A Tickled Birthday

 I placed an order at Tickled Pink Stamps a while back & I got my order a couple days ago! So excited to finally get my RUBBA! You know as much as I love digi's, sometimes there's nothing like a good rubber stamp at your finget tips!

I thought for sure I would have my stuffs in time for the last Tickled Pink Challenge, but NOPE, so I decided to get in on this week's challenge which is a fantastic sketch.

 I LOVE SKETCHES!

Here we have Molly Mitten's Christmas. I altered her a bit to make her a birthday card. I covered the holly on her dress with little blingy flowers (pic below). I also paper pieced her dress & hat. I added a bit of festivity to the end of her hat instead of the pom pom.

All the ribbons are from Really Reasonable Ribbons. I am now in love with this silk ribbon. It is such a perfect accent! I stamped a balloon from my SU Whimsy set with my CTMH blush ink & stamped a sentiment on it with Vintage photo ink.

Heres' my completed inside. The color looks off, cuz I took this picture at a later time of the day. Woops sorry! As I said above this is a birthday card,  for a girl in my son's class. Her 4th birthday is today & we are going to Party it up from 10am til noon! WooHOO!

Challenges for my card:

Crafts & Me- Ribbon

Simon Says Stamp- card for a child

Bearly Mine Challenges- inside out

Freshly Brewed- cute & sweet

A Spoon Full of Sugar- all creatures great & small

Tuesday Throwdown- sparkle & bling

Karen's Doodles (Netherlands)- anything goes

Ai Factory- party animal

Paper Sundaes- childhood memories ( I loved my b-day parties)

Tickled Pink -sketch (see below)

It's a Whimsy Hop- Gotta be in it to win it!

I'm not sure how I get this puppy to blink, is it blinking? but anyways you get the jist!

Lots o prizes to be won!

Check it out................by starting HERE!

SOG- CAS

Nope it's not some kind of code, it's "Clean & Simple" at Some Odd Girl!

As soon as I saw their current challenge, I immediately made this little creation!

Meet 80's Kaylee!

I love her!

Reminds me of the good old days!

I placed her atop a shape from Susie Sugar's Die Cut Dreams Store (closed until June). I colored her with watercolor pencils, blending stumps & baby oil. I am currently VERY in love with coloring black hair, as well as LOVING the color combinations red, white & black! A bit of faux stitching & a sentiment from SU & VOILA!

If you've never stopped by the SOG site, you HAVE to, cuz let me tell you, there are some A-M-A-Z-I-N-G sneak peeks going on right now!!!

Challenges for my card: 

Your Next Stamp Challenge- stitching

Stamp Insanity- go retro

Stamp Something- sassy circle somethings

All Sorts- Anything but square

Stamp, Scrap & doodle- CAS

 

Creative Inspirations DT- Anything Easter

First of all- LIIU has an easter challenge that we would like to see you involved in!

Hop on over with your RUBBER EASTER creations & check it out!

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This fortnight at Creative Inspirations Cheryl (your host) wants to see:

EASTER CREATIONS

And for the fab prize from

why wouldn't you want to make something

A basket perhaps.

Easter Bunny Ears maybe?

Me, I'm stickin' to a card.

The image is from Prairie Fairy Designs & is called Easter Egg Gilly. She's sooooooooooo adorable!

I went almost simple.....LOL

As simple as I get I guess!
Papers & flowers are misc from ages ago. Ribbon is Really Reasonable Ribbons. Lace doily, charm & pearl sprigs are from Bizzy Becs Store.

Come on over to the Creative Inspirations challenge and show us YOUR easter!

Challenges for my card:

The Pink Elephant- easter

The Crafty Pad- spring is in the air

Digital Tuesday- easter parade

Meljens DT & Challenge blog- easter

Simon Says Stamp Challenge- spring colors/easter

Craft Us Crazy- spring/easter

Totally Tilda DT-Tilda from Around The World

What wonderfully Sweet Creations we had for the last Totally Tilda Challenge!! Way to go !

It's time for the next Challenge which is:

TILDA(s) FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Where are you going to make your Tilda from? This is where the Bon Voyage Collection of Tildas comes in handy that's for sure. I chose the Indian Tilda  cuz I think that she is just the cutest thing ever! 

I perched her atop of a clock I got off a Tim Holtz sheet of paper & added the word JOURNEY from another sheet of Tim Holtz paper. I also added some seam binding & feathers to mimic the feathers in Tildas hair. The piece of brick like paper in the backgroud is a digi paper from Bearly Mine Designs.  

I really had a lot of fun making this card & I hope you will too! Pls take advantage of making a Tilda from another part of the world & get it into the Totally Tilda Challenge!

Challenges for my card:
Saturday Secret Crafter-  use feathers
Anything Goes- pearls
A Spoon Full of Sugar- tons of texture
Wags n' Whiskers- ribbons & pearls
Bearly-Mine Challenges- sketch (see below)

Fairy Fun Friday- Let a Nursery Rhyme Inspire You

It's that time of the week again. Fairy Fun Friday time!

I am your host for the next two weeks & I want to see

YOUR FAV. NURSERY RHYME INSPIRATION

OH WHAT FUN!

