Phew ......made it!

I am just whipping this into blogger right now cuz I have to go pick up my son at preschool, but I didn't want to miss the boat over at the Sugarbowl Challenge which is this fabby sketch. If you know me, you know I can't pass up a sketch!

And here's my take.

The string/jute (whatever it is) inspiration is from a fellow blogger friend of mine HEGE.  It was this exact post HERE that inspired me to go on the hunt for this material, that I later found looming in my basement. I told her I am sooooooooooooo gonna CASE her cuz I immediately fell in love with her creation! This sketch lended itself perfectly for this layout!

Thanks HEGE!

KAY I'M BACK

Wow, can you believe this card only took me 2 hrs to put together!?!

You see I only saw the challenge over at the Sugarbowl yesterday & was bound & determined to make something for it. So with the help of my sons preschool (him being gone), my daughter's school (her being gone) & my youngest's two hr nap this morning, I was able to pull this together.

Once I had the perfect image, all the other embellies just fell into place, funny thing is almost all the embellies had to be glued down. BWAHahhaa, which usually takes a long time!

All I can say is thank gawd for Aleene's tacky glue that dries fast and clear. Goes on white, dries clear. LOVE THAT STUFFS (see tut below)

The doily I sponged with my pumpkin pie SU ink pad and Tim Holtz Vintage photo ink pad. Birdcage is a chipboard piece I bought in a set of 3 from a local craft store. I NEED TO BUY MORE !

Frames for the words 'friends forever' are from Dollarama, as are th feathers. The gold corner adornements are off eBay! Below is a pic of my completed inside.

Now for my Top Tip/ Mini Tut:

I must admit I was a little stumped at first on how to make the circle (in the sketch) with the rope/string/jute I had in mind, so I used my CTMH circle cutter to make it just so.

I placed the shape where I wanted it, then started dabbing glue around the outside about 3" apart in order to hold the rope down. The I had to take the circle shape away before it adhered to the paper & rope material.

The last pic there, just shows you the 3 different sizes of my circle cutters.

This pic shows exactly where my rope ends meet. (see the arrow)

And the last pic is just to show you that after the initial glue parts had dried, I still had to go in & add more to secure the remainder of the rope material.

All in all, this was a very fun project with lots & lots of textures including my corner adornments, feathers, suede brown brads in opposite corners, chipboard piece, frame & bling!

My speciality, embellied to the max!

Challenges for my card:

Sugarbowl- sketch (see above link & pic)

Creative Card Crew- cute & girly

Diva's by Design- for the girls

Top Tip Tuesday- for a child

Truly Scrumptious- anything goes

Paper Pretties- texture

My Partner in Crafting Crime- jute, twine or string

Colour Q- see below

Au Natural..........Au Vintage

Seriously, have you seen the new releases at Tickled Pink Stamps. If not, you must go check them out. They are the Lil Victorian Steampunk line  & they are wicked cool. They are also only available in rubber UNLESS YOU HAVE STOPPED BY DURING DIGI-WEEK (starts 15th of each month).....then you can buy them is digi format too!

This little lady is called Lil Victorian Lolita Lilith .

I decided to make a bookmark with her to give to my nursing student. When working nightshifts with her I noticed that she likes to read alot, so I hope she will get lotsa use out of this. I used my brand new set of nesties (gift from my BFF for my birthday) to cut her out & I added embellies galore. OH ME and MY EMBELLIES! I LOVE them!

The vintage filmstrip sentiments are freebies from Bizzy Becs, that I crumpled, sprayed, sponged & glittered to the max!

This bookmark was inspired by : the current Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge of Vintage Colors, the Make it Colorful Challenge of making a dotty background, the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge of tictactoe (digi, diecut, glitter), the Pile it On Challenge- boys & girls come out to play, the Creative Craft World challenge of anything but square, DigiDesign House- anything but a card & Cute Card Thursday of distressing.

3rd Corrosive GDT creation........it's a birthday

I'm back! This week at the Corrosive Challenge we want to see Birthday creations. For my GDT card this week I used a couple of images from  Mo's Digital Pencil. I just love her images & these two just popped out at me screaming 'buy me, buy me'. I purchased them after completing the blog hop involving Mo &  the MIC DT's! It was a carnival extravaganza with loads of A-M-A-Z-I-N-G images & inspiration.
I digress, the first image, Cotton Candy,  was available for $1.00 (during the hop) with proceeds going to Make a Wish Foundations.  This little girly image is so sweet, no pun intended.  haha

On the inside of my card, I have used another of Mo's images called Angelina's Balloon . Don't mind the stickles in the pic, it's the only way the card would stay folded the other way while standing! Isn't she adorable too?!! Next pic is a close up.

