Hello Spring

Hi everyone!  Hope your Monday was awesome.  We may be starting to get better here....cross your fingers for us.  I can't wait for us all to be feeling back to normal.  While I am dreaming of summer and all the fun things we can do, I hope to start enjoying Spring more.  The kids have played outside, but for the most part we are cooped up inside and I am just ready to be outside planting things and playing with the kids.  Mother's Day can't come fast enough...that's when most of the planting can start around here...however, I must admit, we always jump the gun and do ok.  :)  Mother's Day is just too far away.    Unfortunately, we'll probably still get snow here in Colorado.  :(

So I am sharing a Spring card today done for sketch 124 over at Skipping Stones Design.  It uses their Heartsong stamp set (the "Hello" is actually from Heartsong 2 though). 

Here's the card:

This card also uses papers and die cuts from The ScrapCake, from their My Private Happiness collection.  The chipboard butterflies come from Imaginarium Designs and the gems are from Prima.  

And here's the sketch:

The sketch was created by the fabulous Dina Kowal.  I hope you take the challenge and play along with us!  *You do NOT have to have Skipping Stones Design stamps to play along!*  Play along here. 

And you don't want to miss out on what the rest of the team did with this sketch, check those out here:

* Jennifer Ingle

* JoAnn Valderama

* Karen Baker

* Katie Gehring

* Lindsay Amrhein

* Stephanie Mino

* Wendy Jordan

* Wendy Price

And our guests for the month, along with Dina:

* Annette Allen

* Veronica Zallis

So, like I said, I hope you play along with us!  :)

And on a side note....anybody out there watch Eureka?  I just love this show.  The series premiere was on last night, and I was just left going "what!?!"  They've always got to ruin everything, huh?  

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY EVERYONE!!!! 

Have a fantastic day!!!

Life

Oh man...the whole family has been sick, myself included, and it's been exhausting.  So I haven't had time to do much.  But I didn't want you to think I had gone away, so I wanted to make sure and pop in and post something.

I created this layout for a lantern/banner challenge over on the BasicGrey blog.

I used the fabulous new Konnichiwa collection from BasicGrey, and just had a bit of fun.  This was actually a super easy and quick layout, even with the stitching.  And isn't that girl on the bridge fabulous? I just love that piece!  :)

Here are some close up's:

There's still time to play along with the lantern/banner challenge!  You have until April 26th.  Find all the details here.  

Thanks for popping in today!  

Have a marvelous day!

Skipping Stones Hop! :)

Hello everyone!  Welcome to Skipping Stones Design's Sketch Challenge #123 and the release of Heartsong 2:

If you just came from Karen's blog, you are in the right place.  If you are just stoppin' in today, you can start the hop at Skipping Stones Design.

Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers’ blogs.  This month they are welcoming, Dina Kowal (our sketch artist), Annette Allen and Veronica Zallis to the team as Guest Designers!  

So here is the sketch that Dina designed for us this week:

And here is the card I created for it:

I used some of the beautiful My Private Happiness papers from The ScrapCake, and of course, the Heartsong 2 stamp set from Skipping Stones.

Now it's YOUR turn! Join in the sketch challenge this week by creating a card using the featured sketch and link up to the Skipping Stones site for your chance to win FREE stamps! You don't have to use Skipping Stones Stamps, but we love when you do!  I really hope you play along with us!  

Well thanks for stopping by today!!!  I hope you have a fantastic day!  

Now head on over to Annette's blog for some more Skipping Stones Design inspiration!

Happy Easter!!!!

Hi everyone!  Just wanted to pop in real quickly and share a fun card with you that I made for Easter.  It uses the awesome My Private Happiness collection from The ScrapCake, chipboard frames from Imaginarium Designs and stamps from Skipping Stone Design (the Gray Hares set).  

Thanks for stopping in!

And I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend!!!!!

More Winners! :)

I have some more winners to announce...

From the OUAS blog hop, the winner of the BasicGrey goodies is....

And then the winner of the We R Memory Keepers Cotton Tail collection is....

Congrats ladies!   If you can email me your address to pamelacy@msn.com then I will get these mailed out to you.  :)

And thank you to every one of you for the comments!  And welcome to all the new followers too!  I hope you stick around!

Have a wonderful day!!!!

Easter Fun

Well it's almost Easter and I have some fun Easter stuff to share as well as another GIVEAWAY!  Yep...another one...isn't that fantastic?

First though, I want to announce the winner for the Book Cover Inspiration challenge....

Svetlana V!!!  

Thank you so much to those that played along!  I want to do another one soon too...but I am hoping for more participants...so I'll have to figure that out.  Svetlana, send me your address to pamelacy@msn.com and I will get this mailed out to you.  :)

AND don't forget about this giveaway, it is still open and you don't want to miss it!  

Now on to my new projects.  They all use the fabulous Cotton Tail collection from We R Memory Keepers.  

First up, a layout...

I am really happy with the way this one turned out!  :)  The pictures are from last year.  Last year at this time, it was a bit rough...we had a whole lot of personal stuff going on with our family, and frankly my head wasn't in the right place.  Proof: I didn't take any pics of the kids. Anyways, so Kelby did manage to take a few pics while he was with them in the morning and I used them.  They turned out lower quality but I knew I wanted to still scrap this, so I just made them all pretty small.  

Here are some close up's of my layout:

And then I actually made this one a little bit back for an assignment and CHA, but I hadn't posted it yet:

 That picture is pretty old...that is Eryn and her first Easter.  Here are some close up's of this layout:

And then I also have a card to share...

Isn't it a fun collection?

You wanna win it???

:)

UP FOR GRABS:

And here's how you can win: Leave me a comment on this blog post. :) It's as simple as that.

I will also offer extra chances to win by doing the following:

• If you are already a follower of my blog or have just become one, let me know. Just leave another comment on this blog post letting me know that you are a follower (old or new) and you will automatically be entered in for another chance at the giveaway.
• Share this giveaway on a blog, facebook, or another website. Leave me another comment on this blog post with a link to where you shared it and you will automatically be entered in for another chance at the giveaway.

Hope you are having a fantastic day!  :)  I will draw the winner and announce on Friday...just in time for Easter.  

Again, thanks for stopping in!

Still not feeling it...

but I made a card.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure how much I like it (love the product, just don't like how my card turned out).  I know that happens to other people, which is why I want to be honest about it.  We all create stuff that doesn't live up to the idea we had in our head.  And that's ok.  We move on.  :)

So the card was done for sketch 122 over at Skipping Stones Design.  It uses their Grey Hares stamp set (I am hoping to use it again soon because the stamp set is really cute and I want to make something I really like with it!) and it uses papers and die cuts from My Little Shoebox.  They come from their Lovely Day collection.

Here's the card:

And here's the sketch:

The sketch was created by the fabulous Dina Kowal.  I hope you take the challenge and play along with us!  *You do NOT have to have Skipping Stones Design stamps to play along!*  Play along here. 

And you don't want to miss out on what the rest of the team did with this sketch, check those out here:

* Jennifer Ingle

* JoAnn Valderama

* Karen Baker

* Katie Gehring

* Lindsay Amrhein

* Stephanie Mino

* Wendy Jordan

* Wendy Price

And our guests for the month, along with Dina:

* Annette Allen

* Veronica Zallis

So, like I said, I hope you play along with us!  :)

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY EVERYONE!!!! 

Have a fantastic day!!!