April Taylored Expressions Kit Subscriber Challenge

I was so excited to get my Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients April Kit last week in the mail. This is my second kit from a 6 month subscription and they are fabulous. Beautiful papers, gorgeous ribbons and glitter, awesome cs, it's a fantastic deal. As part of the subscribers monthly challenge, you just have to create anything using items from the kit. I know I am late on this one, but here's what I made...

I used SU's Baroque Motifs for the image and Little Paper Shop's Bound By The Heart stamp set for my sentiment. I know the "mother" part of the sentiment is hard to read as I stamped it in CTMH Breeze to match the blue aqua paper, but it's there, I promise, I just didn't leave a blank space!! Everything else is from the April TEKI kit, the white cs is TE Choice in white, the kit comes with ivory though. I popped up the sentiment and the pink flowers that I cut apart from the ribbon. I just love these papers and everything coordinates, just my cup of tea for sure!!

Just catching up on some laundry today, that's about the excitement in my world!

Hope you have a super day. Thanks for stopping by!

Teacher Anya~ASFOS#48

I love Anya's ans Ian's and Miss Anya's and well anything really from The Greeting Farm. I decided to make this card and I'm not really sure who it will be going to right this second, but I do have someone in mind. I used Caryn's great sketch over on the A Spoon Full of Sugar blog for my layout and Teacher Anya.

I really love SU's Pacific Point, so I paired that with Kiwi Kiss and some fun new October Afternoon paper I bought from Jacksonbelle Embellishments. It's called Light Night Charles and Picnic Basket. I used my fun new Flourish Accent Shapeablilities as well. After I cut and embossed the flowers I added some glitter with my stardust glitter pen and popped them up on dimensionals onto the flourish pieces that were cut out of Riding Hood Red SU cs. I used my green Spica glitter pen for the apple leaf and Scribblez for the apple. Not really "girly" colors, but I am actually really pleased with how it turned out!

Ok, so it's April 27th today right...well, we have about an inch of snow today!! The roads weren't great this morning taking Kirsten to school, but they should be better this afternoon once the highway maintenance people get out there. So not fun for this time of year, but we do live in Alberta, so I guess that's life! No T-ball tonight, so that's good because I didn't buy Kirsten a ball glove!! Ooooops, I guess she kind of needs one for that, but we'll get her hooked up for next Monday!

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day!

Just Magnolia2~AMRYS2~Lostie

Good Sunday evening everyone! Wow, another week flew by. I finally had a chance to make a card today. I used the colors-Pink & Green from the Just Magnolia Challenge #2 and then Amy's sketch for the layout. I kind of added some extra layers and another flower, but I hope that's ok. I used one of the Magnolias from the Spring Kit, love this kit, such cute images!!

I used my new Label 4 nesties that I picked up at a LSS when I was in Calgary last week, so glad I finally found some!! All cs is from CTMH and pp from DCWV Girls Nursery stack. I added some flower soft for the "grass" and used bubblegum Shimmerz on her wings! Added some fun CTMH Sorbet ric rac, 2 lovely Primas with some spacers and a wee pearl.

We had such a fun time at the Hannah Montana movie, it was great. Kirsten and I went shopping earlier in the day and that was so much fun. I don't often get to do too much just Kirsten and I so it was a real treat for both of us.

I had a comment and a couple of emails asking for pictures of our calf, so after supper tonight when we went out to feed him I snapped a couple...here is Lostie after his supper was finished...Kirsten called him that and thinks that if he finds his Mama, she will call him Lost & Found!! Pretty good theory!!

Off I scoot for story and bed time for my kids, it's been a long week and Kirsten is back to school 3 days this week and T-Ball is supposed to start if the weather is decent, butit is supposed to snow tomorrow, so I doubt we'll be going to ball.

Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit!

Our Thoughts Are With You

Unfortunately I need a sympathy card to send to my Grandma. Her very best friend passed away rather suddenly yesterday and she is so very sad. This is the card I made her and I hope it brightens her day a wee bit, at the very least to let her know that we are indeed thinking of her.



I used an older Tilda, but she is so sweet. I also used some Porcelain Basic Grey paper and chocolate satin SU ribbon. The sentiment is from Little Paper Shop. It started out with Amy's sketch, but I had to put my sentiment somewhere else, so it's not exact.

