another Simple Sundays :)

Blessings to you, friends!  

 You may remember if you visited me for this post

how much I adore Sundays. 

 Not just for the blessing of worship but the calmness the day brings. 

 With 4 kids, it's not often that we are still ... and that's okay :) 

 

On Sundays, I hope to post a card that I've made that reflects

the beauty of this day.

In our busy week, I often miss the solitude of our lush and

vibrant back yard that we have.

The quiet mornings in the backyard, sipping my coffee,

watching the birds come to the feeding house my son just built.

My dad's memory tree in full bloom - gorgeous, fiery red hibiscus

flowers are opening to the morning sun.

Even our two funny dogs chasing each other, playing tag

and barking excitedly when stops to sit beside me as if to

say "Come on, brother - there's playin' to do!"

 

This week, my card reflects the simpleness of the moment.

I created this CAS card - and can't believe how much I love it!

I've been trying my hand at CAS cards and
 just can't quite get the hang of it :)

here is my card ...

  and the inside of my card ...

 

 

 

That is ... until this fabulous Retro Sketches #103 caught my eye.

I was also inspired by the bold color combo at the Dynamic Duos Challenge.

And as luck would have it, Addicted to CAS is having a coffee challenge -

as a Starbucks aficionado, I jumped to play along!
I inked up my treasured TAWS Stamps and added a few dew drops,
to emulate 'coffee beans' (looked good in my head!) oh! And it's paper-pieced :)
I'll link this up to PIO - Thinking of you challenge.
 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today and I wish you a joyous,

simple, very blessed Sunday!

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

A flower a day keeps the ...... snow away!

Hi there!  This has been a productive and crafty weekend for me - rare but exciting none-the-less :)  It's so hot here, even with the beach and pool visits we have been making, it's soooo much nicer to stay in and ink and color! :*)

I thought I'd share the card I made for the SOTC (card group on SCS) ~ our hostess this month is Maryann.  Bless her heart, Maryann has had her share of snow and more snow -  and asked us to create a card with flowers to bring out the sunshine!   I actually created one, totally CAS, and then read her requirements to include at least one embellishments, so in order to keep the CAS look, I added a dallop of ric-rac and some tiny pearls in pale yellow.

      

Here was the original: just a subtle difference, right?

I'm still trying my hand at creating new things this year.  You may remember from this post, it's my LINY year!  I absolutely fell in love with this card and wanted to CASE it, however, as you can see, that idea fell way through!  I'm not really happy with how this turned out, but I had good intentions :/ 

 I'm trying to embrace the crisp, CAS look of cards and have these wonderful ideas - then put them 'on paper' and it just falls flat ... no pun intended! :)  I thought Bridget's card was stunning in blue, but really wanted to use yellow - to represent sunshine and to make it cheery.  I also had fun playing with one of my old stamp sets again as per my crafting goals, like this one from SNSS from their February flower of the month (Iris) collection.  

The color combo at Dynamic Duos this week is to use green and yellow, so I'll go ahead and enter this card there ...  

and Cas-ual Fridays Challenge #108 asks for a CAS card with a swatch of any material - I used ric-rac on the card so I'll go ahead and enter this card to their challenge as well :)

Thanks for stopping by today ~ have a great rest of the weekend!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly