Sparkle N Sprinkle May Challenge

Next Sunday is Mother's Day.  

My mother and I just made our plans for the day.  We will be busting up boxes and cleaning out a section of her basement where she got 4" of water the other day.  

Sounds like fun, huh?

But the garbage gets put out Sunday night, so unless something better comes along that's the plan.

Actually we celebrate Mother's Day on Saturday with a female only family luncheon.  It will be our 20th one.  More on that another time.

I've made this Mother's Day Card to enter in the Sparkle n Sprinkle May Challenge.

I won the digi image in one of their challenges a while ago.  The lace is very old seam binding I found in my stash.  I dumped all my feathers on the floor so I could sort out the tiniest ones for on the hat along with some more lace.  Then I added buttercup liquid pearl centers to the tiny flowers on the hat after they were colored and a pin from my sewing supplies.

To make the glitter frame, I simply cut a 3" square piece of white cardstock.  I put a strip of 1/4" wide score tape all the way around the outside of the square.  Then I rubbed ultra fine white glitter onto the tape.  The sentiment was from a freebie sheet in one of my magazines.  

I am also entering this in the following:

613 Avenue Create Challenge #70 - Anything Goes with optional twist - Ba Da Bling 

Corrosive Challenge #198 - Head Gear

The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge #69 - Mother's Day

Alphabet Challenge - f for feathers

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge #64 - Circles and Squares

Creative Corner Challenge - For Mom

Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge #16 - Happy Mother's Day

D.L.Art Thankful Thursday Challenge # 131 -  Mother's Day

 

 

Did you miss me?

I spent all day Friday helping Joyce and Betty set up their Close to My Heart Booth at the Stamp Scrap Art Tour which opened at the Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA this morning.  If you couldn't make it there today, the show continues tomorrow.    My friend, Laurie, filled in for me at the Make and Take table today while I attended our grandson's 1st Communion service.  Thanks, girlfriend.  Here are the 2 fun cards she taught:

Isn't using washi tape for the cake layers a fun idea?

And here is the card I made for Nick for his special day today:

The wording on the card is mostly computer generated with the exception of the letters which I cut out on the cricut.  Designer papers are from the CTMH Avonlea paper pack.  The cross is a Recollections rhinestone sticker.

I'm entering this card in the following:
Papercrafting Challenges #9 - Only 1 Embellishment
Jo's Scrap Shack Fun Friday Challenge #48 - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #130 - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door Challenge - Apr 29-May 5 - Anything Goes

Cheer Up ... It can't rain forever, can it?

Today my mother, my daughter, my granddaughter, my great granddaughter and I went for a High Victorian Tea at a beautiful Tea Room in Reading, PA, about 20 miles from where we live.
 
I enjoyed a lovely mango tea blend, delicious scones, wonderful soup and salad, divine tea sandwiches (the apricot cream cheese on raisin bread  and cucumber sandwiches were especially fabulous) and decadent desserts.  They had a grand gift shop where I treated myself to a colorful new scarf.  Little Laila behaved as a proper 10 week old should.  The only thing to dampen our spirits was the RAIN!

Unfortunately, it poured all the way there and downpoured all the way home.  Forget the umbrella.  It was one of those rains that comes sideways in sheets.  Lucky me, I was driving, with the wipers on high speed the whole time.  Why in the world did we go today in such a torrent of precipitation? you might be asking.  Tomorrow is my daughter's birthday and the calendar just didn't have room in it tomorrow.  So we went today.   No one drowned.   All is well.

In the spirit of today's weather, I am posting the second card I made with the remaining umbrella pieces from my 'It's a Boy' card I shared with you on Saturday.  This umbrella is a Great Impressions stamp, which I stamped 4 times on different colored papers and then did a lot of paper piecing.  The sentiment is a CTMH stamp.

I am entering this in:
Divas by Design Challenge - April Showers
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge - Water Everywhere
Inky Impressions Challenge #157 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #130 - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays Challenge #170 - Fussy Cutting
Cards in Envy Challenge - A2 April Showers Cards
Crafting From the Heart Challenge #16 - Always Anything Goes
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #40 - Anything Goes + option- use a sentiment


Don't forget....
 

I'll be doing Make and Takes this week-end, May 3rd and 4th, at the Stamp, Scrap Art Tour Show at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA.  Look for me at the Close to My Heart booth.

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge DT Recipe Project

This week at Tuesday Throwdown we have a fun recipe challenge sponsored by My Grafico, where you can find a variety of clipart, graphics, printable templates, digital papers, stamps and much more.  

