an OTTERLY great day!

Hello!

Long time no blog! Still not totally back, but starting to find some time to get crafty again! Woohoo!

A good friend of mine decided to take up Project Life to document her trips and adventures. She visited an aquarium while visiting Portland and discovered that many of her photos included a cute lil critter...an OTTER!  I offered to make her a card to go along with her photos using this adorable otter from Lawn Fawn!

and just in time, I'm joining in on the fun at Lawnscaping Challenges this week!



Here's the card I created, I left the side blank so she could finish it to match the rest of her page!


I also did some creative masking of the sentiment in the set, 'have an OTTERLY great birthday!' Because really- how can you *not* have a great day when otters are involved? ;)

I'm still here!

... sort of!

Some of you may guessed why I've been MIA the last 2 weeks... Our baby girl made her (very speedy) arrival on April 10th!

Please meet the newest addition to our family- Madison! ♥♥♥



I hope to get back to some crafty-ness sometime soon! (I can hear my craft room calling out my name every time I walk by ;)) Once we figure out a routine that works out with this lil one and her BIG bro!

Happy Weekend!

Thanks!

A quick card to share a Thank You card my mom asked me to make...

I paired Avery Elle's Petals & Stems with the Thanks diecut from Mama Elephant, finished off with some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and came up with this!



I just love these colorful doilies I found at Michaels too, I wanted to keep the card clean and simple and the doily made it easy to throw in a pop of color!

Hope you are having a fabulous week!

Happy Spring Abby!

Still on baby waiting mode... 6 days until my due date! and my mojo is on it's way on vacation...

I'm trying to stay crafty to keep my mind busy until "D-day"... so when I saw the newest Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge is watercolor as well as the new Wednesday Challenge- April Showers bring Spring Flowers, I just had to play along!

This is my first time watercoloring a 'person' I definitely still need some more practice (and possibly some more skin tone inks!) but I love this new Abby's Spring Showers stamp set- she's so sweet!



Hope you are all finally enjoying some Spring weather where-ever you are!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Easter!

Popping in quick to share a CAS Easter card I whipped up this morning!



Happy Easter!

I Ruff You!

Happy Saturday friends!

Squeezing in a bit of blogging while I still have the time.  We're officially on baby watch as I am almost a week from my due date! YIKES! So far, it doesn't feel like she's ready to make her debut yet! LOL

So just a quick to share some cute mini cards I made using some of the colored images from Kathy of The Daily Marker's 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

I recently received some new Hero Arts goodies thanks to a prize winning and just had to color them up right away. I thought these cute pups (from the new Playful Animals set) would make cute little mini cards that I could have my sister sneak into my nieces' lunch boxes- hope they are surprised ;)




Thanks for stopping by...

{Dino} Easter Egg Wreath!

Couldn't let this week pass by without sneaking in another Easter card!

I love seeing festive holiday wreaths hanging year round and while browsing Pinterest and my blog reader came up with this fun idea for an Easter card!

Using the Spring/Easter theme and colors from the latest Sparkle & Shine Challenge's inspiration photo



and the sketch Deconstructed Sketch No. 195



I came up with this!



The eggs and the 'Easter' sentiment are from Lawn Fawn's Critters from the Past & Happy Everything sets, the Happy die cut is from Simon Says Stamp, sequins & die cut tag from Pretty Pink Posh of course!

I also added some sparkle using my Wink of Stella pen- hard to see in the photo above so I tried to get a better shot here...



Hope you all have a wonderful Easter holiday weekend!