HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy Saturday Bloggers,
I am back with another post and a Happy Birthday wish for one of my granddaughters. I am a little late but, hey better late than never. I was sitting around last weekend thinking that I had been late getting everyone of my cards made this year. So, I decided to make up a batch of cards in advance so that I would have them ready when I needed them. I had recently bought 3 new Gorjuss girls stamps and had not used anything of them. Here is the first. The image is called "Pretend Friend" and it comes with 3 stamps, a frame, a border and a Gorjuss girl with a toy. I did not use the toy and gave here a set of balloons to hold onto.

I have to say that this picture does not do my card any good. It looks way better in person. I have been having trouble uploading photos to my blog and had to go to Mozilla firefox to do it. Something is going on with internet explorer.

I colored the images with my copics E11, E13, V01, V06, V12, I used wink of Stella glitter pen clear to give sparkle. The bling is from my stash as is the twine or ribbon on the balloon. The card stock is from Gina K and the DP is from the Paper Studio. the birthday presents is from a stamp called birthday presents and it is from Stamp Happens and was designed by Tara Reed. The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Michaels $1 bin. I have a few challenges that I want to enter this card into. It has been a while since I have entered into any challenges and I would like to get back to it.

CUTE CARD THURSDAY To Cute

BROWN SUGAR CHALLENGE  Celebrations

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS CHALLENGE Spots and or stripes

TOTALLY GORJUSS Bling

ALLSORTS CHALLENGE BLOG Sugar and Spice

CRAFTS 4 ETERNITY Favourite colour combo

CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS CHALLENGE BLOG Anything Goes + option of a sketch

TELLEN' S CHALLENGE TWO PATTERNED PAPERS

Good morning, I am so glad that it is Friday. I only worked 4 days  this week, but I swear it feels like 6. A weekend of staying up nights scrapbooking and talking and eating to much good food. It really shows me my age. I have been tired all week. But, I just keep on going.

It is time for another Tellen's Place Designs challenge, this week the challenge is to use to DP or patterened papers. You don't have to use a Tellen's image, but if you do you get extra points in the voting by the DIVAS. Please only one entry per person. We leave comments on every entry and if you have more than one entry that means we have to visit your blog more than once. That really is not fair to us or the challengers who follows the rules. I love to visit all of the blogs, I feel that I learn something new each visit. Some new tool or card style or technique. This past week I visited a blog and learned how to make a new flower. Now when there is a challenge for make your own flowers I am ready. Ok, why don't I get to the business at hand. Terry, has a lot of new images coming out, the next new image release will be on October 10th. She will be showcasing some new Halloween images. They are fantastic. So please stop by and pay Terry a visit at Tellen's Place.  Now on to my card.  Why don't I show it first and then I'll tell you what is going on with it.

Wow, isn't she gorgeous. She was released earlier this year, but she is one of my favorites. I love the DIVA images and this one is DIVA #2. I've used her before but, not quite like this. The paper is from The Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. It is called simple elegance. The black card stock is Bazzill. The 2 black brads were bought from  Michaels I love the ones that have the bling in them, this set had black and pearls. The gold bling is from my stash. The gold ribbon is some that I saved from a Christmas project that my girl friend made last year. When she got finished I asked for all left over ribbon.  Now she knows what I wanted with it. I used one of my newest Spellbinders to cut the shape out behind the diva. I colored my image with copics and this is one of those times where I did not use a lot of colors. I used E00, E11, E13 for the skin. for the hair I used E09, E15 and E11 to blend it out. for the dress and shoesI used Y11, Y21, Y28 and the sand spica glitter pen. The microphone I used W3 and W5. Thats it. Please take a moment and visit Tellen's Place Designs and the other DIVAS. You can reach their blogs from the design team list on my side bar. I know they will be glad that you did.

The sketch is from Priscilla Styles Midnight Madness

You know when I enter Pricilla's challenges I always choose the fancy design. Because, I love the bling. I also think that I rocked this challenge. I hope they think so to. There are a couple of more challenges that I am entering this card into.

