Happy Thursday!

Hello there!!  8 more days until we hit the beaches of Florida!! My DH is a true Floridian and two of our children and their families live in Orlando.  I lived there for five years and I went to Disney twice...no lie!  The first time I was visiting my daughter, Amy who lived in Hilton Head and and I in Michigan at the time.  Hurricane Fran was on her way and they were evacuating the island. So we got in the car and headed south to Orlando! We had very little money for things were sorta tough during this time in my life, and so every morning we would go to those horrible time share programs so we could get free tickets to the parks!! Well, I was never to Disney so that was the first park I picked. Let me tell ya...that daughter of mine wore my butt out that day! Amy is 6 ft and I am 5 ft and trust me most of her height is in her legs and she was on a mission to show me the whole park in one day!! Needless to say...95% of the time I felt like I was running to keep up with her and then my purse was stolen while we watch one of the shows. LOL to make a long story very short....Disney gave 2  no limit meal vouchers at their finest restaurant. We ate like PIGS!!! We chose the most expensive 7 course meal they had. I will never forget how dang sick we were when we walked out of there!! You could not pay me enough to eat as much food as we did that day. It hurts thinking about it!!

 (Tip of the day will be after pictures of my card)


Challenges:

• 7 Kids College Fund has a brand new challenge blog and today is the first day of their first challenge! Pink and Dots: The winner will receive a $50.00 gift voucher for the store. I am in!
• Simple Scrapping Craft; Copic Challenge: White and buttons. 
• 2 Sisters Challenge: punch 
• Digi Doodle: Favorite image 
• The Stamp Man: two colors 
• Createalicious Challenge: 3 D
• Desinaworld Spot: interpretation 

Do you love her like I do? Is this you for it surely is me!! Except kids got replaced with grandchildren! My image is a Sarah K! I love her stamps. If I had to put my favorite stamps in order of which ones I like best...Sarah K would be tied with Elisabeth Bell for the number one position! And of course 7 Kids College Fund is one of my all time craft store! I could spend all day just looking at everything and then it's I want this and I want that and very hard to decide what you want and what you should only get!! KWIM

Supplies:

• Cryogen White paper... Love, love this paper for coloring with Copics. It has a bit of a tooth to it and so easy to blend your colors with.   It blends faster with less ink and has sparkly specks in it. So pretty!
• Sarah K image: 
• Copics:
• Pink: RV09, RV06, RV04, RV02
• Skin: E11, E00, E000 R20 for blush
• Apron: C01, C00
• Shoes: W3, W01, W00
• Broom: E49, E47, E44, E42
• Pockets, Kitty Cat, Bottom Shadow: C03, C01, C00
• Paper: sorry stack
• Prima Flower
• Magic Mesh which is self sticking and you can buy it here at SCACD

TIP OF THE DAY: Another awesome punch.  Deep Edge Doily Lace Trim by  Martha Stewart and I love it. When you want to make a ribbon with regular border punches you punch one side, turn it around and punch the other side. Not with this one!! It does everything for you and you can get at Create For Less. 
I used it on my card today!

 Thank you for your kind comments!

OWH.... Operation Write Home

Happy Wednesday everyone! Please bear with me, and grab a cup of coffee, for this is a super long post.  As many of you know I  love and appreciate our troops and the their love ones who are left behind at home. I belong to a group called OWH which stands for Operation Writing Home. Their mission is supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them. As of August 2, 2010:   497,071 cards have been sent to deployed heroes!! Tell me that isn't awesome!!  I have a girlfriend, Lisa, The Purple Place, who mailed  42 cards yesterday!! YEA Lisa and thank you!!   Jan Hunnicutt started an OWH group over at Simple Scrapping Crafts  and asked me if I could make a card for the challenge today!  I felt extremely honored she asked! Right now OWH is having an all month Birthday Bash, across the nation to celebrate their September 12, birthday! It is an awesome celebration and I am hoping we can all join in one way or another. All the details are here.  Before I post my card I would like you to read a letter sent recently to OWH and I copied it from here. It is written by a wife of a Sgt. deployed to Afghanistan.
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Thank you so very much for the wonderful creation of cards that you have made and sent to our troops overseas. I have been the lucky recipient of several beautiful cards that my husband sent home to me from Afghanistan. If I could send you all the joy you have helped in creating by such a gift as this, you would know how truly grateful I am for your efforts. Thank you's don't seem strong enough to express my deepest feelings as to what they bring to my life. I know this sounds overly dramatic and I do ask you pardon for such poetic license in this as I will explain a little in the hope you all will understand, as I don't know if you have or had loved ones who have served in uniform but to me these little treasure are a blessing.

I am a Proud Marine wife and madly in love with my husband GySgt H.R. currently on a 12 month deployment to Afghanistan. We are stationed at MCAGCC (Marine Corps. Air Ground Combat Center) Twentynine Palms, CA. I moved out here in August of 09 just in time to watch my husband deploy that September, we are counting down the days till he will finally be home and we hope not to deploy again for a year (if we are lucky). Between the both of us we have 5 very strong children who are greatly missing their father right now. We have dealt with the 6 and the occasional 9 month deployments but, this is our first full 12 month cycle. Through out this deployment my husband has had very few times to call home and for the most part communications leaving the base are left to a 15 min phone call also, with the job he does (infantry) he is constantly busy focusing on his job as it should be and when he can he will write a quick note to everyone before he is off again doing what he must. There have been weeks that have gone by that I haven't heard from him, though I am grateful as we live in the technical era where phones, emails and texts exist the fact that I can get a word on his well being with in moments is a true blessing but, I have to say I have it easy as the wives before me would wait months to hear how their loved one was so, I am truly thankful.

The first card I received was 3 months into this deployment and now I will get one about 1 or 2 monthly. These cards are a welcome gift, truly they are as it allows him to express his thoughts when he feels the impulse to do so allowing me to know im still tucked safely in his heart as he is in mine. I check the mail and find these wonderful cards and I am all aglow telling all that can hear that My husband is the Bomb ..lol and you are all angels. It has been close to 2 weeks now since I last heard from My Henry and wouldn't you know it, there were 4 cards sitting in the mailbox with loving words from a man, stuck in the heat, surrounded by dirty, smelly marines but he took the time to write me and tell me how much he misses and loves me and our children..

I wanted you to know you have had a hand in keeping us all connected, when words fail us, you have given us a way to get it across so not a moment is lost even when they are so far from us. You not only helped him send his love home but made my day a lot less heavy with worries that can be hard to bare. Thank you and Much Awesome respect to all who have taken the time to participate in this cause.

Sincerely,

Mrs. R.M.R. 
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I have read this letter three times and each time the tears still fall down my cheeks.  Please go to the OWH OWH group at Simple Scrapping or the OWH website and see if you can help with their cause. We make so many cards for the challenges ...lets put them to good use! Those who do not craft they would be more then grateful for donations to help fray the cost of shipping.

