Spring is Here!!

Happy Easter everyone. I hope everyone has a good day. It is suppose to be a great day here. It is going to be in the mid 70's. I only shut off my heat a few days ago because it was so cold here. I can't believe how beautiful it is now.

Today's theme for the Stempeltraume is Just Girls. I have so many girl stamps so I loved this theme. If you like challenges you need to check this out. The other DT's do great work, their themes are fun and you could win some great prizes! I picked this image from Sugar Nellie because it had never seen ink. Every time I tried to buy it last year it was out of stock. When I placed an order this winter I saw that they had it so I had to buy it. I used Tim Holtz new paper on this card! I wish you could see it better. I absolutely love it. It is all double sided, comes in different sizes and colors. I think this paper will fit well with so many of my stamps.

The other challenges this card fits are:

Annabelles - Say it with flowers. I love this daisy and the way this little lady looks like she is giving it to someone.

Daring Card Makers - Diamonds - The sparkly rain drops are actually fingernail art I bought in the $1 bin at JoAnns. I thought they would make great raindrops or tears.
The shiny flower is from CTMH that I have had in my stash for a while.

Fab & Funky - Spring is in the Air - I am happy now that the weather is nice enough for me to open my windows and enjoy the weather!

For Fun - Anything Goes - I love these themes!!

Little Red Wagon - Rolling into Spring - What says spring better than flowers and bare feet!

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes - These themes are great because I can use anything I want and fit the theme!

ABC - R is for Red - The paper I used is called Rose Red from SU.

Everybody Art - Spring - Love the sunshine and nice weather and love to make my spring cards!

Truly Scrumptious - Sketch - I loved this sketch. I knew I had to find a way to use it. The optional theme was fly away but I thought adding more to this card would be too much.

Stamptacular - Just for girls! I wouldn't say gardening is just for girls but I think this card with the girl picking the daisy is!

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my art! Thank you to everyone who leaves a comment. I love reading them. It's nice to know people like what I love creating.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Rose Red, Night of Navy
DP: Tim Holtz
Stamp: Sugar Nellie
MISC: CTMH flowers, Ribbon from Michaels, Nail art from Joanns, MM brads,

Easter Eggs

Good Morning. Can you believe it is almost April 1st!! I can't. Time flies. It won't be long before I will be pulling out the t-shirts and shorts!

Today is the new Going Grey with Scrap-Creations challenge. This weeks theme is Easter. Check out the terrific work of the other DT's and play along! All you need to do is to make an Easter card/project and use Basic Grey paper. How easy is that!

There are alot of Easter and Spring challenges out there. I am thrilled because it really puts me in the mood for Sunny, Warm weather! The challenges I picked to participate in are:

Fussy & Fancy - Easter

C.R.A.F.T - Easter

Friday Sketches - Sketch

Paper Play - Easter

Stamping for the Weekend - Easter

Daring Cardmakers - Eggs

Townscrapper - Easter

Crafty Ann's - Make something for someone special to you. This is going to be my mother's Easter card.

Res-Q - Eggs

Easy Craft Projects - Easter

Lexi's Creations - Easter

Thank you for stopping by. I love reading all your comments. Thanks to everyone who leaves one for me.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Tempting Tourquoise, Rose Red
DP: Basic Grey
Stamps: Bildmalarna, CTMH
MISC: SU Pearls, Prima & CTMH flowers, Spellbinders die cuts

Happy Easter again......

Good Morning. I hope everyone is having a good weekend. It's cold here this weekend. We had snow flurries Friday morning. It's hard to believe Easter is next weekend.

Today is the Stempeltraume challenge. The theme this week is Easter. I love making Easter cards. I love the soft colors and it really gets me in a Spring mood. This year more than most because Easter is early. The other DT's on this team do some amazing cards. You really should stop by and check them out. Better yet, play along with us. We love to see everyone participate!

The other challenges this fits are:

Sew Many Cards - Punches - I love punches! There are some great one's out there. I have now run out of room to store all of mine.

Dare you to Digi - Easter - My digi image is from Sew Many. I love all her bunnies.

Annabelles - Sketch - I really liked this sketch and I thought it would really fit the image because it looks like the bunny is looking up at the flowers.

Color Create - Choice of Pastels - Great theme! I love pastel colors!!

Little Red Wagon - Inspiration - Lt Blue, Pink, White - I loved the soft look of the inspiration picture and thought my card had a soft look with the light Blue, Pink and white.

