Happy Halloween!

Hello and welcome to my Thursday posting! Today is Halloween and although I am not a big Halloween fan and typically avoid most of the Halloween challenges and look for those who embrace fall/Thanks or harvest themes I thought I'd post a fun card made just for the occasion.  Thank you for visiting my friends and I hope you take some time to browse my other postings. Feel free to leave a comment on this and any other posting in fact, I would love it if you would! See below the challenges I am entering for this card.

I love this silly card. I hope you have a fun and safe Halloween and take some time for yourself and make something beautiful!

 If you decide to follow my blog, send me a quick email using the contact form on the right and let me know. I'll send you and your blog (don't forget to include your blog address) a shout out on tomorrows Feature Friday post! 

Challenges:

Glitter & Sparkle - Add Black

Creative Belli Blog- Halloween

Paper Playtime- Google Eyes

Bitten By The Bug 2 -Trick or Treat

OKR Stampede - Seeing orange

A Thankful Thanks Challenge Card

Hello and welcome to my little blog space! I am so glad your here to view my next challenge card. I've recently been browsing some new blogs and decided to join in their fun (see below) I used lots of techniques for this card. I just couldn't stop embellishing!

First I used Mojo Monday sketch #317.  I LOVE this sketch becuase it leaves so much flexibility to use a variety of sized objects. I chose to modify the square sketch to fit an A2 sized card.

I won these challenges for this card

11/04/13 11/06/13

11/08/13  11/19/13

In addition, a few of the challenges required fall themes so I reached for my Authentique Thankful 6x6 paper pad. I used dry and wet embossing on the brown patterned strip of paper. I dry embossed and inked the pumpkins and popped up the center layer with some pop dots and added some faux stitching all around. I also added the raffia and the ribbon for some texture and softnests. 

Here's a closer look at all the embellishments.

Materials:

Cuttlebug Pumpkin Harvest embossing folder

Cuttlebug Herringbone embossing folder

Cuttlebug Baby's Breath embossing folder

Hero Arts sentiment stamp

brown ribbon bought by the yard from Wal-mart

Cricut pumpkins cut from Everyday paper Dolls cartridge

I just love making fall cards! They just seem to come easy to me unlike winter or Christmas themed cards. uggh! lol. 

Thank you for visiting and please check out the challenge blogs I've entered for more inspiration. If you become a new follower I'll send you a shout out on my Feature Friday post. I'll link your blog to that post and choose a Featured Blogger too!  When you follow, please send me an email using the contact me form in the side bar letting me know and include the link to your blog.

Please leave a comment letting me know your favorite element of this card and now it's your turn to make something beautiful!

Challenges:

Mojo Monday Sketch #317

Eureka Challenge Blog #63 -Note of Thanks

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #184- Fall

Crafty Boots- Autumn

Sisterhood of Crafters- Fall

Ribbon Carousel- Fall/Halloween

As You Like it Challenge #13-Favorite Sketch

Top Tip Tuesday - Seasons

The Crafting Cafe-Anything Goes

Stamp & Create-Fall or Halloween

Little Blue button Stamps Blog- Fall Inspiration

Twisted Tuesday-AG #2tc62

Crafting 4 Everybody

Card Making Monday # 19 - Celebrate an Anniversary

Card Making Monday! It's another week and another opportunity to make something beautiful. I really love this image from Lili of the Valley. I don't have any happy Anniversary sentiment stamps so I improvised with the celebrate sentiment and then I can modify the inside to fit an anniversary. I used a simple Bonus sketch from OWH (Operation Write Home). #B-31. I am also entering this card in a few challengs (see below)

The patterned paper is from MME Lost & Found-Blush.

These are the Copic Markers I used.

I hope you enjoyed viewing this card and make it a point during this  busy week to be creative and make something beautiful! Enjoy your Monday! FYI- If you follow my blog I'll send you a shout out and link your blog on my Feature Friday post. (Just send me an email using the contact form on the right and let me know your a new follower and include the link to your blog) You may even become my Featured Blogger too!

Challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges -C4C209- Favorite Stamp

Scribble & Scrap Challenge 4 -AG

Challenges 4 Everybody #37- AG

Glitter & Sparkle Challenge #56 -add Some Black

Through The Craftroom-AG

613 Avenue Create Blog #43-AG

Craftin Desert Divas Challenge #18-AG

Twisted Tuesday-AG

Scrapbook Saturday #17 - No More Books

Hello and welcome! It's Saturday!!!!!! So for this layout I kept it super simple to let the colors and sharpness of the photos shine through. These are items my son made in his freshman year of highschool drafting shop.His future goal is to be an engineer and these projects were his first taste of design in engineering.

Here is a close up of the cut file I used from Designers Calendar Cricut cartridge. I used only 1 embellisment cut in a few different sizes. I think it keep some nice consistency throughout. I'm going to go back to add a typed journaling block. I'm not sure how I forgot about that step. lol

Here's another close up look og the title cut with SCAL.

I hope you enjoyed my page and are inspired to use some simple embellishments in varying sizes. let me know what you like best about this page and please consider following my blog and my crafting journey. Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend! Don't forget to make something beautiful!

Black & White Floral

Hello All! I'm have another challenge card. I've had a hard time with Mojo lately. But here goes....

I am enering this card in a few challenges (see below). I used Mojo Monday sketch #316 for the design.

For this card, I used some ribbon I picked up at Michaels, just a basic black satan. I added a cloth covered button from my stash. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. I cut the Dublin flower using my SCAL and a SVG from SVGCuts.com. I added a pearl brad to the ccenter of the flower ans since the theme was to use black and white I alternated the petal colors.

Here's a close up of the bow and flower.

Challenges:

Stampin Royality #199-Picture Inspiration

Top Tip Tuesday-#112 Black & White with a splash of color

Pennys paper Crafty Challenge #150-Buttons & Bows

Thanks for joining me and I hope you like my card creation. Don't forget to check out my Feature Friday post for this week. I choose 2 of my followers to feature every Friday and one of their projects. If you decide to follow me you too can have a chance at being my Featured Follower. Just send me an email using the contact bar in the side letting me know your now following me and providing your blog or web address. 

Have a fabulous weekend, many blessing and I hope you make something beautiful!

Feature Friday -10/25/13

It's FRIDAY!!!!!!!! That means I get to pick my featured Blogger for this week! Thank you to all my followers and come back next week to see if your my featured blogger!

This weeks choices are Sarah from @Sarah's Stamping Stuff &  Mayra @ Mayras Designs.

Sarah's Stamping and Stuff

Mayras Designs

Thanks Ya'll! I hope you pop back in for my Saturday Scrapbook page post and  now it's your turn to go make something beautiful!

Using My Tools Thursday # 22 - Prayer

Hello! Welcome! I thought for this card I would use autumn themes and colors.

Pretty basic card with repeated elements. This sentiment is from Inkadinkadoo and has two parts. One for the front of your card and the rest for the inside.

I used repetition on the polka dots by using the gems and repeated the wave design and alternatnig the 2 colors of cardstock.

Boxed in the sentiment and added a nice peice of ribbon and added some faux stitching.

Take card and enjoy your Thursday!

Trick or Treat/Halloween Challenge Card #1

Greetings! and thank you for visiting my latest challenge card creation. I al so glad your here and oh so hope you leave me a comment of encouragement.  Feel free to browse my other posts and leave as many comments as you like. If you decide to follow my blog please leave me a comment on this post letting me know along WITH your blog address and I'll send you a shout out and link your blog on my Feature Friday post. Maybe you'll even be my Featured Friday blogger!

