Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful/ The Beauty of a Flower

Hello!  I am playing catch up here.  The Bring Back Beautiful challenge for the month of May is:

The Beauty of a Flower! They say April showers bring May flowers, so let’s show off those beautiful blossoms! This month’s Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge is to be inspired by those gorgeous botanicals every stamper loves! Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creation HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB10. You have until May 31st to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!

I used the beautiful new set from Flourishes called Orchids.  I love these pretties and googled an image of the different kinds of Orchids and found one that was a stunning shade of purple with a little red in the middle.  I used the Crate Paper Portrait collection in shades of black to keep the focus on the flowers.

I used this beautiful quote from the set on the inside.  I don't usually do much with the inside of my cards until I am ready to give it to someone.  After this last week, I thought this was a very fitting quote...don't you?

Here is the new set from Flourishes called Orchids

I used the fabulous sketch at Taylored Expressions.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather

The Craft's Meow New Release

Hello my wonderful blog friends.  I am back up and running for the time being.  We are not sure if it will stay.  First, I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all who left me such wonderful comments, well wishes, and prayers.  I will share more about that situation later.

Second, I have all of my cards from the Craft's Meow release of Nina Brackett's wonderful new line of stamps.  I love the whimsical nature of these sets.  I am sure you will also.

Here are the sets in order that I have them posted above:

Simply Delightful

Happiness is

  

Fly Free

Butterfly kisses

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather



Hello again

Hello everyone. Hope you are all doing well. I am still waiting for electricity. A lot of people are getting power all around us. I am hoping and praying that something happens soon. It has been very hot the last 2 days.... I am melting! I also can't say thank you enough to everyone for all the prayers and well wishes. I still don't have a home phone yet which means there is no telling when I will have internet since they are both through the same company. So I am crossing my fingers. Hopefully I will be back soon.

Hugs,

Heather

Thank you so much

I wanted to tell you all how much your thoughts and prayers mean to me. I am thankful to have all of you as my blog friends.

To update you on the situation here, a few of the grocery stores are open running off generators. Only 2 local gas stations are up and running and there is a 2 hour wait. Crazy! They are now saying that it will be the middle of next week until most people get electricity. They actuallhave to rebuild the towers from scratch. I am thankful that it isn't going to be too terribly hot for the next week...and BTW...cold showers are no fun at all!


I have been in my craft room today and will have a lot to share with you when we get electricity again. Thanks again for being so sweet,caring,and thoughtful.



Hugs to you all!
Heather

update

I wanted to let everyone know that I am okay. We had over a hundred tornadoes touch down here in northern Alabama with over a hundred dead. Over a million homes without electricity and they are saying that it will be at least 5 days until it is back. I am bummed. I had so much to share with you over the next few days. I am on my hubbys phone right now and not very good at using this thing. All the food I just bought at the store is ruined. All the stores and gas stations are closed as well. Wish me luck and say a prayer.

Hugs to you all

Heather

Happy Anniversary...and some flowers and birds

Hello my sweet blog friends.  I just wanted to share a card I made for my parents Anniversary which happened to be on Easter this year.

Again, nothing too facy.  I tried to make it a mix of masucline and feminine.  I think it turned out pretty good.

These are Evening Grosbeaks and are migrating through to the north for the summer.  I saw one of them out back the other day and he was pretty timid.  Then today when I looked outside there were two males on the tray feeder.  The females are brown and look like an overgrown sparrow.  I haven't seen any of them.  I am assuming they are sticking around taking a break while enjoying the yummy food that I put out every day.  I have this whole pole system from Wild Birds Unlimited and also a feeder out front.  Guess how many bird baths I have?  I have 4 in the back yard and a fountain in the front yard.  Can you say SPOILED? 

This is a beautiful two tone Bouganvilla that I planted in the backyard.  I can't wait until mid summer and it is full bloom.  I will take more pics when all my flowers start to grow.

It was cloudy the day I took this photo.  These are the seed packets that I planted into the ground.  The Zinnia's are already up and  have a couple leaves on them.  I wonder how fast they will come up here.  I can tell you that digging in this nasty red clay that is here in Alabama was horrible and filled with rocks.  There are mountains all around so if you dig...you will find rocks.  I miss my wonderful balck soil in Iowa.  Everything was sooo much prettier there.  It is amazing how much the soil quality makes a difference.  I will take a picture of the clay before I put the mulch on top. 

Hope you enjoy the rest of your week.  I will be back at the end of the week with the new stamp sets that are being released by Nina Brackett at The Craft's Meow.  You will love them...I sure do.  Then again, I love everything Nina designs.

Thanks for stopping by,

Heather

CR84FN25 and a Happy Easter

Hello!  First, I want to tell you all Happy Easter!  Second, I am here tonight to share with you my card for this weeks colors at CR84FN.

I LOVE this weeks colors.  I think I say that a lot too.  Look at those pretty Girls' Paperie papers.  Aren't they beautiful?  I finally used my painted cardboard and die cut it with a PTI butterfly die.  I have had a few painted pieces of cardboard sitting around for weeks now on my craft table.  I am so bad about that.

My sweet and thoughtful friend Lynn from Millers Ink sent me this pack of Girls' Paperie paper.  She knows the withdrawals I am having since I moved and had to leave my most favorite store in the world...Archivers.  She offered to send me some.  How sweet!  I can say she was one of my very first blog friends and has helped me with a few things over the last couple years.  Thank you Lynn!

 

Do you see how cute she even packaged it up for me?  I love that tag.  I really wanted to use it on my card, but it way too big.  It is the perfect size to put on a gift bag.  I will reuse it for sure.  I can already tell you I will be hoarding this paper.

I used the sketch at Mojo Monday to get me going. 

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather