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!!!!!!

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!

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!

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!!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow!

Good Morning! We have a wonderful new challenge for you over at Sugar Creek Hollow! We want to see your vintage and shabby chic cards and projects with FABRIC! And ribbon and lace DO NOT COUNT!

Here's mine!

I made the rolled roses by freestyle cutting a spiral of felt (fabric) and then rolling and gluing,,,,,,,simple! The dresses I found SOMEWHERE online (I really wish people would put their websites on these things) and the button card is a leftover (search button card on my blog and in one of those posts there's a link to free button cards),,,,,,,,,,,,paper is Pink Paislee London Market,,,,,,,,,and I loved the cover sheet so much, I used part of it on my card LOL!  Stamps are Justrite Just the Right Words set.

close up!

and the inside for my sweet, giving, lovely daughter.

I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,,,,now run right over to SCH and link up your card made with fabric for a chance to win!

S is for,,,,,,,,,

SCHOOL!!!!!!!!

Good morning! It's Saturday, and it's time for another Sugar Creek Hollow challenge! This week we want to see your vintage or shabby chic "School Days" cards and projects!

So Today, I have this shabby chic card,,,,,

I just love this paper,,,,,I'm down to my last scraps, and for the life of me, I can't remember who makes it LOL. But it's just so bright and pretty! I found this retro/vintage Alphabet flash card (remember those?? LOL) online, printed it, added some copic highlights and then inked the edges with sepia ink,,,,,,a leftover button card, some pretty buttons (of course) and a few ribbons,,,,,,,,,,,

and here's the inside!

 There are times that nothing but my Justrite Stampers fonts will do! Making my own sentiments and putting them wherever I want is one of those times!

I hope one of my dearest old friends will love this card!!!!!!

Thanks for looking and I hope you liked the card! Your comments are so appreciated (and I turned off the password protection that I loathe so much!) and I'd love to come visit your blog!

So come on over to Sugar Creek Hollow and load up your Vintage or Shabby Chic School Days card for a chance to win!

A Day for Daisies!!!!!

Good Morning! It's time for yet another challenge over at Sugar Creek Hollow this week! I hope you all enjoyed the Alumni DT work last week! Wasn't it wonderful?? But the current DT is back again this week with our theme this week,,,,,,,,

ANGELS AND FAIRIES! And our sponsor this week is none other than the fabulous A DAY FOR DAISIES!

Our generous sponsor provided each of the DT with an image to work with,,,,,,and I picked this gorgeous Star Angel,,,,,,,,She's really so versitile,,,,,,I decided to portray her as a Christmas star angel, and colored her armful of pretties as red flowers with green leaves,,,,,,,,The paper is Graphic 45's Christmas Past paper,,,,,,,,a leftover red flower, some red berries and a leaf,,,,a bit of leftover lace,,,,and some sparkly gold and black velvet ribbons really set her off!

Here she is in all her glory!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking,,,,,,,,be sure to stop by Sugar Creek Hollow and upload your vintage or shabby chic card!

Sugar Creek Hollow!

It's Saturday! And that means it's time for a new challenge over at Sugar Creek HOllow!  This week, we want to see your vintage TRAVEL cards and projects!

I used this opportunity to get another Christmas card finished, since I had this darling Hot Air Balloon image in my computer.

Papers are scraps,,,,,,I cut out the hot air balloon with Romantic Rectangles and accented with a red velvet ribbon, a green jingle bell and a gold holly leaf,,I also stamped the image with an itty bitty unity stamp,,,,,,easy peasy and simple as pie!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking!  Run right over to SCH and upload your vintage or shabby chic travel card or project!

Something Old, Something New!

No, nobpdy is getting married! It's the new challenge this week over at Sugar Creek Hollow!  We want to see your card and projects with something new that you've just purchased or acquired,,,,,,,and something Old laying around forgotten in your stash!

Here's my card!

I've had a print out of this image sitting around for an aeon, waiting to get used,,tea dyed seam binding also sitting around,,,and I purchased this Basic Grey paper the Good lord only knows HOW long ago,,,,,

For NEW, I have my Spiral Blossoms 3 die with which I made the flowers and the black and clear bling flourish I cut in half and used in two places on my card.

