"Playing In The Challenges"

Hello friends, visitors, followers and viewers on this Wednesday morning.  
I feel as if we will be in for a great day.
I have some cards that I've made for the challenges over at the Outlawz.  I like to play along with the ladies over on this site.  I have something for their Sunday CAS and for their Monday Greeting Challenge.
I hope you enjoy viewing as much as I enjoyed making these cards:

This card is for the Monday Greetings challenge over at Outlawzchallenges.ning.com and for WordArtWednesday.blogspot.com for Challenge Weeks #244-245 - Anything Goes

The supplies I used are:

Neenah white cardstock cut at 4.25 x 5.5

Purple Bazzil cardstock cut at  4 1/8 x 5 3/8.  I then used  a border die from Avery Elle to cut some off and a Cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss.

Green Recollection cardstock cut at the same length and width as the purple and embossed using a Martha Stewart scoring board.

Garden greens in the color green (Recollection cardstock) were cut out using the Sizzix thinlits die (Tim Holtz Alterations).  Recollection orchid flower stickers were adhered to the greenery.  Three gold droplets from NUVO crystal drops in bright gold were added to the bottom

Outlawzchallenges.ning.com
Sunday CAS

These two cards were made for the Outlawzchallenges.ning.com Sunday CAS challenge.    I  tried to do a little coloring on both cards and enhanced the ice-cream by using texture paste from Ranger.
Neenah white cardstock was cut at 4.25 x 5.5;   black Recollection cut at 4 1/8 x 5 3/8; Canson Watercolor paper cut at 4 x 5.25.   The watercolor paper was colored with Pebbles pearlescent chalks while the image was colored with Artist Loft watercolor pencils.   A piece of cardstock from the Paper Studio Be Bold be bright foiled sheets was added for a little enhancement.
The top one with the bowl of ice-cream will be the one used on their site.

Do you like challenges?  Do you find yourself entering one, two or probably zero?
Sometimes they can be a challenge because what you want to do just doesn't work out.  Anyway, be challenged or challenge yourself.

I'm glad you stopped by.  Come again!

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois

"April Showers Bring May Flowers"

Good Monday to my Friends, Followers, Visitors, and Viewers.
Welcome back from your weekend of fun and excitement.  
It's May!  I know you turned your calendar(s) yesterday, but I just wanted to make a statement to those who are still functioning in April.
Tomorrow, May 3, our little town will be voting for their town officers.  My husband is trying to receive votes for his third term...wish him some success in doing so.
We heard and have repeated this statement...April showers bring May flowers.
We had a lot of rain in April and to begin May, it was raining yesterday.  I almost got soaked coming out of church yesterday...that's how hard it was coming down.  The weather prediction is for rain every day this week in my part of the world.  But, are the flowers blooming?  Yes, they are.  I have what is called a Mother's Day rose bush outside my kitchen window (it was actually a bush we dug up and replanted at our house after my mother died years, and years ago) and it is loaded with blooms ready to pop open (it does this every year for Mother's Day).  Other perennial flowers are emerging out of the ground.  With all the rain we were and is having I thought they would have drown...but God is allowing them to do their thing again this year.
Over at the Outlawzchallenges.ning.com Monday Greetings, they are having a challenge for this Monday pertaining to April Showers bring May Flowers and I decided to create a card for this:

"SPRING HAS SPRUNG - MAY 2 - GCC050216"

 cardstock: Neenah white; Recollection blue and black; Ranger water color paper
die: Spellbinders in'spire umbrella die
stickers:  American Crafts Dear Lizzy;  Recollection adhesive faux pearls; Sandy Lion essentials; Martha Stewart dogwood stickers
homemade rolled ribbon flowers.

CAS05012016 for CAS Challenge @ the Outlawz

Cardstock: Neenah white; DCWV The Shimmer Stack; vellum

stamp :Inkadinkado beauty stems

ink: Ranger Inkssentials Emboss it ink pad;  Ranger super fine gold embossing powder; Ranger abandoned coral  distress marker

stickers: Recollection faux gems; Paper Studio stick abilities

Watch your flower garden  and see if April showers really did bring May flowers.

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois