Tamara sketch #97

Good Saturday morning from mostly sunny Arizona! :) Hope you are all enjoying a beautiful weekend! Today's card is inspired by the sketch #91 over at Tamara sketches I tipped mine over on it's side & this is what I came up with:

This is the sketch:

And this is my card:

I LOVE bird houses!!! So I just could not resist this new little set from PTI! IT"S DARLING!!!! I have a little bird house collection...so just had to use one of them in my photo. The papers are all from PTI....The stamp set is new from PTI "Bird Watching" ....The little daisy trim is from the fabric section at Wall mart. And that's it for this one! Now I actually have a couple of other sketches to get to...so make it a good one!!! Thanks for the visit & all the wonderful comments!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~GWEN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cupcake Friday CUPCAKE SAMPLER OF THE WEEK

Happy Friday! Don't you just love a short work week!!! It is also Cupcake Friday again with another fantastic sketch from Taylor at Taylored Expressions. This one is going down as one of my very favorites as she has chosen me to be the Cupcake Stamper of the week!!! Woot!! Woot!!! I am just so excited!! :) THANKS TAYLOR!!!

Below is this weeks fun & fabulous sketch.....
This is my take on the sketch & my card.......

I did flip the sketch around a bit....which I love doing by the way ;) I can not believe I did not do any stamping on this card! It is all done with just paper & a rub on....all supplies are from a Piggie Tales paper Kit, Except for the ribbon & the bling are from Michaels. Taylor has some fabulous paper "Kits" on special now & hers come with Matching Ribbon & chipboard pieces...Kits are so fun & easy as all the hard work of matching everything up is already done!!! just add a great sketch....cut...and paste & waaaalaaa...instant card!!! You seriously need to go check out her Design Team samples of using the kits.....AMAZING!!

Well that's it for now...go on over & play along with the sketch if you have time! Thanks for stopping by today!!

~~~~~~~~Gwen~~~~~~~~

May Blog Hop!

Yep! that's right!! it's PTI blog hop time again! For this month's challenge....we were simply to make a card or project using the color yellow. This is my card! Kind of different from the colors I would normally use.... but It has been so stinkin' hot here latley (in the 100's)These colors seem to scream IT'S HOT!!! LOL!!! Plus I have been planting lots of flowers yellow & orange ones & yes some of them can survive the heat!

As you can see I chose the ever so cute Tea for two & Everyday classics. All of the yellow paper is from PTI but the orange is from SU.The Little pearls as well as the ribbon are from my favorite Craft store, Michael's. The darling little roses I found a long time ago at one of our local scrapbook stores. When I saw Melissa (you can see her darling card here) use them like this on her tea pot I just had to case that Idea! The white dots I made with Martha Stewart's Opaque markers...LOVE them!! comes in a set of 5...love the size of the tips! And that about does it!!! thanks for visiting!!! Hope you all had a safe & happy Memorial weekend! Can not believe tomorrow is back to work already! Wasn't it just Friday a couple of hours ago???

~~~~~~~~GWEN~~~~~~~~~~

Clear Artistic Stamps cottage rummble # 7

So here is my third post for today! Clear Artistic Stamps is hosting a challenge! Such a fun one too!!! I am loving using glittered Chipboard & this challenge is to just use some kind of chipboard on a card or project! So I glittered up some chipboard flowers & put them on this card...I am loven' it...kind of has a 70's feel to it :)This is my entry for the challenge:

The paper is from Memory Keepers...I got it at the CKC scrapbook convention. I also got the chipboard flowers there too...a REALLY great deal!! a whole pack of chipboard for a couple of bucks! doesn't plain old cardboard look so awesome with a little glitter on it! I spray mine with spray adhesive & use Martha Stewart glitter. This is a close up of the flowers:
The celebrate stamp is from Clear Artistic Stamps.
Well that is truly it for this weekend...I can't believe Tomorrow is Monday already!
Thanks for today's visit!
Gwen

Dawns color challenge #6

Wow 2 posts in one weekend! lucky me...that means I have (or took) a little time to be crafty :)
This post was inspired by Dawn Mcveys color challenge #6 The challenge is to make a card or project using these colors: I just love these colors! aren't they beautiful!! This is my card:

The colors are all from PTI, Brown, White, Aqua Mist & Berry Sorbet. The Stamp sets are also PTI. Wishing you & Polka Dots Basics. The Ribbon is from Michael's & the buttons are from Stmpin up.

Now I have a few other projects that need to get done! so I better get to it!!! I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Gwen

Happy Birthday Marge!

Happy Saturday! & a great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my BBGF Marge!!! Well her Birthday isn't until Monday But I saw her today & gave her her birthday card. If you get a chance hop on over to her blog & wish her her a happy one!!! I used the sketch from Taylored Expressions Friday cupcake challenge as the inspiration for my chard. I just flipped the sketch to give a different look....Marge is a flower lover so I chose PTI's New Tulip set as my stamp set.


