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Thursday, September 30, 2010
And yet another sympathy card
Here's the other sympathy card I needed. It's for a man, so I thought distressing and dark flowers (just because it looks naked to me without flowers, lol).
Entered in the following challenges:
Cutie Stampers: Card for man
Alphabet challenge: vintage
Sentimental Sundays: dimension
My Sheri: masculine projects
Allsorts: Plain and simple
Sunday sketch and stamp: sketch
One Stitch: anything goes
SSIC: Christian symbol of peace
Incy Wincy: anything goes
Simon Says Stamp and Show: distressed/sanded
Cards for Men: autumn (dark, autumn colors)
Craft your Passion: CAS
Caardvarks: CAS
Squigglefly: use your fave embellies (FLOWERS!)
OLLCB: sentiment as main focus
Creative Card Crew: flowers
Anything Challenge: going around in circles
City Crafters: flowers and frills
Spoonful of Sugar: spots and stripes
InStyle Stamps: Inspired by books (straight from the Bible..the most important book you can read as a child or an adult)
Penny's Paper: circles
Entered in the following challenges:
With Sympathy
I haven't posted in a while because I've been busy working on some cards I needed to get finished. Here's the first one. Unfortunately, I seem to be needing a lot of these lately. This sweet digi is from Nana Vic.
Entered in the following challenges:
Easy Craft Challenges: 22 the color purple
Paper Cutz: stamp or cricut
Crazy4Challenges: C4C56 bling
Sentimental Sundays: dimension
Sunday Sketch & Stamp: sketch
SSIC: Christian symbols of peace
One Stitch: Anything goes
Incy Wincy: anything goes
Pocketful of Posies: lavender and old lace
Shabby Tea Room: Pearls and Pastels
Creative Card Crew: flowers
City Crafters: flowers and frills
Cooking It Up With Katie: enjoy a sparkly yellow digi
Squigglefly: use your fave embellies (FLOWERS!)
Entered in the following challenges:
Easy Craft Challenges: 22 the color purple
Crazy4Challenges: C4C56 bling
Thursday, September 23, 2010
THANK YOU
This started out as a thank you card for a man...but has turned into something much different...lol.
Entered in the following challenges:
Frosted Designs: cut your image/pic
Prairie Fairy Designs: embossing
Stampin' with the dragon: black and white plus one
Alphabet Challenge: U for Unused stash (I have never used this ribbon, though I've had it for a while)
Craftalicious: Thanks
Etsy Inspired By: This beautiful headpiece (the colors)
Secret Crafter: anything goes
Crafty Pad: embossing
Crafty Sentiments: use your scraps
Crafty Hos: sketch
Pocket Full of Posies: lavender and old lace
Priscillastyles: sketch
A Spoonful of Sugar: anything goes
Creative Craft Challenges: black and white plus one
Stamp Something: digi day
Crafts and Me: easel card
Delightful Sketches: Make it sparkle
YNS: Thanks
AIFactory: anything goes
Charisma Cardz: anything goes
Sarah Hurley: #9 Dots and circles
Whoopsi Daisy: pile on the flowers
For Fun: Black and white plus one
Stamp and Create: pearls and gems
Copic Creations: shading
Tuesday Taggers: It takes all sorts and they're sponsored this week by:
Gingersnap: black and white plus one
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Happy Harvest Time
There's not really much to say about this one. I sponged the backgrounds with Tea Dye. And I dyed the lace (from Wild Orchid) with tea to soften the bright white color into more of a cream. Colored with my new Copics (I can't WAIT to place another order for those. ;)
Fits the following challenges:
Paper Sundaes: Fall colors
Secret Crafter: anything goes
CYDA: Autumn Doodles
Sweet Stampin: stitching
My Sheri Crafts: autumn
Stamptacular: Grid
Cupcake Inspirations: applicious
SSIC: fall colors and/or leaves
Crafty Hos: sketch
Creative Craft World: Autumn colors
PIO: red, yellow, green and brown
Crazy Challenge: Let's Cook It
Priscillastyles: sketch
Karber Weekly: Food and Beverages
Creative Card Crew: Fall
A Spoonful of Sugar: anything goes
Meljen's Designs: autumn
ABC Challenge: D is for Distressing
Stamp Something: digi day
Sarah Hurley: autumn
Everybody-Art: autumn
Stamp and Create: pearls and gems
Copic Creations: shading
Tuesday Taggers: It takes all sorts and they're sponsored this week by:
With flash:
Without Flash:
Fits the following challenges:
A Sympathy Card
One of the ladies from our church is going thru a rough patch lately. Her aunt passed away last week and she's going to lose her job at the end of the month because the company she works for is downsizing. So, I made this card for her and put a verse inside by Helen Steiner Rice, but I forgot to take a pic of the inside.
