Hope Butterfly

This weeks freebie at Delightful Inspiration is 'Hope Butterfly'.

I printed out a few of the images from the set that I rec'd

on Friday of last week.

Now that I am looking at the set, I used every one of them, even the 'hope'.

The border I printed twice, rotating it once!

The Flower I printed three times but only used two of them.

And the final creation with ribbon and the top wings cut with a craft knife.

 Thanks for coming by!
AND a big thanks to Faith for the Delightful HOPE BUTTERFLY set.

Patches the ghost

Here comes Faith and she does not disappoint with this week's freebie...Patches the ghost.
Today, if you did not get him for free you can purchase at Delighftful Inspiration's digi store.

I created a banner with my newest Spellbinders set and just hand wrote 'spooky' on there.

 Popped up the pumpkins and added some hand made swirly gigs to add some pizzazz.

Sprayed some glimmer mists on the swirlys and on the card for some shimmer.

Thanks for coming by!

RX

STAMPS: D2D's Patches the ghost

PAPER: Pumpkin Pie, white, black, Colorbok's Cloud Nine Design Harvest Holiday2

INK: Eggplant, Tattered Angels glimmer mist, Memories Mist-Margarita

TOOLS: Cuttlebug for the spellbinders, small crochet hook to wind the paper for the swirly gigs

INCIDENTALS: Painty Pen for 'spooky', white chalk on the black banner

D2D's Autumn Mums

Delightful Inspiration's Autumn Mums is a beautiful set of images

that I received for free for playing the progressive challenge.

Each week that I play and upload my card to D2D I receive another freebie.

check it out you, too, could be a winner every week of a stunning or cute, 

or just plain wonderful image or set.

I picked out the paper, both designs are on one sheet, and then chose the prismacolors

that would match the papers.

The Autumn colors obviously for the Autumn Mums.

Added some silver floss and the only silver button in my collection that was even close to

the best size for that spot.

Thanks for coming by!
There's a huge anything goes at Simon Says Stamps

have to get back here and add another challenge at D2D..the Saturday challenge is looking for creations that use at least two die cuts...perfect...I have exactly two here.

Happiness Blooms

Delightful Inspirations challenge is due by 11:59...in just a bit!!!

Wasn't going to be able to get it done and then some time this evening opened up 

but then I had two phone calls to make, two that I was waiting to receive,and just got off the 

phone with one of my daughters........

and here I am.

 The freebie this week is "Happiness Blooms".

With time being what it is, I just outlined the flower, leaves, and stem then took some OMS and just did some small circles to the outlines and this is what came of it!! I like it...simple...easy...DONE!!!

Hope you like it, too!

Thanks for coming by!!!

School time

Delightful Inspirations Saturday challenge is all about school time.

Maisie Belle here got all printed up but not onto a card a couple of weeks ago. 

Now is her time to shine.

Maisie is all set for school...can you tell?

There are pencils, and a paint brush, a ruler, and even a pair of scissors.

All in her two pockets...and she's got her composition folder and spiral

notebook in her hands.

and a little peek at the inside.....

Thanks for coming by!

A sketch, an image

Add a couple of sunflowers and pumpkins and what have you got?

My newest card Kraft Journal challenged us to use a sketch and I

 chose the newest one from Fetch-a-sketch using the Freebie from

 Delightful Inspiration- "Autumn Harvest".

And I couldn't stop there because Feline Playful had some great challenges listed there, too!

Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - #128 Celebrate The Season (Any Season)
Shopping Our Stash -  Vintage or Distressed or Shabby Chic
Happileigh Scrappin  -  Anything about Autumn /Fall
House of Gilli -  Embossing

Thanks for coming by!

some basic supplies- kraft paper, image from D2D, sketch from Fetch-a-sketch, Su paper, white paper,

some assorted buttons, spellbinders die

and

a new way to color the edge of the die cut before it's embossed..

Stampin Up embossing folder - lattice. My distressing tool and Black soot distressing ink pad.

