Simple Salutations at Mark's Finest Papers Challenge #96

Good Morning friends and followers.  So happy to see y'all have taken a moment of your precious time to come visit me.  I truly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.

Today is a good day to visit because today is not only Hump Day  Woot! it's the start of a new challenge at Simple Salutations at the Mark's Finest Papers ning site.

This week our challenge is to create a MOTHER's DAY card.  Now, don't fear.  Those of you who no longer have your mothers can create a card for a Special Lady in your life.  We all have those don't we?

This pretty card uses one of the new stamps just released this month.  It's called "Oriental Joy".  I love this butterfly and circle frame.  It's beautiful.  If you want to see the rest of May's releases, please stay tuned for my next post...I will showcase them all.

Thanks so much for looking at my card for today.  Have a wonderful day and God bless y'all.

Recipe:
Image: Oriental Joy by MFP
Sentiment: Stampin' Up
Coloring Medium: Chromatix Pens in Pink
Cardstock: Darice, Recollections, Neenah Solar White
Papers: SEI Chocolat
Ink: Stampin' Up Midnight Muse, Chocolate Chip
Ribbon: Michael's
Gems: Recollections
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Cutterbee Scissors, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Circles, Boweasy, Martha Stewart Classic Butterfly Punch, Martha Stewart 3 in 1 Butterfly Punch, Stickles Frosted Lace, Foam Tape, Glue Dots

Sketch with a Twist at Mark's Finest Papers Challenge #97

Good Morning Cyberland.  It's Tuesday, its beautiful outside, the sun is shining, and so is the SON!  Thanks for making my blog one of your stops today.  It sure is nice to read all those wonderful comments you guys leave for me.  It means so much.

Today begins a new challenge at Sketch With a Twist at Mark's Finest Papers ning site.  Yes, you do have to join the site, but's free and very rewarding.

Our challenge sketch is:
                                         

The Twist: Create a card for a Special Lady.

I turned the sketch on it's side to create my card.  I used another new set for May called "Tiger Lily".  If you would like to see all of the new stamps for May, please click  HERE.

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I hope y'all have a wonderful day and God bless.

Recipe:

Image: MFP  Tiger Lily

Sentiment: same set

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink in Vintage Photo

Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol

Cardstock: Darice, Neenah Solar White, Recollections

Paper: DCWV

Gems: Recollections

Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Cutterbee Scissors, Inking Tool, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Classic Ovals and Classic Scalloped Ovals Dies, Foam Tape

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #194

Happy Tuesday Friends.  Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope y'all enjoy the card I for you today.

Today begins a new challenge over at Tuesday Throwdown.  Last week's cards were simply amazing. Team B had a wonderful recipe challenge to follow.  Didn't they do a great job?

This week, Team A has a great challenge for ya.  Create a card for a SPECIAL LADY.  Whether it's your mum, an aunt, a grandmother, or ever a friend, we want to see those beautiful special lady cards.

Our sponsor this week is
                                                         

Here's my sweet little Lady Bear and she's so ready for some love.  

Thank you for joining me today.  I hope y'all enjoyed this card.  It's got quite a bit of color coming together to make this card.  Have a wonderful day and God bless.

Recipe:

Image: Bernice Red Hat Bear  Robyn's Fetish  (She just doesn't have a red hat this time)

Sentiment: Desert Diva

Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Clear Star Glitter Pen

Cardstock: Darice, Neenah Solar White

Papers: DCWV

Gems: Recollections

Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Labels 6 Shapez, Foam Tape

QKR Stampede Challenge #86

Welcome to our Weekly Challenge 

I'm a bit late posting this as usual.  One day I will get back ahead of the game.  

Our challenge theme this week is " MOTHER'S DAY".  

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 

"Cards for a Young Boy Challenge" last week.

We had a fantastic turnout !
The team had an awesome time visiting your blogs to see your creativity in action! Fabulous Job!!!

We will select two winners each week 1 using QKR Stampede image

 and 1 using any image!

Our Winners For Challenge #85

QKR Stampede Image Winner 

No winner

Please visit our QKR Stampede Store & Pick out the 3 digital Images of your Choice!

Non -QKR Stampede Image Winner 

14. Aunty Sue

Please visit our QKR Stampede Store & Pick out the 2 digital Images of your Choice!

Congratulations! 

Our TOP 5 PICKS for this week are ...

2. Kim
10. Debbie S.
17. Amy A.
26. Julie J.
1. Mags

Our challenge is still on until Thursday evening if you would like to enter.  We would love to see what you come up with.

Please forgive the picture quality.  I think there was a bit too much lite shining when I took the pic.  It really does look cute in person.  I just hate it that this pic doesn't show how nice the snake came out.

Thanks for joining me today.  Have a wonderful day and God bless.

Recipe:

Image: Mama Snake  Digi #15404

Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol

Sentiment: Mine

Cardstock: Recollections, Neenah Solar White

Paper: Recollections

Flower: AC Moore

Tools:  Kaboodles Template for Hexagon Card, Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Pop Dots, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Hexagon Dies

Tuesday Challenge at Clear It Out

Hello there.  Just a quick post today.  I've been cleaning house, doing laundry and now I'm pooped.  I have a confession.  I hate folding laundry.  I  think it rates right up there with making the bed.  Pointless. You are just going to wear them again and you are just going to crawl back in bed in a few hours.  Yep, those are my two down falls.  OK, I'm sure I have more, but those are the two I can think of off the top of my head...LOL

We have a new challenge over at Clear It Out.  For this challenge, we want to see Purple.  Lots and Lots of Purple.  We even want you to dig way back in your hoard stash and pull out that purple thing you have been hiding.

My mom likes purple, so this is going to her in a few days.  I found those huge rhinestones at Michael's a few months back.  I think they look like starbursts.

Thanks for joining me today.  I hope y'all have a wonderfully blessed day.  God bless ya!

Recipe:
Image: Penelope Pansy Flower Pot Pretty
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol
Sentiment: Gina K 
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink Dusty Concord
Cardstock: Recollections, Darice, Neenah
Papers: American Crafts, KI Memories
Gems: Recollections, Studio G
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Cuttlebug, The Stamps of Life Banner Die, Stamp Block, Inking Tool

Challenges:
Come and Get It--Spring Flowers
Chocolate, Coffee, Cards--#63 Spring
Craftitude--#63 Anything Goes with a Spring Twist
Hiding In My Craft Room--#147 Mother's Day
Craftin' Desert Divas--#30 Mother's Day
The Crazy Challenge--#170 Stripes
The Cutie Pie--#68 April Showers Bring May Flowers
Fantastic Tuesday--#33 Floral

New Challenge at Paper A La Mode

Hello there.  Hope all is well this Monday morning.  I should have blogged this card on Saturday, but didn't get to it.

Saturday started our new challenge at Paper A La Mode.  Our challenge this week is "Must Use Glitter."
Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps and they were nice enough to give our DT some images to play with.

I used the Make it Snappy Kidz-Mother's Day Girl image to create my card.  I think she's such a cute little girl. The flourish was given to me by a friend and I cut it into three pieces to be able to fit it on my card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Have a truly blessed day!

Recipe:
Image: Bugaboo
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Sakura Clear Star Glitter Pen
Cardstock: Recollections
Paper: DCWV
Roses: handmade by me
Flourishes: My stash
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Hot Glue Gun, 5 petal punch from EK Success, Homemade Glimmer Mist

Challenges:
Bearly Mine--One for the Girls
Pile It On--#13 Floral Fantasy

Ribbon and Pearls

Hello there my friends.  I hope y'all are enjoying your Friday.  Kierstynne is getting ready to go to her great grandmother's for the night so it's almost time for me time.  I did manage to get a card done earlier today.

I tried my hand at making a new kind of bow for this card.  I love the way it came out.  It's very simple actually. You take a length of ribbon the size of the bow you want to make and glue the ends together.  Take another smaller length of ribbon and wrap it around the middle securing it in the back.  That's it.  How simple is that, right?

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

Recipe:
Image: Sweet and Sassy
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, BIC Marker
Sentiment: Stampin' Up More Great Greetings (inside)
Ink: Memento Summer Sky, Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Recollections, Neenah Solar White
Paper: DCWV Fabric Paper
Ribbon: My stash
Pearls: Hobby Lobby
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Cutterbee Scissors, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Classic Circles, Classic Scalloped Circles

Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge--#115  Mother's Day
Crazy 4 Challenges--#228  Anything Goes
Hiding in My Craftroom--#142  Let's Get Digital
My Time to Craft--#240 Mother's Day/Special Lady
Inkspirational--#52 Spring Colors
Avenue 613--#64 Anything Goes   Birds of a Feather
Come and Get It--Easter/Spring
Craft Your Passion--#206 Mother's Day
Created with Love--#78  Girly
Love to Create--#108 Bingo Challenge (I used Pink, Die Cuts, Ribbon)
Ooh La La--#152  Special Lady

Getting My Craft On

Good Morning Friends.  Guess what day it is?  Yep, you guessed it...it's Hump Day!!!  Dang, I still love that commercial. :)

I want to thank all of my friends and followers who left the sweetest thoughts for me during the last two weeks as I went through one of the saddest times of my life.  All of y'all's prayers meant so much to me.  I truly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.  

