Happy Hearts' Day

Welcome to my blog.  I am so glad that y'all took the time to come see me.  I have a really cute card for ya today.  It uses a paper piecing pattern from Better Homes and Gardens Scrapbooks Etc, which fits the Totally Paper Crafts challenge for this week.

I tried to show the movement of the baking pan.  I put it on an Action Wobble for the Card Makin' Mama's  challenge. 

I also used the Fancy Tags Spellbinders Dies to make the sentiment so that it followed the Crafty Hands challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by to see me.  I hope y'all have a wonderful night...guess what..tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!  God bless y'all.

Recipe:
Image: Paper Piecing Pattern  Scrapbooks ETC
Sentiment: Nina Brackett's Heartily Yours stamp set available at Gina K Designs
Ink: Distressed Inks Vintage Photo, Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Ivory, Red Recollections
Papers: The Paper Studio
Gems: Black Rhinestones Queen and Co
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Spellbinders Fancy Tags, Classic Ovals, Classic Scalloped Ovals, Cuttlebug, Cutterbee Scissors, Inking Tool from Tim Holtz, Zig 2 way Squeeze and Roll glue pen, Double sided sticky tape, Action Wobble, pop dots


Other Challenges Entered:
Tuesday Throwdown--Baked Goods
Dazzling Divas--Color Challenge
Cute Card Thursday--So Sweet
My Heart Pieces--Love is Life

Get Well Soon

Hi there.  Welcome to my blog.  The card I made for this post I am giving to my husband.  He is so sick. I hope this makes him feel better and lets him know that I care.

Isn't he a cute little sick bear.  And it fits so well with my husband because all he's been able to eat for the past few days is soup.

I appreciate y'all stopping by my little piece of cyberland today.  Have a wonderful day and God bless.

Recipe:
Stamp: Meljen's Sick Little Bear
Sentiment: Old stamp from my stash
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx; Memento Bahama Blue
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol; Spectrum Noir BGR 1
Cardstock: Recollections Blue; Colorbok Yellow; Georgia Pacific White; Neenah Solar White
Paper: DCWV; Authentique Essentials
Gems: Queen and Co
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer; ATG Gun

Entered Into:
Meljen's Designs--#192  Bullseye
My Creative Moments Word Play Saturday--Yellow
Musically Challenged--Use a song from a movie (I used Teddy Bear Picnic from the movie Open Season)

Day 10 of the 12 Days of Creepmas

Good Morning!  Welcome to Day 10.  Can you believe it's less than a week 'til Christmas?  Where did this year go?  Man, it seems to older I get, the faster time flies...And I wan't having fun the whole time..LOL.

Today's card features an image from Jade Draggone.  I think she's kinda cute in a twisted way.  She was intentionally designed for Halloween, but just as most of the images I have used along this hop, I made her into a Creepmas image.

I printed off my image onto Neenah Solar White card stock and colored with Crayolas and OMS.  After trimming down the image and inking her with Memento Lady Bug ink, I matted her onto a piece of Red card stock from Recollections. The card base is GP card stock.  The sentiment is from my computer and the papers are from MME.  I added two little candy canes from Jolie's to finish off the card.

Thank so much for all the great comments y'all have left me so far along this hop.  It still always surprises me when I log onto my blog and see that I have so many.  I hope y'all will continue along the blog roll that is listed on the right side of this post.  I will be back on Saturday with another card.  Have a great day!

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge

Welcome back to my little piece of the world.  It's been pretty chilly here in NE PA.  I am so not ready for winter.  I hate snow.  Yep, that's right.  I said it. I live in Pennsylvania and I hate snow.  Thank God I don't live in one of those places where it snows in feet and not inches.  I wouldn't know what to do.

So, that being said, I made a winter card for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week.

It's a very CAS card.  I don't make these too often, but the sketch just called for one.  It's a bit hard to see, but I used some Summer Sky Memento Ink and stamped random snowflakes on the bottom part of the card.  I used the same stamp and ink and added some snowflakes to the sentiment.  The two papers are from DCWV Dots 6x6 paper pad.  I used a Fiskars punch for the sentiment and it's from a set of stamps that I first got when I started stamping, so I'm not sure who designed it.  Adding three light blue rhinestones finished off this quick and easy card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope y'all have a great night/day!  God bless.

