YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME

Hello sweet friends! I had a little time to hide away in my craft room today and have a Mojo Monday sketch card to share.

I decided to use this sketch to make my Mom’s Mother’s Day card. I love this new paper pad from K&Co. It is Tim Coffey’s Foliage. I stamped and die cut the dragonfly with a Hampton Arts/Spellbinders set. I chose the dragonfly because it is my symbol and I know my Mom will identify with that. The Verve One Person stamp set is always great for my Mom’s cards. There are so many beautiful sentiments to choose from.

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CHALLENGE LINKS

Supplies

 

Tim Coffey Foliage- Designer Paper Pad	Romantic Rectangles	Classic Squares LG	Standard Circles LG	Floral Doily Motifs
Butterflies Hampton Art - Spellbinders	Quatrefoil Embossing Folder	eCraft Mulit-Colored Card Stock - 12 x 12 in

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MOJO MONDAY ON FRIDAY?

Hi cuties! What a GORGEOUS morning! After several days of clouds and rain, we awakened to sunshine and singing birds.  I had a nice walk with Joy and now enjoying my first cup of coffee. Temperature outside is 74 degrees at 9:15am! Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about….

Today I am sharing my Mojo Monday creation for this week. The MOJO238 sketch is from the very sweet and talented Mary Fish, and here is my card…..

These wonderful papers are from the K&Co Juianna 6x6 pack and the stamps, both sentiment and flower, are from Verve’s One Person set.  I love how well the RRR ribbon matched this paper. The pink flourish is from ZVA.

The pretty antique leaves and brad are from Tim Holtz.

NOW FOR THE CHALLENGES:

Mojo Monday MOJO238

I also made this card for:

Mynnette’s Spread the L-O-V-E challenge:

 

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STAMPS

• Verve One Person

PAPER –  K&Co Julianna

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders
• Classic Squares LG
• Classic Ovals LG
• Big Scalloped Circles LG
• Memory Box Quinns Flourish

INK – Memento

ACCESSORIES

• Really Reasonable Ribbon
• Tim Holtz brad/leaves
• ZVA flourish
• White pearls

 

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Happy Sunday cuties! I am so far behind on my challenge cards, I probably will end up missing some of the challenges this week. I admit, I have been trying to stay busy, but some days it has been tough.  I hope the worst of the “empty nest syndrome” is over with though!  Whew, what a week.  In addition to my spring cleaning, I have two other projects I am working on; one I cannot share at this time and one I will give you a sneak preview of later this week, so be sure to come back!
I made this card for Operation Write Home’s* sketch challenge #111, which was LAST Sunday (ugh). Luckily, the mid-week challenge is for a Mother’s Day card, and since I was finishing up my box to send off, I made a mothers day card.  I love it when things just work out like that!

This is another Doodle Pantry digi set called English Bluebells. It comes with matching paper which I almost totally covered up.  The Happy Mother’s Day stamp is from Verve’s One Person set.



The background paper is from DCWV Old World.
NOW FOR THOSE CHALLENGES:
Operation Write Home: Sketch #111

…and here is Operation Write Home’s* Mother’s Day Challenge:

In addition to these challenges, I made this card for:
Mynnette’s Spread the L-O-V-E challenge since this will be sent to our troops and will make it’s way home to a friend or loved one.

*Operation Write Home: Supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.
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STAMPS

• Doodle Pantry – English Bluebells
• Verve – One Person

PAPER – Craftwell card stock, Doodle Pantry, DCWV Old World
INK

• Inkadinkado

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders
• Lacey Circles
• Fancy Tags
• 3” Circle punch

ACCESSORIES

RRR Sage seam binding

White Pearls

Flowers –Michaels (the white ones. the sage one I made)

Doily

Stampin Up Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware

WHAT DO STAMP SCHOOL, VERVE, & SCS HAVE IN COMMON?

Why this card of course! Hi crafty girls! I hope your Tuesday has been beautiful and fun. I am suffering from withdrawal……I really wish I could talk to my son.  Yesterday was pretty good, but today has been sort of hard.  OMG!!!!! In the middle of writing this post, Grant called home! He sounds so tired, but is happy and satisfied with his decision. Mom is a happy camper now! I have heard his voice and for now I am satisfied that he is OK. Anywho!  Let’s talk crafting and have some fun!
This card is actually a Mother’s Day card, but the color combo makes it look sort of like a Christmas card.  Oh well, here it is:

The things I made on this card: The red crochet doily behind the Quinn Flourish, The crochet flowers and the red and white design on the to rectangle panels. For the panels, I used Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Believe/Dream/Peace Designer Block Prints .  I ADORE these stamps for BG images. There are four stamps included in the set that make pretty backgrounds.