Enjoy the card... there were a few challenge blogs (see below) requiring Halloween themed or colored cards and although I'm not a big fan of Halloween I thought it would be fun to participate in these challenges so I jumped right in.

 Here's a close up of all the little details iused on this card.

Materials:

Tangelo Bazill Cardstock

Black Cardstock

Memory Makers metal sentiment

Sparkle stickers from Walmart

Smiley Cards cricut cartridge set at 3 1/2 inches

google eyes

stitching from my sewing machine - wrong setting for the Zig Zag but the distressing actually works. lol

Gingham ribbon

black button

orange embroidery floss

Branches embossingh folder

Challenges:

Card Making Mamas - Trick or Treat

QKR Challenges #61- Halloween Fun

Dynamic Duo-DD#75 -Deep Orange and Black (option: Halloween)

Eureka Stamps Challenge #62-Halloween Colors

Created With Love Challenge - Halloween Hop

Papertake Weekely Challenge - Happy Halloween Hues

Paper Play Time - Ch #21 Ribbons and Buttons

I hope you had fun visting my blog space and don't forget to check out my Card Making Monday, Using My Tools Thursday and Scrapbook Saturday posts. Take care, enjoy your week and remember to make something beautiful!

Card Making Monday # 18 - Just Dance

Hello and thank you for visiting! Today I have a sweet card to share with you and to enter into a challenge (see below). I used Mojo Monday card sketch 251. They have great sketches for inspiration. Heres my card...

 The stamped image is by Lili of the Valley ST827 Wish upon a Star (I think it's actually one of their Christmas stamps lol). I used pattern papers by MME - Quilting Bee 6x6 pad. The cardstock is Bazil Pomegranite and some other gray I had in my stash.

The sentiment comes from Thoughts for the Day by Inkadinkadoo and I inked the edges with Colorbox ink Sweet melon and colored the image with Copics.

Challenges:

Hiding in My Closet #120- Color it!

Thanks agani for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my card posting and please leave a comment below.  If you decide to follow me please leave a comment below letting me know and your blog address and I'll link up your blog to my Feature Friday post. Have a great week! Enjoy the moments and make something beautiful today...

Holiday Challenge Card #1

I'm wishing everyone a very early Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! That's because it's challenge time (see below) and Holiday cards, ribbons, bows etc. seem to be the star of the show!

Being we are not quite near Christmas time I needed to stir the Mojo flow. I found some pictures online and they jump started my creativity. Here's my submission:

If you'd like to see a tutorial on how to make the perfect bow you can find the tutorial here and many more tutorials under my tutorial tab here.

Materials:

Hero Arts 

Joy of the Season Cricut Cartridge -cut at 1 & 3/4 inches

Cranberry Colorbox pigment ink. 

 Gold embossing thread 

Inkadinkadoo embossing powder

Devine Swirl Embossing folder

basic red ribbon

Embossed Flourish Frame embossing folder

Red Devil Bazill Cardstock

white cardstock

Perfect Pearl Mist

Challenges:

All Sort Challenge 229 -Ribbons & Bows

Hero Arts -Holiday Challenge

ABC Christmas- under the tree

I hope you enjoyed viewing my card and are inspired to start your Christmas card collection....

Please leave a comment letting me know what is your favorite part of my Christmas card and if you decide to vbecome a follower of my blog please leave a comment letting e know and your web address so I can send you a shout out and link up your blog in my Feature Friday post. You'll have a chance to become my featured follower!

Now it's your turn...go make somethgn beautiful!

Scrapbook Saturday # 16 - Let Your Spirit Soar

Hello! Welcome to my Scrapbook Saturday posting! Todays sketch uses just a few photos with lots of open space for embellishments.

I used Paisley embossing folder for the bird and a crimper tool by Fiskers on the rocks

Enjoy your Saturday! Feel free to browse my other posts of cards and scrapbook pages. I hope you decide to follow me. Now it's your turn, go make something beautiful!

