Galatians 5:22-23

Hello there.  I have another card for y'all today.  It's a fairly CAS card, which I don't normally do.  I like the stuff..:)

As you can see, I think that straight card picture was a one time thing.  LOL.

Thanks so much for stopping in to see me today.  I hope y'all have a great evening.

Recipe:
Sentiment: Dee's Bugaboo Boutique
Cardstock: Georgia Pacific, Blue (Recollections)
Paper: Prima London Market, ATD
Pearls: Hobby Lobby
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Spellbinders Labels 22

Challenges:
Sketch with a Twist--Use dies or punches
Creative Moments--#34 Buttons/Pearls

Wheely Birthday

Welcome to my blog.  It's nice to see y'all.  Hope all is going well. 

Today's card uses an image from Just Some Lines:

One of my design team sisters made this watermark for me, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to make it transparent.  I guess one of these days I will figure it out.  

Isn't she a cute little girl?  I really like her hair.  I wish it was warm enough to go bike riding here.  I can't wait for spring.

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

Recipe:
Image: Just Some Lines
Sentiment: Open Office "Milk Girl" Font
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Chalks, Vintage Photo Distressed Inks, Silver Metallic Pen, Sakura Glitter pen
Cardstock: Recollections
Paper: Colorbok
Flowers: Prima
Brads: My Stash
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots


Challenges Entered:
Just Some Lines--Favorite Color Combo (Blues and Yellows)
Hiding in My Craft Room--Use Scraps
Dazzling Diva--Birthdays
Penny's Paper Crafty--#160 Embellishments

Saturday at Paper A La Mode

Good Morning, peeps.  Today is Saturday and that means a new challenge over at Paper A La Mode.  Last week's challenge, "Last Minute Christmas Cards" was a complete success.  We saw some amazingly beautiful cards.

This week our new challenge is an "Anything Goes" challenge and our sponsor is Rick St. Dennis.  The Design Team used Rick's images to create their cards, but you don't have to.  We love to see them though.  The winner of this week's challenge will win 2 images of their choice from Rick's zibbet store.

I used "1890's Holiday Gown" image to create my card.

I used my Crayola's and OMS to color in this beautiful lady.  I added some Sakura Glitter pen to the image to give her some sparkle.  The papers are from a DCWV stack from last year.  Using a vertical sentiment is a bit different for me.  I added a Prima bauble to the bottom of the sentiment and then added a Dark Red swirl to cover up the hole from adding the charm.  The card base is a very Dark Red from Recollections.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope that maybe y'all will take a minute and stop by Paper A La Mode and enter a project.  We would love to see it.

Have a wonderful day and God bless!

From the Heart Progressive Image Challenge

Good Morning.  Thank you for stopping by little area of blog land.  I appreciate the time you take to stop and see what I have been creating.

The card I have for y'all today uses an image by Faith at From the Heart.  You have your choice this month of what image you would like to use.  If you played along with the challenge in November, you should have received an email enabling you to pick which image you wanted.  If you didn't play along, you can go the From the Heart store and if you buy $10 worth of products, you can receive it for free.  The two images you have to choose from are:
                              

Aren't they cute?  The first one is Candy Cane Anneke and the second one is  For the Birds.

I chose Anneke and this is the card I created:

I decided to color her dress and hat green so that it wouldn't overpower the candy cane.  I used my Crayola colored pencils and OMS to color Anneka.  The patterned papers are from MME.  I used a Tim Holtz die to cut out three rolled ribbon flowers using pieces of the same patterned paper and a piece of the Red Recollections card stock also used on the card.  I added some leaves from my stash and a cute little bauble charm from Prima.  I added some Evergreen Stickles to the center of the roses.  All of the fur parts of Anneke's hat, dress and boots were done with Deco Art's Glistening Snow Writer.  Mine has gotten a bit thick and will no longer come out of the tip so I used a tooth pick to place it where I wanted it.  It's not quite as dimensional as I would like it, but it gives the fur quite a bit of sparkle.

I hope y'all will give From the Heart's December challenge a try.  Everyone is a winner if they play along Faith's monthly progressive challenge.

Challenge I am entering this card in:
Shopping Our Stash--Holiday/Winter
Through the Craft Room Door--anything goes
Penny's Challenges--Tic Tac Toe (I used the bottom row)

Sassy

Hey there.  Thanks for dropping in.  I have a card that uses one of my favorite designers, Kenny K.  I love his images.  They are so sassy..

I printed out this sassy chic on Neenah and used my colored pencils to give her some life.  I haven't been using my pencils lately because I'm trying to get better with my alcohol markers, but pencils are still my favorite.  I decided on an orange and blue combo. I like that springy look of these two colors together.  I made a 6" square card base from a beautiful blue Colorbok card stock.  The DP is from DCWV and it fit perfectly with the colors in the image.  I matted the corner triangles on a turquoise card stock from Recollections so that they two papers wouldn't mesh together.  The image is matted on an orange panel from Recollections.  All the flowers are Prima and the brads are from my stash.

I hope y'all liked what you saw today.  Have a wonderful Good Friday evening.  We are having a special service at church and my husband is singing.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Kenny's Krafty Krew--#136 Anything Goes
Feeling Sketchy#52

Congratulations

Hello there friends.  I was home alone tonight as my sweet daughter spent the night at her BFFs house.  So, I spent the entire evening crafting.  It was so nice. I got quite a few cards done so I'm going to share them with you tonight.

This first card is a very simple card.  I started with a 5.5" x 5.5" card base from SU (Pretty in Pink).  I layered a panel of Mint Green from Recollections and then a panel of DP from DCWV.  I then layered a strip of Old Olive (SU) card stock towards the bottom.  I printed out a sentiment from Doodle Pantry and adhered that onto the card.  The two roses are from Prima.

Thanks for stopping by tonight.  I pray you all have a wonderful night.

Challenges:
Mojo Monday--#282
Muse--#6

Shabby Chic card

This was my first attempt at a shabby chic card.  I had been wanting to try this style because I fell in love with this type of look a while back.  I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, but I really liked the outcome.  The cardbase is a beautiful shade of blue (but I don't remember the exact name) from Stampin' Up.  I cut a piece of patterned paper from DCWV to 4x5 1/4 and used it as my background paper.  I then pulled out my scrap box and found 5 cooridinating pieces.  I inked all the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  The one square that is sticking out to the right I balled up, straightened out and with a direct to paper technique added some walnut stain ink.  The image is called Small Paris and is from Hot Off the Press.  I inked it in Newspaper Brown.   I matted the image on the same blue as the cardbase.  I attatched them with ATG.  I added cream lace around the two blue roses from Prima.  The cream and pearl flower is from Recollections.  I added  some turquoise rhinestones from Recollections and three cream colored pearls, also from Recollections.  So, all in all, I think it turned out pretty good.