My gosh time flies. Kirsten only went to school Monday this week, so we have been busy just hanging out together. Crafting and blogging take a back seat when she is off school, so I am definitely behind! We had to go and pick up the Durango yesterday, it needed new brakes and an oil change and such and Lance had to go to Medicine Hat for work, so my FIL came with us and then drove our truck home. We went for ice cream at Dairy Queen and had a great afternoon.

We also have a wee baby calf that we are pail feeding...the kids named him Lostie and Kirsten thinks that if he finds a mama then she will call him Lost & Found!! Too cute!! We don't really know what the deal is with him, either he is a twin and his mama only accepted one of them or else his mama has no clue and didn't accept him at all. We tried pairing him up with who we thought was his mama, but that didn't work, so back int he barn he goes and we feed him!

Off I scoot, we are off to the city to visit Lance's Grandma and then to Okotoks to stay at my parents for 2 nights, so I won't be back until later Friday. I know we are out an about Saturday too, so hopefully I'll be back on Sunday!

Have a great week and thank you for stopping by!

Birthday Wishes From Tilda-Just Magnolia#1

Oh my, it's been a while since I've posted!! Saturday went very well, all the invitations are done and just need to be mailed...but the envelopes are here and my sister is in Calgary, so they will have to wait until Thursday when I meet up with her.

Just Magnolia is a new challenge blog out there and the first challenge is up and running with a fabulous prize. The first challenge is a sketch and here is my card for it.



I really love this sweet Tilda and this is definitely one of my favorite paper lines right now too!

Short and sweet tonight, just getting supper ready and to watch Dancing With The Stars:-)

Thanks for hanin' in there with me and I hope you have a wonderful evening!

Kristy & Jason's Wedding Invitations

Wow, it is absolutely crazy how fast this week off school is going. Kirsten goes back on Monday, but only for 1 day. The kindergarten is moving into the brand new part of the "big" school, so they will be moving the classroom and such on Wed and then it's her Friday off.

My sister Kristy and my sister Kim are coming out tomorrow along with Kristy's friend Rhiannon whose also the maid of honor for her wedding and we are going to get her invitations done.

This is what I came up with and after some tweaking of the initial design, this is the finished product.


The Reply card and envelope go inside under the band and it all fits nicely in a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" envelope.


Love the shimmery grey paper, it is metallic and so pretty. I colored the Michael's Bridal flowers with my Copic marker to get the shade we wanted and attached the pearls. The Elegant Eggplant and Very Vanilla cardstock and ribbon is all from SU!

I probably won't be back until maybe Sunday. Lance helped me move in my Expedit unit from Ikea last night, so my craft room is a disaster...although I do need to get the rest finished tonight so that we can get to everything we need for our wedding invite assembly tomorrow, so hopefully I will have a chance to get something made. So many super fun challenges out there and never enough time in the day!

I hope you've had a super week and wish you a wonderful weekend!! Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and for all the lovely comments!

Fairy Birthday Wishes-MOJO82

Kirsten is off to a birthday today and she is excited. They are going swimming and she is a little fish, so I'm sure they'll have fun. Landon and I are just going to relax. I am hoping it will be a nice day so we can go outside. I bought them both hoola hoops yesterday and they are having a blast with them. Mom and Dad have some over at their place and they were playing with my sister at Easter, so they decided they needed their own.

Anyway, onto my card, I used Mojo Monday Sketch #82 for my layout and ....check it out..my new watermark. Karen over at The Sweetest Thing is selling watermarks. I love all her work and they looked great, so I ordered a few of them, paid for them and got then super fast. You should definitely check it out if you are in the market for some new watermarks. I'm sure it can't be that hard to do but man for the life of me I can't figure it out. So $2 each is a great price to pay to eliminate the frustration!!

I used another Fairy Lily image from the Enchanted Lily set from Pink Cat Studio who by the way is releasing Lily at the Beach on the 23rd! Colored her in with my Copics, added lots of glitter and bling too!!

I hope Peekay likes it, she loves Tinkerbell but this is as close to Tink as I have!!

Wishing you a wonderful day!!

Spring Break

Hello, hello!

Well it is Spring Break here in Alberta...well for my kiddo anyway. So we are just hanging out together this week. We are off to town tomorrow and then a birthday party on Thursday and then Saturday we are making wedding invites for my sister's wedding, so I haven't had much time to create anything really. I am behind on my google reader and card making, but I am enjoying the time with Kirsten being home all week, so I will have to play catch up next week. On that note, please know that I will be popping in here and there...possibly with a sneaky peak at the wedding invites, but mostly just hangin' with the kiddos.

