spring has sprung

Here a spring card for you. I love how this card turned out. The image is another creation drawn by my hubby. You can have this file if you want it just leave me a comment with your email addy. I hope your all having a good day. I am going out to lunch with a friend and doing some shopping/browsing. Have a creative day.

Kellie blog candy so sweet

Do you see all that stamping fun on the left that what the blog candy is over at kellie blog. It takes just a blog post to enter. You have until the 25th. So go check her out she got a lot of sweetness to look at. Here the link

Butterfly wedding card

Hubby has been drawing again this time he drew me this adorable butterfly i was very happy with it. Papers are from dcwv la creme stack. Sentiment if from unity stamp company. Butterfly is hand drawn by my husband. Hope you enjoy my card. Don;t forget to go vote for my team over at the greeting farm details in the post below.

tgf royal battle has begun

Voting has begun for this fablous contest over at the greeting farm. The card in this post is the project for my team sassy lassies. You get 3 votes/comments. If you love our project and think we should go on to week two please go vote for us. You an find the entry over on the greeting farm site in the gallery. Here a link to the gallery for this contest here
Thanks for voting.

sugar bowl sketch choose your own

On the sugar bowl challenge blog you get to choose your own sketch from all of the past sketches they done. It took me a bit to decide but i love all the layers on sketch 29 so that the one i went with. It was really windy and cloudy out today so i choose to go with a very spring feeling card. Hopefully this will make things a little less gloomy. Daisy sure seems to be enjoying her day dreaming among all the pink. If you like to try your hand and ink up your sugar nellie check out the sugar bowl here

Sassy lassies greeting farm challenge

The first challenge for the battle of the teams. I volunteered to go first for my team sassy lassies. I was very nervous making my project but i think it turned out fablous and my team is very happy with it. But i am keeping it a secret tell we are closer to voting day. Like to keep a leg up on the competion so to speak. But on sunday you all my faithful followers need to go the greeting farm gallery and vote for the project. I make sure to have a link in my project post. You get three votes. Here crossing my fingers that we make it through to the next round. For all the info on this contest check out the greeting farm blog here

whif of joy challenge 72 sketch time

This week challenge for whiff of joy is to use a whiff of joy image and bevs sketch. I paired willow with basket with a piece of mariposa dcwv paper. I used a mixture of reds, pinks and greens. I think it turned out great. If you want to try out the sketch check it out here

friday sketchers 94

For this weeks friday sketchers i decided to ink up my new whimsy carousel horse spring stepping. I went some spring colors and some scraps of cardstock and only one pattern that i thought mixe in well the color scheme. If you want to try you hand at the sketch head over to the friday sketchers blog here
Have a creative day.

karens doodles fancy fold

Karens doodles is now hosting several different challenge blogs. This one is for the united states challenge which is do a fancy fold with a karen doodles. I used special delivery and my fancy fold is joy card. I think he is just so adorable with his little box of candy on his back. If you like to enter the challenge get all the info here.
Have a great day.

Whimsy stamps proud mama

Whimsy stamps has released another group of really pretty carousel horses. I am sharing a card with the new stamp proud mama. I used my copics and then added some stickles to the ribbon and the babies halter. I added some ribbon and some papers from stampin up. I hope you enjoy my card. Have a great day.

Hubby first digital stamp

My husband dabbles in drawing. He drew this adorable little flower in a sketch book and then he scanned into the computer and cleaned it up and i inserted into word and printed it out colored it up with my copics. I think it makes a darling digital stamp. If you would like to have my hubby digital stamp for free just let me know in the comments and i will send it your way. Have a great day.

clearly delightful challenge

I am always on the lookout for new challenges and i found one that new to me. Over on the clearly delightful blog laurie wilson hosts a challenge for two weeks and all entrants get a free digital stamp set and then one lucky winner will win a prize package of some goodies. She drawn some cute frogs for this month and the challenge is a sketch. You can use any stamps any products. So hop on over and check it out here. You have tell the 19th of march to enter.

a st patty birthday card

Hubby best friend needed a birthday card for his sister. I don't do a lot of st patty type of stuff cause it just not a holiday that inspires cards for me. So i had to hunt around cause i have small shamrocks and stuff but i was like that not going to cut it. So i checked around for some digital stamps and i found this gem for free. If you want to know where i got it i can hunt the company name down for you. Anyway don't forget your green and maybe you'll have some luck today.

