Roses on Paper Color Challenge - Pink, Green and Yellow!

I seem to be apologizing a lot lately for not posting. I work at a boarding school and one of my jobs is to set up the Baccalaureate Ceremony at the end of the year.
Doing that and then trying to coordinate everything else that goes on with the end of the year and with grades and scheduling didn't leave me much time to create or blog. I'm hoping to take a couple of days off this week while teachers are doing their thing and catch up and relax. We'll see.

It's time for another Challenge over at Roses on Paper's Challenge blog and I get to host it this time around! I hope you'll all play along! It's a color challenge and I chose Pink, Green and Yellow, some great fun spring and early summer colors. Most of my ingredients for my card you can get at Summer's store, Roses on Paper. When I think of the pretty flowers and fresh air, Rose's Garden from Sarah Kay just jumps to my mind. I love all the sweet flowers and her little kitty walking along side her. But to me the cutest thing about this stamp is her sweet bare feet! A girl after my own heart!

I colored her with copics and used some of my spica glitter pen in her hair and on her cute top, hoping that it looked like a bit of fresh dew. I used Glossy Accents on the pebbles along her path and some Smooch on the middle of some of her flowers. My cuttlebug folder, Fanciful Flowers, added some dimension to the top of the card and the paper is from the Spring DCWV glitter stack. Love those pink dandelions! The pearls are from the new Opaline Pearls Collection from BasicGrey that Summer now carries and the flowers are from Prima. And yes, I added stickles to my flowers. It just makes them sparkle.

After the Sunday I had, I needed to do something bright and cheery that connected me and my girls to my mother. So for a change, this card is for me and my girls! God gives us flowers in our lives to reminds us of the beauty that he has waiting for all of us and for a sense of renewal. So, to my girls, Nichole, Tiffany, Jennifer, Emma, and Allie, remember that there is joy and beauty to be found in flowers, despite the thorns that come with some flowers. I love all of you very, very much.

Make sure you check out the blog and participate in our challenge! Summer has a sweet little prize for our random winner! And make sure to swing by my fabulous design team sisters blogs to see their fabulous creations as well. You can find their e-mail address on my sidebar. It's great to be back!

Card Ingredients:

Rose's Garden by Sarah Kay, Opaline Pearls by BasicGrey, Prima Flowers, copics, ribbon, Spring Glitter Stack from DCWV, Stickles, Fanciful Flowers cuttlebug folder, SU ticket punch, Smooch, Spica Glitter Pen.

Roses on Paper Design Team Color Challenge - Aqua, Peach and Butter Yellow!

There are just some things that tug at your heart. For me, it's a little girl with her baby doll or favorite toy. I remember one of my favorite toys was a striped tiger cat that I still have to this day. I would drag that cat with me everywhere, sleep with her every night. When I saw "Mummy Loves You", from Sarah Kay in Summer's store, Roses on Paper, I knew I had to have her! She reminds me of everything good and innocent from our youth. Looking at her brought back so many summer days out in the back yard sitting on a blanket talking to my sweet kitty, making all sorts of grand plans for my life.

It was my time to host our Roses on Paper Design Team Challenge and I chose some of my favorite colors - Aqua, Peach, and Butter Yellow! I think this Basic Grey Paper from their Gypsy collection was perfect for my little Sarah Kay sweetie, who I colored with distressed inks. The Prima flowers are touched with what else - stickles and I used some dew drops in the corners and the middle of the flowers. I used a bit of Glossy Accents on the ball to give it a bit of dimension and a bit of sparkle along the elastic of her hat. Some scrapper's floss and spring butterfly and flower charms just add a finishing touch. I've highlighted the products that I used on this card that you can pick up from Summer's great store, Roses on Paper. Great stuff!

Make sure you stop by my fellow Design Team Sister's blogs (you can find them on the right hand column on my blog) and our Roses on Paper Design Team blog to see their beautiful creations and join in my color challenge this week. Some of them may not be up until tomorrow, but please stop by and check them out. What I've seen has been fabulous! Join in the challenge because I'd love to see what you create!

I hope everyone gets the opportunity to spend some time telling their favorite person or toy or pet that they love them today. Don't ever miss an opportunity to let someone or something know you love it.

Card Ingredients:

Mummy Loves You by Sarah Kay, Dew Drops, Gypsy Paper by Basic Grey, Scrapper's Floss in Aqua, charms, rub on sentiment from stash, Prima flowers, stickles.

Roses on Paper Challenge with Picnic Time and Ally

What a beautiful weekend we had here in Maine, but with the exception of about 7 hours of it, my time was devoted out to others. I worked or slept! But I should be thankful that I'm healthy enough to work as much as I do and that I have two jobs. That's not normal for this time with our economy the way it is. But I'm not getting on a soapbox. I've got two great cards from my two favorite stores that I want to share with you.

