WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

Hello bloggers, yes it has been a very long time since I have blogged anything and it just seems that no matter how hard I tried I just did not have enough time in my day to get this done. I have been crafting but, just no time for the rest.

Today with Valentine's day just around the corner I have several items that I made for the occasion. A mini album, a card and a picture frame.

I will start with the card first, I used the Recollections corrugated card base and the paper is from Prima (Romance Novel). The bling is from K and Company, I used 2 different spellbinders dies, the bling is recollection and the hearts that say love is from a set of boarders from K and Company that I bought on clearance 3 years ago. The very shiny foil paper is from recollections also as is the strip of bling on the piece of ribbon. The stamp is from Inkadinkado. I papered the inside of the card with the same papers from Prima.

The mini album was made using the Zutter cover and my Cinch. The papers are from the same collection as the card. The Love is from Michaels. I used the same double strip of bling as on the card and the swirled bling is from Prima. the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and Michaels and the little red roses are from Prima. The album has a total of  8 pages and you can see it in my video on   YT.
The frame is a $1 frame that I bought at Michaels, it was white and I painted red using paint from Folk-art. The stamp that I used for the sentiment was from Michaels $1.50 bin and the roses are prima. After painting the frame red, I rubbed on some Inka gold.

Crafty Sentiments Include a Heart

Fab and Funky Challenges Hearts and flowers
Creative Inspirations Love is in the Air
Cute Card Thursday Crazy in Love
Brown Sugar Challenge Anything Goes
Simply Create Too Hearts
Allsorts Challenge Love is All Around
Crafts 4 Eternity With Love


 

A LITTLE BIT OF LACE AND BLING

Good morning bloggers. I am back with another project and it feels good to be posting on a regular basis again. This week I will try and keep the post short. I want to share a project that I made for a swap with a good friend. The swap was to take a match box and alter it. I bought the large box of matches at the Dollar Tree and changed it into something that I think is totally gorgeous. I also made a pin cushion and stick pins.

For the matchbox I first painted it black with some craft paint and then I wrapped it with white lace using modge podge. when that was dry I added some rosette trim from Hobby Lobby on the sides. I did add some half glass beads for feet and decorated with bling from Recollections and flowers from Prima and recollections. The butterfly is also Recollections.

The pin cushion was made using a small clay flower pot that I painted with the same black paint. I used some poly fil for the cushion and wrapped it in some satin fabric that I got at Joann's and then wrapped that with some black lace also from Joann's. I then hot glued that inside the pot. I decorated the outside with the same bling used on the box and added some of the rosette trim and some white trim from Hobby Lobby. the stick pins were all made with beads and stick pins from my stash. Well that is it for this post and I hope that you have enjoyed stopping by.

Creative Inspirations  Lovely Lace

Charisma Cardz  Anything but a Card

ABC Challenge Anything Goes

BIRTHDAY WISHES

Good morning bloggers, today is Wednesday and I am home playing in my craft room. The reason that I am home is that we have had some major cold snowy icy weather. I live in Alabama, and this has been enough to shut down our city and most of the state. There are people who have been stranded on highways since early yesterday. There is ice and snow everywhere. And no it was not a blizzard like you have seen in northern states. We only got maybe 3 or 4 inches of snow in most places. The problem is that it has been very cold here and that made the problems worst. Usually if we do get some snow it is gone within an hour or two. Not this time. So, I got a free day to play.

My card today is a birthday card for my oldest granddaughter.

 

 

The papers that I have used are PRIMA ( Natures Garden). I love these papers. the card base is the corrugated card board from Michaels, the card stock is Bazzill, The flowers are also from PRIMA. The die cuts were cut with a Sizzix die. The bling is from Recollections. The Kenny K image was  colored with Copics E00, E11, E13, E09, E15, E18, G21, G24. I used the Wink of Stella glitter pen to go over the clothes. I love these pens. Well, that is it for my card and I am off to get it ready for the mail. And then I will be working to finish my December daily. Which, I will be posting soon.