Back to childhood!

For our junior crafters, this won't be hard at all for you!

Me?

I had to google it!

I ended up choosing the Nursery Rhyme:

WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF, MADE OF;

 WHAT ARE LITTLE BOYS MADE OF, MADE OF?

What are little girls made of, made of?

What are little girls made of?

Sugar and spice, and everything nice,

That's what little girls are made of.

What are little boys made of, made of?

What are little boys made of?

Snips and snails , and puppy dog tails,

That's what little boys are made of.

I made another scrapbook page to suit a scrapbook I am making for my brother's family.

See the original post HERE.

This page is the other half of the original post page. Does that make sense?

I have used the cute little image Summer Fun from Prairie Fairy Designs in my bottom left corner.

I colored the dog black to match Rousseau (the dog in the pictures).

The Paper pack is one I bought at Micheals a long long time ago!

I stamped puppy paws & bones on the background paper with a SU stamp set!

We sure hope to let a nursery rhyme inspire you this fortnight at FFF!

Take Care

Challenges for my scrapbook page:  

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge- photo inspire

CRAFT Challenge-animals/pets

Sentimental Sundays- let's get wet

Card making mama's- embellish it

Delightful Challenges- Sun, sea & sand

Easter Basket

I was prompted to make this basket by the challenge going on over at the Magnolia-licious Highlites blog. It is an Easter Extravaganza! There are numerous prizes to be won from the Magnolialicous Store. If you are interested, pls hop over to check out the details to this challenge.

There are 3 challenge categories & this creation is for the last category where they want to see an anything but a card creation. Well, I headed straight to splitcoaststampers to see what I could make....and this little beauty fell right into my lap! So fun to do!

The two white flowers with brad centers, that attach the handle on each side, I bought at Hobby Lobby last year along with the purple chipboard flower & purple chipboard birdie tag. A whole lotta chipboard for a bargain price. Gotta love it!

The little pearly sprigs are from Bizzy Becs Store. I punched some brown leaves with my MS punch and sponged with Vintage photo ink.

I have used this cute little bunny Tilda and went with pinks & purples cuz it just seemed to fit! I added the same color papers, ribbons & accents. Except for the white lace surrounding the base, all the other ribbons are from the Really Reasonable Ribbons Store. My fave ribbon Store!!

Oh & the goodies in the basket did not last long in our house!

Challenges for my basket:

Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog- Easter Extravaganza- Anything but a card

Creative Inspirations- punches & dies

Simon Says Stamp- it's time for spring colors/Easter

A spoon full of Sugar- tons of texture

Tuesday Throwdown- spring

Oh La La- happy easter

Stamp with Fun- easter

AND THE WINNER IS...................

First of all, happy

APRIL FOOLS DAY!

.............gotcha.............

I will NOT be announcing my winner today! So mean of me, I know!

GOTCHA again!!!

Of course I'll tell ya who won, but before I do I'd just like to send a big thanks for all who entered & became followers, I hope not to lose too many of you, but of course it will happen :-( ! Thanks for stopping by anyways!

Secondly, Keep reading to the bottom, cuz if you were one of these people, then you are each  getting a little something from me as well.

 Back to the task at hand........

I really wish I could have given you all something & perhaps for a blogaversary in the future I will think to give away a few different prizes, but until then, there can only be one winner today ....................

And the Winner of my Whopping Blogaversary candy is::

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Emily (Aunt Em) from  (my home country) CANADA

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Scrapping Some Memories

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CONGRATS Emily!

If you could e-mail  (fancyfree4ever@yahoo.ca) me with your snail mail addy  & the picture you used to become a follower, I will be happy to send out all your goodies!

Pls put "Winner of Blogaversary Candy" in the subject line.

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NOW, if you were one of the people who made a creation with the wonderful sketch by Claudia Rosa for my candy, pls e-mail me as well (address above), with your snail mail addy so I can send you each a little something!

Please put "Sketch for Candy" in your subject line.

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Thanks again & hope to see you all around blogland!

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Innocence

For the past two days I have been non-stop busy with making appointments, spring cleaning, shopping, putting together all my 'sketch candy' packages, mailing all of them, reading my course books for recertification classes (for work) & finally...signing my children up for all the summer activities. Phew. Who ever said holidays were for relaxation was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LYING !

When I finally got a chance to sit down today, I opened up an e-mail from my friend Lori and this is what was enclosed.

A little background first.

My cyber boss- BFF- neighbor- & long lost at birth "twin-sister" Roberta, (aka - The Prairie Fairy) took part in an art installation project (which she was hand selected for because she is so amazingly, creatively talented) at our local library & these pictures are from the night of the grand opening/unveiling of her project. She had busted her butt since January to get this project done & all of her local 'fairies' were there to cheer her on.

Yup this was her project. A beautiful nursery rhyme mural with lots of textures, depths and designs.

Roberta  has a slideshow of her project and it can be seen at her blog HERE!
I have never been more proud of her !

(L-R- Debs, me, Lori, Roberta, Kelly, Trisha)

Now for the pictures I got from Lori, also from that night.

