Watercolor Trio Birthday

All the veggies have been processed (the next batch won't have to be done until Wednesday) and the company is gone (until tomorrow) so I've been trying to leave some comments on different blogs and just generally relaxing.

This is a card that I completed last week I think for SCS Card Sketches. I used the Watercolor Trio set from SU. I can tell you this - it sure looks a lot better than if I had tried to actually water color it!!! My water coloring leaves a lot to be desired. I used Not Quite Navy, Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip, White and SU patterned paper. The piece of Not Quite Navy was embossed with the Perfect Petals folder but you really can't see it in the photo that good. It made a very light impression. The butterfly is from the Beautiful Wings die. After taking the photo I added a bit of sheer ribbon around bottom of the image and it gave it a nice "touch".

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.............

Lynn

Tracy's Clean and Simple Challenge

Tracy, over at Ink Spots and Gum Drops blog (isn't that just about the cutest name!!) is having her very first Clean and Simple Challenge! I'm SO glad I discovered her blog as I love making CAS cards and projects. The challenge for this week was to use paper tearing on a project. I like using this technique but had never tried it with a CAS card. So this was really a challenge for me. Go check out her challenge HERE........you have until almost midnight tonight I believe to enter.

On this card, I used Cameo Coral, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, and Walk in the Park designer paper. The butterflies were made using the Beautiful Wings die. I added some rhinestones to their bodies and then kind of "fluffed" out the wings. I cut the three squares and adhered them using dimensionals on the middle one to give it, well, dimension! The sentiment is stamped in Brocade Blue using the Friendship image from the Wonderful Words set. All supplies are SU with the exception of the rhinestones.

This will be the last post for a few days as we just got over 100 ears of corn this morning!!! I'll be busy processing that - and then will have company coming for the weekend.

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Lynn

Flower Power

Just a very simple card for two challenges: Clean and Simple Stamping FTL91 for the layout and CAS-tastic Wednesday Challenge for the theme - A Touch of Green. Some of the supplies I used were the Swiss Dots Embossing folder, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Little Leaves die, Oval Punches, Scallop Circle Punch, and the Rhinestone brad. The paper I used was Night of Navy,White, and an unknown navy polka dot. The leaves were in Certainly Celery.


I made a card very similar to this not long ago - at least as far as the flower went. I used black and white and polka dots on that one.

The trick on this one was getting the picture taken! I attempted to take a picture in the house but it just was not working right - even with my homemade light box and I couldn't take it outside due to rainy weather. There was finally a break in the weather early this morning, so I hurried out there to snap a photo. Just when I did, about a 30 mile an hour wind came up!!!! Really.......so then it was a matter of trying to snap the picture before it would blow over. Whew! I think it took longer to take a picture of this than it did to make it!

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Lynn

Howdy Partner

For the Bugaboo Challenge I have made a card with this little cow poke which was one of their free images. I finished this card and thought he looked pretty cute - showed it to my husband (which, I know, was a mistake - I'll just never learn!!!) - and the only thing he said was "where's his mouth and nose!" Then he wanted me to give him the card so he could draw in the mouth and nose! ARG>>>>>> Anyway, I thought the card came out pretty cute.

The paper I used was Chocolate Chip, White, and some patterned paper from CTMH. The sentiment is computer generated. I used my SU punches and then attempted to wrap the twine around the outer circle. It really didn't come out like I wanted it to though. I colored the little guy with Copics (still trying to practice with them every chance I get).

We're getting more rain today so the garden will be ready to be picked again tomorrow or Thursday! Whew! Alot of work. Plus the sweet corn is almost ready around here. We don't grow that but end up buying a 100 or so ears to freeze. At least I don't have to can that and will just process it and freeze it. So yummy to eat all year long!

Thanks for stopping by..............

Lynn

Blog Award

This very sweet blog award came from a very nice blogging buddy. Monica, over at Gardners Basket sent it my way - which was such a special surprise. Thanks Monica. I am suppose to pick 5 fellow bloggers to receive this. I've thought, and thought, and thought, and can't come up with 5!!!! I can come up with 155 but not 5!!! SO, I'm giving it to all 155 (or how many ever there are)of you......this is for all the lovely ladies that have been following my blog, commenting, and just generally being wonderful to me. All your comments mean so much to me - each and every one of them. Thanks so much.

Lynn

Season's Greetings

I know that all the snowmen have melted and Christmas is over with..but I'm working on my Christmas cards for this year and when I saw this challenge for a one layer card, I knew what I wanted to do. So, Season's Greetings - only a little early!

This is for the CAS-tastic Wednesday Challenge. The object this week is to make a one layer card that's CAS. I used a wheel from SU but cannot remember the name of it! I colored the little snowmen with my Prismacolor Pencils. The sentiment is from Snow Swirled (also SU).

What a busy weekend this has been! We have a big garden and it has now started to produce. I spent all afternoon canning green beans. It's alot of work but sure tastes nice! I may be kinda hit and miss around here for awhile because I stay very busy this time of year. We'll see. I do have a card scheduled for every day of this week though! So stay tuned........

Thanks for stopping by................

Lynn

VAROOM......

My husbands young nephew has a birthday coming up soon and this card is for him. He's at that age where he thinks he's too big for a bicycle and of course, he's too young to drive a car! I thought this would be a cute birthday card for him. On the inside it will say : "You have to go to the three-wheeler before you can get the four-wheeler!"

This was a free digi from Wards. The streamers on the handlebars and the banner sentiment is from Our Craft Lounge (Out for a Spin). I don't know who made the patterned paper but for some reason it reminded me of car racing (keep in mind I know NOTHING about car racing though). I also used Real Red, Black, and White. I colored the image with Prismapencils and Bic Markers. The layout is one that was on SCS Card Sketches several weeks ago.

This is for the weekly challenge at Cowgirls Sunday Stampen Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by..............

Lynn