Happy Birthday Bees

This is the card that I decided to CASE for the card challenge for tonight with our group of friends. The challenge was to look at the blogs or online galleries of all the girls in our group and choose one card to CASE and to be swapped out among us. We could CASE the whole card in entirety or we could change a few things in the card, maintaining the same basic sketch, just change some of the colours or embellishments, etc.

This is the card that I was CASing by Kim. I changed up the stamps used, I think she actually used some patterned paper for the background, but I made my own using different stamps. I also chose not to use ribbon and I used a bit of bling as an embellishment in it's place. I think it turned out to be a 'Happy' card for sure with nice bright colours.

I'll post the cards tomorrow of what we make at our SU night.

Thanks for stoppin' by! :)


Supplies:
Stamps: Bees (Hero Arts - I think), Clear Design - 'Designer Butterflies' & 'Messages' (Hero Arts), Serendipity (CTMH)
Cardstock: Purely Pomegranate (SU), Flat White (CRS) Ink: Purely Pomegranate (SU), Gable Green (SU)
Tools: Slit Punch (SU), Scalloped Circle Punch (Marvy)
Embellishments: Self-Adhesive Clear & Green Rhinestone Gems (Finishing Accents - Darice)

Serendipity Flower and a Prayer Needed

Wow, it's been a very busy week...working lots of hours and no time for crafty play! :( I was starting to go through some serious withdrawal! lol So, I took part of this morning and this afternoon to relax and make this card before I head back to the grind again for the evening. Work is going well, just a lot of hours between my two jobs and with still having to run the girls around and deal with a few daycare dilemmas, it's been interesting around her to say the least! (Insert a bit of a scatterbrain-look, that's how I feel about right now!) :)

Well, this all I have time for right now. I hope to be back tomorrow with something new. I have the day off! Yeah! Until then,

Thanks for stoppin' by! :)



Supplies:
Stamps: Serendipity (CTMH)
Ink: Perfect Plum
Cardstock: Plum (Bazzill), Pale Plum (SU)
Patterned Paper: Assorted File Folders cut down (K&Company)
Embellishments: Clear Gem Brad (Dollarama)
Tools: Corner Rounder Punch (SU), Scissors, Sea Sponge

Looking for a few Prayers...

On a side note, a very good friend of mine is very sick and is currently in the hospital in Coronary Intensive Care. On the weekend he suffered 4 mini strokes, developed a brain bleed and needs heart surgery. As well, he has a severe bacterial infection that has gone through his whole system, to which this alone will require six weeks of antibiotics to rid. He has no use of his right arm, loss of feeling in his leg and face. Please, feel it in your heart to keep him in your thoughts for a full recovery. It's gonna be a long road to recovery, but he could stand all the prayers that he can get! I've known him for 11 years now and he's always been very active - huge into mountain biking and hiking/geocashing. I'd love to see him resume these activities that he loves as soon as possible. Thanks for your positive thoughts!

Showers of Joy

I finally got a chance to get back into my stamp room tonight to create something...I had an idea in my head and this is how it turned out. My original idea was to make a flower that sort of looked like an umbrella and on the inside, for the card to read, 'Showers of Joy'. This card was supposed to be for a friend of mine that just had a new little baby girl...but, I'm not sure it's appropriate. Why can't I just come up with a normal baby card without all the silly hidden meanings! lol :) All my birthday cards, as well, just seem to be general cards with flowers or something on them, never birthday cakes or typical 'birthday' themed images. I dunno...what do you think? Perhaps I'll try another style tomorrow...

I was also trying to use some colours that I don't normally use. Yes, I know the green or Wild Wasabi is common to my colours, but I rarely use Groovy Guava or River Rock. It's not that I don't like the colours, I just never seem to reach for them from my stash. But, I actually really like these colours together and they remind me of Spring. That's good, 'cause even though it's officially Spring, it sure doesn't look like it outside! We got more freezing rain last night and this morning, it warmed up later today and melted the ice, but there's still snow everywhere. Ok Mother Nature, enough is enough! lol :)

Thanks for stoppin' by! :)

Supplies:
Stamps: Serendipity (CTMH), Small Script (SU)
Cardstock: Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava, River Rock (all SU)
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Old Olive, Cameo Coral (all SU)
Embellishments: Clear Gem Brad (Dollarama)
Tools: 1/8" Dimensional Squares, White Gel Pen (Marvy Uchida), Scissors, Double-Sided Adhesive Tape