Winter Storm 2013 MDS Catch Up

Today my inspiration came from my grand kids. They call me constantly and this weekend is no exception. They were chatting with me from their deck .... in their shorts! I'm so dang jealous because here Michigan it's still COLD! We are still in the 40's and windy as all get out. So I decided to catch up on my scrap-

booking. MDS scrap-booking of course! 

This is a few photos of the last snow storm that they had in Missouri when it happened to be in February and it was warm here Michigan. Go figure. 

I was so happy it wasn't us but now the tables have turned on Gramma in March. 

The background is the tree in their front yard that I turned into DSP and made it black & white as well.  

The funniest photo here is the one on the left that looks like Becca is being blown over! It just so happens her big sister Hannah snapped the photo just as she was falling. Too funny. 

Welcome Home Bunny

Hi everyone.

I hope your Easter was full of fun and family. It was nice to just to sit still for the weekend.

I've been traveling for work all of March and I am completely worn out!

I mean I am Pooped with a capital P!

I returned to my home base office this morning and look what was waiting for me on my desk.

Isn't this just the sweetest!

This has nothing to do with stamping but I thought it was too cute not to share.

One of my crafty gal pals from work made this for me out of a water bottle, a cupcake liner, a marker, so googly eyes and jelly beans of course!

You can see the cupcake liner glued to the top of the water bottle here.

A cute little pair of floppy ears, and tiny bow, and two googly eyes and you're good to go!

I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on and see what other little critters I can make this way.

Hugs.

Diane

Watercooler Llamas Spring & SAB Last Call HOP

This post is for the Spring HOP - "Sale-A-Bration Last Call" with the Watercooler Llamas.  If you should get lost along the way just click the HOME icon here to go to the beginning. 

If you are following the HOP I'm sure you have been viewing a lot of wonderful projects using the Spring catty and Free SAB items. If you are following in order you've arrived from Buffy's wonderful samples on her blog here, and you can just click the icon Previous to return.

Now here's a few of my SAB HOP cards.

The first two cards uses the farris wheel from the SAB set "Feeling Sentimental". 

The first used black, white, going gray and basic gray cardstock. The darker gray piece is embossed with the Fancy Fans embossing folder. I colored the rhinestones with a red Sharpie pen. 

 The second card uses the same set "Feeling Sentimental" and also "That's the Ticket". A touch of burlap and hemp thread finish it off.

Two more cards using the darling bicycle and one with the phone booth.

 (There is also few non SU items used to create my samples.)

A few new SAB items that I mixed with old or retired items are the "Oh Hello Bundle" which has the stamp set and matching oval dies and the paper pierce mat that matches the butterfly punch. (I CASED this card layout from Mary Fish). 

    

The last card uses the "Oh Whale Bundle" with stamp set and matching die. I placed the whale 'in a wave' made from the "Sycamore Street" DSP. (I CASED this idea and layout from my upline Nance Leedy at Canopy Crafts).  The the focal point is popped up on the "Cloud" embossed large circle. I love that embossing folder!. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. 

Now you can HOP along to Linda's blog which is the next stop by clicking the icon below here. 

HAPPY HOPPING!

Swallowtail

This is a quick post of my Swallowtail Butterfly card. At first I passed this stamp up in the catalog but started to see so many gorgeous cards posted, so I was sucked right in. 

My card  is stamped in Versamark then heat embossed using pool party embossing powder on black cardstock. I popped this layer on pool party cardstock and then added to a crumb cake card base.
I embellished with a piece of the lace ribbon, a little vintage safety pin holding a tiny tag,  and I also broke down and purchased the distressing tool so I don't have to use my snips anymore. Here is my card. 

 I originally wasn't going to buy this stamp because I usually don't go for the LARGE images, and believe me when I say ... this stamp is HUGE!  But with a little practice I think I'm going to like it a LOT!  

Thanks so much for stopping by and please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts. 

Hugs

Diane

Under the Weather [PP132]

This post is for the color challenge (132) at the The Paper Players , one of my favorite challenge blogs.

 Just look at the fun colors picked by Ann.

  Starfruit was one of those colors I didn't really like at first, but now I've learned to love it and especially with Midnight Muse. Here is my card. 

All three challenge colors are found in the fun DSP. I used some midnight muse ribbon behind the primrose matted sentiment using the Bootiful Occasions set. Dimensionals were used to add interest to the focal point and the fussy snipped umbrella.  I added a few rhinestones to the umbrella which looks cute against the cloud embossed background, don't ya think? 

I hope you leave a comment and thanks for stopping by!