Count Down to Disney World

Count Down to Disney World - I have sad and happy news all at once! Today starts the last challenge for Craft Your Days Away. I have really enjoyed my time at Craft Your Days Away. I started playing in their challenges when they first formed and was elated when I made the team. They are an amazingly talented and sweet group. Joanne kept us organized and there was so much support from everyone on the team. Thank you Joanne for everything!

The happy news is that the last challenge is Anything Goes!

Now onto my project. I am taking my 4 grandson's to Disney World in October. In October they will be 7, 3, 3, and 11 1/2 months. To help them with their anticipation, I have made count down calendars for them.

Simular to an advent calendar, they have a little package that they will open each day for 2 weeks. The gifts all have something to do with Disney. One of the packages has Mickey Mouse flipflops, one has a Mickey helicoper that the blades are a little fans to cool them while we are waiting in line. Other packages have Cars fruit drops or something simular. It was hard to find something that the 7 year old and the 1 year old would both like, but I am very happy with what I came up with.

My DP is Creative Imaginations, Magic. The black is actually matting material left overs from a framing shop. It is great for this as they really sturdy.

I cut the Mickeys using my Cricut and the Mickey and Friend cartridge. The boys names are stickers. The 2 boys that live near me put their own stickers on. I did it for the 2 that live far away.

The chains are made embossed cardstock, with the count down days written with a black Sharpie.

Each day the boys will tear off a link and then dig through the package box and find the coordinating number on the package. They will then have a little gift and know how many days until we leave.

I made a hanger using a soda can tab and gold string.

I am as excited about going as the boys. Maybe I should have made one for me too. LOL

Top Tip Tuesday One Layer + Tip - use a soda can tab for a hanger.
The Paper Shelter CAS

Lil Red Wagon #146 Animal

Aud Sentiments #61 Number - Each link has a number on it. Not all visable in the photos

Totally Paper Crafts #130 Song Inspired - M I C K E Y   M O U S E

Fairytale-Challenge Blog #48 Song Inspired - M I C K E Y   M O U S E

Chocolate Coffee Cards #19 Emboss - The links are dry embossed

Keep Swimming

 Keep Swimming - The challenge at Craft Your Days Away is Olympic Dreams and we are sponsored by Bugaboo.

Everyone has dreams, but for most of us it doesn't include the Olympics. It is just to high of a bar for most of us to reach. This makes the Olympics and our awesome athletes all the more modern day heros. It is more than just training, it is that rare blend of talent, training and opportunity.

I am proud of what the athletes from my country have accomplished and of how hard they have all worked to get there.

My DP are from Target's Dollar spot. I bought this package about 5 years ago, so it has been in my stash for a long time.

My star punch is MS. I used a few star buttons.

My image is Bugaboo's BF Swimming and is colored with Copics.

The Pink Elephant #159 Sketch

Truly Madly Crafty Challenges Animals

Anything Challenge #72 No Squares

Creative Craft Challenges 2 Summertime

Crafting For All Seasons #32 Splash Me

Paper Play Challenges #31 Layer it up

Moving Along With the Times #157 Summer

Southern Girls Challenge #50 Water Play

Shades of Gray

Shades of Gray - I bet my title really grapped your eye. My shades of grey is not the hot books that are all the rage right now, but the challenge at Craft Your Days Away. Our challenge is to use shades of grey plus one other color. See, not racey at all. Although I guess it could be a racey color combo. LOL

Would you believe that I didn't use any DP for this card? Boy, I am just shocking everyone with this card and post. It is a stamp set that I bought at the scrapbooking convention.

But wait I have one more shock, hold your heart, this is a Christmas stamp set by Kaisercraft. That's right a Christmas stamp set. I just didn't use the Merry Christmas part of the set.

The large demask stamp, I heat embossed on yellow card stock. I really like this embossing powder. I has little dark glitter flecks in it. The demask image was cut with a SB.

My finishing touch is a ribbon that I hotglued to a button. You can find lots of beautiful ribbon at The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop, who is our sponsor for this challenge.

Now it is your turn to show us your shades of grey plus one at Craft Your Days Away.

Kathys Waffle Sketch File Sketch

Fancy

Fancy - I was asked by my daughter to make a Fancy Nancy card for a little girl who was having Fancy Nancy themed party. Fancy Nancy is a story book character who is quite popular with little girls right now.

I googled Fancy Nancy images and found this coloring book page image to use. She is colored with Copics and I added a lot of Stickles to her dress. A full colored illustration of this image had a tiara and butterflies in her hair, but that was missing from the coloring image, so I made my own tiara with rhinestones. I used Perfect Pearls to make the streamers on the image.

The challenge sponsored by Crafty Emmas at Craft Your Days Away is to use doilies and lace. My friend bought this doily diecut recently and cut some for me. I don't know which company made the die.

My DP is an old stack kaleidoscope by MME. The flower is Petaloo.

I love the lace; as it has very pale pink sequins on it.

