Brenscraps

Aprons

2012-01-22T08:37:00.000-08:00

Busy, busy, busy. That is what my life has been this last month. My last post showed some Christmas gifts my hubby and I were making. I thought I would share the aprons I have made recently. One of my co-workers saw the aprons I made for Christmas for the Grandbabies and asked me to make one for her niece. I wanted to try a new pattern. I love how it turned out, very girly!! Of course I had to take it to Peighton to model it for me. She is such a cute little model!!

Don't you love this gorgeous fabric? It is a drapery fabric, so very heavy. Here is another apron I made for a co-worker for Christmas, had to wrap it around Peighton!! The base is a vintage valance that I added a ruffle and some gorgeous lace and a wasteband to make a shabby chic apron.

Now to show you some of the aprons I made for the kiddo's for Christmas. I made this apron in 3 different sizes. This is Peighton and Nova.

Here is Jemma.

And Kiah.

Now you know Gunner needed an apron as well. We have to teach those boys that they need to learn to cook as well. I thought I was pretty brilliant when these pockets lined up perfectly on Gunner's apron!!

You can't really see it, but I made Ralphie one as well.

Now, to show you some of the pictures of the kiddo's with their doll beds we made from my last post:

I wish Nova's face wasn't blurry, but you can see how excited she was. Of course the first thing she did was crawl in herself!!

The girls loved their doll beds as well.

Kiah thought she should get in the bed as well!! It is a good thing these plans from Ana White are strong!!

Papa Gene built Gunner a Gun Rack for Christmas. I cut the title out in brown vinyl on my Cricut Expression.

And now to leave you with a picture of the newest Grandbaby. This is Bryar. He was born on Dec 16th. I was given the most amazing gift of being one of her coaches during delivery. So amazing.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Handmade Christmas Gifts

2011-12-20T19:18:00.000-08:00

Wow, it has been almost a month since I have made a card. Now that doesn't mean that I haven't been crafting. This year we decided to make a lot of our Christmas gifts for the Grandbabies. Not to save money, but because in my memory the things that meant so much to us as kids and the best memories that I have of Christmases when I was a child are the handmade items that we received. When I say we, I always mean my twin sister Rebecca and I. Because as you can imagine, whatever was made for one, was made for both of us. So Papa and I have been sewing (OK, that is me), cutting, building, sanding, and painting gifts for the kiddo's,

The girls, (Peighton-5, Kiah-3, Jemma-2) are getting beds for their dolls. The beds of course need bedding, mattresses, pillows and a quilt. Nova who is 1 1/2 is getting a crib for her baby, which of course will require a mattress, quilt, and pillow. And Gunner who is almost 3 is getting a gun rack made by Papa, that will say Gun's Guns!!

I was so excited to find fabulous plans over at Ana White Homemaker for beds for 18 inch dolls. Now Gene did the cutting, I think he is afraid I would cut off a finger or something!! And I did the building.

I learned a few lessons along the way. Don't buy a cute little drill that is small and under 10 volts because it is Lime Green, no use the bigger 18 volt drill that belongs to your husband!! I learned how to countersink screws. I do really think though that you should have 3 drills so that you don't have to continually change back and forth. ;) The first bed took me a good day to finish, the next two went so much faster. The building that is..... not the sanding and painting!!

Now, I wish I could take the credit for the crib that Gene built for Nova. He did it one day while I was a work, I did however get to sand and paint it. I think it is darling and can't wait to give it to her! It has a cool little storage drawer underneath it. You know, for diapers and such!

The plans for this crib can also be found by Ana White. I just love how this turned out!! The blankets, pillows and mattresses were not made with any plans, just sewn. Now did I mention I can't wait for Christmas!! I cannot wait to give these gifts to the girls. I will be back with Gunners gift later!

I am going to link up my projects to:

My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

Not Just a Housewife.

Todays Creative Blog Holiday projects.

Skip To My Lou Made by you Monday,

Baby Shower with the Cricut

2011-11-18T08:14:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday we were able to Bless my daughter Katie and her husband Adam with a Baby Shower. My daughter Danelle, Adam's mom Tina and I planned a baby shower with their baby room theme in mind. The theme is Knights and Dragons. Well, knights and dragons is just not a theme that you can find anywhere. So, I got out my Cricut and my Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge. Silly me, I don't have a pic of the invites. And to be honest, time got away from me and not everyone got one!! Gotta love Facebook events!! We had over 40 people at the shower and believe me, Bryar was blessed. Here are a few pics from the shower.

For the Knights and Dragons theme I went with shields. We used all black and silver tablecloths, napkins, plates, etc. I hung the banner with black and white twine and mini clothespins.

I made a pile of mini shields and stamped each one with a B.

These cupcakes are so YUMMO!! Who likes coffee???? Well, you all know that I do.

1. I took a chocolate cake mix and replaced most of the water in the recipe with coffee and a some Kahlua coffee syrup.

2. I then folded some of the Kahlua syrup into some cool whip and used a tip to put the cream into the center of the cupcake when it cooled.

3. I made a chocolate buttercream frosting and added coffee to it.

4. Sprinkle on some toffee Heath bits.

Overkill, nah!!

Wish I could say that I made that cool shield for Bryar's wall with my Cricut. but no, my daughter Danelle had that made for him. How cool is that?!! Baby Bryar was gifted with so many fabulous gifts, so many fabulous handmade items, I was blown away. This quilt was made by his great grandmother.

And a pic of both of my pregnant daughters. I will be blessed with 2 more grandsons, bringing the count to 4 and 4. We are so blessed.

My daughter Danelle is my fabulous photographer, and here are a couple of my fave pregnancy photos of Katie and Adam.

Isn't this T-shirt the greatest? A gift from his mom. I love it!!

And there she is.

Now, just a note: I was so busy working on this shower that I skipped out on Guylou's Christmas with a Wreath Challenge this week. You will want to head on over to the Challenge and check it out. I know she has some new images to play with.

Anita Be Stampin Blog Hop and Release

2011-11-11T05:00:00.002-08:00

It's Anita Be Stampin Digi Release and Blog Hop day. Are you ready? All of the new releases are now available over at the Anita Be Stampin Store. We are celebrating by having a Blog Hop. There is so much inspiration along the way, you will want to visit every blog to check it out. One lucky person that comments on every blog will win the entire new release. How fun is that? Now if you came here from Anita's fabulous blog then you are on the right track. If not you will want to head back to the ABS Challenge Blog where all the fun starts. Now time for my creations. I played with two of the new images. The first one is Sandy Clause.

And the second image is called Elfira.

Both of these sentiments are from AmyR over at All That Scraps from last years Christmas sentiments.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! The next stop on the hop is Dee's Blog. Remember to leave a comment on every blog on the hop by Sunday, Nov. 13^th at 12:01 am CST for your chance to win all of the ABS digi images released today. Here is the list of all of the stops on the hop today, just in case you get lost along the way:

Something other than a card!!

2011-11-07T07:06:00.000-08:00

My hubby and I have been hitting the little auction on Friday nights. One thing that I have been bidding on are pictures and frames. I have so many ideas in mind for them. I have been wanting to make a chalk board for my kitchen wall. This is what I came up with.

As you can see I haven't hung it yet, but I wanted to share it!! So, the question is.....should I add white paint to the frame and distress it? Or leave it as is? Want to see how it started? Well of course you do!! I bought this picture for $5 at the auction.

I tried to rough up the glass using steel wool, next time I will use a fine sand paper. Apparently the paint adheres better that way. I cleaned the glass with rubbing alcohol and taped off the frame. I used spray paint chalk. And gave it about 3 coats. After waiting at least 24 hours I cured the chalk board with chalk and then wiped it off. Yesterday I bought chalk paint in the can, my friend Laurie says that is the way to go. We will see!!!

It's Your Birthday

2011-11-06T06:00:00.001-08:00

It's your birthday. Starla, it's your birthday!!

Did you come by way of Gina's fabulous blog? If not you will want to start back at Vicki's blog so you won't miss any of the hop. Starla is having a bog hop to celebrate her birthday, her 1 year blogaversary, and her belated celebration of 100 followers to her blog. She has asked a group of blogger buddies to join in the hop and help her celebrate. I was happy to be asked and happy to hop along with Starla and this great group of crafters. What Starla doesn't know is that Guylou has created a special image just for Starla. Starla loves everything fairies and so she has requested that we all use a fairy image. So happy birthday Starla, what's better than to have an image named after you.

Now you will want to check out the rest of the hop. Your next stop along the way is Tracy's blog. If you leave a comment on all the stops along the way I know that Starla has some great blog candy for the winners. If you get lost along the way here are the participants.

Brenda ~ you are here

Thankful with a Turkey Twist

2011-11-04T07:51:00.000-07:00

The holiday season has began. It seems though that Thanksgiving gets somewhat lost between the hoopla of Halloween and the commercialism of Christmas. I love how Thanksgiving comes earlier in Canada. It seems there is more time to reflect on what you are thankful for before jumping into Christmas. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas, but it is good for us to stop and be Thankful for what God has given us. When you walk into stores and the Halloween candy and costumes is just one isle away from the Christmas decorations you wonder where Thanksgiving went. I think we all need to take some time to be thankful for God's goodness.

We are having a Thanksgiving Challenge over at Guylou's Inimitability with a turkey twist. I used the image, Leah cooks a Turkey.

For this card I used some paper from my stash, the Happy Thanksgiving block is from The Cutting Cafe and the Taste and See stamp is from Layers of Color.

I hope you will pop over to the Challenge Blog and check out all the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team. You will have until 10:00 PM EST on Novemeber 17th to play along. And don't forget to have a turkey somewhere on your project.

