Love you Friend...BLDC6

Great new color challenge for you this week from By LORi Designs. White, Pink Pirouette, Pacific Point and Kiwi Kiss. This weeks challenge keyword is BLDC6 and here is my card that I came up with to share with you.  I used the sweetest image called Sugarsticks Love You Friend. So sweet huh??  I printed my image onto Xpress Color Blending Paper and colored with my copics.

I used a simple layout with some older SU papers and made my image the main focus of this card. A few brads in the corners and alittle bow and this is done.

We hope you will join us this week and play along with the challenge. You can pick up fun digis from BLD in her shop for as little as a dollar. I hope you will play along. Looking forward to seeing your creations. Go check out my side bar and give some love to the rest of the BLD DT!!!

Thanks for stopping by today.

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Our sketch artist this month over at Skipping Stones Design is Lea Lawson and she has created another awesome sketch for this weeks challenge. You can find all the deets here.

For my card today I used the beautiful set called Heartsong. I stamped the sweet bird and music staff onto Kraft cardstock in Baja breeze and then stamped the simple sentiment in black on the bottom. My paper is O/A. Ribbon and brads are from Michaels and I did alittle paper piercing on either side of the sentiment.

Come on over to Skipping Stones Design and check out all the deets for this weeks challenge along with the prize up for grabs and of course you will be further inspired by the rest of the DT's samples.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope to see your beautiful creations. Have a great day!!

By LORi Designs Challenge 5

Check out these gorgeous colors that we have to work with this week at By LORi Designs and we would love for you to join us and play along too. When uploading to Galleries us keyword BLDC5.

For my card today I used two digis that I Photoshopped together as per Mercys directions. LOVE this concept. Mercy is brilliant!!! I used cute little Wagon Tales Puddle Jumper Katie and that sweet little Cat Sugar Stick. My dp is older paper from Stampin Up. Ribbon is kiwi kiss from SU and I created my flowers with a die namics die. Border punch is fiskars and those pretty crystals are from Michaels.

Head on over to By LORi Designs to check out the rest of the DT creations and leave the girls some love!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!!

Skipping Stones Design New Release

We have a fun Blog Hop for you today to share a new stamp set being released called Pumpkin Seeds. It is a gorgeous background stamp set with three different patterns and fun sentiments. I used each of the three patterns on my cute little chics from the set Chick Chat but I am realizing that the yellow just is not coming through very well so you will just have to head over to Skipping Stones Design to check out the third pattern!!! We also have our weekly sketch for you to play with and that can be seen here as well.

You have to see the gorgeousness that the rest of the DT created with this new set and the awesome sketch from Lea. Here is the order of the hop for you to follow and go check out the sketch here and come play along. A fun prize is up for grabs!!!!

Lea Lawson http://leascupcakesandsunshine.blogspot.com/


Jennifer Ingle http://justjingle.blogspot.com/

Kandi Phillips http://kraftykandikrafts.blogspot.com/

Angela Thomas http://sparkleandbling.blogspot.com/

Tammie Beaton http://alwaysinking.blogspot.com/

Wendy Jordan http://papertherapy-wendy.blogspot.com/

Julie Masse http://stampinwithjulie.blogspot.com/

Amy Tsuruta http://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/

Ann Kranitz http://stampwithme-ann.blogspot.com/

Barb Turpin http://barbsboys123.blogspot.com/

Brenda Weaver http://sweetpapertreats.wordpress.com/

Gladys Chia http://gladyschia2010.wordpress.com/

Mojo177

Hi! Made this card a few days ago but wanted to share it with you here. I created it for last Mondays Mojo Sketch. I was really intimidated by the sketch at first but once I got going it all fell into place very nicely and I am thrilled the way this card came out. I used three seperate Verve sets for this card. Birthday Wishes for the center flower and sentiment, Loves Flower for the tiny baja breeze flowers around the panel and Friendly Phrases for the Hello Friend sentiment. I colored with copics added a sparkly prima, punched out some leaves and added a tiny bit of lace under the sentiment. Paper is from a sample pack from Claudia and Company. Love those sample packs!!

Thats all for me tonight. Grammys are going on in a while and I cant wait to see what Lady Gaga is wearing!!! Me and the rest of the world!!!

