Todays challenge was to use Stampin Up Colors, River Rock, Basic Black and Whisper White. I need a 50th birthday card for a friend, so this was my creation today.

Todays challenge was issued to use the Stampin Up Colors: Orchid Opulence, Pumpkie Pie and Certainly Celery, so this was my creation for today.

This was a challenge that we needed to create a card using something from our house. I picked this awesome mosaic piece that my good friend Mary E. gave to me as a gift. You can see the Mosaic Bag in the photo along with my card. Enjoy.

Today our challenge was to make a pouch using the Stampin Up tag punch and a medium envelope. So this is my take on it (I made my own envelope from the Berry Bliss Stampin Up Designer Paper)~ Love it.

Here are some more challenges, I've gotten behind in getting them uploaded to my blog.

Todays challenge for us stampers was to make a card using the Ink, Spray and Smash technique by our stampin Friend Faith (aka Markie's Mom). What you do is take glossy paper, lightly spritz your glossy paper with water, drop 3 colors of re-inkers on paper and then smash together with plain glossy sheet. It creates a different background each time. So so fun. You should give it a try. This is my creation for the day. I used the new stamp set, Best Kind of Friend, Rainbow Ribbon, Cardstock colors: Elegant Eggplant, Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun and Glossy white, then topped it off with a thank you charm hanging on the vase which was stamped on with staz-on and cut off to adhere to the image that had been colored with a marker. FUN FUN.

My rendition of the card on Page 21 of the new Spring Summer 2008 Stampin Up Catalog. The Floral Stamp is the Hostess Level 1 set From The Garden, and the word Friendship is from the Wonderful Word set. Complete with its rose ribbon trim and micro beads, I hope it brings you a smile.

This was for todays challenge using these colors...so I thought I'd add it to my blog for you all to see too.

Today our stamping challenge was to create a non=traditional valentine without using reds, pink, hearts or flowers............whew it was tougher than I thought, but here is my attempt.

Time for me to Pay It Forward!!!!

Laura, one of my SCS Sisters had a challenge to Pay It Forward, therefore, here is my Pay It Forward for you. Do you like surprises, well this will be easy to get a surprise.....All you have to do is to be one of the three people to leave a comment on this blog post will receive a surprise!

To sum it up this is what you do: leave a comment on this post and then email me your snail mail address to: mduncan3336@gmail.com

Don'tcha just love a surprise????

This Happy Heart set is one of my favorite sets from Stampin Up. The sprinkles background hearts are also so cute. Needed a generic valentine to send out to my kiddos so thought this would do the trick. Hope you like it.

If you are following my blog you know that our dear friend is suffering from cancer...we are praying that he becomes a miracle and can make it to his daughters wedding in June, however, I just found out that he has now broken vertabraes in his back, has pneumonia and is in the hospital. The doctors told his wife to call their daughter home from South Carolina, so this is not a good sign. Obviously, this means he most likely will never be able to go back to his medical practice which he had wanted to do so much. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE lift Chris and his family up in prayer and pray for a miracle for all of them!