Timeless Tuesday...make it clear

Well here are two shots of my "making it clear" with acetate. In the top photo you can see my card and in the one below shows my circle of the clear product. Hard to photo when you're not the "clearest in the mind" kind of person. Well let's just say...I tried. Used the cone flower set and did just a bit of light coloring on the image. Found some nice purple paper and went to town. Add some glitzies and a simple chiffon knot and I'm done. Hope you are all well. It's beastly hot here today and after just 1 1/2 hours at the pool I decided I was risking heat stroke and came on home. Miss the family but they are having a wonderful time on their trip to California. Take care one and all.

 

 

Timeless Tuesday...wedding

Timeless Tuesday's challenge is wedding something or other. Haven't been to a wedding in one heck of a long time. Probably go to more funerals then weddings at my ripe old age. Anyway...sigh! I love this new set called
Bees & Blossoms or at least I think that's the name. I decided to just do this in a denim blue ink and not be all fussy wussy. Just stamped and then made a lower panel using an embossing folder of stripes. Added a bit of ribbon and then for my inner side of the card, I put my congrats and one of the flowers. I like doing speedy cards that are easy to just do and be done with it.
Hope all is well with all of you. We had a day of snow yesterday but today the sun was out and the temp started to rise. I say Amen to that. Happy week to you all.

Timeless Tuesday...natural

Today's TT is to go au natural...Yikes does that mean no make-up?? That is super scary for most of us plain jane gals and I for one am not digging such a dreadful showing...but wait a second cause we're doing a card not our face and I just let a big breath of relief ooze out. I chose the set Season of Giving ( I think that's the name) because it can serve as a Thanksgiving card for an old buddy back in Michigan. I chose just a plain craft color for my base and a bit darker brown for my embossed side piece then used a piece of beige-tan marble for my image. No coloring since it's supposed to be natural. Added some dark brown chiffon ribbon and the phrase for Thanksgiving and guess what?? I'm done here. Love the folder on this one as when I embossed it took part of the paper and turned it into an almost whiteish color on the raised part. Neat me thinks.
Golly Moses it was so dang cold here last weekend I nearly froze my tushy off but no such luck, the fat remains! Our football team for Billings Catholic won the semi-final game 52-0 and those poor guys were playing in temps about 10 degree weather. Baby it was COLD!
This week we see the championship game and it will be played here in town and they are predicting around 50 some degrees. Yipee! I can handle that and will join the crowd to cheer our kids on. Happy week fellow stampers.

Me & my shadow...silhouette

 

 

Today over at TT we are asked to use one of Flourishes silhouette images and I decided since I'm in the West I would go with Country Roads with the verse from the cowboy stamp set. I could hear John
Denver singing this as I used this wonderful stamp. A  gem missing from our music today and it's dear John. This will be one of my Christmas cards to send back to Michigan where there are no cowboys just muggers...just kidding! Anyway when you use a silhouette image there's not much to do as far as talent is concerned unless you're in the mood. As you can see I wasn't. Easy peasy and a little bit breezy.
I know you all got out and voted and only time will tell. Happy week good buddies got to get back out on the range.

A celebration with Sprinkles on Top!

It's a day of partying and celebration! Flourishes turned five this month and they want YOU to help celebrate! Today Flourishes is ushering in a 2-4-6-8, Help Flourishes Celebrate Day and the good ladies there asked me to help them out. I'm here with the 6PM Challenge. If you missed the 2PM Challenge, just click HERE or if you didn't tune in at 4PM, just click HERE to catch up! If you play, they have some FUN goody bags for the winners! Are you ready for the 6PM Challenge?

HOW TO PLAY: This challenge is about adding sprinkles onto your card or creation -- Glitter? Beads? Flower Soft? You choose! Just sprinkle on some fun and you'll be in the running! Use Flourishes stamps if you have them -- your entries will count twice. If you don't have Flourishes stamps, play along anyway, you could win some! If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword FLLCIS5C. You have until August 31st to enter and can enter as many times as you like! Some of our designers have helped us sprinkle a little celebration on their creations today!

