Skating and a card......

Happy Tuesday!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

We sure did!

My daughter got to ice skate at Notre Dame this weekend as part of the

 Logan Center's Disability Awareness Week.

She did awesome!

There were only 2,200 people in attendance.

She loved it!  Way to go Abby!

Today's card is to add to my Get Well stack.

Recently, a fellow blog friend pulled out the Iconic Images stamp set.

She inspired me!

Enjoy!

Papertrey Princess Challenge

This month challenge was posted by Diane.

Our challenge is Hawaii themed!

I have not been there is 13 years!

We had a wonderful time when we were there, ahh memories!

For my first card, I opted for felt in bright colors!

I love the tropical feel!

 For my second card, I went much simpler.

I used my chevron stamp in the background.

I added some blooms with my sentiment.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Enjoy!!

Thank you....you rock!

So my craft room is a huge mess. 

I decided to reorganize, so little stamping is going on this week!

Wow does it feel good to purge!

I did get a couple of cards made for the latest Papertrey Princess challenge and the one for today.

I love black and white. 

Anyone that knows me, also knows that I wear a lot of black and brown.

So making a card with just two colors, is fun!

I decided to pull out some much neglected stamp sets and used

Grunge Me and Saying it with Style.

Happy Hump Day!

Enjoy!

Thaks Mom!!

My Mom is such a super star!

I am sure many of you feel the same way about your Moms!

This past week, my Mom stopped by to drop off my new valances.

While I can sew, I can't sew like her.

She made my vision come to life and thanks is not enough for all of her hard work!

So I made her a card.....She loves cards!

She is from Kansas and love the gorgeous sunflowers that grow there every year.

So this was a perfect opportunity to use a much neglected stamp set!

I used Simple Sunflower with terra cotta and summer sunrise ink.

I added some leaves stamped in spring moss.

The sentiment was stamped in terra cotta on rustic cream.

I added my sunflowers to a little bit of patterned paper

all on top of my favorite, canyon clay card stock!

I know my Mom will love it and I hope you do to!

Enjoy!

Weekend....

Wow what a weekend it has been!

This has been one of the first weekends since before Christmas we had nothing going on!

We had workers in the house all last week, so after cleaning up it was time to get some other projects done!

While we here working, there was a constant stream of kids in and out of the house!

The kids have such a blast with their friends!

Today is no different for them!

With all the girls over today and no school tomorrow, we opted to make a few things.

First up was this Cake Batter bark that I found on Pinterest.

Super easy to make and of course delicicous!

Cake Batter Bark

Next we made Apple nachos. 

We make these all of the time.

My kiddos are huge fruits eaters, so this is a great treat to mix it up a little!

Sometimes we use chocolate, other times we use caramel. 

It doesn't really matter, they all get inhaled after playing outside!

Lastly, we made homemade pizza.

Perfect!

Everyone gets their own crust to prepare, so there are no complaints!

Now time to sit back and relax. 

The girls are still giggling and the boys went to see Star Wars with their friends...perfect!

Hope you had a great weekend!

 

Happy 40th Birthday!

Some of my friends are starting to hit the big 40!

Over the weekend another friend hosted a surprise party for her!

For her, this year has been full of surprises, so why not add one more!

The surprise party only added to her more recent surprise of being pregnant with twins!

Now she already has 5 kiddos and her baby just started kindergarten!

Now there must be something in the water over there, since 5 of our friends are pregnant!

Here is my card for her based upon one of the recently posted sketches by Papertrey Ink.

This card was so fun to make and I was so warmly received!

Enjoy!

All products from Papertrey Ink, unless stated otherwise.

Papertrey Ink Challenge- Day 9

 Happy Monday!

Wow what a great weekend, too bad it ended so fast!

Today Papertrey Ink continues its anniversary festivities.

Today' challenge was to create any type of card using butterflies.

I decided to create a simple one layer card using butterflies I stamped using

the Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

I started with a simply chartreuse cad stock base and

punched butterflies from a variety of scraps.

Some simple stamping from Little Bitty Bird and

Wildflower Garden in dark chocolate completed the card.

Enjoy!