Summer Breezes...

Are just around the corner!!

Happy Tuesday Everyone! I am waving hi from a very cool Reno, Nevada today. It was time to come visit my sweetheart! He has settled in nicely to his new job and is really enjoying himself. All is good!

My card today is for the Splitcoaststampers Color Combo challenge~Misty Celery Breezes. Another beautiful spring color combination chosen by my Paperdoll friend Julia. I used a stamp set that has never been inked up. I don't know who makes the DP....it was in my stash and matched the Certainly Celery so I used it!. The layout is from this weeks SCS Sketch Challenge. Loved it!
I was able to get the dessert option in~ put a bird on your card.

Stamps: PTI Round and Round

Paper: Marina Mist, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze, White

Ink: Marina Mist, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze

Accessories: PTI Doily Die, Spellbinders die, Pearls,sponge daubers

Enjoy!

Punch Bunch Birthday

Good Tuesday Morning! Hope your week has gotten off to a terrific start!

My card today is for the Splitcoaststampers Color Combination Challenge~Saffron Pear Roses. Betty has picked an awesome spring color combination and I believe yesterday or today is the first day of Spring here in the USA! I used the bird punch last week so I brought out my new owl punch this week. Gotta use the new stuff, right? The dessert option~ see how many things on your card start with a "P"...let's see....I have punches, pen, pink, and paper!

Stamps: SU Punch Bunch and Voila

Paper: Black, White, Pear Pizazz, So Saffron, Regal Rose Saffron

Ink: White, Pear Pizazz, Regal Rose, So Saffron

Accessories: Grand Nestibilities Labels One, White Gel pen

I am entering my card in the following challenges:
Gingerloft~die cuts/punches
Lets Ink It Up #11~die cuts/punches
Fun With Shapes and More #79~use a diecut/punch and no DP
Art Impressions~Get punchy


Enjoy!

Wonderful Friend

Happy Saturday!!

I just don't know where the time goes! I thought I would be able to get a lot of things accomplished around the house while Bill is gone for a few months...NOT....lol! I did get the spring cleaning done and I am keeping up with my "extra" chores like lawn mowing, weed eating, taking out the trash... I went to Miami for a couple of days this week for work. Wonderfully warm!!

My card is for today's SCS Inspiration Challenge~Kirklands. Steph picked one of my favorite places to shop!! 
I love this Floral Sunburst Charger and used it as my inspiration. I pulled out some of the colors and made my felt flower the center of attraction. Tried to keep things simple too!
I am also entering this in the Southern Girls Challenge~Flowers.

Stamps: PTI Round and Round

Paper: PTI Dotty

Ink: Black Memento

Accessories: Felt, Dienamics Rolled Rose, Ribbon

Enjoy!

Happiness Always

Happy Tuesday! 

It's time for another Splitcoaststampers Color Combination Challenge and I am the hostess today! The challenge is "Soft Breezes for the Cake Walk" and the colors are Soft Suede, Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake. And "Icing on the Cake" is the dessert option. I hope you all will come by and participate!

For my card I wanted to use some new SU goodies that came this past week. I am loving the two step bird punch!! For the dessert option I used "dragees" (pearls) on the leaves and in the corners of my card. The layout is from the EatSleepStamp Challenge #121. 

I am also entering this in the Art Impressions Challenge(embossing), Stampavie and More Challenge (birds), and Alys Sunday Challenge (anything goes).

Stamps: SU Whimsical Words

Paper: Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla

Ink: Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Two Step Bird Punch, Sq Lattice EF, Pearls Ribbon, Spellbinders scalloped oval

Enjoy!

SCS Color Combo Challenge and Four Others!

Happy Tuesday!

My card today is for the Splitcoaststampers Color Combination Challenge~Crushing the Bashful Blues with Pizzaz and four others. As you know I am on the SCS Color Combo DT and each week there are four of us that take turns hostessing the challenge. This week it was Karen's turn and her post had me giggling! You have to check out her thread here and her solution to white gel pens that do not work anymore. I will have to pull out my 10 or 12 and give her solution a try! She picked some lovely colors this week don't you think? I know that spring is in the air!!

 When I first started this card, it was for this weeks SCS Featured Stamper Challenge~ Neva Queen of Combos. I cased her card found HERE. I changed the colors, stamps and sentiment. I incorporated five challenges for this card in her honor. She is definitely the Queen of Challenge Combos!
The layout is from this weeks SCS Sketch Challenge 322.

Other challenges~ Craft Your Passion (anything goes) and Flutterby Wednesdays (Use an angel, butterfly or fairy).

Stamps: Hero Arts Butterflies, MFT Essential Sentiments

Paper: PTI Spring Rain, Spring Moss and Plum Pudding

Ink: Black Memento

Accessories: Copics. White Gel Pen, Rhinestones, Paper piercer

Enjoy!

I'm Glad There Is You

Good Saturday Morning!
The weather is warmer and the flowers are blooming! I hope those of you in the northern hemisphere are getting glimpses of spring as well!

I have a Sunroom/Florida room at the back of my house. I always start my mornings in this room with breakfast, coffee and the morning news. When I walked in the room a few mornings ago, this beauty greeted me....

This is my Camilla bush in the back yard.....

I can't wait for the Azaleas, Gardenias and Hyacinths!!

Ok...for my post today I have a card that I made for a Splitcoaststampers Color Combination Challenge~ River Gray Whisper, that my PaperDoll friend, Julia was hosting. Such a soothing combination to work with! Love it!

I have been trying to make more CAS cards this year (no....not a new year's resolution, just a goal to expand my stamping horizons, lol!) and decided to use the Fall To Layout #125, from Clean and Simple.

Paper: Whisper White, River Rock and Basic Gray SU DP

Accessories: SU Rub Ons

Have a great weekend!
Enjoy!

Love You More

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

I have been gone for a week from blogging but there have been things happening around here that kept me occupied. Bill has gone out to Reno to work for a few months so I am on my own with the dog and cat to keep me company! I am sure the time will fly by as there are a lot of things going on in the next few months with trips for work, bowling tournaments, trip to see Bill, visitors coming from Tennessee....

Maybe....just maybe....I can get more cards posted, pictures posted, my Project Life Album worked on...This past Saturday I cleaned the house from top to bottom and cleaned out as well. Don't you love the feeling that you get when you get rid of clutter and drawers and closets are organized....lol!

Ok....on to my card for today.... It is for today's Splitcoaststampers Color Combination Challenge. Julia is our hostess with the mostest and her challenge~ Misty Celery Rose.
My daughter and I have a little game that we play sometimes when we say "I love you". One of us will come back with "I love you more", then "more mostest" and I always win with "I love you to infinity and beyond". Lol!

So for my card I used the Pure Innocence "Love You With All My Heart" and the sentiment from MFT's Essential Sentiments for the banner. Oh yes, the dessert option for the CC challenge is to use a banner!

I also used this weeks MFT Wednesday sketch for the card layout.

Stamps: MFT Pure Innocence Love You With All My Heart, Essential Senitments

Paper: Blue, Certainly Celery, Rose Red

Ink: Black Memento

Accessories: Copics, Die-namics Pennant, Buttons, Floss, Ribbon, Eyelet Border Punch

I hope you have a great week and I will be back soon with more cards and some flower pics. Oh how this warm spell has the flowers blooming here!
Enjoy!