FALLOWEEN CHARM SWAP

Good morning, it is one week after my beach retreat and time to get back to some serious crafting. Our trip was just fabulous. I do love the beach. I worked on my scrapbook from Vegas and got lots of pages finished. Still a long way to go. Got lots of pictures from the beach and just need lots of time to go through them. I haven't done much crafting since I returned. I got a flu shot on Monday and have been getting sicker and sicker every since. I keep hoping it is just allergies, but I am just not sure. But, no time to worry about that now. I have to much to do and to little time to get it done.

Over at Stampin' Dymonz Scrap Shack this month, we are having another charm swap. This time the theme is Falloween, kind of a mixture of Halloween and fall. These are some of my favorite colors. I found some fabulous beads at Michael's that are made like rocks and they had some wonderful shapes. They were so different that I just could not resist.

I used Spellbinders Nestibilities to make the tags and Recollections halloween paper from last year.  I cut 2 pieces of the paper and then used black chipboard as the center. The stamp is one that I found at Michael's in the $1 bin. There is a movie from years ago that was called "Something wicked this way comes" it was a very scary movie and I couldn't resist the stamp. The rules for the charm swaps are, that each charm must have at least 10 charms attached. this can be beads or your choice. Each must have a presentation or tag. The charms I found at Walmart for $2 a set. I was so surprised and bought all that I could find. The skull and cross bones. The flying dragons and the butterflies and dragon flies and the moon and sun and stars, so cool. the tags were colored with copics. Well I hope that you have enjoyed your visit and would love for you to come back soon.

Cupcake Crafts Challenge Halloween

Digital Tuesday Challenge Fall Colours

Top Tip Tuesday Use Designer Paper/optional flowers

Creative Card Crew Spooky Fun

Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge Tag It

Fab N' Funky Challenges Fall Colors

Delightful Challenges Colors of Fall

Simon Says Stamp Halloween or Goth

ABC Challenge B is for Boo

Fussy N' Fancy Friday Halloween

CHRISTMAS TUNNEL CARD

Good morning, I am back with another post (wow 2 in 2 days). This is a Christmas card with a twist. It is a tunnel card. Never heard of them. Well until a few weeks ago neither had I. That is what I love about being a DT moderator at the Stampin' Dymonz Scrap Shack every week I get to make a new and different card. This week it is the tunnel card. Now when I read that on our schedule, I thought ok here is another card that I am not going to get much use out of. It sounded like it was going to be difficult with lots of pieces. It wasn't. It was actually quite easy to make. And it gave me a chance to get one up on my Christmas cards. And the really easy part is that I did not do any coloring of images.

This is the tunnel part of the card. I used the Nestibilities scalloped oval for my cut out. The stamp is from a Penny Black set that I bought last year and the flourish is from a different set. The paper is from last years DCWV Christmas pad and the card stock is Bazzill and the Paper Company.

And this is the finished product. The ribbon is from my stash. These papers are left over from the inside of the card and the center piece is from Recollections. Well that it is for this card. So easy and I am off to make a couple more. Yes, there are a few challenges.

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenges Try a new Technique

Southern Girls Challenge Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Use Dies and or Punches

Creative Inspirations Challenge Lets Celebrate
Pixie Dust Studios Challenge Round and Round

Well, that is it for this post. It feels good to be back on a regular basis. Hope that you enjoyed your visit and will leave a little love to let me know that you were here. Don't forget about my 2nd anniversary blog candy you can get to it from my side bar. Have a good week.

 

RETIREMENT (TIME TO HAVE SOME FUN)

Good evening, it seems like a long time since I posted anything new here, but life has been really busy. I don't seem to get much time for blogging although I have been really busy with my DT duties and creating new things. I recently started remaking my office/craft room and will show it off once I have my storage all set up. The painting is done, the furniture has been moved around and I have removed a couple of pieces and replaced them with a more functional storage system. So very soon it will be finished.

Today I am going to show a retirment card that I recently made for a friends aunt. She loves cream and lavender and you know that was right up my alley. Two of my favorite colors with bling. The image that I used is from Bugaboo Stamps her name is Scarlett and I think she is very much a diva.

The image was colored with copics E11, E13, E15, E23, E25, E51, E50, E53, V15, V20, spica glitter pen lavender, wild orchid roses, Sissx floral die, the sentiment was typed on the computer. the bling was from my stash and I used my Cuttlebug and embossed the inside with one of the art deco embossing folders. So as you can see, I really have been busy. I have about 7 more cards yet to preview. I have played with clay and started a real art journal. I have played with dragons and magicians and I will be showing all of these things over time. So don't give up on me. I am still around and working hard. There are a few challenges that I want to post this card for.

