trust your heart

Good Monday Morning,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! :-) I certainly did!

Well, it is Monday and the best thing about Monday is the new challenge revealed at Practical Scrappers! Before I get to that, let's take a peek at our winners this week. Top three are Katie Tate, Kanata Newf, and Gloria M. Our grand prize winner of five FREE digi's from Creations by Penny is.....Wendy! Congrats ladies, you all did such incredible projects with your markers.

Now, on to our new challenge, show us your bling, glitter, anything with a sparkle this week! As you know, our April sponsor is Penny from Creations by Penny. I chose to use her flower branch for this challenge. Be sure to stop by Penny's store and pick up your beautiful flower branch today. She has a bundle deal going on right now, the more you buy the more you save! I just saw this beautiful butterfly in these shades and couldn't resit. I opted to keep my bling mostly in the form of stickles applied to the the image in several places. I used the strawberry and diamond colors on here.

My papers are so old, I honestly do not know who they are made by. They're old enough to be pulled from Ashlea's bag. Anything five years or older hits her bag. I added just a little pop of bling in the upper left corner. I really enjoyed the Tim Holtz milled lavender ink distress ink too.

You need to visit my incredibly talented design team sisters this week for loads of inspiration. You know I have them linked up in my side bar, as always. Be sure to visit Penny and pick up some fun digi images.

Have a great day!
Blessings,

Spring Is Blooming....

Good Afternoon,

I do hope you are having a glorious day! The weather has been perfect this weekend and will be all week. Our temps are mid to upper 70's all through Saturday.

I spent the day working out in my yard yesterday and I'm on my way out to finish up. Oh how quickly the weeds grow! I wanted to share some photos of what is in bloom here in my beautiful mountains of Kentucky.

This beautiful white bloom is that of my primrose. This is the only white one I have, all the others are a deep red with the yellow centers.

This is my daddy's gorgeous and VERY delicious cherry tree. My little Jon-Christopher loves to climb up this tree to help us pick them. He eats as many as he picks!

This is the very beginnings of my daddy's apple blossoms. I'm sure with the week of warm sunshine we are expecting, they will be in full bloom by Friday.

This is one of the three peaches we sprayed yesterday. I can't wait until this summer when I walk up to the orchard, gather these ripe juicy peaches and make some cobblers and jam. Oh, so delicious!

These tulips are blooming in my Grans front yard. She LOVES tulips and so do I.

Have you ever seen such adorable little grape hyacinth ? I love them and this little garden stone is really old, you can tell by the fading of the paint, but it holds one of my favorite scriptures.

I'll be back tomorrow with a reveal for the Practical Scrappers new challenge this week and back to reading blogs. I hope you enjoy this beautiful day!

Blessings,

Happy Easter with The Scrapettes....

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This week at The Town Scrapper, we are challenging you to use charms on your project. We have a tutorial for handmade charms here.
I decided to use the little butterfly from the Sophie in the garden image to create my own charm. I colored it up, traced an acrylic little tag, cut to fit, and then adhered it together. My image is one of the new Victoria Case images. Isn't it just perfect for an Easter greeting?

The winner of this week's challenge will get her pick of any one of the six original Victoria Case images Phebe has at The Town Scrapper. Our Scrapettes have such incredible inspiration for you and your charms. Please visit them by the links in my side bar. Leave them some happy love!

Blessings,

Grow...

Good Morning,
Today is a busy day for me! This is the first of two posts. I want to begin today by wishing my super talented friend, Brenda, a very Happy Birthday! Brenda, I love ya and you inspire me with your creativity, your faith, and your wisdom! I hope you have a truly incredible day with Jerry and Shane! Please drop by and leave Brenda some birthday wishes!

It is new challenge reveal at Frosted Designs, this week, we want to see you use black, hot pink, and lime green. I used CTMH cardstock, ink and ribbon for this card. The hot pink button flowers came from Wal Mart. My rub-on is from American Crafts.


I hope you are inspired to play along with us this week. Please visit the ever talented Frosted DT which is linked up on my side bar. Leave them some love and let them know that you were inspired!

