Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Peace

Greetings! I'm back with a fun card to share for the Holly and the Ivy Christmas card challenge. Do you plan ahead for the Holidays? I really try to, but as a working mom of 2 very busy teenage boys it's really hard. One of the things I do try to keep up with all year is my Christmas cards, by making a couple( I make 2 of everything I make) a month it's not such a huge task come November. I usually will have a couple extra that my coworkers will purchase from me (cheap, because I just use the money to buy more stamps). I used the Be Merry sentiments and Holiday houses from Wplus 9, watercolored then fussy cut them out. Thanks for stopping in today.

CC&S #272

Hello! I'm back with another card to share for the CC&S color challenge. This weeks colors were a bit of a challenge for me at first, plenty of attempts in the trash. I used the Hello Lovely stamp from Concord & 9th and my Zig markers. I like to add a very light grey around my image and blend it out slightly to make it pop. I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with. It's interesting to see how different people use color combinations. I tend to lean towards colors I can use for florals. Be back soon.

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

CC&S #271

Hello! I'm back with a card to share for the CAS Colours and Sketches sketch challenge. I chose to flip this sketch , but I feel it works great both ways. I needed a few baby shower cards so this cute stamp from Clearly Besotted fit perfectly. The weather is finally nice here so I'm looking forward to planting my garden this weekend. I hope you will consider playing along with us this week. Be back soon.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Something new !

Hello! I'm back with another card to share today. I joined a new design team " The Holly and the Ivy" , so look forward to more Christmas cards from me.The challenges are 'Anything goes" so it makes it so easy to play along. I love making my cards all throughout the year, so that I'm not scrambling at the last minute to make cards to send out. I also like to shop early, I'm one of those people. So In recent years I've done most of my shopping (since my boys are teens) on Amazon, so I've been buying a $25 gift card every pay day so when Christmas gets closer I will have plenty of gift cards to use. Thanks for stopping by today. I'll be back soon.

CC&S #270

Welcome back! This week we have a color challenge at CC&S. This gave the perfect excuse to use this new stencil from SSS. I used some ranger texture paste and once it dried I used a marker to color the berries, I don't recommend doing that as I ruined the marker in the process. Oh well , lesson learned. Thanks for stopping by today.

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Final card

Hello! I'm sharing my final card for the Love your pet blog hop. I picked this dog for my final card as it looks like my in laws pug Sparky. I'm running due to a very stressful day. Our stove died and I ordered a new one thru Lowe's and they have canceled my order twice, so still no stove... but one is on the way tomorrow. Off to check out what everyone else shared



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Friday, April 27, 2018

Life is better with a dog

Good Morning! I had intended to share this yesterday, but life got the better of me. My oldest son had a track meet that lasted for over 5 hours,YIKES! So I got up early to share. Playing along with the "Love your pet " blog hop. I've seen so many darling cards already. Now off to clean the house , so much for a day off
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