BERTIE'S FRESH START

Hey there ladies!!! Got this fun card done for one of our devoted stampers that leaves encouraging comments to us all. She is on the move and her cats were in a dilemma 'cause they were aiming to live out their fantasy world when their owners decide...we're are out'a here! Mothermark's 112th teapot tuesday challenge is on the go again.

Still, I have seen some California Cool Cats livin' it up divinely and living at peace with little mice too. So this could mean a fantastic future for Nibbles and Fritz. I have sent this "pix" to them and they are quite encouraged. We are also sending out our cards (if we choose too :) to Bertie because as a friendly and sweetheart of a lady she is 2 thumbs up!

My card is also adorning Betty's colors and the "chicklet" lettering dessert! YAY

My sketch is from none other thanThe Midnight Madness ladies. Priscilla...so good to be back!

ANNE RYAN IS QUEEN FOR THE DAY

Honoring our Queen of Queens Anne...a bit late but I really wanted to do this because Anne is one of the first stampers to welcome me to SCS. It is quite intimidating to me to show my cards in the beginning. She was so very kind and encouraged me to make the challenges for more visibility and you get to meet new stamperfriends. She even was responsible for my now 2 plus year friendship with my dear Deena (moonrise), so for her listening ear and caring heart, for all that she is to alot of us. Here's to you sweet lady!!! Enjoy the honor, sooooooooooo well deserved!

Used this funny and elegant card of hers. Also got to use Celisa's images. thank you so much sweetie. Love them! I did the tlc today, it was all about TAGS.

Thank you all for looking and enjoy the day!

QUEEN DARLA...YAY!!!

Here is a card made for cousin Tom, my sister Betty wanted to send out also. I had to use these Easter cards from our Queen for the day Darla Ryan as inspiration. I missed a few Queens, but making up for lost time now. I was so excited to hear about Darla being crowned our Queen for the day , so fitting because she is such the sweetest person. Very reserved and so giving when it comes to sending love, though her schedule is filled with her little boy, she does make time to comment and appreciate fellow stampers. So the honor is all for you sweetie, enjoy the day!!!
Here are another 2 card set that inspired those little cutie pies. Had so much fun with those. Even got to add the number "2" in there as Anne had suggested! Also the colors in these cute jammies from the Inspiration challenge helped me pick out my colors from this website called Garnet Hill. Cool huh! The papers are from Martha Stewart, images from two kind ladies, one is Christina (little couple) and the other one is from Linda, of course you recognise Magnolias!

Forgot to add Crafty creations challenge for last week it was all about Dance and music. I used a music sheet folder and the title of a Taylor swift song called 2 is better than one!. Cute song too.! Thank you so much for stopping by, I love to see you. :)

SYMPATHY FOR TOM

Hello everyone, I have been missing in action for a little while as I have had minor surgery and am feeling quite better now. Though, in the last week I have learned of a dear cousin who passed away quite suddenly. I created this card reminiscing about him. He was a good caring man, one that provided for his loved ones and that extending to our family six kids and even my three kids too. He always rode in a pick-up truck and I am pretty sure that one time or another we all rode with him. I know I had many rides, and each an everyone one of us, be it my brother, sister or one of my kids, I can tell you that we sat proud and just felt so lucky to be around him, he wass that kind of person you just loved. And that is why I thought of using this beautiful image from SU and sent to me by M (Stampmuse on scs). I know he will be greatly missed by alot of people of all ages. So long dear Tom, my world is a better place to have had you in mine, I love you, we all do and I will remember you.

I used our FEATURED STAMPER'S Kristen (eberlinek) sketch as inspiration for my card. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful gallery with us.

SAILING...

Does anybody remember the summer of 1980 and Christopher Cross, this big bear kind of guy singing in a high pitch but such beautiful songs. This one is one of my faves for summertime Sailing I've linked a live version done in aug2007, cool!

