QKR Stampede Challenge #75

TGIF...I'm ready for the weekend.  I completely forgot to post this earlier today.  I'm pretty brain dead this week.. LOL

Our new challenge at QKR Stampede this week is to Use ONLY a Sentiment.  For some of you, that will be pretty hard.  But, it's a nice change from coloring all those wonderful images.

Our winners from last week are:
The QKR Image winner (For using a QKR image) is 

#39  Leslie Miller

The Non QKR winner is #9  Gail L.

Congrats ladies.  Make sure you contact Jackie for your prizes.

Kierstynne is going to give this card to her grandparents for Valentine's Day tomorrow when we go show off the new addition...see my  post tomorrow morning  for more information on that..

Thanks so much for stopping by tonight.  I hope y'all have a wonderful Friday night.  I'm off to fix something for dinner and relax for a while.  God bless y'all.

Recipe:  

Image: QKR Stampede

Cardstock:  Recollections, GP

Paper: Cardmakers Magazine Freebie

Gems: Queen and Co

Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Pop Dots, Fiskar's Scalloped Square Punch, Fiskar's Square Punch

500 Follower Giveaway

Good Morning friends.  I just wanted to stop by and let y'all know that my friend Vicky has made it to 500 followers on her blog.  Congratulations Vicky.  

Vicky is having a huge giveaway...yep, she's up to 15 prizes to give away.  If you would like to follow her, that would be fantastic.  Head on over to her blog and become a follower.  Please don't follow just to win.  It will be worth it to keep an eye on her blog.  She is very creative and has some amazing work on her blog.

Vicky is the co-owner of Open Minded Crafting Fun and I'm on the design team.  We have had some amazing entries since we began the new challenge blog in January.  She's also on the Delicious Doodles design team and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I will make the team at the end of the month.

I will be back later on today with some blog post of cards I have made.  Stay tuned.

AD4D You've Got a Big Heart

Howdy folks.  Thanks for stopping back in tonight.  I have one more card for y'all tonight.

This one uses the freebie from A Day 4 Daisies.  The challenge this time is "You Have a Big Heart".

I used a sketch from Friday Sketch to make this card.  It does hang off a bit, but I think it gives it character.

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

Recipe:
Image: A Day for Daisies
Sentiment: A Piece of Heart
Stamps: Nina Brackett's  Heartily Yours from Gina K Designs (Hearts), Studio G (Textured Heart)
Ink: Memento Lady Bug
Cardstock: Recollections
Paper: DCWV
Gems: Bazzill
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Pop dots

Challenges:
A Day for Daisies--#89 You Have  a Big Heart
Creative Card Crew--#54  KISS
Twisted Tuesday--Look Up in the Sky
Crafty Creations--#256  For the Birds
Creative Moments--Anything Goes
Fab N Funky--#203 Love
Simple Salutations--#84 Valentine's Day
Shelly's Images--2 Hearts with Red and Pink

I Love You...to Death

Hello my friends.  How are y'all?  I hope y'all aren't snowed in.  We've gotten about 6 inches with more coming.  Another storm on Monday and then another on Wednesday.  I'm so done with winter.

So, I have a card for y'all that uses one of Teri's images from Delicious Doodles.   This one is called Voodoo Woman.

I don't think this is too creepy of a Valentine's card, do y'all?  I like it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all stay warm and safe.  God bless.

Recipe:
Image: Delicious Doodles
Sentiment: mine
Stamps: Studio G Hearts
Inks: SU Raspberry Ripple, Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Lady Bug
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Black Glitter Gel Pen, Sakura Glitter pen in Clear Star
Cardstock: Darice and Recollections
Paper: The Paper Studio, DCWV
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, stamp block

Challenges:
Unscripted Sketches--#243
Musically Challenged--Gothic Songs (Peter Murphy's Indigo Eyes)
Tuesday Throwdown--#182 Roses are Red Violets are Blue
Quoth the Raven--#29  
Charisma Cardz--#4  Inspired by a Movie--Fatal Attraction
Shelly's Images--2 hearts with Red and Pink

Sassy Studio Design's February Progressive Challenge

Howdy folks.  I hope y'all are having a great day/night, depending on when you are reading this. I'm just waiting for my hubby to get home from work.  Sometimes 2nd shift sucks.

