ENJOY THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE

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To enjoy all those precious moments that come our way each and every day - sometimes we can be so busy we do not notice them.  I hope I go thru life every day with my eyes wide open so I do not have to say I ever missed a moment!!  So here is my card to remind me to do just that!!

Have a wonderful day and I hope you have many moments of sheer pleasure surrounding you always, till next time, Hugs and blessings ~ CaroleAnn

Background was done with water and salt and I used my watercolor paints.  It was an experiment that surprising enough (one of those moments:) that turned out to be okay!!! LOL  Diecuts from my stash worked out just right too!!

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SS Monday Challenge - It's a Frame Up

A QUIET MOMENT FOR ALL THE MOTHERS OUT THERE!!

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I had a quiet moment this morning before my grandchildren clamored downstairs to make breakfast and get ready for work.  My quiet moments here can be few and far between but I would not change a thing about my busy household!!  So onto my "quiet moment" post.

This background I created with the new Distress Oxide Inks and sprayed with water once I liked the shading.  You get these awesome variations in the shading once it is dry!!  I only have a few of these inks but having fun with the few I have!  I used painters tape for masking a frame and the sentiment is from Verve.  Added some sequins and those awesome stickers - now I think those are from a Tim Coffey collection but not sure.

I hope to get back into my craft room today to create a few more "quick" cards from all my sticker stash!!!  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend, with a quiet moment to yourself to do what ever pleases you the most!!!  Special wishes to all the wonderful Mothers out there that are celebrating Mothers Day here in the USA and a belated Happy Mothers Day to all our UK mums!!!  Hugs and blessings ~ CaroleAnn

Card shared at:
Crafting From the Heart Challenge #158
Crafting With An Attitude Challenge #27 - Month of May
Crafting With Friends Challenge #43
SS Monday Challenge - Its a Frame Up

BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS

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I have all these stickers in a box and decided to try to use some of them to make a few quick cards.  So here is card #1 and I did the background with watercolor first and the sentiment is from Verve.  Added some Wink of Stella and a few sequins.  Frame die cut from IO and then added the stickers from my stash!  I had fun!!!  Don't you love it when you can make something fast, use up some of that stash "stuff" and have fun to boot!!!!  Yah!  Till next time, hugs and blessings ~ CaroleAnn

Card shared at:
Crafting From the Heart Challenge #158
Crafting With An Attitude Challenge #27 - Month of May
Crafting With Friends Challenge #43
SS Monday Challenge - Its a Frame Up

CELEBRATE!!!

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Okay this is a SSS called Birthday Celebration and this little elephant tried so hard to hold on to all his balloons but managed only one - the hint of pink balloon.  All balloons have glossy accents on them and I dyed some string to black with distress inks.  Then glued the string to the back of all balloons.

The  image is colored in Copic Markers.  Sentiment is also from the stamp set.  Scallop die cut from Spellbinders and the corners are from my stash.

For background, I used paper from Simple Stories/Good Day Sunshine and cut out part of it on top and used it inside of the card.  Hope this weekend finds you celebrating something fun!!!!  Thanks for stopping by, hugs and blessings ~ CaroleAnn

Inside view of card:

Card shared at:
Crafting By Design - May Challenge - ATG
Crafting From the Heart - #157 - ATG
Crafting With an Attitude - #27 - ATG
Crafting With Friends #42 - ATG
SS Wednesday - A Hint of Pink - the balloon and inside the little guys ears

BEACH GAZING

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I made this watercolor background scene and have been trying to figure out how to complete the scene with some stamps.  Then it all clicked when I read the challenge title over at SSS -  "The Great Outdoors"!  

4 different rubber stamps were used - all from Stampin Up (some very old stamps I dug out).

By masking the different wooden rubber stamps, I was able to get the birds both in the foreground and background. Two more stamps, masked, for the little bit of vegetation and tiny butterflies in the right hand corner.   I added some glitter to the gentle waves that I painted.

I have fallen in love with watercoloring and hope to experiment more with this media.  Hope this photo makes you think of soft breezes, the gentle sounds of the waves and the happy chirping of the birds flying overhead!!!  

Thanks for stopping by, till next time, hugs and blessings ~ CaroleAnn

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SS Monday Challenge - The Great Outdoors
Crafting By Designs - ATG
Crafting From The Heart #157 - ATG
Crafting With An Attitude #27 - ATG
Crafting With Friends #42 - ATG

BIG SISTER HUGS

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It is amazing when you go thru your stash and find something you did not even remember that you had!!!!  Love it!!  This is from Holly Pond Hill, Joanna Sheen Decoupage Sheets and it is dated 2013.  So I had fun putting this together for my sister as she loves these cute critters.  I haven't done decoupage in some time so I found out I was a little rusty but still had fun and I know she will love these cute mice all decked out in their frocks!!!  Thanks for stopping by, hugs and blessings ~ CaroleAnn

PS   So much fun making this I will have to make more as there are a number of sheets to look thru - like finding a surprise gift in my craft room!!!!  LOL

MAY DAY

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Happy May Day to you.  Well, I have to watch every year my most fave movie named Maytime at this time of year and I have to have a box of tissues close by because the music starts and I start bawling!!!!  Love it!!!  Maytime is a 1937 American musical romantic drama and it stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy and John Barrymore!!  My mom introduced me to this movie and I have loved it from the get go!!! 

Well, on to my May card which is a digital image from Polkadoodles called Tulip Darling Bud.  A fun image for me to color and added some glitter here and there along with a doily and the sentiment is a fabric sticker.  A secret message is on the removable tag peeking out of the side of the image.  All done!!   Never have enough birthday cards.  Till next time, hugs and blessings ~ CaroleAnn

Sharing this card at:
Crafting From the Heart Challenge #157 - ATG
Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge Week 16 - ATG

Card Recipe:
Image is colored with Copic Markers:
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R11 R20 R21 R22  C1 C2 C4   YG07 G14 YG13 YG25
Papers, fabric sentiment stickers, doily, tag, and bling are all from my stash