Happy Mother's Day !!

I hope you all had a great Mother's Day ~ I did!!  My parents stopped, along w/my son and his 2 daughters today and we just hung around, had some fun, cooked out on the grill, and went for a short walk.  And to top it off, the weather was just beautiful - 72 and mostly sunny - PERFECT!!

Here is the card I created for my mother:

She LOVED it!!! I used my new Sizzix Hero Arts stamp & die-cut set.  All together is has 3 different flowers, a ladybug and a bee.  For the sentiment, I just "whipped' up something on the computer in Word, added some bling and there you have it!  I really like the way it turned out. 

Well......this tired mama is off to bed!!  See you again real soon!

Michelle

Challenges:
Alphabet Challenge Blog ~ G for Garden
DYSU ~ Use a Flower
The Corrosive Challenge ~ Flowers, Doilies and Bling - OH MY!!
The Pink Elephant ~ All About Mom
Celebrate the Occasion ~ Mother's Day

More Happy Birthday........

As you seen from my last post - a great friend and co-worker recently celebrated her 50th birthday.  I offered to make the card for her for all of us co-workers to sign.  I just LOVE Bugaboo stamps and especially Stella!  She is such a hoot!

This image is Stella Birthday - one more candle. I put the sentiment on the inside that goes along with this image.  It reads "What's one more friggin candle"....LOL

SO glad she liked it  : )  Hope you did too ~ till next time!

Michelle 

Challenges:

One Stop Craft Challenge ~ Celebrations

Totally Stampalicious ~ Sparkle, Shine, Glitter and Glam

Incy Wincy Designs ~ Spots and Dots

Squigglefly ~ Use Stickles

Happy Birthday

This past Sunday, a co-worker/friend was celebrating her 50th birthday!!  She had also been off of work for 2 weeks due to a knee surgery.  When she came back to work on Monday, we all dressed in black and totally decorated our office space w/awesome 50th and 'senior' moment decorations.  My boss and her are very close friends and asked if I could make a card for her birthday.  I said sure....why not!  I wanted it to be 'cheery' and upbeat especially after her surgery.

I had recently bought this Stampin Up set ~ Sassy Suzie ~ off of Craigslist and couldn't wait to use it! She thought it was awesome!!!

Michelle

Challenges:
By The Cute and Girly~Spring Is All Around
The Pink Elephant~Spring Time
Dream Valley Challenges~For a Special Lady
Aud Sentiments~Anything Goes
The Poodles Parlour~Anything Goes
Paper Pretties~Flowers~ either paper flowers, die cuts, embellishments or floral paper etc.

Monthly Reveal and Blog Hop

We are all ready for another monthly reveal and blog hop over at Designed 2 Delight!! I am so excited : )

Faith will also be offering 20% off the new release for 3 days. So make sure you stop by and check it out.

Blog Hop Order:
D2D Blog
Debbie
Michelle P.
Pat
Kathy
Katie
Michelle H.

Make sure you start at the beginning so you don't miss anything!

 

You should have come here from Katie's blog ~ Both Sides of the Paper

 

Here are my creations

I used Meg with Daisies for my first card.  She is just so darn cute!  It's really hard to see, but I used Versamark Champagne and a Hero Arts stamps which gives the definition of the word friend.  I really am blessed to have the most wonderful friends a gal could ask for.

For my second card I went with Lil Owl. ADORABLE is all I have to say!  I once again used my Gamsol and colored pencils to color the image.  I really like this stuff!   I almost forget at times that I have other pens, markers, etc to use as well too~LOL! And then I paper pieced the hearts. 

Well....I hope you enjoyed our blog hop!  Make sure you leave myself and the rest of the Design team a little love on our blogs.  We will each be selecting a lucky person to win a image from the store!! 

Make sure you stop back to check out the new images at the store!

Michelle 

Challenges:
Alphabet Challenge~F for  Feathered Friend
2 Sisters Challenge~Use a digital image
Aud Sentiments Challenge~Spring/Summer Colors
Lexi's Creations~Use punches or dies

Happy Easter

Just wanted to drop by, say hi, and  hope you all had a good Easter.  Spent mine w/oldest granddaughter doodling w/chalk on the sidewalk today.  She made an 'egg' flower ~ thought I would share.