 

 

 

SHABBY CHIC PENNANT

Wow, I can't believe that it has been a week and I have not done anything creative. I can only be glad that I have quite a few projects finished that I have never shown. The project that I am going to show tonight is a pennant that I made for a friend and she is going to add it to some others to make a banner for her craft room. She loves shabby chic and this is what I came up with.

The papers are Tim Holtz shabby chic pad, and I used 3 layers to make the pennant. The flowers are a variety, some Wild orchid crafts others are prima and still others are recollections. The flat back pearls are from Hobby Lobby.  The bling is recollections. The trim is Tim Holtz and I sprayed it with dylusions spray bubble gum pink. The stamped postcard is from Prima Paris set.

 

Top Tip Tuesday No Cards Please

Tammy's Scrapin' Corner Pink and Girly Sparkle

One Stop Craft anything Goes

Simply Create Too Anything Goes

Milk Coffee Challenge Shabby Chic/Vintage

ABC Challenge Not Just One

Charisma Cardz Challenge No Digis Allowed

 

 

 

 

WOYWW # 203

Hey all, I can't believe that it has been so long since I joined in the fun over at The Stamping Ground, with the lovely Ms. Julia who is in Spain on vacation. I have missed all of my friends "What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday". I have been creating but not having much computer time. So, now I am back and can't wait to get started.The 4th anniversary of WOYWW is coming up really soon and I know there is going to be an ATC swap. I have started working on my ATCs and that is what can be found on my desk at the moment. I will also be attaching a link to one of my lates videos where you will be able to see some new projects that I recently finished.

My desk, you can see several ATC bases that I have sprayed with dylusions sprays and the stamp that I think I will be using.

 

I got some of the new Prima stamps and can't wait to start to play with them. I actually got 5 of the 6. They are just so cute.

 

I have been busy creating even, though there has not been any computer time. Here is a link to a new video I just posted. It shows an altered match box and a pin cushion that I made for a one on one swap. Click here.

 

Well, that is it for me, I can't wait to get out and visit some of the wonderful desk that I have been missing. Ladies, I will be making about 15 ATCs for trading. So, If you are interested when the time comes, just send me an email at the email address on my side bar and I will be glad to swap with you. I think the swap is going to be week 208. So it is coming fast.

 

 

 

 

FOCUS ON THE SENTIMENT AT TUESDAY THROWDOWN # 143

Good morning, it is Tuesday and that means it is time for another challenge at Tuesday Throwdown. This week the challenge is "Focus on the Sentiment", that means that the sentiment has to be out in the front. Please read the rules on the challenge blog and follow them. Our sponsor this week is My Creative Classroom.

 

The sentiment that I have used is from Tim Holtz, and it is one that I had to have.

 

All of the paper on this card is from the scrap file, I DP is My Minds Eye, the cardstock is Recollections, the flower is the last from an old prima set. The butterflies are Recollections. I inked the edges of the spellbinders die cuts with Tim Holtz distress ink, faded jeans. So, that is it for my project, very simple but, I really like it. Please join us this week at Tuesday Throwdown it is going to be lots of fun.

 

Tammy's Scrapin corner Spring has Sprung

 (I think my flower and butterflies and color say spring)

One Stop Craft Pastels

Totally Gorjuss Spring Shades

Cute Card Thursday Butterfly Kisses

Creative Belli Blog Pastels

 

 







CELEBRATE WITH A MINI ALBUM

Good morning all, I can't believe that it has been 2 weeks since my last post. I have been having a very busy time and not much computer time. I was out of town for a while visiting with family and friends that I had not seen for a while. I helped my cousin to celebrate her 65th birthday and that was loads of fun. The way that we celebrated was to have an outdoor party/cookout. The tempertures were in the high 90s. And we had a crowd there for the celebration. There were tents setup up in the back yard with lots of food and drinks. While celebrating it rained on us. And I could not beleive that not one person left the party because of the rain. We just hung out under the tents until it stopped. After the rain a beautiful rainbow came out and I actually got a wonderful photo of it. The project that I am showing today is the mini album that I made for her birthday. She loved it. Once I get the photos printed and in the book I will give it back to her.

