Feature Friday 1/31/14

 Hello Friends! 

Yeah! It's Friday!  I get to send a Shout Out to a new follower and....

feature a work by one of my blog followers!

But first, let's send a warm Thank you and Shout out to.... a new follower of all things beautiful!
Welcome Dawn! Go on over and check out what she's been posting.

Dawn @ Craftin' Dawn

Now onto my Friday Feature Blogger Fav for this week...
This is from Christine @ I am Cocoa's Mom
This is so darn cute!
Please visit Christine and see the other fun project on her post and leave her some kuddos.

Have a craft-filled Friday and hope to see you back tomorrow for Scrapbook Saturday!  Now it's your turn to make something beautiful!

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Crafting Cafe - Whimsy Umbrella

Hello and welcome to a new challenge over at The Crafting Cafe!

For this challenge, it was my pleasure to color and use the image #462 Umbrella-Whimsy 2 Digital Stamp by The Stamping Boutique. If you'd like to see a tutorial on hoe to make a rocker card you can find it here. You can also find more tutorials on my tutorial tab.

Here's my card using the digi image.

I also incorporated a rocker card using a cut file from Digital Delights

Products:

MME Love Me 6x6 DP pad

Martha Stewart Heart Chain order Punch

clear gems

Jolee's boutique Conversation Hearts stickers

Copics R83, R24, W5

 I hope you enjoyed viewing my project and take the time to browse some of my other postings and pages. 

 Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

 Don't forget to check out all the projects made by the design team at The Crafting Cafe.  Now it's your turn to make something beautiful!

Card Making Monday # 28 - Congratulatons Banners

Hello! Welcome to another fabulous week and another card making Monday posting! I hope you enjoy this card and take time to browse my other postings too. Feel free to leave comments below and this or any other post. 

I used Quilting Bee Patterned paper by My Minds Eye along with my typical Bazill cardstock. I just love the heavy feel of this cardstock for cards! I discoverd I need the lighter stuff for my scrapbook pages even though Bazill cardstock is so lucious but it weighs the books down. I used OWH sketch #188 for this card.

I used up some small scraps for this card. I love the premade sketches for this reason. It helps me to use most of what I would consider "bucket scraps", too small to keep. I added some embossing thread, very tiny brads and some orange gems to comeplete this card.

Please leave a comment and let me know what's your favorite element of this card. I always try to reply to all the comments. Please consider following me and I would love to visit and follow your blog too! I love finding inspiration! 

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Have a great week and I'll see you back on Thursday and Saturday for my other regular posts and posssibly a challenge creation or two on the other days. It's your turn to make something beautiful!

Scrapbook Saturday # 26 - Sisters are Special Friends

Hi There! I'm so excited to share with you this week's  Scrapbook Saturday post!

 For today's post I have a special page for you. One with both my girls...

I used a velum flower embellishment I got froma scrapbooking kit about a year ago and the flower sticker embellishment came from K&Company. The cardstock is from Bazzill  and the patterned paper is from my scrap stash.

I hope you enjoyed this project and please browse my blog and feel free to post comments on any post you like. I love to hear your thoughts. They inspire and challenge me.

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Now it's your turn to make something beautiful!

Feature Friday 1/24/2014

  Hello and welcome to my Feature Friday post for this week!! 

It's my lucky day to showcase (Feature) some of the work by my blog followers this week!

These are  my Friday Feature Blogger Favs for this week...

Nancy @ Scrap Happens!

I just love the detail of this card. There's so much to discover.

please go visit Nancy at her blog and see what other great projects she's been working on.

&

Melissa @ M. Miranda's Creations

I love the colors, image and design of this card. he's so cute!

Send some love her way over at her blog.

I hope you enjoyed my Follower Favs for this week.

Have a craft-filled Friday and hope to see you back tomorrow for Scrapbook Saturday!  Now it's your turn to make something beautiful!

 Thank you again to my followers and if  your a visitor and you'd like a chance to be my Featured Blogger, win some blog candy and you want a "Shout Out" with a link to your blog. Just become a follower of 

all things beautiful and place your blog address in the comment box below.

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Tip Top Tuesday- Ducky Sketch

Hello friends and visitors! Welcome to my little blogspace and for another Design Team post for Tip Top Tuesday. This weeks challenge is to use our favorite sketch.

