Love to Create Challenges

Good morning! I am a little late with getting this challenge posted this week but thought Hey! Maybe that will make me a little different from the Monday morning rush:) This week over at Love to Create Challenges we are being sponsored by Fresh Brewed designs and love to create in their very witty way decided tags was the theme. This is my brains result:) Love to you all and come join us in the fun!

Do you see Spots??

Or maybe dots?? We sure do over at Love to Create Challenges and today I have two different example of that sponsored by Meljens Stamps and Papelitos digital stamps...So come on over and join us in this fun challenges! The first card is made from Papelitos and he is titled the FREAK!

Our second example is a digi by Meljens and I have made it into a barrette for my 5 year old grand baby..Stamping isn't just for scrapbooking or cards ")

OH MY DIE CUTS...with a view!

That's is right fellow peeps I was selected along with 11 other fabulous artisans to be a part of the first ever 2012-2013 DCWV Design Team..Wholly Cow I am beyond ecstatic, honored, awed, and last but not least truly touched...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1CqsmBHlDs If you take this link you will get a really awesome tour of DCWV's booth at CHA this year and the design team members announcement. Big hugs...weee squeal UGH......I will post my entries later .  WOW ! Can you believe it? I must go get smelling salts.

Gooooood Monday Morning..I know I know I have said it before and I am gonna say it again (insert my best southern accent) It is time for another challenge over at the Love to create Blog...whooooo hooooo Yip Yippee! So today I have a little sweetie from Tiddly Inks. She was made with the pencils I showed you'all how to do a couple years ago..(scuffles through the library ) I will add that to today's post as well. Hope you feel inspired and have a great week! Psssstttt RIDICULOUS BIG NEWS TOMORROW! giggle....

Okay to make the toothpick pencils: cut off 1 end of toothpick color middle with copic marker #Y26 the eraser end with copic # E04 and the tip with # W8....The silver strip is stain glass tape cut down the middle with scissors and wrapped around..whaa laa PENCILS in miniature!

My first challenge with Scrappers delight

Good Morning Party People!...Today we are going to have some summer fun! It's a pretty little beach babe from scrappers delight with eye shadow and flowered sandals...I hope you enjoy her and join us over at the challenges.

Scrappers Delight Happiness!

I have big news!! Yes that is right big big news....I am delighted and honored to be made a part of the Scrappers Delight design team. They have a large array of digital stamps that peak my elfin interest.

If you wanna be delighted too please follow the link to the right--------------->

Wow great fun for a Friday and it's the 13th!

Today over at Love to Create Challenges we were inspired by a photo of brightly colored flowers and using a sassy studio image.....Lets see what it helps you to create.

Love to Create Challenges

Good Morning one and all!..This week over at Love to Create Challenges is all about the stars and stripes. The 4th of July always makes me think of my husband (retired US soldier) and all the people of our country who actually contributed to our freedom in a positive way. Then the food, picnics,parades and above it all , like icing on a cupcake ...."fireworks" Happy Birthday to us all!

Crafty and Green Guest Designer!

I am so SUPER EXCITED!!! Today I am featured over at Crafty and Green as a guest designer. Whooo Hoo, Tina features so many neat and nifty project so that you can reuse and recycle just about anything. Today I have a project that my Grandma showed me years ago...what to do with a old cracked desert dish and the left over cotton from pill bottles.....Now you could just throw your pins in the dish, which is what I said to my Gran when she talked about doing this...I was 9 .   She then responded with a Oh no! ..if you do that then the needles will stick your fingers..she then showed me how to do this...I wish -wish-wish I had the first pin cushion she showed me with. It has long since been lost "military move # 1 million and 12th or something like that. But the bottom line is this....She showed me how and I remember the smell of the fabric in her room as I made this. Annabelle made quilts ....many many quilts and she even went to the local pioneer village when they had events and demonstrated her skills. Such a lovely talented woman  as she also played the piano and organ from the age of 26- 81 at her church when they literally pulled her kicking and screaming from  her organ bench on the choir podium. Eventually it was decided to just move the organ to her house as a "retirement gift"  and they bought new...True story. It doesn't get much better than that!

Anything GOES!!!!

 Today Over at Love to Create Challenges it's anything goes...I created this box topper with a Mo Manning Image..she is a wee little baby fairy smelling the daisies....Her little wings are doubled with acetate and I made the flowers out of blanks and copics, add some stickles and there ya go! I hope you enjoy her and have a Great week")

Love to Create Challenges!!

