YCDI20 - Snowy Friends

I have a really hard time getting in the Christmas mode when everything around me screams "Welcome to Summer", but I have to admit... this was some cool relief to a very warm day here at the beach. :)

I also combined this with the CAS219 Challenge from a couple of weeks ago. Here is the card I cased from bon2stamp - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ga...;ppuser=186560

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2373910#ixzz2Tw7FtkZf

A Week Worth of VSBN!

I am so excited to be lower on hours this week at work, because that way I may get a chance to complete some of the VSBN challenges this week. For those of you who like a good challenge but get overwhelmed with all the VSBN challenges packed into a two day period, this week is for you... We are going to stretch it out over the whole week post two new challenges every day. Here is the link on Split Coast, where you can find the challenges. MAY'S VSBN CHALLENGES

Here are my layouts for the first two challenges:

and of course, wouldn't you know it... I kicked off the whole VSBN as a Wild Child! It was the challenge that I liked best. :)

"the wild child will show mother what change really means.
- Go wild. Grab a piece of your wildest paper, a paper you wouldn’t imagine
using as a background or stamp a background page or papers, and use it on the background."

May13VSBN1A - Wild Child! 

 

I tried really hard to be a dutiful child, but golly geez mom, you just gotta have a little white!

- the dutiful child will embrace color. Try making a layout without any white on it. Create your own “white space” without one drop of white.

May13VSBN2B - SNOW FRIENDS

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!

Here is my Mother's Day Collection for this year...

YCDI18 - Little Purple Pansies

Several months ago, some friends at Split Coast Stampers started a new challenge section called "You Can Do It" and I fell in love with the concept of what they were trying to do, but my life got so crazy that I haven't been able to hang-out of complete any of the challenges until now. I loved this challenge. And since I live with a household of all men... I thought it was a great way to use up some of my old original girly type scraps. I also thought it would be fun to see how many other challenges that I missed last week could I combine into one..


The YCDI challenge was to create a Pocket/Tag Cards using a #10 envelop as the base and you can find all the details for this challenge in  Post #4559


I used my favorite purple pansies as my inspiration and The 3x3 card and mini tags are part of my "Use-It-All-Up!" challenge.

Happy Birthday to my Boy!

It is Spencer's Birthday today and my friend Fran is hosting the Tuesday Teaparty Challenge on Split Coast. Spent a wonderful day out on a dolphin site seeing cruise with my hubby, my Son and his girlfriend, then we finished the day off with a wonderful family dinner at our local Japanese Steak House.

But I couldn't resist the chance to start my morning off with a chance to have a tea party in space with my best treky friend FRAN!

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2368742#ixzz2Su00NPB6

TLC427 - Birthday Fruit for Joan

I needed to make a thank you card for a friend tonight and I decided it would be fun to see how many challenges I could squeeze into one card... And what to my wonderful surprise, one challenge was to make Joan a HAPPY BIRTHDAY card. What an awesome birthday idea. So I sort of cased Joan's... TLC427 Turn Your Face to the Sun which included making your own chevrons and I included some summer fruit which was the June VSNMINI challenge from a month ago Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2368539#ixzz2TEHYBqB9