Just Some Lines Challenge

Today's card is for the Just Some Lines challenge: 3 or more embellishments.  I used this beautiful JSL image and colored her with Crayola colored pencils and OMS.

The image had her eyes closed, but I altered it just a bit and added so me eyes using acrylic paint.  The papers are from DCWV and the sentiment is from my stash.  When I first started stamping and scrapping, I would pull everything out of it's package and store it by theme.  Yeah, I've learned not to do that.  Now, I keep everything in it's package or if I use another form of storage I make sure to label each stamp set and paper pad.  My three or more embellishments are the rhinestones.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope y'all have a wonderfully blessed day!

31 Days of Halloween--Day 5

Wow..It's Day 5 already.  Are y'all having a good time making your way through all these fabulous blogs?  I know I am.  It's amazing how creative my blog buddies are.  For the duration of this hop, you can find the entire blog roll on the right side of my blog..just in case you get a bit discombobulated along the way.  For a list of the rules, sponsors and the daily clue for the Scavenger Hunt, please check out Terra's Blog.

Today's project is a 3-D Haunted Birdhouse.  I tried for creepy, but for some reason it came out cute.  I'm not very good at this creepy, dark stuff.  Be ready, because this post is picture heavy.

This first picture is of the front of the bird house.  I bought the bird house for $3 at Wal-mart today.  I painted it a flat black and dry brushed it with white, gold, and harvest orange.  I then went back with a dark gray.

This is the right side (facing the front).  I added some Freaky Fabric to mimic spider webs.  I added quite a few little baby spiders crawling around looking for Mama Spider.

Here we see the back.  I apologize for how dark it is. I tried to lighten up the picture, but it didn't work well.  I added some more spiders here on the back and some red and black flowers.

Here she is..Mama Spider with some of her babies.  I found this spider on sale after Halloween a couple years ago.  It's hard to tell in the picture, but she's glittery.  This is the left side of the bird house (facing the front).

Here's another shot of the front.  The skeleton is a Recollections Stamp and I stamped him in Memento Tuxedo Black and cut him out, inked him with DI Vintage Photo and glued him on.  The raven on the top is actually two ravens from the Martha Stewart Acetate Die Cut pack from last year.  I pulled the backing off one and stuck it to the other to make it stronger, then cut him out of his background.  He's hot glued on the top.

Here's a close up of the skeleton.  I almost forgot to add a stamped image.  I was almost done with my project when it dawned on my lightening fast mind that I hadn't added a stamped image.

Here are a couple of close ups of the hand and Mama Spider.  You can tell in this picture that she's pretty glittery.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I truly appreciate all the great comments that you Horrifying Hoppers and Sinister Lurkers are leaving.  I am going to give away this Haunted Bird House to one lucky commenter.   If you would like to have this birdhouse for your Halloween collection, stay tuned for my post entitled, "Giveaway" which will be coming this weekend.  I will have a trivia question in the post and everyone who answers correctly will have their name put into a bowl and my daughter will draw one name. I want to make sure that you have this by Halloween so I will leave the contest open until the 10th.  The name will be drawn on the 11th and will be mailed out by the 15th.

Thanks again for stopping by..now get goin'.  There is tons more to see!

Journey

Happy Monday.  Thanks for stopping by today.  The card I have for you this morning is my first card for Beccy's Place.  We have a wonderful set to use called Bicycle Set.  Included in this set are three great images and sentiments to go along with them.  When you leave my blog, hop on over to Beccy's Place and check out the store for this new image set and all the other beautiful designs.

I printed off this image onto Neenah Super Smooth White card stock and used BIC Markers to color in the bike and flowers.  For the back ground I used a few different Distress Inks--Forest Moss, Tea Dye, Antique Linen, Tumbled Glass, Wild Honey and Tattered Rose. I inked the edges of the image and sentiment with Bahama Blue Memento Ink.  Both the image and the sentiment are matted on a Deep Blue from HOTP.  I used two different DP from DCWV.  The card itself is 6" square and made from HOTP card stock.  I cut the circle DP with my Martha Stewart Circle Cutter.  Adding some red gems from Queen and Co. finished off the card.