This is the cover of the book, the papers used are from Hobby Lobby and the pads are called Simple elegance with foil. I have both the 4.5x6.5 and the 12x12 pads. When I decided to use this paper I already had the small pad and went to Hobby Lobby to get the 12x12 one and they had it clearanced out and it was the very last one that they had. How lucky for me. I used 7 large envelopes for the pages, they are also from Hobby Lobby, they are the A9 size (5.75x8.75). They have not always carried this size. The bling is from Michaels, I stamped the (it's your birthday sentiment with versamark and embossed it with gold embossing powder from Tim Holtz). It was cut out using a Spellbinders label die.  I used the Tim Holtz ornate plate, stamp the word celebrate cut it out to fit inside the plate used glossy accents to glue it in and then filled the opening with glossy accents to make a little window. I really love how that turned out. I used the Tim Holtz metal corners on both the front and the back corners. Now a little about the flowers. The gold flower is from Recollection. The center black flower is Prima. The two on the end I made those. I punced out 2 layers for each, sprayed them with black glimmer mist let them dry, went over them with some some Tim Holtz acrylic paint. once that dried I took some some of those little berry like things off of some picks that I had laying around painted them black and hot glued them to the center of the flowers.  I then sprayed once again with black glimmer mist, let them dry and then spray with gold glimmer mist. I have never before spent so much time making flowers. But, I really love how they came out. I bound my book using my CINCH.

Every other page has a double pocket, which will have several tags for photos and journally. The end of each envelope had the ends cut off and now hold a very large tag. I love that all of the papers coordinate so well.

I still have to add the photos and decorate the other pages, but I decided to embellish after the photos were added. I used the scalloped crop-i-dile for the corners on the small tag. And I used the Tim Holtz brackets on  the edge die for the large tag.

Well, I hope that you have enjoyed taking a look at my newest mini album. I must say that I truly enjoy making them and I have made one for most of my immediate girly family members.  I find that when I make them, I just hate to hold on to them so I give them away to be used. I think that is where most of my joy comes in at. That others seem to love them as much as I do.

Secret Crafter Gold, Silver or Bronze

Fat Pages and Cards with Attitude Add Texture-Anything Goes

Simply Create Too Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday Tag You're It

Divas By Design For a Female

The Sisterhood of Crafters Tag You're It

Fab N' Funky Use pearls or Rhinestones

Creative Craft Challenge Just a Sentiment

PaperTake Weekly Anything Goes

Love to Create Punches and Dies

Craft Your Passion Challenge Anything Goes
Tammy's Scrapin Corner Show us Your Bling

Well, truly this post is finally come to an end.  I hope that you have enjoyed your visit. Sorry it has turned out to be such a long post. But, that is what happens when I stay away to long. Just a little reminder that I do have blog candy for anyone who wants to join in. You can get to it from the photo on the side bar.

SPRING TIME MINI ALBUMS

Good morning fellow bloggers, it feels kind of strange not to have a DT post for today. But, I am truly enjoying not being of a specific time table at the moment. I do love being on Design Teams. And will start to look around for another one soon. But, one that is for any other day except Saturday. Time for a change.
Over the last few months I have acquired a need to make mini albums. I love trying the different styles that are out there. I have made several and given them all away and even had a commission to make a couple. Those are the ones that I am about to show you. The first and second of this style that I made, I gave one to my daughter and the other I sent to my sister for her birthday. That is the one that some people at work got a look at and decided that they had to have one. So I got orders for 2 more. But, then I had to come up with a price for them. They gave me what I asked for and I gave them what they wanted.

As you can see they are similar, the papers are from the same K and Company Susan Winget designer and specialty pads. Love these papers. The flowers are prima and the butterflies are Recollections. The ribbon is from my stash. I used my wonderful fairly new Cinch to bind them. The closure is made with a chain from Michaels and my jewelry making stash, the frame was something that I bought on clearance a really long time ago, I painted using alcohol inks and silver fixative. The bling is from my stash. The hitch for the closure is from Tim Holtz. Last but not least is the design for these albums. That is from Elsa over at Just a Few Designs. Each section of this album was made from one single sheet of 12x12 paper. there are pockets and and lots of tags and the album will hold lots of photos.

