Get Well Sunflowers and MMTPT101

This is my card for the CC today at SCS: saffron, razz., baja, and grid for dessert. I had no Baja, so went with a nice medium blue.

This card will go to Sue (bensarmom) who had hip replacement on July 2nd. Sue, mend soon!!

I love this sunflower from Blackberries, sunflowers, and bees by Mark's Finest Papers. I painted the flower, used the out of the box technique for the top nestie, and added ribbon and brads. I hope you like it. The sentiment is from Apples and Camellia, a sneak peek of one of the four new sets to be released by MFP next week. We'll be having a Blog Hop to introduce them.

I think today is going to be a total loss. I woke up sneezing, and have gone through half a box of kleenex, sneezing and honking! Must be from sleeping with the AC on in the bedroom. How else could we get any sleep????? Maybe I should make MYSELF a get well card!LOL! Have a great day.

Well, I'm back with my MMTPT101 card. Please go to the SCS gallery for the deets. I'm feeling worse by the minute.......gotta take something for this yucky feeling!!

White paper posie!

This card is for the two Monday challenges at SCS.....the Technique and Clean and Simple.

How so not fair to start the morning looking at beautiful cakes, and wanting to start with a slice or two for breakfast!!

This flower, as per the requirements is hand made. My fingers are all sticky! I love the white on white, and love making these flowers, but I have never sent one through the mail for fear of them being crushed. I need to hand deliver a wedding card to the girl across the street, so this will be easy!

Thanks for looking . Have fun, enjoy the summer day, and I'll be visiting your blogs later.

Keeping the Green

Today the Featured Stamper is cookiebaker (Charlene). She has a wonderful tailored style, and a fabulous gallery. I got to the third entry uploaded, and went with that one.

Here is Charlene's card I cased. I flipped the layout, added corner interest, and changed the image. I kept the wonderful green ribbon, and the single simple image.

Congratulations!! I hope you like what I did with your card. Happy 4th of July, Charlene, and to all of you too!

Swimming Swan

The Speedy's Friends challenge #10 this week is to use die cuts. Bless those Nesties and CB! How did we ever do without them!

It's also for the IC239 at SCS today. You can check out my gallery to see the deets.

For Speedy's challenge, please join us at

Mark's Finest Papers Blog where you can win a free stamp set......and they are ALL fabulous, as you know.

Have a fun weekend with friends and family. Ours arrive in less than two hours, so...gotta run!

A Star and some Gold!

The challenge today is to use a star and some gold. I decided to make a star card, as I have never done much with shaped cards. I used my trusty ruler, and it came out great.

The only stamping was the sentiment, from Mark's finest Papers set, Butterflies Dianthus and Flourishes.

The gold is embossed floral vine paper from the Paper Co., and the sticker butterfly from K & Co.

Happy Fourth of July! Mom is coming this AM, big family party tomorrow!!

America!

The challenge today at SCS is to make a 4th of July card with NO RED or blue. Easy.

Just not for me!! You know how I love RED! Here's a story that will make you laugh............ when I first made this card, I used my wonderful cloud template, and used caribbean blue to make the sky. Then I added the purple mountains, and was glueing it down, and realized what I had done. NO BLUE!! Back to the old drawing board!!

This image is a sneak peek from Mark's Finest Papers that will debut in August, called Regal and Proud. Be sure to watch for it.......it's fabulous!!

Please take a look below at my entry for the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge. That one is in the REAL 4th of July colors!!!

DDIC #31

HERE is the link to the picture that Lori, our Fearless Leader chose to give us for inspiration this time.

I just loved all the Patriotic colors, and what a group of wonderful items to include for Labor day, or for the 4th of July, which is a bit closer.

The blue containers, white branches, and the white background with the RED flower was very intriguing to me. You know, of course, how much I love anything RED!, so that can't be a surprise.

Here is my card. The blue dp shows up a little darker than it really is. It's exactly the same color as the centers of the Hero Arts flower. The stem is embossed in white, to compare to the branches in the picture. I added a row of punching at the bottom, in circles, like the life preserver, and kept that theme with the RED buttons.

Please feel free to join us, and be sure to check the entries of the DT. You can find their blogs on my sidebar. See you in two weeks!

SYmpathy with Dianthus

I am just in love with this beautiful flower, the dianthus, from Mark's Finest Paper. The set is called Butterflies, Dianthus, and Flourishes.

This is for the sketch challenge at SCS today. Obviously, I need a nice sympathy card for one of DH's best friends who lost his mother.

I love this color combination, as you all well know, and am pleased with how this turned out.

Have a wonderful day. I'm off to join a good friend for lunch!!

CC277, MMTPT100, The End

For two challenges, the CC, and MMTPT. I really like this combination of colors, and would never have thought of putting these together. I hope you like how I did it.

For MMTPT100, with apologies to EVERYONE!!

Silly Sydney has some power
On her board she has a flower.
She just needs Kahuna Kai,
And some surf, and that's no lie!

Silly Sydney hates his bud,
Thinks Moondoggie's just a dud ...
Surfin' surfin' all the day,
Always in the couple's way.

Silly Sydney wants some space
When she kisses K.Kai's face.
Tells Moondoggie "three's a crowd,
Get a life, fer cryin' out loud!"

Silly Sydney's got Kai now
(batted her lashes - she knew how!)
Fixed HIS friend up with HER friend.
Now the foursome's fine. The End.

This is what happens when you wake up with a migraine at 4 AM, then have to drive an hour to a funeral, have dinner there, and have a glass of wine, drive to the grocery store to stock up for a party on Saturday, put away the food after making the hamburgers, then look at the Teapot challenge. Maybe I should just go back to bed!!

A quick report on yesterday.......DH and I met Julia (artystamper) and her DH for dinner. We yakked for two hours, and hated to see the time fly by so fast. I hope they will be at our party on Saturday, but I have warned Julia about my addiction...er....craft room. I just hope her heart is strong enough for what a mess she will see!! Hugs to you all, especially Julia and Kent!!

A YAY! and a *boo*

Here are the cards I made for the challenges at Splitcoast today. The flower card is done with a technique called Pounded Flowers, and they are real flowers literally pounded and crushed to give off the colors they possess. I started with a bright RED Bee Balm, but the colors came out pink. Strange. I really expected RED! The sets I used for this card were Believe in You, and a sneak peek of a July set called Flourishes and Frame from Mark's Finest Papers.

The second card is for the CAS, to use celery, blue, and pumpkin. I used MFP sets Ferns and Chickadees, Ladybugs and Carnation, and Speedy the Cat's Friends.

Now the Yay and *boo* - DH and I have to go to a wake today for the mother of one of our oldest friends. She was in her 90's, and very ill. A blessing. After the calling hours comes the YAY! We are meeting up with Julia (artystamper) and her DH Kent, for dinner. I can't wait to see her again. This will be the first time our DH's will be with us. It should be great fun.

Speaking of great fun, I hope your day is full of it!!

Honoring Two Royals!

This week, Anne Ryan announced that the QFTD15 is none other than the fabulous Kittie Carrasciolo, kittie747 at SCS.


Kittie is such an amazing artist. I felt overwhelmed when I had to choose a card of hers to case. Her backgrounds defy description, and I am not worthy of trying to do what she does!! Here is my attempt to case her card here.

I changed the frog to a cat, the daisies to little punched flowers, and made an A2 card instead of a square. Kittie I hope you like what I have done with (or to) your card!

The Featured Stamper today on SCS is .....

.... Debbie Seyer, my MFPDT pal!! How cool is that!! Debbie has such a clean and fabulous style! I kept her wonderful layout, but changed the color and image.

I hope you enjoy wearing the crown you so deserve, Debbie, and that you also enjoy all the honors heaped upon you this week!!!

Be sure to check out my gallery at SCS to see the card of Debbie's I cased, and to go from there to her amazing gallery. Have a great day!

A Three-fer!

Today I can play catch-up. This card is for three challenges I didn't have time to do when my DGS was here:

StampinB's #64 - Summer Fun

IC238 - The Bicycle Muse

Speedy's Friends #9 - 3 flowers

I used three sets from Mark's Finest Papers to make this card. The frame is inked with Background Fun, which will be released in July. The flowers are from the set called Butterflies, Dianthus, and Flourishes. The saying is from Ferns and Chickadee.

I hope you like my three-in-one for today. It's another beautiful morning. There will be a bunch of us enjoying the pool today, then to friends' Tom and Cheryl's for dinner. Have a great day, and thanks for looking.

Waffle Bowl

Today the challenge involves ice cream. Here, we like waffle bowls instead of cones. You can get more ice cream in them, and adding caramel syrup works really well. Of course the grands add everything else, and they get very gloppy, but yummy all the same.

