Blog Candy Time

Heres the blog candy I promised! FINALLY! LOL! The winner with get the perfect layer tool and various spools of ribbon and their choice of any card I've made this week. To enter for the blog candy leave me a comment telling me your favorite embellishment and your most forgotten embelishment. I love ribbon I very seldom make a card without it. I have HH and love it but always forget about it but I have tons of ribbon and still buy more every chance I get!LOL! I will draw a winner Monday morning.

My husband and I have a date for tonight which is something we seldom get to do with 3 little ones. We are also going with another couple. ADULT COMPANY YAAYY! So Im looking forward to it! Have you ever seen the movie Where the Heart is? Ashley Judd is in the movie and she has a ton of kids and she goes to pick up Natalie Portman and as they are getting in the car she asks Natalie is she minds if she drives real slow on the way home b/c she'd like to think of it as a vacation. I feel the same way sometimes! I know all mothers have felt the very same way at times! Have a great weekend.

Baroque request

Yesterday I got an email requesting a pic of this card. I made it for a class and didnt like the way it turned out so I went a different direction and did a completely different card. After the class I changed and worked on this card a little more. Im still not thrilled with it but I like it better than I did to start with. The baroque swirl is stamped on the new basic gray with tone on tone and the flower is stamped in bb. I used 3 different ribbons on the card base. Wide bb, silver cord, and basic gray taffeta ribbon. The main image is embossed in silver with cherish stamped in basic gray.

sc139 Doodle

Just a quick post for now. We have had a death in the family. This is for todays sketch challenge. I gave all the details on my SCS gallery. I have the blog candy ready to post but it will probably be tommorrow or Friday before I get to post it.

Awesome RAK!!!

Check out what I got in the mail! You all know how much I love Mary Jo Albrights gallery! She is just AWESOME! Well I got this in the mail and its TDF! Thanks so much Mary Jo! Check out Mary Jo's blog-Beauty lies within on my sidebar.

Im waiting on Mr. Brown this morning hope he comes early!!!(fingers crossed). BBL with the blog candy post.

Copyright Mary Jo Albright

CC129 Best Blossoms

Todays color challenge was pretty in pink, purely pomegrante, and old olive so I pulled out my BG perhaps paper b/c on Emilys sample I saw she used BG paper so I thought I'd go through mine to see if I could find some that is one of the things that takes me so long when Im making a card is find DP with the colors in it so I cheated today I knew ahead of time what paper to use!LOL!

I rock n rolled the flower from best blossoms and stamped the leaves around the flower. I love using this flower w/ the Perhaps DP b/c it matches perfectly. FYI-looks like spring also matches the flower in DP. I used Beates weekend sketch #16 for the layout. Circle of friendship is the top left circle stamped twice in pretty in pink and purely pomegrante and punched out. The lower right circle is the quickutz flower cut out twice and layered on an old olive 1 1/4" circle but its dark in the pic. I also paper pierced the sides of the pretty in pink layer with my old olive ribbon from Taylors share tied on it.

I didnt post yesterday b/c I had nothing to post long story short I resisted the resist challenge yesterday. 3 tries and no card does not make for a happy girl! Then we had some rough weather and lost power. I will post later today b/c its blog candy time!

lsc130 Both Way Blossoms

Todays challenge was a great one! Oldies but goodies! We were to pick an old sketch challenge an old color challenge with stamps that havent seen ink in awhile. I used sc104 and cc93. I also used some other things I havent used in awhile like my SU markers, HH, and colors Ive neglected like sage shadow. When looking through the past color challenges the main thing I wanted was to pick a cc that had at least 2 colors I havent used in awhile. CC93 was rose red, choc chip, blush blossom and sage shadow. I NEVER use bb or ss these colors just screamed flowers to me so I pulled out my both way blossoms. Ive only inked this stamp up 2x since I got it over a year ago but I love it everytime I use it. I colored my flowers w/SU markers. The center of the flowers are colored w/bb and the petals are rr. I stamped over my flowers with lined inked w/cc and stamped off once. I stamped well worn words inked in rose red and stamped on blush blossom. I distressed and sponged the layers.

Sorry no post yesterday. It was Madisons bday and I went to lunch at the school w/her and Alana had a family tree project due today that caused me major stress!

sc138 Taylor Turtle

Hello! This is the card I made for todays sketch challenge. Isnt it funny how you dont notice things about your card until AFTER you've taken the pic of it to upload.LOL! The last tile on this card is turned the wrong way. uh-oh...oh well. NEway this card took a few turns before the last result. When I saw the sketch today I knew I wanted to use my Crate paper scraps from the Taylor collection. I still had some sky blue laying out from yesterday and realized it matched the blue in the paper perfectly. Then I needed to find an image that would fit in the 2" sq diamond panel. I pulled out my cute little turtle since he hasnt seen ink in awhile. I colored my turtle with prismacolor pencils and layered him on choc chip and set him aside to assemble the rest of the card. After cutting all my layers and putting them on my card base I was ready to put my main image on. Another uh-oh my turtle would be sideways. Now...why didnt I think of that before a major duh moment for me. I didnt want to color the turtle again so I decided to cut him out which was harder b/c he was already layered on choc chip. I do like the end result though. Thats what counts right?!?! I think I will go back and add some stickles to the flowers they are colored in sky blue but it doesnt show up very good.

Okay now to go clean and get ready for bday dinners at church tonight. Hope you have a great day!