There is one rule in making cards for the deploy and it is no glitter on the cards. A tiny spec of glitter makes a man or woman visible with night vision goggles, this is a risk no one wants to take. On OWH website it does say you can use Stickles. However, I choose not to use anything with glitter. I won't even make my cards at my usual place in fear a flec of glitter would adhere to it.

Thank you for taking the time to read this:

My Image today is from Karen Doodles.  Let me tell ya,  I love her images and use them a lot!! If you never been to her site take a quick hop over. I am sure you will be impress!!  I love my card and there isn't one spec of glitter on it!

•  Challenges:
•   Karen Doodles: anything goes
•   Digi Doodles Shop Best :anything goes
•   Dutch Dare: Anything goes
•   Polka Doodle Generic Card for Male or Female
•   Mami Doodles: Anything goes
•   Stampin B's Design; Birthday Card
•    Flutter by Wednesday: Favorite Color Blue and green

Party Time Tuesday!

Good morning fellow bloggers!   You know every week I brag about doing Party Time Tuesdays challenge blog. This week I was asked to be the weeks guest DT...  Is that not awesome? I couldn't say "yes" fast enough!  I love this blog for every week, no matter what the challenge is your card must have a birthday greeting on it! Good way to build up your stash ladies!

TIP OF THE DAY: I was asked how I was able to have my cards and blog transferred to Facebook when I do my blogging. Here is the web site to join and you too can have your info transferred to FaceBook right from your blog page!

If you did not see the tutorial I did on the Fiskar Punch look one blog below. I love this punch! Can ya tell?

Today's card for PTT is an easel card! I used Sweet Messenger digital stamp from BDS. Isn't she a sweetie. I felled in love the second I saw her. Copic lessons are given by Lisa Futch at  Simple Scrapping Crafts 
and this weeks lesson is on coloring whites. If you are looking for a blog with lots of friendly people, challenges of all kinds, lots of inspiration, lessons,  and everything else on a blog...then you need to go to Simple Scrappy Crafts for it's all right there!

 These are surely not the best pictures I have taken.

Thank you for stopping by. I read all comments and appreciate you taking the time to leave pne!

Friday tutorial.

Hello dear friends on this beautiful Friday night!

Lots of info below!

TIP OF THE DAY! Fisker Punches. I used my new punch  today called: Craft Punch, Border Corner, Quilted Corners! My card below was made using  it. This is the most awesome punch I have ever used. It goes around the complete page, the corners are quilted and it is as easy as pie. So easy to line your paper...I could teach my young grandchildren to use it.

The punch has two levers. One for the corners and another for the border. See the ridges to the left of the levers.

Place your paper under both levers.

slide you paper to the next  ridge and only push the border lever

4 x 4 you only punch the border one time.   5 x 5  two times.  Turn your paper to the next corner and punch both levers.

Continue until completed

Isn't it beautiful? No guessing, measuring, perfect alignment. See my card below!

I was requested to make a 50th wedding anniversary card and this is what I came up with. I love it and taught myself some more things! Like you need special tape for Velum because reg tape or glue shows right through it. 

Layers: White card stock, gold foil paper, white card stock with fiskar border punch and embossed with Cuttlebug. A gold doily and computer generated sentiment on gloss paper and dry embossed.  Flowers were purchased at Michales Craft store in the wedding department and I took them apart. See pictures below again!

  Finally the end!!! Hope you love it like I do!

It's Friday!

Happy Friday everyone!  Ok, where did July go...I lost it somewhere? Talking about losing things, I have to tell you what happened the other day.


This might be one of those stories you had to be here to appreciate the humor! Any how...when I gained so much weight on prednisone, I had to have my rings re-sized larger. Unfortunately,  when we had it done I was very edematous (swollen) all over including my fingers and so the rings were made to big. They will actually fly off of my fingers when not swollen so I take them off all the time.  Sunday we were getting ready to go out and I went to my jewelry box on the dresser to get my rings and they weren't there and I distinctly remember putting them there!! I looked in the jewelry stand and they weren't there either. I checked the night stand, bathroom, desk and I am getting worried so I asked DH if he saw them. Now he is looking for them too! We are looking in the same places at the same time for about 15 -20 minutes, we were starting to run late for an appointment and I said "let's go and when we get home I will call Amy and see if I left them there" meanwhile if I did ...Amy would have called me immediately. As I am closing the lid to the jewelry box I happened to look at my fricken hand and there were the rings on my finger!!!! I hold my hand up for DH to see...he looks at my hand, we looked at each and cracked-up big time!  Now that is bad!

This cute and silly birthday card is using  Karen's Doodles digi image. I love silly images  on birthday cards for they make people smile! Isn't it bright and cheerful? It's for a man so I ditched the flowers this time!

• DP: Basic Grey
•  Brads: Basic Grey
• Copic Markers
• Elephant: C00, C01, C03
• Rouge: R20
• Skirt: G07, G05, G03, G02

I cut my paper with Paper Cow paper cutter which I will tell you about more tomorrow!

Friend

Hello!! Wishing this finds everyone in great spirits and health! Today was an awesome day for me! Hubby took my box of cards to work and sold 5 and orders for 4 more!! Nine cards on the very first day they were shown!! I'll tell ya that sure made my day, no my week, how about the entire year! Oh my gosh I am just so thrilled!


Tip of the day! Ok, you purchased all the Copic Markers you wanted! Guess what? It is not over for your markers are eventually going to run out of ink. Yes, they last a very long time however, when one goes dry be prepared for several more will follow. When ordering your first Various Inks which is what the refills are called and you color using shading from dark to light or light to dark, you only need to order the lightest and medium color refills first. Think about it. You only use a small amount of the dark color to your image. It is the lighter and medium colors you blend with or use more of on your images. My light and medium colors went dry and after a year of constant coloring, I have only refilled two markers, R29 and 39 which I used a lot of last Christmas...ya know Santa!


Never open a new or a refilled marker over your image. I have forced myself to make it a habit of not opening any markers over my images. Suzanna Dean warned me about this and I did not listen for it never happened to me until....I was doing a very detailed card and my marker went dry and I refilled it. Without thinking I opened it over the image and it splattered enough to ruin the entire project. It also happened when I opened a dark marker for the very first time. UGH, I was so angry with myself.

I am Home!

Hello friends!! Did you miss me like I missed you? Two and half weeks with no crafting...yikes and since I have come home, I keep looking for my mojo and can't find it! We had a beautiful vacation with our grandsons until the last two day when I developed food poisoning. Let me tell ya, I was so sick, it was horrible. I never, ever want that again. It is horrible and if you have it you know it. You are so dang sick.

