Life Is A Matter Of Moments

Hello and Happy Wednesday!!
We are on the downhill slide to the weekend! I sure could use a little sunlight. And they call this the sunshine state, lol. It has been foggy here for a couple of days and they don't show sun in the forecast until Sunday. I do not think I could live in the upper Northwest USA if it is like this all the time!

My card today is for the February Sketch For You To Try challenge. It is a monthly challenge over on Jen Del Muro's blog, I Heart To Stamp. My goal is to complete each monthly challenge this year. So far, so good!
I used some items I received from the SU Sale A Bration. Love the colors in the Everyday Enchantment paper! I semi cased the mini book cover in the Sale A Bration catalog.

Stamps: Fresh Vintage, Elements of Style

Paper: Everyday Enchantment DP, Lucky Limeade, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Very Vanilla

Ink: Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade

Accessories: Spellbinders Circles, Everyday Enchantment Brads

Other Challenges:

Party Time Tuesdays #57~ Anything Goes

Lucky Me....

Good Tuesday Morning to You!! How is your week going?
I am on the schedule for three rounds of physical therapy this week with a stress echo thrown in for good measure on Thursday. Seems my doctor loves putting me through that dang test every couple of years. And they wonder why I won't get on a treadmill for exercise, lol!

My card is for today's SCS Color Combination Challenge~Lucky Rock Garden. Julia is our hostess with the mostest when it comes to monochromatic!! Love this one. Didn't know that one of my maiden names (yes I have two..) is "GREEN", did ya! lol! And, also one of my favorite colors...Dessert Option- Irish Blessing or St Patty's. Had dessert today too! (including some cherry pie...yum!).
The layout is this weeks MFT Wed Sketch Club # 60. Love playing with the MFT Birdhouse set!

Stamps: SU Lucky Me

Paper: Lucky Limeade, River Rock, Garden Green, Basic Grey Hello Luscious, Good Luck by Marie Cole

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa

Accessories: MFT Dienamics Homespun Birdhouse, Mini Tabs and Wonky Scallop Border, Pearls

Other Challenges:
The Crazy Challenge #108~ Anything Goes
The Craft Place~ Anything Goes
2 Sisters #80 ~ Anything Goes

Enjoy!

News Flash

Good Sunday Morning! Hope your weekend has been enjoyable!

My card is for today's SCS Featured Stamper Challenge~If you have a feline fetish...Cat Crazy aka Janice.. Love love love all the CAS cards in her gallery! I chose her You're Sweet card to CASE. I changed the color yellow to red, changed the stamp image and added a bottom panel of black and white strips. 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Boob Tubes

Paper: Real Red, White, Black

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Spellbinders circles, Copics, Pearls

Other Challenges:
2 Sisters #80~ Anything Goes
Dies to Die For #1~ Anything Goes
Bloggers Challenge~ Red, Black and White


Enjoy!

Raise The Bar Challenge #93

Hi Everyone! Happy Friday!

It is time for the Raise The Bar Challenge! This week it is a color challenge~ Lavender, Green and One Other Color...kind of like Mardi Gras! The Mardi Gras celebrations were everywhere around here this past week. I live in the "Mardi Gras belt", lol. From New Orleans to Mobile to Pensacola. I hear Mobile knows how to do Mardi Gras right. (even better than New Orleans if you can imagine that!).

My card is clean and simple today. I have been seeing a lot of zig zags out in blogland and it seems to be a growing trend. So out came the ric rac die. I used the traditional Mardi Gras colors for my card.

Come on over and join in the challenge! Check out the cards by the DT too!

Thanh

Wanda

Joni
Julie

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches Yummers

Paper: White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: PTI Ric Rac die, Copics G40, G82, BV02, BV17, Y32, Y35, Orange Peel Stickles


Other Challenges:
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #73~Anything Goes

Enjoy!

Sip Life a little at a time...

Happy Tuesday!
Get your week started off right? Mine didn't but we won't go there, lol! Just "sipping life a little at a time"...

My  card is for today's SCS Color Combination Challenge~ Basic Pretty Pirouette. Joanne picked a beautiful combination for this week! I have soooo been neglecting my Greeting Farm stamps so I pulled out Tea-rrific to use today. I just love teacup stamps in any shape or size, lol! The layout is from this weeks Greeting Farm SCS Sketch Challenge #4. You can find the sketch and details here.

Stamps: TGF Tea-rrific

Paper: Basic Gray, Pretty In Pink, Pink Pirouette, White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Ribbon, Copics R81, R83, C00

.Enjoy!

Find the Good in Everything

Good Morning!
Having a good weekend? We have had rain and more rain.  Hopefully today we will see some sun.I have been piddling...just move from one room to another and whatever strikes my fancy is what I am doing, lol! I did log on to check out the SCS Featured Stamper challenge last night. I have always participated in the challenge except for the past few weeks with surgery and traveling.

The SCS Featured Stamper Challenge is~Move Over Batman...Becky aka Beccabatgirl is a girl after my own heart with all her creations in the gallery! I chose her Happy Birthday card to CASE. I used the same flowers but changed out the colors and used this weeks Fall To Layout #178.

