Where has the time gone???

     I cannot believe it has been 3 and a half months since I blogged....where has the time gone, well it certainly has been busy, I always find Spring time busy, with school finishing, exams, and summer activites starting up. There is all the yard work to do, the clean up and then planting all the flowers. I always love spring, it is so great to get outside after a long winter and work in the garden, it's my favorite thing to do, very peaceful and relaxing. I have not been doing very much crafting, as usual that is more a fall and winter hobby, but I still sit some evenings and play with my goodies. We are planning our vacation in just a few weeks ( I can hardly wait) we are meeting my family at a cottage for a week, will be so nice to see everyone, especially the little ones, they grow so fast.  I guess that's it for now. I will try to check in a little more often.

Lily Pad Cards!!

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I am so looking forward to this new blog, I love finding new places for inspiration.

My stamping projects for the 2peas Winterfest

Here are a few of my projects I made for the Winterfest stamping challenges over at Twopeas. I love the challenges they really make me try new things, and that what I love about this craft.

 This card was for the "Quilt Inspried " Challenge, the stamps are fro the Love Lives Here set from Papertrey Ink.

 This care was for "Love " Challenge, papers are Prima, and the stamps are from the same set from Papertrey Ink.

This card was for the "Stitch in Time" Challenge, the stamp set is from Papertrey Ink, called Button Basics.

This card was for the "Emboss Resist " challenge, the stamp is Hero Arts

This card was for the "Praise & Case" challenge, you had to pick a card you liked and then make one yourself using the basic design, from the original.

Thanks for stopping buy and have a great day!

WinterFest 2011 at Two Peas in a Bucket

Two Peas in a Bucket is hosting their annual Winterfest for stampers, come and join in the fun Challenges. You can find us here General stamping message board

"Make it Monday" for Papertrey Ink

Here is my card I made for this weeks challenge at Capture the Moment Blog, The challenge was to use fun foam on our card, the only color of fun foam I had was purple, so I combined it with Papertrey Ink's " Blueberry Sky", and "Stampers select white". I used my Butterfly Dreams stamp set for the background and I also stamped a butterfly image on my fun foam with " Fresh Snow" ink. I die cut the fun foam with the matching butterfly die and I also used the Medium scallop border die, and layered it with the blueberry sky and white cardstock. The sentiment is also from the Butterfly Dreams stamp set, and the label is from the " Tea for Two" die set. I used some lace trim and bling to finish it off,  I am really happy with how it turned out. I love trying new techniques, and that is what makes these challenges so much fun! Thanks for stopping by.

Make it Mondays !!!

     Here is a card I made for the "Make it Mondays" series over at Nichole Heady's Blog Capture the Moment , she is the owner of Papertrey Ink, and is starting a new series, each monday there will be a video posted on her Blog with a technique demonstrated, you are then challenged to try this technique. This is my card for this weeks challenge. I had fun with this, digging through all my stamps looking for phrases that all related to Valentine's Day/Love. I used these stamps from Papertrey Ink Damask Designs, Mixed Messages, Daily Designs sentiments, Daily Designs, & Around & About Sentiments, mixing sentiments and images. I used their cardstock in Hibiscus Burst & Hawaiian Shores, stamped my sentiments in momento black ink. I used the Medium scallop border die to edge my card, and Hibiscus Burst ribbon on long the edge. I also used my glitter to add a little sparkle and some gems too that I colored with my Copic marker.  Thanks for stopping by.

Martha Stewart Doily Project

Well I finally got to this project last week and got it finished too!!! I call it my collection of favorite things!! I used up a whole lot of things from my stash, I did not buy a single thing for this, which I am very proud of myself for doing!!! A very nice lady at Two peas in a bucket sent me the Martha Stewart Doilies after I had been on one of the message boards at 2peas discussing the gorgeous project that Christine Middlecamp had been giving a tutorials on her blog Here is the link to her beautiful project. Christine is a master at layering, I just love her style and this project was my attempt at layering which I have a long way to go....but overall I am really pleased at the finished product, I just have to get a frame for it now and find the perfect place to display it.