Welcoming spring

I've been on spring break and although I've been busy stamping, I haven't gotten to my computer much. So, today I loaded this card I made for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge. This barely banana just reminds me that spring is finally here and used a Flourish stamp from their Spring ephemerals set (now how more appropriate can you get for this lovely spring card?) I used pearls for the centers and punched the little flowers with my Stampin' Up Trio flower punch. I used Stampin' Up's scallop border punch up the side and then paper pierced it. Happy Spring!!!

Color throwdown challenges

If you are ever stumped about what colors to put together, go to the Color Throwdown Challenge blog as they have new colors every week. This week I liked that they even give you the option of selecting which green you wanted to use with the tempting turquiose and elegant eggplant. They always have such terrific samples to see each week as well to really get your creative juices flowing. The challenges change every Wednesday, a great way to fire back up on Hump day!!!

Rubber Stamp Tapestry set

I love these peg handled stamps by Rubber Stamp Tapestry. Just got this new one and thought the butterfly from God's Beauty looked great with it. This is the scripture I am sharing for this week from Phillippians. May you be blessed this week!

I had such a wonderful week last week. I won this stamp set from Crafty Secrets by participating in one of their challenges over on Paper Craft Planet. I just love their wonderful vintage stamps. I love those sweet little children's faces on their stamp sets. I also won the "outside the box" catagory on the contest Kitchen Sink Stamps had going for the past two months. I'm looking forward to KS's new Monday challenges that will give stampers a chance to win some Kitchen Sink stamps. These are two great companies that put a lot of incentive out there for stampers to participate in these fun challenges.

Back in February I went to a great shoebox swap in San Antonio and while there visited the Stamp San Antonio store and found this delightful stamp set from Rubber Stamp Tapestry. They are peg stamps, so small and wonderful. It was a great discovery for me, since I was not familar with this company. I made this card today for Splitcoaststampers' featured stamper challenge today. Judi, this week's featured stamper, had used a Rubber Stamp Tapestry stamp on her card that I cased. I thought this was a fun ribbon treatment. I was going for the look of a ribbon being weaved around the wreath. I don't use purples very often, but really like this done with the purples. The sentiment is one of my new ones I ordered from Stampin' Up.

I just love this sweet image from Crafty Secrets. I wanted the dp to have a touch of pink in it so I drew in some pink lines with a copic marker. The image was colored with copic markers and I love how they blend .

Color Challenge 208 on SCS

Today's color challenge on SCS uses kiwi kiss, pink passion, and chocolate chip. The Basic Grey Sultry collection has a variety of papers that have these colors in it, so I made use of one of them. Sometimes I find these bolder prints on dp more difficult to work into a card, but with SU's new Fifth Avenue Florals, I found this worked rather well today. This is my scripture verse for this week. Have a great week stamping, scraping, or whatever meets your fancy!!!!