I think it's just perfect for my Mother In Law!!

Hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,and thanks for looking!!!! Now run right over to Sugar Creek Hollow and load up YOUR vintage or Shabby chic card or project using both something old and something new!  You might win a prize!

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!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!

Good Morning! I hope you are all having a lovely week!! I got bitten by a spider over a week ago and it got infected,,,,,,oh my gosh,,,,,I don't think I have ever had as much pain or as much sickness EVER!!!!!! BUT, thanks to some awesome antibiotics, I am finally feeling a bit better, and hope to catch up on some DT work and get to posting again!!!!!

As June comes to a close, over at Sugar Creek Hollow, we have a fun challenge for you this week,,,,,,,,VINTAGE CHILDREN!!!!!! We want to see your cards and projects that feature vintage children!!!!

Our amazing sponsor this week is,,,,,,,,,

They provided this darling image of vintage children playing dolls for me to use on my card!!!!!

Thanks so much, TLC Creations!!!!!

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

Isn't that image darling???????/  My card is simple, but I really wanted the image to shine,,,,,,,,and I made a bow out of lace that I really wanted to show up well,,,,,,,a pink ribbon bow to accent that, some pretty white lace, some pink velvet ribbon with pearls and a flower finishes it off!

I hope you enjoyed the card this week,,,,,,,I'm hoping to feel well enough to create before the weekend is over!!!!!  So Pop over to Sugar Creek Hollow and upload your vintage children card!!!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday!!!!!

I am really excited today!!!!!!! We have a fantastic challenge for you over at Sugar Creek Hollow! Something about any lover of vintage or shabby chic LOVVVVVVVES!

PEARLS AND SWIRLS!!!!!! We want to see pearls and flourishes on your vintage, shabby chic or primitive card!!!!! Other than that,,,,,,,the sky is the limit!

We also have a fantastic guest designer joining us at SCH this week, so be sure to come on over and welcome her,,,,,,,,,and then run right over to her blog to see her gorgeous work!

Welcome to Amelia Breytenbach! Amelia, it's so nice to have you with us this week!



And here's my card!

I am absolutely IN LOVE with this paper! It's Prima Meadow Lark,,,,,,,,and when I first got it, I was a bit disappointed,,,,,,,,but once I started layering with this gorgeous vintage rose image,,,,,,,OH MY, the paper jumps right off the card! So pretty!

I got this lovely image at a new (for me) vintage freebies site,,,,,,,,,,and I think I spent 4 hours yesterday going through every page she had to find some incredibly gorgeous images! So make sure you stop by and see what she has! The blog is called Bumble Button!

Here's the image, close up,,,,,,,

This is a relatively simple card, because I really wanted this gorgeous image and the paper to shine,,,,

I cut the image out with Spellbinders Ovals Large, inked the edges and centered it over layered Meadow Lark paper,,,,,,it's really too stunning. some ruffled ribbon, yellow sheer ribbon, Prima "Say it in pearls and crystals"  flourish and some extra pearls, and she's finished!

So easy, yet SO elegant!

I hope you loved the card, and thanks so much for looking! Your comments mean the world to me!

I hope you enjoy this week's amazing challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow, and we look forward to seeing your entry!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!!!!!! It's Saturday and time for a new Sugar Creek Hollow challenge!!!!!

And this week, our challenge is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Black and White!!!!!

We want to see your black and white vintage, shabby chic and Primitive style cards in ONLY black and white. The image may be colored, but otherwise,,,,,,,,,we want ONLY black and white!!!

Here's my card!

I got this lovely image FREE from Free Vintage Digi Stamps and couldn't resist it! Pamela has the NICEST digi stamps, and they are ALL FREE! Pop on over there and see what you can find!

I colored this stunning image with the barest of copic color hints,,,,,I used R20 for the fan, lace and feathers, BG10 for the back ground and just a touch of YG 63 for the dress and hat, and E00 for skin tones.

My card base was cut from Romantic Rectangles,,,,,,,and I also used Romantic Rectangles for several of the card elements,,,,,,,I embossed the smallest with my Tim Holtz post card embossing folder and then stamped it with a little post mark stamp that I bought at Joann's. The patterned paper is more MME Lost and Found scraps!

