Spring Is In The Air - Heart 'n Rose

 

Good morning! Welcome to my blog.

The last few days have just been gorgeous.

The snow has been melting and the blue skies

just boost ones mood.

We have had rain that has melted a lot of snow too.

Spring is truly, in the air in central Alberta.

March is flying by.

Last week our family expanded by one more beautiful grandchild.

Our grandson Stetson Robin has brought us all so much joy already.

Being a mom has always been my favorite but being a grandma

and watching my two boys with their kids

is just everything, I have dreamed of and so much more. 

It just touches your soul in many different ways.

Onto why you are here.

Creative Knockouts Challenge

is up and ready for you to come and play.

We are on Challenge #567 - Spring Is In The Air

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is

SheepSki Designs

The prize is 3 Images.

The image, that is being highlighted on 

my card is called Heart n Rose
It is a beautiful image,

that is so versatile for many different types of cards.

The image has been colored using Copic Markers.

The stitched die is from My Favorite Things

The flag die is from Spellbinders.

The punch, embossing folder, pattern paper, ink and are from Stampin' Up

This card is a special birthday card. Our son Robin's birthday is at the

end of March and has always been the first birthday celebrated

right after Spring solitice. 

We will celebrate him on the 29th of March the day he was born. 

Robin brought

so much light/love into this world and into our hearts.

We are forever impacted by the greatness of his love, kindness and generous spirit.

He loved beautiful flowers.

His favorite are peonies and then roses with carnations.

Come on over and join us at Creative Knockouts.

My fellow teammates have amazing inspiration for you.

Wishing you a beautiful day!

May you find something that brings your joy and comforts your heart today.

Happy Crafting,

Trick Or Treat with a cute Gnome

Good Morning,

It sure has been busy and yet at moments a quiet week.

We had a house full for Thanksgiving

and it was really nice to spend some time

with family.

We sure were missing pieces of our hearts

but are so grateful for the love

we share for them all.

Today we have a brand new challenge over at 

Creative Knockouts.

We are on Challenge #557 - Halloween or Fall

So much fun.

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is

SheepSki Designs

Prize: 3 Images 

The fun image that I am using on my card today 

is called Trick Or Treat

How adorable.

My card is colored using Copic Markers,

Fussy cut both images out

and broke out my embossing folders

oval punch, pop ups and enamel dots.

On the little oval, I sponged Pumpkin Pie ink around the outside.

Pretty clean and simple.

Hard to believe Halloween is not to far away,

Love all the fun colors used on this holiday.

Please come and join us at Creative Knockouts,

I would love to enjoy your inspiration.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Always Remember to Smile - Robin

Yep, That's Me - Robin

Wishing you a beautiful day!

May you find something that brings you joy

and comforts your heart.

Happy Crafting,

Hugs,

Let's Skate

Good, Good morning!

It has been an exciting start to the new year!

Our beautiful grand daughters turned one on New Years Day.

It was a day filled with joy and love for the two littles.

The weather has been pretty good here this week so far.

School is back in for our daughter and daughter in law.

Today, I am very excited to share my

first card for 2023.

Creative Knockouts has a brand new challenge for you.

It is a real easy one. So let your inspiration flow

and share the creation with us.

Challenge #485 - Anything Goes

(our challenges will run for two weeks)

Our first sponsor for 2023

is SheepSki Designs

Thank you  to our sponsor for 

letting me create this card with

the Winter Warm Up image.

She is beautiful and so much fun to color up.

We would love to have you join us at Creative Knockouts.

My fellow teammates have some incredible inspiration

for you. Please share some love with them.

I am so excited to see what our first challenge of the new year

inspires you to create.

This year it is my plan to create and share some

more creations with you.

Wishing everyone the very best in 2023!

Thank you to everyone who has continued to support

me over this past year.

Happy Birthday with a Tropical Feel

 

Good morning!

It has been another beautiful week.

We have had warm temperatures, warm weather

and thunder storms with more rain.

This week my sister has been here

visiting. It truly has been a blessing

and it has also included some time

some families. Including visiting with her

great nephew and nieces.

Laughter is sooooo good for the soul.

We have a brand new challenge this 

week over at Creative Knockouts!

We are on Challenge #461

Celebration - new house, new baby, birthday, anniversary, wedding etc...

Our wonderful sponsor this week is from

SheepSki Designs:

Prize: 3 Images

Thank you so very, very  much for

letting me high light this fun image called

Tropical

My image was colored using Copic Markers.

Please come and join us at Creative Knockouts! 

We would love to have you for our brand new challenge this week.

Also it is a fun challenge. Who doesn't like to celebrate right?

Thank you for joining me with this brand new card.

Hugs,

Love You!

 

Good morning!

We have had some extra time with our grandson

as his twin sisters are still in the NICU.

They are growing and working really hard

so that one day soon they will be able to come

home. We all look forward to the day

we can actually meet our little bundles

of joy!

This week Emery has been my partner and

giving me advice on my card. My co-designer.

We have a fun filled Challenge for you this week

over at Creative Knockouts.

For Challenge #437 - Die Cut/Punches

Our wonderful sponsor this week is

SheepSki Designs

Prize: 3 Images

Thank you so much to our sponsors this week for

letting me highlight this beautiful image 

Valentine Image no.64

I ran out of a few colors of my copic marker

it ended up being too hard to create an scene

like I wanted too.

My next best way to do it was

using my Die Cuts.

