Gardening for Flowers with da Vudda

Today, as part of the  Teapot Tuesday Challenge and Party at SCS, we are sending our cards to someone who has suffered some set backs in her recovery from surgery.  It happens to be a friend of a dear cyberfriend, so I wanted to be sure to participate.  She loves gardening and flowers.

I used this small set from My Favorite Things as it has an obvious gardening connection.  I added some Primas so I'd meet both parts of today's challenge.  (Although I was slow to realize that the flowers ont he handle actually did that for me.....duh!!!!!)

If you have some time during your busy weeks, you just might want to play along on Tuesdays.  We not only get to do what we love, stamping, but we also are able to make the day of our recipients.  It gives you such a good feeling......I PROMISE!!!!!!!

Blog Hop Info AND Stampin B's and CCEE Challenges

There is a blog hop going on at Mark's Finest Papers today to celebrate their new release.  Today members of the Design Team will be sharing creations made with the set called In My Mother's Garden, which I used to create this simple card.  Be sure to go to the Mark's Finest Paper's Blog to begin the blog hop.  I am sure you will be dazzled by the creations of the team.

This card was made for the Stampin B's and the CCEE Challenges for this week.

Lois was our hostess for the Stampin B's, and she challenged us to make a card with a circle, a square, and an oval.  Well, my main image is my oval, my pink dp layer is my square (with a border cut into it), and my sentiment is my circle.

Cindy is our hostess for the April CCEE Challenges, and this week she challenged us to a color combo of pink and black.  Well, quite honestly, this is a color combo I use often, so this was pretty easy for me.

The image and sentiment I used are from a Mark's Finest Papers set called Just Dandy.  I used a Martha Stewart border punch and 'floral' punch.

Now...you are going to want to see what the members of both these fabulous teams have created, so here are the links to the team blogs.  Remember that you can always visit their individual blogs by clicking on the links found on my sidebar under the team names.

Stampin B's Blog
CCEE Blog

The Crazies and the Friends Challenges

Silke Kittman is our hostess this week for the Crazy4Challenges.  She asked us to use a color combo this week:  brown, green, and vanilla.  I haven't done a scenic card for a while, so I went with this woodsy scene which was perfect for the color combo.  I believe the image is by Stampscape, but if you absolutely must know, just ask and I'll check the next time I head down to the stamp cave.  The sentiment is by Hero Arts.  I really should try to get more masculine birthday cards made.....I always seem to need one in a hurry!!!

This sketch was one I missed on SCS from a last week or the week before.  I know I will be using that again.  Thanks to Rox and Dawn for this sketch challenge.

Can't wait to see what the rest of the Crazies do with this color combo......so, like you, I will be going to the Crazies' Blog to check out this week's creations.

As many of you know, I am not naturally a technique junkie........and that is the great thing about challenges....they make us work out of our comfort zone (often)!!!  Harriet was our hostess for the Speedy's Friends Challenge this week, and she asked us to use resist emboss.  Well, I attempted it........somehow I wish I had gotten a stronger contrast, but that is the fault of the creator, not the technique.  In real life there is a bit more contrast in the main panel.  The image and sentiment are from a set soon to be released by Mark's Finest Papers called In My Mother's Garden.  I dry embossed the bkgd. added some piercing and gems, and some sweet Prima flowers.

Be sure to visit the Speedy's Friends post to see the fab emboss resist creations of the rest of this fabbo team.

On Thursday, I made this card which was entered into three challenges.  I used the sketch from the SCS Sketch Challenge, the colors of the Stampin B's Challenge along with gingham (a small plaid IMHO), and Ii got out my decorative scissors for the Way To Use It Challenge on SCS.

For my image and sentiment, I used the set called Exercise Stella from Totally Stampalicious.

.......on a personal note......

(Pepper in the front, our almost 8 year old Cairn terrier.  Angel in the back, our 4.5 month old rescue pup.)

Angel is fully recovered from her surgeries.  Her stitches have been removed, her incision healed, and the  cone is GONE!!!!  She is 'running like the wind' outside and aggravating her 'brother'.  Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers.  All is well with the 'babes'!!!!