Timeless Tuesday..make it small

Well today at TT over at Flourishes Broni is asking us to make a card that is 4x3. Tiny wheenie
yellow polka dot bikini...yep that's pretty small. So I took the humming bird set and created this small little card. I can't decide if I like the flower in the mono effect or with it being pink.What's your opinion? In either case there's no coloring as I used shadow inks which create a very soft card. Easy peasy and I'm done.
 Want to see my flower box flowers?? Of course you do so here they are. They will probably keep blooming until November if the weather stays hot. They are so lovely.

Deep purple ...sun cut the color somewhat but they are very deep purple. 

The trailing flowers are lavender...I think it's called bocupa or something like that.
Have a good week fellow bloggers. I'm excited as my son & his wife are arriving on Thursday for a visit. Haven't seen them in a year...Wahoo ..can't wait till Thursday.

Timeless Tuesday...purple & blue

Well today's TT is to use purple and blue as your focus...since I don't focus too well at my age I guess that's called blurple and I tried to acheive it as well as I could.  I started with a purple card on which I matted a piece of soft blue and then added a bg from Paper Pizazz which was called sponged purple so since it has both colors I thought Yep and hooray...this will work. I took out the hyicinth set and went to work shading up the big sprig and added some lavendar for the ribbon on it. Love this type of flower and was wishing I could get a whiff of it as to me it is such a wonderful fragrance. Added a few blingers and I'm done.
Still bloody hot here...high 90's each day and I tell you I've had enough of it. Wish the damn weather man would be right for once when he says a cold front is moving in but so far not happening. Hope you all have a grand week fellow bloggers and see you next time.

Timeless Tuesday...bee you a bee or butterfly??

Well today's challenge at TT is to use a bee or butterfly on your card. As you can see I did the butterfly. I'm a bit off as usual as being the corny lady that I am, I thought this flower was an astor not a cone flower so coney me colored it to match the paper and so there! I guess I made an ass-tor out of myself because who ever saw a blueish astor or cone flower??? My card has the top section done with a sweet My Mind's Eye dotted paper of kind of aqua blue and the bottom was fancy doodled up with a SU embossing folder to give it that lacy look. My butterfly was a punch also from SU...me Bad I know but the cone flower is a Flourish stamp from the With Gratitude set so I'm safe I guess. Used my colored pencils as usual and made it all very simple. I bet you're asking how I did such a beautiful cutting job aren't you? Well my DD has the new wonderful machine that does all that glorious work for you and when I spotted it laying on the table ...I did a grab and run thingy. Not grab and run machine but just the cut out flower. The new machine is called a Sillouette ( I don't think I spelled that right but you get the idea) and you need to see more about it on the shop at Flourishes. Go take a peek and you'll probably be hooked.
Still hot here in the Big Sky country and I'm a little sick of it. We are to get a storm tonight for a cool off so I'm hoping the weather guy isn't blowing smoke up our butts. Have a fun week fellow bloggers.

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 Sketch

Well it's TT over at Flourishes and Heather has made it a sketch challenge which I love as it means someone else is doing my work of placement for me so Yeah here goes. I certainly hope I get a few visits on this one as last week I was left crying and hurt that no one came by and said hello. Just kidding I realize people do have lives and fun things to do. So this week I chose the pansies ( or at least I think they are ) from Botanical Bookplates vol. 2 and went to work. My card has a base of olive green and a mat of purple that I ran through my machine using a embossing folder from SU called Fancy Fans which I really love. Cut an oval, stamped my flowers, did a bit of coloring with my colored pencils and finished off with some lavender ribbon and sentiment from the Zinnia set and a punch to set it off. Finished quickly. Liar, liar, pants on fire...it took a bit of time to get it all together but there you have it.
Hope your week will be a goodie...since it's so hot I will head for the pool and sit in the sun to keep my glowing tan which looks like I just returned from a romantic place on the ocean. What a joke huh? But a girl can dream now can't she! Happy week fellow bloggers.

Timeless Tuesday...CASE A CARD

Well at TT the challenge is to CASE a card from one of the designers and of course I chose my DD to copy and steal everything but as you can see...mine does not have the beauty and class her's does. This is the Summer Blossoms set and she made it up so soft and sweet and being the crass lady I am I decided to make it up as a bright and not so classy card. Instead of following in her footsteps I used Spellbinder's lable # 14 instead of the oval and changed the whole thing up. My dotted paper is Mind's Eye and I used some bais type ribbon with some ric a rac below which you can't see too well in the pic a ture. Oh well such is life in the country. I went with a bright colored button and some twine because I'm not a refined lady anymore and am showing my bumpkin side now. Annnyway...that's the way the blossoms bloom here and I did my own thing on the copy and steal challenge. I never have figured out what the CASE really stands for so I just say it's copy and steal everything. Happy week fellow bloggers or is it buggers in your neck of the woods??? The grasshoppers are driving me nuts here  as they eat all my plants and make me extremely MAD and I mean worser then usual. Have a happy trails kind of week.