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great night.

BLDC4 and some FUN News!!!

Hi All!!! I am bringing you a fun new challenge from LORi Boyd Designs and I am SUPER excited to have been picked to be on Lori's Challenge Design Team. Whoo Hoo!!! I will be working with some super talented ladies. I hope I can keep up with them!!! As the team is shaping up we had the option to play along this week with this color challenge and of course who could not play!!! These colors are awesome and just screamed little boy to me although you will see the rest of the team rocked these colors with little girl images too!!!

For my card today I used the cutest little guy called Davey from the Puddle Jumpers Collection. I kept this card somewhat masculine and simple because I thought I would give it to my son for Valentines day. My dp is Sassafrass Lass Indie Girl. I added silver brads from Michaels and my ribbon is Ocean Tides from PTI. Now that ribbon treatment is totally copied from the uber talented Mercy Kerin. I saw it on this post and just loved the way it looked. Thanks for the great idea Mercy!!

So head on over to LORi Boyd Designs. Check out all the goodies and join us this week with this fun challenge. Cant wait to see what you create!!!

Thanks for stopping by today.

SSD63 Skipping Stones Challenge

Hello everyone!!! I am having some technical difficulties today with computers. I will be back later with my SSD card to show you.

Okay I am back. Having huge computer challenges and I am right now working on my dinosaur PC. It has taken a good hour just to upload and adjust this card. UGGG

But onto fun things....I created this card for this weeks SSD sketch which can be found here.

For my card I used Cancer Schmaner (which is on sale RIGHT NOW!!)  for my images and sentiment and my dp was a sample pack of OA Detours that I purchased.

Please come and play along. We would love to see what you create with the sketch this week.

Thanks so much for coming by and thanks for understanding the quick post today. I am off to get technical with my laptop!!!

TRCC3

I was on my crafty roll this weekend and accomplished a few more challenges. First up is the Rubber Cafe. This week our challenge is to use Pink, Black and Red. I cheated alittle and used Rose Red. I am one of those people who do not like red and pink together. Nor do I like black and Navy together. What can I tell ya?? Everyone has quirks right?!

For this card I used the Ornamental Holiday set for my image. The rest off the deets can be found here on the Rubber Cafe Blog. You can also see what the rest of the team has created.

I will be back later with a few more challenge cards. Off to a PTA meeting!!

MFT Sketch Week 5

I have crammed a weeks worth of challenges and DT work into today....whew....I still have a few more things to accomplish tomorrow but wanted to show you the card I made for this weeks MFT Sketch. I used the new Ala modes called Somethings fishy. Super cute. My dp was True and Dandy from MME and I used MFT die namics for my scallop border and the little circle border in the center which you cant really see very well. Should have made it a different color.

How do you like those snazzy paper pieced boots?? Dont you wish you had a pair so cute!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope you enjoyed the card.

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So sorry about the quality of this picture. I did not take it in my normal spot so the lighting was REALLY off. This card is supposed to be pink (well it is in real life). So Happy Tuesday and we have another fabulous sketch artist for you this month over at Skipping Stones Design. The FABU super talented Lea Lawson. She created this sketch for you to play with today and our new Guest Designers are Angela Thomas and Julie Masse. Lea and Angela I have not had the pleasure of meeting buy Julie I have and let me tell you....if you think her cards are sweet well she is even sweeter!!! So welcome aboard girls.

Todays card was created in all of a half hour due to Linz having the flu and being very needy of me. (to be expected of course). Now it is pink in real life and I used some pretty pink dt for the backpanel and then the front panel I stamped an image from Grunge in Rose Red. Can someone please tell me how to use my stamppamajig? I need to line those rows up better...so anyway. I used a sentiment from the same set and popped it up on my rose red ribbon added some pretty pearls and off I was to play Nurse Ann!!!

So come and join us this week with the fun sketch you will find here along with the rest of the DT samples which you will just adore. So my card says it all....Thanks for stopping by!!! Enjoy your day.

