Daydreamin'

Happy Friday everyone! Woot, woot! It is the beginning of a wonderful weekend...at least for me! Todd and I are headed off for our anniversary weekend. Should be fun!

Just a clean and fun card for you today. I was gifted the Inky Impressions images that I've used for the cards I've posted in the past. After today...I only have one more image. Yikes! I really hope that I make it on the Inky Impressions design team!

Anyway, this image is Angelica's daydream...isn't it adorable! I love the dreamy look on her face and her hands on her knees...awww! All of the paper and accessories are from this months Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Kit for July.

Short post today as I have a ton of stuff to do this morning. I also wanted to let you guys know that I have an extensive list of SU! retired sets for sale on SCS. You can see them HERE. Please respond to the SCS post if you have any questions on them.

So...I'm not sure if I'll be back tomorrow or not but I do have a card prepared....it will just depend on if I have time tonight to prepost. Either way...have a SUPER weekend!

Psalm for the day...

The heavens are thine. Psalm 89:11
Which accounts for their splendor. (Isn't that the truth!)

limeLIGHT Day!

Good morning friends! Eek...it is Thursday already! Are you ready for the weekend? Got big plans? Whatever you do...make it fun!

Today is a limeLIGHT sketch and product challenge day! Woot! We all love these days don't we? First, see the sketch HERE. I do have to say I struggled with this one a little. Anyway, the product challenge is sentiments. I love to use sentiments as my main image especially when it is a scripture of some sort. This scripture is from Unity Stamps (it's called Move Mountains) and is especially pertinent to me right now as the Bible study that I'm in is on growing our faith. I used Basic Grey's Wisteria paper and some lovely Mellow Moss taffeta ribbon. This is a very simple card but one that I think will be well received by whomever I send it to.

So...I suppose you want to know the exciting part...what you are going to win? A Unity sentiment of your choice! Woot! Woot! Who doesn't love a free stamp? All you have to do is make a card with the sketch and link it to Mandy's blog by Sunday (I believe...check her blog to be sure!) to be in the running to win!

Now I am going to let you know that since I will be out of town this weekend I may not be posting over the weekend. I hope to get some stamping done today but I'm volunteering at Care Net today 11-3 so it would be later in the evening and you know how the evenings can go sometimes.

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Baroque Motifs

Happy Wednesday! Can you believe it is Wednesday already? This week is flying right by! I'm excited for Friday as Todd and I will be heading out this weekend for a little anniversary trip. I'm SO excited!

Today's card is made with Baroque Motifs. While I was going through all my SU! sets I saw this one and knew it needed me to make a card with it. So...off to work I went. I decided to go clean and simple so I went with the flourish in Rich Razzleberry on white card stock. I accented the flourish with a few flowers and a beautiful butterfly from the SU! exclusive die for the Big Shot. I also embossed the butterfly with an texturz plate from SU! Backgrounds I. The label is made from using the Mover's and Shaker's die and stamped with "cherish". I added a few brads and was done. Isn't it just elegant? Love it!

Then inside I added a piece of Melon Mambo card stock to cover the brads. I added the flourish on the left and the right side is blank so there is room for writing a message.

Everything on this card you can purchase through my Stampin' Up! website HERE.

Tomorrow is a limeLIGHT Papercrafts sketch and product challenge day. I hope you'll come back to see my my rendition of the sketch. The featured product tomorrow is....sentiments! Shhhh! I didn't tell you ahead of time!

Now...go...have a super fantastic day!

Inky Impressions 2nd Design Team Call

Morning everyone! If you can't tell this is my Inky Impressions Design Team blog entry. If you haven't seen the images before I know you're going to love them! Each of the girls has such cute expressions. I have come to find that I love coloring more detailed images such as these.

The challenge that was put out for the design team application was a color challenge. The colors are Chocolate Chip, Purely Pomegranate, Kiwi Kiss, and Baja Breeze. Beautiful combination but you guys know how much I love my patterned paper but there is no patterned paper with those colors so....I used my Big Shot along with some impression plates to make some interest in the paper. This image, Angelica, is my absolute favorite! I love the hearts and her hair?!? Beautiful!

The other card is made with LiLi. Another completely adorable image with the expression and hair! I'm always needing birthday cards but never have them so it will be good to have her in my stash.

Now, it is also asked of those of us applying for the design team to show our favorite card and favorite project. My favorite card recently is HERE even if it wasn't well commented on. My favorite project recently is HERE.

So, there you go! I hope you enjoyed this little peek into my design team submission. Wish me luck!

Beautiful RAK's!

Good morning everyone! As you can tell I ended up not posting yesterday as I was busy going through all of my Stampin' Up! stamp sets cataloging them and getting A LOT of my retired sets ready for sale. I should have that list on my blog here in the next week or so and my local friends get first dibs at them!

Anyway, I wanted to show you a couple of RAK's that I've gotten over the last week or so. I know you are loving the card to the right, huh? This card is from my friend Kris at Ink Something. The image is from Inky Impressions and I just love this image...she is my favorite! I just love this card!

Then the card on the left is from my secret buddy. The swap I'm involved in with this person came about in kind of a different way. I sent a card to someone and she e-mailed me sometime later asking if I wanted to be in her secret buddy swap group. After finding out a little more about the group I said yes. What is neat about this card is that the butterfly has a piece of lavender that my buddy grows at her house. It smells so nice! The white paper is shimmery too so it is so elegant looking!

Then last but certainly not least is a card I got from my Stampin' Addicts Demo Secret Sister. All swaps with this group are to be current Stampin' Up! products. I have been obsessing over this cute set called Cheep Talk and I so want the set. I'm glad I got this card for sure! Old Olive and Certainly Celery card stock's are alway a wonderful combination!

So...there you have it! My fun week of RAK's. Now I have to go post my thank yous where they belong.

Have a super Monday everyone and I'll see ya tomorrow!