A few pearls, and she's finished,,,,,,,,,,easy peasy and tons of fun! She measures about 5 inches X 3.25 inches, and is perfect for a little note card!

We have some more exciting news over at Sugar Creek Hollow this week!!!! Today, we are welcoming Liz and Yvonne to our Design Team!!!!! We are so excited to have them!! Congratulations, Ladies! I can't wait to see what beautiful things you create!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking! Now run right over to SCH and upload your black and white card! You might win a wonderful prize from Sugar Creek Hollow!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!! I am so hoping you will join us this week for the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge, because I am so excited about it,,,,,,

one of my favorite types of cards, that frankly, I do not make often enough!

This week's challenge is,,,,,,,,,,

FANCY FOLDS!!!!!!!!!

Please make a card that is NOT the ordinary one side or top fold card! Come on, fancy it up a bit! You're that talented, and we know it!

Here's mine!

I made this card for a friend whom I love very much, and miss very much back home in Massachusetts. As you can see, it's an easel card, so easy to make, yet so fancy and pretty!

I cut the base of the card with Grand Labels 23 as well as the image out of the DCWV paper,,,,then I added an Inkadinkadoo stamp that said exactly what I wanted to say to my friend!

the larger roses are handmade with  spellbinders dies and the smaller roses are made with MFT rolled mini roses dies. I glued a button behind the roses to stop the front from sliding into the roses.

such an easy card! And I hope my friend likes it!

Thanks for looking,,,,,,,,,now get to it, because we KNOW how talented our friends are! Upload your Fancy Fold card to SCH and you might win a prize!!!!!!

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!

Sugar Creek Hollow SATURDAY!!!!!

YAY! one of my favorite days of the week! it's Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday! And SCH has an amazing challenge for you this week,,,,,one of my FAVORITE things,,,,,,FLORAL!!!! We want to see flowers! Lots and lots of FLOWERS!

So of COURSE I had to use my lovely new paper, Graphic 45 Little Darlings, to make a tiny little notelet card,,,,it's 4x4, and perfect for an enclosure card or a tag on a bag!

I just love love LOVE it,,,,,the flowers are all prima and so is the flourish of pearls and gems. I added some leaves made with my Grand Calibur,,,,a few extra pearls, and she's done!  I used the following dies to make this little card.

Labels 1
Eyelet Circles
Circles Large
Floral

Here's a close up of this darling little face that I cut out of the Little Darlings paper!

I hope you enjoyed the card, thanks for looking, and I so appreciate every one of your comments!

Run right over to Sugar Creek Hollow this week and load up your Floral paper project or card for a chance to win!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!

YAY, it's Saturday!!!! And I really can't wait to see what you all come up with this week, because we have a challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow that was TOUGH for me! BUT many of you like it, so I am hoping to see some wonderful examples of,,,,,,,,,,,



STEAMPUNK!!!!!!!!

Here's mine! And I want to KISS Pamela over at Freevintagedigistamps.blogspot.com (button to the right) because she saved my LIFE with these images that I used on my card! ALL of them were from her! THANKS PAMELA!

I used MME paper for this, simply because it seemed to match SO WELL. I printed the images on my computer, and cut them with squares large, postage stamps and labels 3,,,,,inked them all up well and matted the whole thing on a black base.  I cut the watch with an old spellbinders set, Heritage,,,,,,,,a black velvet ribbon and knot,,,,,,,and she's done! I am really happy with the way it turned out!!!

So let's see what you can come up with! Run right over to SCH and load up a Steampunk card!

Thanks for looking!!!!! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!

YAY for Saturdays, one of my favorite days of the week!!  This week over at Sugar Creek Hollow, we want to see LAYERS in a vintage, shabby chic or primative style!

Robyn's Fetish sponsored us this week, and she gave the DT images to work with. Isn't this primitive bear just ADORABLE? Thanks so much for the beautiful image!

I've colored him with copics and used MME Union Station paper to accentuate the card. As you can see, I have several layers,,,,,

card base
2 papers on top of the base
the bear which I've popped up with pop dots
2 hearts
twine
baker's twine
and a button

I also used stamps from Stampin D'Amour for the banner and Happy Birthday on top!

