CR84FN / Hello Dear Friend

Hello and good Morning.  I hope you are having a fabulous weekend.  Unfortunately I have caught a bad virus from my hubby.  He had a fever the other day and I guess by the time I realized he was sick, I had already been exposed.  So I am not feeling so great.  I do have a card to share with you using the newest colors from CR84FN.

I used Nina's new Sew Lovely set.  I fussy cut the dress form and paper pieced the dress and bow.  Added some bling from Michales along with some Offray satin ribbon.  Paper is a mix of Simple Stories, DCWV, and MME.

I have some sad news. Stephanie will be stepping down from CR84FN.  I have enjoyed working with her and will miss her tons.  Good thing is that I don't have to go too far to still see her work.  Please make sure to stop by and let her know she will be missed.

Mona
Suzanne
Deborah
Stephanie
Sue
Andrea
Lisa

Shannon (March Guest Designer)

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather

Blog Hop

Hello.  Today is the reveal of the newest release at The Craft's Meow.  There is five exciting new sets just waiting for you in the store HERE  I have a card to share using a set I hadn't used yet called Just Sayin' designed by Nina Brackett.

Look at this sweet bird that I dressed up.  The paper is from Girls' Paperie as well as the darling bird and heart die cut shapes.  I added a piece of paper doily, twine and some Want2Scrap bling to shabby her up a little.  That piece of lace litterally fell out of the basket when I was searching for the die cut shapes.  It was meant to be!  I added a Maya Road stick pin to my seam binding that came from Bluebird Lane Etsy.

Make sure you hop along to see what the rest of the girls have.  I have an extra Fuschia set that I will be giving away to one lucky winner.  I will just choose randomly.

Alice Wertz

Amy Tsuruta
Debbie Pamment
Ivana Camdzic
Jean Martin
Jenny Suchin
Jessica Fick
Kim Yu
Lindsay Amrhein
Lynn Miller
Michelle Bertuzzi
Nina Brackette
Sarah Martina Parker
Viola Mahr
Lisa Hjulberg
 
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

It's A Shore Thing

Hello.  I am back to share one last card for this month's release and this set called "It's A Shore Thing" was designed by Michelle Bertuzzi.  What a fun summer set.  Lots of little images to use.  Take a look at The Craft's Meow blog to see more about the details.  All sets will be available June 1st. 

This is short and sweet tonight.  My hubby is waiting for me to watch one of our shows.  He has been waiting very patiently.  :)

I used the sketch at Card Patterns.  It worked perfectly for this image.  Don't ya think?

Make sure you stop by the rest of the TCM design team and see what they have created.
Amy Tsuruta
Debbie Pamment
Jean Martin
Jenny Suchin
Jessica Fick
Kim Yu
Lindsay Amrhein
Lynn Miller
Michelle Bertuzzi
Nina Brackette
Sarah Martina Parker
Viola Mahr
Lisa Hjulberg
 
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

Sending You Sunshine

Hello.  I am back to share with you my card for the last new set desgined by Nina Brackett called Sending You Sunshine.  You can find them in the store HERE very soon.  You can also visit the Craft's Meow Store Blog  to get more details about the release.  I do believe there is a giveaway too!

This set is so sweet.  There are several different changeable banners and cute little clothes to hang on the line too.  You must check it out.  I used different patterns of paper from My Minds Eye for the card and for the sun and clouds.  Too cute!  See...another Fiskars border punch?  Told you that I am getting addicted to these things.  I just wish they would make new ones soon.

Make sure you stop by the rest of the TCM design team and see what they have created.
Amy Tsuruta
Debbie Pamment
Jean Martin
Jenny Suchin
Jessica Fick
Kim Yu
Lindsay Amrhein
Lynn Miller
Michelle Bertuzzi
Nina Brackette
Sarah Martina Parker
Viola Mahr
Lisa Hjulberg
 
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

Timeless Tags

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I am back with another card I created using one of Nina's new designs.  This one is from the set called Timeless Tags.  Nina also designed the Spellbinders die that coordinates with this set.  I do not have the dies myself so I had to hand cut the image.  You can find the set at The Craft's Meow store.

