Happy Traveler's

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

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!

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

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

US of A

US of A - Yee-haw! The challenge at Sew Many Challenges is a recipe this week. The recipe has 4 components to it. We were to use blue, a diecut, ribbon and 3 round buttons.

My DP is Reminisce's American Stars, USA, and the blue star was cut from Freedom Stars. My ribbon is from Target's dollar spot a few years back. I love that all of my old stash was shuffled in my recent move, and is now being used!
My image is Cowboy Donkey by Sew Many Cards. I really enjoyed coloring him. Donkey was cut with a Spell Binders and distressed with Fired Brick distress inks.

This heart is today's Friday Freebie and you can get it here, but hurry; as it is only available for a short time. My DP for this card is My Mind's Eye Kaleidoscope. My butterfly punch is MS and I added some bling that I picked up at the convention. My Die cut is a Spellbinders.
The image is colored with Copic's and tied with a double ribbon using my Bow Easy.

My final card for today is one of Sew Many Cards new PJ pals. These all resemble real life kids who have health problems, that's why they are PJ pals! My image is Stryder, who is the 3 year old son of the owner of Sew Many Cards. I used some Matte Accents in the water.

My DP is Miss Elisabeth. The ice cream cone was cut using my Cricut. I think I used A Child's Year. My drops are recollections.

My Cowboy Donkey is being entered in the following challenges:
Mojo Monday # 198 sketch
The Shabby Tea Room #69 Happy 4th of July
Cards For Men #14 Wild West
Phindys Place Challenge #63 buttons

I am entering my heart card in the following challenges:
I C Sketches # 79 sketch
Digital Tuesday Challenge #118 Bling it up
Flutter By Wednesdays #61 anything with a butterfly, angel or fairy
Truly Scrumptious Challenges #60 Wings
Divas By Design Challenge #5 diecuts and punches

My fun Stryder PJ pal is being entered in:
Paper Take Weekly #58 anything goes
Dutch Dare - Card Challenges #120 Summer Fun
Southern Girls Challenge Bring out your inner child
Paper Cutz Challenge #99 ice cream
Card Making Mamas #24 Summertime

Tri-Dancers

Tri-Dancers - The challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio this week is to do anything but a card. This challenge had me stumped for a while. Finally it hit me that a pillow box would be fun and easy with my Cricut! I cut it using the fit to page feature and the Easter cartridge. My DP is from my stash and I'm sorry, but it was from a pad that I no longer have the cover from.

I cut me flower also using my Cricut and did the wet, wad, and dry techinique. A fun way to make a flower. I used a MS punch and my white Viva Decor Pearl pen. I tied my ribbon with my bow easy.
My image is 3 Graces by Michelle Perkett. I colored the images with Copic's and used my Sukara pen to add just a hint of sparkle.
You can join us at Michelle Perkett Studio in this fun challenge here. You must use a Michelle Perkett image to play, once you see Michelle's images they will be become some of your favorite images to work with. I love how girly they are, but the team did a great job of making guy cards with them for our Father's day challenge a while back.

Card Patterns #122 sketch
Charisma Cardz #20 Ice Cream Colors Rainbow Sherbet

What's Cooking - Welcome to Sew Many Challenges July Blog Hop. If you came here from Audrey's blog, then you are on the right track.

This month we are cooking up a storm (I hope not literally; as I live in Oklahoma and you know how bad our storms can be.) I used the super cute Miki Baking image, and as if that was not enough Angela also gave us these really neat recipe cards also. I get to give this image and RECIPE cards to some lucky winner who leaves me a comment on this post.

My card is more of a little booklet. It has 5 pages. Above it the cover and here is page 2 and 3.
And here is page 2 (again) 4 and 5. I promised some of my team mates that I would post my measurements for this, so let me tell you all the products that I used, then I will post the measurement below that.

My DP is English Garden by Making Memories. My striped ribbon came from the Seasonal Shoppe at Hobby Lobby (I like to shop there when everything is on clearance in the off season.) All of the little paper cut outs were left overs from a Make and Take at the Mellisa Francis.

All of my images were colored with Copic's and I added some Stickles to Miki's Baker's hat. My 1st page image was cut with a Spell Binders die cut and my faux stitches were drawn on with a Creative Memories red pen. All of my papers were distressed with Rangers Antique Linen inks. Other die cuts were inked with Ranger's Tea Dye ink. The cover has 3 buttons from Michael s Dollar Spot.
Page 3 uses an eyelet on the Mellisa Francis tag. Page 4 uses 3 stars from the Seasonal shoppe. Page 5 has a flower pulled off a stem.

Now for my measurements:
12x12 sheet of card stock and cut off one corner 6 1/4 in by 6. See above photo.


The solid lines are cut lines and the dotted are score lines. That middle measurement that is hard to see in 1/2 inch. I hope this makes sense.

For my Friday Freebie, I used the cupcake image. You can get it here, but only for today.

My DP is a Birthday Celebration pad that I picked up from Big Lots. The image was colored with Copics.
Now for the part that you all are playing for, my part of the sentence is "has to share." Now leave me a comment and head over to the fabulous Georgia.

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I am entering the booklet at the following challenges:

Sketch and Stash Challenge #64 sketch

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #117 Stars and Stripes

Cupcake Craft Challenges #148 Cooking up a Storm

Paper Play Time #49 Digi with red, white and blue

Cricut Cardz Challenge #81 Picnic - cooking

4 Crafty Chicks crazy egg challenge

Aud sentiments challenge #31 food or drink

My birthday cupcake I am entering in the following challenges:

Paper Take Weekly #57 sketch

Crafts and Me Challenges #41 birthdays

Do You Stack Up #25 Squares