The Grinch is on the Loose

 Hey check out this fun Grinch Game at  the Creative Visions blog.  It is a fun one I played last year.  Good luck.
Brenda

Check out this fun Grinch Game

What fun this game is head over to 

A Fairly Creative Place 

and join in on the fun!

The Cuttlebug Spot Set The Table

The challenge this week for The Cuttlebug Spot is Set the Table: Decoratins for Thanksgiving holiday. I choose to decorate a candle.  To start I pulled out my crimping tool and brushed off the cobwebs and crimped the kraft base.  For the next layer I embossed the green with a cuttlebug folder, sorry I can't find the name of it right now.  The leaves are some paper leaves I found at Michaels and I embossed them with textile texture embossing folder.  I added the sentiment and I was done.  I made this last Saturday and I am still finding glitter everywhere.  I love glitter, but it hangs around like Easter grass!

Here is a close up of the leaves.

This would be a great fast and easy last minute decoration for your Thanksgiving table or how about a Hostess gift.  Make sure you go over to The Cuttlebug Spot and see the wonderful creations from the rest of the Design Team.  And we would love to see you join us in this weeks challenge.  Thank you for stopping by.

Melanie's A Year of Borders

Scroll down to the next post for my The Cuttlebug Spot.

Oh my goodness have you seen Melanie Muenchinger's set?  It will be released from Gina K Designs on Thursday evening.  I have to say it is awesome!  I will be buying this set for sure, that is unless I am lucky enough to win it.;-)  Check out this beautiful card Melanie made with it.  Isn't it gorgeous?

Melanie is giving one of these away on her blog.  So head over to enter and let Melanie know what you think.  Good luck!!

Christmas Cat

Ok so how is that for a lame title? Do you have a hard time coming up with titles or is it just me? Well I will  get to the tag I created.

This is a tag I made last weekend for some challenges. The stamp is from Pink Cat Studio and is colored with copics.  After cutting it out with my newest nesties set I sponged the background with memento ink.  It is hard to see in the phot , but the white on the hat is fun flocked.  I have to tell you it wasn't all that fun cutting out the little mouse, but worth it.  I have the challenges listed below as well as the rest of the card details.  Thank you for taking the time to stop by.

Challenges

• Caardvarks:  A holiday tag or mini card
• One Stop Craft Challenge: Not a card
• Christmas Stampin: Use two or more ribbons 

Card Details

Stamps: Pink Cat Studio

Paper: pure luxury rocket red, white- Gina K Designs

Ink: memento tuxedo black, summer sky, desert sand

Copics: B21, BG01, C3, C5, C7, G05, G07, G09, G14, R22, R24, R27, R29, R59, W3

Just Us Girls DT Try Out

They are having a Design Team call for Just Us Girls and this is my entry.  The challenge is to make an item using a template and a card using the sketch they provided.  I used Sending Sunshine from Gina K Designs for my card and Slip Cover box template from My Time Made Easy. I have all of the supplies used listed below.

For the images on both the card and the box I started by stamping the daffodils and coloring them with copics.  Then I masked them and using post it notes I masked off for the horizon and sponged the sky and then flipped the post its and sponged the ground.  The foliage was added last by inking with bamboo leaves and stamping off two times before stamping on my image panel.  The butterflies were added last and inked with danube blue and stamped off twice before stamping on the image panel.

The template for the slider box can be found here at My Time Made Easy.  Wow if you have never tried one of these templates you should.  The download is very fast and easy, plus they are very reasonable priced.  The box was fast and easy to put together.  All I did was add the stamped panel and some ribbon with a button accent. Thank you for stopping by.

I am also entering this card and box into a few challenges. First for Clearly i Stamp to create a project using flowers.  The second challenge is for Gina's inspiration challenge on StampTV.  Finally for the Speedy the Cats Friends challenge #2 over on  Mark's Finest Papers, to use a corner punch on your card.


Card/Box Details

Stamps: Sending Sunshine, Eclectic Summer-Gina K

Paper: Pure luxury white, fresh aspargus, lemon drop

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, summer sky, cantaloupe, danube blue, bamboo leaves

Copics: Y000, Y13, Y15, YG03, YG63

Other: nestablities, cuttlebug, ribbon, floss, button, brads, crop-a-dile corner chomper

CSS Creative Cookout Cookbook Hop

It's time for another CSS Blog hop!