I am going to add this to the following challenges.
Dutch Dare Card Challenge has a Give Thanks theme.
Moving along with the Times has food as the challenge.
My Mums Craft Shop has with Thanks.

You is Kind

2011-11-02T19:04:00.000-07:00

One of the best movies I have seen this year was The Help. Loved that movie. Regina over at The Cutting Cafe has brought us a cutting file with those words that really were just so inspiring. You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important. Wow, if we could just teach all our children those things when they are young they would all be self confidant when they grow up! I got my inspiration from a blogging buddy, Craftdee Donna. She had found these little notebooks and altered them. I found the same ones recently and used one for today's project. We are featuring Large Circles over at The Cutting Cafe this week.

Well now of course, I used some My Mind's Eye paper, my lacy circle and regular circle nestie. I inked it with some Tim Holtz walnut distress ink.

I used my cropadile to place eyelets for my brown dotted sheer ribbon to tie through. That butterfly is from a set from Close To My Heart that I stamped with Stazon onto a piece of plastic packaging then cut it out.

Now, my pen doesn't quite match. Before I give this away I will find a pen to match it.

I am going to add this to the challenge over at Cooking it up with Katie it anything but a card.

Anything Goes at Anita Be Stampin

2011-11-01T05:00:00.000-07:00

It is time for another challenge over at Anita Be Stampin. The challenge is the easiest of all challenges. It is an anything goes challenge. For this weeks challenge I used an old favorite. I used Rosie's Sweets. Every time I use these stamps I just want to tell you how high quality they are. I just love them! And you get so many stamps in the package. I pulled out some gorgeous papers from the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Collection. Of course my Copics and some seam binding.

I also pulled out one of my favorite tried an true tools, the cropadile and put an eyelet on both sides of my front open card to pull the seam binding ribbon through.

Sometimes you have such gorgeous papers that you just don't want to cover them up. That being said, I really let the paper showcase this card. Here are the Copics I used to color Rosie up.

You will want to head on over to Anita Be Stampin and check out my teamies creations. While you are there you may want to scroll down and check out the Design Team Call Anita is having.

This is today's second post so you might want to scroll down and check out the Challenge over at the Outlawz.

November Novelties Color Challenge

2011-10-31T19:50:00.000-07:00

It is time for a new month of color challenges over at the Outlawz. November brings us November Novelties. What is this, you ask? This is the twist that goes along with our Color Inspirations. November we are sponsored by the fabulous Paper Shelter. I had SEW much fun coloring this image Cute Dressmaker. She is just SEW cute!! I used some of my favorite My Mind's Eye papers, some red ric rac and of course my sewing machine.

What is the color inspiration? These gorgeous colors were brought to us by Sara this week, just wait til you see all the teamies amazing creations with these fun colors.

The November Novelties is to use twine. Do you ever go through a challenge and get your card all done and then remember there was a twist. Umm yeah, even when it is my own challenge I forget!! LOL, well I was lucky cuz the twist was TWINE. Love when you luck out like that!!

I had fun with the inside of this card too. I used a Tim Holtz die cut for the inside with more of that MME paper.

Now, our sponsor, The Paper Shelter is sponsoring us with a $20 gift certificate. You could get your own Cute Dressmaker image!!!

Of course I want to add my card to the challenge at the Paper Shelter for their Anything Goes challenge.

Free December Daily Sets

2011-10-29T18:57:00.000-07:00

Who loves free? You have got to run on over to The Cutting Cafe. Regina is offering her December Daily sets free through Wednesday, November 2nd. If you have ever wanted to try out the Cutting Cafe digitals, here is your chance to try some for free!!!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

2011-10-26T21:39:00.000-07:00

I am sure that you are all aware that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. This month I celebrated with a good friend her 3 year anniversary of her surgery to remove the cancer that had invaded her breast. And with a very heavy heart I have learned of another one of my dear friends that will begin her fight with breast cancer. So as I sat down to make my inspiration card for this weeks Cutting Cafe post I had some inspiration from 2 very strong women whom I love very much. And because of them I want to stress the importance of Self Breast Exams. Don't wait until you are 40 and are now old enough to be sent for a routine mammogram. If you have breasts, do your self exams. Please.

I used the digi set, You Gotta Have Hope for my card. Added some lace from Wild Orchid Crafts, ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon, a crocheted flower from My Mind's Eye and a Hope charm to round it off.

Funny story, last week we were sitting with my daughter and her husband and a commercial came on about donating for breast cancer. My daughter asked the question, "why do you think they focus so much on breast cancer when there are so many cancers out there? It doesn't seem like they focus as much on the other ones."

My answer, "Because boys like Boobies!" My husband said, "yup, its cuz we like boobies!!" My thoughts are that yup our hubbies like boobies, but they would love us with or without those boobies as long as we are still here with them!!

Please make sure to pop over to The Cutting Cafe and check out my teamies inspiration projects. And don't forget to "Check your bumps for Lumps!"

We are back!!

2011-10-25T05:00:00.005-07:00

Our summer vacation is over!! We took a little break over at Anita Be Stampin, but we are back with a new challenge. We are ready to start seeing your fabulous projects again. We have a brand new challenge for you with the release of Broomhilda and Frankenbride in digital format. The challenge is to make a Spooky Halloween themed project. I played with Broomhilda this week.

I don't have any Halloween themed paper so I used this black and cream paper, sewed along the edges in orange, added some orange paper, ribbon and button and a sentiment from The Cutting Cafe. Now I would love to see what you have for us!

Anita is starting the challenges back up with a Bang!! This first challenge will have a $25 ABS gift certificate for the winner. The challenges will now require you to use an ABS image on your project. You will want to check out the rules in the side bar of the challenge blog.

Don’t have any ABS images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! You can always join the Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group where members have access to a free digi image.

Also, for a very limited time you can snag the Batty digi image absolutely FREE at www.anitabestampin.com. This cute bat image is perfect for this week’s challenge! ;)

Now I am going to add this to the challenge at

iCopic has orange and black

Octoberfest with an Oddball Twist

2011-10-24T20:43:00.000-07:00

It is Tuesday and time for another Color Challenge over at the Outlawz. The Oddball twist this week is to recycle something onto your card. I used cardboard to cut out my gears with my Tim Holtz sizzix die cut. And of course I used his distress ink to ink up the edges of everything.

I used this darling image from Bugaboo, our October sponsor. The prize for the month of October is 7 digi stamps from Bugaboo. How fabulous is that?!! I used Deacon Wings and cut him out. I didn't want the heart on my card. The background is from The Cutting Cafe, Monster Love Background and the sentiment is fromSpooky Square Sentiments.

And here is your color inspiration for this weeks challenge.

You will want to take the time to play along this month for your chance to win.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft your passion has use Kraft paper.

Crafty Cardmakers has Cute with a dark twist.

iCopic has black and orange as its challenge.

Make it Monday with the Kraft Journal has Anything Goes.

Make My Monday has black and orange as its challenge.

FALL Recipe Challenge

2011-10-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

This is my favorite time of the year. I love when the green leaves are changing colors; from green to yellow, to orange and even red. I just see God's masterpiece everywhere I look. It amazes me how many colors of green that He created and then how those greens can change to other colors. Amazing. Over at Guylou's Inimitability Gina has brought us a real challenge this month. She challenges us to make a FALL project.

F-Fabric

A-Amber

L-Lace

L-Leaves

I took G's image Thanksgiving Goodies and printed it on fabric. I took a piece of cream fabric, used my ATG to apply adhesive to my cardstock and attached the fabric and then ran it through my printer. I worked really well. I used some AMBER colored thread to make a border and then pulled the threads from the edges. I then sewed it to the other material, added some leaves, added the backing and sewed a border. It really is more square than my pic looks!!

This really is a fun little project for some easy Fall decorating. I hope you will head on over and check out the other FALL projects by my teamies. There is some fabulous inspiration on the challenge blog.

I also know that we are having a design team call right now, so if you would like to be a part of this fabulous team check out the deets on how to apply.

Boxes, Boxes, Boxes

2011-10-20T07:09:00.000-07:00

Over at The Cutting Cafe this week we have lots of inspiration using the Bags and Boxes cutting files. I used the Halloween Pillow Box file to create a little Spider pillow box filled with treats.

These little pillow boxes are so easy to use. I went a bit simple with this one. This is the reason you save packaging materials. I cut out a piece of plastic from one package and attached to the inside of the pillow box so the treats won't fall out! You will want to head on over to the Cutting Cafe and check out all the fabulous Inspiration projects from my teamies. And did you recieve the email from The Cutting Cafe this morning? Regina is having a great sale.

Our special this week from today until Friday at midnight October 21th 2011, you can choose ANY increments of 5 BAGS OR BOXES for $5.00

Head on over and check out all the fabulous files to choose from.

Happy Birthday Guylou!!! Surprise!!

2011-10-12T21:01:00.003-07:00

Welcome to the Surprise Birthday Party of our friend and digital artist, Guylou. Today is her birthday and she is such a SPECIAL lady that we just wanted to share it with everyone. I have been a friend to Guylou for about 5 years now and feel so blessed to have her as a part of my life. She is Uber~talented and just a sweetheart. We, her design team and friends have decided to honor her with a blog hop for her birthday. I am so excited to be the beginning of this hop with a card using one of her earlier images.

Bernadette is from her Retro Ladies line. She is a very elegant lady, just like Guylou!!!

OK, now we know that you like to find an awesome RAK at the end of a blog hop, so Gina has graciously provided an amazing prize (one pack of 4 copic multiliners, one pack of 2 stardust pens, a black memento ink pad, and a $5 gift card to Guylou's Inimitability) for one winner that will be chosen by Random.org at the end of this hop.

You will have from now until Sunday

October 16th at 11:59 PM EST to complete the hop, leaving comments on all blogs along the way and ending at Guylou's blog to wish her a happy birthday.

