~Eye Adore You~

Spectacular Spectacles Challenge in the Moxie Fab World (say that 10 times!!!).

You've got to see the variety of inspiration Cath has for you there.

I have these adorable spectacles from The Alley Way's adoraBowl set.

I HAD to use the classy pair.

*The Alley Way adoraBowl~Ranger Jenni Bowlin Spice Tin~Authentique Genuine bundle~QuicKutz square die~Georgia Pacific White~Scor-Tape 1/8"*

Aren't they a fun shape?

CAS-ual Fridays CFC48 will be SICK of me this week.

How could I not link up these opposites???-Please forgive me ladies, thanks for allowing me my third entry. ;)

Finally, I learned how to make the polaroid shape at WOW #134:DIY Polaroid Frames.

My QuicKutz square die got some love today!

Hey, thanks for visiting me, I always appreciate the company.

~Home Sweet Hello~

Homespun.

Sweet, comfy goodness.

I admire the style.

I'm a graphics girl at heart~so here's my version of homespun.

(Flourishes Tiny Flowers and Tags,Memento tuxedo black and paris dusk,Quickutz square die,Fiskars border punch,Sizzix sizzlet card Rectangle,Making Memories Just Chillin' boy DP,October Afternoon Sidewalks DP,Copics (red,orange,green),Creative Memories corner rounder,PeelnStick Removable Ruler Tape-secured with Scor-Tape)

I know just the recipient for this-a friend of mine who is an amazing quilter.

I owe her a "Hello/hugs/from the heart" card. ;)

I designed this for the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger:Home Sweet Home.

I was inspired by the beautiful Card Patterns Sketch 153

Hope you have a blessed week with happy surprises and comfy goodness.

~Amazing Kid~

My nephew has a birthday coming up.

A couple of years ago, he came to visit and went sledding for the first time.

That's craft foil behind a hole I created with a Marvy circle punch.

The silhouette is a perfect image for the little guy-hope he remembers having fun here.

It was cut from Papertrey Ink's In the Meadow die set.

Here's without the glare.

Inspiration for using stars comes from Less is More Week 39-Lucky Dip Stars.

I die cut them, sponged them with Memento sand ink and strung them on twine. 

My sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Game On.

Thank you so much for stopping by. ;)

Info:

Quickutz star belt loop die,Papertrey Ink In the Meadow dies,Papertrey Ink Game On sentiment,Marvy circle punch,craft foil,Versamark Brilliance red ink,Mark's Finest twine,Creative Memories corner rounder

FYI LOVE and Q

For Your Inspiration has the most beautiful photos to work with.

I was inspired to make this:

FYI #13

Colour Q 101

Paris makes me think of love.

Love makes me think of complicated layers.

I hope the card is self-explanatory. ;)

I think of our bodies as cages holding our souls...

 Your "cages" are tethered together...

.... two individuals glued together to create one.

The longer you're a couple,

the more layers you may peel back and reveal.

At some point, you lose track of where one life begins and the other ends.

You can't go back to two separate lives.

Love cannot be erased.

It can only be torn away.

Your life will always have that love in your history.

Did you get all that? ;)

I really enjoyed creating the layers for this...rolling it back, flipping it over and stamping, and adding the chain with beading.

Thanks for peeking in. ;)

Info:

My Mind's Eye Stella Rose Mabel,Teresa Collins Posh,Quickutz heart die,Corrugator,Versamark ink,copper embossing powder,silver embossing powder,Fiskar's deckled blade rotary cutter,Tim Holtz ink

Missing You in So Many Ways

I must be healing.

I was able to make a card for my friend to send her deployed husband...

without crying my eyes out.

Thank You Jesus!

It's really a blessing, when I don't get emotional about deployed soldiers...

so much so that I CAN'T DO ANYTHING for them.

It's about time I made cards for my friends!

I stamped the background with my largest clear acrylic block.

That's right, no stamp, just the block.  One spritz of water after inking up, and you have a handmade background.

I used Sweet Stop's SSS119 sketch

Thanks for peeking in today. ;)

Stamp info:

Tradefish Designs Missing You, Fiskar's Deckle blade rotary cutter, Memento ink,Quickutz heart die

Stars, a Sketch, and Patriotic Colors

  My friend's birthday is the Fourth of July.  How fun is that?! 

She has the awesome personality to match that day too...she's like a party waiting to happen.;)  

 I shall be a good friend this year and send her a card:

   I am new to stamping and coloring...but it wasn't hard to color the chipboard button and simple white ribbon with a grey Copic marker. The ribbon became a little stiff after coloring, but I like that!  It was easier to handle and lay flat.

I colored the red stars with a Memento marker.  I used an Innovative Stamp Creations stamp for the background (I hardly have any grey cardstock).

There are 3 challenges that got me headed in the right direction to make this fun card:

Pals Paper Arts 99  Element of Style-Stars,

(PS...I got to see Bette Midler when I was a wee little one..maybe 3..it is one of my first memories!!! ;)

Play Date Cafe with these awesome colors,

and Just Add Ink 73 's sketch:

 

Supplies: Innovative Stamp Creations Rocks on the Shore (free stamp thrown in with my order...cool!!!), ODBD Time (given to me free from a blog hop....cool! ), Quickutz star belt loop (given to me by my sister who got it free at a scrapbookstore...cool!), Copic marker, Memento marker, Staz on ink, Making Memories Just Chillin' DP

A Clean and Blue "Hi!"

Moxie Fab's Tuesday Trigger Classically Modern

   This trigger displays a beautiful room that has blues and whites with a touch of modern on the wall.  I love this room...so clean and perfect!  I actually stayed in a similar room while visiting friends.  My friend has a knack for class and her bedding had a blue and white flower design.  It was tastefully decorated and so CLEAN looking.  She and her husband were the perfect hosts...they gave up THEIR room, can you believe it?  Wow, talk about hospitality!  

  I was thinking of them while making this card...we haven't gotten together in awhile, and we only live a couple of hours from each other now!  We drove 8 hours to see them years ago, when they gave up their room.  Now, we just seem to get so caught up in who knows what.  I need to tell them at least "Hi!".  

Here is my "Hi"...

 

  I didn't have any blues to hit the trigger blues...

...which made me BLUE. :(   

LOL.   ;)

But, I had INK and a background stamp! I made squares to frame the corners.  See those gorgeous vases?  They are from my other FAVORITE ODBD stamp.  I am also entering this is in ODBD Stamping in Time 36.  I added that cool swirly thing to make the "Modern" point! 

Thanks for peeking in!

Recipe: ODBD You are the Potter, Rubber Stampede Signature Background, Staz On Ink, clear embossing powder, Sizzix flowers and leaves, Quickutz square, Sizzix square, Cuttlebug Embossing folder, Corner rounder, ISC Friendship for the sentiment

So Sorry

  I had this card tiptoeing in the back of my mind ever since seeing OLW53's challenge.  It calls for a new home (ooops, thought it was just home, oh well) and two colors of ink.

 

     All I own is a doghouse die...you know....IN THE DOGHOUSE?  I used it to emboss the card and then lightly penciled it with a Prismacolor white pencil. That was what I immediately thought of.  Hopefully I won't need to use this card... :)

Thanks for peeking in....

Info: JustRite Curlz font, Versamark Ink, white embossing powder,Quickutz die, RSP HI, Signo Uni-ball, Souffle orange