JUGS80 color challenge

So while doin a bit of puter surfin yesterday I came across this site and thought what a great group of girls!!  Just Us Girls!!   The color challenge over there was to use agua, black, kraft and coral some great colors together too and the twist on it was to make it for a birthday.  I had some time this am to play and came up with this card.  LOL my cr84fn card was also for a birthday this week!! HMMMMMMMMM oh well I have another friend with a bday comin up so this will come in handy!! 

I cut out an aqua pp flower, then added my distressing around edges and curled the petals, a black middle and light light pink center with some pinkish colored glass glitter.   AGAIN i used some of my favo PRIMA pearl flourishes!! goodness I love these!! way to go Prima!! 

And the backround is aqua gingham along with a layer of MY MINDS EYE lost and found series word paper, with a bit of distressed edges.  

I cut the tag from chipboard and painted sanded and distressed it and stamped it with a perfect happy birthday stamp by Stampabilities.  

So that is my card for jugs challenge!

Fun colors to work with!!

Off to to bakery hope yall have a wonderfully marvy monday!!

PS we did get a few inches of ...................s.....................snow last night!! YUK!! yepper I usually say yeah yippee to snow but NOT IN APRIL!!  lol at least I do know it wont last!! 

Talk more soon!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Monday

Happy happy monday yall!!   Another start of a whole new week! and I cant believe it is April at that!

I was up early this am and had a burst of creative flow so made another card.   A happy birthday card, which will be for sale too!!  This one is a large green card and features My Minds Eye papers that I recently bought.  Again I LOVE LOVE LOVE this lost and found series of vintagey feelin papers.   I also used a couple more pieces of the pearl flourish I took apart for a card last week.  Love this stuff too!! 
I used one of my Stampin Up stamps and added a pretty sparkly butterfly to the corner.  This card is $4.50 plus travel expenses.   I love the flower cluster, I took apart some silk flowers I had layin in my studio to make this and added some distressed paper leaves.  I am pleased with the shabby feel of this card. 
Email me if interested in purchasin one or any of the others I post as well.

I am off to go to the kitchen and work on some cookie dough for market this week.  Have a wonderful monday!!  the sun is coming out and I think it is really gonnna get pretty nice out this afternoon!!  It was only in the 30s earlier but feels warmer already! WOO HOO!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Marvelous Monday CR84FN card

Actually any day I spend at home with my boys is MARVYY!!   I have to brag about our new little guy Bruno!! he just has been such a joy and little love bug and has fit in our family perfectly.   This is just what we needed to move on and heal our hearts and like I mentioned before we really believe our beloved Bubba had a "paw" in helping us and guiding us to Bruno.  

Ok so on to this weeks color challenge for cr84fn LOVE THESE together.  Plum, Lavender, and Green YUMMO! colors!! 

I ended up using some cream color paper and painted it light lavender and plum to mimic watercolors.    The flower is one of my altered chipboard flowers, painted, stamped then I added some purpley colored Tim Holtz glitter stickles and wiped it off a bit.     The happy hellos is stamped using one of my STAMPING UP greeting stamps. 

I used green paper and stamped and polka dotted it up then antiqued it a bit for the stem and leaves.   The sheet music on bottom has the words happy hellos stamped randomly on it. 

I doodled the flourishes and dots around the flower with a blk marker pen. 

This is Miss Olivia with her spring flower collar on, she is  our special visitor to market.  She is such a litle doll baby and what a personality!! 

My Buster chillin on his couch!! yes it is just his couch, hubby wont let me pitch it and really it is because Buster loves this couch and sprawls out on it everyday!!  We will keep it in the living room just for him. 

And my other boys chillin on our new couch.

And with yesterday being the first official day of spring we had to share pics of my friends baby goats.  These little does are only 2 days old. and just too adorable.  We started the spring day off with sleet, snow then rain then ended with lots of thunder and lightning.    Crazy michigan weather but we love this area!!

