Ewe Make Me Smile

Good Morning...well, it has gone from me sitting at a ballgame in the steaming 95 degree heat on Saturday to a very chilly today. It is supposed to be a high of 65 today. All this came after many inches of rain from Tropical Depression Lee hitting my area this past weekend. I was so thankful to get the rain as we have been very dry.

This week the Tuesday Throwdown team was supplied with some wonderful digis from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamp & More. The challenge #65  is 3 patterned papers, 2 buttons, and one ribbon.  I love sheep so I immediately chose this cutie called Love Ewe.

I used some nestabilities to frame my sheep and made my clouds by using a circle scallop nestabilitie I cut in half and sponged around the edge of the scallop for the clouds. Of course, if you have a punch that is scalloped, you can do the same. Colored the image with Copics,  punched a little butterfly in a third dp, popped up my panel and that finished it. I love that smile. :-)

Hope you'll come along and join us this week.

Recipe:
Stamps: Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More-Love Ewe
Ink: For clouds-Memento Sea Breeze
Paper: The butterfly is from s.e.i dsp and the other is unknown, SU  Real Red cardstock
Accessories: grosgrain ribbon by Celebrate It!, Spellbinder circle scallop for clouds, Martha Stewart classic butterfly punch, Spellbinders nested pennants for sentiment, misc. green buttons , computer generated sentiment, Spellbinders circle scallops for frame

Stampin' B's-Poppies

I absolutely love poppies and this one is by Mark's Finest Papers called Poppies, Poppies, Poppies. This week Emily is hostess for the Stampin' B's Design Team and asked that we use a clip or pin of any kind. I made my stick pin with beads from Jo-Ann Stores. My card is really easy to make. I used an embossing folder from Sizzix called ornate frames. I colored my poppies with Copics and cut out and colored one extra to pop up at the top. I finished with a ribbon and, of course, the stick pin.

Hope you'll join us this week.

Recipe:
Stamps:Mark's Finest Papers-Poppies, Poppies, Poppies
Paper: PTI white cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Beads from Jo Ann Stores, Celebrate It! ribbon

A Rose is a Rose

This week at Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Blog Challenge #133, Silke issued the challenge and  it is all about Bingo. That happens to be my favorite kind of challenge with so many choices.

I decided to go with the top, right row going down to the bottom left...a shaped card, pearls, and a charm. I'm using  the June Rose from A Year of Flowers 2
stamp set. They are all so wonderful for coloring. My card shape is from Spellbinders Grand Labels Four  and cut with the Grand Calibur. 

Short and sweet post today...have a hair appointment...rush, rush.

Recipe:
Stamps-Flourishes A Year in Flowers 2 stamp set
Paper: PTI white cardstock, DCWV The Mariposa Stack
Accessories: pearl swirl, brass open center heart charm from Mark's Finest Papers, white ribbon, Spellbinders Grand Labels Four, Grand Calibur

Delft Tile

Yesterday's Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers was Lydia Fielder aka Understandblue. She is Community Manager of SCS. She also has talent and a wonderful gallery of cards to case. I chose this card.
I remember when she made her card and I loved her adorable shamrocks. Mine aren't shamrocks but kind of a little Fall flower.

 My card is made from a delft tile tutorial found  in resources on SCS. Lydia used a heart punch to make her shamrocks and I'm using a Spellbinders Shapeabilities die called Contemporary Hearts.
I cut out the hearts, scored each one and turned over for placing. I stamped my background after cutting out my paper and scoring the tiles. Sponging around the tiles was next. I added my flowers, gold brads, twine for stems, a sentiment and called it finished. It was fun and easy tutorial from Julie Warner.

Entering challenges:
Stamps R Us Challenge Blog-Anything Goes
Paper Creations Ink-Show Us Your Flowers
Jellypark Friends Friday Challenges-Use die and or/punches

Recipe:
Stamps-Inkadinkado (no name),  Mark's Finest Papers -Blackberries, Sunflowers, and Bees
Paper: PTI white cardstock, ColorMates medium desert dune, Darker cs is  ColorMatesTerracotta (I think)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa and Desert Sand
Accessories: Spellbinders Shapeabilities Contemporary Hearts, Mark Richards gold metal brads, Spellbinder circle and circle scalloped nesties for sentiment, twine

Gina Giraffe Has an Attitude

This week at Tuesday Throwdown -challenge #64, we are sponsored by Digis With Attitude.  I am using a Zoo-A-Tude called Gina Giraffe. We are supposed to do punny sentiment for our challenge. Well, mine isn't so punny but it is what I came up with. :-)

My card is rather simple. I used some safari paper, twine, and resurrected some old sticker brads. Gosh, I must have had those for about three years or more..glad to get to use them. My cloud is cut out of designer paper and I've used some twine, brads and a nestabilitie.

Hope you'll come up with something punny and join us.


Recipe:
Stamps: Digis With Attitude-Gina Giraffe
Paper: PTI white cardstock, Bo Bunny Zoology Collection, Stampin'Up! Welcome Neighbor dsp pad
Accessories: Cappuccino twine, Spellbinders scalloped rectangle nestabilitie, Mark Richards gold metal brads, sticker brads

Christmas Joy

Another Friday, a new Queen crowned on Splitcoaststampers and it is Linda aka Holstein. She has a gallery full of beautiful cards, so many white on white. I almost did that but had to add some red. :-) This is the card I cased. http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1939183?&cat=500&ppuser=144590
I mostly kept her sketch. I wanted to do a Christmas card today as I started thinking last night just how close it is and how many cards I need to make.