Sassy Studio Designs has a progressive challenge that has been going on for a while.  They used to be on PCP, but since that closed, they have switched to hosting the challenge on Facebook.   This month's freebie image is Pin Up Cat.  She's so dang cute.

I thought I would do her a little Valentiney, so she's in pink and black.  Make sure you hop over to Sassy's FB page and check out all the wonderful creations posted there.  You have until the end of this month to enter the challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all will stop back in soon.  God bless.

Recipe:
Image: Sassy Studio Designs
Sentiment: Mine
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Black Glitter Gel Pen
Cardstock: Black--Darice; Pink-Recollections
Papers: Recollections
Button: Recollections
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, Cutterbee Scissors, Fiskar's Scalloped Scallop punch, Black Crayola Marker (for outlining image)

Challenges:
Sassy Studio Design--Facebook February Progressive
Scrapping 4 Fun--#10 Sketch
Shopping Our Stash--#138  Oh, Shiny
Top Tip Tuesday--Girly

Clear It Out Challenge #14

Hello there.  It's Tuesday and everyone on the east coast is preparing for the worst snowstorm in years. They have changed our totals three or four different times.  The worst so far is 16-32 inches.  Only the good Lord knows exactly how many inches of snow we are going to get, so I'm headed to the store tomorrow to pick up some stuff just in case our power goes out.

Today starts the new challenge at Clear It  Out.  
Our theme: Valentine's Day
Our Stash: Flowers
Our Sponsor: Stamp Art by Kathryn

I used the cute Luv U Pengi to make my card.  I printed off two copies of the image and fussy cut the two penguins out and decoupaged them.  I used three of Heidi Swaps color it roses and some Recollection flowers to meet the challenge.

I hope y'all will stop by and enter into our new challenge.  You could win some images from Stamp Art as your prize if you are the winner.

Have a wonderful Tuesday, keep warm and God bless y'all.

Recipe:

Image: Luv U Pengi by Stamp Art by Kathryn

Sentiment: A Piece of Heart

Coloring Medium: Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Distress Ink in Worn Lipstick

Cardstock: Recollections, GP

Paper: Recollections

Flowers: Heidi Swapp, Recollections

Brads: Recollections

Leaves: my stash

Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, glue dots, Glossy Accents, Cutterbee Scissors, Ink Application Tool

Challenges:

Hiding In My Craft Room--Scraps Saturday

Catch the Bug--February Challenge

Red Carpet Studio--#63 Love Actually

Cupcake Inspirations--#247 Photo Inspiration

Pile It On--#6 Spots and Stripes

Kaboodles--#210  For my Sweetheart

Fantastic Tuesday--#22 Romance

Ladybug Crafts Ink--The One I Love

Pinspirational Challenges--#94

Time 4 Scrap--Be Mine

Your Love Keeps Lifting Me

Hello there..again.  Thanks so much for staying with me tonight to see what I have created.  I have done one more Valentine's Day card.

Yep, that's right.  No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you.  There is no image that was colored with my trusty Crayolas.  LOL.  This one uses a fabric flower and a wooden button as the focal image.

I know it looks like the sentiment is crooked, but it's not really.  It's supposed to look that way because of what it says.

Thanks so much for keeping up with me today.  I hope y'all have a great night and God bless.

