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!!!!

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!!!

Party Time Tuesdays!

Good Morning!  September has started and the kiddos are back to school! I heard the sound of mother's sighing all over my neighborhood this past week or two LOL.  And over at Party Time Tuesdays this week, we have a fab challenge for you! We want to see Teacher's Gifts/Back to school cards and projects!  Flonz Stamps will be sponsoring us this month, so stay tuned to see the fab projects and cards our DT will be turning out all month! 

This week, however, I have a teacher's book mark made with Stitchy Bear Stamps!

I colored this darling image with copics and fussy cut it,,,,,I then matted it on red card stock cut out with my new Floral Ovals.  The book mark itself was cut from chipboard with long scalloped rectangles and covered with red card stock,,,,,,I then cut the MME  Lost and Found Christmas design paper from long rectangles. A pretty red polka dot ribbon and it's bright, pretty and simple for my grand daughter's teacher!

So come on over to Party Time Tuesdays and check out the DT's inspiration that we have prepared for you, see some gorgeous stamps and digis, and load up your card or project! You might win a prize!

Thanks for looking,,,,,,,I do hope you enjoyed the project! And I so appreciate all your comments,,,,,they mean the world to me :)

ANYTHING GOES!!!!!!

Yep, that's right! It's the last week of the month,and over at Party Time Tuesdays, that means our challenge is ANYTHING GOES!  Make anything your little heart desires!  Just please remember, that we do not comment the last week of the month due to the TREMENDOUS response...we love to see your stuff, but we simply can not comment due to the volume!

Our generous sponsors this week are,,,,,,,,,

Martha Pineda (supplying this gorgeous lace), Crafty Sentiments (supplying this adorable digi stamp), The Digi Garden and Viva Decor!!!!!

Here's my creation!

I colored the image with copics and cut it out with Ovals Large,,,,,and then matted it with Lacey ovals and Parisian Motifs,,,I used scraps of Webster's Pages for this bright red,blue and a touch of yellow card,,,,and really had fun with the buttons this week!  I adhered the Martha Pineda lace with hot glue after ruffling it,,,,,it looks SO fluffy in real life,,,,,,just gorgeous!

Here's a close up image of this darling stamp!

She TOTALLY looks like she's ready to go somewhere fun and exciting!




I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking! Run right over to Party Time Tuesdays to load up YOUR anything goes project!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas in July!!!!!  It's Tuesday, and time for our Party Time Tuesdays challenge! And this week, we at PTT are celebrating Christmas a bit early!  We want to see your Christmas cards and projects this week!


Our Amazing sponsors this week are,,,,,,,,,,

Martha Pineda, Digi Delights, The Digi Garden and Viva Decor!  So thanks to all our generous and amazing sponsors!

I had such FUN with this week's challenge, and I hope you do too! This is the time of year I start with my Christmas cards and projects because I am just WAY too busy in November! (I've started my holiday shopping as well!)  And I just LOVED this little project!

I cut the mitten shape twice out of red felt with spellbinders Nested Mittens using the largest mitten. I glued the mittens together with hot glue to create a pocket,,,,,,some lace, another felt snowflake (spellbinders 2010 snow flakes), some pearls,,,,,,,and a cinnamon stick wrapped with a bow stuck in the pocket really created a festive mood.  Then using some red and white baker's twine from Martha Pineda, I braided a hanger which I glued inside the mitten,,,,,,,,I colored the Digi Garden's adorable snowman and accessories image with copics and cut them out for the final finishing touch to this adorable ornament.  It will hang on my tree and smell SO GOOD with the cinnamon stick!

Here's a close up of the Digi Garden image!

I hope you join us this week for our Christmas in July Challenge over at PTT, and I hope we've inspired you to get your Christmas projects and cards started!  Happy Christmas in  July!

Color Inspiration Challenge!!!!

Good Morning!!!! Today over at Party Time Tuesdays, we have a fabulous challenge for you! Another color inspiration challenge!!

Here's your color inspiration!

I love this week's color inspiration because normally,,,,,,yellow is just not my color! But this week's challenge got me out of my comfort zone and I am really THRILLED with the way my tag turned out! Yep, I did a tag rather than a card. Thought I'd shake things up a bit LOL.

And here's my tag!

This week's fabulous sponsors are Viva Decor, Martha Pineda (who supplied the gorgeous lace and white ribbon), the Stamping Boutique and the Digi Garden, who provided stamps for our Design Team to work with,,,,,,,,My adorable stamp was provided by the Digi Garden, and it's called "On a Wing and a Prayer",,,,,,,,how cute is that?