I hope you liked this cute image and the card made with it.  Have a wonderful Monday and God bless y'all.

Another New Challenge Blog

Yep, that's right.  I found another one.  I think I'm probably up to about 50 by now.  I think that's why I get so behind every week.

Over on Avadares, the challenge for this week is to make a Green or St. Patrick"s Day card.  I nailed this one.

Avadares gave us this digi to use for our cards this week.  I like this stamp.  Looking at the pictures on the shamrock, they remind me of the Trinity.  God, the Father (the swirly letter, which I think is an "F")  God, the Son (represented by the heart)  and God, the Holy Spirit (the dove).  I had fun coloring this bright image with my colored pencils and OMS.   I also used BIC Markers for some of the flowers.

I used SU Whisper White card stock for the base and printing off the image.  For those of you who use digis, how do you keep your ink from spreading into your image on some of the card stock?  I am having an issue with that.

The two shades of green are from Recollections and the DP is K and I.  I used three different inks on the front and the inside.  Memento Tuxedo black for the sentiment, Bamboo Leaves and Pear Tart for the sentiment inside.  I added some gems along side of the sentiment.  That pretty much finished up the card.

Thanks for stopping in.  I am down to my last card for this set of posts.  I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday.  God bless.

Challenges:
Avadares--#8  St. Patrick's Day/Green

Snowman Love

We are cruisin' right along this morning.  I have made it to card #4 already.  Not bad.  It's only been 15 minutes.

I did something a little different for this challenge.  Since we are coming up on the Valentine's season, I decided to make this a love card, but used a winter image.

This cute little guy is from A Day for Daisies.  I colored him in with my colored pencils and OMS.  I cut out the image using my Nestabilities.   I did use some Glitter Gel Pen on his hat for some sparkle.  We all love the bling right?  I began with a SU Whisper White card base cut to a 5" square card.  I added a strip of American Crafts DP that has been punched with my Fiskar's border punch.  I matted the image on the same DP then a Lacy Circle Large die cut.

To make the snowflakes match and not be washed out on the white card base, I used some snowflake die cuts that my precious friend Jan sent me.  I took my Memento Lady Bug ink pad and colored four of them.  For the other four, I used a red glitter gel pen to highlight the "branches" of the snowflakes.  Using a pop dot, I put the snowflakes together.  Once I had them on the card, I added some red gems from Queen and Co. to highlight the center of each snowflake.

I hope you like it.  I think it makes a cute Valentine's card.  The inside sentiment says, "I love you this much".  Very fittin' right?

Well, that's it for this post.  Onward James...God bless y'all.

Challenges:
A Day for Daisies--#62  Add some red

Playing Catch Up

Happy Monday y'all.  I hope all of y'all are ready for another week.  I am, but it's going to be a busy one.  I am really behind in my card making for last week.  I was super busy and didn't get all of my challenges done.  I think I am up to about 45 a week now.  It really helps me to stock up my stash for cards, but I am being over run.  I need to get some sold.  I probably should open an Etsy shop or put some on eBay.

I am going to post 5 cards here in this one post so that I can get them linked for the challenges.  I am going to be short and brief and just post the challenges they are for as well as the products, but not any details.  I will come back later in the week and post the details.  Sorry for being so short, but it's 3:20 am and I need to get to bed.

Card 1.  Sweet November

Stamp: Freecoloringpages.com
Sentiment: Hand written
Coloring Medium: BIC Markers, Spectrum Noir Markers, Glitter Gel Pen
CS: Recollections: yellow and green;  GP: white
DP: DCWV
Gems: Queen and Co.
Ribbon: Offray

Challenges entered:
Outlawz Friday Promarker/Copic--Birthstones
One Stop Craft Challenge--#214  Anything Goes