Recipe:
Sentiment: Gina K Designs
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Cardstock: Recollections, GP
Paper: Love You stack by The Paper Studio
Flower: Recollections
Button: My Stash
Leaves: My Stash
Ribbon: Baker's Twine in Black and White
Charm: Prima
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, glue dots, Glossy Accents, Cutterbee Scissors

Challenges:
Cardabilities--#92  Sketch
Chocolate, Coffee, Cards--One Button, One Flower, One Bow
Sweet Stampin' Challenge--Sentiment Only
Pink Gem Challenge--#112 All You Need Is Love
Card Mania--Love is All Around
Love to Create--#102  Red/Pink
A Creative Romance--Show Some Love
Sunflowerfields--Valentine's Day
Ooh La La--Use a Heart
Simon Says Stamp--Use Your Favorite Technique or Favorite Stamp (My favorite technique is lots and lots of layers.)
The Crazy Challenge--Love is in the Air
Creative Embellishments--Photo Inspiration
Ladybug Crafts Ink--For the One I Love

Valentine's with Ike's World

Hello y'all.  Thanks for stopping in tonight.  I have a couple of post to make for tonight.  I've been making some last minute Valentine's Day cards.  I need to get a couple in the mail tomorrow.

We are in line for another snow storm on Wednesday.  I sure hope they either change their minds about the totals or that it misses us all together....16-28 inches.  Really??  I am not looking forward to that.  I sure hope the good Lord spares us.

My first card uses an image from Ike's World.  For those of you who have used Ike's images, y'all know that she can be a bit off kilter with her images.  So, with that in mind, I decided to make an off kilter Valentine's Day card.  

A bit different, right?  My daughter's best friend loves horses.  She has started taking riding lessons and is trying very hard talking her parents into buying her a horse.  It's not working very well.  I told my daughter that she could give this card to her BFF for Valentine's Day.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all enjoy the rest of your evening.  God bless.

Recipe:
Image: Ike's World
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, White Gel Pen
Cardstock: Recollections, GP
Paper: Natural Expressions pad from Colorbok
Hearts: Studio G stamp set cut out with Cutterbee scissors
Ribbon: The Ribbon Boutique
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, Tea Dye Distress Ink, SU Chocolate Chip ink, Cutterbee Scissors, glue dot

Challenges:
Ike's World--Valentines
Make It Colorful--#6  Monochromatic in Browns
A Creative Need--#16 Wild Thing
The ABC Challenge--E is for Embellishments
The Squirrel and the Fox--#63 Love
Through the Purple Haze--Anything Goes

Monday's with Digi Darla

Good Monday Morning.  It's back to the daily grind after a great weekend.  My husband and I attended a retirement party for one of his boss' this  past Saturday.  It was a great time.  Sonny will definitely be missed at my husband's place of employment.  It's back to school for us too...man, sometimes I hate Mondays..:)

Today starts a new challenge at Digi Darla.  We are up to challenge #101.  Our theme this week is a "Copy Cat" challenge.  That means that everyone who wants to participate needs to jump over to the Digi Darla blog and download the free image.  Make a card, project, scrapbook page, etc using that image.   Here's my take on it:

It is a very simple image this time and doesn't need alot of embellishments and such.  I went pretty CAS this time.

Thanks so much for stopping in to see me today.  I hope y'all will decide to enter a project in the challenge this week.  Have a wonderful Monday and God bless.

Recipe:

Image: Freebie from Digi Darla

Sentiment: Stamp from my stash

Ink: Stampin' Up Raspberry Ripple

Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Sakura Glitter Gel pen in Clear Star

Cardstock: Colorbok, Stampin' Up, Recollections, GP

Papers: Recollections

Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, Cutterbee Scissors

Challenges:

Feeling Sketchy--#79

Mema's Crafts--What Makes Your Heart Smile

Mod Squad--Hearts and Glitter

Milk Coffee--Valentine's

Card Makin' Mamas--Make it Sparkle

Craftitude--Anything Goes/ Valentine's

Birthday Wheel

Good Afternoon.  I hope y'all are enjoying your Sunday.  It's still cold here and we are supposed to get another 3-4 inches of snow today. :(

I finally joined my first monthly stamp club.  I have been wanting to do this for a while.  I have been researching the different clubs out there and I finally settled on one.   I decided to go with The Stamps of Life by Stephanie Barnard.  I love her stamps and you can chose to join either the stamp club of the stamp and die club.  I chose the stamp and die club.  Each new set of stamps that you will get each month has coordinating dies to go with it. I really liked that idea.  As you know, I do alot of fussy cutting and having the dies is going to make it much easier for me.