My granddaughter, Abbie had a tonsillectomy after we returned and thank goodness, I was well enough to travel so I could be with her and my daughter, Amy in PA. Tyler and Travis grandmother and grandfather met me there and took the boys to Michigan. They live in Las Vegas and each summer spend time with both of their grandparents!  When I came home from Amy's,  I rolled up into a ball and my body just quit, it said "no more!"  I agreed too!  Good news: Abbie did great and was a real trouper. She is still recovering and each day gets better! Yahoo!

TIP OF THE DAY:  Have you ever used Stickles? Stickles is glitter glue with an easy flow tip made for paper products. There are very few cards I have not used Stickles on. I love it and it really gives your cards a finish, professional, glittery look! I have discovered you can not use Stickles on digital images printed on Cryogen paper. It makes the lines bleed.  So when ever you are using Stickles for the first time on a new paper, ink, etc. test it first to prevent heartache in the end.  Stickles is the last thing I use and ruined two beautiful cards today with it. It was a real bummer! Esp. with my mojo hiding on me!

This cute card "Dogs Day Afternoon"  from Karen Doodles! was fun to color! I was commissioned to make this card by one of my hubby's co-workers. This is the first card I have made for her and she picked this image out of the ones she saw.  I wanted to make a flowery,  oh my gosh, dead drop gorgeous card and yet it's a dog! I love this image, but you can't flower him all up!! Can you? LOL  Anyhow, doesn't he just make you wish you were the one on the beach with a cool drink in your hands! I know I do!! I found the beach umbrella by doing a google search for umbrella's and printed Happy Birthday on it! Easy peasy in Microsoft word! I put diamond glaze on his sunglasses and drink to make them shine. Diamond  Stickles on the sand to make it glittery. After I was done coloring the fur I applied colorless blender with an old wash clothe to give it a more texture look.  I love the end result! LOL in this picture it looks like a cigarette hanging from his lips!! It's a straw!  Maybe I should add some color to it!!!

Challenge: Party Time Tuesdays   This is fun challenge held every Tuesday. Decides the recipe you need to have a birthday sentiment on your card.  Let me tell ya it is super nice when you need a birthday card and you have one right there already made!

Supplies:

• Digi: Karen Doodles "Dog Day Afternoon"  Don't you just love it!
• DP: Basic Grey
• Nestability Scallop Oval
• Flowers: Prima
• Sentiment: Computer
• Ribbon: Ofry
• Diamond Glaze
• Diamond Stickles
• Copic markers:
• Fur: E49, E47, E44, E35, E25, E31...Yep, I used all of them!
• Scarf and hat: YG25, YG,23, YG,21
• Chaise lounge: YG25, YG23, G20, Y06, Y02, Y00
• Glasses: Prismacolor pencil

Thank you for stopping by and please leave some love...today I can use all I can get! LOL

Black and White

Hello and how did your weekend go?  Hubby and grandsons, Tyler and Travis went to the Smithsonian today! The boys sound tired and no wonder for last night they monkey around until 3 am.  I tried to tell them "your going to be sorry tomorrow" and I think today they KWIM!  They are 12 and soon to be 9. Tyler, the eldest cracked me up when they first came! I said "wow, you sure grew" his response was "I am starting to grow a mustache!"  I looked at his face "I don't think so yet"...he practically pulled me into the bathroom to show me in the mirror! It was so dang cute as he pulls the skin out from his face and says "now look"  and ah hah, if you look super close and imagine, you will see it!  I dearly love all the grands and they keep my life jolly!  Tomorrow we leave for Williamsburg!! YEAH, WaHOO and this will be my last card for two weeks!! I am taking my Copic's and images to color but, that's all! Bush Gardens here we come!

Tip of the day: 

   Coloring with REDS. So many have said that when they color with reds it bleeds out of the lines or their paper becomes tacky and streaky. There are several things that might be happening here and these are some tip you can try.

• Your paper:  Try a different paper. Gina K is a very hard smooth paper and the ink does not absorb into the paper and will lay on top. So when you are trying to blend you keep going over and over it and eventually the ink has no where to go and as it dries becomes tacky and streaky or bleeds out. You can use a  more absorbent paper such as One Sheet Wonder or Cryogen. However, remember it will not blend the same. Each paper blends differently. If you can't change the paper then change your technique.

• Letting the paper dry between coats. Let it dry a little...not completely or you will have to add more ink to get it wet again to blend. The paper can only hold so much ink at one time so if you allow it to dry it will accept the color without bleeding. 

• Don't use as much ink. If you color making little circles, try feather blending. This is how I color with all my colors.  The way paper is made today you do not need to soak it to blend it. I was using more ink by coloring in small circle and you need to.

• Avoid the color up to the edge. If your reds are bleeding, don't color up to the edge. I start with my darkest colors first. With darker colors R27-R29 or R35- R39 or the dark blues, I do not color to the edge. I will finish blending my medium and light colors and then look to see if the ink spread to the edges. If it has not, I apply a very light touch tip to paper and fill in what was not colored. Using a very light touch you should not have to re-blend.

Leaving on vacation tomorrow I wanted to make a card with less fuss. I love the ways this card turned out! I made a 4.25 by 5.5 card using white card stock as my base.  I laid down my second paper which is the black with white dots. White card stock and cut out corners with Cuttlebug die. Cut blocks at 1.5 x 2.25 inches. I printed out a digital butterfly in 3 different sizes and layered them. I love this technique for butterflies! Added black and white Prima flowers to the corners! Black and white leaves with Martha Stewart leaf punch. Don't you just love it the look! Sometimes less is more!

Challenge Flutter Fly Wednesdays and this week is open. Danni started this site and it is growing by leaps and bounds! I love it and if you like using angels, fairies or butterflies this is where you want to be!!

 Operation White House four squares. If you want to know what to do with your cards you have in the box...send them to Operation White House and they will be shipped to our troops who are deployed to use to send back home. Or thank you card for them to keeping us free!!

DP: Craft Secrets. Love their paper pads

I will have my laptop and will be able to blog! Thank you for stopping by!! Be safe!

Happy Friday! Christmas in July!

Hello everyone!  Today was the beginning of our vacation.To make a long story short my hubby was in a vehicle accident today. He is fine, the Tribecca is demolished. It happened when a fire truck was approaching from the other direction and the truck in front of him slammed on their breaks and our SUV went underneath. It happened in PA 3 hours from home. The SUV is new, but can be replaced... he can't ...so all is good! 

Tips of the day:  When placing flowers on your cards, use different color leaves to emphasized your card colors. On today's card I used white leaves which made the corner look brighter and matched the paper!    Small tight places like the bottom of Rudolph legs,  I color with Prima Color Pencils, it's so much easier and faster!

