Bloomers hanging in the wind - LOL!!

There's no real reason for this card today...just the fact that I liked the image and had to use it!  It's one of Deedee's Digi's.....the image is from the set "Loads of Love".

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I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Crafter's Cafe - Use a Digi
• Digichoosday - Lots of Layers

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!

Winter Friends

It's hard to think about snowmen and winter right now - but I know it's coming.  I do love seeing the snow and Christmas of course.  But I do hate driving in it and gee, I'm lucky to walk upright on dry ground much less on snow and ice. 

The card I'm sharing today is for winter...so obviously this one isn't in the mail yet.  LOL!!  But it will be in a few months!!!  The image is "Winter Friends" from From The Heart Stamps.  It's so cute!!  Add some ribbon, bling, and paper from the stash - and this is what I came up with:

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Stamp of the Month Challenge - using Winter Friends 
• Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes 
• The Crafter's Cafe Challenge - Anything Goes 
• Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps - Winter 
• Cute Card Thursday - For the Birds 
• Pattie's Creations Design Challenge - For the Birds 

 Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!!!

Flowers

I just realized that I'm really bad at naming my posts - LOL!!

It's Mid-Inspiration time at Aloha Friday Challenges for Kitty Bee Designs.  The challenge is "Favorite Color Combo" and the sponsor for the challenge is Dilly Beans Digi Stamps.

Picking a favorite color combo isn't easy for me because I love so many.  But one that I found I really do like (and honestly it shocked me that I did) is purple and green.  I was shocked when I saw it used and then realized "Hey - that looks pretty cool!"...so it's become one of my faves.  Here's the card I made using "Daisy Watercan"...even though I didn't keep the daisies white and yellow:

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!

Christmas in July

It's time to get started on Christmas cards...can you believe it?  It comes so fast and I'm never ready....so hopefully getting started in July will mean by the time late November comes around I'm not scrambling to finish cards!  Oh who am I kidding?  LOL!!!  This image is a digi I found somewhere - I can't even remember where.  I wanted to use colors that weren't really "Christmas" or at least not the first thing you think about when you think "Christmas". 

 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps - Christmas Ornaments 
• Creative Knockouts - Christmas in July 
• 4 Crafty Chicks - photo inspiration (used the colors)
• Crafting For All Seasons - Christmas in July
• City Crafter - Christmas in July
• Digi Choosday - Christmas in July

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!!

Black/White - Monochromatic

Black & White (skin color & grey allowed) - that's the theme for challenge #97 at Digistamps4Joy!  I've been wanting to use this image for a while and thought this was a good time to pull it out.  She's so sweet and reminds me that prayer is certainly the answer!  She's colored with markers and the paper is from the stash as is the ribbon.....

Come on over to Digistamps4Joy and show us your black & white creations.  You have until Tuesday, August 5th to link up! 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
• Eureka Stamps - Monochromatic

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!

101 Dalmatians....ok, just 1 Dalmatian!

Yes, I'm a cat person.  But I do love all animals and so thought I should use a dog image.  The image is from Meljen's...who just happens to have a theme this week of "Bookworm" so why not make a card with a Dalmatian dog for "101 Dalmatians".  The image is colored with pencils and the paper is some I've had in the stash.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Meljen's Designs - Bookworm
• Artistic Impressions - Anything Goes/Buttons
• Crazy Challenge - Die Cuts/Punches
• Use Your Stuff - Layers
• The Sweetest Thing - sketch

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!

Black & White Chalkboard

I'm blessed to be part of a group on SCS where we get an envie of items every month and then make cards with those items.  It always amazes me that we get the same things but the cards are so different.  These cards were from last months envie.  I love black & white cards!!!!

I'm entering these cards into the following challenges:

• Cards Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes
• Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
• Lexi's Creations - Black, White & One Other Color
• A Girl Who Crafts - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
• Shopping Our Stash - Can't Put It Down - yes, I'm addicted to paper and ribbon!

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!!

Enjoying the outdoors

July is almost half over...summer is almost half over. Soon it will start to cool down and before we know it - that white stuff will be back.  UGH!!!  So since I'm still in Summer mode I wanted to share an early summer card - maybe even late spring but still it's the outdoors and reminds me of those nice lazy vacation days.  :)  The image is a Penny Black image I believe.  This was a card kit I received - I just love card kits!!!!

I'm entering these cards into the following challenges:

• YNS Challenges - sketch
• A Gem of a Challenge - Animals
• Digi Galore - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - Flowers
• Pattie's Creations Design Challenge - Summertime Fun
• Crafty Girls - Anything Goes
• The Crazy Challenge - My Summer Vacation
• The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Cute Digi
• Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!!

Tres Chic

It's Sunday Release time at Digistamps4Joy!  You just have to go check out the new images released today!  They are all so wonderful!!!  I had the honor of working with new release "Tres Chic".  I thought she was so beautiful and of course I couldn't do her justice...but I tried.  I colored the image with markers and then used some paper from my stash.  Hmmm, wonder if those stacks and stacks of paper will ever start looking less?  LOL!!!  I added some ribbon (2 layered) and then a few flowers and this is what I came up with:

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Digi Galore - Anything Goes
• Pumpkin Spice - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - Flowers

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!!

