April Showers

Good Morning. How is everyone today? It's cool in the Northeast these days. I guess that is normal for this time of year but I could use it a few degrees warmer.

Today is the Going Grey with Scrap Creations challenge. This weeks theme is April Showers. I couldn't wait for this theme. I love images with umbrellas. I chose this stamp from High Hopes to make my card. I think this Ant is so cute. This is an easy challenge for everyone. April Showers can bring May Flowers so you can do flowers or garden. C'mon and join the fun!!

The DT's did some an amazing job this week. You need to check them out.

Kristen Catalano
Mary Castonguay
Kim Howard
Crystal Irwin

and our special guest designer for April

Lisa Somerville

The other wonderful challenges this card fits are:

Stamptacular - Spots & Dots -I love my white pen. I thought the umbrella needed something so I added dots. I wanted the boots to match so I added there also.

The Corrosive - Texture - I added crystal effects to the raindrops, puddle, umbrella and flowers to look wet.

Crafty Catz - Sketch. The great thing about this sketch was that I could easily turn it upside down so my saying was at the top of the card.

Challenge up your life - April weather - It always rains in April here in the Northeast.

Res Q - This was a neat theme. There is a word puzzle with the hints. I choose Blue, Pink, Rain.

For Fun - April Showers - How can you make it through April without this theme.

Ooh La La - April Showers - Perfect these days for the Northeast

Tallen's Place - It's all about you! I'm looking outside and it looks like it is going to rain any time now so that's about me today!

Something Completely Different - The letter B - Boots, Blue, and Brads on my card

The Crazy Challenge - Don't call me flat - I love popping things up and this card is no different. I popped the image, flowers and saying.

Thank you for stopping by and looking at my card. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks to everyone who leaves a comment. I enjoy reading all of them.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Pretty in Pink,
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: High Hopes, The cutting Cafe
MISC: Brads, Nesties, Crystal effects.

Have an Ice Day

Good Morning. This week has flown by. I have been really busy at work. I did find some time to put together this card. It's nice to take a break and have a little fun.

This is a High Hopes stamp I bought last year. I like the big hat and goofy smile.

These are the challenges this fits.

Techno Stamper - Sketch - I really like the sketch this week.

Frosted Designs - Embossing - I wanted to add a little more dimension so I embossed the brown patterned paper in addition to the punched sides.

Pile it on - Enough with winter colors. Brown and Green are definitely non winter colors for me!

Your Next Stamp Challenge - Charm - My gloves

Crafty Anns - Metal - My charm is my metal

Fab & Funky - Emboss - I embossed the DP & green punched sides

The Pink Elephant - It's their 1st birthday and the challenge was to go through the last year of challenges and pick your favorite. Mine is Winter. I love making snow cards!

Incy Wincy Designs - Put your hats on - Make a card with a hat. This theme is what had me thinking about this stamp.

Saturday Spotlight - The bigger the better. Something had to be oversized. One of the things I like about this stamp is his oversized hat.

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - This was an open challenge to do anything we like!

Thank you for stopping by and looking at my card. I love reading your comments. Thanks to everyone who lets me know what they think.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: High Hopes, Amuse
MISC: Cuttlebug embossing folders, MS & Papershaper snowflake punches, Charm, MM brads, Ribbon??

Not even a Mouse

Good Evening. I don't know about everyone else but I am so busy getting ready for XMAS. I am done my shopping and most of my wrapping but now I need to get ready for XMAS Eve. I have my family over so I have to clean, shop and bake.

This the the XMAS card I sent out this year. This is a High Hopes stamp I bought last year. I got it too late to make any cards last year so I knew immediately that this would be my XMAS card this year. I colored alot of it with Shimmerz because I wanted it to shine. I put glitter on the fur and the mouse was colored with Copics. The DP was some I bought for .10 each 12 x 12 sheet. I liked it because it had dark green in it. So much of XMAS DP I see has the light green and I wanted a darker color.

The card happens to fit a few challenges:

Forever Friends - Anything Goes

Handful of Stamps - Card must have red on it.

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Stamp Something - Holiday Something

Thank you for visiting. If I don't get a chance to post again before Friday I want to make sure I tell everyone to have a wonderful Holiday. Stay safe and have fun.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Real Red
DP: ??
STAMPS: High Hopes, Elzybells Art Stamps
MISC: Michaels Ribbon, MM brads, MS leaf punch

Autumn Fun, 3CTC36

Good Afternoon. I made this card for Kerry's Thursday Challenge. This weeks challenge is a sketch. I was happy to see that I could use my High Hopes Scarecrow on it. I ordered this last year but there was a mixup with my LSS order at High Hopes so I didn't get it until after Xmas. This is the 1st time it has been inked up.

