Something Borrowed, Something Blue

It's been a crazy spring/summer with four weddings, three high school graduations and one college graduation...all in the same family!!  Hardly had any time to create anything!  I did create this card for my lovely niece Mollie's wedding shower today.  She will be married in September, and is the last of the four mentioned above.  I am entering this card into the FCCB Challenge Me Monday #116 - Blue Bells Challenge.  We had to make a project with a bell, cross, or church on it and use the color blue.  Hope you like it!!

Supplies used:
Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge
Bazzill Dotted Swiss Paper Pack for blue background
DCWV Shimmer Matstack for bow & inside of bell
Sentiment is from Recollections Just Married stamp set

Happy Father's Day

I made this card for my husband Paul.  He doesn't think so, but he is the best father a child could ever have! Our children are all grown now, and I feel they are the most level headed children out their in the world.  They are loving, faithful, compassionate children who, although they have had challenges in their lifetime, and always will, they know the real difference between the everyday ups and downs and real tragedy, and what a difference family came make in both situations, and how they are blessed to come through it all intact!!
Happy Father's Day Paul!!

I used the Cricut Lite Block Party Cartridge for this card.  Used papers from my stash & printed the sentiment in Microsoft Word and cut it out using a Stampin Up top note punch.  Hope you enjoy!!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

FCCB Father's Day Challenge
Secret Saturday Challenge#189
Going Buggy's June Challenge

Happy Spring/Happy Easter

One more Easter card before I go to bed!!!  I now have one Easter card to mail to each of my daughters and one to mail to my wonderful mother!!  I cut this shaped card from the Elegant Edges cricut cartridge and the bunny rabbit from the "Just Because" Cards cricut cartridge.  I am entering this card in the Mojo Monday 235 Contest and the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #179.  I wish all of you a wonderful Easter weekend!!  Probably won't be back here till after my daughters wedding on the 14th!!!

Happy Spring/Happy Easter

So my whole New Years Resolution was to start a blog, make more cards/scrapbooking pages, and enter them in more challenges!!  Well, I've got the blog started, but making cards/scrapbooking pages for loved ones, and entering challenges has not gone as well as planned!  Probably because my daughter is getting married next Saturday, and the whole wedding planning thing has taken over the first part of this year!!  That's okay...I will get back on track with a vengeance when my daughter is happily married!!  Anyway...I wasn't going to even attempt to make Easter cards, but I'm making a last ditch effort!!  The background paper for this card is from the DCWV Blossoms & Butterflies 4.5 x 6.5 stack.  The girl is the Pure Innocence "My Basket of Eggs" stamp, the sentiment is from Inky Antics Carrot Bunny HoneyPOP set, and the small bow was cut with the 3D Bow Cricut Cartridge.   I colored the girl image with colored pencils and gamsol!!  I just love the Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things!!

I am entering this card into the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #105, Polkadoodles Easter Blog Hop Challenge, and the Catch the Bug Easter/Spring Challenge.

Happy Spring

     I had to enter the March Going Buggy Challenge....Enfy's posts are just too hilarious, and she is just wicked enough to throw this "use something on your card that wasn't intended for cardmaking"challenge  to spark our creativity!!  I looked at the challenge, and as a newbie to this game I thought...."OH LORD...she couldn't have picked a harder project!!!   I decided to go ahead and make a card with as many weird objects as I could.  It might not be pretty, but hope it is unusual enough to win!! 

    The flower centers are water bottle caps.  The red I painted with Delta Perm Enamel Country Tomato, the yellow with Plaid Indoor/Outdoor Dandelion Yellow paint. I used a Stampin Up & EK Success paper punch for the petals.  The flower stalks are bamboo party picks painted with Delta Ceramcoat Leaf Green color.  The leaves, believe it or not, are the paper wrappers from Halls Mentholyptus Cough Drops painted with the same Leaf Green color!!  The sentiment is from the Inky Antics Carrot Bunny HoneyPOP Set.