I have two sets so far.  I have made a card from each set.  

The first one is Popcorn2stamp and it comes with one image of a popcorn container, three solid and three outlines of popcorn pieces and 7 sentiments plus an oval outline stamp.  

Isn't this hilarious?  I love it.  I stamped and die cut all the popcorn pieces, the container and the sentiment.  All of the 7 sentiments will fit into the oval.  I used papers from Snap by Simple Stories and some black and white baker's twine to make this card.

There is also a companion sentiment set Word4popcorn which has 14 sentiments and three polka dotted popcorn pieces.

The second set that I have gotten is called Spinner2stamp.  This one comes with the spinner base, the triangle shape, the spinner, 8 sentiments and 4 images to add to the triangles.

I stamped the base and spinner with Memento Tuxedo Black and die cut them.  I then used different shades of Memento Ink and stamped 6 of the triangles, stamped the sentiment and images and die cut them.  I used my Xron Tape thingy to add the triangles.  I used a white brad to attach the spinner.  The balloons are from a sticker set that I have had for a couple of years now.  Nothing like using up that stash. :)

The companion set for this stamp set is called More Spinner Ideas 2 Stamp and has 16 sentiments, a spinner with heart in the middle and three triangles with patterns.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I can't wait to see what next month's club set is.  Have a wonderful had and God bless.

Challenges:
Digi Sketch--Use Green
Cardz4Guyz-#4 Use Spots and Stripes (the stripes are in the spinner and on the balloons)
Fab N Funky--#202 Use Brads
Penny's Paper Crafty--#163 Something New, Something Old (New-stamp sets; Old-brad and baker's twine)
Creative Fingers--#22 Dies and Punches
Avenue 613--Anything Goes

I Burn for You

Hey there.  Smile, I have one more for y'all tonight before I call it quits for the night/early morn.

This cute card uses last months progressive freebie from Doodle Pantry.  For those of you who don't know how that works, you must use a Doodle Pantry image to make a card/project.  Link it to the blog and you will receive that month's featured image. So, for this month, I am using last month's featured image and will receive Easter Peeps for free.  Great deal right?

Thanks so much for sticking with me today.  I hope y'all have enjoyed my cards.  Have a great day/night and God bless.

Recipe:
Image and Sentiment: Hearts Afire from Doodle Pantry
Cardstock: Recollections, GP
Papers: DCWV
Ribbon: The Ribbon Boutique
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Pop dots,

Challenges:
Doodle Pantry--February Monthly Challenge
A Little Bit Crafty--Man Up
The Male Room--Valentine's
Ladybug Crafts--Be Mine

Turtle-riffic Day

Hello again.  Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been up to.  It's Saturday, I don't have to get up early so I'm up late.

I have another card that I made today to show y'all. Most of you know that frogs, turtles and penguins are some of my most favorite animals.  Well, when I saw Dee Dee's Digi of the Month for February, I knew I had to make a card.

I love this little guy.  He's so dang cute.  I had so much fun making this bright and cheery birthday card.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today.  I hope y'all enjoy your day.  God bless.

Recipe:
Image: Dee Dee's Daydream Digis
Sentiment: part of the set
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Sakura Glitter Gel Pens, White Gel pen
Cardstock: Recollections
Papers: The Paper Studio Celebrations pad
Gems: Queen and Co
Button: Walmart
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, glue dot, X-acto Centering Ruler

Challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges--#222  Add Glitter
Desert Island Crafts--#71  Recipe Challenge: I used #1, 5, 7, 9
4 Krafty Girlz--#11 Anything Goes
Dee Dee's Digis--February Monthly Challenge

Paper A La Mode's New Challenge--Valentine's

Hello my friends.  It's Saturday and that means a new challenges over at Paper A La Mode.  We had some great entries last week for the Hugs and Kisses challenge.  

