Color Challenge at Outlawz

I stumbled across a new Crafting Network called The Outlawz.  The amount of info, ideas, and projects  is awesome.  I haven't even begun to really explore everything that is offered in this little community.  They have various Challenges every day of the week.  This week's Tuesday Color Challenge  called for Melon, Lt. Blue and Lt. Turquoise.  And since I needed a birthday card.....

Today's Challenge Card

I am always fascinated by bloggers who make one card and it fits the criteria for multiple challenges.  So I thought I'd give it a try.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
PaperPlay Challenge - Out with the Old, In with the New (Old paper, new stamp)
House Mouse and Friends Challenge HMFMC135
Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge 33
Sweet Stamps - Color Challenge - Pink, Green and Brown
Tuesday Morning Sketches #179

I might be sleep deprived but.....

I'm not too tired to make cards!!!

Yes, my grandsons started chattering in their bedroom about 6am yesterday morning.  Not long after, I heard the pitter patter of little feet and saw two little heads peeking around my bedroom door.  Time for Nana to get up. 

And after their parents picked them up, instead of catching a little nap, I made a few cards.  I must admit I got some of my inspiration from the CTMH January SOTM blog hop.  This month's stamp set is gorgeous and I can't wait to order it.  In the meantime, I made these cards with stamps I had on hand.

I am entering the card above in The Sweet Stampin' Seeing Double Challenge.

CTMH La Belle Vie Paper Blog Hop

Check out the Damask Divas CTMH Blog Hop featuring the La Belle Vie Paper Pack: http://www.DamaskDivas.com/BlogHopLaBelleVie/

 I just got an email from the Damask Divas and they are having a blog hop until Friday, Jan. 4th.  The hop features Close to My Heart La Belle Vie Paper, which is so gorgeous.  Lots of ideas, only 10 consultants, and a giveaway. 

We didn't have class today so this gave me my weekly CTMH fix.

Thanks Mandy, et al.

Scrapbook Layout

Sparkle N Sprinkle asked its design team members to make a scrapbook layout this month.  This is the first one I ever made.  I thought it came out pretty nicely.  The photo was found in my mom's attic among some of my grandmother's things.  Unfortunately, we have no idea who the young ladies are.

You can find the instructions in the Sparkle N Sprinkle Gallery right here.

With this post, my time on the SNS design team comes to an end.  It was a lot of fun.
Many thanks to Margaret for the opportunity.

Good Morning

Friends and hopefully Followers of my blog,

Before my grandsons arrive for their annual New Year's Eve sleepover, I wanted to get my Mojo Monday #274 card done and posted.  I made sure to include some extra Glitter and Sparkle so I could also enter it in the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

It's hard to capture in a photo the glittered circle on which I stamped the image.  Then I used some of the new Close To My Heart alcohol markers to color right on the glitter.

Happy New Year to all!!!!

Happy Birthday Aunt Bess!!!

It was snowing pretty heavily when we headed out to attend a surprise birthday party for Aunt Bess!!  In fact when my DH put on the turn signal and braked to turn into the restaurant, the car just kept on going down the street.  Yeah, the roads were pretty nasty.  And any other time we'd stay put at home. 
But today was Aunt Bess's 90th Birthday and it was not to be missed!
Here's the card I made for her special day:

And after we came home and  I shoveled the 3-4 inches of snow from our driveway and walk,  I got to work on another birthday card I need for later this week.

Thought I'd make this pretty simple.  You don't make quite so much fuss when the number of candles on the cake is 60!