Scare Bear Pattern Kit Giveaway @ Sweet Meadows Farms

Want to win a pattern kit for a Scare Bear from

 Sweet Meadows Farm

  Go for a visit and sign up...

you know you want to!!

Scrap Happy Challenge

This week at City Crafter they are having a "scrap happy" challenge

I could do about 500 of those with all the scraps I have....

but I chose a simple card using a scrap piece of

Kiwi cardstock I had...it isn't quite big enough for a reg. size card

but it turned out kind of cute.....

I also have a BIG bag of premade punched and cut flowers

 so I pulled one of those out

the green gems have been around for about 4 years...

so guess I met the challenge!

On another note...do you do "Pinterest"??

click on my link above and you can see all my pinboards

wow...it is so addicting....

but so fun......things to sew...

things to papercraft....

recipes....

holidays...and best of all

most have links back to the blog or site

for all the info......take a peek!

~Garden Party Hat~

I have finally found a "bit" of time to create!

I am joining in the Shabby Tea Room Challenge "polka dots"......

I cut a "garden party hat" with my Cricut.....

and had so much fun decorating it.....

with some shimmery green ribbon....

a gorgeous lavender rose......

wonderful pearls.......

wouldn't "you" love to have a hat like this??

Butterflies

This week at "Less Is More" the challenge is a theme...

being "things that move"....

my first thought was something with wheels...

but after spending about an hour in the garden trying to take pictures of the butterflies.....

that soon became my inspiration......

because, boy can those things move....

I tried for at least 30 minutes to get the Monarch butterfly picture

he (or she) was annoying to say the least....

it seemed that he was always behind me....

and when I turned around he would fly off...

but I finally managed a pic!

I colored my butterfly with "Copics".

 This was another butterfly I took pics of...there were several of these!

I also have a few pics of the caterpillar........

New Blog Alert ~Take a Peek

I love Michelle Palmer's blog...have you seen her creative art??  I own a piece...I love her work....now her daughter "Alaina"  has started a blog called "Avery Hill"......as well as her own Etsy Shop...she has a bit of a give away....go take a peek.....you can also find Michelle's blog on my favorites list on my side bar!

I wanted to share my gorgeous PeeGee Hydrangea with you...

it is so tall it is as tall as the house....

and almost as wide!

It is a beautiful white....but....

is starting slowly to change to it's pink and sage green color...

I love this thing....

the shape is so pretty!

Just For Fun Challenge ~ Black and White

Just For Fun this week is using "black and white".....

I knew as soon as I saw the challenge I would use my "very" retired SU wolf set....

the sentiment is from Unity, but I thought it fit well (and it was sitting out from my last challenge)....

I embossed the image and used Ranger Black embossing powder.....

I love how this stuff works so good....

it seems I sometimes forget all the cool stuff I have to work with...

and I just added some new goodies to my stash yesterday......

On another note.....

our vacation was wonderful...

for the most part we had beautiful weather...

many a hour was spent kayaking...

lots of eating, too...

more on all that later!!

LIM Challenge ~ One Layer Using "Ink"

This week at Less Is More Challenge, Chrissie and Mandi chose a one layer card using "ink"!

I used some chalk inks as they blend so well...

I do want to add however, that my card is much more "vivid" IRL

the only little addition I added was a "jewel" on my flower...

I figured I could add that as Mandi added a ribbon and brads......

check out the challenge as not only do Mandi and Chrissie have some beautiful creations.....

but the other entries are very creative as well!