Feature Friday - 10/18/13

It's Friday and I have the great pleasure of sending a very big THANK YOU to my followers! 

First, Welcome and Thank you to my new followers.

Jaren @ Purple Paradise Creations

Mayra @ Myras Designs

Sharon at @ Mee Mees Creation
Nicole Stanfeild @ Nici's Nook
Karen Murray @ Stampin Perfect Peace

I have linked up each of their blogs so check out what their up to.

Now a shout out to my Feature Friday choices

This goes out to Donna at her blog at Designing Keepsakes

and her lovely Christmas card. 

and..

Ericka at Scrappin Intervention

Her pink Hope card is so cute!

Thank you so much for following. If oyur new to my blog and you follow me I'll send a shout out to your blog on the next Feature Friday (if so please leave a comment on this post including your blog address) and maybe you'll be my Featured Blogger!

Birthday Bash with Banners

Howdy! Thank you for visiting and browsing my blog! I made a rather simple birthday card this week to fit some blog challenges I've stumbled across recently. I don't typically use purple in my cards but I really liked the polka dot pattern in this paper thus my inspiration.

 I used this Freshly Made sketch for a guide and turned it on its side.

I used a few Recollections brads, $ store sentiment stamp, some ribbon from Michaels and a Martha Stewart punch around the page-Double Loops

Challenges:

Freshly Made Sketch #108

Sentimental Sunday #176

Crafting By Design

Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge Blog #149

Just Inspirational

Thank you so much for visting. Please leave a comment letting me know what's your favorite part of this card. Your comments help direct my inspiration for future projects. Also please consider following my blog and if you do, let me know in the comment section of this post and leave your blog address. I'll send you a shout out and link your blog on my Feature Friday post.

Blessings and now it's your turn to make something beautiful!

Using My Tools # 21 - Sympathy with emblesshment

Hello All! Welcome to another Thursday posting. Today is a card that I'm always sad to send but is neccessary at times. For this one I pulled out some embleshments I've had sitting for a while. Admittingly I didn't even know what to do with them when I received them as part of a cardmaking kit. It's the scallops at the top middle part of the card. They are from Artisan Elements.  I colored in the tag-like embellishment using my copic marker in Garnet.

The papers come from my MME Lost and Found- Blush 6 x 6 paper pad and Berrylicious and Quicksand Bazil cardstock. 

The sentiment is part of a Gina K set. Just love the set of stamps I got from her. So wish and hope I can pick up more some day.

That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed vierwing my card and are inspired to make something beautiful today.

Chevron Thank you

Just a quick post for a few challenges.  For this card I used a Cheveron emboassing folder from Darice some various colored bazil cardstock and a Hero Arts sentiment. The layout is a from Seize The Sketch and then the elements are for Crazy 4 Challenges C4C207 which required cheverons and the colors gray, pink, yellow and green.

Heres a picture of the sketch

 

and a close up of the cheveron punch by EK Success and the Darice embossing folder.

I hope you enjoy viewing my card. Please leave a comment below and if you decide to follow me I'll link up your blog and send you a shout out on my Feature Friday post. Maybe you'll even be my Featured Blogger! (If you follow - please leave a comment letting me know and your blog address in the comment section)

Get Well Soon - Fall Theme

Good Morning! Welcome!

I've made a fun card for you today. It's my favorite one that I made well...today! hehe

I've entered this card in a few challenges. See below.

For this card, I used Authentique 6x6 paper pad, the pumpkins and fence are from a SCAL file from SVGcuts.com & the sentiment is from Hero Arts. I also added some twine and raffia for texture. In addition, I used several embossing folders. Divine Swirl, Swiss Dots and Branches

Let's get to the card already...:-)

 Here's a close up of the pumpkins. Oh, I also inked the edges of the pumpkins with some orange ink
Here's the inspiration sketch.


I won these challenges for this card

10/18/201310/21/2013

Here's the challenges I am entering this card in: 

Wish me luck!

