LAST DAY FOR CANDY!!!

Last day for my candy!!! I will be taking the post down by 10 pm (Prairie Fairy time) Sunday Feb 14! Better get in now before it is too late!! Will announce winner on Tuesday (as I work my last day for a year [maternity leave] on Monday)!! Stay tuned and Good luck to all participants!!!

FREE-4-EVER Blog Candy!!!

**This post will remain at the top until Feb. 13, 2010 **

So, there I was, in the big city today (January 27).....going to the Dr., having lunch with a friend, when next thing I knew I found myself at MICHEALS- "the all time craft store-of craft stores"! What was I doing there you may ask? Well, I initally went in for some Prima Flowers......then my phone rang and it ws my hubby.........& as he was telling me what he had been up to all day ('bringing home the bacon'), I found myself grabbing for more stuff as each breath went through his lips & into my ear!!! HAHA! So there you have it, the story of how my BLOG CANDY came to be............

Retail value: $80.00 (Click on picture to enlarge)

CANDY WILL BE UP FOR GRABS UNTIL FEBRUARY 13, 2010- DRAW TO BE MADE ON VALENTINES DAY!

What to do to WIN THIS CANDY? Just a few simple requests................

1. Become a follower & maintain follower status (not for the candy, but because you want to)

2. Post my candy on your blog (sidebar is fine-near the top though) with a link back to my site.

3. Leave a comment so I know who you are & how you found me.

4. Only enter once & add your link to my candy below!

Wishing you all the best of luck!!

Welcome to the First Prairie Fairy Blog Hop.......

LET THE FUN BEGIN!
It all starts at 12:01 am (PF time) when you can download a free digital image from the Prairie Fairy Digital Design Group at PaperCraft Planet. This download will be available until 11:59 pm Friday night (PF time). This PaperCraft Planet group is ALSO the first stop on the Prairie Fairy Blog Hop, so if you want to start at the beginning, to ensure you get in on all the tasty candy along the way....................please go HERE. The Blog Hop ends on Valentines Day!!!

If you have gotten here from Kelly's Crafting Creatively blog, then you are on the right track. Your next stop will be Stef's Glitterbabe Greetings blog.

My creation for this blog hop is none other than a fantastic digital image drawn by the creative hands of the Prairie Fairy & can be purchased here.




In case you get lost along the way during this amazingly, talented blog hop of artists...here is the list:
1. PCP Prairie Fairy Group
2. Coldwaters2
3. Crafting Creatively
4. Free 4 ever- you are here
5. Glitterbabe Greetings
6. Good Kardma
7. Just Ducky
8. Kelly's Kreative Korner
9. My Comfort Cottage
10. My Creativeplace
11. O Bumble is me
12. Pink Lilacs
13. Scrapcandy designs
14. ScrapHappie
15. Wishcraft
16. Prairie Fairy Fridays (enter your cards here)
17. Prairie Fairy

In order to increase your chances of winning the blog hop, there are a few simple requests/hints from the Fairies:

** for 1 entry, leave a comment at each blog as you hop along
** for 2 entries, become a follower of our Challenge group
** for 4 entries, become a follower of the PCP Group
** for 5 entries, show us a new creation of yours that has a Valentines theme AND uses a Prairie Fairy image
** and finally, if you enter a card in the challenge, you will be entered to win the prize for this week which is 3 Prairie Fairy Digital Images of your choice!!

AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S NOT WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO LOSE , IT'S ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN GAIN! And this is it: Prairie Fairy Blog Hop Candy.......

PLUS ANY 4 PRAIRIE FAIRY DIGITAL DESIGNS!!!

Don't forget to keep your eyes open for individual DT's candy being offered on their blogs as well!!

Good Luck and Happy Hopping!!

Other Challenges for my card are:

Creative Card Crew- Valentines

Delightful Sketches- Love

Digital Tuesday Challenges- All about Animals

Dutch Dare Challenge Card- Valentines

Cute Card Thursday - In the Name of Love

Charisma Cardz Challenges- Think Male

Card Patterns Challenge with a Phindy image

Another day, another challenge. Before I go off and get some Henna art done to my 37 week belly, I thought I would share a card I made the other day while at my 'mom's day out with scrapbooking/cardmaking'.

The image is from Phindy's Place - digital stamp illustrations and when I saw this image (called Big Boots to Fill) I immediately thought of my son (who's pic is at the top of my blog with his grandap). I fell in love with it instantly and simply had to have it. You can too, just by visiting her store on Etsy!


