Hey Big Boy

Hello! It's HUMP DAY!

I got this sexy lady a while back from Kenny K Designs and have been a little intimidated to actually use it. Well, last night I pulled out my Copics....LOTS of Copics and got coloring.

 I'm still trying to think of something witty to put on the inside.

A close up of course. I think I could have put way more "texture" in her hair - I'm not used to coloring in SO much hair and went wild with the darker colors. Oh well. I tried.

Thank you for stopping by!

My card will be entered in the following challenges:

• Kenny K - #49 Favorite Color (Blue)
• Cards 4 Men - #12 Blue & Black (this worked perfectly!)
• Card Positioning Systems - Layout #222

U Rock

Hello and Happy Thursday! Today is HOT and humid, and I don't even want to think about doing anything outside today.

I want to share a card I put together last night:

This little cutie is from Tiddly Inks, colored with Copics, die cut with Nesties and shaded with Ranger ink. There's lots of sewing on this since there are SO many layers. The sentiment is from one of those $1 sets of individual alpha stamps from Michaels.

See the little decoration on the bottom - the blue and pink circles? Well, that's from my new Cricut cart: Birthday Cakes (cut at 1"). And guess what? I WON this CART from the talented Tracy! How awesome is that?! I NEVER win anything!

Close up as usual. And this card is already in the mail! Thank you for stopping by and I hope you visit me again!

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

• Tiddly Inks - #52 Darling Diva (hope she's Diva-ish enough)
• Party Time Tuesday - #18 Anything Goes
• Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch #104

Thinking Hedgehog

Hello and happy Tuesday! Quick share today as I try to accomplish as many things this week as possible - took spring break week off to catch up on things around the house...yup, that means spring cleaning and the such.

For this card, I'm using a Phindy image and think she is SO LOVELY! Papers are from Creative Cottage (it's actually a Christmas Pack), sewing, Glossy Accents, and hand cut tag with computer generated sentiment.

I just found out my little cousin's husband is now taking her even further away (ALASKA!!), and thought I'd send her a few cards to mail and this one to let her know she's crazy and should come back home! Just kidding...not really, but you know what I mean.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you're having a great Spring Break!

This meets the following challenges:

• Creative Cottage - #34 Tag You're It
• Phindy's Place - Get Well/Thinking of You
• Eat Sleep Stamp - layout #121

Kiss Me

Wow! It's Monday already?! Just 11 more months to Christmas LOL! I just can't get over how fast time goes by. I don't know if time started speeding up in my 30's...or maybe it was when Bean was born. Either way, I just can't keep up! Or I'm slowing down?

Here's another Valentine's Day card. I'm using one of my favorite Designed2Delight stamps: Charmed. There is something about her face that I just ADORE.

She's colored with Copics and shaded with Ranger Inks. Glaze, sewing, and handmade "brads." Instead of putting pop-dots under the image, I diecut a cereal box (obviously the same size circle as the image) and glued them together. That way I have added dimension without worrying about it going through the mail (since this card will be going to Reno).

I have a few more Valentine's projects in mind (still got Bean's teachers and classmates to do!), so I better get crafting! Thank you for stopping by!

This card meets the following challenges:

• Cards & Things - #62 Sketch
• Tuesday Throwdown - #32 Valentine

Daddy's Girl

Hello and Happy Wednesday!

Today I'm sharing Bean's Valentine's Day card to her Dad:

When I saw this adorable image by Phindy, I just HAD to get it! Bean actually goes around the house with her little tool belt, safety glasses, and hard hat. Just last night I got her a new tool box and she discovered it this morning and was SO excited.

Here's a little 3-D shot to show off the layers. I left it blank on the outside and will put inside: Happy Valentine's Day...Love, Daddy's Little Girl. Oh, and I actually have a pic somewhere of her wearing his boots, just like these!

DP is M's Just Chillin', sewing, distressing, image colored with Copics and Prismas. Just wanted to show off another close up of this CUTIE!! I know the colors are non-traditional, but her dad's favorite color is orange.

My card meets the following challenges:

• Card Patterns - sketch #97
• Phindys Place - #37 Distressing

Winter Love

Hello and Happy Wednesday. Today I'm sharing a card using the Snowman Love digi from Designed2Delight.

