I Bee-Lieve in You!

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Time again for another duel between the divas and darlings. We have a bee-theme to play with this month - courtesy of our fab hostesses - Terry A (Dazzler) and Terry S (Diva) since I am a Diva (wink!) I received a BEE-utiful kit from Terry S. :) 

I chose to use the image she sent us from CC Designs (there is another image in the kit - may play with that later tonight). And of course, there were some wonderful bee-inspired papers, ribbons, and embee-lishments to play with! Of course I had to use my new SNC2 to die cut the image! The sentiment is from MFT. 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

TMS #459 - Thinking Of You

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Sharing my card for the latest Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge - apologies for the poor lighting but I finished this at 12:15 Saturday Morning! :) I used the Gina K Stamp TV Kit - Hearts and Flowers. Here is the sketch: 

Thanks for stopping by - Hugs ~LJ 

MFTWSC90 - Thanks Friend

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I'm playing along with this week's My Favorite Things (MFT) Sketch Challenge! My card is fairly simple. From start to finish I think it took me about 10 minutes (YES! only TEN minutes!)  I used the adorable set Too Cute Turtles for the bird and butterfly image & the sentiment is from a retired MFT Pure Innocence set. I also used the MFT Die-Namics Stitched Frames  Those were die-cut with white and then were sponged with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink. Below is the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

Full of Roses

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It's the 15th of the month and time for another duel! Our theme for the month of May is ROSES! 

I so love that Carol chose so many pretty images to choose from, including this one from Gina K (which I own personally!) I colored it out with prismacolor markers added some wink of stella to the roses, die-cut it with my Scan-N-Cut2 and then the rest of the card came together pretty easily.  The patterned papers she sent are are just so pretty. Thanks Carol! 

I've posted about it before, but my grandmother and aunt had beautiful roses in the front of the house when I was living with them. They would come up nearly every year - bright pink. 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

SC700 - Merry Christmas!

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Sharing a quick card I made for two challenges. SC700 (Splitcoaster Stamps) and a Challenge Your Stash Challenge group that I am in (also on SCS). The Challenge Your Stash challenge was to use a mouse (or 2 or 3) on your card. I don't have many mouse stamps to be honest, but I have a Lawn Fawn Set (Merry Christmouse) so I got that one out to play with. The patterned paper is from G45 (St. Nicholas 6X6 Pad)

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ! LJ

Cheery Hello

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Happy Memorial Day!

Today I am sharing a card I made for this month's Mix It challenge on Gina K StampTV. The challenge is Rainbow Stenciling. I used the Hearts and Flowers StampTV kit (retired) to create this card.  The polka-dot stencil I used is from Heidi Swapp.  I had fun playing with all of the new ink colors from Gina K! (the new colors are bolded below)

Here are the rest of the supplies:

Cardstock: White (GKD Layering and Base), Sea Glass, Lucky Clover

Ink: Coral Reef, Lucky Clover, Tangerine Twist, Key Lime, Sea Glass, Bubblegum Pink, Innocent Pink

Accessories: Oval and Rectangle Spellbinders dies, SU bling, pop-dots

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

May Your Merry Be Very.

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Today I am sharing a card I made from a card kit (stamped image and patterned paper) that Pansy (c-mouse on SCS) sent me recently. The Apple Mouse Pie image is from High Hopes Stamps. I colored it with Prismacolor Pencils and Gamsol. The patterned paper is from Old World Winter (paper studio). 

It feels a bit strange making Christmas cards when its 90 degrees out (which is very warm for Wisconsin this time of year) but I'll have a head start on my Christmas Card stash for this year so can't complain! :) 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