Flourishes Timeless Tuesday!!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!!!

How was your weekend??? Ours was uneventful and very relaxing...love those kinda days...LOL!!!

How about playing along in our new Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge ~ FTTC82??? It is the end of the month and we are happy to introduce you to our challenge host!!!! It is Traci Major and she is  challenging us to a theme of *Summer Memories*!!! With summer quickly drawing to a close, Traci wants us to reflect on one of our summer activities and create a card capturing one of our favorite memories of Summer 2010! How fun it that??? Hope you will come and play with us :) !!!

Here is my take on it......

I immediately thought of our times at the beach!!! My girls and I just love to hang out and and enjoy every minute we have at the beach!!! If you are interested in some of our summer photos ~ click here.

Of course I had to use the beautiful Flourishes Beach Life Set. Unfortunately my coloring skills are not good enough to capture the beauty of the ocean/beach!!! So I decided to participate in this weeks TPE82 ~ Mostly White Challenge....after all these images speak for themselves :).  I matched the beach images up with several different Flourishes sentiments from the ~ Chairs for You,  Friendly Reminders and Sweet Violets Sets. Of course I HAD to add some Silver Pearls for a little more pizazz :) !!!

Now it's time to check out ~ Barbara, Betty, Cindy, Dee, Maki and Traci's  take on the challenge!!!

Thank you for stopping by today...I'll be back tomorrow with another fun project!!! Hugs ~S~

MTME September Release Sneak Peek!!!

Happy Sunday everyone!!!

I'm so excited to share a super fun MTME project with you :)!!! I call it *my little Bavarian house*...giggle!!! When I thought of my design I immediately thought of the area I grew up in :).....lots of cute, traditional houses!!!

The super sweet Mega Template is called Shop Around. Everything will be available for purchase on September, 1st at the MTME Store. The matching Stamp Set I used is called Home Improvement. Lauren has thought of everything when she designed this cute package!!! I know you will love this release!!! If you missed the kick off yesterday, you probably want to check out Lauren's  post first.....she has so much news to share!!! Stephanie, Dawn and Tammy are also showing off some more ideas today!!!

So what do you think??? Isn't it toooooooo stinkin' cute????

Here is some info about my house ~ the roof was created with some new MTME Digi Construction Materials Paper. The door, windows and flowers were inked in Memento Rich Cocoa. The curtains and flowers were colored with Copic Markers ~ R17, R27 and Colorless Blender. The grass was inked in SU Wild Wasabi. I embellished the door with a Red Brad. The flowers were bedazzled with some Silver Pearls and  I added some punched out MS Butterflies on the backside of my house. At last I added the Red/White Gingham Ribbon around the top and added a Button in the center.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today :) !!! I'll see you again on Tuesday!!! Hugs ~S~

C4C52, IC247, CTD107 Happy Birthday....

Happy weekend everyone!!!

Thank you so much for sharing my excitment on my new job and for all your sweet comments!!! You guys are just the sweetest blogging friends e-v-e-r !!! Thank you!!!

Are you ready for another fun Crazy 4 Challenge ~ C4C52 ??? Frances has thought of another awesome challenge idea...she is challenging us to add *LATTICE* related items to our cards like stamps, design paper or anything else that fit the theme!!! Please make sure to stop by the C4C blog for all the info and on how to play along!!!

I really didn't have much crafting items to choose from :( ....I found a Martha Stewart Punch and added a border on the left hand side of my card. The main image is from a retired SU Hostess Set called God's Beauty. The inspiration for my card came from this weeks IC247 ~ ModCloth. I chose THIS pretty butterfly top for my design. I switched the colors to this weeks CTD107 ~ Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, So Saffron and Pear Pizzazz.

The main images were inked in Memento Black and colored with Copic Markers ~ G0000, G12, G24, Y0000, Y02, Y21, R0000, R00, R32, YR09 and Colorless Blender. The DP in the background is from the SU Welcome Neighbor Collection. I finished the card off with some Ribbon and the Silver Pearls.

As always, we'd love for you to play along :) !!!  For more inspiration check out the C4C Team ~ Angela, Barbara, Cindy, Frances, Jessie, Joanne, Joycelyn, Lynda, Maria, Silke K. and Vicki.

Thank you for stopping by today and have a fabbo weekend!!! I'll be back tomorrow with a cute MTME Sneak Peek project!!! Hugs ~S~