Santa and Friends, is part of the The Winter Wonderland Collection made exclusively for Susana Custom Art and Card Design! I just love this santa! His beard, cap and bottom of his coat has Doddle Bug white flock applied thickly and  Polar White Flower Soft for the snow. I cut away the gift boxes and added my own. The Color Combo at Simply Scrapping Crafts asks for Red, White, Blue and Brown.  The challenge at Follow Your Heart  wants faux or sewing on your card. Well, it didn't take an Einstein to know which one I would choose! Santa and Friends were faux!!! I love Santa and Rudolph, but I can still wait a bit for winter!!

Supplies: 

•  DP: Basic Grey
• Cryogen: for Santa
• Copics:
• Santa Suit R32, R35, R37, R39
• Skin: E11, E01, E000 Blush R20, R32
• Boots and Belt: C7, C5, C3, C1
• Rudulph: E17, E15, E11
• Chipmunk E27, E25, E21
• Eyes: B21
• Pointsetta: Stash
• White Leaves: Martha Stewart leaf punch
• Scallop Oval Nestabilitie die
• White marker: Sharpie Poster Paint, Extra Fine Point

Have a jolly weekend!

Simba and Bailey.

Hello and Happy Tuesday!! Did you have a great weekend and a chance to sit and relax? Hard returning to work today. I can't blame you either for it is gorgeous outside! Those who live in the eastern states, can you believe it's 97 with NO humidity! Awesome!


Today is TIOT Challenge for Susana's Custom Art & Card Design,  and the challenge is a sketch posted on the store's blog HERE! 

I chose   "Puppy Love" from the Hearts and Hugs, Summer Collection by Victoria Case made exclusively for SCACD!  If you follow my blog you will know I love dogs and when I saw this stamp I had to have it! My dogs, Simba and Bailey are Havanese brothers from the same litter and are 2 1/2 years old.

I made a little video when they were about 4 months old and you can watch it here! It's not very long and I hope you like it!

Isn't this card adorable? I had a lot of fun with it. I changed the sign on the front of the box which said "take me home" to "friends!"

Recipe:

•  Stamp
• DP: Basic Grey, Porcelain Paper Pad
• Nestabilities Circle Punch
• Martha Steward Border Punch
• Cuttle Bug dry embossing folder
• Sentiment: Stash 
• Distress Ink: Tim Holtz, Shabby Shutters
• Copic Markers:
• Blouse: R85, R83, R81
• Pants: YG25. YG23, YG21
• Dogs, E27, E25, E21 and C00, C01, C03
• Hair: E25, E31, E50..I love this combo and here is a link to it!  Video by Suzanne Dean
• Diamond Glaze to her eyes to make them shine
• Stickles: Diamond to shoes and her top! 
• Thank you for looking and hope you enjoy the video of my dogs and hair coloring by SD!

Happy Fourth of July!

Hope everyone had a splendid day with your family! Wasn't the weather just beautiful with sunny skies, no humidity and a little bit of a breeze! We were going to go to Washington DC to see the fireworks and everyone talked me out of it. They said it is so crowded your arms are pinned to your sides. YUCK! No, thank you, I like moving my arms and legs!! So what did we do? We stayed home and hubby finished the deck that was started 3 years ago! I am not complaining for that made me a happy camper!

Tip of the day: What paper should you use with Copic Markers? I have found through horrible experiences the paper you use makes a difference with your coloring. For over six months I struggle with my inks becoming tacky and streaky. I even went to Maryann Walker, Copic's Product Specialist for answers and tried every trick in the book.. I even took all my Copic's apart and soak the tips in Colorless Blender solution or I replaced them. Since I was using the top of the line paper, no one thought to tell me to try another brand.

Top 3 papers used in the States.

• Gina K 120 lb Luxury Paper:.  Heavy, smooth paper
• One Sheet Wonder by Couture Cardstock:  Heavy paper, but not as tightly woven as Gina K.
• Cryogen Irredescent or white Cardstock:  I love this paper! It is smooth with a little bit of tooth to it. You only need to touch it very lightly to apply color, it blends well, has a glittery sheen  when you tip it in the light. Using the colorless blender pen, you can remove any mistake, including red ink on Cryogen. My colors never streak or get tacky since I switched.

Elisabeth Bell designs  exclusive stamp lines for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design and  I used "Heartstrings" from the Sampler Edition 3 line! This stamp is one of my favorites!!! Isn't she adorable! She looks so dainty and I love her hair and dress!

Supplies

• DP: Crafty Sisters
• Scrolls: Sizzix Dies
• Ribbon: Offray
• Roses: Prima
• Flower soft on bird house
• Leaves: Martha Stewart Leaf Punch
• Heart Charm:  Blue Moon Charms can be purchase at  SCACD
• Stickles: Ruby Slippers and X-mas Red
• Pearls: Stash
• Copics
• Dress: R39, R37, R35, R32
• Bird House: G000, G00, G02
• White: C0, C1
• Skin: E11, E01, E000

Thank you for looking and commenting! It makes me smile BIG time!
If you have any questions about anything with making cards please ask and if I don't know the answer I will find it!

Teddy Bear Wedding!

Hello my friends and those who live in the states are you ready for your 3 day week-end? My hubby is thrilled!! We don't have anything planned. On Wednesday,  My daughter, Amy and her two children, Abbie and Andrew came and stayed overnight.   It was great seeing them and gosh they are growing so fast! Abbie's hair is past her shoulders and she looks so pretty with her braided pig tails.  She will tell you  "I am  leaving my hair grow really long, so I can give it to a sick kid"  She wants to donate her hair, so a wig can be made for a child!  Is that not awesome for a four year old to say and do? I tell ya...I am so proud of her!

Since it is summer and I love Teddy Bears! I am presenting to you a Teddy Bear Wedding! I just love this stamp and it's been a long time since I have used it. The challenge this week at  Teddy-stampers  is "Love My Teddy" and nothing says love like a wedding!

Tip of the day:  Copic's When coloring with Copic's and your final piece ends up with no real highlights or shadowing, there are several ways to correct to it so you  have more of a 3 D look.  If you are using light colors for ex:Y06, Y04, Y02, Y00. Darken you dark area again and blend without taking your lighter colors over the dark area. If you still want more of a 3 D look...take Y08 and go over what you were coloring withY06 and skip using the Y04 when you re-blend it.. If you are using the darker reds or blues for example: B39, B37, B34, B32 and your area is too dark with no highlight. Take your colorless blender and using the side of it...not the tip and slowly and lightly go over your light area. Let it dry and repeat until you have it light enough. However, at this point you might notice some uneven coloring. Take B32, using the side of the marker and not the tip and go over the light area again.
 
I used Stickles, Ruby Slippers on her head piece, flowers and corsage. I love this color. It is much thicker  like Frosted Lace and easier to make 3D effects!