Card 2.  Mummu's Bike

Stamp:  Mummu's Bike Digi by Mo Manning
Sentiment: Dessert Diva
Coloring Medium: Colored Pencils and OMS
Inks: DI Vintage Photo (for edging)
CS: SU--Old Olive, Cajun Craze; GP--White
DP: American Crafts
Ribbon: Offray
Gems: Queen and Co.
5/8" Round circle punch (EK Success) (for making ticket corners)

Challenges Entered:
Outlawz Twisted Thursdays--Something with Wheels
Cute Card Thursday--#254 A Different Corner
Beccy's Place--Week 1  "B" card


Card 3:  10 Reasons Why

Stamps: Tami Mayberry--Just a Note; Nina Brackett--Heartily Yours Additions
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
CS: Gray, Tan and Olive--Recollections
DP: American Crafts; DCWV
Brad: Recollections
Punch: 5/8" Circle--EK Success

Challenges Entered:
Outlawz Color Challenge Tuesday--Gray, Green, and Tan


Card 4: Love Blessing

Stamp: TCP Faith Greetings
Ink: Memento Lady Bug
CS: Gina K--Heavy Base Weight White; Black-- DCWV; Red--Recollections
Tag: Hot Off the Press
Marvy Heart Punch

Challenges Entered: Freshly Made Sketches--#71


Card 5:  Faith

Please forgive the bad picture.  The card base is actually Olive Green, but for some reason it came out looking black and the sentiment strip looks tan when it is actually a dark yellow.  The glittered butterfly is teal green, not black.

Stamp: Tami Mayberry's Faithful Florals
Ink: Memento Bamboo Leaves; Anna Griffin Rose
CS: Olive--Recollections; Yellow--DCWV
DP:  K and Co.
Butterfly and Flower: my stash


Challenge Entered:
Outlawz Wednesday Sketch

Feeling Sketchy #44

Howdy folks.  Thanks for stopping by today.  I have a nice springy card for y'all today.

I decided to use shades of green for this card.  I am so waiting to see the first signs of Spring.  I guess we will know for sure tomorrow if it's coming or if we have to suffer through six more weeks of this cold stuff.  If Phil sees his shadow tomorrow I swear I'm going to shoot that little groundhog.  It's all fun and games, but what people don't realize is that groundhogs are blind.  He isn't going to see his shadow at all.  Oh well, such is life.

I started with a SU Crumb Cake base.  I used a Happy Birthday Embossing Folder on a piece of Glitter Green card stock from DCWV.  I used two strips of DP from Gina K Designs Wisteria Lane paper pack.  I used my Cuttlebug and die cut a scalloped circle to put behind the little girl (Provo Craft).  The sentiment is from TCP.  I stamped it in Memento Bamboo Leaves and inked the edges with DI Vintage Photo.  The little birthday cake is from a swap that I was in a couple years ago.    I used pop dots on the girl and the cake.

Thanks for stoppin' in today and I hope y'all enjoy your weekend.  God bless ya!

Challenges Entered:

Feeling Sketchy--#44

Through the Craftroom Door--anything goes

White Card

Well, it's nice to see y'all again.  Come on in.  I have a card for y'all today that is a little out of my comfort zone.  I don't normally do tone on tone cards, just because I am not good with them. 

This card is a white on white card.  No image this time, just a nice sentiment.

The picture is a little dark, but everything except the sentiment is white.  To make this card, I started with a piece of Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight White card stock.  I ran the front of the card through an embossing folder from Darice.  I like this brand of embossing folder and it's cheaper than Sizzix or Tim Holtz.  Although I will never give up on Tim's products, sometimes it's nice to find a good quality product for a good price.   I took another piece of GP white card stock and ran it through the same embossing folder.  I used my Cutter bee scissors to cut out just the frame of the embossed card stock.  I stamped the sentiment (Tami Mayberry)  on the frame in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I used pop dots to give the frame some dimension.  I added four cream colored, flat back pearls from Queen and Co. to finish off the card.  I would definitely consider this one a CAS.

Thanks for stoppin' in today.  This is the last post for today.  I will back with some more creations tomorrow.  God bless y'all.

This card is for the Outlawz Challenges--Sunday's CAS

Beary Cute

Hello friends.  Come on in.  Kick back and sit a spell.  Hope y'all are doin' good today.  I have something for y'all to see.

Cute, right?  I pulled out one of the first stamps I ever bought for this card.  I have been using alot of digis and thought I would go "old school" for this one.  This is a Hot Off the Press stamp from Paper Wishes. I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Very Vanilla card stock from SU.   I colored him with my colored pencils and OMS.  The little blocks in the corners come in the same stamp set along with the Beary Cute sentiment.

To put this card together, I started with a white card base from Gina K.  It's a standard A2 sized card.  I cut a piece of Old Olive from SU to 4"x5.25" and ran it through the Swiss Dot Embossing Folder.  The next layer is the light green plaid from American Crafts which is cut at 4.75"x3.5".  I used my Cuttlebug to cut out the image with Spellbinders Nestabilities in Classic Circle Large and Petite Scalloped Circle Large.  While still in the die, I used DI Peeled Paint ink to sponge around the perimeter of the image. I matted the image on the scalloped circle.  Before adhering the image to the card, I wrapped a piece of cream colored ribbon from Offray around the plaid paper and tied a knot on the right hand side.  I then used pop dots to adhere the image.  I stamped the welcome greeting in Memento Rich Cocoa onto Very Vanilla card stock, trimmed it down and inked the edges with DI Vintage Photo.  I centered the greeting towards the bottom.  I stamped five little block images, colored them with my colored pencils and fussy cut them out.  They were run through my Xyron and adhered to each corner.  The fifth one is on the inside.

I am so glad you decided to come on in and sit a spell.  It's time for me to go, but I will be back to visit with you soon.  God bless y'all.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Red Carpet Studios--#21 Teddy Bears
Created with Love--#26 Baby Shower

TIC TAC TOE

Welcome back.  So glad to see you.  Come on in, I have a card to show you.
Today's card is for the Crafts 4 Eternity challenge for this week.  It is a Tic Tac Toe challenge, which means you have to pick three items to use on your card from the board.  I chose the color blue, ribbon and snowflakes.

Isn't that a cute penguin?  I just love penguins.  I could sit at the zoo for hours and watch them play.  I received this image already matted on the scalloped ovals in a swap, so I decided to use it for this card.  I started with a piece of gray-blue card stock from Colorbok as my A2 card base.  It is a top opening card instead of the usual side opening.  I used some snowflake stickers from Provo Craft to give texture and design to the card base.  That swirling blue ribbon, that's from Recollections and reminds me of snowflakes twirling and swirling through the air as they float down to earth.  It's a felt ribbon so it gives added texture to the card.  I used pop dots to add the penguin image.  The little sentiment is from Inkadinkado and it's called Friendly Characters.  The sentiment is actually attached to a little penguin standing on a block of ice, but I just stamped the sentiment part of the stamp by masking off the image.  I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and cut it out to look like a spoken word bubble.  I inked it with Colorbox Cat's Eye ink in Light Blue.

That was it.  I think it took me all of 15 minutes from start to finish to make this card.  It has been one of the easier ones I have made lately.  I do thank you from the bottom of my heart for stopping in to see what I have been up to.  I pray you have a wonderful evening.  God bless y'all.

Vintage Valentine

Hi there.  Don't you just love Valentine's Day?  I do. But for me, it's not just about the cute cards, chocolates and flowers.  It's a remembrance for me of the One who loved me enough to die for me.  The One who endured so much, just so that I could be redeemed.  That One?  Jesus Christ.  His love for all of us is the most wonderful example of Valentine's Day there is.  If there was a way I could send Him a Valentine's Day card, I would.  The best I can do is just to tell Him on a regular basis how much I love Him and am thankful for the His sacrifice on Golgotha's Hill over 2000 years ago.

Today's card uses a vintage photo of two darling angels.  I used my pink colored pencil to add some color to their robes while leaving the rest of the picture in shades of gray.  

I started with a piece of Real Red (SU) card stock for the A2 card base.  I inked the edges of the photo with DI Vintage Photo and matted it on a piece of Cream card stock (Recollections).  I then found a vintage post card image in my stash and inked it all over with the Vintage Photo ink to distress it a bit.  I chose a piece of DCWV brown and red rose patterned paper as the background.  I adhered the DP and then the post card image.  I added  a strip of double sided tape (American Crafts) to the center of the card and added the red gathered ribbon. I then used pop dots to adhere the angels. The sentiment is from Studio G and stamped with Memento Rhubarb Stalk.   I added some brads to the corners for a finished look.  

