Sassy Cheryl's, CSAYL and a Card for Fun!

Good Evening,,,,,,,,about the only GOOD thing about having several herniated discs is that when they go out, you have a good excuse to sit on your butt and do nothing but make cards LOL.

Yep,,,,,two days of relaxation here,,,,,,,but I do believe I am on the mend :)

Today, I have a challenge entry for two challenges!

Sassy Cheryl's weekly challenge this week is "pretty papers",,,,,they want to see your cards with pretty papers!

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long wants to see your cards using the following picture for inspiration!

It was an easy combination!!!!!

Here's my card for both challenges!

I colored the Sassy Cheryl image with copics and prismacolors, cut it out with Spellbinders 2010 Heirloom Ornaments and then debossed it with a Tim Holtz sow flake embossing folder,,,,,,I then embossed white card stock with the same folder, and cut several more ornament shapes from several of my prettiest green papers,,,,,I also cut the star from the Sassy Cheryl image separately from the image with the smallest ornament die. I "hung" the ornaments on sparkly gold ribbon, pop dotted them up, and gave each ornament a gold bow.  Easy peasy and really pretty!

So run on over to Sassy Cheryl's and Christmas Stampin' All Year Long and load up your cards! You might win a prize


My second card is just for fun! I had this image in my computer and I've been meaning to do something with it for some time now,,,,,,,I cut the image out using spellbinders rectangles long and spellbinders scallopped rectangles long, added some cute die cuts, hand rolled roses, lace, velvet ribbon and a bow! It's a bit different than my normal "vintage" cards, but I think I like it!

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

Primitive Santa!

Good Morning!!!!  It's Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday!  This week's sponsor is,,,,,,,,,,,the FABULOUS,,,,,,

I may or may not have done a jig around the scrap room when I got my Sassy Cheryl's image this month! I love Sassy Cheryl's Digis!!!!! And this one is just SO DARNED CUTE! I couldn't stand it!

Here's the card I made for this week's challenge,,,,,,,,,Christmas in July!

I colored this primitive santa with copics and really had a lot of fun with him! Isn't he the cutest??

Here's a close up of the image!

A row of matching buttons and a poinsettia made with a poinsettia die completes this darling card!







I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,run right over to Sugar Creek Hollow and load up your Christmas card for this week's challenge. Be sure to stop by Sassy Cheryl's Digi Shop to see what darling images she has too!

Sassy Cheryl Challenge and a fun card!

Good Afternoon!! I think it's been MONTHS since I played along with the Sassy girls! But TODAY that ends!!!!!!Ssassy Cheryl's is one of my FAVORITE challenges, because the challenges are fun, easy, and the images are adorable!!!!!  I made a card for the Sassy Cheryl's challenge "Favorite color combo"!

Doing sassy little dance!

Deciding WHICH of my fav color combos to do, however,,,,,,,wasn't so easy LOL. I have so many favs!!!!!! But since summer is coming, I decided my favorite THIS week was some summery colors!

My color combo,,,,,,,,peach, pink, orange and just a touch of green,,,,,,,

and so here's my color combo card using Sassy Cheryl's darling image (that just CALLED to me "buy me buy me buy me" when I went to her site!) Sam and Avery at Odds.

Please pardon the lousy cropping LOL,,,,,my battery was dying and I took the picture QUICKLY, not leaving enough background room for good quality cropping (darnitall),,,,,,,,but I want to get this in today, because I have a busy weekend!

Here's a close up of this darling image!

I love love LOVE this image!!!!!! so cute!!!!! I computer printed the sentiment (All differences aside...I love you.) and layered the image over scraps of my favorite papers,,,,,,,,some K and company sparkly rose paper, some DCWV striped paper,,,,,,,and Webster's peach and white polka dots. A pink ruffled trim on the bottom,,,,,,,and a bright orange ribbon, and she's done!

Make sure you run over to Sassy Cheryl's shop, get yourself an image, and then run over to the Sassy Cheryl's challenge blog  and upload your card!!!! You get two entries to the prize if you use a Sassy Cheryl's image!



My next card (YES! ANOTHER!) I made for a dear friend who is laid up sick right now,,,,,

I used this gorgeous image from Sugar Nellie's line of "Simply Adorables" digi stamps,,,,,you can get them here! How darling is this?????????

