Happy Birthday, Mom!!

Hello friends! Today is my Mom's birthday...and even though I already mailed her card, I wanted to write a little post in her honor today. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love and admire my Mom! She is such a special lady...and even though she did not give birth to me, she has raised me from a young girl. I have often thought what it is she did as a very young mom that drew me so close to her...and have decided that among many things, it is the way she made and still makes me feel about myself. She was always a good listener growing up, and rarely if ever said a critical word. Over the years she has instilled in me a quiet confidence in myself and the feeling that she was proud of me. She always and I mean always had a smile on her face, it didn't seem to matter what was going on in the world around her. As a young girl, my oldest daughter would just stare at her face and finally blurted out, "Grandma, how do you get your lips to do that?" It was funny, but her mouth always curved upward, as if God permanently planted a smile on her face and a sunny disposition in her heart.
My mom was a hard worker and worked outside the home as I was growing up. She gave up a career to raise us three kids I discovered much later in life...but she worked at different jobs to help support the family. But on weekends she would be baking and I was very fond of her cream pies and cherry cobblers. So this little Tilda with the wooden baking spoon was the one I chose to honor my Mom today.
This was made for the Magnolia-licious blog challenge for the month.
I have been absent for awhile and it felt good to stamp a card today...hope you enjoy this short post. I have tried much harder to listen to my kids more ...even grown up now and attending college...and offer less advice. I just tell them how much I admire some quality in them and assure them when they are going through a hard time that I have confidence in them. Wow, it is a lifelong lesson, but I hope through my Mom's guidance I am getting a little better about it.
Blessings to you~

Hope your New Year is just "Peachy!!"

Hi friends, I sure hope everyone is enjoying the holiday break and looking forward to ringing in a New Year! At our house, tonight will be a quiet one, we just returned from our place in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, a mountain resort. All I wanted to do this evening was stamp, and then in the middle of assembling my card, our daughter called and asked to take my camera for the evening!! What, my prized possession that I use to take pictures of my cards for challenges?? I got a lot of glue on my fingers hurrying this card along...so forgive me if the glue isn't dry. But I had a 1/2 hour warning and was scurrying to get this done! I wonder if our kids know the sacrifices we make for them!!
Anyway, this card was made for Magnolia's challenge for the month...it is on my sidebar if you would like to participate. The challenge was a sketch, and there were 5 circles on the side. Well, I had this new PTI sentiment set,. and was thrilled to find a "Peach" in there...it fits so well, and sentiments rarely do that for me!! I used some new prima flowers I had.
The most challenging part of this was trying to color the peaches with my copics as I had no peach colored copics, but found with a little experimentation, the orange, yellow orange, and yellow worked, who'd a thought? That is one advantage to having a limited number of copics, I am forced to experiment a lot with layering different colors and usually I find success! I also used prisma pencils on Tilda's apron and highlighted with my signo white gel pen!!
Tilda and I thank you for coming by...have a safe and Happy New Year!!

Magnolia-licious Challenge: Clean and Simple!!

I love clean and simple, and am striving to go back to that for my designs. We are in thaw mode in Colorado today and the white fluffy stuff is melting away. I brought out these Fall colors for my Tilda, two of the in-colors from SU that I have completely forgotten about!! My Tilda is presenting the last of the Fall harvest, a sunflower, for your enjoyment! The white border and sentiment is a rub-on.

Thanks for looking, I have uploaded a few cards in the last couple of days, so scroll down if you have time. Hope you like my card, it took much longer to color than assemble!