For my creation.... I started with a white card and then used My Mind's Eye decorative paper both on top and bottom. The image is from the new set Garden Picks set, which is soon to be my new all time favorite...move over Zinnia set cause you've got competition! But let's face it -- all of Flourishes' sets are the best there are. So, you got white card, 2 bg papers, a pink mat that I used an EK fancy border punch on, and my  prisma glitter. Added a bow easy bow of some beautious green to finish the card off.

And, here's a close up so you can see that prisma glitter that got sprinkled all over my Queen Anne's Lace flower...

This will be a fun filled day for Flourishes with all the great challenges that are scheduled so be sure to join in. I'm so happy to be a part of it all....wine and cheese snacks on the lawn at 6 p.m. See you there fellow bloggers! If you need some inspiration, be sure to hop on over and see...

Cindy Haffner
Beate Johns
Danielle Kennedy
Pat Adam - that's me!

If you want a peek at the OFFICIAL Rules….. just click HERE and then, get those fingers inky and join us for Flourishes' 5th birthday bash!

Timeless Tuesday...say thank you

Today at TT over at Flourishes we are to make a thank you card. Well I don't need one at present but it's always nice to have one available now isn't it? I used the image from Spring Bouquet and when it came time to put it together I didn't have a cute flower shaped button in pink so I went with the yellow. I guess it's Ok but would have preferred the pink. My card is a pink base ( of course you can see that ) with the bottom being dotted swiss. Did you ever wonder why it's called dotted swiss instead of let's say dotted french or dotted german? Anyway I used my favorite method of coloring ...my water colored pencils of course and my die cut is one from SU. The thank you phrase is from the Flourishes Clematis set punched out with the fancy little rectangle. And voila I'm done.
Really tired today as I did all my yard work and I guess when you get to be my age that is quite a feat! It looks lovely with my grass being a very healthy green and my flower box filled with the most beautiful deep purple petunias along with some lavendar bocupa flowers. I'll take a picture when they get a bit fuller but it sure is pretty. Hope you are all doing well and are experiencing good weather. It's a nice 65 here with plenty of sunshine. Good week to you all.

Timeless Tuesday ...sketch

Well so what that it's Thursday and I'm getting in on the TT challenge. Once again just couldn't get to it on Tuesday but I know that's not a mortal sin...venial maybe ( that means smaller sin) but what the heck I'm here and ready to rock and roll. Silke has a sketch we are to follow so follow I did. I did a long card for the birthday party for Jan Marie and found that they are fun to do if you take your time...that's why I'm slow on getting this on the blogasphere. Used Flourishes strawberry set on this and let me tell you there's something seedy about this card...too many seeds on these berries to take the time to separately color either white or yellow so too bad so sad. What you see or what you seedy is what you getty. Easy peasy just my water colored pencils a bit of ribbon and a small circle die and away we go. Hope your week is going well and you all have a wonderful weekend. Weather is unseasonable beautious with warm breezes feeling like it's summer. Not complaining one bit!
Picture is a bit blurry ...sorry!

It's Timless Tuesday..flower, ribbon, tag

Well did you miss me last week when I went AWOL?? Bet you thought some strong, handsome, wonderful mountain man stole me into the wilds and showed me the time of my life....NOT! I took my fantasy pill this morning and I'm a little off as usual. I just said to myself...if you don't want to stamp you don't have to and so I didn't. So this week at Flourishes we are to follow the lead of that adorable Miss Cindy (you know that wild Canadian) and do a card which has a flower, tag, and ribbon on it. I used " Meet me Under the Mistletoe" ( wow would I ever love that) and stamped and colored the mistletoe with my faithful colored pencils. The sentiment is from " A Gift for You" and it fit the tag perfectly so that's why I chose it silly. Now I also know you are going to tell me that the berries on the branch are not red but rather white BUT I wanted to go with a red to match up my card nicely. I embossed my bg paper with a flowerly die and to my little flower added a little sparkly stone like thingy. Easy peasy with not much to do but measure our the mats. Hope you are off to a good week...I'm just off as usual.

Happy 4th Birthday Flourishes!!

Happy Birthday to Flourishes, which is now a big 4 years old! So as a part of the birthday celebration for this super stamp company, there is going to be plenty of prizes and fun! Today kicks off the fun with a customer appreciation day and I am so honored to say I was one of the designers asked to help celebrate. Much happiness and hugs to Jan Marie and her wonderful husband Mike, "the shipping guy" for operating such a great company. We are asked to use our favorite set but how can you do that when they ALL are my favorite! How can you get in on the action? Just pick up your favorite set and create. Want to see what you could win?