Fab N' Funky Challenges Purple Haze

Charisma Cardz Challenges All about the flowers

Allsorts challenges Free and Easy July

One Stitch at A time Challenge Anything Goes
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge Summer fun (warm colors)
Creative Craft challenges Pretty Blossoms

Well, I have come to the end of my post. I hope that you have enjoyed your visit and would love to read your comments.

 

TILDA IN THE SPRINGTIME

"I AM SO EXCITED, THIS CARD WAS A WINNER AT TOTALLY GORJUSS, #64 HOT! HOT! HOT!.

Happy Sunday everyone. I know that I have not been posting as much as I did last year and I am just trying to get some things under control. I spent so much time on the computer during the last year that there were many things in my life that totally went out of control. One of those things has been my weight. Another was my reading and journaling. I used to visit the library every week, I have not been once in the last year. I keep a journal and over the last year I seem to always be weeks and months behind on doing that. And since so much of my time was blog hopping, I found that I did not design projects as much as I wanted to. I was always wanting to try new techniques, but found that there was never enough time. So one of my goals for this year is to have a certain time to visit my favorite blogs and leave comments. And with my Design team duties, I have to be organized. I also want to find more time for some of the new techniques that I have been wanting to try. So please just bear with me. I am trying to get things worked out. Another thing that I will be doing this year is learning to use my new camera and (yes I was able to get registered for the photography class that I was looking at) I talked to the photographer and I have paid my money. The class will be starting in February and it is 3 sessions (3 weeks) for 3 hours each. They will be on Mondays. This particular photographer does a lot of field trips, so we will be spending a lot of time out in the field. This should be great. I will be working on a lot more scrapbook pages than cards. My card stash is huge and I don't see having to make cards for my family for the rest of the year and into the next. So since my photos have really been piling up and I have lots of new things that I will be photographing, I think that scrapbook layouts are the way for me to go. Plus, I have been buying a lot of items that I want to alter. So look for that in the near future.

Ok, I have a new project to share today and I will try to keep this short. I love Magnolia stamps and it has been a while since I have used any of them. Today my project is Tilda.. I am not sure what she is called, she was a gift and the name was not on the package. So if any body knows please tell me. My favorite place to buy Magnolia stamps is the Magnolia-licious Online Store which is owned by Diana Crick and her husband. The customer service is fabulous and I am looking to stop by and get a couple of the new Magnolia mini images. I have only seen a few of them but, they are just so cute. And I know I need to add a couple of them to my collection.

Now here is my card.

I don't use yellow very much but, with the cold and dreary weather that we have been having here in Alabama, I needed something to cheer me up. Just so you know I did not use my new camera to take this picture. I was in a hurry to get it done and I just used my old one. Since this image was colored with copics months ago I have not been able to find my notes on which I used. The base is bazzill and the 3 design papers are from the Basic Grey lemonade pad. I have to tell you that I love Basic Grey, but the lemonade pad is one of my favorites. (If you have a Big Lots store near you, you should know that they have been having basic grey assesories in stock since Christmas, I first saw them when I was in Georgia, then I was in the store here and found lots more. They have some brads, buttons and even had several clear stamps that I bought. so you should check it out if you like Basic Grey, the price is definitly right). Both sentiment stamps come from the same clear stamp set, and I have thrown the packaging away so I don't remember the maker, but it is a set that I bought at Hobby Lobby. I used the circle Spellbinders and the button flowers are from my stash. The color of them just went so perfect with my papers and the flower that Tilda is holding. The two yellow brads and the yellow ribbon is from my stash. The sketch is from Sketch Saturday.

4 Crafty Chicks 1 Ribbon, 2 brads and 3 patterned papers

Cute Card Thursday recipe 1, 2, 3

Simon Says Stamp Bingo (Brads, flowers, Ribbon)

Totally Gorjuss  Hot, Hot Hot

Magnolia Stamp Lovers Sentiment Challenge

Creative Craft Challenges Monochromatic madness

Well this is it for now. I will be back with another creation soon. Thanks for stopping by and I would love to read your comments.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Good evening my fellow bloggers, I am here with a new card and I hope to keep this post short. One of my challenges for the new year is to not spend so much time on the computer. I have a multitude of interest and with working and spending 3 or 4 hours a day on the computer, I did not get as much designing done as I would like. so we will see how this works. The image that I have used for this card is from the Greeting Farm, she is called Lottie and she is just to cute. She is a new image for me, but I am glad that she has come into my life. The photo was taken with my new camer and I think that the color and light quality is so much better. I have a long way to go to get really good with the camera. I do like how this turned out. It is clean and simple.

