Good Morning!

who's excited about Christmas? I know my grand children are!

We at Party Time Tuesdays want to wish all of you a very very merry Christmas!

and what better way to celebrate than a color challenge!

  

We want to see your cards and projects in Red, Gold and Green!

Here's mine!

  

Card Recpe:
Papers: Webster's Digi Papers, Waiting for Santa, Recollections red card stock
Ink: Versafine black onyx
Stamps: Justrite
dies and punches: Spellbinders Holly motifs, circles large, classic ric rac, Martha Stewart winter branch punch, and Memory box elegant scroll work
ribbon and berries: Michaels.

Here's a close up of my focal point!

  

I hope you have a lovely Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Run right over to Party Time Tuesdays   and link up your red, gold and green project for a chance to win!

Dear Santa!

Good afternoon!  I hope all my Jewish friends had a lovely Hanukkah,,,,,and I hope all my Christian friends are busily preparing for Christmas!

It's coming so fast, and I am SO far behind this year! Thanks, of course, to the flare I had in November that struck me down and out for nearly a month.

I did manage to get some Christmas cards made for my grand children :)  They look forward to them every year, and keep them year to year, so I couldn't disappoint.

Card recipe at the end :)

  

Isn't she darling? I couldn't help but use some stickles to really make her shine :) My six year old DGD will love her.

  

And I think my grandson will love this little guy!!!!

Here's a close up of the darling Bugaboo images!

  

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas (Or Hanukkah) season! May God bless you all,,,,hold your babes and grandbabies a bit closer this season, and be thankful you can.

Card Recpe:
Paper: scraps, mostly Recollections Christmas stack
Ink: Copics and computer generated  ink. Versafine for the sentiments
Stamps: Bugaboo digi images, 1$ bin sentiments, Crafty Secrets Dec 25 cancel
Dies and punches:2010 snowflake, 2010 ornament, layered poinsettia, MS winter branch punch
Stickles: Diamond and Candy Cane
ribbon and pearls: Michaels

I'd like to enter these into the Bugaboo Bingo Challenge   

  

I've made Bingo along the bottom,,,,,,,pearl, Bugaboo image and sentiment. I've also Bngo'd the second line up, LOL, Flower, red and green and ribbon.

Have a wonderful day, and thanks for looking!!!!

Party Time Tuesday!

Good Morning!!!

If you're seeing this, I finally fixed my computer! (fingers crossed!! but I do think it's fixed!)

It's Tuesday and time again for Party Time Tuesdays,,,,,,,,this week's amazing challenge is Kids Christmas cards, and I have a darling card using Flonz stamps for my contribution!

Isn't she darling??? I double stamped the image, once on white card stock, and once on patterned paper, and cut the dress out of the patterned paper, adhering it to the white card stock,,,,,,,the rest of the image, I colored with copics. she looks like she just saw Santa come down the chimney and she can't WAIT to empty her stocking!

Paper: MME Christmas pack
Ink: copics and Onyx Black
Dies: 2010 spellbinders snowflake, spellbinders scalloped ovals, Memory Box Crystal Snowflake
stamps: Flonz. I highly recommend them, they stamp BEAUTIFULLY!
bow and jingle bell: Hobby Lobby

I hope you run right over to Party Time Tuesdays and load up your darling kid's Christmas card and join us for this fun challenge!

Now, on to something more serious,,,I've had some pretty painful arthritis issues for several months that have really interfered with my life,,,,,,,I've found that keeping up with Design Teams, all the commenting that requires, and my home life has simply been impossible. I'm doing better on new medication this week,,,,,,,,but still,,,,,,I miss crafting just for the fun of crafting,,,,,

and so,,,,,,,I've given up both my design team posts with Party Time Tuesdays and Sugar Creek Hollow. I dropped SCH several weeks ago,,,,,,,,and Party Time Tuesdays will be up at the end of the month.

