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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Somebunny Loves You!

Hello!!! Happy Spring??? It was wonderful with our touch of Spring last week here in New England, but this week we are back to a touch of winter. The temps have dropped and we have had some frost that is threatening the plants that started to bloom. It is back to winter coats most days and I like a lot of others are fighting a major cold from the extremes we are feeling. I want Spring back!!!!

This card is for the Going Grey with Scrap-Creations challenge this week. I am posting late because of feeling lousy. Anyway the you still have lots of time to play along still. The theme this week is Easter so let's see your Easter best, eggs, bunnies, whatever reminds you of the holiday.

We are also welcoming 2 new very talented ladies to our group, Chrizette and Carrie. Please stop by and give them a warm welcome and check out the wonderful creations the have created to inspire you.
I can't wait to see what you all have created so come play along with us!

Here are some other fantastic challenges that fit my card

Allsorts Challenge Week 148-Photo Inspiration Easter
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #83-Easter and Egg Crazy
Card Makin' Mamas Challenge-Easter Time
Creative Mondays Challenge #4-Anything Goes
Anything Goes Challenge #63-Get Ready For Easter
Aud Sentiments Challenge #51-Happy Easter
Bearly Mine Challenge #28-3,2,1-3 die cuts scallop, lattice and diamond, 2 sentiments and 1 image
Clear It Out Challenge-Easter with stash of Pastel Papers
CMC Copic Challenge #40-Spring Pretties
Craft Your Days Away Challenge #42-Easter
Crafty Boots Challenge-Easter
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge #37-Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Challenge-Easter
Creative Belli Challenge #140-3 Shapes, oval diamond and rectangle tag shapes
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #126-Use a digi image
Creative Card Crew Challenge #7-Spring
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #210-Happy Easter
Digi Designs Challenge-Emboss it, Anyway you want
Digital Tuesday Challenge #153-Your Favorite Color, Aqua it goes with almost any other color!
Divas By Design Challenge #28-Stamp Something, Happy Easter-hand stamped, Wee Bunny digi stamped
Dream Valley Challenge #28-Easter
I Brake For Challenges #IBFCC19-Easter
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #139-Tag It!
Inky Impressions Challenge #52-Flower Power
Little Darlings Challenge #20-Outside
Lollipop Crafts March Challenge #73-Anything Goes
Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge #101-Square Cards
Moving along with the Times Challenge #142-Cute 'n' Cuddly
One Stop Craft Challenge #176-Easter
Paperplay Challenge Week 13-Easter
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #76-Easter
The Ribbon Carousel Challenge #RCC46-Anything Goes with Party Time Tuesdays
Simon Says Challenge-Simon Says...Anything Goes
Simply Create Too Challenge #10-Eggs and/or Bunnies
Southern Girls Challenge #41-You got something you want to say?
Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #132-Lots of Embellishments
Sweet Stampin' Challenge-Spring or Easter
The Crazy Challenge #112-Add a Sentiment
The Paper Shelter Challenge #57-Easter
The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge-Celebrating Easter
Through The Craftroom Door Challenge #22-Tags, Easter or Spring
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #73-Easter and/or Animals
Totally Papercrafts Challenge #110-Easter
Wags 'n Whiskers Stamps Challenge #76-Say it with Flowers

These are all fabulous challenges so be sure to stop by and play along with them and check out the wonderful inspiration from their very talented DTs!

Thank you so much for stopping by today to see what I created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me to read.

Happy creating,
Mary

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Everything Flowers!

Hello, Happy Spring!!!!!!! The weather here in New England is gorgeous! It is sunny, in the 80's and there is a warm breeze. A perfect day and tomorrow is going to be even better! I can't remember a March day this nice. I hope we don't pay for it later.

We have another wonderful challenge for you this week at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations, in honor of Spring the theme is FLOWERS! You can have theme as your image, as embellishments or as your back round, the more the better. How fun and easy is that so come play with us this week, just hop over to the Going Grey blog see what the ladies have created to inspire you and play along.

When I was creating this card I thought it needed something to make the image stand out from the card. After trying different things I thought of a white doily. This doily that I used had a much different life before I "rescued" it. We at my nieces wedding at a really nice place. When they started serving the fresh fruit cup they had them on these beautiful large doilies. It was so delicate looking I couldn't stop looking at it. I decided I had to have them. I started asking everyone at my table for theirs. My husband was not amused at what I was doing, but I walked out with about 10 of them in my purse. I have had them now for almost 2 years and still have 4 left. So you never know when that next great craft item will land in front of you!

Here are some other fantastic challenges that fit my card

Crafts and Me Challenge #75-Light Airy Spring Colours
Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #152-lots of beautiful flower cupcakes
CMC Copic Challenge #39-Anything Goes
Crafty Ann's Challenge #61-Spring into Spring!
Digi Design Challenge-Pastels
Love To Create Challenge #7-Anything goes
Hotshot Challenge #5-Ribbons
Everybody Art Challenge #185-Friendship
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #111-How cute is that?
Just some Lines Challenge-Spring Cleaning, mine is this pretty ribbon and the white doily
Little Darlings Challenge #19-Colors of Spring
My Craft Spot Challenge #49-Spring Scallops
My time to Craft Challenge #175-Doilies and Flowers
Paper Crafting Journey Challenge #5-Pretty Pastels
Papertake Weekly Challenge-Eyes Down, Look In. diecuts, free (heart pins), glitter
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #44-Spring with Ribbon
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #177-Doilies Aren't Just For Cakes!
Simon Says Stamp Challenge-Simon says... Let's Play Bingo, Flowers, Lace(doily), Ribbon
Simply Create Too Challenge #9-It's Spring????
Sparkles Forum Monthly Challenge #30-Mother's Day or Spring
Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #131-Something related to a new season, Spring Flowers
Stamp & Fun= Creativity Challenge #91-Spring
The Crafty Pad challenge #162-The perfect pair, 2 heart pins and 2 lace flowers
The Pixie Cottage Challenge #113-Easter or Spring
The Poodles Parlour Challenge-Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss Challenge #123-Spring
Whimsy Stamps Challenge #31-Anything goes
Truly Madly Crafty March Challenge-Colour challenge(I love using these colors)
Whimsical Wednesday Challenge-Celebrate Spring

These are all wonderful challenges so be sure to stop by, check out their beautiful creations and play along with them. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today to see what I created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me to read.

