Happy Birthday Carol...

Happy Birthday to my Mother-in-law, Carol!  I hope you have a wonderful day!

I worked on this over a few days.  Coloring and coloring, layering colors until I got the look I wanted.  I used My Favorite Things Lavish Lilies on Neenah with Momento ink, coloring with Copics.  After I colored the lilies I did the background with Copics as well.  I added some white to it with a gel pen.  I need some practice adding these highlights.  To me it looks a bit like snow.  I stamped the sentiment from The Cat's Pajamas on Tangerine Tango, run through the Cuttlebug with The My Favorite Things Essential Stitched Sentiment Die-namic.  Tempting Turquoise layer and Early Espresso base.

 

Ornamental Thanks...

Thank you's for my hubs co-worker, Jamie who made us a mask ornament for our tree, it's so cute and absolutely perfect for 2020!  And another thank you for my teammate and friend, Brooke who made me the cutest ornament out of a bike gear.  The tag stands for Tucson Women's Group Ride that we are both Ride Leaders for.  On the back it says, "The Year of Zwift" which is totally perfect since we had to move our rides from outside to inside on a virtual platform called Zwift.  It's been great fun being able to still do our weekly rides and ride with people virtually all over the world.

I used the SC833 layout.  I stamped Sparkling Season A la Mode from My Favorite Things in Memento ink on Neenah card stock that was run through the cuttle bug using the Stitched Rectangle die-namic.  I colored her with copics.  I paper pieced the ornament with Echo Park Holly Jolly Paper.  Magenta Madness for my base.  Sentiment from the My Favorite Things A la Mode Blue with out You stamp set. 

Ornaments from Jamie and Brooke...

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you're having an awesome New Year.  

 

Hodge Podge of Cards from 2017- Ooops!

Was going through my SCS gallery looking for a card I had made my son-in-law for his birthday one year and couldn't find it.  I thought I was losing my mind, lol...I know I made it but for the life of me I couldn't find it in my gallery.  So...I went looking through my card albums on my computer and found it along with a hand full of cards that were never edited...which of course meant that they were never blogged or added to SCS, ooopsie!  

For my son-in-law for his birthday.

For a friend who I trained with for El Tour de Tucson- cycling 106 miles! 

For getting me to the start line for El Tour de Tucson and cheering during the race.

For my cycling buddy's coach who inadvertently trained me for El Tour de Tuscon as well. 

For a cycling friend's birthday.

I feel so bad but I honestly can't remember who I made this for.

I should now be all caught up with ALL my card blogging now, haha!

Hope ya'll are having a wonderful New Year!

 

Warm and Fuzzy Wishes...

Merry Christmas!!!  I began working on my Christmas Cards the day after Thanksgiving.  I had a vision for what I wanted in my mind but it didn't translate to paper very well.  I tried a couple more options, still not happy with what I was getting and realizing that gluing the Merry from the die-namics on all my cards was going to be a pain and very time consuming...I ended up with this on my 4th attempt.  The assembly line was a LONG one, but I was thrilled to have ALL 40 of my cards DONE on December 3rd!  A first for me getting them done so early!  

I started out using the Stitched Rectangle Stax and the Stacked Merry die-namics from My Favorite Things on white card stock, running it through the cuttlebug.  Then I used my new Stamparatus from Stampin' up to stamp the sentiment from the Peace, Love and Paws set.  I have to say I absolutely love the Stamparatus, I wish I would've invested in one sooner!  Next I stamped the little puppy from the My Favorite Things Peace, Love, and Paws set, then using the coordinating die-namic so I didn't have to fussy cut.  I put a strip of Real Red card stock behind the Merry with Wink of Stella on it so it would sparkle.  I grounded my puppy image, topped the Merry with a holly, and mounted my panel on a Crumb Cake card base.

 One of my four takes is front and center with a snowflake.  When I showed hubs, he didn't like the snowflake and suggested I do the holly.  I'm happy with his suggestion and it definitely gives a little pop to the card instead of blending in.

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I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year!

Happy Birthday Lisa!!!

For my sweet and dear friend Lisa who's birthday is today!  Happy birthday Lisa!!!  I hope you're having an amazing day!

I used SC830 for my layout.  Black, Rose Red and Very Vanilla card stock.  I stamped My Favorite Things Knitted Sweater in Crumb Cake on the Vanilla panels.  My Mind's Eye Lost and Found paper.  I stamped the moose from the Sweater Weather in the Woods set in neenah on memento ink, coloring with copics then used the coordinating die-namic to cut it out so I didn't have to fussy cut.  Sentiment from MFT PI Piggy Bank on the Essential Stitched Sentiment die-namic.  The Black circle is from spellbinders.

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You're My Favorite...

For my bestie, Kellye for her birthday.  This year has been so hard being away from my bestie for so long.  We got together every Sunday and spent the day together.  We would work out together, then have lunch and dinner too.  I love that being with her is just easy.  We can just hang out and not have an agenda and have the best time just being together.  I really miss those days and look forward to when we can hang out regularly again.  Kellye loves owls so I made sure to add one to her card!

I used My Favorite Thing Knitted Sweater with Crumb Cake.  Then I put the MFT Stitched Rectangle Frame on top and mounted it on a Highland Heather card base.  I stamped the bear and owl from MFT Sweater Weather in the Woods in memento ink on neenah cardstock and used the coordinating die-namics to cut them out so no fussy cutting, whoo-hoo!  I mounted the bear on MFT Grounding Elements die-namic.  Sentiment is from MFT Sweater Weather on Safari.

Getting our sweat on- September 8th, 2019

Hanging out with family by the fire pit- December 1st, 2019

On our cruise!  March 9th, 2020

Hope you're having a wonderful day!

 

Linda & Lilies...

I made this for my best friends mom, Linda.  I first met Linda during Thanksgiving time 7 years ago when she (and her husband Ryan) came out to visit Jeremy and Kellye.  She had such a kind and caring heart that I just instantly loved her.  She welcomed me into their family with opened arms and has always made me feel like I belonged, I can't explain how much that meant to me.  What I love most about her is how she treats my best friends wife, Kellye (my bestie)...I have never met a mother-in-law that loves her daughter-in-law the way Linda does.  Their relationship is so special, I wish every mother and daughter -in-law could experience it.

I stamped the Lavish Lilies from My Favorite Things on neenah, coloring with copics.  Mounted on Petal Pink card base.  Sentiment from MFT PI Piggy Bank set.  Kept it clean and simple.

Took Ryan and Linda to Mt. Lemmon one year while Jeremy and Kellye had to work.

May 30th, 2017 

Queen Mary, night before our (mine and hubs) first cruise and everyone else's umpteenth.

Me, Ryan, Jeremy, Kellye, Linda, and my hubs (Michael).

March 6th, 2020

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