I've been MIA

Hi everyone!! I have been a real blog slacker this week....my DH had a little surgery on Wednesday so I have been playing nurse...2 dressing changes a day. Since we have to pack his wound, we bought a water pick to clean it out...works great!!! He is doing wonderfully.....he even did a little *running the sweeper* therapy this morning!!! Just what the doctor ordered!!! Anyway.... I have 3 cards for you today.

The Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoast today is an awesome site called Spunky Sprouts. When I saw the brown and white polka dot bibs, I knew I wanted to use the new Basic Grey Porcelain dp.




The New Clear Dollar Stamps Ageless Antiques image and sentiment were stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa, the image was colored with a peachy pink copic marker, and paper pieced with the Porcelain dp. The outside of the image was outlined with a pale green copic. The sentiment was punched out and attached with glue dots. I did a little zig zag sewing around the edges of the background layers and used Chocolate Chip and Mellow Moss card stock. A ribbon and pearls from Stamper's Dream finish it off.



The Limited Supply Challenge Friday on Splitcoast was to make a card in less that 30 minutes...yikes!!! You know I am the world's slowest stamper so this was a real hard challenge for me!! It takes me 30 minutes just to tie a bow!!! The Penny Black image was stamped with Basic Gray onto a piece of scrap dp. The See D's sentiment was also stamped with Basic Gray and I used a piece of Basic Grey's Scarlet Letter dp for the background and layered it on Pink Pirouette and black card stock. Pink flowers, black pearls, and black satin ribbon are the finishing touches. Tadaa...30 minutes to the second!!!





This is the card I did for the Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast Wednesday. I was in a real Spring mood so I used the beautiful pastel colors from Basic Grey's Lilykate and the Clear Dollar Stamps March Flower of the Month Daffodil set!!. This was also for Sharon Johnson's Stamp Simple #76 challenge. Sharon, like many of you, have been suffering from cabin fever and her challenge last week was to bring some sign of Spring to those who are cooped up in the house waiting for warmer weather. The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with copics. The script stamp in the set was stamped on the yellow background paper with Going Gray. I used Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery, and Prism Yellow card stock and the ribbon, flower, and Candy Dot from Taylored Expressions finish it off.

The close up shows the sweet Daffodil image...can't get much springer ( is that a word??) than that!!

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you have a great weekend!!!