Day Dreamin'!!

Happy Mother's Day to all you mom's and grandma's out there! Hope you are enjoying the day with family and being spoiled. I always get my fave breakfast in bed, wait for it................2 Dunkin Donuts Boston Creme donuts and a glass of chocolate milk, lol! (but I like Eggs Benedict too, hee hee but hubby wouldn't have a clue how to fix that).  I will ALWAYS love donuts--it's my favorite treat, can't help myself!  So far I'm having a great Mom's Day--my fridge's icemaker got fixed, my flower bed is almost done and I got a new 19" flat screen tv for the wall in my craft room---so I'm pretty happy today!  Now to get hubby to hang the tv up--that could be a few more weeks on his schedule, LOL!  I'm still waiting for my ceiling fan/light to be hung up in there--and it's been a year!  We'll all have dinner together tonight but I actually have to spend the day working--gotta catch up a bit cuz' there is lots to get done.  I just wish the weather was a bit warmer today and not so windy!

NewsBitz:

-I had a few of you guess that my daughter and her friend would make it all nite when they camped out, so I did random.org and came up with the:  Winner of the Emma's Paperie Gift Certificate is my CHA pal Kim Howard of Basement Stamper, hee hee!  Quite a few of you guessed all night and believe it or not they did--even surprised me!!

-And the 3 Winners of my Birthday Blog Candy are Tertia of Crafting Gran, Tina of Tigger's Scrap Place, and Mari Harpham of Trails of Paper.  Email me at sjdean@smartneighborhood.net so I can email you links to pick out your Viva Decor Pearl pen and Magnolia stamp plus your mailing address so I can get the rest of the goodies out to you!

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Day Dreamin'

Today I'm sharing with you a card I made for my mom for Mother's Day (surprise mom! lol--it will be in the mail cuz' I'm late with the card but not the presents)!  This card uses the fabulous new "Day Dreamin'" stamp from  Elisabeth Bell for SCACD--isn't it a beauty!  I love the it and the way the breeze seems to be blowing right thru--my fave thing in the world is to have a breeze blowing in thru the windows and to hear the trees rustling outside.  I also used the NEW Basic Grey paper "Capella"--isnt' it gorgeous (love those soft colors)--I used soft sky, dove gray and cream cardstocks to match it.  Susana will have the Basic Grey in stock early this coming week.

I used this past week's Friday Sketcher's sketch for my layout, wrapped it with cream ribbon and topped it with a bow made with my Bow Easy.  You can find these beautiful pearls here (in bliss) and those roses are Prima Cameo Roses--aren't they gorgeous tinged with color.  I used my favorite scroll punch here to accent the flowers and a MS leaf punch for the leaves.

She's colored with Copics (duh right) and then I added flower soft to the window box (I used baby blue and the sweet pea mix together).  I scored the shutters and folded them up so they were more 3-D.  The window panes have diamond glaze on them and while it was still wet I spritzed the center of the stamp (I folded the shutters back because I wanted them to be solid, not sparkly) with Vanilla Smooch Spritz.  The curtains got a coating of Shimmerz Buttercream paint after they were colored with Copics.  In my Class 4 at the Color Me Creative Classroom I have a video that shows multiple ways to color "sheer items" like these curtains.

Hope you like this lil' beauty (hope mom does too)!  Have a great Sunday!