Supplies:

• Rubber Stamp:  E-bay special
• Ribbon: Stash
• Bow Easy
• Copic markers
• First Bear: E37, E35, E 33, E31,
• Second Bear:E79, E77, E74, E71
• Shadowing the white: C00, C01
• Red: R39, R35, R32
• Green: G25,  G23, G21
• Stickles: Ruby Slippers
• Sentiment: Computer generated

Happy Weekend!! Thank you for looking!

Another Tuesday!

Hello everyone! Did you get everything accomplished today? Not me! If I ever did, what I planned on doing for the day, I would go into a state of shock! I always have big plans, and they are usually  the same plans day after day for they weren't done! Story of my life lately! Tomorrow they just might get done! uh huh!

Tip of the day: Digi's.  I believe if you use an illustrator's digi in your project, you should give them credit.  They would like to be recognize for their work even if it's a freebie! To make it easier to remember who did what .. make folders with their names and download the digi to their folder. Lately, I have been labeling my folders with their web address, which makes it even easier for me to link their digi's to in my posting!  Unfortunately, I did not do this and feel really bad not giving credit. I have hundreds of images, mostly freebies, if I didn't find them, my friend, Lisa did! 

The dragon on the skateboard, which is about 3 cards down from here, was recognize by Danni. I corrected my entry and gave the very talented Dustin Pike credit and to boot, it is a freebie on his blog! If you recognize the digi below, please tell me who!

Challenge: Party Time Tuesdays: "anything goes" birthday card. Cute Card Tuesday: Something recycle and it's my ribbon.

 
Supplies:

• Cryogen white paper
• DP: DCWV Garden Party
• Roses and flowers Prima
• Ribbon: from a gift
• Everything else is from my stash
• Copic Markers
• Green: G00, G03, G05, G07, G09
• Orange: YR02, YR04. YR16, YR18
• Yellow: Y00, Y02, Y04 

 Thank you for looking! I read all my comments, it is my "high" of the day!

Happy Monday

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great day and with lots of sunshine in your life!  Nothing new here except getting ready for my daughter to arrive on Wednesday with my two grandchildren, Abbie, is four and Andrew two. They are loads of fun. Abbie and I have tea parties at her little table. She gathers all her teddies and any other stuff animal she can find and places them just perfectly in place.  Sometimes you have to be quiet for we are in the movies and her friends (stuff animals) have to be able to hear! Andrew joins right in with his tea cup in hand and listens intently to what ever his big sister says. So dang cute, I tell ya.  She cracked me up the last time! The plastic tea set has a tea kettle and she goes and puts water in it and pours the tea into your cup! One day she said "grandma, I am not giving Pah Pah anymore tea" why Abbie? "Because he does this" and she holds the tea cup to her lips and pretends she is drinking. "Well, Abbie how do you know he really doesn't drink it and you just don't see him doing it?" she puts her hands on her hips and says "It is very OBVIOUS when he gives me back the cup and it still has water in it!" Oh lord, it took everything I had not to burst out laughing! A bundle of joy.

Tip of the day:  Did you know you can color your rubber stamps with Copic markers? You use your markers to color the rubber stamp. Since Copic's dry very quickly you need to do one of two things. You can either cup your hands around the stamp and huff on it, like you do when trying to get your hands warm from the cold.  Or you can take a mister, spray bottle and spray water into the air and quickly place your stamp where the mist is falling.  Let me know if that is not clearly written and I will help you. Sometimes you think people should know what your talking about and they are clueless.....I am usually the clueless one!!

My card today is yet another simple card and I love it! I made it for a dear friend to let her know how close I am in case she needs me!  When I saw this Karen Doodles digital image, I had to have it, for it made me smile big time! I hope you smile when you see it! Double click on the picture so you can see how I made the car shine with Diamond Glaze!

Is thiscute or what? I love it!!

Supplies

• DP:MOD "Daisy's in Quote"
• Prima: Say it with Pearls
• Flower: Prima
• Copic Markers
• Gray: C00, C1, C3, C5
• Red: R22, R24, R27, R39
• Yellow: Y00, Y02, Y04, Y08
• Road: W0, W1, W3
• Pink for ear: R20, R22
• Scarf: R22, R24
• Blue: B24, B26, B28
• Cryogen White Paper
• Diamond Glaze to the car!

Thank you very much for looking! I read every comment for they are so dear to me! Happy Tuesday to ya!

Teddy Bear Birthday Card

Can you believe this was the last weekend of June... Holy Moly!

Each posting I am going to have either items on sale or tip of the day. It can be anywhere from Copics to a simple tutorial.

Tip of the day:  Copic Markers

The number one question when starting to buy Copic Markers are "what should I buy first"  These are my recommendation for starting a Copic collection.

• E000, E00, E11 - Flesh tones for Caucasian skin. R20 for blush 
• Y00 or Y11, Y02, Y04, Y08 - Yellow
• E29, E25, E35, E50 -Browns for wood and hair
• R22, R26, R29 - bright red
• YG21, YG24 - Green for grass and plants
• B21, B24, B27, B29 for bright blue.
• RV 00, RV21, RV25 - Bright pink .
• C00, C1, C3 -  mimics "white" clothing and can add depth and a shadow to the outside of your image
• V12, V15, V17 - purples
• YR12, YR15, YE17
• Copic Blender is a must have to lighten or remove color. 

Remember you should have three markers in the same color family 2-4 numbers apart.  This is so you can create shadow and light areas to create a 3 D look. For example:  blue's you could eliminate B29 or B21 depending on the depth of color you are looking to create!

Hope this helps

I have a delightful birthday card for you and entering it into two challenges. The first one is Party Time Tuesdays! I love this blog for only birthday cards are allowed! Each challenge I make a birthday card with a specific person in mind. Yea! From this moment forward I just might be on time sending them! This weeks challenge is red, white and blue!

Second challenge is for Teddy-Stampers! Yep, you have to have a teddy bear on your card! No problem for me for I love teddy bears! This weeks challenge is a summer time theme! Another simple and clean card!

 Supplies: 

•  Cryogen Paper for coloring 
• Copic Markers
• Red: R22, R24, R27, R29
• Blues: B21, B24, B26, B29
• Momma Bear: E71, E74, E77
• Little Girl Bear: E25, E35, E19, E11
• Grass: G40, YG23, YG25
• Stump: E25, E27,  E34

•  DP: Basic Grey
• Ribbon: Stash
• Cuttle Bug folder
• Nestabilities Circles and scallop circles

 Thank you for looking and have a great week!

Clean and simple Birthday Card

Hello Blog Land

This weekend I will be posting several cards for I had issue with my camera all week. Hopefully, it will work now. Don't you just hate it when you pay a little extra with the belief you will get extra quality with it!! My little point and shoot took better pictures and no issues until I dropped it :(

Today, I made a very simple birthday card for one of my grandsons. No thrills nor frills on this one, but I love it! It is so nice to make the fresh clean simple cards once in awhile!

