Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Beautiful Flower During a Snowstorm

Hi There!

I've been playing with a new stamp from Hero Arts called, Painted Flower. It's such a pretty stamp! I inked it up with their Cornflower, Mid-Tone Shadow Ink and a green marker for the stems and leaves. Love how it stamps to look like you've colored it with shading - so easy!


It's a fitting card for the way I'm feeling tonight - wishing for spring to come! We had quite the snowstorm last night, leaving us with close to a foot of wet, heavy snow. Hope the branches of my pine tree in the back yard don't snap in two!


My hubby used the snow blower to clear the driveway before heading to work this morning, but it continued to snow most of the day. The boys and I knew we'd have to do it again and headed outside later on. Well, the big city snow plow had come by to clear the street, and this is what it left for us at the bottom of our driveway!


 Look at those HUGE boulders! I know they are only doing their job, but come on!! And our snow blower will not get through that thick heavy stuff either, so we had to shovel all that by hand! ARG!!!!

After about an hour or so, with very sore muscles, here's what it looked like - whew!

 
Now you know one of the many reasons why I'm longing for spring! Hope it gets here soon!

Thanks for stopping by today - hope it's sunny and warm where you are! :)

Monday, February 25, 2013

CASE-ing Greta

Happy Monday!

I have a card to share today to help celebrate my friend, Greta's 1st year of blogging. She has asked us to CASE one of her cards from last year, and as I was looking through her blog posts, I decided instead to head over to her Flickr photostream. It was a faster way for me to view her beautiful cards. When I found this gorgeous snowflake card, I knew right away it was the one

 
Here is my take:



With warmer weather (hopefully) on the way soon, I thought it would be fun to take her wintery card and create a more spring-like one! 

After finishing, I realized Greta had not actually blogged about her card, so I sure hope it's okay that I CASED this one!

Thanks for the fun challenge, Greta! And big congrats on your one year blogiversary! :)

Thanks for stopping by - enjoy your week!