I also used all PTI papers & Ribbon...the cute little fence was made using a punch by Martha Stewart. Even though the card looks so fresh & spring like...we are having some kind of freak heat wave & the temperature has been over 100 for the last 5 or 6 days!!! Not so nice!! If you can imagine!! Well my hubby just put in the movie Benjamin Button so I guess I'll go watch...I have not yet seen it...have you???
Thanks for stopping by!!!!
Gwen

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day all you lucky mothers out there!! This is the card I make for my own mother this year. Things have been so crazy, busy at work for the last couple of weeks I am lucky I even got this done & in the mail on time! My children (age 24, 22, & 20) are coming over today to cook & have a BBQ for me! I may have mentioned you before ....they are all renting a house together not to far from here. It just warms my heart to know that they are so close & get along so well. They really do look out for each other.
Any way.... my card is made from all things purchased at CKC (creating keepsakes convention) some of it last year & some of it this year. It really sparkles!! I glittered the chipboard with spray adhesive & Martha Stewart glitter. Don't you just love the little pink roses??? They come in a tiny little bouquet & I just cut the tops off & glued them on the card.
Well that's it for today!! I hope to carve out some time today to do a little blog hopping! It has been way to long!!
Have a great day & thanks for the visit!
Gwen

Spring fling challenge

Wow I have spent most of the day in the craft room!! My husband is off playing golf so I get a crafty day! I Spent most of it making Mothers Day cards...I won't post those until next weekend :) I did take a bit of a break to make a quick & simple card for Paper Trey Inc's spring fling challenge. All the designers have a color challenge up & I chose to go with this one:
I just love the purple color....wish my card was a pretty as the photo! Well anyway this is my card:

Just a quick & easy one!! everything about this card uses Paper Trey products except the ribbon & that is from Michael's. Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend & finishing up those Mothers Day cards & projects!! That is exactly what I am going to do right now!!!! Thanks for the visit!!!

Gwen

Saturday sketch on Friday??

Greetings!! And happy Friday...almost Saturday!
I decided to participate in Lauren Meader's Saturday Sketch....Actually it's from last Saturday!! this is the sketch I chose:
This is my take on the sketch:


Oh my gosh! do any of you have any of this yummy paper yet from PTI!! LOVE IT!!! Soooo beautiful!! Such lovely colors!! All paper & stamps are from PTI.... the cute little fence is made with my current fave Martha Stewart punch, The buttons are from SU. I am so loving the color green lately! Maybe it's all the talk lately of Earth day....& isn't this little tree just perfect!
Well that's it for this post! Tomorrow is another day!! Make it a good one!!!
Thanks for the visit & I always enjoy the comments!!
~~~GWEN~~~

Lauren Meaders first template Challenge

Happy Administrative assistants day!!! And Earth day!!!
I work with 2 sweet gals at my dental office & wanted to create some sort of "appreciation" gift for them for today & lucky for me I have several of Lauren Meaders templates AND she is having a template challenge right now to create something with a template inspired by a bath product & this is what I came up with....personally...I think they turned out just darling!!! (if I do say so myself) ;)

I used the same template for both projects....once you make one you can just crank them out...lickity split!! Wanted the clear card stock to have a little texture so I ran it though my cuttle bug!! LOVE IT!!! for this one I used the script embossing folder...just seemed to go with the mellowness of the warm sugared vanella colors. Here is a bit of a close up of it so maybe you can actually see it.
If you can't see it...take my word for it....looks really cool OR give it a go yourself. For the next one I gave it texture with the swiss dots embossing folder...thought it looked like little dew drops to go perfectly with the "dancing waters" bath product.....I was thinking....wish cuttlebug would come up with a raindrop embossing folder!!!!! THAT would be cool!!! oooohhhhh think of the possibilities!

All of the paper I used is from Papertrey inc. Everything else is from my stash! some of it new from the CK convention.....ooooohhhhhh sooooo much product so little time!!! well gota run & delive my goodies!!!!! have a fantastic, crafty day!!!!!!

Thanks for the visit!!

Gwen

CPS Sketch

Greetings from Gilbert Arizona!!!!!

We had an absolute blast at the CKC....great classes, fun shopping & fantastic friends!!!! Our weather is crazy right now!!! how about yours???? Thursday the high was in the low 60"s & now today we are nearly 100!!!!! I am NOT turning the air on yet!!!! LOL!!!! Anyway.....Thought I would give the CPS sketch a try today...(it has been a long time).This is the sketch:




This is my Card:

Just a quick one today as I have been having fun all weekend & I am not ready for the work week!!! So off I go to finish the laundry & clean up a bit!!! thank's for today's visit!!!

Gwen

Vacation & a side job

Wow!!! long time no post!!! Took a little vacation (much needed) with the whole family!! we rented a motor home & went to Country Thunder for 4 days! Had a BLAST!!! I could write a whole 2 page post on just what we did & who we saw...But I will not bore you with all that.

Then when we got home I had to get right to work as I promised a girl I work with that I would make all of her daughters graduation announcements! YIKES!!!! what was I thinking???? I have only done something like that once before & that was for my parents.......So this is what I ended up with: She had 2 different pictures...such a pretty girl huh!!! so I made half like this and..... And the other half like this. Tried to keep it pretty simple & easy to recreate. Then I had to figure out how to box them up & this is what I came up with for that: Luckily....she loved it all!!!!! So now I can cross that off my list & it is to the next. This weekend is the CKC scrap booking convention!! Woot Woot....Sooooooooooooo excited!!! Signed up for a few classes & hope to learn some cool new stuff & of course do a bit of shopping!!!

Well better go clean my craft room (make room for some new CKC stuff)!!!!! :)

Thanks for today's visit!!