Isn't Ally and her sweet little dog just too stinkin cute? She's another gorgeous Rubber Romance stamp from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design (SCACD). This little pup is a lot like my Hagrid, but believe me, I look nothing like Ally except that my hair's straight! I followed the sketch over at the SCACD PCP group and used that beautiful Laura Ashley paper from Dovecraft that you can only get at Susana's. Take a look at it because it's luscious!


Picnic Time is another one of those sweet Sarah Kay stamps from Summer at Roses on Paper and Jodi, such a talented and sweet fellow Design Team Gal, gave us the challenge this time to use quilting on our cards. Now I quilt but there's one pattern I'll never attempt because of the curves and that's a Dresden Plate. Well, thank God for nestabilities because that scalloped circle gives you an instant Dresden Plate! I love the soft colors on her and I think the Porcelain paper from BasicGrey is perfect for this sweetie. Make sure you stop by our Design Team Challenge blog and take a look at the other gorgeous cards created by my other Design Team family.

Card Ingredients:
Ally by Rubber Romance, Picnic Time by Sarah Kay, Prima Flowers, Porcelain Paper and brads from BasicGrey, Kaisercraft pearls, Laura Ashley Connamara paper from Dovecraft, Bella Baubles, ribbon, nestabilities, copics, ribbon, spacers, hatpin.

Whenever you're near me,

I hear a symphony... Gosh, I love The Supremes! When I saw this adorable image, First Kiss, at Summer's store, Roses on Paper, that song just jumped into my head. I used to sit and listen to Diana Ross sing and thought I'd never heard anything sound so beautiful. to me she represented glamour, fame, fortune, she had it all. Motown is still my favorite music and I could still listen to Diana belt out a song anytime.

Our sweet and extremely talented Lim, one of my fellow Design Team members at Roses on Paper gave us a theme challenge, Love and Friendship. I had to use first kiss, not because it's a no brainer, but because as sweet and innocent as they look, they have to be friends! Great challenge, Lim! Make sure to drop by my other fellow Design Team members blogs and see their gorgeous creations! I hope you all will participate in our challenge over on our Design Team blog. You can find all the details there.

I used the sketch from i(heart)2stamp for this card (love their sketches!) and stamped First Kiss with Staz-On in Jet Black and colored them with Distressed Inks. The paper is from Prima First Blush collection (how appropriate!), I used prima flowers with stickles and some dew drops. I adore the earthy tones and hope you enjoy this sweet moment in time for them. Everything highlighted below can be picked up from Summer's great store.

And don't forget to stop by the PCP group for Summer's big announcement about working with the wonderfully talented illustrator, Elisabeth Bell! I'm so over the moon on that that I still can't quite believe it! Go check it out!

I'm off today from school so I'm going to relax and create. I think I'm even going to put some Motown on. Yep, sounds like the thing to do.

Card recipe: "First Kiss" by Sarah Kay, First Blush paper by Prima, Prima flowers, Distressed Inks, Icicle stickles, dew drops, scrapper's floss,

Love My Sarah Kays!

I love remembering when things were simple. I love going to school when I was younger and when I discovered books, I discovered passion. I couldn't stop reading. Dick and Jane readers gave way to Dr. Seuss and then I discovered Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie. Then came Nancy Drew. Oh, how I loved those books. I loved that I could open the front cover and go anywhere I wanted, be anything I wanted to. My imagination took off and hours could go by and I wouldn't realize it. Some of the Sarah Kay stamps remind me of my trips to the wide opens spaces that Laura lived on and that's The case with A Little Help From Margo. I could replace Margo with my sister, Jonalea, and me as the little sister, only I wasn't quite as angelic looking as this cutie is! One thing I discovered was I'm more like Nancy than Laura!


Every time I see a flower garden, I think of my mother. She can make anything grow! I was embarrassed one time when I sucked up my air fern! But I've learned a lot over the years in gardening and she's right. There's nothing closer to being in heaven than being in a garden, down on your knees, feeling the dirt between your fingers and getting under your fingernails. If we give it love, the earth gives us back beauty. Rose's Garden was done with my mom in mind.

Most of everything on these cards can be picked up from Summer at Roses on Paper. were colored with distressed inks and done for different sketches. A Little Help From Margo was for the weekly Paper Craft Planet's sketch, and Rose's Garden was for Madelyn's Twinkling Tuesday.

Card Ingredients: A Little Help from Margo and Rose's Garden by Sarah Kay, Basic Grey Gypsy paper, Dew Drops, Scrapper's Floss, buttons, Distressed Inks