This week's challenge is Valentine's and our sponsor is Rick St. Dennis.

I used Rick's Hunny Tru Love image to make my card.  I think she's just darling.  I added some sparkle just because she needed to be a bit sassy.

I hope y'all will join us this week with a Valentine's project.  Thanks for stopping by today and God bless.

Recipe:
Image: RSD Hunny Tru Love
Sentiment: My Stash
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Sakura Glitter Gel pens, BIC Marker
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Lady Bug, Crayola Gray Marker, Crayola Red Marker (for outlining images and sentiment)
Cardstock: Red: Gina K Designs, White: GP
Papers: Love You pad from The Paper Studio
Gems: Queen and Co.
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, pop dots, Cutterbee Scissors, X-acto Centering Ruler

Challenges:
Sunflower Fields--#1 Valentine's/Hearts
Cupcake Inspirations--Fushia, Cream, Gray
Scrapbook, Stamp Society--#34 Anything Goes w/optional twist: Use a heart
Tuesday Throwdown--#181 Sketch
4 Crafty Chicks--#180 Flags/ Banners
Creative Knockouts--#23 Be Mine
In the Pink--#37 Valentine's A Little Pink Love
Crafts 4 Eternity--#162 With Love
Digi Haven--Valentine's Day
Totally Paper Crafts--#205  Hey Cutie
A Creative Romance--Show Some Love
Crafty Catz--#217 Love
The Challenge Blog--Hearts

Delicious Doodles DT Call

Yep, that's right. I can't resist.  I am so in love with Teri's images that I just had to apply to her DT call. Here are three of my most favorite projects that I have made with images from the Delicious Doodles store.

I love the way the lilies turned out on this card.  I love butterflies too, so this image was perfect for me.  My mother too, loves butterflies because they are the symbol for LUPUS and my family is overrun with it.

This card was made for the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop last year sponsored by Smeared and Smudged.  I love the look in her eyes. 

And this last one has to be my most favorite of all.  I used three different images from the DD store.  I used pop dots to make the frame stand out from the image.  I love this bride.

So there you have it folks.  My entries for the DT call.  If you are interested in applying, please click here to go to Teri's blog and read all the instructions and to enter your link.  Wish me luck!

I Love You This Much!!!

Happy Friday.  Are y'all as happy to see Friday as I am?  It's been a long week, at least it seems that way.  Tonight my husband is going with his father to our area's annual Venison Dinner.  They get to have all kinds of food and they always have a speaker.  This year they are speaking on Bears in Our Area.  It's nice for the men in our area to be able to get together and fellowship.  So, while they are gone, my daughter, my MIL, my GMIL and I are going out for Chinese and hitting Five Below and maybe Hobby Lobby.

On to the reason y'all actually stopped by.  Since it's Friday, that means a new challenge at QKR Stampede.  This week, our theme is Hearts and Kisses.  Yep, we've jumped on the Valentine's bandwagon. 

I love turtles, among many other things, so I decided to use this little man whose been kissed.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all have a great Friday and God bless y'all.

Recipe:
Image: 10303 Kissed from QKR Stampede
Sentiment:  15116 This Much from QKR Stampede
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, BIC Marker
Cardstock: Recollections
Papers: Recollections
Ribbon: The Ribbon Boutique
Gems: Michael's
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun, Pop Dots, Spellbinders Classic Rectangles Dies

Challenges:
One Crazy Stamper--Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts--Be Mine
Creative Knockouts--Be Mine
Cut It Up--Valentine's Day
Cutie Pie Challenge--Cute Valentine