Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Right now I am looking out the window of our condo in Big Sky, MT...and watching the snow silently fall.  I brought some of my supplies with me, in order to create a couple of things that I just didn't have time to get done last week.

My card today is for Stamper's Dream.  I also used CPS Sketch #215 for it, and the Play Date Cafe #78 (red, light blue, pink) challenges.  Here is what I created:

Happy Wednesday, everyone!! Welcome to this month's Taylored Expression "Blast from the Past" blog hop!! This month's theme is clean and simple...and I decided to use one of my tried and true themes/designs for it....rainbows!!

I often use a similar design concept when bringing the rainbow theme into a card, and it just happens to really work well.  Here is what I created!

Happy Tuesday, everyone!!  I hope that you had a wonderful weekend, and a great start to your week!  It has been a little slow at my blog, and for the next couple of weeks it is going to stay that way.  We are getting ready to leave for a week at Big Sky with Josh's parents this Friday, and I have a lot to do to get ready to go.  So- sorry if posts are a bit sparse!  I hope you will still enjoy what I do get to post, and will come back once I am home!!

Today I have a card to share with you for Stamper's Dream.  It is also my card for CPS Sketch #214, and I used the colors from CR84FN24 (light blue, aqua, cream).  This is what I came up with!

Happy Friday, everyone!!  Are you excited for the weekend?  I know that I am!  My hubby has to work all weekend long, which is a bit of a bummer because his normal days off are Friday and Saturday.  But, it is the life of retail and we take it all in stride.  So- I am heading off for a day in Helena tomorrow!  First on the docket...to watch the bro play in the last spring scrimmage of the season.  Can't wait to watch him play, and just get to see him and my parents and Tara.  It has been forever!  It will just be a day trip though, and I will head home at some point!  Can't wait!

Today I have my first WPlus9 Color Cue post as a design team member.  Here is the awesome color combo that we are challenging you with:
Of course, you can add in white/cream as a helpful neutral!  I just adore this color combo...it is one of my faves!! The paper I used is a scrap leftover from one of my favorite pieces of Hambly Screen Prints paper...and was so happy that I found a use for it!!  I also used Clean & Simple Stamping FTL #135 for my card...which was last week's sketch.  I am a little late on it...but I think that is probably okay! Tee hee!  Here is what I created:

Happy Thursday, everyone!!  I hope your day has been a good one so far!  I have been busy making a couple cards, and in a little bit I have to run to church to help out.  They are having a church planting meeting, and the person who was supposed to watch the children from 3-5p ended up not being able to do it...so in comes a call to Lea!  I am more than willing to help out when needed, so I am glad that they called me.

Today I have a card to share with you for Stamper's Dream.  I used the Viva la Verve! April 2011 Sketch #2 for this card, and it was a perfect layout for it!!  I also used the Color Throwdown #137 (teal, summer sun, celery) & the Flourishes "Spring Has Sprung" challenge (inspiration photo) for it.  Here is what I created!

Hi everyone!!  Welcome to the last day of the April Lawn Fawn release sneak peek!!  Hasn't it been a glorious few days, full of lovely projects and inspiration?  Sigh...I always love release weeks.  They make me happy! :)

Today we are sharing a teeny stamp set called "Year One"!  Last month Lawn Fawn celebrated their first birthday, and this cutie little set went out with orders over a certain dollar amount.  Well, this month it is available for purchase, and it is really the sweetest little birthday set!  I am certain it will be very affordable, and would make a fabby addition to your collection of birthday stamps!!

I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #112 for my card, which is an awesome little sketch and was PERFECT for this cute stamp set.  I was also inspired by the Off The Wall Craftiness Challenge #50 (pink, yellow, light green) for my color choice.  I used more of a sea foam than a true light green...but I think it still fits! ;) Here is what I created!

....I would still choose you as a friend.  This is the lovely sentiment on my card this week, and I just love it.  It is the complete truth about my own mom...even though I am much happier to have her as my mom, and not just a friend. :)  You may have noticed that my blog looks slightly different.  I have really cleaned up the sidebar on the right hand side, and turned it into pages at the top of my blog.  I really dislike cluttered websites, and that is how I felt about my sidebar.  I left the followers on the sidebar, in case someone wants to follow my blog- they easily can.  And I left blog archive, as I use it quite often.  I really think it looks so much better, and I love having all my favorite links in different pages at the top!!  Yay for a cleaner looking blog!

The card I have to share with you today is for CPS Sketch #213, where we were sponsored by My Favorite Things this week.  I used this week's CR84FN23 Color Challenge (light pink, black, cream) & The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #53 (Doilies &/or Lace + inspiration photo) as well.  Here is what I created!

Hi there, everyone!!  Are you excited for day 3 of the April Lawn Fawn sneak peeks?!  I think the design team did an amazing job with Fanciful Frames yesterday, and there were so many different styles and uses of them!!  Gotta love that!

Today we are showcasing a brand new alphabet set that I just know you are going to love!!  It has a bit of a typewriter look to it, and is really clean as well!!  Scrapbookers- this set will be perfect for journaling, and adding subtitles to your layouts.  Card makers- you can create pretty much ANY sentiment you could ever want with this set, and that is just awesome!!  It would look really awesome inside of a Fanciful Frame as well....just sayin'. Tee hee!

I chose to utilize the stamp set by itself on a card, and I just love how it turned out.  It was time to break out my favorite rainbow theme, and channel my CAS side.  I also just got some new twine in the mail, and I wanted to play around with it.  I used Chupa's Sketchbook Saturday #6 again for this one, and I love how completely different this card looks from the other one....that is what I love about sketches!!  They can be used over and over again, and you will never get the same result twice! It also fits the Wee Memories Challenge #51 again, which is to use twine.  Well, this one REALLY fits that challenge...tee hee!  And last but definitely not least, Lily Pad Cards "Kathy's Color Throw Down" is all kinds of rainbow goodness...and my card fits it perfectly!!  Here is what I came up with:

**If you are looking for my Lawn Fawn "Fanciful Frames" post, either scroll down to the next post, or CLICK HERE.**

Happy Monday, everyone!!  I hope that you had a wonderful weekend!! We had an amazing dinner with our good friends Grant & Meagan on Friday night.  Chicken Cordon Bleu, twice baked potatoes, spinach salad with red onions & bacon, and fabulous cappuccino cupcakes to finish....it was YUM!  We also had strawberry daiquiris while watching the first two (filmed) Star Wars films, as Meagan hasn't ever watched them.  It was a good time!  They actually stayed at our house that night, so we could wake up and have an awesome breakfast together as well.  There is a restaurant in Missoula that we all love called The Shack, and they are known for their amazing breakfast.  So, we created our own version of their Buffalo Pie, and blueberry pancakes.  It...was fabulous.  Yum! I would normally have huckleberry pancakes at The Shack, but huckleberries are a wild berry that only grow in the summer.  So, unless you have some frozen from the last season, which we did not, there was no way to get them.  Blueberries were {almost} as good.  ;)

Anyways, enough about my weekend...because we are having an awesome Stamper's Dream & Friends blog hop today...and I am sure you want me to get on with it!! Tee hee! I used the Viva la Verve! April 2011 Sketch #1, and Embellish's Decorative Trim Color Trends challenge for my card.  Here is what I created:

So...what did you think of the "Happily Ever After" sneak peek yesterday?  I thought it was fabulous to see that amazing dress image used so many times, and each one so different!!  Today I have another Lawn Fawn sneak peek to share with you, and it is a set called "Fanciful Frames".  For all you scrapbookers out there, this is a set you are going to LOVE!  It will make such cute frames for your photos!!  But don't worry card makers, because it is also versatile, and makes for some amazing card options too!

Being primarily a card maker, that is what I created for the sneak peek.  I used Chupa's Sketchbook Saturday Challenge #6 for my card, and it was just the perfect sketch for using this stamp set.  Love it!!  I teamed up the "Fanciful Frames" with another Lawn Fawn stamp set called "Hello Friend", and they work perfectly together!! Here is what I came up with:

Hello, my friends!!  Tonight marks the start of sneak peeks for the Lawn Fawn April release!!  I know that I am excited, so I hope that you are too!

Up first is the new set called "Happily Ever After", and I am sure you can tell by the title...it is a wedding themed stamp set.  I used the dress image and one of the sentiments from the set, and I can't get over how fun dressing up the dress was!!  I loved using the rose paper, and glittering just the top half...how pretty would a dress like this be in real life?!  I also used Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #42 for my card, and it was the perfect fit!  It also fits the Wee Memories Challenge #51 to use twine, which was just the perfect little addition to my country chic wedding card!! Here is what I came up with!

Happy Thursday evening, my friends!!  I hope that you have had a wonderful day and week so far!!  It has been a good day here so far.  I have been working on this little ditty off and on all afternoon long...in between things that needed to get done and other things that just ended up distracting me {which can happen often in my world...}.  Tee hee!

I created it for the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #135, which is posted on the blog, but is now being hosted at Splitcoast Stampers!!  So- I gave you both links.  :)  And...I am kind-of in love with how this turned out.

....and touches your heart.  That is the sentiment of my card today, and I think it is just beautiful.  Happy Tuesday, everyone!  I hope that you had a wonderful weekend!  My blog has been quiet, because we had a very full and busy weekend.  It was a lot of fun though- spending time with friends, attending a BBQ on Saturday, having a BBQ and a great night of games on Sunday.  It was fabulous!  But that means that I haven't had much time to sit down and create anything...so I finally had a chance! Yay!

My card today is for Stamper's Dream, and is also my card for CPS Sketch #212 this week.  It also features a new collection from Glitz Design that I don't reach for as often...though I totally should!  I feature Laced with Grace and Afternoon Muse a lot, but I have been neglecting "Love Games"...until today!  Here it is in all its fabulous glory:

Well, tonight is the night!!  It is the last day of release week at WPlus9.  The stamps and die are up and available for purchase in the WPlus9 Store, so be sure to head on over and pick up what your heart has been fancying this week.  We all have one more sample to share with you this week for the final group post, and it is sure to be some pure eye candy!

I did another card featuring the "Filigreed Frames" set.  I utilized the frame in a vertical format again, which seemed to get your attention in yesterday's post...I am so happy you liked it!  I also paired it with some of the latest Glitz Design papers, which I just utterly adore.  And last, but definitely not least...I used the Viva la Verve! March 2011 Sketch #5 for my card.  Here is what I came up with!