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Luck O'

2012-03-09T04:00:00.004-06:00

Luck O' - It is time for another challenge at Alphabet Challenge Blog. This fortnight we are on C - for Celebrate St Patrick's Day!

St Patrick's Day is just around corner. I hope none of you have your pincers out. LOL

For my card, I used a new designer paper pack by DCWV. It is called Painted Petals and it has the most yummy colors in it. I have used the green and yellow palette today. I love that the green has some blue-greens in it. I inked the edges with Iced Spruce distressed ink. It is difficult to see.

My image is Saturated Canary's, Nevaeh. Something about her pose made me think about an Irish river dancer. Nevaeh is colored with Copics and I added a tiny bit of Stickles to her dress to represent little beads that would catch the light as she danced. The image is cut and embossed with a Spellbinders.

My ribbon is from my stash, as is the shamrock. My sentiment is Paper Studio. If you are a follower of mine, then you know that I have really been into stick pins lately, so you will not be surprised that I have used another stick pin. I get a lot of my stick pin supplies from Judy at Pizzazz Aplenty. Judy is having knee replacement surgery and I hope everything went well for her. Her prices are unbelievable, so give her a little bit of time to heal, then shop her store! And of course, please join us at Alphabet Challenge Blog in our Celebration of St Patrick's day!

Sketchy Challenges # 18 Sketch
Paper Sundaes #110 Green or Good Luck
The Pink Elephant Challenge #138 3 or more layers
Craft Your Passion Challenges #99 Anything goes
Paper Take Weekly #69 Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter #54 Anything Goes
C Inspirations #153 Green and white only
Crafting For All Seasons #22 Green and Yellow
Divas By Design Challenge #26 Favorite Things - Saturated Canary images, Copics, Stickles, and DP
Do You Stack Up #62 Go Green

Sketchy Jaden

2012-03-05T00:02:00.008-06:00

Sketchy Jaden - One project and two teams!!! Yep, today Seems a Little Sketchy and Sew Many Challenges teamed up to bring you 2 chances to win using 1 sketch.

We have 2 sponsors for this challenge, Sew Many Cards for both Sew Many Challenges and Seems a Little Sketchy and Pizzazz APlenty also for Seems a Little Sketchy.

Sew Many Cards has the most delightful images and Pizzazz Aplenty has supplies for bead making at the best prices around. She even ships internationally.

My image is Sew Many Card's, Jaden with butterfly. I have colored him several times, as he is a favorite on mine.

Here is the sketch. Isn't it lovely? Jen from Seems a Little Sketchy designs all of the sketches for Seems a Little Sketchy and she always does such a nice job.

For my card, I used Pressed Petals, Little Safari designer papers. My gemstone swirl is Want 2 Scrap.

Many of my stick pin beads are from Pizzazz Aplenty. I participated in a stick pin swap and I have become quite addicted to making them. And with the prices being so good at Pizzazz Aplenty, I can feed my addiction and my husband will testify that I do feed it quite frequently.

My ribbon is also from Pizzazz Aplenty. This shade is called goldenrod and I love the depth of the color

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #20 Spring
Flutter By Wednesdays # 192 Open - Butterfly
Diva's by Design #24 Spots
Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #154 Springtime, Bling, and Ribbon
Paper Play Challenges #9 Something old, Something New - old Image, new way of doing ribbon and type of stick pin
Cute Card Thursday #206 Signs of spring
Crafts 4 Eternity #61 Digital
All Sorts Challenge #144 Spread your wings - Butterfly
Color-me-classroom #38 Fuzzy Wuzzy Animals
Stampin Sisters in Christ #129 Spread Your Wings

Tweet, Tweet

2012-03-03T03:00:00.007-06:00

Tweet, Tweet - Mother's Day already, well actually they celebrate Mother's day early than we do in England. I am the lone Yank (LOL) on Craft Your Days Away, so it is time to do Mother's Day cards. Plus it is always good to be early on our card making.

My DP is Basic Gray's, Cappella. Everything was inked with Forest Moss distress inks. I had some brown lace in my stash, so used it.

My flower is a stem that I trimmed off a bush. I recently bought Spellbinders foliage dies and this was my first chance to use it. I love how it embosses. I recently did a pin swap and this was one of the pins that I made for the love theme swap. The bow was tied with a Bow Easy.

We are sponsored by Meljens and she provided us with this sweet little bird and cage. I colored it with Copics and Spica's. I added Stickles to the leaves and birds wing. The image is cut with Stampin Ups Framelits.

Thanks for stopping by and please visit Meljen our sponsor.

Sketch and Stash Challenge #82 Sketch
Shopping Our Stash #41 Sentiment required - Happy Mother's Day
Ribbon Carousel Challenge #42 Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday #71 Stitching - on ribbon
C Inspirations #152 Anything goes
Simon Says Stamps Challenge # Anything
Lil Red Wagon #122 Vintage
Little Darlings Challenges #18 Pearls
Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #154 Tic Tac Toe Flowers-Bling-Distressing
Do You Stack Up #61 Winged Things

No Mornings, Please

2012-02-28T00:02:00.006-06:00

No Mornings, Please - This fortnight at Creative Card Crew, we are challenging everyone to make us laugh. We are sponsored by the delightful Bugaboo Stamps. I love their images. They are home to Stella and Gus, who are an old couple who are always snapping at each other. And that is just one of their characters.

I chose Crabby Cathy to work with and if you know me, you know that I am not a morning person. I am slow going and only half awake for about the first hour. Now at night, I am at my best. Luckily for our children, my husband is a morning person and my, what a crap he is at night. He always drove the kids to morning events and I had the late night pick-ups. It worked for us. LOL

Now back to my card. My DP is My Mind's Eye Twinkle, little star. I bought it to make my grandson's baby album, but I have also enjoyed the soft blues and dark browns for other things as well.

My Rosetta is a Sizzix die. After cutting and folding it, I added a brown wire that I wrapped around a paintbrush to spiral. I also played around with a ribbon until I was happy with it.

This is the sentiment that comes with the Bugaboo image.

Here is Crabby Cathy colored with Copic's. Don't you just love her bushy hair?

Card Patterns #154 Sketch
Paper Sundaes #109 Circles - Rosetta
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges Ribbon and bling - The paper has glitter in it. I know that it is hard to see.
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge # 121 I spy B - Blue, Brown, Bushy Hair
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards # 2 Drink it up
All Sorts Challenge # 143 Anything Goes

Punchy Duck

2012-02-27T00:01:00.005-06:00

Punchy Duck - Ah oh! Duncan is getting rained on, but he doesn't mind. Just look at his fun umbrella. I wish I had an umbrella that made such a fashion statement.

My design papers and twill ribbon are from Autumn Leaves, foof-a-la Summer page kit. I really like the paper, but unfortunately very little of it shows. The DP was inked with brick red distress inks. As was the image. I used a MS punch around the page set.

Here is a close-up of Sew Many Cards, Duncan. He is colored with Copic's. I used Judykins Diamond Glaze, then poured an ultra fine glitter on the rain and puddle. Next time I will make sure that I have a thinner layer of Diamond Glaze. But it would have been perfect if I had been trying to get the puddle to look frozen.

My flowers are a stem that I cut off and tied with a narrow ribbon.

The challenge at Sew Many Challenges is Punches, do come on and get punchy with us.

Just for Fun

2012-02-24T04:00:00.003-06:00

Just for Fun - The challenge at Alphabet Challenge Blog this fortnight is B for Bugs. I made this clean and simple card for it.

I used a MS punch to make the bottom border. I then added this pearlized designer paper. It is double sided, so I used the solid on the inside of the card; as I wanted it to show through the punched area. The flowered side I used on the front.

My sentiment and dragonfly image are from the same Stampendous set. I used my purple Spica pen on the heart shaped antenna.

I was recently inspired to use my chalks, so I drug then out from there hiding place and chalked the color on the dragonfly. I then added gemstones to the dots on the image to give it some bling.

I hope I have inspired you to join us at Alphabet Challenge Blog and show us your bugs!

I am entering my buggy card in the following challenges:
The Paper Shelter #52 Sparkly
Crafts and Me Challenges #72 colors of spring
Cute Card Thursday #205 Winged Things

Owl Thanks

2012-02-20T00:03:00.007-06:00

Owl Thanks - We are back for another challenge at Sew Many Challenges. Don't you just love that name Sew Many Challenges? It is the challenge site for Sew Many Cards digi images. Angela is the creative artist behind the images.

For my card, I used Stampin up's paper. I tried to find the name of the paper, but it is not on the package. I roughed up all the paper with my Tim Holtz distressing tool. I also inked the DP with Tea Dye distress ink prior to using the distressing tool. I used a MS punch for the blue border and I used stampin ups fancy label punch for the tabs. I also roughed up the tabs a little then added 2 flower brads.
My "leaves" are feathers that came in this Olive color. My flower is a stem that I plucked and added a rose to the center.

My image is Sew Many Cards Oliver. I have done him quite a few times, but I love this image so much that I just keep using him. My favorite was when I colored him as a snow owl.

Our challenge for this week at Sew Many Challenges is 2 designers paper plus 4 gems. I had finished my card and had completely forgotten the gemstone, so I had to go back and add them. LOL Sometimes I just so into my project and creating, that I forget all about the challenge that I am making it for. I am just glad that this was one that I could easily add the challenge component. I have had to make a completely new project a few times.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Flutter By Wednesdays #190 Anything with wings
Crafts and Me Challenges #71 Distressed
Divas by Design Challenge #22 Wings and Things
Truly Scrumptious Challenge # All Creatures Great and Small
Dutch Dare - Card Challenges #152 Distressing
Paper Play Challenges #7 Critters
Southern girls Challenge #38 Distressed
Stamp With Fun #149 Shapes - Square

Whispers of Love

2012-02-20T00:01:00.010-06:00

Whispers of Love - Good Morning crafty friends! Today starts another challenge at Seems a Little Sketchy. Just take a look at this challenges yummy sketch. Isn't it a great one?

For my DP I chose Glitz Pack Afternoon Muse. I love the soft colors in this palette.

My image is Saturated Canary. I just love Krista's images. They are such beauty's. I colored her with Copics and I added Stickles only on the dove's heart and on her buttons.

I cut the image with my new Stampin Up framelits using the hang off method. I then popped it up on dimensionals.

My brads are Stampin up also. My flower is a piece of ribbon trim. I have really gotten into stick pins lately and this in one of my creations. I get a lot of my bead supplies from Pizzazz Aplenty. Judy runs it and she is just wonderful. Her prices are dirt cheap and she does ship internationally.

Our sketch is sponsored by Di's Digi Doodles and The Robyn's Nest.

I am entering this card in the following Challenges:
Stampin Sisters in Christ #127 Flowers
Corrosive Challenges by Janet #143 Dimension
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges Ribbon and Bling - Stick pin
Shopping Our Stash #39 Metal - Brads
Flutter By Wednesdays #190 Anything with wings - dove
Divas By Design Challenge #22 Wings and Things - Dove
Cute Card Thursday #204 flower power
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #120 My Favorite Things - Stick pins, Copics, Saturated Canary images
All Sorts Challenge #142 Anything Goes
Just Us Girls Challenge #124 Pink, Green, Yellow and Teal

Under the Sea

2012-02-18T03:00:00.008-06:00

Under the Sea - It is time for another great challenge at Craft Your Days Away. So what is the challenge this time? It is paper piecing. I like paper piecing, but I don't do it very often.

For those who don't know how to do paper piecing; you stamp your image twice. Once on white to color on and again on your DP. You then cut out the part that you want from your DP and glue it on the white. You then color only the shading on the DP part and color the rest normally.

My DP is DCWV All Occasion.

My image is The Greetings Farm mermaid. She is one of the first images that I bought to pratice with my Copics. She is so simple for beginners, but still fun to color even now. She is colored with Copic's and I added Stickle to the ruffle on her fins and gemstones to her hair.

The cute little turtle and fish are CB dies that have a matching embossing folder.

My punch is MS and I added a stick pin to the ribbon. I have been making a lot of stick pins lately. I just participated in a stick pin swap at CDAC. It has been so much fun and I can't wait to get my pins in the mail. We will be starting another swap soon, so if you would like to join us. Sign up at CDAC and look under All Gallery's. It is free to join CDAC and there is a lot to do there.

We are all hoping that you will join us at Craft Your Days Away in our paper piecing challenge which is sponsored by One Stop Card Crafts. But even if you don't play along, you have to see the bendy card that my team mate Donna made. The design is quite unique and very beautiful.

Sketch and Stash Challenge #81 Sketch
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges Ribbon and Bling
Top Tip Tuesday #69 Mystical, Magical and Fantasy
Do You Stack Up #59 Layers
Totally Paper Crafts #104 Ribbon and Bow
Phindy's Place Challenge #93 Bling
If the Shoe Fits... Scrap it #99 Anything Goes

Twitterpaitted

2012-02-14T00:01:00.007-06:00

Twitterpaitted - Male cards are hard for me to do. I love pink and flowers and glitter. So this fortnights challenge at Creative Card Crew of masculine cards, was hard for me.

I finely sat down and thought about what would my husband like in a Valentine's card. Not what I wanted to give him, but what does he really like. Then I thought about how much he loves the outdoors and probably his all time favorite gift that I have given him was a book that made bird calls. He used to sit out on our balcony at our apartment that overlooked a wildlife preserve. He would have the book make the calls and wait for the birds to come and return the calls.

This card combines his love of birds and my homework assignment from my Copic's class, which was to color bird feathers.

My DP is Glitz Pack Afternoon Muse. Glitz paper pack and other delights to go with it are available at our Sponsor Simon Says Stamp. They are just back from CHA and are getting in loads of new stuff, so now is a great time to browse their site.

My sentiment was created by me. My husband liked to imatate some of the lines from Bambi when we first met, so he will totally get this sentiment. I punched the sentiment with my new punch from stampin up. I also punched a heart to go behind the sentiment with my Creative Memories heart punches.

My image is Designed to Delight. I colored it with Copics and fussy cut it. I framed it with Stampin Up framelits die. The punch border was a MS punch. Everything was inked with Black Soot distress inks. I used a button and twine as my only embellishment. I don't normally use kraft, but I like the rustic look of it with the twine.

Card Patterns # 152 Sketch
Paper Lovin Gals #16 Photo inspired
Charima Cardz #5 Things With Wings
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #119 Valentines
Simply Create Too #Red Hot
Fussy and Fancy Challenge #56 Love
Totally Gorjuss #118 Love
All Sorts Challenge #141 Free and Easy
Stampin Sister in Christ #126 Show Joy

Toga's Party

2012-02-13T00:01:00.013-06:00

Toga's Party - Don't you just love this little party animal? This card makes me feel cheerful and ready to attend a birthday party.

If you are here for the hop and you came from Deanette's awesome blog, then you are on track.

We are showcasing the new release by Sew Many Cards. I was given Toga's birthday to work with. Isn't he the cutest? When you buy this image, you get it in black lines AND in fully colored as well. It also comes with the colored images in pieces, so that you can paper piece it and get all those wonderful layers.

One lucky person who leaves a comment on my post will receive this image for their very own. Doesn't that sound great?

Now for the details of my card. My DP is MME's Kaleidoscope. I love the yummy colors! I have had this pad for about 7 years. Even though I have used it alot, I still have a lot of it left, so it is a good thing that I like it so much.

The challenge this week is buttons, so I have used 3 on my card.

Toga with this delightful ladybug, is colored with Copic's and I uses Stickles on the gift bows, the ladybugs spots and the center of the turtles flowers. My sentiment is Hot Off the Press.

My second card uses this months 1/2 off image. It is Duncan holding Letter. You can get it at Sew Many Cards.

I used a scrap piece of paper and I have no idea who makes it. I used a couple of flower shaped eyelet. My heart border is a MS punch. The heart I cut with my Cricut. I added some baker's twine to the card. Everything was distress with Ranger's Worn Lipstick distress inks.

Duncan is colored with Copic's and I added Stickles to Duncans heart on his shirt and envolope. I also added some Stickles to the die cut heart.

Next on the hop is Audrey. So leave a comment here, then head over to Audrey's blog.

I am entering my Toga Turtle card in the following challenges:

D econstucting Jen #38Sketch
Crafts and Me Challenge s # 70 Use a new Image

I am entering my Duncan card in the Following challenges:

Graphicat Sketches #1 Sketch
The Paper Shelter #50 Love
C Inspirations #145 Lots of Love
For Fun Challenges #Love
My Mums Craft Shop Challenges #43 Must be Love
Fab n Funky Challenges #107 Love is in the air
4 Crafty Chicks #76 Love
Paper Play Challenges #6 Love Letters
Do You Stack Up #58 Love
Cute Card Thursday #203 Pink Valentine

Love Bubbles

2012-02-10T10:00:00.006-06:00

Love Bubbles - A is for Animal Antics is the challenge this fortnight at Alphabet Challenge Blog. Since our last challenge was Z for Zoo Animals, I thought I would go for a domesticated animal this time.

My DP is Making Memories, Noteworthy Audrey. I used a MS punch on the border.

If you look carefully under the MS punch butterfly, you will see the pale pink tulle that I used over the DP

My sentiment is Hot off the Press, which I placed on a nesting Creative Memories heart punch. I lined the pink heart with Cinnamon Stickles.

My image is Bubble Fun by Wags 'n Whiskers. I colored my image with Copic's then I added some Stickles to the girls dress and her hair barrette. I added some Judykins Diamond Glaze on the bubbles and the little girls shoes.

I used more of the tulle on my flower spray. All flowers in the spray were cut from stems.

I would love to see an animal that you create and join in our challenge at Alphabet Challenge Blog.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Stampin Sisters in Christ #125 Show that Love
Sunday Sketch and Stamp #92 Sketch
Shopping Our Stash #38 Hearts
Paper Take Weekly #65 Anything Goes
Anything Challenge #60 Bingo - 2 or more stamped images, Your Choice (flowers,) Punch
Simon Says Stamps Challenge Love is in the air
Crafting for all Seasons #20 Love is in the air
Divasbydesignchallenge #21 Love is in the air
Little Darlings Challenges #16 Favorite Embellishment - Flowers
Moving Along With the Times #135 Cute Critters

Be Mine

2012-02-06T00:14:00.011-06:00

Be Mine - It's time for another challenge with Seems a Little Sketchy. Just take a look at this beauty below. Isn't it an awesome sketch?

The pink/red DP is Girlfreinds Damask by Tayor for Daisyd's. The pink polka dots are from a block that I bought eons ago that the cover is missing from, so I don't know who makes it. All papers are inked with Ranger's Victorian Velvet ink. The ribbon was also from my stash.

This adorable little girl is of Lucy Valentines Girl by Robyn's Fetish. Isn't she the cutest? Lucy is colored with Copic's.

We are also sponsored by the fabulous Pizzazz Aplenty!!! I have really gotten into the stick pins and Judy at Pizzazz Aplenty has the best prices around for supplies. Check them out and I am sure that you will agree.

The flowers were cut using my Cricut and the Flower Shoppe cartridge. The centers are from a bush that I pulled off.

Now it is time for you to get a little sketchy with us!
Stampin Sisters in Christ #125 Show that Love
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #150 Red, Pink and white
Moving Along With the Times #134 Have a Heart
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #118 Pink and White
Card Makin Mamas #Valentine
Mami Doodles #42 For a loved one
One Stop Craft Challenge #168 For the one I love
Color Me Classroom red/pink/white
The Pink Elephant Challenge #124 Pink
Stamp With Fun #146 Love

Toga's Birthday

2012-02-06T00:01:00.011-06:00

Toga's Birthday - How do you like my brightly colored card? There is a sweet little girl who stays with my daughter sometimes who loves turtles. I made this card with her in mind.

My DP is K & Company's, Berry Sweet. K & Company is my very favorite paper company. I love bright colors and they do bright very well.

My sentiment is Hot off the Press. My punch is EK Success. I love that it is candles. So perfect for a birthday card.

Togo is by Sew Many Cards and you can get it here. I colored Toga with Copic's and I added Stickles to his pom pom and on the flame for the candles.

The challenge at Sew Many Challenges is Birthday and we hope that all of you will join us in this fun and easy challenge!

Deconstructing Jen #37 Sketch
Birthday Sundaes # 42 Birthday wording
Simon Says Stamps Challenge Animal Antics
Fab N Funky Challenges #106 Use a digi
Divas by Design Challenge #20 Anything Goes
Do You Stack Up #57 Anything Goes

Raining Down Love

2012-02-04T03:00:00.008-06:00

Raining Down Love - For today's card I used this sweet little Tilda image. She has been in my stash for over a year, but this is the first time that I have inked her. I colored Tilda with Copics and added Stickles to her bodice and the lace pattern on the umbrella. I also added some Diamond Glaze to her boots.

Our challenge at Craft Your Days Away is stitching. This is faux stitching and not real stitching.I punched holes on the image with a paper piercer and then drew the lines using a fine tip pen and a ruler.

My DP is K & Company Ancestry. I love the depth of the creams and browns and I adore the blue-green in it. I inked everything with Ranger's Tea Dye distress inks.

My flowers are recycled. I wore them in my hair for my daughters wedding. I added a double bow that was tied with my Bow Easy. I love adding ribbon to cards and if you don't have a Bow Easy I highly recommend one. They are available at our sponsor, Pretty Little Ribbon Shoppe.

I thought it would be fun to have it raining hearts from a heart shaped cloud. The scrolled heart was cut using my Cricut and the Straight from the Nest cartridge. The tiny hearts were punched.
Stamp With Fun Sketch
Cupcake Craft Challenges #177 Recycle
Shopping Our Stash #37 People
Top Tip Tuesday # To the one I love
Creative Craft Challenges 2 Bingo Ribbon - Brown - Flowers
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #18 I love you
The Paper Shelter #49 Love is in the air
Truly Scrumptious Challenge #73 Love and Hearts
Just Magnolia # anything goes
Fairytale-Challenge Blog # Love, Love, Love

Purple Fantasy

2012-01-31T00:03:00.003-06:00

Purple Fantasy - Michelle Perkett is sponsoring us at Creative Card Crew and it gave me a chance to color one of her images again. I had forgotten how lovey and fun to color they are. Michelle is giving one lucky winner her Lily image. Lily was the top pick of my team. I have to admit that Lily is a joy to color.
My DP is from my scrap drawer. The card stock was embossed with a Quik Cuts folder and I made the pin. I have really gotten into pins lately. They are so easy to create and I love how light plays on them. The stick pin itself, I bought from our last fortnight challenge sponsor Pizzazz Aplenty. She has the best prices around. The corner scrolls were cut with CB corner die and glittered with a fine glitter.
The pansy I found flying loose around a craft store parking lot. It had been pulled loose and was just being whipped every which-way in the wind. I pulled the center our and replaces it with a sparkly brad and added the leaves and scrolled wire.
My image is Ashely by Michelle Perkett and she is colored with Copics. I added some fine glitter to her wings.
I am entering my card in the following challenges:
Divas By Design Challenge #19 Sketch
Stampin Sisters in Christ #124 My true style Mine is girly with glitter.
4 Crafty Chicks #74 Pins
Do You Stack Up #56 ribbons
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #117 Things with wings
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #170 ribbons

Pastel Love

2012-01-30T00:01:00.004-06:00

Pastel Love - This weeks challenge at Sew Many Challenges is yellow, pink and turquise. I used Sew Many Cards super sweet Bear in the Spring.

My DP is proably a single sheet that I bought eons ago. There is no brand or name on it, so I have no clue as to who made it.

My image is colored with Copics. I added some raspberry fizz ultra fine flower soft on the flower centers, the added some ultra fine glitter on the flowers.

The hearts were punched with Creative Memories heart punches and embossed woth CB script embossing folder. I then added more of the ultra fine glitter to it. The other pink cardstock was embossed with another CB folder with flowers.

The blue card stock was embossed with the same CB folder as the pink. The yellow cardstock came embossed with the tiny tri of dots. The butterfly was punched with a MS punch.

Everything was inked with Victorian velvet distress inks and I used a yellow Viva Decor pearl pen on the butterfly and the 3 corner pearls.

Come and play with us at Sew Many Challenges!!!!

Deconstructing Jen 36 Sketch

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #149 Pearls or Diamons - pearls

Corrosive Challenges by Janet # 141 I heart you

Flutter by Wednesdays #187 Embossing

My Mums Craft Shop Challenges #41 Flowers

Moving Along With the Times #133 Marvolous Blooms

Card Makin Mamas # Something old - My DP is definetly old, but as is everything. I have had everything that I used for more than a year with the exception of the Viva Decor yellow pearl pen.

Stampin for the Weekend # Embossing

Crazy 4 Challenges #121 Layer it on

All Sorts Challenge # 138 1 or more hearts

Z = Zoo Animals

2012-01-27T04:03:00.002-06:00

Z = Zoo Animals - Wohoo!!! I made the team at Alphabet Challenge Blog! I am super excited about this. It is really fun to play around with the alphabet.

I get to start at the end with Z and for this time around Z is for Zoo Animals.

My DP is Safari by The Paper Studio. Everything is inked with Ranger's Vintage Photo. My sentiment is Studio G.

I had bought this super cute giraffe image from Designed To Delight and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to use it.

The giraffes are colored with Copics and I added a tiny valentine bow to the girl giraffe's head.

Sunday Sketch and Stamp #90 Sketch
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #148 Seeing Spots
Corrosive Challenges by Janet # 141 I heart you
Cupcake Craft Challenges # 176 All you need is love
Anything Challenge # 59 To the one I love
Simon Says Stamps Challenge # Anything Goes

Harley

2012-01-23T00:02:00.013-06:00

Harley - Hello Friends!! Sew Many Challenges has changed to Mondays and I have a card for you. Today's challenge is Circles. Do you see all the circles in my DP? How about in the pink, which is also a circle. I used CB Tiny Bubbles embossing folder.
My flowers are all cut from stems. The bow was tied using my Bow Easy.
Did you notice the 3 gemstones? More circles!

My image is Sew Many Cards, Harley. Isn't he a fun image? I colored Harley with Copics, then used a white poster paint pen to make the air bubbles on the water.

Come join us at Sew Many Challenges. You don't have to use a Sew Many Cards image, but they sure have some cute ones.

Simon Says Stamps Challenge Sketch
Papertake Weekly Buttons, bows, bling and Blooms
Truly Scrumptious Challenge #72 Forgotten Stash - Everything was from my stash
Stampin For the Weekend #24 Out the the old - Everything was from my stash
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #148 Seeing Spots

Heart Breaker

2012-01-23T00:01:00.011-06:00

Heart Breaker - It is time for another challenge at Seems A Little Sketchy. Just take a look at the below sketch. Isn't is a great one for the upcoming Valentine holiday!! It is pink, so of course it caught my eye!!!

We are sponsored by Stamping Dragon. This is a new digi company for me. I love the image that they gave me to work with. Isn't she delightful? She is so pretty, but a bit naughty in her lingerie.

My image is called Fairy Hearts and is colored with Copic's. I added some Stickles to her wings. After all, a fairy needs sparkly wings. LOL

My DP is Paper Pizazz's Soft purple Ferns. I used Cuttlebug's fern for the embossing. The flower is Petaloo. The ribbon has been in my stash forever and was tied using my Bow Easy.

Come and get Sketchy with us at Seems a Little Sketchy!

Crafty Creations Challenges #153 Valentines Day
Moving Along With The Times #132 Things with Wings
Chocolate Coffee Cards #4 Glitter - On the wings and flower
Simply Create Too #5 Love is in the Air
Corrosive Challenges by Janet #141 Love is in the Air
Cupcake Craft Challenges #176 All you need is love

You Rock

2012-01-21T03:01:00.004-06:00

You Rock - Looking for high adventure? Or would you be distressed? I would be distressed or distressing and that is our challenge at Craft Your Days Away this fortnight. Distressing. You can ink or tear distress and I choose ink distressing. I used Ranger's Vintage photo.

My DP is SEI's Windsor. It is a simple card as the only other thing that I added was ribbon.

My image is Bugaboo's AKVS Rock Climbing. This image is actually only one climber. I wasn't sure which way I wanted the climber to face, and as I was flipping it I kind of liked it and so printed it that way. I like the 2 guys together. After all you should never go rock climbing alone. LOL

My image was colored with Copics and I added some Polar White flower soft.

Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog #36 Sketch
Anything Goes #58 Anything Goes
Do You Stack Up #55 Patterned Paper

Seeing Red

2012-01-17T12:01:00.006-06:00

Seeing Red - I am participating in a swap at CDAC that is to make stick pins with a Love theme. This is my swap. We had to make 6 sets of 3 stick pins and then package them, so as to be a little gift for the 6 in our group. These are so fun to do. I love how romantic these pins can be. You can be looking in the months to come, all the lovely pins that I will soon be receiving.

The challenge at Creative Card Crew is Seeing Red, so I thought these stick pins would be perfect for my DT project. We are sponsored by Pizzazz Aplenty who has the most amazing prices for stick pins. I bought most of my stick pin supplies from Pizzazz Aplenty and was amazed by all that I received.

Here is the front of my pin holder. I cut the little booklet from the Damask Decor Cricut cartridge. I then went around the image with a gold pen. This was very time consuming, but I think well worth the effort. I then added the gemstones.

Here is a shot of my pins. On the left pin, I used a crytsal stick pin, that was colored with a gold Copic. Do you notice the rhinstone spacer? Those came from Judy at Pizzazz Aplenty. I bought only 2 packages and I used every one of them between this swap and my Christmas gifts to my scrapbooking buddies. I will soon be ordering more of these. LOL

The middle stick used a silver pin and heart. They were also from Judy, as was the crakled bead.

