I have a Play Date

At the Play Date Cafe!
Fabby colors in this weeks Play Date cafe challenge!
Glad I could play along this week w/challenge #58.

Heres my cute lil hedgie...

Isn't he sweet? Oh how I adore this stamp set, its called Christmas Critters from Penny Black. For the background I used the stripped background from Hero Arts. To finish it off I added some twine from The Twinery and a sweet sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!! :)

Have a great day!

Wilson Designs and PDCC

Hi all,


This week Wilson Designs is sponsoring the Playdate Cafe.
This is a super fun color challenge. Hope you will join in.
You will have a chance at winning a stamp set from Wilson Designs.

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The color challenge this week is:

And my take for the challenge:

I paired up Snowy Wishes and Everything Owl-right together for this super cute card. LOVE the Polaroid frame and this cute snowman! Great colors this week too!!

Come play along and you could win Snowy Wishes for yourself!!

ALSO.... If you place an order during the PDCC week your order will ship for only $2.50 to anywhere in the states!  I will refund any extra shipping costs, just note PDCC in your checkout!

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Have a wonderful day!! :) :) :)

A Flower a Day Keeps the Doctor Away! Right?

Isn't that how it goes? LOL Well I just love this stamp so much that I decided I would make a bunch of them and put them in this cute tin pail from Target ($1 how can you beat that?). I've been wanting to do some altered art ... I sometimes need a break from cards, cards and more cards LOL!! And I wanted some flowers in my room that would last more than 3 days :D ... pretty dont you think?

Recipe:

Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury

Stamps: Hero Arts Engraved Daisy, Antique Engravings & My Cute Stamps

Ink: Copic Markers, Memento

Accessories: PTI ribbon, Pearls, Tin from Target

Also I made a boo-boo, I missed seeing the 'ORANGE' theme from Playdate cafe, so I switched out the flower for an orange one and im resubmitting my card. :P All fixed! lol

Card recipe:

Paper: PTI black & white

Stamps: Hero Arts CG142 Engraved Daisy, 

Sentiment from PTI button bits

Ink: Copic Markers, Memento

Accessories: May Arts ribbon, Bo Bunny rhinestones, Spellbinders Nestibilities

Also to let you know we are almost to 100 followers, wow. Im so grateful for all your comments and love you leave here. It just makes my day. If you stop in, I would love for you to leave a comment. As soon as we hit 100 I will be drawing from 1-100 for another great prize package. After 100+ followers I have decided to start drawing randomly from comments that are left on my blog, I saw that idea on Jennifer McGuire ink and I thought what a great idea. :)

I will be back Wednesday with the second Whimsy Haven Hop! Make sure to check out my newest challenge, theres a great prize pack from my sponsor, MAY ARTS, you could win LOTS of ribbon!! How great is that?

Have a wonderful day! :)

Don't you just love Daisy's? I do!

I love spring so much, all the beautiful flowers. And one of my favorite flowers are Daisys. They come in such a variety of colours. Thats why I love this stamp from Hero Arts. Its called Engraved Daisy. Its so cute. I used it here for the Playdate Cafe challenge 25. The challenge is to make a black and white card with a splash of colour. Wherever I go flowers always remind me of that splash of colour. Like when we took our trip to Disneyland, everywhere on the hillsides are Poppys. A splash of orange on all the hillsides, it was so beautiful. Usually a purple Daisy has a darker purple center, but there are some with an orange center... so heres mine.

Card recipe:

Paper: PTI black & white

Stamps: Hero Arts CG142 Engraved Daisy, Sentiment from PTI button bits

Ink: Copic Markers, Memento

Accessories: May Arts ribbon, Bo Bunny rhinestones, Spellbinders Nestibilities

Weekend is over BOO! Went by too fast!
Be sure to check out my new challenge... great prize for the winner! :)
Have a great week!

Some things to Share :)

Hope your week is going great! This week brings some fabulous news... I have some wonderful sponsors and I will be posting contests and challenges here soon after I complete my projects, I hope you will stay tuned for that! There will be some awesome prizes!

Also wanted to share with you a card I made, which my colors ended up being a perfect match for the challenge #23 at PDC. I love Heat Embossing, and I wanted to do some layered emboss resisting cause I think its so pretty and such a great technique and Jennifers video explains it well if you want to check it out the link is below. 

Card Recipe:

Paper: PTI Enchanted Evening, Gina K Pure Lux
Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks, Gel Pen
Tech: Layered Emboss Resist (tutorial on Jennifer McGuire ink), Perfect Pearls

This card is featured on Hero Arts twitter :) yay! http://twitter.com/myheroarts

Haven't had the time to do much paper-crafting in the last few days just been so busy getting ready for Easter, spending time with my daughter while its spring break enjoying some much needed time together, lots of birthday parties this month, spring cleaning, etc. I've also been busy working on projects for the upcoming contests here. I cant wait to share them with you! Want to share with you a cute picture I took Sunday of my daughter when we arrived at the birthday party for my friends daughter, I thought she looked super cute... I love the mismatch socks that we got while at Disneyland... must get more!

Isnt she pretty and so precious? Both of us love Skelanimals, we collect them. Shes getting so BIG! Where does the time go? And her hair is gotten so long and curly, I love it!! My baby girl!! You can see the cute gift bag shes carrying that I made too :D but shes much cuter! 


