Happy Mom's Day

Hi!  Does it feel a little early to be thinking about Mother's Day cards?  Operation Write Home's midweek throwdown challenge is getting us started thinking about them.  Since the cards have to have time to be sent to OWH, then overseas and then back home, we really have to think ahead.  I'm so glad that OWH reminds us of these deadlines.  I usually don't make specific holiday cards because if something comes up and I can't mail my boxes in time, the seasonal cards are too late.  But, I have a box that I'm finishing up so I figured I can get a few Mother's Day cards in there.  :)  I used the sketch from SplitCoastStampers sketch challenge for today, and here is my card. 

Many of my crafting supplies are in our storage building right now, so I didn't have the Mother's Day stamp I was looking for.  But, happily I have this set, which I have never used before today, bonus for me!  :)  I love bright colors, so I love these papers!

Thought for the day:  I love Eeyore!!  :)

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Kisses :)

Yep, it's time for lots of hugs and kisses :) This one was lots of fun to make too. I made it for a challenge on SCS. It's a featured stamper challenge and you can find it here.

For my card, I started with a white card base and then added paper from Imaginisce that will be on the 2RedBananas site hopefully today :) It's called Wild Hearts from the Love Me collection. It's double sided and you know how much I LOVE double-sided papers. I used the back on the background of the card (the red piece that's matting the pink) and then the pink is the front. You can't see it well in the picture but some of the hearts and words are metallic so they shine! I added the red cardstock that I punched with one of the Fiskars border punches, sorry I don't remember the name of it. But I love threading ribbon through it so I did :) It's May Arts ribbon. I stamped the tree with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink and then I colored the hearts with a glitter pen right over the brown ink. The "kisses" stamp is also from Imaginisce and should be on the 2RedBananas website sometime today. I sponged some blue ink for the sky and a little bit of caramel ink under the tree and then I stapled it to the card with red staples.

If you get a chance to play, it's really fun to do! Plus, it helps you get cards that you need made and sometimes even get ahead of what you need :)

Our quote for the day: "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." - Isaac Newton

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

My first Valentine card.....

I will still make some more winter cards though, because I love snowmen. They make me smile!

These little guys make me smile too! The grey mouse would have to be me and the brown one my dh because he always eats the candy he plans to give me :) These little guys are so much fun to color too. I used prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits on this one and then I went over the sayings on the conversation hearts with Spica red glitter pen.


The House Mouse stamp is called Lovin' Mousefull - how cute is that?
I have a Bazzill red background then a layer of Imaginisce Loves Me - Words Can't Express dp which will be on the 2RedBananas website very shortly. I matted the image with Bazzill Bling and doodled around the edges. The hearts on the left are all out of Bazzill Bling and embossed with cuttlebug embossing folders then cut out. And the ribbon is May Arts.

I love Valentine's Day stuff :)

Our quote of the day: "Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. " — Martin Buxbaum

Remember the challenge with blog candy on 2RedBananas blog. You have until 12:00midnight cst to post a link to your project. It's a fun one, you don't want to miss it!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great evening!

ps. I forgot to tell you that there is a blog that does challenges just involving House Mouse & friends stamps. You can find it here. The challenge this week is embossing and you have until January 5th to play.