A Little Humor for Mother's Day

There is a fairly new challenge on SCS that is called Queen For The Day. This week, the chosen stamper is Carol_PA925. She has an interesting gallery, and the card I chose to CASE is this one of the butterfly card in PINK. I liked the simple layout.

So, in keeping with my card-a-day policy for Mother's Day, I made the card below, using some pretty blues, and a butterfly I got at the $ Tree. You can see the changes I made in Carol's card. No need for me to tell you what you can look at yourself.

I did take a close-up of the sentiment. It shouldn't be wasted, because it's perfect for a person my age to give to her Mom. I can't tell you the number of times my Mom "washed" something smudgy off my face with her 'wetted" handkerchief. Mom's today don't carry hankies anymore. What do they use??? Anyhow, she will get a real laugh out of this card. I hope you do too.

Floral for Mom

Card #3 for the week I send Mom Mother's Day cards. The F4A10 challenge today was to make a floral card, and this one was super easy.

I used four different punches, one sentiment, a ribbon and some pearls. Not even dimensionals!

Mom and I just got our SU order which had the Trio Punch in it for both of us. I have long admired CarrollAnn's (Mrs. Boz at SCS) little embossed flowers, and this is how she did them.....a stylus and the punch. I think they are so cute!

I'm off to the mailbox with the first card I made for Mom. Have a great day, and I hope you are having fun making Mother's Day cards too.

Mother's Day #2

In keeping with sending my Mom a card every day for the week before Mother's Day, here is card #2.

The WT challenge today was to use chipboard, which I have, but never use. This is from Maya Road, and I covered two flowers in dp. Sanded, then layered, and finished off with a brad.

I try to make each of the cards for my Mom different. I just got this Trio punch from my new SU order, and CarrollAnn has the best way to use the flowers, so I did what she did!! I hope you like it.

THT047 Faux Birthday

Happy Thursday! Today's featured member of the Treehouse Design Team is Gloria Morizen, who challenged us to make a Birthday Card using a FAUX technique.

The technique I chose is Faux stitching. The image I used is a FREE colored cupcake from Ashley, our fearless leader (it's the May contest digi!)

The card is really easy. I downloaded the colored image twice, and cut one out to pop. Of course I had to use RED as a bg color, along with white and turquoise. I used my new Fiskar's edge punch, and faux stitched in turquoise around the panel.

Please feel free to join us, and attach your card or project to Mr. Linky at

Treehouse Stamps

so we can see it, and maybe you will win some free stuff from the website!! Please look at what the whole DT has done by clicking on their names on my sidebar. See you next Thursday!!

RED Rose For Mom

For the week before Mother's Day, I send a card each day to my Mom. she loves to get cards, especially mine (who knew?), and displays them FOREVAH!

She happens to love my favorite combination of colors, so this will be the first card I send.

This layout is the SC at SCS today, and worked really well with the Stemma dp of roses.

Have a great day. Hugs to you all!

Belli Challenge Birthday #90

The Belli Challenge #90 this week is to make cards or projects with a Birthday Theme.

Creative Cuts & More was nice enough to sponsor us by sending a package of wonderful papers, die cuts, rub-ons, and stickers for us to play with! What fun!!

Here are two cards I made for the challenge. Please be sure to check out the website of CC&M, and link your birthday themed project, using whatever you already have in your stash to Mr. Linky here: http://www.bellichallengeblogspot.com/ to be entered for a prize!! Be sure to add CBC to your keyword in SCS. See you in two weeks!

Daisy for CC and MMTPT91

Rainy day here. YUCK! I feel really tired today, maybe it's the weather, maybe just plain tired. I was so glad that under these circumstances the challenges today could be combined.

This daisy works for both the CC and MMTPT91. Teapot Tuesday has to do with daisies and ladybugs. Check. The CC is to use banana, ballet blue and olive. Check.

I have had this wonderful dp from PSX for quite a while. Hoarding it. It has these beautiful big daisies with olive leaves and stems. I just cut one of them out, added a RED ladybug brad (dotted with a Sharpie) and a RED ribbon, and good to go. Have a great day!!

