Happy Mothers Day!

Hope everyone had or is having a fabulous Mothers Day today. Ive been having a craving for a shrimp and garlic pasta so my husband went and got me take out from the Olive Garden. As soon as I was done I got up from the table as quick as possible. The kids had their pasta and salad everywhere. I wasnt about ready to clean it up today! So here I am posting a couple of cards Ive been working on and finished up this morning. The first card is for the challenge over at Whiff of Joy. The second card is for the challenge over at the Sugar Bowl. Both challenges were sketch challenges and I definately went out of my comfort zone with the papers. Ive never really been good at matching my patterns but I recently received a small selection from my secret sister over at Cafemom. I had received the images as well in a RAK and I so hope that I got the right image with the right challenge! They turned out rather well, so looks like I will try to be more daring with my paper choices to create more of my cards.

Sketch Saturday #50

I so love this image! I received her in a RAK and now Im convinced that I have got to own her. sigh I colored her with my Bic Markers. Doesnt she look so pretty?! This is my entry for todays challenge over at Sketch Saturday. I used some patterned butterfly paper and cut out a couple of the butterflies to add as embellishments. I hand wrote my sentiment because the space was to small for the thinking of you stamp I have.

Digi Shack Color Challenge

A quick hello! I am posting my entry for the color challenge over at the Digi Shack. Unfortunately I can not post any details of my card just yet. My husband is patiently waiting for me to watch Prison Break! I will be back later or tomorrow with some details. Yikes! Sorry about that. Wentworth Miller beckons...yum! LOL
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So Im back to add some details for this cute entry over at the Digi Shack. The challenge was to use the color combinations of navy blue, off white, dark brown and kraft card stock or chip board. I really liked this combination because its earthy. I used kraft card stock as my main card. The dark brown was used a matte behind a brown handmade paper. I ripped a piece of navy blue for the water behind Surf Lani. I colored her with navy blue and brown bic markers topped off with star dust stickles. The off white was distressed with Tim Holtz weathered wood distress ink and I used a 'Tiki' font I saw on fontspace.com. Oh, cant forget my tiny prima flowers I used as embellishments. I just got those from my secret sister over at Cafemom. YAY!

Hau 'oli la hanau!

...means Happy Birthday in Hawaiian. A friend of mine wanted me to make a tropical themed card for her sisters birthday. I have absolutely nothing tropical in my craft mess so I started hand drawing some palm trees. Then.... I was stumped. I was over at my friend Jacilynn blog reading away and hopped on over to the Digishack where she is a DT for. They have these super cool digi images that I thought would be simply perfect for this card. I now have bought my very first thing online! I had quite a bit of frustration trying to get the image the proper size for my card. One big deep breath and I finally figured it out. I used the stair step fold to try and have a 3D-ish type effect, did a lil trimming around Surf-Lani, added some torn paper and distressed ink... and Wah-La... HAU 'OLI LA HANAU!

House of Mouse Challenge

I picked up a couple new House of Mouse/Gruffies stamps at Michaels this weekend so I was very anxious to do this weeks challenge.I was very excited to see that the challenge was to do a gate fold card. I love these types of of folds and they go over real with the recipients of whom gets them!

I ♥ my mom.

Happy May 1st to y'all!
This card is for the Three Clovers Challenge. First time for me participating in this challenge. I came across it blog hopping the other day. Soooo many challenges out there! I really liked this sketch and I have a lot of scraps laying around that worked perfectly. I used 2 pattern cs and 2 solid cs, distressed them all using Tim Holtz weathered wood distress ink. I embellished with a tad bit of ribbon and a heart I cut out topped with a G Studio $1 stamp.

Funny Farm repost

Theres a challenge going on over at Daring Cardmakers. Im not sure this is going to qualify but I wanted to repost this Funny Farm card that I made last month to show my usage of farm animals. It would be nice if it did qualify as this card took me a few days to complete. See this post for more details on my card.