Okay, can ya tell I love these Sarah Kay stamps LOL. More to come......... and I got more coming in the mail this week. Check out Joan's Garden.

Hi There

yep, I'm back, I am stamping up a storm this morning and having a ball! Here's one, 3 stamps, the oval outline is Just Right and then little Zoe, both I got from Joan's Garden, the sentiment is from Nina Brackett"bug me anytime"over at StampTV. Colored with SU markers, the dp is also from SU. Thats it for now, there's cards to be made LOL. Thanks for taking time to look, I do appreciate it and your wonderful comments!

Happy Days

Good Morning! It's gonna be a fantastic day! No appointments or plans! First every thing went good yesterday with Bill and hopefully after the soreness is gone he will see just fine. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes. I appreciate it so much!!

I had time yesterday to make a card for a sketch challenge over at The Sweet Stop. This is the first challenge I have done in a long time. I must admit it was fun!! I used the stamp from Sarah Kay "Adele enjoying fresh apples",I purchased all my Sarah Kay stamps from Joan's Garden, colored her with Stampin Up markers. The dp paper is from Basic Grey, Eva. Ya just can't go wrong with Basic Grey! I used a Martha Stewart punch to create the bottom border, sentiment is from SU punched out with a nestie circle. Added 3 buttons and my card is finished. I may do a little house work today but right now I'm planning on stamping and playing the biggest part of the day. This week is flying by, and I am on what ya could say vacation, even if I have had to spend most of it running up and down the road LOL. I may post another one later but until then, Happy Stamping!!

Let's PARTY

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY CREATIVE VISION and Creative Clear Stamps!!
We have been celebrating all week and having lots of fun!
There is a free Digi for CCS Blog Followers on the CCS Main Blog.
Just email Laura at creative-vision@hotmail.com and put Wednesday in the subject line.
She will email you today's free digi!
Be sure to visit the CCS Blog tomorrow- Thursday April 29th! We are playing a blog version of "LET'S MAKE A DEAL"!
at 7pm Central Time.
Everyone who plays with us tomorrow, gets a chance to WIN the grand prize of
"free stamps for a year", and other prizes!
Game winners will be announced on Friday, on the CCS Blog.
(ONLY CCS blog followers can play and win)We encourage you to HOP HOP HOP along with the rest of the CCS Design Team! Become a CCS Blog follower (if you are not already - cause only CCS Blog followers are eligible to win prizes) then hop the blogs, and post a comment on each blog for your chance to WIN PRESENTS! A total of 6 PRESENTS will be given away!! Winners will be announced tomorrow on the CCS Blog! Thanks for celebrating with us, and enjoy the rest of the hop!!

Laura

Betty CCS Guest Designer

Olga (That's ME)

Jenny

Shelly

Chelsea

Now on to my card! This is one of the gorgeous new sets (Make a Wish) . The paper is Basic Grey, punched out the flowers and added the gems.

Update

Well just got back from the doctor's office. Need to ask yall to pray again. He has to go back tomorrow, seems like there is a piece of fiber behind the lens he put in and he has to numb the eye again and try to pull it out. He said stretched out it's about 1 1/2 inches long. If he can't get it, it's back up and start all over. We were down there today longer than yesterday, can you believe that! Anyway, nothing we can do but pray and go back . Thanks yall!

So Much Love

Good Morning everyone! It's my day to post a card using CCS wonderful stamps! This is from 2 different sets, Arms of Jesus and True Love. I just love the way you can mix and match these stamps! I used Basic Grey Green at Heart dp and SU solid. Added ribbon and the little silver buckle. Sorry this is so short but DH just had surgery yesterday and we all know men, so gotta get back to him. Thanks to all of you who sent him well wishes and prayers. We both appreciated it so much!! Have a great day and Happy Stamping!

Hello everyone! Bill did great, no problems what so ever unless you call having to get up at 4AM a problem LOL. He was the first one in and it didn't take long at all, we stopped to eat at 9AM and was back home at 10:30. He goes back to the doctor tomorrow at 2:15pm but it's just a follow up. Thank you so much for all the well wishes and prayers. God took care of him!

