Surprise Birthday Hop for LeAnne!

Hi friends!  Instead of a Christmas card today I have a birthday card to share for LeAnne!  The sweet Lesley from Always Playing with Paper planned a Surprise Birthday hop for LeAnne.   Everyone is welcome to make a card for her and add it to the linky on the Merry Monday Challenge Blog.

Lesley shared LeAnne's favorite color is blue so I knew I had to make a monochromatic card in blue.  I actually used Tropical Teal from PTI.  The background stamp is Background basics: Venice and the sentiment is from Birthday Classics: July.

Now it is time to hop along.  You can start at the Merry Monday Challenge Blog or hop on to Debbie Henderson's blog.

Make sure you visit LeAnne's blog to wish her a Happy Birthday!

Have a very Happy Birthday LeAnne!!!!

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Anchors Away

Hi everyone!

The fun continues today at the StampNation Beach Vacation!

I hope you joined in our blog hop.  If not, there is still time.  Click here to view my blog hop post.  You have until Sunday to leave comments to be entered to win one of the prizes!

This is a peek at the card I made for our challenge today...

 

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My brother, his wife and 5 kids have been with us since the 15th and we have been busy making memories with them all.  Today we are headed to Santa's Village for more memory making.  If I am a bit quiet with my commenting this is why.  

 (all the kids together)

 Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Merry Monday #118

Happy Monday friends!

Time for another Merry Monday Challenge.

This week Lori challenges us to use Buttons and ribbon on our cards.

I usually don't like adding real buttons to my Christmas cards because they add extra bulk and that means more postage.  I pulled out my Sweet Buttons Embosslit to make my button.

I hope you will join us this week to get a head start on your Christmas cards for 2014.  Make sure you check out the other DT members cards over at the Merry Monday challenge blog.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

StampNation Beach Vacation Blog Hop

Hi everyone!  Today we are kicking off the StampNation Summer Beach Vacation event with a Blog Hop. Each of the StampNation Dream Team members, along with some of our crafty friends, are hopping along sharing cards inspired by our first challenge, "Beach Style", as well as a peek at our favorite projects from the event!

Here's my card for the first challenge:

I used the fun Joy Ride die from My Favorite Things to create my yellow car.  Love all the little details with this die.  The back seat is filled with items for the beach, beach ball, flip flops, sunscreen, towel, book, etc...  Is this what your car looks like when you head for the beach?  The "sand" is a piece of cork cut out using the Stitched Borders 1 Dies from Pretty Pink Posh.

Prizes!!!!
Make sure you leave comments at each of the blogs listed below to be eligible to win...

One of THREE one month StampNation memberships.

Plus...

$25 Pretty Pink Posh Gift Certificate

$25 Ellen Hutson Gift Certificate

Choice of Lawn Fawn Stamp Set & Let's Polka 6 x 6 Pad

 For each of these prizes, one winner will be randomly drawn from all the blog hop comments. A second winner will be chosen from all the challenge entries at StampNation!

You will have have until 11:59 pm EST on July 27th to leave a comment. Winners will be chosen randomly and will be announced on Monday, July 28th on Catherine's blog.

Catherine Pooler
Maureen Merritt
Kristie Goulet < (you are here)
Heather North
Allison Cope
Virginia Lu
Iwona Palamountain 
Paulina Nakamura
Jean Manis
Suzanne Dahlberg
Sandy Allnock
Amy Sheffer
Tracey McNeely


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This event is going to be SO MUCH FUN! Here's a peek at another project I have coming later this week...

Now you are off to hop to Heather North's blog.  You will not want to miss her amazing project!

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

BEACH vacation

Hi everyone!  Who likes to visit the beach during the summer?  The beach is one of my favorite places to visit.  How would you like to join hundreds of other paper crafters for a Beach vacation?  If that sounds good to you, you will not want to miss the StampNation Beach Vacation coming soon.

There will be plenty of prizes from our amazing sponsors...

Lawn Fawn
Ellen Hutson
Pretty Pink Posh

 

...not to mention daily challenges, videos, dream team inspiration and to kick it off the design team, along with some fabulous guest designers will be having a blog hop on July 20th.  Can it get any better than this?

