Try Stampin on Tuesday #225

Good morning Try Stampin on Tuesday fans! Hope y'all are having a

great week so far! We are a bit short handed at work this week so today will

probably be as long as yesterday... lol it's all good though because

I have a four day weekend headed my way! Whoop! We have another great

sketch and twist challenge for y'all. You can enter anytime during

the next two weeks.

The twist is BABY. You can use the sketch, the twist, or both!

Here is my take using both:

Enabler's List:

Size: 4.25 x 6

Paper: Echo Park - Bundle of Joy: Girl

Stamps: Verve - Petals and Wings

Ink: CTMH - chocolate

Dies: Verve - Petals and Wings

Misc: Verve - pastel sequins

Sketch N Scrap card #52

Good morning crafty friends and happy Monday! I don't know about y'all but

I might just have a very busy week! Through Thursday at least and

then I have a 4 day weekend! We have some surgeons out this week but we

also have a lot of other employees out so it makes it a little harder for

those of us still working. I'm hoping some doctors will decide that this is a 

good week so buy us lunch! lol! They do that sometimes. Well before I head out,

 I wanted to share I card I made following sketch #52 from Sketch N Scrap.

Enabler's List:

Size: 4.25 x 6

Paper: AC Dear Lizzy - Serendipity

Stamps: Verve - Poppy Birthday

Ink: CTMH Outdoor Denim

Dies: Verve - Build a Poppy

Misc: Echo Park enamel dots, CTMH liquid glass

Viva la Verve June week 4

Good morning crafty friends! I sure hope y'all are having a great weekend!

Today is my daddy's birthday! I think we are doing birthday dinner instead of lunch

since he is going with my little sister to her golf tournament. Today is

also going to be the first day for me to sing in the choir at church! I had been

wanting to join choir for some time but wasn't always off work early

enough on Wednesdays to make it to practice, but now it looks like I will be

able to be off early enough from now on! Before I head out this morning

I wanted to share a card I made last night following the week 4 sketch from

Viva la Verve. I am also entering card in the current Word Art Wednesday challenge.

Enabler's List:

Size: 5.25 x 5.25

Paper: AC Dear Lizzy - Day Dreamer

Stamps: Verve - 2 Cor. 12:9 Plain Jane

Ink: CTMH - glacier and outdoor denim

Dies: Verve - Heart Quartet and From the Heart

Misc: Echo Park enamel dots

Monday Lunchtime Sketch #365

Good morning crafty friends and happy Friday! Hope all y'all had a great week

and have a fun weekend planned! We were going to visit family tomorrow,

but my aunt and cousin have taken my g-parents to visit family in Kentucky so

we will see them next week on there way back. Sunday after church

we are going to go to the zoo with the bro and sis in law and our little niece.

A new baby giraffe was born earlier this week and we can't wait to see him!

I wanted to share a card before I head off to work. I followed the current

sketch from Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge (Technostamper).

I am also entering this card into the current Word Art Wednesday challenge.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Echo Park - Creative Agenda

Stamps: Verve - Poppy Birthday and Verve - Praying for You Plain Jane

Ink: CTMH - Juniper and Outdoor Denim

Dies: Verve - Build a Poppy

Misc: Echo Park enamel dots and CTMH liquid glass (used on center of poppy)

Mojo Monday #403

Good morning crafty friends and happy Thursday! I sure hope y'all are 

having a great week so far! We are halfway through to the weekend!

I think on Saturday we are going to go visit some family a few hours away.

We really need to anyways. My grandpa is doing chemo again for

Multiple Myeloma (plasma cell carcinoma) and has been up and down for

the last month or so. The doctor said that the chemo is working very

well but he is have having some trouble with anemia because of some of the

other medication the doctor has him on. The hardest part right now is

getting him to eat and drink on a regular basis. If he doesn't feel like doing

it, he won't. The not drinking much worries my mom because most

myeloma patients usually don't actually die from the cancer they die from kidney

 failure or really bad pneumonia. Obviously you want to drink plenty to help

your kidneys filter out the junk. The doctor did say he was going to lower the

dose on one of the meds that's causing the anemia so hopefully that

will perk him back up!

Before I head out to work this morning I wanted to share a quick card I

made the other day. I followed sketch #403 from Mojo Monday.