It fits the following challenges:
Treehouse Thursday Challenge # 067 - Sponged Backgrounds
Etsy Inspired By: This headpiece (Those gorgeous muted earthtones)
Secret Crafter: anything goes
Priscillastyles: sketch
A Spoonful of Sugar: anything goes
Fab n' Funky: quotes
Aud Sentiments: Cheer Up
ABC Challenge: D is for Distressing
Stamp Something: digi day
OLLCB: Sentiment
Tuesday Taggers: It takes all sorts and they're sponsored this week by:
It fits the following challenges:
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Autumn Blessings
Just in case anyone is checking, I haven't gone MIA. I spent the last week doing my "Fall Spring Cleaning." Since I applied for a few design teams, I thought I'd get my fall deep clean out of the way, just in case....fingers crossed. Everyone who knows me thinks I'm odd simply because I love to clean. I find it therapeutic myself. Anywho...here's what you've probably come for...
I made this one using the September freebie from The Treehouse that they're giving away for their contest.
ETA: I just found out that my card won me a GDT spot over at The Treehouse, along with a great prize! Thank you so much!
The sketch is fromPear Tree Designs.
SSIC: fall colors and/or leaves
Cupcake Inspirations: applicious
Paper Sundaes: fall colors
Creative Craft World: Autumn colors
PIO: red, yellow, green and brown
AIFactory: for the boys
Stamp Something: digi day
Shelly's Images: All dressed up (glitter and gems) I won! :D
Glitterbabe: anything goes
Alphabet Challenge: U is for Unused Stash (I haven't used gems in quite some time. I've been using pearls a lot lately)
Secret Crafter: anything goes
CYDA: autumn doodles
My Sheri: Autumn
Crazy Challenge: Let's Cook It
Stamp and Create: Pearls and gems
Karber Weekly: Food and Beverages
Creative Card Crew: Fall
A Crafty Little Place: Brown, Green, Orange
A Spoonful of Sugar: anything goes
Frosted Designs: cut your image/pic
Sarah Hurley: autumn
Everybody-Art: autumn
Copic Creations: shading
Tuesday Taggers: It takes all sorts and they're sponsored this week by:
ETA: I just found out that my card won me a GDT spot over at The Treehouse, along with a great prize! Thank you so much!
The sketch is from
Also fits the following challenges:
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving
DH wants me to make a bunch of Thanksgiving cards for him to give out to his clients, so I guess I'll be doing a lot of fall colors for a while, lol.
The color scheme of this VERY last minute entry is from Scrapmaster's Paradise (Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler).
The sketch for this one is from Papertake Weekly .
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Just for You
Another one of Beccy's GORGEOUS digis. I colored her again using both my copics and prismas.
Entered in the following challenges:
EAD: colors
PIO: lots of layers
Cowgirl Sunday: anything goes
Entered in the following challenges:
Thanksgiving card
This is a thanksgiving card. I wish I would have remembered to use my ribbon before I put it all together.
Entered in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp: Holiday Fun
Creative Cottage: Celebrations
Paper Sundaes: mixed mediums (copics and prismas)
Allsorts: fall colors
Catch the Bug: sewing notions and fall colors
Catt's Scratching Post: following the SSS format
RRR: flowers
Cowgirl Sunday: anything goes
Paperplay: autumn
Scrapmaster: colors
Ann's Creative Nook: Autumn
Entered in the following challenges:
Distressed Tag
I made a distressed tag for a scrapbook page. I used actual tea to dye my lace because it seemed to take forever to color it with the Distress Ink the last time. I still used my distress inks on my background paper. I have an old book of Victorian era ads, so I made a copy of one of the pages and distressed it....though most of it's covered. I have no idea what I was doing wrong, lol. I used both my new Copics and my Prisma pencils to color her.