It's for the AUG10VSNO hosted by Erica (msdaiquiri) on SCS. We were to use a summertime song as inspiration and a same number for the sketch an color challenge. I chose SC02 and CC02. What fun I had using Barbara's knot tutorial. Thank you so much for sharing that. And I needed a birthday card for my brother Ricky turning yep, 53. You wouldn't know by looking at him, he is one handsome dude. Here's a pic from 2007, still looks the same.



I know Ricky loves this song also. Thank you for stopping by, it's always a pleasure to see you.

Oh and for you single ladies out there, sorry, he's been LIVING HAPPILY with his wife for over 20 years now! I know, all the good ones are married! LOL

VINTAGE NEED FOR TWEED DRESS

A very good day to all,I have finally got these two cards made for our Queen for the Day none other than Peggy-Sue. Congrats my dear friend. I really love your work, but more, I love your kind and generous heart. You make me giggle all the time, you have such a fun sens of humour too. So I used this little baby Bundle of joy card of yours to case today. Made 2 'cause I love the sketch so much! Changed the dp, theme, and added little chocolate pearls on one and a simple button on the other with lace and ribbon too. The dp was inspired by the cool tweed vest from the fun website Stephanie chose for our Inspiration challenge on SCS. That awesome dp is from Linda (morningsun47), thank you so much Linda.

The images are from Gina K Designs. (see tuesday's post for the link)

WISH SHOE WELL MOLLY (ALEA)

Hello, I am early with my Mothermark's teapot card today as I am leaving to celebrate the most beautiful day on earth...my birthday!!! LOL I am going out with Diane my best-friend of 43 years now, yep, so how could that make me a young 32 year old??? Well, while you keep busy trying to figure that one out, I'm off. Giggles....

So here is my card, used the CARD PATTERN SKETCH and really enjoyed it. This is also a CARD DRIVE for ALEA, read all about it. The teapot is so pretty Cindy. I will chat more later.

Thanks for stopping by!

NOTE:This Gina K. Designs RETRO BOUTIQUE stamp set is a Christmas gift from the adorable Judi Rose.

CANDY STRIPE BLUE KETTO

Hello everyone, so here we are on Sunday and I made this one for the Featured Stamper and Queen for the Day...which is the same person Princess Heather. (check my first post of the day for the info) I used this pretty Candy Stripe Blue Moses Basket as inspiration for the colours from the Pink Taffy website Stephanie chose for the IC. And this oh so pretty plum card from Heather's gallery. I changed the format of the card and used some dp from SU, chocolate prism and this cute Ketto from Stamping Bella. Added a few pearls and a chocolate silver ribbon.

I know I will be back with more...stay tuned. It is always fun to see your smiling faces when you drop by.

CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST

THIS CARD WAS MADE SATURDAY BUT POSTED ONLY ON SUNDAY

Used this pretty baby card as skecth inspiration, but tweaked it a bit. Then, the Twisted sistah challenge was to use the red, black and white combo, and add sparkle for bonus points. And last but not least,for the IC, I thought these little models wearing the colours I needed, inspired me for a Christmas card, try and figure that one out and let me know how I came to that conclusion* (lol):

*...or maybe I'm just a sneaky CHEETAH!!!

Have a nice saturday everyone and please forgive my wicked ways!

FRIENDS FUREVER

THIS CARD WAS MADE SATURDAY BUT POSTED ONLY SUNDAY
It's sunday and as it is gloomy outside, it is sunshine in my scraproom, if you don't count the mess...lol! Well, it's a happy mess, for I've been whipping out cards for our sweet Featured Stamper I learned today, and she is also our Queen for the Day! She is none other than Heather aka Princess Heather. Now that is most unlikely to be named both on the same week, but as we all know now, it can happen. So congratulations Heather. I would not want to miss honouring this sweetie pie for the world. Check out her gallery here.

