Monday, May 27, 2013

SURPRISE

Laurie, over at Doodle Pantry, has a surprise for you today! She has a FREE DOWNLOAD for you for today only! It is called USA Freedom and when I saw it, I could have hugged her if I could have reached her! I make so many cards for our troops and this little set is going to make my job much easier and faster! Thank you Laurie!!!!

But before I get to the card, I want to say something to all of my Gold  friends. Thank you for your service and sacrifices. I know the sacrifices have been heartbreaking for you and my heart goes out to you. God bless you today and always.

To all of our men and women in uniform, thank you for serving and protecting our freedom. You are all amazing and deserve our deepest gratitude. Here are my cards for you this Memorial Day.

 

(I am entering the above card at CAS-ual Fridays CFC102:  Clean And Simple creations that rock the red, white and blue!)

All of these cards use sentiments and digital papers from the USA Freedom set. How perfect for today! Now hurry over to Doodle Pantry and get yours for FREE today, May 27th ONLY! It will be offered for sale after today.

Thank you so much for stopping by! God bless you this Memorial Day.

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Sunday, May 26, 2013

HEY Y’ALL

Today, Doodle Pantry is sponsoring the challenge at Sentimental Sundays whose theme is outdoor fun. I’m not sure how familiar you are with the south, but here, flip flops are the glass slippers of the south!

The bottom white panel is dry embossed with a palm leaves pattern. The palm silhouette stamp is stamped in London Fog Memento ink. The flip flops and sentiment are from Doodle Pantry and the die is from Inspired by Stamping.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my card.

CHALLENGE LINKS   

Sentimental Sundays – Outdoor fun

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK

Hi sweet friends. I want to thank all of you for your kind thoughts, prayers and expressions of sympathy over the last few weeks. I had never lost a parent, and even though we knew this was coming, it still knocked me off my feet. Today was my first time back in my craft studio and it was hard to concentrate! But I did come up with one card for you:

I used the Mojo Monday sketch but decided to do a shaped card. I used the largest Spellbinders Labels Eighteen to shape the card (yeah I took a LOT of liberty with the sketch!) and I embossed the background with a basket weave EF. The “marbled” paper is a new technique I tried. You put shaving cream in a paper plate, add drops of alcohol ink and swirl them around with a knife. Then take your cardstock and plop it right on top of the shaving cream and smush it down to sort of spread out the cream. Pick up the cardstock and place on your craft mat. Use an old plastic rewards card, credit card, or anything that will gently swipe all of the shaving cream off of the cardstock. Let it dry and you are ready to use it. While I had the pile of shaving cream there, I did a few more pieces of cardstock for future use.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my card.

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YOU MAKE MY WORLD HAPPY

Hi sweet friends! Welcome to some End of the Week Encouragement for challenge #21 at Inkspirational. We are seeing some beautiful creations, so jump right in and get yours linked up! You have until Tuesday at 6pm CST to show us your creativity!

This week we have a SKETCH challenge for you and here is my DT card.

The instant I saw the sketch (below) I knew exactly what I was going to do. I recently purchased the Grateful Lattice die from Spellbinders.  Once the lattice is cut, these little pieces are left over. I love the shape and was looking for a card to use them on. This was the ONE! I added a square score around the focal point, flowers from and a sentiment from Inspired by stamping. I used three colors of ink on the stamp to match the colors in the paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to click the link below to go right to the challenge at Inkspirational! There is still time to play!!!!!!

CHALLENGE LINK

SPONSOR

Tammy from Creatively Me is our sponsor this month. She has generously offered the following items to our monthly winner AND, she will be our Guest Designer this month! So happy to have her joining us!

Now don’t forget to check out the other cards made by our super talented Design Team!

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

YOU ARE MY REASON WHY

Hi sweet friends! Welcome to some End of the Week Encouragement for challenge #20 at Inkspirational. We are seeing some beautiful creations, so jump right in and get yours linked up! You have until Tuesday at 6pm CST to show us your creativity!

This week we have a CASE challenge for you with a gorgeous card by Lee Conrey (card below) and here is my DT card.

I decided to make the focal panel smaller but tried to stay with the same colors. I colored my stamp with markers just as Lee did, then spritzed with a little water and stamped. I changed the sentiment stamped it in the same place and added the row of pearls under it. Instead of rounding the two bottom corners, I rounded one on the bottom and one on the top.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to click the link below to go right to the challenge at Inkspirational! There is still time to play!!!!!!

CHALLENGE LINK

SPONSOR

Tammy from Creatively Me is our sponsor this month. She has generously offered the following items to our monthly winner AND, she will be our Guest Designer this month! So happy to have her joining us!

Now don’t forget to check out the other cards made by our super talented Design Team!

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Monday, May 13, 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MYNNETTE!

Surprise! Today is my good friend Mynnette Kitchen’s birthday and we are having NOT ONE, BUT TWO  Blog Hops to celebrate!
One blog hop starts at Technique Time Tuesday and the other at Inkspirational!!! There are prizes too! I’ll give you all the deets on the blog hops after we see Mynnette’s card!

For the Technique Time Tuesday blog hop we each chose our favorite technique for this year. I loved the Dahlia Fold that is our May technique, so I chose it. For the Inkspirational blog hop we CASEd one of Mynnette’s cards. The one I chose is shown below.

And, this is the inside of my card.

I used the overall layout of Mynnette’s card but used a different embossing folder and instead of three butterflies, I used one larger one. I also added my sentiment on the face of the card.
OK. If you started either at Inkspirational or Technique Time Tuesday, it all comes together here on my blog. Both of the links for each hop is below:
Oh yes a blog hop with birthday cards for Mynnette and, of course, BLOG CANDY!
Technique Time Tuesday candy
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Inkspirational candy
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In order to have a chance to win, you need to visit each blog and leave a comment on each one, including this one. You will have until 5:00 PM EST on Thursday May 16th to leave your comment. One of the sites in each blog hop will be randomly chosen and we will randomly choose a winner from the comments on that site, using Random.org.  The winners will be posted Friday May 17th!
Winners will have one (1) week to get in touch with me to claim your prize.
OK. Time to get hopping! Have fun and don’t forget to leave those comments!
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