I Believe in You

Hello friends.  Thanks for coming back to my blog.  I truly appreciate it.  I have a great card for y'all today. I know it's not October yet, but Breast Cancer is a big issue.  So, for one of the challenges I am entering this card in, it's Monochromatic and I thought Pink..

This sassy image is from Milk Coffee.   I used my colored pencils to add the color.  All of the papers are from my stash so I'm not sure who designed them.  The only one I know for sure is the very back one which is The Paper Studio.  The Light Pink card stock is Recollections.  I added some pink gems from Queen and Co to finish up the card.

Thanks for stopping in today.  Have a blessed day!

Challenges:
Milk Coffee--Show us Your Coloring Skills
Avenue 613--Anything Goes with twist: Add a Sentiment
TTCRD--Anything Goes
Stamping with Dragon--Use 1 Color Only
One Stop Craft Challenge--#237  Keep It Simple

Guest Designer Spot at Sweet Stamps

Happy Thursday my friends.  Welcome back to my blog.  Today is my day to post as a Guest Designer over at Sweet Stamps.  If you haven't had a chance to check out all the wonderful products in the store, please take the time.  There are many wonderful surprises waiting for you.

This week, the challenge is Christmas Greenery.  I chose to use the Large Poinsettia Swag to make this card.

I began this card by creating a background panel by randomly stamping the image on a piece of white card stock.  I used a Pine Green BIC Marker, a Red Sakura Glitter Pen and a Gold Metallic Gel Pen to color in the images that were stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.  I stamped the sentiment and added another swag to the top.  Both the sentiment and background panels are matted on Red Recollections card stock.  The Dark Green Colorbok card base is the resting place for this background.  I wrapped a length of Green Organza Ribbon around the back ground panel before adhering it to the base.  The sentiment is popped up.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope y'all enjoyed this Christmas Greenery card.  God bless y'all and have a great day!

Challenges:
Robyn's Fetish--#169 Christmas in July
Sentimental Sundays--#164  Christmas in July
One Stop Craft--#235  Make Your Own Background

Phillipians 4:6-7

Hello friends.  I'm back with another card.  This one uses a Scripture designed by Word Art Wednesday.

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches to make this card.   I made the sentiment into a tag and slid it into the "holder".  The card base is Recollections Pink.  The DP is DCWV and Recollections All Seasons. I added some pearls from Queen and Co to finish off the card.

Thanks for stopping in tonight.  I hope y'all have a great evening.  God Bless y'all.

Challenges:
Freshly Made Sketches--#92
Word Art Wednesday--#86
One Stop Craft--#232  Add a Tag

Mother's Day Card

Howdy y'all.  Welcome back to my blog.  I have a card to show tonight that uses some of the roses and flowers that I dyed using my homemade alcohol inks. I used a Rick St. Dennis image to make this card and printed it out on a new card stock that I found at AC Moore.  It's from Crafter's Companion, the company that makes the Spectrum Noir pens.  I ran out of my Neenah and needed some card stock so I picked up two packs of 25 for $8.

So, what do you think?  The roses and the small silk flowers are dyed with the homemade alcohol inks. 

I colored the image with Chromatix pens.  I trimmed down the image, matted it on a panel of pink and then a panel of black.  The DPs are from Authentique and MME.  The card base is made from Bazzill Blackbird card stock.   The sentiment is from Beccy Muir and is included in the Rose Bouquet set.   I had to add the main sentiment to the inside, because there just wasn't room on the front to add the Scripture from Proverbs 31. 

I just kept adding embellies until I liked the look of it.  There are pearls, lace, flowers, acetate flowers, acrylic sprays, pearl sprays.  And for one of my challenges that I am entering this card in, I had to have ribbon.  I couldn't add anything else to the card, so there is ribbon on the image itself.  I hope that qualifies.  It's a little sneaky, but the ribbon is there.

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

Challenges:
Milk Coffee--Lace and Pearls
One Stop Craft--#227 Flower Power
Robyn's fetish--#158--Spring Colors
ABC Challenges--#27  Tic Tac Toe  Ribbon, Flowers, and Pink CS
Love to Create--#64  For Mom
The Pink Elephant--#198  Mother's Day
Craft Your Passion--#161 Floral Delights
Created with Love--#40  Mother's Day
Twists of Faith--#36  Mother's Day
Crafter's Cafe--Mother's Day
One Crazy Stamper--May flowers
Chocolate Coffee Cards--Mother's Day
V's Sweet Ideas-- Mother's Day

Meljen's Challenge Card

Good afternoon crafty friends.  So glad you took a moment of your time to stop in.  I have been a busy little beaver today.  Even though I don't feel well, my mojo is still on full.

