What about these colors?

Hey everybody! I hope you're all having a great week.

I'm behind on my card challenges! This card follows a sketch from Ravengirl over on SCS. She's this week's Featured Stamper Congrats Toni!!!

This card also goes along with this week's ColourQ challenge #43.

Now I would have never, ever put these colors together, okay, yes I would have put everything but the bermuda bay (not one of my faves) together. Thanks ColourQ for helping me step outside my box!

Here's the card I came up with...

Supplies:
Card stock: bermuda bay (retired), peach parfait, early espresso, old olive, white
Ink: old olive, pumpkin pie
Stamps: Sanded, Silhouette Sentiments
Accessories: Big Shot machine, beautiful wings embosslit, paper trimmer, score blade, SU! bright collection button, linen thread, half pearls, circle punches

Can you tell I used my linen thread to create the middle butterflies antennas? It's hard to see up against the sanded b/g.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Until next time...
Blessings...

...Loves Me....Loves Me Not....

Hello! Thanks for visiting today :)

Today I wanted to share with you a card I made following this week's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge. I'm always amazed at the creations Colleen, Piali, Rachel and Teresa showcase each week.

Here's our beautiful, inspirational cupcake...



And, here's what I created...

The image is Tilda with flower by Magnolia and the brown dp is K & Company, classic. These, along with the blue felt flower and silver flower brad were a kit given to me by Tanja (3boysathome over at SCS). I added some yellow dp from Creative Memories and used my eyelet border punch, then crumpled it. I added some bashful blue ribbon to the yellow panel and twine to the button to finish the card. Tilda is colored with watercolor pencils.

Have a great day!

Until next time...
Blessings...

CCC #29

Well, it's in the nick of time...

Lesley hosted our Crafty Critters challenge #29. She challenged us to make a Christmas card with at least 1 pastel color, a snowflake, ribbon and button.


I decided to go all pastel. I've never attempted that on a Christmas card and I'm not sure I'm liking it, but, it is very soft and girlie :)
My snowflake image is from the SU! set Snow Swirled. My sentiment is also SU!

Other challenges I'm entering:
Cupcake Craft Challenge ~ Pastel Christmas
Pile It On ~ Plastic or stretchy (my plastic button)

Until next time...
Blessings...

Birthday Pages for Aaron

Is it Sunday already?! Wow, I can't believe we're this far into July. School is just around the corner for my kiddos and I'm a little sad. We've had fun this Summer.

We have a couple Summer birthdays in our house. Our son's and my hubbys.

Here's pages I did the other day from Aaron's 8th birthday (2008). Yeah, that's how far behind I am. I'm a chronological scrapbooker....can't scrapbook out of order to save my life! Unless, I have pics I'm saving to do their own scrapbook. Like, beach pics for a beach album. As long as all of my pics are together, in order, Mama is soooooo happy :-)

Anyway, here's the double page spread....


Now, I NEVER do white c/s as my background but for these colorful pics, I went with it. I used a border set I received in a swap. I cut the journaling circle to be split between the pages.

And here's the page to go after the one above...


Horrible pic I know. I took it too far away and had to crop in on it and so now it looks grainy. Sorry.
For this page I went really "busy". I'm usually not like that but for these pics, I thought it was okay. If you can tell, my title is sideways, "Fun Presents" and the number 8 is in the bottom left corner (8th birthday).

Thank you for visiting my blog!

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Blessings...

MY BLOG-A-VERSARY! and some blog candy!!!

I have been blogging for a year!!!!
I started my blog on July 15, 2009.
WOW! It doesn't seem like it's been that long since I started my little humble blog.

In honor of this momentous occasion I'm going to give away some blog candy!

Images, Images, Images.....
I'll be giving away 50 stamped images!
Here are a few examples of what the winner will receive:



All you have to do, to get your name in the hat, is become a follower AND post on your blog regarding my blog candy giveaway. You'll need to leave a comment with a link to your blog post.

**For an extra chance to win, go back to my very first post last year on July 15th and leave a comment there. I'll check it daily and place your name in the hat again!**

ADDED BONUSES!!!

If I reach 50 followers, I'll add:
25 more images!
1 new (in plastic) bashful blue SU! ink pad!
1 new bottle of Lavender stickles!
20 top note die cuts!
and 20 - 6x6" sheets of SU! Welcome Neighbor dsp


GOOD YES?!!!

You have until Wednesday, July 28th to enter.
Winning name will be drawn Thursday, July 29th!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog day after day.
I love sharing my creativity with you! :)

Blessings...
Melina

Face Painting

Hello!

Today I'm sharing another scrapbook page. This page really just came together after I looked at the sketch over on SCS....


I had 5x7 pics of our kiddos from a day of fun at the "depot days" celebration in our town. They had gotten their faces painted and both were so proud. :-) They wanted me to take pics of the painting before they rubbed them off! hahaha....smart kids!
My background c/s is Cherry Cobbler. The patterned c/s is from a DCWV stack. The circles are Marina Mist c/s and behind the smaller white letters is....one of my favorites....Old Olive.

Have a great day!

Until next time...
Blessings...

Wheel Work and Pastels

Do you have a stamp supply that you haven't used in a while? I have some SU! wheel stamps that I NEVER use. They are forgotten in my drawer. I haven't bought any in a while either, but, the SU! new catalog has some really cute ones!!!

So, for this card I used my Sandy Speckles wheel on the middle panel. I stamped it in my versamark pad and then colored it with my chalks/pastels....


I love the look of chalking over versamark!
I also got this SU! stamp out. It has a 2004 date. But, I don't know what set it's from. It must be a stamp I bought on EBAY years ago. Does anyone know what set it comes from?
My ink colors are garden green, old olive and certainly celery.
The sentiment is from the Watercolor Trio set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time...
Blessings...

Look at those Smiles....

Hiya!
The start of a new week. I hope yours is filled with blessings!

Today I wanted to share a scrapbook page with you...


Now, I'll be the first to tell you I'm not a huge fan of 1 picture on a 12x12 layout. But, this pic is 5x7 and I couldn't help drawing attention to my kiddos' big, cheesy grins! If you haven't realized already....I love simple. But, if you've really been paying attention, you'll have also noticed that I LOVE punches! You should see my collection. For this layout I used a circle punch and star punch. The letters are from a stack that's pre-cut, with a sticky back. They're all in black and white designs.
I've been working my way through the scrapbook sketches over on SCS. Sally really does work hard to bring us a new one each week. She has some great ideas. I think this one is #147.

Thanks so much for visiting my today!

Until next time...
Blessings...