You will want to head on over to Carmen's blog now and see what she has created to wish G (as we call her) a very Happy Birthday.

And if you happen to get lost along the way here is a list to get you to all the stops.

Brenda ~ You are here

Carmen

Kim

Sara

Tracy

Trina

Gina

Guylou ~aka the birthday girl!

The Deets of my card:

I used some of my favorite Echo Park paper from the "For the Record" collection. I thought it fit will with this image. Happy Birthday comes from the AmyR Elegant Greetings stamp set.

Tuesdays with the Outlawz

2011-10-11T06:11:00.000-07:00

Would you like a chance to win 7 digital images by Bugaboo Stamps? Our fabulous sponsor over in the Color Challenge at the Outlaws is offering one person 7 images in October. I used this fun image called Hween Brat Pumpkin for my card.

Isn't she just too cute? Here is your inspiration this week.

The Octoberfest with an Oddball twist is to add a leaf or leaves to your project. Or have one somewhere on your project.

Now, I want you to take a closer look at that background paper. It is from the Cutting Cafe and is called Monster Love background. I printed it on kraft paper. Love how that looks. I used a CuttleBug folder to emboss the orange, a little pumpkin ribbon, my leaves and voila, there you go!! I hope you will take a moment to check out the other design team members fabulous creations.

Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge

2011-10-06T20:17:00.000-07:00

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and the second leading cause of death. Your best weapon against breast cancer is EARLY DETECTION through two common methods of breast screening: breast examination (self and clinical) and screening mammography. Your health is important; you are important. Take good care of yourself. I had mine last month. When was your last one?

We were challenged by Sara to make a project that is mostly Pink. It must include a pink ribbon on it somewhere. I used Leah and Breast Cancer Ribbon for my card.

I used a nestie to make my shaped card as well as for the image and sentiment. The Get Well Soon sentiment is from AmyR Elegant Greetings stamp set. This gorgeous ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon. I won this gorgeous bunch of pink and brown ribbon from a blog hop and I have been hoarding it but finally found the perfect card for it!

My family has been touched by cancer quite a bit this year and I just really want to reiterate to get yourself checked. The key is to find it as early as possible!

Don't forget to head on over to Guylou's Inimitability Challenge blog to check out all the Design Team's projects!!

Now, you think you don't have an image that fits? No worries,

Guylou designed a new image in honor of the Breast Cancer Awareness program and for reaching over 250 followers on her blog. Gabrielle and ribbon is available for free between October 7th and 14th at Guylou's Online Store. Please use the code BCA-GABRIELLE at check out to get her free.

For My Little Pumkin

2011-10-05T07:05:00.000-07:00

This week over at The Cutting Cafe we are sharing treat boxes. I used the Pumpkin Treat Box this week. Have you been to The Cutting Cafe yet and checked out all the fun boxes? Have you ever tried to cut and fold your own boxes? Regina's files have all the instructions for cutting and folding. Takes all the work out of it!!

Instead of using the paper handle that is provided I used some twill ribbon. I will make a suggestion. Don't print on white cardstock!! I am going to make more of these for my grandbabies, but first I need to make a trip to the craft store for some cardstock that will fit in my printer. :) And, well I don't live close to any craft stores so will need to do that this weekend! Here is a close up of this fun little treat box. It is the perfect size for little ones.

I used some of my YR copics to give a little dimension to the pumpkin. I forgot how this kind of paper will suck up my ink!! Thanks for stopping by. Don't forget to check out the newest Case it Tuesday with the Cafe Challenge.

Are you ready to Party?

2011-10-02T21:01:00.003-07:00

The design team for the Outlawz have been working pretty hard putting together some great tutorials and inspiration to share with you in a fun Blog Hop. We have 7 challenges over at the Outlawz, a different one for each day of the week. So for our big 1000 member party we thought it would be fun to do a blog hop. Nope, you don't have to hop to 32 different blogs, just one for each challenge team and of course we are starting with our fearless leaders blog. So if you came here Anary's blog then you are right on track. If not then you will want to hop on over to Colleen's blog. That is where the fun starts. At each site you will see a tutorial as well as creations from all the design team members. Let's get started! The color team has decided to give you a tutorial on a flip flop card. Here is my card. I used the Welcome Fall set from the Cutting Cafe on my card. They are one of the many sponsors for the party!

And here are all the design teams creations.

Rox

Guylou

Sara

Wow, are you all still with me? Now I want to share the tutorial for this type of a card.

You will want to start with a piece of cardstock size 6.5 X 5.25.

You will want to score at 2 3/4 and 3 3/4 down 1 inch on both sides of your cardstock lengthwise. Then you are going to cut from 1" to 2 3/4 and 3 3/4 to 5 1/2 on your lengthwise cut. Leaving your scored lines intact.

Then you are going to cut from 1" to 4 1/4" on the width side. Clear as Mud? I hope not. The idea is to leave an inch on all sides and then fold on your scored lines.

Each of the design team members then decorated there cards differently. Now for your color inspiration, we are after all the COLOR team!!

I really hope you will hop on over to the Outlawz and check out the fun we are having. There is over $800 in prizes to be won this week. We have the most fabulous sponsors and they have all outdone themselves this week. Now you will want to hop on over to Sandi's blog. I for one can't wait to see what she has in store for us all!!!
But before you do, you will want to make sure that you leave a comment here and on the other blogs to be eligible to win the prize. If you become a follower of my blog you will receive 2 entries. We will be checking!! Then head on over to the Color Challenge to add your very own fancy fold card. Make sure you add it to the 1000 member folder.

Don't forget to check out the 1000 member folder. There is over $800 in prizes!!

Now just in case you get lost along the way here is the blog list for you to come back to!

The Outlawz Host: Colleen Holmes

CAS Host: Maureen Merritt

Greetings Host: anaRy Baumgarth

Color Host: Brenda Ogle

Sketch Host: Sandi Huggett

Twisted Thursdays Host: Sharri Steffens

Copic/Promarkers Host: Jo Ham

Paper Ala Mode: Rona Mallard

Welcome Fall with The Cutting Cafe

2011-09-29T07:11:00.000-07:00

This week we are showcasing the Welcome Fall set over at the Cutting Cafe. What a fabulous set with images and sentiments. Are you feeling the crispness in the air in the mornings? We are, our crispness usually involves sogginess and fogginess here in Oregon. The design team outdid themselves with this fabulous set. You will want to hop over to the blog to check out the amazing designs of my teammies.

I used some kraft paper, seam binding ribbon, brads and orange button to top it off. I love using my sewing machine to finish it off.

Happy Fall!!! You should check out the newest Case it Tuesday at the Cafe Challenge.

4 Crafty Chicks has an Anything Goes challenge to enter into.

Crafting for all Seasons has use fall colors.

Little Darlings has a fall challenge.

Scrapbook Sisters has use leaves.

Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge ~ Sept 27th

2011-09-26T20:05:00.000-07:00

It is time for another Tuesday Color Challenge over at The Outlawz. The colors this week are so much fun!!! I got my new stamps for Christmas from Some Odd Girl this week and just couldn't wait to ink them up. So I decided to use the colors from our challenge this week and the inspiration photo for the Some Odd Girl Challenge and combine them. This is what I came up with.

The colors for this weeks challenge are gorgeous!!!

The Spectacular September twist was to add something crocheted. My flower was a little too light pink so I added some RV 17 and some colorless blender in a plastic baggie and smushed the flower into the color.

I am going to share 2 inspiration photo's. This first photo is from The Outlawz and is our color inspiration for this challenge.

The next photo is from the Some Odd Girl Challenge.

My inspiration was the wreath shape. I used the packages from Gifty Gwen and the ornaments from Tree Trimming Kaylee to make my wreath. The wreath didn't quite turn out like I wanted it to but oh well. Let's see some more pics. :) Here is the front of the card. I used my air compressor and some BG-13 around the image. IRL the blue is so much blue-er!

I used a Martha Stewart branch punch to put behind my package/ornament wreath. The papers are from a last years My Minds Eye line.

Ooh, and don't you love that little Melissa Frances frame? That was a birthday gift from my friend Dana. The sentiment is part of the stamp set Gifty Gwen.

Don't forget to come on over to the Outlawz for the 1000 member party next week. There is so much planned. And lots of prizes!!!

I am going to enter my card into the following challenges.

Hooked on Craft challenge is use ribbon and lace.

iCopic Lover has red hair. I did a strawberry blonde using e-97, e-99 with my e-51 and e-53.

Incy Wincy Designs has fancy folds.

Magical Monday Challenge has Christmas in September.

My Craft Spot has use ribbon.

vostamps has make an easel card.

Come and Get it Challenges has easel card for the challenge.

Some Odd Girl Digi Release and Blog Hop

2011-09-23T06:00:00.002-07:00

"Welcome to a very special hop that features the Monday Digi Release at Some Odd Girl! In August Kristy had her first Get Odd Guest Challenge on FB and there was SUCH a fabulous Top 10 (me included) that she couldn't help but want to work with such amazing talent! Since we all couldn't win, right? So with the massive 14 image release dropping, starting on Monday what better fun can we have than a hop peeking at some of these digis? I can't think of anything better!!!

This release features images that are great for fall, Halloween, Winter and Christmas, everything you need for the coming season. So get started on the hop and check out some of the fun images. Monday the design team will start reveals and Kristy will have a fun sale!

Now if you made it here from Carley's blog then you are right on track. If you just stopped in then you will want to start at the beginning at the Some Odd Girl Blog to get started. You can only guess how excited I was to play along with this blog hop and digi release. I am so in love with these fun stamps and just couldn't wait to play along. These images are so fun to color. I was provided with Pumpkin Kody. And this is what I came up with.

