TCPTues272 {thinking of you}

Time for the next TCPTuesday challenge with the kitty cat crew from The Cat's Pajamas. It's a color challenge this week and I looooove it! 

I was actually inspired by teammate, Nancy's card. She reminded me that I have had this gorgeous Lacey Butterfly in my stash for over a year and I had never used it yet. Gasp! I know! I used the Dots cutups to emboss my mint green layer and added some pretty mint sequins for some subtle bling. 

Here's a close up of the beautiful butterfly and the Simply Said sentiment. 

Check out the TCPTues challenge rules and join the fun!

1. Every other Tuesday a new challenge will be posted here on this blog as well as on our Splitcoaststampers forum and our Facebook page.
2. If you want to play along you just upload your design using the InLinkz button below*. If you want to display your pretties on Splitcoaststampers use keyword TCPTUES272. Only the entries uploaded to the Inlinkz button will be considered for Swanky Stamper at the end of the month.
3. You must have your project posted by the Monday, 12 midnight EDT before the next challenge to be eligible to win the Cat Cash.
4. Cards and projects are not required to use of a Cat’s Pajamas Stamp or CutUps die.
5. On the following TCP Tuesday, the winner will be chosen at random from the previous challenge and will receive a Cat Cash Voucher for $10 or $15 if a TCP product is used.
6. At the end of the month, The Swanky Stamper will be selected from all the weekly entries. The Swanky Stamper will receive some of the stamps from our next release and get to play along with us at our Pajamas Party and Blog Hop. AND… They’ll even get a special spot in the Gallery highlighting the project that won them the gig and a snazzy badge to display on their blog.
7. The Swanky Stamper will be announced the First Monday of the month on Splitcoaststampers, Facebook page and this Blog.

Have a great day!

It's almost Turkey Day!!!

here in the US, that is.....I can not believe that tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I'm happy about it, but I still can't believe we are about to move into December!!!! I will be back tomorrow with a fun Limelight sketch and product focus challenge. It'll be up at midnight for all you night owls!!!! Here was a super quick card, had to be quick, I've got some deadlines I'm workin' with ;) I played along with Dawn McVey's Raspberry suite color challenge #19 . I keep going back to this card Dawn made for the release and I just LOVE it. My card is based off that one! I used all PTI products and colors here-man I'm bummed you can't see the polka dots on the spring moss butterfly, it's there, I promise. The butterflies were cut with the Bigz butterfly die and a Martha Stewart punch.
Just so you know, and if I haven't said it recently, Thanks for all your wonderful comments. This blog and all of YOU make me smile each and everyday! I'm so thankful for you!!!!

Hugs, Lisa

Recycled Butterfly

I'm sure you are all aware that yesterday was Earth Day. I loved that both my boys came home from school talking about recycling and keeping the Earth clean. Joshua had a doozey of a question about Green House Gases. Whatever they learned in school has made a bit of an impact on them since they both made great efforts yesterday. Joshua came in from the bus with an empty plastic container he found in the street (it was garbage day yesterday and it was windy, I think the container had blown in the street from a neighbors) and he put it in our recycling bin. Later that evening, Ryan turned off the light in his room AND in Joshua's since no one was in there (this is huge, since turning off lights is something I can't get them to do, LOL). Wednesday is the Unity Addicts Challenge and we were asked to create with something recycled. I had gobs of brown packing paper from the SU box I got yesterday (my SAB rewards arrived) sitting in front of me so I tore off a bit and ran it through my Big Shot with the Beautiful Butterfly Die.

The sentiment is from March KOTM and the butterfly stem image is from this month's kit. I'm excited about the May 1st KOTM Challenge being posted in the Unity forum on SCS. A Guest Designer spot is up for grabs for those who play. You can only play if you have the kit, so be sure to order yours today! Okay, back to the card...I finally got my hands on some Aqua Mist colors from PTI. ahhhh, such a sigh of relief I felt when I opened this color. The polka dots are some of that Jillybean Soup dp that Becky sent me. Love it! This card just makes me smile. I'm planning to lay some mulch and plant some flowers today. It is supposed to be gorgeous here this weekend. Can you say 80 degrees! Oh, yeah, high of 84 to be exact and just think two days ago it was high of 39. That's the Midwest for ya! Hugs, Lisa