I Love You

Hi! Hope you all had a lovely Mother's Day! My favorite mother to celebrate with is Mother Nature so my boys and I went for a hike at Durrant Park and lake on Saturday. It was a glorious day and memorable time with a wonderfully delicious and healthy picnic lunch! 

Also, in honor of Mother's Day and Mother Nature, I created this card with lots of beautiful leaves and flowers from Fun Stampers Journey Lead Me stamp set. 

To add color, I used one of the Brush Strokes stamps and five of FSJ's vibrant stamp colors. 

So that I didn't cover up any of these beautiful stamped images, I used a tiny sentiment from the Text Happy set along with the Tag This tiny tag to add my greeting. 

Hope you enjoy this card and I hope you enjoyed a wonderful Mother's Day! 

Sun Stampers Journey Supplies:

Lead Me SS-0207

Brush Strokes SS-0205

Punch Handle TO-0031

Tag This TO-0004

Watermelon Fusion IP-0027

Lemon Drop IP-0043

Electric Lime IP-0112

Beach Ball IP-0047

Black Licorice IP-0041

Journey Silver Silk IP-0090

Black Licorice Journey Twine AC-0004

Whip Cream CS-0040

Mom

Hello Chickaniddy fans! I have a Mother's Day card share that I created with both the Date Night and Twirly Girl collections. 

Supplies: Paper (DN140S05; TG140S07; TG140S08) Silver Foil Paper (CN14SP002) Mini Sticker Banners (DN14EB03) Stickers (TG14EB02) Brads (TG14EB06)

I couldn't resist using this image of a girl on the phone for my greeting since those of us who live far from our moms call them on Mother's Day.

One of my favorite things about both the Date Night and Twirly girl collections are the sheets of paper with printed images and sentiments.  A crafty little secret of mine is to cut these sheets up entirely before I begin a project so I can easily mix, match and play with them. 

Another thing I love about Chickaniddy are the accents! Here I've mixed the Foil Paper, Brads and Alphabet Stickers to create a textured sentiment. 

Hope all you moms enjoyed your day! 

Crochet Afghan

What I started on my birthday in March, I finished last night on Mother's Day...an Afghan for my father-in-law and his wife. It's a very easy granny square design using Ultra Pima Cotton Yarn in Lavender, Sunshine, White and Primrose and a Clover F/3.75mm hook.

I didn't follow a pattern, I simply made 49 basic granny squares (10 rounds) and attached them together with a one row border. If you would like to know how to make a granny square, click here for a simple tutorial with excellent photos.

I love using all natural fibers such as cotton. It's so soft and great weight for afghans.

As I was photographing the blanket, my assistant Oreo had to come see what I was up to. :) 

Mother's Day weekend was awesome! My boys really spoiled me! Dan did the grocery shopping and brought home some gorgeous tulips and filet mignon for dinner....he cooked too!

We went strawberry picking at Vollmer Farms. Same farm where we get a weekly box of produce as part of our Community Supported Agriculture program.

Just look at these red ripe berries! A great crop this year! 

We can't go to Vollmer Farms without indulging in some of Farmer John's famous homemade ice cream! The strawberry one is mine...I can never wait for the picture to start eating! ;) By-the-way, we save our cups and spoons, keep them with our berry-picking buckets and bring them back for a refill...conserving where we can! :)

Hope you had a great weekend too and a good start to the week!

Happy Mother's Day!

I wasn't going to post today. I thought I'd take a day off from blogging since it's Mother's Day. But when I woke up today I couldn't help think about all my blogger pals, many who are moms and wanted to take a moment to wish you a Happy Mother's Day!

Here's my Mother's Day gift to you....a little smile.

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For the moms who have adopted.

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Kathy

2 Sketches 4 You

This week I decided to try making a card based on a sketch from the blog site 2 Sketches 4 You at http://www.2sketches4you.blogspot.com/. I used Kazan's 21 sketch and came up with this fun card for mother's day. I was excited that I could make this lovely card with scraps, everything except for the embellishments came from my scrap box. Cool, huh? And those little birds...are they not too adorable? Those are manufactured by Maya Road and can be purchased at http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/. So you think you're not that crafty or don't have the time to make cards, no problem, this card is for sale on my Etsy site at http://www.cardblanc.etsy.com/. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!