A Special Birthday

Today I have a card for a Birthday,  my Mother's 82nd, simple, soft, and feminine. Kinda just like she is.  I will create something very special for inside but just have to have the quiet moments to put it all together.

I used the Cuttlebug Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Martha Stewart Deco Fan Corner Punch, & the Butterfly Punch, Spellbinders Oval & Scalloped Oval Dies, Verve Sentiment from Blessings, some Ribbon & Sparkle from my Stash. I am entering into the following Challenges:

Joan's Gradens Challenge #9 Pink & White & 4 Corners Punched

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #9 

Our Creative Corner  It's Embossable

Sweet Stampin Challenge #38  Pretty in Pink

Simon Says Challenge  Sing it Baby  (Happy Birthday)

Frosted Designs  Celebrate Life

Alphabet Challenge  O is for Ovals

Ooh LA LA Challenge #59 Birthday

Flutter by Wednesday Challenge #116  A Butterfly

If you want to have some inspiration, stop by the above blogs, all have a great DT and the cards are so nice. Some have prizes and all offer a fun time. Sometimes a new blog just hits you and you spend sooooooo much time peeping thru it.  Hope you like my card.

Thanks for stopping by, become a follower, as I might offer up some candy soon. Enjoy the weekend. It will just fly by as I think our grandkids will be coming to stay the week, before school starts. Will be great fun, simple menu's, playing at the park, swimming, maybe making cookies & helping grandpa around the farm & in his garden.

A Fall Tag

My tag card was made with Stampin' Up Sentiment & Stamp, Copics,  MS Branch & Pumpkin Punch, Spellbinders Label 10 & Scalloped Oval. Button, Bling, Yarn, Raffia, String from my stash, Distressing Tool, Distress Ink Antique Linen.

Challenges:
Altoa  Challenge #40 Distressing
Just for Fun Rubber Stamps Color Challenge #22  Orange, Olive, Brown
Cupcake Craft Challenge #102   Distressing
Friends Having Fun Challenge #5  Colors  Sunset, Sea, Palm
Great Challenges, and the DT on these blogs have some great inspirations.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Life is Good

A card for a few challenges: Our Daily Bread ODBDSL23  Ribbon, Charm +1 Embellishment (No Flower)
Stampin' Sisters in Christ  Challenge #50  A Bird
The Shabby Tea Room  Week #21 Colors Soft Blue, Cream, Brown, White, &/or a House
Simon Says Challenge  Sing it Baby  (This Old House)
Cute Card Thursday     Text 123

My card was made from mostly Designer Papers, Ribbon, Charm, Trim from my stash and a House I made from Papers, Grass with the MS Punch, A peacock , and text of "Life is Good" from a Kit of Tags.

The Design Teams on these Challenges have some great inspirations, so hop on over and have some fun.
Thanks for stopping by my blogspot and enjoy the rest of the week.

Ohhhh, Company's Gone and I'm Back.

My card today is using the Color Throwdown Colors for Challenge #103

The Shabby Tea Room's Week #20---- 1, 2, 3, which is 1 Ribbon, 2 Buttons, 3 Punches or Dies  and the Sponser is JustRite Stampers , if the little blue frog is good to you it is an AWESOME prize.

JustRite Friday Challenge #029 Square Sketch and their little blue frog has a great giveaway also. So GOOD LUCK.

Hop on over to all three and see the super job their Design Teams have done in offering inspirations for these colors and items. Very Amazing.

I used my Big Shot for the Spellbinders Fleur De Lis, & Square Dies, JustRite "Hope Set" for the Sentiment & Square Border colored with Atyou Spica Red, Memento Bamboo Leaves Stamping Ink, Ribbon and Buttons from my stash. Really pretty simple & I liked the color combo.
Thanks for stopping by my blogspot, have a great weekend and I wish you wonderful weather.

Keepsakes by Melissa Giveaway

Creating from the Heart   Melissa is having a Blogaversary and offering a chance to win a Cricut Cake.....you have until August 12th so hop on over and see what you have to do to qualify.
Her blog is awesome and she is Guest Designer this week at the Shabby Tea Room.  She has wonderful inspirations and is having a new baby August 26th!!!!  Much to be excited about.

Bevs Candy by Wild Orchid Crafts & Simon Says

 Wild Orchid Crafts are offering Candy to launch their very own range of Self Adhesive Pearls and the stunning new Lace they are now stocking, they have asked Bev to give away this delish bundle of candy. As always with Wild Orchid Crafts, the prices are excellent as is the quality!!
So hop over to Bevs Crafts and check out the giveaways
She also has this week's  stamp up for grabs from Simon Says Stamp ........Magnolia Ballerina Tilda
Oh what fun. but her All the things I love blog is always is the greatest.