Falloween kitty

I regretfully admit that I did not play with my digital freebie last week at 

Delightful Inspirations. School Maisie Belle was printed and given a

sentiment but never made the front of a card, but stay tuned, she will get her due.

 (It's been a bit sad around my house for the past week.
God has given us strength to forge ahead and healing has begun for us all.)

With this being the first digital freebie this month it's all mine with out playing last week.

PLUS...I won name that puppy..go see him HERE.

He was a fb contest...I named him Puppy Magic

and WON!!!!!

back to the kitty.........

 I paper pieced using orange mulberry paper. Cut it out not too close to some of the edges.

Wet the edges with an aqua painter and 'shredded' a bit of the edges to look 'furry'.

Then I cut the tail out, the face I cut out of the same paper as the tail and made sure to cut inside the lines for some of that 'fur' to hang out around the face.....so kitty like...right?

Debating about sending this over to the Kraft Journal.

There is kraft paper all right, but the theme is 'something grand' in honor of

Grandparent's Day. No grand parents for me, but I definitely could

send this one off to a grand child as a 'grand' gesture.

Thanks for coming by!

supplies---

the mesh is from Club Scrap, the sentiment is a partial from Festive Favorites at Stampin Up.

distressed stripes er from cuttlebug. papers are bits of this and bits of that.

Every Flower

Delightful Inspiration inspired me this week to do some resisting.

A 'sorta' emboss resist.

I used Crystal effects on the flowers and leaves, let it dry, and then 

brayered some rubber bands over the colored 'embossed' image

using some glitter mist and angel mist.

I only own two bottles and used them both!!

Thank you, Faith, for a great image to play with and use some fabulous techniques.

I got to use my brand new Tim Holtz die for the folded flowers.
Delightful Inspiration also has a Saturday challenge and this week is anything goes
so will submit this one to that challenge.

Thanks for coming by!

P.S. Made this card this morning before an appointment that I had at 1PM.

Gave it to Annie ( the appt person) for her to give to someone else.

she was flabbergasted and said that she had someone very important to send it to.

Can't go into the details, but she was very moved and it was more than a coincidence

that we had an appt today.

Stitched Pumpkin by D2D

Faith at Delightful Inspiration created the cutest stitched pumpkins, one with a mouse and one without.

I colored the non-mouse one.

check out the D2Dblog to see the entire set that comes with a border image, also.

I made sure to add some kraft card stock for the card's base to qualify for the 

Kraft Journal 'Anything Goes' challenge.

made my own patterned paper with Distressed Inks and some leaf stamps.

Got out an old stapler to staple the frame to the under layers and staple the ribbons under the button.

Thanks for coming by!

 Stamps used:  D2D, and Fall Whimsy from Stampin Up

Mouse cupcakes

Hit three challenge blogs for this card with the wee mouse and her sweet treat.

She is the free image for the beginning of August, so if you 

don't have her, quick head on over to Delightful Inspiration.

while you are there check out the Saturday challenge...BLING!

Then for the Kraft Journal's "Carnival, Parades, Parties" challenge I added a piece of embossed 

kraft paper that I 'blinged' up with some Stickles.

The card base is a piece of Core-dinations...actually all the paper except the kraft is from the same piece of Core-dination paper. I even used it to paper piece the cupcake liner, then distressed it between the lines

with an old emery board.

OO,OOO her sweet wee face is...kraft paper, too!!!!

Used my Prismacolor pencils to color her ears and give her a bit of blush on her cheeks.

I love to see when crafters mix up the border punches, so I tried it for myself.

The sentiment came with the D2D set which also included a party guy mouse and another sentiment.

The 'core' paper is fab for the embossing folders, just a wee bit 'bleeds' out and if you want more of the 

'color' from behind just use an emery board or your distressing tool of choice.

Thanks for coming by!!!!

Pick your own digi

Delightful Inspiration let us, the progressive players, choose our own image to play in the 

challenge this week.

I made a set of three little note cards  3 1/4'' square.

Colored and then embossed with a square Nesties.
thanks for coming by!