I've truly enjoyed both these amazing experiences,,,,,,,,,but for the good of the teams and for my own good, I've simply come to the end of my rope, health wise. It's time to step back and get my health in order,,,,,,,and enjoy my crafting again.

I hope to be able to post some fun stuff regularly,,,,,,,,but I will no longer be posting for either of these amazing design teams.

as they say,,,,,,,,I'll see you on the flip side!!!!!

and Happy Hanukkah to all my Jewish friends!!!!!!!

Party Time Tuesday!!!!

Good Morning,,,,,,it's Tuesday again, and it's time for our Party Time Tuesday challenge!

This week, our challenge is HALLOWEEN! We want to see your Halloween themed cards and projects this week!

Our fantastic sponsors this week are The Robins Nest (who provided the gorgeous papers and die cuts and other yummy embellies), DTS Arts, Digital Delights, and Stitchy Bear (who provided this darling image),

Here's my card!!

Card Recipe:

Paper and sparkly die cuts: The Robin's Nest
spider rub on: The Robin's Nest
Ink: copics
Ribbon: Michaels
Stamp: Stitchy Bear

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking!

Party Time Tuesdays is doing a DESIGN TEAM CALL!!!!!! All interested parties, please CLICK HERE!  The call will remain open until November 16th!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!!

Good Morning!!!! It's Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday, and today we have another great challenge for you! We want to see your vintage and shabby chic cards and projects with sparkle, glam and bling!!! Glitter, gem stones, whatever sparkle you want to use!

Here's mine!!!!  I've used this image before, and I just love it for Christmas cards,,,,looks so cute peeking out from my nesting mittens dies!

Card recipe:

Paper: K and Company
stamps: Just Rite Happy Everything Kit
Dies: Spellbinders nested mittens, ovals large, foliage, Rose Creations (for the pine cones), Ironwork motif
bling, lace, buttons: my stash
glitter: Martha Stewart


I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking!!!!!!! Now run right over to Sugar Creek Hollow and join the fun this week!!!!!!

It's WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!!!!

I hope you all get some fun time today to make some cards!!!!!!!  I know I plan to!!!!!

And over at Party Time Tuesdays we;re having a blog hop for World Card Making Day!!

WOO HOO, Love blog hops!  Know what else I love?????? SATURATED CANARY!!!!!!!

Krista has been so generous and allowed us all to choose an image,,,,,,,,and it was NOT easy, I tell you,,,,,,,,,all her images are adorable!!!!!!

Here's my card!

She's called "Multi Tasking Momma" and she's DARLING!!!!!!!

I had so much fun with this image, and made a joy fold card!

Here's the inside,,,,,,,,,for a friend of mine who is recently FINISHED raising children LOL,,,life is good!

Hope you have an amazing World Cardmaking Day and a wonderful weekend!!!!!!! And do join our blog hop!!!!!! You'll have fun and you may win a prize!!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!!!

It's Saturday (In addition to being World Card Making Day), and it's time for Sugar Creek Hollow,,,,,,

This week our fabulous theme is to "Use Fall Colors" on your vintage or shabby chic card or project,,,,,,,,

Here's mine!!!!!!!

I used an old vintage calling card onto which I stamped a Justrite Giving Thanks Nested Sentiment stamp,,,,,,a bit of punching, some Cottage Cutz Filigree Fall Leaves dies, a big ol' sheer bow and a fancy button and it's festive and pretty!!!! I think I will make some seat place cards with this image!!!!

So pop on over to Sugar Creek Hollow if you have it in you to make some cards on this most auspicious day and see what the DT has to show you and then get working on your Fall Colors project!!!!!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have an amazing weekend and a wonderful World Card Making Day!

Party Time Tuesdays!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!!!! It's Party Time Tuesdays Tuesday again!!!!!!! And we have an exciting challenge that fits in so well with the brand new month of October!!!!!

We want to see your "Frightfully Scary" cards and projects this week!!!! How much fun does that sound like!!!!

