Welcome to the Weekend!!!

It's the WEEKEND!!!  WOOHOO!!!  It has been a VERY busy week around here and I am thoroughly enjoying some much-needed quiet *me* time.  DH and the youngest boy are at 4-H Achievement Day and the other two boys and I stayed home.  I spent some time out in the yard this morning before coming inside to do what I love most...

Before I get to my card, I just wanted to tell y'all how much I enjoyed the Daughtry concert on Thursday night!  OH-MY-GOODNESS ~~~ Could he get any cutie-patootier??  (I know that's not a word...)  And what a voice - he did almost 2 hours and did an acoustic version of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" that gave me goose-bumplies.  We were actually VERY lucky to have even MADE it to the concert because as we were on our way to pick Lori's sister up, Lori's van decided to "take a break."  Yep, in the middle of a busy road, Lori's transmission went...no warning, nothing!  A tow truck and a few frantic phone calls later and we were able to make our way to the concert. She's got the story on her blog if you want to read her version.  We missed the first band, Cavo, but made it just in time for Lifehouse and, of course, Daughtry!  I'd go see him again and again, and again, and again... :)

But you didn't come to hear me gush about Mr. Daughtry, did you?  For this card, I played around with the Just Us Girls color challenge, Jen's Sketch For You to Try and KL Stampin N Scrappin's challenge to "Show Our Animal Friends Some Love!"

I used one of the freebie digis I get from Bugaboo Stamps every Friday - Jodi has got some CUTE ones this week so be sure to stop over and check them out. 

Recipe - Stamps: Bee Bear Flowers (Bugaboo Digi Stamps), Small Sayings (SU!)  Paper: Whisper White, Kraft, Night of Navy, Real Red, SU! DP  Ink: Night of Navy, Sahara Sand, Bashful Blue (sponging)  Accessories: Nestabilities, paper piercer, Swiss Dots embossing folder, Copics, grosgrain ribbon, button, hemp twine, sponge dauber, Tiger Print embossing folder (Sizzix)

I'm hoping to get another one or maybe two done tonight but right now I have to get some supper going so I'll see you later!

Wednesday... WHEE!!!

Happy Hump Day!

I'm going to make this short and sweet - the craftin' mojo is flowing and I don't want it to to go anywhere!

I made my first card of the day for six different challenges:

• Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Combo Challenge:

• KL Stampin n Scrappin's Challenge:  A sketch this week...

• The Pink Elephant: A spring card - what is more spring-y than swinging from a tree and feeling the wind blow through your hair?
• Crafty Creations Challenge: "Spots and Dots" ... I've got LOTS of those!  
• Creative Card Crew: "Going Dotty"... :)
• The Little Paper Shop: "Make Something Old, New Again. Take something you've had for a while and use it again like it's something you just got."  So I found some O-L-D Stampin' Up vellum that worked perfectly on my Cameo Coral layer - it had spots and everything!  It's my lucky day, I tell ya!

 And here you go:

Isn't she cute?  I totally love these little girls and can't wait to get some new ones.  :)  OK - I'm off to do the next one...I'm thinking it's going to be Arielle's Colour Q:

And I have Cameo Coral & Rich Razzleberry out already!  :)  See you soon!

Thursday Morning Fun

Morning all you crafty people out there in blogland!  I was going to say crafty 'ladies' but I've been seeing more and more GUYS crafting their hearts out and I strive to be an "equal opportunity" blogger.  *smirk*

I've been feeling a bit under the weather the last couple of days so when I got up this morning, I just wanted to veg on the couch with a book curled up under a blanket... Of course, did that happen???  UH - NOT!  I sat down at my computer and surfed blogland.  I saw that my friends Tamie and Lori had both already done Riley's Color Dare and I *couldn't* be left out, no siree!  The colors are super-cute this week:

I still don't have any Tempting Turquoise so I substituted some of the old Cool Caribbean.  It doesn't have quite the *pop* turquoise does but still looks nice.  I have had the KL Stampin' and Scrappin' sketch photo sitting on my desktop since Saturday but haven't used it for anything so I figured why not now?

 

I inked up another one of my Pure Innocence stamps (I think I've developed a new addiction - I MUST have all of these stamps...) and here ya go:

Recipe - Stamps: Fairy Girl (MFT), Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)  Paper: Regal Rose, Whisper White, Cool Caribbean, Certainly Celery  Ink: Regal Rose, Copics, Versafine Onyx Black  Accessories: Nestabilities (Labels Five, Oval), paper piercer, adhesive rhinestones, hodgepodge hardware, Certainly Celery twill ribbon, clear embossing powder, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, CB Embossing folders (Swiss Dots, Victoria, Floral Fantasy)

You can't really see it in the picture but her wings are glittery - so cute in real life!  I just realized that the ribbon is freakin' crooked - ACK!  Oh well, nothing I can do about it now!  LOL   I am going to have some breakfast and then try the Play Date Cafe's new colors:

Wow... what am I going to do with *that*???  LOL   I'd love to see what you all do with these colors so I'm going to challenge my readers to do this challenge with me and then come back here and link me to your project.  I can't wait to see what you do!

'Til later - enjoy your Thursday!

Saturday Chillin'

I just LOVE Saturdays.  I got to sleep in a bit, watched some morning Olympics, sent my DH off with the youngest DS to 4-H this afternoon and I sat down to craft.  :)

My friend, Tamie, discovered the KL Stampin N Scrappin Challenge Blog so I thought I'd check it out.  This week's challenge is a color challenge - red, black and white.  YES!  I LOVE those colors together.  Then I popped over to see Jen's Sketch for You to Try:

I looked through my DP to see what would inspire me and found that flocked/velvety paper SU! had in their Holiday Mini - I hadn't used ANY of it yet!  It's BEYOOTIFUL!  The rest of the card came together pretty quickly.  I used another one of the sentiments from Verve's Love's Flower set - who doesn't love a bit of chocolate?

 

Recipe - Stamp: Love's Flower (Verve)  Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Real Red  Paper: Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White, SU! DP  Accessories: Satin ribbon, grosgrain ribbon, adhesive pearls, Swiss Dots EF, paper piercer, clear embossing powder, paper flowers, epoxy brad, sponge dauber, ticket corner punch, Martha Stewart border punch

DH and DS will be home in a bit so I'd better get supper started and things tidied up.  Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.