Treat Yourself

Hello Friends!  Well, it's the beginning of yet another month, oh my gosh!!!  The year is coming to a close soon already!  Unbelievable!  So, yes the beginning of a new month marks a new challenge over at CLP but it's also the last challenge for the year since we will be taking December off to celebrate the holidays with family!  :)   Thank you Chelsea for yet another FUN sketch!  And we are sponsored by In2Stamps with a generous gift.

And for this sketch, I made a pull out tag on the front of the card:

I'd also like to enter this into:

Simon Says Stamp:  Anything Goes

 

Please pop on over to CLP and see all my DT sisters amazing works!  Hope you'll join us too!

Thank you so much for visiting me, I love it when you do!  See ya again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

Meet Max

Hello Friends!  Hope you're having a great start to your weekend!  I would like to introduce you to our newest family member "Max Angelo" ... ahhh ... he is a blessing.  Max means "The Greatest", and Angelo means "Angel" .. soooOo "The Greastest Angel"?  :)  He is so goofy and full of love and affection, and can I just say that he came to us smelling sOooOoo darn GOOD?!!!!  Oh my gosh he smells GOOD!  lol!  He arrived to us all the way from Alabama .. he's our sweet Southern Boy.  hehe!

When we picked him up at the Cargo area, the only person that could coax him out of his crate was my son.  :)  With one single, "Come here boy!", Max went straight to my son and would not leave my son's side.  He kissed my little boy endlessly!  And all the way home (I sat in the back with my son with the pup in my arms) .. Max kept trying to crawl into my little boy's carseat to sit on HIS lap!  :)  I think they were destined to be best friends.

Here he is:

Yea, he's a chunker alright!  lol!!!  We love him to pieces!  And we'd like to congratulate our dear friend Bonnie who just welcomed a sweet little love "Buddy" into their family also!!!  Buddy is just DARLING and I know that he has gone into such a LOVING family as well!

Well, thanks for visiting me!  I'll see ya again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

Happy Birthday

Hello Friends!  It's time for another Belles 'n Whistles Challenge by our sweet and lovely Iris .. and her theme is "Pearls and Pins" ... oooooh!  Gotta tell ya .. this is a right perfect love for me!  :)  Love pearls and love pins!!!  Thank you Iris!

Here's my card using one of my most FAVORITE images:

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Cupcake

Paper:  MME, Colorbok

Medium:  Distress Inks

And look what is enjoying the nice weather here in town .. the roses are all popping up with lots of buds and blooms .. here are a couple of them.  Can I just tell you how much seeing the sprinkles of color in our backyard gives me so much joy?!  :)

I hope to see you over at our challenge at Belles 'n Whistles .. and take a look at my DT sisters creations.. they are just FABULOUS! 

Thank you so much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  See ya soon!

Hugs,

Elise

Make the Season Bright

*** UPDATE***10/28/11:  Woooohoooo!  I made Top 3 at Lili of the Valley!  Thank you SO much .. I am honored!

Hello there!  Hope you're all enjoying beautiful days wherever you are!  It's getting to be such lovely weather here in town and gosh I am loving it!

I've made this card for fun .. yup .. Christmas cards already!  lol!

I'd love to enter this into:

Lili of the Valley:  BINGO (I used Gems, Distressing and Pins)

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Lili of the Valley

Papers:  MME, Melissa Frances

Medium:  Distress Inks

And here's a few pics of a Pumpkin Patch we visited.  Lots of beautiful pumpkins and squashes .. and do you know I learned something?!!!!  I found out that some pumpkin stems have THORNS!!!  YES!!!  Thorns!  You know how I learned that right?  lol!

I went to lift up a pumpkin that I wanted and OUCH .. all the thorns poked me!  I looked closely and there's TONS of little thorns on the stem!  LOL!

Thanks so much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  I'll see ya again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

Bloom Where You Are Planted

Hello Friends!  It's my turn to host a challenge over at Belles 'n Whistles .. and so I've chose a quite simple theme .. "Use Your Favorite Elisabeth Bell Image".   I have so many favorite images, so I just chose which one I wanted to play with next.  And I chose this cutie ... Planting Some Love.

