Hello

 Hello, my friends! Here is today's card albeit later than normal.

Yea for gorgeous paper that does all the work. I used a piece of Florals in Bloom DSP and matted it on Basic White and adhered it to a Granny Apple Green card base. The Blackberry Bliss flower is from the Pretty Florals dies with the contrasting piece in Fresh Freesia. The sentiment is from Sweet Blooms stamped with Blackberry Bliss ink.

I'm happy to be playing along at the SUOC #400 where they are CASE-ing Designer Cindy Coutts.

I'm off to make a few more cards using this design! Love it!

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

You're the sweetest

 I had to play along with the CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch this week.

Here's what I came up with:

I've just been loving those little Storybook Friends critters recently. I used one of the frame dies from the same set and cut it using the Earthen Toned Metallic paper and popped those little rabbits on it. The DSP is from Storybook Moments and the card base is...drum roll please...Wild Wheat! 😂 You either loved or hated that color! Well, I didn't love it or hate it but I did find a place for it in my papercrafting. The sentiment is from Banner Sayings.  I do love that stamp set!

That's it for me today.

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Happy Birthday

 I don't know who I am going to give today's card to. lol! I made it for a color challenge my upline's stamping group has right now.

Can you guess the colors for the challenge?!  Black. Crushed Curry. Strawberry Slush. I punched out a few circles and ran them through the Plaster Painting EF.  The image is from Nice & Easy Notes and makes me happy. It's another old and beloved stamp set.  I finished the card by adding a few Strawberry Slush gems.

I'm going to post this over at Seize the Birthday #325 for Anything Goes.

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Happy Mother's Day

 Thank goodness for a new month and a new week.  April ended with me and the hubs pretty sick. The hubs is a few days behind me in getting well but I think/hope he is over the worse! Let's just say we had a super cold. 

I was able to get back in the studio yesterday afternoon and I completed a lot of unfinished projects! Do you know how wonderful that feels?! Just fabulous! 

 I went very simple for today's card and sometimes it just feels good to keep it simple especially when life packs a punch. I used my old and beloved Sweet and Simple Salutations and cut out the image using a Spotlight on Nature die. I used a piece of DSP from the Floral Impressions, some white seam binding and put it all on a Strawberry Slush card base. I added a few of the white butterflies from the new '26-28 In Color Butterflies.

I'm playing along with The Paper Players challenge this week where they are looking for "Feminine".

I came across this sweet photo of our neighborhood geese family. 

I think this is the first time I've seen goslings...I've seen lots of ducklings over the years but never the goslings. I guess the geese are making themselves at home.

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Keep Looking Up

 Today's card uses the Silly Old Bear Suite collection of products minus the embossing folder and a couple new In Colors coming in May.

The Peaceful Pine color doesn't look like that in real...light issues I'm assuming.

Anyways, I wanted to play along with the Paper Players Challege this week.

I couldn't pass by Piglet. As for Clean-and-Simple it's about as good as I can do! lol!

Well, the little grands managed to share their germs with me.  Bummer. Last week got more stressful as our oldest son had an abscess/infection under his arm. Thankfully it responded to antibiotics but he did have to have it drained. 

We are glamping this week. Today is rainy and windy so it's a good day to relax, blow my nose and do a little crafting. Yesterday we made the most of the nice weather and hiked and biked! Here's a couple pictures. Does anyone know where we are?!

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Thank you

 Well, my week isn't going as planned...we have a couple sick grandchildren. We watched Ivan yesterday who was struggling with a cold. Today and for the rest of the week we have Weston who has pneumonia. I'm beginning to wonder if blogging is for me...no time.

I did make a card in between watching Ivan. He is still little enough and got to sit in my studio. 

I had pulled out my Storybook Moments DSP and had bits and pieces in there and put this card together. I used a Basic Beige card base and embossed another piece with the Exposed Brick EF. I really like the Banner Sayings bundle which is where the sentiment came from. I still have Storybook Moments paper spread out. I don't have much left and would love to use it up! My Silly Old Bear Suite arrived today. Pooh is in the house and I'm looking forward to having a play with those products...which I was NOT going to buy. 🤣 🤣🤣

Here's Ivan hanging out in my studio. 

Not sure when I'll be able to post again.

Happy Stamping!

Tracy

Hi, Friend

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend. I had my crafty day with my crafty friends on Saturday. My BCFF (Best Crafting FriendForever) and SU! Upline shared the make-n-take. I wanted to share it here because it's so cute!

We used the Bloom Boutique DSP (coming May 5) and did some origami folding to get this cute little heart pouch. It holds a Ghirardelli chocolate square but I have a Bouchard chocolate in it. The oval die is from the Scalloped Wishes dies which are out of stock for the next month. 😠 We used the Daisy EF for the center of the oval. Cute idea. The little flowers are cut from the two tone cardstock in Crisp Cantaloupe and Hydrangea Hue using the  ??? not sure if it was Heirloom Boutique or Boutique Blossoms dies or neither. Just use a little die cut flower. 

Anyways, I thought it was fun and cute. I don't know where she got the idea but I'm glad she shared it with us and I am definitely going to make more of these!

Last week the hubs and I biked the Spring Water Corridor. It was okay. We're glad we did it but have no desire to do it again. Here's a couple pics.

It took us right down to the Willamette River in Portland. 

Happy Stamping!

Tracy