I cut this out of paper, added some punches and a sizzix, and that's about it.....oh, and scoring to make the waffle texture.

We'll be making these today. It's a fabulously beautiful day for the pool. We'll be joined by some other members of the family to enjoy the slide and diving board, various pool toys, some reading, and some outside snacks. See you tomorrow. I'm off to play!!

THT055 Color Challenge by Gloria

It's TreeHouseThursday! Gloria Morizen has chosen to give us a color challenge: pink, moss, white, and one extra color.

As you can see, the extra color I chose is Black. The image of the flower and the sentiment, from the new set Embrace Life, is inked in black, and I added some black brads and ribbon.

I used my cb and Nesties Pinking Circles, sponging, watercoloring, and layering. The rose is popped up to give it a little more dimension.

You can find this set at TreehouseStamps, along with three other new sets. Please take a look at what the Design Team has done HERE, and be sure to add your project to Mr. Linky.

Belli Challenge #94

Today's Creative Belli Challenge is to make a Patriotic Card using the sketch here.

I think this sketch is really interesting, as everything seems to be happening at the bottom. It's a good opportunity to use small images or even inchies!

Here is the card I made for the challenge:

I used Provocraft and Metallic gold paper, in addition to white and RED, of course. The images of fireworks were markered and glittered with gold. I finished it off with an eagle charm on gold cord, and added some doodling.

Please join us HERE, and add your card to Mr. Linky. If you upload to SCS, please put CBC in your keyword. See you in two weeks with another challenge.

Two Challenges today...CC and Teaparty

I sure wish the colors of this card would photograph better. The apricot, amethyst, and suede are mush brighter IRL. I tried to get this better, but it just wouldn't work out. You'll have to use your imagination. The image is from MFP, a sneak peek of a July release, called Southwest Cowboy.





This card is already in my mailbox for my lettercarrier (How PC!) to take. It's going to my DGD Sam who is at horse camp for two weeks. I'm sending her a card a day, all horse related. I know she's having a BALL taking care of her horse for the whole time!











I also made a card for the MMTPT99 today. The story is really involved, so rather than bore you here, if you want to know why the card is so silly, you'll have to go to my gallery. The Teapot Tuesday cards are always related to a long and drawn-out story, and my DH thinks I'm as crazy as.....well ..... Mothermark! Here's the card.



Have a fun day. I'm off to look at your blogs!

TLC Never Again!!

Today, the TLC challenge is to make a card using the Magical Marquee Technique. I had never seen this before, and I will probably never do this again!! I spent more than 2 hours trying to get the pieces to fit. The directions were for a 5X5 card, and I wanted to make an A2. I couldn't figure out how this was put together, then I watched Jan Tink's video again, and saw what I had overlooked.

I like the results. I hope you do too. This one and only card will go to my Mom who will really appreciate what I went through to make it!! Have a great day!!

For Pam, our FS!

Today the FS at SCS is Pam Hooten (Iris). She has a wonderful gallery. I was truthfully unaware of her creations, but really enjoyed looking at what she has done.

I cased a card of a bicycle, but obviously changed the theme. I kept her easy layout, but changed most everything else. I hope she likes what I have done.

Happy father's Day to all the Dads out there. We are low-key today. All three kids have to be somewhere else ... one delivering a child to the airport early this afternoon, one delivering a child to camp far away, and one celebrating with an in-law. Mom went home early this AM, so it's just DH and me. I think he's kinda glad to have no company for a change.

I made him a nice big breakfast, and will cook for him, instead of having him at the grill for a mob!!

Have a great day, wherever you are. See you again tomorrow. Hugs to all.

The Best Nest - Mark's Finest Papers

The two challenges in one today are the IC from a fun website called LoveArtWorks, and Speedy's Friends Challenge #8.

This is the piece I used for inspiration. The nest image and sentiment come from "Ferns and Chickadee" at Mark's Finest Papers.

Please feel free to join us, by linking. You just might win a set of stamps!!

....and a Bone

This card is for the F4A17 challenge at SCS.....Man's Best Friend. I thought the doberman from

Mark's Finest Papers was perfect for it. This image comes from a set called "More of Speedy the Cat's Friends". Go visit, and see what else is in the set ...it's fabulous!

Mom just arrived for the weekend, so that means we'll be making lots of cards. I will have VERY little time for the computer, so I will catch up with you all next week.

Happy Father's Day to all the guys out there.