Hi-Ya. Happy Sunday. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. It was a FABULOUS weekend here in middle TN. The paper this morning said this is the most snow this area has seen in 7 years! wooohooo. It was so much fun and what was best is that it happened over the weekend. Our neighborhood was full of people sledding, making snowmen etc. Fun, fun stuff. AND that gave me LOTS of time to get CRAFTY!!! I made 9 cards and 4 scrapbook pages. WOOOOHOOO

my last card today was a card for Ashley Newell's Embellish Challenge. We were to use turquoise, brown and pink. awesome, I just HAD to play along. I also made a fun poofy flower I learned from Dawn McVey. They are very addictive once you start. Inside of the card is a shape cut out using Spellbinders Label 4 using pink cardstock and a stamped birthday sentiment. Thanks so much for stopping by. Enjoy the rest of your night!

Cheers!

*Julie*

Cardstock: PTI Dark Chocolate, Sweet Blush

Patterned Paper: The Turquoise is unknown got a square of it in a secret sister package (thanks Cindy!) But the poofy flower was made with PTI Pretty Pink Patterned Paper

Button: PTI Dark Chocolate

Ribbon: PTI Sweet Blush, Rustic Jute (for the button)

Stamps: PTI Birthday Basics (sentiment)

Ink: PTI Dark Chocolate

Big Flirt

Helloooooo! Happy Thursday! wooohooo weekend ...i can almost taste you!! Hope all is well, I know I am extremely happy to be safe and sound at home. Nashville got our first snow this year. it was really built up all over the news that we were going to get a whopping 2 inches and i think we ended up with MAYBE a 1/4 inch BUT it was slicker than i dont know what. The roads froze pretty quickly and on my way home from work today my car slid and did a donut!! HA thank goodness I did not hit anyone or anything. there were a couple of cars around but thankfully they did not get in my way. I thought FOR SURE I was going to get one of them. The good Lord was with me I guess. Scared the pee out of me though...(almost! LOL)
Okay so for todays card. I copied another layout and I dont know if i copied another one from Melissa Phillips or not, it could have been cased from Card Trends Magazine. SO SORRY. For a few of the up coming Valentines day cards I used stickers from Reminisce called Flirt. Got them half off at my LSS. This one I used the sticker Big Flirt. Made a background design (on top of the Spellbinders Label 4) with my super duper Cricut cart Home Accents then made a swirly with Cricut Home Decor. I dont know who makes the tree branch looking paper, it was some scraps I had. The red heart paper is Cosmo Cricket. Then added some tiny CTMH paper flowers and some tiny pearls from The Paper Studio. Okay kiddos, I am going to go relax in a really hot bathtub and read a scrappy mag. Have an awesome night!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Winter Wishes

Good Sunday Afternoon!! It is so pretty and so much warmer than yesterday. I need to update about the Bonfire/Hayride last night it wasn't 30 it was actually more like 40. so NOT quite as bad but still dang chilly. I was sitting around the fire with me feet propped up and the bottom of one of my sneakers started smoking!!! HA!!! guess I was too close to that warm fire.

Anyway, Today's card is a sweet little image that my friend Tina let me stamp with. I think it is the Greeting Farm. There are three in the set Rain, Winter and Summer i believe. This on is winter. She is soooo cute. I am still trying to learn to color with Copic so bare with me.

I have no idea who the paper is. A friend gave it to me and there was no identification on the back at all. But I love the colors and argyle pattern. I wish I had more Copics so i could have matched the paper better. SOME DAY! I will be getting more. Right now I have to think about Christmas gifts before I can buy myself any non essentials. The pink paper is CTMH Hollyhock and ribbon is PTI Berry Sorbet. The buttons are from My Minds Eye. The sentiment is PTI Snow Fall set and the Snowflake is PTI 2008 Holiday Tag Collection. and the die cut is Spellbinders Label 4.

THANK YOU for visiting. Hope you have a great Sunday GO TITANS!! (poor babies are so bad this year!)

Cheers!
*Julie*

Vintage Snowman?

HI There! How is your Wednesday? My work day ended a little early due do a sick little girl at home (her dad took care of her this morning). She started feeling bad and running a fever yesterday however this afternoon she is feeling much better so I am pretty positive it is not the flu. Thank goodness.
So I LOVE vintage but... I am not so good at it but thought I would give it a whirl. The blue floral paper is BasicGrey Oh Boy the pink is My Minds Eye (i think) it was a piece left over from years ago from a Jenni Bowlin class I took (LOVE HER btw). I also printed some free vintage sheet music from the Internet. I used Spellbinder Label One die cut in two sizes and stamped one of them with a polka dot border from PTI Vintage Label set. The cute little snowman is also PTI called Made of Snow. I colored him with Koh-I-Nor colored pencils and OMS. Inked a little around the edges of everything and ran a straight stitch around the card with the Janomi Mini.
then added a little bow of PTI Spring Rain ribbon and called it a card!
okay, since grace is feeling much better I am going to take advantage of being home early and go work out. Thank you for stopping by today! Have a great night!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge Week 15

Hola Friends! Thanks for checking out my go at Dawn McVey's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge Week # 15. I love doing these challenges, really make me think, sometimes it just hurts to think that hard! LOL Anywho. This is what I came up with, I hope you enjoy it. It was fun to play. I colored the chip board piece with Hibiscus Burst ink, it was white. Have a GREAT DAY!