I colored him with prismacolors and baby oil (which is quickly becoming a favorite of mine) and layered him over scrap paper in shades of yellow and white,,,,,I threaded a narrow white ribbon through the lace and pulled it to ruffle it and then layered it across the bottom and added 2 butterfly bows in yellow and white, two prima flowers and a stick pin,,,,,,I just love how bright and cheerful it looks!!! It's going on a gift for a dear friend who's had a serious injury, and I am sure she'll love the darling image and bright cheery colors :)

Here's a close up of this really adorable image,,,,,

I hope you liked the tag,,,,,,,now run right over to Party Time Tuesdays and upload your yellow card! Maybe you'll win a prize!

Party Time Tuesdays Challenge 63!

Good Morning! It's Tuesday and one of my favorite days of the week! It's time to see what Party Time Tuesdays has in store for a challenge for us,,,,,,,,

and it's a good one this time! WATER! We want to see your WATER themed projects!

Our fabulous sponsor this whole month is Bugaboo Stamps and DTS Arts! They so generously provided the images that the DT turned into fabulous cards and projects!

Without further ado, here's my card, with an image by Bugaboo,,,,,,,,,,and papers by 3 Bugs in a Rug, our sponsor for this week!

I just love this darling image,,,,,,,,,the papers were so bright and cheery too, that I did the whole thing in shades of orange with aqua, green and blue as points of color.  I colored the image with copics, and cut it out with Ovals large,,,,,,,then matted that with Lacey ovals,,,,,and added a decorative element with spellbinders Ironwork Motifs.

A bow, a sentiment stamp, and she's all finished!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking! Run right over to Party Time Tuesdays to upload your water themed card or paper project!

PTT 58!! At the End of the Rainbow!!!!

Happy Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Tuesdays,,,,,it's the day PTT comes out with their newest challenge,,,,and the day I get to see all the cards my team mates have created!

This week's theme is At the End of the Rainbow!!!! and we wanna see glitter,,,sparkle,,,,,,,,bling,,,,,,,,,gold,,,silver,,,,,,,,,ANYTHING that sparkles!!!!!

And for this week, we have the PERFECT sponsors! Robin's Nest Products supplied us with GORGEOUS paper and blingy dew drops! A Day for Daisies and Spesch Stamps provided us with images to create our gorgeous BLINGYYYYY cards!

And here's mine!!! Isn't that paper gorgeous???? It's SO glittery and sparkly!!!! I just couldn't resist it! I even made the flowers out of it! The dew drops sparkle so pretty on the Cinderella coach and inside the black and pink flower as the center!! And how PERFECT is this darling Cinderella coach from A Day for Daisies???? It's all ready for blinging up!!!! I colored it with copics and highlighted it with gold stickles and dew drops! And I've added a gold metallic quad bow, and heat embossed the rose leaf with gold embossing powder,,,, a blingy stick pin and a computer generated sentiment (You'll always be our princess!) complete the card.  So pretty! I've put this card away for the perfect card to give my daughter the next time I need one! And I know she'll love it!!!!!

Here's a close up of all the bling on my image!

So pop on over to Party Time Tuesdays and get your blingy card linked up!!!!!! We hope to see you soon!

PTT 54! Valentines Day!

Good Morning!!!!!

It's Tuesday, and that means it's time to Party with the Party Planners at Party Time Tuesdays! This week we're celebrating Valentines Day! I can't believe it's so close,,,,,,,,I swear, just yesterday it was Halloween!

Our month long sponsors who are so generous this month are ZVA Creatives, who supplied bling and flowers for the Party Planners,,,,,,,,,,,and I-Copic who is supplying a prize! So hop on over to PTT (link above) and get some valentines cards done up,,,,,,you might win a prize!!!!! (Please remember to follow the theme and to post our badge on your side bar to be eligible!)

Our weekly sponsors this week are Wee Stamps who provided this adorable little image and the Digi Doodles Shop! Thanks to all our generous sponsors!

I've used this image from Wee Stamps, colored it in copics and cut it out with Spellbinders Circles Large,,,,,and then matted on Eyelet Circles. I've used K and Company paper on this card, and it's GORGEOUS,,,,so shiny and sparkly! It goes PERFECTLY with the sparkly bling from ZVA which I've used as the center of the largest flower and as the stems and leaves. So pretty!