Here is a close-up of the doily, heart with pearls and rose, and Quinn flourish. If you are wondering about the label, it is Spellbinders Labels Eighteen with a Spellbinders Floral Doily Motif embossed into the center.


I don’t know. I like the design, but do you think it looks too much like Christmas?
NOW FOR THOSE CHALLENGES:
Viva La Verve:  Sketch challenge for March Week 1

Stamp School: Art Room 03/05/12 Color Challenge

Splitcoaststampers: TLC367 ~ One Color/No Color CHALLENGE: Use only ONE color of ink on your card, including the ink for any sentiment you might choose, WITHOUT coloring in your image. Try to use an open line image, rather than a bold one.
In addition to these challenges, I made this card for:
Mynnette’s Spread the L-O-V-E challenge since this will be sent to our troops and will make it’s way home to a friend or loved one.

…and here is Operation Write Home’s* Mother’s Day Challenge:

*Operation Write Home: Supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.
Thank you so much for stopping by! I am always so happy to see that you have been to my blog. Please leave comments so I know you were here! PLEASE HELP ME GROW! If you are not a follower yet, would you please click follow?
hugs,


STAMPS

• Rubber Stamp Tapestry : Believe/Dream/Peace Designer Block Prints
• Verve – One Person

PAPER – Craftwell card stock
INK

• Stamp School Wild Cherry Ink pad

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders
• Labels Eighteen
• Floral Doily Motif
• Memory Box Quinn’s Flourish
• Sizzlits Primitive heart

ACCESSORIES

Red satin ribbon

Red Pearls

Flowers crocheted by me

Doily made by me

RRR Baker’s Twine

MWT at OWH* USE A DIGI and Mojo Monday MM230

GAH!!!! Really? A digi? Have you been reading my blog? Yes? Then you know I don’t like to color!!! *SIGH* OK I did it; I colored a digi today and maybe it came out ok. By the way, this is my second post for today. If you missed the first one, please click here.

Here is the card which was made using Mojo Monday’s MM230 sketch, however I rotated the sketch so that the digi would fit properly:

Well, actually, I tried 3 new things on this card, coloring, using vellum (yeah, LOL first time!) and using Distress Ink in my embossing folder.  I made the BG by inking the negative area of my Tim Holtz embossing folder with Peeled Paint Distress Ink and slightly spraying water on it with a mister.  I then carefully placed the paper into the folder and embossed. I used my heat tool to completely dry the paper when it came out. You could just lay it aside to let it dry, but I am impatient!

Those flowers are my crochet flowers; the leaves are from the starter set that comes with the Presto Punch. The ribbon is an old scrap from my stash

I colored the flowers with markers and then chalked where the sentiment is located. I used a Gold pen to go over the words and added “Mom” stamped in gold just above the existing sentiment. I finished it by covering with VersaMark embossing ink and SU Clear embossing powder, then heated with my heat tool.  Oh, I should say this gorgeous digi is from the free downloads at OWH!  The light strip with yellow flowers is punched using a Martha Stewart double-edge punch.

I added the Happy Mother’s Day sentiment on vellum and hope it was not overkill!  I had that pink vellum just begging to get on this card. The Mother’s Day stamp is from Inspired by Stamping.

NOW FOR THE CHALLENGES:

Mojo Monday MM230 sketch – my card is rotated and is A2 size to meet Operation Write Home requirements

OWH Midweek Throwdown Challenge: This week our challenge is to make cards using digital images on them for our heroes to send home to their family and friends!

…and here is Operation Write Home’s* Mother’s Day Challenge:

In addition to these challenges, I made this card for:

Mynnette’s Spread the L-O-V-E challenge since this will be sent to our troops and will make it’s way home to a friend or loved one.

*Operation Write Home: Supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.

Thank you so much for stopping by! I am always so happy to see that you have been to my blog. Please leave comments so I know you were here! PLEASE HELP ME GROW! If you are not a follower yet, would you please click follow?

hugs,

STAMPS

• Operation Write Home free digi download
• Inspired by Stamping All Year Wishes II

PAPER – Craftwell card stock and K&Company Julianne specialty paper

INK

• Pro Art Markers

TOOLS

• Heat tool
• SU clear embossing powder
• Spellbinders Presto Punch
• Martha Stewart double-edge border punch
• Tim Holtz embossing folder
• Big Shot

ACCESSORIES

Crochet flowers (made by me)

Green and pink pearls

Ribbon scrap