Purple Iris

 Hallo,
   Just a quick stop here this am - when I was out taking pictures of a card yesterday, I noticed my neighbors flowers in their front yard. I think these are siberian iris but I don't know - but they are sure pretty. I love the pretty purple color and the stripes and the darker centers.
   I may have to find me some of these for my yard!!!
   Off to sleep with me so I can work again tonight.
   Happy Mother's Day!!!
   Tera

Accents in black

 Hallo,
   A rainy saturday here in NW Florida - we got back from a nice long walk the DH, puppy and I and soon after it started raining. As I got all my cleaning chores done earlier in the week and the rain cancelled my yard chores, I headed to the craft room. Believe it or not I am almost through with the massive Christmas ornament project that I started before Christmas.....
   I also finished off this card for the current Tuesday challenge over at Flourishes which was to use something black, black accents. Check it out here - www.flourishes.org/blog/ - play along and you could win all 4 of the stamp sets in this last weeks new release - like I did with the  release challenge this time around!!!! :) Happy, Happy,Happy ME!!!!
   I stamped the dress form (Flourishes of course) onto some pale yellow DP - the back side was used to cut the flower rosettes and the corner accents - it has a differnt pattern and a darker yellow.
   I colored the dress form with prismacolor pencils and fussy cut it out . The black frame, corner accents and the 'cut-and-fold' shapes are all Spellbinders dies.
  I also used a black ribbon and some black pearl drops made with a tulip fabric paint pen(I accidently smeared the one corner a bit - wanted to get a picture while the rain let up and I also needed to get my pre-night-shift nap in so I was in a hurry :( hopefully its not too noticable.....
   All for today - off to work....
        Have a great weeknd!!!
                 Tera

Spring Pirate

 Hallo,
   Well its been a busy day here - starting with a long walk with my puppy and her doggy friend and his owner Nathalie. We took the long way around to a little beach park near us and let the 'kids' play in the water for awhile. My little Kyna is finally trying out her swimming skills - she went out deep enough to swim 3 or 4 times today. Her buddy loves to swim, especially when there is a ball involved, he dives right in and she follows. We managed to 'almost ' wear my little girl out - another 20 minutes throwing her toy racoon for her in the yard did the trick, once she went to sleep she was out for several hours :)
   I am showing you a card made with a stamp from Sweet Pea stamps - www.sweetpeastamps.com
  I haven't had as much time for coloring lately as I would like, but when I color, one of my favorite companies is Sweet Pea Stamps - I love all the fairies and mermaids. Our town has a pirate festival the first weekend in June so I pulled out my sweet pirate mermaid and colored her in 'spring colors' for the current challenge over at 'One Sweet Challenge - www.onesweetchallenge.blogspot.com
   She is colored with prismacolor pencils and cut out with a Spellbinders die. The black layer is actually a label from 'Paper Temptress'  - its such a poretty die cut that I save all the labels whenever I order paper from Paper Temptress so I can reuses them :)
   All for tonight - Have  a great weekend!!!
           Tera

Congratulations Grad

Hallo,
  Just a really quick notet this morning, took the puppy for a shorty walk and my bed is ever so sweetly singing to me ....
  Graduations coming up - these are 2 I made for my 2 Nieces back in Nebraska who graduate this weekend. These stamps are from Hanna stamps and I did them in their school colors.
  Ok off tosleep - onemore night to go and 3 off!!! :)
   Take Care
        Tera

Owl friendship

 Hallo,
   Well it is Monday and it sure feels like a Monday - I guess I will get my nap early today. I really shouldn't be tired after having the weekend off but I didn't sleep well last night and I need a nap before working tonight anyhow....
   Puppy took me for a long walk out on base this morning. It has been over a week since we went and she was rowdy. We had company in the fields today as a military group was out there doing an exercise but they said they were doing anything 'too crazy' and gave me the thumbs up to head out. We met up with them again about half way through our walk - Kyna had scared up a deer and was deep in the woods and then with the noise the boys were making (which really wasn't much) she had trouble finding me again....it was only about 10 minutes total but I was beginning to worry....it didn't phase her at all(she probably found a couple squirrels to chase on her way back from chasing the deer....)
  Well today's card is for the current challenge over at Impression Obsession and calls for 'something to be thankful for'  - I am Thankful for all the good friends in my life :)
   I used the 'Owl be Thankful' set (#CL293) and  'CAC Scratches" (#CC044) - I used the cover a card for the background and  2 images from the Owl set and colored them with copics. I used an out-of-the-die technique for the owl and phrase and then partially colored another owl and popped up the tummy portion of the owl for a bit of dimension.
   I cut both image panels out with Spellbinders dies and edged them with a bit of walnut stain distress ink.
   Lastly I added some bronze colored pearl drops with a viva decor pen.
  Check out the challenge here - www.mitrafriant.typepad.com
   Have a great week!!!
          Tera

Beautiful Roses

Hallo,
  It was such a beautiful morning for our walk this am - warm and no wind, really nice. Then as we headed back from our walk I noticed some clouds building but didn't think much of it - after all I do live in Florida, which means if you stop everything just because it 'looks' like it might rain then you would never get anything done and more than half the time the clouds go poof and no rain anyway.  Only not this am - I got in about an hour of yard work and the wind kicked up and the rain came - it rained about and hour and now it is sunny again but still windy.
   While it was raining I got a shower, so now I am headed for the craft room - one challenge card and a passel of graduation cards to make.....
   Just a quick stop here to show you a card I finished off yesterday using the release challenge colors over at Flourishes - check it out here - www.flourishes.org/blog/
  I just loved these colors and was in a kinda vintagey mood anyway - these colors are perfect for a bit of vintage style :)
   The main image is of course from Flourishes and colored with prismacolor pencils and cut out with a Spellbinders die and edged with walnut distress ink. I used another piece of the brown with pink core paper I had near my desk - it already had the embossing on it so just had to sand it off a bit.
   The DP and the 2 little paper embelishments both come from the same paper pack and a green cardstock base this time.
   All for today - better get going on grad cards - also wanted to start another locker hook rug that my DD asked for to take to college with her :) so I had better get started.
   Take Care
      Tera

Vintage Magnolia's

Hallo,
  Cool and windy here today - I needed a sweatshirt for our morning walk this am which is just crazy for may in Florida - but at least we didn't have snow!!!
   I finished off this card for the release week challenge over at Flourishes - check out the challenge here - www.flourishes.org/blog/
  The stamp is from Flourishes of course and colored with my prismacolor pencils. I used a Spellbinders die to cut out the main image and another one to get the green scrolly type layer too - it is a tag die that I cut in half to put behind the main image. I am kinda wishing now that I would have edged the main panel with walnut or tea dye ink to define it a bit more....sigh :)
  I really liked the colors for this challenge  - I colored up 2 images using these colors, so I may show you the other one tomorrow.
  Back to the craft room :)
      Have a great weekend!!!
           Tera