Incy Wincy Designs - Easter or Spring - Yes, it is that time of year. I am ready to use more of my lighter copics!

Crafty Cardmakers - Spring into Spring - I am jumping head first into spring this year. I am ready to pull out all my spring stamps.

Stamp with Fun - Easter - I could probably make many more Easter cards but I don't have the time.

Everybody Art - Easter - Great minds think alike. Not surprisingly there are alot of Easter challenges and I am thrilled. I wish I could make a card for each one of them.

Practical Scrappers - Use something you have not used in over a year. Mine is the border punch. I bought this punch a couple years ago. I like it but I don't use it often. I am trying to not use the same punches on every card so this gave me the perfect excuse to pull out an old one.

Jacksonville Embellishments - Easter or Spring - I love all these Easter/Spring Challenges! They are fun and easy

Thank you for stopping by. Thanks to everyone who leaves a comment. I look forward to reading all of them.

Peggy

Supplies:
CS: SU Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue
DP: Memory Box, SU
STAMPS: Sew Many, CTMH
MISC:

Build a Snowman

Good Morning! It's back to work after the long weekend for me. I didn't get as much stamping done as I thought I would would but did get a chance to make my card for the Sugar Challenge.

This is one of the stamps I got when I won the challenge. I think she is so cute. I should have made this card bigger than 5 x 5 though. I didn't realize how big the image was. This week the challenge was a sketch and distressing. It's hard to see my distressing around the paper but it is there. I love the blue and purple. It's really hard for me to not just pick it up for every card, especially in the winter.

I wanted to add some sparkle so I colored the snowman's hat in shimmerz, glittered the fur around her hood and put stickles on the snowflakes. I pulled out my polar white flower soft for the snow. I bought this a while ago for this purpose but keep reaching for glitter on the snow. I remembered it this time. I like the look.

Well I don't have alot of time today since I am catching up from being off yesterday. I hope everyone has a good day.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you like my many layers of card! Let me know if you do. I love reading your comments.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Bashful Blue, Almost Amethest, Papertrey White
DP: CTMH
STAMP: Sugar Nellie
MISC: Ribbon, Silver Dots, SU Glitter, Shimmerz, Polor White Flower Soft

Beary Christmas

Good Morning! I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Mine is relaxing. I have a feeling this may be the last relaxing weekend I have until XMAS. I can't believe Thanksgiving is this week and XMAS is a month away. I have not even started my shopping yet.

I made this card yesterday. I had downloaded some Digi images from Cuddly Buddly and thought they were so cute I had to color one. You should check these out. They have alot of free downloads. I picked this cute Bear in the Santa hat to color first. IRL he is really sparkly. I didn't realize until I had printed out the image that I picked up the SU shimmer paper instead of my Papertrey White. He looks really cute with the shimmer. I also used Yellow shimmerz on the bird. I really like shimmerz but it doesn't photograph well. I stickled the fur on the hat and the berries.

I had written down some of the challenges out there and realized that this card fit a few of them.

Friday Sketches - Sketch for this card
Dare you to digi stamp - Glitter
Creative Inspirations - Sparkle
Spoonful of Sugar - Baby's 1st Christmas
Cupcake Craft - Digi Image
Handful of Stamps - Anything but plain ribbon

Thank you for visiting. I hope you like my card. Any comments would be appreciated.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Old Olive, Shimmer White, Brilliant Blue
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: CTMH, Cuddly Buddly
MISC: Ribbon, Hero Arts flowers, Glitter Brads, MS leaf punch, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Stickles, shimmerz

Happy Haunting, TSSC 90

Good Morning. It is chilly here this week. I had to break down and turn on my heat this weekend. I woke up Sunday morning and it was only 31 degrees. I'm still not use to it. I keep running out to do errands not dressed warm enough. Winter is right around the corner. I'll be talking about snow before you know it. I hate the snow but I love making winter cards so I guess I will survive it.

I made this Halloween card for Mary Jo's sketch challenge. I still can't decide if I like it. I thought it looked plain so I added the bats and spiders but now I don't know if I should have. They seem to look out of place.

My special occasions Just Rite set came in handy for this challenge. Most stamps out today are big and I have to dig for smaller stamps. I love the MS spider web punch. I couldn't wait to use it.

I hope everyone is having a good week. Thank you for visiting my blog and looking at my cards.


Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray
DP: SU
STAMPS: Just Rite, CTMH
MISC: MS spider web punch, bat punch, Michaels spider punch, cuttlebug embossing folder, Spellbinders die

Willard Weather Ant

Good Morning!

Back to reality today. I'm back at work. I did get most of my stuff upstairs yesterday but not necessarily put away. I decided that I really needed to make my Mother's Day card. With all the cards I made this weekend I didn't get around to Mother's Day. I'm almost done with it which is good since I will need to give it to my Mother this weekend. I will post later this week when I finish it.

Willard Weather Ant is one of the High Hopes stamps Mary and I received free with our order. It is from their new release. I was so excited when I saw it because it was one of the new releases I really wanted. The stamp only has one raindrop but I stamped it multiple times and cut out the raindrops and one of the umbrellas. I put crystal effects on the raindrops and puddles. I popped up the umbrella to give the card a little 3D effect. I used my Cloud template on the background but it is very light. I glittered his gloves to give the card a little sparkle.

The inside of the card has the rest of the saying "and some people just get wet".
I usually like to put both parts of the saying on the front of the card but it didn't fit so I put it inside.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy Willard. Let me know what you think!

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Pacific Point, Basic Gray
DP: SU
STAMPS: High Hopes, CTMH
Misc Ribbon, Brads, Crystal Effects, Copics

Happy Spring!

How's everyone's week going? Mine is going well. I have been pulling out all my spring stamps so I can figure out what to bring when my sister and I go with some friends on a Stamping Weekend to Vermont! It's 3 weeks away and I can't wait. I do hate the packing though. It's really hard to decide what I will want to work on. I am waiting for a High Hopes shipment which I do not know if it will arrive on time, and I have placed 2 orders with Sugar Nellie, one just an hour ago, which hopefully will be here by the time we leave.

Do you have a stamp set that you always go to at the beginning of a season? I bought this stamp when a LSS was going out of business. Because it is so big there's not alot I can do to mix it up but I always reach for it each spring. I just love the stamp. I usually do it in pastels so I decided to do it in copics for a brighter card. Then I added shimmerz for some pop.

I hope you like it. Happy Spring!!

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
STAMPS: Rubbernecker Stamp Company, CTMH
CS: SU Pacific Point, Black
Misc: Cloud template, Brads

TSSC64

Good Morning Everyone! Happy Tuesday. Well, the Red Sox did get rained out yesterday but they are re-scheduled for today. GO SOX !!!!...

Last night I was impatiently waiting for some #'s from some people at work to get my portion done and submitted for a Tuesday AM meeting so I decided to work on Mary Jo's sketch challenge. Needless to say I waited a long time so I got the card done!

I am loving all the SU DP paper I got in my last order. The colors are great.

I embossed the boots and then decided I didn't love the flowers that come with the boot set so I pulled out my Rubber Stamp Tapestry. RST sets are so versatile. I love them.

Well I hope you all have a great Tuesday. Let me know what you think of the card. I loved the sketch this week.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Certainly Celery, So Saffron
DP: SU
STAMPS: SU, Rubber Stamp Tapestry, CTMH
MISC: Stickles, SU Brads, Michaels Ribbon

TSSC62

Good Afternoon.....I hope everyone is having a great Thursday. I am happy to say I am swamped at work!!!! I thought I needed a little break and this card has been done, I just had not had time to post it.

I made this card for Mary Jo's sketch challenge. I had just received this new paper from CTMH and couldn't wait to use it. I love the colors in it. Luckily it came as a kit and I have alot of it to use in the future.

Well I started writing this post an hour ago and keep getting distracted so I am going to keep it short and post.

Have a great day. Thanks for visiting.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:

CS: CTMH
STAMPS: SU
DP: CTMH
RIBBON: CTMH

Friends

While it was snowing on Sunday I decided to play with one of my new Whipper Snapper stamps. I really like these little guys. I decided to finish the card at lunch today instead of eating. I look at it as a card making diet. Of course I'll eat everything in site tonight. Oh well, I got the card done! Isn't that the important thing!

I thought the saying was appropriate being inauguration day. It's also one of my favorites from a CTMH set.

Well I only have a couple minutes to post before my next meeting so I'll keep this short. I hope you like these guys as much as I do.

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Whipper Snapper, CTMH
Paper: SU Pixie Pink, Black, Neenah White
DP: Deja View
Snowflake: CTMH
Nesties, Copics, Shimmerz, SU Glitter