BEE happy

It is a beautiful Saturday here in Minnesota and I should be outside pulling weeds or something, but am in the house watching some movies I got out of the red box and working on pricing stuff for our garage sale next weekend.

Thought while I was in-between movies I would post a card that I made early this morning using one of Regina's newest releases at The Cutting Cafe called "cute critters".

This is such a fun set of digital images. I colored the bee with my yellow glaze pen and then added "glossy accents" to the entire bee.

Enjoy!

details:

paper: neenah (epic black and solar white linen) cosmo cricket (delovely)

accessories: stampin' up (border punch)

for the birthday boy

My friend Tami sent me an email this morning challenging me to do this weeks challenge over at Taylored Expressions. Well it was a fabulous sketch so I told her game on. So now that I have posted my card we will have to wait and see when she post hers.

 How fun was this sketch and it was the perfect time to use up some of my old papers "cogsmo" by no other than Cosmo Cricket. The truck image is one of the newer sets over at "The Cutting Cafe". I fussy cut around the truck and added buttons for wheels and added matte accents to the truck to give it a little bit of dimension then added the round sentiment from the same set.

Enjoy!

sssc65 ~ all about boys

Regina over at The Cutting Cafe has come up with some really cute new digi stamps this week. And when I saw the card sketch for this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge I knew I had to use "all about boys" and "all about boys background" digital stamps.

Along with the printable stamps from The Cutting Cafe I used Neenah Linen cardstock in black, red, and solar white, Misc. buttons from my collection, and Cuttlebug "tire track" embossing folder.

Enjoy!

Happy Easter ~

Happy Easter everyone I woke up with a cold and sore throat today so will not be heading off to see Micah and Cassie as I don't want to get them sick.

Since I am home I decided to make a couple of cards to share with you. This first one is for the challenge over at 365 Cards and since it is Sunday that means time for a Super Sketch.

For this card I used the BasicGrey "nook and pantry" 6x6 paper pad and buttons, the cupcake cutie is from one of Regina's digital sets over at The Cutting Cafe called "hey cupcake", the Happy Birthday is from Endless Creations.

Enjoy!

This Coupon ~ SSSC62

My card today is for the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge over at The Sweetest Thing blog.

For this card I used papers from pebblesinc. from the "Lil' Buddy" collection and the stamp is a new digi stamp from over at The Cutting Cafe called "assorted coupons".

 Regina has been working like a mad woman lately creating lots of new digi releases.

Enjoy!

beautiful blooms give away

It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day here in Minneapolis today and what a great way to introduce the newest release from Regina over at The Cutting Cafe.

The new release is called Beautiful Blooms and you are going to love it as much as I do. Lots of flowers, vases, & sentiments too.

The best part about this set is Regina is letting me give one lucky winner the entire set. All you need to do is leave me a comment by Midnight March 24th and I will draw one random winner on March 25th.

Here is my card using this fun set. The hardest part was deciding which flower and vase to use.

details:

digital images: The Cutting Cafe "beautiful blooms"

papers: Neenah solar white, Bazzil grape, Memory Box "frond"

accessories: BasicGrey button, PTI twine

mother's day

I hope you all had a great weekend and got the chance to spend a little time outside if the weather was nice. Here in Minneapolis it was 64 degrees which was a record for us for this time of year. The snow is almost totally melted and I am hoping Mother Nature is not playing a horrible trick on us.

My card for today is from the new "mom word block" digital stamp over at The Cutting Cafe. I decided since it was Mother's Day in the UK yesterday I would go ahead and make a card for my Mother-in-law a little bit early. (we celebrate in May)

I am going to try and get outside today and soak up a little bit of sun so I can raise my vitamin D levels like the doctor suggested. Then later today I am going to meet my friend Tami at Caribou for a cup of coffee and some good conversation.

Enjoy!

details: paper Neenah solar white and Epic Black, accessories: scorepal, may arts ribbon & misc. button

got coffee?

This is a quick card that I whipped up today using the new digital stamp set "got coffee?" from The Cutting Cafe.

I am meeting a friend tomorrow at Archivers to spend the day scrapbooking and chatting so made this card for her. Because usually when we get together at least one cup of coffee is had by all.

Hope you enjoy and stop back tomorrow for my first official day on the Design Team at Project Tuesday.

Free Digi Stamps

Regina over at The Cutting Cafe is giving away two new stamp sets this weekend and a chance to win 4 more digi stamps of your choice.

The free sets will only be available until midnight Monday February 8th. The two free sets are colored mini dot background and colored flower set. Each of these sets contain 12 digi stamps.

Here is the card I made using the colored mini dot background set.

As many of you know that read my blog I love flowers so this new set was perfect for me. I ran the flower through my big shot using the swiss dots embossing folder, added a button and ribbon from my stash.