Elsie with her younuns. 

LOOK at that most precious face!! I want baby goats!!  lol one day we will add on the side of the barn a little birthing room!!  just for goats!! 

My nanny would make really cute babies but she doesnt like any other goats besides Beau her buddy but he is a weather  (fixed) so cannot make babies and I really dont think she would do well so will have to get another nanny.    I dont see a problem with that we love goats and 2 isnt enough! LOL 

Hope  yall have a wonderful springy day!!

Be back soon

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

CR84FN challenge card

Over at CR84FN the colors this week are just great!! teal, green and yellow!!   Such wonderful spring colors and since it was in the 50s here today that was perfect inspiration for me to be a bit creative!!  

My card for the challenge is Sing your song!!  A great bird stamp was used which I love since it has words around it, dream, believe and joy!  LOVE IT!! 

So yellow is the gingham paper and the ribbon, for green I used a great piece of textured BAZILL cardstock for the backround and green gems on the bottom, teal is the floral printed MY MINDS EYE paper!! LOVE LOVE LOVE MME papers!!

Had to also add a bit more green which is the back largest flower, then I dry brush painted the vintage sheet music flower layers and added an old recycled button for the center.

FUN COLORS for sure!! 

And since Bronson market is tomorrow I had to make some cookies!! these are just wonderful!!  I used a basic butter spritz cookie recipe then added fresh squeezed orange juice and orange zest to the batter in place of vanilla.  OH my orangeygoodness!! these are soft and with their little bums dipped in chocolate they are yummo!!  Had to do a bit of my "farmgirl bling" yall know that !! LOL, added some melted choc drizzeled ontop. 

AND 2 batches of my sinfully decadent loaded chocolate walnut brownies!~ Complete with cream cheese  filling!~! 

These are super duper super moist with chocolate pudding in the mix and melted milk and dark chocolate too!!

 And got a batch of my grandma Rose's slovenian stuffed kolachky!!  She used to make these with all kinds of fillings, I remember her making her own mixed nut filling by chopping the nuts very finely, usually pecans, walnuts and also some almonds then cooked them in honey and sorghum until it thickened enough for the filling~~~  YUMMY yummy for your tummy I tell ya!!   So it was a nice reminscenting feeling while making these.  I filled them with some of our homemade apricot preserves. 

Instead of using the diamond shaped cutter she always always used I used a flower cutter and just folded them in 1/2. 

And the bling here is the generous dusting of powdered sugar!!  Oh love powdered sugar on top!! so pretty!! and dainty looking!! 

So that was my day!!  Now I have to print labels and package them up!!  I also took some of my baguette bread loaves I had left from last week and chopped them up then brushed each with evoo and topped with italian seasonings and baked them til they were nice and brown and cripsy!! makes excellent bread crumbs for cooking or I am gonna bag em up for croutons!  Also cut up a few of my french breads and added them chopped and baked til crisp.

It was nice to concentrate on other things and focus on something other than gloom and sadness.  My heart aches for our Bubba dog and my husband is hurting quite a bit but we take things one day at a time and am hoping to find that special little girlie girl for my Mr Boopie Woopie Boo to have a date with!!  LOL he's ready!! Maybe we need to just go and get a girl and raise pups here!! Now I know what yall are thinking........... is she crazy???? she wouldnt want to sell any of them!!  LOL I love that breed and would have so much fun with 8 or so puppies runnin around our home!!  The more the merrier we say!! 

So I really hope yall have a blessed evening!!!

Talk soon!!

BRONSON WINTER MARKET IN KALAMAZOO TOMORROW!!

GLENN WINTER MARKET SATURDAY

HUGS

 Darlene

LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Mondays color challenge and a present!!

