Monday Challenge!!

Hello Friends,
Happy Monday, Here is this week's challenge. I hope there are more participants this time around!!!

Here is my sweet card...

Card Size: 4" X 4"

Card Palette: Pretty in Pink, Perfect Plum, Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, and Whisper White

Stamp Sets: Tea Shoppe and Reason to Smile

Happy Stamping!!!

Thanks Jessica for participating in my card challenge!!!

Thank you Marcia for your beautiful card. I love the color palette!

Owl in the Family

Hello Friends,

Don't you just love Owls? I think they are so majestic but in today's card simply adorable! 

Did you know:

• Unlike most animals, they have three eyelids: one for blinking, second for sleeping, and third for keeping eyes tidy.
• Owls don’t have ears as such, but they do have slits on both sides of the head, just behind their facial disks.
• The female owls are heavier and feistier than the male owls. They can weigh as much as 25% more than the males.
• Owls can communicate with different sounds.
• Owls have an exceptional hearing capability. They can hear the movement of their prey from a long distance. Moreover, they can open and close their ears.
• Even though owls like to live aloof, but interestingly a group of owls is called “Parliament” because owls are considered as the birds with wise character.
• Owls have long been found in France’s cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and in Mayan art, which shows that they have been artistic symbols since the ancient period.
• Elf owl is the smallest specie of owl, weighing about 31 g and measuring 13.5 cm.
• The great grey owl is the longest owl that measures between 70 cm to 84 cm, while the similar-sized eagle owls—the eurasian eagle owl and blackiston’s fish owl—are the heaviest ones.
• The eggs of an owl do not hatch at the same time as they are laid at the intervals of 1 to 3 days.
• Owls were often associated with the god of death, Aztec.
• In the hindu mythology, owl is considered as the vahana of goddess Lakshmi.

So on to my card; This is called a center side step card. It's the kind of card you would give to someone to place on their desk at work, so that every time they look at it brings a smile to their face. I made an owl family relaxing in the sunshine. I just love this card!! I hope you do too.

Card Size: 5 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Card Palette: Baja Breeze, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Real Red, Wisteria Wonder, and Pumpkin Pie

Stamp Sets: Aviary, Pursuit of Happiness, and Take Care

Set Sail

Hello Friends,

This summer has been so beautiful. 

I wanted to share a card made from the Moving Forward set which was made to help support Ronald McDonald House Charities. It is a really cute set. If you were unaware, when you purchase this adorable set, Stampin Up then donates $3.00 to Ronald McDonald House. They make a special set every year just for this reason. Stampin Up has already donated over 1,000,000 to this amazing charity. I hope that you love this card but I really hope that it has inspired you to buy this set and make your contribution today! 

Now onto my card...

This card base is made from an envelope. One of my dearest friends showed me the concept and I couldn't wait to make one of my own using a different set of course. You can make it like this and write your greeting on the card insert, or you can attach a giftcard for a birthday or baby shower.Too cute, I love simply adore it!

Card Size: Standard Invitation Envelope, the card insert is 2 7/8" X 4"

Card Palette: Pacific Point, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Basic Black, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, and Whisper White

Stamp Set: Moving Forward

Babies are Beautiful

Hello Friends, Happy 4th of July!

Today's card is a Baby Shower card I made for a friend of mine who is expecting a baby boy. Isn't it cute? I love this stamp because you could leave off the sailor hat, add a bow, and changed the color scheme to pink and viola the same card made for a baby girl! 

Card Size: 4 1/4" X 5 1/2"

Card Palette: Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point, Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Daffodil Delight, and Whisper White

Stamp Sets: Easy Events, Up, Up, and Away, Congrats

My Favorite Flowers

Hello Friends,
Today's post is all about my favorite flowers. What are they you ask? Sunflowers of course. Did you know...

• Sunflowers are native to the Americas.
• The giant flower on sunflowers is actually made up of many tiny blooms? The center of the sunflower, where the seeds develop, is made up of tiny blossoms that bees absolutely love.
• Sunflowers typically grow between five and twelve feet tall (not counting cute little dwarf sunflowers.)
• At the bud stage, sunflowers exhibit a unique trait called heliotropism -- the bud of the sunflower faces the sun at all times throughout the day, starting the day facing east, and ending it facing west.
• The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas and the national flower of Ukraine.
• The official meaning of the sunflower is loyalty and longevity.
  
  
  Not only that, but they are simply beautiful. Love them! Today I am including two different cards from the same stamp set. It is Stampin Up's Sunflower background stamp, however I feel it to beautiful to be in the background :o)  Have a wonderful summer day!
  
  
  
  Card Size: 4 1/4" X 5 1/2"
  Card Palette: Daffodil Delight, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, and Whisper White
  Stamp Set: Sunflower and Loving Thoughts
  
  
  
  Card Size: 4 1/4" X 5 1/2"
  Card Palette: Daffodil Delight, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla
  Stamp Set: Sunflower, Decorate a Daisy, En fracais, and Loving Thoughts
  
  
  
  

Monday Card Challenge: I've Got My Stampin MOJO back YAY!!!

I'm Back, Did you miss me??? I have to apologize for going MIA. Somewhere along the way I lost my stamping MOJO. I just couldn't get motivated and even when my UPS man would show up with that wonderful little brown package, I would open it up of course and drool over my new stuff, but for whatever reason, playing just didn't seem like something I wanted to do. However thanks to a few of my dearest friends; Darla, Marcia, and Roxanne, I have found the inner stamper in me, and have begun making lots of great new projects to share with you! So to get things started I have a Monday Card Challenge to get your creative juices flowing. Have fun and send me a picture f your finished design!!

Here is my design, I hope it inspires you!!!

Card Size: 4 1/4" X 5 1/2"

Color Palette: Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White and Basic Black

Stamp Set: Happy Hour (LOVE LOVE THIS SET!!!)

Jessica Submitted a Pretty in Pink Card

YAY Summer Smooches, Don't Miss out!

Click on the Summer Smooches Link to the right of this post to view the items that you can order now from the 2012-2013 Stampin Up Idea and Catalog Book that will be released this summer. Who doesn't love getting great new items early? I know I am excited, can't stop drooling. These great products are calling your name!!!!! So go check it out and give me a call if you want to place an order!