Happy Creating,
Mary

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Beary Lucky

Hello and Happy Tuesday! Can you believe that it is already March. We have a covering of snow on the ground from our storm last week but we are also hearing the sound of birds chirping some mornings, a sure sign of warmer Spring days.

Today it is time for another fabulous challenge over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations. The challenge this week is St. Patrick's Day and you don't need to be Irish to play along. We would like to see leprechauns, lucky clovers, pots of gold you get the idea, anything that reminds you of  St. Patrick's Day! I can't wait to see what you all create.

Here are some other fantastic challenges that fit my card

Card Caravan Challenge #14-Lucky Green
CES Challenge #75-Flower Frenzy
The Craft Place Challenge-Anything Goes
Catered Crop Recipe Swap Challenge-Ravenous About  Ribbon
Pile It On Challenge #10-Spots and/or Stripes
CMC Copic Challenge #38-Fuzzy Wuzzy, Furry Animal Antics
Card Makin Mamas Challenge #40-Use green
Clearly I Stamp Challenge #47-Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenge #100-Anything Goes
Crafty Calendar March Challenge-Spring Clean, most of my DP is scraps and the bling is from years ago
Crafty Sentiments Challenge-Bear Time
Creative Mondays Challenge #3-Anything Goes
The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #148-Wonderful sketch I used
Inky Impressions Challenge-Wish Me Luck
Divas by Design Challenge #24-Spots and/or Stripes
Paper Pretties Monday Challenge-Going Green
Ready Teddy Go Challenge #8-It's A Wrap-mine is Bailey's Irish Creme
PanPastel UK Challenge #8-Use a stamped image
PaperTake Weekly Challenge-Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon's Challenge #43-Monochromatic Green
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #175-Green for GO
Simon Says Challenge- Simon say...Anything Goes
Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturday Challenge-Use your stash, my stash is this old DP that I just kept every little piece and these green flowers and gems that haven't seen the light since last March!
Simply Create Too Challenge #8-"I'm SssOoo Lucky"
Crafty Boots Challenge-Glitter
HotShot Craft Challenge #5- Ribbons
Love To Create Challenge #5-Monochromatic
The Pink Elephant Challenge #TPE138-Let's see those layers-At least 3

These are all wonderful challenges so be sure to stop by and play along with them.

Thank you for stopping by today to see what I created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you for me to read.

Happy Creating,
Mary

Friday, March 2, 2012

A Tea Party!


Hello and TGIF!!!! I am posting today after a snowy day at home yesterday. We finally got snow here and a day off from school. It gave me a chance to curl up inside and work on some cards that needed to be tweaked before I called them finished.

I am also posting today because I was chosen as the featured artist over at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge Blog. This is the card I created for their challenge that starts today. Theme for their challenge is a card with a long saying or verse (so Happy Birthday or Love You etc. won't work). At first I thought it was going to made my usual square card and remembered this tea pot template in an old issue of Magnolia Ink. Of course it gave me a perfect excuse to get this adorable Saturated Canary digi. If you notice the invite is on a tag that is attached to the tea pot cover. The card doesn't open you pull it out by pulling up on the cover. It was really fun to make the tea pot!

Fussy and Fancy is a fabulous challenge blog and they are super wonderful so be sure to pop over leave some love and hopefully play along with them.

Here are some other fantastic challenges that fit my creation

2 Sisters Challenge #80-Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge Week 143-Its Your Choice
By The Cute and Girly March Challenge-In the kitchen
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge #7-Drink Up
Cooking It Up With Katie Challenge #90-Your 3 favorite things-flowers, ribbon and pearls
Crafty Catz Challenge #122-Punches and Dies
Crafty Sentiments Challenge-Shaped but not square
Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge #61-Digital Delights
Freshly Brewed Challenge #85-Time after Time
Just Some Lines Challenge-Girly Girl
Little Darlings Challenge #18-Pearls
Lollipop Crafts Challenge #69-Tags, Tags, Tags
Paper Crafting Journey Challenge #4-Anything Goes
Paperplay Challenge Week 9-Something old, Something new-Old is my ribbon(about 3 years), New is
my image.
Simon Says Stamp Challenge-Simon says...Anything Goes
Stampin' For The Weekend Challenge #4-Bingo, Ribbons/Bows, Pearls, Pink
The Corrosive Challenge #143-Another Dimension
The Crazy Challenge #108-Anything Goes
The Ribbon Carousel Challenge #42-Anything Goes
The Stamp Man Challenge-Colours of Spring/Easter
Truly Madly Crafty Monthly Challenge-Ribbon and Bling
Crafting For All Seasons Challenge #21-Shaped Cards
SJ Crafts Feb. Challenge #2-Flowers with red or pink
Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge #73-Spring Flowers

These are all such fabulous challenges so be sure to pop over and play along with them!

Thank you for stopping by today to see what I created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me to read.
Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Creating,
Mary