Color, Flowers, Lace, Pearls, & More

CHALLENGES:

Color Throwdown #101, the colors were fun to work with,

Stampavie & More #102 Anything Goes  

Alphabet Challenge  L is for Lace

Altoa Rubber Stamps  #39 Glitter & Pearls  

Frosted Designs Border Punches

Fussy & Fancy Challenge #15  Scallops & Sparkles

K&L Stampin & Scrappin  #39  Ribbon

Paper Sundaes #27 Make Your Own Flowers

For my card I used Spellbinders Labels 8, Grand Scalloped Border, Sizzix Flower Die (green felt on back of flowers) Paper Studio 3 differnt sizes of Flowers from BaJa Colors, added a Pearl for the Centers, MS Leaf Punch, Pearls, Bling, Lace, Fibers, Flowers from my stash. Sentiment is from PSX, some Cosmo Cricket Paper.
I struggled at first with the Colors but once I got organized it was a fun card and combining all the challenges, helps make the card have interest.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a great week ahead..
Needless to say, I've a lot to get done by Thursday, and the EXCITEMENT builds....my son will be back home to visit. He's been gone 2 1/2 yrs with a Military assignment in South Korea...
More later if I've time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Simple, Quick Christmas

This card was made with Cuttlebug Snowflake Embossing Folder,Felt and the Spellbinders Poinsettia Nested Die, EK Success Ornament Punch, which I used 1 for the Leaves and a brad.

I entered this in the following Challenges:
Flourishes Felt
Cute Card Thursday #121 Get a Head Start - - - -Christmas
Your Next Step #20  Flower Power
Pixie Dust #31  Forest Green & Cranberry

This was a quick and easy start on Christmas. The above challenges have some great inspiraton from their Design Teams, so hop on over and have some fun.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and have a great week.

Innocent Wonder

My card is for the following Challenges
Just Magnolia Week #63   3 Flowers, 2 Papers, 1 Ribbon
Shelly's Images  Thrilling Thursday  Lots of Layers
The Beary Scrap Sketch #6
Crafty Sentiments  2 Design Papers
Crafty's Ho Blog Challenge Black, White & One other Color
Crafts & Me Challenge #8   Black, White & Pink
LaLaLand Crafts Challenge Black, White & One other Color
Paper Sundaes #26  Lots of Layers
Chrisma Cardz Challenge #28  Pink
Pile it On Challenge #27  Holiday Twist Colors but not Holiday (Valentines Day, if heart shaped could be a Valentine)

Color Q 

For my card I used my Copics to color Sweet Tilda, Spellbinders Scalloped Circle and Plain Cirlce, 2 Pattered Papers, 2 Flowers, Ribbon from my Stash. Quite Simple.
The real Challenge was all of the above!!
Thanks for stopping by my blogspot. Now head over to all of the above blogs as their Design Teams have put some great talent to use and have some awesome designs.  Plus if you are Lucky maybe MR. Linky will be nice and pick your number. 
Cannot believe the week is almost gone. But a Beautiful day here compared to the past few stormy days.  So best I get on to something outside. Enjoy.

Blog Candy

Squirrel's World  Aren't these adorable.

 Squirrel is celebrating reaching 30,000 hits, and has a little candy for you - well, actually it is two candies, you have a choice!

So hop over and see all the great Creations she has also.

Preparing for Christmas

I have used the Cuttlebug Snowflake Embossing Folder, Spellbinders Trees, EK Success Onaments (cork), Metal Snowflakes on the Tree, Martha Stewart SnowFlake Punches, I created the Little Snowman out of tea-dyed felt,  eyes are parts of snaps, a flower & sentiment from my stash.
On the top of the 2 cork ornaments are a sticker star topped with Clear Plastic Spellbinders Snowflakes. very hard to see here. Was not in a Christmas mood, but the card was fun to make and gave me some ideas for this up coming holiday.

