CTD132 - Hello There & Happy Spring

Hello!  Today I have two cards that I created using this weeks Color Throwdown Challenge #132.  I liked the colors for this week's Throwdown because they were bright and springy. 

The first card is a Stampin' Up only (SUO) card where I used the stamp set Cheep Talk and instead of using Baja Breeze which I didn't have I ended up using Cool Caribbean.

For my second card I use my new Papertrey Ink stamp sets Friendship Jar Spring Fillers, Bitty Background Blocks and Tag-its #1 along with the Doily Details die and coordinating jar and Button Card Die Collection set.

This a close up shot which shows some of the glitter that I added to the robins eggs inside the jar and more detail.

Hope these cards help you to Think Spring!

SSSC108 - Just Saying Hello

Good morning I hope you're doing well!  Are you ready for this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge (SSSC108)?  You're going to love this week's sketch, Karen must know how much I like circles!

For my card I used a Hero Arts mini stamp set that I purchased a long time ago and have never used (I really need to stop doing that).  I also used a Hero Arts All Occasions word set for my sentiment (that I have used) and paired the two sets with My Mind's Eye-Stella Rose designer paper.  This was a fun card to create!  I stamped the tree trunk and bird in Early Espresso ink and paper pieced the little bird, I also popped up his wing.  Then I colored the leaves and flowers using Copic markers and added gems to the centers of three flowers, then added that to my cut circles.  I did a bit of stitching around the outer edge of my wood grain designer paper and through the circle along near the scallop edge.  I added my sentiment flag then the layered die cut flowers along with two leaves and a button with bakers twine.  In the lower right corner I added three of the small gem flowers that came with this stamp set.

Maybe it's me but it seems that birds are really "in" lately because I see them everywhere (including at my own house) and since I love birds I'm going to take this next week and use some of the many bird stamp sets I have and create with them.  So I hope you like birds too!

Supplies: Bird with Branch, All Occasions Word Set - Hero Arts, My Mind's Eye-Stella Rose DP, Copics, Gems, Scallop border punch, Stitching, Nesties, Flower Die-MFT, Button, Bakers Twine.  Colors: Early Espresso, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Certainly Celery, Always Artichoke.

To play along create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen’s blog The Sweetest Thing and link your card so we can all see your creation! 

Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this week’s sketch!

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse

Sarah-Jane Kale': Janeybell

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Jen Tapler: Jen Tapler Designs
Dana White: Dana's House of Cards

Karen Giron: The Sweetest Thing

I wanted to thank everyone who left comments on my post the other day about my son, your thoughts and prayers are very much appreciated.

Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Sneak Peek

Happy Saturday!  Today it's my turn over at the Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Blog to share a few of the projects I've created using this month's fabulous Key Ingredients Kit.  So I hope you'll click on the link HERE and hop over and take a look at what's cooking!

A Simple Thank You

Hello friends, today I have a simple thank you card that I created and an explanation for not posting here on my blog.  I've been missing in action for almost two weeks now and I apologise for just dropping off and not posting an answer for my absents. 

Our youngest son who is four years old has been going through some medical problems.  He has had stomach pains for the last six weeks which make him double over in pain and this is the second bout of having these types of pains so we took him to a GI specialist and he has been going through a number of different test with no answers.  So as you can imagine my mind has been distracted and worried thinking of the unknown.  After having to put our poor little guy through everything from blood work, ultrasound, upper GI test with x-rays and now yesterday a stomach scoping we wish we would find the answer to his pain.  Last week after we received the results of his ultrasound where everything came back normal other than the "new finding" as the doctor put it that his left kidney is not functioning properly.  Yesterday before the stomach scoping we had an appointment with a pediatric kidney specialist who told us that he thought our son's kidney problem was moderate and that we needed to take him for testing to see exactly how his kidney is functioning.  I'm grateful that if my son has a problem with his kidney that we found it now instead of finding it damaged later because of this problem but its all still very scary.  What ever the findings are with our son I pray that it can be fixed or controlled with medication.

Supplies: Love Birds & die, Fillable Frames #5 - PTI, So Saffron DSP, Ribbon, Polka Dot Impressions Folder, Foam tape.  Colors: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, So Saffron.

Thank You for stopping by!