I tried something a bit different here,,,,,,,I colored the image with copics and then layed some Webster's velum paper OVER the image,,,,,,

you can see a better close up here,,,,,, I'm not sure if I like it or not LOL,,,,,,,oh well, it's different!

some green velvet ribbon trim, a brown bow and some white lace a long the bottom, and she's finished. Easy peasy! This image is just GORGEOUS, and so easy to color!!!!! So much fun!

Thank you for looking, and I hope you enjoyed the cards!

I have more Sassy Cheryl's cards for graduations I am working on,,,,,,,,and a couple more Sugar Nellie cards as well! I hope to have those up later in the week.

I hope you all have a lovely safe holiday!

Happy Saturday!!!!!! Sugar Creek Hollow!

I am so excited this week! Sugar Creek Hollow has a DIE CUTS/Punches challenge for you this week! YAY, I love die cuts,,,,,,I love Sugar Creek Hollow,,,,,,,,

ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I love Sassy Cheryl, who is our amazing sponsor this week!!!!!!

Her images are darling! I used to do her challenges all the time, but with starting my own business and being on TWO design teams, I just haven't had time recently,,,,,but as soon as my business is off and running, I plan to go back and play some with the Sassy girls!

Anywho, Cheryl was so kind to give each of the DT girls an image to play with,,,,,,,THANK YOU CHERYL!!!!!! You can find Cheryl's amazing digis HERE!

Here's my card!

I made a shaped card with my spellbinders Grand labels 23, and loaded it with die cuts.

Some of the dies I used are:

Eyelet Pendants (I thought these looked like sand dollars!)
rectangles long.
Romantic Rectangles
Labels 23
Banner basics 1
circles large
ovals large

I used plain red and blue card stock to create my card, and then Webster's papers "By the Sea", I believe it's called, to create my card. I colored the image with copics, and I think they look ADORABLE! I also used a Tim Holtz embossing folder . I'm pretty happy with it!

So run right over to Sassy Cheryl's shop  and get yourself a darling image, and then hop on over to Sugar Creek Hollow and upload your die cut and/or punches card!

Just one more note,,,,,,Sugar Creek Hollow is having a Design Team call! Check it out HERE!

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge!

Good afternoon! I have a card today for the Sassy Cheryl's challenge blog!  The theme today is SNOW and they have a super sketch to start the inspiration!

I took inspiration from the layers on the sketch, and followed it a bit loosely :)  I used a Sassy Cheryl's Quilt digi that she was kind enough to send me and colored it with copics. I turned this into my focal point and created the layers from the bottom up: spellbinders lacy squares, two Holly Motifs set katty corner, standard squares large,,,,and I used a smaller standard squares large to cut the adorable quilt digi out with and finishing up with  the smallest snowflake in Spellbinder's 2010 snowflake pendant dies.

I then layered kraft cardstock with Recollections Oh Christmas Tree line, set the focal point in the lower right hand corner, saving the upper left hand for the largest die in Spellbinders 2010 Snow flake pendant. My sentiment is House Mouse and I hand cut the little flag. Some bling, a tiny snowflake charm a big double bow, and she's done.

Here's a close up of this gorgeous stamp!

I'd like to thank Cheryl for the gorgeous images,,,and I have a confession to make.

I have no idea why she sent them. I am wracking my brains to remember if she had a drawing or something, and she probably thinks I'm a nutcase, but for the life of me, I can't remember! . DH says I just have too many things, thoughts, plans and ideas cluttering up my head, and I think he's right! What's more, most of my reminders are saved in my computer,,,,,,,and it's being fixed by my DS right now LOL. So, I am at a loss!

Thank you, Cheryl!!!!! She's always super sweet, and you should run right over (link at the top) and join the fun. There's still five more days!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed!

Half Moon Santa!

Good afternoon,,,,,,,Hope you all are looking forward to a nice weekend. I'm going to have half my house torn apart,,,,,,we're putting in a new bathroom. Currently, I have a vanity, sink, toilet etc sitting in my living room in boxes. Good thing I have a huge living room. And good thing they are bringing the tub/shower when the workmen actually come to do it LOL.

Seeing as how I'm not sure how much I'll be able to scrap this weekend, I decided to go ahead and do my challenge entries this week.

And this week, over at Sassy Cheryl's challenge blog, the theme is SANTA. And boy does Cheryl have some darling santa's to use!

Isn't this one just DARLING? I loved it the minute I set eyes on it, and I had to have it. I tried various paper, and it just didn't seem to go right with the colors I chose,,,so I ended up falling back on plain white cs. I love love LOVE red and lacy white together, so I border punched the three layers each with a different border,,,,,then I die cut some spellbinders lacy motifs which I arranged around Santa to simulate snow flakes. I stamped a Just Rite stamp in the middle of one of the flakes, tied on a bow, a bit of bling, and it's finished! Of course, Santa is colored in copics.