Friday night I went to customer appreciation night at another one of my LSS. We are lucky here that there are multiple stores in our area in addition to Michael's and AC Moore. We all got goodie bags. One of the items in the bag was Memory box new polka dot 6 x 6 paper. I love polka dots so I was thrilled to see it in my bag. The colors are beautiful. I loved it so much I bought a 2nd package. I used the brown and green on this card.

I thought the top left corner looked blank so I dug through my embellishments. I found some leaves that I bought when a Art store was going out of business. I like when I make an impulse buy and then actually use it! I can't count how many times I buy things knowing that I will use them and then I never do.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. It is beautiful here today. Nice day to relax and create. Thank you for stopping by. I hope you like my card.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip
DP: Memory Box
STAMPS: High Hopes, SU
MISC: Tonic punch, Black Ink Decorative Accents, Michaels Ribbon, Brads

AAHH, Summertime

Anyone living in the Northeast knows that it has been Hot and Humid lately. I don't like it. We live closed up with the heat on in the winter. I don't like when I have to close the house up for AC in the summer to be comfortable.

Anyway, enough complaining. When I was looking though my stamps to see what inspired me, this little guy was it. This is one of the free High Hopes stamps I got with my last order. Laying around in an inner tube on the water with a glass of lemonade looked really good to me. It also let me use one of my sunglass brads I bought last year. I love the brads but they never seem to look right on any cards I made. I think it is cute on this card. I added crystal effects to the lemonade and to his glasses to make them look more realistic. I also put glitter on the water to make it glisten. Once I had finished the card I didn't like the empty spaces between the oval and circle die cuts. The dew drops added just enough to the space without making it too busy. I like how the card ended up.

This will be my last post for a few days. Tomorrow I am heading up to the White Mountains in NH for a little R&R. I can't wait. It is beautiful up there. I have a few images colored but have not had the time to make a card. I will be doing that when I get back and will be posting them. I hope everyone has a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by. I hope you like my card.

Peggy
CS: SU Tempting Tourquise, Pumkin Pie
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: High Hopes
MISC: Brads, EK corner punch, Dew Drops, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Nestablities, Ribbon, Dew Drops

This week has flown by. I am extremely busy at work and I am getting ready to go on vacation next week (one of the reasons I am extremely busy at work). I can't wait!!


This stamp is from High Hopes. I love their last release with the Ants. They are so cute. I am so happy I like this card because it was a little frustrating to make. I had the image colored. Loved how it came out and then when I went to stamp the grass I got a streak of green ink from the block across my image. I was so disappointed. I decided I would color another one. I wasn't as happy with how the leaves came out so, I checked my original image. The streak of green missed the leaves so I cut them out and popped them up on this image. As you can see I really wanted this grass so I did give it another try, this time being more careful. As usual, I used my cloud template. I liked the DP but didn't know if I could find anything to match it. Cranberry Crisp is a color I do not use often and was happy that it went perfectly.

I feel like the colors makes this a Fall type card which I hope for everyone in the Northeast makes them feel cooler. The hot weather has finally arrived here and my body is not use to it yet.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Let me know what you think of my Ant..

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Wild Wasabi, Cranberry Crisp
DP: Basic Gray
STAMPS: High Hopes, My Favorite Things
MISC: Copics, MM Brads

3CTC19

I started making this card a while ago and then though I could use it for Kerry's challenge last week but got busy and never got it finished. When I saw Kerry's challenge for this week I was happy that this card also fit. So my no layer card turned into a layered card for this challenge. (I'm not a big fan of no layers).

I deal with people everyday from all around the US and it always surprises me when someone from the middle of the country will say "I have never been to a beach" or "I have only seen the beach when I go on vacation". Growing up in New England the beach has just been there any time I wanted to visit it. I forget that everyone doesn't have a coast with water. So I thought a beach card was fitting for the area I grew up (and still live) in.

When I was buying my High Hopes stamps a few months ago I wanted to buy something outside of my norm. This Moose was it. Isn't he cute? Once I got it then I had to figure out what to do with it. This is what I came up with. I stamped the Moose and then masked him. My cloud template came with directions for a beach scene like this. I thought that this would be a great stamp to try it with. I then put stickles on the water to make it stand out and sand on the sand. I had bought a small bag of really fine sand at one of the conventions a couple years ago when I was in my scene making phase of card making. Mary and I share a set of stamps from Seaside and I used the grass from that to add to the beach. I thought the card still needed some color so I made the beach ball. The floaties, flippers and beachball all have crystal effects on them to make them look like plastic.