Several members of the CenterStage Spotlight Alumni team have gathered some of their favorite BBQ Picnic recipes together for us to make another cookbook!  The cookbook will be available for FREE over on the StampTV Freebie page for you to download and print at your leisure.



But, since we are paper crafters - we challenged them even further to make a project with their recipe in mind to share with us tonight on their blogs!  (The projects are also included in photos on the recipe booklet as well.)  

Here is a photo of my project.

And here is a photo of the invite I made.

So are you hungry yet?  If not you will be by the time you take a look at all the delicious recipes.  Thank you for stopping by.  Enjoy the hop! 



Please check out the links of all the participating designers and then download the Recipe booklet and let us know how you like them!

• Jessica Fick: Grilled Pizza
• Betty Neville: Mom's Chinese BBQ Ribs
• Joy Hadden: Whiskey BBQ Sauce
• Tina Gilliland: Homemade Enchiladas
• Sue Van deVusse: Midwestern Kabobs
• Melissa Shultz: Foil Babies
• Geri Utterback: Oven Baked Beans
• Pam Imholz: Foil Potatoes
• Sharri Seffens: Calico Beans
• Carla Suto: Grilled Vegetables
• Dawn Lusk: Roasted Corn and Black Bean Salad
• Peggy Wainman: Bean Salad
• Karen Knegten: Miss Lucy's Rice Salad
• Jennie Harper: Picnic Coleslaw
• Cheri Weston: Fiesta Pie
• Brenda Turner: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
• Lori McAree: Dessert Pizza
• Giovana Smith: Peruvian Alfajores
• Carolina Buchting: Vanilla Cupcakes with Butter Cream Frosting
• Jen Charboneau: Dirt Cake

Card Details

Stamps: Happy Camper, Holiday Hospitality, Just Be-Claws- Gina K Designs

Paper: rocket red, black onyx

Ink: memento tuxedo black, summer sky, new sprout, copics

Copics: I forgot to write them down, sorry:)

A second look

I have been meaning to post this for a few days, but with being out of town I just never got to it. I had a few requests to see my triangle luminary on my holiday table. It is actually Theresa's table as that is where I was for Christmas.  I used three battery operated tealight candles which worked perfectly to give a great glow.

Theresa also gave me a little lesson in Photoshop so I am hopeful that my photos will be looking a bit better in the future.  I hope to have something new to show you tomorrow, if I can dig myself out of this mess that is in my room at the moment.  Thank you for stopping by.

Sweet Christmas Treat

Hello my posts this week are very short, but at least I am getting my projects up.  After this week things will slow down for me, and hopefully I will have some sweet down time.

Today I am showing you a sour cream container I made for Carolina's anything but a card challenge this week on StampTV.  I was inspired by Carolina's sample and had to get right to this one.  I started with pure luxury white and clear embossed the snowflakes.  Next I sponged with bashful blue over the whole thing.  Then it was just a matter of taping it together and filling with candies.  Normally I would have used a crimper to seal the ends, but I can not find it so I used my scorpal to score a couple of lines, it worked great.   The whole thing only took me about 15 minutes.

Make sure you come back later night I have a card for Theresa's Life is Good blog hop. 
Thank you for stopping by.

Details

Stamps: Holiday Hospitality Gina K Desings

Paper: Pure luxury white

Ink: Versmark, bashful blue

Other: snowflake punches, scorpal, pearl

Catching up

So a few weeks ago I got this award from Geri (my mom for those of you who don't already know).  I have been a bad daughter and haven't post it until now, sorry mom.  Thank you mom for this wonderful award.

My next sweet award comes from Mary Anne, thank you so much Mary Anne how awesome of you to think of me.

The neat thing about this award is that we get to share a little bit about ourselves that many of you may not know.