It's not overly cluttered with embellishments, but I think it has that vintage feel.  

I am entering this card into the ABC Challenges, the Robin's Fetishes and the Shopping Our Stash challenges for this week.

Thanks for coming by and I hope you enjoyed my card for today.  God bless y'all.

Rock On

Hello there.  I hope everyone is having a great day.  I have another card that is going to be entered into two different challenges.  The first challenge, Chocolate, Coffee and Cards has a Rock On challenge.  The second, Shelly's Images, has a 1-2-3 Challenge.  You have to use one sentiment, 2 pieces of patterned paper and 3 pieces of bling.

For this card, I used a cute image I found online for free when I first started using digi stamps.  I Googled Free Digi Stamps, and she popped up.  I wasn't keeping track of who designed them back then, so unfortunately I cannot give proper credit.  If I find out who designed this cutie, I will update my post with the artist's name.  

I colored her with my colored pencils and OMS.  I then fussy cut her out so that I could use pop dots to adhere her to the card.  

I used Daffodil Delight (SU) for the A2 card base.  The two DPs are from DCWV's Glam Girl stack.  I cut the butterfly paper to 3.5"x2.5"  and notched the ends.  I trimmed the striped paper to 4"x3".  I inked both papers with DI Vintage Photo.  The sentiment is from Stampedous' You Rock set. I used Memento Tangelo ink to stamp it and cut it out with my EK Success Label punch.  I added three large gems (Queen and Co.)  to the bottom left corner to complete the card.

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my hippie chick.  Have a wonderful day.  God bless you.

A Girlie Card

Welcome to my blog.  Today's card is going to be entered into three different challenges.  The first challenge, QKR Stampede, is Soft Pastels. The second challenge, Love to Create, is an Anything Goes challenge with a sentiment. The third challenge, Stamping for the Weekend, is for Something Girlie.  I love the shabby chic look even though I am not that good at creating it.  So, for this card, I just started adding elements without really spending too much time arguing with myself over them.  This is how it turned out....

To make this card, I started with a Whisper White (SU) card base A2 size.  I trimmed down a piece of pink card stock from Recollections to 4"x5.25".  I adhered that to the card base.  I found two pieces of DP from Kand Co. that I liked and cut them down to 2" wide.  For the lighter pink, I shortened it to 5" and the darker pink to 4.5".  I notched the ends of each one for a banner effect. I then inked them both with DI Vintage Photo and adhered them to the card.  I took a piece of white lace and using glue dots, I scrunched it up across the card.  To hide the raw edge of the lace I used a punched strip of green card stock from Recollections. I used pop dots on the top edge of the strip to even out both sides.  I punched a piece of White (GP) card stock into an oval and using pop dots added this sweet little vintage girl that I received in a swap a couple years ago.  I then used pop dots to adhere the whole thing to the card.  In the upper right hand corner I added a paper heart inked with DI Vintage Photo and three paper flowers from Recollections.  The sentiment is from TCP's Faith Greetings stamps set.  It is stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa and inked with DI Vintage Photo.  I added the sentiment on an angle with pop dots.

I like the way this card turned out.  Kinda vintage, kinda shabby but still pretty clean.  I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by.  Keep tuned in for some more creations and my first post for Digi Darla.  God bless you.

Just Married

Hello Friends.  I found another challenge site.  That puts me up to about 25 per week.  I'm addicted.  It's sad.  I think I really need some kind of 12 Step Program.  Maybe I will start one for us peep who are addicted to card making. I will call it the 12 Step Challenge. LOL.  I think it sounds pretty good.  Maybe our first challenge will be Step 1: Use 1 flower. HAHAHA!! What do you think? Sounds like a plan doesn't it?  Each challenge will be a new step.  Step 2: Use 2 patterned papers.  Step 3: Use 3 rhinestones.  ETC.  Yeah, I have completely lost my mind.  On to my next card. 

This one was really fast and easy.  I loved the sketch that we were challenged to use over on Seems a Little Sketchy.  It was pretty CAS, but I added to it.  You know I can't stop with one or two embellies.  I love all the "stuff."

The stamp I used was a little one from Studio G that I picked up in the dollar bin at Michael's.  I love those little dollar stamps.  Some of them are very cute. You can even combine alot of them together to make different focal images. I stamped the image and sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black.  I used my Spellbinders to cut out the image and emboss it, then used a Scalloped Circle for the backing.  The sentiment I cut out with my EK Success Label punch.   I used Whisper White from SU for the card base.  It's a little smaller than usual, only 4.5x4.5, but with such a small image, it fit better being smaller.  The black layer is 4x4 and is Basic Black from SU.  The red layer is 3.75x3.75 and is from Recollections.  The DP is DCWV and is cut to 3.5x3.5.  I used pop dots to adhere the sentiment and added three flat back pearls from Queen and Co on it.  There are three cream colored flat back pearls in the top right hand corner, but they look gray in the picture.  I figure I can use this card for my BIL and soon to be SIL in September for their wedding.  As soon as she decides what her colors are going to be, I am going to start on making a photo album for her.  I wish she would decide so that I can get started.

I sincerely thank you for stopping by today.  Let me know what you think about my 12 Step Challenge.  I want to see how many people need the program..hehe  Have a wonderful day and God bless you.

Have a Very Mice Day

OK.  I have to admit that I am addicted.  I have it bad.  What am I addicted to?  House Mouse Stamps.   I just love them.  They are so dang cute. I have right around 10 of them and cannot wait to collect more.  I think I need a 12 step program.

This week over on Feeling Sketchy they have a very clean lined sketch for us.  There wasn't much interpreting to be done with this one.  I used one of my House Mouse stamps for this one. 

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black and used colored pencils as my medium.  I am still learning to color with the alcohol pens so I usually rely on my good old trusty pencils.  I trimmed down the image to 3.5x5", matted it on a light pink and then a dark green, all by Colorbok.  I used a strip of pink and green striped DP from DCWV to go across the image and pop the sentiment.  I stamped the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black and matted it the same way.  The back ground DP is also from DCWV.  I used a piece of Bubblegum Pink from Colorbok as the card base.  I wanted this one to be fairly straight forward, so I didn't add embellishments.  I probably could have added some pearls to the corners, but I didn't.

I am also entering this card in the Created with Love anything goes challenge and the Outlawz CAS challenge for this week, and the Through the Craftroom Door challenge.

I hope you are enjoying my projects.  I am so thankful that I can once again craft.  Thank you so much for stopping in and the comments that you guys leave.  You have no idea how much I enjoy reading them.  God bless y'all.

Jonah 2:2

Hello my friends.  I found this cool site during my searching for some new challenge blogs.  Shop Our Stash blog challenges you to use up your hoarded materials.  It's a great way to pull out things you haven't used in a while or have been hoarding for one reason or another. I participated in the challenge last week too.   This week's challenge was to use some of your oldest ribbon.

I made this one a get well card.  It seems I have needing alot of those lately.  This dang flu has everyone down and out.  I found this cute little Nurse Mouse online during one of my many searches for free digis.  I used my colored pencils and OMS to color the image.  I trimmed it down, rounded the edges and inked them in Bahama Blue by Memento.  I matted it onto a piece of stormy blue card stock by Colorbok.  The sentiment is from Dee's Bugaboo Boutique.  She has tons of Scripture Verses and Quotes on her site.  I found this one and thought it was very fitting for a get well card.  I did the same techniques to the sentiment as I did the focal image.  I used two pieces of scrap DP for the background.  They are both from DCWV.  I used a 6x6 card base made from Cornflower Blue from Colorbok.  The piece of blue glitter ribbon was hiding way down in the bottom of my blue ribbon bucket.  I thought the corners needed something extra so I added some cream colored flat back pearls to finish off this card.

I sure hope you liked this card.  Thanks so much for stopping in today and I pray blessings upon each and every one of you.  God bless you.