Magnolia Picking Lilacs

Love love LOVE this stamp!! I joined A Spoon Full of Sugar: Challenge 54 and I just love the sketch too! It's not often I get to work with these colors and I don't even really know how it happened. LOL! The bg paper is Basic Grey Mellow, the flowers are some misc flowers & Prima, Fiskars border punch, Martha Stewart Butterfly punch and scalloped nestability. I also tried some Flower soft my friend Sheri gave me. OMG CUTE and colored with Copics. :)

Ships Ahoy!!

I borrowed this Ships Ahoy SU set from my mom. With Father's Day coming up, I need quite a few cards! I also took the Mojo Monday challenge for my layout. I distressed the edges, used cork for my sailboat bg, the washers are from Stamping Bella and used my embossing Cuttlebug swirls folder.

Heartfelt Thanks

I don't make sympathy cards often (thank goodness) but when the occasion calls for it I usually reach for my Heartfelt Thanks Stampin' Up set. I used Patty's card you can see here, as inspiration. Thanks for the help Patty!

Blog Candy

Check out Tanya's candy over at Obsessed Crazy Momma blog. She works at our LSS so there's bound to be some good stuff you might like to have. Check out her blog too. Great stuff!

Sketch Saturday #53 & HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

It's Sketch Saturday's 1st birthday so since they are my favorite sketch challenge blog I knew I had to join. Here's my entry:

I used the cloud technique from Three Clovers Designs and it was pretty easy too I might add. I was so happy when it turned out the first time I tried it because I colored my image first. DUH! The DP papers are the Audrey line from Lyndsay Johnson and Connery from We R Memory Keepers. I hope I got that right. I used Prima Flowers and felt flowers from SU. The border punch is from Martha Stewart & misc gems. I can't remember where the felt swirls are from because I have a habit of throwing away the packaging after I've used something for the first time. The sentiment sticker is from Cloud9 Design.

Here is a close up and it's funny when you take pictures using different settings what you see. The above was taken in a light area with no flash and this pic was with a flash. You can see my paper has a shimmer to it but I have forgotten what this paper is too cuz I only bought about 5 sheets!!!

Sketch Saturday

This weekend I tried PURPLE for the Sketch Saturday challenge. I find this color so hard to use but my sister gave me some great bg paper to try and boy did that help! Of course I have no idea what it's called. LOL! The flowers are Prima, I colored with Copics, the heart charge is something I bought 4 yrs ago, and the leaves are Quickutz cookie cutter dies. Enjoy!!