Isn't he fun? I had a blast coloring him up. I used a little dollar Happy Halloween stamp to go along with it.

A lot of Tim Holtz Distress Ink, some My Mind's Eye papers as well as some Halloween paper stash, a button, some twine and there you have it!!! Now you will want to hop on over to Sally's blog and check out what she created. If you get lost along the way you can come back and check out the list.

Some Odd Girl Blog
Carley
Brenda<------- You are HERE
Sally
Linda H
Camilla
Rene
Corrine
Linda A
Leah
Kristy"

Outlaws September Surprise~Back to School

2011-09-20T06:47:00.000-07:00

Wow, it is Tuesday again and it almost got away from me. Here I am relaxing, drinking my coffee, a little HGTV on and blog hopping and I realize I haven't posted this mornings challenge!! Well here it is. This weeks challenge was brought to you by me actually. I figured we should do a back to school challenge We have a fabulous sponsor this month. Phindy's Place has provided us with some images to play with. I played with Ready to Go.

The sentiment stamp is from Tim Holtz and these FAB papers are from My Mind's Eye of course!! You know I love them!! Now here is your inspiration:

Have you been over to the Outlawz lately? You need to be checking out the upcoming PARTY. We are having a 1000 member party the first week of October. It is going to be so much fun, lots of prizes and games. You won't want to miss it!!!

Now, I am pretty sure I can find some back to school challenges to enter my card into:

365 Cards: Day 203 has back to school masculine.

Make it Monday has Anything goes always!

Paper Creations Ink has buttons and bows.

Paper Pretties has use buttons.

Dream Valley Challenges has buttons.

Craft us Crazy has a back to school theme.

Now come on over and play!

Happy Birthday~Stitching with Some Odd Girl

2011-09-18T20:48:00.000-07:00

Finally I got some time today to put a few cards together. This past week I had strep throat and spent a little time on my couch. I HATE being sick. I wanted to craft, but just didn't feel up to it and I had so many projects due or just wanted to do. So I brought a bunch of markers down and colored while watching HGTV. :) Today I finally got a little time to put something together. I missed the last challenge at Some Odd Girl and I am down to the wire on this one. The challenge is to do some stitching on your project. I love to stitch on my cards so I really wanted to do this one! I used Balloon Kaylee for my card.

I am in love with this paper by My Mind's Eye. It is from the Lost collection. I loved that little vintage sewing machine on this paper and since the challenge is stitching I thought it was the perfect paper!!!

I am going to add this to the following challenges as well:
Addicted to Stamps has stitching as its challenge this week.
Card Cupids has anything goes.
Stamptactular Sunday Challenge has just saying for this weeks challenge.
2Sisters Challenge has sentimental for the challenge.
My Sheri Crafts has sew simple.

Thank you ~ You're a Star Challenge

2011-09-15T23:00:00.003-07:00

It is time for another challenge over at Guylou's inimitability. Our Challenge for the next two weeks is to make a thank you card with a twist. The twist is there must be a star on it somewhere. Whether it be an embellishment, a stamp, a digistamp, or the paper that you use we are looking for a star somewhere on your project. For my card I used Breakfast.

This image reminded me of the red and white enamelware that you can still find at antique stores. The paper is from DCWV kitchen stack. It reminded me of a shabby chic table cloth.

The star that I used is a button on the sheer ribbon bow and the Thanks sentiment that I got from the Cutting Cafe. It is from the same file I used earlier this week called With Gratitude. I cut it out with a small circle nestie and threaded some brown twine through it. And of course the copics I used for this project:

Now don't forget to check out the other design team inspirations over on the Challenge Blog. I hope you can find some time to join with us on this challenge. We always have so much to be thankful for!!

You have until 10:00pm on September 29th to link your project to the InLinkz at the end of this post. Please make sure your project matches the requirements before you link it.

With Gratitude

2011-09-14T06:47:00.001-07:00

This time of year when we start feeling fall in the air I start thinking about Thanksgiving and the Holiday season. I got to play with the new set over at The Cutting Cafe called With Gratitude. This is such a fabulous set with a background stamp, dots and stripes, scallops, and lots of sentiment stamps. For my card I used the background stamp and on the inside one of the sentiments.

I inked all the edges with Tim Holtz walnut ink. I must get some more of these!! My base is black with some vellum paper layered with the background paper.

I can see so much possibility with this fabulous set. While you are over at the Cafe checking it out, check out the new Tuesday challenge. It is called Case it Tuesdays with the Cafe. Sounds like fun!!

I am going to add this to I brake for Challenges~the challenge is backgrounds.

Papercraft Star has anything goes.

Shopping our Stash has vintage shabby chic,

My First Cutting Cafe Post

2011-09-07T20:21:00.000-07:00

Finally I am able to share with you the projects I made for my first post with the Cutting Cafe Design Team. I am so excited to get to play with all of Regina's files. For our first post we got to browse through the store and choose something for Anything Goes. Some of you guessed correctly what I would choose for my first post. Yes, of course something coffee themed!!! I used the Coffee Cup Shaped Card and the Got Coffee digital stamp set to make a coffee gift card for a friend.

Of course I used some of my fabulous ribbon that I found on Ebay. I inked all the edges and colored in the heart with my copics.

I sewed a little pocket for the inside just big enough to add a Starbucks card.

Now, those of you that know me, know that I also like tea so I decided to also play with the Tea Bag Holder.

You know I just love fancy fold cards and holders.

I used the Tea Time Set for the sentiment. I had to play with my sewing machine to give it a little more texture. I just love the inside.

I thought the little tag reminded me of the tag on a tea bag.

And another picture for good measure!!

Now, isn't that the cutest thing? Now all you need to do is head on over to the Cutting Cafe's Blog and leave a comment for a chance to win 3 sets from the Cafe!! And make sure you check back for the current Challenge.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws Sept 6th

2011-09-06T06:05:00.000-07:00

Hello, did you all have a fabulous Labor Day Weekend? Gene and I headed out camping this weekend. We actually left Thursday. We were lucky enough to find a camping spot that someone had canceled for the weekend. Or so we thought!! We ended up sharing our camping spot with the group behind us and beside us, so lots of traffic back and forth and through our spot. Normally I wouldn't care because when my family goes camping there are lots of us!!! But this time it was only Gene and I. We decided to only stay Thurs and Fri night and head back Saturday. Saturday and Sunday I primed my family room walls so they are ready for some paint. OK, what has all this to do with todays challenge? Well, I forgot to take my color inspiration so I texted Guylou for the colors and she sent me the color inspiration picture. I totally mistook what the color fog was. I was thinking a light brown color, nope grey!! Anywhoooo, here is my card!!

Thank goodness there is some grey in there!! I used this fun image from Phindy's Place.

This image is called Lot's of Luck to you. Phindy's Place is sponsoring our color challenge for the month of September. The winner will get a $15 gift cert to her store. Now, wanna see the inspiration photo?

The photo is the one I got on my phone. It matches I think!!! You will want to be checking out the Outlawz. We are working on a party!!!! Plus there are so many fabulous sponsors this month. You will want to check it out!!!!

Back to School Challenge

2011-09-01T21:00:00.004-07:00

It is that time of the year again. The children are getting ready to go back to school (if they are not already) and we are happy to have a Back to School challenge at Guylou's Inimitability. Guylou is our host this time around. She is challenging you to make a project with a school theme and make sure there is an apple somewhere on your project. Ok, I can not believe that I do not have an apple in my scraproom that looks like a store, so I used an image that has an apple on it!! I used Teacher Leah. Make sure that you check her out in the store because I cut out the image with a circle cutter and the image is much larger than I show! I am happy to say that I am not sending anyone back to school at this time!!!

I love this sentiment stamp from Tim Holtz and thought that it went well with the kiddo's and teens and of course some adults heading back to school. I inked everything with Tim Holtz distress ink in Walnut including the seam ribbon.

Make sure you head over and see the fabulous creations by the design team. And don't forget that Guylou is having a 50% off sale this weekend in honor of our Labor Day.

Prize

A random winner will be selected from all the qualifying entries. Please make sure you follow our Challenge Guidelines listed on the left. The winner will be awarded a $5 gift certificate from Guylou's Inimitability Store and will also be invited to be a Guest Designer on an upcoming challenge.

You will have until September 15th, 10:00 pm (EST or click here to find out the corresponding time where you are) to enter your cards or projects here. One entry per participant, please. Be sure to add the link to your entry and not your whole blog as this makes it much easier on the team to find your creations. Thanks for participating!

Outlawz Color Challenge ~ August Week 5

2011-08-29T21:20:00.000-07:00

It is that time again. It is time for another Color Challenge over at the Outlawz. Guylou picked our colors for us this week.

Artistic August: Add a bird image, embellishment or paper

These are fun bright colors, hmmmm what to create with these colors? How about a baby boy card. You know my next grandchild is going to be a BOY!!!

I made a center fold card. I got this little stamp set from the clear dollar bin. I used my copic marker to color the buttons to give them a brighter color. This type of card is really hard to photograph. The paper is from a DCWV stack, I am sure you have one of these!!!

Remember our sponsor for the month of August is http://disdigidownloads.blogspot.com/

Have you been over to the Outlawz lately? I hear a rumor that we are about to have a big PARTY!!! A 1000 member party. And we are almost there!! I just checked and we are only 50 members away!! Have you joined the fun yet?

Design Team news!

2011-08-25T06:36:00.001-07:00

I am so excited to share some news with you all. I have been asked to be a part of the Cutting Cafe Design Team!!! Have you ever spent any time checking out the fabulous cutting files over there? So much fun and I can't wait to share some of them with you!!! I have 2 projects ready to go for my first challenge post that is coming the first week of September. You should head on over there and look around. Some of you that know me will be able to guess what I picked to showcase for my first post!!! You can check out the new and continuing design team in Regina's post here. I am super excited to be a part of this talented team!!!