The balloons and celebrate block letters are from my scrapbooking stash! Oh the yummy stuff you find  when you've completely forgot about it! haha I tried to use papers that were bright & fun. All are misc from my stash. Also, both images are colored with copics (for skin tones) and  watercolor pencils, blending stumps & baby oil for everything thing else!

 We'd love to see your birthday creations over at the Corrosive Challenge Blog this week. So pop on over cuz you gotta be in it to win it right?!!

Challenges for my card:
Mo's Challenge blog- here comes summer
Really Reasonable Ribbons- anything goes
Bee Crafty- birthday for little ones
Crafts & Me- punches
Art Impressions Stamps- decorate the inside
The Crafty Pad- holes
CLP - sketch (see below)

Happy Father's Day

Did u miss me, did u miss me, huh, huh, did ya, did ya?!!
What can I tell ya. It was my birthday on May 11 (candy coming soon). I had a course at work that day for 7 hrs, came home, then my daughter made us supper (Taco Salad.....yummmmy!), we had cake....got a few crafty presents from some great friends & then I worked for 2 days (12 hrs shifts). Now I'm off for 9!! Phew!
Can't say I've missed the headaches with blogger lately.......geesh, he's being a real bugger hey?!!

Today I have a father's day card to show you, cuz for us here in Canada, Father's day is just around the corner (middle of June sometime).

Hey you can never be too early, can ya?

This digital image is available at Bizzy Becs.

It is from the Blue Butterfly collection called:

This image is called Cody Fishing.

My hubby loves fishing, whenever he gets the chance to, which isn't very often. My daughter loves to fish too, so we are all hoping the boys will follow suit. I don't mind it, as long as I'm catching something. I'm not about sitting there being bored. NOPE, not gonna happen.

I made my 'waves' with my slit punch up one side of a piece of paper & down the other side. Then I pop dotted them. These papers are from a SU set given to me by Kelly a long, long time ago. I have been wanting to use these clouds for some time. Phew.....know when you get that urge to just make something with something you've found. .......glad I got that outta my system.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope I've inspired you to get started on your father's day cards!

Don't forget to pop over to Bizzy Becs Store blog to get some sneak peeks of the new line of images coming available soon, ALSO perfect for that man in your life!!!! (wink, wink, nudge, nudge!)

Challenges for my card :

Charisma Cards- under the weather

Paperplay- celebrating summer (will link it up when the post reappears)

Stamping Vacation- No No -no embossing

Cooking It Up With Katie- brads (stars), letters & an image

Creative Belli- old embellishment starting with S (star brads, I've had foreva)

Tuesday Throwdown- die cuts

Cards for Men- for someone special

PollyCraft Challenge- boyz to men

Something ODD !

WWWooooooooooooo weeeeeeeeeeeee! I am currently recovering fom working 4 night shifts in a row! Man can they screw a person up!! I slept so hard last night, that this morning when my 3 yr hopped into our bed at 7 am this morning to wake us up, I THOUGHT it was my 1 yr old who crawled out of his crib!

Phew! On the up side, I came home at 7:45 am May 8 (Mother's Day here in Canada) to a freshly made breaky of bacon & eggs as well as hugs, kisses and gifts from the family, including a new Scooby Doo Scrub set, a pair of jammies, flowers, homemade preschool projects & a new craft knife.

Oh, my hubby knows me so well!

Happy Belated Mother's day to all of you, as well!

One good thing about my night shifts is that I get a chance to snoop around blogland a bit! Thanks to all of you for all your great inspiration...I just loving looking at everyone work!

I have a creation for you today, that I made for one of my co-workers who's......yup you guessed it.....havin' a baby! I wanted it done for Mothers' Day but I kinda missed the boat  on that one.

Anywho I recently purchased this digi from Some Odd Girl. It's one of their many new digi releases (& if you haven't heard they are also selling clear rubba stamps too-Yipee!! ).  This is Momma Mae.

I knew I wanted to make a doorhanger (which I got from the Die Cut Dreams Store), & the first thing I thought of was paper piecing her outfit in green tones. I am happy with the color scheme, overall. 

I stamped  the word "cherish" with Staz-On ink onto the butterfly mirror, which you can't really see on this pic.  

The layers of flowers are misc as is the little footprints charm.

The pink satin ribbon is recycled from one of those bathroom packs (that come with lotion, scrub etc). It was wrapped so nicely...........I just had to save the ribbon! & the purple textured ribbon is from my blogger friend Dora! (See I told you I'd get to use your goodies eventually!! lol)

Thanks for popping in today!

Challenges for my doorhanger

Karen's Doodles- pastels

Some Odd Girl- get into shape

Charisma Cardz- anything but a card

Creative Stamp Friends- mother's day

Incy Wincy- mother's day/girlie

Simon Says Stamp & Show- anything goes

Cupcake Inspirations- photo(see below)

Corrosive Sketch- 2nd GDT creation!

Here I am with second GDT creation for the  Corrosive Challenge where they have a fabby sketch lined up ! You are are just gonna have to hop over there to see it.....nah, nah....I'm such a tease I know!

I have used an image from Bizzy Becs 'Miss Cherry Martini' line of Digis called Crystal School Girl. Isn't she awesome. Yup she's available at Bizzy Becs. Perfect for that back to school card; even though school isn't out yet; how can you tell I wish school was all year round! LOL 

Square doily is also from Bizzy Becs.

The heart shapes are from Susie Sugar's Die Cut Dreams Store & the pearls on the butterfly (MS punch) & in the corners are actually liquid pearls. My first time using these and they are wonderful. Have you ever used them? You can make them as big or as small as you want/need them! So perfect!

This is only my second time coloring an image in pure greys/blacks. Not sure how I feel about it yet!?

Thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to stop by the Corrosive Challenge Blog to take a look at the sketch & the DT's awesome designs!

Challenges for my card-

Raise the bar- flower power

Flutterby Wednesdays- open

Stamp Something - use a digi

Little Miss Muffet Challenges-die cuts or punches

Paperplay- show us your style (embellie filled)

Southern Girls- lets here if for the girls

Totally Tilda DT- Tilda with what.........?

A PET !

Yup this time at Totally Tilda we want to see our lil ol' Tilda girl with A PET!

When this challenge first presented itself, I didn't have any Magnolia pets, so I asked da boss lady if a scrapbook page of an actual dog would suffice. She said "yes". TY Mrs. Sugar!!

This is going to be the last page in the scrapbook I am compiling for my brother & his family who had to put down their loyal dog of 14 yrs, Rousseau. Yes, for those of you who are keeping track, I am actually still working on it! Hey.......don't tease me! LOL 

The golden puppy paw & "Puppy Love" ribbon is from my old time stash. Some of the paper are MME whilst others are misc. Raffia lace is from Bunny Zoes.

The two Tildas in green are colored with SU markers. I haven't used them in like FOREVA!

Head on over the Totally Tilda Challenge to check out the other girls creations!

Challenges for my page to follow-

Just Magnolia & hAnglar stAnglar- anything goes with optional stitching (which I've also done)

Card Makin' Mamas- for a loved one

Fashionista Friday- go green

The Rubber Cafe- DT blog- anything but a card

Flutterby Wednesdays- open

Stamping Vacation- photo inspire (see below)

Fairy Fun Friday DT- One For The Girlz

The theme this time at Fairy Fun Fridays is

FOR THE GIRLS

When I approach a challenge, I always try to find the most unconventional image to use. You see 'for the girls' and think 'must have a girl on it', I see 'for the girls' and think 'how could I tell a girlfriend how much she means to me'. There you have it......inside my mind! LOL (A scary place sometimes- of course I've just finished an alcoholic bevy so don't mind the 'waffling')

I used the image Cream 'n' Sugar from Prairie Fairy Designs to get my message to you!

I am totally in love with this lace which was given to me by the lovely Trisha. Mwah! TY! 

The sentiment is from Sentiments 4 You. I don't have the tag doohickey, so I borrowed Lori's & die cut a buncha different papers, then I printed the digi sentiment off on my computer, then placed the already cut tag over top of the sentiment (held in place with tape) and ran the paper thru the printer again, to get the placement just right on my tag. Ingenious right! LOL Def. not rocket science!  

I put some crystal effect on the inside of the creamer and some frosted lace stickles to the inside of the sugar container! Turned out very well.

Thanks for stopping by today. Still unsure of what to do for this challenge, pop over to the Challenge blog for some more great inspiration.