 She was colored with my copics E00, E11, 13, E53, E50, R27, R29, R81, R83, R85 and pink spica glitter pen. The image was stamped using Momento tuxedo black.The sentiment is from my stash part of a set of stamps bought at Michaels. I used the heart embossing folder from Cuttlebug and  the sentiment was cut out using a small Spellbinders scalloped square. The read paper is from the Paper Studio as is the pink. Well that is it for the card and yes there are a few challenges.

Paper Take Weekly Be Thankful

Allsorts Challenge Thank You

Cute Card Thursday Thank You

C.R.A.F.T Challenge Thank You
Phindy's Place Challenge Thank You

Colour Create Challenge Red, Pink, white and hearts

Well that is it for now I will be back soon with another project. I love to hear from you so all comments are welcomed.

HEY CUPCAKE (BIRTHDAY CARD)

Are there cards that you want to make and then you wonder just what you're going to do with them? Well, for me there are a lot of images that I really like, but I just don't have a clue how to use them. That is how I have felt about the cupcake images. I have several different ones, some digital and some stamps. I just could not seem to make a card with any of them that I really liked. Until now.

 This is a card that I made for a friend. I hope she is not checking on me this weekend. I was out of the office all week, so I did not have a chance to give it to her. A little about this card, the image is from Meljens Designs it was a freebie. But, they have such wonderful images, I am already working on the next one. I had a little accident with the image. It is actually surrounded by swirls and hearts and such, I tried to use the Martha stewart punch (one of the first that I ever bought on the image paper and cut to deep. So I had to cut each cupcake out and use it the way that I did). I don't know the name of the punch, but I used it on my brown paper. Which is from the Paper Company. The pink paper comes from a pad by The Paper Studio. I embossed with the Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder and the dots and spots embossing folder. I used my inverted scalloped circle under the cupcakes. They were colored with copics E31, E33, E53, E51, E25, E37, R81, R83 and other pinks, spica glitter pens pink, chocolate. The brown pearls on the inside were from the stash of stuff that I recently won. I am going to have to have more. I really love them. The sentiment on the inside is from Stampendous. I typed the "Hey Cupcake" on the computer and printed it in pink and then went over it with the pink spica glitter pen. The flowers are white paper flowers from Recollections which I colored with the same color pink copics that I used on the rest of the card. After the cupcakes were colored, I used glossy accents to make it shiney. The buttons are from my stash. The swirly paper that I stitched with my trusty little pixie machine is from my stash. Well, that is about it for the card. And yes, I do have challenges. Was there ever any doubt? The sketch is from Diva Coffee Break Designs

Tuesday Morning Sketches Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes

Alphabet Challenge D is for Doodling (I think that my swirls could count as doodling)

Top Tip Tuesday Buttons, Buttons Galore

Simple Doodles Cute as a button

Fab N' Funky Long Forgotten stamps or digis (my cupcakes)

Crazy 4 Challenges Going Around in Circles

Pals Paper Arts Clean and Simple

Well, for now that is it. I will be back.

I would like to thank all of the people who made my anniversary a success. I will be posting the winners very soon. I was so surprised to realize that there were  over 100 comments left for me. And I am so excited by the number of followers. It will take a while, but I will be visiting each blog. Thank you all so very much. Stay tuned for the winners.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

"This card won the November challenge at Copic Musketeers Challenge Blog"


Good morning, we are half way through the week and if somebody has some extra time to spare, please send me a few hours. I could really use them. I am here posting this and it will have to be short. It is almost 6 am and I am in the process of getting ready for work. I have one annoucement this morning and then I will get on to my card..

Time is running out for my blog candy. So if you would like a chance to get in on it. Click on the picture on the side bar, leave a comment and become a follower. The deadline is November 19, 2010 and I will need a couple of days to go through the comments and match them to the followers list. I wish I had gotten mr. linky. Oh well! I will announce the winners as soon as possible after the drawing.

Now on to my card. This is another Birthday card, this one was for a little girl who likes frogs and turtles. But, she is a girly girl. Her favorite colors are orange and green. So I went with a fall color theme. Her mom, who is a friend of mine, thinks that she will love it. I know that I did and so did the mom. It amazes me how many people like my cards and don't mind paying for them. I got another order just because somebody saw this card and wanted me to make them one.