Cheers!

*Julie*

Cardstock: PTI Melon Berry, Hibiscus Burst, Spring Moss and Vintage Cream

Ink: PTI Vintage Cream, CTMH Sorbet (matches pti exactly!)

Stamps: sentiment PTI Birds of a Feather, dots and starburst CTMH Spot on Background

Ribbon: PTI Vintage Cream Grosgrain

Chipboard: American Crafts

Button: My Minds Eye

Die Cut: Spellbinders Label One

Punches: Fiskars Apron Lace and Threading Water

Aloha Birthday

Good Sunday afternoon to ya!!! Gosh this weekend has flown by so fast. I have been soooo busy. And still going. I was really hoping to get some stamp time in today but, everyone else has a different plan. I need to get ready in just a sec to take Grace to yet another birthday party. Oh, she had her recital yesterday. The girls did so good. I could watch them dance all day. Grace got one of the special awards called the Angel Award for working so hard and NEVER giving any of her teachers any trouble, always listening, and behaving. Awwwww, I am so proud of her.
This card is for the birthday party today. I used Mojo Monday sketch 86. Whoopsy Daisy paper pack from CTMH. The stamps are Imaginisce Penguin Chick and CTMH Extreme Happiness. I also used Label One die cut from Spellbinders and Treading Water punch from Fiskars. I hope you enjoyed the card. Have an awesome day the weather is sooooo beautiful here today. I also really love that you stopped by here today!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Happy Mother's Day card

Good Sunday Evening to you all!! I made it back home safe and sound from the scrappy weekend at the beautiful Center Hill Lake. The cabin was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! I hope to take pics of the pages I completed soon. For now I wanted to share a quick little mothers day card with you. The white base cardstock is PTI and the flowers are also PTI Women of Life. The mothers day sentiment is from CTMH Say it in Style. The red cardstock is Stampin' UP! Rose Red (such a pretty color). The pink card stock is Sweet Blush ran through the Curvy Rectangle Spellbinder die. Oh and the ribbon is PTI Sweet Blush saddle stitch. I just had to add some sparkle in the middle of the flowers with Stampin up Dazzling Diamonds! Okay, quick post tonight, I have lots to catch up on. Thank you so much for the visit. I LOVE having you here!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

More Mother's Day cards

Whew, the Mothers Day cards I've been making are flying out the door. I am so glad there are places like Etsy, Splitcoaststampers etc. for casing inspiration. Like this card here by Michelle Werner that I fell in love with on splitcoast. Hers is sooooo gorgeous. I decided to make mine pink and used different ribbon and made it mothers day instead of hello. I also did not add little drops around the corners although the drops were a beautiful accent I needed to make several in a hurry. The cardstock is Sweet Blush from PTI and so is the Vintage Cream ribbon. The flowers are The Paper Studio and the sentiments are from Women of Life also PTI. I used Curved Rectangles Die by Spellbinders and used the Swiss Dot folder in the cuttlebug for the front piece.
Make sure you check out Michelle's card, you will love it.

Okie doke, I am out the door headed for a cabin at Centerhill Lake with my scrappy friends!!! Wooooohoooo. See you on Sunday. Have an awesome weekend!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Happy Birthday to You

Hi Everybody!!!! Its my Friday wooooooooooohoooooooooooooo!!!!! And it is beautiful outside and I came home a little early from work. Roll all of that up and it makes a GRAND day! I hope you are enjoying your day as well. I made this card a couple of weekends ago. I think it turned out nicely. I used Damask Designs from that uber talented Dawn McVey for PTI. Stamped the larger Damask in Vintage Cream ink onto Melon Berry. Stamped the smaller Damask in Ocean Tides onto a Label One die cut. Stamped Happy Birthday to you in Dark Chocolate. I also ran a piece of Dark Chocolate in the Textile cuttlebug folder. Tied it all together with some 5/8 Ocean Tides grosgrain ribbon. I have an order for a few cards so I need to get busy in a minute. I really need to do some chores first. Enjoy the rest of your day!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Damask and Melon Berry

Happy Happy Friday!!!!!!! Oh, it look like it is going to be a beautiful day today!!! I must get out of the house today...especially since the roofers are putting on a new roof today....I don't want to listen to all that banging and racket! So today I wanted to share the first card I made with a new set from PTI called Damask that was designed by the sweet and talented Dawn McVey. I also played with PTI new color (last month) Melon Berry. The little bitty design above the black is rubon from Creative Imaginations. The sentiment is Heart Print Sentiments. I cut and embossed a Curvy Rectangle from Spellbinders for a main image. My dh says it looks like the mark that psychiatrist use for the patients to determine what the spot is. He said that doctors name that invented it but I cannot remember now. He so crazy! Well tooda-loo for now gang!
thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your Friday!
Cheers!
*Julie*