I do apologize for I have no clue where I obtained this image. I thought it might be one of Karen Doodles and couldn't find it on her web site. So if you recognize it, please inform me so I can give credit to the illustrator of this excellent digi!

UPDATE: 6/28: Thank you to Danni I know the illustrator of my image. It is Dustin Pike and it is one of his freebies! I love his art for it is for kids and we are all kids at heart!

Challenge: Simply Scrapping Crafts: Copic Challenge. Very sad at Simply Scrapping today because all of the copic lessons and images were lost. We are talking months of  lessons and postings.  Lisa Futch, the Copic instructor put a lot of time and energy into the classes, so lets hope .Ning has back-ups!

J

Supplies:

• Copics:
• Green: G85, G82, G40
• Blue: B29, B26, B24, B21
• Red; R29, R27, R24, R21
• Black: C7, C5, C3,  C1
• DP: Basic Grey
• Button: Basic Grey
• Sentiment: 3 Birds Clear Stamps
• Ribbon: Olfry

Thank you for looking!

Christmas Elisabeth Bell and Winner of Bella Design Blog Hop

Today I couldn't put off bathing my dogs,  Simba and Baily any longer. Simba is done and getting ready to do Baily! I just  love it after they have their baths for they smell so clean and fresh! I use Johnson baby shampoo on their faces to protect their eyes and ahhhh I love that smell! 

Did you know Elisabeth Bell is having a new release on Friday over at SCACD . YEA, I love her images...who doesn't? If you haven't been to Follow Your Heart blog, you will want to run over there! For answering one question you will be placed in a random drawing for the candy!!! What's the candy? Elisabeth Bell's whole new release set for SCACD!!! Run!  I was trying to choose which EB stamp I love the most and it's the one I am using today! Special Edition Ornament Collection from SCACD, Thinking about it prompt me to make a Christmas card! Wow, that was a mouthful! I want to start making a couple Christmas cards per week. Last year I had all this time and all of sudden Christmas came and went!

Doesn't she take your breath away!  I adore this stamp and you can do so many things with it.  I even made a BD card by changing the colors and package.

Challenges:

• If The Shoe Fits: Circle, Gem and Paint.
• Simply  Simply Scrapping Crafts under Copics. To shadow your image and if you look real hard you will see it! I think I used my blender pen a little too much!

 

Supplies:

• DP: Basic GreyWassail paper Pad
• Copics
• Reds:  R39, R37. R35, R32
• Skin: E000, E00 E01
• Hair: C7, C5, C3
• Green: G000, G00, G01
• Prima Flowers
• Prima Roses
• Nestability Dies, Oval, Scallop
• Nestability Corner Die

 I have a winner for the Bella Design Studio Blog Hop and it is Tracey  who was #16.  I have the random generator inserted on my right side bar! This was my personal gift for joining me on the blog hop!  It is a five dollar Gift Certificate for Seven Kids College Fund! Congratulations Tracey!! 48 hours to claim...  I left a little note on her blog to jump on over here!

See you tomorrow and have a great night! Thank you for stopping by to see me! I read each and every comment and it just does the sole good!

Diva

Sorry another long one!

Wahoo, it's the weekend!! Ya know, I don't work outside of the home anymore and still there is something about the weekends, which  makes you feel TGIF!  Is it because all the stress, work, etc.  should be done for the week and Monday you can start a brand new week?  dunno!  Oh well,  last night was a good night! Hubby and I went out to dinner and then I join some girls for Stamp'n up party. We made some really cute cards!  Any how, this was one heck of a stressful week and I am super glad to chill out and lay back a little!

I have to tell  you though what my hubby said tonight and then I have some exciting news for ya! How were you before you started making card, as far as keeping the house cleaned.  My hubby used to tell everyone "I got up in the middle of the night to use the BR and when I came back the bed was made"  and my dad would say "I was reading the newspaper, went to get a cup of coffee, went back to read it and it was gone, had to go get it out of the trash!" ha ha ha. I am sure, DH wishes those days were still here because things have changed since I have entered into the world of card making! Ok, so here's what he said!. First off you have to know my dogs always lay by my feet under my desk.. Well, tonight DH comes up into the office, as serious as a heart attack, and sits down at his desk and looks at me and says "I would like to inform you about something" and I'm thinking "inform me" when did we get so formal? And, after this week of pure stress, I stared at him scared to death of what he might say.  I could feel my heart racing and my eyes watering and very quietly said "what?"  He is so dang serious and he says "Simba came down stairs and for the past half hour, I have been cleaning all the glitter and sticky things off of his a** and you have to be a little bit more careful.  He is so serious and I looked at him and I LOST it. I laughed so dang hard and long my ribs hurt! And, then to top it off.... he looks at me and says "what's so funny" which only cracked me up more!!  You gotta luv him!

Ok, so here is my news. Todays card was made using a digital image from Kenny K's Krafty Girlz,
and let me tell ya...you have to go check out this web site and Illustrator!  For now, the only link which works in the challenge blog is the "Kenny K's Shop". Look around and you will  see everything is in place and ready to start the challenge blog! The challenge rules are posted, blinkie for the DT and the top 3 are all in place.....everything is ready to go!  Trust me, you are going to be impress! When you enter the shop, you are going to see the cutest, sassiest, sweetest digi's ever! I especially love  "Diva"  for she reminds me so much of my daughters and her face, especially her eyes are so beautiful! That is not the end! If you go to Kenny's web site  you will see he has done quite a list of things including: comic books, animations and if I sat here and typed everything he does.... I would still be sitting here until tomorrow morning! As you are looking around you will say to yourself  "I don't get it!" Why is this very talented man, who has loads of projects, starting a craft challenge blog. At this point click on the "about Kenny and Elena" which is at the top of the page and you will finish saying "wow, that is awesome!" Nope, not going to tell ya...you will have to go read it for yourself!!  After reading all the goodies .....you will see there is a DT call! If you apply "Good Luck to you!"

Introducing "Diva"

 Supplies:

•  DP: Scrapbook Walls 
•  Ribbon: Olfry
• Charm; Blue Moon
• Flowers: Prima
• Copics: 
• Hair E35, Y21, Y23, YR23
• Skin: E11, E00, E000
• Shirt: R07, YR04, YR02, YR000
• Pants: G00, G05, GO2, G00
• Shoes:W1, W01
• Stickles: shoes and belt
• Diamond Glaze applied to eyes to give them a shine

That's all Folks for it is almost 7AM and I am ready to go to bed ...another all nighter! Thank you for stopping in and reading and commenting on my blog. I read all the comments and they touch my heart!

Miss Daisy!

