Camping in Red Rock Canyon...

I made this for my friends, Jackie and Eric to thank them for inviting me to camp with them in Red Rock Canyon, NV.  While Eric was working, Jackie and I were out cycling in Red Rock Canyon.  It was absolutely breathtaking!  

I fell in love with this card and wanted to CASE it, keeping it very CAS.  I stamped Tent Riley from Riley and Company on Neenah with Memento ink then colored it with Copics.  I outlined the tent with Stickles.  Garden Green, Crumb Cake and EP This & That paper.  I used MFT Flat Bottom Cloud Die-namics, then covered them with stickles and put them on pop dots.  

Here's a few pictures from our trip- 

 Me and Jackie getting ready to ride the 13 mile loop and Red Rock Canyon.

Entrance to Red Rock Canyon.

 The road was a cyclists dream!  Nice and wide and so smooth!

View from our campsite.  Simply stunning! 

The climb out of our campsite.  The little peak of white is a huge snowy mountain!

Thank you for stopping by.  Have a fabulous Weekend!

Happy Double Digit Day and Golden Birthday Wylie!!!

Happy double digit day and golden birthday to my oldest grandson Wylie!!!  I can't believe he's 10 years old today!  It feels like yesterday that he was just born.  Time sure does fly!!!

The inspiration for my card came from this gorgeous card here.  I used Poppy Parade, Crumb Cake, and Cosmo Cricket Joy Ride paper.  I stamped Logan from The Greeting Farm in Memento Ink on Neenah, coloring with Copics, the mounting on foam squares.  My Favorite Things Star Stax in crumb cake and My Favorite Things Little Numbers in Poppy Parade.

Thank you for stopping by!  Have a great week!!!

Easy Rider...

Happy birthday to my cycling friend Kim who's birthday is today!  I hope you have a fantastic day and are hopefully out enjoying the Women's Group Ride today!

I knew I wanted to use purple for my card as it's Kim's favorite color.  I used Gorgeous Grape and white.  Stamped my image from Hero Arts (I think it's called Joy Ride?) in Memento and used Copics to do some grounding under the bike.  Sentiment from The Cats Pajamas.  Spellbinders and Stamping Bella glitter dots.

Happy birthday Kim!  I hope you have a wonderful day!

Happy Beerday Eric...

For my dear friend Jackie's hubs.  He absolutely loves beer.  He always has an instagram post with a flight of beer.  He even has an app where he keeps track of what he tries and where he goes to try different beers.  I was pretty impressed.  I've seen the apps where it keeps track of miles walked, ran, or cycled in a year, but nothing like he had...it was pretty cool!  Heppy Birthday Eric, I hope you had a fabulous day! 

I used Bermuda Bay, MME Nostalgia, and Neenah paper.  I stamped Beer Peep (retired) from Stamping Bella in Memento ink, coloring with Copics.  I put Diamond Glaze on the bottle to give it a nice glass like look.  Finished off the card with Caribbean twine from The Twinery and a button.  For my layou I used SC732.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Winter Aurora...

A thank-you card for a sweet lady, Jeri who generously donated cards to me for a card drive that I'm doing.  I'm collecting cards of all types to donate (locally) to places like the VA, Mobile Meals, and various long term care medicare facilities.  If you would like to donate cards, please contact me.  Thank you so much for your donation Jeri, I appreciate it so very much!!!

I tried the watercolor technique again, this time a little different then my first go at it last week.  I used water color paper, sponged Bermuda Bay and Lucky Limeade then spritzed the paper with water.  I used a tissue to dab up the extra water.  I sprayed Silver Glimmer Mist on it next followed by another spritz of water and dab of the tissue.  After it dried I stamped SU Pocket Silhouettes on it.  White, Berbuda Bay and Black cardstock.

Thank you for stopping by, have a wonderful day!

Thank you for your firiendship...

Every January my Coach hosts a Holiday/Kick Off the Year Party for our team.  It's always a great time with all our teammates, their families, and it's a wonderful way to start the new training season.  Every year Coach Robin hand makes each of us a gift.  This year she made all of us a beautiful bracelet with an inspirational quote on it.  Here's the card I made her for hosting the party and for the wonderful gift...

I started out stamping SU Lovely as a Tree in Old Olive, then using Spellbinders to cut it out and pop dots to mount it.  White and Black cardstock, SU Because I Care set for the sentiment and Denami Design Ribbon.

The bracelet my Coach made for me.  I just love it!

Thank you for stopping by.  Have a wonderful rest of your weekend.

You're One in a Minion...

Happy Birthday Coach Robin!!!  Thank you for a fabulous training year full of wonderful memories!!!  I've had such a great time this past year being your assistant and doing your social media!  Hope you have an amazing day!

I made this for my Coach, she loves Minions (her kids training team is called the Purple Minions).  It took me for ever to find some type of card to go off of that I liked for a minion.  I came across a Minion template from Jennifer Ingle in the Papercraft & Scrapbooking magazine that I downloaded.  It was a full size minion card which I didn't want.  I wanted to be able to put the minion on the card so I shrunk it to my liking and painstakingly fussy cut all the bits and pieces.  This was probably the one card that has taken me the longest to make.  Anyhow, I used Black, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Smoky Slate, and Pacific Point Cards stock and inks (around the edges).  Pop dots to give dimension the to goggle.

Me and Coach Robin camping before a bike and swim clinic the next day.

My first event being the team sherpa.

Coach Robin taught me how to swim this last year!

 

We went to see Michael Jackson One- Cirque du Soleil while in Vegas for a Tri.

 Coach Robin cheering for me at El Tour de Tucson.

Coach Robin, what an amazing opportunity you have given me, thank -you!!!

Thank you for stopping by.  Have a wonderful rest of your week!