The card I have for y'all today is for Meljen's Designs challenge for this week..a sketch.

I used Meljen's cute little goose to make this card.  I used colored pencils and OMS on the image.  I then added some glitter gel pens to highlight the flowers and swirls.  I made the card base from green Recollections card stock using my Fiskar's Shape Maker.  It's a 4" card.  The DP is from American Crafts and I die cut it with the same Shape Maker.  I matted the image, after die cutting and embossing with a Nestabilities Classic Circle Large die, onto a circle of Recollections pink card stock.  Adding two buttons from my stash finished up this cute card.

Thanks again for stopping by.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Meljen's Designs--#157 Sketch Challenge
One Stop Craft Challenge--#226 Buttons and Bows (the bow is on the image)

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Welcome.  So happy to see y'all again.  I hope you enjoy your visit.

This card features Scripture Word Art from Dee's Bugaboo Boutique.  

I began by printing out the sentiment on GP card stock.  I trimmed it down and matted it on a marbled blue card stock that used to be a pocket in a bill paying folder.  I made a 5" square card base from Yellow card stock from Recollections.  I trimmed down a blue cloud DP from Colorbok as the background.  I cut a strip of flower paper and used a Fiskars scalloped border punch on it.  I cut a thin strip of the same yellow card stock for the "ribbon" trim.  I used the same flower DP for the panel and matted it on the yellow card stock.  Adding the little daisy flower finished off the card.

Thank you so much for visiting me today.  Come back soon! God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Friday Sketch--#41
One Stop Craft--#224 Pastels
Sweet Stampin'--Pastels
The Cutie Pie Challenge--#42 CAS
Tuesday Throwdown--#143 Focus on the Sentiment
TTCRD-- April 16-22  Anything Goes
Penny's Challenges--#123 Use a Sentiment

Hello

Happy Saturday friends.  I just got home from a wonderful pancake breakfast sponsored by our local chapter of CMA (Christian Motorcycle Association).  My FIL is a member and my husband and I will be members soon.  It was all you could eat pancakes, sausage, eggs and the best home fries I have ever eaten.  Thanks CMA..

So, on the card for today.  I used the Kenny K image, All That. I decided on a color scheme of pink, green and brown.

I made this into an easel card but did it a little different.  I trimmed 1/2" off of each side of the front. When you lay it down, you can see the DP on the inside just a bit.  I didn't get a picture of it closed because the centers of the flowers were still wet.

This is my first card for the new DT that I was selected for..The Outlawz Paper Ala Mode challenge.  Thanks so much Colleen for choosing me to be on your wonderful DT.   Our challenges post every Saturday on The Outlawz and our challenge for this week is an Anything Goes Challenge.

To begin, I printed off the image on Neenah white card stock and colored her with Spectrum Noir and Chromatix Pens.  I trimmed down the image and matted it onto  Old Olive (SU), Pink (HOTP) and Chocolate Chip (SU) mats.  All of the DP, flowers, and ribbon came from my stash so I'm not sure who the designers are.  I had this cute wooden tag in my stash from my friend, Jan, so I decided to stamp the word HELLO in Stazon Jet Black ink and add it to the card.

I hope you enjoyed your visit today.  Have a wonderful Saturday and God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Kenny K's Krafty Krew--#138  Make an Easel Card
Fab N Funky--#166 Spring Colors
Stampin' For the Weekend--Friendship
Simply Create Too--#35 Use Your Stash
One Stop Craft Challenge--#224 Pastels

Hey Chick

Happy Easter/Resurrection Day.  I hope y'all have had a wonderful day.  We had a great day celebrating the resurrection of our Lord Jesus.

I have a few cards for y'all today.  I am going to post them all in this one post so as I can get done posting and go watch the final installment of The Bible on the History Channel.  If you haven't been watching, you've missed a great series.

My first card uses a very cute image from Digi Darla.  I used my BIC Markers to color in this sweetie..

After printing out and coloring the image, I used my nestabilities to cut out the image and the scalloped mat.  I also cut a sentiment circle and mat.  I used Turquoise card stock from Recollections as my base and the mats.  The DP is from DCWV and I used the flowered DP to make the three roses uses my Sizzix rose die.  I also used a small 5 petal flower punch from EK Success for the base of the roses.  I added some Turquoise polka dot ribbon from my stash as an accent.  I hand wrote the sentiment.  I adhered my image using pop dots.