Easter Lilies

Good morning. It's Magic In The Air with Paper CupCakes! I pre-posted this due to dh having surgrey this morning, so lets hope every thing works with this LOL. Sue is our host this week and ask we use the Easter Lilies image and make a card where anything goes! How cool is that. Isn't this image absolutely gorgeous! This is going to be a get well card. I colored it using Stampin Up markers. I used my Scor-Pal and outlined the image. It's also white on white, not sure how well it shows up but IRL it is pretty. I added gold stickers from Mark Richards Peel Off's. I do hope you play along this week you could win, (prize below)

Be sure and check out the store here. Nina has such gorgeous images. I'm sure she has some thing you will fall in love with. Well that's it for now, have a great day and Happy Stamping!

Wild Flowers

Morning. I'm still half asleep LOL. but.....there's places to go, things to do and people to see to day so gotta get up and get going LOL. Here's a card I made yesterday just messing around an I must say, I like it. I stamped right on the dp fro Basic Grey, I used Versa Mark, then stamped on Chocolate Chip and embossed it. The stamp is from Stampin Up "Inspired by Nature". Then I punced out some flowers and put them randomly around. Added ribbon and bow to finish it off. Hope you like, hope the dear friend I mailed it to likes it too! yall have a bless Sunday and I'll catch ya later! Happy Stamping.

Candy

Check out Posh Designs, they got great candy!!!! See how here!

3 of my babies

No card, just 3 beautiful babies. My 3 youngest grandkids. Aiden is almost 3, Liam is almost 1 and Stella is 3. You can just see the meaness in Aiden, he's a ball of fire, always moving and getting into something LOL. Liam smiles all the time, such a happy baby. Stella 3 and the Beauty Queen. So sweet and full of life. Like all Nana's I just love em to death.

Release Party

Good Morning! hope everyone is well and happy. Looks like it just might rain today but that's okay. The only thing I'm gonna do today is go get my hair cut and clean house. Last night over at StampTV they had a release party. It was fantastic! Connie L, Betty B and myself were also talking on Skype during the party. Felt like we were together, we laughed and just had a ball. Theresa Momber challenged us to use a sketch (above card) and Lee Murphy challenged us to a color challenge (card below).

I used Kraft and Bubblegum Pink on the first one and Theresa Momber's stamp set Perrr-fectly Delightful. I embossed the pink panels and sponged on the back one and around the edges of the other 2. Used a Martha Stewart border punch and added flowers. On the second card I used Gina K. Ivory, SU Tempting Turquoise and Barely Banana. I did emboss the back panel, MS border punch with brads, the stamp sets were Theresa Momber's Autumn Beauty and Gina K.'s Basket of Happiness. If you have never attended a release party you should, they are fun and it's a great way to get to know everyone better. Well that's it for now. Gotta get busy, can't be late for my hair appointment, Lord knows I need a cut bad!!! Until the next time, Happy Stamping!

Friend to Friend

Good morning, hope everyone is well and happy! well it's my Friday as i don't work on Fridays, (get my 40 in the 4 days) but it's movie day so not too bad. Think we are gonna see Last Song. Here is another card I made last weekend. Gotta play with the new punch. I love it. The butterflies are form Artful Stamper, It is one of my favorite stamps. the sentiment is from SU "Pocket Silhouettes". Cut a label out, (Nesties) and added ribbon plus punched out some butterflies with the new punch I got, both Martha Stewart punches, and that about finished my card. The green checked paper is also MS. Yall have a good one and I'll try and catch ya later. Until then Happy Stamping!!

Birdie Told Me

Good Morning All! Hope everyone is well and Happy! Gotta go to work again today but don't take it wrong, I thank God every day I have a job! Last night a few of us got together and stamped. everyone made a Tri-Shutter card. here is mine, I did finish it after I got home by putting the punched out birds, tulip and sentiments on it. I was just so slow last night. Anyway, the most exciting news was I got to meet Patti Painter. I first met her by way of StampTV. Found out she just lived maybe 10 miles from me so we started chatting and phoning each other. She is a super awesome lady! Very talented so be sure and check out her brand new blog here.