As you can see, these turned out to be the perfect little gifts. Well that is it for now. Hope that you have enjoyed your visit.

Paper Pretties Bling it up

Divas by Design Anything Goes

Crafty Creations TAGS

Oldie but a Goodie Flower Power
Digi Doodles Shop Anything Goes

 

TAG YOU'RE IT

Well, I am back with a second post for today. The temperature here is extreme (over 100 degrees) and it has been like that for the last week and will head into next week with more of the same. I went out early to take care of some errands and I plan to spend the rest of the day inside playing with my paper and pens. There are lots of projects in different stages of completion and I hope to actually finish a couple of them.

This is one of several tags that I have made and I am going to use this one in one of my travel journals. This whole thing is mostly scraps and things left over from other projects. The flowers are some old primas that I took off of another project. The butterfly was leftover from a scrapbook page that I did last year. The bling is from my stash and the ribbon are pieces left from another project. The butterfly was colored with copics B21, B00, BO2, The pinks I don't remember the numbers. The stamp is one I bought on clearance. Well, thats it. I am off to do some more crafting.

Creative Belli Blog Anything but a card

Divas by Design Tag You're it

Charisma Cardz Anything Goes

ATC & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes

Allsorts  In Bloom

Crazy 4 Challenges Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs Anything Goes

Love to Create Challange Anything Goes

A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY CARD

Wow, I am back with another post. 2 in one day. This one is a card I made for a friend to give to a lady at her church. She had seen another one of my cards and kept asking my friend about them. It seems she really loved the one she saw and she wanted one for herself. So my friend is giving her this one for her birthday in a couple of weeks. The image is one from Tellen's Place Designs and just because I no longer design for Tellens, I still love the images and you will be seeing even more of them in the coming weeks. I love the DIVA images they are easy to work with and the women that I know love getting the cards I have made with them. There is a little diva in everyone of us.

I think that this card turned out even better than I could have imagined. The DP papers are from Making Memories and it is from their black and white pad 8x8. Which is one of the last few things that I bought at Tuesday Mornings before the tornado. The image as I said before is from Tellen's and it was colored with copics E09, E11, E13, E15, RV02, RV04, RV06, I used spica glitter pen pink of the scarf and shoes. The flowers are from 2 different sets by Prima and I love that they had swiss dots to match my papers. I put stickles on the flowers after layering 3 deep to give them shine and sparkle. The clear bling is from my stash. I used 2 stamps from a clear set on the front of the card and on the inside is two different stamps used. The sentiment stamp on the right is from Stampendous and the celebrating you stamp is from Michaels dollar bin. The black and pink cardstock is from Bazzill. I used Spellbinders Nestabilities labels 10. and ran it through my Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder. I also used one of the art deco embossing folders from Cuttlebug and the swiss dots folder. As you can tell, I love embossing. Well, that is it for this card and yes I do have a few challenges.

Kaboodles Doodles Challenge Lots of layers

2 Sisters Challenge Blog How does your garden grow?

Top Tip Tuesday Flower Frenzy

Creative Card Crew May Flowers

Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge Black, White and one other color

Crafty Catz challenge Pink, Black and white

Creative Inspirations Decorate the inside of your card

The Sisterhood of Crafters Let it Shine

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog Let's Feel it (texture)

Do it With Digi's Sassy and Sparkly

Well, that is it for now. I hope that you have enjoyed your visit and will come back again soon.

SPRING TIME BIRTHDAY

Good morning everyone, I have a new card and some sad news. At least sad for me. This week I got the news that Tellen's Place was changing its format and with the direction that it was going  they would no longer need the services of a full design team. I am now out of a position. I will be looking for a new team to work with and if any of you know of anything I will be willing to listen. When I started blogging Tellen's Place was one of the first blogs that I joined in with the challenges and from there it led to a position on the team. Terry is a wonderful lady and it was a pleasure to work with her. I love the images that her son draws and I will continue to use them on a regular basis. You can visit Terry at the new format and still get the images you love at Tellen's Place Designs, there are lots of new designs and she will have blog candy and even a few challenges. I will be joining in myself. Thanks for a great opportunity Terry.