OWH-Sketch #194

Eureka Stamps #61 -Fall with Twine

Tuesday Throwdown #169- Pumpkin Patch

Little Blue Button Stamps- Fall Inspiration

Inkspirational- Challenge #41 Anything goes

OKR- Challenge #60 Anything Circles

I hope you enjoyed viewing my card. Please leave a comment and let me know what you like best about it.

Also, please consider following my blog. If you become a follower (please  let me know you became a follower and leave your blog address in the comment section on this post) I'll throw you a shout out in my Feature friday post. I'll link your blog in that post on Friday too!

Now it's your turn...go make something beautiful!

Get Well Soon- Tink

Hello and welcome! 

For this card, I am using the new Mojo Monday sketch 315 and the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #182 -Purple and Black. I used pattern paper from my scraps. I also added some faux stitching and a ribbon having faux stitching for the Casual Friday Challenge.CFC 117

Heres my card....

This is the inspirational sketch.

For Tinkerbell I used Disney Classics Cricut Cartridge set at 4.5 inches.
I hope you enjoyed viewing my card...please leave a comment below and consider following me. If you do(please leave a comment and let me know along with your blog address) I'll send you and your blog a shout out on my Feature Friday post. I'll even include a link to your blog too!

Enjoy your Tuesday and remember to make something beautiful today!

Card Making Monday # 17 - Bravo!

Welcome to my little space on the blogsphere! I'm so glad your visiting and hope you take some time to browse my other postings.

On this card I use what was left of my graduation stickers I had in a Jolee pack from this past Mays multiple graduation card needs. Boy, did I feel like I added everything but the kitchen sink in this card! I just smashed as much as I could in embellishments on this card. lol This card is bit of an odd size. It's 5.25 by 5.25. I found out anything larger than a 5.5 inch card has to be weighed by the postal service and costs WAY more than a stamp so I make them just a bit smaller so I can use the typical stamp to mail it.

I added some stitching and the embossed sentiment is by Cuttlebug.

I hope you become inspired to use up some old stickers for your cards and just "smash" as much as you can into a card without it becomeing too busy. Please leave a comment below letting me know what you like best and I hope you enjoy the rest of your week and stop by for my Thursday and Saturday postings. Now it's your turn to make something beautiful today!

Eat Cake!!!!

Hello! So I have some birthdays coming up and I thought I'd take advantage of the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge- have your cake and Crafting By Designs (Anything Goes-ribbon) this week and combine it with the Seize the Sketch challenge to create this card.

The stamp on the bottom and the sentiment are form Stampin Up. My sister gave them to me for Christmas last year.

I used Sweet Treats for the Cake set at 31/2 and the swirls are peiced (I cut it up) from Home Decor. Then I added some prima flowers with gem brasds for the centers and the gem at the top of the sentiment is a sparklite from Megan Elizabeth.

I hope you enjoyed my card. Please leave a comment letting me know what you like best about it. I appreciate your comments.I had great fun making it! 

Please also consider following my blog...if you do (please let me know in the comment section with your blog address) and I'll send you and your blog a shout out on my Feature Friday post.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and find time to make something beautiful this week!

Scrapbook Saturday # 15 - Always My Friend and my bro

Welcome friends! Todays page features an oldy but a goodie. My kids are teenager now but its so mice to remember thos days when they were little and oh so love eachother  with wonderment of a little child. Don't mistake me, they still love eachother but in an annoy eachother, brother/sister way.

Here's the page layout.

I cu the title using my Sure Cuts Alot, I used my cricut to cut the little mice from a Disney Cartridge which I seem to be grabbing lately. Finally I added a little banner for the final touch. I just love the twinkle in my sons eys as he looks at his little sister in this photo. 

Have a great day today! Please leave a comment about your favorite part of this page. Don't forget, make some time today for yourself to make something beautiful!