Teacher Thanks~DSC7

I really love the sketches over at Deconstructing Jen, but I always seem to end up a day late...not this time!!  I have used the fab sketch from their super fun blog hop for my card today. 

I used some fun papers from my Taylored Expressions Kit, the thickers and the ribbon are from there as well and the teacher stamp is from the Make the Grade from TE also.

Happy Crafting!!

Ice Cream Anyone? MTSC38

Mercy over at Lord Have Mercy has a wonderful sketch this week for her weekly sketch challenge and I thought I would give it a try.

I used this sweet Tilda with her yummy ice cream cone and the papers, flowers, candy dots and ribbon are all from the June Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Kit.  My lovely digi watermark is available in rubber at Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

I am starting a fitness class today with my friend Amy, so Landon and I are taking Kirsten to school int he morning and then headed to Brooks for my class.  They offer a daycare, so he'll hang out there with Amy's daughter while we are in the class and then off we go for groceries and some running around.   I am having a Silpada Jewelery party on Friday night, so I need some yummy goodies for that!

As always, I am so grateful to my fabulous readers, thanks so much for stopping by!

Father's Day for my FIL-TECC73

Happy Monday! I know Father's Day was yesterday but I wanted to share the frame and card I made for Lance's Dad. We went up to visit yesterday afternoon and got a chance to see my SIL Natasha and niece Abby as well.

I made this card for him using the Boys Will Be Boys stamp set from Taylored Expressions as well as the papers from the Father's Day Key Ingredients Kit. I also used the sketch From TECC #73 for the layout!



Here is the frame I made for him as well. I used CTMH Starstruck paper, some more Sisal ribbon from Bunny Zoes and I cut a piece of Jute also from Bunny Zoe's in half lengthwise and used that too. Added a bunch of CTMH buttons and our family pict. Sorry there is a glare off the top of the picture, I took several and they all have it, plus it was after midnight when I finally got everything finished;-)



Today is Kirsten's last night of T-ball and then the wind up tomorrow night. It is supposed to rain though, so we may not be going tonight anyway, we'll see!

Have a fabulous Monday! Oh yes and in honor of over 25 000 visitors, I am going to post some blog candy...finally!!

Dance in the Rain~ASFOS~50 & FS~50

Kirsten hasn't been feeling well so I kept her home from school Monday and then again today. She does feel better today but has a terrible nagging cough so I thought I would keep her home again today and hopefully have a quiet day at home and a low key weekend and she can go back on Monday feeling 100%. It's tough because she feels OK but she can't run or play around at all or she has a coughing fit, so that's been life around the Schelske household the last few days.

Anyway, I was able to get a card done that will fit 2 challenges. The layout for my card is sketch # 50 from the Friday Sketchers blog, fab sketch Bea!! It will also fit the A Spoon Full Of Sugar Challenge #50 this week which is touchy feely. I used liquid glass on the umbrella and rain and some fun 3-D Scribblez on her wings, ribbon from the April TEKI kit (all paper is from the same kit too) and some fun Primas and goodies.


This beautiful image is from Paper Makeup Stamps and her name is Emma. The sentiment is also from Paper Makeup.

Thank you so much for stopping by and hanging in there with me even when my posts are rather sporadic, I do try and post at least 3 or 4 times a week, but sometimes life just takes over and it ends up being less often:-)

Have a fantastic day!

Bridal Shower Wishes~Mojo84

Yikes, almost the end of another week! I did manage to get a card made that I need for this Sunday. It's my sister Kim's friend Stephanie's bridal shower so I made this card for her.

I used Mojo Monday's Sketch #84 for the layout and one of my neglected Chichiboulie Fairies-Felicity Whitelace from Stamping Bella. I also used some more of my April Taylored Expressions Kit, love it!! I didn't color her dress at all just outlined it with BG10 and then used the Colorless Blender to blend it a bit, added stickles to her wings and stardust glitter pen to the flowers and such on her dress. It sparkles so nicely IRL.

Tomorrow is my Dad's birthday, so the kids and I will be headed over there for dinner. I am hoping Lance can make it, but we have a bunch of yearlings that need to be moved from the feedlot where they are right now to our pasture where they will be until August or so. He is down there today doing a bunch of chores with them (branding, ear tags, vaccines, etc) but then they need to be hauled to our pasture, so if he doesn't get everything done today then he will go back down there tomorrow. I hope he just hires a cattle liner to haul them in, but we'll see, it definitely costs less if you haul them yourself:-)

I hope you have a fabulous weekend! Thank you for taking the time to stop by!

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!