My card today is for a few challenges:
Flourishes   Christmas in July/FELT
Creative Card Crew  Diecuts  (Spellbinders Tree)
Lexi's  #18 Stiching (snowman)
Artful Inkables  Sewing (snowman)
Frosted Designs Felt (tree & snowman)
The Shabby Tea Room #18  Christmas in July
Cards for Men #14  Christmas in July
OLLCB #58  Christmas in July
Fussy & Fancy #14   Christmas in July
Our Daily Bread Designs   SNTODBD13 Christmas in July
Our Creative Corner Lets Get CORKY (my tree ornaments)
Sentimental Sunday Sentiment/I can see Clearly     (top of 2 stars)

There are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many great designs at these sites, they DT's have a great assortment of creations. It would be worth your time to get INSPIRED....
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Hope you have a great day. We have Humid Heat in Iowa...wow, so glad to be inside.

Celebrating " My Hero"

Verve Stamps is having a July Project Parade the theme "My Hero"

My card is in the Patrotic Colors, my "Heros" are my sons..one has a busy life with a great job, 3 children. He is a great father, husband, friend to all, and a great son. Always busy, always kind, always makes time to do what is necessary for that day.  So very proud of him.

Many times mentioned (because I guess he is usually so far away) my other son is in the Military, so over the years Red, White & Blue makes me Happy & Proud to support our American System so we can maintain Our Freedom.
The Sentiment on my Card is so very true. Not just for Military People but the Firemen, Policemen, and anyone who makes the SELF-SACRIFICE, with Honor & Courage.  Thanks to all of you for what you do.

I used the Cuttlebug Stars Embossing Folder & Swiss Dots, my Big Shot with Spellbinders Scalloped Circle & Squares. Sentiment Stamp is from Paper Inspirations, some ribbon & bling from my stash.

Other Challenges for this Card are:

Polly Craft Challenge #52  Bright & Bold

KL Stampin N Scrappin #38  Dry Embossing

Shelly's Images "Celebrate"  but not a Holiday

Practical Scrappers  Embossing

Friends Having Fun Red, White, Blue

Hop over to the above sites and enjoy what the Design Teams have to inpire. Some really great things.

Thanks for stopping by my blogspot. Enjoy the day with all the things you love.

Out & About

A fun card, inspired by Creative Inspirations Challenge #68 "On the Move"
and By the Cute & Girly July Challenge Summer Inspirations, nothing better than a Bike Ride.
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #91   Apertures   My Map is Inside
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C45  Colors  Red, White & Black
Polka Doodles  Challenge #27  Summer
Meljen's Designs Challenge #15  Circles  
Incy Wincy  Challenge #47  Punches

For my card I used the Fiskars Sentiment and Arrow Punch, Spellbinders Scalloped Circle, Snoopy & His Sidekick by Stampabilities, colored with Copics

Make sure to stop by the above sites and see the great Inspirations their Design Teams have put together.  Lots of great ideas

Well as the card shows .....off to the wild blue yonder, have lots to do yet today before we head out to the weekly Saturday night Races.
Have a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by my blogspot.

Celebrating @ Color Throwdown #100

A happy scene at Color Throwdown they have reached Throwdown Challenge #100.  The Colors to compete in some awesome giveaways are:

I stumbled with this part of the day Friday, early this morning it seemed to fall into place. Sometimes my brain just don't work..

I used my Big Shot with Spellbinders Fleur De Lis, Paper Studio Punches (4 Sizes) for the layers of the Flower, Martha Stewart Lace Border Punch,
EK Success Corner Rounder, Cuttlebugs Swiss Dots and the 5x7 Squares, Embossing Folders, Debbie Mumm DP, Sparkle and Ribbon from my Stash.
Be sure to hop over to Color Throwdown and view the DT great inspiration and all the prizes they are giving by visiting the DT's blog sites.
I have also entered this into the following challenges:
Cuttlebug Challenges   Embossing & Lace/Doilies
KL Stampin N Scrapping  #38 Dry Embossing
The Shabby Tea Room #17  Lets Make an Impression, Embossing
These blogs spots have some great Creative Inspirations by their DT's and lots of great sponsors for some giveaways. So have fun.
Hard to believe the week has ended. Time just flys by, lots of storms this past week in Iowa, but good news for the future. Hey and I only have 11 days til my Military Son arrives here to visit. Need I say I am EXCITED!!!

Blog Candy

Wild Orchid Challenge  has some Blog Candy and having a 1st Card Challenge July 12th.

Wouldn't this be fun to win?  Hop on over and join in the fun.

They have a New Design Team and Lots of New Things.

Lots of Goodies

This was the first time I have made a Criss-Cross Card. For my card today, I used Scor Pal, Bow Easy, Big Shot with Spellbinders and 3 Different Dies,
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch,  Pearls, 3 kinds of bows, a Pearl Stick Pin, A Purple Jewel center of the Bow, Sparkles, Metal Heart,
K &Comany Flower, my stamp is Magnolia's  "Sweet Tilda" and she is precious.

