Christmas in May??

Hello all!! It's Monday and that means that we're making another Christmas card to add to our stack of completed cards for Christmas this year!! Yay!!

This week please help us welcome our newest diva. Her name is America and her blog is Cards Created by America. She makes amazing cards and we're glad to have her as part of our team! I think she'll be starting next week. America's blog address is: http://cardsbyamerica.blogspot.com/

Debbie of "the Paper Garden" will be hosting our challenges every 3rd week of the month and this week her challenge is a color combo challenge! The color combo is: Sage, Chocolate and Peach. If you like to use Stampin Up colors that are closest to the challenge colors, they are: Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, Apricot Appeal or Cameo Coral. The color palette above are the actual Stampin Up colors but you may use any similar colors. They don't have to be Stampin Up colors. Again, the color combo for this challege is: Sage, Chocolate, Peach. I promise IRL my peach is really much more peach than orange but my camera would not cooperate so it looks orange!! Ugh!!

I used my Pink Cat Studio Lily stamp for this card. I colored my image with my Copics and used a Sakura glitter pen to add a little bling to Lily's coat. I love this image! My sentiment is a Hero Arts stamp. I used Bazzill cardstock for my card. I used Black Memento ink to stamp my image and sentiment. I used a really cute sequin trim to add a little bling and dimension. I can't remember who made it though. (sorry).

This is the weird photo that shows where I colored with my Sakura glitter pen!

Be sure to visit the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what our head diva, Maria and the other challenge divas created. I also have them listed on my sidebar. We'd love for you to play along, just leave a comment and a link to your creation on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword CSAYL. Thank you for stopping by my blog. Be sure to come by tomorrow or later this afternoon to see what fabulous creation I have for you! Sign up as a follower and I'll let you know as soon as I'm done!! See you then!

Picture of the Week!!

Happy Sunday everyone!

I just had to share this picture of my daughter that I took on Thursday before I took her to school. I just love this photo. She is growing so fast and while I am so proud of her, a part of me is sad to see the "little" girl slip away and be replaced with a sassy mouthed, sweet, adorable "big" girl. She will turn 10 in September. Double digits!!! Oh my gosh, I feel old!!! lol

I know the sassy mouth is going to continue to get worse, but I just can't get used to hearing it from "my baby". You know what I mean?? I love her so much and she is so smart and witty (she gets that from me) lol!!! Anyway, she will be going to the fourth grade in the fall. I just can't believe it!! Anyway, I had to do a quick post and show you my sweet girl. Be sure to hug your sweetie's today (fur babies included!

Thanks for letting me share. Come back tomorrow and see what I have to show you. I may actually make something!! It's a miracle!! Come see!!

Are you Fluttering Today??

Hello Friends!! It's Flutterby Wednesday and our challenge this week was to use a sentiment or quote on our card along with a butterfly or fairy. Sounds simple enough, so why don't you play along with us this week??


Our featured team member this week is Nicola. Please stop by and welcome Lelia http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/ and Christine http://changeofheart56.blogspot.com/to our team!

For my card this week I decided not to use patterned paper!! I know, I can hardly believe it myself!! I used purple Bazzill Bling cardstock and punched butterflies out of glitter cardstock in lots of different colors. I used my Martha Stewart punch for that. Then I used a Whipper Snapper Designs, Inc. rubber stamp to stamp my quote/sentiment. I popped it up on pop dots and glued only the center of the butterflies and bent their wings up to look like they are sitting on my card. I like how this turned out (even without patterned paper)!!

We say good bye to Kristie this week. She is going to take a break so that she can take care of some personal business. But she will be back later on. We'd love to see you play along this week! If you post to SCS or PCP be sure to use the keyword FBW so that we can find your beautiful creations. Be sure to visit Danni's blog to see all the details. Be sure to check my sidebar and check out the other Flutterby divas to see their wonderful creations.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I love reading your comments, they mean so much to me!! Be sure to come back tomorrow to see what I have for you to see!! Have a wonderful day!

We're zinging it up at Christmas Stampin All Year Long!

Happy Monday everyone!! How was Mother's Day?? I'll share mine with you in a later post. I also wanted to share that I lost 2 pounds last week!!! Yay!!


