Your so appreciated!!!

I have a very somple card for you tonight. It took me two sessions to even get this card done tonight. I haven't been feeling very well the last few days. My husband stayed home from work last night (he works the night shift) to help me gets some things done and take care of me, he also attended to my mother's needs to give me a break and the needed rest. He couldn't stay home tonight so I have been muddling through. I wanted to make him a card to let him know how much he means and appreciated by me. I wanted to let him know besides just telling him. Since he comes home in the middle of the night I wanted to have this waiting for him when he came in. I think it will surprise him.

I started with PTI's Kraft CS. Then with PTI's Vintage Cream CS, I ran it throught the cuttlebug with the Ayrgle embossing folder. I took a Dew Drops Versa Magic ink pad and tapped over it lightly to add a little color. The ribbon is also PTI Ocean Tides and Vintage Cream. The sentiment is from PTI's Mega Mixed Messages. Look at those rhinestones. I won them over at Live, Love, Laugh and Create. The color is Island Lagoon. Aren't the gorgeous!! Thank you Lorie!!

I need to make this short tonight.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!!
Liz

Sitting here..

Hello everyone. I hope everyone is off to a good start this week. I had planned to get in the craft room this last weekend but of course things didn't go as planned. Then yesterday I thought I would have the afternoon to do some crafting but I started feeling sick after making this one card and then I didn't get anything else done. It was a rough rest of the day and night. I am hoping that is the end of it. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Now on to this card. I just love this little girl. I have from the first I saw her. Everytime I went buy her they were out of stock. Then for Mother's Day my daughter gave her to me. I guess she was better at finding her in stock than I was. LOL!!

I just love coloring her with my copics. There is so many combinations that you can do. I don't think I will ever get tired of her. The colors just came together. I think I was thinking of fall and this is what I came up with.

I used PTI In Bloom PP and another PP that I had in my stash. The ribbon is PTI Ripe Avacado and Summer Sunrise. The flower is one I made with a brad from SU! I used my octogon nestabilities. The sentiment is from PTI On My Couch Additions.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.
Have a great day!!
Liz

I Chair-ish your Friendship

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend so far.

I am not sure what frame of mind I am in these days but I needed to try and create a few things and see if I could divert things a little.

This card is for Whimsy Stamps challenge. I just love this set from PTI "On My Couch". I used the chair because of the sentiment which was the challenge to make a friend card. You can always use a friend,right?

The card ended up being a 4 X 4 card. I paper pieced the chair with some PP I had in my stash and went with the colors that were in it. I colored the legs of the chair using a copic. The CS is Pure Poppy and Spring Moss from PTI. The ribbon is also Spring Moss. I tied the middle with Button Twine from PTI for a little extra interest. The border punch is from Martha Stewart. I believe the card base itself is from SU!!

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look,

Have a great rest of your weekend,

Liz

Another Challenge !!

Hello, everyone!! I know I haven't blogged much this week. I haven't really been in the creative mood the last few days.

I decided I needed to try and get a few things done this week. I also wanted to do one of Lauren Meader's over at My Time, My Creations, My Stampendence. This was an interesting sketch to me. I needed a card or two to send out to let someone know that we are thinking of them in their time of trials.

This is a very simple card. I love this image of Lilacs in a pitcher, purchased from Ellen Hutson's store.

Supplies:

Paper-PTI select white, PTI Lavender Moon, PP from SU!

Stamps- Lilacs in Pitcher

Ink- PTI Smokey Shadow, Versa Mark Dazzle Champaign

Accessories- copics, Ranger Glossy effects, FunFlock, PTI Lavender Moon Polka Dot ribbon, Prima flowers, butterfly charm

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Liz

Happy Anniversary Jason & Melissa!

*Spoiler Alert* If you haven't received your card and don't want to see it now, don't go any further!!

Happy Monday everyone!!

Today is our daughter Melissa and her husband Jason's anniversary. I made this card for them. I used PTI In bloom flower. I stamped three and then embossed them with white embossing powder. I used Enchanted Evening reinker and drops a few drops and it wasn't working like I had hoped but then took a paper towel and wiped it off and I liked how it turned out. I cut them in sections and used dimensionals to layer it and then used my ink pad and went around the edges to give it a little more dimension. I used a glue pen and randomly put some on the petals and used Prisma glitter to give it a little sparkle. I layered it on white CS and layered with Summer Sunrise and Enchanted Evening. Used the ticket punch from SU! for the corners and the sentiment is also fromm SU! warmest regards. The sicker gems are some I had in my stash. I sponged around the edges of the card with Enchanted Evening.

Hope it is a great one!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Have a great day!

Liz

Whimsy Challenge

Happy Sunday everyone!! I actually feel like I got a few things accomplished this weekend. I made this card for the Whimsy challenge. I just love this image from Sarah Kay. She is so fun to color and with so many options.

I spent last night with my husband. We watched the Fast and Furious. It was a pretty good movie. When I was younger I was into racing. I grew up mostly with brothers and they liked going to the track and racing on a quarter mile track. I was always under the car with them and also enjoyed the muscle cars as they say. I raced a few races myself and actually had a chance to go professionally. I almost did but things didn't work as I would have. I still like to look and wouldn't mind getting behind of a muscle car. I guess it never gets out of your blood.

Back to the card. This was a scetch challenge. With this one I had colored this little girl with my copics and then built the sketch and colors around her. When I colored the dress and bonnet I thought of this velvet ribbon from SU! I have had it for awhile now. The paper is from Basic Grey, Urban Prarie (I believe). The sticker gems I got from Michael's awhile back. I need to start using some things that I seem to hoard or put away and then forget that I have.

Hope everyone has a great day!!
Thanks for stopping by,
Liz

Raspberry Suite Challenge #13

Hello everyone!! I hope everyone's weekend is off to a good start.

This card is for a challenge. I love challenge, they give me a head start on what I am going to do.

It is a bitter sweet card since I made it with my MIL in mind. She found out a couple of weeks ago that she had lung cancer and had to go through a procedure that would be risky for her. She made it through that to find out a few days ago that her cancer was incurable and was the aggressive kind. It has already spread to her liver. She is in good spirit and says the Lord is who she is depending on now to get her through the chemo and anything else she might have to endure. She also says that she has people praying for her and we sure could use all that she can get right now. She goes next week for a catscan to see how much it has spread and how aggressively they need to treat the cancer. Hopefully to get her into remission for a very long time. I don't usually put things out there like this, but this is something that I needed to talk about.

Now, on to the card. I made this for Dawn's McVey's color challenge. She has some good color choices and it makes you think how you can put the colors together. These colors are PTI Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Spring Moss and White. I crocheted the flowers with DMC floss to match the pure poppy color and also stamped the Fancy Flourish in Pure Poppy On Berry Sorbet CS. The scallop border is Martha Stewart and I put tiny pearls on each scallop. I also used the pure poppy floss for in between the two colors. The buttons are from the Spring Moss Vintage buttons and ties with spring moss floss. The sentiment is from Everyday Blessings stamped in Berry Sorbet. I thought is was perfect to let her know that she is in our prayers.

Thank you for stopping by today!!
Have a good one,
Liz