This was truly a fun card to make. The Challenge? to fit all the below into 1 card!!
All of these blogspots have great inspirations for their Design Teams. Some have prizes, but most of all the challenges are fun. Stop over and see what I mean.

Challenges for the following:
Just Magnolia  Criss Cross Card (My 1st) with a Magnolia Stamp Week 62
Just for Fun Rubber Stamps  Color Challenge #18  Purple, Green, Blue
Pile It On #26  My Fovorite Things....All that's in this card, Color, Bows etc
Alphabet Challenge Blog  J is for Jewels, Purple Jewel on by the bow
Cooking with Kate #20  Altered Die/Embellishment Cut a die in 1/2 added sparkle to the butterfly,
Charisma Cardz  Challenge #26  Metal Mickey     My Metal Heart
Flutter By Wednesday   A fairy,  an angel or butterfly (I used this)
Crazy4Challenges  2 or more ribbons, I've 3 different kinds and sizes
Sweet Stampin'  Challenge #33   Pearls & Pins...both
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge  Purple/Green & Gems,
Beary Sweet Design Challenge #5   Emboss it   Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots

Thanks for stopping by my blog, a rainy, dreary July 4th here in the Midwest. Hope you have a great week ahead. 

Great New Stamps

DeName Design's Blog  has a NEW STAMP RELEASE & A GIVEAWAY
so hop on over and see the cutest assortment of  new stamps.

A New Addition to my Daily Routine

I just came across an awesome blogspot.
All the Things I Love  Bev's spot is like a Library, she has sooooooooo many ideas, tutorials and things listed I will have to stay up round the clock !!!! Stop over and get consumed.  Thanks Bev for all your input.

July Holiday Challenges

My card today was made for several Challenges with July 4th a few days away there has been so many thoughtful challenges to our holiday.

My card was simple, use of a scrap from cutting a large star, I folded over and used my Cuttlebug Star Embossing Folder, added a ribbon and inside used the Sizzix BigZ Nested Stars and my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, K&Company button of our American Flag. Love using up those scraps!!

When you lift the Blue, the inside has the White, Red & Blue.
Challenges Entered:
Meljen's Designs  Challenge #14  Red/White/Blue
Freshly Brewed Coffee Challenge #9  Fireworks  (mine are the colors)
Alota Rubber Stamps  Challenge #38  Inside/Out
Really Reasonably Ribbon Challenge#3  Red/White/Blue
Paper Cutz Challenge Challenge #48  July 4th Project
ABC Design Blog  Challenge  Red/White/Blue
Quirky Crafts  Challenge #31  Ribbon
Pals Paper Arts July 4th Inspiration
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge #29 Red/White/Blue

Stop on over to the above blogs and see the great inspiration the Design Teams have put together, you just might be in for a surprise, as prizes, ideas, inspirations and tutorials are just around the corner.

If you go back further on my blog, you can see I have made many Patriotic Cards this last week. I am a Proud mother of a son who is in the United States Army as a career. So when our National Anthem is sung I get tears in my eyes, when our RED/WHITE/BLUE colors are the THEME I am proud to be part of it, when people do not appreciate the FREEDOM we have I can ruffle my feathers a bit, as FREEDOM is NOT Free.

Thanks this July 4th to the MEN & WOMEN who SERVE.
Stand Tall and Proud this Holiday and Remember those who have sacrificed. But most of all Be A Proud American
Have a safe and fun weekend.

Summer Fun

The Shabby Tea Room  Challenge Week 16   this week is called
 'Popsicles and Pinwheels'  Aren't the Colors Fun?

My card is simple to make, quick and easy. I used my Big Shot to cut the Spellbinders Dies, Senitment from my computer,  used Bright Colored Index Cards for the Pinwheels, Cut & Added a Skewer for the Sticks, a Stick Pin to attach them together, some Colored Raffia for the Bow &
Woo La La!!!

Guest Designer in the Tea Room this week ... DEBBIE OLSON! She is one inspired gal and designs for  Papertrey Ink, Cosmo Cricket, JustRite, Spellbinders and Zva.
The Design Team at Shabby Tea Room also have some really great creations to show you. So stop on over to see what the gals have on display and what the  AWESOME Prize is.
You'll be glad you did.
Thanks for stopping by my blogspot. Have a great week and Enjoy the up coming Holiday.