Good Monday!

Hello All!

It is a BEAUTIFUL day here in Calgary! Supposed to get up to 21 degrees! That's why I'm posting now so I can putter in my garden all day! Uhhh.....love it! The sad news is, we are supposed to get snow on Thursday, Friday and Saturday!!!! They have to be joking right?!?

Today's card I made with another stamp from my sister-in-law's collection. No idea where she got this one, but I love the saying. I started with a scrap from the bin of light cream and burgundy filigree paper and mounted it on card stock from my DCWV Jewel Textured Stack. I then used some paper called "Happy Holidays" by Jackie Eckles that I had left over from a class I took at Scrapbooker's Paradise at Christmas. I believe it was the acrylic album class I took with Dana from Dana's House of Cards! That's when we met! I cut out two pieces from the back of that holiday paper which is the polka dots and mounted them both on the same burgundy card stock as before. The bottom one I made a frilled edge on the right so I could add the jewels. I made a six layer flower (I love to layer as many as I can) and fastened it with a orange jewelled brad. I dusted all the edges of the cardstock with DuDrop's Jumbo Java Ink and added the burgundy with lemons ribbon on the right. I bought that ribbon a long long time ago at Michael's and I still have tonnes of it left! I tied a knot in it at the top and tucked the mounted sentiment "All things grow with love" under it. Ta-da - finished!

I sure hope the weather is as nice for all of you as it is here!

Have a great Monday - OH, I just remembered - it's Mojo Monday - I haven't done a challenge in forever - watch for ti tomorrow! YAY!

Cheers,

S.

OMG...

...what a weekend.

My hubby hurt his back on Saturday morning doing the snow shoveling out front. He came in kinda walking funny and said he pulled something and needed to sit down. I rolled my eyes and thought 'typical guy'! Fast forward to Sunday and the poor guy can't move! He was using one of our kitchen stools to shuffle his way to and from the bathroom and back to the bed. So, I have spent the last couple days, sponge showering (I kinda like that part though heehee) making, feeding and cleaning up food, doing laundry, finding advil, getting this, that and everything and most importantly...changing his socks! LOL I hadn't even had a second to do anything until today. The kid is napping, so I shall play! ha! I really should be doing some job hunting...but whatever.

I decided to do two challenges in one. Everyday I check out my friend Dana's blog and today her post had a NEW challenge. It is from Chicks With Inkpads and I loved the color combo. I am a huge burnt orange, butter yellow fan and this was right up my alley! Plus, since it is their first ever challenge - I just had to do it! Then of course I love my Mojo Monday's so I used Sketch #79 for this card!

I started with primary yellow cardstock and mounted a patterned paper from a Costco pack that had orange, white and deep red-orange swirls, flowers and lines in it. I have used every inch of this patterned paper because I loved the colors and print so much. I wish I had more! For the deep orange color in the Chicks challenge I used another Costco paper that had small, faint sunshines on it! How perfect for my MFT stamp from the Hit The Beach Mini Set. After stamping her in Jet Black Ink and embossing her with Stamp-It's Holgram Powder, I colored her in with my Crayola's and then felt so bad because she is so pale! So, when I saw the sentiment that said 'tourist', I thought it made this card so funny! hahahaha For my embellishments I used orange polka dot ribbon from Michael's and three flowers layered from my assortment with a yellowey-orange jewelled brad to anchor it! On the inside I used the tropical drink stamp and made it a sticker with my Xyron. I love how this card turned out! I can't wait for someone to be heading on a hot holiday so I cna send it to them as their Bon Voyage!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers,

S.