Sunday, January 15, 2012

Pickles and Icecream?!?!?

Yep, that's right Pickles and Icecream.  I found the cutest image from Saturated Canary.  These images may not be new to you but they are to me and I'm totally loving them.  There is so much character in each design.  I totally fell in love when I found Pickles and IceCream.  I have a girlfriend that is expecting and it's been a bit of a challenge for her to get there so I thought this would make a great happy card for her.



I wanted this card to be happy so I stamped "Remember" on the outside and wrote
" Feeling Fat lasts
9 months
But the Joy of
Becoming a Mom
Lasts Forever!"
Thank you for taking time to stop by and leave me some love.  I've been away for several months and I can sure tell it by the lack of my blogging friends stopping over.  I guess I better get busy!



Challenges Entered:
Saturated Canary - CAS card
Lexi's Creations - Anything Goes
My Craft Spot "It's Delicious"
Ohh La La Creations - New Beginnings
Oldies But Goodies - Back to Work Week (flower from a kit I got last year)
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything goes
Rubys Rainbow - Baby or Child
Cute Card Thursday - "You're having a laugh!"
Cardmad Fairy Digi Days - Must use a digi


Wednesday, January 11, 2012

A Happy New Year

Hello ladies and gents!

I'm trying really hard to get back into my scraproom.......literally.  During the last 6 months or so everything has been piled up in there.  I am in serious need of some cleaning out and rearranging..  So until then I'm just gonna do the best I can with what I can reach or find! LOL


This image was a freebie from my friends over at Paper Craft Planet in the All Things Vintage group.  You should go check it out and try out some of the challenges too.  They're alot of fun. I decided to distress and ink the edges of the postcard and back it.  Then after I added some ribbon and a flower I went back and added some glitter to the branches.  It's very simple but pretty.  Thanks for stopping by.


Challenges entered:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - A red letter day (new years is always a red letter day on the scales! LOL)
Incy Wincy Designs - vintage
2 Sisters - Things With Wings
Crazy 4 Challenges - Use something new


Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Best Wishes

Best Wishes



It's a busy day here so I just have a quick post.  Again, my apologies for the poor picture quality.  I'll hopefully have that fixed this week.  Here's a sweet image I've had colored up for awhile and finally put to paper.  Usually I choose my papers first but I went through a period where I did a bunch of coloring and have the images all ready to put together.  I hope your having a fabulous week so far!

Have a great day!

Challenges entered:
Thursday
Friday
Crafty Catz - Things With Wings
Saturday
Designed2Delight - Use colored pencils
Sunday
Wednesday
Scrapalicious - Anything Goes


Monday, October 3, 2011

Mummy's Coming For You! LOL

Good Morning!

Most of us are back to work and it's no different for us stay at home mom's!  Time to clean up from the weekend of fun and get back to the farm chores.  My girls gave me five eggs this morning - Yay!  The Americana gave me a HUGE blue one.  Seriously, it's like twice as big as the others.  Probably a double yoker.  We're saving up for the coming weekend.  Our wonderful friends are coming to play for the whole weekend.  Lots of laughs and tons of good food.  Always a blast when we're together!

(My apologies for the poor quality picture)
Today I have a card I lovingly call "Mummy's Coming For You" - LOL  The image is from Just Inklined, I got it last year and have colored it lots of times.  It's such a fun one.  I got a package of sample halloween paper last year and have used it here.  The pin on the flower came from a package I received from my Secret Pal.  The flower is another one I've made from the miscellaneous box of leftovers.  The top of it is a green felt flower.  Ribbon again is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  If you haven't checked out their monthly ribbon kit you really should.  It's wonderful. 

Thanks for stoppin by and I'll see ya'll tomorrow!

Challenges entered:
Monday
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant - Trick or Treat
Thursday
4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons - Pretty Spooky
Little Miss Muffet - Animals and Monsters
Moving Along with the Times - Spooky Halloween
Friday
Paper Cutz - Shake, Rattle, and Roll Halloween
Saturday



Friday, September 30, 2011

Rick St. Davis


It's Saturday and I have a special image from an artist that is new to me.  I'm guessing it's new to many of you too since I haven't seen many of these in blogland.  This is "Hedwig Halloween Digi".  I thought she was perfect for a vintage halloween card to a friend across the miles.  Rick St. Dennis has MANY more images just as fabulous.  I also have a disturbed looking clown and another fantastic feline to color up next.  I colored her with my prisma's to match my double sided paper which I used for the background and then flipped it for the backing on the image and the strip behind the image that I cut a border on, which I noticed you can't really see - oopsy.  I'm bad about the manufacturers name of the paper, but if someone really wants to know I'll check it out.  I added some Kaiser rub-ons and embellished them with some E. gems.  Added some ribbon and distressed everything with Tim Holtz Fire brick.  I hope you enjoy it!



That's it for today.  Got lots more work ahead of me!
I've been really enjoying catching up with all my blogland friends.  Again, if anyone knows of a headless horseman image please leave the link.

Hugs to all!

Challenges entered:
Sunday
Gingerloft - Vintage or distressed
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - Include a sentiment, step out of comfort zone
Monday
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - Fall Colors and/or Thanksgiving
Paper Pretties - Fall Inspired
Woodware USA - Fall/Autumn
Tuesday
Anything Goes Challenge - Anything goes 2nd week
Friday
Raise the Bar - hats (couldn't resist this one! LOL)



Sweet Tricks

Happy Friday!


Wow, this week has flown by.  It's a bit breezy here but perfect to get all those little farm chores done.  My goats are browsing around the garden cleaning up the bits left from the crop.  The chickens are into their second week of laying and our Americana's gave us our first blue/green eggs yesterday.  Now I'm onto a search for some good homes for the kittens.  They'll be ready to go in a couple weeks.  I still can't believe my cat got pregnant while nursing the last batch.  We're definitely headed to the vet next! LOL



I have a sweet image from Stamping Bazaar today.  I did a guest spot over there awhile back and just fell in love with their images.  This is an older one but still fabulous, it's called "Marvin Trick or Treat".  The papers are from some old stock I've had for years (like 15+) ha ha.  A couple challenges wanted homemade flowers and I followed the sketch at The Sweet Stop and it called for them too.  The bottom layer is fabric, the next two are paper and the center is a flower gem.  They were all just pieces left over from other projects but once put together were just beautiful on this card.  The ribbon, of course, is from Really Reasonable Ribbon, who else!?!



Have a great day and don't forget to stop by tomorrow.  I have an extra special card for you to see!

I'm looking for a headless horseman digi image.  I've only seen a couple and their not quite what I'm lookin for.  I have an Equestrian friend and would like to make a card for her.  Let me know if you know of any.  Thanks so much!

Hugs!

Challenges entered:
Sweet Stop - Sketch
Crazy for Challenges - Halloween card or decor project
Di's Digis Designs - Make Your own Flowers
Hiding in my Craft Room - Halloween Card
Send a Smile for Kids - Cute fall or Halloween Card
Squiggles and Giggles - Spooky Fun (Halloween)
Shopping Our Stash - Black and White plus one other color


Thursday, September 29, 2011

Birthday Wishes

It's almost the weekend - Yay! 
I hope everyone is having a wonderful week and has some great plans for this weekend.  I'm planning on enjoying some family time.  I made the following card for my son's girlfriend for her birthday.


I again used a piece from http://www.heartwarmingvintage.com/.  I still ahve tons left and they make such a great focal point.  I recycled a flower I had and this key I found.  I had  this sweet tag and some Really Reasonable Ribbon with some added pearls.  I thought the striped pattern paper went really well with the whole "vintage" theme.  Of course I distressed everything with Tim Holtz.  I need to get more creative in that area.  Birds and vintage go so well together how could I go wrong.

I'm tryin out some new challenges too.  If you know of one that's especially fun mention it and I'll check it out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges Entered:
Crafty Boots Challenge - Things with wings
Citter Challenge - Anything goes
Nettie G - Anything goes (wish I had some Nettie G's)
Celebrate the Occasion - Must use ribbon
Die Cuttin Divas - Shabby Chic or Vintage





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