Making Memories, Celebrating Moments!

It is the 15^thof the month and that means another Dueling Darlings challenge. Our hostesses for May are our organizers--Kelly is the boss the Darlings and Jeanette is the Dazzler's leader. 

Here is the information that Kelly and Jeanette set up--Since May is traditionally the month of celebrating Mother's Day, many anniversaries, upcoming June weddings, Holy Communions and Confirmations, graduations and so much more, we thought we'd take this time to celebrate the moments that mean so much!  Our theme this month is:

Making Memories, Celebrating Moments! 

I loved all of the papers and embellishments that Kelly sent--I wanted to use all of it!  She gave us so many options and I think the image was too cute!

Here is the inside of my card.

Image/Sentiment—Kraftin' Kimmie Tessa Tassel Image and sentiments

Paper—PTI White, Stampin' Up Blushing Bride and Bravo Burgundy; Carta Bella Beautiful Moments Designer Paper

Ink—Memento Black

Accessories—Copic Markers; Pink Stitched Ribbon, EK Success Graduation hat, Studio G red heart clip, Black Brads, SU Punches, Nesties Scallop Rectangles

Please be sure to stop in to see what all of the Divas as well the Dazzlers have created this month. All of the blogs are on the left sidebar of my blog. I am sure you will enjoy all of the memories that have been created this month!

Yellow Brick Road

I am back with another {PIN}Spirational Challenges card.

 

May 14-20
 

Here's the photo to inspire us:

 

Our sponsor this week is Flat Friends
 

Flat Friends provided us with some sweet images to go with the darling picture.  I chose Yellow Brick Road!  I thought it was too cute.   THANK YOU!

 

  

Image/Sentiment—Flat Friends Yellow Brick Road Digital Image/Sentiment-Stampin' Up Small Script

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin' Up So Saffron, Rose Red, Wild Wasabi and So Saffron Patterned Paper

Accessories—Copic Markers; SU Green Ribbon; Rose Brads, Oval Punches

I hope you will play along this week with the {PIN}Spirational Challenge, too! Be sure to go to the challenge blog and add your creations for the challenge this week! You can also check out the rest of the DT Creations with the links on the left sidebar.

You can hardly sleep.....................

This is one of the two cards I made for Ashley's recent swap on SCS.  We were to make baby cards and I just love this stamp--how true!

 

Image/Sentiment—Stamp Shoppe Creations (no name listed)

Cardstock—Gina K White;  Stampin' Up Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake; Adorable Blue Stripe DSP

Ink--Stampin' Up Bashful Blue

Accessories—Bashful Blue Taffeta Ribbon, Baby Feet Brads

With Deepest Sympathy

This is the second of the two swap cards that I made for Melina's swap on SCS.  The theme was Touch of Class and I think the small pearls are a great accent for this card. 

 

Image/Sentiment—Stampin' Up Thanks for Caring

Cardstock—PTI White; Stampin' Up Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral and Everyday Enchantment DSP

Ink-Stampin' Up Poppy Parade

Accessories—SU Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder and Mini Pearls

Celebrate!

 

Here is one of the two swap cards that I made that I made for Melina's Touch of Class swap on SCS.  I started with the designer paper and chose the stamp after that.

 

Image/Sentiment—Stampin' Up Wonderful Words

Cardstock—Gina K White, Black and Soft Sand; SU Brushed Gold and Mocha Morning DSP

Ink--Brilliance Galaxy Gold

Accessories—Taupe Ribbon and Ivory Pearl

Just Relax

I am back with another {PIN}Spirational Challenges card.

 

May 7 - 13
 

Here's the photo to inspire us:

 

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Sentiments
 

Crafty Sentiments provided us with some sweet images of some cute bears.  I loved this one!   THANK YOU!

 

  

Doesn't this little guy looked relaxed?  I love all of the bubbles!


Image/Sentiment— Crafty Sentiments Charles Just Relax Digital Image

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin' Up Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip, Bella Birds DSP

Accessories—Copic Markers; SU 5/8" Satin Chocolate Chip Ribbon; Pink Brads

I hope you will play along this week with the {PIN}Spirational Challenge, too! Be sure to go to the challenge blog and add your creations for the challenge this week! You can also check out the rest of the DT Creations with the links on the left sidebar.

Tracie is CASED

It is the 5th of the month, so I am back with another challenge of the Crafty Gals! We are a group of bloggers who have monthly challenges, caring comments & fun chit chat on SCS—our favorite stamping site to visit.

