Our Graduate

I wanted to share a proud Mom moment - Phillip right before leaving for graduation. The weather held, quite warm but a nice breeze. The ceremony lasted 55 minutes...amazing considering his graduation class was made up of 555 seniors!!!!! The white chord represents a student graduating with a 4.0 grade point average or above! Again, so proud. Thanks for letting me gush!

Congrats Phillip!

I'm running a bit short on time so here goes my quick post...Yes, we have a soon-to-be graduate in the house. Phillip's high school graduation is tomorrow!!! Hard to believe. Here's the card I made for him. I used the Stella Says Sketch over at Catch the Bug. The Bugaboo image is the AKV Boy Graduate. Our high school is the Seneca Valley Raiders - found the paper at our local scrapbook store, how cool is that?!!  Now, what should I stick inside this card?$$$

Life's a Beach

Good morning! Welcome to our latest challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. I love sketch challenges, and this latest one is a super fun one for sure!

We have a new sponsor this week - say hello to Make it Crafty. Take a moment to look thru the store, talk about lots of fun images! The prize this week is a very generous $15 gift certificate for the Make it Crafty store...how fun!!!

Here is my card, using the fabulous Beach Chair image. We go to the beach every year for vacation and I absolutely love it! Talk about relaxing! We'll be there over the 4th of July again this year. This is a very fun sketch so I hope you can give it try. Thanks for stopping by.

Successful Woman

Today, not only did I get to Starbucks, but I also got a card done while enjoying my coffee!!! Now that's what I call success!! The weekend was crazy, going to visit my parents and getting lots of little jobs done around their house. With them living 2 hours away, in their 80s and Dad with alzheimers, I worry about them all the time. My brother and his family came too, and what a pleasure seeing them. It's so difficult becoming the parents of your parents. The Monday holiday has also thrown me off schedule!!

I wanted to share my card with you today, using a Fresh Brewed Designs rubber stamp called She Loves Lattes...and I do!!! I decided to make a tag out of my main image - good chance to add some ribbon to the card! The papers, lace and heart embellies are from a card kit by Simon Says Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and listening to me. Hugs to you all. Friday Phillip will be graduating from high school, hard to believe.

Warmest Wishes

Welcome to the Clean & Simple challenge at The Outlawz. This week DT member Lynn, who lives in South Africa, wants us to do a winter theme. Yes, that's right, it's almost winter time there so pull out whatever keeps you warm and dry and create something with it, CAS style. I used a Gina K Designs set seeing ink for the very first time called Warm Woolen Mittens. I love the Nordic sweater look stamping that background created. I stamped another one of the border stamps onto card stock, stamped the mittens' outline and cut 'em out (I know, me and cutting things out don't always get along!!). Everything was sponged with creamy caramel ink - my favorite ink for sponging. Please join us at The Outlawz for our winter themed clean & simple challenge. 

OWH Memorial Day Blog Hop

Welcome to the OWH Memorial Day Weekend Blog Hop. The theme this weekend is THANK YOU cards based on one of the OWH sketches - either for our heroes to send or ANY HERO CARDS with notes written inside to them! Of course I had to make one of each so let me share:

This is my thank you card using sketch #10. Okay, so I didn't use tags, but those cute carrots certainly make up for it!!! I used a Paper Smooches stamp set called Vegtastic. This one would also fit the Midweek Throwdown Challenge - times three (use 3 of something). 

Here is my Any Hero Card. I will write a note inside giving my heart-felt thanks to one of our heroes. This one is based off sketch #12. This is another Paper Smooches set, this one is called Circle of Honor. 

Thanks for hoping along this weekend. So many wonderful creations. Happy Memorial Day.

Father's Day Challenge

Welcome to our special Clearly Inspired Challenge celebrating Father's Day. As you know, the new Clearly Digi Stamps is closed at the moment due to technical difficulties. The old Clear Dollar Stamps has been reopened for your shopping convenience. We decided to celebrate Father's Day with our special Clearly Inspired Challenge which will run from today thru June 7th. Because I had the image and paper already printed out and on my desk, I went with the digital set Corvette. Of course I used the color version and one of the fabulous digital papers also included in the set. I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches, just turned on it's side.

We have a new stamp set to share that will be given away to one random winner.

Our featured stamp set is called Father's Day Heroes by our newest illustrator, Patrick Dunnegan. How perfect for those special men in our lives. So join us over the next two weeks for our Father's Day Clearly Inspired Challenge.