A mix of these sets above! There are more than a half dozen prize packages being given away this week so, be sure to get all the details and just  click HERE.

I chose the  new Wild  For Watermelon set for my card. Used some bright and cheerful colors to set my watermelon in the spot-light. Just colored with my water colored pencils and used my Spellinders Classic Oval and Classic Scalloped Oval to set the image off.  I made a little tag for my phrase which is from the Tag Lines set...Flourishes of course. I had a wonderful buckle-style button, so I could thread my lime satin ribbon through and... I guess I'm done here! Not really though, because in honor of this celebration and my own upcoming 4-year blogoversary, I am offering up some BLOG CANDY! What do you win? Two stamp sets of your choice from none other than Flourishes! Just sign up by leaving a comment here on this post and you are in the running. You have until September 1st at 5 PM CST. GOOD LUCK!

Your next stop in the hop is Debbie Marcinkiewicz!

Timeless Tuesday Thursday...be fruity

Well being fruity is my forte so this Flourishes challenge was easy. So many wonderful fruits to choose from so I looked in the stash and said...this is peachy keen and chose the peach from the fruity cherry and peach set. Very easy card with just some coloring with the old stand-by water colored pencils. Did a Spellbinder's die to place my peaches on and only added a few embellies and done.
Went to Denver last week with DD and family to visit my son Justin and his new wife Callie. What a wonderful trip! Had tons of fun and it's great to see two very happy young people get married and become a happy unit. As for me...well I did meet a nice cowboy at the VFW hall and we'll see how that goes. Sadly his name is not Buck or Shorty or any of those normal cowboy names. But the good news is he does wear the infamous cowboy hat and boots.
I have to wonder if there's hair under that hat but only time will tell. So I'll give a big whooohay and hope for the best. Won't tell you his name until I get to really know him. So this cowgirl is signing off for now and saying happy trails to you all.
Pat

Timeless Tuesday...Favorite flower

Hey it's time for Timeless Tuesday at Flourishes and today's challenge is to use your favorite flower image...are you guys crazy??? All of Flourishes flowers are my favorite so I'm choosing the newest one I stole while at DD's place and stamped it off several times. It's from BEE MY HONEY set again and it's such a great set I can't help it if I used it before cause I plan to use it again and again. This is going out to a dear friend to say hello by mail for a change. I get so caught up in telephoning I forget how nice it is to get mail so I'm actually using the cards I make lately and putting them off in the postal service.Easy card with just stamping a bit of coloring and added some bg in the checkered strips and a few bees and the button for my embellishments. Hope your week is off to a good start. It's been so hot here lately that
I've been super tired and lazy...but I did clean junk out of my garage and got it to the dump thanks to my SIL. Washed half of the garage floor and then had to quit as the heat ( over 96 ) was getting to me. Take it easy fellow bloggers as that's what I'm going to do. Taking a little trip to Denver to see my son again and looking forward to that. Talk soon.

Timeless Tuesday ...card for friend

Well it's Timeless Tuesday at Flourishes and today we are to make a card that has "friend" on it. Well now that's an easy one as I have some fabbie friends that I love to send cards to. This one will go to my BFF Lindy, who is back in Michigan where so many days, so is my heart. This "wild and wooly West" is a tough place for this "mild, mellow & musty old lady" at times. Anyway tell you more about that a bit later. This Zinnia set is just becoming one of my favorite sets as it's just perfect for any kind of card. I used it along with Butterflies and Blossoms or Blossoms & Butterflies ( not sure of all the names) where I got the little phrase. I chose soft pink for my base and added just a bit of patterned paper I picked out of my scrap bin along with an ivory bit which I tore the edge of and then rubbed a bit of pink chalk on. Tied a pink bit of ribbon and well let's face it I'm finished here. It's a pale card but every now and then that's Ok with me...don't always have to be bright and perky. So let me tell you about my wild time, it was so fun and different. First of all we started the night with a great meal out and then headed out to the pig races...yep you read right, the PIG races. Little Porky, Shakin Bacon, and so many more little piglets were running there hearts out in a sizzling race. Let's face it,you'd run like blue blazes too if you didn't want to become some body's pork roast.  Go little piggy was the shout for the night.You can bet on the races but the money goes to the high school for a fund for schlorships. It was pretty crowded but so much fun and since we wanted to take a different route home because that's where the ice-cream was ...we headed into a little village called Red Lodge. Well the rodeo was in town and everywhere you looked we saw Cowboys! I didn't have my camera but I've been told seeing all the cowboys is not all that unusual so maybe next time I can get some pictures of these cute guys in there hats, boots, and even spurs. Wahoo!!! So off to a good week after the wonderful 4th. with fireworks and all. See you soon.
Pat