For some other fun, hop on over to McMama's blog and check out Stellan's name gallery...my kiddos are there, right now they are the 8th from the top, but that could change as new ones are added all the time....they are in the Calgary Flames Jersey's....oh and Kirsten lost her first tooth!!!

Thanks for poppin' by!

TECC63-Fairy Lily

Oh my gosh, I love these adorable fairy Lily girls from Pink Cat Studio. I used Taylor's sketch from Friday for my layout and Lily on the swing from the Enchanted Lily set.

My wonderful friend Lorelei made me some of these adorable crochet flowers. I really love them and secretly would like to just keep them on my counter and look at them because they are so cute and pretty, but I thought they worked well on this card. The middle one has some sparkly thread in it and the two outer ones are solid white.

I colored in her wings and the flowers with my Spica glitter pens for some shimmer and added the shimmery brads the the flower centres from my stash. A pretty girly card that I think will be for a birthday, but I will put that on the inside when the times comes.

Wishing you a wonderful Easter Sunday with your family and friends!

Happy Easter

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Happy Easter to you all!

Little Paper Shop-Katie Mushroom

I'm not really sure when this ends and I may be too late, but over at Little Paper Shop, they have a fab sketch challenge on right now and you could win your choice of 3 digi images.

I used one of the adorable digi images from their online store called Katie Mushroom.


I just got the Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool and thought I would use it for the sky and grass, but things didn't really work out the way I was hoping they would. The little felt pads are smaller than the velcro piece and they were causing me trouble...maybe I just need more practice.

Anyway, I am going to run and get Landon to have a little snooze, Lance is back in bed sleeping again. I think he is starting to feel a smidge better but we have decided to cancel Easter dinner at our house and maybe the kids and I will go over to my parents. I have a cousin out from BC that has never met my kiddos, so it would be nice if we could visit.

Have a super Saturday!

A few pictures...

Lance is sick with a major flu bug and now a bacterial infection. He did go to the ER yesterday and is on antibiotics for the infection. I really hope he is feeling better soon, he hasn't been this sick in a very long time, actually I don't think he's ever been this sick in the 11 years we've been together. I haven't managed to get much done with a sick hubby and trying the keep the kiddos half quiet and occupied, so I have some picts from today to share with you instead. It was a beautiful day out and we spent a lot of time outside today.

Here are some picts of Kirsten & Landon playing around. They insisted on having lunch on the deck, so they had some soup out there and though that was great.

Lunch time...


Kirsten...


Landon...yes his shirt and cowboy hat are on backwards, but that's how he rolls LOL!


Kirsten drawing on the sidewalk blocks, one is our family and the other is what Spring looks like!



Come on back tomorrow as I will have a card to share with you.

Thanks for coming by and wishing you a wonderful Easter weekend!

A Verve Birthday-MOJO81

I used Julee's fab MOJO sketch from Monday for the layout of this card. It is made for Lance's Grandma who's having a birthday next week. I'm not sure when we are going to get into the city to have a visit so I wanted it ready just in case I need to pop it in the mail.

I used 2 different Verve sets for this one, Petals & Stems and Birthday Surprise as well as the oh so yummy Raspberry Tart paper from SU!. I used Stardust stickles on the outline of all 3 butterflies and popped the single on up on dimensionals, added 3 MS pearls and some beautiful American Crafts ribbon to finish it off.

Just a quick post tonight for me as I have a ton of stuff to catch up on. Landon and I took Kirsten to school today and then continued on to Medicine Hat to go to Costco and Wal-Mart...a pit stop at Michael's and then home to get Kirsten from school, so I have stuff to get put away and "hidden" for Easter and then some supper ready!

Just a quick note to wish sweet Danni a very Happy 4th Birthday!! Hope your day was fabulous sweet girl!!

Thanks for visiting!

Howdy!~AMYRS64

I love sketch challenges...as if you couldn't tell, but I do. Amy's are fabulous so I have gone ahead and used her sketch from Friday for the layout of my card.

This is made for a very good friend of Lance's family who is having a birthday tomorrow. Larkin (my FIL) is going to town for dinner with them so I made this today so he could take it with him.

He is most definitely a cowboy being president of the rodeo committee and all, so I thought this would be a fitting image for him. I hope he likes it! Happy Birthday Wayne!

