Happy Spring

Earlier this morning I was outside to get the morning paper and imagine this: 6 am, the sun is UP, I didn’t freeze to death, I heard birds sing and the beautiful sound of pouring WATER. Do you know what this mean, folks??? It’s SPRING! Wohooo! I’ve had this silly smile on my face ever since!

And that did, of course, call for the making of a spring card. This is what I did this morning.

Papers: Bazzill, Webster’s pages.

Stamps: Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

Ink: Memento

Decos: Ribbon, Spellbinders nestabilities, QK circle cookie cutters.

I used the oh so fab sketch of the week over at OCC. Check it out! Today’s challenge over at 365 cards is making noise (!). And the gorgeous inspiration card by Heidi made me want to make a shaker card. It was quite some time since I last did one. Don’t know why, they are really cool! Making noise and having secrets to be revealed!

I hope you all will have a lovely Saturday, and I hope you come back tomorrow, when it’s time for a new Super Sketchy Sunday with 365 cards. 

Tesa

Digital D’llusions – it’s a FCD blog hop

Hi and welcome to Firecracker Designs March Blog Hop, themed Digital D’llusions. We are celebrating that the Firecracker Designs by Pamela shop has been updated with a digital sections and we have some awesome digital stamp designers in the crew. All the DT will use digis today, aaaand there will be digis as blog hop prize as well!

Then there was this D’llusions part… We’re supposed to (and I quote!) “create an opitcal illusion! (think shadow images, mirror images, etc, etc).” THAT was a though one! I draw a total blank for a week. Then I simply started to play with this most adorable Manatee and everything fell into place. Every girl needs a mirror to check out her tail! She is called Manathree and comes with a set of hilarious and VERY useful sentiments. She is colored up with my Copcis and I added some stickles on the bikini dots to give her some flair. Hope you like it!

Now over to the Blog Hop info:

The official start time of this Hop is Friday, at 8:00 AM (EST). If you arrived early, please be patient as all the links may not be live yet.

This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!! You will know you are at the end of your blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from! (It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started.)

The winner of a prize – DIGIS - will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess that we don’t even know who it will be until the hop is over…so that’s why you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog, so you don’t miss out!

**To find out if you’ve won… you will be contacted by Pamela via e-mail (so be sure to leave it with your comment.) and you can also find out on Pamela’s blog after the blog hop ends on Mon, at 8:00 PM (EST).**

Now, to continue the circle, you will need to hop on over to

~~* KARYN *~~

and keep going until you’ve come back to where you’ve started! Thanks so much for playing along with us and we hope you have a great time!

Thanks for joining us!!!

Tesa

I’m not dead…

…only having a BAD cold. Yikes! I haven’t been scrapbooking or card making for days and it feels really strange. And it also means I have absolutely nothing new to share today. Nada. Zip. Zero. Except for a woot! Check THIS out!! I won a scraplift challenge over at one of my favorite inspiration blogs Ideas for Scrapbooker. And there is this magnificent prize sponsored by GCD Studios.  I can hardly wait to lay my hands on the yummyness of the Homespun Chic collection. Woot!!! Here is the page with my sweet son and his new cousin.

I’ll be back tomorrow with the monthly Firecracker Designs Blog Hop – and that means a new card! And it was a tough card to make – the theme is, well, NOT EASY. (Do you hear this, Pam or whoever is responsible??? NOT EASY!!!) But it turned out pretty ok! Finally. Well I’m off for bed again. Take care! And I hope you pop in tomorrow!

Tesa

Spring Card

The ad over at 365 cards challenge today is baskets with beautiful Easter eggs painted with blue flowers. An inspiration for sure. I’m not much of an Easter card kind of gal, but it inspired me to do a blue spring card with ribbon. I kept it very simple, and tried to make a card in less than 20 minutes. I managed to do it in 15, but I did have this fab Iris from The Rubber Café already colored up.

Papers: Bazzill, Dream Street Papers, October Afternoon.

Stamp: The Rubber Café - Iris

Ink: Versa Fine, Distress ink

Decos: Spellbinders nestabilities, fancy tags, ribbon from stash.

It’s simple, and done in no time, but I kind of like it. Now I’ll go back to my layout projects. See ya!

Tesa

Super Sketchy Sunday

It’s finally time for the best moment of the week – the launch of a new Super Sketchy Sunday Challenge.

 

As always, Pam has made a fab sketch, and this one is very special for me since it was also part of the DT call. Here it is:

And I really like my take. The colors turned out really nice and that butterfly from The Rubber Café is a beauty.

Papers: Bazzill, Dream Street Papers.

Stamps: The butterfly is from The Rubber Café – Large Highwing Butterfly, Sentiment is from Fire Cracker Designs by Pamela – A little bird told me.

Ink: Memento - Cocoa

Decos: Prima pearls, MME button, floss from Karen Foster, ribbon from stash, flower punch, butterfly colored with copics.

The second card that was  included in the call was supposed to be made from a past 365 cards challenge. I choose one of my favorites from day 334: The 3 B’s – Blue Blossom and emBoss

Papers: Bazzill, Melissa Frances

Stamps: Firecracker Designs by Pamela – Yoo HOOO! set.

Ink: Versa Fine, Distress Ink

Decos: Embossing folder from Provo Craft, Flowers from Prima, Brad – Basic Grey.

And the fun thing is, with some interpretation, this card is very similar in design to the sketch… And I think Pam likes this one better, cause she choose to showcase this one on today’s 365 cards post. LOL!

Wish you all a fabbie Sunday! And be sure to play with the sketch!!! It’s great!

Tesa

Beautiful Saturday

Hi folks! Hope you are enjoying the weekend! We are having a beautiful day around here. Son and hubby are skiing, and I’m at home, alone, and I’m supposed to be cleaning. And I will. In time… I started the day with making a card. Tehee. It’s called prioritizing! Right Rose!?!

Papers: Bazzill, Basic Grey, Pink Paislee

Stamp: Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps – Vintage music collage

Ink: Versa Fine

Decos: Prima pearl swirl, YouDo brads, Nestabilities

Lot’s of layers on this one. And loads of 3D foam. The design is based on Get Sketchy’s sketch #29. And I’ve also made the day 13 challenge over at 365 cards – A whole new dimension. Hence the loads of 3D foam.

I can’t procrastinate the cleaning any more. I’m sorry to say.

See ya!

Tesa

Celebrate!

It’s Friday!

Friday is a good day! I love Fridays! Once I have my kind of important meeting over and done with by 3 pm, I'm good for the weekend. I will cook something really delish tonight, have a glass of wine and totally relax for the first time in like forever. Life is good!

Here is a card I did last night. I saw some of my friends making the most awesome cards out of the sketch from OCC. I had to try that one out! And I combined it with the celebration theme challenge over at Cute Card Thursday. I kind of like it. Love these Prima papers!

Papers: Bazzill, Prima. Stamps: Firecracker Designs by Pamela - Paper Roses, Magnolia. Ink: Versa Fine. Decos: Flowers from Prima, MS Edge Punch, Ribbons, colored with Tombows.

I have to tell you about the nicest surprise I got in my mail yesterday. A white envelope with the most magnificent red Prima flowers in it. No sender, no card, no nothing. All I know is that a very sweet woman with a beautiful handwriting and a great taste of flowers made me happy. THANK YOU!

It doesn't take much to make people happy, and I promised myself - after recieving this RAK and after reading Kim's post earlier this morning, (about taking the time to snail mail more of the cards we're making) - that I will do more of that in the future. Starting today actually.

Wishing you all a lovely Friday!

Tesa