Mojo175

Quick post today as I have a sick kidlet to tend to. I created this card for Mojo175 and I just love how it came out. My sentiment is Verve and my dp is Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934. Circles were cut out with nesties as was the black blossom behind the sentiment. Black panel was dry embossed and behind that I added a strip of black lace from Michaels. Then I ending this one with a tiny little yellow flower from Michaels. Thanks for stopping by today!!! Off to tend to my kidlet!!!

A Few Good Challenges

I have been busy creating and posting to SCS but I never get a moment to write up a blog post so this one will cover all that I have worked on this past week. First up is this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch SSSC101 and for this card I used a brand new There She Goes image called Wonderful Winter Wishes and some OA Scraps from my desk.  I colored the image with copics, used oval big scallop oval nesties and then added some teal ribbon from Michaels and some teal brads.

Next up is this weeks There She Goes Sketch, TSG91. I used their new stamp called Buckets of Love and paired it with some scraps of Imaginesce Paper. Yes you can say I am trying to work my way through my scraps. You cant believe what is going on in my scrap box!!!! I colored my image with copics, cut it out with a circle nestie and sponged the edges with cantelope ink while it was still in the die to give that white border effect. My green panel was dry embossed, the chain of circles was created with a MFT dienamic and my border was created with a fiskars border punch. Ribbon is PTI.

Now I will show you my Cats Pajamas Tuesday challenge entry which was TCPTUES143. This weeks challenge was to have the word love or heart in your sentiment. The ONLY set I had with the word LOVE in the sentiment for TCP was Tutu Much. I combined two of the little bunnies onto one image. Kind of looks like a mama and baby or teacher and student. I adore how this came out and the sketch that I followed was from Crazy for Challenges. C4C71. I colored my image with copics and a glitter spica pen over the tutus. My dp is Girls Paperie and then I added a banner sentiment which I created myself with a button, a pretty pink pirouette bow and some sugared brads I found in stash. Pretty cute huh!! Oh and the border punch was fiskars again. And last but not least was this weeks MFT Sketch Challenge. MFTWSC4. This image is an Ala Modes called Time to Celebrate which I colored with my copics cut out with a circle nestie and mounted onto a blossom nesties cutout. Satin ribbon is from Michaels. My pearls were colored with copics to match and my dp is Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 and lastly is that adorable heart border which was created with a TE Die.

Phew thats a long post!!! I hope you enjoy the creations. Have a good day and stay warm.

Skipping Stones Design Tuesday Sketch

Well it is VERY early in the morning....I have not had coffee yet and I realized I forgot to post this post for today so forgive me if it is a bit short and to the point.

Another fantastic Tuesday Sketch over at Skipping Stones and the DT and Guests have put together such lovelies for you to look at. You must head over there and share the love.

For todays card I used the beautiful set called Always Here. I stamped with Rose Red Ink and then clear embossed it onto a piece of vellum. Which I NEVER use so I went to glue it onto my solid panel and realized....I dont know how to glue down vellum without the glue showing....Is there a trick to this I dont know about?? So I got creative and used two very pretty rhinestone brads. My paper is all K and Company and the little felt bird I purchased at Michaels.

Please take a glance over at Skipping Stones Design. Heather is having another great free shipping sale that you will not want to miss AND heres alittle secret for you....if you sign up for the newsletter, a special coupon is coming out this week so you will not want to miss that!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Have a good one!!!

Week four of Viva la Verve Challenges

Made this one for the last sketch challenge in January for Viva la Verve. This one came together so quick because there was no coloring in my image. My sentiment is Happy Birthday from Verve. My dp was a scrap I found in my folder. My ribbon was white seam binding that I colored with my copics to match the Blush Blossom paper. Then I added a prima flower, a hat pin and a few chocolate pearls and a band of crocheted ribbon.  Pretty Pretty!!!

So yes today was my birthday. No I did not make myself a birthday card as my son asked me but my hubby and family did give me cash to get some goodies with so a shopping I shall go. Oh and I went out for breakfast with some friends and when I got back my kids had made me a yummy birthday cake which of course I ate too much of today. OK tomorrows another day!!!

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great one!!

New Challenges to Play with!!!

