HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DONNA!

Today is my very good friend's birthday!  Sadly, we have a postal strike in Canada and we are unable to send birthday greetings by mail, so Donna suggested that I post her card so she could at least get to see it.  
Donna is my most creative friend and she has a wonderful blog: paper crows and dragonflies.  A   wonderful friend that I share so much with.  We live a couple of hours and a ferry ride away from each other and don't get together to play and create often enough.
Happy Birthday, Donna!!  This card is waiting for you and my wishes are for a wonderful birthday full of all things that make you happy.  Love you lots - Rhonda

All That Jazz!

The current Spicy Supply challenge at  Gingersnap Creations involves packaging materials.  I made this ATC for my June ATC club using a recycled free ITunes song of the week card, featuring Charles Bradley.  I sanded some embossed black coredinations paper for the background and added a strip of corrugated cardboard from some packaging; a ticket and stamp from Graphic 45 and voila - my ATC was complete!  Love it when everything just seems to jump onto the page and works.  Have a terrific day!  Cheers!

Exposed!

Take a Word challenge - Exposed

Spring Garden

First off, I made a master board by stamping with some distress inks, sponging on some distress inks and finally embossing.  Then, I cut it up into ATC size and created the springtime ATC and added butterfly fragment.  I used a couple of pieces of Stampin'Up! botanical paper for the background of the card; a bit of Glossy Accents to the bee and some ribbon and my card was complete.  I love using the ATC format for my focal point of a card and with the master board I have nine more little backgrounds to build upon.  Have a great day and thanks for looking.  Cheers!

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Distressing
Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Springtime
One Powerful Hour - Spring Into Autumn

Spring!

These delightful daffodils are growing in our neighbours' tree!  Even though it is unseasonably cold here this year, the daffs know it is springtime and are happily blooming.  The first year we saw this, there was only one spindly flower that we never thought it would make another year, but each spring brings more blooms and the daffodils are flourishing.   We figure that one of our pesky, bulb-eating squirrels had stashed the bulb in the tree for a later snack, forgot about it and there was enough bits of soil to get it going.  I always look forward to spring and to the beauty that it brings.  Have a wonderful day!


'I can't know, only you can,
What makes my heart laugh,
 This branch of flowers
 Shaking in your wind.'   Rumi


 

Mother

In North America, Mother's Day is on May 8th but it is Mother's Day in the UK this week and the challenge for Sunday Postcard Art is "Mothers."  I made a very simple postcard using an image from enchanted mercantile, outlined it with a gold crylon pen and added a simple sentiment from Stampin'Up!  Happy Mother's Day to all moms who are celebrating this week!   Cheers!

Lost and Found!

I bought this stamp before Christmas and stamped it twice when I got it and just loved it.  I decided to make some special Christmas cards with it and couldn't find it anywhere!  After Christmas I organized my stamp drawers and got my husband to pull out the bottom drawer thinking maybe it had slipped over the back of the drawer - nothing.  Several times I have lifted up this wastebasket and vacuumed, pulled out the plastic bag full of paper bits and replaced it with a new one, but the other day I decided to wash the wastebasket and look what I found!  A little late for Christmas but a fun surprise!  Cheers!