Peony

I wanted to share this card that uses a beautiful stamp set that I won as blog candy from Kim Teasdale. She designed this stamp set, available from Clear Dollar Stamps, she is so talented and this peony stamp was so much fun to color and layer. I mailed the card to Kim along with a note of thanks for the goodies!

Copic markers were used to color the flower that was stamped in Memento Black ink onto Papertrey Vintage Cream cardstock. I cut out the image using Spellbinder's label 4 die. The patterned paper is from a 6x6 pad of Basic Grey Bittersweet.

Have a Swingin' Day

This is such a fun set, it's from Our Craft Lounge. When I first saw this card on Carol's blog, I just had to have this set; you're a great enabler HB! I loved the card she did and borrowed her layout for my cards. It's hard not to be in a happy mood using this set, it's just so dang cute! I love the little bows on the girly owl's ears.

For this card, I used some fun Making Memories paper and accessories from their Chloe's Closet line, it has fun summery colors and elements. I found it at Michael's and right now it's on clearance. I bought the paper with a coupon when it first came out, but picked up some fun embellishements to go with the paper on clearance. I love anything on clearance...well most anything!

Thanks for stopping by...have a wonderful day!

Day Dreamer

I love this stamp from Sugar Nellie, she is one of 6 stamps I ordered a while back. They have super cute stamps and if you like to color these stamps are great for that! I love to color, I find it to be very relaxing.

I colored her with my copic markers and paired her with some Basic Grey Urban Prairie 6x6 paper. This is one of my favorite lines from Basic Grey, I just love the colors. I used a Fiskars border punch for the little decorative strip, added a few buttons and bling from my stash.

Our refrigerator is running again, the compressor was seized so they had to replace it. Luckily it had a 5 year warranty on the compressor so it cost us nothing for the repair! Now I hope that nothing else decides to participate in the appliance quiting show.

When Life Hands You Lemons

When it rains it pours. So about 2 weeks ago my less than 3 year old clothes dryer decided that it didn't want to dry clothes anymore so we had to repair that, just prior to that, the spring broke on the door of my less than 3 year old dishwasher; had to repair that. Now the dishwasher decides that it doesn't want to stay closed through the whole wash cycle and pops itself open, have to repair that. Now last night, our refrigerator decides stop keeping things cold and just quit. We had to scramble last night to try to save some of the food. Of course I had just gone grocery shopping yesterday morning so the fridge was full. They are coming tomorrow sometime between sunrise and sundown...you know how that works!

On top of that, last week our phones and internet stopped working. We have bundled service with Comcast for our TV, phone and internet. Luckily the TV still worked, so I didn't have to miss American Idol and the other reality shows I watch, I did however suffer great pain from blog surfing withdrawls!

So I thought that this card fit the bill today...When life gives you lemons, make lemonade or in this case; a lemon card!

The lemons stamp is from Lockhart and the paper is from the DCVW Citrus Stack. I colored the image with my Copic markers and added a little Martha Stewart glitter to make it sparkle. The layout was one I saw several weeks ago on Jen del Muros blog . She posts a sketch each week to try, and I loved this one with the little strips of paper going down and across. It's always fun to try a new layout.

Thanks for visiting!

Flowers

Happy Sunday! It's a beautiful spring day in MN today, the sun is shinning and the birds are singing!

I had a great Saturday, I spent the day with my Sister-in-Law Tammy. We shopped a bit, had lunch and then went to Archiver's for Mania where our friend Pegi joined us. A perfect day!

I recently saw a card on a blog using a cute scalloped corner punch. While shopping at Joann's I found a Fiskar's scallop punch similar to the punch that was used on the card I saw, only the Fiskar's punch had the three little punchies in the corner. But I thought is was kinda cute so I had to have it, and of course I had to give it a try as soon as I got home!

The flower image was stamped on Papertrey Select White cardstock and colored using my Copic markers. I mounted the image on SU Bashful Blue cardstock, and ran a piece of SU Pretty in Pink cardstock through my Big Shot with the Sizzix dots embossing folder. Added a little flower button and some gingham ribbon from my stash and a sentiment from Papertrey Ink to finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great week!

Beetle Bugs

I hope that everyone had a nice Mother's Day! I had a great day, we went to the nursery and bought some new flowers for our yard and spent the day planting and moving a few things around in the yard. It was a beautiful spring day here in MN.

Last night we went to dinner with my Dad and Step-Mom to celebrate Mother's Day and my Step-Mom's birthday which is today. She has a VW Beetle so I made her some cards with this adorable Elzybell's stamp. I've had the stamp for quite a while but just didn't get around to getting them made for her, but when I found this cute paper with the bugs on it I was motivated to get the cards done! She loved them and they were so fun to make!

Thanks for stopping by...have a great day!

Celebrate Spring

Today I have another scrappy card, the only stamping on this one is the sentiment.

We're having another rainy spring day here in MN, but April showers bring May flowers...right? Things are beginning to green up and a lot of my perennials are well under way, I can't wait till they start blooming! And on the plus side, the weekend is supposed to be nice!

For this card, I used some paper and die cuts from Making Memories Garden Party line. The butterfly is a Cuttlebug die cut, and the scalloped edge was punched with a Martha Stewart border punch, this particular punch is one of my favorties. And the lone stamp on this card is one I picked up from the Michael's $1 bin, I really liked the font on this one.

Happy Spring!