bells and whistles challenge

Bells and whistles stamp company is gearing up for a new release. For a fun release party challenge summer wants to know where the bells and whistles stamps live. So i took a photo of my favorite stamp cupcake hanging out with my kitty fluffy. Since cupcake has a kitty hanging out with her. I hope you enjoy this peak into my where my bells and whistles stamps live. If you want to show of your bells and whistles home check out the challenge here

cupcake kind of day

Its friday and its very cloudy and cold out so i decided i need a bright and cheerful kind of card to post on my blog today. So i give bells and whistles cupcakes paired with basic grey orgins paper. I used browns and yellows with a touch of red. Hope you like it.

copic color challenge

Over on the copic color challenge blog we are challenged to us w7, bg96, and c-7. The best i could do was w7-bg75 and c1. I choose to use the free digi kitty from motivet stamps and i paired it with the sc271 sketch. If you want to get your color on check out the challenge here

copic color green challenge

Over on copic creations the theme is all about coloring with our green copics. I loved the sc271 sketch so i used my elisabeth bell digi patty cake and use greens and blue copics with a hint of brown. I think it turned out cute. If you want to get your green on with your copics check out the challenge here

stvscvd01 gina k sketch

Over on stamptv.com there are several gina k challenges that you can particpate in. I am pretty sure on most you don't have to have gina k stamps you just get a extra entry if you use them. This cute baby card is for the sketch challenge that was issued last thursday deadline for this challenge is tonight. It a pretty simple sketch so hope over to stamptv.com and get sketchy with gina k. Have a great day.

a scrapbook page

This scrapbook page has been in the works for a while. I started it moved things around probably half a dozen times but i always got stuck and had to put it away. A good friend of mine is offering up a prize for her scrapbook challenge. I thought well maybe i can complete that page today. So i unearthed it stared at it put it away took it out again and finally i got somewhere. I love how it finally turned out. The pictures are of me and my younger sister back in our younger years. I like doing pages from my child hood lets me reflect on how i changed and grown. If you want to the scrapbook challenge there is a sketch to try if you want to. Great prize a stampin up celebration punch. So get your scrap on and check out my dear friend shaela challenge right here.

greeting farm a new crop of stamps

I got my new crop of greeting farm stamps oliver and amelia. I made 3 cards with them last night.




My first card shows olive with his pet dinosaurs. I used basic grey orgins paper and my friends sab punch for my border. Added some ribbon and colored him with copic markers.













My second card features oliver again this time i added the sab border on the left and used some of scraps and nesties to make a very simple card.














My 3rd and final card shows off amelia and she is dressed up in her fun dress and necklace just looking like the most darling little girl. I used some scraps and colored her with copics as well. I hope you like my simple oliver and amelia cards.

ginak inspire 13 challenge

This week challenge on stamp tv for gina k inspiration is to create a diamond background. You can use your embossing folders, scor pal whatever as long you have a diamond background. I used my scor pal and the gina k wings of hope stamp set. If you want to particpate you can get all the details on stamptv.com Have a scrappy day.

copic color challenge 54

I hopped on to blogger this morning and found that elisabeth had released her lastest digital stamp. Of course i raced over to her blog and snatched it up. I then had to decide what to do with this sweet image. I checked out the copic color challenge. The three colors this week are bg15, b93, and y21. I only had one of those colors so the closest i have is b93, bg34, and y15. I hope you like what i came up with for this sweet image and color challenge. If you want to partcipate in the copic color challenge you can find all the details here.

Yellow birthday

I have quite a few march birthdays in my family and a few friends that celebrate this month to. So for one of those lucky people they are getting this very cherry birthday card. I love yellow and thought what woudl be better then making a card in yellow with my favorite bells and whistles card. It nice a cherry and since it yellow they will surley know i made it. I did it as an easel card so it can be displayed on a mantel or coffee table. Hope you all have a great day.

sugar bowl #30 shabby chic

This is my card for the sugar bowl challenge. We were to follow a sketch, use a sugar nellie image and included shabby chic. I did some distressing on the edges of my card and then i sanded down the yellow cardstock. I colored daisy with my copics and the pattern papers are from basic grey orgins. I never done shabby chic so i hope i pulled it off. If you want to participate you can find all the details here