Mothers Day fun fold

Good morning,
I hope you are having a beautiful day today. Even though is still officially Spring, Summer is starting to make its self known with warmer weather so the real heat is right around the corner. Thinking this year I will be missing that pool I used to have!

Today I am sharing a Mother’s Day Fun Fold card I made for a special person who I have always thought of as another Mom to me.

I'm really struggling with my lightbox these days and may have to thinking of a different way to take pictures so I can get some consistency. 

Supplies:

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!
• Dies from Sizzix *Mixed Media #2). The Rose is unknown
• Embossing folder from Stampin Up! (Old World Paper)
• Nuvo Drops from Tonic Studios
• Stamps from The Unity Stamp Co. (Rose on inside), Mother’s Day sentiment from Halo Stamps and Thinking of you from Close to My Heart (You make me happy)

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

My heart for Mother's Day ...

Good morning!

We have a new sketch challenge at The Outlawz Challenges located HERE.

This month’s sketch comes from Sandra and is perfect for a Mother’s Day card!

Supplies: 5 x 7 card

Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!

Design Paper from Little Birdie Designs (Purple Passion)

Die from Spellbinders (Hearts)

Embossing folder from Stampin Up! (Subtle)

Ink from Stampin Up!

Mulberry paper a gift from Sandra

Pearl Swirl from the Paper Studios

Sentiment from Stampin Up! (Tiny Talk)

Sketch by Sandra

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to check out the main blog located HERE to see the other challenges!
(Hugs) Cara

XO Mom XO

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden Girls

Greetings and Salutations my Crafty Peeps!

I am playing along with the Progressive Freebie Challenge taking place right now on the DigiStamps4Joy Facebook Group

This month our image is this adorable image “Mom with Teddy” … how fun is this?!

I am back to using my water-based inks and crayons for coloring again. I find that I prefer them to my Pro-markers and Prismacolor pencils.

Supplies

• Image “Mom with Teddy Bear” printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White card stock and colored with Stampin Up! ink and a water brush
• Design paper behind the image is a digital paper from Touched by a Butterfly
• “XO” die from Romance set by Momenta
• Cardstock from Stampin Up!
• Embossing folder “Love Set” from Sizzix
• Glitter glue from Studio G added to the roses
• Rhinestones from my stash colored with a yellow sharpie

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

CHALLENGES ENTERED

DigiStamps4Joy #147 - Anything Goes

My Mom / My Friend ...

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

~Washington Irving

Hello - Hello!

Just sharing another card I made using this gorgeous image "Wild Roses" from Andrea Norris of Sheepski Designs.

This beautiful image will be given away as a Freebie on our Facebook page, Through the Craft Room Door for a short period of time starting February 4th and you must be a member of Through the Craft RoomDoor Facebook Group to get your very own copy of it.

You can also see and purchase more of her lovely images in her Etsy shop noted below, so please go have a visit!

SheepSki Designs

SheepSki Designs ETSY Shop

SheepSki Designs Facebook Page

5 x 7

Based on Card Pattern #35

 

SUPPLIES

Cardstock from Bazzill, The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Digi image colored with Alcohol Markers

Flower background stamp from Stampin Up!

Negative die cut from scrap pile created with Fancy Labels from Sizzix

Rhinestones from Close to My Heart

Stamps "Messages for Mom" from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by! Looking forward to seeing you over at SheepSki Designs and Through the Craftroom Door!

(Hugs) Cara

Angels Envy ...

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.

~Thomas C. Haliburton

Hello - Hello!

Just sharing a card I made using this gorgeous image "Wild Roses".

Andrea Norris of Sheepski Designs has generously given us this digi image as a give-away on our Facebook page, Through the CraftRoom Door.

As a former Designer and Featured Digi Artist, Andrea has close ties with Through the Craft Room Door and is still active in our challenges.

This beautiful image will only be offered for a short period of time starting February 4th and you must be a member of Through the Craft Room Door Facebook Group to get your very own copy of it.

You can also see and purchase more of her lovely images in her Etsy shop noted below, so please go have a visit!

SheepSki Designs

SheepSki Designs Etsy Shop

Sheepski Designs Facebook Page

 5 x 7

Based on Verve sketch VLVNov2012

SUPPLIES

Cardstock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Design Paper Unknown

Digi image colored with Alcohol Markers

Embossing folders: "Noel Noel" and "Hugs & Kisses" from Cricut

Ink from Palette

Stamp set "All Year Cheer II" from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you over at SheepSki Designs and Through the Craftroom Door


CHALLENGED ENTERED

ATG with CREATE with TLC #7

Sending extra Love ...

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Milton Berle

Wow ... been awhile I know but I will be working to post more often and getting back into the DT arena outside TTCRD is going to help me do that! :O)

Today is the start of a new color challenge at The Outlawz.

Our sponsor for the month of May is Bugaboo Stamps

The image I am using is BugLoveAngel ... Isn't she awesome?!

I am going to give this card to my Mom for Mother's Day

Supplies:

Image colored with Copics and Prisma Color Pencils

Butterfly from Scrapberry

Cardstock from The Paper Studio, Bazzill & Stampin Up!

Die "Classic Hearts" from Sizzix

Die "Large Classic Doily" from Stampin Up!