The largest two flowers I have hand made from Spellbinders Rose Creations, using white water color paper,,,,,I've then shaped the flowers with a stylus and then used pink glimmer mist to tip the flowers with,,,,,it's so shimmery and makes a lovely two toned flower! I've then tipped the edges with glitter,,,,,these flowers really sparkle!

The smaller flowers and the leaves are from ZVA Creatives,,,,,,,so cute! A computer generated sentiment made with my Just Rite Happy Everything tag kit, and she's done!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thank you so much for looking!!!!

Party Time Tuesdays challenge 53!

Oh my goodness, can you believe it's the end of the month ALREADY?? where does time go? I've been a party planner at PTT for a full month now, and I've been enjoying every single minute of it! I tell you what, these girls are just so AWESOME to work with!

The challenge this week is ANYTHING GOES!!!!!!!!! WOOT! Anything at all! the sky is the limit! So I've chosen to do a Valentines Day card because it's coming up fast, and I wanted really special cards for my loved ones this year.

We've been sponsored by the stupendous "There She Goes Stamps". And they were generous with each of us and gave us our choice of mini stamp set. I chose this darling set called "sending my love". And isn't it the cutest? I love these stamps! They ink evenly, the impression is wonderful, and they were TOTALLY fun to play with!



Here's a close up of the image:

I stamped my main image with black ink on white card stock and colored  it with copics. I added a few extra hearts that are included in the set, and the sentiment and cut it out with eyelet circles. My paper is MME and Recollections.  I've created three rolled roses. The larger two were cut free hand, but the smallest was cut with a MFT rolled rose die. I glittered them heavily and popped a pearl in the center of each..  I stamped the small XOXO (also included in the set) on a smaller eyelet circle and tucked it under the paper layers. Tons of bling and a pretty red and gold butterfly bow pretty much finished her up :)

I was so lucky to be asked to do a second card this week, and was able to use the adorable stamps of  Crafty Sentiments!!!! Since I really NEED valentines cards, I opted to make another,,,,,,,,

I colored this darling girl with copics, and then cut her out with Ovals large,,,,,,,layering on top of Lacey Ovals,,,,,,,,the flowers were both made by hand with my Rose Creations dies, inked and shaped using a stylus. The foliage is spellbinders foliage die. The paper I've used here is MORE of my favorite,,MME Lost and Found. And finally, I've created a bow on a peg bow maker out of tulle. A bit of ric rak, some blingy centers for the flowers,,,,,,,and she's all done!


I do hope you enjoyed,,,,,,,,,and I hope you stop by Party Time Tuesdays to see what the rest of the design team has for inspiration today! Thanks again for coming by, and I hope you enjoyed the card!

Party Time Tuesdays Challenge 52!

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! It's time to party! Today over at PTT for challenge 52, they have a photo inspiration for us! Isn't this GORGEOUS? It almost makes me want to brave the snow!

I took my inspiration from the more subtle of the blues, the snow and the towering pines, and the touch of almost SILVERY white.

We're being sponsored this week by the amazing Paper Pretties and the equally fantastic Digital Delights. I've colored this adorable snowman Breezy by Paper Pretties with copics, and cut him out with Labels 3. I've matted labels 3 on top of Labels 18. My paper is MME "O' Christmas Tree". I've cut a snowflake with a sizzix die, heavily glittered the tips and added a small snowflake charm to the center. A double bow of white organdy and silver metallic, and one of my fav stamps from Justrite and she's DONE.

Here's a close up of this adorable stamp!

I hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by. Now RUN, do not walk over to Party Time Tuesdays and join in the fun! You might win a prize!

Party Time Tuesdays Challenge 50!

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is staying warm! It's been chillier than normal over night here in Florida, although not nearly cold enough to have snow!

Today I have a card for PTT challenge number 50! It's time to PAR-TAY! The challenge is to use a bird image in honor of Save the Eagles Day. That's IT! Easy peasy! It can be any kind of bird!

We're being sponsored by the wonderful and fabulous Digi Doodles Shop and the Paper Shelter! I've used this adorable image called Happy Penguins from The Paper Shelter! Aren't they adorable?

I took my sentiment from the name of the stamp! They just seem like they are doing the Happy Happy, Joy Joy dance to me :) See?

Paper is a mixture of DCWV paper and Hanukkah paper of all things LOL. I built the snowflakes out of glittery chipboard pieces and plastic embellishments I bought at Walmart and then added a gem for a bit more shine. I cut the adorable penguins with labels 4 nesties after some copic coloring and matted them with the largest labels 4. A nice bow with the snowflake on top, and she's finished!