I made this card today for two new challenges out there in blogging world. First, I created this for The Rubber Cafe's new Thursday challenge. (TRCC1) You can find the post HERE. This weeks challenge was to create a shaped card other than a square. Of course I chose a circle, and I new I wanted to use this gorgeous image from The Rubber Cafe called Hand Picked Floral. Being the image took up my entire circle I went with a clean and simple look for today and I am pleased with the way this turned out.

I stamped my image onto white cardstock and colored with my copics. The edges were sponged with Cantelope Memento ink and the Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Fruit Medley set.

THEN I realized that I had not used this stamp in awhile so I qualify for Jessie's Forgotten Stamp Friday Challenge which you can find here. FSF07. Go check out both challenges and enter your creations into the Mr Linkys on the bottom of the posts!!!!

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

Get Well Soon

Created this card for the SCS sketch challenge this week and the Cats Pajamas Color Challenge of red, black, yellow and kraft. SC316 and TCPTUES142. I used a new to me Cats Pajamas image, colored with my copics and paper pieced the apron. My dp  is a mix of scraps from OA and I finished this card off with three black brads and some black sheer ribbon. I sponged cantelope memento ink around the edges of the image. Fun image and super great sketch!!!

Thanks for stopping by today. Enjoy the day!!!

Mojo Monday

I told you I was on a crafty roll. Two weeks in a row playing with the Mojo Monday Sketch. This one however had me scratching my head and walking away ALOT!!! I stare at it for alittle while and walk away. Come back and stare again (as if anything changed) and walk away again. Sometimes it works and sometimes, well, I have had a catastrophe or two in the garbage. Anyway....for todays card I used Mojo174 sketch. I used all Verve sets. I believe they were Starstruck and Seeing Stars. My dp were some scraps on my table so I am clueless and then I finished things off with a pretty Kiwi Kiss Bow, some tiny green pearls and alittle shimmer from my spica pen. Do I love it no....but its finished....thank goodness. Onto the next challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Have a happy Thursday!!

New Release part two

This week we are previewing the second set of this months new releases at Skipping Stones Design called Birthday Purses. It is already for sale and you have got to go check it out. If you love the humor that so often comes with Skipping Stones sets than you will love this one.

For todays card I pulled out some older Basic Grey Paper. I colored my image with copics and cut it out with circle nesties. The little flowers I added to the sentiment were purchased at Michaels out of the dollar bin. Great find!!!

You totally need to check out the samples from the rest of the DT and all of our amazing guests. Here is a list for you to follow. Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome day!!!

Amy Tsuruta

Barb Turpin

Brenda Weaver

Gladys Chia

Jennifer Ingle

Kandi Phillips

Tammie Beaton  

Wendy Jordan

And here is the list of our guest artists:
Amy Sheffer-Guest Sketch Artist  
Becky Olsen-Guest DT   
Jen del Muro-Guest DT   
Tami Mayberry-Guest DT   
Rae Barthel-Guest DT

MFT Weekly Sketch Challenge

I am loving that MFT is having a weekly sketch challenge. There is nothing like a good sketch to get the Mojo going. For todays card I used another Ala Mode called Picture Perfect.  I stamped onto Xpress Blending Paper and colored with my copics. My dp is from MME True and Dandy. Ribbon is PTI and my stars were cut out with a die from MFT's dienamics. My little pearls were colored with my copics to match the card. I love that you can do that. I have colored ribbon, buttons and of course pearls.

Big Jets vs New England game on today. New England and New York are such fierce rivals and this is going to be a good game to watch. I am not a HUGE football fan but when there is a NY team this close to the superbowl it gets very exciting and I have to watch!!!

Thanks so much for stopping in today. Hope you enjoy the day and if you have a long weekend, enjoy the day off tomorrow.

Viva La Verve Week 2

I always enjoy playing along with Verve's Challenges and with a pile of new Verve stamps it makes it so much easier and of course more fun!!!! I used the Enjoy Today Plain Jane for todays card. Stamped onto PTI cardstock and colored with copics and then added a ton of crystals. My paper is a mix of OA and my cardstock is so saffron, black and kraft. My ribbon is the last that I had of this yummy May Arts Silk Ribbon. I must get more of this and my sketch if week 2 of Januarys Viva La Verve Challenge.

Off to play some more. Have a good one!!! Thanks for stopping by!!!