Happy Spring Blog Hop!!

Hello everyone & happy Sunday evening to ya!!  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  The weather here in VA was FANTASTIC I tell ya--in the mid 70's and sunny--perfect!  We got a lot of chores done including re-doing our front flower beds, taking out shrubs, adding new shrubs and mulching.  I also mowed the grass which I don't mind doing when it isn't 95 degrees with 100% humidity, LOL!  Hubby is still outside finishing the mulch--yes as you know we are vampires and darkness doesn't STOP us, hee hee, we get a lot done at night that's for sure!  I've also been busy working on my projects for the Dirty Girls Gallery on SCS which will be open for everyone to see on the night of the 14th!  Lots to do, as always, lol!

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Tonight the Gina K Design Teams are having a "Happy Spring" Blog Hop featuring the fabulous stamp set "Happy Spring"!  And I'm happy to share mine with you tonight!

I got some awesome new paper pads in the mail on Friday and I had to pull one out and use it on my card today!  This paper is by Pink Paislee and it had the perfect gardening/spring colors in it for this lovely stamp set "Happy Spring".  Gina K's fabulous cardstock in Fresh Asparagus & Green Apple match this paper pack perfectly!  The sketch I used is this past Saturday's SFYTT by Jen del Muro HERE--I loved all the fun layers you could add to it!  The vine border punch (isn't it cool-luv it) is by EK Success and all the edges of the papers were distressed with my lil' Tonic Distress Tool--I love ripped, crumpled edges :o)  You can see I paper pieced the gardening gloves with some of the lovely dp--a TIP for ya:  when you paper piece don't forget to add some shading/color to them with your Copics or inks so they look more dimensional as well!  And those are green Robin's Nest Dew Drops on the card as well!

The bow was made with my handy dandy Bow Easy tool--I won't scare you with how many times a week that tool gets used, LOL!

Here's a close up of some of the lovely images from this set.  I used YG97,YG95,YG93,G20,Y02,Y11,Y00 Copics to color with, added some diamond glaze (you could also use crystal lacquer) to the seed packets and Stickles for a lil' sparkle!  A perfect gardening card for a special friend in your life!

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Several designers are joining together to share even more samples for the Happy Spring stamp set.  Please visit the following blogs for their projects:

• Jessica Fick
• Colleen Schaan
• Suzanne Dean (that's me)
• Carolina Buchting
• Jennie Harper
• Karen Knegten 
• Selma Stevenson
• Shannon Bracken
• Sharri Seffens
• Tina Gilliland

The free card kit will be available with every purchase of the Happy Spring stamp set until Thursday, April 22nd at 10pm when the new card kit stamp set is released!  Be sure to take advantage of the freebie while it's available!


Also, remember to enter your project for GinaK's Illustrator Challenge by Monday April 12th at 8pm!  We can't wait to see who the next Guest designer will be for April's release!

Have a great night & I'll see you back here on Tuesday!

Flower Friends!

Good Tuesday afternoon everyone! It is HOT here today, no kiddin'--you will wilt if you go outside today :)!! At least it's sunny tho! I'm excited because I only have one more challenge to finish up today for the Dirty Girl Challenges on SCS--yippee!! There were 20 challenges total and boy did some of them take me out of my comfort zone for sure, but it was fun, now we'll see if I win (ha ha)! I am excited that I won a new stamp set from Sweet 'n Sassy the other night randomly, so my luck must be turning (thanks Korin)! I also get to have a girl's nite out tonight--it's been awhile that I've gone out at nite w/ friends cuz' we're always so busy. I'm looking forward to a nice glass of wine and some "girl" talk!

Ok, my newest Sugar Nellie stamps by Elisabeth Bell came yesterday from Funky Kits and I had to ink one up today. This one is called "Planting Some Love" and I think its darling--it actually comes with a kitty chasing a butterfly stamp too, but I didn't add that on today. I colored her with my Copics and added a few stickles to the flowers on her hat. I added a few highlights w/ my Inkssentials pen too. The delicious dp is from Chatterbox's "Violet Dahlias" and I love the color combo--thought it worked perfectly with this image. I used the sketch challenge from the Dirty Girl challenges on SCS by Holly for this one (although she used a oval & I made mine a circle to fit the image in). The sentiment is from Gina K's "friendship blooms" set and I stamped it w/ SU's lavender lace inkpad directly onto the dp. For a final touch I layered a bazillion Prima flowers and leaves (lol) and adhered them w/ glue dots (the centers are Doodlebug brads). I'm pretty pleased w/ the turnout, whatcha' think?

Ok, onto my last challenge card and I will finally be done w/ all these challenges-hurrah!!! I'll see ya tomorrow--

Suzanne

PS--Jacqui over at Cats Wiskers is giving away some wonderful blog candy. Check it and all her fab creations out here.