Challenges:
Card Mania --#17  Sketch
Southern Girls--For the Kids
Daring Cardmakers--Springing into Spring
Simply Create Too--#34 Animals
Pink Gem--#73 Make It Cute


My 2nd card uses an image from Avadare and I also colored it with BIC Markers.  I printed out the image on Neenah Super Smooth White card stock.

I used the sentiment from Word Art Wednesday for this week.  I began this card with a 6" square Purple base from Colorbok.  I used Old Olive (SU) as my mats.  The DP is DCWV.  I followed a sketch from Friday Sketch Challenge to complete this card.  For the finishing touch, I used some circle bling from Jolee's.  

Challenges:
Word Art Wednesday--Isaiah 55:8
Friday's Sketch--#40


Card #3 uses the progressive freebie image from Imagine That.  It was very easy to add color to this one because it focuses on the sentiment not the images.

I used my BIC Markers to color in the flowers and the butterfly.  I also used a Glitter gel pen to highlight the swirls.  This is a 5x7" card in order to fit all the elements.   I used a premade base for the card.  I used Recollections Yellow as my mats for the DP which is from DCWV.  I added some Orange Gems from Queen and Co to add some bling.

Challenges:
Imagine That--Progressive Freebie #3
One Stop Craft--#222 Easter
Stamping with Dragon--Easter
2 Sisters--Sparkle and Shine

Thanks for stopping by today.  I truly appreciate all the comments that y'all are leaving for me.  Stay tuned tomorrow for the winner of my give away.  God bless  y'all.

Isaiah 40:8

Howdy y'all.  Nice to "see ya" again.  Thanks for stopping in.  I have a few cards for y'all tonight so sit tight, hang on, and enjoy the ride...:)

The first card for tonight is a word art card.  I used a  Scripture sentiment from Dee's Bugaboo Boutique.  I love her word art.  If you haven't ever checked her out, click HERE.  On the right side of the blog postings is a list of free sentiments.

I began by printing out the Scripture on GP card stock. I trimmed it down, matted in on a Olive panel (SU)  and a Pink panel (Recollections).  I then made a card base out of the Olive card stock.  I used two different DPs from Cardmaking magazine.  They came in the January edition as a freebie along with a beautiful stamp set.  I added a border punched piece of Olive card stock.  I added some flourishes from my stash and some ribbon from Offray.

Thanks again for stopping in to see my work.  I really appreciate it.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
One Stop Craft Challenge--#219  Spring
Sketch Saturday--#249

Babies are Sweet

Card #2 (Please see Irish Girls for explanation of short posts)

Image: Ike's World
Sentiment: Studio G
Mediums: Copics, ShinHan Markers, BIC Markers
CS: Very Vanilla-SU; White-Neenah; Blue and Pink-Recollections
DP: ATD
Ribbon: Offray
Gems: Queen and Co.

Challenges:
One Stop Craft Challenge--#218 Mother's Day
Fashionista Challenge--#13 Pink
Bearly Mine--#76 Mother's Day
Creative Craft Challenges 2--#5  Mother's Day
Papertake Weekly--Mother's Day

Thank you for stopping by today.  Keep tuned in.  I have more..God bless y'all.

Dirt Road Anthem

Here we go..card #3.  When I saw this image, I immediately thought of Jason Aldeen's Dirt Road Anthem.  

I found this cute image online for free when I first started into my digi stamp obsession.  It is from Dustin Pike and is from 2009.  I used my BIC markers and a metallic silver gel pen to give the image some life.  I remember going to the Monster Truck shows with my dad when I was a kid.  I loved it.  Grave Digger was one of my favorites.   I cut out the image and used pop dots to add it to the card to make it kinda look like it's zooming across the card.  The card base is Crumb Cake from SU.  I added a cool DP from Colorbok's Masculine pack that looks like dirt and mud.  The corners are made from a Dark Blue card stock from Recollections and DP from DCWV My Guy pack.  I inked the edges of the truck with DI Vintage Photo so that the white wasn't so stark.  The sentiment is from Verses which I matted on Black from SU.

I hope the little boy or big boy for that matter who receives this card enjoys it.  Thank you for keeping up with me.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Pike's Playground--Boy/Male card
One Stop Craft Challenge--For the Kids
My Time to Craft--#210 Inspired by a Song
Just Us Girls--#177 Inspiration Photo--my inspiration was the brown and blue.