School Time Challenge at Daisy Doodles

 The Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge blog's theme is School Time.

You can use a school image or the colors of your school.

An apple for the teacher and 'A' is for apples is what was going on in my mind.

the children go back to school in just three weeks.

Oh, how I vacillated over which school time image to use from the Daisy Doodles choices. So I just thought about 'A' is for apples and had to choose from only two apple images...the basket or the apple all by itself.

The 'Apple basket' and 'School Time', which has the single apple, can both be found in the store at Daisy Doodles. Just type into the search window whatever you are looking for and presto that image will appear.

 

Paper pieced the basket and apples in layers as you can see. got out the very old Sizzlits Alphabet, the spiral punch and the very new Spellbinders pendant.

used the computer for the words, and a sheet of paper from a junior legal pad.

The D2D Saturday Designer's challenge is to use any image, but include at least 3 buttons.

Both designer papers from Stampin Up were sitting on my cutting table as scraps from some previous cards.

Thanks for coming by!

Challenges

Cardmakinmamas- Food and Drink
Inspire Me Fridays 17 - Anything Goes
Sew many Cards - Anything Goes
Clear It Out - Use up your stuff*
Everybody Art challenge - Garden*
Digi Doodles Shop's Best - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - In the Garden
Moving Along With The Times - Brand Spanking New*(the new school year)
Creative Craft World - anything but birthdays
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes*

The Pixie Cottage - Emboss it* (spellbinders is embossed)

Christmas in July 2

 

Combined two challenges again today! Kraft Journal's challenge is Christmas in July which is perfect for the Delightful Inspiration Designer's challenge with the Joyful Snowman. His real name is Christmas Snowman, but since I chose the image with the word JOY, I like Joyful snowman. I outlined him with a clear glitter pen and popped up the two snowball gifts. Tried a little creative layering with the Spellbinders and even cut my

twill ribbon from SU with the same Spellbinder to get the perfect edge.

    Haven't used an outline sticker is ages and this was the perfect time to get the box of them 

out with "Seasons Greetings".

I love kraft card stock, don't you?

The snowflake was in my stash of small die cuts that didn't get used.

Thanks for coming by!

Delight in the beauty

There is a peacock in your future!!! Delightful Inspirations has added a gorgeous peacock to it's portfolio.
Faith has done it again and now you too can own this delightful beautiful peacock..check it out.
If you feel like you are missing out on all the freebies, then go buy this and the ones to follow can be yours for free. It's progressive, what more can I say?

I chose Card Positioning for my sketch.
Used a clear glitter pen to highlight the peacock, a doodle border, and some of the stitching.

Thanks for coming by!!!!!

Delightful Inspiration's Strawberries

The strawberries certainly are 'delightful'. I used them to combine with a challenge from Waltzingmouse Stamps sketch challenge.

I inked up the Swiss Dots ef with black and then sent it through the Cuttlebug with a piece of SU Natural Ivory cs to resemble the strawberry, and then sponged some Cherry Cobbler very gently over the debossing side of the card stock. I made a frame from the Spellbinders labels 14 and 10 and inserted the ''strawberries" from D2D behind the frame and added two different Fancy Tags in back and on both sides for interesting elements.. Added some clear and one pink gem, some velvet ribbon and the WMS sentiment from 'Teeny Trees'. Added some dimensionals in a few spots and called it 'done'.

Thanks for coming by!

OOOPSS! Nearly forgot to tell you that I put some Glossy Accents on all of the strawberries for a nice pick you up for the recipient of this get well card.

A Riddle

What do MOJO Monday, D2D and Kraft Journal have in common?

My newest card.

NO, you are not seeing double!

I am trying out something new in Picasa 3 and can't decide if I want to go the extra bit. So will play with it for a few times and make the choice. Any input from my peanut gallery?