Fern Punch from Martha Stewart

Flowers from Michael's Dollar Bin (yellow), The Paper Studio (blue) and my stash (white)

Ink from Close to My Heart

Rhinestones from Stampin Up!

Sentiment from "Messages for Mom" by Stampin Up!

Thanks for Stopping by!

Mom, With Love

Call your mother. Tell her you love her.

Remember, you're the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside.

--- Rachel Wolchin ---

Good morning!

WOW - April 1st already! 

I'm still in Japan enjoying my vacation but our time here is growing short. Soon, my daughter and I will be heading back to the United States and settling back into the Everyday!

In the meantime, you can head on over to the Outlawz and check out the new Progressive Freebie Challenge which has commenced for the month of April!

Our sponsor this month is Andrea Norris of SheepSki Designs and she has given us a wonderful image this month!

Supplies:

Digital Image from Andrea Norris (Sheepski Designs) colored with Copics and Prisma Color Pencils

Card stock from The Paper Studio and American Craft

Die: "Labels Collection" from Stampin Up!

Sentiment from Stampin Up!

To my Mother In Law

To My Mother In Law

Thank you for raising the Love of my life

Size 5 x 7

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

DP unknown

Die: Flower Brambles from Provocraft

Die: Butterflies from Stampin Up!

Die: Banners from Stampin Up!

Ink from Stampin Up!

Sentiment unknown

Thanks for stopping by!

(X) Cara

Happy Mothers Day!

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL YOU LOVELY MOM'S OUT THERE IN BLOG LAND!

MAY YOUR DAY BE FILLED WITH THE LOVE AND LAUGHTER OF YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

Today is the start of another CAS Challenges The Outlawz and we are honoring all the Mothers, soon to be Mothers and the Mothers who adopted out there!

Our sponsor this month is

Through the Craft Room Door with a 1 year subscription to the magazine

My Mother raised 3 children by herself during a time when being divorced still carried the taint of scandal. Child support was questionable at best and because women were not paid a decent wage, she often worked 2 - 3 jobs to make ends meet.

When I look back on my childhood through the eyes of a "responsible adult" what I see is that we had a loving parent who spent a good deal of time doing whatever it took to make sure we were taken care of at the expense of herself. While we did not have all the things we thought we wanted, we always had the things we needed

Thanks Mom!

Card size: 5 x 7

Supplies

Cardstock from The Paper Studio, Bazzill and Stamp in Up

DP from my scrap bin

Sentiment Unknown

Die: Scripty Hello Hearts from Fawn Lawn

Die: Arrows from Momenta

Black India ink from Memories

Thanks for stopping by

(Hugs) Cara

Happy Mothers Day!

Mother.

That was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

 DeWitt Talmage

Hello!

Mothers Day is tomorrow but my plan is to take my mom out for lunch and maybe a movie today.
For those Mothers out there, I hope your day tomorrow is awesome and you are treated as royalty!

This is the card I made for my mom!

Size 5 x 7

SUPPLIES

Card base - unknown - bought years ago!

Card stock from Stampin Up!

DP from Me & My Big Ideas & Provocraft

Pink corrugated strip - stash

Pink gem - stash

Silk flower - stash (from a flower stem I deconstructed a while back)

Sentiment - unknown

Swiss dots embossing folder from Cuttlebug

Diamond pane embossing folder part of Wedding Suite set from Cuttlebug

Marvy scalloped square punch

Marvy square punch

And this sketch by Kim Keane for "My Creative Sketches"

Thanks for stopping by!

{Hugs} Cara

Mothers Day (Mother in Law)

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Irish Proverb

Good morning ... Mothers Day is coming!

I made this card for my Mother in Law

I have to say I am most  grateful that I do not have the stereotypical Mother-in-Law!

She is not intrusive.

She does not tell me I need to treat her "boy" better. 

She never told me how to raise my kids.

And while she may not approve of everything I've done is the 30 something years I've been with her son, she's never been spiteful or mean.

I think I am one lucky Daughter in Law!

Here is the card I made for her!

Yes, the banners are hand cut. I keep telling myself I should buy the banner dies from SU! but I can't bring myself to invest, at this time, the money on something that I can, more or less, cut by hand. :O(

Size: 5 x 7

White card stock and sentiment (Messages for Mom)  from Stampin up!

Green & Pink card stock from Bazzll

DP from Making Memories "Brooke Paisley)

Scallop dies from Sizzix

Pearl Swirl from Recoleections

I used this sketch from Paper Crafting Divas

 

Thanks for stopping by!
{Hugs} Cara

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge: Feb 25 - Mar 3

“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have,

it depends solely upon what you think.”

~ Dale Carnegie

Good morning!

Today is the start of a new Anything Goes Challenge at Through the Craft Room Door! Click HERE to come play along!

I made this card for my Mom for Valentines Day. The image is a digi from Digistamps4Joy and colored with Prisma Pencils and OMS.  A touch of glitter was added to some of the petal to add interest.

SUPPLIES:

Cardstock: Stampin Up! & Bazzill

EF: Organic Flourishes from Cuttlebug

Dies: Fancy Label from Sizzix and Floral Flourished from Spellbinders

Sentiment: Holiday Hoopla from Fiskars

Prisma Pencils

OMS

Thanks for stopping by!

XX Cara

Cards from 2012

JUNE 2012

COLOR CHALLENGE WINNER AT THE OUTLAWZ