Also my sweet dear wonderful friend Linda Payne sent me this blog award. Isn't it pretty. the only thing she said to do was pass it on to 5 bloggers I liked. but there are so many it was hard to do, but I came up with
Patti P.
Betty B
Kerrie M
Selma S
Connie L.
but if you would like to have it, grab it.......because I love all your blogs!
That's it for now, gotta finish getting ready for work, it's bowling day, YEAH! I do have a lot of fun at work hehe. Until the next time..............Happy Stamping!

End of your Rope

Good morning! My day to post yet another great sentiment form CCS. Laura has a stamp for every thing and any thing you can image. I have a friend who is really down and out, ever been there, this will cheer her up I'm sure of it! The base of the card is ivory pure luxury I got form Gina K., the dp is unknown, I used Stampin Up Chocolate Chip to stamp the sentiment and finished it off with twine that I tied a knot in. Hope you like my card, and don't forget to play along with the sketch challenge Laura has posted this week. You could be the next winner! Happy Stamping!

Thank You

It's Magical Monday!!!! Hope everyone is well and happy and ready to play! Kim has challenged us this week as host to the following:

any PCC image(s) -

a 4x4 size card base -

1 ribbon -

1 single type of embellishment (e.g., brads, buttons, clips, etc.) in ANY quantity (but only 1 type!) -

1 stamped/printed sentiment -

NO patterned papers

now that's a challenge!

I used the Tulips image, I love it!, the ribbon is my bow,( I cheated, it came already tied), 3 tiny buttons, card stock is from Gina K. Sentiment is Stamping Up. hope you like my little card, it was so fun to make, great challenge!! hope to see you playing along with us this week. happy Stamping!

Garden Trellis

Look what I got yesterday while at Michale's. They had the Garden Trellis from Martha Stewart. I have been wanting ever since I saw what Selma did with it. Before you ask, I also got a butterfly punch and blades for my cutter. Not to bad. Bill is scheduled for cataract surgery Monday the 26th. doctor said he'd be able to go back to work that Thur. so not to bad. Then that Friday the 30th, I 'll take him to Winston NC to another doctor about a lung test. Tell ya more about that later. On to my card. I'll be the first to admit I am like a kid when I get something new, I have to play with it then LOL. Could not wait to try the technique Selma talked about this week where she punched it twice and cut it then butted them together to make a larger trellis, I added those flowers that all you do is punch em out and pop dot em together. Added the bow I made with the bow easy and thats it! Card stock is also Martha Stewart.Thanks for dropping by, hope you have a great weekend! Happy Stamping!

Geri Wins

GERI WINS, well she came close. She did say OMS. Here is the site I found this on, all I had was OMS and not paint thinner, but I love the look. I dipped my pencil right into the OMS and color, it kind of melts it. Now wasn't that fun! Geri email me your address and I'll get your prize out to you!! Yall have a grand ole day!

Guess and Win

Good Morning World! I'm up and going to work another day. Ain't life grand! But it's Thursday and I'm off tomorrow. But got plans so no stamping much tomorrow. Gotta take DH to doctor, well, he could take his self but I'll go with him LOL. Who knows, I may get to eat out and go by Michael's, hehe, doc's office is across the road. Sneaky ain't I. Okay, here is what I'm going to do, the first person to tell me what I used and how I colored these flowers is gonna win a prize. It was some thing new I had never tried and got the idea off of a blog I saw yesterday. I love how it turned out. I used the purple card stock from Gina K's autumn pack, a piece of scrap paper for the bottom out of the ole basket. The sentiment is from a SU set I won, Whimsical Words. I cut that out using the petite scalloped ovals small. The white dots were added using a opaque pen. Okay, can't wait to see who guess right. I got a little prize for ya so put your thinking caps on. It's new to me but you all may have done this before, who knows. Have a great day and I'll catch ya later, Happy Stamping!!

Sunbonnet

Somebody tell me why we couldn't of been born rich instead of so good looking !? LOL. I did not want to get up out of that bed this morning. I was doing some great sleeping!!! Came in from work last night and made this card with the new goodies I got from StampinUp. I love this set (Garden from the Heart). This was thrown together so it is by no way my better work but just had to get it inky! I used scrap paper from my basket, Colored with Stampin Up markers, added ribbon and 3 buttons to finish it off. Speaking of which, guess I'm off to work again today. Yall have a good one and Happy Stamping!!!!