I know he's a snowman, but he's not Christmas-y. DP is DCWV Text Prints, digi colored with Copics, shaded with Ranger's Lipstick ink. I made the "brads" in the lower right corner using my Cropadile - punched the black with the larger hole and the pink with the small hole, glued together, put G Studio glitter glue, then Glossy Accents. They are very sparkly IRL! Of course, plenty of sewing.

Here's a close up of this sweetie. I think this is probably a good "grandma card" from Bean for this Valentines Day.

This card meets the following challenges:

• Sketch Saturday - layout
• Ladybug Crafts Ink - #9 Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Winter Bear

Hello all. Quick share today. I meant to post this earlier this morning, but my eyes were dilated and boy did that give me a headache!

This weeks freebie over at Designed2Delight is this awesome little bear:

I saw another card using this image with the sentiment: Free To Be Me! I thought it was PERFECT! BTW, the free image was sent to those who participated in last weeks challenge, so you can pick this up at the Store. Play this week and you get the next image free.

I will enter this in the following challenges:

• Cupcake Craft Challenges - #121 Non-traditional Colors (that's been my theme this year anyway!)
• Card Patterns - sketch #94
• Crazy Challenges - Use at least 3 DP's
• Little Red Wagon - Die Cuts

Card details: Me & My Big Ideas and glitter matstack. D2D image colored with Prismacolors, fiskars punch, Cuttlebug snowflakes, nesties, Ranger's Lipstick ink, ribbon and sewing.

Birthday Bear

Hello all and hope everyone is having a great Wednesday. The weather isn't so cold today and the sun is shining!

Got a quick card to share with you today:

DP is something I found at Michael's on the clearance rack, covered some chipboard photo corners, added ribbon and sewing, nesties, $1 acrylic sentiment stamp.

Digistamp is Pollycraft colored with Copics and Prismapremiers, and added glaze. I think this would make a great guy's card.

Hope you all have a great day, keep warm, and make time for something fun!

This card meets the following challenges:

• Pollycraft - #72 Chipboard
• Party Time Tuesdays - #23 Anything Goes Birthday
• Papertake Weekly - #51 sketch (flipped)

Skating Penguin

Hello all and Happy Tuesday!! Thursday is just around the corner and my brother is on his way into town to have Thanksgiving with us. My house will be full and crowded, but hey, it's all good fun.

So here's another card I made this weekend. I've been into penguins lately and LOVE them for Christmas cards. The image is the freebie this week at Designed2Delight (free for those who played last week), but is available in the shop if you want to play this week (and you'll get next weeks image free). DP is MME Magnolia and the layout is Eat Sleep Stamp #109. I used my Cuttlebug for the snowflakes for the Double Delight challenge, added glaze and Ranger Ink for shading.

OK, hope to get more cleaning done today and make a couple more Christmas gifts...I'll share those soon!

Penguins in Love

Hello all and hope you're all having a great Thursday. So, Bean got her flu shot yesterday, and by last night, she was sick! What's that all about?!

Today I'm using a freebie from Pollycraft:

DP is Pink Petticoat, candy canes are Christmas Cheer Cricut cart cut at 1 3/4" (once regular and once on Flip), image is Pollycraft colored with Copics and Bics, shaded with Chalk Inks, sewing, and glaze.

Got an OK shot of the glaze-y goodness.

This card meets the following challenges:

• Pollycraft Challenge - #68 It's Chill Time
• Sketch and Stash - #47 the Sketch and my Stash is my Christmas Cheer Cricut Cart (I think I've had this for a couple years now and never used it!!)
• Christmas Card Challenges - #48 Candy Canes

Dude and Zipper Tutorial

Hello all and happy Tuesday! Guess what? On one of our radio stations, they are playing Christmas music 24/7. Yup, it's already started. I hate to admit it, but I LOVE Christmas music.

So I got this great little squirrel from Dustin Pike (he has some of the BEST sales ever!), I colored him up and just had him collecting dust. So last night, I put him to use for a few challenges:

DP is DCWV Green Stack, and they have a slight shiny texture, so there's more reflection in this pic than I'd like. But you get the idea. Sentiment is Mickey Font at 1", sewing, and a little glaze.

