Spring is in the air finally!

Yesterday at SCS Emily posted a color challenge of cool caribbean, certainly celery and elegant eggplant. I am not done playing with my doodles yet and used it for my card. I used Stampin'Up watercolor paper and stamped the images with basic brown (the new black) I watercolored with the challenge colors. I used little crystals on the flourishes and stickles on the flowers. It is really sparkly! I love it. My color spritzer in elegant eggplant marker spritzed some color here and there. The celery layer of cardstock was distressed with my scissors. I used my polka dot stamp from my Polka dots and petals set from the spring mini. I love this set and am so excited at all the ideas I have in my head to use it for. Back to the story, I stamped the polka dot in celery and punched it out with a circle punch. I glued them to the bottom of the eggplant layer. I did a line of paper piercing down each side and then finished it off with my new ribbon from Jody's striped ribbon share. It is yummy stuff! I thought about hoarding it, then decided I am going to use every last inch. It is beautiful! Oh and by the way, there is snow all over the ground and it is only 19 degrees outside, sigh! Spring has to be right around the corner right?

I also wanted to bring up a post from Joan over at Paperlicious. http://paper-and-ink.blogspot.com/2007/02/stampers-neurosis.html She has an awesome point! I stamped today for fun and to enjoy myself. I hope people enjoy what I did, but if they don't I had fun and really used my time to de-stress. This is what stamping has been all about for the last 10 years for me. I enjoy paper crafts. It really helps me to sit down and pull out pretty paper and ink and just play! Thank you Joan for putting it in perspective!

Tomorrow

I hope to post something fun tomorrow. Come back and see!

MIA

Sorry I have been missing in action the past few days. We are having some family issues that I need to take care of so I will probably be missing for a few more days. Check back in a few days. I am actually working on something adorable and can't wait to share. I just need to finish it up and then I can post. Thanks for your understanding.
Lesa

Swirls, ribbon and flowers

Creamy caramel is the base of this delicious confection! I put about 2/3 of it through my swirl embossing folder and ran it through my cuttlebug. Chocolate chip craft was brushed across it to accent. Chocolate chip is the distressed layer with vanilla craft swirls stamped all over. I backed this layer with cranberry crisp. Holes are punched where the swirls had dots to give it more texture. My scissors are what I used to distress the edges. The flowers are stamped with basic brown and watercolored with buckaroo blue, true thyme, and close to cocoa ink. They are popped up with Stampin Dimensionals. The ribbon is Stampin'Up! and Michaels. A hodgepodge swirl clip tops the ribbon off and finishes the swirls, ribbon and flower theme.

lil tin bucket

I made this lil bucket for a neighbor. It is a simple little thing really. I punched holes in it with my crop-o-dile and set pink flower eyelets. I used one of my daisies from the prima share at Jody's blog. (http://confessionsofaribbonaddict.blogspot.com/) She is doing a fun new ribbon share! ( no money to spend, darn) I stamped a heart from doodle that, water colored it with reinkers, and ran it through my xyron. Dazzling diamonds glitter finished it off. Ribbons are from Stampin'Up!, Michaels, and fiber from Walmart. I got the note cards and bath fizzies at Michaels $1 spot. The altered lip gloss is from Target $1 spot. Nothing fancy, just fun!

Rose sympathy

I needed a sympathy card for a neighbor who lost his Mother. I used chocolate chip for the background piece on this card. I used the swirl from doodle this inked with vanilla craft ink. The cranberry crisp layer was stamped with cranberry crisp ink with my paisley bg stamp. I pierced the sides of the cranberry layer with my Stampin'Up! tool kit. I used a corner rounder on the always artichoke and the vanilla layer. I stamped my linen bg in creamy caramel on the vanilla layer. The roses were stamped in cranberry crisp and the leaves with always artichoke. I used Michaels brown organdy polka dot ribbon and Stampin'Up! stitched cranberry crisp ribbon at the top. The with sympathy is stamped with chocolate chip craft ink and embossed with clear ep. I used a swirl clip from my hodgepodge hardware and two tiny prima flowers with making memories brads to finish it. I used my spritzer tool to spritz chocolate chip ink over the roses.

Eye Candy!

I am babysitting poor lil sick baby today so I thought I would give you eye candy! This was one of my Christmas presents from my sweet hubby! Brad Paisley tickets! Can I say heaven!

We went overnight to Salt Lake City and went to the concert and dinner! It was wonderful. Carrie Underwood was there with him too.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get a stamped something on here! Until then Enjoy!

Update: Turns out she has Croup! Poor lil baby! I hope she feels better tomorrow!