Woodland Love

This card is made for Wee Memories In the Forest Scrappy Saturday Challenge.These challenges always looks like so much fun, thought I would play along too. It's been a while since I used these love birds, this was my very first Hero Arts Rubber Stamp!

Made with Hero Arts...
k5344 La Letter
K4888 cardArt Love Birds
k5404 Wild Flowers

Thank you for looking! Happy stamping :)

Butterfly Love

I have been inspired by all the simple and clean designs made by the gals on the Hero Arts Flickr site. Just had to try making one too!

Made with Hero Arts CL342 Everyday Sayings and the butterflies are Martha Stewart's classic butterfly punch.

Happy Stamping!

Mustard, Navy & Hot Pink?

Made for Play Date Cafe colour horribilis challenge. Colours include Mustard, Navy and Hot Pink. Quite the color combo, I could never imagine using these colours together until now!

Made with ...
Hero Arts K5298 blooming heart and CL342 Everyday Sayings. The mustard background paper is from Daisyd's Wonder Years card stock and it has a touch of navy blue running through it. Also a bit of zigzag stitches using navy blue thread. The butterflies are made using Martha Stewart classic butterfly craft punch.

August 30th is my Wedding Anniversary and we celebrated over the weekend with a nice dinner. We had ... chicken breast wrapped in bacon topped with roasted green pepper and a whole roasted tomato, drizzled over this was Sun dried tomato and oregano dressing. Not sure how I came up with this but I figured anything wrapped in bacon has to be good! Also had garlic mashed potatoes and veggies. It was really yummy!! If you like garlic try these potatoes, I make them all the time after falling in love with them at a restaurant in Northern Ontario. I just roast at least 2 whole garlic cloves in a touch of oil in the oven until they are nice and brown. In a bowl chop up the garlic into small pieces, add some pepper,garlic salt, chives, and basil. Mix this into your regular mashed potatoes. They are so tasty!!

Thanks for stopping by, Check out Anita`s blog at craftygrldesigns for some inspiring cards and a chance to win too! Have a great week :)

Just a note paper flowers

Super quick post today as I have to get ready for work. This card was inspired by Lin's gorgeous card here.
Made with Hero Arts
CL342 Everyday Sayings
S5208 Designer Wood grain (stamped with antique linen)
cl401 speckled ornaments (stamped with peeled paint)

The paper for the flowers is from daisyd's and it's a double sided card stock. I think this company is actually out of business but I found this a our local dollar store. This paper is nice to use because there is a different print on both sides (the outside of the flowers are yellow and pink design inside). The base of the card is regular white card stock stamped with HA wood grain, glued it to another piece of white cardstock and took one side of the scissors to the edge to give a rough look,touched Worn lipstick on the edges of the card and also the flowers.

Thanks for looking, have a very happy stamping day!!

Sending Smiles!

I just adore this clear set from Hero Arts called Sending Smiles (CL444). So many great garden elements to choose from. Thought it would be fun to make the basket of flowers look like a purse :)

So glad it's the Weekend, now hopefully I will have a chance to look around Flickr and all the wonderful blogs out there to see what everyone has been up to!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great Weekend!! :)

Italian Style - Play date cafe

Well it's back to work for me this week. So long to sleeping in, no makeup, blue jeans and my pony tail. It was so nice to have some time off. :)
Made this card for the Play Date Cafe Italian Style. The butterflies are from a company called Local King Rubber Stamps. Background is an Anna Griffin Stamp (I also used on my Wedding cards many years ago) and the Sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Thank you for looking!

Just a note Birds

Still on Vacation and enjoying the time off. So far I have refinished an old antique bench and I am now working on an old oval window sanding and removing the paint. I would like to make some stained glass inserts for this window using 2 clear beveled birds few flowers and butterflies. I picture the window almost looking like this card.
Made with worn lipstick and a white ink to soften the pink. Also added a music note brad to match the sentiment.
Made with Hero Arts
CG152 Two Birds
AR169 Butterflies and lace
K5344 La Letter
CL342 Everyday Sayings
S5208 Designer Woodgrain
Cl401 speckled ornaments

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you are enjoying the day!! :)

Butterfly Rose Card

I made this card for The Play Date Cafe color splash green challenge. Since I am at home this week and have some extra time I thought it would be fun to play along.

Made with Hero Arts
CL218 Sparkle Clear Love That
CG152 Two Birds
AR169 Butterflies and lace
K5344 La Letter

The embossing folder is called Victoria which has a leafy look to it and inked with Ranger Archival Jet Black and Tim Holtz peeled paint. Also a touch of Copic marker # YG03.

Hope you have a great crafty weekend!! :)

Sky thank you card

I am very thankful to have some time off of work and I'm enjoying every minute of being at home! It's a chance to get caught up on projects, cleaning and much needed sleep. This card has been on my mind and thought I would try making it.
Made with Hero Arts ...
AR169 Sentiment
H5350 Flowers
k5400 Vertical clouds
Thank you so much for stopping by, have a wonderful day!!

Lazy Summer Days

Cute photo of my neighbours cat Gruby relaxing in the Sun. He always hangs out at our place & sometimes I will find him in the house, if he can get the screen door open!
Frayed Burlap distress ink is a great shade of brown, also used Tea Dye and Antique linen distress on this card with the following Hero Arts stamps.

K5133 Swirl with flowers
F5158 Heart winged butterfly
CL342 Everyday Sayings
CG125 Friends Definition

Enjoy the evening & happy stamping :)

Backyard Deer

I bought this Young Deer Stamp a few weeks ago and decided not to use it until I start my Vacation. Well Vacation time is here for the next two weeks and it was perfect timing to see this Deer in the backyard. They love to visit our Apple tree which thanks to my Husband always has a pile of neatly stacked apples waiting for their next visit!

This card is made with Hero Arts...
CL342 young deer
AR169 Butterflies
CL342 Everyday Sayings.
The embossing folder is called Victoria ,the Deer is Coloured with Copics and butterflies are stamped with Tim Holtz Frayed Burlab Ink.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!! :)

Coffee, donuts and the newspaper

I have just discovered glossy accents and it's so exciting. I really have to control my self as I want to coat everything with it! It's great to use on the donuts in this stamp set. Made with Hero Arts CL416 What's perking, coloured with Copics. Glossy accents and tiny glass beads were added to the donut. Also added some news print classifieds for the background and embossing.

Have a super weekend!