Now once you download your free digi image please create a project and up load it to The Cutting Cafe. Regina and the DT will choose 2 winners. You have until February 13th at midnight to submit your project.

rain ~ rain

My card today is for the CCEE Stampers sketch challenge and for this card I used a new digi file called "rain rain" from the cutting cafe. I thought these cute little "wellies" were just too cute.

I also used my cuttlebug "swissdots" embossing folder on the yellow squares. I colored in the wellies with my Copic markers and added a little clear spica glitter to the flowers and then I added some Glossy accents to the rain puddle.

Enjoy!

Cutting Cafe Winner

Sorry I am late in posting the winner of the free digital stamp set "everyday greetings".

I used random.org to pick the winner and the LUCKY person is Gloria Westerman. Gloria if you will contact me I will email you the free set.

Thanks to everyone who commented I appreciate your kind words.

HUGS & A Give Away

I love this new little PTI stamp that I got in the mail this week she is from the Pure Innocence collection. I can tell I am going to enjoy changing her clothes all the time with different paper collections. These papers are from the BasicGrey "nook and pantry" collection. The sentiment on the outside and on the inside of the card are from The Cutting Cafe set "everyday greetings ~ set 1).

The sketch is for CCCE Stampers which is a new challenge blog for me and it looks like they have a fun group of people playing along with them.

Now onto the Give-A-Way Regina over at The Cutting Cafe is letting me give away this fabulous set which has 18 different sentiments. To be eligible to win just leave me a comment here and on the 16th of January I will pick one lucky winner.

Good Luck & Enjoy!

Love Birds

This card was created using one of the newest releases from The Cutting Cafe called "All About Valentines". I love this digi set so many cute images to play with.

For this card I used Me&My Big Ideas "Modern Milan", Neenah Epic Black & Solar White cardstock, PTI Vintage buttons, EK Success Edge Punch, and I used a black and red glaze pen .

Enjoy!

LOVE You

Regina, over at The Cutting Cafe has been working like a bee lately creating new digi stamps for all of us to play with.

One of her latest ones is "All About Valentine's Day" and it includes 46 images for $9.99 now that is a deal.

For this card I used Neenah solar white and epic black cardstock, Cuttlebut heart embossing folder, Making Memories favorite findings safety pin, American Crafts ribbon.

Pumpkin Cookie Dip Recipe & Gingerbread Card

How cute is this new Gingerbread shaped card from The Cutting Cafe? I thought I would also share a recipe for pumpkin cookie dip that I got from my friend Carole.

Pumpkin Cookie Dip

1 - 8 oz. cream cheese softened

2 - 7 0z. jars marshmallow cream

1 - 15 oz. can pumpkin

1 tsp. cinnamon

Beat cream cheese and marshmallow cream until smooth.

Fold in pumpkin and cinnamon.

Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Serve with gingersnaps or shortbread cookies

If you try the recipe let me know what you think. I love to sandwich the pumpkin cream in between two gingersnaps and drink a hot cup of coffee or Apple Cider. Yummo.

All About Christmas

The guys are downstairs watching the football game so thought I would do a quick post of a new digi stamp set from The Cutting Cafe called All About Christmas. You can check it out here. This set has so many fun images and I can't wait to play with all of them.

For this card I just colored the merry christmas in with a red copic marker and then cut it out and pasted it on top of the original. I added a border of black and red to make it pop a little more, then I used my score pal to create lines through the card base and then I added a black and red may arts ribbon to complete the card.

Have you started making your Christmas Cards yet? Leave me a comment and let me know what you are working on.

Enjoy~

Halloween Memories

When I started making this frame for Cassie I realized that I didn't know what her costume would be this year so I decided to make the frame using a picture that we took of her at the pumpkin patch and I think this picture is from 2004 or 2005. Once Halloween comes this year I will take one of the pictures her Mom gives me and fit it into the frame before I give it to them.

 For this frame I used "Halloween This and That" by The Cutting Cafe which is where I got the stars and the cats, I added some BasicGrey buttons, and tied with orange and black floss, the letters are Thickers by American Crafts. I added some faux stitching with a white signo gel pen. The frame is from Michael's.

Hope you enjoy~

Thankful for Family

Today I want to share with you one of the new releases over at The Cutting Cafe called "Autumn Days" this set was perfect for this weeks challenge Sketch #107 over at Mojo Monday.

For my card I used kraft cardstock as the base of this A6 card along with some Pop-tone green and orange cardstock, the pattern paper is Eerie by BasicGrey, ribbon is from May Arts, I used the Nestabilities small oval, added some dew drops, distressed the edges of my paper and oval with Ranger antique linen ink, and colored the pumpkin and leaves with colored pencil and gamasol.

Enjoy~