My favorite sketches are from  Operation Write Home.  I love their sketches because they offer all the dimensions for each part of the sketch. No guess work! For this card I was given the privilege to work with an image from OKR Stampede. I chose digi21906 Duck. I've made an effort to focus a little more on male themed cards. I tend to go girly so I am most often not prepared with a male birthday, congrats etc. card. Since I own so many girly stamps and digis i thought I should start focusing more on the masculine images and this seemed so appropriate.

Although my card is simple I think it will work for anyone who loves the great outdoors and especially for those duck hunters.

I added some pearls and a sentiment to complete the look.

Products:

Eureka Duck Digi

Viva Decor Pearl Pen in Copper

Justrite Anchors Away Birthday Sentiment

Colorbox copper ink pad

Cuttlebug Folder Forest Branches

Kraft and Mud Bazzill cardstock

Fatigue DP 

Copic Markers

Challenges:

Created with love-Winged Things

CAS-Color Blocks

Stampin for the Weekend-Happy Birthday

As You Like It-CAS 

A Gem of a Challenge- For the boys

Hiding in my craftroom-CAS

I hope you enjoyed viewing my card.

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

 Don't forget to check out all the projects made by the design team at Tip Top Tuesday.  Now it's your turn to make something beautiful!

613 Avenue Create-Snow Bunny

 Greetings! WElcome to my little space on the blogsphere. I am so pleased to showcase my newest DT project for 613 Create Challenge Blog. Our challenge today is "Winter Blues"

I had the lovely opportunity to make 2 cards. The first use an image by Fitztown called Winter 10 and the second using The Wild Swan by Nicecrane.

Here are my projects!
For Winter 10 I also added some glitter to her hood and cuffs. In "real life" the shimmer adds a nice touch. I alos thought the touch of red in her hair went really well with the teal colored coat.

Winter 10

1/20/2014

For this card, I just loved the image and wanted to keep it simple. A CAS card for this one. I simply added the sentiment by stamping with a $1.00 stamp I got at Michaels Craft Store and the faux stitching.

Wild Swan

Products:

Stella Rose 6x6 MME paper pad
recollection pearls
metal star from Oriental Trading
Bazzill cardstock

These are the Copic markers I used

Winter 10

Wild Swan

Challenges:

Eureka Stamps #72-Cold/Winter
Craftin' desert Divas-Winter
Just Inspirational-Children
Crafty Sentiment Designs-AG
Tuesday Throwdown #178-Stripes
Clear It Out- Layers and DP
Crafting By Design Monthly-AG
Hiding in My Craftroom-CAS
Glitter & Sparkle-Stiching
The Craft Place-Color Challenge

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Have a fabulous Sunday and find some time to make something beautiful for yourself today!

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Open Minded-Romany/Bling Girl

Welcome! I'm so glad your here to check out another Design Team creation for the Open Minded Crafting Fun Challenge Blog. I'm so thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase  a wonderful digi image by Digi Stamps 4 Joy. You can find the link to the image at the bottom if this post under the products heading. For this challenge we needed to focus on Warmth, Food or Clothing.

I chose clothing. Whatcha think?

This is the sketch I used from Deconstructing Jen

Here's a close up of the embellishment details

Products:
Romany Digi
Victoria Cuttlebug Embossing folder
Wild Orchid Crafts Slide Button Buckle

Beyond Birthday Cricut cartridge for card

Cake Basics Cricut cartridge for fern & Swirl flourish

Ashlyn's Alphabet Cricut cartridge for flourish

red & black ribbon

gold & black glitter glue

red gems

Heirloom Gold Perfect pearl mist

Bazzill cardstock

These are the Copic Markers I used

So...tell me what you think about this card. I love reading your comments...they inspire me to keep creating!  

Challenges:
Scribble & Scrap -AG
Seemacrafts-AG
Natalie and Amy-One for the Girlies
Cards Galore Encore-AG
Through The Craftroom-AG
The Sisterhood of Crafters-Something New (image is new to me)
Penny's Paper-Crafty  Challenge-Embellishments
Sister Act Card Challenge-AG
Jellypark-Buttons or Bows
All Sorts-Buttons and Bows
Sentimental Sunday-More than 3 layers
Crafting by Design-AG

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too.