The right stick pin used another of Judy's pin, the red crystal ones. The red bead was also from Judy's shop.

You can see that I am a very loyal customer of Judy's and I am sure that you will be too, once you see her prices.

To make the beads all you do is put them on the pins, then use Glossy Accents as your glue to hold them in place. Warning: these are very addictive!!!!! LOL

I wrapped my ribbon around my card, then tied bows in my ribbon using my Bow Easy.
I hope that you will also be seeing red and join in our challenge at Creative Card Crew.

The Play Date Cafe #114 Burgundy and Gold
CES Challenges #68 Vintage
Our Daily Bread Designs #Beginning with 3 letters from WINTER W=white, I=gold Ink, R= Red and ribbon
Paper Sundaes #103 Any past challenge #96 Beautiful Bows

Reasonable Ribbon #40 Valentine's Day

I Wuv You

2012-01-16T00:01:00.009-06:00

I Wuv You - Sew Many Challenges started back up today and we are all so excited to get back into crafting.

This little Duncan image is one of the new releases for the 2012 Valentine season. Duncan is a favorite critter of many of our loyal fans and I was thrilled to have him assigned to me. I first colored him in teal to match my DP, but to say that it didn't turn out well is an understatement. I much happier coloring in traditional baby duck colors. But I will be trying it again soon, as it is now a challenge for me. LOL

My DP is Magic Scraps Beach pack and kraft cardstock. I added a few tiny eyelets, embossed the corner pieces with CB houndtooth folder and distressed everything in Ranger's Blue Jean ink.

You can get my Duncan image here.

My second card is a critter that is new to Sew Many Cards. Introducing ... Eddie!

Eddie was added to the Sew Many Cards line to help with a EDS (Ehler's-Danlo Syndrome) quest for the cure for Stryder. Stryder's story is a touching one and you can read about his journey here. Purple is the color for his ribbon.

My DP is a scrap that has been in my scrap drawer for quite a while. I no longer remember which paper company made it. I used my new MS punches to make the frame and I used a piece of scrap ribbon.

Eddie is colored with Copic's and I added some Stickles to the dragonfly's wings and the ribbon on Eddie. I also used some Diamond Glaze on Eddie's eyes to make them shiny.

Eddie is free with any purchase at Sew Many Cards starting on the 16th and ending on the 19th. So get 2 cute images for the price of one and help with the quest for the cure!

I am entering my Duncan with Heart card in the following challenges:
Here Come the Boys #18 Sketch

Simon Says Stamps Challenge Spots and/or stripes

For Fun Challenges Anything Goes

Dutchdare-Card Challenges #147 For the Boys

Moving Along With the Times #130 Spots and Stripes

Totally Paper Crafts #99 Spots and Stripes

Simply Create Too #4 Layers, Layers and Layers

My Eddie card is entered in the following challenges:

Card Patterns #148 Sketch

Corrosive Challenges by Janet #140 Ring in the NEW year (Eddie is a new critter and the MS punchs I got just a few days ago.

Crafty Creations Challenges #152 Something New (New critter and MS punches)

Meljens Designs DT #92 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #115 Use something new (New Critter and MS punches)

Phindys Place Challenge #88 Tic-Tac-Toe - Pearls, Ribbon and Flowers

Fairytale-Challenge Blog #32 Something new (New Critter and MS punches)

Stampin For the Weekend #24 Out with the old - all of the paper and ribbon cam from my scraps. Seems funny the the same card is old and new at the same time

Stampin Sisters in Christ #122 Something new (New Critter and MS punches)

Are You Ready For Some Football?

2012-01-09T00:01:00.011-06:00

Are You Ready For Some Football? - Seems a Little Sketchy is sponsored this challenge by Crafty Sentiments . Here is the sketch. Isn't is a fun one?

This adorable image is Crafty Sentiments "Charles Bear Lets Play." My sentiment is also by Crafty Sentiments. My DP is Little Yellow Bicycles' Love Letters. I cut the helmet with my Cricut using Sports Mania and inked everything with Ranger's Black Soot ink. I have had the Sports Mania cartridge but this is the first time that I used it.

I colored the image with Copics. I am taking Copic classes with Suzanne Dean and one of our class assignments was to color an image using the dotting techinque to make the image look soft and cuddly with some texture. This was the one that I did for the class. If you look at my post below this you will see that I used the same techique, but this is the image that I first colored with this technique.

Simon Says Stamps Challenge Something new

For Fun Challenges New

My Mums Craft Shop Challenges #38 Something new

Cute Card Thursday #198 What's New

Ces Challenges #67 anything goes

Birthday Sundaes #38 Birthday Sentiment with new

Corrosive Challenges by Janet #140 Ring in the NEW year

Bubbly

2012-01-07T03:00:00.006-06:00

Bubbly - I have seen so many white on white cards and finally I took the plunge and tried it! I love how it came out.

The challenge at Craft Your Days Away is "New Beginnings." This card could be used for a wedding or a celebration of any kind, such as a new job, not to mention New Years.

I used the sketch from Chocolate, Coffee and Cards.

We are sponsored by Stamp Fairy and they let me play with one of their images. I colored the image with Copics and added Stickles to the tie and bubbles. I also used Diamond Glaze on the goblet and the Bear's nose.

I used 3 little flower buds that I cut off a stem then added lots of Stickles to make them sparkly.My DP is a free down loadable from Gina K. I used the canvas. I love the EK Success punch that I used then added some tiny gemstones. I used a scrap of white embossed paper and inked everything with Tea Dye ink. My flower is a fabric trim that I centered a pearl in and added Stickles on it. I finished the flower off with a white feather and a small strand of pearls.

TIP: I store my gemstones in bead trays that I find in the jewery department in my local craft store. I really like the craftmates ones. I also store my brads and buttons in these.

What are you starting new this year?

Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards #3 Sketch

Craft Your Passion Challenges #91 Anything Goes and Distressing
The Ribbon Reel #18 photo inspired plus White, cream, grey, silver, black

Top Tip Tuesday #67 Anything Goes

Paper Take Weekly Anything Goes New

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #16 Lots of white

Alphabet Challenge Blog X = xtra Special Occasion

The Paper Shelter #45 Anything Goes

Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #146 New Beginnings

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #114 A new beginning

Eskimo Kisses

2012-01-03T00:01:00.013-06:00

Eskimo Kisses - The first challenge of the year at Creative Card Crew is "Snow Day." This is a nice easy challenge to ease us back to crafting after our busy holiday season.

This image made me think of my son and his wife, who are stationed in Alaska. Unfortunately Adam was deployed to Afghanistan and will not be there for his first Christmas since being stationed there. He returns in early winter in 2012, so we are all planning an Alaskan Christmas next year.

We are sponsored by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp. Simon Says Stamp has a huge stock of crafting supplies. They are our monthly sponsor and are giving a $20 gift voucher to one lucky winner.

My sketch is from Sketchy Colors. They are a site that I recently found. I really like that they have combined a color with the challenge and they give you a lot of time to do it. Their color challenge is different in that it is not a color combo that I would never use without the suggestion of their color challenge, but they are classic color combos that are really pretty together. As for this challenge is to pick one of their past color combos, I looked through all their past challenges and was delighted with each one of them. I choose the pink and turquoise.

My image is Siku and Shiya from Mo's digital pencil. I love Mo's images. The look on the faces of Mo's images are always heart warming. I view her as the Norman Rockwell of digi images.

My DP's are Wintry Christmas by Wild Rose Studio. I used some ribbon from my scrap ribbon jar and the snowflakes were punched with white and blue sugar paper, then topped with a gemstone.
Sketchy Colors # 98 for sketch and color combo #42 Pink and Turquoise

Fairy tale-challenge blog #31 something easy

Totally Gorjuss #112 Happy

Paper Sundaes #101 Something old (an image that I have had for a while) Something new (Designer Paper)

The Pink Elephant Challenge #129 Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel Challenge # Anything Goes

Reasonable Ribbon #39 Sparkle

Digital Tuesday Challenge #141 Winter Wonderland

Snowman

2011-12-26T00:02:00.011-06:00

Snowman - It is time for another challenge at Seems a Little Sketchy. This challenge is sponsored by Stretch N Bubbles and The Robin's Nest.

Here is the sketch for this fortnight. Jen does such a good job creating them. I love the yummy colors in this one. I love pink!
My image is by Stretch N Bubbles. He is such a cute snowman. I colored him with Copics and added some Stickles to the snowflakes and a little on the striped area of his scarf.

My DP is Tis the Season by DCWV. I added some snowflake eyelets in the upper left corner and a sugar paper snowflake and gemstone on the right side.

Come join in our sketch challenge and have fun!
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Bingo-Top Across-ribbon, gems, and sparkle
Dutch Dare - Card Challenges #144 Make it Shimmer
Southern Girls Challenge #34 Let's Celebrate! I think the snowman is celebrating the snow!
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge Anything Goes
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #144 Photo Inspired

2011-12-23T22:47:00.002-06:00

I finally have got my Christmas cards done, well almost. I still need to attach the image, and stuff the envelopes, But hey, it isn't Christmas Eve yet! I think I am starting a new tradition of sending out my cards on Christmas Eve.

For my card, I used an old paper pad by Colorbox. My image is a rubber stamp by Stampendous, that I colored with Copic's. I inked everything with gold ink and used a strip of ribbon. My star was punched with a Creative Memories punch.

Mojo Monday #220 Sketch
Stampin Sisters in Christ #120 The True Meaning of Christmas
Top Tip Tuesday #65 Anything Christmas
C Inspirations #143 Anything Goes
Crafts and Me Challenges #66 Anything Goes
My Mums Craft Shop Challenges #37 Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz #50 Anything Goes

Lamp Post

2011-12-20T00:01:00.007-06:00

Lamp Post - I so enjoyed coloring this lamp post image by Robyn's Fetish. I take online Copic classes from Suzanne Dean and she started session 5 that includes coloring Patina. It is a fun technique and so easy. This is only the second one that I have done. The first one, I really messed up the holly leaves, so I made a second attempt. I still did not master the hollies, so I hide them behind a bow.
I added some Stickles to the candle flame. The pine branches are a MS punch and I added 3 gemstones.

My DP is also Robyn's Fetish, who is our sponsor this fortnight at Creative Card Crew. It is digi paper and this was my first time to use digi paper. It was so easy to use and I liked that I could make the design as big or small as I wanted it. I also used some vellum. The paper was so pretty that I wanted to show it. I added Holly Stickles to the vellum. All of my papers were distressed with Vintage Photo Distress inks.

The poinsettia is a Heartfelt Creations stamp that was heat embossed by my wonderful friend Milly. I used my gold Viva Decor pearl pen in the center.

Our challenge at Creative Card Crew is Christmas lights. Hope you can join us.
Sketch Saturday #186 Sketch
Crafty Creations Challenges #148 Embossing and Glitter
Crafts and Me Challenges #65 Christmas
Crafting For All Seasons #16 Christmas
Divas By Design Challenge#17 Merry Christmas
Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #143 Bingo Pearls, embossing and distressing
4 Crafty Chicks #68 Christmas
Charisma Cardz #49 Last Minute Christmas
Simply Create Too #2 Embossing

Poinsettia Babe

2011-12-12T00:01:00.004-06:00

Poinsettia Babe - At Seems a Little Sketchy, our sponsor for this challenge is Delicious Doodles. The have some some awesome images. I chose Christina for this challenge because I still need Christmas cards, but I was very intrigued by the Medusa's daughter image, as well as the image of a dragon with eggs. I hope to get a change to work with them sometime in the near future.
Here is our sketch for this fortnight. Jenn does such a great job designing the sketches.

My DP is K & Company's Visions of Christmas. I distressed with Vintage Photo ink.
"Christina" is colored with Copic's and I used a gold Spica pen for the center of the poinsettias. I printed the image twice and colored and cut the poinsettias on the second image, so that I could pop it up. I did the same thing on the center poinsettia in her hair.

For my poinsettia, I cut 2 large and 1 small layer of the poinsettia from the Joy of the Season Cricut cartridge. I inked with Antique Linen and Forest Moss. Then I shaped with a little, stacked them, then added some beads to the center.

Lil Red Wagon #110 Vintage Christmas
ABC Christmas Challenge Y = Yippee -Anything
Divas By Design #16 Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday #194 Anything Goes
Meljens Designs DT #88 Use Green
Moving Along With The Times #122 Last Minute Christmas
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #112 Anything goes
Crafts 4 Eternity #49 Red, Green and Cream
Card Makin Mamas #35 Christmas

Snowman With Tree

2011-12-10T03:10:00.006-06:00

Snowman With Tree - Our finial challenge in 2011 at Craft Your Days Away is "Snowmen." I love coloring snowmen. So quick and easy when you don't have to color the whole image.

For my card, I used this cute little snowman image by Peachy Keen Stamps. My DP is K and Company "Let it Snow." Perfect for snowmen, right? It is double sided, so I used both sides of one piece of DP.
My image was colored with Copic's. B000, 00, 21, 24, 28, R20, 22, 24, 29, W1, 3, 5, 7, G 82, 12, 20. My image was then cut with a Spellbinders. Our sponsor, Simon Says Stamp carries a wide supply of crafting supplies to include Copic's and Spellbinders. They are a great place to get all of your supplies from. Everyone there is really nice and a dream to work with.
My pin is from a holiday pin swap that I participated in. I received some really pretty pins in that swap. I am doing another pin swap at CDAC. You have to be a member, but it is free to become one. Once there, go to swap central and you can sign up, too!

I also used a couple of punches and gemstones to make the sentiment embellishment. Sentiment is Dream Weavers.

You will have a whole month to enter this challenge, so get our your stash and Craft Your Days Away!

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge #66 Sketch
Paper Sundaes #98 Sundae Bar pick 2 Red, Stripes, Die
The Pink Elephant Challenge #128 Snowflakes and Sparkle
Top Tip Tuesday #63 Let it Snow
Paper Take Weekly Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog Let it Snow
C Inspirations #141 Snow Much Fun
Aud Sentiment Challenge Blog #43 More Winter Holiday Sentiments

The Nutcracker

2011-12-06T00:02:00.006-06:00

The Nutcracker - Tis the Season ...... is our challenge this fortnight at Creative Card Crew. What is it the season of, you ask. Well, for me, it is the season of watching the ballet - Nutcracker. I didn't take ballet as a child, but I did as an adult. I loved it!!!!!! They asked me if I wanted to be in the recital and I told them "Yes, I do." It was a bunch of 12 year old's and me. LOL

I had a wonderful time. The next year we had enough adults to do an adult tap and jazz class, plus another adult joined me and the 12 year old's in the ballet class. We did not do the nutcracker, but we had lovely dresses and I would have felt like a real ballerina; expect that I fell and broke my foot 2 weeks before the recital. I danced anyways - with the big, clunky boot!

