Cast All Your Cares,,,,,,,,,,

Good Evening!  It's time for another card, before the weekend is upon us.

It's been a very busy week,,,,,,,we had our cat spayed a week ago, and our dog to the vet for her annual shots, check up and heart worm meds,,,,,,,,and I spent a full day playing with paper with a lovely new friend and her sweet Daughter In Law,,,,,,,

I got to play with dies that I don't have,stamp some new stamps, try some new alcohol markers, and learn a new technique. I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did!

Expect some new cards next week with some of the stamps and die cuts I used while at her house!

For tonight, I used a new set of stamps that I won several months back on the Justrite Friday Challenge,,,,,,so pretty!

Aren't those stamps gorgeous???? LOVE them!  She's going through a super tough time lately, and I wanted to send a card,,,,,

Here's a close up!

I hope she loves the card,,,,,,,,,,and I sure hope life gets easier for her in the coming months.

Card Recipe:

Cardstock: Pink-Coordinations, white-Georgia Pacific
Ink: copics and Versafine Onyx Black
Stamps: Justrite "Cast all your cares" clear stamp set
Dies: Resplendent Rectangles
punch: Martha Stewart Butterfly
Embossing: Swiss Dots Folder, embossed largest Resplendent rectangles with second largest
ribbon: Hobby Lobby
Stick Pins: Handmade
Button:Bazzill

Thanks for looking,,,,,,I love your comments and I appreciate them more than you know! 

I hope you all have a lovely holiday weekend!

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!!!!!

Just a Card!

Oh boy, have I had a busy week! A couple weeks ago, DH and I bought a camper, the pop up kind. Used,,,,,,,,,and in fantastic shape. Of course, once you start PUPping, it's a disease,,,,,,,,ask anyone who does LOL. We HAD TO HAVE a larger tow vehicle. Yep, as soon as we bought it, we realized the minivan would have a tough time towing it with a full van of people and several hundred (if not a thousand) pounds of gear inside. Since DH needed a new car anyway, out we went to buy a pick up truck with an extended cab for him.

If I live to be 200, I will NEVER understand men! He did nothing but talk about, look at, google pick up trucks for a week!!!!!!

What did he buy?????????? A FORD EXPEDITION!

Maybe that's not so far off,,,,,it IS made on a Ford F150 (truck) frame. All I know is the man LOVES his new truck LOL, so I guess that's all that matters! We'll see how much he likes it as the gas prices increase LOL.

So, anyhow, I've been busy this week looking for and buying DH's new truck,,and buying things (mostly storage) for the camper,,,,,,,,,storage for dry foods, storage for clothing when we're camping and storage for a cooking kit (pots, pans, dishes, etc),,,,,,,,,,and storage for a home made first aid kit (I want to include items for the removal and treatment of jellyfish stings that do not come in most first aid kids, as we will be camping at the beach at least several times a season).

to say the least,,,,,,,,I've had little crafting time this week! But I did manage to throw together this card,,,,,,

From bottom to top, the nesties used to create this focal point are:

Labels 23 Grand
picot edge circles
Iron work motifs
Parisian motifs
Circles Large


The stamp in the center is Justrite, and I've fancied it up with a small bling flourish, some stick pins, and a bow made from navy blue sheer ribbon topped with white seam binding.

I hope you like the card, and thanks for looking! Tomorrow night, I am sleeping in the camper with my grand children for a  "Camp Backyard" experience! It should be fun for them,,,,,,and useful for us to provide practice on setting it up and breaking it down!

Have a lovely weekend! My Sugar Creek Hollow post will be tomorrow morning!

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!

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!!!!!!!

Happy Valentines Day!!!!!!

This is my second post of the day,,,,,,,,,,please scroll down for my Party Time Tuesday DT post!

I just wanted to say Happy Valentines to all my friends out there,,,,I wish I could give you each a valentine! Since I can't,,,,,,,,,,this will have to do!