Good morning! Grab your coffee for I have a few things to say!First, is your day starting out right? Since I have been up for 36 hours, I am not sure if this is my morning, noon or night. I tell ya, this insomnia has to go! The past two days have been over the top with stress and when you don't think the day can get any worst...it does. If ya been watching my blogs, you know hubby has been having severe back, leg and knee pain. I mean the kind of pain where he can hardly walk and it keeps him up all night. They think it might be a herniated disc and had an MRI done Tuesday. Well, Last night  I am sitting here coloring away and I hear boom, boom, crash, a loud moan followed by a few choice words. I flew to the stairway and there he is at the bottom of the steps and just looking at him you felt his pain.. ..let me tell ya, talking about a heart attack, if I am not dead after the last 30 hours, I am not going anywhere fast! The good news, he isn't any worst then before he felled. We hope!

Okay, Item number two! You know, sometimes our lives are so over filled with life events, everything is going haywire, and you feel you can't take another thing and your head is going to spin off... you know what I mean? Well, when we are at that point, we sometimes forget to remember the good things we do have. Well, today I am going to speak of one of my good things. It's a person, whom most of you know and trust me, if she has been in a blog, chat, class or anywhere you are....you know her! This person came into my life quite awhile back now and I am bless because of  it. For I know, no matter what, this person will not put words into my mouth, I haven't spoken, talk behind my back or try to make me look bad. She is a listener, a supporter and always right there when I need her! And, when she leaves a comment on a blog, card, technique or what ever... you know she's been there!! For she takes the time, to praise each and every one, no matter if she knows you or not, and when she leaves her beautiful comments, you know it  for sometimes  it looks like a book! She takes that one extra moment to leave beautiful comments and tries her best, to make you feel good about yourself. I am sure, most of you know whom I am speaking of and yes, it is Lisa Haines, more famously known as "The Purple Place"  You guessed didn't ya? LOL, She is truly a friend and I just want to thank her today. for being just that....my true friend!! Love ya girl!

Okay, what your really waiting to see is Miss Daisy, the sweetest, fun digital image to play with. She is from the collection "The Little Bit".  Entering the Party Time Tuesday challenge and this week anything goes but, it still has to be a B/D card! Which is great with me for I always need birthday cards! Fun blog to belong to and last week I was chosen as one of the top three!! That made me smile!  I think it is an awesome idea to have a blog and the only thing you make are birthday card! Awesome!

 

I am really happy with the way this turned out!   Talking about Lisa!! She made a card with a little bow on it and I asked her yesterday "how were you able to make your bow so small?" She sent me a link where you can buy them!!! I tell ya, she cracks me up and a real hoot at times!! I made these bows all by myself and it only took me a half hour to get it right! Using an ice pick...yep, you read it right, an ice pick, I poked a hole on each side of her waist, gave her a cloth belt using a need threader to guide it through. Do you like her as much as me?  Ok, I am done yaking away!

Supplies:

• Copic markers:
• Skin E000, E00, E11
• Dress and socks B39, B37, B34, B32
• Hair: Prisma Color Pencils
• Charm; Blue Moon at Susana Custom Art and Card Design
• Thank you dear friend for sending me a goodie bag with the pink roses in it!
•  Roses: Prima at SCACD
• Nestability: Scallop Oval, Large Scallop Square
• Ribbon and paper from stash

Have a great day and thank you for stopping in!

Blog Hop Day!

Good morning! Are we ready to do some hopping today and win some candy!  First thing I would like to do is tell everyone who entered the challenge this week did an awesome job! The cards were so pretty, bright and cheerful and I wish all of you good luck! Thank you so much for participating and hope you will keep joining us!

The card I made for you today is in the Little Wings Collection and it is Flit and Pickle. Is she not the cutest thing you ever did see? I luv Pickle and she is so much fun to color and play with! And, if you haven't been to the blog yet this week you will see a whole lot of new images that Daphne has created. You surely will not know which one you will like the best for each one is awesome.  The sentiment on the card reads "Hello my friend" and it is in the image itself!  Easy Peasy card to make and the sweetest thing!  Love it!.

Supplies:

• DP stash
• Ribbon: Olfry, Red Satin
• Rose and flower: Prima
• Border Punch: Martha Stewart
• Butterflies: My favorite store E-bay!
• Coloring Copics: 

I will randomly pick someone who leaves a comment to a five dollar gift certificate to Bella Design Studio! Good luck with all the great things you can win today!

Next stop on the hop is Katie.  Don't forget to keep your eye out for that special flashing blinkie and comment on it!

In case you lose your way here is the order of the blog hop!

• Lora
• Dawn
• Colleen (here)
• Katie
• Michelle
• Tammylee

Field of Dreams

Did everyone enjoy the weekend? With hubbies hip and knee hurting we stayed home and I  made my crafting area a bigger mess than what it started out today!! Some times you get tired of straightening it every day! Back home is Pittsburgh we don't say "did you straighten your room up" instead it is "Did you red up your room?" or "I red up the kitchen" instead of "I cleaned the kitchen". Pittsburgh has it's own dictionary of words! Yinz for you, Gum band for rubber band and the list goes on and on and in a future post, I will name most of them! Anywho, I grew up in Pittsburgh and if you are born and raised in Pittsburgh you don't live anywhere else!! If someone asks me where am I from... I don't say Maryland, Ohio, Michigan or Florida, which are all the states I have lived in...No, I am from Pittsburgh and anyone else from the Burg will tell you the same thing.

Teddy Stampers challenge has to have a teddy bear on it along with the bi-weekly challenge.  The current challenge is "movie inspiration" hmmmm, I looked at my teddy bears and couldn't think of a single movie.  So off shopping we go!  I found the cutest digital image yesterday at Karen Doodles and thought OK!, "Field of Dreams" for they have baseball uniforms on!   As I am ready to color I think ..need to color them black and gold for Pittsburgh Pirates! So I  colored everything  black and gold (yellow) and no DP to match it!  So it is time to get creative here. I found a one piece of  yellow and black ribbon and taped them together and the mojo is kicking in! I found a small piece of black and silver paper and went Yesiree! And,  I am on a roll now until I noticed my black and silver paper has skull and crossbones on it. No problem, I will just cover them up with embellishments and cut my paper so you can't see any of them!! After I had every single skull and crossbones covered!   Yep, it hit me!  What is the name of my home baseball team? Yep, the pirates and what represents pirates....skulls and bones! DUH!  Another half hour uncovering as many as I could!

 Karen Doodles Website has the cutest, funniest and adorable stamps. I just loved them! Their  challenge is to  have dry or wet embossing.  Copics  challenge at Simply Scrapping Crafts  you need to color something black!

All my supplies were from my stash.
Thank you so much for stopping by and looking. Hope I made you smile!