I love this Cuttlebug embossing folder called Flurries. All I had to do was add a ribbon, a bit of scoring, and some gemstones, along with my sentiment from Mark's Finest Papers called Snowman Country (stamped 3 times).



Recipe:
Stamps: Mark's Finest Papers-Snowman Country
Paper: PTI white
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Spellbinders circle and circle scallop nestie, Cuttlebug embossing folder-Flurries, Celebrate It! holiday ribbon, red rhinestones, Scor-Pal

Stay Warm!!!!

A SNOWMAN....yea!!!! If you know me, you know I love a snowman. I gave the challenge #125 this week as hostess of the Stampin' B's Design Team and it is to make an easel, round or whichever way you prefer. When I started to make it, I hit upon the idea of doing a snowman. Well, it was all fun from there. Although, if I did it over, I would probably put the snowman on top as he is a bit large and I had to stand the top  straight up almost to show him off, leaving off the stop. I love him, anyway. I used a Flourishes stamp set called Warm Winter Wishes and I love this paper from Daisy Bucket-dbl sided All the Trimmings.
Rest of recipe below.

If you've never tried an easel, you can find the instructions on Splitcoaststampers in the resource section.
It is easy and makes a fun card.

Challenges entered:
Stamps R Us Challenge Blog-Anything Goes
Christmas Inspirations #31-Clean and Simple Christmas theme
Christmas Card Challenge #38-Glitter (on my snowflake, berries and  around bottom of snowman)

Recipe:

Stamps: Flourishes-Warm Winter Wishes
Paper: Stampin'Up! Real Red cardstock, Daisy Bucket-All the Trimmings (dbl-sided)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Spellbinders circle nestabilitie, Copics, star embellishment, Cuttlebug, Red and Star Dust Stickles

Celebrating Flourishes 4th Birthday!!!! Blog Hop/Challenges

Flourishes is lighting the candles and getting ready to sing to honor their fourth birthday! And, as a way to celebrate, I’m happy to say I was hand-picked to help them have a bit of a party as a designer for their customer appreciation hop! The only challenge here was to create a card or project using my favorite Flourishes stamp set. Read on – I’ll tell you how you can win some Flourishes goodies too!

I love this Flourishes morning glory from the set called A Year in Flowers 2 .  When I was a young girl growing up at my parent's home, the morning glories grew wild and were so gorgeous. I think the wild kind are called bindweed (same family) but look the same to me. It is always good to find stamps that brings back memories of your childhood. You can think about those days as you create your card.
And, for a cute reason I love morning glories--sometimes when I get up in the morning and hubby is already up, I enter the room and he will say, "Morning, Glory". No, Glory is not my name, but I think it is very sweet and always reminds me of the morning glory flower. :-)

My Flourishes sentiment is from the Friendly Reminders set. It was just perfect for the Sizzix die cut I used. I'm always finding great sentiments with my Flourishes sets.

The rest of my recipe is below.

What can you win? Take a peek at this fun and festive blog candy!

If you’d like to learn more about how you can win all of these stamp sets, just click HERE to read up on today’s hop and challenge! 

If you arrived here by way of Theresa Winslow, then you are on the right path! If I was your first stop, you'll want to go back to the Flourishes Blog and start this hop from the very beginning! You have until Sept. 1st at 5 PM CST to enter!

Next on the hop: Rosemary Dennis

There are three ways to win. Check it out. Have fun!!!!!!!!!

Recipe:
Stamps: Flourishes-A Year in Flowers 2 set, Flourishes Friendly Reminders
Paper: PTI white cardstock, Stampin'Up! Old Olive cardstock, PTI black cardstock, Moxie double-sided dp (Houndstooth and Sr. Year)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Spellbinders peony die, Sizzix flower, holiday (Sentiment), RibbonFX-grey blue, Cuttlebug textile embossing folder, button from Jo Ann Stores, Sizzix vine die cut 

So Kind, So Thoughtful!.......So CAS

This week at Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge #132, Cindy Haffner wants us to showcase our sentiments. I have a new one that I just love and the font is sooo pretty. I went very CAS with my card this week and I'm using the  With Gratitude stamp set.

My dp is DCWV- The Mariposa Pack- and I've used the Spellbinders Shapeabilities Floral Doily Motif die.
My small, cameo-type, green roses are by Recollections.

This may be the easiest card I've ever made......and I really like it.

Entering :
Papertake Weekly Challenge-Dies to Die For!

Dimension and Texture

The challenge at Tuesday Throwdown #63 is dimension and textures. This week MY GRAFICO supplied the design team with some digital images to work with. I chose Garden Tools from the Pretty Primitive stamp set. The cute flowers are my Stampin'Up! paper. I stamped, colored, and cut out my pot and tools. The gloves are paper pieced. I'm using a Martha Stewart punch called Flower Patch. The rest of my recipe is below.

It is a busy week for me. Be sure to check back Wednesday to see what I'm up to...something good!!!

Challenges entered:
Just Some Lines-wet or dry embossing (used a Sizzix embossing folder for bg)
Digi Design House-dry emboss


Recipe:
Digital Images from My Grafico-Garden Tools
Paper: Stampin'Up! Kraft and Chocolate Chip, Stampin'Up! Sweet Pea dsp stack
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: Copics, Sizzix embossing folders- Fall Set-Branches w/leaves, Martha Stewart border punch-Flower Patch, unknown corner punch