My image is Sassy Designs and is colored with Copic's. I added Gemstones to the nutcracker's crown and Stickles to the dancer's bow, sash and blouse, which unfortunately, doesn't show in the photo much. I then fussy cut her.
My DP is Recollections, The Ballet. DP was inked with Ranger's distress inks in Forest Moss. Forest Moss is a little hard to find, but you can get it and many other crafting delights at our sponsor Simon Says Stamp.

My ribbon is MS, which I sprayed with Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist, then scrunched. After it was dry, I tied the bow with my Bow Easy. The big green gemstones are Making Memories. I also added 3 tiny pearls to the bottom left of the card. I made a pin with varies beads and stuck it in the bow.

What is Tis the Season for you?

Deconstructing Jen # 29 Sketch
Do You Stack UP #48 Ties
Meljens Designs DT #87 In spirited by a song - The nutcracker suite
Southern Girls Challenge #35 Ribbon Madness
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #111 Colors of Christmas with sparkle
Fairytale-Challenge Blog #29 Christmas
Chocolate Coffee Cards #1 Celebrate
Simply Create Too #1 All about Christmas
Mami Doodles # Make it shine
Fussy and Fancy Challenge #51 Photo inspired
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #163 Photo inspired
Crazy 4 Challenges #116 Christmas movie - The Nutcracker
Ribbon Girls # Christmas
Craft Your Passion Challenges # Glitter

Heels

2011-11-28T00:01:00.005-06:00

Heels - Today is the debut of the new sketch challenge blog Seems a Little Sketchy. I am so excited to be on this team. The sketch's are designed by Jenn of Triple J designs and I must say that they are really cute.

Our first sketch is sponsored by Bugaboo stamps! Really cute images! Quick and easy to color, just what we need for this busy holiday season.

Without further ado, here is our first sketch and this is a fortnight challenge, which means you have 2 weeks to work with this sketch. How awesome is that!

For my card, I used DCWV All Dressed Up paper pad, a cuttlebug folder, a ribbon that was tied with my Bow easy and a gemstone. I also used black leaf ribbon.
My image is Bugaboo's Heels with big bow image. I colored it with Copic's and added Stickles to the bow.
My flower started as plain white card stock, that I stamped a scenic stamp on and worked in Spun Sugar distress inks. I then cut the flower layer's with a Spellbinders die. After cutting, I misted and scrunched my flowers. After they were dry I curved with a paintbrush handle. Then stacked and put a glittered brad through all the layers.

Make sure you check out the Seems a Little Sketchy site and join us for our sketch challenge!

Southern Girls Challenge #32 Bingo - Die Cut, Gem and Ribbon also - Glitter, ribbon and embossing
Totally Gorjuss #108 Sparkle
Creative Craft Challenges 2 Free for all

India Tilda

2011-11-26T03:00:00.008-06:00

India Tilda - Recently, I was visiting my daughter and she has a friend from India. While her Friend dresses in western ware, her friends mother was visiting from India and her mother wore the tradition India dress everyday. I think they are so pretty and I love the bright colors. She also wore the red dot on the forehead. I really enjoyed hearing about the different customs and traditions of her culture.

I had this stamp of Tilda before my visit and I had stamped it to take with me on my trip, so I really wanted to color it up when I got home. I didn't end up with enough time there. I went to help out with my new grandson. I was there for 2 weeks, but with a new baby and a 2 year old, I was very busy.

My card is my DT card for Craft Your Days Away. Our challenge this fortnight is button and bow and we are sponsored by Crafty Emma's.

For my card I used K & Company, Berry Sweet DP. My punch is a MS.

I colored my Magnolia image with Copic's and added Stickles to the rick rack on her top and skirt. I used spring Flower Soft on the spray flowers on her arm.

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge #Sketch
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog C is for ...... Chartreuse
Moving Along With the Times Ribbons and Bows
Alphabet Challenge Blog V=Vibrant

Round Up

2011-11-25T00:04:00.007-06:00

Round Up - I have made this western themed card for this weeks challenge at Sew Many Challenges. Our challenge this week is to use twine on our projects. Well, twine just screams western to me. Do you see my little piece of twine wrapper around my sentiment?

Did you notice the spurs on my DP? It is Portobello Road by Recollections. I found this awesome pad a while back, but this is the first time that I have used it. It is all grays and browns; which is so nice for male cards. I distressed the edges with the distressing tool, then inked with Ranger's Gathered Twigs ink. The image is distressed with Fired Brick. My Sentiment is from The Paper Studio.
My image is from the Cowboy accessory pack by Sew Many Cards and colored with Copics.
My second card uses Sew Many Cards Christmas Letter image. It is a freebie! But it is available here only for a short time.
My 7 year old grandson made the DP. It is his real letter to Santa. We had been unable to get him to tell us what he wanted that was reasonable, then I thought to have him "help" me and it worked! Now I know what to get him!
This will be our last challenge of the year at Sew Many Challenges. We will return on January 6 all rested up!

Boot Card
Sunday Sketch and Stamp #82 Sketch
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #139 Boy O Boy
Cupcake Craft Challenges #169 Teen Boys
Crafts and Me Challenges #62 Shabby Chic/Vintage
Truly Scrumptious Challenges #70 Vintage
Dutch Dare - Card Challenges #40 recipe - image, DP, brads, and layers
Meljens Designs DT #86 Twine

Christmas Letter Card
Tuesday Morning Sketches #121 Sketch
Our Daily Bread Designs Blog Anything hanging
Lil Red Wagon Christmas Theme
Aud Sentiment Challenge Blog #42 Any winter sentiment - Dear Santa.

Treasures

2011-11-22T00:01:00.004-06:00

Treasures - Monochromatic is our challenge at Creative Card Crew this fortnight. I have used the Wise Men image from our sponsor Paper Pretties. They have such great images that it was hard to choose.

My DP is Hot Off The Press. It's an old Sarabook - Sapphire. What I love about the DP is that if you look closely at it, it has treasure written all over it. How cool is that with this image!

My punch is EK Success and I added a few gemstones to the lower left corner.

The image is colored with Copic's. It was fun to work with only one color family, then I added the gold to give it some pop. The sketched the rick-rack on the jug with a blue Spica pen.

I hoped you enjoyed seeing my card and I would love to see you join in our monochromatic challenge. It runs for 2 weeks, so you have a long time to get it in.

Phindys Place Challenge #82 Christmas Card
Christmas Blog Challenge # Cute Image
Stampin Sisters in Christ #116 "Praise"
Paper Sundaes #96 Beautiful bows
Divas By Design Challenge #15 Monochromatic
Deconstructing Jen #28 Sketch

Carousel Steps

2011-11-17T23:29:00.005-06:00

Carousel Steps - Today's challenge at Sew Many Challenges is stair step cards. This one is a side step card. If you don't know how to make one of these, there are some great tutorials on them. I went to many different ones; as I was making this card.

My DP is DCWV All Dressed Up. I love this color combo. The blue is such an awesome blue and I love the glitter in the paper. My sentiment is Hot Off the Press. I added 2 gemstones and two bows with pearls.
My image is Carousel Zee by Sew Many Cards. Angela is the creative artist behind Sew Many Cards. She has some really cute images.

Zee is colored with Copics and I added some Stickles to the canopy. The black swirls are a Studio G stamps and I used my black pearl pen by Viva Decor.
My second card uses the new dollar deal. This image of pies was so fun to color.

My DP is ARD All Through the Year. My punch is a MS. Stamp is Autumn Leaves and was cut with a Spell Binders.
I added some "sugar" to the top of the pies.

Stair Step Card:
Paper Sundaes #95 Digi Images
Do You Stack Up #46 Splash of Blue

Pie Card:
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #138 Punch It!
Anything Challenge #54 Food Related
The Play Date Cafe #108 Maroon, Copper, and Tumeric

Adam Got Me!

2011-11-12T15:35:00.003-06:00

Adam Got Me!! - My son, who lives in Alaska got me! LOL This blow-up Mickey has long been a standing joke in our family. When Adam was engaged to his now (what role did she have in this?) wife, they would often mention how tacky they thought these were. So guess what I gave them as a gift at their rehearsal dinner? They got married in June, 3 years ago, so you know I had long planned for that. LOL
They were visiting here from Alaska this week and I went out of town. Guess what I came home to in my front yard? Where are the culprits? Safely on a plane back to Alaska!!!!

Framed Sleigh

2011-11-12T03:00:00.008-06:00

Framed Sleigh - This fortnights challenge at Craft Your Days Away is embellishment Bingo. We are sponsored by the awesome Simon Says Stamp. The have the most wonderful crafty stuff on their site.

Take a look at this fabulous Bingo Card. I went from top right diagonally down to the bottom left. I used pins, Flowers, and gems.
My card is a framed card. My talented friend Milly makes these cards all the time and I thought I would give it a whirl. I used the George cartridge to cut the center of the frame. My Santa's sleigh was cut with the Christmas cartridge and the building were cut with Winter Wonderland.

My DP is K and Company's Visions of Christmas. My flowers are Prima's. The white centers are pulled off a stem. My 2 year old grandson was very enthusiastic in his helping to pull apart the stems!
For my pin, I used a variety of Bead Gallery beads. The camera did not capture the beauty of the blue/green hue of the big, center bead. It is quite lovely and looks like frozen ice. The crystal corsage pins were on clearance at Walmart about 2 years ago. I wish I could find more of them. They are my favorites!

My gemstones are Darcie.
Paper Take Weekly # Christmas
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog Vintage
Truly Scrumptious Challenges #69 Bingo - Gems, Flowers, and Die Cuts
Do You Stack Up #45 Song Inspired "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #138 Punches and Dies
Southern Girls Challenge #31 Song Inspired "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
Colour Create Challenge #83 Turquoise, Deep Pink and Ivory
Totally Paper Crafts #92 Victorian
If the Shoe Fits - Scrap it #96 Try Something New - the framing style card
Crazy 4 Challenges #113 Triple Treat - 3 Papers (CardStock counts) I you look closely at the inside of the frame, you will see that the cardstock base is a silvery color; 3 embellishments and 3 dies.

Grace's gift

2011-11-11T00:01:00.008-06:00

Grace's Gift - Today I used Sew Many Cards Grace unwrapping Gift. This is a great image to have because she could also be used for a birthday or really any occasion .

Our challenge at Sew Many Challenges is to use Vellum. I love vellum, hardly ever use it. This green piece is one that I dug out of my green scrap drawer. Yes I have a draw for the scraps of several different colors. I have found this is the best system for me.

My DP came out of another of my Scrap drawers - the Christmas scrap paper drawer. I believe it is all Paper Studio. I inked all of the papers with Gathered Twigs distress inks. It is one of the limited editions Rangers inks.

I secured my Vellum with brads in each corner. Grace was colored with Copics. The flowers are Prima

Sew Many Cards dollar deal is this adorable bussel of apples. My DP is K and Company Allgancy. Image colored with Copics.
Grace's Gift Card
Christmas Challenges - #13 Sketch
Top Tip Tuesday #59 Anything Christmas
Mami Doodles #37 Christmas

Apple Card
Sunday Sketch and Stamp # Sketch
Digital Tuesday Challenge #136 Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #108 use digi imge

Thankful

2011-11-08T00:01:00.004-06:00

Thankful - This fortnights challenge at Creative Card Crew is thankful. We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. They are one of my go to places for online craft supplies. They are the only place that I know of that still has Ranger's, limited edition, Autumn distress inks.

For my card, I used Basic Gray's Cappella paper pad. I used a MS punch for the border.
My flowers were made using Cricut's flower shoppe cartridge with a brad threaded through it. Stamp is Hot off the Press and heat embossed. I then cut if with a Spellbinders. Every thing was inked with Ranger's Walnut stain distress inks. I used WRMK baker's twine in cream soda. My flourish is Recollections.
Card Patterns #140 Sketch
Crafting For All Season's #13 Texture
Diva's By Design Challenge #14 Use Metal -brads
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #107 Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy Challenge #Thankful with Sentiment
All Sorts Challenge #128 Anything but a Square
Paper Sundaes #94 Rectangle
Corrosive Challenges by Janet #136 With a Flourish
Craft Your Passion Challenges #83 Brown Somewhere
The Shabby Tearoom #87 A Shabby Thanksgiving

Jammies

2011-11-04T00:01:00.010-05:00

Jammies - Today is the new release blog hop at Sew Many Challenges. If you arrived here from Jamies blog, then you are on the right track. If you happened some other way, you can start the hop at Sew Many Challenges Blog.

You can win the entire new release plus a $15 store voucher, by leaving a comment on the store blog. And if we have more than 50 comments then we will give away a a second set of the new release. You can also win the image that I used by commenting here. So you have 3 chances to win!

Don't faint, but I actually did a page instead of a card. I won this great page kit at a scrapbooking retreat that I attended a year of two back and decided to finially use it. I love the pink and teal together for Christmas. The DP is Bo Bunny - A gift of love - Sweetie Pie Smooch. It had stickers to go with it, so I used those along with 2 tiny brads.

My image is Kiera with Candle. Kiera is one of the PJ Pals. Isn't she adorable? I like her jammies in teal. She is one of the new releases that you could win. If you can't wait and to own it right this minute, then you can purchase her at the store now.

My next project is a card. I used this month's Freebie for my Thanksgiving Card. You can get it at the last stop on the hop.

My DP is American Traditional Designs Recipe Time Fruit. My ribbon is MS. I used a variety of flowers and buttons.

I colored the Cornucopia with Copics and added some Stickles to the rim of the Cornucopia and some of the fruit. I cut the image with a Spellbinders and distressed it with one of Ranger's Autumn Seasonal distress inks. This one is gathered Twiggs. I love the color.

Leave me a comment then head over to Deanette's blog to continue the hop.

Keira with Candle Page
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #136 Borders and Frames
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #11 Sweet
The Paper Shelter #38 Christmas fun

Do You Stack Up #44 Teal
Charisma Cardz #44 Cutesy
Meljens Designs DT #81 Brads

Cornucopia Card
IC Sketches #138 sketch
The Pink Elephant Challenge #123 Distressing
Stamp With Fun #135 buttons
Paper Take Weekly # bling
Simon Says Stamps Challenge Buttons
My Mums Craftshop Challenges #30 with Thanks
Dutchdare-Card Challenges #137 Give Thanks
Moving Along With the Times #23 Food and drink
Card Makin Mamas #32 Die-Cuts

2011-10-29T03:00:00.004-05:00

Autumn Tri-Shutter - Autumn is the challenge at Craft Your Days Away this fortnight. We are sponsored by Heartsong Designs. I used their Thistle image to make this tri-shutter card. I colored the thistle with Copics and put some Stickles on the butterfly. I used a Spell binders to cut the image and lots of red brick and Walnut stain distress inks.

My DP's are from a pack that I picked up at Big Lots. They repackage them, so I don't know the maker.

I used a variety of flowers. The dark blue ones I made using my Cricut and the wet and ball method. The red one was a silk flower with I added a gemstone brad with. The small orange flowers are by Making Memories, as is the clear leaves. I wrapped a blue wire around a small paint brush and the blue pearl spray was airbrushed with Copic's.
I used 4 gemstone butterflies for the small folds. The butterflies are a MS punch and then Dew Drops were added to them.
I used a couple of charms to dangle from the top fold. I also used a Maya Road chipboard key that I sprayed with Maya Roads Mist. I added some of my Favorite gemstones to the key.

Fallin For You

2011-10-25T00:01:00.007-05:00

Fallin for You - Today's challenge at Creative Card Crew is "Fallin for You." We are sponsored by The Paper Shelter. Boy, are their images cute. The have a lot of cute couple images. I in love with about 6 of them. They are so sweet.

My DP is from Target's dollar spot. It was intended for Forth of July, but I thought it was perfect for this image.

I made this flowers by cutting them with Spellbinders Blossom #3, then forming them around a paintbrush. while wet. After they dried, I stacked them on a glitter brad and used some red wire also wrapping them around a paint brush.

I used their Love in Venice image. Aren't they adorable? I colored the couple with Copic's and added some Stickles to the ribbons of their hats, the girls scarf, and their Sachs. I added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the water.

Crafts 4 Eternity # 42 metal - the wire

Soup Can

2011-10-21T00:01:00.013-05:00

Soup Can - This week's challenge at Sew Many Challenges is a sketch challenge. It is a very easy sketch to follow, so I hope that you will join us in this challenge.

For my card, I used Deja Views Timeless collection. My flower is a Petaloo. My image is Eris Nurse. I colored her with Copics, cut her with a Spellbinder and then distressed with Ranger's Tea Dye. The DP was also distressed. My sentiment is from Hot Off The Press. I also used my Bronze Viva Decor pearl pen.
For my second card I used this week's dollar deal. We are still bringing Awareness to breast cancer and their ribbon campaign. You can get the image here.

My DP is Pressed Petals Baby Girl. I used my MS punch around the page set. My image is colored with Copics and everything was distressed with Rangers Peeled Paint. I used my Viva Decor cream pearl pen.
I hope that you will join us in our Sketch challenge at Sew Many Challenges. You don't have to use a Sew Many Cards image, but we really like it when you do.

Soup Card
Top Tip Tuesday #56 Layer it up
4 Crafty Chicks #60 Marker it up
Colour Create Challenge #82 Burgundy, gold, green and Cream

Stay Strong Card
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #134 Anything stamped Goes
Anything Challenge #52 To the letter
Totally Paper Crafts #89 Layer upon Layer

Sweet Witch

2011-10-15T03:00:00.006-05:00

Sweet Witch - Halloween is right around the corner and the challenge this fortnight at Craft Your Days Away is Halloween colors - Green, purple, orange and black. We are sponsored by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp. They have the most delightful products. Such a wide range of crafting supplies. You have got to see all that they carry!
For my card, I used Ching-chou Kuik, Pick a pumpkin by Sweet Pea Stamps. I adore these images. I think they have cast a spell on me; as I love them so much.

My image is colored with Copics and I added some Stickles to her bodice, the cat's wings and the bow on the cat's tail.

This was a scrap of DP from my scrap drawers and the company logo is long gone, so I have no idea as to who made it. The spiders are flocked. So they feel really cool. I used a MS punch on the border and one of the butterflies that I picked up at the scrapbooking convention. I added some black gemstones to the border, to add a little sparkle. I used my wonderful Bow Easy to tie the bow.

Mel Jens Designs DT #80 use a ribbon
Phindy's Place Challenge #77 Halloween
Alphabet Challenge Blog #S=Soon to be Halloween
Card Makin Mamas #31 Halloween
If the Shoe Fits.. Scrap it Female power

Moon Dreamer

2011-10-14T00:01:00.007-05:00

Moon Dreamer - Today's challenge at Sew Many Challenges is eyelets. I nice, easy challenge.
For my card, I used Tayla Looking at Moon. You can get this image here. I love how it is just him and a pumpkin gazing at the wonder of a full moon. This makes me think of my husband, who is in Iraq. He is an avid night sky gazer. Which seems really odd; as he usually goes to bed quite early. LOL

My DP is Alleghany by K and Company. My image is colored with Copics.
This week we have an additional sponsor and that is the fabulous Whimsie Doodles. They gave us some images to play with. I used the Have a seat set. I chose to use just this chair and sentiment image, but they have included all kinds of little things that can be added, such as an end table and a pitcher of lemonade.
My DP is Deja View's Timeless. and I used a Spellbinders, Fleur De Lis Accents. It reminds me of a picture on the wall.

I so enjoyed coloring this image. It was all about adding depth. This would also be a great image to paper piece.

For my last card, I used this week's dollar deal, Butterfly Ribbon.

My DP is K and Company's Berry Sweet. I fussy cut the image, then shaped a little with an embossing tool and added wire to give the butterfly some antennas. The black cardstock was embossed with a CB folder and I added some black pearls with my Viva Decor pearl pen.

For this card, like most of my cards, I dig through my scraps first. I have a little trick that I do with my scraps to share with you. I tape a strip of paper to the inside back of my paper pads, making a pocket. I then store all my scraps for that pad in the pocket. I now have all of my coordanating paper together and I can look through there first, instead of cutting a new sheet of paper. It also helps me to be able to name the paper brand on my posts.

Tayla Looking at the Moon Card:
The Pink Elephant Challenge #120 Photo Inspired
Digital Tuesday Challenge #132 Fall Colours
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog # Fall Colors
The Paper Shelter #35 Animals
Simon Says Stamps Challenge Halloween/Goth
For Fun Challenges Pumpkin's with no Faces

Have a Seat Card:
Sunday Sketch and Stamp #76 Sketch
Top Tip Tuesday #55 use DP
Anything Challenge #51 Die Cuts/Punch

Butterfly Ribbon Card:
Stamp With Fun #132 Sketch

Germs are Scary

2011-10-11T00:01:00.002-05:00

Germs are Scary-I made these adorable holders for the little bottles of hand sanitizers from Bath and Body works. They had several different kinds of sanitizers that were so fun. My favorite is the Vampire blood. It is clear red with little black beads in it. Below is the bottle without a holder.
I made these for the moms in my daughters play group. All mothers with small children know how scary germs can be, and I thought they would enjoy these.

As much as I would like to take credit for the holders, I first seen this here. Dawn is so cute in her tapes. I love her sign off, as well as her cute giggle.
I used Tim Holtz Rosetta maker to make the little flowers. I heat embossed with a glitter black embossing powder the little Frankenstein heads and fussy cut them. The little sentiment was cut with Tim Holtz tattered banner and again I heat embossed the sentiment. Both images are Studio G, but are from different packs. I distressed everything and bent up the sentiment banners. I used some little black gemstones in the corner.

The first batch I used the smaller Rosetta's on and the second batch I used the larger Rosetta's. I think I like the smaller Rosetta's best. I also used different ribbons as handles on each batch.
This is my DT project for this fortnights challenge of Spooky Fun at Creative Card Crew. We are sponsored by the awesome Simon Says Stamp. They are a wonderful sponsor and have some fun stuff in their shop.

Creative Card Crew is looking for new designers. If you are interested, enter our Spooky Fun challenge at Creative Card Crew and put DT after your name.

Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #133 Special Fold
Meljens Designs DT #79 Halloween
Card Makin Mamas #30 Folds
Fussy and Fancy Challenge Fall/Halloween
Our Daily Bread Designs Blog #79 Make your own embellishments
Stampin Sisters in Christ #110 Anything Goes
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #133 So Distressing
Cupcake Craft Challenges #163 Halloween

Autumn Ribbon

2011-10-07T00:01:00.007-05:00

Autumn Ribbon - This week's challenge at Sew Many Challenges is a color challenge-Burnt orange, yellow and brown. I used Sew Many Cards pumpkin image. I colored this image last year in creams and I must say that I really enjoy coloring this image. It is so easy and it really is all about the depth, and it is just nice to focus on using dark and light color to create depth without having to worry about contrasting colors.

I colored the image with Copics and can you believe I didn't add any Stickles to it. :P The image was cut with a Spell Binders, as was the mat behind it. My DP is Cloud 9. I used a MS punch and added some bronze pearls with my Viva Decor pearl pen.
The flowers were cut with my Cricut using the new flower shoppe cartridge. I shaped them and added some Stickles (you knew I would get Stickles in there some where, didn't you?)
My second card used Duncan with Ribbon which is the newest dollar deal at Sew Many Cards. This image was designed with Breast Cancer Awareness in mind, but many organizations use different colored ribbons to bring attention to there cause. Teal had a lot of causes, everything from Anti-bulling to Ovarian Cancer. I found a great site that listed some different ribbon colors and what they represent. You can see that list here.

My DP is My Minds Eye, kaleidoscope. I used another MS punch and the same Spell Binder die as above to cut my image. I used my white pearl pen on this card, but the paper was thinner and it flattened more than I would have liked. I used it also on the flower (Petaloo) centers and it stayed in the dome shape better.
Pumpkin Card
Card Patterns #135 Sketch
The Secret Saturday Challenge #154 Halloween
Stampin Sisters in Christ #109 include fruit (pumpkins count)
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Photo inspired
The Shabby Tearoom #82 A Shabby Autumn
Crafts and Me Challenges #55 use a digi
Crafting For All Seasons #11 fall flowers and pumpkins
Truly Scrumptious Challenges #67 distressing

Duncan Ribbon Card
Mojo Monday #209 Sketch
Paper Sundaes #89 Lots of Layers
Craft Your Passion Challenges #79 Ribbon
Paper Take Weekly Punched
Anything Challenge #51 punches/diecuts

Turkey Bowl

2011-10-01T03:01:00.005-05:00

Turkey Bowl - This fortnight's challenge at Craft Your Days Away is to make a tag. We are sponsored by Meljen's.
Meljen makes some really delightful images. They are real fun and so easy to use.

For my tag, I used Meljen's Turkey Bowl image. For my friends from abroad the turkey bowl is an American tradition. Many of you know that we traditionally serve turkey on Thanksgiving, but we have another tradition which is that we always have a major football game also on that day. That game is referred to as the turkey bowl. I love that Meljen used the play on words by putting a turkey in a bowl for this image. It made me chuckle the first time I heard it.

For my tag, I colored my image with Copic's and put some Stickles on the tail feathers. I used Rangers distress ink in several different colors to add color to the tag. I dangled some teardrop charms from the bottom.

Simon Says Stamps Challenge Anything Goes
For Fun Challenges #Warmth
Crafts and Me Challenges #54 flowers
Cute Card Thursday # 184 Animal Crackers
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #102 Things With Wings
Crafts 4 Eternity #39 Anything Goes

Pink Blessings

2011-09-30T00:01:00.008-05:00

Pink Blessings - Today is the blog hop with Sew Many Challenges. We are showcasing the Sew Many Cards new releases for the the Thanksgiving Season. These new images are in the Sew Many Cards store and you can get them here.

If you arrived here from Darling Ho's blog when you are right on track. If you arrived here first, or got lost along the way, you can start and find the list on Sew Many Challenges Blog.

For my card, I have used Kasiah Pilgrim. Isn't she a cutie! Kasiah is one of the PJ Pals, but today she has actually changed out of her PJ's.

My DP is K & Company. I used some lace and distressed everything with Rangers tea dye and Antique linen. My sentiment is Studio G. The prearls were made with a bronze pearl pen.
My image was colored with Copic's and I used some stardust Stickles on her bonnet trim, collar, cuffs and Apron.
My flowers are Petaloo.

This month is Breast Cancer awareness month and Angela created this cute fellow to help. I want to encourage everyone to have regular mammograms. I went and had mine today.

I crop with a small group of ladies and Breast Cancer has already touched our group twice. We lost one of our treasured freinds a couple of years ago and another one of our ladies' daughter has it and is going through chemo. We are praying for a different outcome for her. All prayers for her would be much appreciated.
For my second card, I used the Bailey Bear breast cancer awareness Freebie that is available for a short time on the store blog. I will put a link at the bottom of this post, so that you can get it.

My image is colored with Copic's and again I used stardust Stickles on the ribbon.
I have the Tinkerbell Cricut cartridge and I thought it would be fun to use this image and to cross out the T and replace it with a P; making it Pink instead of Tink. I hope you like my little play of words. My DP is Al Fresco by Tapestry.

My tulle puff was made by scrunching a running stitch through the bottom of my tulle and drawing it up. The flowers are cut from stems and my white pearls are Want 2 Scrap.

The grand prize for this hop/challenge of Anything Goes is the entire new release plus a $15 gift voucher for the Sew Many Cards store. Also, I get to give both of the images that I used to someone who leaves a comment on this post.

Leave me a comment, then head to the finial stop on the hop which is the store blog, which is also where you can get the Breast Cancer Awareness Bailey Bear.

Pilgrim Card
Sunday Sketch and Stamp #74 Sketch
Stampin Sisters in Christ #108 Blessing sentiment
Paper Sundaes #88 Anything Goes
Crafting for all Seasons #10 Fall colors
My Mums Craft Shop Challenges #25 Dress-up
Dutch Dare - Card Challenges #132 Bingo - Ribbon, Flowers, Die cut
Totally Paper Crafts #81 Autumn
Phindys Place Challenge # 75 Autumn/fall
Alphabet Challenge Blog R=recipe 1 image, 2 DP, only 3 flowers

Bailey Bear Card
Stamp With Fun #130 Sketch
Cupcake Craft Challenges #161 teddy bear
The Paper Shelter #33 For the Girls (Mine is really for the girls)
4 Crafty Chicks #57 Anything Goes

Autumn Easel

2011-09-27T00:01:00.003-05:00

Autumn Easel - Today I have an easel card for you. If you have never done one before, they are super easy and they make such an impact.

The challenge this fortnight at Creative Card Crew is Easel cards, so give it a try and join us in our fun challenge.

We are sponsored by Michelle's Scrapbooking. They have a wide range of products for all your crafting "needs." LOL
For my card I used my Cricut and my newest cartridge Damask Decor. It has a lot of great cuts on it. I chose this cut, but it looks like fall leaves to me. I cut the pieces in different colors, then sprayed them with lots of Glimmer Mist. Even though I used different colored papers, I used the same Glimmer Mist on all of them and I was surprised to see that they each look so different.
My DP is by Cloud 9. My punch is MS and my ribbon is Straight and Narrow. I also found these cute little leaves and thought they would be nice on here.

Make an easel card and join us at Creative Card Crew for this fortnights challenge!

Deconstructing Jenn #20 Sketch
4 Crafty Chicks Fall/Autumn
Southern Girls Challenge #28 Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #101 Autumn
Crafts 4 Eternity #38 Autumn
Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Try a new techinque - Glimmer Mist

Christmas Oval

2011-09-23T00:01:00.008-05:00

Christmas Oval - Todays challenge at Sew Many Challenges is to use a oval. Easy, right. So join us there. You don't have to use a Sew Many Cards image to play with us, although we really love it when you do!

For my card, I used Sew Many Cards Cammi with Santa Bag image.

The oval was created with my Cricut using the Wild Card cartridge. I have loved this cut since I first seen it, but I have not used it until now. I did stretch it with my Gypsy. I wanted it a little wider with it was originally. I then had to resize an oval to fit inside it. I used a signo pen to make the white faux stitching. I circled the card with green and red gemstones.
I colored Cammi with Copic's and added some stickles to the Christmas lights. I gave his hat some "fur" with liquid pearls.

The inside is stamped with Rejoice from a Studio G stamp. I circled the inside oval with white eyelash yarn.

For my second card, I used today's dollar deal with is this cute pencil image. You can get this image for $1 in the Sew Many Cards shop. My DP is from the Seasonal pack by Paper Studio.

I colored the pencil with Copics and gave it some Rock Candy Stickles. The image was cut with a Spell Binders, when distressed with Ranger's Fired Brick distress ink, useing the Spell Binder to create a frame.

The border punch is a MS and I added some large red gemstones to the punched strip. The ribbon was tied using my bow easy.

The card has a pocket and I added a piece of paper to show how it would look with a note in it.

Christmas Oval
Totally Gorjuss #98 No Squares
Stamp With Fun #129 Anything Goes
Cards for Men # Anything but Square
Top Tip Tuesday #51 One for the Kids
Paper Take Weekly Creature comforts
ABC Christmas Challenge S = Shape-include swirl

Just a Note
IC Sketches #132 Sketch
Corrosivechallengesbyjanet #133 punches or dies
Alyssundaychallenge September - Add a bow
Anything Challenge #50 anything goes
The Paper Shelter #32 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Dies to die for

Fantasy Fairy

2011-09-17T03:01:00.006-05:00

Fantasy Fairy-This weeks challenge at Craft Your Days Away is pink, blue and brown. I thought it would be fun to color the fairy kind of like an Avatar character. After all fairies are fantasy creatures, so they can look however we want them to.

We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. They have wonderful, fun crafting supplies.

My image is Stamp and Creates' fairy named Iris. She was colored with Copic's and I added some Stickles to her skirt, wings and also the hummingbirds wings.

My DP is Kailiscope by MME. I used Ranger's Distress inks to distress the edges. The pink gemstone swirls are by Want2Scrap. The pink tulle and pearls, I picked up in the Bridal section at Hobby Lobby. The flowers are stems that I cut up.

Craft Your Passion Challenges #75 F=flowers, flourish
Magical Monday Challenge Anything Goes
Papertakeweekly Things with Wings
The Paper Shelter #31 Fairies and Elves
Flutterby Wednesdays #171 Open
Cute Card Thursdays #82 Anything Goes
Sketch and Stash Challenge Pick a sketch from catalog - I picked # 44 My neglected stash is the tulle and pearl embellishment.

Webbed Fun

2011-09-16T00:31:00.002-05:00

Webbed Fun - This weeks challenge at Sew Many Challenges is Halloween. I love Halloween. It is so much fun.

For my card, I used Sew Many Cards Eris making spider web. Isn't it a cute image? I love the spider.

My DP is from Target's dollar spot last year. My punch is MS punch around the page web set. I used some orange raffia and tied it with my Bow Easy. There are 4 buttons, one in each corner.

My image was colored with Copics, and I used some Stickles on the spider and around the edge of the image. I also used my Sukara pen on the web. It is hard to see in the photo, but in real life it glisten like a real web.
For my second card, I use the dollar deal; which is this package image. What I like about this image is that it can be used for any occasion. I have used it to be a Christmas package, but it could be a wedding, birthday, or just because.

My DP is The Paper Studio Magic of the Season pad. Image was colored with Copics and I used some Stickles on the the dots. Viva Decor pearl pen to make the black pearls. I used a MS punch and a pearl spray. The sentiment is Dream Weavers, cut with Spellbinders.

Halloween Card:
Sweet Sketch Wednesday #117 Sketch
Digital Tuesday Challenge #127 Celebrate the Season (any season)
Creative Craft Challenges 2 Buttons and Bling
Moving Along With The Times #116 Sparkle

Present Card:
Sunday Sketch and Stamp #72 Sketch

CAS Giraffe

2011-09-13T00:01:00.002-05:00

CAS giraffe - This week at Creative Card Crew we have been very busy. We had over 1000 entries this past challenge. We each have an assigned number to comment on, but that was still over 100 each. We are thrilled to have so many who like and follow our challenge blog. Thanks to all you entered!

Creative Card Crew is also keeping the stork busy. We have a total of 5 babies that have just or will soon join our families. So in honor of this, our challenge this time is something for a baby.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Simon Says Stamp! They have given a $20. gift voucher to one lucky winner. They have really awesome craft supplies to include Copics and Magnolia stamps. They also carry some Heartfelt Creations products which I love!

In light of how busy I have been commenting, I went with a Clean And Simple card. I have had these stamps from Autumn Leaves for a while. It is a set and you just ink each in a different color ink and stamp. I used Rangers Broken China and Blue Jeans distress ink. I embossed with a Spellbinders. My sentiment is Hot Off The Press.

I am one of the lucky ones that the stork will be visiting. My 3rd grandson is due next month and this card is for him! Cal, I can't wait to met you!

Alphabet Challenge Blog P = pastels
Totally Gorjuss #97 It's a male thing
The Shabby Tea Room #73 Boys will be boys
Cards for Men #19 Anything but a square

Purple Throated Woodstar Hummingbird

2011-09-09T00:01:00.006-05:00

Purple Throated Woodstar Hummingbird - I love how tiny and bright hummingbirds are. The challenge this week at so many cards is: use purple, 2 Designer Papers and 3 or more gemstones. When I found the below image of the Purple Throated Woodstar Hummingbird, I know what I wanted to make purple! Why it is called the Purple Throated rather that the Emerald Throated or Purple Bellied is beyond me, but isn't it gorgeous!!!!!!

My image is Halo the Hummingbird by Sew Many Cards. You can find him here.

My DP is Miss Elizabeth and my punch is EK Success. Halo was colored with Copics. V12, 15, 17, 20, B 00, 60, 63, 66, 69, R 00, 20, G7, YG01,03. I added some Stickles to Halo and the flower. I inked with Ranger's Concord distress inks. The gemstone spray is Magnolia and I added 5 purple Dew Drops.

My frame is a Heartfelt Creations Spellbinders. I cut, embossed and inked (Ranger's Blue Jeans) with the die still on the paper.
I finished this card off with a flower made from my new Flower Shoppe cartridge by Cricut. I wet, crumpled and inked the edges then formed the flower. The center is one of the quilled spirals that got a heavy coat of Midnight Stickles.

We will now be having a Deal of an image that is for only $1 for a limited time. So hurry and get this bargain while you can. The Deal this week is this awesome image of an apple for teacher. It was a lot of fun to color and is so timely with school just starting back.
My DP is Prima Nursery Tales which was inked with Ranger's Tea Dye. The pencils were cut with my Cricut useing the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge. I cut it twice - once with kraft and once with golden yellow. The lead tips are made with a Sharpie. The eraser was colored with Copic's R32. The metal band was made using Viva Decor Inka Gold. You can get it at Heartfelt Creations. I then cut, inked and shaped my pencils. I love how they came out. Some looked at my card and thought that I had used actual pencils.
Here is a close up of the side, so that you can see the dimension of the pencils. I used a sentiment from the $1 bin at Michaels and I found the star paperclip also at Michael's.
The image was colored with Copics.

You can enter Sew Many Challenges here. You don't have to use a Sew Many Cards image to play along, but of course we do hope that you will use one. So check out what the rest of the team did with our Purple, 2 DP and 3 or more Gemstones challenge.

Humming Bird Card
Card Patterns #131 Sketch
Craft Your Passion Challenges #74 anything with flowers
Paper Take Weekly anything Goes
Card Makin Mamas #28 digis

Pencil Card
Paper Sundaes #85 Sketch
Stamp-tacular Sunday Challenge #127 The sky's the limit!
Lil Red Wagon #97 Die Cut
Divas By Design Challenge #10 Back to School
Cute Card Thursday # 181 Office Supplies
Fussy and Fancy Challenge Back to school

Tattered Flowers

2011-09-03T03:00:00.006-05:00

Tattered Flowers - Today's challenge at Craft Your Days Away is Hand made flowers. The large flower is made using Tim Holtz sizzix die cut. My wonderful friend Milly cut a bunch of these out and brought them to share with all of us. They were distressed with Ranger's Tea Dye distress inks, then shaped and stacked. I uses a MS pearl in the center.
The 3 small flowers were cut with my Cricut, sprayed with Glimmer Mist, and crumbled. After they were dry, I opened and stacked them.

All of my papers are K and Company. My sentiment is Hot off the Press. You can hop over to Craft Your Days Away and see what my teammates have done. They have made some gorgeous flowers.

Craft Your Passion Challenges #73 Sketch
Top Tip Tuesday #49 Shabby Chic
My Mums Craft Shop Challenges 123 1 big flower, 2 small leave stems, 3 small flowers
Charisma Cardz #35 Anything Goes
Moving Along With The Times #114 Hand Made Flowers
Our Daily Bread Designs Blog dots and stripes

Bus Stop

2011-09-02T00:01:00.009-05:00

If you are here for the hop and you came from Sew Many Challenges blog, then you are at the first stop on the PJ Pals fall release. If you happen chanced to come here, then please go to Sew Many Challenges blog and start there.

Bus Stop - Here is a sight that is common around the country this time of year; as children head back to school. I keep my grandson, Tyler, and he has just started 1st grade. I am happy and sad at the same time to lose his company during the day.

For my card I used All Seasons paper pack by The Paper Studio ans some buttons.
My image is Back to School Stryder, one of Sew Many Cards PJ Pals. PJ Pals are modeled after children with disabilities, hence the name PJ Pals. Stryder is the son of Sew Many Cards owner, Angela. Stryder has an amazing story that Angela has posted before, but I was unable to find it to put in a link.
My second card uses Ghost. Ghost is the Freebie that you can get for a limited time here. I love this image. I colored him with Copic's.
I colored him yellow-green to match the paper and Glow-in-the-dark MS glitter that I used on the MS punched fence. The bottom photo was taken at night without a light or flash.
Leave me a comment and one lucky person will win the Stryder back to school image that I used. Now head over to Audrey's blog for the next stop on the hop.
Bus Stop card:
Stamp With Fun #126 Sketch
Simply Create Challenges #51 Here comes the bus

Ghost Card:
Paper Take Weekly Sketch
Cards For Men #18 G = Glow in the dark and Ghost
Anything Challenge #48 inspired by TV/film Casper the friendly ghost

Too Cute to be a Witch

2011-09-01T00:46:00.006-05:00

Too Cute to be a Witch - We are continuing with the week of new releases at Sew Many Cards. This image is Bailey in witches hat. Isn't he/she fun! I really enjoyed coloring it with my Copics.

You can go to the Sew Many Challenges blog to see more of the New Release.

My DP is Paper Studios All Season pad. I also got to use my new MS spider web edge punch. I added some Stickles to the candy.

Corrosive Challenge by Janet #131 Dark Side - Witch
Alys Sunday Challenge #45 Halloween
The Paper Shelter #24 anything goes
Lil Red Wagon #96 border punch It is hard to see, but I used MS web punch on side of image

Teen Idol

2011-08-30T00:01:00.005-05:00

Teen Idol - This fortnights challenge at Creative Card Crew is everyone's favorite - Anything Goes!!! So come and join for some fun and a chance to win some Kenny K digi's; as that is who is sponsoring us this go around.

They let us play with some of their fun, sassy images and I used this cool dude who is Kenny K's Teen Idol. Isn't he a great image? And so perfect for those hard to make guy cards. For my card I used Sandy Lion's People Pattern DP. It is double sided, so I only had to use one sheet of paper. The brads are K and Company and it came with those funky chipboard circle. My sentiment is Hot Off the Press.
Teen Idol was colored with Copics and I distressed all of the paper with Ranger's Tea Dye.

Cute Card Thursday #179 sketch
Do You Stack Up #34 Boy or Man
Totally Gorjuss #95 Anything Goes
Crazy 4 Challenges #102 Male

Pencil Box

2011-08-29T00:01:00.002-05:00

Pencil Box - This week at Sew Many Challenges we are having a week of showing the new Fall images by Angela of Sew Many Cards. Today I get to show Marvin with Book. I love this image. Not only could he be used as a back to school image, but it would also be cute to use the book as a Bible. Marvin could then be a church mouse.

My card is actually a little pencil box. I found this pattern on line, but my computer locked up and I had to reboot it and was unable to find the site where I found it.

It is really simple to make. The belly band comes off and then the box opens up. I placed some things inside to show how big the opening is, but if you want it so fold flat, you would need to put something thinner in it.
My DP is Paper Studio's All Seasons paper pack. My punch is EK Success. and I added some Dew Drops.

My image is Marvin with Book and you can get it at Sew Many Cards.
Sketch Saturday #170 sketch
Creative Craft Challenges # anything but a card
cinspirations #126 Text on DP
For Fun Challenges Back to school
Dutch Dare - Card Challenges #127 anything but a card
Totally Paper Crafts #81 Back to School
All Sorts Challenge #118 Back to School
Just Us Girls Challenge #99 Back to School 3-D

Kiss Anyone?

2011-08-26T00:01:00.004-05:00

Kiss Anyone? - It's Friday and that means it is time for another Sew Many Challenges challenge!!! This week we are using edge punches. You don't have to use a Sew Many Cards image to play along, so come join us and show us how edgy you are!

For my card, I used DCWV Tis the Season paper stack. I inked everything with Ranger's Distress Tea Dye and I used a MS punch. I finished is off with 3 red buttons.
My image is Halen under Mistletoe. Halen was colored with Copics and I used red stickles on the holly berries and icycle on the mistletoe berries and leaves.
Today's Friday Freebie is Cammi on Mushrooms. You can get it here today only. My DP is by Paper Studio. My image is colored with Copic's.
I am entering Halen in the following challenges:
Christmas Challenges #7 Sketch
Christmas Card Challenges #38 glitter
Paper Sundaes #83 Sundae bar-green and buttons
Crafty Creations Challenges #133 Show us your inner animal
Divas By Design Challenge #9 Christmas in August

I am entering my Cammi card in:
Sketch and Stash #68 Sketch
Stamp With Fun #125 summer

Thank You Rosie

2011-08-23T11:10:00.007-05:00

Thank You Rosie - Today I am very sad as this is the last day for there to be a design team for Michelle Perkett Studio. Michelle has decided to take her work in a different direction and therefore dissolving the challenge blog. This bitter-sweet last challenge is "Thank-you," as Michelle wanted to thank all of us for being part of her team.

You will still be able to get her breathtaking images in her Etsy shop here. I have used Rosie as I think that her pose is a curtsy. I love this image, but Michelle has so many lovely images, that I don't think I ever got around to coloring her before.

For my card, I used Welcome Baby from Big Lots DP.
My flowers are Posey Patch Heartfelt Creations. I love that they have flower stamps and Spellbinders that go together. This way you can stamp, then have a perfect cut on the same flower. It took my some time to figure out how to match the die with the stamped image, but now I have one of those I can't believe how dense I was not to figure it out earlier. I sponged over them with gold (centers) and Rose Viva Decor Inka-gold. I love this stuff. It gives a metallic look to things. My yellow Swirls were cut using my Cricut and Accent Essencels cartridge. I then shaped my flowers and added another Viva Decor product, my Icy white Pearl Pen to make the little pearls in the centers. I also used the pearl pen to make the pearl swirls. All of this took some time, but I am pleased with the results.

My ribbon is MS and it has my sentiment on it. My image is Rosie and I colored her with Copics, the gave a lot Stickles. You can never have to much bling!!

Thank you Michelle for all of your lovely images and for your friendship! I will miss all of this terribly, but am so thankful to have had this opportunity to have been on this incredable journey with you!

Do You Stack Up #30 Thank You
Fussy and Fancy Challenge Use a lot of something (flowers)
Unscripted Sketches #120 sketch
Stampin Sisters In Christ #103 Try something you are "afraid" to do (flowers)
Corrosive Challenges By Janet #130 Girlie
Digital Tuesday Challenge #125 cute and girly
Paper Take Weekly Dies to die for

Mouse Cupcake

2011-08-20T03:00:00.002-05:00

Mouse Cupcake - I have made a card using a House Mouse image. I love these little guys! And you can get them from our sponsor - Simon Says Stamp!!!

Our challenge this week at Craft Your Days Away is - drum roll please - CUPCAKES! My DP is Miss Elizabeth. I added a sparkly brad. My Sentiment is Studio G. Ribbon is from my stash and tied with my bow easy. I cut my image with a SpellBinders, I inked it with Rangers blue china and I added some Stickles to the cupcake. The image was colored with Copic's and I hi-lighted with a Sharpie white poster paint pen.
IC Sketches #127 Sketch
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #any sentiment goes

Summer Time Fun

2011-08-19T10:08:00.004-05:00

Summertime Fun - Today's challenge at Sew Many Challenges is "Summertime." With the summer almost being over, we wanted to cling to it just a little bit longer.

My card today uses Sew Many Cards image "Bee with spring flowers." This image was the Friday Freebie a while back, so it can pay to get those images each week. You can buy it now in the Sew Many Cards Shop.

My image is colored with Copics and my DP is Miss Elizabeth. I distress with Ranger's black soot and cut the image and mat with Spellbinders. I also used 2 pink brads.
Today's Friday Freebie is this yummy cupcake image. You can get it here, but get it fast; as it is available today and today only.
My DP is Miss Elizabeth and I used 3 eyelets from Making Memories. My image and mat was cut with Spellbinders. The cupcakes were colored with Copics and I added some Stickles to the topping on the cupcakes and on the patches.
Challenges for 1st card:
Stamp With Fun # 124 Sketch
The Shabby Tea Room #75 Polka Dots
alphabet challenge blog O=only 3 embellishments

Challenges for 2nd card:
Cupcake Craft Challenge Sketch
Simon Says Stamps Challenge Food or Drink
4 Crafty Chicks metal
Meljens Designs DT #72 sparkle, shine and glitter

Vintage Chrissy

2011-08-16T02:38:00.003-05:00

Vintage Chrissy - I have used Michelle Perketts "Chrissy" image to make my Christmas card with.

This week's challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio is Vintage. It is really fun to distress (I used Ranger's tea dye) and use ivory lace. My DP is Holiday Wonder by Paper Studio. I used some brads that I picked up at the convention in June. I love the Cameo one. My sentiment is Inkadinkado.

I colored Chrissy with Copics. I added some platinum Stickles to the center of the poinsettias on her dress. The berries are tiny gemstones and I used some ivory Flower Soft on her fur. The snowflakes got Stickled with icicle Stickles.

I love Michelle's fairies. All of Michelle's images are so pretty and fun to color. I hope that all of you will join in our vintage challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio, but remember you must use on of Michelle's images to play. She has started posting a freebie on the challenge blog that you can use on the challenge. I can't wait to see this weeks freebie.

Sketch Saturday #168 sketch
Phindys Place Challenge #68 Vintage
Simply Create Challenges #50 Distress
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #147 Christmas is Coming

Red Hat Lady

2011-08-16T00:01:00.012-05:00

Red Hat Lady - It is time for another Creative Card Crew Challenge. This week we are making handmade flowers and we are sponsored by the fabulous Robyn's Fetish. You can win 5 delightful digi's.
I belonged to the Red Hat Society while we lived in Maryland. I made some wonderful friends and we had so much fun. We did a few teas and often had lunch together, but mostly we laughed together. In our outlandish clothes it was all about the fun!!!!!

You can only wear a pink hat and lavender clothes until you turn 50. This is us before my reduation. I am in the center with the pink feathers in my hat.
For my card I used K & Company Red Hat designer paper. I made faux stitching with my red Spica pen on the striped DP. My ribbon is from Michael's and of course, we Red Hatter's like our bling!

My image is Violet Red Hat Gal by Robyn's Fetish. She would also be fun to color as a vintage image in browns. She was colored with Copics and I give her ties some sparkle with my Stardust Sakura pen.
For my flowers, I have to thank my good friend, Milly's 3 year old granddaughter. Thank you Aria!!!!

Aria was painting and she started dipping her brush in the paint and flaring the brush on the paper. Milly noticed it and upon looking closely, she thought they looked like petals with the veins. So Milly imitated Aria and made a bunch of petal.

These photos do not do justice to the flowers IRL they are gorgeous.

These are finished flowers, but my lighting is way off. I took many photos, but nothing really showed as beautiful as they are.

Flower Tutorial - You can use just about any point that you want, I use Crayola children's washable paint. The cheap plastic brushes worked best, as it leaves the bristle marks that look like veins.

You start by laying the paint so that they touch each other on your palette. Then you dip your brush in both colors at once.

Then you press down on the paper and twist the brush, flaring the bristles.
This is my petals in the drying stage.

After they were dry, I cut them out and rolled with with an embossing tool to give them some shape.
I changed colors of paint for this portion of the tutorial.

I punched out a small circle and started gluing them to the circle.

This is what it looks like with the second layer of petals. Just keep going until you have what you like. I used a gemstone for my centers, but you could use lots of things, such as a button or a Prima flower.
Show us your handmade flowers and join us at Creative Card Crew.

The Pink Elephant #112 stitching
Paper Play Time #53 anything goes
Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge # 58 sketch

Tyler's Small Book of the Robots

2011-08-12T16:50:00.007-05:00

Tyler's Small Book of the Robots - 6 year old Tyler made this small robot book today. This is a book about a robot that has googly eyes, that shoots fire out of his mouth and his whole body is made out of fire. His home is made out of fire and his rocket is also made out of fire. He can go very fast in his rocket.

Tyler made his book out of paper from Nana's scrap drawer. He cut the robots out with Nana's Cricut using the Birthday cake cartridge. The rockets were cut with Everyday paper dolls.
The robots have googly eyes and there are pom poms in the corners.

I had a lot of fun making this book. I hope you like it.

Simon Says Stamps Challenge for children. Holiday project.
Stitchybearskids anything goes
Moving along with the Times #111 fantasy
Kona Kids Krafts any thing goes

Look What the Stork Brought!

2011-08-12T00:01:00.009-05:00

Look What the Stork Brought!!!! - This weeks challenge at Sew Many Challenges is 3 or more brads. It is an easy challenge and you don't have to use a Sew Many Cards image to join in on the fun.

My DP paper is Big Lots Welcome Baby. I cut the image and sentiment using a SpellBinders. The eyelash yarn is from the Dollar Tree. I bought that skein about 5 years ago and I still have most of it. So it was a really good buy. The ribbon is a scrap from my stash. Did you notice my striped brads. I had removed them from there packaging, so I don't know who made them, but they are really fun.
For my card, I used Sew Many Cards, Tayla Stork image, that I colored with Copic's. I have been wanting to color this image for a while, so I am happy to finally have a chance to use it.

We really do expect the stork to bring us a little blue bundle soon. My daughter is due in October!!!! I promise to post photos when he arrives! You know how we grandma's are, there will be lots of photos of him. LOL This bundle of joy will be our 3rd grandson. My husband is ecstatic that it is another boy. He is working on a Boy Scout Patrol, which has 6 boys. I would like just one girl, before he gets his patrol. LOL
Today's Friday Freebie is this adorable Birthday Yummies image. You can get it here, but is is available today only, so get it quick!

My DP is MME's Kaleidoscope. The ribbon is MS and I pulled to ruffle it. My sentiment is Autumn Leaves.

I colored Birthday Yummies with Copic's. I distressed the image with Ranger's Worn Lipstick. Come and show us your brads at Sew Many Challenges!

My Stork card is being entered in the following challenges.
Sunday Sketch and Stamp #66 sketch
Stamin Sisters in Christ #101 had to have, but forgotten about
Here Comes the Boys Blog Challenge #8 critter
Lil Red Wagon #93 Bird
Crafts 4 Eternity #32 Blue and White

My Birthday Yummies card is being entered in the following challenges.
IC Sketches #126 sketch
Anything Challenge #47 Birthday
Top Tip Tuesday #46 Straight edges
Divas by Design #8 Birthdays
A Spoonfull of Sugar #162 Happy Birthday
Charisma Cardz #32 distressing
Birthday Sundaes #21 any birthday
Totally Paper Crafts #79 food and drink

River Float

2011-08-09T21:11:00.003-05:00

River Float - I have made a card using Michelle Perkett's Penelope. Penelope is so cute and I played around and created a background for her.

Every year our scout troop used to take a family camp out and float down the river. I think we floated the Red River, but I am not sure. It was always a lot of fun and so relaxing. The second year the boys turned my canoe up-side down with me in it!!! I got even by telling the boy responsible that now he was my special friend and I would hug him every time I seen him. This was the kiss of death for a pre-teen boy, so needless to say, he skirted around me the rest of the trip.

My DP is Fiskars and I inked the edges with Ranger's Concord distress ink. My flowers are stems that I cut off. The ribbon was a left over that was in my stash. The purple swirls were cut with my Cricut, Storybook cartridge. I inked and added some tiny gemstones. My fiber is Making Memories.

Penelope is colored with Copics and I added Stickles to her bow and swimsuit. I added a reflection in the water. I used Marianne Walker's tutorial to make the scene.

The challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio is Summertime fun and I hope that you will join in the fun there. Remember to enter the challenge you must use a Michelle Perkett image.

Deconstructing Jenn #13 sketch
Mami Doodles # Flowers
Copic Creations Make a scene
Paper Play Time #52 water

Craft Your Days Away turns 1!!!!!

2011-08-06T15:00:00.005-05:00

It's our 1st birthday at Craft Your Days Away and we are celebrating!!!!!!

Look at all the goodies that you can win!!!!!

And Little Musings too!!!!!!!

So put on your party hat and join in our challenge. It is an easy one. Birthdays!

For my card, I used one of Heart Song Designs images. I grew up in Michigan and the state flower is apple blossom and the state bird is a robin. This image took me back to my childhood, where this was a common site. Since I have lived in Oklahoma, I have seen only 1 robin and I just stared at. It looked so out of place.
For my card, I used DP from DCWV Rustic pad. The gold foil is from Target's dollar spot. The frame is a Heartfelt Creations Spellbinders. The ribbon I believe is also from Target's dollar spot.
The image is colored with Copic's and can you believe I didn't use any glitter! With the foil frame and glitter in the DP, I didn't feel that it needed any thing else, plus the bird and apple blossom are beautiful the way God intended them to be.

Join us at Craft Your Days Away and help us celebrate our 1st birthday!!!!!

Paper Play Time #51 summer
The Paper Shelter #25 Flowers
For Fun Challenges anything goes
Anything Challenge #46 pick of the bunch (flowers)
Card Makin Mamas #26 Birthday
Simply Create Challenge #49 Favorite Animal
Mamidoodles # flowers

Summer Fun and Foil

2011-08-05T00:01:00.009-05:00

Summer Fun and Foil - I thought I would mix it up a bit and start with the Friday Freebie today. I LOVE this image!!!! You can get this image for free today and today only HERE. After today you can buy it in the Sew Many Cards Store.

My DP is DCWV All Occasion. I scrunched some ribbon and adhered it with my pink Scotch ATG. The little bow was tied using my Bow Easy. I also used 2 pointer brads (sorry, I don't know what else to call them.)

My image is colored with Copics and some Stickles was added to the beach ball and patch on the pail. The little sentiment stamp is Stampendous and was stamped with Memento ink. The image was cut and embossed with a Spellbinders.

My second card is for this week's challenge of using foil. My image is Marvin the Mouse by Sew Many Cards. I colored him with Copic's. My DP is Sei Windsor's. It has foil in it, but the camera did not pick that up. I also used a gold foil paper that I cut and dry embossed with a Spellbinders. My ribbon is MS.

First card:
Stamp With Fun #121 Sketch
The Shabby Tearoom #73 photo inspirited 3 DP's
Paper Take Weekly #59 anything goes
Creative Craft Challenges Summer Vacation
Divas By Design Challenge #7 summer

Second Card:
Mojo Monday #202 Sketch
Stampin Sisters in Christ #100 any creature great or small
Corrosive Challenges By Janet. #127 Manly
Cards for Men #16 clean and simple
Lil Red Wagon #92 critter

Marie Antoinette

2011-08-02T00:03:00.005-05:00

Marie Antoinette - This haunting beauty is Marie Antoinette by Michelle Perkett. I thought it would be fun to pair her with a Marie Antoinette style shoe. With this I was able to combine 2 design teams in one set.

For Creative Card Crew the challenge is to put your best foot forward (footware,) and Michelle Perkett Studio is to make a shaped or fancy fold card. For Creative Card Crew you can use any image and we are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and for Michelle Perkett Studio, you must use a Michelle Perkett image. All of Michelle's images are gorgeous, so go to her Etsy shop and check them out. She is also offering a Freebie every Tuesday on her Challenge blog.

My DP is K and Company's Mc Kenna. I love K and Company's paper. It is double sided and has a richness of color that most other paper's don't have.

For my shoe, I got the pattern here. She has a video and it is well worth the time to watch it.

I used some trim that I bought at Joanne's by the yard. I also used some ribbon and some pearl brads that I picked up at the scrap booking convention. The shape for my card was cut using my Cricut and Gypsy. I used one of the shapes from Gypsy Wanderings and just folded it in half.

Alphabet Challenge Blog M=Metal (brads)

Phindys Place Challenge #66 Delightful Die Cuts
Crafts 4 Eternity #30 anything but a card (shoe)

Blue Snow Goddess

2011-07-30T00:06:00.008-05:00

Blue Snow Goddess - Welcome to the Michelle Perkett Getting Ready for the Holidays Blog Hop. If you came here from Rene's blog than you are on the right track. If you arrived here some other right you can start at the beginning at www.michelleperkett.blogspot.com or if you lost your way along the trail, you can go to the challenge blog www.michelleperkettstudio.blogspot.com to see the complete hop list.

The holiday that I am getting ready for is Christmas/winter. I have used Michelle's Snow Goddess image. She is one of my favorites (I seem to say that alot when it comes to Michelle's images.)

I get to give this image to one lucky person who leaves a comment on this post!!!!

My DP is the beautiful DCWV Winter Wonder stack. My center darker blue flower is Recolletions. The paler blue are Wiltons that I folded and stacked. The centers and smaller pale blue is Treasures by Shabby Chic. My bow was tied with my wonderful Bow Easy.

My Snow Goddess image was colored with Copics and I used MS ultra fine glitter on her muff and collar to make the sparkle.

The next and last stop on the hop is the challenge blog at www.michelleperkettstudio.blogspot.com. So leave me a comment and head over there!!!!

Cinspirations #122 sketch
Crafty Creations Challenges #129 Christmas in July
ABC Christmas Challenge o=old image
Meljens Designs DT #69 Framed
Totally Gorjuss #91 Christmas in July

Blessed Nativity

2011-07-29T00:50:00.011-05:00

Blessed Nativity - This week at Sew Many Challenges, the challenge is anything goes, so I finally got to use this image. I have been wanting to do it for a while, so yea me!

I decided to go shabby chic and used a Tim Holtz paper pad. I used a spool of lace to and my pink ATG to hold the lace in place as I ruffled it. I used an ultra fine glitter and then my Viva Decor pen for the pearls.
My image is colored with Copics and again I used my ultra fine glitter. I was asked about my fold, but it is not really a fold. My DP was double sided, so I cut a half circle and then folded my card. I have photographed the inside so you can see. Really I was just taking a cheap skate way of following a sketch.

My second card uses the Friday Freebie that you can get here. My DP is from Target's dollar spot last year. My baker's twine is homemade. My friend Milly came over and it was her idea to seperate a thread from a length of cotton yarn, color it, then retwist it. It took us a few tries, but we finally got it to work and I must say that I am pleased with the result and it was so much cheaper than real baker's twine.

My sentiment is by Inkadinkado. The pin is from a pin swap that I recently participated in. It was a lot of fun and I got some amazing pins. The swap was divided by holidays and I signed up for the Christmas swap.
My image was colored with Copic's and then coated with MS ultra fine glitter. I added a little bit of Polar white flower soft to the snowman's hat.

I hope all of you will join in on our Anything Goes challenge at Sew Many Challenges.

First card
Sunday Sketch and Stash - #65 sketch
Cup Cake Craft Challenges - #152 Shabby Sparkle
The Paper Shelter - #24 anything goes
4 Crafty Chicks - #30 Get your Bling on
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #93
Bah-Humbug-Christmas #30 lace
Fussy and Fancy Challenge #42 Christmas in July

Second card
Mojomonday #201 sketch
Christmas Card Challenges #34 plaid (ribbon)
Trulyscrumptious Challenges - #62 buttons and bows
Crafts and Me Challenges - #45 ribbon
Southern Girls Challenge - #24 Photo Inspired
A Spoon Full of Sugar #61 tag
Totally Paper Crafts #77 Bling it up

Fun in the Sun

2011-07-26T17:01:00.006-05:00

Fun in the Sun - Introducing Molly by Michelle Perkett. The challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio is "Let's go to the Beach." That is why I gave her a beach scene to play in.

My DP is Berry Sweet by K & Company. My ribbon was from the Seasonal shop at Hobby Lobby a summer or two ago. I added a pink gemstone to the ribbon.

One of my punches is MS and the other EK Success. My image was with a Spell Binders.

Molly was colored with Copics and I added some Stickles to the flowers on her swimsuit and on her towel.

Deconstructing Jen Sketch
Dutchdare card challenges #122 Neon pink, green, orange and yellow
Totally Gorjuss #90 punch or die
Corrosive Challenges by Janet #126 Kids
Paper Sundaes #79 Beachy
Paper Playtime #51 summer
Top Tip Tuesday #Make it Girly

Let's Hang Out!

2011-07-23T03:00:00.002-05:00

Let's Hang Out! - Hi everyone! Today the challenge at Craft Your Days Away is summertime and our sponsor is the wonderful Simon Say Stamp. They have lots of rubber stamps to include The Greeting Farm and Magnolia. The carry a wide range of crafting products that will delight crafters of all levels and skills.

My DP is Heidi Swapp. It is double sided, so 2 of the patterns were from the same sheet of paper. The DP with the purple and orange is Miss Elizabeth.

I used teardrops that are Recollections and made the rosettes quilling a spiril. They were then coated with Matte Accents. They are a little milky as I photographed them before they had completly dried. My tiny pearls were made using my Viva Deco Pearl pen.

My image is The Greeting Farms mermaid. This is one of the first stamps that I bought when I first started working with Copic's. I was on vacation with my son, his wife and my male grandchildren. Everyone wanted to color this mermaid, even though I had also bought a stamp of a boy on a skateboard. I used glue from The Rubber Cafe on her, then used a lot of fine glitter to make her fins and shells sparkle. I also added some Viva Decor pearls in her hair.
Summertime is a fun challenge to do, so I hope you will join in the fun with us at Craft Your Days Away.
Digital Tuesday Challenge #120 sketch
Magical Monday Challenge use some texture
Paper Take Weekly #60 Cute - Awwwwww
Crafts and Me Challenges #44 add a flower
Fussy and Fancy Summer

Cookie Drop

2011-07-22T10:21:00.009-05:00

Cookie Drop - Today's challenge at Sew Many Challenges is cookies. The song that Cookie Monster on Sesame street keeps going through my head - Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C.

You know you are a military family when the only thing you can think of to go with that challenge is Sesame street and a military treat drop. Some you may recall that early on in our war in the middle east we droped treats for the children and also we dropped food in Berlin when that town was cut off from other ways to get food during WW2.

My image is Miki Flying in Helicoper. I colored him with Copics. I cut the muffins and cookies with my Cricut. I believe the cartridge was Everyday Paper Dolls. I inked the sweet treats with Ranger's Vintage Photo.

My DP is Pressed Petal's Little Safari. My "flower" was cut using Tim Holtz and Sizzix Rosette.

My second card uses today's Friday Freebie. Don't you just love the shape of this tree? You can get this image today and today only http://www.digital.sewmanycards.com/.

My DP is Pressed Petals Haceida. The flowers are Recollections. Ribbon is Adornaments by EK Success.

My cookie drop card is being entered in the following challenges: http://www.stampwithfun.blogspot.com/ #120 sketch
http://www.cinspirations.blogspot.com/ #121 Around the World

http://www.totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/ #76 One for the boys
www.cardmakinmamas.blogspot.com #25 food and drink

http://www.cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ #174 For HIS eyes only (male)

My love tree card is being entered in the following challenges:

http://www.sweetsketchwednesday.blogspot.com/ #111 sketch
http://www.creativecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/ 3-d

http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/ #29 Sunshine colors
http://www.audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ #33 Sentiment that makes you smile

High Flying Birthday

2011-07-19T19:16:00.011-05:00

High Flying Birthday - The challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio is to make something song inspired. The song I chose was "Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon."

My card is a Joy card that is really 2 cards put together, one smaller than the other. My DP is kaleidoscope by MME. The tag is a punch out sheet that goes with the DP.
I used a balloon punch for the balloons and I used some embroidery floss for the strings on my balloons.
I used my Bow Easy to tie the bow on the tag and I put a tiny flower shaped gemstone in the bow's center.

My image is Flying Birthday Girl by Michelle Perkett. I colored it with Copics and used some Stickeds on her hem, ribbon sash and on the frosting. The flame is Studio G glitter.

Unscripted Sketches #115 Sketch
Southern Girls Challenge #23 Happy Birthday
Crafty Catz Weekly #91 Tag
Totally Paper Crafts #75 girly girl
Crazy 4 Challenges #96 Joy Fold Card
All Sorts Challenge #112 Free and Easy July
Our Daily Bread Designs Blog Use words/phrase inspired "High Flying"
A Spoonfull Of Sugar #161 tag

Happy Traveler's

2011-07-19T03:41:00.005-05:00

I am happy to announce that I am the new owner of Creative Card Crew, a challenge blog. The challenges with run fortnightly or bi-weekly for us Americans. This first challenge is Animal Antics.

The sponsor for our first challenge since I became owner is Wags 'n Whiskers. They have adorable images. So head over there and take a peek at.
A big thank you to Wags 'n Whiskers.

Happy Traveler's - For my card, I used Wags 'n Whiskers Traveling Buddies. My DP is a package that I bought years ago at Walmart. The paper have all sorts of travel themed designs. I am fond of the map paper.

I used 5 brads around the circle. I also used several buttons and a tiny bow that I tied with my Bow Easy. My image was cut with a Spell Binders and I inked the edges of all the DP and image with Rangers Vintage Photo ink.
I used several Recollections flowers and some brown craft wire to make my floral spray. I had a gemstone in the center of the glitter flower, but after I photographed it, I noticed that the gemstone was missing.

My traveling buddies were colored with Copics and I gave the little girl's shirt some Stickles. I also give her shoes some Matte accents. It is still before Labor day, so she can still wear white shoes. The sidewalk was not part of the image. I free handed it. I envision them on a moving sidewalk in a airport trying to plot there course.

Create 4 Fun sketch
Dutch Dare Card Challenges #121 Buttons, Bows, Brads and Bling
Cute Card Thursday #173 Circles -Buttons, brads and DP
Meljens #67 Buttons and Bows
Alphabet Challenge Blog K = Kitty Cats
Crafts 4 Eternity #28 3, 2, 1 3 buttons, 2 cream flowers, 1 bow
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #143 Holidays - Vacation
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #120 Animal Antics

Glittered Angel

2011-07-15T10:54:00.001-05:00

Glittered Angel - This is angel Bailey bear by Sew Many Cards. What a sweety she is. The challenge this week at Sew Many Challenges is to use glitter.

I used 2 different kinds of glitter on Bailey. I used Ultra fine glitter by MS on the cloud and a chunkier glitter on the wings. Bailey was colored with Copic's.

My DP is Pressed Petal - Baby Girl. I used a lace that has tiny pink sequins in it. Can you see the glimmer?

My sentiment is stampendous and the tiny bird that I stamped in pink is from Hot off the Press.

Today's Friday Freebie is Love Tree. You too, can get this image for free today, but today only here. My Love Tree was colored with Copic's. The pink emblem is cut with a Spell Binders. My ribbon is tied with my Bow Easy and I hung a charm with a heart on it.

1st card

http://www.mojomonday.blogspot.com/ #199 sketch
http://www.magicalmondaychallenge.blogspot.com/ use some texture
http://www.thepapershelter.blogspot.com/ #22 for the birds (wings)
http://www.simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/ anything goes
http://www.divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/ #6 pastels
Moving Along With the Times #107 favorite things - Pink and glitter
Phindy's Place Challenge #63 pretty pastels

2nd card

http://www.icsketches.blogspot.com/

http://www.digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ #119 use Spellbinders

Books are Friends too!

2011-07-12T22:32:00.000-05:00

Books are friends too! - Today starts the new challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio . What are we doing this week? Buttons! Buttons are a fun embellishment. I have been know to look through clothes that were being taken to Goodwill for buttons. Sometimes you can find really interesting ones. However today I made my own buttons. I punched them out of cardstock and coated them with Matte Accents. My baker's twine was also homemade. It is nice to make them this way I can use the same Copic that I colored the image with.

My DP is Al Fresco Tapestry by CR Gibson and was a gift from my daughter for Mother's day. Don't I have a great daughter? I used a MS punch.

The image is Stella by Michelle Perkett. I love this image. I love how studious Stella looks and how all the flowers and even the bee and butterfly have come to hear the story. What book do you think she is reading?

Stella was Colored with Copics and I used some fine glitter by the Rubber Cafe.

Alphabet Challenge Blog J= Just one word Friends

Sketch Saturday #163 sketch
Totally Gorjuss #88 Summertime
Crazy 4 Challenges #95 Summer Themed
Just Us Girls Challenge #92 Make Your Own Buttons
Paper Playtime #50 Summer

Little purse

2011-07-09T05:00:00.000-05:00

Little Purse - Here is a little purse that I made for the Fancy Folds challenge at Craft Your Days Away. Fancy folds is one of my favorite challenges. They are time consuming to make, but are always masterpieces.

I can not take credit for this design, as I found it on another blog, who had found it here.

This is the side view of the purse.
This is the inside of the purse when it is opened up.
Here is the outside of the purse, again opened up.

My DP is Pressed Petals, Baby Boy pack. Can you believe that all that purple was intended for little boys? When my son was little, I had a pair of shorts that had a little bit of purple in the plaid design and my husband had a fit. He would really have a cow if I used this paper to scrapbook a boy page. But that is OK, as you can see I found a better use of it. LOL

The flowers are from a stem that I clipped off. The butterfly is a MS punch and I added some Viva Decor white pearls to make up it's body.
We are sponsored this fortnight by Meljen's Digital Stamps. Meljen's designs are so cute and color up so quickly. But despite how quickly they can be done, I have never seen one colored that I didn't like.
Here is a close up of my center, inside image. Isn't this little ballerina adorable?

I started taking ballet lessons a few years back. It is something that I have always wanted to do and now that my own children are on their own, I can finally do some of the things that I enjoy. My first year, it was just me and a bunch of beginning 10 year olds. The instructor asked if I wanted to be in the recital and I told her that I definitely did. I wanted more than 40 years to take ballet classes and I definitely wanted the full experience. Everyone was so supportive of me, and the next year, I was not the only older woman in my class.
The other image my Meljen that I used was this gorgeous rose. I used 4 of them and added some Stickles to the inside of the rose. I also used my Sakura pen on the swirls.

I hope you will try this card/purse and enter it in the Craft Your Days Away challenge. It really was easy to do and I love the result.
Cute Card Thursday Lace
Charisma Cardz Challenges #27 All about Flowers
Meljens Designs DT #66 No more than 2 layers