Timeless Tuesday...It's in the bag!

Well today at Timeless Tuesday at Flourishes Betty wants us to use  brown grocery bag paper on the card/project. Fun huh? Well I went all out and made some paper flowers out of my brown bag with a Sizzix's die. Decided to go as DD calls it shabby chic. Me shabby?? Me chic?? To clarify that's chic (not sheikh as in Rudy Valentino's sheikh).Don't know if  I'm  either but  I can do a card that way if I want to and so I did.

My card base is kraft, with a mat of ivory, and then some "chic" dp bought at Mike's pad. Didn't show who put it out because I used part of it previously and so the name is gone..sorry people. It's a soft denim colored blue and ivory so I wanted to bring that out in my flower. After cutting the different size flowers I brushed them with denim colored ink that Adirondack puts out. Now for some fun I used the Scor-Pal and did a bit of pleating out of the ivory card stock and then added some crocheted ribbon stuff to give it that vintage look. Guess I need to use some of that on myself to add to my vintage look (mine is wrinkled skin and old age spots) not so  classy, me thinks. After I slapped it together I added the little flag sentiment "thank-you" found in the Hello Hyacinth set. Put a few blingers on and I'm through here.So now it's your turn to get a bag (not a live one like me) and see what you can come up with. There's lots of ideas out there, just tune into one of them and give it a go. Oh, and be sure to check out the design team's work...they are listed and linked below. For a look at the official challenge and all the rules, feel free to click HERE. 

Betty
Maki
Silke
Cindy
Heather
Tammy

Hope your week will be a goody one. See you again soon.

Timeless Tuesday ...Father's Day card

Well it's time for Timeless Tuesday over at Flourishes and yours truly is sitting in for the entire month of June as a guest designer! Pretty exciting for this ole lady, I tell ya! This week Silke is asking for a Father's Day card ..easy peasy.. especially when you have Flourishes' What a Catch set.  So, here goes! I used gray/grey for my card base and went to work adding some manish type background papers. I love the hat and equipment this image shows, but I wondered where's the can of worms??? I like to thread them on the hook and lure the fish that way. I'm not big on phony flies, but to each his own. I stamped and colored with my faithful water colored pencils and used the blender to get the shadowy effects. Then around my phrase I did the Hokey Pokey and I turned myself around...oops! Once again, I got off track . What I meant to say was I did a bit of piercing (not on myself cause I'm too old for that foolishness) but on the phrase. I made a pretend like ribbon and made it manly by putting some of those nailhead thingys, and guess what??? I'm done here.

Be sure to hop on over and see the other Timeless Tuesday gals....

Betty Wright
Cindy Haffner
Maki Jones
Silke Ledlow
Tammy Hershberger -- she's taking the week off!
Iwona Palmountain -- she's joining us a guest this week!
Heather Jensen - she's one of the new team members!

Thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you all next week for another round of Timeless Tuesday! Be sure to click HERE for all the challenge details!

Timeless Tuesday...mask it

Well today Timeless Tuesday for Flourishes says to "mask" it. Does that mean I'm supposed to put on a mask and act like the Lone Ranger???Probably not so I'll get down to business and play the game. I used the beautiful set Hello Hyacith which makes me feel like Easter is fast approaching,and I always treat myself to a pot of this beautiful smelling flower. Save the bulbs and plant them for next spring..I do don't you? I stamped this in a soft gray ( or grey if you prefer), so it would stay as soft looking as possible since I planned to color it softly with my water colored pencils. Love the phrase and hope we all follow that hint. Love my ribbon which I purchased at Mike's place and bought several rolls so I had it. Well happy week fellow stampers. We are having some snow today but it's not sticking and collecting other then on the grass...or since I don't have any of that yet I should say mud.