My new card is another Kenny K image and it was created for the oldest granddaughter of a friend. but, I think that it gives a feel of Springtime with the Basic grey papers (from the Wisteria pack). I love the dragon flies in the background, the flowers are Prima and the bling is from my stash. I used the Cuttlebug spots and dots folder the the card stock is from Bazzill. I colored the image with copics E00, E11, E13, E25, E42, BG93, BG95, BG10, W3, W5, YG61 and the spica glitter pens melon and mint. The punch is Martha Stewart and the ticket sentiment is from a set sent to me by a friend. The sketch is from Lollipop Crafts.

I embossed the inside with one of the folders from the Cuttlebug art deco set and the stamped sentiment is from Stampendous.

Craft your Passion Challenge Spots and Dots

Kenny K Krafty Girlz Challenge Springtime

Fussy N' Fancy Friday Challenge Springtime

PaperTake Weekly challenge Spots and Stripes

Digital Tuesday Challenge Pretty Punches

Top Tip Tuesday Open challenge

 The Pixie Cottage sketch / Happy Birthday

ABC Challenge S is for Sparkle

Simon Says Stamp Emboss it

C.R.A.F.T. challenge Flowers

Basic Grey Challenge Easter/Spring
Pixie Dust Studios Spring Forward

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge Anything Goes

Delicious Doodles Challenge Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss Bling it On

Well, that is it for today. Don't forget, if you know of any DT calls let me know. I will be looking for work. I hope that you have enjoyed your visit. I will be back soon. Because, I have really been busy creating this month. Lots of birthdays and orders for more cards.

RETAIL THERAPY

Wow, another Friday and over at Tellen's Place the challenge for this week is "Polka Dots". Well, I like polka dots and I bought this particular paper to use on a baby scrapbook that I have only done a few pages for, I really do need to get to work on that. But, instead I decided to use some of it on a scrapbook page for me. Back in August when I went to Chicago, I told you that I went to Archivers to shop. Well, I did shop. As a matter of fact I went back for a second time before I came back home. The employees got a kick out of my first visit because I had my granddaughter take pictures of me shopping, I knew that I would have to do a scrapbook page of my visit. I used the shopping diva image from Tellen's. I really liked her because she has lots of bags in her hands. I colored the image with copics E00, E11, E13, E15, E09, E25, E53, E21, RV00, RV02, RV0000, RV11 and the pink spica glitter pen. I used a little antique linen distress ink around the edges just to tone down the white. I used Bazzill card stock for my background sheet and the pink polka dot paper is from The Paper Studio. The letters and numbers were cut on my wonderful Cricut using the Jublilee cartridge. The flower is from Prima and was bought on this particular shopping trip. If you look closely at the center photo you will see these same flowers on the shelves.

Yes I do have a couple of challenges that this will work on. I know that I have not been posting very nuch this month, and I will do better. But, I found that I was spending way to much time blogging and being on the computer during the last year. I have had to try and get this under control. There were too many things in my life that I just let go by the wayside once I got interested in card making and blogging. So, I will be posting a couple of times a week and I hope to get in more designing and the time to try more different techniques. 

Creative Belli The Letter P (polka dots)

Pear Tree Designs Free for All

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Anything Goes

2 Sisters Challenge Flowers

Whoopsi Daisy Pretty in Pink
Paper Cutz It's Your Choice
Alphabet Challenge L is for Ladies
Do It With Digis Pink and Girly

Good bye for now and I hope that you have enjoyed your visit.

Flower Garden

Ok, I am back with one more card. Boy, did I have a very busy weekend. I loved every minute of it. I completed a total of 5 cards and that is a record for me. I took them to work and one of my co-workers decided she wanted me to design a card for a friend of hers. How cool is that. So that is my project for the week to come up with a card to make some one feel better. But, now I want  to keep this post short. So, on to the card.