Make sure you stop by the rest of the TCM design team and see what they have created.
Amy Tsuruta
Debbie Pamment
Jean Martin
Jenny Suchin
Jessica Fick
Kim Yu
Lindsay Amrhein
Lynn Miller
Michelle Bertuzzi
Nina Brackette
Sarah Martina Parker
Viola Mahr
Lisa Hjulberg
 
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

Celebrating You

Today is the preview of the newest release by the fabulous Nina Brackett called Celebrating You.  You can find all the other previews  at The Craft's Meow  blog.   Here is what I came up with.

What would new release festivities be without chances to win prizes? Yep, we'll draw THREE of you to win Celebrating You... one from each of three of the design team blogs. You'll have until 10:00 pm Pacific tonight to make the rounds and leave comments. We'll announce the winners in tomorrow's post. Enjoy and good luck!!!

Make sure you stop by the rest of the TCM design team and see what they have created.
Amy Tsuruta
Debbie Pamment
Jean Martin
Jenny Suchin
Jessica Fick
Kim Yu
Lindsay Amrhein
Lynn Miller
Michelle Bertuzzi
Nina Brackette
Sarah Martina Parker
Viola Mahr
Lisa Hjulberg
 
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather

My Girl

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Welcome to the Craft's Meow Mid-Month Release Blog Hop! I am the last stop on the hop, so if you got here from The Craft's Meow Blog, you are on the right track! If you just happened on my blog be sure to start there to see all the details for the hop and the prizes! You also don't want to miss the announcement of the winners from the past two days of previews!!! Yes there are lots of prizes.... so be sure to check it out!!!

We have been sharing previews of two brand new exclusive designs of Little Frieda over the past two days, and today's the day you can finally own these cutie pies! Also released today are two new wonderful kits designed by Jessica Fick with exclusive Crafts Meow Stamps by Nina B designs, with perfectly coordinated designer papers and embellishments to make creating that much quicker and easier! You will LOVE these kits... but don't delay! They are limited edition and will no doubt go quickly!

I used the stamp set called My Girl along with some wonderful My Minds Eye Mable papers.  I stamped and colored her body and hair then stamped the dress on one of the patterned papers.  I also cut her out and rolled her arm in a little so it looks like she is actually looking in the mirror.  Isn't she sweet?

Be sure to leave a comment on each designer's blog for a chance to win one of the manyfabulous prizes being given away!!! You will have until Tuesday, May 17 at 10:00pm Pacific to complete the hop and leave your comments to be entered in the drawing!


Before you go, I want to just let you know that The Craft's Meow is sponsoring the Lily Pad Cards challenge this week, which is to use embossing (wet and/or dry) on your card/project. Be sure to join in... just CLICK HERE to visit the Lily Pad Card blog to see all the amazing cards created by the design team AND check out the prize up for grabs.


Thanks so much for stopping by,
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

Happy Earth Day!.....and some news

I wanted to get this post up before Earth Day was over.  I made this last night, but my hubby came home from work late and wanted to spend time with me before we went to bed.  So here I am today. 

I started off with a pretty image I had colored from Flourishes and it the image was too big.  You couldn't even see my pretty Girls' Paperie paper behind it.  So, I whipped out my cute Vintage Button card set from PTI and made a card with a pretty Prima flower.  I LOVE pink, it is my favorite color.  I didn't put any sentiment on it because I like to have some around that I can customize them when I need them. 

I think I have finally fixed my picture problem thanks to Lindsay and her hubby.  I sized my cropped picture to "Original" and that fixed the problem.  Yay!  Thanks Lindsay.

THE EXCITING NEWS!!!

Some exciting news I wanted to share with you all is that I have been asked to design for The Craft's Meow.  I will guest design for two months.  If you haven't heard yet, Nina Bracket will be releasing her new line of stamps on May 1st and that is the place where you can get them.  Make sure to stop by and see all the talent that Lisa Hjulberg has snatched up.  You will see a lot of familiar faces. 

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather