Wedding

Well yesterday was a beautiful day here in Oregon. I know I have complained a bit about the weather this year.  Well, me and every other blogger!!  We finally had a sunshiny day.  And what a blessing that was as we went to an outside wedding.  It was a beautiful wedding.  It was the wedding that I made the mini album as a gift for.  I thought I would go ahead and post the little card I made to go with it.  I used a Lili of the Valley stamp called I Do.  I used the same Close To My Heart paper pack that I had used for the mini album and the Blessings Box.  Which I will share when I get a picture of it!!  That is what I get for sending something to the Bride for her to approve before I took a picture!!  My daughter was the photographer for the wedding and promised to take some pics.

I just love these papers, hope I can find some more. I think they are just perfect for a wedding theme. And don't you just love that little wedding cake charm? 

I just added a touch of R-0000 to the dress.  And the inside is also simple.  After spending so much time on the other two projects I didn't do anything too elaborate. 

The Bride is Tongan and the Groom is African American.  I hope I did their skin tones justice.  At the wedding yesterday they dug a pit and roasted a pig.  Yummo!! 

Don't forget to come back on Tuesday!!  I have a new Anita Be Stampin Challenge card for you and a new Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlawz card!  I hope you are joining in and adding yourself to the linkie for a chance to win $50 in product from Oozak!! If you think about it and you are ordering, click the link from the Outlawz, it helps Rusty track if he wants to keep sponsoring the site!!

Happy Fathers Day with Some Odd Girl

Yup I know Father's Day is over, I am late with a couple of cards. I always have good intentions!!  I started early, even ordered 2 stamps.  One from LOTV and one from Some Odd Girl.  You know what always cracks me up is that people that do not craft actually think you save money by making cards instead of buying.  Yup, you are laughing with me aren't you?  Anyways, the challenge over at Some Odd Girl this week is to use Kraft or white and only 2 pops of color.  I hope my card qualifies.  I used Tobie and his Puppy. I really tried to color the puppy Kraft like, but needed to not get it too close to the color of his hair/face/other browns!!!  So my pops of color are denim blue and lime green.

Ok, do you see it?  If you saw my Monday post then you know I just got Copic Certified,  Yup, do you see that new little blinkie up on the right there?  Anyways, Maryanne Walker was my instructor and she shared about depth in the shading and shadowing.  What do you think about his face?  Shaded or playing in a mud puddle? LOL!!! 

I used a cuttlebug embossing folder, some ribbon stash that I stapled on.  Yup, if you are gonna add ribbon to a Man Card, staple it!!  The sentiment is from LOTV.  The paper is both Kraft and My Mind's Eye and some denim stash.  I did some sloppy stitching on the card.  Cuz again, it is a Man Card!!

And of course the inside.

Super simple, denim blue CTMH ink on denim blue cardstock!

And some Challenges:

Crafts and Me has Stitches.

My mums Craft shop is for the boys.

Tuesday throwdown is to create a masculine card.

Thanks as always for stopping by.  Would love to share a cup of coffee with you some time!!

Anita Be Stampin Challenge 23~Shaped Card

Hey there everyone, here we are for another Anita Be Stampin Challenge.  This week we are challenging you to make a Shaped card.  There is a twist this week, to add buttons.  Now I know not all of the Design Team Members did this, so it is up to you.   I love to do shaped cards.  I love to use my Grand Calibur, just wish I had more Grand Nesties!!  They are on my wish list for sure!!  This challenge I used Tallulah.  

Don't you just love this GORGEOUS paper by Cosmo Cricket?  I love the purses and the gorgeous colors in this paper.  I started with my image, picked my papers and then my colors to match the paper.   The Happy Birthday stamp is  LOTV circular sentiments.  And that gorgeous lace is Wild Orchid Crafts.   Love it!!

I distressed all the edges of the card.  Do you see the cute paper on the inside?  So cute.  I recently hit a sale where all those 6X6 paper pads were $3.99.  Yup, I got a few!!!  Here are the Copic colors I used on this card.  

I hope you can find some time to join us in the challenge at Anita Be Stampin.  We are still on the Bi~weekly schedule, so you have some time!!