Timeless Tuesday...stitch it up...

Well just a bit overdue again for Timeless Tuesday happening on a Tuesday but that's Ok isn't it??

Of course it is cause I said so. This week you are to stitch it either real or faux..kind of like friend or foe but I chose to go with the friendly kind and DD did a zig-zag for me because my machine is not set up yet. Could have done the foe or faux and just draw on some stitches but went all out and had DD do it for me. This is done with the Poppy set from Flourishes and a set that I have used over and over again as it's just so nice. My BG is from a pad by Autumn Leaves called Pretty Poppies. Just did a bit of coloring after stamping and then put it on a few mats and slapped on the glue along with a little phrase from Flourishes ( forgot the name and am too lazy to check ). Put on some little blingers and I'm ready for a good night's sleep.

Have to take my car down the road into a little village called Laurel to have a bracket put on the front end since here in Montana you need to show off your liscence plate both front and back. Always something isn't it!

Timeless Tuesday...3 patterned papers

Well winter ain't gone and Spring ain't riz but if you're wondering where the Rubbermaid is...here I am with the TT challenge. I have to confess my craft room is still a royal American mess so I found this calendar set in a box and said this is it. Actually the month of February is picturing the primrose but I found this patterned paper in the blues's ( I'm not in the blue's the paper is)so I said to myself...self use it and make it work. The papers came from a packet from Making Memories and is all in the brown and blue tones. The Flourishes calendar packs are amazing in the ways they can be used and I will use them to whip up some birthday cards to forward to the hospital and Hospice. I am becoming a Hospice volunteer here in Montana. Got to get busy and thought this would be a good cause to become involved in. Hope you are all off to a good start to this week, I am and hope it continues. Can you believe it was in the low 60's here today !

I'm just a Love machine:)

Well it's Timeless Tuesday and it's still Tuesday here in the gun toteing West so I'm going to do this post on time and get back in the saddle of posting some cards. How's that for being a brave cowgirl??? This cutie stamp is a Flourishes sweetie from the set Token of Affection...or something like that and I have to tell you it's way better then a token of infection which seems to be going around this sage brush area. Everyone is sniffling and sneezing and tearing up. Not a pretty sight so this little robot should take us all to a better place. Baby this is one COLD wintery day in the minus temps. But back to my card which yes I know my picture is a bit blurry but I'm still not set up in my craft room so this was taken on my bedroom window seat with the sun beaming in. Just used my faithful water colored pencils and of course put a sweet "button" on since the challenge called for putting a button on. That's it just a few slaps of glue and a bit of matting and I'm fini. Glad to be back in the swing of things and will start my visiting tomorrow.

Timeless Tuesday ...use doilie

Holy crapola...I had to go to the dollar store to buy a doilie ( not sure how to spell it) but being the gentle soul I am I decided what's a buck when you want to join in on TT for Flourishes. I used the angel from the set Rejoice which I bought last year and still love to use it. I used some
cranberry colored ink and just did a bit of matting and added a matching velvet ribbon cause let's face it doilies are fancy schamcy so you need classy type ribbon. Don't forget to dippity do down below if you want to see my abode's progress. See you later friends and bloggers.

Timeless Tuesday...Sketch Challenge

Well, I love sketch challenges and Miss Cindy ( our sweet Canadian Friend) is challenging with a pretty nifty sketch. Easy peasy when someone does the lay out for you. I say ...you go girl ! So I chose the little sweetie mound of snow called a snowman from Flourishes set Warm Winter Wishes and followed the sketch. I love using blue for holiday cards so I decided to be blue or I should say go blue and do a mono type card. Just used my water colored pencils and a bit of ribbon, bling, and some glitter glue. Today was only zero out...yep I did say zero and tonight is supposed to be minus 6-10 degrees. Hey Baby it's cold outside and on Saturday we got about 4-6 inches of snow and since they don't plow here or salt I felt like Sonja Hennie on ice but in my car. If you don't know who Sonja Hennie is well that's Ok cause she goes way back and was

a wonderful ice skater in the 30's and 40's. A kind of Dorothy Hammil of my day and age. So anyhow I hope you all have a great week and I'll see you later.