A Hug

Good Morning all! It's Tue and my turn to post a card for CCS. I went with black and white. I don't think you can ever go wrong with these colors. I love this sentiment also. I used black as my card base, embossed the white with the Floral Fantasy folder. After stamping the sentiment I cut it out with nesties. Added ribbon and a punched flower to finish it off. Now how simple is that but I think it's classy looking. Hope you like my card and thanks for taking time to drop by! Happy Stamping!

Merry Wishes

It's Magical Monday!!! Hope everyone is well and happy! This week Nilla is our host and ask us to use this image (Merry Wishes) and to use shades of blue, green and white. I printed it 3 times and cut 2 of them out. The blue is embossed with the Swiss dots folder, the green was punched out with a Martha Stewart border punch. Stickles was added here and there. Don't they look like they are off to the party LOL. this week you will want to be sure and play, the winner will get to pick 2 images! Now thats a great prize! Thanks for dropping by to look, I do appreciate it and your sweet comments. Happy Stamping!!

Daisies

Look whose back. I haven't felt like stamping much this week due to my arthritis acting up in my left hand. The swelling has gone down and it's not to painful so thought I'd give Tina's color challenge over at STV a go. I used Theresa Momber's Daisies from her set Perr-fectly Delightful. The card stock is from Gina K. I added little black pearls and ribbon. Cut the ovals out with nesties. That's pretty much it. Thanks for taking time to look, hope everyone has a great week. See you in the morning for TMITA/PCC.

Friendship

Morning, hope all is well with everyone. Here is a Tri Shutter card I made for no reason other than to make a card. I got the instructions here. It was so easy I couldn't believe it! I wanted to use one of the butterflies I got for my birthday from my Secret Pal. I love these butterflies. I also used the gold chain and smaller butterflies from Peel-Off's. The card stock is from a Martha Stewart pack. The sentiment in the middle is from Judith and the long one is from Outlines. Hope you like my card. Thanks for taking time to drop by. I do appreciate it and your comments!! Happy Stamping!!

Hostess with the Mostess

Good Morning World! Man what a week! I am so glad I had time to play last night. It is so relaxing. And look CCS is having my favorite kind of challenge! Every Sunday Laura does a new sketch challenge. We would love it if you would come play along! I used Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety paper. Then added alittle strip of yellow from the scrap basket, added gems to that, cut the sentiment out with a nestie, you can get this sentiment at CCS too, drop by the store. I cut that out with a nestie, (Love those things!), then added 3 more gems to the upper right hand corner. Now how simple is that! Hope ya like my card, I'm gonna look for ya over there so come play along!!!

Grown Beautiful

Good Morning all! Hope you well and happy again today! Here is my card, I love it, the saying is awesome and the colors just yell Spring. Just puts me in a great mood! I love this sentiment, you have got to check out all the wonderful singles Laura has at CCS, she has a stamp for just about anything you can imagine. And they are awesome stamps! They always stamp so clear and the details are unbelievable. I used card stock from Gina K's Spring Assortment. Embossed the 2 smaller pieces with Swiss Dots and the Textile folders. I punched the flower out with a Marvy punch, added a brad and attached it to the card. I little piece of ribbon with another brad finished it off. Thanks so much for taking time to drop by, I do hope you liked my card. So until the next time....Happy Stamping!!

Happy Camper

Happy Camper
Good Morning, hope everyone is well and happy. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! The weather here was fantastic!!! Okay this is my first ever tutorial and I must admit, I'm nervous. It's like the world out there is going to be grading me so please, be kind. LOL. I am going to show how to make a 5x5 card with a matching envelope. One of my favorite tools now is my Scor-Pal. Just makes it so much easier! Okay first thing I do is gather every thing I think I may need, most time I add to.... I went with 2 stamp sets, Hello Hunny and Happy Camper. I just thought she looked like a happy camper. That's one thing that I love about CCS stamp sets, you can mix them up so many ways! After stamping and coloring her I cut her out using a nestie. Added a punched border down the side then stamped Happy Camper in the lower right hand corner. My card is all finished and moving on to the envelope. I started with a 81/2 x 11" sheet of paper, trimmed it down to 8 1/4"x8 1/4". Then align the corner in the 3.66 on the scor-pal (this is the inverted triangle). Score at 6 3/8" (dot) on all 4 sides. After scoring on all 4 sides you will see where they over lap, that is your cutting mark, so cut those out. You are now ready to assemble your envelope.I attached scor tape to 2 sides. Peal and stick.