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Planting Some Love from Belles 'n Whistles Store

Paper:  MME, Colorbok

Medium:  Distress Inks

I hope to see you over in our Belles 'n Whistles Challenge!  :)  My DT Sisters have created some GORGEOUS things for you to inspired by!  Thank you so much for visiting me and I'll see ya again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

Sending You Love

Hello Friends!  Hope you're all doing very well!  We've gotten a nice cold front from yesterday and it's been a nice relief from the heat!  We're down into the low 70's which is so perfect!  Then in a few days it will go back up to mid 80's ... sigh ... Love it!

I made this card for LOTV .. and TOTALLY forgot about posting it to enter in the challenge. LOL!  Funny how after I take the pictures I feel like I completed everything .. all the while forgetting that I haven't even put it on the blog!  haha!

Here it is:

I would like to enter this into:

Simon Says Stamp:  Sparkle and Bling (my paper is glittered, I used stickles on parts of the image also. And my bling is my crystal/pearl stickpins)

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  LOTV

Papers:  DCWV

Medium:  Distress Inks

Thank you so much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  See ya again soon!

Hugs,

Elise

For You

Hello Friends!  Hope you're all doing very well!  I decided to make a tag with this adorable Sweet Apples.  I decided to make her black/white with dashes of pinks on there.  And then I also added some flower soft that I have around the edges since it contained pinks and greens like on my image.

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Sweet Apples

Papers:  DCWV

Medium:  Prisma Colored Pencils w/ OMS

Thanks for visiting me and I do hope to see you over at our Belles 'n Whistles Challenge Blog too!  Right now the challenge is to "Use Your Favorite Color Combo" ... sweet and simple and FUN!  :)

See ya soon!  Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Elise

Live Each Day

Hello Friends!  It's time for another CLP Challenge with Chelsea's beautiful sketches!  This month we are being sponsored by wonderful Spesch Designer Stamps and I chose to use the sweet Meadow Girl!  Totally love her hip style!

Also, I wanted to let all of you know .. I've been trying to leave comments on some of your blogs .. and Blogger is being a Booger and not letting me.  lol!  I type out my entire comment and when I click the button to enter the comment, it says this:

We're sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.

The following errors were found:
Input error: Cookie value is null for FormRestoration

hmmmmm.  Does anyone know how to go around this?  Please let me know .. thanks!  :)

Well, here's my card that I totally had fun with:

I'd love to enter this into:
Simon Says Stamp:  Anything Goes
Stampin' For the Weekend:  What a cutie

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Meadow Girl by Sylvia Zet

Papers:  Prima and Melissa Frances

Medium:  Prisma Colored Pencils w/OMS

Thank you so much for visiting me .. I love it when you do!  I'll see ya soon .. and hopefully you'll join in on the fun at CLP!!!

Hugs,

Elise

Invention of Hugs

Hey all!  It's the start of another new Belles 'n Whistles Challenge and this time our lovely Iris has given us a sweet and simple theme .. "Use your favorite color combo"! 

For me, I have lots of favorite color combo's .. lol .. so I just decided to go with whatever came onto my card.  haha!

Here's my card:

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Bellinda with Teddy

Papers:  K&Co

Medium:  Distress Inks

I sure do hope you'll come over and join in this easy and fun challenge at Belles 'n Whistles!  Hop on over there and check out my awesome DT sisters creations .. they so rock!

Thanks for visiting me .. I always love it when you do!  See ya soon!

Hugs,

Elise

Sweet Surprises

Hello Friends!  Hope you're all doing very well!  We're doing okay here ... but my little boy got sick .. yep yep yep .. the joys of Kindergarten germs.  lol!  He's doing perfectly fine .. there was no hindering his romping around .. he's all boy and constantly playing.  And the antibiotics is doing it's job.  :)

So I finally coloured up this Magnolia that I bought last year!!!!!  LAST YEAR!!!  lol!  Fall begins in a couple of days ... how wonderful!  ;)  I am anxiously awaiting the shorter days .. since I love the night.  And I can't wait to feel the chilly nip in the air .. which means my favorite holidays are rounding the corner.  Yayyy!

Anyways, here's my card:

I'd love to enter this into:

Simon Says Stamp:  dies to die for (my leaves are from a punch)

Stampin for the Weekend:  Tickled Pink

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Magnolia
Papers:  Colorbok, DCWV

Medium:  Distress Inks

Thank you so much for visiting me .. I love it when you do! I'll catch ya again soon!

Hugs,

Elise