I’m a few days late in joining in, but figured it would be a good way to set some goals for myself for the month of May!

So, my May goals:

• Journal my food … good, bad, and ugly
• Blog at least 2 times a week (I missed April all together – OOPS)
• Make a new recipe at least once a week, and blog about it
• Starting tomorrow, May 6th, accumulate 200,000 steps throughout the rest of May. That’s 8,000 steps a day minimum. Melissa came up with that goal and I LOVED it (she started the 1st of May though and is shooting for 250,000 steps).

That’s about it! If you’re interested in reading more about the Challenge, I’ve added a button on the Right to the Sisterhood!

I have a ton of pictures to post, more scrapbook pages to share, and more stuff in general to talk about. I go home tomorrow and will be home for 17 days (w00t), so I’ll be catching up on my Blogging while I’m home! Stay tuned …

Anyway, this weeks Heart 2 Heart Challenge was a ribbon challenge. The challenge was to use at least 2 different ribbons on your card.

I managed to use 3. In my card I used ribbon has my background “paper”. Then I added a little piece of green ribbon behind the clear CTMH button. The paper flower is also CTMH and the stamped image is from the CTMH Treasures set!

Enjoy!

I followed it generally pretty close!

My official entry is this one:

The only thing about it that’s not CTMH is the kraft card base.
CTMH Cranberry CS
CTMH Cranberry Grosgrain Ribbon
CTMH Cupcake Sprinkles Stamp Set
CTMH Red Sparkles
CTMH Patterned Paper (very old, and very retired)

But I was on a roll and was really liking the monochromatic look of this card so kept making different versions of the same card:

Enjoy!

It’s a 1/2/3 Challenge – in this case 1 stamped image, 2 patterned papers and 3 embellishments!

Here’s my entry (supplies to follow picture) – Enjoy!

Everything is CTMH!

Sasparilla Papers
Cocoa Grosgrain Ribbon
Pewter Foundry Frames
Twilight fabric covered brad
Twilight Ink
Legendary Moments stamp set

It’s all CTMH product – all retired except the silver eyelets! LOL

This particular card actually qualifies for href="http://magnoliachallengeblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/5-romancebuckle.html">Tilda & Co’s Romance Challenge!

I “glittered” my paper flower with modge podge and glitter – I saw this done on a Blog last week and for the life of me can’t remember which one. I know I have it bookmarked, just can’t find it right now. I also used Stickles this time for the wings!

ETA – I found the Blog!!! Lauren over at My Time, My Creations, My Stampendence has the great tutorial on glitter-ing your paper flowers!

And here’s a sneak peak of what I’m working on now …

Have a great Monday!

I took this opportunity to also really use my new Prismacolor Pencils for the first time on a real card. I didn’t do MUCH coloring in, as I paper pieced her dress and boots, but I like how her hair and face turned out … next time I’ll branch out and actually color in her dress. And hopefully you can see the glitter on her wings!

And I’m really loving this Silouette Paper kit from CTMH. It’s fabulous!

This card also fulfills Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge #31.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH – Silouette Papers
Inks: Staz On – Black
Stamps: CTMH – Make It Count; Magnolia – Tilda
Accessories: CTMH – Black brads, Glitter, Designer Black Ribbon; SU – Corner Tab punch

It’s bad timing too … I leave in 8 days for a 3 day scrapbooking retreat. Deb and Jane put on a GREAT retreat 2 times a year. This will be the 5th one I’ve been to, and they are totally worth the time and money invested each time! (And yes, that is me in the top picture, I’m not sure how I got that honor!)

Anyway, this card I finally forced myself to make tonight! I still wasn’t feeling all that great, but I used Jen’s Sham Battle Sunday Sketch Challenge to get myself in gear, and I’m pretty happy with the results really. The papers are Bazzil and Chatterbox (Greenhouse Bouquet). The stamps, ink, brads and ribbon are all CTMH. Plus of course I used Marvy punches, and SU slot punch.

On a seperate note, I took delivery of my Paper Towers that my great Dad made for me. It’s not totally organized yet the way I want it, but that’s going to take some time to go through and make a final decision on how to sort my paper (mostly CTMH, and mostly in zip lock bags).

Hope you have a great week! I’m going to try and get a tutorial of Polished Stone done up this week! Keep an eye out!