Dies R Us Challenge August 15, 2022!(Summer)

Hi, Friends!

For the second challenge of the month, the theme continues as Summer!  We ask that you use at least one die on your project for the challenge that Dies R Us sells!  Please come and join the fun and have a chance to win a gift certificate at the Dies R Us Challenge!  

I have another summer card for DRU this month, but with a darling flamingo pair from Lawn Fawn.  The frame and trees were die cut using  dies from Lawn Fawn, also.  The tropical leaves are from Cheery Lynn Designs.

For my card, I started with a white card base and added the frame.  The background sky was made using several distress inks of kitsch flamingo, wilted violet, spiced marmalade, mustard, and broken china.  The images were colored with copics.  White gel ink and hand drawn birds for interest.

 

The links for the dies are listed below...

Lawn Fawn-Flamingo Together Stamps

Lawn Fawn-Reverse Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Windows Dies

Lawn Fawn-Palm Tree Dies

Cheery Lynn Designs-Tropical Leaves(OOS)

Dies R Us has a sister store with warehouses in the USA and Canada called Didi Crafts. 

It will ship to both the US and Canada.  Didi Crafts will carry some of the same products as DRU, but most will be different.  Now our Canadian friends don't have to worry about huge taxes or shipping fees. How great is that!?!

My teammates have some fabulous inspiration for you today.  Sit back, relax, and take a look.... (you can click on their name to go to their personal blogs and get more detailed information about each project)

    Design Team

Kathy
Maria—that’s me!
Diane
Laurie

Birgit

Julie Odil

Lena

Lori Kobular

  Thanks so much for taking time to visit here today! Have a great day, hugs!!

Happy Birthday!

Hi, there!

It's been awhile since I posted.  It's been a busy week, but a good one!  And, tomorrow my sisters and I will get together for another birthday party.  My sister, Cecilia, had a birthday on July 1st, but with summer schedules and all we are finally getting together tomorrow.  I wanted to take a photo of the card and post it before I give it to her.  She loves hummingbirds and the stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh was perfect for my sis.  Also, I used my hot foil plate to make the frame and sentiment, which is from Spellbinder's.  I don't remember the company for the flower images.  They could be from PTI.

For my card, I started with a white card base.  The frame and sentiment is hot foiled.  The hummingbird images were colored with copics.  I hope my sis likes the card.  It was a very easy card to make.  

I'm at the beginning stages of cleaning and purging my craft room.  We want to paint and redesign the room.  It may take awhile, since our son is helping with new trim and staining it.  We may lay new carpet, too.  I already moved everything off the desk and took it to the family room.   I'm not sure where I'm going to put everything, ha!  Anyways, it's a process and I'm sure the results will be great once it's all done.  

Thanks so much for dropping by today!  Have a wonderful weekend!  

Take care, hugs!

Dies R Us Challenge August 1, 2022!(Summer)

Hi, Friends!

For the challenge this month the theme is Summer!  We ask that you use at least one die on your project for the challenge that Dies R Us sells!  Please come and join the fun and have a chance to win a gift certificate at the Dies R Us Challenge!  

Today I am sharing a summer card with a beach scene.  I think a lot of people are trying to cool off this summer.  No beach vacation for me this year.  We really enjoyed the crisp cool mornings out west in WY until we got to SD, which was hot!  But, taking a dip in a pool does sound refreshing.  Below you will see a couple pool photos of my sisters when my sis had a pool birthday party at her house in June.

Christina, the bday gal enjoying her birthday!

My sis, Donna, making sure she got on the flamingo raft, ok!

Donna, Cecilia, and Lucretia enjoying summer fun!

Six candles for 60!

I can't believe my little sis turned 60!

We had lots of fun celebrating Christina's birthday!

(I posted her card last month with the parrot card)

My card is self-explanatory with coloring the dies with copics and adding gold glitter gel.  The hello summer die is from Tutti Designs and the shells on the sand are from Lawn Fawn.

The links for the dies are listed below...

Lawn Fawn-On the Beach Stamps

Lawn Fawn-On the Beach Dies

Tutti Designs Dies-Hello Summer
Distress Oxide Ink-Broken China

Dies R Us has a sister store with warehouses in the USA and Canada called Didi Crafts. 

It will ship to both the US and Canada.  Didi Crafts will carry some of the same products as DRU, but most will be different.  Now our Canadian friends don't have to worry about huge taxes or shipping fees. How great is that!?!

My teammates have some fabulous inspiration for you today.  Sit back, relax, and take a look.... (you can click on their name to go to their personal blogs and get more detailed information about each project)

    Design Team

Kathy
Maria—that’s me!
Diane
Laurie

Birgit

Julie Odil

Lena

Lori Kobular

  Thanks so much for taking time to visit here today! Have a great day, hugs!!

Happy Birthday!

Hi, friends!

It's been nearly a couple weeks since we returned from vacation.  I went through all the photos and printed them out.  My husband loves taking photos of anything and everything, but that's ok, because getting that one photo certainly can be worth it!  So, after the card I have to share with you today, I'll include a few more animal photos from our vacation at the end of my post.

For my card, I started with a purple card base and paired it with paper that was die cut using a new torn edge die from PI.  The text background was made using a stencil from PI, also.  The flower image is new and is from Pretty Pink Posh.  I colored the flowers with copics.  The sentiment is an older sentiment from PI.  A bow of pearl cotton tied for interest.  And, gems to finish the birthday card for a friend.  I'm entering this card over at NBUS.

Moose story...

The moose photo that my husband got was done with persistence.  And, we are happy that all turned out well.  The first day when he went to walk back to the moose pond in Grand Tetons at Jenny Lake was unsuccessful and he lost his phone.  I didn't do the walk back with him for my sciatica was acting up and I stayed back in the car.  I took my copics to color images and kept busy.  When my husband came back to the car, he said that he has good news and bad news.  He told me that he lost his phone, but someone turned it into the visitor center.  That was his good and bad news.  I said, ok, but did you get a moose photo?  By this time, we had gotten several large animal photos and wanted to get a moose one. He was upset that I wasn't more happy about him finding his phone.  He said I was more concerned about the moose.  I had to apologize and tell him that we will try again tomorrow.  Anyways, sorry about the long story, but he did get an amazing moose photo the next day!:)

Moose

 

Elk

Marmot

(Large ground squirrel)

I hope you are keeping cool!  It's been very hot all over the world.  Take care and thanks so much for dropping by today!

Hugs,