over and join us!

Be sure to visit my fellow SCACD Friends With Heart Challenge design team members to see what loveliness they have created to inspire and delight you:

Danni

Lorraine

Mary Lou

Pattie

Renkata

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

You Are Purrrrrrfection!

Happy Saturday! Time for another fantastic sketch challenge at Sketch Saturday!!!

Our sponsor this week is one of my very favorite stamp companies Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps! I had the privilege of being part of Sparkle's inaugural Design Team. I was looking back over the cards I made while part of her team, and I'm telling you the truth... they are some of my favorite cards ever!

My card today features Kitty Cat Josh. Of course I'm drawn to this stamp because I have two cats and four boys. (*grin*) I paired Josh and his kitty with patterned paper and embellies from the Max & Whiskers collection by Basic Grey. Purrrrrrfect. 

I hope you'll play with our sketch this week! Be sure to drop by the Sketch Saturday blog to see the lovely creations from the rest of the design team AND to see the prize up for grabs from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps!


Oh, and check this out!

MEOW!!!

Celebrate!

TGIF and time once again for the bi-monthly Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge!!! Now that Taylored Expressions is a Member Company at Splitcoaststampers (woo hoo!), the sketch challenges are taking place over at SCS in the Taylored Expressions Forum. In fact, all you need to do is pop over to the TESC Sketch Challenge #137 Forum Thread for all the deets on this week's challenge, to grab the sketch and find out how you can win a $10 Gift Certificate to spend at TE by playing along with us... or a $20 GC if you use TE stamps!

My card features images from the Make A Wish stamp set, which I paired with cardstock, patterned paper, embellies and Liquid Pearls from the Make A Wish Project Pantry Kit. With all the coordinating elements found in Taylor's fabulous kits, your cards will come together easily!

I cut the banner out of the patterned paper. The cake plate is covered with Glossy Accents to make it shine like a real dish. I added polka dots to the cake top with a Sharpie White Poster Paint pen. The cake is cut out and popped up on top of the plate. I hope you likey!

Please come along and play with us! Since the sketch challenge is now bi-monthly (2nd and 4th Fridays), you have until May 12th to play! I say enter more than once and show your TE stamp sets some love!

Be sure to visit my Sketch Crew friends for lots of inspiration! And help us welcome two new Sketch Crew members, Tracy Clemente and Dawn Easton!!!

• Dawn Easton
  
• Jami Sibley
• Lisa Hjulberg
• Lori Craig
• Melissa Sauls
• Monika Davis
• Rachel Sztonyk
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Tracy Clemente

Have a great day!

Does Running Late Count as Exercise?

  If so, I should be in great shape! lol

Happy Wednesday! Today is the day for the monthly Taylored Expressions Blast From the Past Blog Hop!!!

The theme this month is Clean and Simple (CAS). I have to confess, I struggle with this look. I started out just stamping this fun image called Belated Birthday - Running Late on plain white cardstock, thinking that would do it. But I just couldn't leave it alone... so I added the paper (October Afternoon), brads and ribbon. I'm afraid my card isn't photographing well... it looks a lot better IRL. My hippo looks like he needs a shave! lol



Enjoy the hop!!! Have a great day!!!

Smile

Happy Tuesday! Time for another fabulous challenge at the brand new SCACD Friends With Heart Challange!!! Our challenge this week is to show us your ART... A=any stamp from SCACD, R=ribbon, T=two patterned papers! Fun!!!


I absolutely adore this sweet image called New Friends by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD. It was one of the very first stamps I ever purchased from SCACD and started a whole new passion for me!

I hope you'll come along and play with us this week at SCACD Friends With Heart Challenges. There's a $50 gift certificate up for grabs as a prize for one lucky player this month. Every time you enter one of our challenges in April, you have another chance to win!

Be sure to visit my fellow SCACD Friends With Heart Challenge design team members to see what loveliness they have created to inspire and delight you:

Danni

Lorraine

Mary Lou

Pattie

Renkata

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Time to Follow Your Dreams

A blessed Palm Sunday to you! This is the day that the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Our challenge hostess this week at Stampin' Sisters in Christ is Peggysue Turner. Peggysue chose as her inspiration scripture Matthew 16:23 "Jesus turned and said to Peter, 'Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men." Her challenge is to use Versamark or the same color ink on the same color of paper (e.g., purple ink on purple paper) for a tone on tone effect somewhere on your card.

Peggysue put just the first part of Matthew 16:23 (i.e., "Jesus turned and said to Peter, 'Get behind me Satan!'") in the database for her challenge and I had no idea where she was going with this until I prepared the SSIC post and read her devotional. And then, of course, I pulled out my Bible and read the entire scripture... actually the entirety of Matthew 16:21-28.

As I write this, it's midnight and I'm not feeling well... I've been a bit under the weather the past couple of days... so I don't feel capable of writing a devotional of my own. However, I don't need to... I agree with what Peggysue has said in her devotional, which you'll find on the SSIC blog. I encourage you to jump over there and read it and see the beautiful cards created by my design sisters. You will be blessed!

My card features sweet Anya, greeting and background stamp from the Spotlight Collection by The Greeting Farm. Did you know I'm lucky enough to be the April Guest Designer at TGF? Big smiles from me! I LOVE TGF!!! I used the background stamps from the Spotlight Collection to meet the challenge by stamping in Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distress Ink (which is green) on green cardstock and then I cut out the banners with Spellbinders Nested Pennants dies. The background paper and chipboard piece are from the Origins collection by Basic Grey.

TGF is sponsoring the current challenge at The Play Date Cafe, so I decided to combine challenges! A $25 Gift Certificate to spend at The Greeting Farm is up for grabs! There's still time to play, but you must hurry... the challenge ends on Tuesday at 11:59 pm Eastern!

Oh, and you'll definitely want to HOP over to the TGF blog and grab the adorable FREE digi images... Easter Ian and Easter Anya! Cute!!!

And I hope you'll come play with us at Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenges this week. We are delighted to welcome back Designed2Delight as our sponsor. There's a $10 gift certificate up for grabs! Have you visited their store lately? Lots and lots of wonderful digi images to be had!

Thanks for stopping by my friends! Have a blessed day!

One Rainy Day

Happy Saturday! Time for another fantastic sketch challenge at Sketch Saturday!!!

I ended up switching places for the embellies and sentiment because I just had to take advantage of this adorable patterned paper from the Emma's Shoppe collection by Crate Paper... perfect for this sweet image by our challenge sponsor Paper Makeup Stamps called Emma. I LOVE the rain, so I was immediately drawn to sweet Emma. :)

After coloring the umbrella, I added the polka dots with a Sharpie White Poster Paint pen to coordinate with the paper ruffle. I sponged around the image first with Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and then with Antique Linen to dull it down a bit to better coordinate with the blue tones in the paper.

For the ruffle, after punching a paper strip with a scallop punch I spritzed it with water, which made the paper more pliable, and then fan folded it, opened it back up, pressed down one edge with a ruler and let it dry before adhering and sewing. I learned this technique from my friend Julie Johnson.

The pearls are by Hero Arts and the roses are by Prima.

I hope you'll play with our sketch this week! Paper Makeup Stamps is offering a $20 Gift Certificate as a prize! Be sure to drop by the Sketch Saturday blog to see the lovely creations from the rest of the design team. They're gorgeous!

Have a great day!

Exciting News!!!

Oh, I'm so excited!!! To find out why, click on the picture above or HERE and read all about it!!!