Speedy's Friends Challenge #2

Today is Speedy's Friends Challenge, to use corner punches. I couldn't resist doing one last card, even though I have put most of my supplies away to take on vacation.

What you see here is NOT going with me, except for the stamps. I got out my crimper, which doesn't get a lot of attention, to give a little texture to this paper pieced flower from MFP. This set, called Camellias and Apples will be released this summer.

Please join us in the challenge. Link your entry to Mark's Finest Papers blog, and you may win a stamp set of your choice!!

Bye all. See you on the 24th, when we return.

Inspiration Challenge

The inspiration challenge today at SCS takes us to a site called HUSET, a Scandinavian store selling items for home and family. I found a wonderful RED candelabra to use for this card, and just had to surround it with my Dala (Swedish horses).

I actually combined this challenge with the QFTD08, which was posted yesterday. The chosen queen was Lynn (allee), who has the most beautiful gallery, and she is known for her layered images. Her card that I cased however is CAS one, that I felt really worked with this Huset one.

Today I am packing for our vacation. We leave early in the morning. I'll be picking up Mom on the way with her stuff (mostly crafts like me!), and we'll meet DH at a restaurant for lunch. He'll have a computer so I can upload, but my comments will be few as we will be off and running. Be back home on the 23rd. Happy Mother's Day to you all!

Cherry on Top Birthday

I hope you can see the shine on the cherry and leaves. They were done with Sakura Gelly Roll pens. The challenge today was to be 'gellin'', so I used both those and my white gel pen as faux stitching.

It seems I never have enough birthday cards, so I was glad to add one to my stash.

The cupcake is paper pieced, and came from the June release of "Cupcake Birthday" at

Mark's Finest Papers. This is a really fun set, with cake slices, lots of sentiments.......be sure to check it out!

I am starting to pick out the things I'm taking from my craft room for vacation. So hard to make choices!! working with just a few things is so different than having everything at your fingertips!! Packing the clothes for two weeks is easy.....and I am ready for whatever weather NH has to offer!

Third and LAST post for today!

The problems at SCS continue. Here's hoping that by being shut down today, they can resolve the glitches!!

This morning, Julia posted early, so a few of us got a chance to post our entries for today's challenge, PINS.

I used Mark's Finest Papers paper, ribbon, and charm, and a fabulous image from the set called Pears and Hollyhock, that will be available next month.

A little framing, some painting, a little Asian character from Inkadinkado, some gold cord, and pin completes the card today. I hope you like it.

Please look below for the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge, and for the TreehouseThursday Challenge. They were both fun!!

DDIC #27 Inspired butterflies

Today's Inspiration Challenge for the Divine Divas comes from The Inglenook Decor Photo gallery and has some really interesting bits and pieces to choose from. Frames, butterflies, shells, silver jewelry, necklaces.....WOW!







I chose to go with the lacy frames and butterfly images, and used only the white and silver metallic. I used no stamps or ink, but had fun with my piercer, nestabilities, and punches.



Just for fun I added some silver pearls, and a strip of Martha stewart paper lace flowers I've had for eons.



Please feel free to join us in the challenge, and be sure to check out what the other Divas have done with this by going to my sidebar and clicking on their names.

see you in two weeks with another fun Inspiration piece!!

THT048 Sketch

It's Thursday again, time for the Treehouse Thursday Challenge. This week we have a sketch as our project. I used the palm tree from the new digi set called

FUN IN THE SUN!

The colors are all from Stampin' Up, before some of them are retired. I tried to get in all the elements of the beach on a summer's day......sky, water, sand. The additions are raffia and brads.

Please join in on the challenge, upload to Mr. Linky at
http://www.treehousestamps.blogspot.com/. You just might win some wonderful images!! Check out the DT's cards and projects too! See you next week.

Back to RED today!

I just LOVE the sketch challenge today......an easy layout, and wide open to any color or image!!

My granddaughter Samantha, an incredible animal lover of cats, dogs, horses, etc., is turning 13!! on the 27th of this month. This card is for her. It will certainly put a smile on her beautiful face!

All supplies are from Mark's Finest Papers. The image of the cat is from a set that will be available next month, called MORE OF SPEEDY THE CAT'S FRIENDS.

I hope you think this card will be fun for Sam, and that you are happy to see RED again from me!! Have a wonderful day my friends!!

Final Mother's Day Card for Mom #7

This one finishes the cards I send to Mom for the week of Mother's Day. I had intended (and had promised) to make a RED card, and then I saw the challenges today at SCS, and here's my story (to coin a Mothermark phrase):

The colors prescribed were Gable Green, Lovely Lilac, and Cameo Coral. Very hard to sneak a little RED into that mix, so I just went with those colors, plus my neutral white.

The MMTPT92, however was a different story! The theme is Hocus Pocus, what is missing? In my case, what is missing (you guessed it) is the RED! There were 42,000 RED blossoms on this exotic lilac tree, and when the blooms were picked, all 42,000 of those little bitty flowers fell apart. Honestly!! David Copperfield couldn't even make them reappear!! That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it! LOL!

Card #6 for Mother's Day

I just love the look of embossed vellum! I hardly ever think to do it, so I was grateful for the nudge from Holly today on the TLC. It also works for the CAS to make a Mother's Day card, or May Flowers card.

The image I used is the May Contest FREE image from TreehouseStamps. Pop on over and get this image to enter for some stamps!!

This is the 6th is the series of cards I'll be sending to Mom for Mother's Day. I like to send her one every day for the week. She just loves to get mail, and she displays all of them where she can enjoy them. I try to make them all different, so there's no RED today, but there will be for sure tomorrow!!

Featured Stamper Day

The Featured stamper today is Michelle, and she has a wonderful gallery to browse through. Her cards are colorful, well laid out, and very straightforward. This is her card in blue I chose to CASE--->
If you would like to see her whole gallery, HERE it is.






Here is the card I made. You can see I kept her wonderful layout, but I really changed everything else. I used a new set from TreehouseStamps called Summer Fun. Thanks for looking. Have a fabulous Sunday. See you tomorrow!

MFP Challenge #1

Today is the VERY FIRST challenge at MFP! The challenge is to use the colors RED, white and blue.

No problem for me!!I made this birthday card using a new set called Southwest Cowboy that will be coming out soon!! Not only a first challenge, but a SNEAK PEEK as well.

All images are MFP.

I'm off to the MFP Blog to link up my card.

Mother's Day #5....a watercolor.

Here, in a smaller image, is the painting I chose for inspiration for the challenge on SCS today. I just loved the colors (oh, surprise), and was daring enough to try a little watercoloring of my own. Never done this before! I think I like the result well enough to send this as a Mother's Day card to my Mom. This, I think, is #5 of the ones I will send to her as part of her Mother's Day week of mail. Even if she doesn't like the image, she will love the RED, white, and black.

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!