Oh my goodness!!  I got something yesterday (THANKS MOM)!!!!   anyways it is goin to have my busy busy and I think it will open a whole new line of creative tresures for me!!  I have wanted this for so long but never broke down and bought it.    Now that I have it I have sooooooooooo many thing running thru my head!  there are endless things to create and I think this is goin to be a wise investment!!  I even got the same color of this a my birthstone!!!  SO THE FIRST PERSON TO GUESS WHAT IT IS AND LEAVE THE COMMENT ON TODAY"S POST WINS A LITTLE PREZZIE FROM ME!!!  
And today's color challenge over at CR84FN::::  brown, red and tourquoise.

I cut layers of flowers out from a vintage hymnal and painted each one with barn red paint.   Antiqued and distressed each petal then layered them with lots of foam dots inbetween layers so they POP off the card.

Thinking of you is cut out of some aqua color paper that I distressed with my beloved TIM HOLTZ distressing ink in walnut.

A couple of flourishes are stamped in black and added to the backround.  Tourquoise and brown dotted grograin ribbom. 

A close up of my flower

AND the things I will play with this afternoon and MAKE aRt JeWelRy!!  I took apart one of the old royal typewriters I bought in sept at the flea market.  I love these and I just know the ideas I have for them welllllllllllllllllllllllllll...........................I wont want to sell the jewelry I make!! LOL 

Here's the card!~!~

I hope and pray Old Man Winter is not too hard on the US as I see the whole country is having this winter storm!!  They are callin for 14-25 inches here!! WOO HOO!~! snowmobiles may have to go out this week!! YEAH!! YIPPEE!! YEEE HAWWWWWWW!!*****  when u live in Michigan you just gotta love snow!! ** and we do!!   TAKE CARE, BE SAFE, and STAY WARM!!

Talk more soon!

HUGS

Darlene

 ~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Trialing tues....

Hey yall!!   Trialing new recipes,   This am was about testing a new scone recipe.  I added some shredded cheddar and colby cheese to these.  I always have troubles when cutting my scones evenly and I really like the look of the traditional triangular shape.  Round ones just dont do it for me.  SOOOOOOOOOO I tried something new, I patted my dough into a shallow 9 in round coated pan.  Then tipped it out onto a sheet and VOILA!! oh how exciting this was!! LOL perfectly round!! used my pizza cutter wheel and these are great!!
As u can see nice uniform triangles and easy peasy to do!!

Each one got brushed with more heavy cream and topped with a sprinkling of sea salt.  Cant wait for them to come out of oven they smell really great! 

and look great too!!

I am also trialing some cookie recipes I found one is for a similar to the girl scout samoa cookie (btw is one of my altime favo cookie but havin them in the house is dangerous to me!! i will be way too tempted to devour them all) and also a different flavor of my homemade carmels.  Espresso Carmel sounds so dang yummy so that is a must try!!
So as soon as I finish this stuff  I am gonna work in my studio making some mothers day cards.  Oh here is a quick birthday card I made at 4am to go out with a birthday order I got.

I like to include a little card for the recipeint to get with their order.

Ok so have a blessed tuesday and I will be back with more pics tomorrow!!

~~HUGS~~

Darlene

 ~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

A bag and a card day

This am I finished painting a market bag for ME!  With of cource chickens! I added a denim pocket from am old pair of jeans that were trashed but I just didnt want to throw them away and some black seam binding bows.  I think it will be perfect for my change purse, my notebook and pens and of cource whatever odds-n-ends that end up finding it a home.

And I made this cute many thanks matchbook style card for a friend.  I love polka dot anything so found this great light blue paper with red dots.  The inside has plenty of space to write a message.  This is the front of the card.  The red/white bakers twine is so cute on projects I love to add it.  and if there wasnt already enough dots I used some great polka dotted ribbon too!! LOL  WEll I am off to start hauling in some wood as we are under a winter storm with anywhere from 12-16 inches coming in tonight!!  YEAH more snow!!  So better git ready for it! 

Have a great monday and keep those comments a comin in as you still have time to get in the OWOH giveaway!!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~