Santa is called "Half Moon Santa" and you can find him HERE at Sassy Cheryl's digi shop!

And he's being entered into the challenge HERE!

Hope you enjoyed, and if you need to finish those last Christmas cards, hop on over to Sassy Cheryl's and enter the challenge,,,,,,you might just win a free digi to help finish off all those cards!

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!

The Helpful Elf!

It's time to do yet another Sassy Cheryl challenge, and I have to say I LOVE THIS CHALLENGE! I do a ton of challenges, but it's rare to enjoy myself as much as I do this one,,,,,,I just have to go back again and again!

You can find the Sassy Cheryl challenge HERE!

So the theme is "Anything Goes" again this week, and I colored this little guy not quite knowing what to do with him. Well, today, it hit me! I decided to pull out my Cinch and make a little notebook for my granddaughter (she's five). She loves to color with me and often carries a pad and a pencil with her to "write" things down.

So I fixed one up in a jiffy using a few pieces of chipboard, some paper scraps and Sassy Cheryl's "Noah the Helpful Elf" which you can find here which I had already colored using her favorite colors, tied on some matching ribbon and MORE jingle bells (Cheryl is going to think I am a nut case LOL!)a scrap bit of lace, and she's all done, ready to pop in my grand daughter's stocking Christmas Eve!

I'd also like to enter this into the Stamptacular Sunday challenge HERE! The challenge this week is to create a project using a boy or a man on it,,,,,well Noah, the Helpful Elf is certainly a boy elf! Such cute projects over there, be sure to stop by and try for a prize!

Hope you enjoyed, it was fun, fast, cheap and quick!!!!!! And I think it's adorable too! Thanks for looking!

Show Me Thursday!

Today is Wednesday,,,,,,which means it's the last day to post what I have been doing this week on Sassy Cheryl's SHOW ME THURSDAY (link HERE!)

I love this challenge, because no matter WHAT I'm working on, I can link it up, and have the chance to win a prize! I won a free digi last week! And it's a ton of fun to see what everyone else is working on during the week,,,,,,,and walk away with some inspiration and some ideas!

And lemme tell you, I am busy like HECK this week!!!!!!! It's Thanksgiving here in the US tomorrow, and I still have to vacuum, clean the bathroom and bake for tomorrow. My oldest daughter and grands are coming over for Turkey day, so that will be a ton of fun!

I'm involved in about ten different challenges this next week or so,,,,,some bi monthly, some monthly, and several weekly challenges,,,,,I love them! And what's more, I think they are the key to improving my work so that maybe I can join a design team one of these days! So,,,,,,,,,challenges I shall participate in! And being busy will be par for the course if I'm ever on a design team, so it's good practice juggling LOL.

I've also got Christmas cards to finish, Hanukkah cards to finish (Christmas falls over Hanukkah this year,,WHAT THE HECK were they thinking??) and December birthday cards to finish!

E gads!

So without further ado, here's my Show Me Thursday photo!

I've been coloring several images so that I can finish up my holiday cards,,,,,,I've done two of the four December birthday cards I need,,,,,and silly me decided to go ahead and start a vintage mini book. Faint. What the heck was *I* thinking?

LOL, oh well, I love it!!! I can't wait to finish my mini, but if it doesn't get done for several weeks, it's ok,,,,,,I have no plans for it! I've covered all the pages inside, created pockets and started picking out images for it, but that's as far as I've gotten.

My mother and grand daughter's birthday cards are finished,,,,,,,,,and I just need to make another for my youngest daughter and my oldest daughter. Our family likes December to give birth LOL. As if it's not crazy enough during that time!

Hope your life is just a little less hectic than mine! Have a GREAT Turkey day if I don't see you all again til Friday!

Thanks for looking!!!!!

Challenge Time Again!!

Oh boy am I loving these challenges,,,I feel like they really inspire me and my cards have never been nicer!

Today, I have a pink and white and gold card,,,,,,which is the challenge at the Color Create Challenge blog HERE!

And oh, so pretty are these colors! so stop by and try your hand at a gorgeous card!

I've also used a sassy cheryl image (which are so danged cute I just can't STAND it!) "Going to see the Star" (colored in copics) which you can find HERE at Sassy Cheryl's shop!