Psalm 25:4

Welcome back friends.  This is my last card for this batch.  I will have more either tonight or tomorrow morning.  

I chose an image from Digi Darla to make this card.  I used my colored pencils and OMS for this image, printed on Neenah card stock.

I began this card with a Calypso Coral (SU) card square card base.  I added a Sage Green Panel (SU).
I wanted the image to be the focal so I didn't add any DP to this card.  I matted the image on a panel of Crumb Cake card stock (SU).  The sentiment is from Doodle Pantry.  I added two little corner embellies that I found in my stash to finish off the card.

Thanks so much for taking the time to check in to see what I have been creating.  I love it that y'all do.  God bless.

Challenges:
Just Us Girls--#176 Color Challenge
One Stop Craft Challenge--#216 Sketch Challenge

Romance

Good Morning, y'all.  It's 3:25 am here in the cold state of PA and I am still up.  This insomnia is kicking my butt.  So, I am putting my wakefulness to good use and catching up my blog.

The card I have for y'all today uses a very cute stamp from Great Impressions.  This is the first stamp I have used from this company and I like it.  I makes a very crisp impression.  I didn't do a lot to the image itself because I wanted that vintage look.

The only color on the image itself is on the groom's bow tie and hat band and the bride's flowers in her hair.  I like the way it turned out.  I trimmed it down and matted it on Burgundy card stock from Colorbok.  The mauve colored strip is also Colorbok.  The pink is Recollections.  I used Gina K's heavy base weight ivory for the base.  The DP is DCWV.  I am trying to use up my stash because I am sure there are going to be lots of new product that I am going to want.  I inked all the edges in DI Vintage Photo and added a little flower in the corner.  I didn't put a sentiment on the front because I wanted the focus on the image.  The sentiment is inside.

Thanks for checking in.  God bless y'all today.

Challenges:
Crafts4eternity--#109  Romance
One Stop Craft Challenge--#214  Anything Goes
Tuesday Alchemy--#49 Anything Goes

A Little Thank You

Hello friends.  Thanks for stopping in to see my latest creation.  The card I made is going to be entered into four challenges.  Sketch Saturday has the sketch, My Time to Craft has a Things with Wings challenge, One Stop Craft has a Sparkle and Bling challenge, and Sentimental Sunday's challenge is for Thank You cards.

I started this card with Basic Black (SU) card stock.  I made this into a 5" square card to follow the sketch.  I used a piece of American Crafts DP for the background.  I added Olive Green (SU) and then Crumb Cake (SU).  The side pieces are the reverse side of the background paper which I cut down to 2"x1.5" and rounded the corners.  Once everything was put together, I stamped different thank you sayings from an Inkadinkado stamp set.  I used Colorbox Cat's Eye inks in shades of green for the words.  For the center thank you, I colored it with a green glitter gel pen for the sparkle.  I outlined it with my white gel pen and added faux stitching around the edges of the Crumb Cake and Olive Green.  I used a dark green BIC marker to add faux stitches on the side pieces.  For the bling, I added large gems (Queen and Co.) to the three corners and a black die cut butterfly to the bottom right corner.  I added three small gems to the center of the butterfly to complete the card.

I sure appreciate you stopping in today.  I hope you enjoyed my project.  Stay tuned for more creations soon.  God bless y'all.

So Thankful

Welcome back.  I hope everyone's day is going great.  I am doing much better now.  I am able to craft for longer periods and finding myself creating more lately.  I am so thankful for good doctors who really care about their patients. Some doctor's don't give a rip whether you get better or not.  They are in it for the money and they should find another line of work that doesn't involve dealing with people and their health.

Today's card is a thank you card that I am going to send to my surgeon and his PAs.  Dr. Campos has taken such good care of me and I am doing so well that I felt impressed upon to send this to his office.

The focal image is a cute little stamp that I picked up in the dollar bin at Jo-Ann's from Studio G.  I think it 's so soft and delicate.  I paired it with some dark teal, olive green and chocolate brown which can all be found in the DP I used for the background.  This is another sheet from that wonderful pack I picked up right before Christmas.  I used my Spellbinders Ovals and Scalloped Ovals to cut out the image and the mats for it.  I used pop dots to adhere it to the card after I added a chocolate brown satin ribbon to the middle and tied a knot on the left hand side.  The rhinestones are all from Queen and Co.

I used SU Very Vanilla for the card base.  I hope you all enjoyed this card and I hope to see you all back soon.  I am entering this card in the One Stop Craft Challenge for this week.  The theme is Thank You.    God bless you.