Mother's Day Card,,,

Good afternoon!!!!!  Leave it to me to hop ahead LOL,,,,,,,I really need to make Easter and Passover cards, and instead, I'm having a ball making Mother's Day cards,,,,,,,

Here's my own mother's Mother's Day card,,,,,,,,fortunately, she has no clue what a blog IS much less that I have one LOL

I had so much fun with this card,,,,,,,,,,,somewhere, I saw a similar card,,,I don't remember much about the card, except that it had letters or papers bundled together with a lacy die cut (like mine),,,,,,

but if you know where I got this idea, please let me know,,,,,,I'd love to credit the person I got that idea from,,,,,,,,,,

other than that little lacy die cut bundle, it's pretty much my design,,,,,,,I hope you liked the card and are having a lovely week!!!!

Please leave me a note so I can come visit YOUR blog!

Card Recipe:

Papers: Graphic 45 Botanical Tea 8x8 pad
Embossing folder: Anna Griffin Rosa
die cuts: Heart Felt Creations decorative lace border.
Stamps:Hero Arts (Happy Mother's day) and Stampendous (music)
Inks: TH distress ink Tea Dye, and Versafine Vintage Sepia
Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon
leaves: Prima
stick pins: Handmade by me.

Happy Bee day, My Son!

Good afternoon!

My son, Nick, turned 26 years old on sunday,,,,,,we share a birthday (we won't talk about how old *I* am), and we have spent every birthday together since,,,,,,,

except this past Sunday,,,,,,

My husband took me on a lovely 3 day trip to disney. We stayed in a hotel (NOT the camper),  Ate at Be Our Guest (this is HARD to get a reservation to!) and generally had a lovely time,,,,,,,

but I didn't get to spend OUR birthday with my son,,,,,,

so I had to make him an extra special birthday card,,,,,,,do you like the bees hanging off the edge? I totally swiped this design and the honey technique from Debbie Blake. You can see her amazing card HERE.

Here's a close up of the honey!

Glossy accents makes the honey look shiny!!!!!

So Happy 26th Bee day, Nicky! I love you!

thanks for looking, and I hope you had a super weekend!

Card Recipe:

paper: Recollections, My Mind's Eye
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Brushed corduroy, vintage photo, Wild Honey,,,,,,and Versafine onyx black
Stamps: Inkadinkado bee stamp
die cuts: Silhouette Portrait (silhouette store)
Honey: Glossy Accents by ranger
embossing folders: Cuttlebug (hexagons) and Stampin Up (square lattice) for the bee hive

Justrite Friday Challenge!!!!

Yep, it's me again,,,,,,,,more than you've seen me in six months LOL,,,,

Just dropping off another card, this time for the Justrite Friday challenge!

This is one of my favorite challenges, because it uses my favorite brand of stamps,,,,,,and because it's always so full of amazing talent!!!!!

This week's challenge is to use a spring color palette,,,,,,,,,and I've done so here, with this card for a friend of a friend suffering from cancer,,,,,,,,she needs as much springy cheer as I can possibly send!!!!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and I hope you have a chance to pull out those Justrite stamps and get into the spring mood!!!!!

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Justrite
Ink: Memento
papers: Graphic 45 Secret Garden
Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon
dies: Spellbinders Floral Ovals, Spellbinders Framed tags one
Punches: Martha Stewart Winter branch punch, unknown small flower punch
stickpins: handmade
ribbon decoration: Recollections

Simon Says STAMP!!!!!

Good afternoon! I hope everyone had a lovely weekend!  I'm here with another challenge entry, this time with Simon Says Stamp,,,,,,,and this week, Simon says HAPPY ANNIVERSARY or CONGRATULATIONS on your marriage!

I was working on another challenge card for the Justrite Friday challenge, and I had these papers out,,,,,,since I love this stack, I went with another card with this stack for the Simon Says challenge,,,,,,

Of course, with Simon's challenge,,,,,,,one must STAMP,,,,,and I've used a rarely used but much loved stamp for wedding cards here,,,,,,,the Happily Ever After stamp,,,,,,,

thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,,,

Card Recipe:

Stamp: Seven Gypsies/Hampton Arts
Paper: Graphic 45, Secret Garden Stack
ribbon: Hobby Lobby
stick pins: handmade by me
key and pearl string: my stash
border punch: Martha Stewart
Embossing folder:Anna Griffin Cuttlebug Rosa.

Popping in,,,,,,,

To drop a simple card,,,,,,,,

I had so much fun with this little typewriter from the Silhouette store,,,,,so many sentiments could be used with it!!!!!!

Hope you're enjoying your weekend!!!!!  and thanks for looking!!!!!!

Card Recipe:
Papers: Romance Novel
Die cuts: Silhouette store
Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon

Just a cute card,,,,,

In trying to be here more often, I'm just posting a cute card I made for my grandson for his birthday,,,,,

his grandfather and I are taking him out to a popular, local all you can eat seafood place for his birthday this March,,,,,,,,he's been begging and begging, so that's where we're taking him,,,,,,

since he LOVES lobsters, and plans on eating about a dozen of them LOL, I wanted my card to feature a lobster,,,,,,,,this is TOTALLY not my style,,,,,,but every now and again,,,,,I just love some paper piecing :)

How's that cutie for you? LOL,,Although I usually decorate the inside of my grandchildren's cards at least a LITTLE bit,,,,,,,,,,I went a bit OVERBOARD there too!

Hope you enjoyed the card, and have a lovely weekend!!!

Card Recipe:
die cuts: silhouette store
Paper: Recollections
stamps: Inky Antics
ink: Versafine Onyx Black and dollar bin brown
embossing folders: The Paper Studio wood grain, cutlebug polka dots, cuttlebug (smaller dots, can't remember the name, WHY don't they put the names on these things???), Stampin up square lattice
google eyes: Michaels

Oh good Lord,,,,,,,

It's been way too long,,,,,,,,,

and I don't even have a good excuse,,,,,,,

Life has just gotten in the way,,,,,,,

I won't bore you with the details,,,,,

But in ANY CASE,,,,,,it's always the challenges that draw me back to crafting LOL,,,,,

and today, I have an entry to the Justrite Papercrafts Friday challenge.

This week's challenge is to  create your project using at least one  JustRite flower or butterfly stamp OR a butterfly or flower die in your project. 

and let me tell you,,,,,,I have all of those,,,,,,,and I started out USING all of those,,,,,

and somehow, this simple card just HAPPENED.

 Here's a close up of the embossing and the stamp,,,,,,

Card Recipe:

Paper: Recollections
Stamps: Justrite "Cast all your cares"
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
dies: Spellbinders Les Papillons 2
Washi tape: Recollections
gems: Recollections
embossing folder: Stampin Up square lattice (love love LOVE this!)
buttons: my stash

I hope you guys have all had a wonderful few months and an easy winter,,,,,,,,

I promise LOL,,,,,,,I'll get it together :)

Thanks for looking!