My Crafty Week--Mother's Day Edition

Hello, Hello, and Happy Mother's Day.  I've got lots to share today.

First up, how about a Mother's Day card?  This one is in my stash, waiting for next year.  However, if my husband or daughter go 'card shopping' for me later today in my craft room, I might have the pleasure of receiving it later today.  Playing along at Addicted to CAS #136: Mom and Retro Rubber #86: Beautiful Flowers.  I used Tulip Time stamps, which are 2 years old.

PTI Make it Monday #221 had us was Masking Sentiments, and I pulled out some old stamps, because it was a Throwback Challenge.  I used a stamp from Label Basics to highlight my sentiment, then masked it off while I created a stamped background using flowers from Super Succulents.

I used the color challenge at Just Add Ink #408 to put together this sweet card with some die cuts I made when I was visiting with Tracey last month.

Anita's Inspiration Card

I loved the simplicity of Anita's festive birthday card at MUSE #265 and took inspiration from her color choices, the streamers, birthday theme, and the subtle diagonal stripe pattern on her card base.  Hard to tell in my photo, but I embossed my card base with an impression plate with diagonal lines.  I am also entering this card as Seize the Birthday, no toppings.

I loved the sketch at CAS-ual Friday's #199, and used their Mon Ami stamps for my card.  I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #291: Anything Goes.

It was a big week for sketch challenges for me.  The challenge at Freshly Made Sketches #336 had me reaching into my Canadian stash for some more stamped images from my trip.

And, my last card is a very special card to me.  I was inspired to play along at Layton's Legacy Card Drive, and you can read all about this sweet little baby boy who is honored with this card drive.  We had this mood board to work from, and I was inspired by the woodland creatures in the lower right.

I used the sketch at CAS Colours and Sketches #271 for this card.

Well, that's it for my crafty update.  I'll leave you with a picture of the Mother's day card I got from my fur baby.....

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CASology Week #254: House

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is house.  Although I have many house stamps, I decided to post a card I made a while back but never posted that does not contain a house, but rather celebrates a new house (I actually have been out of town, and didn't have time to make something new--true confession).

Now it's your turn.  How does HOUSE inspire you?  I hope you play along this week.  Please remember to keep it Clean and Simple.

Please head on over to the CASology blog and gather some inspiration from the design team.

Diedre

Hannelie

Hazel

Jacquie

Janet

Jen

Joyce (that's me)

Judy

Kymona 

Melissa

Rachel

Sherrie

We are sponsored this week by  Rubber Dance Stamps.

Our Guest Designer is Sue

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Time Out #65...Reminder...Everything Will Be Okay

Hello...There is still time to play with the current challenge at Time Out.  Our challenge this time is 'inspired by words'.

'Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."  --Chad Sugg 

I focused on the leaves and message of encouragement for my reminder card this week.

Please head over to Time Out to see more inspiration from our Design Team and Guest Designer. Our Guest Designer this week is Rema, so please stop by her blog to see what she has created for this challenge.  CAS-ual Friday's is our sponsor for this challenge.  Details for the prize are on the Time Out Challenge Blog.


This challenge will run another week.  I hope you will take some Time Out of your busy schedule to play along with us.

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