Spring Flowers

Okay so I am officially 'done with this crazy' winter! The lion-lamb thing with March is way too crazy. Tuesday is was 56 degrees...a beautiful lamb day....then Wednesday it was 19 degrees, the worst blizzard in 15 years and an accumulation of 20" of snow...now that's what I call a LION!Today is Thursday and it is 17 degrees! YUCK!!  No one ever told me that coming in like a lamb and going out like a lion could happen in a 48 hour span!

Today I was longing for "spring" so I sat down to play with some lovely spring-like flowers. My distress inks were still out so I decided to use them again for Virginia's View Challenge. The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches was just perfect for my floral image. All flowers have roots so....the cue card "roots" challenge at CASology was so appropriate. The challenge at Craft-Mojo was 'Spring Flowers'. Now that my friends is a win-win situation!

All stamps are from Flourishes. I particularly like the .. Love is patient, love is kind verse that is lightly stamped behind the 'Love' sentiment.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Baby-licious

This card was created using a delightful Mo Manning image. It is for the sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches, the color challenge at Play Date Cafe (Apricot, Canary, Latte & Rose) and the Anything Goes (use twine) at Simon Says Stamp Challenge.

The image, ribbon, flowers and the pearls were colored with Copic markers.

M-Bossabilities folders were used for the background. Some of the raised designs and the edges of the papers were highlighted with dye inks applied with a piece of Cut 'n Dry. Pearl flourishes are from Zva, "Cherish" sentiment from Sweet and Sassy stamps. Shapes and edger are SB.

This is the sketch that was used to create this card. In case your wondering....Rita is having a baby!

This is the color challenge inspirational photo.

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Memorial Day Sketch

A big 'Thank You' to all servicemen and veterans on this Memorial Day.


*** This card won a Perfect Princess Award***

Freshly Made Sketches has a great sketch this week. After I made this card we had a gas emergency at our house, while the gas company was fixing our gas leak...they cut the phone line which supplies our Internet. My daughter to the rescue....I am at her home using her Internet so that I can post this card before the deadline.

The stamp is from Outlines and was colored with Copic markers.

This is the sketch that was used for this card.

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