Another Virginia's View!

Happy Friday!

It's a happier Friday than normal because at 4:00pm today, I will officially be on a 9-day break from work! Yay! :)

It's also time for Virginia's View #3, at the Lily Pad Cards blog! For this challenge, we're sponsored by Stamps of Life. They sent me the cutest stamp set called, Flowers 2 Share. It's so full of sweet images and sentiments! I took a photo of it so you can see what it looks like. Such a fun set!


Are ya ready for bright, cute and fun? I hope so! Here's the inspiration photo from Virginia:

Don't ya just love all the colors? I was not only inspired by the bright colors, but also by all the wonderful rows of buttons!

I started to play with this set and could not stop! I made 4 or 5 cards, but won't bore you with all of them. Here's just a couple.

I don't know why, but for some reason Virginia's photo made me think of bright, colorful stripes. So, I not only added different stripes with colored cardstock, I found myself adding stripes to the vase too, which is paper pieced and adhered over the stems of the stamped flowers and leaves. The floral images look a bit like buttons too, don't they?




For my second card, I wanted to mimic the rows of buttons, so I used the smaller floral image, stamped it several times to create three rows, then used lots and lots of different colors. So fun!



Okay, okay, I just have to share one more card. This one was done strictly for fun. (and because I have way too many buttons!)

Hee, hee! I know it would take a bit more money to mail this one, but I giggled through the entire gluing process, (it's the little things that make me happy) and I will hand deliver this to a friend at work. I know she'll get a kick out of it!

So head on over to the Lily Pad Cards blog and join in all the colorful fun! You can read the details of this new challenge and see how the rest of the design team was inspired by Virginia's View!

Thanks for stopping by today! If anyone is interested, there is another Hero Arts scramble tomorrow, (Saturday 3-17) hosted by Donna! Click here to read about it.

I'm excited because it's suppose to be sunny and 77 degrees today and tomorrow - that's unheard of around here in March, and I love it! (Last year at this time we had several feet of snow on the ground - what a switch!) Have a fabulous weekend and Happy St. Patrick's Day to all who celebrate! :)

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #43

Hi!

I wanted to share a card today for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge.


We're suppose to focus this week on the sentiment, and after seeing Virginia's card here, I just had to play along! Ya see, I won some goodies in a blog giveaway she had awhile back. Of course, because it was Virginia, you can guess there were SRM stickers included - perfect for this challenge! Thanks, Virginia! :)

Here's my card:


I used some patterned paper from a BasicGrey 6x6 pad, a butterfly punch, some twine and a pearl. Very simple, with the focus on the SRM sticker sentiments.

Be sure to stop back here on Friday, when I'll have a couple of cards to share for the next Virginia's View challenge at Lily Pad Cards. You're gonna LOVE this one!

Thanks for the visit! Have a good week! :)

So glad it's Friday!

Hi there!

Just a quick post today to show you a simple card made with Hero Arts' Butterfly Flowers stamp. I stamped the image a couple of times on my main panel before coloring it with markers. Then I added a few dots with a white gel pen. I decided to put the sentiment on the inside of the card.



I've been so busy this week! What is it about the month of March? For some reason, life just seems to get crazy! If I haven't visited your blog lately, I apologize, and hope to get back to a more normal schedule later this month. Big day at work today. It's the dreaded inventory! I will be counting every, little thing in the floral department. Not my favorite thing to do, but. . . .

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and thanks so much for stopping by! :)

Another Fun 90-Minute Scramble!

Happy Saturday, Friends!

I had a fun afternoon today, playing in the Hero Arts 90-Minute Scramble! It was hosted this time by the talented Sue McRae, and she gave us a theme of using at least three inchies on our cards - so fun! I happened to have some pink and pool colored paper sitting on my craft desk, so that's what I used for my inchies. I decided to do lots of white embossing too!



I embossed different butterfly images and scripts onto the inchies and also embossed the Large Plaid Pattern in the background. (You can click on the photo for a better view.)

I want to thank Sue for such a fun scramble! She had an amazing turn out with 38 of us playing! There were even a few people who created two cards in that short amount of time!

