A little Martha for Mother's Day...(a giveaway)

{Update: Congratulations, Stephanie at The Happy Homemaker! She's our Martha giveaway winner!!!}

Mother's Day is one week plus one day away. Are you ready? Is your family? ;) Have you dropped any Mother's-Day-is-around-the-corner hints?

Here's my Mother's Day gift to you...or your mom...or your aunt...or your sister... It's just a little thank you for reading the blog. I really DO get a little thrill with every comment!

Have you seen Martha Stewart's line of goodies at Macy's? {My sister bought the cake doilies for me...they are adorable!} I thought you might like a few goodies of your own to play with! :) You'll receive: 100 Martha mini cupcake liners, 1 set of cupcake/cookie stencils and a box of 6 dotty cupcake and cookie boxes.


Here's the deal....leave a comment (by Monday at 5pm central, US only) and tell me:

What would you like for Mother's Day?

I want you to be selfish here...I won't tell. We all want world peace and happy, loving children, blah, blah. What do you REALLY want? A trip to Paris? a Kitchen Aid mixer? a $5,000 Pottery Barn gift card? a solid day of quiet? an afternoon cooking with the Take Home Chef? ;)

Here's my short list...

How cute is this shirt from King Arthur?!?!?

How about one of these aprons from Heavenly Hostess? These make me want to bake in pearls and heels!

But, here's my biggie...a trip to The Spa at The Hotel Hershey. Yes, I want to be rubbed, scrubbed and buffed in chocolate. I want to drift back to my room scented with cocoa and order a hot fudge sundae and a chocolate martini from room service. {Hershey's...hubby...are you listening? My bags are packed!}

Alright, now it's your turn...

Across the Miles - May sketch challenge for Magnolia-licious

Just click on the picture of the sketch to see it better. Sorry - it's just my inexperience!

It's the first of May, and that means it's time for a new card sketch from Magnolia-licious! And this month, it was actually MY turn to draw the sketch! YIKES! I've never drawn a sketch before! I wasn't even sure where to begin. Needless to say I felt just a "smidge" intimidated. LOL! I hope you like it, and that you grab your paper and glue along with your Magnolia stamps, and play along with us. If you do, be sure and email a pic of your card to Diana at ladydian@shaw.ca so she can upload it into the May sketch card gallery!


I made this card for our 5 year old grandson, JJ. He and our daughter just moved away from us to Kentucky this past September, and we miss them both very much. As I'm sure any Grandparent would understand. I just could NOT resist using this adorable Shabby Chic Edwin! I also used the stone wall, and the sign post from the Easter collection. I got all of these stamps at Magnolia-licious.

I masked off the stone wall to stamp the sign post, and then masked off both of them to air brush the sky. (I'm so proud of myself for using my airbrush system!! LOL!). Edwin is stamped, colored, cut out, and then placed on foam tape for dimension. Have I ever told you how much I love dimension on my cards?? *smile* I colored everything with my Copic markers. (the colors are shown below)

The DP is by Basic Grey and I MUST, yes MUST go get me more of it. I LOVE it!!! It's sooo bright, colorful, and cheery. The corner arrows were cut out with my Cricut Expression machine and popped up on foam tape as well. I tipped the edges with just a smidge of white acrylic paint for visual interest, and then popped on a few Kaiser pearls for fun.

Oh, forgot to tell you that the arrows were cut from my Graphically Speaking cartridge. That one has a BUNCH of arrows on it. Too cool! For the center strip, I wanted a touch of blue, but it was way too blah looking, so I added some edging by using my Martha Stewart border punch. Ahhh...that was better!

Popped on a button with a little bit of yellow embroidery thread, and this card was done! So tell me....how did I do with my own very first sketch challenge? I'd really love it if you'd play along with us! Thanks for dropping by to see me today, and I sure hope to see you again soon! Have a wonderful Friday evening! HUGS!! Don't forget - you can click on any of my photo's for a very up close look at my work. Just don't complain about all the little mistakes you see when you look that close! LOL! HUGS!