Blessings,

Simple Pleasures....

Good Morning,
Today I have a very short post. You need to hop over to Creations by Penny. She's got a big bundle sale going on right now! The more you buy, the more you save!
Penny is adding new spring and summer images daily. There are so many fun ones to choose from. Here is a card I did with Spring is in the Air.

I added some stickles to the centers of my flowers for just a little sparkle. All papers are daisy d's and the ribbon & bling are from stash. Go on over and check it out, there's lots to see!

Blessings,

Sneak Peek at New Victoria Case Images...

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Here we are, time for a new challenge at The Town Scrapper. If you haven't already done so, please snag our new logo. It is located just above the Scrapettes' blog roll. You can leave a comment HERE to be entered to win two new exclusive Victoria Case images! Also, this week's winner will get to chose from 6 new Victoria Case images. You know you want to play. What's this week's challenge you ask? Incorporate ribbons and rub-ons on your project. Whew, how much fun that is! We all LOVE ribbons and rub-ons.

I used some little white flower rub-ons in the corners of my marquee. I used three ribbons on this card, yellow, mint green gingham, and the pink gingham. I chose to use the Spring Garden Sophie. She is a soon to be released stamp. I think she is the most delightful little garden girl ever! The sentiment on this card reads, "Love is in the garden you grow". How true! So, come on ladies, check our my fellow Scrapettes, you will feel the warm sunshine of Spring in the air when you visit them today. Be sure to leave them some love! I can't wait to see your ribbons and rub-on creations!
Blessings,

Spring Flowers...

Good Morning,

How are all of my scrappy friends this morning? The sun is beginning to appear in the sky, we are supposed to see the temps around 70 today, my daffodil are surely to open today. This can all mean only one thing, Spring is arriving! Praise God! My sweet blogging sister Julie, posted something yesterday that really made me reflect on why I love Spring. I, like you Jules, love the promise it brings for our salvation, I love the renewal of life that God has promised and just how much He loves me!

Well, today at Frosted Designs, we want to celebrate the arrival of Spring. My fabby Frosted sisters have done just that. Pop over to visit them and leave a chirp of love behind! We are looking for flowers in your cards, layouts, or projects. Be creative and "Think Spring"!

I gave you this fun sneak peek yesterday.

I decided to go with stamped and embossed flowers for my project. I inked up my embossing folder before sending it through the cuttlebug. I have seen many of you do it and I tried it. LOVE this technique. I wanted to post that photo because when the card is finished, you really can't see the beautiful embossing. I stamped the flowers, sentiment, added just a touch of stickles, bling, and finished off with a gorgeous ribbon I've been saving for just the right project. I hope you are inspired today to create something fun with flowers.

Have a fabby Friday!

Blessings,

You Feel the Rain....

Good Morning,

I hope you will take just a moment to hop over to The Sisterhood to take a peek which sister is being introduced this morning! Be sure to leave her some love.

Announcing the top three at Practical Scrappers, Jan, Amanda, and Sue F. and our grand prize winner, Lisa. You can see their winning creations here. Thanks for all your inspirational projects this week, as always, you girls always amaze me with your talents!

This week our challenge is to use your favorite white pen/marker. I have tried many and still struggle to find one that I love. The one I chose to use is a Sakura paint pen. I chose to do a card using some Crate Paper Katlin line. Love this yummy fun girly paper! I also used a wonderful image from our sponsor, The Stamping Boutique called Rainy Cynthia.

Here's my card,

Here is how I used the white pen. I added some faux stitching around the pink cardstock and the circle element. Then to bring out the doodling in the dp, I doodled inside the circle above the ribbon. This was totally outside my box. I am not a doodler, at all. Can I tell you just how much FUN I had with this one!!!!

Here is the fabby Rainy Cynthia. I used a variety of markers to color her in.

Once again, we are sponsored by The Stamping Boutique and our grand prize winner will receive two digi's from them. So, now are you ready to share your favorite white pen and a project showcasing it? I want to know which is your favorite white pen! And as always, visit my fabby dt sisters over on my sidebar, be sure to leave them some love!
Blessings for a Marvelous Monday!