I thought it was time to add a pretty header to my blog - been without one for awhile now, and I am SO ready for spring and flowers! If I can't see them outside yet, I can at least enjoy looking at them here on my blog, and I LOVE Gerbera Daisies! Hope ya don't mind all the pink!

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! :)

A New Color Challenge at Lily Pad Cards!

Happy Friday!

I love Fridays, don't you?! Can't wait to get home from work later today, knowing that I have Saturday off! Such a great feeling to know I'll have some more crafty time soon! There is also another 90-Minute Scramble, hosted by Sue McRae, so I'm excited for that!

Today I'm sharing my design team card for the new color challenge at Lily Pad Cards. Here are the soft, pretty colors Kathy has chosen for this month. It may be a bit difficult to see here, with my blog background color, but the one on the left is a very light pink and, as you can see, the other two are lovely neutrals.


We are sponsored this month by Purple Onion Design! They have some wonderful stamps, including the ones I've used on my card today. It's a set of four lovely butterflies. Here's what I created, using all four.

I first tried stamping the butterflies with a few different pinks and neutrals, but didn't like the way any of the colors looked, so I decided to white emboss them on neutral paper.

The paper is from a 6x6 pack from BasicGrey called, Basics Kraft and the sentiment is from the, "Say It All" clear set, from Hero Arts - (love the font!)

Wait until you see the rest of the design team's cards! They are so awesome, and will inspire you to join in this challenge, I'm sure! So stop over at the Lily Pad Cards blog, where you can read the details and play along! Can't wait to see what everyone creates using these pretty colors!

Thanks for the visit! Hope you all have a happy weekend with some crafty time! :)

Glittery Heart Flower

Hello!

Have ya seen the little stickers from Doodle Bug Design called, "Doodle Pops?" They are so colorful, so sweet and each one has glitter, which I love! The best part is, they only cost $1.49 each. The worst part is, I tend to buy lots of them at a time! I've given some away with my blog candy, and in my prize pack for the scramble I hosted a couple of weeks ago, but I also tend to hoard them. I've decided it's time I create a card using the adorable, glittery, heart flower.


I die cut the oval, and before removing the die, I shaded the edges with Spun Sugar Distress Ink. The wide, black ribbon was recycled from a gift I had received ages ago, and the sentiment is from Hero Arts. It was fun creating a card with hardly any stamping and no coloring - quick and easy, and I can always use another thank you card.

So, the weather folks around here have been talking about this big winter storm heading toward Minnesota tomorrow and Wednesday. They first thought we were going to get totally dumped on, but it looks like most of the snow will fall to the north of the Twin Cities, thank goodness! It will still be scary driving the next couple of days because it's suppose to be a mix of snow, sleet, ice and even rain at times - what a strange winter we've had! We may even hear a clap of thunder sometime in the afternoon tomorrow, and then on Wednesday, it'll be turning back into snow again! Crazy weather! Anyway, I will be driving very carefully to work and back the next couple of days - wish me luck!

I know I always say this, but thank you for stopping by my blog! I really DO appreciate it! :)

Kissing Technique Challenge at Lily Pad Cards!

Hey there, everyone!

Happy Friday! We've got a brand new challenge over at Lily Pad Cards, and it's sponsored by Simon Says Stamp!




The challenge this time is all about kissing! You know. . . . .that fun technique that gives such a cool effect! I love this technique and don't do it often enough, so let's get right to the card I created.


I used the pretty cling stamp from Hero Arts called, Flower Bird Garden, inked it with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, then kissed it with the Hero Arts Music Background, which was inked with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. Then I stamped it on my paper and colored in the flowers and birds with markers.

I popped the panel onto a piece of textured, yellow cardstock, after adding the ribbon and sentiment tag.

So, what are ya waiting for?! Head on over to the pond to check out all the details of the challenge, and to see the wonderful cards from the rest of the DT. It's such a fun technique, I know you'll all want to play along!

Have a fun weekend! Thanks for coming by today - I so appreciate it!

Hugs and "KISSES!" (hee, hee!) :)