Home Grown

Welcome to my blog.  I truly appreciate you stopping by today.    I have a cutie for y'all this time.  I used a digi from QKR Stampede for this one.  This image is called Expecting and can be found here.

I created this card for the Oldie But a Goodie challenge, New Beginnings, and the Papertake Weekly challenge, Anything Goes, New Beginnings.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all have a great day.  God bless.

Recipe:
Stamp: Expecting by QKR Stampede
Sentiment: Cardz TV Love in a Jar set
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Spectrum Noir BGR 1
Cardstock: Colorbok, Recollections
Paper: DCWV
Ribbon: My Stash
Tools: Martha Stewart Butterfly Punches, Fiskar's Trimmer, EK Sucess Scalloped Scallop Punch, ATG Gun, Glue Dots, Pop Dots

Entering:
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges:  Anything Goes

Saturday with Paper A La Mode

Hello there.  Today is Saturday...yippee..and this starts another new challenge over at Paper A La Mode.  Last week's challenge was sponsored by Rick St. Dennis.  Y'all know how much I love Rick's images.  The winner is going to receive 2 images of their choice from Rick's new zibbets store.

This week our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps.  Jodie has some wonderful designs over in her shop.  The winner of this week's challenge will receive 2 images of their choice.

Our theme for this week was chosen by Theresa, and it's Stars and Snowflakes.

Here's what I created:

The stamp set that I used is from Jenny Ellory and the papers are from DCWV Winter Basics 6x6 paper pad. Even though the card stock looks green it is actually turquoise.  I used the rosettes stamp to make the circles and added some light turquoise gems to the center. The bows are part of the stamp set and I just stamped them on the patterned paper and cut them out.  It's a very simple Christmas card, but I like it.

Thanks for stopping in today and I hope y'all enjoy your day.  God bless ya!

I am also going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Oldie but a Goodie--CAS Christmas
Papertake Weekly--Snow and Ice
Shopping Our Stash--Use Something on Your Desk--stamp set
Twisted Tuesday--Pop Dots and Polka Dots (sentiment pop dotted; polka dots in patterned paper and the circle background)
Hiding in My Craft Room--Die Cuts (Cuttlebug)

Hebrews 13:2

Welcome back to my last post of the evening.  Thanks for hanging in there with me.

The last card for tonight uses a set of images that I received in a swap about a year ago.  I have been going through some of my stash and weeding out.  I found these pretty flower images and decided to make a card from them.

I matted the image and sentiment onto a soft green Colorbok card stock.  The card base is the same green.  The sentiment is from Rubber Monger and I stamped it in Bamboo Leaves Memento ink over top of the flower image.  The DP is from American Crafts.  I have no idea why I picked an Asian lettering paper, but it looked really good with the colors of the images. I added a doily from my stash behind the images.  The tan die cut behind the sentiment is from my friend Jan.  That beautiful butterfly is also from Jan.  Adding some light green gems from Queen and Co finished off the card.

Thank you so much for coming back to look at all my work tonight.  I truly appreciate it.  I pray God richly bless each and every one of you.

Challenges:
ABC--#35  Anything Goes
Oldie but a Goodie--Butterflies
Catch the Bug--Color Challenge (the greens are the mats and card base, all other colors are in the images)