Spring time for Flourishes

Over on Flourishes Blog today its all about the Signs of Spring. Well Flourishes might have some spring weather but here in Washington State we have yet to see it. ha! Today we are showing you some springy designs with the stamp set Signs of Spring. This is a rich Easter card with the deep purple color. I wanted to go a little on the rich side with this creation. The oval frame was made using Spellinders Classic Ovals. A few pearls around the border and a backdrop of lace and ribbon. Easy peasy Easter card. And since we all are show casing Signs of Spring, it is on sale through this weekend. No code needed as it is already adjusted in the store through Sunday. Happy Shopping! Check out the creations from the Design Team:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Tammy
Sharon
Jan Marie

For You Allison

This is a card for a fellow stampers daughter, Allison. She is currently needing a little encouragement right now and I asked if I could make a card for her. This is the adorable Miss Anya Bags that I got a few weeks ago and I am just now inking her up. I love her pigtails. As a kid I had long brown hair that was in pigtails all the time. It doesn't get any cuter than this. I started this sketch out for the Greeting Farm Sketch on Saturday and I got my cuts wrong so I just went with it. ha! I do like how this turned out. Vibrant and cheerful, hopefully will make Allison smile a bit today. Thanks for checking in with me today. Have a wonderful day!

HMF 116 Let's Party

Welcome to the House Mouse and Friends Challenge #116 Let's Party. ha! This weeks challenge is brought to us by Dorte. Our Sponsors are House-Mouse Designs and Di's Digi Downloads. With prizes of A $25 House Mouse Designs Gift Card and $10 voucher to Di's Digi Downloads shop. Make sure to link your creations back over on the HMF blog.

I am in need of some birthday cards so that is my party favor today. What a hoot this house mouse is called Pop-ular Fun. I think the one sleeping won't think its so fun, but his friend sure does. Look at that grin. hee hee Adorable! This sketch is from CardPatterns 158. I liked this layout a lot. Now I think my one panel is a bit shorter than the sketch so hopefully I am not in trouble with the shorter panel. :0) The oval lace doilies I found in my stash were perfect for the oval pattern on the sketch. Turned out to be a fun birthday card I think.
Remember to link your creations over on the House Mouse Designs *Hand Stamped By Me* gallery so everyone can see your creations at House Mouse Designs. Thanks for stopping in with me today. Have a wonderful day!

Featured Stamper Challenge Team

This week's Featured Stamper FS268 is Dreams Do Come True. Some changed to the challenge as Cindy is stepping down for a new job she took. In her place is a new FS Team consisting of Judy, Bridget, Julie and myself. This is going to be so fun and exciting!
Take one of your own creations and CASE yourself! Yep everyone is this weeks FS. Here is my original card that I am casing. I kept the layout and stamp set and changed the rest. I used a different ribbon, colors, coloring and didn't have as much sparkle for the snow. The stamp set is called Worship the Lord from ODBD. I really like this one so much more. The holly wreath on the door and the green are perfect for the Dirty Dozen Alumni Christmas challenge, to think green. Create a Christmas creation with green in mind such as Mistletoe, holly and ivy or even just the color green. Anyone can play along just put the keyword SCSCCMAR12 for us to find your creations.


Have a great day!

Every Crafters Nightmare

Last night I spent about 2 hours cleaning out the top drawer on my stamping desk. I needed to clean, purge, toss and just get down and dirty with this drawer and I did. Boy does it feel good to have that done. Yet look what I found in cleaning out this drawer? Every stampers nightmare... stamped images! Look at that stack! For some reason or another we will stamp out an image to use for a creation and either change our mind, get busy with something else, or just plain decide it doesn't fit. So it gets tossed to the side and saved for another day. Well that day is TODAY! No I am not going to use these all today, ha! However I am going to try and pull from this stack of images and create with them so I can get this stack down to a more manageable stack. Starting with this pile on the right as they have already been colored and some even matted. Should make for some quick cards atleast on those.
My challenge to YOU is.... what is your stack of images like? Post a photo and leave me a link here to find your *nightmare*! Soccer was cold this morning, we lost which makes the cold weather even more dreary when the game was over. Kids played hard though, we have hot chocolate almost ready so I better get in there. Then I am off to create with this pile for the afternoon! Whohooo!!! Have a great day!

Flourishes Friday

Happy Friday! Our science fair was last night and it turned out fabulous. One of my boys received the Teachers Choice Award for the grade. We are so EXCITED! The boards and projects all the kids worked on were wonderful. It is great to see all the creativity of the kids and see what each one researched. Thankfully it is all done though. ha! Soccer is just about done also so maybe then I can have a little more stamping time. :0) Today is Flourishes Free for All Friday. We all get to show you a creation with our new release from last week. If you haven't ordered your stamp sets yet you still have a little bit of time to get in on our New Release Bundle at 10% off. Time is running out so hurry!

My creation is using the beautiful Magnolias. I mentioned before that I really enjoy coloring this months sets and I wasn't kidding. They truly are beautiful and so fun to color. Since time is short lately this is another easy peasy card. The copic collections I used are Sky collection and Spring Greens. If you haven't checked out all the new laces we received in you won't want to wait. I have added a bit to my card today with the lovely velvet trim. Check out the new Candi I used, these are out of the Iced pack. Make for great embelishments! Voila that is my creation.

Be sure to stop in with the girls today and see their creations today:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Tammy
Sharon
Jan Marie

Totally Stampalicious MooVelous Blog Hop

Welcome to Totally Stampalicious March Blog Hop and New Release! If you just came from Angel's Blog you are in the right place. If you are just joining us, head back on over to the TS Blog to start your hopping.
We are super excited to share another round of stamps from our witty, hilarious and just plain ol' adorable Bugaboo Line by artist Jodie Mackrell of Bugaboo Digi Stamps!
We have FOUR BRAND NEW SETS for you tonight and they are all available NOW at Totally Stampalicious!! As always we want you to play along in our Release Blog Hop so we're going to give away some PRIZES!!!
1st Prize - All FOUR New Stamp Sets
2nd Prize - $15 Gift Certificate
3rd Prize - $5 Gift Certificate
All you gotta do is comment your way through the hop and YOU could be a lucky winner!!!Don't forget that Totally Stampalicious also has an awesome promotion going on right now!
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The adorable set I am going to show you is called Moo-Vealous Bobble Farm. These two animals are so darn CUTE! My first one is a thank ewe card. ha! Very easy peasy with a fun shaped frame. Got some new lace in the other day and thought it went well with my little lamb.

I have to say that the cow is my favorite. DH even laughed when he saw him, just so cute with the grass in his mouth. hee hee Fun slim style card for this one. My cow is popped up on dimensionals after I cut him out. Again some new lace added to this one as well.

Your next hop is over on to JoAnn's Blog. Thanks for hopping along and happy shopping!