Now, for something else, Jacque has fabulous news over on her blog, Jacque's Joie de Vivre. If you have ever been to her site you will know what a lovely lady she is. She is always giving away the best goodies. Well head on over and read her good news and check out her latest sweet stuff!

Another Tuesday Color Challenge

2011-08-23T05:00:00.001-07:00

Welcome to another Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlawz. I had so much fun with these colors. I decided to do another layout with one of my favorite pictures of Gunner. This was Gunner last year with a little cast on his arm getting into the pool. Gotta love how he is losing his pants!!! This is a 6X6 page that I am working on in a mini album. I am putting it together with my bind it all so you can add parts to your layout that are not quite attached but pop out of nowhere!

The paper is from Echo Park Splash collection. The stamps from CTMH.

I cut out the shaped piece with a Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut.

Now, for the colors! This week was my choice.

And your inspiration photo. Don't you just want to jump into this picture? I do!! Make's me want to make a trip to the Coast. However this water looks much warmer than our Oregon Coast.

My husband and I recently made a trip to the Oregon Coast. We had fabulous weather. I am going to add an inspiration photo from our trip.

There were so many starfish on the beach here. I don't think I have ever seen so many at one time.

When I loaded my pics onto the computer I realized I had a spot on the center of the lens. Uggh! That is so annoying!! We also hiked a very short hike at Cape Perpetua. Just gorgeous. I thought I would share a pic of my hubby sitting on a stump. It is just a little stump!!

Thanks for bearing with me while I shared some photo's!!! Don't forget to head over to the Outlawz and check out this weeks Color Challenge. We have fabulous sponsors!!!

Top Ten at Some Odd Girl

2011-08-22T06:40:00.000-07:00

Remember my tag? I made it to the top ten tags for Some Odd Girl Facebook Challenge. The winner will be guest designer for September and October. Well and you all know how much I love Some Odd Girl. I hope you will hop on over to their Facebook site and vote for mine. All you have to do is type Vote under the tag you like the best. I will just remind you all which one is mine! LOL

Thanks blogging friends. Now if one of you is one of the finalists, then I don't expect you to vote for mine!!!!
Here is your link!! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.249800548384112.74067.104610186236483

Labor Day Sale

2011-08-21T15:45:00.000-07:00

Guylou is having a sale. Who doesn't love a sale? I am a top bargain hunter. Starting September 3rd all digital images are 50% off! Here is your chance to grab all those Leah images!! At least that is what I would grab!!

Sketch Challenge at Guylou's Inimitability

2011-08-18T06:00:00.002-07:00

It is time for another challenge over at Guylou's Inimitability. What is your favorite challenge? I think the easiest challenge for me is a sketch challenge. I however take sketches pretty literally so they are easy. Carmen provided a fabulous sketch for us for this challenge. I used Leah and Bra on my card today. It comes with the sentiment. I think this is an awesome image for someone battling breast cancer or just a great image for a girlfriend card.

Isn't this gorgeous paper? I love this kit. Who doesn't love anything pink? It is pretty much a perfect color!! The paper is from Making Memories. I found it on clearance at M's one day for like $2. I bought 3. Of course I did, I am obsessive like that! Why get one on a bargain when you can buy 3!!

For my inking I used CTMH's Tulip ink. Love that color. It matched this paper perfectly. You know I need to show you the inside, right?!

Now, do you think you can follow a sketch? If you can you should join us over at Guylou's. The random winner will receive not only a gift certificate to the store but also an invite to be a guest designer on an upcoming challenge. This challenge will go until September 1st. I will let you check out the sketch over at G's!

Let me see if I can add this to some challenges now.

Craft us Crazy has Anything Goes. And woot woot for a top 3 in last weeks challenge!!
Paper~Crafting Journey has anything goes.

Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge August 16

2011-08-16T06:15:00.000-07:00

Today over at the Outlawz starts another Color Challenge. This week I got some gorgeous new papers from My Mind's Eye from the Lost and Found 2 collection. Oh my goodness they are yummy!!! I decided to do a little 6X6 layout of my grandson Gunner. I will be adding to this layout to make a mini album of my grandbabies. We learned last week that our next one will be a BOY! That will bring it to 3 boys and 4 girls. Who woulda thought in 6 years we would go from first time grandparents to grandparents of 8. Are you counting and 3 plus 4 doesn't equal 8? Well our oldest daughter also informed us that she is having another baby!! Our two girls 6 years apart are pregnant together. Too fun!! Do you see the need for simple small layouts? This is Gunner and these are a couple pics of him at 1.

Todays colors are brought to us by Jenn.

Artistic August: Use shells or gems

Another reason I did a layout is to show you that you don't have to make a card. You can do a layout, a mini-album, any other project using our color inspiration.

We have some fabulous sponsors to our challenges this month. In the Color Challenge we have

Di's Digi Downloads

Paper Temptress.

As well as our Main sponsors. You can check them out on the main page.

What do you think? You gonna play along? Come on over!!

Some Odd Girl tag and tutorial

2011-08-14T17:14:00.001-07:00

Some Odd Girl is having a facebook contest to make a tag. I had fun with this challenge using Coffee Mae. It has been a while since I made a coffee themed project. They are one of my fave things to do. So I thought I would share my tag with you and then a coloring tutorial with my fave hair and skin colors. I hope you will stick with me, I have lots of photo's today.

Here is my finished project.

I made mine a double tag and sewed a pocket on the inside to add a coffee card. That coffee card on the inside is the one I just got from my friend Gina with some birthday goodies!! Thanks Gina!! I used some new My Mind's Eye papers. Oh my gosh those new Lost and Found 2 are gorgeous!!

Ok, now I took a succession of photos on how I color the hair and skin with my fave color schemes.

First I layer a very light amount of E-23

Then I add a very light amount of E-25

some E-27

Next I go back over it with E-23. I flick in the direction of hair growth.

back again with the E-25, then e-27, and lastly I add some E-29

Next I start a base color on her skin with E-0000

Then I add E-01 around her hair line, arms, legs and you will notice her ear. I accidentally colored it with the hair and used my color blender to remove the color!

next I blend with the E-000 and add a shadow for her nose.

Next I add E-11 and blend those.

After E-11 I like to add some E-13

And you can see all of these need blended. I also add some E-95 on her cheeks and E-04 to her lips,

And the final project after I match her clothes to my papers and embellishments is above. I almost always color Mae with green eyes. She reminds me of me. And I have green eyes!!

I am also going to add this to the challenges at:

Come and Get it~color challenge of red, black, white.

Allsorts has anything but a card.

Crafty Purple Frog is anything but a card.

Crafting for all seasons has a tag.

Diva's by design is birthdays.

As always, thanks for stopping by. I had a fabulous birthday this weekend. I used inlinz to choose a random winner to my birthday candy. Brynn over at Flair and Frills was our winner. Thanks so much for playing along.

Welcome to August~Birthday Blog Candy

2011-08-13T01:00:00.001-07:00

Here it is August again. The month of my birthday and time to reflect on the past year of my life. On the 13th I will turn 45, as will my twin sister Rebecca. My twin lives in Alberta, Canada and I in Oregon. For those first 18 years of my life I shared a bedroom with my sis and now we don't even share the same Country. :) This post will remain at the top of my blog until August 13th, on my birthday I will pick someone to win a gift from me.

1. large alphabet and number stamps from CTMH.

2. my favorite Tim Holtz/Sizzix birdcage die cut

3. 8 different colors of twine and 1 red ric rac trim

Now what do you have to do you want to know?

First off, be a follower of my blog. I have some fabulous followers.

Second, post a picture of my blog candy on your blog.

Third, leave a comment below so that I can choose a winner.

And don't forget to add your link.

Adore

2011-08-11T20:10:00.031-07:00

I love making cards just to make cards!! I am sure I will find some challenges to enter this into but it was just fun to make!! No coloring, just sewing, die cutting and some amazing paper.

This amazing paper is from K&Co. I just loved the black and white with butterflies and decided to add a die cut from Tim Holtz with a background of kraft paper. I inked the edges with CTMH creme brulee ink. I added some of that gorgeous white lace from Wild Orchid Crafts and some sheer gold scrunched ribbon on top.

I then added a little metal tag that says adore, a charm and some pearls to finish it off.

Don't forget to enter my blog candy. I will be picking a winner soon.

I am going to add this to these challenges:

Crafty Sentiments Designs has punches and die cuts. I used a Tim Holtz butterfly die.

Delightful Challenges has things with wings.

Pals Paper Arts has a recipe challenge: 1 DP, 1 punch and 1 sentiment.

Southern Girl's has black and white with a pop of color.

Flutter By Wednesdays of course has a butterfly, angel, fairy on it.

The Paper Shelter has stitching. I have mine on the ribbon.

As always, thanks for stopping by my blog. I love visitors!!

Color Challenge August 9th

2011-08-08T20:55:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder that it is Tuesday again and time for another Color Challenge at the Outlawz.

I picked out this weeks colors. I hope you like them.

And the inspiration picture:

Artistic August: Use transparent embellishment

I used my R-89 and a little copic blender solution to color my seam binding and then heat set it to get the color of my cherry red card stock. I used a stamp from CTMH that includes both the sentiment stamp and butterfly. I stamped the butterfly with Stazon on some plastic packaging and cut it out and pop dotted it. Hint: don't throw away that heavy plastic packaging, it is perfect for stazon. I sewed the 16 paper squares on like a quilt for the Our Daily Bread Challenge that is Notions/Seamstress. That was a challenge!!

Don't forget our sponsor this month is Di's Digi Downloads.

Check out the main page to see all the fabulous sponsors.

