From Our Nest

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Who can believe May is here already? It really doesn't seem like it because it has been a cool, rainy Spring. Rain, rain, go away...I want to work in my yard and it seems to be so ugly on weekends when hubby is home to help. Hmmm....is he ordering that rain? LOL

Shirley Quarry is our hostess for the month of May at CCEE Stampers and is bringing us some fun challenges. This week's challenge is Make it Shimmer. As you can see, or maybe you can't, I have shimmer on the center of my flowers. That is gold Stickles and I must say they aren't shimmering much in the photo, but they are looking pretty good in real life. I also put glossy accents for a bit more shimmer on the bird's yellow wings...not showing at all. Sorry.

I did have fun coloring my image which is a digi from Digital Two for Tuesday, taken from The Buddy Magazine. I tried to make my birds look like male and female red winged black birds. After coloring, I sponged around the image in blue.

We hope you'll join us this week and let your card shimmer and sparkle. Just add your card with the inlinkz tool. Happy stamping!

My card is entered into The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge-Free for All
Linking to the Simon Says Stamp challenge blog-Happy Mail (Just because- to make someone happy-no specific occasion)

Recipe:
Stamps-Digital Two for Tuesday, Sentiment is Our Daily Bird Designs/Nest set
Paper-PTI white cardstock, black cardstock from Hobby Lobby, unknown scrap of dp
Ink- Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Aegean Blue
Accessories-Gold Stickles, Copics, Glossy Accents

SCS QFTD111

The new QFTD was announced on Splitcoaststampers and it is none other than Betty Wright aka gbedwright. Wow! What a gallery and it is a bit intimidating to try to case one of her cards. Here is why....isn't that beautiful? Her work is beautiful and her photography is awesome.

To learn more about this and other images from Digital Two for Tuesday, see my last card done with one of them.
http://benzistampz.blogspot.com/2012/04/flowers-in-vase.html

I am entering this card into the challenge at Tuesday Throwdown -In the Garden

Recipe:
Stamps-Digital Two for Tuesday- Bright -Eyed Coreopsis, Sweet 'n' Sassy Stamps/Poppies and Greetings (Sentiment)
Paper-PTI white cs, Black cardstock from Hobby Lobby, Designer Paper is Mimosa daiquiri
Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories-Martha Stewart Iron Gate punch, Button, Seam Binding (I dyed black), Copics

Edit: Ooh, la, la....I see Lydia over at SCS put this on Facebook today. I love when she does that.

Flowers in Vase

This week's challenge from Cindy Haffner for the CCEE Stampers is to use pink, black, and white. I sure do like that combination. My sister gave me this awesome site for digital images. It is Digital Two for Tuesday and has the most beautiful, vintage images. I was on Leslie Miller's blog, Running With Scissors and she said the author of that blog searches for the vintage images in catalogs, books, and magazines where the copyright has expired. She said she scans them, cleans them up,  and then lets us use them as digital images. I love this one and it is from an 1896 Burpee Book. How awesome is that!

Hope you'll check out the rest of the team's beautiful cards and join us with your card.

Recipe:
Stamps: Digital Two for Tuesday
Paper: PTI white cardstock, Stampin'Up! Pretty in Pink
Memento: Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Copics