Mojo-licious Cake! Yum Yum!

I must have been hungry when I made this Mojo Monday card.....

Having found the yum yum tag already made up I made a cake, lit the candles and figured the panels could be layers of a delicious cake. So I ran them through the big shot with a Stripes Sizzix texture plate. Delicous!

Except when I went back to the computer I was a bit off from the Mojo sketch--I should've printedit, but oh well. I figured I'd at least add the circle.....

Which do you like better? Mojo #1 or Mojo #2?

Want to have fun playing along with more fun sketches? Check out Unscripted Sketches this Saturday April 11th--Jenny and Sharon have AWESOME sketches and it will be fun to see what you can come up with! I made mine tonight (a perk of being on the DT) and can't wait to share....come back Saturday am!

Smiles,


Paper: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Real Red, Whisper White, Candy Lane DSP
Ink: Black Stazon, Real Red, Chocolate Chip
Stamps: So Many Scallops, Terrific Tags, Everything Baby, Bloom with Happiness (all SU)
Other: ribbon, pop dots, Hero Arts gemstones, circle punches, tag punches, silver brad, word window punch, big shot, stripes texturz plate

Are you ready for some sketches?????

(sung in my best Monday night football voice)

Unscripted Sketches is ready to go, and we'll be starting with out first sketch challenge on Saturday April 11th! I'm so excited and hope you'll stop by and play along. You can check some of the other DT member by clicking on their names on my sidebar --------->

Enjoy the week ahead!

Smiles,

Little time for anything........

Does anyone else feel that way? I don't know if it's my startling life or if I just try to do too much. Either way, there's little time for anything some days!

The first thing my husband said when he saw the card was 'It's crooked.' Thanks honey. I thought maybe only I notice those things but nothing gets by him. Sometimes those rub-ons don't cooperate...that's just how startling life is! I made this card for the KWerner color inspiration challenge. I've seen a few similar layouts to this, but I don't know where. It just came together! Once I chopped up the kiwi kiss and baja breeze I used scraps and a button I had lying around--cleaning up and creating, my favorite! Except it's not too clean. I'm so jealous of people with a great space for creating....like Steph shared today. Someday..........

Smiles,

Easter Basket

My mom has decoreated her house for Easter and spring, so last night I at least took down my winter wall hanging. Jake even put up a protest because now the wall over the couch is very, very blank! I don't have many decorations for spring, but I do have a beautiful Easter basket:

This basket and the many eggs in it were smocked by my grandmother Memere, who was an amazing seamstress, knitter and just about anything to do with needle, thread or yarn! When I got married my mother made sure I had my own basket for Easter. My grandmother taught my mom a lot and even though my mother doesn't knit or crochet, she knew enough about that to get me started when I wanted something to do during Chapel in college! So sewing is her area of expertise and I am the crochet guru in the family--I knit from time to time but crocheting is so easy to fix if you make a mistake! Soon I'll be done a blanket for my nephew (arriving in July!) and I'll share that and the pattern. It's easy and gorgeous!

Once I get down the plates on display over the microwave winter will have left the house! Off to the gym now.........

Smiles,

Bee-utiful and Fabulous!

Last night I went to town in the basement with some stamps and many color challenges. I wanted to make a card or two to send for Jen's fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Association. She's also giving away sweet blog candy so go check it out. Cards for a cause, I love it! I'll be sending the two below along with a few others.

This first card is for Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration Challenge 30. I look forward to these every Sunday, but never seem to have the colors or anything close. (I'm not good at straying off the beaten path.) This week wasn't too different and I was about to give up on finding anything near Bravo Burgundy....then I found a piece of ribbon. Actually a ribbon about two feet long, and on the side adhered to the paper is the name of a candy company near my old school. I don't remember the candy, but I could've spied the ribbon and asked politely if it was going to be thrown away! To color the flower I used a Crayola marker that seemed close....they make those 50 packs for a reason I guess. Add Basic Grey DP, Yoyo Yellow that I'm sure I've never used and some Making Memory brads and it came together fairly easily!

Dawn McVey has started an aweseome Raspberry Suite color challenge. You can tell just by the few hundred people participating that she's got quite the following. I played last week and this week I loved the colors so I thought I'd give it a go again. I love the fact that I found the celery scrap and ribbon sitting out on my table--cleaning up and creating all in one. I stamped the F (hero arts) twice--once on turquoise before embossing and once on white. I cut the turquois out inside the stamped line so it made the F appear to be tri colored. Despite cleaning, my favorite part of this is the beginning of the message "It's your day. Make it...." All those reward cards in my purse seem to remember my birthday and when April rolls around I get cards with coupons. This one said to Make my day count, and was chocolate colored writing! So I cut it up and now my raspberry suite is also recycled.

Boy that was a long one, hope you stuck with me! Don't forget to stay tuned to find out about the NEW sketch challenge design team I'm a part of. Check out the other lucky ladies on my side bar while you're at it!

Smiles,