And of course she had to pose with her art work!!  That's my 'goofy' lil girl ~ such a ham for the camera.

Love and peace~
Michelle

Showers.....and not the weather kind

Hi everyone -

Well, it's getting to be that time of year again!! Wedding showers are in 'full swing' now that the spring and summer are getting closer.  I just happen to have 2 in the same weekend.  My best friends daughter is getting married and the girl I made the invites and decorations for in a previous post as well. 

I saw this image in my head of how I wanted to create the card.  I wanted it to be a silhouette of the wedding gown, on a colored background.  I tried to get as close to each of the girls wedding colors as I could.  I wanted it to be simple, but yet fun card.

Jenny - the girl I work with is getting married in Florida and basically has a beach theme. A light blue, sand and white color scheme.  I made her card a 5 x 7 as there going to be quite a few of us at work to sign it.

Liz - her colors are lime green, black and white.  Well, when I tried it w/a lime green I really didn't like the look.  So I went with a 'softer' green, with the lime green behind that. 

I didn't use any templates or anything.  I ran a white piece of cardstock thru the Cuttlebug, using the Divine Swirls folder, then cut 2 triangles the same size.  Then punched the 'bigger' end with a scalloped border punch. I cut a smaller triangle for the top of the dress.  I spritzed it all w/Maya Mist Iridescent Pearl.  I just LOVE that stuff!!  I used the Polka Dots folder for the background.  Once dry, I layered the 2 triangles on top of each other and used pop dots to raised the one layer.  Put the smaller triangle on top and added a bow to the back of the dress.

The girls at Liz's party just loved it, and I can't wait to see what Jenny says tomorrow about hers!

Well, gotta run for now.  Take care

Michelle

Challenges:

Pixie Dust Studio ~A Few of Your Favorite Things

Bearly-Mine Challenges~Dots

Little Red Wagon~Clean & Simple

Alphabet Challenge~D for Dry Embossing

One Stop Craft Challenge~Clean & Simple

March 20th Reveal

Welcome back for our D2D monthly reveal!! Glad you could join us!

Faith has once again amazed us with her images.  You really need to check them out!! Again, we will be hopping from blog to blog to see what all of our great designers have done using the new images.

You should have come here from Kathy's blog

If not ~ please start back at the beginning so you don't miss anything.


1. Blog hop starts on designed2delight.com/blog
2. Debbie
3. Pat
4. Peggy
5. Kathy
6. Michelle H. ~ ME
7. Michelle P.
Here are my selections:

I went with "Old Rugged Cross" as one of my images.  I tried to keep the card simple in both colors and embellishments as to not 'take away' the symbolization of the cross. I know spring usually calls for bright cheery colors, but for some reason, the earth tones were 'calling' me if you will when I designed this card. 

For my second image, I used "Drenched".  Isn't she just adorable!!!  Kind of reminds me of my oldest granddaughter. I could so see her posing for a picture like this : ) Now I used the bright, cheery colors on this one as I just wanted to make it 'scream' spring! I love the butterfly punch that I used on here.  It is actually a 3 layer punch by EK Success.  Each layer only punches out a certain part of the butterfly, in order for you to create your own color pattern. 

Well, enough about me - let's get on over to the other Michelle on our team and she what she has for us, shall we !!

At the end of the hop, make your way back to the D2D blog and leave a comment telling Faith what types of images you would like to see for future summer releases . She will select 2 random winners, and give them each $5 to the store. Winners will be announced on Friday. ALSO, I'll be giving away a free image for a winner from my blog as will each team member. There will also be a 20% discount on the new images for the next three days.

Good Luck!!
Michelle

Challenges:
Lexi's Creations~Easter
Flutter By Wednesdays~Anything, as long as it has a butterfly, fairy or angel
Dream Valley Challenges~Easter
Celebrate the Occasion~Welcome Spring
The Poodles Parlour~Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps~Easter
Penny Black~Springtime