Loving cards 67

Hi Blogging Friends! I hope you all had a safe & fun weekend :) I had some "me" time so I played with some of my favorite papercrafting goodies! I am lovin' all the new My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Collection which includes this soft aqua/blue shade from the Market Street/Happy Birthday line. Rather than saving & hoarding it, I put it to good use & made a few cards for my loved ones. I think it is so romantic looking so I paired it...

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Vintage Ornaments 33

Hi There! I had some time to play today so I would like to share a few things I made: First up, using a LF-190 Grand Labels Four die template, I made this Festive wall hanging featuring the image with a trio of Vintage ornaments from the JustRite Vintage Christmas 3 1/4" set. For sketch inspiration, I played along with this week's JustRite Friday Challenge #033. I flipped the sketch so I could highlight all three lil' ornaments each paired with...

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Witchy Wishes...WMSC12 30

Hi There :) Another week has flown by, Saturday again & time for another Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge! Here is my take on this week's fun sketch: I spotted this fun Echo Park Halloween themed paper at my LSS & fell in love with those big multi-colored polka dots & the funky font. I have been wanting to create something using the neat Wanda's Brew image from the Waltzingmouse Wanda's Pantry set so I snatched this paper up &...

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Happy Halloween 42

Hi There Blogging Friends! Here today to share a few projects I made featuring a few darling Vintage images from Crafty Secrets. Over at Splitcoaststampers, there is a weekly Crafty Secrets challenge of sorts, that challenges us stampers to use our Crafty Secrets products. I made this card for this week's challenge - "Stuck on Crafty Secrets" which is to use a sticker or create your own. I don't own any Crafty Secrets stickers so I trimmed an image,...

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Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge 78

Hi There Blogging Friends! Here today to join along in the August Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. This month's theme is the "Brown Bag Challenge". Nichole challenged us customers to create our projects utilizing a brown paper bag in some way, shape or form.I made this Brown Bag Friendship Gift set using a brown paper lunch bag & the Papertrey Ink Friendship Jar stamp set. This set is full of so many fun images & PTI keeps tempting me with all the...

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Stitched With Love 46

Hi There! Hope you all had a great weekend :) I was away with my family, boating on Lake Powell & visiting the Grand Canyon. I'll share those pics another day but today, I would like to share this card I made for this week's Friday Challenge 032: Color over at the JustRite Stampers Blog.Sharon is challenging all of us stampers to ink up ANY of our JustRite stamps & create a project referring to this gorgeous Fall color palette for inspiration.These...

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with Love...WMSC11 68

Hi There! Thanks so much to all who played along with last week's Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge! So many fabulous projects! Here today with an all new sketch:Rather than making a card, I made a lil' home decoration wall hanging for my dear sister, Tina who takes care of my fur babies while I am out of town using the new Spellbinders™ Grand Nestabilities® LF-114 Grand Circles and LF-124 Grand Scalloped Circles die templates.I had so much fun...

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Fun In The Sun 47

Hi There! Here today to share a layout featuring photos of my daughter, Angie from a Summer trip that we had taken 7 years ago to Lake Powell, AZ when she was 13 years old! Time sure does fly... We have not visited Lake Powell since the trip with Angie BUT the ironic thing is, my hubby, step-kids & I are making the road trip to this amazing place this weekend!For sketch inspiration, I joined along in the fun with the My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge...

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Season's Greetings 37

Happy Wednesday! I have been having making Christmas cards - have you started yet? I have another one to share today using the Christmas Past Collection from Graphic 45.This week over at the create blog, Paige has challenged all of us paper-crafters to create some handmade flowers so I pulled out the Spellbinders™ S4-219 Nested Poinsettias die templates & made a lil' Poinsettia to showcase on my card. For sketch inspiration, I played along with...

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