HAPPY FATHER'S DAY / RS #169...

Oh happy day! Yes, it's been a bit since I've been around... so much going on! I have a fun Father's Day card for this week's RetroSketch challenge! I used one of my Wax Fruit Company images - This Year's Tie. I did some paper piecing for the tie and then used Copics on it, too!

Bye for now...

BEE HAPPY / DS #199

Hello! Hope you're having a wonderful week! I think it's time to clean the craft area - it took me a couple hours to find my nesting circle dies - LOL! We have a brand new Deconstructed Sketch for you today, and of course, i made a square card. My circle cards never turn out the way I want them, so I gave up a long time ago....

I used a couple of my images, Happy to Bee and Busy Bee.

 

The other Deconstructed ladies' have some really beautiful samples for you today - so please go check them out! 

Cresta Woodruff Jen Shults Kadie Ensley Sheri Gilson Tangii Crain Tracey Pickersgill

Have a great day!

SEEDS OF FRIENDSHIP / ADFD Spotlight...

Hello! Today over at A Day For Daisies' blog we did a little spotlight of one of my favorite past Club Kits, from March 2012 - Bonnets. When I was little I had a Holly Hobbie growing up (she's still at my mom's house) and my mom did a big needlepoint Holly Hobbie, too. I guess that's why I love this set so much! I used Basket Bonnet and did some digital paper piecing.

The papers are all from a digital kit, Signs of Spring by Mye De Leon, a very sweet and talented designer over at Pixels & Company. The sentiment is from one of my sets, In the Garden over at The Wax Fruit Company.

Speaking of Mye, she had a baby boy the day before my birthday. Alphonse was born with a congenital heart disorder called Tetralogy of Fallot - there is a hole in his lower heart chambers causing him not to have enough oxygenated blood in his lungs and body. They are in the Philippines, and have no insurance to cover the $12, 500 surgery he will need to survive. The surgeon wants the surgery to happen within the next few weeks. Please lift their family up in your prayers.

The digi scrap community is rallying around the family, trying to help them raise the money for his surgery, if you feel that you can help, please visit this link. Other designers are putting together a kit, the sales from which will go to Mye's family. So I'll have info on that when it's released next week.

Thanks for stopping by,

GIBRAN'S PINWHEEL / ADFD New Release...

Here's another digital hybrid card for today! The image is new from A Day For Daisies, called Orange Pinwheel, from the set Pinwheels are Fun! And they are! I also used digital paper piecing for this card, with Celeste Knight's new paper, Summer Sorbet, over at Design House Digital. 

Like my previous card, I set this all up on one page for printing. Using a light grey box to show my trim-line, I set up the image and the sentiment (which you'll find *free* below for your personal use) for the card front. I then digitally paper pieced the pinwheel & placed it on my page again, so that I could cut it out and pop it up on the base. After trimming the card front, I placed it in an embossing folder right up to the line of the pinwheel's stick, with the un-embossed half sticking out the side & ran it through my Big Shot.

*You are free to use this image, but please do not post it to your blog or anywhere else online. You may provide a link to this post for others to come and grab it, though! Just right click & open it into a new window at full size and right click on it again to save it to your computer.*

Have an awesome day!!!

BUNNY PAIL / DS #45...

Good morning! It's Thursday - I can't believe it! WOOHOO! We have a super FAB sketch for you today over at the Deconstructed Sketch, love this one Jen! 

I used some old  Scenic Route paper that I absolutely love, and an image from the Wax Fruit Co. called Bunny Pail! 

And here's the sketch...

Amber Hight Amy Sheffer - Guest Designer Arielle Gordon Donna Wardle Jen Shults Jessica Diedrich Kadie Ensley Lori Boyd Pam Varnell Sheri Gilson

We're taking the kids to see the Easter Bunny this weekend, and they assure me they are both going to sit on his lap. Jeff starts a new shift next week, I can't wait! He'll be home with us at night and go in for 3rd shift... so happy to have him home in the evenings, I can't wait (I already said that, didn't I?)!

Bye for now,

BUNNY'S PRIDE / CQC #130 & RS #4...

Good morning! We have a new palette of gorgeous spring colors for you today over at colourQ! I used the image Bunny's Pride by the Wax Fruit Company for this simple and fun card! The sketch is from this week's RetroSketrches.

   

Thanks for stopping by!

JUST MARRIED / DS #44...

Good morning! We have an awesome new sketch for you today over at the Deconstructed Sketch - it's so perfect in every way!!! My cousin has a wedding coming up next month and I thought he might like this funky card... hope I'm right!

The image is from the Wax Fruit Co. and is part of the set Just Married.

Here's the sketch and links to the other ladies blogs - they always have awesome inspiration...

Amber Hight Amy Sheffer, Guest Designer Donna Wardle Jen Shults Jessica Diedrich Kadie Ensley Lori Boyd Pam Varnell Sheri Gilson

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

BERRY BASKET OF EGGS / WFCo. New Release & ISSC #7...

Wow - it's Wednesday already! Talk around my house has already turned to Easter... the weather is in the upper 80s and the pollen is out in full force. Alex keeps saying, "I want an egg hunt Mama!" and I keep trying to tell him it isn't time. But if I hear it one more time, just maybe the Easter Bunny will come by the house this weekend for a trial run at hiding eggs. All this talk of Easter eggs inspired this little set of images, new at the Wax Fruit Company, Berry Basket of Eggs....

I used this awesome sketch from iSpy this week - actually I think the challenge ends in an hour or something - so I better go link up!

Bye for now...

 

CALLA LILIES / iCopic #74 & FMS #26...

Here is a card for the new iCopic Challenge. I've never played with them, but I thought it would be fun! The challenge is to use Copics (check!) and flowers (check!) - so I think I'm good~ LOL!

This image is from the Wax Fruit Company, called Calla Lilies. 

The sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches, I just moved it around a little. And shrank it. And used a square instead of a circle...... Sorry! ("Follows directions poorly..." ~ check!)

Have an awesome day and thank you so much for visiting!

BUSY BEE / RS #3...

Happy Saturday! We have a terrific new sketch for you today over at RetroSketches!!! The sketch today is based on a card by Lori Boyd. I turned the orientation to do a horizontal card. The image is from the Wax Fruit Company, called Busy Bee. I was excited to use a new embossing folder, Hexagon Illusion, I saw on another card recently, which I found and ordered from The Craft Barn. The papers are My Mind's Eye - Follow Your Heart, Be Amazing.

Here's the sketch...

Thanks for stopping by!

 

STUDY OF TULIPS / DS #43...

Good morning! We have an awesome sketch for you today over at the Deconstructed Sketch! LOVE it! I decided to kinda shrink mine down a little bit so it didn't cover the whole card. And with a smaller image, I save on Copic ink - LOL! You'll have to go check out the other ladies beautiful cards and also play along with us!

I used one of my sets of digi images from the Wax Fruit Company, called Study of Tulips - perfect for spring cards!

And here's a closer look at the sketch...

Thanks so much for stopping by!