Combining the three challenges this morning was a walk on the beach!!! I checked out all three challenges and knew that all three could work for one card....first the digi at Delightful Inspiration (D2D): 'Flip Flops' are the freebie this week since it's the first one of JULY.
Second, the Kraft Journal's challenge is something old and something new! The red jeweled flip flop is years old and the DSP and kraft papers are brand new, just bought them yesterday!! The twine is about as old as Methuselah, but the seam bindings are less than a year old.
Last but not least is Mojo Monday 197 where you have a choice of round or square sketch.

I took Julee's advice from her MOJO Blog and made my card 4 1/4 inch square.
I have been playing, also, with the photography skills that I obviously don't have much of...yet. My friend, Cheli came over and made me a photo box....my pics look great til I get them on the blog and then they just look so flat!!!! I have put the photo box outside in full sun light, used the lights here in the craft room and it's always the same....they look wonderful in Picasa and in Paint, but once they are posted....not so lovely!!!
need to work on this...some how!
Thanks for coming by! And leave a comment regarding the focal fuzzy or clear flat...LOL...please!!!

Hibiscus

Delightful Inspiration has a beautiful set of images this week, called

Tropical Summer...I just love the hibiscus flowers. We have a fabulous one at the bottom of the stairs

at the entry way. I went out in the rain to see if I could get a good shot. It  rained here all

night and the blossoms are heavy with water. I had to picked them and set them on top of the

leaves to get a decent shot. I was not going to lie in the water to photo these babies while they

were still attached. Brought them inside to see if i could get a better shot and.....

you be the judge.

The color vs the rain drops.

Aren't they just beautiful?

 IRL they are more orange than pink!

Here's the card.....

The set comes with two images one with the frame and the other with out it.

I used both...can you tell? 

Thanks for coming by!

challenges

Mark's finest papers - Make it Sparkle

Alphabet challenge - 'H' is for half dozen..I used six hibiscus w/o the frame

Fairy Knoll - summer

RX

STAMPS: D2D - Tropical Summer

PAPER: SU, CTMH, Club Scrap

SUPPLIES: MS border punch, Spellbinders label 18, sewing machine, Stickles, seam binding, ribbon

Fresh Cut

Designed 2 Delight has the nicest vase for a freebie this week.
I was planning a different kind of fold, but I came to an easel card with the fold going the opposite way.

For your viewing pleasure-- a side shot to see the reverse fold.

 The image is called 'Fresh Cuts' and don't you just think it's the freshest?
Thanks for coming by!!!

RX

STAMPS: D2D 'Fresh Cuts'

PAPER: SU Simply Scrappin pkg 'Just Delightful' ( almost 100% sure that it's retired since I bought it so long ago)

Quite Contrary

Here's the latest image from Delightful Inspiration 'Mary, Mary' on my card.

Paper piecing is one of my favorite things to do with a digital image...but it takes more time and some patience with the printer, not to mention the fussy cutting of each layer.
Punched out the little flowers from the papers for a nice match and added the tiny half pearls.
"Grow" was just one word I inked up that was in a phrase on a wooden stamp.
Thanks for coming by!

RX

STAMPS: Mary, Mary; SU Harmony

PAPER:DP scraps, Pink, white

INK: Pink Passion

TOOLS: Spellbinders 21, ticket punch, slot punch, Trio flower punch, sewing machine

INCIDENTALS: ribbon, half pearls

Delightful Inspiration and the fence

  I am so proud of myself....D2D entry is done and here it is!!!

It's hard to see here, but I popped up the gardening pots and the small plant just to the right of it.
This is the first image of the month so it is free for one week...make a card and enter it into the Delightful Inspirations Friday challenge and get next weeks free, too! Whatcha waiting for? ...go...Faith has inspirational images every week!!!! They are free if you play!!!
Thanks for coming by!

RX

STAMPS: D2D's 'Spring Fence', sentiment-Verve's 'Faithful Phrases'

PAPER: White, Blue Bazzill, Real Red, DCWV DP

INK:  Early Espresso, White Craft from SU on the Heidi Swapp clear heart

INCIDENTALS:  Felt flower, ribbon, tag (office supply)