Happy Sunday

Happy Sunday my friends...we've had a busy weekend running around to a variety of activities but yesterday I had a few hours at my craft table. I was so happy as I can't tell you the last time I've spent more than an hour creating. I had a lot of cards I needed to send for upcoming birthdays, thank yous and a few thinking of you cards for family and friends that could use some extra encouragement. So I quickly was looking for a few challenges to play along with. My first card above I made using the fun inspiration from the Inkspirational Challenge. Love the color palette for their retro challenge. I picked up these sentiments from Taylored Expressions. I love them!

My second card is going to a co-worker who is doing a fabulous job as a thank you for a job well done. This was inspired by the current CAS(E) this Sketch. I made multiples of this one as well as the birthday one. I'm so happy to be creating. Hope you got some time to create this weekend too.

Time Out: Thank You

Hello there!  It's time for a reminder post over at Time Out! My card today is using the stamp set Hello Friend Floral from our sponsor Catherine Pooler!  

Please come check out the Time Out team and our talented guest designer's, Claire, beautiful creations!  We'd love to have you play along!

Time Out: Thanks for Everything

I'm back for a reminder post for the current challenge over at Time Out!  The challenge is a theme challenge to be use embellishments on your card.  I also love a touch of twine and a few gems here and there so I immediately new what I'd add to the card.

Our sponsor is Birch Press Designs and I've used this fabulous Stitched Maple Circle Frame die that they sent to me.  It is a lot of fun.. I used the middle maple leaf but could use it for some many other things.  Be sure to pop on over to their blog to take a look at all of their fabulous stamping goodies!

And be sure to pop on over to Time Out to play along with us and gain the change to win some amazing goodies!  And be sure to pop on over to our guest designer Andrea for gorgeous inspiration as well!  You will be sure to love her CAS designs!

Thank You Very Much

Happy Sunday friends...popping in with a very quick card to share for the current CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.   A little ink masking with Distress Oxides, add a sentiment and we're off!  Love when a card quickly comes together.

Hope your week goes well!  We're working on staying warm here...it is freezing out!  And crossing our fingers that the snow stays away so that the kids can go to their first show choir competition (the first two have been snowed out!).

Wreath Builder (Spring and Winter)

My friend, Joy, sent me an absolutely gorgeous card using the Gina K stamp builder sets and and I knew I had to get them. And thanks to my friend, Sandy, giving me a gift card for Simon Says Stamps I quickly added them to my cart!  I've been itching to play along with them and this weekend I put them to use.  I can tell I'll be using these often!  I made four of each for my stash.

Have any new stamps that you are loving?  I'd love to hear what your favorite sets are these days!

PS Ignore my bad photography!  Too lazy to walk downstairs and take the picture again!

Time Out: Gratitude

Welcome back for another challenge at Time Out!  We have another fabulous sponsor for this challenge: Stamplorations.  For those of you know me, you know how much I love sentiment stamps and Stamplorations has fabulous sentiment stamps.  For this card, I used the Stamplorations set Gratitude is the Blossom.

We hope you are inspired to play along with us at Time Out!   And to win a fabulous prize from Stamplorations!

Time Out: Thanks a Bunch

Welcome back for another challenge at Time Out!  We have another fabulous sponsor for this challenge: Stamplorations.  For those of you know me, you know how much I love sentiment stamps and Stamplorations has fabulous sentiment stamps.  For this card, I used the Stamplorations set Big Greetings.  

We hope you are inspired to play along with us at Time Out!   And to win a fabulous prize from Stamplorations!

So Very Thankful

Happy Sunday my friends!  Popping in to share a card I made last week when I was at my crafty weekend.  To say I'm grateful for that time away would be a huge understatement.  I love my time away to meet new friends and connect with friends that I have already met. It certainly refreshes my soul to be there.  We laughed together, shared our hearts and created. It was so wonderful. I hope you all are getting in plenty of crafty time too.

Playing along in this week's Casology challenge - perfect for this card!

Time Out: Grateful

Hello there!  It's time for our reminder post over at Time Out!  Our challenge for this week is to be inspired by the words below.  I pulled out the word Gratitude for the challenge.  Thankful for my Misti that allowed me to ink up the sentiment with a variety of inks.

Our sponsor for this challenge is: Uniko.  The winner gets an in stock stamp set of their choice.

Please pop on over to the Time Out blog to play along and check out the creations by all of the design team members!  Our guest designer this week is xx be sure to pop on over to her blog to be inspired by her creations.

Time Out: Thanks

Welcome back for another challenge at Time Out!  Our challenge for this week is to be inspired by the words below.  I pulled out the word Gratitude for the challenge.   I used sponsor stamps for this card from Uniko's  Originally Organic. I love the detail on these stamps!

Our sponsor for this challenge is: Uniko.  The winner gets an in stock stamp set of their choice.

Please pop on over to the Time Out blog to play along and check out the creations by all of the design team members!  Our guest designer this week is xx be sure to pop on over to her blog to be inspired by her creations.