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

I hope you are inspired by my creation and join in our challenge. Don't forget to go back and link your project and don't forget to check out the other wonderful design team submissions for this challenge. Now it's your turn...go make something beautiful...

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Feature Friday 1/17/14

 Hello and welcome to my Feature Friday post for this week!! 

It's my lucky day to showcase (Feature) some of the work by my blog followers this week!

These are  my Friday Feature Blogger Favs for this week...

Karen @ Stampin' Perfect Peace

I just love the warmth and texute of this card.

please go visit Karen at her blog and see what other great projects she's been working on.

&

Gloria @ Purpleglo Creations

I love the colors, image and design of this card.

Send some love her way over at her blog.

I hope you enjoyed my Follower Favs for this week.

Have a craft-filled Friday and hope to see you back tomorrow for Scrapbook Saturday!  Now it's your turn to make something beautiful!

 Thank you again to my followers and if  your a visitor and you'd like a chance to be my Featured Blogger and you want a "Shout Out" with a link to your blog. Just become a follower of 

all things beautiful and place your blog address in the comment box below.

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Using My Tools Thursday - Dance the Night Away

Hello and welcome guests to another Thursday posting. I'm so happy you've taken some time to come see what I'm up to in the crafty world. For this weeks card I used an OWH sketch. You can find all the Operation Write Home sketches here. I love these sketches because all the measurements are included. No guess work!
This week I worked on an Anniversary card.

Todays Posting uses a stamped image form Lili of the Valley stamps. I used Moments Paper from MME and  Bazill card stock. I also included some gems and ribbon to complete the card.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts. 

Here's the copic colors I used.

I hope you enjoyed this card. please leave a comment below letting me know what you like most. have a wonderful Thursday. Enjoy the moments and try to find some time for yourself and make something beautiful!

Card Making Monday # 27- Milky Meow

Hello and welcome to my little space on the blogs sphere for my newest Card Making Monday post. I enjoyed making this simple card. I used a Mojo Monday sketch for inspiration. It's sketch 3/12/2012. and some scraps in my stash.

The papers are bazill and My Minds Eye "Quilting Bee".  The ribbon is from May Arts and I used Copics to color the image made by Lili of the Valley Stamps out of the UK.

Thank you for visiting and I hope you take time to browse my other postings and leave some comments. I always respond to comments. They keep my mojo up and running. What do you like best about this card creation?

 Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too.

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Challenges:
Without Words - Spots and.or Stripes
Our Daily Bread Designs For Operation Write Home-Stripes
All Sorts-Ribbon
Hiding In My Craftroom #132-Scraps
Craftyhands #5 -AG
Ribbon Carousel- Love, Birthdays and Chicken Soup
Just Inspirational-Girly

Have a fabulous Thursday! Please remember to take some time and make something beautiful today!

613 Avenue Create Block Party

Hi all and welcome! Here again with another DT sample for 613 Avenue Create. I was so lucky so be able to use a fun versitile digi image from Vectoria Designs. These little movie tickets. I love that with a digi I was able to go in and size it to my needs and type text for the specific special occasion.
Today we have not only another challenge over on at the blog but also our block party! How exciting!!! We are celebrating a 1 year blogaversary and in honor of the special day we are offering lots of giveaways. Go on over and check it out!

So, my best friend and I are huge movie buffs. We are the ones who like to quote lines from movies we really like in non-related situations. I know it sounds crazy (you can't imagine how much we've exhausted the script from Forest Gump) In any case when i saw the Vectoria Designs I immediate knew I wanted to make something movie related. And since they are a vintage style I stuck to the neutral tones.

This card won: 

11/15/2013

Here's a close up of all the little Cricut Cartridge and svg files I used.

I hope you enjoyed my little movie buff birthday card and go on over to 7613 Avenue Create to check out all the other fun DT designs Feel free to also browse some of my other postings and pages. 

Products:

Vectoria Designs -Ticket

Cricut Cartridge Wall Decor and More-Film strip

SVGCuts.com A Day at the Carnival

Too Cute by Jessica Western Wedding

Vellum

Copic Marker E37 Sepia

Fiskers Crimper Tool

Challenges:

Crafty Hands #5 - AG

Make It Monday #173 -AG

Bitten By the Bug-Scrap your hobbies

Fantabulous Cricut  Challenge #192-Sentiment

Challenges 4 Everybody #37-AG

Melonheadz-Birthday

Crafty Boots- AG

Through the Craftroom Door- AG

Our Daily Bread Designs-2-0-1-4 recipe-

2 Tickets, 0 Buttons, 1 embossed paper & 4 Die cuts

Fantastic Tuesday #17-AG

Crafting By Designs-Birthday

Penny's Paper-crafty Challenge Blog #159-AG

Stampin Royality- #209-Bithdays

Fab n' Funky-Let's celebrate!

