Take It Easy

Hello friends!  It's Friday and time for a new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges.

Theme

Holidays/Vacation

Sponsor

Lacy Sunshine

This cute image from Lacy Sunshine is 'Eleanor, Pickles n Tilly'.  With all the hectic scrambling to get our gardening done in between the rain, I think I was reminding myself to slow down and enjoy the summer.  
I hope you will hop on over to 'Digitally Sweet' and see all the awesome inspiration from the amazing design team and join us with your vacation projects!

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

All For The Girls

Happy Friday everyone!  There's a new challenge for you at Digitally Sweet Challenges.

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All For The Girls

Sponsor

Lunagirl Images

We were given several beautiful images to choose from but the choice is always made easier when there is a little pink involved, LOL!  

And the gardening saga continues

I am so excited to have my own strawberries!  I know that we're not supposed to let them set fruit the first year but I just had to have a few to taste.

Doing a little companion planting, hot peppers with cabbage.  All that compost is producing some amazing plants!

And, of course, I just had to bring in some of those gorgeous peonies!  I work with a simple point and shoot camera and it is so color challenged!  Those irises are an amazing deep purple but the camera always sees purple as blue.

Hope you enjoyed a little stroll through my garden and that you will find a few moments to share your creative projects with us at Digitally Sweet Challenges.

Wishing you a blessed day!

Sweet Friend

It's Friday and that means a new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges.

Theme

Friendship

Sponsor

Sparkle N Sprinkle

Is there any image that could be more appropriate for me, considering that I'm spending most of my days in my garden.  And my garden is well watered!  We keep trying to work between the showers.  But that's a blessing; I don't have to water and everything is growing by leaps and bounds!  

But I digress, you're here to see my card.  The image is from Sparkle N Sprinkle and is called 'A Watered Garden' by Michelle Perkett.  I've colored it with Prismacolor pencils and then  added white and pink transparent glitter.  Love all the glitter!

And now I will share a few pics from my garden.  I've finally primed my fence, now I just need to choose a color.  One friend suggested periwinkle blue, another, purple, or how about yellow or maybe fuchsia?  I'm horrible at making decisions!  (that branch in the foreground is my curly willow)

spinach salad for lunch

love the fringe tree

iris

peonies are just starting to bloom, the deep pink was a gift from a sweet friend

 So that's it for me today.  Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

May Heartfelt Creations Alumni Hop

It's time for another Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop.  The winner of this hop will receive a $25 gift certificate to shop at Heartfelt Creations, you just need to email Emma Lou with "Winner of May Alumni Hop" in the subject line.  The hop will close on May 30th at midnight.

Today I'm sharing a desktop calendar.  It's not quite finished but I'll share the part that is finished.

January

February, celebrating valentine

March, for my husband

April, Easter

May, in honor of my mother

Heartfelt Creations Products

HCPC 3591 Alarm and Watch PreCut Set

HCPC 3594 Time Sentiments PreCut Set

HCPC 3595 Floral Clocks PreCut Set

HCPC 3575 Script Key Background PreCut Set

HCPC 3577 Vintage Morning Background PreCut Set

HCPC 3584 Lady Rosalie PreCut Set

HCPC 3511 Holly Berry PreCut Set

HCDP1 241 Once Upon A Time Paper Collection

HCD 744 Once Upon A Time Die

HCD 743 Raindrops On Roses Die

HCD 741 Burnished Key Die

HCD 742 Majestic Blooms Die

209503 Spellbinders Floral Ovals

209530 Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles

415213 Spellbinders Labels 8

Now hop on over to Emilia van den Heuvel to see her awesome creation!

And here is the complete list

Vicki Dutcher
Giovana Smith:
Candy Slabaugh
Caroline Duncan
Cibele Glazer
Sarah Miller   you are here
Emilia van den Heuvel
Selma Stevenson
Glenda Brooks  
Amarilys Doria
Mary Faus 
Alissa Wells
Lisa Gregory
Lisa Allen

Thanks so much for visiting and have a blessed day!