Little Wings, Pickles

 Good Afternoon everyone. I was outside most of the day with my two dogs, Simba and Bailey. Their pictures are on my side bar. We do not have a fenced in yard and so every once in awhile they look at each other and you know it is going to happen and off they go! They act so big and brave when they are together with their mighty weight of 15 pounds. Our next door neighbor put a motion detector, water sprinkler in their front yard because of  people letting their cats roam free. Well,  the boys took off and headed right over to the neighbors  house with their heads held high and ready for action! They walked right in front of the sprinkler! Bailey got sprayed first and he jump in the air backwards and came running home with his tail tucked underneath and jumped in  my arms!! Simba didn't know what happened so he looks around, sniffs here and there and he moves his paw!!! Splish went the sprinkler and he was home on the deck faster then you can shake a stick scared to death!! I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to pee my pants! They keep us entertained each and every day!

I had fun doing this cute birthday card  using   Pickles Wishes,  Little Wings Collection  over at Bella Design Studio. She is all dress up and ready to party! Bring on the cake! She is being entered into two challenges today. The first one Party Time Tuesdays and their challenge is a birthday card with a visible number.  Pickels wishes came to my mind immediately with her little pendant in from of her! Second challenge is Simply Scrapping Crafts in the Copic Group and the recipe is 3 DP's, Ribbon and 3 buttons. I am not a buttons person but they're there...look closely!  I am using the balloons from Bella Design Studio!  Have you been there yet? If you haven't you need to go see the wonderful digi's they are offering for they are very cute. In the past two days Daphne, the owner has been adding more and more digi's and practically every day she will have new ones available. She has added background, flowers, more characters like Wishes below, ballons, B/D cakes and the cutest digi characters  You will  have to come back and see the new Daisy I will be doing. Oh my gosh too cute!

Supplies:

• Basic Grey/Merrakech paper pad. I love these 6 x 6 pads
• Glitter LinerPen by Viva @  Susana Custom Art and Card Supply  It is much more glittery then Stickles and is 3 D. I love it!
• Copics:
• Dress: B32, B34, B37, B39
• Skin: E000, E00, E11
• Ballon: E09,, E08 E07, E04 .....E04 is not the same color group as E07 and above.
• Ribbon: Olfry, Galena Opal...very pretty and shimmering
• Angle Wings: Viva Glitter pen
• Diamond Glaze on the balloons to make them shine!

 One last  note! If you visit my friend, Sharon's blog you will see beautiful pictures of Cape Town, South Africa where the 2010 FIFA World Cup is being held! The pictures are awesome and you can hear and see the excitement through Sharon own words! This is quite an honor for Cape Town and  people from all over the world will be watching! The lights, the flowers and  much more is so beautiful and you will love the way Sharon talks about her home town! Enjoy!!

Red, White and Blue

It is gorgeous here and it feels wonderful! Yesterday, after the opening of Bella's studio I went outside and dug, pulled and tugged every weed in the yard!! I never thought pulling weeds would feel wonderful but it did! Just being out in the sun all day was so soothing to me and did me wonders! Did you make it over to Bella's Studio yesterday  and see the awesome free image, Wish Pickles? Isn't she just adorable and make you smile when you look at her? The challenge this week is to make a card using Wish Pickles! How awesome is that? The person who wins will receive a $10.00 gift certificate and 3 top entries will be chosen by Daphne and one person out of the three will be a guest designer!! You have to admit those are awesome prizes! So come on over!!

Red, White and Blue! I was thinking yesterday how colors have an impact in our seasons, holidays, and so many other things in our lives like wedding gowns are white! In the summer time, here in the States, we see red, white and blue everywhere celebrating Memorial Day and  4th of July. You hardly see these colors together in the winter. You know it is October and Halloween when you see orange and black showing up. Then beautiful Christmas with the bright red and greens with all the other colors mixed in between! Food for thought!

I actually made this card for two challenges but, when I finished,  I realize it was too late to post it to the one and their requirements of course was the red, white and blue! The second challenge is over at SCC in the Copic group and you had to use the color black! I used Alexa from the Victoria Case, Hearts and Hugs Collection made exclusively for SCACD.  Doesn't she look all summery and ready for any celebration?

Supplies:

• DP: None used. Plain Cardstock with Cryogen White
• Border punch: Martha Stewart
• Roses: Prima
• Ribbon: Michaels, American Collection
• Leaves: Martha Stewart punch
• Nestabilitiy Die
• Brads: Basic Grey
• Coloring: Copics
• Red: R32, R35. R37,R39
• Blues: B32, B34, B37, B39
• Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20 
• Flowers: too many!

Opening Day

Today's the official opening of Bella Digi Design Studio! I am so excited to be apart of this wonderful adventure on the DT! You are going to love the digi's and Daphne is very busy drawing future digi's for you. She has a slew of sentiments and backgrounds ready!

We have a challenge all ready for you to play! And it only gets better!! For the challenge you can download the digi for free!!! This is a real sweetie pie name Pickles and she has the most fun looking grins...she just makes you smile looking at her! So what are you waiting for ....come on over to Bella's Digi Design Studio  and I'll meet ya there!  But, first take a look at Pickles  ...isn't she a cutie pie! She is holding a pail full of wishes just for you!! She would make the best birthday, graduation, wedding cards....anything that is special and happy! I luv her!

SUPPLIES

• Prima Roses
• Ribbon: Martha Stewart
• Flowers: Prima
• Flower soft
• Copic Markers
• Blue Moon Heart
• Market Stewart leaf punch

One more day!

Good morning everyone! It is 2 AM here and I just finished cleaning the downstairs! Yeppers! I am as night owl as they come! It is funny for when I lived in Michigan I volunteered to go on 3rd shift. They didn't do 12 hours shifts in the hospitals up there or back then...which ever!!! To make a long story short I couldn't handle it! I would try sleeping as soon as I got home, waited until 12 or 3 and no matter what time I went to bed, four hours later I was up...weird huh? I was always sick too and five years later when I quit doing it...I was back to good health and loving life! What I have learned though is my best, deepest sleep is from 5 am to about 1 noon. Those are perfect hours for me! Yet, when I was on days, I had no problem getting up at 5 am and getting ready for work and I was never late....well, maybe by 5 minutes a few times, but not from sleeping in!

Ok, are you ready for another look at what Bella Digi Design is all about? I tell ya the images are so different from one another and so versatile you will absolutely love them! Daphne has been working non-stop to get ready for weeks to come! Don't forget Monday for you can download a free one and if you scroll down to the end of the post you will see a peek!

Meet Daisy from the Little Bits Collection at Bella Digi Design!  Doesn't she have the sweetest face ever? I love  how she looks up at you with those big soft eyes!  I had a lot of fun coloring her and wondering what sentiment would go best and decided "Warmest Wishes" for she warms your heart!!  So I am going to be entering her over at  Party Time Tuesdays for their very first challenge! This week they are doing  Anything Goes Birthday and all you have to do is have a birthday greeting/sentiment on the front of your card. How easy is that!!!      Don't forget to go peek at the bottom for your free download on Monday!!

Here's your peek!  Doesn't she look yummy!

See you later today!