together forever

Morning everyone! It is going to be a beautiful Saturday here...up to 80 and full sun...woohoo!

At my stamp club every other month we do a card swap with a different theme. This month we made cards with a wedding/anniversary theme and this is my card. Since most of my stamp club ladies don't have a bunch of SU! wedding stuff I told them to use as much SU! as possible but it was okay to use other company's products as well.

I've been seeing beautiful cards made with the new SU! Textured Impressions Manhattan Flower die for the Big Shot. I just got it a couple of weeks ago and was really wanting to use it so I grabbed it out and used it to make this simple but pretty card. The only thing that isn't SU! on this card is the little Tiny Twinkle as the center of the flower in the sentiment.

I have another card I made with this die to show you next week that I think you are going to love. Speaking of next week...it is an exciting week with the Sweet N Sassy Blog Hop (info to come to my sidebar soon) as well as a limeLIGHT product and sketch challenge. Fun stuff!

Have a super day everyone!

Card Deets:
Stamps: Forever (SU! single)
Ink: Certainly Celery
Paper: Whisper White, Certainly Celery
Accessories: White Satin Ribbon, Scallop Oval Punch, Scallop Punch, Taylors Tiny Twinkles

bingobella

Morning everyone! I hope you are having a super week...can you believe tomorrow is Friday? Yay! Double yay for a long weekend!

When I saw the CPS sketch for this week and that Stamping Bella was hosting it I knew I just had to pull out my newest Bella. I call her Bingobella but her real name is Bingodabbabella. See? My version is much easier to remember! LOL! Anyway, I like to make cards for Todd's grandmother just as a way of staying connected and she does love her bingo so this is perfect!

I have to say that I'm in love with this card simply because of it's monochromatic color scheme. I was thinking of putting another color in this card but the colors that match the best with Brocade Blue just didn't sound appealing for a Bella card so I stuck with Brocade Blue and White.

I can't wait to get this sent out to her! I hope Todd stops home this morning so he can write a little note to her inside so it can go out in the mail today!

I just have to tell you what a dork I am. I thought it would be nice to have a Memorial Day BBQ with some of ours friends. Apparently, I wasn't thinking when I sent out the e-vites because we now have over 40 adults and 30 children coming to the BBQ. I'm not in the lest worried about the food and such as everyone is going to bring a little something but I am worried that it will be too windy to be outside...I can't have 30 children running around my home. Yikes! It was suggested to me that a couple of the older children take the younger kids to the school a half block away to play. That is a great idea and I just need to dig out my walkie talkies so we have communication with them. Wish me luck everyone!

Anyway, I'm off to start my day! I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday and I'll see ya tomorrow!

SSS #4

Good morning friends! Can you believe it is Wednesday already?! It's been a pretty busy week here so it is flying right by for me!

As I'm sure you already know Sweet N Sassy Stamps has a new sketch challenge blog called The Sweet Stop. This weeks sketch is so fun that I had to just play along. The one thing I didn't do according to challenge rules was make mine a masculine card as I was looking for this type of card when I was creating.

I knew I wanted to use my Funny Farm stamp set so I pulled out some Basic Grey Marrakech paper (see all the great Basic Grey paper SNSS has HERE) to go with it. I think that the papers have somewhat of a hand sewn look to them so I thought they'd be fun with the chickens I wanted to use. I completely love the silliness of this card!

Wanna play along with the sketch challenge? Just create a card with the sketch I linked you to above, add a masculine theme, link it back to the Sweet Stop blog and you are in the drawing for a chance to win the stamp set Cool dude (I love this set for my boys!).

Now, go...have fun! I have to go exercise this morning even though my gluts still hurt from the ridge climb on Monday...LOL!

lovin' from the oven

Morning everyone! How was your Monday? I had a good time hiking the ridge yesterday. I was off on the time estimates though. It took about an hour to get up and 45 minutes or so to descend the ridge. Still not to bad really. Of course I thought I was going to die about 3/4 of the way up but I made it and it was SO worth it!

Onto today's card. So...I saw THIS card and knew I had to have Unity's Lovin' from the Oven set so I hopped right over to limeLIGHT Papercrafts and placed my order (along with a ton of other fun stuff!). I knew I had to do something along the same lines as Ryann so I got to work when I saw Jen's sketch for this week. All the patterned and solid color papers I used are from Basic Grey's Granola paper pack. So perfect for a guy card, huh? I love the animal print paper for the hearts...teehee!

Mandy is running some excellent specials just for her customers right now so head on over THERE to check them out. I've said it before and I'll say it again...Mandy is super fast with shipping and her prices are great! Go check it out!

Now, go...have a super Tuesday!

birthday lauren

Good morning everyone! I hope you had a fantastic weekend! It sure was beautiful here this weekend and is supposed to be 84 degrees today, too! Lovin' it!

For today's card I decided to pull out my Birthday Lauren from Paper Makeup Stamps. I am not much of a fairy kind of gal but I love this images...they are fun to color, just the perfect size for my comfort zone! I added lots of shimmer and sparkle to this card which was difficult to see in the first picture so I tried again which gave me a blurry picture but at least you can see some of the sparkly stuff.

Monday is always the Paper Makeup Challenge day and this weeks challenge is a very pretty watermelon and apple which is basically a pink/green combination. You can see it HERE. You don't have to use their stamps to play along so if you like the color combo...go for it!

Todd and I are going to climb the ridge this morning. That link I gave you doesn't really do the hike or the view justice. Since I'm a big baby it will probably take us about 45 minutes up the ridge and 25 minutes down but the sense of accomplishment and the view when up there are SO worth it!

With that...I'm off to eat a little something and get hydrated without drinking too much...no bathrooms at the top ya know!

Card deets:
Stamps: Birthday Lauren:
Ink: Palette Noir
Paper: PTI White and Spring Rain, SU! Purely Pomegranate, Scenic Route Surprise patterned paper
Accessories: PTI Black Grosgrain, Black Copic Glitter Pen, Angels Wings Shimmerz, Glaze Pen