~~~Gwen~~~

Another color Challenge

This is color challenge #2 by Dawn Mcvey.....this one....really hard for me so kept it really simple! I am so into the bright spring colors right now & this is so far away from that. So here is the card:

The colors are Celery, turquoise, brown & white. My stamped image is from Inkadinkado. Oh...this is my latest craze...I have been putting this little brown fence on everything!!!! This weekend I have made 4 projects with that on it! It is made with the Martha Stewart punch & my nesties. Ribbon is from Michael's & the glittered birds are made with Martha Stewart glitter. Well guess that is it for now! I have many, many things on my to do list today!!! Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Gwen~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

March Blog Hop!!

Well....here we go again... Paper Trey Blog hop time :) This Months challenge is to create your own background paper & then create a card/project with it. It was really fun creating the paper.....but I must admit...I had a hard time just cutting it up!! Did you???? I don't exactly love my card this time but really wanted to play along so going to post it anyway. For my background paper I used Raspberry fizz paper from PTI & night of navy ink from SU. I used the circle set & the around & about sentiments sets for my background stamps.

So this is the paper before I "cut it all up"

Then this is the finished card! I realize the papers do not seam like the same color but it is just the lighting....my background paper would not fit into my little photo taking box!!

Well, that's it!!! hope this all works out with the time change & all....this is going to have to be "pre-posted" to go on at 3:30 Arizona time (when I am at work) Then have to somehow get to the PTI site (still at work) shhhhhhhhhhhh...don't tell!!!! ;) and post my link. So I can get to hopping as soon as I get home! I can not wait to see what everyone has created!!!! See ya! thanks for hopping by!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~Gwen~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

New Color Challenge

OK my fellow paper crafters!!! there is a new color challenger in town!!! So exciting! you can see the challenge here.

It is hosted but the fabulous Dawn Mcvey. These are the beautiful colors....aren't they yummy!!!!!!!

Here is my card:

I must say this color challenge was a bit out of the box for me....as usually I am a 2 maybe 3 color gal. But I am happy the way this turned out! I will definitely use this combo again :) Thanks Dawn! The paper I Used is a combination of Paper trey & Stampin Up. The ribbon is also Paper Trey. The cute little cup cake is Hero Arts & the bling is from the clearance table at Michael's.
Thank You for today's visit!!! Hope some of you have the time to try the challenge :)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Gwen~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Presents for me!!

Greetings from sunny warm Arizona!!! As most of you know...I work at a dental office. Sometimes we have to refer our patients out to other offices for things we don't do, like orthodontics (braces) and then they usually send us treats as a thank you. Well this time instead of cookies & candies Dr. Tipton's Orthodontic office brought me some paper crafting supplies!!! What a surprise! This is a picture of what I got!

So awesome!!! So I used some of the beautiful paper to create this thank you card for them!

I love this dental Bella! she is just perfect for all my "dental" cards. I am not sure where the paper is from but the ribbon is from Michaels & the "you make me smile is from G rated stamps. I paper pieced her top & the rest is colored with prisma color markers.

Hope you are all doing well & spring has finally arrived! Thanks for todays visit!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Gwen~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Finally a post!

Oh my gosh!!!! I can not believe how long it has been since my last post!!! My "paying" job has just sucked up all my time & mojo!!!!! **sigh**

Oh well, at least I have a job...right! I was supposed to be cleaning my craft room today & would you believe...just started crafting...tee hee hee!!

This is a quick thank you card I came up with. The pink CS is from SU. The black is new from PTI. Which I used the ever popular Swiss dots cuttle bug folder on. Both punches I used are Martha Stewart. And the ribbon is from Michaels. That's it!! quick & easy! But now alas I have to get back to cleaning my craft room. Hope I can stay on task this time...NOT!!! :)

Hope you are all having a beautiful weekend!! It is about 80 here today....thanks for the visit!!! ~~~~~~~~~Gwen~~~~~~~~~~~~

PTI Blog HOP

It's blog hop time again!!! This time it was to make a card celebrating spring! As I type this it is 6:00 pm in Arizona & I am hopping outside on my patio!! it was over 80 degrees here today! I had to be inside working all day so need to enjoy at least some of the fantastic weather!!! (just had to share that) Anyhooooo....this is my card.
I used PTI & SU paper, all stamped images are from PTI, Ink is also PTI & SU. The ribbon & bling are from Michael's crafts.

That's all I have time for as now I get to start hopping!!! can't wait to see all the fun creations!!

Thank's for hopping by!!!!

~~~Gwen~~~~