OUr amazing sponsors this week are Flonz Stamps, The Paper Shelter, The Robin's Nest and Elisabeth Bell!!!!

Here's my card, using this adorable image from Elisabeth Bell!

I tell you what,,,,,,this image is just too adorable to be "scary", so I tried to "goth" her out a bit using shades of grey and black with just a pop of Autumn color!

Card Recipe:
Paper:Robin's Nest
Dies:Cottage Cutz Filigree Fall Leaves/Spellbinders Nested Pumpkins/Memory Box Wrought Iron Gate
Stamps:Elisabeth Bell digi image/Justrite Stamps Nature's Nested Sentiments
Inks:copics/Versafine Onyx Black
ribbon: my stash

I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,thanks for looking, and be sure to run over to Party Time Tuesdays and check out our fabulous sponsors and the wonderful inspiration from the Design Team!!!!

Crafty Grandma To The Rescue!!!!!!

So if any of you have grand children, the one thing you all know is that they have but to tear up and whatever they want is theirs.  My youngest grandchild, Angie, is almost six,,,,,,she's in Kindergarten, and according to her,,,,,,,,,EVERYONE has boutique bows in school. The most IMPORTANT everyone (Her best friend, Riley) has them, and therefore,,,,,,,,she needs them. And of course, my DD chimes in that she bets GRANDMA can make them,,,,,,

Never mind that I've never made a boutique bow in my LIFE,,,,,,never mind that my first try isn't perfect,,,,,,,my granddaughter is happy,,,,,,,,,,,she loves them, and that's all that matters.

Just a little something different than another card for this weekend!!!!!!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed the bows!!!! There are a ton of tutorials on You-tube, if you're interested in making some of these,,,but this is the one I used,,,,,it's relatively simple,,,,but it DOES take some practice :)

Bow Tutorial.

Have a fantastic weekend!!!!!

SUGAR CREEK HOLLOW SATURDAY!!!!!

Good Morning!! It's Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday and this week over at SCH we have a really fun challenge for you!!!!  THINGS WITH WINGS!!! We want to see your vintage and shabby chic cards and projects with birds, butterflies, ANYTHING with wings!!!!!!

Here's mine!

I found this vintage image of a bird hiding in a rose bush online and thought it was just perfect,,,

Here's a close up of my bird!

Card REcipe:

Paper: Pink Paislee and MME
Stamps: none. yeah. can you believe it?
Image:online freebie
dies: spellbinders foliage and spiral blossoms 1 (cut from coffee filters)/Cottage Cutz Tea Time Doily
Punches:old EK success 6 petal punch (small blue flowers)
ribbon and pearls: Joanns and Michaels.

I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,,thanks for looking, and I hope you join us this week at Sugar Creek Hollow!

Party Time Tuesdays!!!!!

Good Tuesday Morning!!!!!!  It's time for Party Time Tuesdays weekly challenge!!! I know you love it,,,,,,and this is our monthly ANYTHING GOES challenge!!!! So anything your heart desires! Just please remember that during our Anything Goes Challenge, we have SO many entries, it's simply impossible for us to comment! We love to see your entries, but to be fair to all, we simply don't comment during this challenge! But know we are looking!!!!

Since it was Anything Goes, I decided to go a bit differently than normal!  I made these really darling candy bags for my grand children and youngest daughter (who thought they were so cute she had to have one!)

I colored these darling scare crows with copics, and fussy cut them out, inking the edges of the moon for effect.I used a 5.5 x11 inch piece of kraft card stock and simply scored at 4.5 and 6x5 folding up both ends,,,,,,,the food grade polystyrene bags full of candy just slip down inside and I stapled the top together (with the bag in there) to hold the bag in,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Fancy pants paper on the front, and then I cut some more fancy pants paper out of my Grand labels 23 nesties to fold over the top,,,,,,,,,I decorated with nested pumpkins and fancy pants stickers,,,,,,,,,and she's done!