Good Monday morning! Today I have two cards I made for our challenge.The top card is a Digital Darla and the lower one is Robyns Fetishes...I got confused which one I was supposed to create with so I made both and my lovely ones published both.  Please come join us? We love seeing everyone and all levels and you have to start some where right? No better place than with us..The prizes are great !

Good Thursday Morning! Today I decided to share a little something here on the blog other than my cards...About time huh? So I am certain you have all seen the little stamps done on kraft paper and thinking wow is that copics? No, Nope it's not. It is one of two different kinds of pigment.  Oil pastels "crayons" Or pastel chalk pencils (as shown) . Both need a little blending stick and both will POP off your colored paper...Try this on Gray/blue and pink looks fabulous But black with a tiger or peacock rocks the house :)


C.C.Designs "Rosalie" stamp

Love to Create Challenge #19

Good Monday morning..time for another challenge over at love to create and i hope you will join us. Today is sponsored by Sassy Studios Images. These images are so distinctively sassy with so many different variances....LOVE Them!

Love to Create Challenge #18

Good Monday Mornin ya'all...It's all about the man in your life over at Love to Create Challenges and we hope you can share some of your masterpieces to show how much you care this Dad's Day! Today my contribution to the design teams idea's and inspiration is Gus from over Bugaboo images.

Love To Create Challenge # 17

 First let me say to all who have lost someone they hold near and dear, Happy Memorial Day! I hope your memories are fond and your hearts are warmed. For those of you who are celebrating these memories by having gatherings with friends and family....Have a great day !

Today challenge is sponsored by Digi Darla, Crafty Sentiment and Paper Alice. For links to these sites please go to the Love to create challenge blog and follow from there. I used the Digi Darla image today with the twigs for it's delicate impression. The little flowers were made from a regular little spike flower punch and the paper colored with Copics #R22....Scrunch up in hand and Wha La:) I truly hope you enjoy .

Challenge #16 over at Love To Create Challenges is sponsored by Fresh Brewed images and it comes with a Song themed sentiment...I just though I would hit this up with a Little Whitney. Y'all enjoy and I hope you can join us. Have a Great day!

Love to create BINGO challenge and design team call!

Good Monday morning everyone! today we are featuring the Love to Create Design Team Call and Bingo Challenge sponsored by Sassy Studio and Scrappers Delight.....Do one or both ! We would love to have you!
                                                 http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/

Today's challenge is called bingo card, Your entry must include any of the 3 items listed with in a row diagonal/horizontal or vertical...It is a neat little challenge that may encourage you to add more layers to your creations. Have Fun!     Here are a few cards I made for this challenge for your inspiration.

Friday Craft Club

Last Friday was craft club night hosted by Regina Cady. Regina supplied us with 12x12 canvas's and let us have at um. We had lots of laughs, some cries, great eats, and most of all , we were collectively  creative. This is what I made mine into.

Thank you my friend.

This is a thank you card I recieved from one of my dear friends. Amber did such a truly beautiful job that I asked if I could share with all my blog buddies and she said yes! Weee, isn't it beautiful....She stitched it and embellished it and distressed the cardboard that she diecut out....So much work! When I  recieve something that took this kind of effort, it is I that feels like I should be saying Thank you. But then...She would send another amazing creation.  Then, after a while, like girls do...It would become bigger, more embellished, and NO ONE KNOWS what to do with those damn cards that are 1 foot by 2 foot big.

I love you girlie and thank you.  

Earth Day 2012

Today our Hop is Hosted by Tina from Crafty and Green. She Loves to Craft Green!!

 I am so honored to have been made a part of the Crafty and Green blog hop for Earth Day. When I was asked I was over the roof excited about it, then as life often does it got hectic at my house. Busy doing this and that and have to make 15 what-nots for the thingy ma jig and 32 doo-dads for the other guys and the next thing I know, in the words of Emeril, BAM! It was here. I panicked. I did, I can’t deny it. I was running around looking at everything, and I do mean everything, thinking of things to make out of anything not bolted down in my house. Then, how will I decide what will inspire and provoke …Finally exhausted, as I lay flat out on the floor overwhelmed with a toe twitching, inspiration came. It came in the form of my husband saying a simple sentence. “I don’t know what your getting so crazy about, you do this every day". AHHHHHH the clouds parted and the light from the sun shown through……WHY YES, YES I DO! So I started the search and realized we all do.  To be a crafter is to make something out of something else and most of the time it is simply utilizing what we need from what we have. So there you have it! Man has been doing this and handing down this tradition for ages and we teach it to our children almost from birth….I have included in my photos a little lady bug made from a walnut shell that my son painted for me in kindergarten, “sniff” he is 27 now.   So with out any more fuss …I have taken a picture with some old , some new, some borrowed and some blue in deep hopes that you feel inspired. Please reuse and utilize your local restore/thrift and good wills and please take your newspapers to the ASPCA...they need all they can get. Thank you.