At Christmas Stampin' All Year Long, we create Christmas cards every Monday. By the time November rolls around, we'll have a whole bunch of Christmas cards ready to send out!! That spells out a lot of stress relief for me! Our fabulous leader, Maria usually creates super challenges for us to do but to spice things up a bit, I'm pleased to announce that Vicki of Summerthyme Studio will be hosting the challenges the 2nd week of each month!! Yay, her work is super fabulous!! This will be challenge #16.



The challenge this week is to add a little zing to your Christmas card. On the Christmas Stampin All Year Long blog Vicki asks the question: So how does one add a little Zing with Christmas Bling? Well you can use Glitter........... Red, Green, Gold, Silver.........anything that suits your fancy! Maybe add some Rhinestones or Blingy Brads, Some Pretty Embossing anything that resembles Tinsel or Christmas Lights! LOL!! So that is the challenge this week.

For my card, I used a super cute gift tag shaker to decorate my card. The shaker is filled with pretty, sparkly sequins...there's some bling!! I also used dew drops as well!! I used scraps for my card so I'm not sure who did this paper. I think it is Creative Imaginations but I'm not sure (sorry)!! The sentiment stamp is by Great Impressions (I think, I'm going to check on that and edit my post if it is by someone else.) I used a very simple style for my card but I like how it turned out. What do you think?

Be sure to visit the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what the other challenge divas created. I also have them listed on my sidebar. We'd love for you to play along, just leave a comment and a link to your creation on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword CSAYL. Thank you for stopping by my blog. Be sure to come by tomorrow to see what fabulous creation I have for you. See you then!

Happy Mother's Day!!

Hello my friends!

I just wanted to wish all of you a Happy Mother's Day and I hope you had a wonderful day!! You are all such a great group of friends and I truly wish you all the best on Mother's Day and every day!!

I'll see you tomorrow!

Hugs to you,
Cathy

InStyle Stamps Sneak Peek!!

Happy Friday everyone!!

I have a short post today but a real cutie patootie!! This is a sneak peek of Ava Floating from InStyle Stamps. Is she just the cutest thing ever?? I love this image and the best thing about her is that she is being released as a a digi stamp!! That means she can be any size you need her to be for any project that you are working on!! Isn't that awesome!!

I colored Ava with my Copics and used Shimmerz on her wings, etc. I used my white gel pen to do some highlights and some pretty flowers for her to fly around in!! I think she is just the cutest! I actually cut out two dresses and colored them and used pop dots to pop up one layer so she would have a lot of dimension. My photos are not the greatest today, sorry. My paper is Cloud Nine and has a lot of sparkle, perfect for this litttle fairy. For some reason, my photos are not so great today!

If you haven't been to InStyle Stamps before, you should really go shop around. There are some really awesome images to choose from at really great prices. Very fast shipping as well! Of course digi's have that quick gratification that we all crave!!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I appreciate you so much!! I hope you like Ava, she is one of the super cute Anime images.

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long

It's Monday, and that means that it's time to share another Christmas card!! So in between my pain meds and very large ice pack on my back I've created a card. Yay me!!! I feel like I haven't created anything in forever. I miss it and all my friends in blogland!! LOL. So this week, I'm going to work really hard to get back on track and we'll see how it goes.

At Christmas Stampin' All Year Long, we create Christmas cards every Monday. By the time November rolls around, we'll have a whole bunch of Christmas cards ready to send out!! That spells out a lot of stress relief for me! Our fabulous leader, Maria has created another super challenge for us to do. This will be challenge #15. We were given this photo to use as our inspiration. I looked at this photo and I love the teal and metallics so I chose to use these elements for my card. i used the pretty teal blue and for my metallic I used silver ink and embossed it to make it really pretty.

I used some pretty Heidi Grace paper and Bazzill cardstock. My stamp is by Inkadinkado.

Be sure to visit the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what the other challenge divas created. I also have them listed on my sidebar. We'd love for you to play along, just leave a comment and a link to your creation on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword CSAYL.
Thank you for stopping by my blog. Be sure to come by tomorrow to see what fabulous creation I have for you. See you tomorrow!