WINNER OF THE BLOG CANDY 5-1-10

Hi all, sorry I am late with this information... but the winner has been chosen. I put all of the names in a hat. and had a neighbor pull one out. DRUM ROLL PLEASEEEEEEEE....


THE WINNER OF THE BLOG CANDY IS


CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 

LORI.  Lori, please email with your mailing address, so that I can get this posted as soon as possible.


Now for the surprise. In going through my shopping bags. I found a few items that are duplicates or triplicates of things that I alread have. So I have decided to give one other prize. I had my neighbor pull one other name out of the hat.


SURPRISE PRIZE GOES TO


CONGRATULATIONS!!!

GINA L please send me your mailing address and I will get this in the mail as soon as possible.


I would like to thank everyone who commented and became a follower. I hope you know how much I appreciate you all. and stay tuned. I may have a few more surprises up my sleeve.



Hi all, just a reminder that the BLOG CANDY ends tomorrow night at 12 pm. If you would like to have a chance at winning, now is the time to enter. All you have to do is become a follower and leave a comment on the blog candy post. To get there, click on the blog candy photo on the sidebar and leave a comment. Thats it. On Saturday I will have a drawing to pick the winner. I would like to thank all of my followers both new and old for helping me to celebrate my first 6 months of blogging. I have been having a really good time at it. and just knowing that people do like looking at my cards and scrapbook pages makes me feel really good.

The next thing that I would like to do is take a copics class. There is one being held during the month of May at the scrapbook store. I really want to get better with my coloring. And in the end, I would like to become a certified copic user and be able to teach others to do what we do.

Any way, thank you all so much for becoming followers and making this all possible. I will be checking the blogs of all of my followers and following you too. Most of you I already do follow. Those that I am not, I will be.

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.  

Birthday Wishes

Wow, I have really been busy this weekend. I am back with another post and some news about my blog candy. There are just a few more days left until it ends, so if you want a chance to win now is the time to leave a comment and become a follower. You can do this by clicking on the picture of the candy and it will take you to the post to leave your comment. I also would like to add a little something to the list.

1 stacked container to hold your brads or buttons
1 pack of Jolee's 3 piece butterflies
1 Martha Stewart all purpose gel adhesive

I may think of something else later.

Now, about that card. I used a C.C. Designs image, Miss Rosalee.  The sketch is from Papertake Weekly

The next challenge is from Colour Create, burnt orange, black, cream and optional extra checks. Well I got that. And last but not least, Stamp Something charmed something. I have a flower charm with bling. My card is a birthday card. The image is one that I had colored several weeks ago and just could not decide how to use it. And then this color theme came up and it was perfect. I colored it with my copics and you can guess that I used several of the orange ones and then I used a sukura metallic gel pen for the shoes. The hair is E09, E27 and E21. I dyed the flowers with E53. The bling is from my stash and the charm was bought at Hobby Lobby clearance bin. I used my Cuttlebug and a new folder called diamond plate. The paper with squares is from DCWV safari chic matstack. I got it for half price last week. It has some wonderful designs in it. I punched the leaves with a Martha Stewart punch. Well, here is my card. I have got to finish this and get ready for work. I need to make some money so that I can save some of it, because I have been spending to much on paper.

I just realized that this is not a very good picture. But, I guess you can get the idea. Hope you like it.

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.

DID YOU EVER JUST HAVE ONE OF THOSE DAYS?

Happy Sunday, I am back with another post and some sad news. Due to the awful weather that we had yesterday, I was unable to walk in the 5K as planned. At just about the time the race was getting started, it started to storm. All day we were in an emergency weather situation. Any outdoor activities in the state were cancelled or postponed. And to be honest I am just not a person who likes getting wet out of the shower. So, I had a lot of time to stay in and play with my papers and Copics and listen to the weather all day long. There  were several deaths from this storm that covered not only my state but, also a neighboring state. My prayers go out to those familys.

My card was made using a Mo's Digital Pencil image, it is called summins wrong. I think I got that right. It is also for Mo's challenge, which is a recipe challenge. 1 ribbon, 2 buttons or brads and 3 designer papers. The second challenge is at Secret Crafter it called for distressing and I am getting a lot of practice with distressing in the last couple of weeks.  Well here is my card. I am really not happy with my skin tone on this image. So please be gentle with me. I can't wait until I can find a copics class to take. I have just been making it up as I go along. I looked at one of the Susan Dean tutorials last night and I am going to give it a try. I really hope to get much better at this.

I love this image and I got it, but was not sure what I was going to do with it. Well this worked just fine. Mo has the most wonderful images and she has something for every occasion. you should go by and check her out. If you have never used a Mo image, you will start to.

I colored this image with my copics. And I am sitting here unable to find the list of what I used. The papers are from My minds eye home collection. The brads are from my stash and I used Versa Magic Dew drop ink Aegean Blue to distress the edges. These are some of the prettiest colors. and so compact. The brads are from my stash and the black ribbon also. The sentiment I wrote on my computer. I thought it just went so well with the image. Well that is it. When I find I copics list I will come back and add them. I hope you like my card. And would love to hear from you.

Birthday/Baby Card

Happy Saturday, I am up and ready to work. The only difference today is that before I can get to work I have to go out and walk a 5K this morning. It is a race to benefit the cities Pre-K initiative which helps to get young children ready to enter kindergarten. It is put on by the Mayor of my town and this is the 3rd year that I have participated. Of course, it has rained all night and more severe rain and storms are expected today. But, I'm going and I need to be there by 7:45 am. Wish me luck.

I wanted to get this card posted since it is one that I had finished earlier in the week. It is a birthday card for a friend that recently found out that they were having a baby. So it is a baby/birthday card. It is done in one of my favorited colors teal/aqua and chocolate. What a surprise that when I was checking out some of my favorite blogs. If the Shoe Fits,.. Scrap it challenge was a color one, chocolate and teal. I love it when they are this easy. The next challenge that I think will fit the bill is at Raise the Bar color me happy, your favorite color. Simple Doodles not a spring chick anymore, anything that is old. Well my flowers come under that heading. I have had these flowers so long and I can count on one finger how many times I have used them, the teal ones. so that should count. Paper Play Challenges is to use no patterned paper. One more challenge is at the Pixie Cottage Mother's day or a special lady card. I guess my friend having a birthday and a baby makes her a special lady

My image was colored with copics E000, E00, Y28, Y15, Y11, Y92, BG45, B21, B34, B93. Can you tell that my copics are growing in numbers. I am now at 137 and still counting. Teal card stock is Bazzill the cream color is from my stash, the chocolate embossed paper is from Hobby Lobby. The stamp is from an eight pieces stamp set that I bought on clearance at Michaels. I used the Cuttlebug to emboss with their baby folder the inside of the card. The image on the inside is from Sassy Studios Store I love her images. Well here is my card. My time is growing short and I am not even dressed yet. So I have got to go as soon as I finish this post. I hope you like my card and I will be back later with something new.

This is the left inside of the card. On the right side, my friend's mother wrote her sentiment and that will be left private.  Isn't it amazing how having used the same paper both inside and out, from these pictures it looks different. Well I have to go now. I would love to hear from you.