I am entering this card in the Card Patterns Challenge as I could not resist the sketch for this week. If there is one thing I like, it is having a sketch as a good place to start!! Thanks Card Patterns.



I colored my lil' guy with the usualy watercolor pencils and markers and chalked the background. The bluey-yellowy messy looking paper is from one of my 'fabricy' paper packs I mentioned in one of my other card posts, that I bought over a year ago. Sure is coming in handy now. The sentiment (just like dad) is a sticker from one of my WAY TOO MANY sticker packs! Papers are CTMH and misc.

I hope you like my lil' guy as much as I liked making him!!

BLOG HOP !!!!!

Blog Hop, Blog Hop, Blog Hop....................Yehaaaaaaaaaaaw!!! Prairie Fairy is having a blog hop!! Feel free to check out her blog for all the details! Great Candy can be found along the way! Come one, come all to the HOP on our Blogs starting Feb. 12- Feb 14 !!!!!

Something's in the air..............................

First of all........I feel a HOP coming on.................a BLOG HOP that is! Check out my side bar for who is doing it (Prairie Fairy) and what you can win (Candy,candy,candy)! Lotsa details involved and they can all be found at the Prairie Fairy Blog! HOPPING starts Friday February 12th !!

Secondly, I have a card for Susie & Vikki's Christmas Club Challenge where they are asking for Christmas Trees! After realizing I have no digi-trees, I opted to use a CTMH stamp set to get the ball rolling. The set is called Holiday Warmth & the sentiment comes from another CTMH set called Card Chatter-Christmas.

I stamped the tree with Versamark and embossed with green and gold embossing powder, then I added some glue and glitter to make the tree sparkle. Paper is CTMH and misc. as is the ribbon and stars eyelets on the bottome. My little buckle is from SU Hodgepodge hardware.

Remember , STAY TUNED FOR THE HOP STARTING AT THE END OF THIS WEEK!!!!

WOWZERS!!!

Did I have a productive day today or what? I went to our monthly scrapbooking day put on by my Creative Memories Consultant Karen Norquay and the kids stayed with grandma! I got 3 cards accomplished there, for various challenges and then 1 more card this evening! Super happy & proud of myself!! I took a bunch of sketches with me to scrapbooking & completed the Friday Sketchers challenge, which is being sponsored by none other than my Digital Image 'Boss' - Roberta Laliberte (AKA- Prairie Fairy). She is offering up some free digital images to the winner! You can check out her store here !

Also, I see that I am at 30 followers!! WOOHOO!!! Makes me a very happy girl, and if I;m happy, hubby is happy!!HAHAHA!!!! Thanks for joining my blog!!


So here is my card for Friday Sketchers! The image is from Phindy's Place (digtial stamp illustrations on Etsy) & is called Connected Girl . This image & more can be purchased at her Etsy store. I love the little girl image as I have a pre-teen in the making.....I know these days are not far behind!!

I am also entering this card in the All Sorts Challenge- Get Distressed with Buttons & A Bow! Now hopefully I don't get disqualified, as I seem to be missing the buttons & bow part?!! Sorry. I just had to enter, as I DID do ALOT of distressing!! Hope it counts!

All the papers are misc. The pink paper with the ribbon over it is actually fabricy-type paper (is that even a word). I bought a bunch of this fabricy-type paper while on a shopping/spending spree about a year ago & often forget to use it! It has a soft texture & luckily a distressed appearance as well!! I colored my girl with watercolor pencils & markers from SU. A bit of bling for the jewellry, bag clip and phone were my final touches!

I hope everyone has as productive wknd as my Saturday was today!
Take Care.

2nd post for today............

PRAIRIE FAIRY - PRAIRIE FUN FRIDAYS!

Here is my DT card for this sketch challenge. His name is Lewis. He is a creation of the Prairie Fairy's & can be purchased here. I had great fun creating this card and thouroughly enjoyed putting it together.

Lewis is colored with SU markers and watercolor pencils. His face is the result of SU chalk. I find the chalk to be softer than the markers. The saying is a stamp from a SU set called 'Define my life'. There are so many UNIQUE people in my life, I'm sure I'll have no problem giving this card away!!

1st post for today.......

A Buncha Challenges in this one!!!