Though the colours of Heather's card inspired me, I used this little onesie from the Pink Taffy designs website.Used this so cute little horse card as inspiration for mine. I am sending this card to Mark, my little friend*.Changed the dp, flipped it and the side panel to the right and added this so cute doggie bone and doggie image from Sue (coffeestamper). Love it. And I know Mark loves dogs, so this should make him smile.

*Please click on the link to know all about Mark's story. And please feel free to send a card anytime, he will be needing some cheering up for a long time. Thank you kindly.

QUILT A FRIEND

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a beautiful day! I had to make a card for last week's Queen for the Day. I did case quite a few in her gallery, so I've been wanting to make a special one just for her. So I cased this card (which is actually a case from HamiltonGal's gallery)from her huge and beautiful gallery and will send this to her.

MIX AND MASHED KETTOS

I did it again! While Pierre was watching tennis last night...(excuse-me, I think I am going to be sick...lol )Don't get me wrong, hunky and handsome Rafael was not playing, so no interest in the game. Golf, no Tiger, no Peggy watching. Basketball, no Michael Jordan, no Peggy watching. Get the picture! LOL I, instead was having fun with my little friends the Ketto gals!!! Yes, they are made by Quebec ladies and you can find them at Stamping Bella's website. I used 2 that I don't have, Suzette the one with THE HAIR, Charlotte the one with THE PURSE. Love 'em both. Deena let me stamp a few hundreds while I was visiting last week. Thought I could also show you Deena's card she made for me last year for my birthday.Isn't she good! She is not only a very talented cardmaker, but a very good friend and cook. She makes the yummiest scones, with her secret recipe and way of making them too.
So this morning, I was all ready for the F4A challenge Dawn is hosting. We are to Mash it up,. Meaning we need to use more than one stamp company on our cards. I think I used 3 different sets on one. So that was easy and fun. I just love the friday challenges and of course playing with the Kettos..

Oh, almost forgot, the last card, in blue. Well, it's for the Card patterns sketch, kind of modified it by using only 1 circle, but still it inspired me and so did all the beautiful cards they had. Carla is their Guess designer team member, for that only, you should have a peak. Carla is not only a fine cardmaker, she is another sweet friend.

This is all my chatter for the day, must go do some writting before the Queen for the Day is announced...see you all later.

ANYA CARDS

Did this little sparkly 80's Anya because I never get enough of girly, cutsie cards! I have alot in my stash though. Used this week's sketch on SCS.
Hello everyone, I had these all cut and coloured last night, but was preoccupied with reading...finished The story of Edgar Sawtelle. Awesome read, can't talk about the end, don't want to give it away. So I decided to finish them this morning, This one in particular is for the Sketch challenge, Roxie used DonnaMaria's sketch and I just loved paper piecing it. It is also for this week's Crafty Creations Challenge, to use butterflies, I did on my dp from K & Company (Berry Sweet) and made a ribbon butterfly from Joan's tutorial on her blog for she was hosting the TLC this week on SCS. Had fun!

Have fun today, I will. And pllease drop by, I do enjoy your visits!

TENT CARDS

I actually made another card for the WT today. I used versamark and chalk. Just love using that technique. I made this card for Gabe, Dante's little brother, thought he would like to recieve something in the mail also. I sent Julia a nice little card also, but in my haste to send it, forgot to take a picture of it. And now, I need to send this out today for Gabe, so it won't be too far behind his brother's and sisters. I had fun looking at all the cards for Dante's card drive. You can have look too.

My card is also for Treehouse thursday challenge 063, "Under the sea".

Still used Beate's easy tutorial on SCS.

Have a whale of a day...

Here is a card I made for the WT challenge on SCS. Today, Stephanie, who is standing in for Julia, suggested we use versamark in different ways. I did the heat embossing way, on this cool Tent Card which you can find the Tutorial for on SCS. Used opalescent EP, that's why there is alot of sparkle. IThough I know I am pushing it a bit, I made this card for the CC, Betty has such a fine taste in CC.