Now I am ready to insert the matching card stock, I measure it turn and trace the end that is going to fold over, trim it,round my corner off, tape it down and it's finished.

Hope you have enjoyed my tutorial and that it's helped you . I love making the larger cards once in awhile and I just make the envelope to match. Thanks for taking time to visit today, I do appreciate it and your wonderful comments. Don't froget to check out the other gorgeous cards, sentiments, sketches and turorial at CCS. Happy Stamping!!

Cart with Flowers

It's Magical Monday! Hope everyone had a great Easter. The weather was great. Sunrise service was too. The sun came up not like in the past where it was cold and rainy.

On to my card. This week Selma is hosting and said we could pick any TMITA/PCC image we wanted. BUT.. we were to celebrate Spring with cards that have 3D Flowers. I punched the leaves out with a Martha Stewar punch. I used the flowers I had on hand by putting them together with a brad. I colored my image with Koh-I-Noor pencils and OMS. Then I cut a mat out with a nestie Lable 9, embossed it with the Textile folder. I like the way it turned out and hope you do also. Don't forget to check out the other design teams gorgeous cards. Hope you play along this week, go on over to TMITA/PCC and grab your image if you don't have one and play along. Until the next time, Happy Stamping!

Say it with Flowers

2nd post this morning........

Back with another post. I won this stamp set a few weeks ago and just got it this week, had a ways to travel and she stopped to site see LOL. Anyway I love it! this week at Annabellstamps they are having a challenge to say it with flowers. I did put 3 on here but I wanted to ink her up. I used Stampin Up card stock and markers. round nestis to cut her out and Martha Stewart punch for the border. thanks for coming by, have a good one!

Picking Cherries

Good Morning. It's gonna be another gorgeous day here. Temps are right at 80, I am so loving it!!!
Made this yesterday and guess what. I had punched the green out awhile back and never used it, so really all I did yesterday was stamp the image, color her in used my corner rounder and added scarp ribbon. How easy is that! I love this image. This is the other one I got at Joan's Garden this week. I've got more ordered hehe. On this one I did glitter the cherries and the flower on her jeans. Well that's it for now, I gotta finish cleaning the house, laundry, shopping and would like to get back here and play in the flower beds a little. Need raking to get the leaves out and such. Thanks for dropping by and hope yall have a wonderful day!! Happy Easter!

Live

Good Morning. Here I could of slept in but up at 5 AM as if I had to go to work. I guess it's that built in alarm clock. I made this card just to be messing around, don't have a clue as to what or who I will give it to. It's done on Gina K. pure luxury using Stampin Up ink pads and stampscapes and Hero Art stamps. I went around the sides with the white opaque marker after attaching 4 brads in the corners. Oh yeah and alot of masking and sponging LOL. That's pretty much it. Here is a picture of the Easter Basket my Secret Pal at work gave me yesterday. Yummy Yum is right, 6 stamps, 4 packs of beautiful butterflies and candy too! I have a great Secret Pal!!Thanks for dropping by and hope you have a wonderful Friday!

Picking Cherries

Happy April Fool's Day!!

Look what else I got from Joan's Garden.......is she not adorable!!! I love these stamps! This one is "Picking Cherries" by Gillian Roberts. I colored her with Stampin Up markers. The card base and red that is punched is from Gina K. Sorry, don't know the name of the color but it was in the Holiday Assortment. I used a Martha Stewart ppunch. The checked is out of my scrap box. I added the white daisy, (I colored the center red and added the white dots and I did around the red mat. She is cut out with a nesties oval. I did add 2 white eyelets that I ran the ribbon through. Well that's it for today. Gotta hit the old shower and get to work. It's movie day so I'll have fun. Thanks for taking time to drop by and look. Happy Stamping!!