I am adding this card to the challenge over at Paper Sundaes Challenge~Girly Girl.

Clearlyistamp challenge is distressing.

Happy Fathers Day LOTV

This past weekend we finally had some beautiful weather here in Oregon.  We bought a travel trailer recently and have been dying to take it out.  I however don't like to camp in the cold and rain, even inside a trailer.  Personally, I still like to sit by a fire and make smores.  I said I wasn't going to this time. You know, that forever quest to lose weight.  Well, I have been really good lately but, my daughter and her husband came and they brought the smore stuff and don't you know I caved!!  Oh yeah, back to the post.  So what does camping have to do with card making?  Well, I can't take along my copics (too much work) but I packed my prisma pencils, my oderless mineral spirits, some 6X6 paper pads, images to color, and went camping!!  I bought this darling image from Lily of the Valley specifically for some Father's Day cards. My husband has been playing the wii lately when I craft or browse blogs so when I saw this image I had to have it!!   This stamp is called Computer Fun, but I think it looks like the wii console we have.

The sentiment is from the Happy Circular Sentiments set.  I used a couple of different punches so that I could enter it into the Lily of the valley challenge this week.  I was thinking about doing a comparison with my copics but if I do that I may never get it uploaded!! LOL.  So one thing I want you to notice is his shorts! My husband wears camo shorts all the time! 

 I actually got 3 images colored while camping this weekend. How very peaceful to not have TV or a computer to steal my time!!  Thanks so much for stopping by. I love visitors!

I also am entering this card in the following challenges:

Here Come The Boys-fathers day

Craft Your Days Away-fathers day

designed2delight-fathers day or manly cards w/o flowers

Easy Craft Projects-for dad

Simply Create Challenges-Fathers day

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws

It is Tuesday again and that means it is time for another Color Challenge at the Outlawz.  Have you checked out the Main page lately?  We have some awesome sponsors for the month of May.

                                                     
We have another $50 gift certificate from Oozak up for grabs.  Which by the way is where I get my Copics!

We have a $25 gift certificate from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design.  She has some fabulous stuff!

And we have a Copic Class from Color me Creative.  Now if that isn't enough to get you playing along we also have a sponsor in the Color Challenge this month as well.

Digi's With Attitude is sponsoring us this month.

Wow, that is a lot of sponsors, and a lot of work getting right on my blog!!!  Now to the design work.  This weeks inspiration picture is from me. 

Your color scheme is Denim, white, copper and your Mahvelous May twist is to add stitching on your card or project.  Gosh, I feel like this has taken all day just to get to my card! LOL 

Here it is.  I used this darling image from Lili of The Valley.  He is called Big Present.

I love the denim and kraft together.  This is a pretty simple card. I used my Grand Calibur to cut out the shape.  I sewed it into a pocket shape and added a tag inside the pocket.

I sanded the edges a little to distress it.  The Copics I used are as follows.

Now, why don't you head on over and join us for the challenge?  And don't forget, it is Tuesday so that means you need to come back and check out the challenge at Anita Be Stampin this week as well. 

Happily Ever After

My beautiful Neice Samantha is getting married on Saturday.  She is marrying a wonderful guy, Scott.  I wanted to make a special card for a special girl!!  I chose a stamp by Lily of the Valley called I Do.  I just think this is such a darling stamp!  Only thing is Scott is at least a foot taller than Sam.  Oh well!!  Her colors are purple and charcoal.  I decided to make a shaped card with my Grand Calibur.  Love that thing! I used some papers that I had from Close To My Heart that I think are gorgeous for a Wedding. 

I had bought these ribbons specifically for this card.  The large and smallest roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts, while the two middle roses are from Recollections. I chose to follow the sketch over at One Crazy Stamper for their monthly challenge.  It is a super cute sketch.  It is so close to the sketch for the CMC Birthday Event as well I am entering it into that challenge as well. Susanne Dean is having fun challenges all week to celebrate the birthday of the CMC site.

And of course a couple shots of the inside of the card.

The wedding is this Saturday and I am super excited to see my family.  All 4 of us syblings and our spouses will get to spend some time together and I am pumped!!  Can't wait.  As always thanks so much for stopping by my blog today.

