In High Tide or Low Tide.......

 

My new favorite collection is the anchored collection by Authentique.  I loved it so much I bought 2 of EVERYTHING in the collection and the anchor paper you see in the background of the above photo i {may} have bought 4 sheets!! I also used my sweet little banner punch from Stampin' Up for those banners.  That punch creates banners that are the perfect size for cards.

 

I used this sketch #16 from Seize the Sketch:

 

Edited 5/25/15 to add: I am linking this card up to the current linky party at Paper Issues --

Hooray For the Red, White and Blue

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and have a wonderful weekend.

 

~~Sandi~~

Talk Blarney to Me

 

I made this cute little St. Patrick's Day card for my hubby yesterday and he actually laughed out loud when I gave it to him today.  I think he liked it!  I used a sketch from Freshly Made Sketches but missed the deadline to enter it over there.

 

I am entering it in Paper Issues newest theme--Count My Lucky Stars and the Simon Says Stamp Monday "Lucky" challenge because I am one lucky gal to be married to this wonderful (and gorgeous) man:

 

 

We have been married nearly 11 years and he still makes my knees weak when he smiles at me.

 

I hope you enjoyed your St. Patrick's Day today and have a wonderful and productive week.

 

~~Sandi~~

 

 

A Christmas Card???

 

I made a Christmas card today.  Yes, I know it is March and Christmas is more than 9 months away.  But I want to be ready and not stressed come December.  AND I have a great number of cards to make (nearly 70 last year).  So there is no time like the present to get started. Plus there is an awesome challenge blog called Festive Friday with prompts throughtout the year to help inspire my Christmas card making.  This is their inspiration photo for their current challenge:

 

 

I was inspired by the beautiful snowflake in the picture and had just the snowflake to add to my card.  Then, inspired by the silver in the inspiration picture, I heat embossed my sentiment in silver embossing powder.

 

I used this sketch from Stick it Down Challenges:

 

 

This is the first of my weekend projects and I have Monday off also so I should be back with more projects to share with you.  Thanks for stopping by my blog and have a happy day.

 

~~Sandi~~

Let Them Eat Cake

 

As soon as I received my new Carta Bella It's a Celebration collection I tore into it to make this cute page with my darling Izzy.  She had an ice cream birthday cake for her 2nd birthday and loved it (who doesn't love ice cream birthday cakes???)

 

I am entering it into the March color challenge at Scrap Much? There is still time to enter if you want to link up a project....you can find all the details HERE.

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog --- I really love reading your comments, so if you would please take a moment and leave me a comment....thank you!

 

~~Sandi~~

 

Hi There!

 

I recently bought an inexpensive set of primary colored water colors and broke them out last weekend along with some watercolor paper and played around a little.  I had a blast....so much so that I am going to go buy some more watercolors so I have more of a selection of colors.  Seeing that water colors are so trendy right now I decided to use a couple of my water colors on a card.  I used this sketch from CAS(e) This Sketch:

 

I am also entering this card in Virginia Lui's new challenge blog.  Her first challenge was water coloring which inspired me to open my water colors and play a bit. When was the last time you tried something new and played around a bit?  It's fun and inspires creativity...go ahead and try it!

Thanks for checking out my blog today....have a wonderful day.

~~Sandi~~
 

 

St. Paddy's Day card #2

 

I need to get my St. Paddy's Day goodies in the mail by this Tuesday so I am busy working hard this weekend on cards.  Here is one I made today and used this awesome sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

 

I will be back with more creations to share tomorrow morning.

 

Thanks for checking out my blog.

~~Sandi~~



Who Is That Masked Man?

I am so excited to be able to create this page with pictures of my oldest son Matt.  I just do not get many pictures of him.  Next time I see him, I am going to change that and take bunches of pictures of him.  He posted these on Facebook of him working in the paint booth at work.

 

I used this sketch from Sketch-N-Scrap:

 

I am also entering this page in Frosted Designs Punctuation challenge as I used a question mark in my title.

 Well, that does it for me this weekend. I did quite a bit of clean-up and organization in my scraproom and had time to create too. Hope your weekend was restful and productive also. 

 

~~Sandi~~