Digital Tuesday Challenge #167 Kids
Paper Take Weekly #72 Highlight with a product
Anything Challenge #70 Dots and Birthday - The pink paper has big dots on it.
Crafts and Me Challenges #91 - 1 image, 2 DP, 3 Embellishments-lace, flower, Doily
Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #172 For a Child
Paper Play Challenges #27 Birthday
One Stop Craft Challenge  #190 Summer flowers

Fairy Teddy

 Fairy Teddy - It is time for another challenge at Craft Your Days Away and this time we are challenging everyone to show us your Teddy Bears. No real bears, only Teddy Bears.

Joanne found us the perfect sponsor for this challenge; none other than the fabulous Stamp Fairy. They have the cutest Teddy Bears. You can check them out here.

My DP is Noteworthy Audrey by Making Memories. Everthing was inked with Ranger's Tattered Rose.

I used my new MS Lace Flowers punch for the corner. The pearl was made using Viva Decor's pearl pen in cream.

My bow was tied using a Bow Easy. I also used a stick pin on this card. I get a lot of my stick pin supplies from Judy at Pizzazz Aplenty. She has the most gorgeous supplies and the best prices that I have found.

Here is a close up of my image. I used Linda Fairy 4. She is so sweet. I love the cute little bow on her head. Linda is colored with Copic's and I used yellow Stickles on her wand and Stardust Stickles on her bow and wings. My sentiment is from Hot Off the Press.

 The fringed crepe paper is Melissa Frances, it was one of my buys from the Scrapbooking convention that I recently attended. Here you can see more of the Lace Flowers MS punch. I again used a Viva Decor pearl pen in Salmon, this time.

Here is the sketch that I used for this challenge. This fortnights challenge at Sketch N Stash is to pick a past sketch and I loved this one.

Another shoot of the cute Linda Fairy 4.

Sketch and Stash Challenge #90 Free choice sketch - 76 Sketch
The Ribbon Reel Challenge #30 Strawberries and Cream
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #28 Summer
The Paper Shelter #69 outdoors
Crafts and Me Challenges #89 Anything Goes
Fab N Funky Challenges # Polka Dots
Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #170 Summer Fun
Cute Card Thursday #222 Summer
Charisma Cardz #24 Summer

Summer Fun

Summer Fun - It is time for a new challenge at Craft Your Days Away and this time we are challenging you to make something Red, White and Blue. Isn't that a great theme? Not only is it the colors of the flags of many countries, but it also has a nautical feel to it and so great for those summer projects.

My starry SP was some old paper that my DIL no longer wanted. It was precut into stripes, so was a little difficult for many projects, was perfect for this card.

My image is Cali Girl from Saturated Canary.  She was colored with Copics and I added some Stickles to her bikini. Her sunglasses received some Diamond Glaze to make them shiny. She was a fun image to color. Her hair was particularly fun.

My flower is gathered ribbon with a gemstone in the middle. I stuck the stick pin in the ribbon. Many of my beads, to include the red butterfly bead was purchased from Judy at Pizzazz Aplenty. She has the best prices that I have seen for stick pin and bead supplies. She ships internationally, so all of our overseas friends can take advantage of her inexpensive prices.

My Sentiment is from Hot Off the Press. I stamped it in blue, then heat embossed with SU's Iridescent embossing powder. I love how it sparkles!

Paper Take Weekly #71 Red, White and Blue

The Paper Shelter #65 Bling it on

C Inspirations #164 Anything Goes

Paper Play Challenges #21 Summer Lovin

The Play Date Cafe #133 Blue, Navy and Red



All Creatures Great and Small

 All Creature Great and Small - That is the challenge this fortnight at Craft Your Days Away. We are sponsored by Meljens artist extraordinaire. Meljen creates the most delightful images, that are always fun to color.

For my card, I used K & Company's Garden paper pad. I love the gorgeous colors in it. K and Company is my favorite paper and the Susan Winget is my favorite of all of K & Company's designers. She uses lots of beautiful, bold yet muted colors. They are so much fun to work with.

My butterfly is felt. I used a strip of paper lace that I added gemstones to.

 My image is Meljen's Turtles Friend.  I colored him with Copic's and added Stickles to the spots and butterflies wings.

I am entering this in the following Challenges:
Chocolate Coffee Cards #12 Sketch
Shopping our Stash #51 3 or more DP's
Paper Take Weekly #69 Cute! Cute! Cute!
The Paper Shelter #63 Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptious Challenge #80 Anything Goes
Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #164 Birthday Fun
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #132 Birthday
Fairytale-Challenge Blog #41 Wings

Cowboy Stars

 Cowboy Stars - Howdy!!!!!!!! Look at this sweet little guy from Bugaboo.

We are all about cards/projects for children this fortnight at Craft Your Days Away. So make something for that special little person in your life and join us!

For my card, I used Tim Holtz retro DP. I like them for male projects. I tore them to make them even more rugged. They were distressed with Walnut Stain distress inks. I embossed the cardstock with a star CB embossing folder. The stars are paperclips. I distress inked them a little, so that they would not be so bright.