Digital Tuesday Challenge Ribbon, Bling, Buttons or Digi any or all of them

Paper Playtime Ribbons, Buttons or Rhinestones

The Creative  Cottage Bling it on

Cow Girl Sunday Stampe'n Challenge Anything goes

Fab N Funky Challenge Use a Digi

Crafty Ann's Challenge Use 1 digi and your favorite coloring medium

Incy Wincy Glittery sparkly

DANCE LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHING

Good morning my blogger friends. Finally, I have something to post. This has been a really busy weekend for me. First on Saturday morning, I walked a 5K race for the Humane Society. A friend from work asked me to do it with her. It took me 55 minutes to finish. My worst time ever for 3.1 miles. But, I had not done any training for it. That's ok. I was out there and I finished. I have definitly got to get in shape. Otherwise, I will never get my second marathon done. and though I did not get anything for finishing the race. I did win a door prize. A $50 gift card to the local atheletic shoe store. Since I do need new shoes that was just perfect. After the race. I modeled in a fashion show at CJ Banks womens store. That was fun. But, I tell you. by the time I got finsihed with that. I was whipped. I felt like some body had run me over with a mack truck. Plus, it was over 90 degrees outside. All I wanted was a nap. OK, enough about me. On to my card.

This card was made using a Tellen's Place  image. The ballerina. She is colored with my copics V04, V12, RV11, R02, E31, E33, the lilac spica glitter pen. The paper is Bazzill, the card base is Cricut paper, the sheet music is from the Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. The flowers were punched with my new Paper Studio daisy punch, which Hobby Lobby has clearanced out. I bought  the small and medium. Now I need to get the large and extra large ones. The bling is all from my stash. The butterfly punch, I am not quite sure where that one came from. The sentiment is from a stamp that I bought from the Hobby lobby clearance isle months ago. Can you tell that I spend a lot of time at Hobby Lobby. The ribbon is from my stash.

There are a couple of challenges that I am entering this card into.

Crafty Creations Music or Dance

Stampin for the Weekend Tag It

Cute Card Thursday Tweet or Flutter (bird or butterfly)

Ellephantastic Challenge Make your own flowers

Copic Creations Shading on or around images

Stamp Something Use a Digi

ABC Challenge D is for Distressing

Well, I guess that is all for this card. I hope you like it.

LEMON YELLOW TILDA

Wow it is Thursday and I am in the middle of packing for my trip to Chicago, to see my family. But, I wanted to post this card before it got to late. I will probably not get anything else posted before Tuesday.

This is for a challenge at  Die Cut Dreams and it is called Lemon Tilda. That is where my title comes from. I don't usually use yellow and I don't wear yellow unless it looks like mustard and I mean spicy mustard. But, I have done this card totally yellow. The Tilda image used is one we practiced coloring on at the last copics class that I attended. But, I will be going over to Magnolia-licious Online Store to see if Diana has her in stock. I really love this image and had not ever seen it before. The image was colored with copics E53, E13, E25, E51, E50, Y02, Y04, Y11, Y15, YG67 and W3. I used crystal stickles on the wings. My papers are from the Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. The ribbon is also from the fabric department of Hobby Lobby, I really love this crinkled edges of the ribbon. The roses are Prima. The bling is from my stash. The butterfly is from my stash of butterflies. I like this one because it is shaped with wire and has fabric in the center with a little bling. I embossed using the circles folder from Cuttlebug. The sketch is from Pricilla Styles Midnight Madness sketch : Pricilla always has 2 sketches. One fancy and one simple. I chose the fancy one.

I am not really happy with my skin tone. I tried to make it better after it was dry. Take my word for this, it does not really work well once the inks are dry. That is why teachers tell you to blend while it is wet. But, oh well. it is not all bad. There are several challenges that I want to enter this card into.

Charisma Cardz Challenge Hot Hot Hot

Flutter by Wednesday Butterflies, Angels, Fairies

Totally Stampalicious Texture licious

Cute Card Thursday Dieing for a Punch (no die cuts or punches allowed)

The Shabby Tea Room Metal

Well, that is it for now. I will be back on Monday with a new project. I hope that you like this one.

BUTTERFLIES, BUTTERFLIES AND MORE BUTTERFLIES

Good morning, it is once again Monday and another work day. I love going to work (smilel) that is where I can make some more money so that I can buy more supplies to make more cards and crafts. I am back with another post and this one is all about the butterflies. I love butterflies. They come in so many gorgeous colors and they change their whole personality in a lifetime. First they are the ugly caterpillar, crawling around on the ground. And then after a long rest in a caccoon they emerge from a long sleep as this beautiful butterfly that can fly. How cool is that.

This is not a project  that I had to color. I used two butterfly stamps that I bought at Michaels. I made two other butterflies on the bottom of the easel card with the butterfly Spellbinders. And the really gorgeous butterfly with all the colors is from Jolie. The paper used for the card is all from my scrap file. The two blue DP was from the Lime Rickey pad by Basic grey, the rest I am not really sure about. Like I said it is from my scraps. The bling is from my stash. and the button is from The Paper Studio. The sentiment on the one stamp says "Find your wings and fly!" The flowers are from my stash.

The challenges are:

Crafty Creations Butterflies

Flutter by Wednesday A recipe: 1 part sparkle; 2 parts designer paper; 3 buttons or gems

Crafty Catz Buttons and butterflies

Digital Tuesday use your scraps

Fab N' Funky Flower Power

Well, that is it for today. I hope to be able to post something else before I take a few days vacation starting on Friday. I will be going to the south suburbs of Chicago, my home town for many years. But, I will only be gone a few days.

TOTALLY GORJUSS

Finally, I have finished my first project for posting for the weekend. Although it is not my first project to be finished. I had an order for note cards. And I am making cards to take with me when I go to Chicago on Friday, they are a gift for some one close to me. So I got the paper all cut and now I just have to get them put together.

So, my card today is a friends card. The image used is by Suzanne Woolcott (2009) from Sugar Nellie Stamps. I bought it at my favorite scrapbook store in the area, Scrapbook Mania. I just realized that I chose the wrong little girl to go with cat. Oh, well, I guess it really does not matter. Both images were colored with my Copics E13, E50, E51, E53, E25, B000, BO2, B05, W3, W5. I used my blue spica glitter pen for shine. The stitching was done on my little Pixie. (I don't know why it has gotten such a bad rep, I have not had any problems with it working for me and it is so convenient, with my regular machine I had to pull it out, put up and it was not even worth all the hassle. The paper is The Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. the royal blue bling is from the clearance isle at Hobby Lobby, the stars are just from my stash. The quote is from my stash, I really don't remember where I bought it. The ribbon I got at Hobby Lobby yesterday for half price. I used my Cuttlebug and the circles embossing folder. The sketch is from Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge

There are several other challenges that I want to enter this card into.

ABC Challenge B is for Blue

Secret Crafters Blue and Cream

Totally Gorjuss Star

Alphabet Challenge Q is for Quote

City Crafters Challenge Isn't She Lovely

Pixie Dust Studio Go Crazy with Polka Dots

Stampin' For the Weekend Anything Goes

Paper Cutz Challenge Anything Goes

Crafty Ho's Inspiration

Well, that is all for now. I hope that you like this card and will see you again real soon.

Birthday Wishes

Happy Sunday, I have to say it is good to get something finished. I was out of the house all day yesterday and did not make a thing. Yesterday I spent the day at our regional airport watching the Air Show featuring the Blue Angels, who literally played tag in the air. Those guys are wonderful. I saw more planes and acrobatics than I have seen in a long time. It is amazing what they can make those planes do in the air. I had a good time, but, I am glad to be back playing with my papers.

This card is a birthday card and of course I have a few challenges that I want to enter it in. The sketch I used was from Inktegrity Designs but I think they will probably disqualify my entry. I have to much bling and just realized it. It was supposed to focus on the image and basics. So I think that means no bling. I will have to do another for them. But, here is the sketch.

The other challenges are:

 The TownScrappers Pink and Purple

Stamp Something Birthday Something

Whoopsi Daisy As you like it

Fab N' Funky  Fancy Edges

Digital Tuesday A Toast to You

Pixie Cottage Make your own charms

PaperPlay Challenges Digi and Bling

Now a little about my card. My image is from The Stamping Boutique. I do love the images that Tracey has to offer. You should go by and check them out. I colored it with copics. E25, E13, E11, E21, BV04, BV11, BV00, E59, E53. My papers are from the Paper Studio so sweet pad, Bazzill for the card base and other card stock. The paper with baking items is also from Hobby Lobby. The charms were cut on my Cricut and they actually have little holes in them. The bling is from my stash. The birthday sentiment is from TPC Studio. and the make a wish sentiment is from Inkadinkado. Well here is my card.

I hope that you like my card and that you leave me lots of love.