Snowy Holidays

Happy Tuesday! I returned to work today after being sick yesterday. Feeling better today and still had a little time to play this evening. As the week goes on I get busier so I'm trying to get as much craft time in as I can! Tonight I was thinking Christmas and I was still playing with the double embossing backgrounds.

I double embossed the background using the Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder and then brayered VersaMark ink and heat embossed Iridescent Ice embossing powder. The snowman image and sentiment is  from a Peachy Keen set. I added some ribbon and accented the snowman with some Ruby Slipper and Gold Stickles.

I'm entering this in a couple of challenges:
Delightful Challenges: Very Sparkly Christmas
Cuttlebug Spot: Anything goes
Outlawz Sunday Challenge: Emboss

That's it for today. I need to get some sleep tonight since my last two nights weren't very good. Hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

Halloween

Happy Saturday! It was a gorgeous day here. We spent the day at Baby Creek (our retreat property) and plan to go back out tomorrow after I go grocery shopping. We are having some friends come out for dinner tomorrow night so it should be fun to see them again. Still fighting this cold (or bug) that I brought with me from Austria. My motivation is pretty low so my card tonight is definitely a clean and simple one. The photo didn't take well so I'll have to explain what it really looks like. LOL!

I bought this new embossing folder from Sizzix. Perfect for Halloween. I stamped the spider first in Memento Tuxedo Black and then embossed. I sponged the web with purple ink and that isn't showing very well in the picture. I added the Trick or Treat sentiment. Really easy! I have a bunch of Halloween cards left from last year so I'm not getting too elaborate with Halloween this year. I'm entering my card in a couple of challenges:

• Delightful Challenges: Halloween
• Flourishes: Halloween
• Crafty Boots Challenge: Autumn or Halloween

I am hoping that I stop sneezing and coughing and my head stops spinning so I can get back to using my time to craft. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Stay well!

Autumn Gift Box

For the last few days I have been working on a 3-d project. I found a pattern for a box that I thought looked like a great way to give a gift. So I had to try to make one. You can find the tutorial at Cloth, Paper Crafts and More.

This is side one of the box. The main image is from Designed to Delight. I colored it with Bic Markers and a Copic Blender Pen. I've added ribbon around the top, a secondary image from Anne's Cards 4 U, and Some great bling in different sizes.  All patterned paper is Basic Grey Indian Summer.Here's the other sides of the box.

The sentiment is from Tiffany's Doodles.

Image from a Copic marker tutorial.

The Fall image is from My Grafico. Hope you liked my project. I may have to make a few more if these for Christmas gifts. Perfect for the little extras to give.
I am entering the box into a couple of challenges:

• Designed to Delight: Progressive image
• Clearly iStamp: Patterned paper
• Ribbon Carousel: Anything goes with ribbon, twine, etc.
• September Scor-Pal: Create a box
• Flourishes Fall Fashion Challenge: Color challenge
• Delightful Challenge: Bling it!
• Crazy 4 Challenge: color challenge

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you have a wonderful week.

Trick or Treat

Happy Labor Day! Hope your day was wonderful even if you didn't have it off. I did have to work this morning because today was our first week of classes reporting but we were finished by noon. Over the weekend we had a chance to talk with Steve in Austria. He's doing fine even if he is a little nervous about driving over there. He has a nice but small apartment and he is trying to figure out cooking for himself. I think this will be an amazing experience for him. It's actually really fun to Skype with him and so amazing to see all his facial expressions too. I'm so glad that we are able to keep in touch with him.

My card tonight is the first for the Halloween season. I'm pleased with how it turned out.

The image is from Designed 2Delight called Falloween Cat and That is the first challenge I am entering this card in. The sentiment is computer generated and cut from dies from Clear Dollar Stamps. The image is cut from Spellbinder's Classic Oval and backed with Lacey Ovals. The embellishments include black brads, black polka-dotted double bow ribbon and orange picot ribbon.

I am entering these challenges:

• Designed 2 Delight: Use the free image in your project
• Outlawz Wednesday Challenge : Sketch
• Do You Stack Up: Friendly Critters
• Delightful Challenges: Halloween
• Inspire Me Fridays: Anything Goes

Hope your week is off to a wonderful start! I'm looking forward to a good but busy week. Take care!

Half-Cracked Friends

Happy Tuesday! Back from Salt Lake City and looking forward to our next trip to Austria. Our son, Steve, leaves September 1st for Austria. We are hoping to go visit him later this fall.

My card tonight is so cute. I like the way it turned out.