The bird charm was made using a spellbinders die cut to cut the birds from a blue plastic cup and the disk is cut from a wine bottle cork.
The flowers were made from newspaper using a TH die “tattered flowers” glimmer mist and Mr. Huey’s spray
The Red flower cards white mat is actually a piece of white styrofoam cup put through an embossing plate then cut with a Spellbinders die.
The bracelet is shrinky dinks, with added buttons and old clock works as interesting beads and spacers.
The bodice doll is made from a paper mache form dressed with the lining of a pair of old pants and the stand is a old screw driver and door knob for the head.
The Bird house is a take on electric with old fuses and insulators as the stand.

 What a Great Way to Share our Love of the Earth by having a Fun Blog Hop! You should have hippity hopped along from ( Tina's ), but if you just stopped by my blog to visit today, I don't want you to miss a single thing!! Please start at the beginning which is HERE.

1. Tina - http://craftyandgreen.blogspot.com/

2. Amanda - http://oldenough2beakid.blogspot.com/

3. Lisa W - http://mycraftyspaces.blogspot.com/

4. Gill - http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/

5. Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com

6. Lori - http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

7. AnnMarie - www.creativeramblings345.blogspot.com/

8. Cheryl - http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/

9. Kimberly - http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/

Sponsors & Blog Candy:
What's a Hop without some fun Candy to go Along with it?

Scraptastiscal Kreations- $20 Gift Certificate

_____________________________________________________________

Crafty Sentiments Designs- 3 Digi Stamps

_____________________________________________________________


Simply Silverton- A bath kit in the fragrance of the winners choice-
Two 4 oz bars of soap, 7 oz body Souffle, and 16 oz of Bathsalts.
(Natural organic soaps and body products)
___________________________________________________________

Rules to be Eligible for The Blog Candy:
1.) You MUST visit each blog and leave a comment on every blog in the hop
2.) You must become a follower of Crafty and Green if you aren't already!
3.) For an “Extra” Entry for the Blog Candy, Please Friend Tina at CraftyandGreen on Facebook

So, with new and old examples of how I have repurposed and reused and with a big thank you for joining us today…I bid you happy blog hopping.

April Craft Club (Dress Forms)

 Last night was Craft Club night  hosted by none other than Amber "the awesome" Widener..This lovely lady gathered the concepts and let us go.....Fun to be had by all! On my first piece down below I made a more steam punkie sorta gal..Her skirt is made of the lining of a pair of slacks from the thrift store and her stand itself is a screw driver and door knob....The next lady is  fairyish... with the use of an old packing tube and a die cut bodice template from Paper Doll Parts I created her hoop skirt. Lots of details make them happy ladies.

Challenge #11 At Love to Create Challenges

(updated) Sorry I didn't explain about the layout. The project is of a 8x8 layout and the little panda bears I did with the grey hues in the copic line of markers. "my favorites" The paper line is from prima...Hope this helps :)

This week at Love to Create Challenges we are all about friends and this Stamp fairy digi shows that..We are also featuring for a added bonus a sketch with this challenge . So come on over and play with us..no real rules but to have FUN!

I Promised!!! 10,000 Hits and it would be time for CANDY!!!!!

UPDATE:   Lenlopez@me.com   aka Scrapgram  You are in fact the blog candy winner!

Congratulation to our winner and we will have to do this again soon.

This is what ya gotta do....Comment....if you can't figure that booger out just go at it anonymous and sign your name at the bottom with your email. No email no entry..that keeps out the cheater mageeters ") You may enter /comment once a day for the next week of which on Sunday evening the 22nd at 10:00 P.M. I will announce the winner....I will then email my winner and get your information so as I may send you your goodies..Good luck to all and I am so excited to see how many of you do this. Everyone may enter....But please know that all you across the huge body of water..I will send but if it gets damaged ..I can't be responsible but i do promise to package the best that I can.