summer fun

Good Saturday morning! It is a beautiful sunshiny day here. The temperature is only going up to 58 and it is pretty windy with 30-40 mph winds with gusts up to 50 mph. but I love the sun!

Today is the first Saturday that SNSS will be hosting a sketch challenge on their new blog called The Sweet Shop. I think today's sketch is a pretty neat one and lends itself to lots of different images. For mine I used Summer Sentiments and Summer Fun.

I hope you'll join us each Saturday for a great sketch challenge and fantastic inspiration from the DT!

Now...I'm guessing you'd like to know the winners of the Silver Rhinestones, huh? The first person that was chosen by random.kyler is Kathy Brown. Kathy you get the Rhinestones and the option if you'd like the wedding card that I made. The other winner is Cristina. Yay for you both! I have a way to contact you both so I'll be e-mailing you shortly! Thank you all for participating in my fun little giveaway! I hope to do a few more of these in the future 'cuz who doesn't like to win free stuff?

Have a super weekend and I'll see you on Monday!

Card deets:
Stamps: Summer Fun, Summer Sentiments
Ink: Palette Black, Rose Red
Paper: PTI White, Cutie Pie DSP, Certainly Celery
Accessories: Certainly Celery Grosgrain, Nesties, Dimensionals, Adhesive Pearls

scene in a garden

Morning everyone! Are you as glad as I am that it is the end of the week? I love Friday's and I'm excited because I have a Tastefully Simple party to demonstrate tomorrow...yay!

This is a the first thing that I made with the Stampin' Up! products that I showed you on Wednesday. The stamp set is a new on in the Occasions Mini Catalog and is called Scene In A Garden. Isn't it lovely? I decided to keep it clean and simple (which is now a challenge on SCS). Please don't look at where I rocked the stamp with the pots...it isn't there! LOL! I'm always in need of thank you cards so I used the thank you sentiment out of the Three Little Words set for this card. Oh, and since the table looked like it was floating in mid air I used my Scor-Pal to make score lines just under the table to ground it a little. The color was added with some markers and some water coloring...just depending on what I needed. The only thing I don't love, honestly, is the ribbon. It is the only one I had that I thought would work....after I put it on here I got an RAK of Chocolate Chip Taffeta which would have been perfect but that is okay, right?

Have you signed up for the blog candy I'm offering up thanks to the very generous Mandy from limeLIGHT? You can see it HERE. Hurry though as entries close at 5 p.m. tonight! If I get at least 50 entries I'll add another little piece of candy to the mix so we'll have three winners so be sure to tell everyone!

Okay, I have to tell you guys something about me. First, Thursday's are kinda my day off. If I exercise it is a light one and I don't commit myself to anything that isn't fun on Thursdays (okay I do mop and dust on Thursdays too...not fun but the two chores I really don't mind doing). So, yesterday was a light workout day and then I popped in my Mama Mia movie, and got to work mopping...yeah, Todd laughed at me 'cuz when he came home the first time it was on...when he came home hours later...it was still on. I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!! I played the movie all the way through twice and then watched the bonus features. What a nerd I am, huh? And, I'm downloading the movie soundtrack too today. My boys are going to go BATTY! Teehee! Gotta love it!

Anyway, I hope you manage to take some time for yourself this weekend! I'll be back tomorrow for the first Sweet Stop sketch challenge. The Sweet Stop is SNSS's new sketch challenge blog. There will be new challenges each Saturday for everyone to try. Hop on over, sign up to follow the blog and then join us tomorrow!

Card deets:
Stamps: Scene In A Garden, Three Little Words
Ink: Basic Brown, Pumpkin Pie, Apricot Appeal
Paper: None
Accessories: Rose Red Stitched Grosgrain, SU! Markers, Scor-Pal

sassy wedding and some candy

Morning everyone! We are on the downward slope towards Friday...woohoo!

Today I thought it would be fun to show you some of the wedding items that limeLIGHT Papercraft carries. I bought this cute set called Sassy Wedding Set by Stampendous some time ago to make a card for a co-worker of Todd's that was getting married. Yeah...we decided not to go to the wedding and I slacked on the card. Shame on me. But, I just knew this set would be cute so I pulled it out along with some great Pebbles patterned paper called Wedding Words and made this card. I have to tell you that this is the 5th image that I stamped. The first three weren't spaced correctly but the fourth one...wonderful...until I smudged it with God knows what....grrrr! So, I have to go with this 5th image. Anyway, I added some fun silver rhinestones from KaiserCraft. Gotta have some bling on the card ya know. Whatcha think...kind of a fun card, huh? While you are over checking out the items I've hyperlinked you too make sure you click on "home" so you can see the fun specials Mandy has going on right now!

Oh, wanna know something really fun? Mandy, over at LLPC has given me the okay to give away TWO packages (two winners) of silver rhinestones...yay Mandy! Soooooo...wanna win? Okay, just leave me a comment on THIS post, with a way to get a hold of you (otherwise you can't win) by Friday night at 5 p.m. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell strangers in the street (okay not them) to come on by and comment for their chance to win. Only one comment per person please. And as a gift from me if the first person whose name is chosen would like the above card as well as the rhinestones then it is for you!