Here's a close up of the side, where you can see the candies,,,,,,

Click on any of the pictures to see a larger version,,,,,,,,

Project Recipe:
Papers: Fancy Pants and Recollections Kraft paper
Stamps: the Stamping Boutique
Dies: Nested Pumpkins and Grand Labels 23
inks: copics and Ranger Archival Black
Stickers: Fancy Pants

Our fabulous sponsors this week are Fancy Pants, the Stamping Boutique, Digital Delights, Crafty Sentiments and Crafty Ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed this easy peasy project and thanks for looking!! I so appreciate your comments! Now run on over to Party Time Tuesdays and load up YOUR anything goes project or card!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!

Good Morning!!!!! We have a really fun challenge for you over at Sugar Creek Hollow this week!!! We want to see your vintage animals or animal scenes on your cards and projects!!!! How fun is that?

Here's the card I made for the challenge!

I found this vintage image of Mary and her little Lamb on line, printed it and used it for my focal point!!!!

I really love how my flowers came out!!!!! Here's a close up, all sugary and glittery!

I cut the flowers out of coffee filters with spiral blossoms 1, the white one I left natural, the pink one I inked with pink ink and the brown one I colored with a copic before rolling,,,,,,,some Martha Stewart glitter glue and a sprinkle of chunky glitter, and they really sparkle!!!!!  I think it will be so perfect for my daughter!!! she so loves my cards, so this one is getting ready to be sitting on her desk waiting for her when she comes home this weekend!!!!

Card Recipe: (I am really liking this method of the recipe at the bottom)

Paper:Authentique Essentials 6x6 pad and Recollections Kraft paper
Dies: cottage cutz tea time doily/spellbinders spiral blossoms 1/Memory box Elegnt Scrollwork and Open leaf Loreli dies
Stamps:Justrite Just the right words set
Ink: Versafine vintage sepia/unknown pink dollar spot ink
pearls and ribbon: my stash. (Joanns and Michaels)

I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,thanks for looking, and run right over to Sugar Creek Hollow and link up YOUR vintage or shabby chic animal card for a chance to win!!!!

I love CHALLENGES!!

Good Morning!!  I love challenges,,don't you? They are fun, you might win a prize, AND they often push you to make something you wouldn't ordinarily,,,,,

sometimes what you make turns out to be a new favorite!!  As it was with this card I made today!

Here's my card!!!

This card just turned into something that I just LOVE. I don't know why! I think it's because I totally LOVE shabby chic,,,,,,,,and I'm not that great at the style,,,,,but this is probably the best shabby chic card I've ever done,,,,,,YAY!

Here's a close up of those gorgeous stamps, and that stunning doily die cuts and I'm VERY happy with how nicely my flowers came out!

AND yet another close up from a different angle!

I'll be entering this into the following challenges,,,,,,,

Justrite Friday Challenge,,,Be Supportive!
and the Shabby Tea Room where we were to use this photo for inspiration AND use flowers!

I hope my friend, that has been going through a lot lately, really likes this card!

Card Recipe:

Papers:Pink Paislee London Market
dies:cottage cutz tea time doily/Memory box elegant scrollwork/spellbinders spiral blossoms 1, spellbinders foliage
punches: Martha Stewart winter branch punch and butterfly punch
Stamps: Justrite Stampers "Just the right words" set
Inks: Momento angel pink and new sprout/Versafine Onyx Black
ribbons and pearls: my stash

Thanks for looking!!!!!!  Sugar Creek Hollow is up tomorrow!!!! I so appreciate your comments!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!!!

My Sweet Mother-in-law

I often hear jokes about mothers in law,,,,,,,most of them are funny,,,,,,but usually represent mothers in law who are less than desirable LOL. I am happy to report that I have been married to my mother in law's son for 29 years,,,and I've never had occasion to regret having her for a mother in law!  She's a wonderful woman, and extremely generous.