I used my favorite Tilda. she was colored with my copics E00, E11, E13, YR14, YR15, YR18, YR31, YR65, spica orange and lemon. The place to buy Magnolia stamps is from the Magnolia-licious Online Store.  The castle is a Jolie sticker set for the princess. I stuck it on a piece of card stock and then scanned it. Now I will be able to use it over and over again. After scanning it I colored it with my copics  E50, E51, E53, Y14, spica orange, chocolate and gold. The frog is from Sunshine and Giggles. I won a really fabulous prize from Midnight Madness and part of the prize was images from Sunshine and Giggles.  The flowers are from Recollections at Michaels. The bling is from my stash as is the ribbons. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the swirly folder and the swiss dots and the birthday folder. I used my Spellbinders fancy ribbon tags. and to cut the embossed happy birthday pieces. The stamped sentiment are from a clear stamp set. The sentiment was found on a very old card that I bought at the Dollar Tree. I don't know who wrote it.  Well, I think that is all for this card. I hope that you can be inspired by my work. and would love to hear from you. There are challenges because I just can't help myself. The sketch is from Allsorts Challenge blog.

Crafty Ho's Fall Colors

One Stitch at a Time Your favorite Colors (these are the colors of my apartment)

Papertake Weekly Autumn Skies

The Pixie Cottage Ribbons and Bows

Crafty Creations Beautiful Insides

Simon Says Stamp Sparkle

City Crafters Little Children
Copic Musketeers Friends and Family

Patties Creations Birthday

Once again, thanks for visiting. I hope to see you again soon.

BLACK AND GREEN

Friday, I am so glad that it is Friday. I have a busy weekend planned but it will encompass all the things that I love. Scrapbooking, card making and shopping. How can you go wrong with that combination.

With today being Friday, you know it is time for another challenge at Tellen's Place Designs, The challenge this week is to use a BLACK background. How easy is that. The DIVAs have been very busy and you can see all of their wonderful creations over at Tellen's or visit each Diva at her blog. You can reach those blogs from my side bar. I am sure that they will be glad to hear from you. I work with a very talented group of ladies. So, just tell them that I sent you. You will be glad that you stopped by.

Now, on to my card. First, I will show it to you. Then I will tell you a little about it. I have to keep this post short. I still have to get ready for work.

This week I stuck with two colors and since we needed a black background, I knew it had to be embossed so I used the cuttlebug argyle embossing folder. The sketch  is from Fancy and Fussy Challenges 

The image is one of the new Divas from Tellen's Place, I really like this one. I showed this card to a friend at work who is a member of a sorority and she placed an order for a set of note cards featuring My Diva. So that is a good deal.  My image was colored with copics: E00, E11, E13, G20, G21, G24 my new spica glitter pens. I bought the set with the richer colors and wish I had gotten it soon. I could not believe that Hobby Lobby had them in stock. I colored the glasses, belt, shoes, leaves and the edges of the card with the melon glitter pen. The bling comes from my stash. The card stock is bazzill. I used my Spellbinders Nestibilities to cut the oval/scalloped shape and the sentiment card.The flowers are from recollections at Michaels.They come 3 different shades of the same color. I did not have any green flowers so these were so perfect.   They also have chocolate, red, yellow. They are really great and at such a reasonable price. They were 40% off when I got these. Well, I guess that is all for my card. But, yes there are a few challenges to be entered.

2 Sisters Challenge blog Birthday

The Pixie Cottage 2colors only

Delightful Challenges Glitter it Up
Stamp Something Something digi
Cute Card Thursday Anything Goes

Well, that is it.I hope t hat you like this card and would love to hear from you. I will be back later with more.

MY LITTLE PRINCESS

Happy Sunday everyone, do you know the only thing wrong with Sunday? The only thing wrong with Sunday is that it is to close to Monday and that means it is almost time to go back to work to earn some money to make some more scrapbook pages and cards. I love my job and will be glad to get back there (smile). I have been very busy this weekend. This is my 3rd card to post and I have been working on orders of note cards for friends.  I also have a couple of orders for birthday cards. One is for a seven year old and one is for a 59 year old. I love this craft.

My card today is a Tilda, I have missed her and had to get something done. The sketch used is from Midnight Madness I am running a little late.

Here she is my little Princess:

Isn't she gorgeous. The store to buy Magnolia's is Magnolia-licious Online Store, Diana is wonderful and has the bes customer service. A little about my card. It was colored with copics all from the R family. I can not find my notes. Sorry about that. The Spellbinders Nestibilities is one of the latest, I won in a challenge at Colour Create which was sponsored by Michelle's Scraps I love both of these sites. The flowers are from my stash and some were won from another site. Do you see a trend here? I have won several challenges and other prizes in the last two months. I love this craft. The card base is Bazzill, the lace was given to me in a goodie bag by my friend Pam when I first started blogging. So that has been over a year almost.  I don't think that I have ever used the lace with the pink. The embossed papers are handmade from The Paper Studio. The sentiment is from Hobby Lobby's clearance isle. The grouped pearls are Prima, but the individual pears are Martha Stewart and were bought when Michaels was having a clearance on all of her stuff,  and I colored them to go with the card. I punched the leaves with the Martha Stewart leaf punch. The DP is also from The Paper Studio. I colored over parts of the clothes with my pink spica glitter pen. Well that is it for this card. And yes, there are challenges.

Totally Tilda Pink and Pearls

Paper Cutz For Breast Cancer awareness month. (pink)

Moving along with the Times Card for a Child

The Paper Players Anything Goes

The Creative Cottage Embossing

Well, I guess this is it for this card. I will see you soon, but now it is time to make some money.

GLORIOUS TREES OF FALL

Hi all, I am back from my walk and errands and here with another post. This one is fall. I am so glad that I am through making Halloween projects. This one is inspired by a photo from Crafty Hos' Challenge Blog

Now, here is my card.

I love this corrugated cardboard. I bought it so long ago. It was in a pack of paper scraps and it came in all of these wonderful colors.  I stamped the image, which is a Penny Black image that I recently bought at Hobby Lobby for 50% off, which I used dew drop ink (cosmic copper). I used the new Spellbinders nestibilities, Peony that I bought at Hobby Lobby for $8.99. How good is that. I used the fancy tag for my sentiment which was stamped from a clear set from my stash. The ribbon is from that fabulouse package that I won from Midnight Madness, isn't it gorgeous. The bling and papers are all from my stash.

City Crafter Challenge Blog Gold Rust and Orange

PaperTake Weekly Sparkly and Bright

2 Sisters Challenge Blog No Designer Paper

BIRTHDAY WISHES and GREAT SURPRISES

"THIS CARD WAS A WINNER AT DELIGHTFUL CHALLENGES METAL MANIA CHALLENGE"


Happy Saturday everybody. Before I get to my card, I would like to thank Pricilla Styles at MIDNIGHT MADNESS and her wonderful design team, along with Janice Hopper of Sunshine and Giggles for the wonderful prize that I won in the Midnight Madness Monthly (September) contest here is a picture. Plus, $20 worth of digital images from Sunshine and Giggles which I have received already and can't wait to start coloring them.

How wonderful is this. Flowers, ribbons, lace, webbing, bling, pearls, paper and more paper. Wow,  I can't wait until in arrives. Thank you again Pricilla and Janice.

My card for today is a Midnight Madness sketch:

And, yes I chose the more fancy of the two. My card is a birthday card that a friend asked me to make for her cousin. this card is a little different because the image is on the inside instead of the outside. The image that I used is a stamp that I bought at Hobby Lobby last year. and it states that "I don' do mornings". It is not how I feel, because I love the mornings. But, it was a sentiment that I know many people do feel. I was not sure how I would work it into a birthday card, but this is what she wanted so here is what I came up with.

This is the outside, so perfect for the Midnight Madness challenge.

and the inside. My friend loved it and says that so did her cousin. It seems the cousin is the one who really is not a morning person. She took it to work with her and guess what. People at the police station where she works liked it and wanted to know if they could get cards. I will let you know what happens from that.

Now, a little about the the card. The image is from Stampabilities at Hobby Lobby. The paper is Bazzill, the DP paper on the front, I am not sure where it is from it was just in my stash. I think my daughter sent it to me. I used the Spellbinders nestibilities to cut the frame. And it was cut on my Cuttlebug. The embossing was done with the birthday embossing folder from Cuttlebug. The written sentiment was made up by me and typed on the computer. The front of the card was embossed using the swirls embossing folder. The brads are from my stash as is the ribbon. The birthday sentiment is from a set that I bought at Michaels on clearance. I colored the image with copics E00, E11, BV20, BV23, RV91, RV93 and spica lilac and pink

And of course, there are challenges.

