Take Care...Monday

Happy Monday Stampers! Can't believe this is the last week of May! By Monday next week a new Stampin' Up! catalog will be live and everyone will be able to order from it! So many wonderful new things in it! It's going to be a fun Stampin' Up! catalog year!

The designers at Stampin' Celebration have a great sketch that inspired me to create today.  And this week, the designers at The Friday Mashup! have a great theme-creating a project with trees and/or heat or dry embossing.

Here is how I combined both blog challenges into one card: 

Other than the Whisper White card stock, Baked Brown Sugar ink pad and Banner Punch, everything I used on my card is retiring.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Stop by tomorrow as I share a new creation featuring a new Nacho challenge!

Missing You...

Welcome back stampers!  Hope you had a wonderful Monday!  I'm back today with another creation for a blog challenge!  Having the day off yesterday really helped me to get a jump start on crafting.  I also got a lot of chores done.

I created this card for another Dynamic Duos challenge.  I had this idea in my head for awhile, so when I saw the color scheme for this week's challenge, I knew I had to spend some time creating it.

Even though it is retired, I used the Smooch pearlized top coat to color in the clouds. The sentiment is from the stamp set For the Birds and I punched it out with the small heart punch. The nest and tree branch is from the stamp set Take Care. So have you gotten the cloudy day embossing folder yet? No? What are you waiting for!  With spring right around the corner, this is a great embossing folder to have. 

Well, I better get going.  Thanks again for stopping by! Until next time.

Blessing from Nature

Hello stampers! What a long day!  We finished irrigation late into the evening so we had to pull out the spot lights.  The light shined onto our trees and I took a photo of one of our trees.  I keep wanting to decorate it for Halloween by hanging paper bats from it, or maybe ghosts.  But I haven't yet. Can you spot the doggy pool?

This is another card I made for the big catalog swap.  I used the new stamp set "Take Care" from the catalog.  The colors I used are very vanilla, pool party, soft suede, early espresso and midnight muse. The dsp is from comfort cafe.  I love, love, love the woodgrain embossing folder from the holiday catalog. I find myself using it a lot lately. 

We're gearing up for Tour de Fat this Saturday at the Tempe Town Lake. We'll be taking our bikes and going for a ride! We've never been so we're excited.  I hope to take good photos so I can share. I'm signing out for the night.  Until next time. Thanks for stopping by.