Life is a Bear

For the Fun Friday April Showers click Here

 

continuing with my little umbrella series

Teddy Bear Parade cut at 3"

face on the umbrella

PK  754 medium critter faces

solid papers from papertrey ink

Pattern paper from My Mind's eye

some twine and a button

skittles from

Carri

Double Click Connections aka Abusybee

sentiment from

Cardz TV stamps

Beary Sweet

 

entered in

DL ART Thankful-Thursday-challenge-107 Rain

and

Bitten by the Bug 2 Umbrella Challenge

 

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."

  ~Hal Borland

 

 

 

Send you caring thoughts & Challenge winner

For the Fun Friday April Showers click Here

 

 Third in a little series of umbrella cards
going to be raining here off and on all week
Normally I don't decorate the inside of my cards
but I have been seeing more and more cards nicely done on the inside
gave it a try on this card because of the two part sentiment
from
CARDZ TV
Heartfelt Wishes

 

Winner of the Fun Friday Here comes Peter Cottontail

 

7. Karen H 

Kaleidoscopic Sparkles

 

Top Three

 4. Melissa SunshineHoneyBee 

Created by Sunshine Honeybee

 

5. Nancy J 

Carrot Top's Patch of cards

 

6. Keia 

Confessions of a Paperholic

 

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn"

~Hal Borland

 

Fun Friday April Showers Challenge

For the Cardz TV "Mix it Up!" challenge click Here


For the April Showers Challenge
Use any or all of things that make you think of Rain
 Clouds, Umbrella or rain boots, rain coat
One project, layout our card
per person

Now let it rain encouragement!



DIANA L.

Georgiana

Shelly

Sherrie

Lisa

 Carri

Karen
entered in
DL ART THANKFUL THURSDAY APRIL LINKY PARTY

Made this for my old supervisor at work
she fell down the stairs fractured her ankle and one of her vertebra
Hello Kitty Cart
pattern papers from
Basic Grey
sentiment from
Heartfelt Wishes
Cardz TV Stamps


This week's Prize

CARDZ TV CHALLENGE #27 'MIX IT UP!"

Cardz TV

 Ch# 27 "Mix It Up!"

Make a card, layout or craft project mixing 3 patterned papers

Starts: Fri, April 5

Ends: Thurs, Apr 18 @ Noon EST

Prize: 1 set of CARDZ TV Stamps

 

 

 Kate ABC's cut at 3"

Elegant Edges

Pattern papers My Mind's Eye

the base has more color variation in person

Sentiment from

"Heart to Heart"

Cardz TV Stamps

 

Embossed with swiss Dots

clouds from Hello Kitty

Embossed with divine swirls

Glossy accents on umbrella and boots

 

Hope you'll join the challenge!

 

Karen

 

 

 

Happy Birthday

For the Fun Friday Here comes Peter Cottontail Challenge click Here

 

I made this for my niece she turns 14 this year seems like yesterday she was born

thought she needed a more grown up card this year

 

 

Papertrey Ink supplies

Dark chocolate base

Sweet blush mat

Make a Wish Die for the present

Movers & Shakers: Sliders Die

Birthday Bash Sentiments Stamp Set

 

Pattern papers from My Mind's Eye

 

 

Cupcake Stamp, Scallop square punches

 and brad from Stampi Up

 

 

 

 

now I must admit I have had this die for quite a while

was a little intimidated by it....not sure why

once I cut it out went together easily

 

Crazy week at work a lot of people have off

it's Easter break for the schools here

today was cold and windy a light dusting of snow covered the ground this morning

 

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."

  ~Proverb

 

Karen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Blessing Blog hop & Challenge winner

 

"For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born."

~Alice Freeman Palmer

 

For the Fun Friday Here comes Peter Cottontail Challenge click Here

 

Kate ABC

Martha Stewart around the Page

French Scroll Punch

entered in

DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #106

THEME: SPRING

 

The winner of the Good Times Blog Hop

crinkle ribbon candy

 

42:Barb March 23, 2013 at 6:36 PM

What a great combination of the sentiment, cut, and paint can!

Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win!

 

Barb email me your address

kfranciola @ nycap rr .com (no spaces)

and I will get the ribbon in the mail to you

 

A Huge thanks to Carri

Double Click Connections AKA Abusybee

for sponsoring the

Use a handmade embellishment challenge

know the winner, Liz, is going to love using

her handmade skittles

 

Winner is

11. Liz Ortiz

UNIK by YES 

 

top Three

1. Migdalia 

Crafitng with Creative M

 

3. Sandie L 

Sandie's Card Garden 

 

14. Sheetal 

artsycraftsyfun 

Hope everyone has a joyous Easter Sunday

I am cooking Brunch for my family

made a carrot cake cheesecake similar to what they make

at the Cheesecake Factory

looks good smelled great baking

fingers crossed it taste great...

 

Karen

 

 

 

 

 

Fun Friday Here comes Peter Cottontail

Here comes Peter Cottontail
Hippity Hoppity
Easter's on its way
This week's Fun Friday challenge is
Use a Bunny or Easter card, project or layout

look at all the wonderful inspiration

from my crafty Friends!

Lisa

Jayne

Sherrie

 Shelly

Carri

Georgiana

Karen

This weeks prize