Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Today is Friday (Yay!) and lots of exciting things are going on.   We are going to Costco!  What?  That's not exciting?   Well, it is also the day season three of HOUSE OF CARDS is released!!!!!!!!!  No?  Still not exciting?   Well how about a Spring version of the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop?!  Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!     If there's anything I love more than Costco and Netflix, it's coffee and cards!    There's a ton of great sponsors and prizes, so go grab your coffee stamps and come play along!

Still struggling with my creativity, but I had an idea for a card right before I fell asleep last night.  I don't love how it turned out, so I'm totally making it again once I'm feeling more creative.   I hope I don't get yelled at by my fellow coffee lovers for spilling it!  Ha! 

Dancing with the Divas

It's Thursday, so I wanted to share a new card featuring the stamps from Two Paper Divas.  This sentiment stamp is called Learn to Dance and I love it!   To highlight it, I made a frame with distress inks and splattered it with water to mimic the look of rain.   I thought a shaker card with some "rain" aka clear sequins might work well with it.   I hope it all ties together and makes sense.  :) It's a fairly plain card, but I think that works well with the sentiment.

Freshly Made Adventure

It's Wednesday and time for a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!   Jen B is our hostess this week, so that means NO CIRCLES.  lol Her dislike of them has become a running joke behind the scenes and I had to chuckle when I saw her sketch.   Our team is great in that we can all joke around, but when someone needs support, everyone is there to offer a shoulder and a virtual hug.  I feel truly blessed to be a part of such a great group.

For the first two weeks this month, My Favorite Things gave away stamps/dies daily on Instagram.  My cousin Kelly and I got lucky and we won this cute little set and the matching die.  It came in the mail over the weekend, so I decided to try coloring her.  Like I said yseterday, I am enjoying coloring, but not really putting a card together.  That's why this one is so plain.  I probably should have sponged a background or something, but at least with this the focus is on the coloring. :)

This morning started early, so I'm off to drink some coffee and wake up! 

MFT You are Super!

I am having so much fun coloring with my Copics, but actually making the images into cards has been difficult for me.  I really wanted to play along with the sketch at MFT Card Challenges, so I worked and reworked some ideas last night to try to find a way to use this image I'd colored last week.   My friends Holly and Lisa were helping me and telling me what wasn't working.  I finally gave up and started all over and ended up with this!  I like it much better than my first attempts!



I just love this stamp and have been using it to work on my people coloring.  I find hair to be the most difficult part!   I need to find some time to watch videos on how to do it.

Laila has been watercoloring with this Melissa & Doug book that she got for Christmas.   She was so proud when I hung this one on the 'fridge and now all her artwork needs to go on there.  lol  She's too cute.  :)

Prickley Pear Monday Inspiration

A bit of inspiration from Prickley Pear for this chilly Monday!   From all the complaints I'm seeing from my Northern friends, lots of people are ready for spring!  :)  

Stamps: DD0231 Happy Spring 3, HH0175 Pond of Ducklings

Be sure to check out the blog for more inspiration!

Stampin' Up! Cheerful Critters

I hadn't inked up these cute Cheerful Critters from Stampin' Up! yet, so I grabbed them and played along with Mojo Monday this week.  I think this is my new favorite sentiment.  I have several friends who I know will find it just as hilarious, so I can't wait to make and send cards to them.  I am going to try to send this one off today.  :)  

Laila has been going to bed early this week, so I've had a little time to color.   I haven't really been in the mood to make a card, but coloring with my Copics has been good therapy.  

I tried to start the day off nice today, so we woke up and make muffins together.  That was about all that's been fun so far.  :-/   I'm hoping it improves soon before everyone is in bed crying.  

Freshly Made Luck

Always behind.  lol   Today is Freshly Made Sketches day and I finally got my act together and am joining in this week.   :)  The amazing Cindy L. is our sketch designer and I just love what she created.  It made for a lot of different interpretations by the design team, so I know the gallery will be fabulous this week!  I used this great set from Two Paper Divas called Lucky Me for my card.  It is such a perfect set for me since my brother's birthday is March 17th!  I can't wait to make him a birthday card!

Isn't that a great sketch?   Be sure you go over to the blog and check out what everyone did with it.  I hope you'll decide to play along as well! 

Her new thing is to carry her stool every.single.place. in the house so that she has more access to things.  Help!  lol 

Monday Inspiration from Prickley Pear

It's Monday and time for Monday Inspiration with Prickley Pear.   I had this newsprint paper on my desk, so I decided to go for a vintage look with one of the new releases.   I think they pair very well together!

Stamps:   GG0206 Antique Car, CLR013E Circles Set - Sentiments

Be sure to check out the blog for more inspiration!

We had such a great day on Saturday.  I got these lovely roses and some Copics.  Laila got a rose, a little box of candy, an Olaf, and the soundtrack from Frozen.  She was one happy girl. :)   We got a heart-shaped pizza for dinner and watched a movie.  It was just nice and calm.  I appreciate that these days.  :)