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Only 1 more day of school for Kirsten this week and then she if off until the 20th! Yay, I am excited to not have to get up at 6am...maybe I can train the kiddos to sleep in. One thing is for sure though, after her flower girl dress shopping night with just the girls, she is looking for another "just the girls" night, so my sisters, Kristy & Kim and I are going to take her to see the Hannah Montana movie. I think it'll be fun, we've never gone to a movie before, so I am looking forward to it!

Lance is feeling a bit better but I guess everyone at the office had the exact same thing he did all weeeknd! I really hope the kids and I don't get what he had. I'm still all stuffed up and such, but no aches or pains and I would like to leave it that way!!

As always, thank you so very much for taking the time to visit and comment and I hope you have a wonderful day/night, whatever it may be where you are:-)

Still here....

Oh my gosh the flu bug has hit our house. I have a stuffy head and sore throat and Lance has barely gotten out of bed for 2 days!

Yesterday my sister Kristy and Jason and my Dad and I went to see Johnny Reid in Calgary and had a super time, The show was fabulous as was our supper before hand. Lance was going to watch the kiddos for me, but could hardly function, so instead I took them with me and we stayed at my parents last night. My sister Kim and Mom spent the night with Kirsten and Landon and they had a super night!

Here's a pict of the oh so yummy Johnny Reid himself...my point & shoot camera really sucks or maybe I just don't have the right settings or something, anyway, here are 2 of the best ones...




I got groceries and such today and then came home. I feel worse tonight than I have all weekend, so I am hoping I am not getting what Lance has.

So anyway just wanted to let you know my reason for not blogging. I do have a few things to show you, so hopefully I will get to it tomorrow:-)

Hugs,

Tilda & Flower Soft

I picked up a couple jars of Flower Soft last week when I was in Calgary and finally had a chance to play with it. It's great and comes is a wide range of fun colors. I bought 2 of the mixed posts, Sweet Pea and Fuchsia. You can get them online from Taylored Expressions, 7 Kids College Fund and All That Scraps.



I used this months Sheetload sketch for my layout and added some fuchsia flower soft to her basket of blooms! It's so fun and makes it look so pretty. Green would be funky for grass and brown, grey or black for animal fur, a light blue for some clouds or water, yellow or light tan for hay or straw, there really are so many fun things you can do with this stuff.

Speaking of straw, we finally have our first calf!! Hopefully one of these days the Mommma's will hang out a little closer to home and I'll get some picts. Landon is so excited for the babies to be arriving!

Keith Urban is coming to Calgary this September and I got tickets yesterday for Lance and I to go...ya a date night for us, just counting down until Sept 18th now:-) I got tickets today as well for Kristy & Jason too. It'll be awesome, I love Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum is opening for him and they'll be awesome. Lance and I did see Lady Antebellum in Vegas when they had a show on Freemont Street, but I'm thinking this will be so much better!

Have a wonderful day!

WOW, awesome blog candy offer!!

I was just checking out Danielle's cute pony that her adorable kiddos ride and thought I would share this fabulous blog candy that Kelly Landers at My Bucket Overfloweth has up for grabs.
Check it out....

Wowzers, hop on over to see all the details!

Good luck!

Paper Makeup Stamps-AMRYS63

Well as you all know my daughter's name is Kirsten so when I saw Katie Cotton's new line of stamps called Paper Makeup and one of the beautiful fairies is named Kirsten, of course I had to have it. Kirsten thinks it's pretty cool too. I let her open the package when it came and she was excited that her name was on there.

Anyway, I used Amy's sketch from Friday for the layout and my new March Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients kit. The paper in this kit is awesome, plus gorgeous ribbons, beautiful glitter and some fun chipboard pieces to match, love it!! Lots of bling going on with this one!! I made a boo boo cutting out my oval and decided to add some liquid glass and the Parisian Glitter (it came in the March TEKI kit). I think it turned out great and it hid my mistake too;-) I used Scribbles in Crystal on the flower puff (looks like a dandelion to me, but not 100% sure on that, celery Shimmerz on her wings and some matching green rhinestones on the right hand side. I am really quite happy with how it turned out.

That's all for me today, I am going to scoot and get supper going!! I do have a card to share with you tomorrow using my new Flower Soft, that stuff is so cool!!

Have a wonderful evening and thanks so much for stopping by!