Time Out: Celebrate Your Day

I'm back for a reminder post for the current challenge over at Time Out!  The challenge quote is below and I was inspired by the rainbow in the quote!  Have to love a fabulous 

Our sponsor is Winnie & Walter and I am using two of their fabulous sets: Ring in the Celebration and Sketchy Thoughts. Be sure to pop on over to their blog to take a look!

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 Arlene for gorgeous inspiration as well!

Time Out: Merry Christmas

Welcome back for another challenge at Time Out!  We have an amazing sponsor for this challenge:  Winnie & Walter.  I'm so lucky that I have met W&W's fabulous owner, Shea, twice and have been able to stamp right next to her twice. She is a gem and oh so generous!  She let us all purchase stamps for this challenge and I picked up the In the Word:  Merry stamps and coordinating dies.

I picked up on the theme of colourful by adding small pops of color to my white on white card.

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

Time Out: Merry Christmas

Welcome back for another challenge at Time Out!  We have an amazing sponsor for this challenge:  Winnie & Walter.  I'm so lucky that I have met W&W's fabulous owner, Shea, twice and have been able to stamp right next to her twice. She is a gem and oh so generous!  She let us all purchase stamps for this challenge and I picked up the In the Word:  Merry stamps and coordinating dies.

I picked up on the theme of colourful using all different shades of pink for my card.  I made about 20 of these as I really need to get going on my Christmas cards.

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

Merry and Bright

Happy Tuesday! I had a bit of crafty time yesterday afternoon and decided to try to get a move on on my Christmas cards. I still have a long way to go on getting them all done!  You all know how much I love a CAS card with a touch of twine.    I love this fabulous set from Winnie & Walter. I'm sure you'll be seeing several more cards with this set!

And this card is perfect for the challenge over at Happy Little Stampers!

Time Out: You are Spot On!

Hello there. It is time for the reminder post over at Time Out!  We have a theme challenge:  Wild.  I love tone on tone stamping so this was a fun one to play along with using the Dotty About You stamps from Winnie & Walter. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is Winnie & Walter. So many gorgeous stamps to choose from...and lots of amazing sentiments which are always my favorite.

So come play along with us over at Time Out!  And you could be lucky enough to win a $25 gift card to Winnie & Walter.  Also we have the incredible Darnell - who is such an awesome blog friend - her designs will be sure to amaze you...so pop on over and play along.

Time Out: Happy Birthday

Happy Friday eve my friends!  I'm happy to be popping in with a card for our current challenge over at Time Out!  We have a fun challenge:  Wild!  Now my card isn't super wild but I like the fun chevron arrows and thought it was a bit wild. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is Winnie & Walter and I'm using their gorgeous stamps In a Word - Happy and Scenery - Stripes 2 on my card.  I was so very luck to sit across from Shea at a stamping retreat a couple months ago and use tons of Winnie & Walter stamps. Shea is so sweet and very funny. I love that I've gotten to meet her not once but twice now and hope to see her again soon!

So come play along with us over at Time Out!  And you could be lucky enough to win a $25 gift card to Winnie & Walter.  Also we have the incredible Darnell - who is such an awesome blog friend - her designs will be sure to amaze you...so pop on over and 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!

Thank You Cards (Day 1) and Weekend Update

Hi friends...we've had a very exciting week at our house. And I'm going to name the moment that I'm going to brag on the boys for just a minute!  Jonathon ran his first half marathon this morning.  It was a nice crisp morning and he finished with an incredible time of 1:38:54 - a 7 minute 33 second pace.  Seriously - can't even imagine running that fast.  He was so pleased.  Awesome to see his smile at mile 5, mile 10 and then at the finish!

Ryan is home from his freshman year and has come home with all As for his second semester after a strong first semester too. So proud of him and that he is loving college.  

And Collin and Marcel have both received parts in the summer production of Willie Wonka Jr.  And Collin is Willie Wonka. He is beaming with pride.  He tends to be my shy one so this is a really big deal.  And Marcel will be grandpa George.  Really look forward to seeing them on stage in July.

So...enough bragging on the boys :), think you are probably here for a card. We have the annual show choir banquet tomorrow night and I received a request for nine thank you notes for the directors and a few parents that put a ton of time with the kids.  So off I set this afternoon to quickly make nine cards!  The first one above is using The Stamp Market stamps. Love this fun stamp and I had fun stamping it with a variety of Impress inks...those are my favorite inks for sure!

The second one is using a Winnie & Walter set.  I was so lucky to meet Shay the owner of W&W at my April crafting weekend. She makes sets with the most fabulous sentiments and simply the sweetest person.  Love her and her stamps!  Our school colors are orange and black and our town is Loveland...so hearts are always perfect!  I'll be back in a couple days to share the other two I made.  Hope you all have had a fabulous weekend too!

Deepest Sympathy {and a short blogging break}

I thought I'd play along with one more of the Winnie & Walter First Birthday Bash challenges. I loved the soft grays and blues paired with the white in Laura's inspiration collage.  I was in need of a sympathy card for a co-worker who lost her father-in-law.  He had been ill for quite some time.  The inspiration photo was perfect for a sympathy card.

I've had fun playing along with their challenges this month!  Hope you are getting time to sneak into your craft rooms!  I'll be back on Thursday for Time Out and Fusion, but might not have any cards for the remainder of the week and early into next week. The kids activities are super busy right now and I'm traveling for work this week...so time in the craft room had to give over this weekend and time for commenting has limited, but I am checking out all your gorgeous creations!

You are Awesome!

Happy Monday!  Hope it is an awesome one for you!  Back with another card for the Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash Challenge.  I'm entering this card in Vanessa's Gradient Challenge.  A few weeks ago I had bought this star creative screening. I've only used my embossing paste a few times but thought this screening would be great for any type of celebration card.  I used a little blue ink with the white embossing paste. When I stamped my sentiment, I inked it up with three different blue inks to create a gradient feel.

This card will go to a co-worker who is celebrating her 10th anniversary.  A definite reason to celebrate!  I love the sentiment stamps from W&W...they truly are fabulous to make cards with so many different sentiments.

Celebrate Today

A few weeks ago, I bought my first Winnie & Walter stamps so when I saw the challenges over on Kelly's blog, I thought it would be fun to play along with a few of them over the next couple of weeks.  My first entry is for Gayatri's Birthday Collage challenge.  I love the dual stamping on these rose stamps and if you've been around here often you know I love pairing coral and gray together.  The typewriter sentiments are fabulous. I finished off the sentiment with a birthday sentiment to celebrate today!

I'm also entering this over in Virginia's View Clean Slate Challenge.  Oh how I love a card with lots of clean white space!

I hope your weekend gets off to a great start. Happy creating my friends.