SHABBY COLOR INSPIRED BLOSSOMS

Here I am again...surprised myself (lol) with another card. This time for a few challenges. I used Flourishes color challenge and their pretty Cherry blossoms stamp as my main image for the Timeless Tuesday challenge. Also was inspired by The shabby tea room challenge ( my first try at their challenge, love it) and used the Mojo Monday sketch and tweaked it a bit, hope that's okay. The sentiment says: Happy birthday in french!

Good evening to all, and thank you so much for stopping by, it make me smile everytime.

DANTE'S CATCH **CARD DRIVE**

Here is a card for our teapot party and card drive this week. It is a story about fishes and wishes! Here I have little Dante, sitting, smiling, fishing...he heard about the trouble Gullible Gill is in, but don't you know he caught 2 of the TOP FISHTHUGS. With this catch Dante has got leverage to make an offer even the FISHFATHER can't refuse. So this story ends pretty well. Gill will not finish in a basket somewhere in Idaho among chips! Dante will take her home and keep her with his 42,000 other fishes in the humungous pond behind his house.

My sketch is of course from the Midnight madness ladies!!! Used the CAS version and changed the oval to a square!

Have fun with the day ladies, I need to rest some today...

BABY BLUE JELLYCAT ELEPHANT

Here at last is my little blue elephant...isn't he sweet, well the inspiration from Jellycat and the one I used too. I did get to use another card from our Queen's gallery to inspire me. I always love Cindy's stories about her cards. This one had swirls, and I love swirls, but I love Cindy more, so I used gingham and argyle. I told you I had a blue elephant. WOW, glad I got to making this one. Guess that will be another improvised card set for someone...

NOTE: To Anne Ryan; hum, I don't think Cindy is expecting anything more than a teapot in the mail from some kind lady from around the world and alot of cards from us all caseing her.

To Debzi33; I am certainly not expecting a baby lion, giraffe or elephant anytime soon, though one never knows, the strangest things can happen in this world.

So, I hope my annoucements will rest those QUIRKY rumours to sleep, as a baby would. LOL

PRECIOUS JELLYCAT GIRAFFE

Here I am with another card for our sweet Queen Cindy! Had to do a teapot now! I used this funny giraffe without the clouds (I haven't tried her easy clouds template yet...) so decided to make a baby card. Also was inspired by this so cute Jellycat giraffe.

Now how adorable can you get...well, as much as this giraffe looks sweet, I saw a BLUE elephant and guess what colour is my little wooden elephant huh... stay tuned for my next card later on this afternoon. Life calls, I need to do my mommy and sister duties!

I just love the IC website Stephanie thanks again for hosting and making wow throughout my morning and well, Cindy made me wow and chuckle a whole lot, her gallery is entertainement at it's peak!!!

Thank you for looking and enjoy this beautiful Saturday, it's the only one we've got!!!

BLOG CANDY !!!

Here is a big loot of blog candy one generous stamper name Kellie Winnell has posted on her blog. Check it out for a chance to win!!! Thank you for stopping by!

MINE ARE LIONS...I'M SURE

Here is my last card of the day. Today at noon was announced our Queen for the DAY on SCS and she is a special Queen indeed, she is Cindy, better known to us all as the MUDDAH (Mothermark). She hosts the Tuesday teapot challenge, which I am an avid fan of. I try not to miss one. They are so funny and nutty...hence my blog name. I get so nutty when I create for this one! I used this very colourful card from Cindy's gallery as inspiration. I had little three D wooden animals that looked like hers

Also used the august sketch challenge from Rubberstampchat. Tweaked it, as is my way of creating. Little tweak here, and a little tweak there, here a tweak, there a tweak, ol' Miss Nutty made a card eeh a eeh a ooooooooohhhh!!! Warned you about the nutty part didn't I!

So here is to you Cindylou! You are my favorite Stinker! Hugsxo
Here is a close-up of the 3D Lions! Cool huh! Thanks for stopping by, the pleasure is all mine!