Grateful Butterfly

The Featured Stamper this week is Albongo aka Ali! She has a way of making white space look full of color and class! I chose to case this beautiful butterfly creation here. I kept the layout, layers, butterfly and colors the same. Changed the sentiment placement, stamp sets, colored my butterfly and added a jewel. The butterfly is from the set Beautiful Butterflies. One of my favorite butterfly sets to date. I hope you have a wonderful and blessed Easter with your family and friends!

Flourishes Mother's Day Challenge

Welcome to Flourishes Pre-Challenge which is your chance to win our entire April New Release. Simple make a creation for Mother's day. Be sure to enter your creation back on Flourishes Blog so you are in the running for the new release. Flourishes will be closed for the weekend to celebrate and enjoy time with family this Easter Weekend. We hope you will do the same.
Working on some non traditional Mother's Day creations. This one has a bit of flair to it with the summer colors of yellow and red. This is really different for me in design, but I do still have my white space. The flowers are from Botanical Bookplates Vol 1. The tag sentiment is from Tiny Flowers and Tags using the Tailor-made classic tags die. Turned out pretty cool for a Mother's Day card.

This is the sentiment inside as the outside doesn't have the traditional happy mother's day sentiment there. I kinda like it on the inside only for this one.
Be sure to check out the beautiful creations from the design team today:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Tammy
Sharon

Christmas Birds

This months Christmas Challenge on SCS for the Dirty Dozen and Alumni is A Partridge in a Pear tree! Birds.... think cardinals, doves, partridges or fat chubby winter blue birds. Any bird image in your Christmas creation. Anyone can play along with us, just put SCSCCAPR12 in your keyword search so we can find your creations. Hope you get to play along with us!

Now who could resist these adorable birds with my favorite house mouse? This is called Cozy Roost. The snow is using liquid applique with a little bit of sparkle added to the top for sparkle. Fancy tags one was used for the sentiment with a few jewels. Yea another Christmas creation done! Flourishes Pre-Challenge for the April release is tomorrow so be sure to stop back by! Have a great day!

Homegrown goodness

Spring break is so nice it almost makes me wish it was summer, not quite though. ha! Kids are enjoying the break and I know that I have enjoy stamping a little bit too. This adorable guy is from Whiff of Joy called You have green fingers. My parents have a huge garden and tomatoes is just one of many vegetables they grow. I made a few of these as one will be for my dad and another one for my stash. I think its pretty general and can be for just about anyone. Super cute don't you think? I just adore this mouse! Simple ribbon tab with the hardware from CTMH and a few brads along the side. Easy Peasy!

Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day!

His and Hers Praying for you

Spring Break is so much fun as I have gotten to stamp a bit and play Lego's. I can only do so much of the Lego's then I need a mental break. ha! I made a his and her's praying for you set of cards. This way the guys get one and the girls still have their fluff and feel to it. This image is from Clear Dollar Stamps called Watermill. The praying for you sentiment is from Assemble Together. The gorgeous blooms on the girl version are some of my Pat blooms. These babies are precious and I don't just use them on anything. Both of them have stickles on the water. Easy peasy set of cards.
Hope you have a great day!

Holstein Birthday

Happy Monday! Day one of Spring break at our house! :0) This is for the Featured Stamper challenge 269. I cased this card HERE as I liked the layout and simplicity and ofcourse all that white space. Kept the layers, textured background, simplicity. Vickie's beautiful card is now turned it into a cute birthday card for a friends MIL. She owns a farm and wanted a holstein cow (black and white) so I used Moovelous from Totally Stampalicious for my creation. I don't know the name of this embossing folder but I do like it. Added a few pearls and the birthday tag. Voila!

Thanks for stopping in today! Have a wonderful day.

Partridge in a Pear tree

This months Christmas Challenge on SCS for the Dirty Dozen and Alumni is A Partridge in a Pear tree! Birds.... think cardinals, doves, partridges (never seen one personally, so I googled it ha!) or fat chubby winter blue birds. Any bird image in your Christmas creation. Anyone can play along with us, just put SCSCCAPR12 in your keyword search so we can find your creations.
I went with chubby snow birds for my creations from the stamp set Snow Wonderful. These birds are so chubby I love it. They fit in the Spellbinders Classic Keyhole Die. Very clean design with just a little bit of lace and sheer ribbon and some flourishes jewels for the background. Hope you can play along with us this month!
Spring break this week, yea! Looking forward to the rest after yesterday. We had a double header game for soccer in the wind and rain. It was so cold, if I was in charge I would of cancelled the games. Yet I am told that "I am soft and a mom". HA! Kids seemed to enjoy the sliding around in the mud though. Lots of hot chocolate drank yesterday. hee hee Hope you have a wonderful day!