This year our challenges are going to be a bit different. Each month, Melina will chose one of our group to highlight and our challenge is to CASE a card from her blog—or make a card that highlights some of her loves. This month the person to CASE is Tracie!  Here is a link to the card on her blog that I used Tracie

Image/Sentiment—Stampin' Up Elements of Style

Cardstock—Stampin' Up Regal Rose, Garden Green, Paisley Petals DSP; Gina K White

Ink—SU Regal Rose and Garden Green Markers

Accessories—SU Pink Buttons; Punch; Pink Floss

Please check out the blogs of all of the Crafty Ladies.  All of the blog links are listed in my left sidebar and I hope you will enjoy all of the creations this month

Barn Card

This is the second of the two cards I made for Ashley's swap on SCS.  Our theme was masculine cards and I went a bit old school on this card--very simple.

 

Image/Sentiment—Inkadinkado Barn Image (no name listed)

Cardstock—Gina K Ivory; Stampin' Up Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip

Ink--SU Chocolate Chip

Accessories—Bronze Brads
 

Lights, Rocks and Waves

This is one of the two cards I made for Ashley's swap on SCS.  Our theme was masculine cards and I think this image is perfect for the swap.

 

Image/Sentiment—Stampscapes Lights, Rocks and Waves

Cardstock—Gina K Black and In the Navy; Stampin' Up Basic Gray

Ink--Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Lifestyle Crafts Classic Herringbone Embossing Folder; Black Nail heads
 

Happy Birthday Ava

I have two posts today.  If you are looking for my Crafters of Faith Post, please scroll down. 

I am back with another {PIN}Spirational Challenges card.

 

April 30 - May 6
 

Here's the photo to inspire us:

 

Our sponsor this week is Saturated Canary
 

 

Saturated Canary provided us with a variety of wonderful digital images for this challenge.  We got to choose from some great images.   THANK YOU!
 

 

 

Here is the inside of my card.

 

 

 

Image/Sentiment— Saturated Canary Ava Digital Stamp/ Stampin' Up Warmest Regards Sentiment

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin' Up Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party; Imaginisce Balloons/Dots DSP

Accessories—Copic Markers; SU 3/8" Ruffled Island Indigo Ribbon, Oval Punches;

I hope you will play along this week with the {PIN}Spirational Challenge, too! Be sure to go to the challenge blog and add your creations for the challenge this week! You can also check out the rest of the DT Creations with the links on the left sidebar.

Crafters of Faith ~ Flowers

I have two posts today.  If you are looking for my {Pin}Spirational Challenge Card, please scroll up.

Today is the last day of the month and I am here to welcome you to my Crafters of Faith card! The Crafters of Faith blogging group is a joyous blending of Christian friends ~ joined together to fellowship, share our faith, build friendships and craft together!

This is our April Challenge—as posed by April--no, that is not a mistake

I spent my childhood being called April Showers or even April Flowers.....hence my email address of aflowers.... It would probably be called bullying nowadays, but I seemed to take it all in stride. Because of this moniker, I wanted to highlight a verse which is about Spring. I think this one is apropos!

Leviticus 26:4 - Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Although my verse does not say flowers explicitly, a plant must flowers before it bears fruit. I would love your card this month to show off flower --- stamps, die cuts, crocheted, etc.! {If you want, you can add rain, but that isn't a necessity.}

Have fun with this verse and the glorious Spring Season!
I love flower stamps and have quite a few.  I got this stamp a year ago when Outline Stamps closed their doors and have not inked it up lately.  I tried to match the colors of the flowers to the colors in the DSP I was planning to use, but I needed to add a few brighter colors to make the image pop!

Here is the inside of my card:

Image/Sentiment—Outlines Rubber Stamps Rubber Growing Bouquet 1

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Marina Mist and Paisley Petals DSP

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Copic Markers; Labels 1 and Scallops 1; Sizzix Flowers Embossing Folder; Marina Mist 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you do check out the other new creations from the wonderful ladies in the Crafters of Faith group! The blog list is on the left side--please check out all of the cards.

Give me Chocolate

This is my card for our every other month swap for an awesome group of ladies on SCS--the SOTC--Sisters of the Traveling Cards!  Jeanette is our hostess for March and April--she posted the following:

Theme: What’s Cookin’, Sistah?