Well im off to bed... need my rest for another day! Have a great day! Toodles! :)

A win, Cafe challenge and the weekend

Im a goofball and somehow missed the post but I WON Bo Bunny Color Challenge Tuesday!! SO EXCITED!!! See the post HERE from the card I did HERE. I love Bo Bunny and I love their challenges! Cant wait to do the next one... if you dont already participate you should check out the Bo Bunny blog and join in!

Here is a card I did for the Playdate Cafe. I love color challenges, thats the best part to me about paper-crafting is color. I love color. My favorite colors are pink, teal and brown and I love bright cheerful color combos so it was fun to break away from my usual bright color palette and do a nice vintage color challenge.


Heres the color inspiration:

And heres my card, I did 2 versions. One with the twine ribbon and one without. Which do you like best? I couldn't decide so I decided to post both. :)

Ingredients: 

Paper: Stampin Up, Papertrey Ink and DCWV Vintage Stack

Stamps: Tim Holtz Lost and Found

Other: Nestabilities labels 8, Pearls

And I got this award from a sweet friend Heather... I love reading her comments and look forward to each one and I enjoying visiting her blog and seeing all her beautiful creations! Shes such a doll! :D Thx so much xx

I also did a swap with another dear friend, Beatriz. It was so much fun! I LOVE what she sent me, they are so pretty and made with love. Aren't they the cutest? And my favorite color pink!! I adore Beatriz and her wonderful creations and all her sweet comments and emails. I love visiting her blog, you should swing by and check it out! Thx again sweetie!! I love em! xx

2 of the 6 cards she sent me, aren't they Fab?

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I plan on catching up on some zzz's and sleeping in and then we might take a ride up to the snow... our daughter wants to go so bad I on the other hand don't want to freeze! lol But we need to get out of here and spend some time together just the 3 of us.

I will be back tomorrow with more challenges im working on. Thank you to all you sweet ladies for the sweet comments on my card for FWF! :)

With love xx

Just a lazy Saturday

Just been a lazy Saturday crafting and watching movies. We were all tired so we hung out at home, it was nice. I made some cards today for a couple of challenges.


First is my card for the Play Date Cafe challenge 19, I love the yellows so pretty and such a feeling of spring, I cant wait:

Paper: Stampin Up & Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co. & Hero Arts digi-stamp

Ink: Memento & Mustard Seed distress ink, Copics

Accessories: Papertrey Ink buttons, Pearls

Tech: Cuttlebug embossing swirl folder

Next is my card for Mojo Monday week 128, this was so much fun to color but I think it will be better when I get the better cardstock for coloring with Copics. I just love the owl and it was fun coming up with the background behind the owl:

Paper: Bazzill swiss dots

Stamps: Pink Cat Studio digi-stamp & Hero Arts digi-stamp

Ink: Copics, Memento

Accessories: Pearls

Tech: Tattered Angels glimmer mist

Hope you all are having a very nice weekend. I am a bit down, my dog Indiana has also needed to go to the Vet and is having horrible coughing fits. The vet ran some tests but I wont know till Monday. Its so hard waiting. I hope he will pull through this, my Pomeranian Teddy Bear passed last year from Collapse Trachea and im hoping Indiana doesnt have the same problem. If you have room could you please say a lil prayer for my lil guy. We love him so much.


And thank you to all you lovely ladies for the sweet comments on my other blog, Say It With Sentiments. I appreciate them and they mean so much. I will be adding new sentiments tomorrow.


Have a wonderful Sunday! xx

Announcement, Giveaway and Some News

Happy Thursday all, hope your day was great! Been a little crazy around here, some family issues but I think all will cool down this weekend I hope.


I decided I love doing this, I love printing them for myself so I thought I would share them with you. So a lil announcement, I opened a new blog called SAY IT WITH SENTIMENTS! I will have sentiments and quotes you can print out for your cards or layouts. Just something I do for my cards and thought I would share my work. All is FREE and you can use them for whatever you like. Each font I have used is a freeware font, all from dafont.com. I hope this will help you with your papercrafting. If you have any suggestions for sayings or quotes, leave a comment on the blog. You can see the new blog with some new freebies already up HERE and all the graphics on the fonts that I use are webdings or ones I draw, I used to have a graphics website so I will be incorporating some of my old work.


I also made the FAB 4 on the Playdate Cafe, YAY! I love their challenges and encourage you to check them out if you already havent! The link is on the left <-- over there! :)


I've been working on a swap gift for a friend, so been busy with that too. Wish I could post pictures, it came out so cute but I will wait till she receives it.


My giveaway is still in effect, PLEASE spread the word. You can see the details in THIS post on my blog.


And I received this award from sweet Joanna! Thank you hun! :) And I have to list 7 things about myself (the rules :D) so here goes:


Im a Mom (love it), I am marrying the man of my dreams soon, I love my job, I love to papercraft, I love photography, I love to travel and my fav spots are Disneyland and Yosemite and im a neat freak. :)

Well im looking forward to the weekend. Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday, yay! :) Have a great weekend everyone! 

Playdate Cafe Challenge #18

TGIF! Thank goodness! Been a rough week but im so glad its the weekend. Just wish it wasn't raining! Made this card for the PDCC #18, I love heat embossing so I had fun making this card.

Here is the design inspiration:

Ingredients: 

Papertrey True Black cardstock

SU White cardstock

Unity Stamp Jan Store KOTM

Prima Flower

Misc button, ribbon and bling

Tech: Tim Holtz distress ink in Tumbled Glass, Heat Embossing with Stampendous detail black powder

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I know im ready for it! Off to bed, so much to do tomorrow. :)