New Year & New Inspiration 

Thank you to Verve for this awesome sketch! 

 

Here's my take on it ...

I used an older Verve stamp that has always been 

and will always be a favorite!

Absolutely adore this sweet sentiment.

I also used some lovely new Close To My Heart paper and stamps.

This set, called Chelsea Gardens, was a Christmas gift from one 

of my dearest and most favorite friends:

Thank YOU Janette!! 

 Thank you for stopping by and have a delightful day.

Here is my entry for the November 2107 Verve Sketch :)

I absolutely love the new Verve Digi stamp sets and couldn't wait to try them out on this sketch :)

Mojo Monday 487 Contest

A huge 
"THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!" 
for the
super fun & free
digi stamps at Verve!
What a fabulous, generous, wonderful idea!
I apologize for slaughtering them in this card but have great ideas now
and am full of inspiration for the next time!
I think this is my first time playing again in about 2 years ...
needless to say, I lost my mojo.
I really, really wanted to use the cool digi stamps somehow ...
when you see the cup (not covered up) it does have a very circular feel so
I thought I would use it that way :)
I love LOVE LOVE the sentiment!!
I used some CTMH paper for this ...
I feel I still should try and do something to make the shamrocks stand out more
on the cup and also, I would like to add some chocolate sprinkles :)
Thanks for looking and have a perfectly splendid day!!
Thank you very much Verve for the 
awesome freebies!
With Gratitude, Michele :)

Mojo Monday Challenge

 

My Card for the Challenge

 

Have a nice day!

Mojo Monday Challenge

 

My Try at it ....

(Love the sketch but just can't get my mojo going today ... 

maybe I'll try again!)

Mojo Monday ... thanks for the inspiration! 
Here's this week's challenge:
 

This week I needed to make a birthday card for my gorgeous niece who is turning 17 ~ she loves video games and music and the darker colors so this is what I came up with for her:

 I used CTMH paper and a very old Verve stamp set that's been one of my most consistent favorites of all time .... sorry about the shadows .... 
so fantastically sunny here today!! :)
Thanks for looking and have a delightful day!

This is the challenge:

This is my entry:

 

 

Thanks for looking :) Have a great day! 

Well, I believe my last blog entry ... looks like it was from WAY back in 2011 ... said I lost my mojo ~ LOL ... little did I know ;) 

So, new year, new inspiration, and I've decided to start playing again because when I do make cards for the people I love lately (the last few years!!) I feel they are ALL looking the SAME. That's just dumb. 

Here goes nothing - not sure how this will show up on my blog - and just spent 30 minutes trying to log in to my blog because of course I forgot my log-in info. 

The above (or perhaps, below or on the side) is my entry for Mojo Monday ~ first week of 2015

Sorry about the flash, I did take the pic in front of a window ... at least this way you can see the nice detail in the paper :)

I used a Verve stamp and CTMH paper and ribbon ~ Thanks for looking and have a super duper day!

Trying to Find my Mojo ... it's lost ... have you seen it!?!

Mojo Monday 209

Well this is a fantabulous fun sketch!

Here's my humble submission. Stamp is by Verve. Ribbon is CTMH and this adorable new paper is by We R Memory Keepers. Thank you very much for looking and have a delightful day!

Verve, Sending Some Sunshine

♥ Sunshine ready to be sent!

A sweet & simple card: Verve stamp (one of my all time favorite stamps EVER!) and some yummy new CTMH paper :) My sunshine is already to be sent - tomorrow morning - to three very special people in my life ♥ Thanks for a great challenge Verve!

Splendid, Sunshiney thoughts! All CTMH on this one :)

More Sunshine, all Close To My Heart ... different paper and stamp theme ... not sure if it matches but I like it. Hope you do to :)

Play Date Cafe Challenge 96

This is the lovely, soft and sweet color challenge from Play Date Cafe this week ... I wasn't going to play but then it popped up on my FaceBook and said "you still have time to play today" and I just couldn't resist :)

Here's is my very soft and sweet card. Aside from the sentiment, which I LOVE! Don't you love it!?! Images are all second generation stamped for a faint, softer feel. I saw a gorgeous white on white card the other day and wanted to do something similar, Ivory on Ivory. I used all CTMH products for this card.

For the Verve August Sketch Challenge

I like this one ... I made another but tried to incorporate a color challenge also and therefore ... wasn't too crazy about it so didn't share on Split Coast ... Any way; this is the one I posted and I think it's kinda cool. Thanks for looking!

CAS-ual Fridays Its a 2 in 1 challenge!

Here's the Clean and Simple Creative Inspiration from CAS-ual Fridays this week -- Thanks!

Here's one card I made, I used direct stamp pad to paper. this one I used the same color and tried to triple swipe the pad to get the three color effect ... didn't work to well in this case.

This is my second card - this time used three different colors of ink - I like it but ran out of room for the sentiment - oops! Doesn't get much cleaner or simpler or stamped than this now does it!?!? Thank you for looking and I hope you have a delightful day.

The Play Date Cafe Challenge

Here's the lovely color inspiration from Play Date Cafe

Here's my card. Not loving it at all. My plan went awry in every way. It's done. That's all I can say.

The Play Date Cafe Challenge

This is the fun fabulous and colorful challenge from Play Date this week

I made two cards ... neither of them turned out much like I expected ... or had in my head ... but here they are :)

I really liked what I did with the stamping on the lime frame ... but the inside didn't turn out how I wanted at all ...

After I kept messing up the inside of the smile card, I just decided to flip the center over and go this route ... plain but I kind of like it ...

200th Mojo Monday sketch challenge!

It's the 200th Celebration! Check out Mojo Monday!

Here is my entry for this week's sketch ♥ Thanks for looking!

VERVE Challenge ♥ Sentimental About Paper!

The second I read " Sentimental About Paper!" 

I knew what paper you were talking about for me! Talk about hoarding! Words can not express my love for this Cosmo Cricket Paper! The one with the sun lit clouds floating happily in a vintage blue sky; Scrumptious! For awhile, I perhaps had just enough of this paper to wall paper at least one room in my home. So for this challenge, as I wait patiently for my new parcel of Verve stamps to arrive in the mail; 

I broke out the last of my stash!

I combined challenges ... since I have been in a 

"busy Mom's funk" 

for over a month now ... so I hope that's okay. The other challenge I submitted this for is Week 3 of the Verve Sketch Challenges. LOVED this challenge & LOVED the sketch by the way!

Thanks so much for the SUPER Inspiration!

Case Study Challenge #41

Here's the gorgeously scrumptious inspiration from over at Case Study this week, Mmmm! Delicious!

Here's my offering; I was inspired by the pretty buttons and don't often go the button route so thought I would give it a go. Thanks for looking!

Play Date Challenge PDCC83 In honor of the Great Sarah Anderson!

Sarah Anderson, YOU WILL BE MISSED! You have been such a beautiful ray of sunshine and inspiration to me and I appreciate every last piece of gorgeous art you have posted; thank YOU. ♥This color splash challenge is what's happening over at Play Date Cafe this week ♥

♥ Here's my humble offering, dedicated to the amazing & talented Sarah Anderson, because of course I don't know you personally but you have inspired me greatly and I am "so GLAD God gave me you" ♥ ....through the wonder of blogger ♥

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!! I went REALLY casual ...

After months of waiting and great anticipation; the first challenge is finally here; YAY! Unfortunately, it has fallen into a week with ZERO minutes of "play time" ... so my card is definitely casual!

My very simple card ♥ "I love you." Dedicated to the SUPER talented design team at CASual Fridays!