And this week at Sassy Cheryl's challenge blog, the DT members are having a bit of fun trying to STUMP Cheryl! So stop by and see if you can guess who's card is who's! And it's extra easy this week, because it's ANYTHING GOES! So pop over and have some fun! You can find her challenge HERE!

So on to my card! I've used MME Lost and Found paper here, which is incredibly, deliciously YUMMYYYYYYYYYYY and I just had to buy a few pieces! I think I need the rest! Ive blocked 4 blocks of it onto kraft card stock, and then matted my image onto gold glitter paper. Some white doilies, white lace, a gold and pink stick pin, some delicious gold jingle bells (smaller ones this time!) for a bit of SHINE, and a few K and company dimensional stickers, including this gorgeous pink poinsettia, and it's DONE! It was easy peasy, and I totally think I got a ton of WOW factor out of such a little bit of work!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed!

Once in a very great while,,,,

I go overboard. Yeah, hard to believe, I know,,,,,,,,but every now and again, I over embellish LOL.

And such is the case with this card. I think I over did it,,,,,,but,,,,I think I like it,,,,,

anyway, it is what it is LOL, and what it is, is an entry into the Colour Create Challenge you can find HERE!

The challenge was to use aqua, deep pink, and ivory. And the optional "glitter".

I've used paper scraps from my stash to make this card,,,,,mostly DCWV, I believe,,,,,,the pink paper is glitter cs. I've matted the most adorable Sassy Cheryl Image called I love you THIS MUCH (girl)! you can find Cheryl's adorable images HERE!

As a matter of fact, I'm going to link this blog post to Sassy Cheryl's SHOW ME THURSDAY blog where you can win a free digi just for showing her what you've been up to! Here's the link for that! It's great fun, stop over and see what everyone is doing,,,it doesn't even have to be crafty!

I've used feathers, a stick pin, a butterfly bow from the sheerest of ribbons and some home made flowers to accent the adorable image,,,and my spellbinders postage stamps add the perfect frame!

Hope you enjoyed looking and thanks for stopping by!

Another challenge at Sassy Cheryl's!

I so enjoyed the last challenge that I did at Sassy Cheryl's, that I just HAVE TO do another! and LUCKY ME, my card was chosen at random to receive a 5.00 store credit! So I was able to buy some Sassy Cheryl digis! YAY ME! Love her digis! SOOO this time, I have some sassy cheryl digis to use on my card,,,,,it was tough choosing, believe me, but this little HO HO HO stamp just called to me,,,,,

the minute I saw it, I KNEW what I was going to do with it, and what paper I was going to use,,,,,,,,I wanted to create a card that was sort of country Cristmas-ish, and I hope I've done that!

The challenge at SC's is to use embossing on your card,,,,either dry or wet. I've chosen dry embossing here, and embossed the cream and burgundy paper with a Tim Holtz "snow flurries" embossing folder. I inked everything, colored the image with copics in what I HOPE are complimentary, country Christmas-ish colors, cut it out with long rectangles large, nested over long rectangles scalloped large, wrapped some twine around it, popped on a checked ribbon, tied on a sleigh bell, a hand made stick pin, some fancy gold corner embellishments, and a quick sentiment (Merry Christmas!) from JustRite stampers,,,,I used my HAPPY EVERYTHING tag making kit to cut that out, and it's done!

and I LOVE it,,,,,,it's exactly what I was thinking in my head,,,,and that doesn't happen too often!

Admittedly, this card won't mail easily,,,,either I'll hand deliver it to my neighbor across the street,,,,or I'll use a flexible clear plastic envie and pay the extra postage for being too thick.

But that sleigh bell was calling to me,,,,,and I still have SEVEN LEFT! (dollar store!)

Paper is Recollections Holiday Traditions,,,,,,really, check out Michael's,,,,Recollections has some gorgeous paper out there this holiday season!

Now if someone would just make GORGEOUS HANUKKAH PAPER, I'd be in Heaven :)

Stop over and give Sassy Cheryl's challenge a try,,,,,and you just might win a 5.00 store credit to get you some new digis!

Check it out HERE!

Oh and to get yourself one of these adorable HO HO HO stamps,,,,,or any of her other adorable stamps,,,,,,check out her store HERE!


Oooooooooooooooo, I have to enter this into the BAH HUMBUG! challenge as well!!! such cute snowmen AND WOMEN they have over there! why not give it a try? you can find their blog HERE!

They have an AWESOME prize pack!