I am going to add this to the challenges at:
Cupcake Craft Challenges is sewing.
Paper Creations ink has stitching.
Pink Elephant Challenge is use at least 1 butterfly.
Pollycraft challenge is to recycle. I recycled some plastic packaging for the butterfly.
Card Cupids Blog has ribbon and buttons.
One stop Craft Challenge has make your sentiment the main part of your project.

Happy Birthday

2011-08-07T15:25:00.001-07:00

August is a month of birthdays in our family. It is also the first birthday of Marci and Luka over at La-La Land Crafts. They are having a birthday themed card contest. I used Pirate Luka for my birthday card.

So this past week my husband and I went camping. I found out while at work Wednesday that my husband was going to have Saturday off so we took off camping as soon as I got off of work. I was throwing all my craft supplies in a bag so I could play while my hubby was out fishing. Well don't you know I would forget something super important? I forgot my Neenah paper!!! Oh and not to mention an acrylic block!! I used the back of some packaging to put my stamp onto and used the back side of some cardstock to stamp onto. Oh my, I love my Neenah!! the cardstock bled and just didn't blend like my Neenah! I think I need to put a supply in the trailer! Anyways, I was able to make this card for the Birthday Challenge over at La-La Land Crafts. I purposely used different face colors then I have used before so that I could enter into the iCopic challenge that is to use skin tones that are out of my comfort zone. I used E-51, R-02, E-01,E-11,E-13,E-95. *Well dang it, I missed the deadline!*

I had a lot of fun coloring this little guy up. Even without my Neenah paper!!

I used a mixture of Cosmo Cricket Paper and My Mind's Eye. I distressed the paper with my scissors. That was just one more thing I forgot at home, my distressor! The metal plate is by Tim Holtz. Don't you just love it? And a peak at the inside of course!!

So, do you have a Facebook? All I need is for you to go on over to La-La Lands blog and "Like" my card. The card with the most votes wins a 36 piece Copics. Wow!! OK, now you are on your way over to enter aren't you? I can't blame you!!!!

I am also going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Birthday Sundaes has of course birthday card!

Dream Valley Challenges has distressing as it's challenge.

Craft Your Days Away has a birthday theme.

Card Makin Mamas challenge is birthdays.

Just Add Ink has tearing and distressing.

Stampin for the Weekend has spots and dots.

Celebrate the Occasion has kids birthday.

Thankful For All You Do

2011-08-02T19:49:00.001-07:00

The challenge over at Some Odd Girl this week (and next) is a Thank You challenge. I decided to use a ticket stamp that I have from Whimsy called Ticket Sentiments. I pulled out some of my favorite My Mind's Eye papers and my new favorite clear stamp Sweet Thinkin Mae. I wanted to give the card some 3-D effect so I paper pieced and added pop dots cut really tiny to her hair, bow, dress, and shoes.

I have been playing with my sewing machine and ribbon lately. I love this turquoise polka dotted ribbon, all rouched up with a sheer polka dot ribbon on top. Next I added some Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, a little purple clip and there you go!

I used my favorite copic skin colors~E-000, 01, 11, 13, and E-93. For her hair I used E-21, 23, 3=25, 27, and 29. I added some RV-63 and 66 to her dress and bow just to give a little highlight. And her eyes are YG-93 and 95 cuz my eyes are green. :) I also added some glossy accents to them.

This was such a fun card to do. I don't know about you but card making is my therapy!! I really appreciate you stopping by.

Don't forget to add your link to my blog candy!

OK, now let's see what challenges I can add my card to.

Creative Craft World has anything but birthdays.

Craft your passion challenge has anything goes.

Paper Creations Ink has stitching.

Come and Get it Challenges has anything goes.

The Stamp Man has stitching.

Craft us Crazy has Anything goes.

Crafty Sentiments has polka dots.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws August 2nd

2011-08-02T06:07:00.001-07:00

Every Tuesday I want to sing a "It's Tuesday, Tuesday, Gotta get down on Tuesday." Why isn't there a Tuesday song? Anyways it is time for another Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlawz. Our colors were picked by Rox this week and they are fun, fun, fun! Very summery colors.

Artistic August: Add frame or slide mount

Makes you think limeaid, lemonade, margarita-aid. I took the colors literally and found this gorgeous paper from DCWV in the Citrus Stack. Love it, such fun gorgeous colors.

My stamps are from Ippity. From my very own Ippity Chick Rona. I love saying that! hehehe

Oh my gosh, another card without copics!! Don't worry, I have been coloring!

Isn't this a fabulous set of stamps? OK, now don't forget to head on over to the Outlawz and check out the challenge. We have our very own Sara as our guest designer for the month of August. And don't forget to check out Guylou's lovely creation as well!

As always we have some amazing sponsors. Our very own sponsor for the month of August this month is Di's Digi Downloads.

Check out the main page for the monthly sponsors. So many goodies up for grabs!!

And don't forget my blog candy, available until August 13th. Link it up.

Challenges to enter:
The Emerald Faerie Garden has use lace.
Sir Stampalot has anything you fancy.
The Craft Garden has bold, bright and loud.
Crafty Cardmakers has butterflies or flutterbies as its challenge.
Make it Monday has anything goes.

Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge

2011-08-01T06:27:00.002-07:00

This week I was able to add a card to the challenge over at the Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge.

This week's challenge: Oh Ballooney ~ Must Have a Balloon

Awhile back when I was camping I colored up some images with my Prismas, one of them was Balloon Kaylee. So, as you know I love coloring with my copics but it is almost impossible to take them in the trailer when we camp. My solution was to learn to color with Prismacolor pencils. They close up in a tin and I just have to take along my odorless mineral spirits and go. I definitely am still learning but am

having a blast with the process.

The other thing I like to do when camping is take a little 6X6 paper pad and some A-2 cards to throw them together. And when I get home throw on the extras and go. The Happy Birthday sentiment is from LOTV.

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I hope you will head over to the Outlawz Greeting card challenge and join in with us this week.

I will add it to the Challenges over at

Card Cupids has Birthday as its challenge.

Sparkles Forum Challenge has one for the girls.

Our Creative Corner has red and aqua as it's color scheme. I love those colors together!

And don't forget to add your link to my blog candy this month. It is open until August 13th.

Ippity Clean and Simple

2011-07-31T14:05:00.000-07:00

Over at the Outlawz we have some pretty talented designers that do Clean and Simple so well. I mean, these ladies are seriously talented!! One of them, Rona is my very own Ippity Chick. I had not even heard of Ippity until Rona introduced it to me. Ippity is part of the Unity Stamp company. The stamps are deeply etched rubber that you mount on a clear block. I love that. Anyways, here is my attempt at CAS with a new set that I just received this week. The set is called Thankful for you. And I just love when my packages come all neatly wrapped in tissue paper with free papers and a handmade flower. Lovely customer service! You should check it out!!

The paper is from K&Company. Isn't it elegant? I bought an 8X8 pad last week when all the paper packs were 40% off at M's.

I really like the look of gathered lace in case you haven't noticed on my projects lately! I also broke down and bought a Tim Holtz distress Ink. I have a gazillion colors of CTMH inks so have not gone down the distress ink path yet, or just didn't think it was necessary but finally gave in and this one is walnut.

Well, there you have it, my entry into the CAS challenge at Ippity Opportunity Challenge blog.

God Understands

2011-07-30T21:10:00.000-07:00

Last week as I was blog hopping I came across this weeks challenge over at Stampin' Sisters in Christ. The challenge is to create a card or project that depicts the sharp contrast of black and white or ivory. I chose to do black and ivory with this gorgeous new paper I got from K&Company. I also fell in love with the stamp set the design team used and ordered it to play with. I would still like to win it. I have lots of uses for a second set!! It is from Layers of Color.

I used some ivory lace and then sewed some sheer ivory over top of that. I used the Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio Two for the sentiment.

I used my sewing machine for two steps with this card. Both around the designer paper as well as to gather the sheer ribbon over the lace. I used Tim Holtz distress ink in Walnut stain to edge the ribbon tag. The challenge was black and white so I kept it that way for the front of the card but added a little pop of color to the inside with Spellbinders butterfly. The ivory paper was cut out with a Martha Stewart around the edge punch.

Thanks as always for stopping by, I love company!!

Now to add some challenges.

The Stamp man challenge blog has stitching.

Crafts and Me challenge is to use ribbon.

Deep Ocean Challenge blog is to use ribbon.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws July 26

2011-07-25T20:35:00.000-07:00

Can you believe it is Tuesday again!! You all know what that means.......Time for another Color Challenge at the Outlawz!! And such a fun color palette too! Our colors are brought to you by Guylou this week.

Oh my gosh, isn't this a gorgeous color pallette? The Juicy July twist is to add doodles.

I used a new stamp this week. Oh my gosh, I had so much fun coloring this image. In my mind as I am coloring this I am thinking, "which one am I?" hehehehe

Do you see my doodles? I mimicked waves on the blue My Mind's Eye paper. The yellow paper is from Echo Park splash collection. This fun image is Girlfriends by Art Impressions. Isn't this image just hilarious?

So you have from now until next Monday at Midnight to upload your card to the color challenge. Don't forget your doodles!

heheehee, just had to add a close up of these gossiping gals! I also added polka dots to 2 of the suits. Check out how many copics I used. Crazy, huh?

OK, now the deets of the challenge. The sponsor this month is Happileigh Scrappins Designs.

You will want to check out the Main page of the Outlaws to see the many sponsors we have in July.

That is a lot of reason to join in our challenge! Hope to see you there!

OK, now to add this to some challenges:

The Pink Elephant has Fun in the Sun as their challenge.

Opus-Gluei has beat the heat.

Paper Sundaes has Beachy or Summer.

Craft Your Days Away has Summertime.