CAS and TLC with Mark's Finest Papers

It's been a busy day. At 2 PM I am just uploading my card. DH and I went to see our post-surgery son, so I could see he was all right with my own eyes. He's doing well, but still swollen and uncomfortable, but he's up and around.

When I came home, I realized I could combine the CAS and TLC, so here's what I did.

All the materials are from Mark's Finest Papers, and the stamp sets (Apples and Camellias, and Background Fun) will be available in May/June. Gorgeous new stuff!!!

Thanks for looking, and I hope y ou're all having a wonderful day!! See you tomorrow!

Casing in RED!

Today I did something I've never done before. I cased a CASE. The Featured stamper today made a card for a previous FS, and I just loved it. I felt it was only fair to show you both of them before I showed you my own. The card with brown and green is the original by Miss Boo. Gloria, our FS, cased this using the top note and embossing in white, but using predominantly brown. Now to my card.

As you can see, I went with my favorite colors!! I loved the top note as a panel, but made some changes. They are all pretty obvious, so I'll not insult you by reciting them. You can compare for yourself.

I hope you like the changes I made, and that you will take a peek at the FS challenge oon SCS today.

DH and I are off for the day to friends' for some fun. I'll be back tonight to comment on your blogs then. Have a great day!

Get Well for Paul

Our son Paul had labrum hip surgery on Thursday. He's having the other one done in the summer, when teachers can take more time off. He's doing fine, but uncomfortable, as you can imagine. (If you want to send him a card, let me know).

The IC this morning had this fabulous card that I cased, and I think it's really appropriate for him. I used three stamps, two colors, and one stamp pad. How's that for easy??!!

This is the original card, and of course I had to keep the fab colors (my favs), especially the RED.

Thanks for looking.

A Trip To Asia!

No, I'm not off to Asia. Although I would love to see the Far East, it's the good old USA for me! This card is for F4A9 at SCS today, a virtual trip.

Because I love anything Asian, this is the first thing that came to mind. I have this adorable little heron, so I drew in some water and cattails, used my new cb ef, and a gold pen. A little distressing, some hemp and a coin round it out.

I have 2 of my grandsons today. They are both nine, and two cuter and funnier little boys you will never see!! At the moment they are playing a DS (whatever that is!) on the couch, and giggling to beat the band!! Here they are, posing quickly for Grandma!

I'll be spending the day with these guys, and intermittently with DH, so there won't be time for comments today.......I'm sure you will understand.

I won't be in my craft room today, but will be at my station as 6PM hostess for the VSN tonight. I hope you will join me! There are lots of fun projects planned, and great hostesses to challenge you!! See you at 5 PM for the start. Don't forget!!!

Mixing REDS!!

Hoo-Boy!! I just love a challenge that's wide open, so I can use my RED! The WT today is to mix patterns, and I just bought a bunch of paper (12 x 12 for 20 cents a sheet!) at M's. Of course I bought a lot of RED, and other matching papers, so this was right on top of the new stuff!!

I had to add some black and white (there are a bunch of us who love this combination - you know who you are!), and when in doubt, I use Stipple Rose. I really LOVE this image.

That's it for today. I'm getting ready for tomorrow's VSN mini. I am the 6 PM hostess, so be sure to check in with SCS to play along!! See you there.

THT046 Inspiration Challenge

This week we have an inspiration Challenge at the Treehouse! We were to use this fabulous bedding set to inspire us to make a card or project. I happened to have a very similar dp by Chatterbox, so all I had to add was an image (from the new set Dinorific) and and embellishment. The leaves are a new (to me) sizzix die cut. I cut out little flowers from the bg, and added them to the branches.

I think this would make a fun birthday card for just about anyone. I hope you will join us this week. Be sure to put THT046 in your keyword, and check out the offerings of the DT here:
http://www.treehousestamps.blogspot.com/. See you next week!

Lavender Rose

And Yes! That is the right spelling! I don't want any comments on A's and E's!! LOL!

