Celebrate the Moments

For this card, I used the "Many Messages" stamp and die set a special friend gave to me.  I love that numerous sentiments are all on one stamp; the coordinating die cuts them all out with one pass through the die-cutting machine!  

I made this for my husband for our anniversary.   I am so happy to share a special day with him to celebrate the moments!  

I used all SU! items on this card.  If you are looking for a Stampin Up! demonstrator Sarah Orlando is wonderful.  You can check out her SU! page HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

We Might as well Dance

I have been a fan of the Beautiful You stamp set since the first day I laid eyes on it.  I just love the style and energy of the images. The sentiments are pretty special too.  So it was with surprise and delight that I received this set in the mail last week!   At first, I wondered how anyone knew I loved this set and then I remembered a passing comment I had during a conversation with my sweet friend, Judy.   I was floored that she purchased this for me from that little conversation and it's not even my birthday or Christmas!   Thank you, Judy!

I wanted to celebrate this week's Featured Stamper at SCS so I browsed her gallery.  I found several cards I thought I was going to CASE but when I saw her darling Time To Read card, I thought of my new stamp set.  I also had this week's Art Nudge in mind when I was browsing Teresa's gallery so when I saw her cute girl in red, I knew what I was going to do!  

I am also entering this in the SCS Fan Club Monthly Theme: Rise Up.

This sentiment means a lot to me since this was supposed to be a BIG month for our family!   Our son graduates from college this month, my sister also graduates from college with her teaching degree and my niece graduates High School!  I was so looking forward to seeing them cross the stage and celebrating them.  It's healthy to acknowledge the disappointment but I am not going to live there so I might as well dance!   

Thanks so much for stopping by and before you go, leave me a comment and share how you are dancing in spite of a missed event! 

A Birthday and IC Challenge

Happy Saturday to you!  I hope you are enjoying this summer day.   Today is Saturday so I have a card to share for the IC challenge at Splitcoaststampers featuring the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set and Bouquet Bunch Framelets from SU!  Stacy is our hostess this week and she has chosen the Vera Bradley store for our inspiration this week.  I chose the coral floral pillow as my inspiration.  You can find more info in my gallery post HERE.

This week was a big week as we celebrated our daughter's 18th birthday!!  I knew just the color combo to create her card since she ordered a cookie cake with a border of blue and purple.  I am featuring the Balloon Strings stamp from MFT on the background and a retired A La Mode image. This was my day 12 of 30 Day coloring challenge and so far it's the last day I have been able to carve out some coloring time.  

Turning 18 is one of those big deal birthdays so we took her out shopping the day before her birthday.  She will get together with her friends tonight and then she has asked to take a couple of friends on a day trip to an outdoor resort. 

Her actual birthday was filled with "have to" appointments so we celebrated in the evening with pizza and cookie cake.  Our son came home and gave her an art supply scavenger hunt.  I am not exactly sure why the hunt was put on a paper towel with a room in the house totally dedicated to paper!

  I just love the sibling birthday photos every year!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Cool Cat, Warm Day, a play on the Montly Theme

Happy Caturday!  

Today at Splitcoaststampers, Stacy picked a floral site to inspire us.  You can check out the challenge at IC637.

I chose THIS photo for my inspiration.  I wanted to play with this sweet "Sitting Here" set by SU! (demonstrator Lydia Fiedler) which I bought in the fall but had not inked yet.  My garden seating is a swing instead of a chair as in the photo and I added a few extras, like the kitty and bird!  I used the color of the flowers in the photo for the pillows and the flowers in the flower pot.  

I am also playing along with this month's Dirty Dozen theme sketch at Splitcoaststampers.  The theme this month is "Cold Hands Warm Heart".  I have a warm spring day, warm colored pillows and flowers along with one very Cool cat and a cool blue sky.  

Thanks for visiting today!

For You in Blue

The IC631 Challenge at Splitcoaststampers is brought to us this week by Julie.  She has chosen a rich site for us to be inspired by.  I was inspired by the beautiful artwork HERE.

I die cut flowers and leaves from SU! Bouquet Bunch and stamped the sentiment from the SU! Beautiful Bouquet stamp set.  For this card, I went simply with die cutting and sponging since I am still taking things very easy and even a little thing like extra stamping steps can be overwhelming.  In the future, I look forward to creating a grand variety of floral cards!

If you are looking for an SU! demo, look no further than Lydia at Understandblue!  

Thanks so much for stopping by.