Timeless Tuesday...Christmas in July

Hi all and Merry Christmas in July which is the challenge at TT today. Well my all time favorite set is the Santa  I Believe set. He is the cutest image of Santa you could ever ask for and I tell you I'd love to plop my butt on his lap and have a little talk. This stamp is so neat because it takes little or no work to color. I just used my colored pencils and did a bit of color and added glitter to the rim of his snow hat and a few blingers to the holly berries. Not sure if that ribbon is really necessary and debated back and forth about putting it on. My GD Ellie said yes you need it and although I love her dearly...I 'm still not sure about it being there. My bg paper was from our stamp store that is now closed. Boo Hoo !!! So there you have it all done for this week. Hope you all have a great week and talk to you again soon.

Timeless Tuesday...recipe

Well are you Italian??? You don't really need to be to enjoy this tasty recipe but does it help?? Not really, seriously just try it you'll like it and further more it's easy. BUT I don't think you can read it the way this picture was taken so I'll repeat it for you at the end of this post. If you click on the picture you can almost...almost read it. I used a dark green card stock and topped it off with some red dotted paper but you can't really see it very much,  the tomato (from the veggie set). So if you need some recipes go to Flourishes TT and see what everyone posted. I had to bring a dish to DD's for the 4th. of July and remembered this one and it went over really good so I'll be making it again soon before the summer's over. Have a great week everyone and here's the recipe.
Spaghetti Salad
1# of spaghetti cooked, drained, and rinsed to get the starch out.
1 med. cucumber chopped in small pieces. 1 tomato chopped in small pieces, ( or you can use cherry tomatoes chopped) 4-5 green onions chopped small.
1 pkg. of Good Season's Italian dressing mix  follow the directions and set aside or if you're lazy you
can use a bottle of Italian dressing . McCormick's Salad Supreme. Layer the veggies in with the spaghetti and use the dressing and shake on the Salad Supreme on each layer. When you have a full bowl put it in the fridge for at least 1 hour to let all the dressing seep in. This is a great dish to bring to a picnic or barbeque. YUMMY and so easy. Keep leftovers if any in the fridge. Happy week all.

Timeless Tuesday...sentiment

Well it's another challenge over at TT for Flourishes and this week we are to use a sentiment as our focal point. I chose the little verse I found in the Zinnia set about kindness. I love people who are kind and thoughtful so this was a goodie to choose. Very basic card using the Teardrop circle die which kind of reminds me of a sand dollar...did anyone else see that in this die?? Golly I wish I was able to walk on an ocean beach and search for one as it's so darn hot here lately it's" killing burn your body sunshine". Not something us oldies can handle for too long. Anyway...Nothing much to this card as I stamped with a blue ink, die cut the two circles added a ribbon of bias tape in whitish color and a blinger on the bow. Found my paper in my stash and it was not marked but probably comes from Mike's place . Soft blue denium type color. That's it fellow inky finger friends. No big plans for today but Sunday is DGD's birthday and she will turn 9. Yikes where did that time go. We made a birthday list for her parents and they exploded laughing... we put stuff like the Genie bra in all 3 colors, nose piercing, a gift card for a few tatoos, a dye job for pink hair. Well of course DD thought this was all my idea but me and Ellie came up with it together and had such fun thinking of things that would rock her parent's boat and guess what we did just that.  

Have a fun week everyone and talk again soon.

Timeless Tuesday...think summer

Well hello fellow bloggers. Hope you are had a bang up 4th. of July and for all you Canadians...a bang up 1st. We had a big party in the sub. with lots of fun but NO FIREWORKS...because of the dry weather which has been so hot and has fires going all around. Better forget starting any new ones so they said no sky being lit with boomers this year. Anyway on to the challenge. Make a card that reminds you of summer. I love to read and when the weather is nice I love to sit outside and read a good book so this stamp from Kids at Play again no it's More Kids at Play made me think of being young and sitting under a tree reading. Stamped with sage shadow pad, used a couple circle dies, an embossing folder to get the scored panel for the bottome and some My Mind's Eye printed paper for the top. Add a knoted ribbon and I'm through. Think this took all of 5 mins or so. A real E & Q card...that stands for easy and quick. Just made that up but I think it's pretty clever. Off to a good end of the week with all my grass cut and weeds pulled so now I'm hoping it rains  cause I'm ready.
Have a happy weekend and see you next time for the challenge.