Little Red Wagon Challenge # 32 - Its A Sketch

Happy Wednesday! Time for another Little Red Wagon challenge!



This week Regan gave us a sketch to create from and here's what I created:



I broke into my new Papertrey Sweet Pea stamp, love it!


And we'd love it if you would play along with us again this week, check out Regan's sketch and all the other creations at Little Red Wagon!

Its Coming Up Roses!

With all the heat we've had recently the roses have been growing like crazy and are in full bloom right now.

Here's a few I cut:


And a few garden pics too:





Have a good Tuesday!

Rhubarb Pie!

Last weekend I picked up some rhubarb at the market and made this pie:



It was soooo yummy! For the recipe check out my Mom's blog here.

Little Red Wagon Challenge #31 - Altered Embellishment

Hi there!

Is it the weekend yet? No? Well until it arrives why not play along with this week's Little Red Wagon challenge?



This week Avril challenged us to use an embellishment in an altered way. I'm not sure I met the challenge as she expected but I decided to use a large white button to create the centre of the flower on this card:



I also followed sketch 169 at CPS in the creation of this card.

Please join us at Little Red Wagon if you can and check out all the creations.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Wow!

Hi all!

Tonight I decided to create a quick card based on Laura's sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You and I think it also meets the pennant challenge at Cuttlebug Challenges.



And yes I'm using every last scrap of my Thrift Shop paper!

They're Back!

Last summer two chipmunks made their home on the edge of our garden. This year they are back although as one is smaller than the other I suspect they are mother and baby.

They were very bold getting quite close to where we sat on the patio while they gathered away.

I was able to get these pics!









They are cute!

Blooming Right Now

With all the warm and sunny weather we've been having, the plants, flowers and shrubs are really growing. I took a few photos of what was blooming this weekend.

This allium has grown up through the hosta and the blue green leaf of the hosta really shows off the purple in the allium.
Our new Fringe Tree in bloom.
The roses are blooming.
And so are the irises.

And the lilies. I took this pic right after we watered.
Pinks
And another I forget the name of : (

Pile it On #21 Eat Your Veggies

Happy Sunday! We've been enjoying another wonderful weekend and I've been spending a lot of time outside, its been very relaxing.....almost like vacation in our own backyard!

But I did scrapbook with some fun ladies on Friday night and created two cards for this week's Pile It On challenge, Eat Your Veggies! This theme had me stumped until I browsed for vintage images and found two vintage valentine images that I've used in the cards below.

First up is this fun card:



It incorporates the following challenges:

Pile It On - Veggies
Penny's Challenges - Fruit or veggie
Limelight - used the sketch and a soft velvet ribbon
Pixie Dust - used round buttons

And second is this cute card:



It uses these challenges:
Pile It On - Veggies
Penny's Challenges - Fruit or veggie
Pixie Dust - used round buttons and a round doilie
Pixie Cottage - tag and sketch
Stamp Something - ribbon,bow and tag

If you have a chance we'd love for you to play along at Pile It On!

May Blooms

Blooming right now:

Lovely red poppies

I love the look of our Japanese Maple that gets larger every year!

Chives are almost in flower.
The sage and parsley came up from what I planted last year.

I forget the name of this one right now buts its pretty!
Forget-me-knots
Lily of the Valley, love it!
I planted some African Marigolds and Victoria Salvia.

Little Red Wagon Challenge # 30 - Birthday

Wow, Wednesday already! It helps that it is a short week having had the holiday Monday off!

This week at Little Red Wagon, Carolyn challenged us to create a birthday card.

So I dug into my Graphic 45 paper, along with a Heartwarming Vintage quotation and the sketch at Two Sketches 4 You to create this card;



Grab your wagon filled with scrapbooking goodies and please play along with us! We love to see what you create! And check out what the girlfriends created too!

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge - Pink Hi!!

Hi all! I'm back with another creation for this month's Papertrey bloghop. This month we are to use felt! I also took inspiration for my creation from the Shabby Tea Room and this photo:



And so, here it is:



I created white polka dots and a flower in white felt to accent the PTI blush cardstock. I added a layer of white vellum with PTI twine, silk ribbon and a button. The sentiment is stamped in PTI snow ink.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and can't wait to see how everyone else has used the photo inspiration at The Shabby Tea Room and felt at Papertrey!