Entered in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp: Holiday Fun
Creative Inspirations: fall project
Paperplay: autumn
Paper Sundaes: mixed mediums
Lots to do: distressed tag
Allsorts: fall colors
Stamptacular: distress it
RRR: flowers
PIO: lots of layers
Cowgirl Sunday: anything goes
Ann's Creative Nook: Autumn
Catch the Bug: sewing notions and fall colors
Catt's Scratching Post: following the SSS format
Entered in the following challenges:
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Singin' In The Rain
This adorable digi is one that I won from Phindy's Place the other week. I absolutely love her stamps! So many cuties :D I had a difficult time with this color combo, but this is what I came up with..
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Boo-Boo Kitty
This adorable image is from Sliekje's blog. This is again the same color combo for Annabelle Stamps. I'm still outside my comfort zone with these colors. LOL.
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More candy!
Ying, of Ying & Magnolia is having a birthday candy, and how gorgeous it is! Hop on over to her blog to find out how to win!
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Blog Candy
Aud Sentiments is running a new monthly blog candy for September. From their website:
For the month of September we are lucky enough to have Really Reasonable Ribbon as our sponsor. They are giving the winner a $15 Gift Certificate.
Here is a little bit about their company...
"Really Reasonable Ribbon has been meeting the ribbon needs of crafters, wedding planners, rubberstampers, scrapbookers and the artistic community for over 10 years. We offer great wholesale pricing on full spools of many of our styles, and really reasonable discount retail pricing on ribbon by the yard. Stop by our blog at reasonableribbon@blogspot.com for great ribbon crafting ideas and inspiration. We host challenges on the 1st and 15th of each month."
Also, Kathy at The Daily Marker is having a candy giveaway too. From her website:
I am so excited to include some of Penny Black's NEW 2010 releases in this yummy blog candy giveaway.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Hello
Get Well Soon
Monday, August 30, 2010
Delicious Doodles DT Call
Teri over at Delicious Doodles has decided to put together a DT. This post is for my entry for that position.
From her website:
Well folks, Delicious Doodles has been official for a year now, and during that time I have made all of my own sample cards to promote my images. But my ideas get a bit stale sometimes, as you can well imagine! LOL.
I have decided it is about time I got myself a proper Design Team to help me out.
So, if you fancy working with my images and helping me to promote Delicious Doodles, then please get in touch by EMAIL (address is in my sidebar in the welcome section). I hope to get round and acknowledge you all individually.
You should include a few details about yourself and your style of crafting.
I would also love it if you could make a post about my DT Call, and pop a few samples of your best works in that post too. Please link this post in your email so I can come and visit your blog and see what yumminess you create.
This will be a permanent posting, for as long as you wish to stay.
You get to play with any of my images that you want, and have access to my new images before anyone else!! There is no challenge blog at the moment, but I may start one in later months, so I want you to be aware of that.
Above all I want you to have fun creating with my images!
My samples:
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Back 2 School
Entered in the following Challenges:
Floral Thanks
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Teddy Bear Thanks
This is for the DT call at the Southern Girls Challenge blog. They said to use your favorite things, and well teddy bears, lace and flowers are some of my favorite things.
I made this one by stamping twice, coloring one image and then bits of the other and attaching those bits with pop dots. I made the roses using my TH tattered florals die.
Also entered in the following challenges:
Stamptacular Sunday: #73 Two's better than one
Crafty Sentiments: lace
Craft Your Passion: make your own flowers
Lexi's Creations: embossing
Stampwith fun: card for a girl
Donna's Den of Crafts: Decoupage
Fresh Brewed: Thanks
Papertake weekly: 3 papers, 2 flowers, one image
Stamp something: digi week
charisma cardz: die cuts
Easy Craft Projects: girly
2sisters: sketch (I won! Yay!)
ODBD: Dies
I made this one by stamping twice, coloring one image and then bits of the other and attaching those bits with pop dots. I made the roses using my TH tattered florals die.
Easy Craft Projects: girly
Praying for you
This is a quick card I made last night for someone else from church. One of the men from church's wives is going in for surgery on Wednesday and he said that she's terrified.