Crafty Den Anything Goes Challenge Ribbons

Paper Cutz Anything Goes

Our Creative Corner Embellishments, the more the better

Delightful challenges Metal Mania (my brads)

Digi Doodles My Peeps (people images)

Well, I guess this is it for this card and this post. I would love to hear from you and all comments are welcome.

FALL IS SUCH A GREAT TIME OF YEAR

Well, good morning, I am back with another fall card. this one was a quickie to make. I loved the simplicity of the sketch. I had to improvise on the corners because I don't have a punch that cuts like the ticket corners. I used a Martha Stewart balloon punch to make the corners. I think it worked just fine. The sketch is from Inktegrity Design Team Challenges 

The image that I used is  also from Inktegrity it was a freebie at the CDAC. I think it was perfect for this challenge. Which is fall.

My image was colored with copics E25, E27, E51, G24, G08, YG67, YR61, YR65, YR68. I used the peach spica glitter pen on the pumpkins for a little gltter. the sentiment and the leaf is from Recollections at Michaels for $.99 per pack. The papers are Bazzill, it was all pieces from my scrap file. The bling is from my stash. I used the Cuttlebug to cut of the image and the mat, I used the same size spellbinders die and then embossed the image and cut the edge off. I saw this on Gina K. It works really good. I inked the edge of  the image with E25.

And, I am sure that you know there are a few challenges for this card to be entered into.

Charisma Cardz Autumn colors

Paper Romance Challenge Halloween or Fall card

Crafty Sentiments Designs Autumn/Fall colors

Digi Doodle Orange you glad

Stamp Something Something punchy (I only used one the balloon punch to cut my corners)

Southern Girls Challenge 4 paper layers (card base, orange, brown, black strip under image and sentiment, orange again)
Creative Stamp Friends Orange and Brown (my first challenge there, but will be visiting again.)

Ellephantastic Anything goes

Cupcake Inspiration picture inspiration (I think my colors work for this one)

Kaboodle Doodles All colors of fall

Well, I guess that is all for now. I have got to get up and out for a while. Have a great day and I would love to hear from you.

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

FALLING FOR YOU

"THIS CARD WAS A WINNER AT INKTEGRITY DESIGN TEAM CHALLENGE" CHALLENGE #15

Everyone is talking about it being fall and the leaves and grass changning colors. That is one of  the few things that I miss about living in Illinois. The changing of the seasons. Here in Alabama everything is still green and it is still over 90 degrees. But, I try not to complain to much, because if this winter is like last winter I am in no hurry for it to get here. I wish we could have temperatures between 65 and 78 all the time. that would be so perfect. Some rain every now and again for the farmers and the grass and trees. Oh well, nothing is perfect.

So I guess I will get on to my card. From the title you will guess that this is a fall card. Which is true. I have animals and birds. And I think that this one turned out really good.  Let me say that I have been using papers from my scrap file and that this card was made completely from scrap papers. The little girl image is a freebie that I got sometime last year and I think that it is a Cute Daisy May image (now Whoopsi Daisy ) if I am wrong I hope someone will let me know. The little bird is Magnolia, you know my favorite place for Magnolias is the Magnolia-licioous Online Store, Diana is the owner and the customer service is awesome.
The tree, the rake  and are Jolie stickers, bought for little of nothing on clearance. I got one for each season. This one is called autumn. The squirrl is a $1 stamp that I have had a while. . The images were colored with my copics. E00, E11, E13, E24, E32 G21, G24, YR14, YR15, YR18, Y17, W1, W3. As I said earlier, the papers are all from my scrap file. The bling is from my stash and the sentiment was typed on the computer. I used the cuttlebug to emboss the brown paper with the swirl embossing folder. The faux stitching on the base circle was done with a copic.  The circles were cut with the Spellbinders Nestibilities circles.

The sketch is from Inktegrity Design Team Challenges:

And, yes I have challenges that I will be entering this card into.

Crafty Sentiments Designs Use your scraps

Crafty Creations Falling Leaves

A Crafty Little Place Brown Green Orange

Raise The Bar Bundle Up (jacket/scarf) I think this one is covered

Creative Inspirations Two or more stamped images. (I go that)

Stamp Scrap and Doodle Saturdays  Real or Faux stitching

Flutter by Wednesday's This week only use winged things other than butterflies, angels and fairies. I got a bird.

Stamp Something Something with fall colors

Paper Cutz Critters

Well, I guess that is all for now. I hope to be back soon with a project that is totally out of my comfort zone. Let me know if your like this. I would love to hear from you.