For your cards this round, I’d like you to go with a cooking, food, recipe theme. You can put an actual recipe on/in your card, if you’d like, but you don’t’ have to. You can use a chef or food stamp/image. Your card can be all about Pizza or Coffee or Burgers Grilling on the Grill. It can be about Cupcakes or Caramel Apples or Ice Cream Treats. (I could go on and on. ) You can use designer papers of cooking utensils or food items. You can add apple brads or teacup charms. You can use recycled kitchen items on your card - bread clips, mesh from apple bags, cardboard from cracker boxes, etc. The ideas are almost limitless.  Use your creativity and make cards that in some way show What’s Cookin’.


Well--I am not sure that candy or specifically M&M's counts as Cookin', but I am sure almost everyone one of the sistahs has a bag of these babies someplace in their house-and maybe one in their stamp room to snack on.  It is a proven fact that stamping and the mojo needed to create cards is enhanced by chocolate! 

I hope Jeanette and the other SOTC gals like my card!

And--on a special personal note....................  today I get to hand deliver these cards to Jeanette as she is going to be at my house for a mini-stamping day, along with 4 other stampers! Carol will be here and she is also a member of the SOTC. Terry, LJ and Darlene are the other three ladies who will be here and I have had the pleasure of meeting all of them before. Most of the others have never met and I am so excited for us all to get together!  I am sure we will have a blast making some cards at my house, checking out some local stamping stores, laughing tons and maybe, just maybe, a few bits of chocolate!

Image/Sentiment—Unknown M&M stamp/Viva Las Vegas Give me Chocolate Sentiment

Cardstock—Gina K White, Red, Black; Penny Black Madison Designer Paper

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Copic Markers; Black Button Brads; Real Red 5/8' grosgrain ribbon

Calendar Girls New Beginnings

It is the 28th of the month, so I am here to welcome you to another round with the Calendar Girls!

Who are the Calendar Girls? We are a group of bloggers who want to have a place where friendships blossom, creativity abounds, and encouragement prevails! In keeping with that dream, this blog group has been created so we will have a place to interact and enjoy being fellow bloggers.  
Carol is our hostess this month and this is what she wrote for us to follow:  
 

As the saying goes April showers bring May flowers....
To me April showers clean the earth of its worn out snow, dust and dirt along with nurturing new seeds and life to our surroundings (gardens, yards, trees, etc.). It also, to me signals new beginnings....so for this month I would like for you to create a card that does just that...it could be a wedding card, a baby card, even a New Years card...OR it could be a card that uses something worn out or pre-used and develop a new use for it...ex: mesh bag from fruit...used once to hold fruit: new beginning...used on the card...repurposed.. I know all of you are very talented crafters and I can hardly wait to see what you come up with...

Have fun with this challenge...     ((hugs)) Carol

This was a fun card for me to make.  As many of you know I love Whipper Snapper stamps and this was one I have had for awhile, but not inked it up.  So--I thought it would make a great card for "New Beginnings"!

And--as a Special Note--on the day that this is published, I will be in the presence of Carol.  Yup!  I get to meet her in real life and spend a few days with Carol along with 4 other ladies who I have met in the past.  We are meeting at my house and will spend some wonderful time getting inky and laughing and chatting and just enjoying each other's company in person!  I cannot wait!  This is truly a "new" beginning to meet Carol, but is a continuation of the friendships I have formed with the 4 special ladies!

Image/Sentiment—Whipper Snapper Designs Rocking Horse Baby

Cardstock—Gina K White, Lemon Drop, In the Navy, Little Boy Blue; Heidi Grace Baby Boy/Décor Stripes

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Light Blue Pearls, Blue Bakers Twine, Navy Button

Please check out the blogs of all of the Calendar Girls—there are 10 of us, so it might take you a bit.   I am sure you will enjoy all of the creations inspired by "New Beginnings"  ! All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar. Thanks for joining us this month!

Sail Away

This is the second of the swap cards that I made for Kari’s recent swap she posted on SCS.   The theme was "Proud to by Daddy's Girl".  We were to make masculine cards that would make our dad proud.  I am sure most dad's would love a boat/ship like this!

Image/Sentiment—Stampin' Up Sail Away

Cardstock—Gina K White; SU Not Quite Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso and Nautical Expressions DSP

Ink—SU Not Quite Navy

Accessories—Espresso Brads

Happy Retirment

This is one of the two swap cards that I made for Kari’s recent swap she posted on SCS.   The theme was "Proud to by Daddy's Girl".  We were to make masculine cards that would make our dad proud.

Image/Sentiment—Stampin' Up Lovely as a Tree/Teeny Tiny Wishes Sentiment

Cardstock—Gina K White; SU Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Tangerine Tango and Imaginisce Designer Paper

Ink—SU Old Olive

Accessories—Orange Brads