CAS-ual Fridays, Red white and blue

 Happy Friday, friends!! If you are living in the states, then I hope you get the chance to enjoy the long weekend. In honor of Memorial Day on Monday, the challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays is to create a clean and simple project using red, white and blue. I think this is my first ever red, white and blue creation.
 

 

The winner of this week's challenge will win a $25 gift certificate from SimonSaysStamp.

For my card, I inked up the solid swoosh from Breath, alternating red and blue onto my cardfront. Then I inked up my sentiment from Bold Wishes onto another panel and tied on some Papertrey Ink Baker's twine. I adhered it to the cardbase with foam tape. I just love seeing that red and blue on white! 

 

 

I hope you can find a little crafty time this weekend join in on the fun. You have until noon on Thursday to link up and play. I can't wait to see what you create!



DeNami Product Graduation

 

 Today is product spotlight over at DeNami Design. The design team is showcasing Graduation set (cling) by having a DeNami blog hop. You should've arrived to my blog from Lisa Petrella's blog. If you visit each design team members blog and leave a comment along the way, you will be eligible to win this stamp! You can also add this fabulous stamp to your shopping cart and save 10%, one week only. 

 

 I started my card with some Amethyst cardstock. I inked up Small Congratulations onto some die cut white cardstock for my sentiment. Then I inked up the cap from Graduation set (cling), colored it in with my copics and then fussy cut it.

 

 

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For the inside of my card, I inked up the confetti and Class of sentiment. I made this card for my daughter in her school colors of purple and blue since she is graduating Kindergarten. I can hardly believe that in 1 week, her first year of school will be over. Sigh.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment on each blog to be eligible to win!

Wendy is your next stop!

DeNami blog

Lisa Petrella

Deb <------that's me

Wendy Elliot

Emily Keaton

Lisa Elton

Kanani Kawamura

Dana Seymour

Tammy Hobbs

 

 



DeNami Fresh Florals blog hop

 

 

 Welcome to the DeNami Design Fresh Florals blog hop. You should've arrive here from Deb's blog. Just in case you get lost along the way, you can always head back to the beginning. 

 

   

 My card was created using the inspiration colors for the current Play Date Cafe Challenge. I used some Red cardstock for my cardbase. Then I inked up Rosebud Trio onto some White cardstock and colored them in with my copics. I added some darker maroon shading to them. Although I did not have the perfect shade of soft jade for my leaves, I colored them in with one of my blue copics. Trust me when I say that I tried several variations of blending with my greens and blues to achieve soft jade, but I had no luck. Fortunately for me, I pulled out my Aqua Boutique buttons and found the perfect one for my card. I added some baker's twine and stamped my Thinking of you (cling) sentiment to finish of my card.

 

Your next stop along the hop is the talented Tina. I know you will not be disappointed.

 

 

 

Maroon ... Poppy ... Soft Jade

 

 

 Don't forget about the THREE gift certificates that will be given away! One gift certificate will go to a random participant and TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop! You have until May 20, 2013 11:59pm PST to comment and be eligible.

 



CAS-ual Fridays, Stamp on Designer Paper

Hello, friends!!!! I know that it has been a week since I last posted. A few of you may know that I had a terrible cold recently. In May?! Yes, lucky me. Believe it or not, I am still on the mend and it has been 2 1/2 weeks. Crazy, I know. Last weekend, my twin sister and her family came to visit so we could celebrate our birthday and Mother's Day. Oh, we love any excuse to get together and hang out. So here is a belated birthday shout out, Eva!!!

Happy Birthday!

Okay, enough chit chat. Now onto my card. Today, the challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays is to create a clean and simple project while stamping on designer paper.

 Our fantabulous sponsor this week is CAS-ual Fridays Stamps. The winner this week will get to choose a stamp set of their own from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps.

 

For my card, I used some Soft Stone PTI cardstock for my cardbase. Then I stamped my sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps, Exclamations onto some Lawn Fawn patterned paper. The paper is from the Bright side collection. The striped paper is actually vertical, but I cut it on the diagonal. I added a few sequins to finish it off.

 

 

There is so much designer paper out there, so don't just hoard it, but join in on the fun. You have until noon on Thursday to link up and play. I can't wait to see what you create!

DeNami Teacher thank you cards

Well, it's that time of the year when the school year is coming to a close. Leah and I created some thank you cards and treats to say thank you to all of her teachers that made kindergarten so special for her. You will have to head on over to the DeNami Design blog to check it out.!



DeNami Design Product Spotlight, Garden Bouquet

 

Today is product spotlight time over at the DeNami Design blog. The design team and I are showcasing Garden Bouquet. You can add this fabulous stamp to your shopping cart and save 10% off of your stamp, for one week only. 

 

I love this stamp!!! It is so elegant that I had to create a card making it the highlight. Lately I have been creating my own cut files for some of my stamps, and I just had to do the same here. I simply colored in my image with copics.

I love the texture of the DeNami white cardstock and how it adds just a touch of interest. By adding the foam adhesive to my image, it really makes it stand out and take center stage. I finished off my card my stamping Happy Mother's Day (cling) for my sentiment.

  

 

Thanks for stopping by. Please be sure to stop by the rest of the design team blogs to check out their creations.



Happy 2nd Birthday CAS-ual Fridays!!!

That's right! We are celebrating CAS-ual Fridays 2nd birthday. This awesome blog has been around for two wonderful years.

 

 There are so many things that I have to be thankful for this blog. I remember posting my first card to this challenge blog. I had an unused stamped die cut sitting on my table and I needed a thank you card that was mailable. My card came together so easy and then the light bulb went off...I love to create clean and simple cards!!!

 

The second reason I am thankful for this blog is that Michele offered me my first design team opportunity a year ago. Gosh, have I really been on this awesome team for a whole year? The time has simply flown by, I can hardly believe it.

 

So this week's challenge celebrates the top 10 challenges of CAS-ual Fridays. The challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge, which was also one of the top 10 challenges. You can create a clean a simple project by simply using a row for your inspiration.

        

 

We have some super exciting prizes for the winners of this 2 week challenge. Ellen Hutson is giving away a $25 gift certificate to this week's winner as well as $15 gift certificates to the 4 VIPs.

 

And not only that, but CAS-ual Fridays Stamps is giving each of the top 5 contenders a gift stamp set as well. If  you don't participate in this 2 week challenge, you've got to be crazy!

For my card, I chose the diagonal line of Birthday, Bling, & Punches/dies. You can never have enough birthday cards on hand, right? I used the birthday sentiment from Casual Elegance. Then I used my Silhouette to die cut the speech bubbles from the Silhouette store (Design #29232). I used the offset feature and flipped them. I finished it off with some rhinestones and popped up the sentiment bubble with foam adhesive.

So, I hope that you find some time to create more than one project from our Tic-Tac-Toe board. You have until midnight on Wednesday, May 15th to link up and play along. Thanks for stopping by!

DeNami Design, Pin-spired May

Happy hump day!!! Today some of the DeNami girls and I are sharing our projects that we created with the gorgeous Pin-spired photo. Sometimes when you see a picture, you know exactly what you want to create. You can head on over to the DeNami Design blog to see what the rest of the design team created.

 

For my card, I knew immediately that I wanted to use Tweety Bird border and Stitched border. I colored them in with my copics using the colors of the birds from the bottom row. I stamped Sending you Sunshine underneath my stamped image.

 

 

That's all for me today. Thanks for stopping by!

 

DeNami Notebook photo tutorial

Today I have a project that is being showcased over at the DeNami Design blog.  I created these little notebooks. So head on over to check it out!

 

 

What a surprise!

Hi friends! Well, today you would normally see my post for CAS-ual Fridays, but our current challenge is running for two weeks. So I thought I would pop in and share a few photos from last Saturday.

 

The hubby, kiddos and I headed over to the Magic Kingdom for the day. My in-laws also joined us for the first time. Since we have Florida resident passes (not annual), we manage to go about 4 times a year. We arrived just as the park opened and headed over to Tomorrow land. While sitting on the People Mover, I received a text message from my sister that a dear friend of mine from childhood happened to be visiting the theme parks this same weekend.

 

Alex and I attended the same summer camp in our early teens. In the evenings, we used to sit around the piano and listen to him play and sing. He was amazing talented back then and he was given the nickname of Piano Man, since he would play Billy Joel til the lights went out. He has had many accomplishments on Broadway and he has earned a Grammy and Tony for his work on In the Heights. He has even played for President Obama! When my sister travelled to New York back in December and got to meet up with him, I was jealous (in a good way, of course.) We haven't seen each other for over 20 years!!!

 

 

Me with Alex .

 

I thought I would link the video of him playing for the President. He accompanies Lin-Manuel Mirada on the piano. This is really good, enjoy! 

 

 

 

I wanted to share a few more pictures from our day.

 

Waiting to enter the park.

 

 

 

Joshua happy to be in the stroller.

 

 

Leah with Repunzel's new Tower behind her.

 

 

 

Joshua, looking for trouble.

 

 

The hubby being silly

 

 

The Carousel.

 

 

 

The Princesses

 

 

My father-in-law with my friend, Alex

 

 

And finally the family and Alex