The Outlawz Tuesday Challenge

I can't believe that we are already on our 3rd Tuesday Color Challenge over at the Outlawz.  We have some pretty talented girls over there with some pretty amazing projects.  The challenge this week is Orange, grey, and cream.  OK, that was a challenge for me!!  Except for one thing, I had this awesome orange, grey, and cream paper from Basic Grey that was absolutely perfect for this challenge!  You know what else was perfect for this challenge?  My new stamp from Lily of the Valley called Time for a cuppa.  Oh my gosh she is adorable!!!  Please, I do not need another addiction!!!  OK, here is the inspiration picture.

And here is my card!!

Am I right?  Isn't this paper delish!!  And this stamp?  I love it!!!  I put some scribbles paint on the cupcake and added some chunky glitter for the sprinkles.  I had this darling teapot charm that I added with some sheer ribbon on a floral silver ribbon.  I hope you like it.  I love the simplicity of it.  Well, dang it, I just love this image!!!!  I hope you will hop on over to the Outlawz Color challenge. You can still play along on the other weeks.  We would love to have you.  

I have a ton of thank you cards to make, this will go to one of the lovely ladies that recently brought us dinner after my surgery.  I was truly blessed!!

Lily Of The Valley Challenge 81

As I said yesterday, I have been browsing through everyones blogs lately and fell in love with these darling LOTV stamps.  I was excited to see the new challenge this week at LOTV challenge blog was a sketch.  I love a good sketch and I really enjoyed working with this one.

I bought these awesome papers by My Minds Eye.  I love the gorgeous pink and green colors of these papers.  I wish I had bought a ton of this pink plaid paper!  It is so yummy!!

Anyone that knows me knows that I would fall in love with this stamp.  My friend Gina linked it a while back but I was wary of ordering from the UK.  You know what, the shipping was quick!!  And not that spendy either!!  I also invested in some flowers from wild orchid crafts.  They have the best paper flowers and even with shipping from the UK, the most inexpensive flowers I have bought.  I may have went a bit overboard.  Nah!!!

Last Friday I had a second surgery and the Church that my husband and I have been going to since Christmas brought us meals every night until last night.  How awesome is that?  Anyways, I have lots of Thank you cards to make.  Lots!!!!!  This will go to one of the women that brought us a meal this week.

Let me show you the inside.

Very simple inside, but isn't that paper just delish!!!  The solid paper is from Coredinations.  It is glittery.  And it is the perfect color to go with the R-85,83,81 that I used on the dresses.  The greens are YG-05,03,01,00.  Hair Y-26,23,21  and  E-13,17,11.  I also used on the shoes E-74,77 and E-25,27,21.   The flower pots are E-97 and 99.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Wish I could brew us a cup of tea and we could sit and color together!!

LOTV birthday card

So last Friday was my grandson Gunner's 2nd birthday.  How does Grammy celebrate it?  Why by having another surgery and skipping his party of course!!!  Thank goodness I dropped in on his party with all his friends from church!  It is not everyday you turn 2.  I ordered some stamps from Lily of the Valley earlier this month.  I have been hopping through blogland a lot lately!!  2 surgeries in 2 months will do that to you.  So in blogland I have been seeing so many CUTE cards made with these stamps from LOTV and I finally ordered some.  I was a little hesitant ordering from the UK, but am so glad I jumped in and bought from them.  The shipping was so fast!!  Anyways, I bought this little cutie specifically because I don't have much in the way of boy stamps.  I made a really simple card.  Not a lot to it.  A 2 year old boy will just pull it apart anyways right?

I guess you can call this a clean and simple card.  I also used my cuttlebug and embossing folder.  The colors were pretty simple.  I used my favorite jean colors: B-97,95,93,91 and greens YG-05,03,01,00 and for his hair E-11,13,17.  Skin colors E-000,00,01.  The box uses E-53,51,50.
And a picture of my 5 grandbabies with Gunner the birthday boy in the center. I call this one "Center of Attention!"

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I am entering this at the raise the bar challenge it is "oh to be a kid again".  I am also entering it into the challenge over at The sisterhood of crafters the challenge is a birthday theme.