Birthday Wishes

Hi all, I am back with a very short post. This card was made for someone in my birthday club. I need to get September cards in the mail. So, I thought I would post it first. The image is a Pure Innocence image. She was colored with my copics and of course I can't find my notes where I wrote which ones I used. The papers are all from my scrap file. I am trying my best not to cut paper when there is something that can be used in the scrap file. So far, it works pretty well. But, there is just so much of it. I think when I turn off the lights the papers begin to multiply.

The triple mat was cut with a Nestibilites on the Cuttlebug. The sentiment stamps are from a clear set of stamps, I think Inkadinkado. I am entering this one into only 3 challenges.

Inktegrity Design Team Challenges They have been on vacation since before my last computer died. I am glad to see that they are back. Their challenges start on Wednesday. And are called Hump Day Inspiration, this is #14.  The challenge is Anything goes. 

Secret Crafters  Anything Goes

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays Birthday Card

Well, that is it for now. Leave lots of love....

FALL IS HERE (AUTUMN)

Good morning, here it is Tuesday and I am here with another card to share. I have to keep this short, I need to be ready to leave about 7 am for work. My card today is mostly about the fall, the colors make me think of the leaves changing colors. October and November in Chicago. That is one of  the things that I miss about home. But, I do not miss the cold hard winters that come next. Ok, moving on. My sketch is from Priscilla Styles Midnight Madness:

I always like to pick the ones that are more fancy. You know how I like the bling and embellishments.

My balloon is colored with Copics C1, C3, YG95, YG97, YR14, YR04, Y17. The balloon and sentiment were a set that I bought at Michaels from the $1 bin. I love hot air balloons. And I am planning to take a ride on one sometime in the near future. Especially if I can get someone else to pay that $280 fee. I have checked into it. The bling is from my stash as is the ribbon and flowers. The flowers are another one of those things that I talked about yesterday. Where you buy stuff, put it in a drawer or storage box and forget that you have it. I was going through my stuff, just like I said I would and found 4 or 5 different sets of flowers that I had not used since I bought them. Now I am looking for a place ato store them where they can be seen. I used my Cuttlebug to cut the shapes with my Nesstibilities Label 3 and the sparkly brad in the center is from Michaels. One more thing, all of the papers for this card are from my scrap file. It has got to be used.  Now, you know there are some challenges involved, so here they are.

Allsorts Challenges Colors of Autumn

Raise the Bar Brown, Green and Orange

Creative Inspiration Autumn Colors (DT call)

Creative Card Crew Autumn or Fall

 The Paper Players Ann's color challenge (Old Olive, More Mustard, Cajun Craze and Early Expresso)

Delightful Sketches  A color challenge

Well, this is it for now. I hope that you like my card and as usual please leave a little love. I can't wait to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by.

DISTRESSED - VINTAGE - SHABBY - OLD - WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE

I  have an announcement. TELLEN' PLACE DESIGNS will be back on September 10, 2010 with our first challenge after summer vacation. Please stop by and check us out. Our challenges are moving from Wednesday to Friday. And instead of being every week. We are now going to be held every other Friday. But, between challenges there will be lots going on.

Have you ever visited a challenge blog and think I have to enter a challenge here. But, you have to use images from that particular company. And you don't have any. Or you only have one that you have already used several times. Well that is how it has been for me. I have wanted to enter the challenges at Penny Black Saturday Challenge or Penny Black @ Alsorts Challenge. I did not have the images to do this. I have a friend who owns stamps that go on forever and she had some Penny Black stamps that she loaned me. Some she has had for years. Well, I can finally enter the challenge at Penny Black at Allsorts a monthly challenge. This month it is Punches.

My image was colored with copics E21, E31, E33, E25, E53, G20, G21, G24, G09, G40, YG63, Y02, Y04. The punch used was a $1 flower punch that has been in my stash for ages. The 2 DP papers is from the Wisteria pad by Basic Grey. The card stock is from the scrap pile. I have got to use more scraps or I am going to run out of space to keep it. I used my new set of Label 10 to cut the image and back ground (embossed  with Cuttlebug and cuttlebug embossing folder?). I found this wonderful little tool by Tim Holtz that is used to distress the paper. I love this thing. This is the first time  that I have tried to distress the paper that I actuall y like the result. I had planned to take a picture of it. But, I forgot. The next time I post a card I will show the tool. Did I say that I love it. I bought it at Hobby Lobby for $4.99. But, I think it is worth every penny.  I used my coupon on something else that day. The ink used on the edges of the papers was Dew Drop Versa magic Chalk ink, spanish olive. I also stamped the sentiment in this. I colored the white paper flowers with copics. I punched the center flower with the $1 punch and the brads are from my stash. The charm is also from the stash. I used the green and yellow spica glitter pen on the outfit and flower but not to much. I think this card turned out really good. And I am very happy with the skin tone. The sketch is from Totally Gorjuss:

There are several challenges besides the 2 mentioned.

Stamptacular Sunday Distress It

Sir Stanpalot Challenge All Distressed (monthly)

Stampin' for the Weekend Shabby or Vintage

Creatalicious Challenges Vintage (monthly)

Stamp Something Something Cute

Crafty Catz 3-2-1 (3 embellishments, 2 papers (I hope they meant DP) and 1 image

ABC challenge C is for Charm

Order of  the Opus Gluei Picture inspiration

The Shabby Tea Room Old meets New (for me the old is the papers and embellishments, the new is the stamped image which my friend found for me).

Pile it On Layers (I think this fits)

Well, I guess that is all for now. I hope to have one more post before it is time to go back to work on Tuesday. I hope that you enjoy this card. I really enjoyed making it.

MO'S INSPIRATION

Happy Sunday everybody, I am finally here with something to post for the week. It has been a very busy week and weekend. But, here I am. Yesterday, I attended an advanced copics class at my favorite scrapbook store.  It was taught by  Christine Ousley, she is on the design team for Simon Says Stamp and the design team for My Scrapbook Mania, which is the store I love. The class was more on coloring and blending and we also made a scrapbook page so I learned some new techniques and the need to practice, practice. So now more than ever I am looking forward to getting Copic certified. I am just waiting for a class to come my way.

On, the way there it rained cats and dogs. If, you knew me, you would know that I hate driving in the rain. The reason being, that a few years ago I was run off the road by an 18 wheeler pulling 2 trailers. My fear of being on the highway during a storm is huge. But, lets not talk about that. After getting back to town, I stopped by Hobby Lobby, they have gotten some new product in the store. They got some of the new Spellbinders in and Tim Holtz new inks and papers (there is actually a whole section for Tim Holtz). They also got some of the new Cuttlebug folders. I think they got some new stamps but it was hard to tell. I did not check to see if they had any new flowers or ribbons. They  have a 40% coupon this week. And no where on it does it say that Copics are excluded. Although they only have 1 green color that I don't have. I may go ahead and buy it this week. After I get 2 of the new Spellbinders. I can't wait.

Anyway, on to my card. first of all, I have used a Mo's Digital Image to go along with their inspirational challenge:

Aren't these colors and elements gorgeous. The sketch that I used is from Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday

The card was colored with Copics E53, E51, E50, E25, Y17, Y35, YR14, Y38, YR65 and a spica glitter pen; peach. The paper is Bazzil for the card stock, the DP is My Minds Eye Home. The wings were done with diamond stickles the image is by Mo, and she is fairy #3 (I think). I used my Nestibilities to cut the image and mat for the image. The flowers are prima. The sentiment is an Inkadinkado stamp. The corrigated card board was bought with the color on it when I first started scrapbooking. The inside of the card was embossed using the birthday folder from Cuttlebug and the sentiment is a stamp from Paper Inspirations, I think it was bought at Michaels. I use it all the time I really should remember this. The colors just happened to be perfect. I will be entering this card into the following challenges.

Flutter by Wednesday Fairies, butterflies or Angels

Crafty Creations Winged Things

Fab N' Funky Your favorite colors (I chose these colors because my apartment is painted Burnt orange around the fireplace and one wall in the dining room, sage green and tan or taupe on other walls and I love the way it looks) these colors are just a variation of those.

Secret Crafters What are girls made of (this card is nothing if not girly)

Sweet Stampin' challenge blog use your favoite image or stamp ( this is to hard, but Mo is one of my favorite artist.   And I do love this image.

Kah-Wink-E-Dink Digi use your favorite digital image (Again Mo is one of my favorite digital artist so this image does it for me (how am I supposed to choose a favorite when I love so many)

Simple Doodles Lets celebrate (what is a birthday if not a celebration)

And last but not least Stamp Something Fairy Tales (I think fairies come from a long line of fairy tales)

Well this is my first card of the week I will be back later with the second.  I hope that you enjoy it. It was so much fun to make.