You will want to join StampNation today to join in on all the FUN!

Click here to join now and learn more about membership benefits.

 Hope to see you stamping along with us on our StampNation Beach Vacation.  Everyone is welcome.

Merry Monday #117

Happy Monday friends!

Time for another Merry Monday Challenge.

This week Deanne challenges us to use Sequins on our cards.
 

I used a stamp set (Silent Night- PTI) that I have had for a while but have only used the sentiments.  

I love the flourish that comes in the set but have never inked it up until now. 

 I don't know what I was waiting for?  :) 

The Raspberry Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh finish it off nicely, don't you think?

I hope you will join us this week to get a head start on your Christmas cards for 2014.  Make sure you check out the other DT members cards over at the Merry Monday challenge blog.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Fruits & Veggies

 Hi everyone!

The newest StampNation challenge went live today.

The theme is Fruits and Veggies.

My card is the top right.  I used the new Bowl of Sunshine set from Papertrey ink.

Members can click here to view the challenge.

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Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Happy Birthday!

Hi friends!  Popping in real quick this afternoon with a card for The Cutting Edge Challenge.  I love Karolyn's card below.

I really wanted to use my city scape die but decided to go in a different direction and use candles.  I added the color to each one by smooshing ink on my craft mat then spraying with water.  Used a paintbrush to apply the ink.  Very fun.

I am also adding this to Virginia View's Challenge & AAA Cards Game #10.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Merry Monday #116

Happy Monday friends!

Time for another Merry Monday Challenge.

This week LeAnne challenges us to use shades of green and white on our Christmas card.

I was drawn to the wood grain in the photo so I wanted to incorporate that onto my card.  I stamped Pear Pizzaz ink onto Pear Pizzaz cardstock for a slight contrast of green.  My sentiment from Papertrey Ink is stamped using Hero Arts silver shadow ink.  I am also using the sketch over at Lesley's The Challenge #10.

The charm takes the place of the banner in the sketch.  :)

   I hope you will join us this week to get a head start on your Christmas cards for 2014.  Make sure you check out the other DT members cards over at the Merry Monday challenge blog.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Happy 4th of July!

Hi friends!

The  challenge this week at StampNation is a color challenge,

RED, WHITE & BLUE!

 Here's a peek at the Dream Team's cards...

(mine is the top right)

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Here is another card I created using these colors.

I am entering this card over at Virginia's View Challenge.

I want to wish everyone in the US a safe and Happy 4th of July!

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Celebrating you, Darnell!

Hi everyone!

Today is Darnell's birthday!
 Food and drinks are being served at Happy Dance, hosted by the hostess with the mostest, Bev.

There is a linky party going on over at Ardyth's blog, MASKerade.

Hop on over and join the party.

I just had to join in and celebrate Darnell at djkardkreations.  She is one of the kindest and most helpful bloggers in blog land.  Her posts ALWAYS bring a huge smile to my face as do her comments on my blog.  Wishing  you the best of birthdays,  my friend!  xo
My card was inspired by Jackie Rockwell's card over at her new challenge, The Cutting Edge.
I chose to be inspired by the colors and the star.

 I am also submitting this card over at Virgina's View Challenge.
 And edited to add this card to the Wonderful Words Challenge over at Moxie Fab.

On my card I used a stencil & spray mists for the stars.
 The Celebrate die is from Papertrey Ink and the you stamp is from Simon Says Stamp.

Happy Birthday to you, Darnell!  Have a blessed day!

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

With Sympathy

Hi everyone!

I can't believe today is July 1st?  

The summer is already going by too quickly.

I am sharing a couple of cards for the challenges over at Just Us Girls & Virginia's View Challenge.

I couldn't resist the colors on the JUGS inspiration photo.   

I was totally inspired by the chevrons on the wall. 

 Here is another card using the leftover die cut pieces.

These both use the new butterfly dies & Center Stage Cover Plate from Papertrey Ink.  

The first card uses the small butterfly die and the second card uses the big one.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!