Now, go...have a super day and don't forget to comment!

Card deets:
Stamps: Sassy Wedding by Stampendous
Cardstock: Pure Poppy, PTI White, Pebbles Wedding Words, True Black
Ink: Palette Noir
Accessories: Silver KaiserCraft Rhintestones, Pure Poppy Satin Ribbon, Dimensionals, Nesties

i'm in!

Morning everyone! Sorry, no card for you today but I thought I'd share a couple of things with you.

I got a really fun Stampin' Up! order yesterday which, as you can see, consists of some stamp sets from the Occasions mini catalog. Even though you can't see it in my picture, I also got the new Three Tier Cake Pop-up Bigz XL die. Guess what we'll be using at our next stamp club? I'm so excited! You can also see the And Many Mower set that we'll be using at my Father's Day Stamp Camp. Fun stuff!

The other thing I wanted to tell you about is....I'm getting Copic Certified! Yep, I got into the Portland class in May! I become giddy just thinking about it! Todd is driving down there with me so we'll have a little together time then which is always nice. If you or someone you know will be attending please let me know. I'd love to be sure to get to meet you in person! Oh, and check out the place where the class will be held and where we have our overnight reservation. It looks really nice!

I have, finally, been able to break the plain of the final set of about 5-7 pounds that I'd like to loose before summer (or certainly before the Copic certification). I'm THRILLED as that has been SO hard! Hopefully it will change my mind set a little and the last few pounds will be much easier.

Anyway, I hope that you all have a wonderful . I'm off to face the 28 mph winds we are going to have today. Joy, joy!

Oh, and holy moly...check out THIS blog candy!

bloomin' beautiful

Good morning! This will be a quick post and go. I have to shower and get out the door quickly today.

I made this card for the Latenight Stampers Challenge #15...flowers, flowers, and more flowers. I used the super pretty SU! set called Bloomin' Beautiful and just popped up the bloom on this flower. It is so lovely in real life! In order to make this look a little watercolor like I used my Aqua Painter with my stamp pads and painted the color on the stamp...then stamped the image. Worked like a charm.

Alright...card deets below and I'll see ya tomorrow!

Card deets:
Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Pink Piourette, Riding Hood Red
Paper: Bella Rose, Riding Hood Red, WW, Pink Piourette
Accessories: Kiwi Kiss Satin Ribbon, Dimentionals, Mat Pack and piercer

a true friend

Good morning everyone! We have a very sunshiny and warm start (up to 80 at my house today!) to our week this week! It is wonderful!

Today's senior design team challenge at Sweet N Sassy Stamps in to make a scripture card. Inside or out it is up to you it just has to have a scripture on it. And, I literally just realized I picked a stamp without a scripture...but it is from a scripture set called A True Friend so maybe that will qualify me instead. Sheesh...what an airhead I am! Okay, and now I'm a true airhead as I just went back to link up the stamp set and it isn't even a scripture set so don't use mine as an example of this challenge!

Anyway, I have a friend that moved here about 3 years ago and we became fast friends. At the beginning of the year this year her husband left his job and has been hunting for once since then. The good news? He has found a fantastic job! Pays well, great Christian boss, all that stuff! The not so good news? It is in Florida. I have been trying to get myself used to the fact that there will be no more weekly lunches with her and to be honest...it feels weird. Thankfully we both text so that will be a great way to keep in contact. All that to say...I have made several cards that I could give to her. This is one of them. I love the soft colors of this card and the Iris' are a lovely "watermark" of sorts for the sentiment. Anyway, the deets will be below but I recently got Gina K's first Stamp T.V. Kit and I used it for this card. And the layout is from Taylored Expressions.

Alright ladies...that is it for today! I hope you have a super Monday and I'll see you tomorrow for an all Stampin' Up! card!

Card deets:
Stamps: A True Friend (SNSS), Elegant Flowers (Gina K)
All the rest: Stamp T.V. Showtime Kit
See links above for more info

surprise

Morning all! I know I said I wouldn't be posting on Sunday's anymore but since I didn't post yesterday I thought I'd do a quick post today.

Kyler's birthday was a week and a half ago and I figured it was about time to get those thank you notes made and sent out so I sat down to make something that was at least relatively easy and that represented Kyler's personality. This is what I came up with. It isn't the most elaborate card but it truly is my Kyler. He loves sports of just about any kind! The only thing I didn't think about until I was on card 5 out of 6 was that I should have used paper that had green in it since green is his favorite color. Honestly though, I don't really think he'll care all that much! The sketch is from i {heart} 2 stamp.

I've got so many things that I want to stamp today to show you this next week so I'm excited to get to work. First I must actually go to work today so...I'm off!

Have a super Sunday everyone!

Card deets:
Stamps: Sporting, Just Basketball, Just Golf, Just Baseball, Just Football, A Little Birdie Told Me (sentiment)
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Brown, So Saffron
Paper: Washington Apple DSP, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Accessories: Square punches, Dimensionals