Crafty Emma's has humor/funny.

Just Some Lines has easel card.

Card Makin Mama's has food and drink. I hope this qualifies, as they are all drinkin!!

Ok, that's enough!!

Saturday playing and an Odd Girl Challenge

2011-07-23T10:10:00.003-07:00

I rarely enter the same challenge more than once, but the challenge over at Some Odd Girl just calls out to me to play more than once. If I get some time I will be back to play again. The challenge is to lift one of the Odd Girls. *snicker, snicker* just love that title! I have been browsing the DT's blogs and I have come across one by Asa that I wanted to lift. You can find Asa's card here. It was one that had you using kraft or white and 2 pops of color. For my lift I used orange and green.

These papers are from the Stella and Rose collection from My Mind's Eye. Have you been checking out the yummy papers coming out at CHA? Definitely wish I lived close to that!!

I know I have seen a lot of people use their copic inks to color ribbon and lace, today I used my YR-68 to color a white button. I had some orange buttons but none of them were big enough to give me the pop I wanted so I colored a white one I had. The lace is from Wild Orchid Crafts. I am almost out! Might have to place another order soon.

There are 3 more days to play along in this challenge. I wonder if I will get to visit some more blogs and lift a few more DT members?

And here are the copics I used. This is the first time I used these colors for hair. E-99, 97, 95, and E-19. What do you think?

Now let's add this to some other challenges.

Allsorts challenge is Free and Easy.

Make it Colourful has color your embellishment. I colored my button.

Crafty Catz challenge has no pink or blue.

Art Impressions has stitching.

iCopic has color with pastels as it's challenge this week.

Tuesday Color Challenge

2011-07-19T06:11:00.002-07:00

It is Tuesday again!! You all know what that means.......color challenge at the Outlawz!!! And such a fun color palette too! Our colors are brought to you by Jenn this week.

What a yummy inspiration photo. Now, you would think I would use a watermelon image. But I didn't, I used a new stamp I received this week from Some Odd Girl. I told you they were my new addiction, didn't I?!!

This is Tiny Baker Tia. I used one of the sentiments that comes with her. The frame is an addition to the Sweet Thinkin Mae stamp.

I was driving this week and I looked up at the sky and there were these rolling clouds, with dark sky in between. I decided to try to replicate that with my ink and a sponge. The pink paper is from Echo Park. It is hard to see on camera, but I machine stitched in a hot pink thread as well. Look close!

And of course you know I had to do a little something on the inside!

Can you see the sprinkles on the cupcake/

OK, now the deets of the challenge. The sponsor this month is Happileigh Scrappins Designs.

You will want to check out the Main page of the Outlaws to see the many sponsors we have in July.

That is a lot of reason to join in our challenge! Hope to see you there!

Lift an Odd Girl Challenge

2011-07-17T16:40:00.001-07:00

Have you checked out the new challenge over at Some Odd Girl? The challenge is to lift an odd girl. So I spent some time roaming through the odd girl design team blogs. I say that like I have never done that before, right?!! LOL, of course I have. I seriously love these stamps. They are some of the funnest images to color. When I stumbled upon the card at Zarah's and in english blog I knew it was the one I wanted to lift. You can find her card here. I hope you can see the lift. :) I used the new clear stamp Sweet Thinkin Mae. She is from the new releases. You knew I had to have her!!

I pulled out some of my favorite papers from My Mind's Eye and decided to paper piece her dress and bow. I added some flowers and lace from Wild Orchid Crafts, some dragon fly buttons and fancy pants pins.

The little charm is from my stash from when I used to sell CTMH.

Mae has been popped up. I used E-000,01,11,13 for her skin and my favorite pinks R-89,85,83 for her shoes and shrug. Her eyes are YG-83 and 85. I distressed the edges and added some ink with CTMH creme brulee ink. We wouldn't be done til I showed you the inside of my card.

I am going to add this to the challenge at Moving Along with the times that wants us to use our favorite things. They are Some Odd Girl, My Mind's Eye papers, copics, and wild orchid craft flowers.

Lollipop Crafts has anything goes.

Sparkles forum challenge has lace and elegance.

Totally Papercrafts has girly girls for the challenge.

Do you stack up is stitching.

Little Darlings Challenges is buttons, brads or eyelets. I used buttons.

CAS at the Outlaws.

2011-07-16T18:27:00.002-07:00

I have been wanting to play along with the Clean and Simple Challenge over at the Outlaws for a while now. I finally got around to doing a challenge! And, well I made it just in time for this weeks challenge. There will be a new one tomorrow. This weeks challenge was to use absolutely no design paper but to stamp your background. I had this background stamp from CTMH. I thought it looked Christmasey. I used my Ippity Stamps I got from my Ippity Chick Rona. What you should know is how fabulous these stamps are. Super nice deep etched Rubber!!

I hope this is considered CAS!

The background stamp was stamped with cranberry ink and the tree's were stamped with english ivy both from CTMH.

I used copics to color the trees and some spica to give a little glitter that is really hard to photograph.

Have you been to the Outlawz lately. We have some fabulous sponsors this month. I hear a little rumor that we may have a big giveaway when we hit 1000 members and we are not that far off so you will want to keep an eye out for it!!

I am going to also enter this over at

Crafty Emma's challenge which is Christmas.

Addicted to Stamps has Christmas as it's challenge.

Stamp Something also has Christmas.

Guylou's Inimitability Recipe Challenge

2011-07-14T21:17:00.000-07:00

It is time for another Challenge over at Guylou's Inimitability Challenge Blog. Our challenge for the next 2 weeks is a recipe challenge brought to us by Kim. Kim's recipe consists of:

1 ribbon

2 design papers

3 or more pieces of bling.

I think I really like this type of a challenge. I hope you do too!

I chose to use Leah with Watermelon on my card.

I used some my mind's eye paper, fancy pants pins, wild orchid crafts flower. The ribbon is from my stash. The sentiments were computer generated. Of course I used my spellbinders in my Grand Calibur.

Hop on over to the Challenge to check out the design teams fabulous projects.

You will have until July 28th at 10 PM EST to complete your project.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws

2011-07-11T20:13:00.000-07:00

Here we go again, another Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlawz!! This post was a lot of fun, I just got off of Skype with Guylou and Rox. Guylou taught us both some HTMLese! I think I needed a little more teaching that Rox did!!

Our challenge was brought to us this week by Roxann.

Juicy July: Add a gold embellishment

I made a tag for my project this week.

This image is from Happiliegh Scrappin Store.

They just happen to be the sponsor for the color challenge for the month of July. If you are the random

winner you receive $12 from the store.

That is not all, this month we have sponsors from

Now that is 4 good reasons to head over to the Outlawz and check out this months challenges. You will want to head over to see what else the Design team has for you as well. We are getting really close to 1000 members, you will want to make sure you are a member for the big party that will be coming soon!!

Thinking of You

2011-07-08T19:44:00.000-07:00

I was blog hopping this weekend and I came across a blog that I follow that is asking for Get Well Cards for a special lady. It seems that Sheree's friend Ethyl had a horrific accident. You can read all about it over on Sheree's blog, Vancouver Island Craft Junkie. When I was in the 6th grade I lived on Vancouver Island for 1 year. It is one of my most favorite places that I ever lived. Anyways, when I read her story I wanted to make a card and I thought I would also share. Crafters are some of the most kind hearted, giving people I have ever met. Along with my card goes many prayers for full healing.

On this card I have used some of my new favorite things. I have used this gorgeous paper from Echo Park called For the Record. The background red paper is actually from EP as well, but from the Holly Jolly collection. The birdcage and bird are from Tim Holtz. The tag is a Magnolia tag and the flowers and lace are from Wild Orchid Crafts. I have had this lace for a while but was just waiting for the perfect project to use it on.

You can actually pull the tag out from between the two papers. The punch is and EK Success punch. It is hard to tell but the bird was actually edged with some Creme Brulee ink from CTMH. As were the edges of the scalloped papers.

I used a butterfly spellbinder on the inside with more of that EP paper. Sheree said that Ethyl is in her

late 70's so I was going for a vintage flair. I hope that she gets enjoyment from the cards that are being sent to her from all over.

I am going to go ahead and enter this card into a few challenges.

Cute Card Thursday has lace as it's challenge.

Bearly-Mine has anything goes.

City Crafter Challenge has birds of a feather using birds or a birdcage.

Creative Craft Challenges has pretty blossoms

Party Time Tuesdays challenge is a square card

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will check out Sheree's post as well as see the candy she is giving away to someone that sends a card to Ethyl.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws Christmas in July

2011-07-05T05:00:00.001-07:00

Over at the Color Challenge we have decided to do a Christmas in July challenge. Each of the challenges will post at least one Christmas in July challenge this month. Please know that when we say Christmas in July, if you celebrate Kwanzaa, or something else we want you to play along as well!

I love this combo. I used the inspiration photo and used the red, white, snowflakes. The Juicy July twist is to add stickles.

The sentiment is from Amy R Stamps Holiday Greetings from All That Scraps. I just love these sentiments. I used a Martha Stewart border punch and her snowflake punch. I also used a nesties butterfly. The paper is Holly Jolly from My Mind's Eye. And do you see that little snowflake charm? I used stickles on the butterfly as well as some of the snowflakes. Some of the snowflakes are done with glitter. Just so that they are not all exactly alike.

This card was fun to make. I think it is clean and simple. The thing I love about a color challenge is that you don't have to use copics or prismas or any other mediums. You can do other techniques as long as you go with the colors!

There is the stickles. And of course a peak at the inside.

Now, I know when you enter challenges you like a good prize, so our sponsor this month in the color challenge is Happiliegh Scrappin Store. Next week I will showcase one of their fabulous images.