She was especially so this month and did something very nice for my husband and I,,,,,,,,and so, of course, I had to make a thank you card,,,,,,

Here it is!

Card Recipe:
Papers: Fancy Pants
Stamps: vintage digi image from my stash/Justrite Just the Right Words Set
Inks: Versafine Onyx Black
Dies: Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, Eyelet Pendants/MFT mini rolled roses/Memory Box Lorelai Outline leaf, elegant scrollwork, iron gate
Pearls, ribbon, corner piece: my stash

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking,,,,,,,,,,,

Party Time Tuesdays!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!!! It's Tuesday, and it's time for our new challenge over at Party Time Tuesdays!

We have another color challenge for you this week!! Here's your color inspiration photo!

And here's my card!!!!!!!

Our fab sponsors this week are My Favorite Things, Sassy Pants, and Fancy Pants, who provided the wonderful papers for us to make our cards with this week!!!!!  My darling image was provided so generously by Sassy Studios,,,,,,,,and she's been colored with copics.

I've used Romantic Rectangles and Memory box elegant scrollwork for dies,,,,,,,

I hope you enjoyed the card, and my apologies for posting this late,,I've had SEVERE blogger problems all week, and haven't been able to post anything at ALL for days now!

Have a great week, and thanks for looking!!!!!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!

Due to blogger problems,,,,,,my post is VERY late. My apologies!!!!

This week over at Sugar Creek Hollow, we have a fun challenge for you!!!!! Our theme this week is PRETTY IN PINK!!!!! we want to see your vintage or shabby chic PINK cards!!!!

How much more fun could it be???? Who doesn't love PINK????

Here's mine!

and a close up of this darling image, so perfect for a friend!!

Stamps are Justrite, and I've used Labels 18 and romantic rectangles here!!!! A bit of lace and a sweet bow, a couple pearls and she's finished!

I hope you enjoyed the LATE card,,,,,,and I hope you join us at Sugar Creek Hollow for a fun challenge!

building up stash,,,,,,,

Good Afternoon!!!!!

Sometimes you just gotta build up your stash!!!!  Time for a few more for the "sell" Pile,,,,,it's getting low!

So today, I just thought I'd share some cards that go into my sell pile,,,,,,most of the time I'm sharing cards that are DT cards, or challenge cards,,,,,those have requirements, a theme to follow or a stamp to use specifically. Sometimes the "sell" cards are a lot more fun because I can use what I want, mix my stamps sets if I feel like it or put as many (or as few) embellishments on as I want to!

Card Recipe:
Papers: MME Lost and Found Sunshine
Image: vintage freebie
Stamps: Justrite "Just the right words"
dies: spellbinders picot edge circles, circles large, foliage / MFT vintage flourish/Memory Box Lorelai Open Leaf
Gems: Recollections

My second card added to my pile is this one!

Card Recipe
Papers: MME Lost and Found Sunshine/ Authentique scraps
Image: vintage freebie colored with copics
dies: Spellbinders Floral Ovals, Ovals large, Banner Basics 2/ Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork
Gems and Pearls: Recollections

So, just a quick post to share a couple cards,,,,,,,,,,the kind I do just for fun,,,,,,,,and to say have a lovely weekend!  My Sugar Creek Hollow Post is up tomorrow,,,,,,,and we are off to Disney World for the afternoon,,,,,,,,,,,,,counting down to next sunday when we go for THREE DAYS!!!!!!! WHEEE! Can't wait!

Bonjour!!!

Good Afternoon!!!!  I've always been fascinated with anything French,,,,,,I took 8 years of it in school, and I've been a travel agent and had the opportunity to go many times,,and I am totally in love with Paris!! And I was lucky enough to win the grand prize at Simon Says Stamp this past week and win 50.00 worth of goodies! I scored some Paris themed Just Rite stamps and SEVERAL Memory Box dies,,,,,,love them!