I see lots of cards with the inside all decorated up, so I gave it a shot...just a little bit tho!

This card meets the following challenges:

• Doodle Dragon Studios - Anything Goes (must use Dustin Pike image)
• Cards For Men - #22 Anything Goes
• Just Cute Bears (Now accepting all Cute Animals) - #38 sketch
• Paper Sundaes - #42 For the Boys

*****NOT A CARD*******
Just sharing a little pouch I made using an online Zipper Tutorial. This was super easy and took maybe all of 30 minutes to put together....I see a Christmas gift idea!!

So this now holds my precious markers when I color on the road. Yup, I take images and markers along with me everywhere I go. I don't do well sitting idle.

Winter Wishes

Hello and Happy Tuesday. So, initially I set out to participate in the MyGrafico challenge: embossing. Then I moved on and found another challenge, and another. So I put my idea's down on paper:

First, I love this little penguin. Second, you can't see all the glittery goodness or glaze that looks so pretty. Anyway, in real life, this card turned out pretty darn cute and is now "Card #6" (as in I have now completed 6 Christmas cards!).

So, I double check the MyGrafico site for the deadline and realized one little thing...I FORGOT TO EMBOSS!! So I take out my Cuttlebug and added a few snowflakes in each corner! As I do this, I realize the entire card would have looked great embossed...instead of the mess I made in the corners. But it's too late now...and whoever this card goes to, they probably won't even realize it was an afterthought! **Details: Magnolia DP, sewing, MyGrafico image colored with Copics, glaze, glitter glue, Stampin' Up Sentiment Short & Sweet.

This meets the following challenges:

• MyGrafico - Embossing (LOL!)
• Friday Sketchers - Sketch #125
• Paper Garden Projects - Holiday Cards
• Stamp Challenges - Digi Day

Retro Toaster

Hello all and Happy Monday! Today is Squigglefly Challenge day and the current challenge is:

FALL/HALLOWEEN COLORS

I have a new Squigglefly image to show off...still using fall-ish colors:

OK...tootin' my own horn here, but I LOVE this card!!! The image is TOASTER by Michelle Bertuzzi. It also comes with the sentiment "Feeling a Little Burnt Out?" but I went with my own: Poppin' In To Say....Hi.

The papers are Magnolia, shaded with Ranger Inks, image colored with Copics, a little sewing, computer generated sentiment.

This also meets the following challenges:

• Tuesday Throwdown - #22 Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday - Card Sketch
• Charisma Cards - Vintage

Boo Kitty

Hello all. Got a quick (and late) post today:

I got this adorable kitty as a freebie from Pollycraft. I was happy with my coloring...up until I sponged the background in black and purple. I'm just not sure about it! The letters are from the Mickey Font Cricut Cart (cut at 1.5" multicut).

Here's a view so hopefully you can see the glaze on the moon and eye, and the glitter pen on the fence. See...told you this was going to be short!

This meets the following challenges:

• Pollycraft - #66 purple, green and 1 other (black)
• A Spoon Full of Sugar - BOO!
• Card Positioning Systems - layout #189

Fairy Wish

Hello all. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Anyway, I made a Birthday card - to go in my collection. I never have enough of these!

I'm using a sketch from 2sketches4you, and the digi is Pollycraft colored with Prismas - for their It's a Fairytale Challenge.  The sentiment is Stampin' Up.

I got this cool pen a while back at my Copics Certification class, and it's real glittery. This is my first use (on her dress and hat) and I LOVE it! I don't know where to get them, but I can see me "needing" more. I also put glaze on her wings...still working with my new camera to get a good shot of glaze and shimmer.

Anyway, have a safe and fun weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Treat Bag Cover

Hello all...Halloween is just around the corner and I'm in the mood for decorations! We got a couple of light up pumpkins and ghosts (from Target) to dress up the living room, and Bean is looking forward to the big Candy Night!!

