Mother's Day

Things are a bit busy here with our new addition!

Doogle is a 12 year old Skye Terrier who's family 

has transferred to the Middle East.

Flown in from California he is fitting in well

with our younger Skye Terrier and Briard.

 

He's just so adorable!  We call him our little Grandpa

but he's full of spunk and it's so fun watching him

settle into our "family".

 

I have been seeing everyone doing all this beautiful fussy cutting

so I thought I'd try it for my Mom!

 

I like how it turned out!
But it's not something I'd make a habit of doing!
But Mom is worth it!
The dies are what really made this card, I think.

 

Easter Cards

Before we left for a few days of camping

(and before our snow returned to Wisconsin!)

I had a chance to make a few special

Easter Cards.

 

I really like the effect of embossing twice in two different colors
 and then cutting and piecing areas back onto the first.

 



 

This one I used an Anna Griffin floral die

and Memory Box Phlox.

I used chalks to color the Anna floral die cut.

 

 

One more card cutting out a shape of embossed cardstock

and raising it with another

design die underneath the window.

I recycled that pretty flower sticker from

a discarded name tag!  Too pretty to throw away!

 

All of these were new techniques for me and

I have to say I like them!

 

Thanks for stopping by....

 

This is what we woke up to Monday morning!

Hope it's nicer where you are!



DeNami Buttons and Bows Blog Hop

 
Welcome to another stop on your DeNami

Buttons and Bows Blog hop!

So glad you are joining us and hope you're finding

some great inspiration and ideas!

Hopefully you came from

Wendy's blog.

If not, or you just want to start at the beginning

so you get all the details of winning

some $20 gift certificates,

then just head on over to the DeNami Blog

 

My first card I wanted to try real buttons

just because I don't often use them.

 

Tying those tiny twine knots through the buttons was almost

impossible!

Now I know why I so rarely do it.

As you can see, I just had to use the DeNami

little bow and button stamps.

 

This didn't quite turn out like I wanted so

I made another card using the

DeNami floral swag.

I love how I could put two together

across the card.

 

 

I couldn't decide which way I liked the card turned,

so I made both!

I liked the softer look of these two cards.

I use a lot of bows on my cards

but I found it was fun also adding buttons!

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to

leave a comment before you head on over to

Paulina's blog!

 

 





A few new things

Went shopping a little!

A new die and

DeNami birthday discount!

 

Couldn't resist the little hedgehog any longer

and he needed some cute balloons too!

And had to try a circle greeting

to put him inside of!

 

 

Relax....

(and inside)

God's in charge!

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Dreary, rainy day outside on top of the new snow

we had this week...

it's a mess now!

Hope it's nice where you are!



DeNami Polka Dots Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the February DeNami Blog hop!

So glad you are here and hopefully you got started with

Emily's inspiration!

The whole list of participants can be found back

at the DeNami blog

with full details about the hop.

 

I was lucky to get some fun new dies this month

and couldn't resist using them with my favorite

embossing folder--polka dots!

 

 And just because I was having too much fun to stop,

another two new dies and more dots!

 

 

Before you hop along to the very talented

Stacy

 

leave a comment for a chance to win one of the

$20 gift certificates from DeNami!

 

Thanks for stopping by and I'm sure you're eyes will

be seeing lots of dots today!



Lunch box Card!

Just had to try another little fox card!

Cute enough to put inside the lunch box for hubby at work!

Giggling...if there are others around

sure would like to be there!

 

Hope you're enjoying some extra love stamping too!

 

Some Foxy Fun!

The mail brought me a fun little package today from

Lisa over at http://bellalistona.blogspot.com/!

I had won some cute DeNami from her

Chickie Couture post!

 

 

The adorable little fox, hello foxy saying, some fun

washi tape and twine!

Thanks again Lisa!

 

I've got to play some more with this little guy! 

Thanks for stopping by!