I also used one of my new paper packs I got during the Joann's 60% off

scrapbook paper sale last week. They came in the mail on Monday.

I got 18 6x6 pads and 5 packages of enamel dots from $65. Hubby says I

need to get to crafting if I am going to use all of this paper before I die. lol

Enabler's List:

Paper: Doodlebug - Hip Hip Hooray

Stamps: Verve - Birthday Bots and Verve - Birthday Bash

Ink: CTMH - Slate and Pear and Ranger black archival

Misc: Verve - Metal Mix, CTMH - teal shimmer trim,

Nestabilities large and small circles, and Spectrum Noir pencils

Here is a pic of my Joann's order;

Cardabilities #125

Good morning crafty friends! Hope y'all are having a great week so far!

It is getting hot here in OK and the mosquitoes are super crazy

in the evenings! If you soak in spray, chances are, you'll stick get bit

by a few. That's what I discovered on Sunday night. It really was

a lovely evening temperature wise though. We had a nice cool breeze blowing

though out in the country at my parents house. I had off work yesterday

so I did some cleaning and then my order from Joann's came in so of course

I had to play with that for a while! I also put a card together I wanted

to share with y'all this morning. I followed the current Cardabilities sketch.

I am also entering this into the current Always Playing with Paper challenge.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Authentique - Anchored

Stamps: Verve - Strong Anchor

Ink: CTMH - outdoor denim and cranberry

Dies: Verve - Nautical Die set and Pennant Trim die

Misc: jute

   

Viva la Verve June week 3

Good morning crafty friends and happy Father's Day! Hope everyone will get

to see or talk to their dad's today! We are having a cook-out at my

parents place after church. That's how we pretty much celebrate any holiday

that falls during decent weather. We haven't gotten either dad anything

yet but we will probably treat them to a gift card to the gun range 

or something like that. Both my dad and dad in law are quite the gun

enthusiasts and neither one can currently shoot on their own properties since

we have had so much rain, the pond beds that are usually empty and

used as personal ranges have been full and overflowing for the last few weeks.

Anyways before we head off to church I wanted to share one of the cards

I made yesterday. I following the June week 3 sketch from Viva la Verve for this

card and am also entering this card into the current Word Art Wednesday challenge.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Recollections Mosaic Memories

Stamps: All Verve: New Mercies, Poppy Birthday, and Petals and Wings

Ink: CTMH slate and twilight

Dies: Verve Build a Poppy and Verve Petals and Wings

Misc: Verve Shine Bright Sequins

Mojo Monday #402

Good morning crafty friends and happy Friday! Hope everyone has

a fantastic, relaxing, and fun weekend ahead! I don't we have anything planned

except lunch with the family after church on Sunday. I am going to

try and get a head on some cards for the different teams I am on. Until then,

I want to share a card I made last night following the current

Mojo Monday sketch. I was very inspired by what Teresa Kline did with

the sketch, especially her tag, and had to CASE it a bit in my version.

I am also entering this card into the current Word Art Wednesday challenge.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Pebbles - Basics

Stamps: Verve - Poppy Birthday and Verve - Luke 1:45 Plain Jane

Ink: CTMH - black and pear

Dies: Verve - Build a Poppy

Misc: Recollections doily and black gems, white seem binding (sponged in pear)

  

Try Stampin on Tuesday #223

Good morning Try Stampin (or not) on Tuesday fans! Hope y'all are

having a great week so far! So summer is really here now 

isn't it?! It's still fairly pleasant here in OK. It's more late July early 

August that we tend to hit some three digit days... Anyways,

we have another great challenge for y'all this week at Try Stampin!

For this week's challenge use this word as your inspiration:

RAIN

Here is my card I created for a baby shower:

I CAS-ed this card from Nichol over at Blogged By Nichol Magouirk.

You can see the whole wonderful set she has created by going Here.

Enabler's List

Paper: Pebble's - Basics and CTMH white daisy CS

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Hello Baby

Ink: Ranger black, CTMH honey, glacier, and lagoon

Dies: Lawn Fawn - Hello Baby

Misc: Recollections button and ribbon, yellow twine

Viva la Verve June week 2

Good morning crafty friends! Hope y'all had a good weekend! Well it's

a Monday again! Lately I've been so spoiled with having Monday's off and

then having a half day Tuesday but one of our spine surgeons has

one of his more difficult cases today so I have to be there because I promised

him that I'd be there for all those cases. When I came back from my

cruise last month my lack of presence in his cases was all they were talking

and joking about. The anesthesiologist said in all seriousness, "Hillary

you really just have no idea what it's like when you're not here, Dr. Hume is

only good at hiding his frustration for so long, and by that I mean he

really isn't good at hiding it at all. We would really just like you to be here

all the time."  Have I mentioned I really like my job? It really feels 

awesome to have your skills and abilities appreciated. I have even had two 

surgeons fight over me once. It was pretty awesome. lol. Luckily I didn't have

to pick which surgeon to work with that day, boss man said the 

surgeon with seniority automatically gets what they want first. lol

Before I head out to work, I wanted to share last nights make 

following the June week 2 sketch from Viva la Verve.

Enabler's List:

Paper: SU Bohemian

Stamps: Verve Joyful Blooms and Verve Unto Us

Ink: SU Bermuda Bay and Blackberry Bliss

Dies: Verve - Joyful Blooms, Leafy Sprigs, and Classy Label dies

Misc: CTMH teal shimmer trim

Fusion Card Challenge Smooth Sailing

Good morning crafty friends! Hope y'all have had a great week!

It's starting to get pretty hot here in central OK! I swear we skipped spring

again. It was 75 for a week then jumped to 90 and is still rising!

Couldn't even enjoy the 75 because there were tornado's... Anyways,

spending more time indoors means more crafting! For this card I'm sharing

this morning I followed the current sketch from Fusion Card Challenge.

Enabler's List

Paper: Carta Bella Ahoy There

Stamps: Verve Adjusted Sails Plain Jane and Verve Strong Anchor

Ink: CTMH outdoor denim

Dies: Verve Nautical die set

Misc: red sequins, red button, and red and white twine

Sketch N Scrap card #51

Good morning crafty friends! I hope y'all are having a great week!

It is almost Friday! Whoop! Anyone have any big weekend plans? We are

supposed to go watch the OKC Dodgers play on Saturday evening.

My work is doing a little employee appreciation thing. It should be fun!

We were supposed to go with some friends a few weeks back but

it was stormy tornado weather so we figured it best to stay home. They game

only went to the top of the sixth before they had to quit anyways.

I have a card I wanted to share this morning before I head off to work.

This card follows sketch #51 from Sketch N Scrap.

I am also entering this card into the current Viva Inspiration Challenge

and the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Enabler's List:

Paper: American Crafts Dear Lizzy - Lucky Charm

Stamps: MFT Perk Up

Ink: CTMH juniper

Dies: MFT Coffee Cup

Misc: CTMH sparkles and Recollections doily

  

Try Stampin on Tuesday #222

Good morning Try Stampin on Tuesday fans! Hope y'all are having

a great week so far! It's time for another challenge! This week we are going back 

to a sketch. This one was created by Crystal and was a lot of fun to work with!

Here is the sketch:

For my take I tweaked it just a bit and instead of circles I used

squares and obviously only three instead of four.

I am also entering this card into the current Verve Inspiration Challenge

and the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Enabler's List

Paper: Fancy Pants Park Bench

Stamps: MFT Perk Up and Verve Holiday Treats

Ink: CTMH black

Dies: Verve Cup of Cheer

Misc: CTMH black shimmer trim and Recollections black gems

  

Mojo Monday #401

Good afternoon crafty friends! I'm back for a second post today! That

never happens but like I said earlier, I have the day off today so 

I did some house work then treated my mom to lunch so I decided to spend 

a bit of time in the studio to make a card! For this card I used

sketch #401 from Mojo Monday. I had bought a few scripture Plain Janes

from Verve a few weeks ago and hadn't used either of the 2 long

ones I got so when I saw this sketch I thought it was perfect to use one for!

Enabler's List:

Paper: CTMH Ariana (retired)

Stamps: Verve Proverbs 31:25 Plain Jane, Verve Joyful Blooms,

and Verve Great Friend

Ink: CTMH outdoor denim

Dies: Verve Joyful Blooms and Verve Dreamy Leaves

Misc: CTMH coral reef sequins and CTMH white shimmer trim

Viva la Verve June week 1

Good morning crafty friends! I sure hope y'all and a great weekend!