Such a beautiful image and it honestly could

be used for other occasions, so I chose

an anniversary instead of Valentines.

My grandson (4 years old) figured that I needed

to add the sun, cloud and the bird to finish it off. 

My mom always let the kids help her with her cards

if they wanted too. Passing on a traditions.

This beautiful image.

is colored using my Copic Markers.

The Dies that were used to are from Gina Marie Designs

The sentiments (Express Yourself) and paper are from Stampin' Up.

Please join us over at Creative Knockouts for this fun filled Challenge.

My fellow team mates have tons of inspiration for you.

Thank you so much supporting me.

Hugs,

Aisling

Good morning!

We have had some beautiful weather here.

On Tuesday our grandson turned

4 years old. He was so cute

and super excited for his special day!

Each day my heart fills with

even more love...how is that possible?

It was already overflowing with love the day Emery

was born.

We have a brand new challenge for you over at

Creative Knockouts with and awesome sponsor

for this week.

Challenge #401 - Flowers Powers

Our wonderful sponsors

are from SheepSki Designs

Prize: 3 Images

Aisling - image no 17

Thank you so much for letting me

create and color up this beautiful image.

The image was colored up

using Copic Markers.

Isn't the pattern paper beautiful.

I love roses. Sadly, while moving

things around in my craft room, I have

completely misplaced, where I put my flowers for

the extra flower power.

It is a clean and simple card for you

this week. Hoping it inspires you to join us.

We look forward to seeing your amazing 

work for our brand new challenge at

Creative Knockouts.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have an amazing day!

Mika

Good afternoon, 

Do you ever have those days,

where you feel that technology just is 

not your friend?

I have been having one of those days.

My sincere apologizes for this late post.

On a grateful note it has finally gone through

and not completely deleted everything, as soon as I hit publish!

It was a chance that I took to come in and add this to my post.

So this girl is doing some major happy dancing.

We have an amazing sponsor this week over

at Creative Knockouts for our brand new challenge.

Our challenge this week is Anything Goes for #381

This challenge will run until the New Year.

Our wonderful sponsor this week is

SheepSki Designs

Prize: 3 Images

Thank you very much for letting me 

high light such a beautiful image.

This angelic image is called

Mika

Copic Markers were used to color up this

stunning image. I was working at having the middle

of the dress blend into white. Wink of Stella was

used on the dress and wings to add some sparkle.

Hopefully on the picture above you can see that.

The stitched dies are from My Favorite Things

and the paper is from

Stampin' Up

While making this card, I was thinking about

my angel in heaven, my mom and best friend.

Our first Christmas without her, is going to be a tough one.

When I saw this image, it just called to me.

Brought memories of songs to mind that my mom loved.

The pearls were added in memory of my

mom, she just loved her bling

on her cards.

My mom would have just adored this image.

We would love to have you join us over

at Creative Knockouts for 

our ANYTHING GOES Challenge #381

We also have a Design Call going so please

check it out, we would love to have you apply!

Thank you so much for joining us over

at Creative Knockouts for the year.

Sharing your love of Crafting.

Thank you to my fellow team mates

for always inspiring me.

Most of all Thank you Kelly,

for being such an awesome blog challenge owner!

For your understanding and support this year

throughout this 2020 year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hugs,

Giant Mushroom

Good morning bloggerland :)

I am wishing you a very happy Thursday!

Well we had a bit of a productive week.

We celebrated our 24th Anniversary and planted a garden.

In fairness about the garden my hubby did it all for me.

Let me just say he did an amazing job too.

He has a green thumb as he has managed to

grow pineapples in our house here in Alberta.

Today, we have a brand new challenge up

at Creative Knockouts.

We are on Challenge #351 - Embossing Delight

Dry or Heat Embossing

Our fantastic sponsor this week is from SheepSki Designs

Thank you so much for letting me color up 

the Giant Mushroom image, it is super adorable.

The Prize is 3 images

I used Copic Markers to color up this super cute image.

I broke out my cuttlebug and sizzix folders

to emboss on the green and orange layers.

I then did a rectangle stitched die on the bottom layer.

Added some pearls and woola all done.

I would really love to see your amazing work

so please join us at Creative Knockouts for our brand new challenge.

Who doesn't love embossing right.

Thank you so much for joining me!

Taking Pics

Good morning my friends!

It has been a whirl wind week here.

How on earth did we get to Thursday already?

The last Thursday of September...what????

We have been blessed

with watching our grandson this week.

Today over at Creative Knockouts

we have a brand new challenge for you!

For 

Challenge #317

Anything Goes

Our wonderful sponsors for this week are

from SheepSki Designs

They are letting me highlight

Taking Pics Image No. 153

Prize: 3 Images

 

 I chose this image to high light

because it reminds

me of some very special girls

who are wonderful photographers.

This card was made for one girl in

mind as she has such stunning pictures.

When I saw this digi

Ceri popped into my mind.

Hoping she likes this card.

The image was colored by Copic Markers

I dug into my stash to use

ribbon and left over scrapped papers.

Paper is from Stampin' Up

The clouds embossing folder is from Darcie.

I adore the image of the lighthouse

in the lens. It reminds me of  one of the 

lighthouses in Prince Edward Island.

So our challenge is Anything Goes, please

come and show us what inspires you

this week. We would love to see your inspiration.

Creative Knockouts

Thank you so much for joining me.

Have an amazing day!

Hugs,