Sister Act Card Challenge #39-AG

Crafting Musketeers #9-Grunge

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Have a fabulous Sunday and find some time to make something beautiful for yourself today!

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Scrapbook Saturday # 25 - Happy Ho Ho

Hi There! 

Welcome bloggers and visitors for this week's Scrapbook Saturday! I hope you enjoy browsing my blog and feel free to post comments on any post you like. I love to hear your comments. They inspire and challenge me.

These pictures are actually from Christmas 2012 and I'm just getting to them now. lol

Here's a close up of the label, candy embellishments and faux stitching.

Products:

Joys of the Season Cricut Cartridge

Thickers letter stickers

Perfect pearl mist

Bazill cardstock

 Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too.

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Have as great Saturday and don't forget to make something beautiful!

Feature Friday 1/10/13

Hello Friends! 

Today is Friday so it's my lucky day to send a Shout Out to some new followers and....

showcase or (Feature) some of the work by my blog followers this week!

But first let's send a warm Thank you and Shout out to....new followers of all things beautiful!
Avril Ann @ Crafting in the Bedroom

Carol @ Crafty-Stamper

Pam Hicks @ Little Turrets Crafty Times

Michelle @ Laughing Ducks

Mikha Adriani @ Mikha's Craft Corner
&

Julia @ Paper and Scraps Creations

Now onto my Friday Feature Blogger Favs for this week...

Court @ Court's Crafts
I really like how she used all the different patterned papers, stitching and splattered paint to create interest and balance.
Go on over to her blog and show her some crafty love.


Erika @ Scrappin' Intervention
This bear with balloons is so darn cute! I love the cut outs in the balloons.
Please got check out her blog and see the fun projects she's been making.

Using My Tools Thursday # 27 - Winter Skis

Greetings! It's yet another Thursday and this weeks showcase is a card decorated with winter snowflakes and Ski equipment.

The patterned paper comes from a 6x6 Fancy Pants pad Blissful Blizzard. I originally was going to use snowmen and the card was going to be horizontal but I wasn't happy with the shapes of snowmen I had in my Cricut Cartridge stash so I went hunting for something else.

I used the Aspen Snowflake Martha punch to embellish. The hat brad came from a Christmas set of brads by oriental Trading and I embossing the sentiment using white Inkadinkadoo embossing powder.

The card opens down with a blank spot for a hand written greeting.

You can find a tutorial on how to make a Joy Fold card here. You can also find more tutorials on my tutorial tab here.

Here's a close up of the embellishments.

Thanks so much for visiting and please leave a comment below letting me know what you liked most about this card. Also, if you decide to become a follower I'll send you and your blog a shout out on my Feature Friday post. I hope you enjoyed my card creation and come back for my Scrapbook Page Saturday. Enjoy your Winter Wonderland today and go make something beautiful!

 Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too.

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Tip Top Tuesday-CAS

Hello and welcome to a new challenge over at Tip Top Tuesday! 

I'm so excited about the first post of 2014! 

For this challenge, it is Clean and Simple (CAS) We also have a FABULOUS tutorial done by Deneen on making paper bows!

With Valentine's Day just around the corner I thought I wold get a had start on those pink and red cards while incorporating this great tutorial. You can find this tutorial here and many more tutorials under my tutorial tab here.

This is teh sketch I used for inspiration. It is from Deconstructing Jen. You can find more sketches under my Sketch Blog tab at the top of the page.

A close up of the embossing design. The embossing shows more in real life; not so much on camera. :-(

Products:

Red Devil and Mauve Bazill cardstock

Sizzex Thank you set 1 embossing folder

MME Love Me 6x6 DP pad

I hope you enjoyed viewing my project and take the time to browse some of my other postings and pages. 

 Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too.

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

 Don't forget to check out all the projects made by the design team at Tip Top Tuesday.  Now it's your turn to make something beautiful!