Moon Dreamer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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