I definitely had a nice and relaxing one! Even better is I got the day off work

today! I can finally take my mom out for the lunch I have been

planning since Mother's day! Not going to lie, I did ask my boss if I could

take off. We have a part time guy who is wanting some more hours

so he worked for me today. I am actually supposed to be going part time

sometime... I don't know when this will actually happen. I'm thinking

my boss doesn't actually want it to happen. lol. Anyways, I was

able to get a lot of cardmaking in over the weekend and wanted to share

one this morning. For this card I followed the June week 1 sketch from

Viva la Verve. I am also entering this card into the current 

Verve Inspiration Challenge and the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Prima Marketing

Stamps: Verve Holiday Treats and Verve Psalm 34:8 PJ

Ink: CTMH slate

Dies: Verve Cup of Cheer and Nestabilities sm and lrg circles

Misc: CTMH gold sequins and Recollections doily

  

Mojo Monday #400 and Coffee Lovers

Good Sunday morning crafty friends! What a lovely weekend it has been so

far here in OK! It has been so nice to have not had any rain or 

severe storms in the last week! We've been able to take a walk every

evening! My hubby mapped it and our long neighborhood walk

is 1.5 miles. We've been trying to do that with the dogs every evening.

Since it has also been a pretty uneventful weekend I have been able to sit 

down and get some good crafting time in! Tonight I wanted to 

share another card using the special #400 sketch from Mojo Monday.

I am also entering this card into the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

 and the current Verve Inspirations Challenge.

Enabler's List:

Paper: Prima

Stamps: Verve - Holiday Treats

Ink: CTMH chocolate

Dies: MFT - LLD Coffee Cup

Misc: Verve - sequins and Recollections doily

Nail Hoot Candyland Collection

Good evening friends! Remember last month when I shared with you a few

polishes from Brandie's The Beginning collection from her new Indie polish line

Nail Hoot? Well, she has so kindly given me two polishes from her upcoming

Candyland collection to preview and swatch for y'all! (If you missed my

review and swatches from The Beginning collection, click Here to read it!)

The new Candyland collection will have a total of 5 polishes designed after characters

of the game. In this post I will be sharing about the first 2 in the collection.

Licorice Twist named after Lord Licorice and Ice Queen named after Queen Frostine.

Up first is Lord Licorice which is a beautiful chocolatey color with a hint of - lets call it - 

cherry, that's what comes to mind, a touch of red. It is also full of  beautiful multi color

micro glitters. It's easy to pick out some reds, greens, and blues. You can see them pretty 

well in my macro shots. Here I painted a base coat, 1st coat of color, a coat of gelous, 

then 2nd coat of color, then a top coat. It covers perfect in two coats. 

It has a lovely formula that covers well in two coats. It isn't too thin or too thick, just right!

Indoor photobooth shots:

Outdoor direct sunlight shots:

Outdoor shade shots:

Up next is Ice Queen named in honor of the lovely Queen Frostine. This one is a
beautiful icy bright blue that hints at purple at times. It's filled with micro glitters and
pinkish-purple glitter bits. You can see the shimmer from the micro glitters and
the larger glitter bits up close in the macro shots. I did Ice Queen with a white base but
I also swatched on sticks with and without the white base and they don't look terribly
different so if you aren't into white bases, it will still look just as lovely without one and
with only two coats! Here I did a base coat, one coat of white, 1st coat of color,
one coat of gelous, 2nd coat of color, then top coat.
Again this one also has an easy formula to work with, not too thick or thin.

Indoor photobooth shots:

Outdoor direct sunlight shots:

Outdoor shade shots:

FMS #189 and Coffee Lovers

Good morning crafty friends and happy weekend! I hope y'alls days are

off to a great start! We don't have much of anything planned for

this weekend which I am happy about after a busy week. I just want to

relax and spend a little time doing absolutely nothing! Followed

by cleaning and crafting though of course! I made a card last night following

the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. I am also entering

this card into the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and
the current Verve Inspirations Challenge.

Enabler's List:

Paper: MME - Flair

Stamps: MFT - LLD Perk-Up

Ink: CTMH - Hollyhock

Dies: MFT - LLD Coffee Cup

Misc: CTMH Ocean Breeze sequins, Verve polka dot ribbon,

and Recollections Doily