Clean and Simple and NO WORDS!?!? WHAT?!

OH MY!

This week's CAS challenge (SCS) is a doozie!

Create a card using no sentiment at all but your image must convey a sentiment.

Well since today (May 12th) is my birthday, I had to go with a birthday theme :)

I love my one and only Whipper Snapper stamp! LOL

I colored the image with Spectrum/Noir markers then cut it out and mounted it on a piece of basic gray card stock that I had die cut with the Spellbinders Labels Fourteen die. I traced around the edge of the die with a white gel pen. The blue paper is from a MME stack called Away We Go.

Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Birthday Goodies and a Candy Winner!

Hi!

I hope your week is getting off to an inky or scrappy start! :)

As promised, I'm back with a few pics of my birthday goodies along with what I got for Mother's Day AND...............my Birthday Blog Candy Winner!

First off, here's some beautiful cards I got for my birthday...

These card are from my kids, my hubby and some dear crafty friends :) thank you so much!

Now, hubby did good this year....I asked for stamp $$$ and he delivered! LOL

Then as I was in Kirkland's before my birthday supper, I found this beauty!!!

 (sorry for the wonky pic) This gorgeous piece of wall decor is going on my dining room wall. I fell in love with the giant chipboard letters and how they were decorated. When my mom saw this she said "that's you". :)

Mother's Day

This cute card is from my kiddos. They are so sweet. The plant behind is an indoor mini rose bush. I've been wanting one of these for a long time. I got this beautiful pink one for Mother's Day!

My Sweet Mama 

 Along with me giving my mom a Mother's Day card....she gave me one too!

I think she did a lovely job! thank you Mama!

NOW

WHAT

YOU

REALLY

WANTED

TO

SEE

the winner of my birthday blog candy is.........

Here's her "PILE"!

There's stuff on top of stuff. To see the complete list of things included in her pile go here.

Congratulations Diane! I hope you enjoy your Candy. :)

Thanks to everyone that left a comment! I appreciate you.

Have a great day!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

What a Great Birthday!

I wanted to post and say what a wonderful birthday it has been.

I am honored to have such wonderful family members and friends.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your cards and goodies you have sent.

I have felt such love, it has overwhelmed me to tears......great BIG happy tears. I will try and get pictures of my cards and goodies posted in the next couple of days.

Also, if you commented on my Birthday blog candy post, thank you. The goodies for that got up to A LOT. My daughter will be drawing the name for the winner tomorrow. I will have a picture of all the "Candy" and winner's name posted along with the post I mentioned above.

Thank you, Thank you for visiting my little place in cyber space. You are appreciated.

Hugs to you all!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Would Anyone Like Some Birthday Candy?

Hello!

THIS POST WILL STAY AT THE TOP UNTIL MAY 12TH.

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR NEWER POSTS (if you've already entered for a chance at my GROWING blog candy that is :)

It's time again for a Twisty Challenge!

I hope to see you there. We are celebrating my birthday at Twisted Tuesdays this week. We want to see your birthday creations and the twist is to use one of my favorite embellishments ~ Ribbon. :)

I can't wait to see what you create!

www.twistedtuesdaychallenges.blogspot.com

To go along with this theme....I'm giving away some blog candy here on my personal blog. My birthday is Saturday. For every comment on this post (1 comment per person please) or new follower to my blog I receive by Saturday at Noon (central time), I will add something to this:

We're starting off with:

*1 bottle of gold stickles

*1 roll of Martha Stewart "Best Wishes" ribbon

*1 box of 72 Alphabet Brads by Colorbox

If you are not a follower, be sure to become one and leave a comment. That puts 2 new things in the candy "pile"!! If you are already a follower......THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VISITING MY LITTLE PLACE IN CYBER SPACE. YOU ARE APPRECIATED! Now, leave a comment to get something added to the pile!!!! :)

The only other requirement is to spread the word! The more people that comment and become new followers the more goodies will be added to the candy "pile"!!!

Here's the spot where I'll be listing new goodies:

*added 1 sheet of 20 Studio 112 Adhesive Pearls!
*added 5 stamped Birthday Riley images!
*added a pack of 25 star brads!
*added a pack of 10 white chipboard flowers!
*added 4 yards of chocolate hemp twine!
*added 1 new white gel pen by Gelly Roll!

(here's a pic of the above additions to the pile)

*(new follower) added a pack of 15 acetate/transparent accents, 5 gold glitter brads by SU! and 4 clear SU! buttons!
*added 8 - 6"x6" pieces of paisley DCWV shimmer accents card stock!
*added 1 pack of approx. 50 die cut flowers and circles in greens, red, orange and blue! (Happy Birthday to Diane!)
 *added 6 stamped House Mouse images (Make a Wish)!
*added a foot of 1" white crochet lace! 
*added pack of Creative Memories patterned paper (I think 4.25"x6.25") 
*added 3 yards of Lucky Limeade baker's twine
*added 8 Prima Flowers 
*added 4 stamped Whipper Snapper Koala Birthday images! 
* (new follower) added 1 pack of 6 Jolee's boutique cupcake 3D embellishments!

I will post a picture of all the "Pile" and the winner soon!

~ ADDING TO THE PILE IS NOW CLOSED! ~
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I will put all the names in a container and have my daughter draw this weekend.

Thank you so much for visiting here and at Twisted Tuesday Challenges. LOVE YA! :)

Melina