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your hair? straight
3. Your mother? wonderful
4. Your father? strong
5. Your fave food?  dark chocolate
6. Your dream last night? none
7. Your fave drink? ice tea
8. Your dream/goal? health and happiness forever
9. What room are you in? stamp room
10. Your hobby? stamping
11. Your fear? tight spaces
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? right here
13. Where you were last night? home
14. Something that you aren’t? skinny
15. Muffins? banana nut
16. Wish List Item? stamps and more copics
17. Where did you grow up? northern califorina
18. Last thing you did? went to Michaels
19. What are you wearing? jammies
20. Your TV? off
21. Your Pets? beagle "Belle"
22. Friends? awesome
23. Your Life? happy
24. Your Mood? sleepy
25. Missing Someone? my mom
26. Vehicle? chevy pickup
27. Something your not wearing? perfume
28. Your fave store? Gina K Designs
29. Your fave color? blue
30. Last time you laughed? a few minutes ago
31. Last time you cried? can't remember
32. Your best friend? My husband
33. One place that I go to over and over? work
34. One person who emails regularly? again work
35. Fave place to eat? Mazotti's
36. Facebook?  yes

Now here is where I am a bad blogger again, I am suppose to pass each of these onto five people.  The problem is I keep up with nearly 300 blogs and I would not be able to pick only five, so I am going to pass this along to all of my fabulous readers with out you all I wouldn't be doing this, Thank you.

Merry Treats

A quick post to show this little pillow box I made for Gina's technique challenge this week on StampTV.  The challenge was to create a candy gift.  The only requirement was it had to incorporate some type of stamping or papercrafting.  This was super easy I just stamped one of the sentiments from  Holiday greetings. I layered that with rocket red and all spruced up then I wrapped the shear red ribbon around it.  All of the supplies are included in the Holiday Cheer StampTV kit from Gina K Designs. The hard part of this was staying out of the the peanut butter M and M's.  Have you tried peanut butter M and M's, they are so good.  Thank you for stopping by.

Some exciting news!!!

I don't have a card to share today, but I have some exciting news to share! Way back on July 1st I got an email asking me to be a guest designer for the month of September for a new challenge blog called Pile It On, of course I said YES!! You can read the announcement here and for those of you who have been dying to see my chubby face(LOL) there is a photo of me.

If you have been coming to my blog for very long you already know that I love challenges and even more that plain old challenges I love to combine them. Well, that is what Pile It On is all about, they have a weekly challenge and with that you are to include at least one other challenge. I will be posting my first card tomorrow. Now I am off to stock the mailman I think my Gina K Designs order will be here today! Thanks for stopping by.

Easter Candies

I am making these little boxes of candy for Easter gifts this year. I am also entering it in a challenge that Donna Baker has on StampTV to make a 3-D project. I use Floral Frenzy from Gina K Designs. Now I just need to stay out of the candy. Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

I am alive and well......

Hello everyone, I am home from my knee surgery and trying to get caught up on all the wonderful cards that you all have posted. I am doing well, but can't get around to well. I hope to get back to making cards and posting here very soon, as I have a ton of thank you cards to make.

So if you haven't heard Melanie has some fabulous candy on her blog, but hurry it ends Wednesday night. Good luck

Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

Pepperment Spiders

I Have been seeing these spiders and of course I had to make some of these too.
Thank you for stopping by.
I hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween.
Brenda

Frankie and Frannie

Well I have been loving every bodies Frankie's and had to make some for a couple of special kids that come by my house and of course my son and his girlfriend. they maybe 17 and 18 but they will just love them. I named Frankie's girlfriend Frannie. I had a blast making them. They are boxes that I will fill with candies for them. Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

Blog candy Alert

Irina is offering some sweet Halloween blog candy. So hurry on over and enter to win. Good Luck to you all.
Brenda

Twilight Bookmark

Wow this is my second post today.

I made this bookmark for My sons girlfriend, we are all huge fans of the Twilight series. We also favor Edward. This was super fast to make, first I stamped the images. Next I colored the images with Koh-I-Noor pencils and then blended them with OMS. I think the whole thing took about ten minutes. Sorry for the picture, I didn't make sure I had a good one before I gave it away. By the way she loved it. Thanks for looking.
Brenda

Sweet Treat

I made this ice cream card for today's sketch challenge on SCS (sc188). My mom came up with this idea for an ice cream cone a few months back. I liked and so did my sister. My sister Theresa from Crafting The Web wrote a tutorial for the ice cream here. Thanks for looking.
Brenda

Look at my new Unity stamps!!!!!!!!!

I am so happy I won this set from Unity Stamp Company last Thursday, and it got here yesterday. That was so fast. This is my second Unity set, and I can't wait to get some ink to them. I am very impressed with how big they are. So if you haven't checked out Unity yet head over and see what they have to offer. For me I have two set that are going to be on my next order Tiny Trinity and Giggle Grove. I would like to extend a huge thank you to Angela for having such an awesome stamp company and for my new stamps. Thanks for looking.

Brenda