GOBBLE GOBBLE

Hello Everyone- I have been working on a BIG project and we are coming up on a deadline, so I thought I would share a FLASH BACK today for you from November 2009! This little turkey makes me SMILE.


Here are the details...


Stamp Set: Gobble, Gobble from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Gypsy Harvest DP, Vanilla
Accessories: K&C Gems, paper Snips, Copics, Dimensionals, Circle punches.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for Creative Cuts and More and Clear and Simple Stamps special Blog Hop! Thank you for stopping by today! Have a GREAT week!

ODBDSLC30 White and Bright

HELLO AND HAPPY SATURDAY!  

Today is the Shining Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs! Our challenge this week is to  to make your creations white and bright. Use all white on your card except for your stamped image and embellishments. That means no designer paper unless it is all white.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize , a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Thursday, September 23^rd  on the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. We will even choose a few Shining Light Awards for those who participate. Check out the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog for even more details!

Today, will be a day of cleaning for me. I personally think cleaning makes me ugly, but I know it blesses my man. So I do what I can! J I am not going to do a deep clean, because I have some stamping to get done too. We are having some guests over for our monthly Game Night tonight, so I do need to do SOME cleaning. I gave them a “warning” though that my house will not be perfect due to some deadlines I have and home schooling. They do not really mind. We all have the motto “ come to spend time with us, not our house!” The beauty of friendship!

Now – do you want to know about my card? Here are the details…

Stamp Sets: Sing to the Lord and Amazing Grace Hymn from Our Daily Bread Designs
Cardstock: White
Accessories: Heat Tool, Silver Embossing Powder, Versamark,  Nestibilities, White Satin Ribbon, Pearl gems, Dimensionals, Hologram Highlights Embossing Powder, Embossing Buddy,


You will definitely want to hop on over to the Shining Light Challenge Team blogs... these women are so talented and such a tremendous blessing to work with, be sure to send them some encouraging words!

Sabrina Jackson

Patter Cross

Fran Gumprecht

Chris Olsen

I hope you have a BLESSED weekend! Thank you for stopping by!

I AM A BONE HEAD - BLOG HOP WINNER!!!!

Remember  THIS post???? Well. I didn't until TONIGHT!! Boy oh boy... having my husband travel and this working thing has me being WAY MORE forgetful! I need to set up a reminder bell system!

Anyways - I have a WINNER for the BLOG HOP Candy we had on September 1st.

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That would make our winner - DANA!

Congratulations!!!! Please e-mail me at chrissyd723@gmail.com and send me your address. I will let Korin know you won and she will send you the GREATEST GIFT stamp set!

Have a great weekend!

BLOGGERS CHALLENGE: COLOR CHALLENGE - BLUE, GREEN AND BROWN

Happy Friday! Do you know what is funny? I work at home and so you would think that most days it wouldn't matter what "day" it is. Fridays always seem to give me a feeling of freedom and hope. My husband travels a lot for work, and with Friday, I know he may be coming home. While I love my children with all of my heart, it is a welcome time when he is home because of what I like to call the "Testosterone Factor." The "Testosterone Factor" is when the children will behave differently with dad... While there are the same consequences for many of my children's behaviors, Dad being home brings us a sense of peace, calm and comfort! The depth of his voice always brings things under control faster than anything Mom can do! While I can give them the "evil eye", raise my voice, send them to their room, etc., nothing can stop a quarrel faster than the depth of my man's voice saying "Enough!" So after what seems like a week of endless bickering, I look forward to my man returning home. Yippee!

You probably came here to see my card and not hear about why I love Fridays. Right? *SMILE* Today, is Blogger Challenge Day! This week's Bloggers Challenge is to create a project using Blue, Green and Brown...

My first project uses all three of these colors with some yellow too... I just loved this paper and wanted to use it! My card uses QKR Stampede  adorable image called Nurse on Neenah Cream card stock and Memento Black Ink. Colored my image up with my Copic Markers and did a touch of airbrushing with my BG000 Copic Marker. 

I used SU Autumn Spice Designer Paper that has just a touch of texture- LOVE IT! Colored my image up with my Copic Markers. Added some faux stitching around the Nurse image with SU's retired All In a Row stamp (once of my MOST used stamps ever!) I attached the image with Dimensionals, then added a few Water Dew Drops with some mono glue dots. The card stock I used is Espresso and Wild Wasabi. To top it off, I added a BIG BOW with luscious satin ribbon!