The recipe for the challenge is:

one image, 

one designer paper, 

and something purple.

For my DT project, I decided to use a castle digi image from My Grafico that is part of a set called Fairy Tale Princess Stamps.  I just happened to have one purple gift bag in my stash and close at hand, so I thought I'd put together a welcome bag and tag.  I wrote the sentiment on the computer and printed it and the digi image on kraft text paper.  The white damask kraft dp was a clearance find.  I used the cricut to cut the tags and rolled flowers, a sixix die for the purple vines, and my Craft-Dee Bowz maker to make the triple looped bow.

I hope you'll pop over to the Tuesday Throwdown blog to see what my very talented teammates have made for your inspiration.  Then be sure to join in the fun at Tuesday Throwdown this week.  We just love seeing your crafty cards and projects and visiting all your blogs.

Speaking of visiting....

I'll be doing Make and Takes this week-end, May 3rd and 4th, at the Stamp, Scrap Art Tour Show at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA.  Look for me at the Close to My Heart booth, and meet my friends Joyce and Betty.  

I'm entering this project in these challenges:
613 Avenue Create Challenge #69- Anything Goes
Glitter and Sparkle Challenge #82 - Add some Ribbon
Digi Galore Challenge - Anything but a card
Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge - Tic Tac Toe (flowers, pearls, die cut)
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Not a card
Crafty Ribbons Challenge # 86 - Anything but a card
DRS Designs Thursday Challenge #119 - Tag You're It
Scrap It Girl Bags and Tags April Challenge
Craft-Dee Bows April Challenge

Tall & Skinny Tent Card

Just as I feared, it's the last Monday of the month and the Mojo Monday sketch is for a tall and skinny card.  I'm not particularly fond of this sized card.  Today I flipped the sketch on it's side and made a short and chubby tent card.  Since the card itself only measures 3.5 x 5.5,  even with the circle extending above the fold, it will still fit in an A2 envelope.  Works for me.  

(I used a paper pack by Pebbles, inc. called Americana and a CTMH stamp.)

Oh, no.  

A big truck just came and dumped 2,000 lbs. of mulch in the driveway.  

Guess you know what I'll be doing the rest of the day. 

Before I get started with that, I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Pile It On Challenge #17 - Ink on Paper Stamping

Quirky Crafts Challenge - Something beginning with an "S"  (scalloped circle, stars, stripes)

Scribble and Scrap Challenge #17 - Always Anything Goes

Jellypark Challenge - One for the Boys 

The House That Stamps Built Challenge DCC423 - For the guys

The Paper Shelter Challenge #155 - For the Boys

One Stitch at a Time Challenge #210 - Anything Goes

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge # 343 

 

Cards in Envy

is one of my favorite challenges.  This week they've asked for April Showers themed  A2 cards the will easily fit in the envelope without bumps and bulges.  These are perfect cards for Operation Write Home.  

This simple card uses a CTMH image with sentiment stamp and some washi tape.  

Did I mention this was simple?  

I am entering this in:

Cards in Envy Challenge -  A2 April Showers Card

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #204 - Clean and Simple 

My Time to Craft - April Showers

Sweet Stampin Challenge - No DP

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Clean and Simple

Stars and Stripes MidWeek Throwdown Color Challenge - Brown

Word Art Wednesdays Challenge #129 - Anything Goes

It's a Boy

It was a busy day today with 2 baseball games and a baby shower in between.  My nephew and his wife are expecting their first child, a baby boy, on my mother's 84th birthday in June.  What a wonderful birthday present for her, grandchild # 8. 

This umbrella is a Great Impressions stamp, which I stamped 4 times on different colored papers and then did a lot of paper piecing.  (And I have enough pieces left to make a second card.)  I sprayed it with sparkle shimmer mist, which looks really neat but didn't show up in the photo.  There are Dazzles above the umbrella, liquid pearls on the points, and the sentiment is CTMH.

I am entering this card in these fun challenges:
My Time to Craft Challenge #245 - April Showers
Paper Crafting Challenge #8 - No patterned paper
Sweet Stampin Challenge - No DP
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #191 - Embossing
Milk Coffee Challenge - Use those bright colors
Fab n Funky Challenge #213 - Paper Piecing
Craft and Smash Challenge - Birth
Fairies Challenges #24 - Baby
Cuttin and Stampin Challenge 14-16 - April Showers
Tip Top Tuesday Challenge - Paper Piecing