I really wanted to use a saying from a SU set I have that says Dare to Be Fabulous with this card but it was too big so I went with Wish you were here.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you like my card.


Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Kraft and Pacific Point
STAMPS: High Hopes, Seaside, Class Act
MISC: Brads, Fairy Tale Creations template

Ruff Day

Happy Sunday. I hope everyone is having a good weekend. It is absolutely beautiful here today.

It's been a while since I have posted. I have been really busy at work and just have not had time to sit down and put together a post. I also have not had any time to make new cards so I looked to see what I had left from VT. I thought that after a rough week this Ruff Day card was appropriate. The Dog is one of my High Hopes stamps. I just thought he was so cute. The Ruff Day I borrowed from Mary and don't remember who makes it. That's the fun thing about getting together with other people when making cards. They may have what you don't to finish a card. The paws I found in my misc pile of buttons.

I hope to find some time to put together some cards. I have a few colored images now I just need to figure out what to do with them.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Chocolate Chip, Really Rust
STAMPS: High Hopes
DP: TPC Studio
MISC: buttons, Cuttlebug

Meet Tink

Good Morning everyone! The weekend has finally arrived!!! I'm sitting here having my coffee then my sister Mary is coming over and we are heading to our LSS to pick up something she forgot to get the other day. I am then coming home to finish my Mothers Day card. A nice relaxing day.

Meet Tink. Isn't he cute! He's one of the High Hopes stamps I ordered. The minute I saw him I thought he would look cute with black (they call it coal) shimmerz. I find that it comes out better if I color it with black marker first to get a really dark black. I did the background with my cloud maker. It is probably the best thing I have ever bought at a convention. Usually I go to these things and see people making the most wonderful cards and they make it look so easy. I then buy whatever they are selling and can't make it work when I get home. So frustrating. The template for the cloud maker was different. They made it look easy and it is! It is just a stencil that you lay on the paper and rub over it with ink with a sponge or cottonball. The one I have is by Fairy Tale Creations (chalk talk 1) but there are others out there as well. My biggest problem is that I usually do light fluffy clouds that don't show up well when I scan or take a picture. I'm going to start making them darker so they show up like I did with this one.

I hope everyone has a good day. Thank you for visiting. I hope my card makes you smile like it does for me.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Brilliant Blue, Pink Passion
DP: SU
STAMPS: High Hopes, Rubber Stamp Tapestry
MISC: Brads, Ribbon, Stickles

Wild Flowers

Happy Wednesday!

My good friend Michelle and I borrowed some stamps from each other about a month ago. This is one of hers that I wanted to stamp. It is from Whippersnapper. I colored it and thought the Garden Hat I ordered from High Hopes might look good with it so I didn't make a card at that time. I brought it with me this weekend. Sunday AM I was up really early and I was really tired so I didn't want to tempt fate and stamp/color anything before the coffee was ready and I had finished my first cup. I went through the images I brought with me already colored and decided this one really had been hanging around long enough. I am glad I held on it it. I think the Hat really adds alot to the card and goes well with the wild flowers.

The DP is some of my favorite paper. I normally wouldn't pick something so fancy for this stamp but it just seemed to go with it. I really liked the way it came out. I thought about giving this to my Mother for Mothers day but I didn't have a Happy Mothers Day stamp that would fit.

Thanks for coming by on day 3. I hope you like the card.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Sage Shadow, Perfect Plum
DP: Memory Box
STAMPS: Whipper Snapper, High Hopes
MISC: SU Ribbon, Brads.

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

Let it Snow

Well it has finally stopped snowing here. Now we have a little window before storm #2 comes. I had plans to get together with some friends today but the plans got pushed out (for the 2nd time) because of today's weather. At this rate we won't be exchanging XMAS presents until July.

Since my plans were cancelled I finished this snowman card. I was having a hard time with the hat because everything looked steaky so I bought some Coal shimmerz. Not perfect but better than the other things I tried. I like how the card ended up. This was one of the High Hopes stamps I bought last month. I like his face. I really enjoyed making this. I hope you like him too.

Supplies:
Stamps: High Hopes, Hero Arts
Paper: SU Brilliant Blue, Wild Wasabi, Orchid Opulence, GP white
MM Felt Snowfakes
SU Glitter, Brads
Copic Markers, Shimmerz
Circle Nesties