Time Out: Thank You

Boy oh boy the weeks are just flying by...It's hard to believe that Ryan is done with his sophomore year of college and Jonathon is heading into his senior year of high school. This time next year we'll be getting ready for Jonathon's graduation! 

But enough about that I'm here to share a card for the current Time Out challenge.  Our challenge is to be inspired by the following words:

As you can see I keyed off the floral words and this thank you went to a dear friend who volunteers a lot for show choir.  The frame was pre-printed from Taylored Expressions and the stamps and sentiment are from our sponsor, Stamplorations - Frames and Florals - you all know how much I love a floral set and this one is no exception - so many awesome stamps to mix and match.

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This challenge is sponsored by the fabulous STAMPlorations

Our winner, chosen by the Design Team will get a $15 gift voucher to spend in their store. Plus we will pick a random winner who will get a bag of goodies from STAMPlorations.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge Kristina. Be sure to stop on over to her blog and be inspired by her gorgeous cards!

I'd love to see you playing with us over at Time Out!

Time Out: Thanks a Latte

Hello! It's time for our reminder post over at Time Out!  We're only challenge #100. We challenge you to be Thankful and ours sponsor is  Verve with the winner getting a stamp set of their choice. 

My card today features the Verve set:  Holiday Treats.  I made multiples of this card and included them in the card sets I made for family and friends. I have always loved this set and it has gotten lots of use over the years!

We have two fabulous guest designers who I adore: Bobby and Julee. Please pop on over to their blogs along with the Time Out blog to check our their gorgeous cards, our design team's amazing talent and most importantly to play along!

Time Out: Gracious

Happy New Year's week!  It's time for a new challenge over at Time Out!  We're only challenge #100 - isn't that amazing!  I love being on this design team and we're back with the perfect challenge for you.  We challenge you to be Thankful and ours sponsor is  Verve with the winner getting a stamp set of their choice. You all know how much I love Verve and Julee's amazing designs and sentiments so I had to play along for the challenge both this week and next with the reminder post.  

My card today features two Verve sets:  Scripture Medley 5 and Borderline.  We won't talk about how many times I stamped the sentiment and embossed it before I was happy with the end result. My white ink was a bit too juicy for stamping the smaller worlds. So I switched over to Versamark and white embossing powder.  To finish off the card I die cut the sentiment, stamped the heart border three different times and then adhered both panels to the base.  Love the neutral color palette.

We have two fabulous guest designers who I adore: Bobby and Julee. Please pop on over to their blogs along with the Time Out blog to check our their gorgeous cards, our design team's amazing talent and most importantly to play along!

Thank You So Much

In addition to the sympathy card I shared yesterday, I also made several of these thank you cards.  During the Black Friday sale, I picked up a few new goodies from Lil Inkers and from Concord & 9th. I was anxious to get the Concord & 9th stamps inked up!  Love this branches set - so many different cards you can make with this!  For my first card using it, I played along with the CAS(E) this Sketch.  Love using these non-traditional colors!

Hope your week is off to a great start!

Time Out: Gratitude

Welcome back to another challenge at Time Out!  As we have just had Thanksgiving, we thought it would be great to have a challenge inspired by these fabulous words!  My friend Erin sent me these flowers already colored and the die cut. I added a sentiment and was ready to go!

For this challenge, we're sponsored by STAMPlorations - The winner of the challenge will win a gift certificate to their store.  We'd love for you to come on over to Time Out and play with us!

Curtain Call: Thankful for You

Welcome to the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

This week we are inviting you to join us for...

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Don't you just love that clean, crisp fall inspiration photo! At first thought I'd go for the woodgrain, but had the opportunity to use these fun Reverse Confetti stamps and quickly changed gears. This card has gone off to a co-worker congratulating him on a work anniversary.  

How about you?  How are you inspired? We'd love for you to pop on over and play with us at Curtain Call!

Curtain Call: Grateful for You

Welcome to the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

This week we are inviting you to join us for...

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I had this post all ready to roll and forgot to publish it!  Whoops!  But no worries better than late than never right!  This card was one I made at my crafty weekend too. Love getting to use stamps and dies that I don't own and I never seem to have enough thank you cards.  So this was perfect for this challenge.  

I hope to see you over at Curtain Call!  Please come play along!

Thank You

Two posts in two days...that hasn't happened in a really long time!  But I'm back and playing along with the fabulous Darnell's NBUS challenge.  I so appreciate this challenge - it's always great to get out your NBUS goodies and play along. My new goodies on this are the flowers - you all know how much I love flowers...and these new ones are from Winnie & Walter.  Love Shea and her gorgeous stamps.

I hope you too are getting to play along with Darnell's challenge!

Curtain Call: Thank You

I'm in a bit of a perpetual state of running behind these days...and that impacted this card showing up for the current Current Call Inspiration. I ran out of daylight to get the picture posted but no worriess, there is still time to join us for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

Check out that gorgeous inspiration photo below!  You all know how much I love a floral card!

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You have until August 25th at 8:00 AM CDT to be inspired and share your project!

The LEAD of this challenge will be invited to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!  Please come play along with us!