I used several stamps from Clear Dollar Stamps. The images are colored with Copics and Bic Mark-It markers.

I am entering this card into several challenges:

• Outlawz  Monday challenge: Use a bird and a sentiment
• Clearly Inspired Challenge: Things with wings
• Delightful Challenges: Things with wings

Hope you have a wonderful week. I'll be back with more this week I hope.

A Two Card Night

It's not often that I get two cards completed in one night. And besides the two cards I swept our house and peeled and sauced a bunch of tomatoes for the freezer. But it is about bed time for me. LOL! So here's my cards.

The image is a digi that I won form Happileigh Scrappin this week. Love this tree heart image. I added a few embellishments: the heart to mimc the hearts in the trees and the bow to the top of the tree. I'm entering this card in these challenges:

Outlawz Sunday challenge: Christmas in July
Shabby Tea Room: 3 different patterned papers
Scrap Creations: Buttons and/or bows
Flourishes: Song inspired; how about "O Tannenbaum"

My second card is a birthday card in a color scheme that I don;t often use.

I don't very often use orange in my cards, except for Halloween but U think this turned out cute. The image is Up and Away from Digital Delights. The embossing is D'vine Swirls. The challenge that I am entering with this card is:
Outlawz Monday challenge: Must use a balloon and sentiment

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you found some inspiration. Take care and have a wonderful Thursday!

The Miracle of Christmas

Happy Monday evening. I was hoping to get more time over the weekend but it didn't turn out that way. We spent Saturday out at Baby Creek, our home away from home and Sunday we helped a friend move to a new townhouse. The heat has finally broken and we got some much needed rain yesterday. The card that I made last week (you can scroll down to see it) was made with the Outlawz sketch challenge in mind. Unfortunately I forgot that there was a twist. It was supposed to have a holiday or winter theme. So I couldn't enter that card. So here's the one I will be entering for the sketch challenge.

The one thing I did get to do while out at Baby Creek was to crochet the flower that you see on the card. In fact I crocheted 5 of them. The card has been double embossed with the snowflake embossing folder and and oval shaped Spellbinder. Since I added the ticket to the top of the oval you can't see the oval very clearly. I added Zva gems for some extra bling also.

The challenges that I am entering:
Outlawz: sketch challenge
Delightful Challenges: Christmas in July

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope your week is off to a wonderful start. See you all soon.

Warm Winter Wishes

Happy Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by today. I made another Christmas card today. You know, Christmas in July! This is a tri-fold card that is held closed by a cute little slit. Love the simplicity.

And here is the card open.

I stamped the background with snowflakes from several different stamp sets from Little Paper Shop and Gina K. The sentiments are from sets by Gina K and the snowman image is from Great Impressions. Love the little frame for the snowman.

I made this card for a couple of challenges.
Outlawz Monday Challenge: Winter/Christmas theme using a sentiment on the front
Delightful Challenges: Fancy Folds (okay this is pushing it; but at least it's more than one fold!)

Hope you have a wonderful hump day. Thanks for stopping.

Say Hay

Just a quick post today. I'd like to get as much creating time as possible since I will be in Atlanta most of the week for an institute for work. I leave Tuesday mroning. So here's my simple card for today.

The images are from Digital Delights by Louby Lou called Littel Boy Blue. The sentiment is from Fun at the Farm from Clear Dollar Stamps but designed by Wendy of Digital Delights.  I'm sending this to my DH's nephew for his birthday later this month.

I'm entering it into a couple challenges:
Delightful Challenges: On the Farm
Outlawz Monday Greeting Card: Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday!

Donna

Red, White and Summer

What a week. I started my card that I will post tonight almost a week ago. We've been through a broken air conditioner and a backed up kitchen sink. We've been to Cincinnati and back to visit my in-laws. And my house is such a mess. I'm hoping that things improve this week. At least I haven't been called for jury duty yet.  So here's my card:

I used Gina K's Ribbon Stripes for the background and Flourishes Strawberries for the images and sentiments. I'm entering this card into these challenges:

• Outlawz Sketch challenge
• Delightful Challenges: red, white and blue
• Do You Stack Up: squares
• Scrap-Creations: summer time fun

I'm hoping that I find more time this week to create some more. So stay tuned. Hope your 4th was wonderful and your week  is going swimmingly. Take care!

Donna

It's a Jungle Out There

The Delightful Challenge this week is to incorporate a jungle theme. So my card uses a Digital Delights stamp called Lenny the Lion. I backed him with a few palm trees and a Happy Birthday sentiment. and some great animal print paper from the Paper Studio.