So come on over to Party Time Tuesdays and join the party! You just might win a prize from our fab sponsors!

Thanks for looking, and have a great rest of the week!

PARTY TIME TUESDAY!!!

Hello again, bloggy friends! I've had a bit of a lazy day because I'm having a great deal of difficulty with my back today,,,,,anyone with back problems knows what I'm talking about,,,,sooooo,,,,,might as well scrap the day away if I can't do anything MUCH more thrilling,,,,you know,,,like clean the bathrooms or dust the ceiling fans! LOL.

And since I want to make sure any immediate challenges are handled before they rip my bathroom apart and trudge through my living room and scrappy room lugging huge bathtubs,,,,,I'm here with my Party Time Tuesday challenge entry.

Since one of the sponsors for December is My Mind's Eye, and I just HAPPEN to have two new MME paper packs,,,,,,I thought I'd make mine out of MME paper. It's a tough job bur someone has to do it. Yeah, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

The theme of this fantabulous challenge for this week is "Holiday Greetings". They want us to make a card or project with a holiday greeting as the focus. Anything that lets me play with MME paper is my pleasure!

And so onto my card. I've used MME Madison Avenue and Market Street from the Lost and Found collection to make my card. They are super yummy, and I couldn't resist.

I've used a Just Rite sentiment as the focus of my card, from the Justrite Christmas nested sentiments, and I've stamped it on this gorgeous olivy green MME paper and made a frame of sorts with spellbinders Labels1.

a bit of ribbon, another poinsettia (geez, are you getting sick of them yet???), some holly cut on my cricut, some berries and a tiny bit of bling, and it's done. I love it,,,,,,

but since when have I disliked anything with MME paper on it? ummmmm yeah, not happening!

So if you need to do any last minute cards, run right over to Party Time Tuesdays and enter the challenge! You might win a prize!!! Here's the link to make it extra easy for you!!!

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed! Your comments mean the world to me!

Party Time Tuesdays and Sassy Cheryls!

Good morning! What a fabulous combination,,,,a sassy cheryl image and Party time tuesdays!!!

Today I have another card entry for Party Time Tuesday! They are allowing two entries per person, so I am going to take full advantage of that and post another card. You can find their challenge HERE! It's so much fun, you really should stop by,,,,

Yes, more MME Union Square paper LOL. I'm down to using up scraps of my favorite pieces, AND I wanted to practice my copics with red and black,,,,,,,two tough colors,,,,,,red bleeds A LOT and black is really shades of gray and very little (if any) actual BLACK. The Union Square paper was perfect for practicing. I did a bit better,,,,,,but I'd still like to improve my copic coloring, so practice makes perfect, as they say!

I've used Sassy Cheryl's "Flat Bottom Snowy" again, because it's so darned cute, I just can't stand it. You can find him here!

I've colored him with copics, added some sizzix snow flakes, a Just Rite 2inch square stamp, and a ton of bling.

I'll also be entering him into Sassy Cheryl's SHOW ME THURSDAY that you can find here! You don't HAVE to use a Sassy Cheryl image, in fact, you don't even have to show a crafty project,,,just show what you've been doing! However, when I use Cheryl's adorable images, I like to show her what I've been doing with them. So I hope she likes what I've done with Snowy!

To that end, I'm also going to enter him into the Sassy Cheryl challenge of WINTER this week,,,,nothing says WINTER more than a snowman! You can find this wonderful challenge HERE!

Have a wonderful Happy-Happy-Hump-Day, and I hope the rest of your week goes well!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed!

Monochromatic Snowy

Good Afternoon!!!!! I hope you are all having a lovely weekend, I know I certainly am,,,,,I've done next to nothing except make cards! One of my favorite ways to spend the day!

Today I have a card that I made especially for the challenge at Party Time Tuesdays,,,,,you can find their challenges HERE! It really looks like a lot of fun this week,,,,,the theme is "Snow us what you got!" Well, I have no snow here in central Florida,,,,in fact, it's about 85 degrees today,,,,,,,but after coloring this ADORABLE image from Sassy Cheryl, I almost WANT some snow! You can find "flat bottomed snowy" here! And isn't he just the cutest thing??? I have been dying to do him monochromatic, and I found the perfect papers for it,,,,,,,MME Lost and Found Union station papers are just GORGEOUS and I think they about do this little guy justice!. some jingle bells, (YES AGAIN!), a striped bow and some pearls and lace and pleated ribbon pretty much finish him up!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed!