It's BBQ Time!

It sure is. I can't wait to cook on the grill. We pretty much use our grill a few times a week all year round. Not just picnic foods either. Nothing like a Fillet on the grill! It is so awesome. I thought this little guy was appropriate for the day.

Recipe:

Stamps: Backyard Barbecue, Stampendous

Accessories: Ticket corner punch, popdots, Copic mkrs, red ribbon

Inks: Brilliance black, real red

Paper: DCWV, real red, white

Pretty as a Picture

I made this card especially for the weekend challenge but when I put it on SCS I totally forgot to put in the code WSC51. I am so distracted because of those birds. I can't believe it. Probally because I am a Mom and it's like a home invasion and Poof! your whole family is gone. Its so sad. SO,Not thinking this morning just getting therapy through stamping.
Recipe
Stamp Set: Close as a Memory, Small Script

Accessories: Hole punch, brown brads, pop dots, nesties, red ribbon, glitter system copper glitter, Su! mkrs- barouque burg., more mustard, old olive, mellow moss, sponge

Inks: TH vintage photo, choc. chip
Paper: DP- Wild Asparagus, Karen Foster, Real Red, Vanilla

Oh So Sad!

Awwww! I am so sad today. We have a birdhouse at the end of our stairs in a garden with chickadee's and something got in there and killed the parents and 7 babies. I am so upset. They were so innocent and we were so excited that they were so close to our house and not afraid of us right in the walking path to be hatching babies. We would watch the progress daily. I decided to make this sympathy card. So true, Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Recipe:

Stamps: Clear stamp of an unknown bird, and the saying is from Close as a Memory.

Accessories. Corner punches and ticket punch, blue ribbon, Prism glitter, glue pen, chatterbox snap on paper-crafting fasteners. pop dots, copic mkrs

Inks: Terra Cotta, Choc. Chip

Paper: Designer paper scraps and bashful blue

Grateful!

I made this card because I am grateful for being so lucky to create giggle paint (Bonster). SNORT! No, really I am thankful that I can create some really cool cards and be able to share them with you all. I love the challenges that are offered and I love that I can come into my stamp cave and just go. Thanks all! I am grateful. I also put this into a few challenges (sc179,cc169, and gsgc07)

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Friendship's Journey, small script, Love you to bits texture bkrd.

Accessories: nesties, lg oval punch, lg/sm hole punches, red brads, sponges, brown ribbon and copic mkrs.

Inks: Espresso

Paper: Blue bayou, Sky blue, Real red

Don's Iris

My DH husband's brother gave this iris to us a few years ago. He is a real Iris person. I have to say that his gardens are amazing. The next time I am at his house I will take some pcx and show you all. Don has love iris for many years. He has so many pictures of iris, magnets, statues. Get the drift that he likes them a little. It looks so cool in the yard with all of them out.

Light bluish, lavender iris

wow how beautiful! Amazing nature

The Iris in Bloom

I recently went to Vermont with one of my great friends... She had never been on a scrapbook retreat. Well this was the perfect opportunity for her to get her feet wet with going on the road. We had an awesome time. We will be going again in October... Prime peeping and picture time. Anyways, While I was gone. My iris's in my yard are opening like popcorn.. Oh my Gosh! are they beautiful. So intricate, beautiful, strong, just amazing plant. I did take a few pcx of them for you all to see. they are also the very big one. (huge in my book) do you like?

Pretty in Hot! Pink

What a pretty card for summer. This was a weekend challenge. I think it came out very cool. What do you think?

Recipe:

Stamp sets: Stipple Butterfly, Short & Sassy

Accessories: Chipboard flowers, Copic mkrs, Oval punch, Bling and stickles, Popdots

Paper: Marvelous magenta, lovely lilac, white and DP scraps.

Inks: Black, lovely lilac, and Pink passion.

Sweet for my Sweet!

I made this for my DH for his birthday. I hope he will love it like I love him (so sappy!) I thought it would be great for him. He loves the color pink for flowers and we are waiting for some to blume in our yard too. This will be kind of a sneak preview.

Recipe:
Stamp set: Delight in life, so Very Accessories: Xacto knife, ticket punch, 1/2 circle punch, lg oval punch, Copic mkrs, gold gel pen, pop dots, cuttlebug- stylized flowers, buttons, thread, Inks: Black Paper: Basic Black Pretty in pink, DP

Perfectly Perfect

This was a very cool card. Emily was very bored today and decided to break out the acrylic paints and paint everything. We did tatoo's, landscapes, houses, and at the end she did the half card smooshes. I have them all over the house. (after telling her to calm down with the paints) almost like she is posessed. Anyways. She made me a swatch of the bold brights and I was working on a card for my neighbor. They are having a 60th bday party for him today. Suprise!! this should be fun. He has no clue either. We have the hole party here at our house and then he has to go pick his son up an our before the party. Just enough time to set up and wait for the big moment. Oh that reminds me have to charge the camera batteries.... anyways. what a beauty.

Recipe:

Stamp set: Hanna- Perfect package, Birthday whimsy,

Accessories: Popdots, Copic mkrs, Nestabilities, Paper piercing mat pack, For the pocket inside: I used the nestabilities, oval punch, window punch, PP mat pack, and yellow ribbon

Inks: Black

Paper: all from Bold brights. Glorious Green, YoYo yellow, real red and the only other addition was a scrap from a winter pack DCWV on the inside.