Fabulous Friday: Another Mother's Day Card

Good morning girls! It's Friday!!! And that means so many fabulous things doesn't it?
1. Free image over at Sugar Creek Hollow on the blog.
2. And the store is now located on it's on website here's the NEW LINK to the store - Tracy just released the new images for May. You've got to see all the creations from the team today and then head to the store. The sets are perfect for Father's Day and Summer and Graduation. So many uses for them. I have what seems like a thousand ideas in my head for these sets. Now to just get them to fruition!!
3. The weekend is upon us! My sister and her husband will be coming to town for Mother's Day and her birthday so I'm really, really excited about getting to spend some time with the family! You? Big plans?
4. It's the Mother's Day Carnival over at Craft Critique!

Today the designers have created an easel card for Mother's Day. I chose to use one of the images from Summer Picnic and a play on words to create this card today.

I have been on such a red and black kick lately huh? Hope you are liking it as much as me! I used Prismacolor Pencils and baby oil to color the rind on my watermelon and then pieced the red dotted paper over it. This card has two of my favorite things: polka dots and gingham!! Can't get enough of it!!  I kept the layout simple and matted the watermelon on some white cardstock that I embossed using the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I love this clean and crisp and simple look!

The sentiment was computer generated and then cut out and matted for the inside. I popped it up on dimensionals just a bit so that it would help hold the card up when it's in the easel formation.

Go see what the rest of the designers have created today. I know Linda and Kelly aren't posting a card today but there is still plenty of beauty out there to see!

 Cheri ♥ Dani ♥ Donna ♥ Joan
Joseline ♥ Kristina ♥ Linda ♥ Loretta 

Marsha ♥ Nancy ♥ Sarah 

Stephanie ♥ Tracy ♥ Kelly

May Guest Designer

Bernadette

Don't forget that the Sugar Creek Hollow blog is still intact. That's where you want to go and grab your free image on Fabulous Friday and where you'll find lots of inspiration cards from the designers. The store is now located on it's on site - Sugar Creek Hollow. You'll find single images and lots of sets too - a real bargain for the number of images you get for around $5! And Tracy has added hand-dyed crinkle ribbon as well!

Be sure to visit Craft Critique for the Mother's Day Carnival too - lots of wonderful projects and inspiration. I am looking forward to finding lots of new fabulous blogs to add to my reader!

Thanks sooooo much for stopping by today. Your visit is greatly appreciated and I love your comments - they always make me smile!

Cuttlebug Be Inspired: Mothers Day Card

Note: 2nd post today: Scroll down for my Diedrich Dare card!
Hello girls! I hope you are enjoying a great Wednesday morning. It's been so pretty around here the last week. A bit windy, but that's pretty much the norm here in the Texas Panhandle so I don't really think about it much. I've been enjoying the fact that some of my iris' actually sent out blooms this year. I have several that put out the leaf part, but not the bloom. They are HUGE too! Loving that. Although trying to explain the whole "bloom" process to a 3 year old has been a challenge. We are definitely in that "why" stage* and this mommy just doesn't have an answer most of the time! So my standard answer has become: "Well, buddy, I don't know. That's just the way God made it". *He doesn't actually ask just "why" though; it's always a more complete sentence or "what's _(insert any and every word you can think of here)_ mean?"

It's been several weeks since I've had a Cuttlebug Challenge project to share. So I'm VERY HAPPY to be participating this week! We were to create something for Mother's Day - anything goes - so I just made a card. And a blast doing it. I used my Cuttlebug this week for it's original purpose - to die cut! No embossing on this card. Crazy!!

As I was sitting at my desk, thinking of what to create, I knew that I wanted to make a flower of some sort and I wanted to use one of the free images from Sugar Creek Hollow last Friday. I noticed some crepe paper and doilies on one of my shelves and decided to use those too. That heart doily is 6" across so this card is BIG!! The only 12x12 cardstock I could find was a grey scrap - so I paired it with some black velvet flocked paper to work with the red.

The flower was sooo easy to create. I used my cuttlebug and one of the bonus dies from an alphabet set to cut out 12 small scalloped circles. I was able to cut 4 layers at a time - probably could've done even more layers. The big flower has 8 of the circles, stacked together. Then a brad in the middle and some scrunching up! The crepe paper is so thin that it scrunches easily! The little flower is just 4 circles, and I scrunched them much more as I wanted it to look like a bud, just starting to bloom. I finished it off with some gems and glitter Mom stickers!

Here's the inside of my card. I used some scraps along with the free Mother's Day Sentiment that Tracy posted on Friday at Sugar Creek Hollow. There is also a round image that I think would make a cute "envelope seal". Be sure to grab them by Thursday if you haven't already. You can view the store here too!

I hope you'll swing by the Cuttlebug Challenge blog to see all the other fabulous creations. They ladies on that team always create the most beautiful projects! And there's ALWAYS a contest of some sort going on to win great prizes!!

