....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: