Twisted Tuesday Challenge

Howdy Ho Neighbors!  I'm back with one more card for tonight.  This one is for Twisted Tuesday.  I'm making it just under the wire. 

The challenge this week is A Christmas Forest.  They want to see Christmas Trees or just Trees.  I put a bit of a quirk on it.

Since I friends who live out west, I thought I would make a Christmas card for them that they could relate to.  No snow for them, so we have Cactus Trees.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all have a wonderful day.  God bless.

Saturday with Paper A La Mode

Hello there.  Today is Saturday...yippee..and this starts another new challenge over at Paper A La Mode.  Last week's challenge was sponsored by Rick St. Dennis.  Y'all know how much I love Rick's images.  The winner is going to receive 2 images of their choice from Rick's new zibbets store.

This week our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps.  Jodie has some wonderful designs over in her shop.  The winner of this week's challenge will receive 2 images of their choice.

Our theme for this week was chosen by Theresa, and it's Stars and Snowflakes.

Here's what I created:

The stamp set that I used is from Jenny Ellory and the papers are from DCWV Winter Basics 6x6 paper pad. Even though the card stock looks green it is actually turquoise.  I used the rosettes stamp to make the circles and added some light turquoise gems to the center. The bows are part of the stamp set and I just stamped them on the patterned paper and cut them out.  It's a very simple Christmas card, but I like it.

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

I am also going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Oldie but a Goodie--CAS Christmas
Papertake Weekly--Snow and Ice
Shopping Our Stash--Use Something on Your Desk--stamp set
Twisted Tuesday--Pop Dots and Polka Dots (sentiment pop dotted; polka dots in patterned paper and the circle background)
Hiding in My Craft Room--Die Cuts (Cuttlebug)

Dancing Queens

Hello there.  Happy Hot Wednesday.  Thanks for joining me today.  I have a Rick St. Dennis image for y'all today.  Don't ya just love his work?  I do!

My goodness..these ladies are sure cuttin' a rug.  I printed off the image onto Crafter's Companion card stock and colored it with my BIC Markers and Spectrum Noir Pens.  I then trimmed it down and matted it on a deep purple.  The dark purple DP was a freebie from Cardmaker Magazine and I matted those two panels on light purple.  The background DP is from Colorbok.  I put the whole thing on an Old Olive card base.  I stamped the sentiment from Gina K in Versa Magic Plumeria ink.  Adding a few purple gems from Queen and Co. finished off this card.

I hope y'all enjoyed the visit.  Have a great night..God bless.

Challenges:
Twisted Tuesday--#50  Girlfriends
2 Sisters--#144  1-2-3 (One Sentiment, Two DPs and Three Dancing Ladies)
Divas By Design--Friendship

Big Girl Panties

Good Morning my friends.  I hope your week is going good.  I had a doctor's appt. yesterday and have finally discovered the reason behind my severe pain, exhaustion, and other issues.  I have Fibromyalgia.  But, I cannot take care of that until I get the PTSD under control because I can't be medicated when I go see the doctor.  I have to be feeling all the emotional issues so that the doctor can prescribe the right combo of meds for the PTSD.  Go figure.  If it isn't one thing it's another..always.  But, I do have my crafting to help keep me sane.

So, here's a cute card that I made for a couple of challenges.

When I saw this sentiment from Create with TLC, I knew I had to use it on a card.  I love it!  The little girl is from The Digi Garden.  I used my Chromatix to color her in and the Fiskars Shape Maker to cut it out. I inked the edges of the image and sentiment with DI Vintage Photo.  I followed a sketch from Feeling Sketchy to make this card.  The card base is Old Olive from SU.  The DP background is American Crafts and the DP pieces are DCWV.  I added some gems from Queen and Co and the flower is one that I dyed using the homemade alcohol inks.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I truly appreciate it.  God bless y'all and have a great day!

Challenges:
Twisted Tuesday--#49  Free For All
Southern Girls--#68  You Can Say That Again
Papertake Weekly--Anything Goes

Beautiful Lady

Welcome back friends.  I have another card for y'all today.  This one uses a Digital Stamps 4 Joy image by Jen Lee.  I colored this lady with colored pencils and OMS.

I made this one a shaped easel card using a template. The base is a royal purple from Recollections.  I used two different DPs from DCWV and used both patterns to make the flowers.  I used two EK Success 5 petal flower punches for them.  The leaves are from my stash.  All of the gems are from Queen and Co.  And no, your not seeing wonky, the image is placed askewed for interest. The sentiment is from Shelly's Images and I inked the edges with purple ink.

Thanks so much for taking a peek at what I have been working on.  God bless y'all.

Challenge:
Twisted Tuesday--Free For All

Home Sweet Home

Good evening friends.  How is everyone tonight?  I hope you had a wonderful Wednesday.  It's been quiet around here tonight.  My daughter has been at her grandma's since 2pm so I have been able to get quite alot accomplished.  Mostly cards, but a load or two of laundry and dishes were done too. :)

I have a card for y'all tonight that uses as image from Shelly's Images.  I used my Chromatix pens from American Crafts to color this one after printing it out on Neenah card stock.  I'm almost out...gotta order some.  Can't live without it.

I know it's kind of hard to see, but the swirly lines that you see are actually an acetate frame from K and Co.  It's been in my hoard stash for about a year.  One of the challenges I made this card for challenges us to use a specialty paper.  I don't really have alot of that, but I thought I would pull out one of theses frames to use.   It has beautiful purple glitter flowers in the left corner and glitter swirlies all around the frame.  I matted the frame on a piece of yellow card stock from Colorbok and a piece of DP from DCWV.  I then ran that through my Cuttlebug with a rectangle die.  I used pop dots and adhered the whole frame over the image.  I matted the whole thing on a piece of the DP from DCWV and a light blue card stock base from Colorbok.  For a final touch, I added a glittered chipboard bird from K and Co. to the bottom left corner.  I didn't think it needed any more embellishing.

Thanks for stopping by tonight to see what I have been up to.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Shopping Our Stash--#96 Not Your Normal Paper
Through the Craftroom Door--Anything Goes
Twisted Tuesday--#47  Animals and Flowers
All That Scraps--Winged Things
Divas by Design--Spring Colors
Sweet Stamps--Spring Pastels

Irish Dancers

Good evening friends.  Welcome back to my blog.  I appreciate you guys stopping in.  I have either seven or eight cards to upload tonight.  You would think I could come up with a better system.  Oh well.  I haven't been feeling very well.  Kierstynne and I both have allergy/sinus/cold things going on and have felt like roadkill for the past few days.  After this post, the posts are going to be fairly short.  

The first card here uses two cute Irish dancers:

These cute little ladies are freebies from the Imagine That progressive monthly challenge.  I used BIC markers and Neenah Super Smooth White card stock to make these images.  The card base is More Mustard from SU and measures 5.5" square.  The Olive card stock also comes from SU.  The DP is DCWV.  I used the medium size LaLa Land Rose Die  and an EK Success 5 petal flower punch to make the roses.  I added a pearl (Joann's) to the center of them for some bling.  The green gems are from Queen and Co.

Thanks for stopping in tonight and I hope y'all will stay tuned for the next few posts to see what else I have created.  The last one I post tonight is a new style for me.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Imagine That--Progressive Challenge
Twisted Tuesday--Green/Spring
Card Makin' Mamas--Green
Broken Box Stock--St. Patrick's Day