And don't forget that Oozak has a gift certificate for $50. Who doesn't want that?!! Especially with the price of Copics going up.

I am going to add this to the following challenges:

Corrosive Challenge ~ Use red and white

Our Creative Corner ~ Christmas or 4th of July

The Stampsmith challenge ~ Christmas

Wedding Journal

2011-07-04T15:41:00.001-07:00

Happy 4th of July!! I hope you are all enjoying your day. While I am enjoying my day, my husband had to work. So, I spent some time in my craft room as well as the kitchen and M's and J's. Both stores had a coupon for % off your total purchase, but J's had everything papercrafting on 40% off so I spent most of my moolah there!! We are having a neighborhood BBQ and fireworks, always fun. So I am working on a potato salad and red, white, and blue jello parfaits for the kids.
Now, my daughter's MIL asked me if I could make a wedding journal for her other son's fiance so this morning I spent some time working on that. I made one for my daughter when we were planning her wedding and she loved it. I started with a plain old composition notebook.

I used Mod Podge as my adhesive to attach the black cardstock to the front, back and inside pages.

I used a file on all the edges to give it a little distressed look.

I cut out one of Tim Holtz dies in my Cuttlebug. You can use a sizzix block with just the two B plates for cutting in your cuttlebug. I then used a little E-53 and colorless blender to distress the cage and bird. But then in the next shots you will see that I also cut it out in black and used the black bird rather than the white one.

I added a piece of DP from CTMH. This is my last piece of this paper!! I wonder if they still carry it. I used rub on letters for Tinsa's name and title. The best tool I have found for rub on's is this dental tool called a ball burnisher. Somehow one of the old one's found it's way home from work with me instead of in the garbage. :)

I then added some bling and a key to the ribbon. I used my cropadile to make holes in the front and back for the red ribbon. You know, I tried to throw other stuff on here, but just really liked it simple. I don't know how people make such gorgeous stuff with piles of embellies, I can't seem to make it work for me. My friend Gina throws everything at her cards and they are gorgeous!! Can you see the key? I love key charms.

I made pockets for clippings. You know when you are planning a wedding it is always nice to have pockets for magazine pics. So I put pockets on the different pages.

And the back cover.

I used the tabs spellbinders as well as labels 1 of the grand nesties. The tag is a Magnolia tag and the bird on the front cover is a sizzix.

I have made several projects with this paper pack lately. You can find a couple of them here and here.

I am adding this to the following challenges:

Craft your passion has Anything Goes

Make it Monday has Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show has flourishes

Paper Sundaes has stitching, faux or real, mine are rubons

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you all enjoyed your holiday. For me it is back to work tomorrow.

Dance Like no one is watching

2011-07-01T21:18:00.001-07:00

Back in May I won a stamp from a blog hop for Some Odd Girl. And I fell in love!! My first stamp was Dancin Mae and she is still my favorite. I found them on Facebook and "liked" their page. Now I am seeing some sneak peaks of the new line coming out July 11th. Next week is the reveal!! I just have so much fun coloring these stamps up. And for all you digi-lovers there are lots of them!! Kristy has only recently brought some out in clear stamps. The challenges run for 2 weeks and this weeks challenge is Bright and Blinding. No pastels. I love coloring with bright colors. I decided that I wanted to combine this challenge with the challenge over at iCopic and use my airbrush. So fun!!! I stamped Mae on a scrap paper and cut it out to mask the image and then airbrushed.

Guess what? These papers are from Echo Park! Love them. Not my usual MME!! I also used my RV-25 and air brushed my sentiment. I used BG-13,11, and 10 for the background. Did you notice my new Grand Nestie? I chose the scalloped squares for this card. I added a couple of nestie butterflies as well.

I have to say that the BG is so much brighter IRL, I love how the airbrushing looks. The image is popped up and the butterflies sit on top so they are popped as well.

The inside of the card is pretty simple, but I wanted to add this little metal charm and thought it looked good inside.

And of course the copics I used for this card are as follows.

If you ever want to know the exact copic colors of the Ciao's I would be glad to let you know, just leave me a note. As always, I enjoy your visits and your comments. Wish I could put a pot of coffee on and sit a spell with you and chat or color!! Thanks for stopping by.

I am going to add this to the fun with shapes and more challenge.
Inspire me Fridays is Always anything goes.
Flutter By Wednesday's is butterfly's, angels, or fairy's.
Truly Scrumptious is things with wings.

Stars and Stripes

2011-06-30T21:26:00.000-07:00

Do you ever have something in mind for a challenge and then when that doesn't work out you just lose your mojo? I had the perfect paper picked out for today's challenge over at Guylou's Inimitability. After I colored up my image I could not get that paper to work for it. I pulled out some My Mind's Eye paper and a sentiment from CTMH and made it work. I love this image called Leah at the beach. If you can't tell I love Leah. Now you are probably wanting to know where my stripes are aren't you? Well, I decided since it just wasn't working out that the stripes were on the towel. Or the waves. Or perhaps the beach ball or umbrella. You pick! :)

The star paper is from My Mind's Eye, but the waves are from Echo Park. I think this was the first time I used these blues. B-23,26,28 and Y-11,13,15. Reds used were R-21,22,24,27. I decided to cut my image out and pop dot it.

I don't know about you but as we Celebrate this weekend I am thankful for a lot. Happy Canada Day to all my friends and family in Canada. And Happy 4th to all my friends and family here in the United States.

Now, I hope you will join us in the challenge. And I hope you can find the perfect paper for your stars and stripes project!! You should check out the other design team creations to see what fabulous projects they have come up with. Now the challenge is open until July 14th at 10PM EST.

Anita Be Stampin Recipe Challenge

2011-06-28T05:48:00.000-07:00

This is my second post for today. If you are here for the Outlawz, that is in the post below.
But now it is time for another Challenge at Anita Be Stampin. This week we have a Recipe for you.

How fun is that? I rarely do recipe challenges, now I am wondering why. This one was a lot of fun. I used the fabulous Busty Betsy. From the site:

100% of the proceeds from Busty Betsy digi image sales will benefit Susan G. Komen For The Cure. By purchasing this digi you are not only supporting a cause close to all of our hearts (literally!), you are receiving a super cute digi to play with. It's a win, win!

I think that is fabulous!!! If you have ever gone through Breast Cancer with someone you love this cause becomes near and dear to your heart.

All the papers here are Making Memories. I had to cut that background paper so that Believe would be in the corner of the card. The tag is a magnolia tag. I put a little R-81 reinker with some blending solution on the little felt pad and stained my tag with that. Then added another believe stamp to that tag.

I added a gorgeous Wild Orchids flower to the bow. I used my favorite colors this week.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Don't forget to check out the other design team members inspiration cards today. And join us in the challenge.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlawz

2011-06-27T20:59:00.000-07:00

Not only is it Tuesday again, but already the last Tuesday in June. Unbelievable how time flies the older I get. Part of that I suspect is the fact that every Monday I wish for Friday! LOL, I wish my life away one week at a time!! Anyways, it is time for another color challenge at the Outlawz. Our color challenge this week is brought to us by Jenn. red,white & yellow June Jolt: add fabric( felt, fabric flowers, burlap, etc.)

And the inspiration photo.

You know our pastor has been talking about using your "gifts" and I have been wanting to start using this gift and making cards that I can donate to the Church that can be given out when a card is needed. I think I told you how when I had surgery 5 women brought us meals. It was an amazing ministry. And where it is hard for me to make meals because I work so much I thought this was something I could do. That being said, I went looking for Scripture or encouraging stamps and this is the one I found. So this is a start to my stash!

What a fabulous verse is that? I know I will use this stamp a lot. I also used Tim Holtz bird and cut it out with Kraft paper. The buttons are a sizzix die cut as well. I just used a little red twine in the center. And the felt is cut out with my nestie and is stitched around the edges, though it is hard to see in the picture. I also stitched the edges with my sewing machine.

Now, I want you to take some time to check out the main page on the Outlawz. Do you see that Oozak is sponsoring us again with a $50 gift card. I want to win that!! But I can't so I want you to!! I get all my Copics from there! All you need to do is head on over and play in at least one challenge!!
Now, do you like to create with Digi's? We have some fabulous artists at the Outlawz that have started a Freebies page. You should check out the talent of Anne and Sandi. They are so talented!

Now I just want to remind you that the Color Challenge this month is being sponsored by Delicious Doodles. They have some amazing digital images to choose from.

Wedding

2011-06-26T20:29:00.001-07:00

Well yesterday was a beautiful day here in Oregon. I know I have complained a bit about the weather this year. Well, me and every other blogger!! We finally had a sunshiny day. And what a blessing that was as we went to an outside wedding. It was a beautiful wedding. It was the wedding that I made the mini album as a gift for. I thought I would go ahead and post the little card I made to go with it. I used a Lili of the Valley stamp called I Do. I used the same Close To My Heart paper pack that I had used for the mini album and the Blessings Box. Which I will share when I get a picture of it!! That is what I get for sending something to the Bride for her to approve before I took a picture!! My daughter was the photographer for the wedding and promised to take some pics.

I just love these papers, hope I can find some more. I think they are just perfect for a wedding theme. And don't you just love that little wedding cake charm?

I just added a touch of R-0000 to the dress. And the inside is also simple. After spending so much time on the other two projects I didn't do anything too elaborate.

The Bride is Tongan and the Groom is African American. I hope I did their skin tones justice. At the wedding yesterday they dug a pit and roasted a pig. Yummo!!

Don't forget to come back on Tuesday!! I have a new Anita Be Stampin Challenge card for you and a new Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlawz card! I hope you are joining in and adding yourself to the linkie for a chance to win $50 in product from Oozak!! If you think about it and you are ordering, click the link from the Outlawz, it helps Rusty track if he wants to keep sponsoring the site!!