I just love how it turned out. Primitive cards are so hard for me, but this little bear just gave me the push I needed! So hop on over to Sugar Creek Hollow and link up a layered card in one of those three styles!

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

Sugar Creek Hollow Again!

Good Morning! I hope you're all ready for some amazing inspiration from the Sugar Creek Hollow team! This week's challenge is Monochromatic Green!

Well, sometimes I just don't FEEL like making a card,,,,,and this week was one of those! So I dug through my scraps and found a piece of 4.5x5 leftover piece of chipboard, and decided to make myself a hanging plaque for my scrappy room.

I covered the chipboard in scrap paper, used a MS deep edge "fan" punch to add some interest, and a bit of lace along the bottom. Then I punched holes in the top and strung some green ribbon through. My center focal point is made from nesties,,,,,,,,from the bottom up, 2 layers of Moroccan Motifs, a smaller Moroccan motif, lacey ovals and then finally ovals to cut out the image. It's gorgeous, and SOOOOOOOOOOO vintage with the gorgeous dress and basque the lady is wearing. Too scrumptious!  I put a small layered crown on the side, a big quad bow and a stick pin,,,,and then added a few clear gems just for a bit of sparkle. It's hanging in my scrap room as we speak!

Here's a close up of all the layers!

I hope you enjoyed the project this week,,,,,,be sure to head over to Sugar Creek Hollow and link up your  monochromatic GREEN project!!!! And while you're there, take a look at the Design Team's inspiration for the week! You won't be sorry you did!

Thanks for looking, I really appreciate it!

Shabby Chic Altered Tin and an announcement!

Good morning!!! I have the most exciting news!!!!!!

Are you ready for this? I have the distinct honor of being one of the DT members for Sugar Creek Hollow,,,,,,,,one of my absolute FAVORITE challenges in the whole of blog-land!!!!!!!

I may or may not have danced around the kitchen like a mad person when I was asked LOL.

AND this week's challenge is one of my FAVORITES that they do too! WOO HOOO off to a good start!

Trash to Treasure is this week's theme! Take something that would ordinarily head to the trash or the recycle bin, and make vintage/shabby chic/ or primitive TREASURE with it! Although you may USE scraps, they can not count for your "trash", so go get crafty with it and make something GORGEOUS.

Without further ado,,,,,,,,,,here is my "trash"! It's a cookie tin, the tall skinny kind.

I have been wanting to make something with this tin for weeks now! And I was so THRILLED that I get to use it for my first DT project with Sugar Creek Hollow!

Here's the front,,,,,

Here's the back,,,,,,,,,,

I covered the tin with this gorgeous pink, pearlescent paper from DCWV's Luxury Stack,,,,,,it's stunning. I found the vintage ballerinas on the Graphics Fairy, button to the right,,,,,,,,,,aren't they GORGEOUS? I just LOVE them,,,,,,I actually used the same prints for another project about a year ago, but they seemed so perfect for this project, I couldn't resist them.

I cut each of the prints out with Ovals large, and then matted with more pink DCWV Luxury Stack paper which I cut out with Lacey Ovals. I adhered beautiful white eyelet lace around the bottom and layered a string of pearls around that,,,,,,,,and trimmed the rim of the lid with 1/4 inch velvet ribbon. I covered the lid with more pink paper and then a gorgeous rose vintage image was adhered on top.

I cut several heart locks out with my big shot (spellbinders Heritage dies), glued them together for thickness and then painted the whole with TH crackle medium,,,,,,a bit of white paint and a center pearl to look shabby chic, and I hung that on a silky ribbon with a gold key. A gorgeous bow with both pink and white sheer ribbon, a flower and some looped pearls,  a vintage rose ticket, and she's done!

Here's a close up of the heart, key and bow,,,,

We at Sugar Creek Hollow would also like to welcome Sherri Willshire as guest designer!!!!! Click on the link to see her phenomenal stuff! Thanks so much, Sherri!

I hope you enjoyed the altered tin, thanks so much for looking, and be sure to go dig through your recycle bin and get crafty!!!!!!!