The image that I have used is a  Gorjuss - she is the Purrfect friend comes with a cat. This is a Sugar Nellie Stamp. It was colored with my copics. I tried a new skin combination E00, E11, E13, E15, E25, R83, R81, R85, Y11, Y21, YG63, YG25, YG95, YG03. The paper is Basic Grey, the lemonade pad. I used paper peicing, I stamped 2 images and one was on the flowered paper. The second stamp (flowers) is from Stampenous. The Primas, they were a light pink and I used R85 to make them darker. The twine is from Hobby Lobby (I was so glad that they had small packages and different colors). Once again I used my new distressing tool from Tim Holtz, I love that thing.  My card base is Bazzill. There are only a few challenges that I want to enter this into. The first is Basic Grey Challenges (fortnightly) the challenge is paper piecing. They are also having a DT call. And I would love to design for them. So, I am going to give it a shot. The next challenge is Sir Stampalot Challenge the challenge is distressing. I know, I entered my last card and got a message that I had to many challenges to qualify for the prize, but I could try again. Maybe this time I got it right. You can't have more than six challenges to qualify. The next challenge is Our Creative Corner Sketch Weekly

That is it for challenges and I am coming to the end of my post. I hope that you like my card and I would love to hear from you.

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.

PRETTY IN PINK TILDA

Good morning everyone. What a lovely morning it is. I am going to have to keep this post short, because it is really getting late and I am no where near ready to start my day. I mentioned yesterday that I took an advanced Copics coloring class on Saturday and I hope that this image shows that I did learn a little something. I think that she turned out really good. My image today is one of the fairy tale Tildas, she was given to me by a friend just recently. My favorite place to buy the Magnolia images is the Magnolia-licious online Store it is owned by Diana Crick and she is wonderful. Her service is top notch and I have always been amazed at how fast I receive my orders. Thanks Diana. I can't wait until I can come back over for more shopping.

I have colored Tilda using E53, E51, E50, E25, RV00, RV02, RV11, RV04 and my pink spica glitter pen. The paper is all from The Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. The swirl paper is from a new birthday pack that I recently bought. The flowers are prima from my stash, the pearls are Martha Stewart, bought on clearance months ago and then colored with my RV06 marker. I also used my Martha Stewart leaf punch. I stitched it with my wonderful little Pixie. The sketch is from Sunday Sketch & Stamp this is a 2 week challenge blog.

I really like the way this one turned out.

I have a few challenges that I am entering this one in. But, I guess that does not surprise anyone who has visited my blog.

Pixie Dust Studio Pretty in Pink

Craftalicious Challenges Pearls and swirls (this is a 2 week challenge)

Totally Tilda Stitching

Cooking it up with Katie Flowery pink squaares

Penny Black At Allsorts Glitter and glitz (There is a DT call at Penny Black @ allsorts this month. it is a monthly challenge blog and they are looking for new design team members)

Magnolia-Licious Highlights challenge Blog Blog hop

My Time to Craft Challenge Glitter and glitz

Creative Card Crew Sparkle and Shine

Alphabet Challenge P is for Punches

Well I guess this is all for this card, I hope that you like it and leave me a little love to come home to.

Cute, Chocolate and Mint

Happy Saturday. Can you believe that it has taken me all day to come up with an idea for this card. I think I have spent to much time out in the 98 to 100 degree heat here in the south. I am so looking forward to the fall and some cool weather. The problem with the heat here is that once it hits 90 it never goes away. We have been having this type of weather for months. Oh well, what are you going to do.

You know how I like challenges and you probably know how much I love Mo's Digital images and do you have any idea how much I love chocolate and mint. Well, this card puts all of these things together. But, first lets start with the sketch. It is from The Pixie Cottage their challenge is to use the sketch and or 2 stamps. I took that to mean a sentiment with an image or 2 images.  I chose to use a Mo's Digital Image one of the terrible twos. I love these images. But, the challenge was paper piecing. So, I made 3 copies of the image and layered them together to give it more dimension. I think I will show my card here.

I thought that these two stamps go together so well.