Baby Love

Today the new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges is

Theme

Babies

Sponsor

Stitchy Bear

This is one of my favorite pictures, my mother and our son.  This sweet image, 'A Mother's Love', from Delicious Doodles, is perfect for this photo.  The papers are from the 'Sweet Things' digital paper pack by Panda Bear Designs.

So now I hope you will join us and share your baby projects.

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Sweet Memories

It's time for a new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges and our 

theme is a color challenge

Yellow, Blue, White

Sponsor:

Bugaboo Stamps

This photo brings back so many memories!  Christy was our first foster baby.  We received her at 3 days old and were blessed to have her for 2 years.

The sweet sunbonnet girl image is Fancy SB Beach from Bugaboo.  She is digitally colored using the gradient tool.  

I hope you will find some time to share your creative projects with us.

Thanks for visiting and wishing you a blessed day!

Happy Mother's Day

It's Friday and time for another new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges.

Theme

Mothers

Sponsor

Lunagirl Images

Both of these lovely images are from Lunagirl Images.  The rest of the LO are bits and pieces from freebies that I've collected over the years.  

Are you enjoying some beautiful spring weather in your corner of the world?  I have so many outside projects going that I barely have any time on the computer.  

greenhouse hopping with some of my friends

starting a raised garden

 taking a much deserved rest

almost finished and ready to plant

If you need me, you'll find me in the garden!   

I am entering Lunagirl Moonbeams Mothers Day challenge.

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Sweet Little Angel

It's Friday which brings a new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges.

Theme

anything with wings

Sponsor

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

I used 'Alexis Cherished Wings'.  Can you tell I love sweet little girls colored in pretty pastel colors?  I colored her with my Prismacolor pencils and then finished the LO in Photoshop Elements. 

So now it's your turn to show us your creativity.  

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

It's Time

Hello friends, it's Heartfelt Creations Wednesday.  Today will be my final Heartfelt Creations post as a design team member.  These 6 months have flown by!  It has been such an honor and privilege to work with these gorgeous products and such an incredibly talented design team!  I will miss you all!

Heartfelt Creations Products

HCPC 3582 Majestic Morning Bouquet PreCut Set
HCPC 3595 Floral Clocks PreCut Set
HCPC 3577 Vintage Morning Background PreCut Set
HCD 742 Majestic Blooms Die
S5-201 Spellbinders Curved Borders Two Die

Other Products: white and black cardstock; vellum cardstock; Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black; Ranger Embossing Ink; Recollections Snow White Embossing Powder; Ranger Distress Ink, Tea Dye; Krylon Gold Leaf Pen; Prismacolor Pencils; ribbon; lace; pearls; heart rhinestones; Sookwang Tape; Glossy Accents; Stickles, Star Dust; 1/8" foam tape

Instructions: create card base 6" x 10 3/4", fold in half. Cut black cardstock 5 1/4" x 5 3/4". Adhere to card. Cut Vellum 5" x 5 1/2", randomly stamp image and emboss. Add 1/8" tape to back edges, before removing liner, create gold border on front to cover the tape. Add to card. Cut white cardstock 4 1/2" x 4 3/4", die cut top and then trim to 4 1/4" high. Distress edges. Cut blackcardstock 3 3/4" x 4 1/2", die cut top edge. Cut white cardstock 4" x 4 3/8", stamp image, die cut top. Distress edges. Color image, adhere the 3 layers together and then add to card with foam tape. Add pearls and rhinestones. Add lace and ribbon. Stamp, die cut, and form flowers. Add pearls and Stickles and add to card.

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Tree Peony

It's another Digitally Sweet Challenge Friday.  

Theme

Sponsor

Stitchy Bear

Several years ago I bought a tree peony and it is one of my favorite spring flowers.  The flowers are huge.

paper: Panda Bear Designs paper pack: Butterflies

snail and flower Babybug Set: BBKakes

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!