For the sketch challenge today, which was really easy, I just couldn't use RED, and I apologize for it right away. We had the most fabulous colored rose that bloomed all summer last year, up until late October. The lavender was so startling beautiful, we couldn't bear to even cut one!!

This is so close to the color .... it is a stunner, isn't it???

Have a wonderful day. We have sun again. I am so "pumped" as my DGS Tommy says!! Hugs to you all!

How About a Julep?

The teapotters are off to KY for the Derby. I'm bring my own Julep .... that's been his name for 42,000 years!! Since I am old, and afraid of horses, I thought riding a dinosaur would be perfect!! We don't care whether we win or not, we just want to be at the tea party and enjoy a few drinks and snacks.

The image of the dinosaur is from

http://www.treehousestamps.com/,
part of a set called Dino-rific. Check it out!!

I'm off to Mom's for the day, so my commenting will be brief. I'll catch up with some of you tomorrow. Have a great day!!

WILD!!

Today is going to be a WILD day!! It's Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, the day of the running of the Boston Marathon. DH is NOT involved this year as an official, so he has "bagged" #2 DS to help with removing the leaf cover off the pool.

DIL and I will be crafting today, and Jake, my DGS will be reading, coomputing, etc. and generally keeping himself busy.

This card is for both challenges today ... TLC and CAS. I just noticed a smudge on the sentiment of brown....guess my stamp wasn't so clean. Please overlook it .... just as you always overlook my mistakes!! Have a great day. The sun is shining here....... haven't seen it in a long time!!!

RED bloom for Dara

Today's Featured Stamper is Dara (my Swedish Sister ...LOL!). I am so pleased for her!!

I cased a card that was all in pink. I tell you that because you know there's NO WAY I could make a pink card. Naturally I had to make it in my favorite colors. I kept her wonderful layout, and the same images. I added layers, ribbon, embossing and the bee. I hope she likes what I did with her pink card.

If you would like to look here, you can see her whole gallery.

We are having ANOTHER rainy day. DH and I were all set to take our coffee in the hot tub this morning, and the sprinkles came down harder! We'll be watching the baseball game today, if they can get it in, and just kicking back. I love Sundays!

Out of the Box

This technique is such fun! I really love the out of the box look, and it's so easy to do with nesties and shapeabilities.

I used a brand new image that comes in color or b/w from http://www.treehousestamps.com/. This set is called Simply Heartfelt. Obviously I used the colorized version, and that made this card even easier to make. I really like the combination of purple and green. It isn't RED, but it's pretty together.

That's it for me today. Mom and I bought a TON of paper when she was here, and I MUST sort it and put it away. A big job, but fun too. Have a good one!

Third and LAST post for today!

Fun challenge today at SCS.......also the Stampin' B's. The theme is time, adding a sun, and an encouraging sentiment.

I love these words, and not just because of Casablanca, but for that too!! On the inside I could put any number of words to complete the saying, but for this one, I will put "I think of you more and more".

Thanks for looking, and I promise, this is the last upload! Hugs to you all!

THT045 Paper Tole

It's Thursday, and time for a TreeHouseThursday challenge. This week's spotlight is on Katie, who wanted us to use the Paper Tole or Decopage technique. I chose paper tole, using the lion from the digi set called Zoofari Friends at
http://www.treehousestamps.com/.

There are a lot of layers here ...... two for the lion's body, and four for his head. (That's the paper tole part).

I cb'd the bg using the Herringbone EF. The sentiment, which of course I wrote with a marker and placed on a Shapeabilities Fancy Tag, was added to the MS grass punch, and the corner punch from EKSuccess. The lion is placed and popped on two nesties, in brown and kraft.

Here is a close-up of the layers........ sorry about the white dimensionals showing too, but this was the best picture I could get. At least you can see a little better here! You can also see the white gel pen on his face. I added a couple of brads on the tag, and that does it. I hope you like it.

Please join us. Connect with Mr. Linky, and be sure to look at what the DT has done. Add THT045 to your keyword, and look for another fun challenge here next week!