Ice Cream Bear

It's that time again - the second Saturday of the month and that means it's my DT Spotlight at Kitty Bee Designs!

Summer is in full swing and when it gets warm I want ice cream.  Oh, well, the truth is that I want ice cream all the time (yes, it is my vice).  But Summer seems to bring that craving out even more.  When I saw this little Ice Cream Bear - I knew he had to be the image I used this month.  I colored him with Spectrum Noir markers and then used some paper, ribbon, and buttons from my stash:

If you like this little bear, you'll have to check out all the amazing images at Kitty Bee Designs.  Oh - and don't forget to join us on Fridays for our Aloha Friday Challenges (there's a new one starting this coming Friday!).

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Crafting for All Seasons - Tic-Tac-Toe (I used pink, blue, and purple)
• Clear It Out Challenge - sketch (everything was from my stash!)
• Crazy 4 Challenges  - Teddy Bear
• Catch the Bug  - Anything Goes
• A Gem of A Challenge - Animals

Thanks for stopping by today.  God bless you!!!!

Aloha Friday - Mid Challenge Inspiration

YAY!  It's Friday!!!  Only 8 more hours of work and then it's the weekend....ah, gotta love the weekends! 

Friday's also means that it's Aloha Challenge time over at Kitty Bee Designs.  This week is the Mid-Challenge Inspiration for our Stars and/or Stripes Challenge.  Our sponsor is Kenny K who generously giving the winner of the challenge 5 digis of their choice!  WOW!!!

I used "Mouse digital stamp" - I thought he was so cute!!!  Of course I had paper in my stash that would work out perfect for this challenge....and then just added a black sparkly ribbon from a previous project - and voila!  This is what I came up with:

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Robyn's Fetish - Animals
• Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Cute Digi
• Kenny K's Krafty Krew - Dots and/or Stripes
• Digi Galore - Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday - Paper Pretties
• 4 Krafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!!

Just Chillin'

July's Digi of the Month Challenge is "So Cool" - what a cute set!!  If you hop on over to Deedee's Digis you can enter the challenge and find the store to purchase the cute set! 

I just love this little penguin and how adorable to be in a bath!!!  I used some papers I had and an extra piece of ribbon from another project:

Now check out the whole set:

Remember if you enter this month's challenge, you will get next months set for FREE!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• A Gem of A Challenge - Animals
• Robyn's Fetish - Animals
• Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
• Just Us Girls - Word Week - Bird
• Sunday Stamper - Use a Greeting
• Cutie Pie Challenge - Use A Cute Image
• Stampin' Royalty - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!!

A Whopper?

Lately I've been trying to go outside of my box and throw in a masculine card here and there.  I'm not sure why I find them so hard to make...but I do.  Our theme at Digistamps4Joy is "For The Boys" so this fits right in for me.  There are some wonderful masculine images at the Digistamps4Joy Shop.  I used "The Catch" which is fantastic because it comes with 2 fish!  I decided to try to put some gills on the fish and then pop him with a pop dot.  This is what I ended up with:

Come on over and join us - and of course, check out the great images at Digistamps4Joy!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Creative Card Crew - Masculine
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Digi Makeover Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!

Saturday in the Craft Room

I was able to spend a few minutes in the craft room yesterday (even though I should have been cleaning - LOL!!).  I have three to share today.

First is a card made with the freebie this weekend at MelJen's.  Don't you just love freebies?  The cupcake just screamed out SPARKLE to me so I had to add lots of Stickles.  The icing is actually white using icicle Stickles but it came up looking blue in the photo...to figure!

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

• Twisted Tuesday - Red, White, Blue w/ stars
• A Creative Romance - Colors of your National flag
• Bloggers - Red, White, Blue
• Crafty Catz - Stars or Stripes
• Shopping our Stash  - Red, White, Blue
• PolkaDoodles - Red, White, Blue
• Crafter's Cafe - Red, White, Blue

Next up is a more realistic image from Eureka Stamps.  I love this duck and needed a masculine card to send out this week.  The buttons were from my stash.

 This card is being entered into the following challenges:

• Creative Corner - Outdoors
• Inkspirational Challenges - used water and an animal in the water as inspiration
• Eureka Stamps - Farm Animals
• Robyn's Fetish - Animals
• Crafty Creations - Things with Wings

Lastly, I made a card specifically for the challenge over at Sweet n Sassy Stamps - Big Blooms.  I used Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Tulip Flower Block and colored it using pencils.  Colored pencils is still my favorite coloring medium I think (even though I don't do it much anymore).

 

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
• 4 Krafty Girlz - Anything Goes
• Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
•  Loves Rubberstamps - Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a blessed Sunday!!!!!

Another Patriotic card

I've never been one to make 4th of July cards....but seems like this year I've made a few.  This one comes from a card kit.  I've been waiting for July to pull this one out and make these cards!  I just love card kits!!!

 

The only thing I used that was mine was the banner paper and then the blue backing of the image...oh, and of course the card base.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

• Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes 
• Shopping Our Stash - Red, White, and Blue 
• Craft Spot - Patriotic 
• Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes 
• Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes/Patriotic 
• Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes 
• Party Time Tuesdays - Red, White, and Blue 
• Cuttin & Stampin - July 4th 
• A Girl Who Crafts- Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by today!  God bless you!!!!