Other Challenges for this card are the Truly Scrumptious - sketch and Blue & Green, Belli Challenge - Something with a B (brown and Bow), Gingerloft Challenges - Anything Goes, Paper Sundaes - Anything in threes - Dew Drops!

 My second card uses QKR Stampede's Pumpkin Vine stamp. It is sooo much fun to color! For this project I used Creative Inspiration Paints, Winter Frost mixed with some ink pad refills and painted with my water color paint brush! These paints are great to work with! Easy to use and clean up easily with soap and water! Best of all... check out that shimmer! Sooooo Pretty! 


The paper I used is Basic Grey Archaic DP, Moss, Chocolate Chip and Cream Neenah cardstock. I cut the half circles out using my Creative Memories Circle Cutter and punched the edge with a Martha Stewart punch that embossed at the same time.  The stitching is once again (the only kind I do! *smile*) is faux stitching with the All in a Row stamp set. I added a bow with Chocolate Satin ribbon and the Cowboy Dew Drops are attached with mini Glue Dots. I have a few angles so you can see the shimmer of the Creative Inspirations Paint.

                                                

Here are a few more challenges for my second card for today...

Mercy's Tuesday Sketch, Truly Scrumptious - sketch and Blue & Green, Belli Challenge - Something with a B (brown and Bow), Gingerloft Challenges - Anything Goes, Paper Sundaes - Anything in threes - Dew Drops!, Kaboodle Doodles - Inspiration challenge (I chose some of the colors!)

OK - I need to get busy today! My to do list is quite long! I hope you have a fabulous day! Thank you for stopping by! Be sure to check out MORE ideas with this color combo by clicking on the Bloggers Challenge Badge along my side bar! 


Enjoy your day and SMILE!!!! 

M

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS from I BRAKE FOR STAMPS

HELLO!! Have you been to brand new website yet from I Brake For Stamps? This is a candle card is a NEW RELEASE from I Brake for Stamps called Vintage Christmas! Filled with several beautiful images perfect for your Christmas cards! Be on the look out for a few more creations over the next few weeks!!!

Here are a few different angles and shots...

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The technique I used on this card is from Technique Junkies Newsletter  called Glimmer Mist Watercolors from the April/ May 2010 Newsletter.

And all of the details...
Stamp Set: Vintage Christmas from I Brake For Stamps
Cardstock: Sage Shadow, White, Hunter
Accessories: Glimmer Mists, Copics, Stickles, Dimensionals, Nestibilities, Paper Piercing Tool, Lace, Basic Grey Pearl Gems


Here are some challenges I participated in:
StampInsanity: Things in Threes
Gingerloft - Anything Goes
My Time To Craft - Jewelled (I used Jewel tones)
Flourishes - Rustic Beauty
Fab & Funky-  Photo Vibe (I used the layout as my inspiration - with the dress/ candle standing tall)




Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend!!

SNTODBD18 - GLITZY LACE

Hello Everyone - HAPPY THURSDAY! t is time for Our Daily Bread Designs Stamping In Time Challenge(SNTODBD18)!   Cheryl Walker is our challenge host this week.  Cheryl is challenging us to ribbons and lace!  When you think of ribbon and lace you are not just limited to the fabrics.  If you have die cuts, punches, or even stamps that have a ribbon or lace look, name, or design, those can work, too.  However, you do have to use both!  We would love to see what you create using Our Daily Bread Design stamps!

Todays card uses the technique called GLITZY LACE from the Technique Junkie Newsletter! It was VERY messy but created such a beautiful sparkle on the card, me, my desk... anything I touched! :) I have 2 different angled pictures here so you can see the SPARKLE!

Here are the details:
Stamp Sets: Scripture Collection 1 from Our Daily Bread Designs
Cardstock: White, Pomegranite, black
Accessories: Lace, Martha Stewart Glitter, Xyron, White Satin Ribbon, Nestibilities, Technique Junkies Newsletter

Challenges I participated in...
Monday Mojo Sketch #156
Tuesday Taggers - Diamonds are forever (I used Dazzling Diamonds Glitter on the white portion of the lace!
Belli Challenge - something that starts with B (BOW)
Stamp Insanity - Things in Threes (colors)
Paper Sundaes - Three embellishments - (3 brads, bow and glitter!)
Gingerloft - Anything Goes
Lexi's Creations - Flower Power (the lace has a floral pattern)
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Flowers (the lace has a floral pattern and a bow is there too!)
My Time to Craft - Jewelled (I used jewel tones)


You are sure to be inspired by MORE creations from this talented group of sweet ladies...

Angie 

Fran 

Sabrina 

Grace 

Connie 

Chris Olsen 

Cheryl Walker 

Betty 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day filled with LOTS of laughter and many blessings!

AWARENESS BLOG HOP AND BELLI CHALLENGE!

Hello! Welcome to the AWARENESS for Creative Cuts and More! You are in for a GREAT treat! Our Designers are very excited to share some fabulous CANCER AWARENESS projects using the wonderful Die Cuts from Creative Cuts and More.

Did you enjoy Steph's FANTASTIC  Ensemble? If you have not come here from Steph's Zerbe Design Blog, you will not want to miss what the Design team has in store for you. Head back to the Die Cut Diva Blog. That is where all of the action starts!

Don't forget on the NEW website have over 100 NEW Die Cuts AND a NEW section called GREAT DEALS!

Once you are finished HOPPING along the Blog Hop, you will have an opportunity to win one of the WONDERFUL  assortment of awareness ribbon products, including an awareness ribbon album, awareness cards and maybe a box or two.  You can find the ways to win this wonderful prize on the Die Cut Diva Blog!

Your chance to enter to win will have a deadline of Sunday, September 19th at midnight! We will announce the winner on Monday, September 20th.

CC&M will donate 20% of all sales of Awareness Ribbon products in September and October!!

One more thing - check this out! Terry has all of the Cancer colors listed here, so if you know of someone with a different type of cancer you can use that color! Before this, I honestly didn't know that the different cancers had "colors" besides PINK for Breast Cancer!

We will donate half of the proceeds to American Cancer Society and the other half to Susan G Koman Breast Cancer Foundation.

Now... Are you ready to see my variety of projects? I hope you like them! I had soooo much fun creating them! In addition to the Blog Hop, I participated in the Belli Challenge! This week’s Belli Challenge is to use something that starts with the letter B – so technically  ALL of these qualify! Right? For Breast Cancer? ;) If we want to be technical though, some things you can use that start with B are buttons, bows, brads, blue, Black, emBossing…. Ok the embossing might be stretching a bit but you get the gist, right? *smile*

Once you are finished hopping along the Blog Hop, I would LOVE it if you came back and checked out all of the Belli Challenge Participants! They are all so talented and would LOVE to hear your comments!!!

Here are the details on my projects...

Awareness Ribbon Window A7 Card - Vertical - for this project, I cut a rectangle out of white and black card stock to create the layers. I put a white sheet of card stock on the inside of the card, sponged with black along the ribbon edges and then using my white gel pen, I added faux stitching around the edges to match the ribbon I used. The stamped words are from Stampin' Up!, Offray Black stitched Ribbon, triple flower punch from SU, Black Dew Drops and mini Glue dots were used as well.

Awareness Ribbon Window Square Box #01 - For this project, I grabbed my retired Stampin' Up! Rub Ons and added them by simply... (you guessed it!) rubbing. *smile* I then grabbed my roll of packing tape and added a strip BEHIND the window. Carefully sprinkling glitter over the sticky side - I made a small glitter window. I then added the Gems with mini glue dots.

I filled the box with small 4" x 4" note cards. Many times when I need card stock, I will e-mail Terry from Creative Cuts and More and let her know how many sheets I need. This way, I am sure to have coordinating card stock!

All cards use the Stella Bugaboo Digital Images. I added the words with my Photoshop program. I used white card stock, passionate pink Smooth card stock from Creative Cuts and More. I used Copics to color the image and Mini Glue Dots to hold the buttons on. Easy Peasy! 

Ohhh I almost forgot! To hold this wonderful box together... I used the KILLER RED TACKY TAPE

 

My last card uses the same images as above, however although it doesn't have a "ribbon" for Awareness, I couldn't resist using the Oval Window A7 Card - Horizontal card. I added some Glitter Card Stock that I had on hand and cut out a window to add a little pizzazz. 

Using the Mini Glue Dots again, I added the button embellishments and the white Satin ribbon as well.

Now that you are done checking out my blog, you will want to head over to Kim's Blog, to see what she has in store for you! She always inspires me with your crafty scrap booking and paper crafting ideas!


Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!