Thanks for stopping today. I'm busy working on Girl Scout day camp items. Hope to get back to more crafting by the end of June! Have a great Wednesday!

Donna

Delightful Challenges: Flower Power

Welcome to a new challenge from Delightful Challenges. This week you need flower power. Use flowers on your creation. The Cutting Cafe is our sponsor this week and they provided the design team with great cut files to use. I used the 3x6 bag.

Here's the details on my cute bag:

Digital Delights Stamps: Princess Shona, Arch Background

Card Stock and Papers: green card stock, Spring Weave Digital Paper Pack
Accessories and Embellishments: Scor Tape, pop dots, Boho Flower Punch, Circle Punch, 5 Petal Flower Punch, Victoria Embossing Folder, Swiss Dot Embossing Folder, Crimper, Purple and Eucalyptus Stickles, Zva self-adhesive flourishes, Flower Brads

Coloring Medium: Bic Mark It Ultra Fine and Fine Markers

Special Techniques: Cutting Café 6 by 3 inch bag

Here's another pic with a close up of the flower on top:

Our sponsor this week, The Cutting Cafe, is giving three sets to the random winner. Check our the design team's creation for some wonderful inspiration and then join our challenge for a chance to win. Thanks for stopping today!

Donna

Happy Mother's Day

Welcome to another week of Delightful Challenges. This week it's all about Mom. The challenge is to make a Mother's Day card.

I used Digital Delight's Bouquet Ridley and Mother's Day Circular Sentiment. The scalloped easel card was a tutorial from Beate John's blog. I thought it was adorable and just had to try it. The rest of the details are below:

Card Stock and Papers: white, purple, yellow, and blue card stock, pastel designer paper

Ink: Certainly Celery, Lavender Lace
Accessories and Embellishments: Scor Tape, pop dots, EK Success Lattice Punch, Spellbinder Scalloped Circles and Circle dies, Boho Flower Punch, Purple brads

Coloring Medium: Bic Mark It Ultra Fine and Fine Markers

Don't forget to check out the amazing creations from the rest of the design team, including another scalloped easel card from Mary. LOL! Neither one of us had any idea that the other one was creating something very similar. Check out the cards and challenge at Delightful Challenges. And don't forget to enter to win a fabulous prize.

A $20 gift certificate is up for grabs!

Thanks for stopping today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend. My son graduates Saturday from college and we'll be leaving for the graduation tomorrow. So I won't be posting this weekend.  Here's to a wonderful weekend! And Happy Graduation to Steve!

Donna

Be Crabby and Distressed

Happy Thursday! And welcome to Delightful Challenges new challenge. This week we are distressing. It's tough to see on my card but I did distress the surface of my sand and seaweed. And a popped up parts of the crab with an extra layer; his eyes, claws and some of his shoes. This card, believe it or not is for my MIL for Mother's Day. My husband decided that we could use this and add a red Lobster gift certificate in it for a gift.

Here's the details of my card:

Digital Delights Stamps: Crab, Under the Sea Background, Don’t Worry Be Crabby

Card Stock and Papers: white and blue card stock

Ink: Bashful Blue, Blue and Brown
Accessories and Embellishments: Scor Tape, pop dots

Coloring Medium: Bic Mark It Ultra Fine and Fine Markers

What's that? You want to know what the prize is this week? It's a great one!

How cool is that? Run, don't walk, to Delightful Challenges and check out what the amazing design team is distressing over this week. Ha-ha! Thanks for stopping by.

Paper Piecing or Paper Piercing?

Welcome to Delightful Challenge's challenge for this week. We thought our challenge this week was to use piercing on our projects. But at the end of last week we were told there was a typo. Since some of us had our projects completed we decided to make it paper piercing or paper piecing. LOL! My project uses paper piercing. If you look closely at the Popsicle stick insert you'll be able to see piercing in several places.

Here's the details:

Digital Delights stamps: Boo Boo Bear, Get Well Circular Sentiment

Card Stock and Papers: white and blue card stock, Stampin’ Up! Double-sided Paper

INK: Bashful Blue
Accessories and Embellishments: Scor Tape, glue dots, Clear Dollar Ribbon, Popsicle Stick, Paper Piercer for piercing in the set well sentiment, Classic Circle and Scalloped Circle Spellbinder Dies

COLORING MEDIUM (if any): Bic Mark It Ultra Fine

You won't want to miss what the design team has created. You can check it out at Delightful Challenges. Then join in the fun for a chance to win a prize from Digital Delights.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a wonderful Thursday!