I so want to make cute little candy things for the kids at Bean's school...but first, they don't celebrate Halloween, and second, they are "junk food" free. Huh?! Remember just being a kid growing up? Not having all these diet rules, prayer rules, pledge rules? Oh don't get me started :)

Anyway, this is my first attempt at making one of these cute treat bag covers. As I was finishing up, my mind was running with lots of ideas on decoration, sizes, types of candy, etc. A few details: bazzil CS, sewing, Martha Stewart punch (did you get your 50% off any Martha product at the Oprah site?), pumpkins are Tiddly Inks colored with Prismapremiers, $1 sentiment stamp, cropadile, string.

This meets the following challenges:

• Paper Playtime - #20 Orange as Main Color
• Digital Tuesday - #80 Sew Special (plus digi)
• Papertake Weekly- 3 of a Kind
• Project Tuesday - Treat Bag Cover (you can find the tutorial link here)
• Tuesday Throwdown - Three Elements
• Tiddly Inks - #25 Anything Halloween

Thanks for stopping by!

Earth's Laughter

Hello all and Happy Tuesday! With the air getting cold, all I want to do is craft! I LOVE Fall and Winter!! So if anyone wants, please feel free to share what you've been working on...even share a link or two to something crafty!

Today I'm sharing a 100% digital card! First, I'm using this weeks freebie from Designed2Delight. The trio of flowers come in black and white and I used my Corel software to change them to green. I opened Word, selected Text Box, and inserted my green flowers, resized, and copied so I'd have 3. Then another Text Box with just solid green to put behind my flowers. Then another Text Box for the sentiment (that comes with the flower set). One last Text Box for the green with black swirls background from Pink Petticoat!

I printed all these Text Boxes on one sheet of 80lb white CS. I can't even tell you how fast this card was to make. Having the layout in my head made it go even faster. BTW, I put a single strip of ribbon first, then made a pretty bow with another ribbon and adhered with a sticky dot.

Thanks so much for stopping by today....keep warm!

Celebrate with Squigglefly

Hello and Happy Monday! Today's challenge over at Squigglefly is:

Celebrate!

That means any celebration so I chose Birthday and my favorite Squigglefly image:

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this little bunny because he's so versatile. The DP is Me&My Big Ideas, the sentiment is computer generated, image is Squigglefly colored with Copics, fussy-cut and 3D dots, and just a tad of sewing. This was SUPER simple! I love 20-minute cards.

So don't forget to enter your Celebration card over at the Challenge Blog and I recommend you check out the rest of the DT creations because they are a groups of super talented ladies (all blogs listed to the right ----->).

Wish Big Birthday Bear

Hello all and happy Thursday! Almost October and already there is a chill in the morning air. I LOVE it! Quick share since it was a quick card :)

I happened to come across several challenges that all seemed to work perfectly together. The stamp is Pollycraft colored with Prismas, sentiment is Stampin' Up heat embossed in light pink, round nesties and Lipstick Ranger Ink, swirls Cuttlebug folder (lightly sanded), bling and sewing.

I really like this one. Know how sometimes a card is "eh it'll due" and once in a blue moon something turns out just as planned? No? Just me huh? Well, I like it!

This card meets the following challenges:

• Cupcake Craft Challenges - #110 Pink & Brown
• Diecut Dreams - #67 Teddy Bear Birthday
• Pollycraft - #63 No Designer Paper
• Just Cute Bears - #36 Swirls & Bling
• Card Patterns - sketch #83
• Crazy Challenge - No Ribbons or Buttons

Happy Birthday Monster

Hello and happy Wednesday! Here is a card I made for my Auntie Diane. Her birthday is in October, and she's also a crafty lady. I've been sending her my handmade cards from the beginning and she was so inspired that she got her own Cricut and now makes papercrafts! And you should have seen some of MY first attempts! LOL! I would not have considered them to be "inspiring" at all!

A while back, Dustin Pike had a sale and I just had to have these little guys. He's colored with copics...I went a little outside the lines because I was busy watching Bean go to "Target" on her 3-wheeler.

I used two different Cuttlebug folders, sentiment is Inkadinkado, sewing. Note to self: stamp sentiment BEFORE embossing! I also added glaze to teeth, eyes, and balloon.

This card meets the following challenges:

• Card Positioning Systems - sketch CPS186
• Doodle Dragon Studios - Brown, Red and Orange