I know that my Granny is in a much better place and as one of my DT team mates said to me, she's saving me a seat in Heaven.  The service was absolutely beautiful.  It was just what she would have wanted. 

So, I have been able to get back to crafting.  I sure missed it while I was gone.  I hate being away from my craft room.  It's my relaxation and decompression area.

Today begins a new challenge at The Crafter's Cafe. Our theme this week is to "Make a Square Card." That was pretty easy for me since most of my cards are square ones.   

We have two wonderful sponsors this week:
                              

I am using Fred She Said Designs for my card today.  Are y'all ready to meet Rosy??

I think she's adorable.  I decided to make this a Mother's Day card and used a stamp from SU for the sentiment.  Rosy is decoupaged with 4 layers.  I'm not sure how much you can tell it.

Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today.  I hope y'all will continue to keep up with me now that I am back and getting crafty.  

Have a wonderful day and God bless y'all.

Recipe:
Image: Fred She Said Designs Rosy with Flower digi
Sentiment: Stampin' Up  More Great Greetings (1993)
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Cardstock: Green--Recollections, Pink--Colorbok
Paper: DCWV
Buttons: My stash
Ribbon: My stash
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Glue Dots, Pop Dots

Challenges:
Ladybug Crafts Ink--For a Special Lady
Paper Take Weekly--For Mom/Special Lady
Party Time Tuesday--#164 Animals
Shopping Our Stash--#143 Buttons and Bows

New Challenge at Digi Darla

Good Morning.  It's Monday again.  For some of you that's a good thing, for some, not so much.  I don't do Mondays very well. LOL.

Since it's Monday, that means a new challenge at Digi Darla.  Our theme this week is "Show Us Your Style".  Whatever you think your style is, we want to see it.  I have a truly eclectic style.  It all depends on my mood and what image I am using.

This image is called "Mommy Time".  I fell in love with this image when I saw it in the store.  I remember sitting in my comfy chair with Kierstynne curled up in my lap reading for hours.  She has always loved books.  I used to read to her every night before bed, but now, she's too old for mommy to read to her..:(

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see some of your amazing projects on the blog.  Have a great Monday and God bless y'all.

Recipe:
Image: Digi Darla's Mommy Time
Sentiment: Mine
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol
Ink: Black Crayola Marker
Cardstock: Gina K Designs Ivory, Recollections
Papers: DCWV
Roses: Handmade by me
Flowers: Recollections
Pearls: Queen and Co
Brads: Recollections
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, Cutterbee Scissors, 5 petal punch by EK Success, Hot Glue Gun,

Challenges:
Creative Craft Challenges 2--Recipe Challenge 
Fantastic Tuesday--Make it Cute/Sweet (The love between a Mother and Daughter is very sweet.)
Color Challenge MFP--Yellow, Brown, Green
Simply Create Too--Mother's Day or For a Female
Scrap it with a Song--One Direction's Little Things
Sugar Creek Hollow--Love and Adore

My First Mother's Day card for 2014

Good afternoon my friends.  I guess you could say that I'm giving your eyes a break.  This stomach bug is kicking my butt.

I did manage to get a couple cards made yesterday and early this morning because I couldn't sleep. The card I have for y'all in this post uses a beautiful Tiger Lily and Butterfly image from Delicious Doodles.  Teri outdid herself on this one.

I used some zesty colors for this one.  I wasn't too sure I would be able to do these lilies justice, but I think they turned out pretty good.

Thanks so much for popping in today.  I hope y'all have a great rest of your day and God bless.

Recipe:
Image: Delicious Doodles
Sentiment: Stampin' Up
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Cardstock: Colorbok, Recollections, Neenah
Paper: DCWV
Ribbon: Oriental Trading
Gems: Queen and Co
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, glue dot, Cutterbee Scissors, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Squares Large

Challenges:
Tuesday Morning Sketches--#234
Creative Card Crew--#54 Recipe Challenge
Addicted to Stamps--#74  Flowers
Simple Salutations--#82  Flowers
Alphabet Challenge--Z is for Zesty Colors
Delicious Doodles--#73  Die Cuts/Punches
Cards Galore--#2 Add gems/glitter/bling
One Crazy Stamper--February Anything Goes Challenge
Simply Create Too--#54 Mother's Day/For a Female