It's been a LONG time...

Well, it's been way too long since I've done any challenges and posted anything here. I've been away from home for several weeks now, and won't be back in town till March 15th. It's a blast spending time with my grandkidlets during the "Winterlude" activities in Ottawa, and I'm really looking forward to spending a couple of weeks in Victoria with my old friend Lesley, but it's been SO hard being away from papercrafting! (lol) So I found a GREAT scrapbooking shop here in Ottawa (The Scrap Box) where Jenn (the very gracious owner) kindly hosts a free crop on Thursday afternoons for old gals. It's been great to meet some kindred spirits/addicts in papercrafting, and it's been so nice using the 'bug and nesties again (lol). So here are some new things for my blog!

This easel card is for the current Saturday Crafters' challenge, which is to use "multifolds." This stamp is one of my old favourites from Paper Bag Studios. In case you can't see the sentiment, it reads "May you love all the days of your life."

"Our Creative Corner" folks want us to use something old that's new, and Theme Thursday's challenge is to use flowers. Like so MANY crafters, I have hundreds of Prima flowers languishing in my Happy Room, so I decided to try to use them! This card uses a stamp from Quietfire Design.


The challenge over at "Finally Friday" is to create a hybrid card. This is a wedding card I did for French friends, with a photo of painting I have, and some computer generated text.

This card will be a "thank you for your friendship" card for a friend of mine. It uses Graphics 45 paper from the Renaissance collection with a stamp from Inkadinkado and a new Martha Stewart border punch. Kerry, over at The Stamping Bug, has a really nice challenge on her blog, and she's offering some freebie stamps for some lucky winners, so toddle on over and join her challenge!

This week's alphabet challenge is "P is for Pink." Here's a summery Happy Birthday card done with some cute DCWV paper from the "Nana's Kids" line and a Hero Arts stamp.

I'd like to end this post with a very special card. The "Lots to do" challenge is "love is in the air;" "One Powerful Hour's" challenge is love; "Cute Card Thursday's" challenge is "In the name of love." This is a "commitment card" for two very dear women friends who are celebrating their recent commitment ceremony with six weeks vacation in Australia and New Zealand. I superimposed the vintage image of the two little kissing girls on one of my own photos of White Point Beach in Nova Scotia, where we've all spent time together during the summer.


Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today. It's been FUN participating in some challenges again!