The image is Bugaboo's BC Fence. I colored him with Copic's. The photo does not do justice to the image. The colors are much more brillant in real life.

The sentiment is from Inkadinkado.

Come join us at Craft Your Days Away in our challenge for the children.

C Inspirations #160 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamps Challenge Anything Goes

Crafts and Me Challenges #81 Embossing

My Mums Craft Shop Challenges #54 The Great Outdoors

Kathy's Waffle Sketch File Sketch

Paper Lovin Gals #29 Photo Inspired The colors in the tulips remind me of a sunset.

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog Anything Goes

Craty Catz Weekly Challenge #130 Anything Goes

Big Gun

 Big Gun - It is time for another challenge at Craft Your Days Away. This fortnight we are sponsored by Sassy Designs. Sassy Designs gave us a few images to play with and you know that an Oklahoma girl like me would choose this cowgirl. Head over to Sassy Designs and get your cowgirl on!

Our challenge is to use metal. I actually used two metal pieces in my project. Can you find them both?

 The first piece of metal is this cowboy boot charm. I put it on a jumpring and tied it into my gingham bow.

The second piece of metal is a brad in the gun grip. My gun was cut with my Cricut, using the Old West cartridge. I cut the gun image in two different grays, using my Gypsy to hide contour on most of the lines on the image to make my cylinder. I then shaped the cylinder. The gun grip section was embossed with my CB. The brad was then used as the screw to hold the "wood" grip in place. I like the gemstone swirl. I think it looks like smoke from the barrel of the gun.

 The image is colored with Copic's and Stickles was added to the boots and hatband. My DP is K & Company's Julianne. The flowers are Heartfelt Creations stamps and cut with the cordinatored SB. 

Stamp with Fun #156 Sketch
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges  Handmade Flowers
Simon Says Stamps Challenge  Flowers
Crafty Creations Challenges #165 Flowers
Crafts and Me Challenges #79 3-D
Divas by Design Challenge #30 Charmed
Do You Stack Up #67 Glitter

Tulip

Tulip - Tulips are my favorite flowers, so I was very excited about coloring this little bunny image by Stamp Fairy. Isn't he adorable?

Our challenge this fortnight at Craft Your Days Away is..... Easter!!! A nice easy one for this time of year.

My designer paper is DCWV All Occasion stack. I love the bright spring colors in this stack paired with bright pink cardstock.
The flower is a trim that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. The leaf is a SB die.
My Stamp Fairy image is called bunny 1. Stamp Fairy has such cute images. The color up so quick and are such a joy to color with my Copic's. I cut the image with a SB using a cut off the die technique.

My felt butterfly was in with some stick pins from a stick pin swap that I was in.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Graphicat Sketchs #4 Sketch
The Pink Elephant Challenge #141 Butterflies
Shopping Our Stash #45 Circles or Dots
Ribbon Carousel Challenge #46 Anything Goes
Digital Tuesday Challenge #153 Favorite Color Pink is my favorite!
Top Tip Tuesday #73 Easter or animals
Anything Challenge #63 Easter
The Paper Shelter #57 Easter
Simon Says Stamps Challenge Anything Goes
Fab N Funky Challenges #114 Easter

Button Up

Button Up - Craft Your Days Away has a double difficult (for me) challenge. We were to make a masculine card/project with buttons. At first I was stumped, then I remembered this nifty shirt stamp that I bought at a stamping show last year.

My DP is Prima. I didn't even know they made paper, then I found this stack in a box. I think they were for children, but I really like the muted colors.

I ran forest moss distress ink over the embossing folder before I ran it through the Cuttlebug. With the buttons the paper strip looks like that strip that runs down the front of a shirt.

My sentiment is Hot off the Press stamped with mememto black ink. I inked all of my paper images with the moss distress ink. I used to of SU punches for the sentiment, then 2 brads.

The shirt stamp is by Too Much Fun. I stamped it on card stock that has a 2 sides,one darker than the other. I then cut and folded the shirt. I used a couple of Copic's to shade it.

My favorite part of the shirt is the tiny buttons that I attached to it.

My 7 year old grandson just told me that this is my best card yet. He is my biggest fan. Big hugs, Tyler!

Craft Your Days Away is sponsored by Crafty Emma's and I hope that you will make a mascule card with buttons and join us at Craft Your Days Away.


Anything Challenge #62 Boyz to Men
The Paper Shelter #For the Boys
Simon Says Stamps #A bit of Green
For Fun Challenges #Circles - Buttons and brads are circles
Crafts and Me Challenges #75 Circles - Buttons and Brads Again :)
Cute Card Thursday #208 Birthday
Card Makin Mamas #41 buttons
Totally Paper Crafts #108 Male Card
Crazy 4 Challenges #128 Green
All Sorts Challenge # 146 - 3 in a row - Buttons!

Tweet, Tweet

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

Under the Sea

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