I think that the layering will be considered paper piecing. I am not sure why my brown/chocolate papers always look black. At least the greens look green. I colored the image with my copics. G21, G12, G00, Y02, Y11, E31, E33, E21, E09, E25. I used my spica glitter pens in chocolate on th sentiment and yellow and mint on the image. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the paper. The card stocks are all Bazzill. The sentiment stamp was bought at Hobby Lobby on the clearance rack. I paid $1.49 for it. the brads are from Recollections and have been in my stash for over a year.The ribbon is from my stash. The sparkly flower is from Prima I think it is the spring mix. The flower beneath it is a paper flower was white, and I bought it at Michaels and I paid $.99 for the pack. I then colored it with G21. Well, I guess that it is about the card. Now for the other challenges that I am putting it in.

Crafty Creations Happy or Sweet

The Pink Elephant Brown

Papertake Weekly Cutie Patootie

Fussy  and Fancy Friday Challenge Stitches, scallops and sparkle

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Use a digital image

The Shabby Tea Room From the garden

Stamp Something Something flowery

Creative Inspiration Anything goes

Creative Inspiration Wednesday Challenge Chocolate & Mint

Well this it for tonight, I hope to be back tomorrow with something new and exciting. I would love to know what you think.

SUMMER TIME MEANS VACATIONS

Wow, I am back once again with another card. I did not think that I would make it. When I was here earlier, I failed to mention that I had attended a Copics class yesterday. It was held at the closest scrapbook store. When I say closest. I mean the only true scrapbook store in my area. It is located about 45 miles from here. The class was taught by Christine who is on the Design team for Simon Says Stamp. She is also on the design team for Scrapbook Mania. I learned some things that I didn't know. And it helped me to see where I was doing some things not quite correctly. It was interesting and made for a nice outing. My next goal is to become a certified Copics user.

Now to my card. I used three stamps on this card. one is the background stamp which is from The Pixie Cottage.  It is the tree stump with the bench and flowers. It is one of the stamps that I won from the Pixie Cottage right before my computer died. The second stamp is from Magnolia, it is the Tilda eating an icecream. My favorite Magnolia store is Magnolia-Licious Online Store it is owned and run by the wonderful Diana Crick. Stop by and see her. The customer service is great. The third stamp is the sentiment and it is from the $1 bin at Michaels. The sketch is from Just Magnolia.

I colored my card with my Copics. E13, E31, E29, E29, E57, E53, B21, B32, G17, G07, G21, G24, R20, R81, R83, YO4,  W3, W5, W7. I used my spica glitter pens to give a little sparkle to the flowers. I colored in the sky and grass to make it more like a scene. I used small pop dots to pop Tilda up and make it more three dimensional. The roses are from Prima. I used the Martha Stewart lace punch I like this one because it pucnches on both sides of the paper. And it is simple to use. Some of her punches, although they are pretty. You have to work to hard to use them. The card stock is Bazzill and the other DP papers are a mixture of Basic Grey. The pastel stripe I am not sure where that came from. I also, used the Martha Stewart leaf punch. The butterfly stamp is one of my $1 stamps. I am entering this card into several challenges and they are:

Alphabet Challenge L is for lace

Flutter by Wednesday Fairies, Angels or Butterflies

Crafty Anns Challenge ASir Richarad Song (Summer Holiday)

Secret Crafter Summer Holiday

Sweet Stampin Challenge They had an inspiration photo. I pulled my colors from there

Stamptacular Sunday Ice cream

Crafty Card Makers Photo inspiration (green blue yellow)

If the Shoe Fits... Scrap it Vacation

Well I guess that is it for tonight. I hope that you like my card. And I would love to hear from you. Have a good and productive week. I will see you back here soon.

FLOWERS! FLOWERS! TELLEN'S PLACE #15

Wow, time sure does go by fast, even when you aren't having so much fun. It is Wednesday already and time for another Tellen's Place challenge. Today is show us your flowers. The DIVAs have all been very busy getting their creations together for this challenge. Please take a moment to go by and take a look and what they have to offer. And don't forget to check out Tellen's Place Designs to see some of the wonderful images that Terry has to offer and don't forget about the mini kits that she sales.

My card today is very different from anything that I have done before, because I did not have a colored image. I have used only flowers and my trusty Cuttlebug and I have no DP at all. I have embosed all of my paper to make a lovely design. I used two cuttlebug embossing folders. the first is swirls and birds and the second is textiles. The large roses are Prima, the smaller roses are just from my stash. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the leaves and the bling is from my stash. The sketch is from Sketch Saturday

Well here is my card, I hope you like it. I will be sending this card to a very special lady for Mother's Day. I have know her all of my life. She was my mothers best friend and since my mothers death she has been like a mother, and also my very good friend. I have called her aunt since I learned to talk. And she has been more like family than a lot of my blood relatives. 

Besides Sketch Saturday, I will be entering this card into the Pixie Cottage their challenge is flowers or a sketch or both. I have the flowers. The next is the Pink Elephant has a color challenges "Aqua". Well my card has aqua. One more challenge is at Crafty Creations it is make your own paper. That is it for the card

As some of you know, I had some blogger issues this morning and was unable to finish my post. I am very sorry, that there was nothing here to see. Please come back to visit.  

I LOVE A GOOD CHALLENGE

I am back with another post. This one will be really short. The card I have made is for a couple of challenges one is at Digital Tuesday Challenges it is April flowers/April showers. Well I have a lot of flowers on my card. The back ground paper is covered in flowers. There are my roses that I colored from white to a yellow orange. I hope that this covers it. The next challenge is at Crazy 4 Challegnes the challenge was to copy one of the DT cards. This is the one that I chose.

I chose this one because I needed another card for an upcoming baby. And because I had another image by Elizabeth Bell that is so similar it is scary. Now for my card.

I used her sketch. What do you think?

Now for a little about my card.The first two layers of DP are from Basic Grey. The flowered one is from the Wiseria pad and the second that is matted on the yellow card stock is from the Eva pad. The other DP is from My Minds Eye Home collection. I colored my image with my copics. E53, E31, G21, G12, Y11, W3, W5. The geen flowers are from Prima Honeydew collection. the roses are from my stash, they were white, I colored them with a Y32 copic. I used my mint spica glitter pen on the neck and arm of the dress. The green pearls were a part of my win from Simon Says Stamp store. The ribbon was bought at Hobby Lobby.

I hope you like my card. Pleae leave a comment to let me know what you think.

Friends Forever

Good morning, I am back. First let me get the business side out o the way. I am adding some items to the blog candy. You can click on the picture at the side bar and go to the blog candy post. There you will find the new items on the list.

Now, I have a new card to post. I have been very busy this weekend. I have made two new cards, some ATC's and even have a couple of other cards in the works. I have orders for 2 sets of note cards that I have got to get started on. WOW, that does not include the fact that I finished putting together my new grill and all of the household errands and work that I have taken care of. It has really been a busy time. But, I am glad to have it all out of the way. Now, lets get to that card. This card is all about friendship. The sketch is from Basic Grey Challenges.

The next challenge is at Penny Black Saturday Challenge. The challenge is buttons galore. Plus, for a Penny Black challenge  you have to use a Penny Black image. And to my surprise I already had one colored up on my bulletin board just waiting to be used. I had planned to send a friend a card and just never got to it. So, this is the card I will send. The next challenge is at Stamptacular Sunday challenge Blog it calls for spots and dots.  The next challenge is at Pixie Dust Studios things with wings, I think that my butterflies come under that heading.  Now a little about the card. The card base is Bazzill (love this paper). All ofthe DP is from Basic Grey Lemonade pad. I am going to need another pad soon. The image was colored with my copics. But, it has been so long and I don't remember exactly what was used. But mostly it was blues and reds. The flowers are all Primas from the summer and spring mixes. The buttons are from Paper Studio. I used a Martha Stewart edge punch (cornices) that I bought for $3.99 at Tuesday Mornings this weekend. The butterfly punch is from my stash. The big butterfly is from Jolie. I used my scalloped nesstibilities circle to punch out the circle stamp from Inkadinkado. The bling is from my stash. The letters for the words forever are from my scrapbook stash. and I made the card an easel card. I do love the way they look.