I'm really late with these posts today, unfortunately I have been working all day. 12 hr shifts at 36 weeks pregnant are not a good combo. But I made it and am here to write about it.

My first card for today is an image from Phindy's Place- digital stamp illustrations. This was one of her freebies offered as the number of followers grew! I fell in love with it.

AND as it turns out, I am putting this card in Cute Card Thursday which Phindy is sponsoring this week!!!! Woo hoo!!

My little fella is colored with SU markers and watercolor pencil crayons. I embossed the background paper with my cuttlebug, and applied a charm that says "HOPE" (in the hope that the rain stops soon).....leaving the inside of the card open to interpretation (hope your day brightens.....hope you feel better soon....etc) . I sponged the edges (tip from the Prairie Fairy which she always used to do). Finishing off my card is CTMH ribbon and misc. 'droplets' at the bottom of the card & on the coat pockets & cufflinks!

Challenges:

Friday Sketchers- Sketch
Your Next Stamp Challenges- Charms
Fab & Funky Challenges- Emboss it
Cute Card Thursday- Spots & Dots

Trying a Different Fold with A Spoon Full of Sugar !

I tried a couple of different challenges this week.
First, we have A Spoon Full of Sugar sketch (below), which really intrigued me.
I tried to combine it with Digital Tuesday Challenge of Trying a Different Fold.
I don't think my attempt to accomplish both, turned out too bad?!?!?


I used an image from (you guessed it) Prairie Fairy Design store. This is one of the set of 2 digital images you can purchase here, & are called Prima Ballerina (s).

The fold I attempted is called the Joy Fold Card, which I downloaded from the Splitcoaststampers website ages ago & never actually got around to using, until now! It is very easy peasy.............if I can do it..........anyone (& their dog) can do it too!!

The text I chose for the outside of the card says "Dance.." & the inside says "...like nobody's watching! Happy Valentines Day!"

The paper is a designer series from Close to my Heart (CTMH) called That's Amore. Ribbon is misc. and stamped hearts are from CTMH as well- a stamp set called Key to my Heart (i think?!) Once again my little lady is colored with SU watercolor pencils.

Fairy Fun Valentine !

Good day everyone! I have been on such a roll with card makng lately, I m pretty pleased with myself, however, this roll will not last forever, as I am about to have a baby (not right now!! ) ... at the end of the month, so my card making, scrapbooking and challenge blog wars will slow down to an almost crawl! Bare with me.

This card was made with the All Sorts Challenge Blog in mind. Took me a while to get going, but overall I am pleased with the outcome.


The image is from Prairie Fairy Designs ; is called Sitting Pretty, and can be purchased here! Papers, ribbon & LOVE saying are miscellaneous items (I have almost committed myself to use up all my paper scaps). The flowers, I recently purchased on my 'big ol shopping spree' the other day (which prompted the candy you see above as well). The pin on the coner is from my sewing kit as I'm not much of a seamstress that's for sure.



Fairy is colored with SU markers & watercolor pencil crayons. Sparkles on the Fairy's wings and dress complete my project. OH, almost forgot I clear embossed some swirls on the background red paper!

After doing this project I now see it is eligible for a few more challenges, so here they are:

Cute Card Thursday- Blooming gorgeous!
Creative Card Crew Challenge- Valentines !
Dare U 2 Digi Stamp Challenge- Valentines !
Your Next Stamp Challenge- Anything that Sparkles !
Pink Elephant Challenge- Pink !
Pollycraft Monday- Things with Wings !

One Off Challenge & Blog Hop

BLOG HOP UNTIL FEB. 13, 2010

I have had this post at my sidebar for some time, however may have linked it incorrectly and for that I apologize profusely. I was not trying to negate you. Rest assured the following is the correct link for a tricky & talented blog hop hosted by Floral Fantasies (& DT) & sponsored by Sir Stampalot. The challenge and hop is to commemorate Sir Stampalots' big move to a more spacious new shop in Peterbourough. The theme of the hop is "MOVING" & there is great candy to win (pls see sidebar). The following card is one of my enteries into this challenge.


This card was made some time ago, at a card class, while I was a budding "card-a-preneur." The class was held by none other than the talented Kelly Murray. This card had a number of techniques combined into it, but what stuck in my mind the most was the 'penny-pop dot-penny' technique which makes the whole thing rock and roll (so to speak)!



The Stamp set is from Stampin up as is the saying inside that says 'if at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished' !
Good luck to all and have fun!!