This is my innocence......my baby......Merik.

A little over a year old.

Sometimes we get caught up in the hustle & bustle we forget the sweetness right in front of us!

Me & Merik in front of Robertas masterpiece! Both lookin so happy .........

.......then not so happy as I smother my son with kisses and squishes! LOL

I hope you take some time today or tomorrow to give the ones you love some kisses & squishes, whether they like it not! haha

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PS- I just got a call from my g-friend- she gave birth to a  baby girl at 9 am this morning (April 4)! Mom and babe are doing well!

More innocence!

GOTTA LOVE IT!

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Have a great day!

Daisy on a CD

Will you believe I am on holidays. Bwewahaha! I just started back to work , but have to use up my holidays from 2009 before May 1 2011, so I am off until April 22! Cool right? Another cool thing is the above picture.....they are hubbys CD's...hee hee & needless to say he wasn't very impressed that I borrowed one!!

You are probly saying to yourself, OMG what is she doing now, right?!?!

Well.......I was intrigued by the challenge at the Crafty Pad to alter a CD.....as soon as I saw the challenge I knew I had to do it!

So I chose an image  from Bizzy Becs new Blue Butterfly Stamp Line : Meet

This is "Daisy sitting with Sunglasses" & she is now available at  Bizzy Becs Store.

I thought she would go perfectly with the altered CD for a teenage birthday.

The sentiment is the picture below was a freebie from Sentimental Sundays, where every sunday they give away freebie sentiments & the sentiment in the picture below that is a sentiment I made on my computer.

I got the tutorial for the CD case off of Splitcoaststampers HERE. Very Easy Peasy & Handy Dandy considering I have some CD's that need cases!! Yay!

The little metal flower is one I bought last year in a pack at Hobby Lobby. The yellow flower beside my image is a gift from Mrs. Susie Sugar! Mwah! love em.

I used a piece of flower paper from my Tim Holtz paper pack as well as my Tim Holtz filmstrip to accent my creation. Oh that reminds me, these are my last two magnets, must buy more!

Please pop by the Bizzy Becs Store Blog for more great inspiration from the DT of the new digi lines at Bizzy Becs!

Challenges for my card:

The Crafty Pad- alter a CD

By the Cute & Girly- Cute & Girly

Card Makin' Mama's- embelish it

Digis' with Attitude- anything goes

Stamp Something- digi day

Stamping Vacation- Pick 3 (something pink[in paper], sentiment, circle)

Moving along with the times- more than one fold

Ellaphantastic Monthly challenge- anything but square or rectangle

Really Reasonable Ribbons- use punches or die cuts

Let's Ink It Up DT- Easter

It's Team A's turn for the LIIU Challenge and boy have we got a fun one for you!!

First of all let me tell you that our sponsor is Scrappit -

And the prize – $ 20 voucher  !!

Woo hoo!

 Our challenge at LIIU this time round is:

EASTER.

Get out those RUBBER & CLEAR STAMPS.......remember NO DIGIS..........and "hop on over" to our challenge. Pardon the pun, but how could I resist!

{{OH HEY....I almost forgot to tell you that LIIU is also having a featured stamper spot every 2 wks. So if you are interested, just head on over to the LIIU challenge blog and check out the details. }}

Did my first pic give away the theme!?

It's a Tilda with Flower in her Hair (#3049- at the Magnolia-licious Store). Holding some eggs!

I used my pastelly of pastelly papers & some wonderful seam binding with a button center. The yellow butterfly is a foam sticker from a pack I bought EONS ago. I thought it looked very springy! I cut some scallop ovals for behind Tilda & embossed the green one. Once again, colored with watercolor pencils, baby oil & blending stumps (copics for skin).

Hope to see you at the LIIU challenge. But remember ..................only RUBBA!

I am going to be entering this card into the Magnolialicious-Highlites Challenge-Easter/Spring Extravaganza Contest. This is my submission to the first category of a full sized Magnolia on an Easter/Spring card. Other Challenges for my card include: Just Magnolia- anything goes with buttons; Desert Islang Crafter's Challenge-choose 3 or more from list( bow, glitter  ribbon, bright colors), PaperCutz- anything easter, Charisma Cardz-- bling & sparkles, Color Create- pastels optional easter, Craft Us Crazy- easter

Fairy Fun Friday- REMINDER- Spring!

This is your midway reminder for the FFF challenge of

OH SO SPRING!

I have used the image Fairy Sleepy from Prairie Fairy Designs.

She is one of my favorite images by the fairy. I just love the serene, peaceful look of it.

To add layers to my card I used a few different paper packs.. I also made my own flowers with a BIGZ die called Flowers 3D that a friend of mine borrowed to me (Thanks Debs), then i put some of my daughter's recycled bracelet beads in the centers of them.

Pls pop on over to the FFF challenge where you can have a chance to win some of these great images too.

Challenges for my card:

Anything goes- make your own embellies

Clear it out- flowers, flowers

Karen's Doodles (Netherlands)- make your own embellies

Top Tip Tuesday- nature inspired

Creative Craft Friends- spring

Cupcake Inspirations- photo (see below)