This was such a quick and easy card,,,,,,,I started out with a burgundy card base that I cut the bottom of with Classic Ric Rak,,and then lined above with a white, gathered ribbon,,,,My card layers are as follows, from the bottom up,,,,,,

postage stamps, a paper heart doily, Nellie Snellen Lily Circle (using the two largest dies, my favorite combo!), lacey squares, eyelet pendants, and then finally one of the smaller elements of the Fleur De Lis pendants,,,,,,,,

a ribbon, a charm, and a stick pin pretty much finish it up,,,,,,it's a smaller card (4.25x5.5) so it didn't take much to fill it up!

Here's a close up!

I hope you enjoyed "your" valentine,,,,,,thanks for looking,,,,,,,and I so appreciate your comments and your support!!!!

Have a lovely Valentines Day,,,,,,,,I hope your loved ones bring you something lovely so you know you're loved,,,,,,,,,and if they do not,,,,,go out and get yourself something lovely,,,,,,,,,to show YOU that you love YOU!

Vintage Rose!

Good Afternoon!!!! I hope everyone is enjoying their Friday and has great plans for the weekend! DH and I are going to Disney World on Saturday for a few hours after he finishes working,,,,,,,,

I'm looking forward to that! I haven't forgotten about posting some Disney pics,,,,,I just forget every time I pull out the card reader and yank pics into my computer LOL. Making a note to do that now.

So today I have a card that features this GORGEOUS vintage rose digi stamp,,,,Pamela over at Free Vintage Digi Stamps posted it the other day, and I HAD to use it!!!! It's really stunning,,and Pamela is SO generous with her lovely images,,, I just love that it's ready for copics or watercolors!!!!

This card is super simple,,,,,,it's 5.5x5.5 (one of my favorite sizes),,,I colored the image with copics,,,the base is pink,,,,,I layered brown over that 1/4 inch smaller,,,and then this gorgeous light pink French newsprint on the top, and this gorgeous, really shabby chic looking pink stripes on the lower half. My focal point from the bottom up is Fleur de lis pendants, lacey ovals and ovals large,,,,,,,a bit of  lace that has these beautiful roses woven into the decoration, a few gems, a spiral rose on a bow and a stick pin, and it's all ready for my mother's friend, who's quite ill  in the hospital,,,,,,I used to babysit her children when I was a teenager,,,,,They're adults now, and I'm showing my age LOL.

so today,,,,I'm spreading the love (see button on my side bar for information on that movement).

Here's a close up of this stunning image!

You should run right over to Free Vintage Digi Stamps right away, because Pamela has the most gorgeous images,,,,,,,Thank you so much for all of them, Pamela!!!!

Thanks for looking, and have a wonderful weekend!!!!

Vintage School Girl!

Good afternoon! I hope everyone else has gotten more accomplished today than I have. I have been LAZY! Husband is working, and I have done nothing but lounge in bed and take pics for my blog LOL.

Whatever you're doing today, I do hope you have a bit of time to relax in this crazy last week before the holidays!

It's time again for the new Sugar Creek Hollow challenge! YAY! the theme this week is THANK YOU. They want to see our thank you cards, and you can find that challenge HERE!

Well, it just so happens, I have a lovely reason for a thank you card. My MIL sent us all some money for the holidays,,,,,,how sweet! I think I am going to spend mine on several sets of nesties and dies!

So, onto the card I'm sending my MIL. This is an adorable image from a new site I happened to run across yesterday,,,,awesome site! You can find the button on my side bar (Pointing finger), but the name of it is freevintagedigistamps.com. FANTASTIC SITE! I took this darling school girl and cropped out the ABC that was above her,,,,,I pulled her into Picnik and added a THANK YOU to the bottom and printed her in sepia. I then colored her with copics. I wasn't too worried about blending, because I wanted the old 50's children's book illustration look. Plus, I was going to be toning all the colors down by tapping sepia ink onto the colored image with a sponge, so blending wouldn't show as well anyhow. I layered on the MME paper (Market Street) using the sketch over at the MME blog here! A bit of lace, some stickles, pearls, hand died seam binding in this GORGEOUS peachy pink, a bit of border punching, a stick pin and TONS of inking, and she's done! Isn't she adorable????

Do go have a look at the two challenges here,,,,,the Sugar Creek Hollow and the MME challenge. But HURRY on the MME, it's got less than a day left!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed! I hope you have a lovely last day of the weekend!