Today the mail came and I just had so much fun playing with stamps and dies!!!!  I knew I wanted to do another entry for the Justrite Friday Challenge, "Charm Me" so off I went to play with my new Justrite stamps, Au Revoir.

Here's what I came up with!

I created a little collage with several of the stamps in the set and added a pop of color with some red ink,,,,,,,,the dies I used for this card are spellbinders postage stamps and Romantic rectangles, and Memory box Lorelai Outline Leaf, Elegant Scrollwork, and Wrought Iron Gate.  I added a heart charm to a sheer black bow, and finished off with two stick pins and a sparkly button.

Here's a close up of the stamps and the bow cluster, including the heart charm,,,,,,

The inks I used to stamp with are ColorBox Cranberry, and Versafine Onyx Black and Vintage Sepia.

Thanks for  looking, and I hope you enjoyed the card!!!!

More than one fold!!!

Good Morning!!!!! It's Tuesday, and today we have a fun challenge for you over at Party Time Tuesdays!

We want to see your multi fold cards!!!!!! they must have more than one fold!

Our fantastic sponsors for the week are Flonz stamps, Michelle's scrapbooking and More, The Crafty Pad Designs, and Fancy Pants Designs!!!!!

Here's my Z-fold card,,,,,

Paper and die cut are of course, Fancy Pants! Isn't that paper gorgeous??

The gorgeous butterflies are a digi stamp by The crafty Pad Designs,,,,,,I colored them with copics ad fussy cut them out, bending up the wings so that there would be a 3-D effect,,,,,,,a 4 tailed bow, some pearls and velvet ribbon, and she's bright and happy and ready to brighten the day of anyone!

Here's the Z fold,,,,

I love a Z fold, because there's PLENTY of room inside to write a special note!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by,,,,,,,,,,head on over to PTT and upload your multi-fold card for a chance to win!!!

JustRite challenge!!!!

Good afternoon!!!!! So it's time for another Justrite challenge! This 2 weeks, they want to see CHARMS on your card.  Well, I love charms!!!!! I love them so much, I wouldn't be surprised if you see more than one entry for this challenge LOL!

I'm still on a Christmas card kick, gotta get them finished before the crazy busy time of the year comes rolling around!

I used some MME scraps, Banner Basics Two, Nested Mittens, my Justrite Nested dies, and, of course, my Justrite stamps to create this simple, yet elegant card,,,,,,

I created a simple 4 tailed bow out of glitter ribbon and a few simple stick pins,,,,,,,,The snow flake charm I wanted to use was silver,,,,,,and I thought gold so much prettier for this card, so I just colored the silver snowflake with a gold copic pen, and VOILA! a gold snowflake!!!  A bit of sparkle with some gemstones,,,,,,,,and I really like it!!!!!

Here's a close up of the charm, ribbon and stick pin cluster :)

I'm also entering this into the scrapbook.com challenge "make a christmas card with scraps" and the Our Daily Bread challenge "use a bird on your card"

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thank you so much for looking and for your comments! They are greatly appreciated!!!!!

Happy birthday, Grandson!!!!!

Good afternoon!!!!  In a few days, one of my grand sons will be eleven. So, of course, off I went to make a birthday card,,,,,,,,,he's receiving a video game system from his father and my daughter (His step mother), so I thought this paper from DCWV (Generation Tech stack) and this image from Mo Manning (Video Boy, African American version) would be perfect,,,,,,,The image is perfect for African American boys and also Hispanic boys like my grand son,,,,,,,,and probably even curly haired white children,,,,,,it's really an adorable image,,,,,,,,,there are also female versions and straight haired versions available!

Here's my card!

And here's a close up of this really darling image, which I've colored with copics and cut out and matted with Labels One.

I've used my Justrite fonts to add my text-speak/computer-speak "Happy Birthday to You" sentiment,,,,,,Kids,,,,,,they speak a different language these days LOL.

Anyway, Happy Birthday, Angel,,,,,,,Grandma loves you!  And thank you all for looking,,I hope you liked the card :)