Entered in the following challenges:
Sunday Sketch and Stamp: sketch
cupcake Inspirations: colors
Stampwith fun: card for a girl
Stamp something: digi week
ODBD: Dies
Crafts and Me: petals and pearls
Entered in the following challenges:
Grandma's Birthday Card
This is the card I made my grandmother for her birthday. The stamp, from Nana Vic reminds me so much of us when I was a little girl. Nana Vic has another one I want to get of Nana going frogging. That one reminds me of my grandma too. LOL. She could (and in fact, did) do everything in a dress and apron with her hair all fancied up.
Entered in the following challenges:
Crafty Sentiments: Lace
Anyone For Anya: Birthday card
Craft your days away: wings
Cowgirl Up: summertime feeling
Creative Craft World: birthday celebration
Scrapmasters Paradise: colors
Crafts and Me: petals and pearls
ODBD: Dies
Pocketfull of of Posies: winged things
Stamp with fun: card for a girl
Totally Papercraft: summer fun
Stamp and Create: flowers
kah-wink-e-dink: birthday
annabelle stamps: bow
Stamp something: digi week
charisma cardz: die cuts
Easy Craft Projects: #19 girly: I won! Yeah!
Craftalicious: pearls and swirls
Create4Fun: birthday
Bee Crafty: ribbons and bows
Creative Card Crew: sparkle and shine
annabelle stamps: bow
Easy Craft Projects: #19 girly: I won! Yeah!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Lori's Having a Candy Giveaway!
Lori at Playing with Paper is having an awesome candy giveaway! Here's a pic of all the yummy awesomeness she's giving away:
Hurry, you gotta get there before August 30th!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Keep buzzin'
I kept this one pretty simple...partly because it was so late last night when I was working on it ;) I have such a thing for flowers and pearls. These heart pearls were supposed to be hooked together in a strand, but I took them apart so I could make 'em stretch ;)
Challenges:
Stampin' Sisters In Christ: create a card of apology or one reaching out to someone and encouraging them to put the past behind them and move forward
city crafter: hearts
Scavenger Hunt Entry
Kim from Living In Paradise is having a candy giveaway to celebrate her blogaversary in the form of a fun scavenger hunt! Here are my entries:
Something that rotates: My salad spinner
Something metal: a drawer pull
Favorite writing tool: an ink pen
Favorite drink: water
Something you love: my dear hubby
What's outside your window: my neighbor's house..ugh...I am sooo not a city girl...I really long for the country views we used to have.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Friendship card
Oh, I do love my glitter. And I finally got some Stickles! I didn't think they'd be different than any other glitter glue, but wow! LOVE it!
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A Speedy Recovery
And this is the card I made for the other gentleman from church who just had surgery. Whew! I think I'm finally finished with those "Get Well" cards. :) My hubby came in my craft room when I was picking out my paper for this project and he thought my color choices were too girly...but after I finished it, even he said it wasn't as feminine as he thought it would be. The mauvish color is not as light in person. It's actually a pretty dark mauve, but because it's shimmery paper, it photographs lighter.
Entered in the following challenges:
Pear Tree: Male
Rosie D: folds
Anything challenge: folds
Penny's Challenges: anything goes
Secret Crafter: Man
Another Thinking of You card
I seem to be needing a lot of these lately...lol.
I used another image from Beccy's Place. I really love her images. I think they're so sweet.
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
GDT Card
I was a guest design team member for Stampin' With the Dragon and the theme was Blue, green and yellow. This was a challenge for me because this isn't a color combo that I usually would use. A big thanks to them though, I had a lot of fun making it. The adorable stamp is from Whimsy Stamps, the sponsor for this week.
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Stampin' Sisters In Christ: Birds
Stamptacular Sunday: Out of this World (bird wearing bow tie, bird with hair)
The Crafty Pad: Riboons and flowers
Rosie D's: All creatures, great and small
Totally Stampalicious: Inside Out
Creative Card Crew: Cute and girly
Simon Says: Sing it baby
Crafty Creations: Anniversary or Birthday
Penny's Challenges: anything goes
Creative Challenges: animal antics
Cute Card Thurs: whateva
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Recovering from Surgery
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