Challenges for my card:

Our Creative Corner- embroidery floss

Digital Tuesdays- ribbon & lace

Do U Stack Up- purple

Crafty Catz- sentiment/quote

Stamp Something- digi day



Kisses......JUS BCUZ

Out of PURE EXCITEMENT for my friend Lori @ Just Ducky who was asked by THE Katharina Frei to join the WOJ team, I was inspired to take part in the current WOJ Challenge  which is a sketch composed by Jane!
Here's my card.
This is my first time inking up Nora blowing kisses since I won her about a month ago (maybe more). I know, I am really bad that way. So many great stamps, so little time!

I have used some cool shimmery, silver fabriccy paper (seriously it says 100% cotton) that I got at Dollarama a while ago, for my background paper. It came already embossed with that fabby design.

Then I used a piece of red paper that I embossed with hearts & a die cut scallop I also embossed with hearts & brushed over with my black memento ink pad to make the hearts POP.

I was intrigued by the color challenge at Make it Colorful, thus the palette of white, black & red.

The letters on the front actually say Jus (which is JUST, minus the T) & the inside says BCUZ (which is BECAUSE minus any un-needed letters). LOL

The image on the inside is a Sunflower newly release from Prairie Fairy Designs. I thought it fit well.

I hope you have a great day, thanks for stopping by today!

Challenges for my card:

Make it Colorful- black, white & red

Scrapalicious USA Challenge- mother's day

Papertake Weekly- anything goes

Creative Inspirations- embossing

Tuesday Throwdown- mother's day

Paper Sundaes- fave hair color combo (just my black watercolor pencil- so easy peasy)

Diva's by design- anything goes

WOJ challenge: sketch (see below)



I think I'm in love!

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First of all some great news:

I WON & was in the top 3!!

YAY!! Thanks so much!

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Secondly, I wanted to show you something really, really REALLY cool. Most of you probly already know about it, but for people like me who are just finding out about these wicked awesome things, let me share. I LOVE TO SHARE.

So in my search for EZ Mount, I landed myself in eBay. Where I found this store:

Paper Scissors Crop

Aside from EZ mount, I also got some tabbed panels that fit in 3 ring binders, for storing EZ mounted stamps. Totally what I needed cuz my rubba was just sitting around in a rubber maid container.

So here's a picture of what it is, in the binder already.

 Whoop-di-doo right?

Now with my EZ mounted Tickled Pink Stamps

And you can put stamps on the back of this sheet as well. I've been flipping back & forth between sheets for the past hour and the stamps are still stuck solid. YAY!

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Lastly, the reason for the love in my title-------

There's a new challenge in town called

THE EMERALD FAERIE GARDEN CHALLENGES!

If you have not checked it out yet, or their store HERE, you MUST go!

From the moment I saw Donna's creation with an Emerald Faerie, I knew I had to check them out. 

One thing led to another, it was love at first site, bing, bang, boom....I bought a digi to enter the challenge.

OMG they are the cutest things eva !

Meet Ally & Beeble!

Another homemade cloud scene. YAY!!

I got these lovely ladybugs off of ebay a while ago and have been dying to use them, so this image was perfect! Do u think I LUV eBay or what??! !

A bit of punchwork & coloring with watercolor pencils, baby oil & blending stumps and voila! Magic! hhmmmmmmmmmm! LOL

I also completed the back side in order for a message to be written!

I sure hope I've inticed you to enter the Emerald Faerie Garden!

Have a great day!

Challenges for my card:

Emerald Faerie Garden Challenge- anything goes

Claudia & Company- butterflies

Sir Stampalot- Magical Worlds

Charisma Cardz Challenge- April Showers, May flowers

Stamp Something- things with wings

Really Reasonable Ribbons- double dutch (the top ribbons are of the same style, just different colors, plus I have the bottom green one- hope this counts)

Something a bit different!

I was so inspired by my sons' creation at preschool the other day, that I just had to try it.

So this is what he made.

An egg decorated with colored egg shells left over from Easter. I thought it was so eyecatching & immediately pictured
those colored egg shells on a pair of fairy wings.

So I used my all time favorite image from Prairie Fairy Designs called TipToe Fairy to accomplish my egg shell fairy wings. Now the wings probly would have looked better with a bit of yellow, but we did not use any yellow colors on our eggs this year..... crazy right?

It was so much fun to put these egg shells on, almost like a puzzle. Oh how I miss being a kid!

I also used some of my long lost fabriccy type papers to help my fairy stand out.

Tag sentiments are from Whimsy. 

Challenges for my card:

PaperPlay- use an object not intended for crafting
Stamp with Fun- lace or ribbon
Creative Craft- recycling
Stamp Something- things with wings

Papertake Weekly- sketch (see below)