And be sure to scroll down for this week's Diedrich Dare challenge!

Fabulous Friday: You are a Woman of Beautiful Countenance

Happy Friday girls! By the time you read this, I'll be enjoying some time with a few dear friends that are coming over in the morning with their little ones for a playdate! I'm so excited to get to spend time with them as they are lovely women who I cherish so dearly!

This week the designers from Sugar Creek Hollow are sharing a Mother's Day Card with you. It'll be here before you know it! I used the Mirror image along with one of the Cameo ladies from the Cameo set released in April to create my focal image. I simply spent some time selecting the woman image and transferring her to a transparent background and layered her over my mirror image. I did have to erase a bit of her collar to fit --- much like "masking" if this was a card made using traditional methods. Then I used the text tool to add my sentiment. It's based on Genesis 12:11. I thought it was perfect for the recipient of my card! Her beautiful smile always brings me joy!

Please take a moment and visit the rest of the Sugar Creek Hollow designers for their creations. I've seen some peeks and they are so lovely! You'll be happy you took the time! Be sure to visit Martha (linked below), our April guest designer with well-wishes. I also want to welcome Bernadette, our May guest designer (also linked below). Please go see her!! She is very new to blogging but not to creating! Her cards are so pretty and she is a lovely person as well! So go leave her some blog love. And then leave everyone else some love too!!

 Cheri ♥ Dani ♥ Donna ♥ Joan
Joseline ♥ Kristina ♥ Linda ♥ Loretta 

Marsha ♥ Nancy ♥ Sarah 

Stephanie ♥ Tracy ♥ Kelly

April Guest Designer
Martha
May Guest Designer
Bernadette

Don't forget to visit the store blog! There is a free image today and you HAVE to see Tracy's card using it! AH! Sooo gorgeous! And keep checking back as there is a new release just around the corner!

Another Sketch Saturday by Sugar Creek Hollow

Have you seen the sketches Tracy is putting out over at Sugar Creek Hollow? They are wonderful for layering and embellishements galore. We'd love to have you play along! Here is this week's sketch; upload a link to your creation using the sketch over at the store blog!

I used the apron and one of the sentiments from Mama's Apron Strings, a set from the latest release. This apron was made for paper piecing! I thought it would look really neat to have the retro design made up using modern papers. This is such a fun image to use to celebrate Mother's Day!

You can find this set along with all the others from this release HERE under the New Releases. Make sure to click on the Fabulous Fridays tab too for the free digi images!

Sugar Creek Hollow Blog Hop

Hello girls! Today is a brand new day at Sugar Creek Hollow. We have some exciting news, new digis and a blog hop game to play today. And don't forget to pick up this week's free digi image. Oh my goodness girls it is SPECTACULAR!
First up, we want to welcome Martha from Creating Is Fun as our April Guest Designer. We also want to share that Kelly our March GD from Sandcastle Stamper has joined the SCH family as a full time designer. Please help me welcome these talented ladies to the team!

Now it's time to play and have some fun!!! Today is new release day. And Tracy is providing the sweetest prize pictured below along with 2 digi images from the store.

To win, you need to play along in our game! Start HERE at Stephanie's blog if you haven't already.
Each designer has a secret letter hidden on their blog. Leave a comment on each blog with their letter.
Put all the letters together (in order) and you'll have the secret word. (My letter is L)
Once you have found the secret word, post the entire word on the Sugar Creek Hollow website.

I used the frame from the Cameo Ladies set and layered one of the sentiments from Mama's Apron Strings set to create a card for my mom for mother's day. She mentioned the other day that she loved blue and yellow together so that inspired my color combo. The papers are Anna Griffin and I've distressed the edges with Old Paper and Tea  Dye ink. Some ribbon, pearls and flowers finish it off.

We were given the option of sharing our favorite verse and for the last several months mine has been Jeremiah 29:13-14a

"And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity;"

Click the button below to visit the next blog on the list! And in case that doesn't work, click HERE!

Just for Mom

The project at my LSS Creative Cafe this week was a Mother's Day card. My good friend Suzanne is in charge of this and she always laughs at me because I ALWAYS want to change *something* with the project. The original called for the really big chipboard pieces - but there weren't very many left. So she was so sweet to me and cut me these polka dotted flowers. Which I am in love with!! I added the button to the design and also put one on the envelope. Don't you just love that scalloped velvet ribbon - in CHOCOLATE BROWN!?!? I will definitely be going back to get some of that. This one is for my mom; I already mailed off one to my MIL.

On a non-stamping note, please pray for my external hard drive. I keep everything - and I do mean EVERYTHING - on it. It had a power surge earlier this week and is now not working. Please pray that the tech guys will be able to salvage my files off of it. I have 4 years worth of lia sophia business on there and at least 6 months of photos on there. I've got to run - I probably won't be back until Sunday with my card for this weeks Page Plans sketch!

Make it a beautiful weekend!