Stamps: MFT Pearls of Wisdom

Paper: White, MME A Beautiful Life

Ink: Bashful Blue

Accessories: MFT Dienamics Pretty Posies, Pearls

Enjoy!

Missing Your Voice

Alrighty! It is TGIF time!!
I made it back from my daughter's birthday celebration in Tennessee and am ready for some rest. Still working on the shoulder, going to PT three times a week. Maybe I will get to pick up that bowling ball sometime in March, lol!
Here is a pic of my sweet sweet daughter..doesn't seem like 23 years have gone by since she was born.

Today is a new Raise The Bar Challenge (#92). The challenge is "A side of chips"~ as in chipboard. I used the MFT Dienamic Ring Me and cut the phone out of white chipboard. This is what I consider a CAS card and wanted it to be more on the masculine side. The phone cord is a coated paper clip that I wrapped around my piercing tool. The layout is this weeks MFT Wed Sketch #59.

I flipped the sketch and moved the sentiment flag.

Come on over and join in the challenge! Check out all the DT cards!

Thanh

Wanda

Joni
Julie

Other Challenges
Mema's Crafts~ Anything Goes
Through The Craftroom Door #20~ CAS w/sentiment
Shopping Our Stash #39~ Metal Mania
Enjoy!

Roses and Just a Little Chocolate....

Happy Friday!!
I cannot wait for tomorrow!! I am flying up to Tennessee to spend time with family and help my daughter celebrate her 23rd birthday!  And....her birthday is on Valentine's Day!

 What plans do you have for the weekend? You could come hang out with us on Splitcoast and participate in the Mini VSN going on tonight. Check it out here!

Today is the Raise The Bar Challenge #91. This week it is "Roses and Chocolate". Get out those reds and browns! I went through my DP and could not find a thing with red and brown. I found lots of red and black as well as pink and brown. So, I opted for a CAS card using this weeks Fall To Layout #176 and didn't use any DP. How's that? And there is not a lot of chocolate, lol. Been trying to stay away from that stuff....

I got out the True Love stamp Set by Gina K and inked up the pretty little heart snowflake. Love that stamp in the set! The heart border is stamped with Versamark and embossed with White EP.

Come on over and join in the challenge! Check out all the DT cards!

Thanh

Wanda

Joni
Julie

Supplies:
Stamps: GinaK True Love
Paper: GinaK Red and White
Ink: Poppy Parade, Versamark,Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Rhinestones


Additional Challenges Entered:
4 Crafty Chicks~ Love is in the Air
Do You Stack Up #58~ Love

Enjoy!

Precious Gift

Happy Tuesday!
Has your week gotten off to a good start?

I had a followup with the doctor yesterday and I was given a high five on my progress with my shoulder. I tell ya...doing physical therapy on yourself four times a day is grueling but it paid off! We haven't even gotten to the strengthening exercises yet though....Slow process but I will be glad to have full range of motion of my shoulder again.

My Mom and Dad headed back to Tennessee yesterday. They came to help me this past week since Bill had to leave for Baton Rouge to work for five months. I couldn't ask for sweeter parents! Love you guys!

My card is for this weeks SCS Color Combination Challenge hosted by mwah...Soft Poppy Delight. I saw this color combination in the new SU Mini and just had to see what everyone would come up with in the challenge. I have been wanting to use this PL image since Christmas and the MFT Wed Stamp Club layout was perfect for it. I flipped the sketch to have more room for my stamp image.

I just love this stamp set!

Stamps: MFT PLL In A Manger

Paper: Daffodil Delight, Poppy Parade, SU DP

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Square Lattice EF, MFT Dienamics Stacking Stars and Mini Tabs, Brads, Lemon atYou Spica pen, Copics E55, E57, E59, R14, R08, Y13, Y15, Y17, C00, B60

Enjoy!

Great Catch

Good Friday Morning!
Are you ready for the weekend? I am!! I have been recuperating from my shoulder surgery slowly but surely. Physical therapy has been kicking my butt! No pain, no gain, so they say.... Stitches come out on Monday and hopefully clearance from the doc to be able to drive.

With this post comes my announcement of the invitation to join the Raise The Bar Challenge Design Team. I am now a "Bar-Tender"! Fun, fun group of ladies and wonderful challenges each week.The Bar-Tenders "encourage you to challenge yourself, raise your own level of crafting, and keep your resolution to use those new stamping items". 

We have a sketch challenge this week and our sponsor is Whimsie Doodle stamps. Go check out their stamps. So much fun to be had with their images! I used the Great Catch image for my card today. Those fish are the cutest things and I had a blast coloring them. I used Funky Fresh Valentine digital papers from Creativity by Crystal. You can find the paper at JessicaSprague.com.
Here is the sketch...

And my card....

Supplies:
Stamps: Whimsie Doodles Great Catch digi
Paper: Rich Razzelberry (SU), Summer Sunrise (PTI), White (PTI)
Ink: Rich Razzelberry and Black
Accessories: Spellbinders Circles, MFT Dienamic Monarch Border, Viva Decor Cream Pearl Pen,Star Dust Stickles, Copics (BG0000, BG10, BG13,Y13, Y17, RV14, RV17, G12, G24,, E30, E35, C00)

Other Challenges:
Crazy4Challenges #121~ Layer It On
Paper Sundaes #105~ Valentines

Enjoy!