Blue Bird for Three!

This is for three challenges. I can't believe I could combine them all!

For Speedy the Cat's Friends, to use punches.

For the IC240, I was inspired by a Blue Jay towel.

For QFTD17, I cased a card by Sabrina (Cook22).

The image is from Mark's Finest Papers, and is from the set called Ferns and Chickadee. So is the sentiment.

I heat embossed the feathers in white EP, punched with both MS and SU punches, and used ribbon and dimensionals. I hope you like it.

Desert Rider

After spending the morning with my DH, at his office, shopping, and lunch out (YUM!), I came home to find a wonderful challenge, filled in by Wendy.

I have recently bought a number of punches, but also this Nesties Label 10, and I was just dying to try it out.

I used it with the new set, Southwest Cowboy, a sneak peek from
Mark's Finest Papers that will be released next Tuesday. Four sets will be available, and all four are FABulous. There will be a blog hop, so watch for it here.

The WT today is to use yellow. My daughter's favorite color. I thought pairing it with green was enough .... no RED this morning.

This is also for the StampinB's challenge, to use DOTS. Not only do I have dotted dp, but I added dotted ribbon! I just love this set from MFP, called Blackberries, Sunflowers and Bees.

Hot and humid again today. DH and I hit the hot tub early with our coffee. The rest of the day we'll be sitting and reading in the AC on our enclosed front porch. Life is good!

Creative Belli Challenge

Here I am, late again!! Today is the CBC .......to alter something you've had kicking around for some time. Well, this little clipboard has been doing just that!!

Of course I had to use RED, and combine it with my other two favs, white and black. I plan to use this to keep track of what I NEED to replace. Notice, I didn't say WANT to buy! LOL!

Please join us by linking an altered item of your own HERE

http://www.bellichallenge.blogspot.com/ and be sure to check out the entries of the DT. See you again in two weeks!

Chickadee for the Sketch

This chickadee is one of my favorite images from Mark's Finest Stamps. This set is called Ferns and Chickadee. This time I made him out of the box for the sketch challenge today.

The strangest thing happened yesterday! I felt miserable all day....blowing my runny nose, feeling yucky, bad headache. I figured it was the beginning of a summer cold. This morning I feel fine! Whatever it was, it's gone. Hooray!! I'm so happy to be ME again.......the temp is over 100 and the humidity is off the chart. I am sticking to everything, and the AC guy is coming this morning to fix it! Hooray again!! Hope you're cool and comfy. Have a great day.

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.