Life Is What You Make It

Good Tuesday Morning!
My card today is for this weeks SCS Color Combination Challenge~ Party Island White. Love the pretty blues that Julia picked! The dessert option~use a sentiment stamp only.  I usually combine the color challenge with the MFT Wed Sketch (love the ease of my layout for the color challenge card, lol) and this week I am going with the flow. Here is the Wed Stamp Club sketch...

Here is my card....

Stamps: MFT Pearls of Wisdom

Paper: Pool Party, Island Indigo, White

Ink: Island Indigo

Accessories: MFT Dienamics Large Scallop and Well Worn Greetings, Square Lattice EF, Sponge Dauber, Swarovski Crystals, Seam Binding, Aaron's Bowmaker

Enjoy!

Look After My Heart

Happy Saturday!

All went well with my surgery Tuesday. I am sitting here typing with one hand, lol! Funny how you don't realize how many things take two hands to do. Like buttoning your pants, putting contact lenses in, fixing your hair, opening containers with screw on lids, buttering toast, just to name a few...Good thing I have a helper! He has been a real trooper too.

My card is one I did for the Jan 17th SCS Color Combination Challenge~ Pretty Pink Rose. Dessert Option~Valentines
Mary was the hostess and I got to sample with her. Love the shades of pinks and of course I had to get some black in there! 
The layout is the MFT Wed Sketch Club #54. I am determined to do the challenges every week for the entire year. Wish me luck! lol

Stamps: MFT Clearly Sentimental About Romance

Paper: Echo Park Yours Truly, Pink Pirouette, Rose Red

Ink: Rose Red, Pretty In Pink

Accessories: Ribbon, Pearls, Charm, Dienamics~Framed Greetings, Fancy Flourish and Tag Your It

Enjoy!

Tune In

Happy Tuesday!
Thought I better get this card uploaded and some others scheduled before I head to surgery this afternoon to have my shoulder worked on. Bone spurs, irritated tendons and arthritis wreak havoc on you, you know! Hopefully I will not be out of commission for very long. I am an avid bowler and stamper. When I cannot do those two things I get a little cranky, lol!

My card today is for the Jan12-25th Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge. Take inspiration from this photo.....

Of course the polka dots are the eye catcher in this photo for me. I love the color combo but have been doing a lot of red and green for the holidays. I remembered having some SU DP with big dots, so I brought it out along with my favorite Paper Smooches set, Boob Tubes. The layout is this weeks Clean and Simple Challenge #174. This will also go in the Raise The Bar Challenge "Ring In The New Year" (aka Circles).

Enjoy!

January Sketch For You To Try

Happy Saturday!! Woot Woot!

Do you have plans for the weekend or just relaxing?   Bill and I are planning on a little bowling practice on a Pro Tour shot today. He is the Pro. I am just pretending to be a Pro, lol! It really is nice to have a partner that loves the same sport as you. He has taught me so many things about the sport. He is heading out in a couple of weeks to work at the USBC Open in Baton Rouge for several months. At least I can drive over and visit when I get too lonely. 

My card today will probably be the one I send to Bill for Valentines Day. I love this stamp set from Our Craft Lounge called "Spilling Over". I had some left over Basic Grey Sugar Rush paper from last year and that is what dictated the colors on the hot air balloon. The red stickles really pop in real life!

I am going to try and participate in the monthly Sketch For You To Try challenges over on Jen Del Muro's blog "I Heart To Stamp".  The layout for my card is the January sketch.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Enjoy!

Other Challenges:
Craft Us Crazy~Valentine/Love
Crafty Creations #153~ Valentine

Love U!

Happy Thursday!!

Counting down to the weekend!

This card was for last weeks SCS Featured Stamper Challenge~Our Hobby... Pam was the featured stamper and I thoroughly enjoyed looking at all the cards in her gallery! I chose her I heart hearts card to case. I used the heart theme and changed the stamps, colors and layout.Thanks Pam for the inspiration!!

The layout for my card is the MFT Wed Stamp Club Sketch #53. This layout starts a new year of weekly sketches. My goal is to complete all 52 weeks this year. We shall see!

Stamps: MFT Flopsey Bunch of Hearts

Paper: Naturals Ivory, White, Real Red

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa

Accessories: MFT Dienamics Hearts A Plenty and By The Letters, Spellbinders Hearts, Button, Maraschino Twine, MFT Adornaments rhinestones, Copics E42 and R81

Enjoy!

Being Cute

Hello!!
Happy Saturday! I was on the road this week for my job. Back home now and was it ever cold cold cold yesterday!

My card is one that I did a couple of weeks ago for the MFT Wed Stamp Club and the monthly Guest Designer challenge. If you love doing sketch challenges,  MFT has some fabulous ones and the entire sketch library is available over on SCS in their forum. Love to go there when I am stuck and need a layout idea!

This little Pure Innocence Girl (Being Cute) is one of my favorites in the stamp line. She is like a paper doll that you can dress up any way you like with some paper piecing.

Stamps: MFT PI Being Cute is What I Do

Paper: X Press It Blending Card, My Minds Eye Stella and Rose Gertie

Ink: Black Memento

Accessories: Oval Open Scallop Doily Dienamic, Petals A Plenty EF, Ribbon, Pearls, Copics

Enjoy your weekend!

Just My Type

Happy Tuesday!
Hope your week got off to a good start! This is my first five day work week since before Christmas, so we will see how things are at the end of the week, lol! We got the tree down this weekend and decorations put away for another year. I headed into my craft room and started doing a little  lot of purging and re-organizing. I am going to try some different things this year with my crafting. I will keep you posted!

My card is for today's SCS Color Combination Challenge~ Blushing Riding Hood in Baja.
Joanne is our hostess and she picked a sweet combo that could be used for some non- traditional valentines. I have been seeing a lot of valentines this year with blue added to the pinks. Hmmm...maybe she is onto something, lol!
I had the new GinaK StampTV kit sitting on my table and it was calling my name! I just love the little typewriter in the set. Well I love all the stamps in the set. It is HUGE!
I got out my aquapainter that I have not used in ages...er... years (since finding Copics) and colored up the typewriter with today's colors.

Stamps: GinaK True Love

Paper: White, Riding Hood Red, Blushing Bride

Ink: Baja Breeze, Blushing Bride, Riding Hood Red, Stazon

Accessories: Aqua Pen, Stardust Clear Glitter Pen, Spellbinders Squares

Other Challenges:
Dream Valley Challenge #23~Anything Goes
Crazy4Challenges (C4C118)~ Do or Use something new
Card Makin Mamas~ Use something new

Enjoy!