Eden's 2nd Christmas October Digi

Happy Friday, everyone! Are you ready for a fabulous weekend starting tonight with the awesome Elisabeth Bell Digital DT and GDT blog hop? You are finally able to see the delicious new Elisabeth Bell's October digital that I have been talking about all week! Like I promise and now you will see why I said "you will love her!!

With no further delay I am introducing the sweetest image ever; "Eden's 2nd Christmas" digital image!

I changed the direction of the image to show you how many possibilities there are with digi's!

Elisabeth's inspiration came from this photo of her daughter, Eden on her second Christmas! Tell me isn't this the most adorable picture!!  I love it and can see how it inspired EB to create the awesome image she did for us this month! 

We have an awesome blog hop set up for you and do you know what else? There will be two chances to win this awesome Eden's 2nd Christmas Digi. (hint, hint read this sentence again!)and here is how!

Winner's Chance #1: Visit each Digi Bells DT and GDT blog listed below and leave them some love in their comments. If you get lost along the way, you can return to the Digi Bell DT blog and find your way back again. Each Digi Bells blog you visit will have a couple of words in their post to complete a sentence (written in bold of course!). After you have collected all the words from the DT's and GDT's blogs, return to the the Digi Bell Blog and enter what you think is the correct sentence. A random winner will be chosen amongst those who posted the correct sentence.

Winner's Chance #2; our second winner will be one lucky person who leaves a comment on the secret winning Digi Bells DT/GDT blog. The winner's name will be randomly drawn from the winning Digi Belles blog  and posted on their blog tomorrow or you can see it on the EBD DT blog.

Lots of hopping for a fabulous prize! Good luck to everyone! This is the order of the hop and you should have arrived here from Angelique blog.

Digi Bells DT

Janiel Corley

Jodi-Ann Lee

Lilian Tan

Lisa Futch

Lynda Nielsen

Patricia Soldenhoff

Tracy Valure

Wendy Ramlakhan

Digi Bells GDT

Angélique Nederpel

Colleen Holmes <-- you are here

Crystal Irwin

Lori Ng

Lydia Bancroft

If all else fails hug your teddy!

Good morning!The weather here is going to be gorgeous and with old man winter around the bend, I am going to spend as much time as I can outside!  I even hat the thoughts of winter this year. Last year we had over 60 inches of snow within two weeks time. AIt seems like it was only a few weeks ago...nope I am  not ready for winter. Are you?

Making this post really short and sweet.  I  need to finish some cards before I leave next Wednesday for Vegas. Our daughter lives in Vegas and my parents live over the mountain from her in Pahrump. We are moving my parents from NV to Yuma, Arizona! Yep, my butt is going to be dragging big time!

The card I made tonight is for Teddy-stampers challenge and our sponsor is Wags and Whiskers! I love their images and I was so excited when I found out they were the sponsors for this challenge.  The challenge is fall colors and of course your teddy bear!. I thought it was gong to be a lot harder to do then it actually was!! Check out Wags and Whiskers digital images and you will want to enter this challenge for a chance to win some digi's!

Challenges:

• Teddy-Stampers: Fall colors and a teddy bear!
• Flutter by Wednesday: Open theme and have either an angel, fairy or butterfly
• Charisma Cardz Challenge: Fall Colors
• Fab 'n' Funky: Use a digital image
• Freshly Brewed: Anything girly 

The image is Bear Hugs! Isn't she sweet and I always say if all else fails hug your teddy!

TIP OF THE DAY:  Tip to Tip blending:  You are working in a small area and there is not enough room to do blending or you only have two markers in a color family and one is dark and the other marker is light. Another easy fix and there are two ways of doing it.  Lay down your dark color on your image and for the middle color take your light color marker and touch the tip of the darker marker (Kissing!) and color with it. The blending of the two colors will give you your middle color. Don't worry about staining  the tip of your light marker for you just need to wipe it on paper or tissue until clean. The second way of doing this is again do the kissing technique adding dark color to your lighter color. Start from the dark side of your coloring pull your marker across your image in one long stroke to the lighter area. What will happen is the color on your marker will gradually fade into your light color. If you need to have it darker ...do the same technique until you get your desire color. If there are any questions or you don't understand please email me at: sweater32@aol.com 

Supplies

• Image printed on Cryogen White Paper
• DP: Basic Grey
• Border Punch: Friskar
• Butterfly punch: Friskar
• Ribbon Olfry
• Duddlebug Lily white glitter on the wings: SCACD
• Doodlebug lily white flock on the bottom of her dress
• Flowers: prima
• Leaves: Martha Stewart
• Bow Easy to make my bow: SCACD
• Roses; Prima from SCACD 
• Copic Markers:
• Green Dress: YG97, YG95, YG93, YG91
• Teddy:  E18, E17, E15, E13, E11
• Skin: E11, E00, E000
• Hair: E35, E31, YR21, YR20

Day 4 Elisabeth Bell's sneaky Peek

Happy Thursday!  I have to hurry and write this or pretty soon it will be Friday! Today is the last clue to Elisabeth Bell's new October Digi! Do you think you  know what the entire image is? Can you answer the question below? Do you want it? I know you do!  Then hop right over to the DT blog and answer the question and you just might be that lucky person!! When you see this last clue you are going to say "Ah, how precious!" Tomorrow night at 7PM Arizona time you will see just how precious this cutie is! No further ado and here is the final sneak peek and the question of the night!

Is this not the most precious little face you ever did see? I love it!
The question of the night is:

Q. What do you think of when you look at this (suuuper cute) little face?

So hop on over the Elisabeth Bell Digital Design team blog!  

Be sure to hop to the hopping blog hop (can you say that 10 times quickly!) tomorrow night at 7 PM Arizona time

Day 3 Elisabeth Bell's sneaky Peek

Happy Wednesday everyone!! Tonight it another sneaky peek of Elisabeth Bell's October New Digi!!  Two more days and it will be released on Friday with a blog hop!! And, yes there is candy to be won! Can you tell what tonight's sneaky  peek is? Then run over the Elisabeth's Digi Bell's Blog and write it in the comments. If you are the first one to answer the question correctly then you win a digi of your choice in Elisabeth Bell's Digi Gallery. How awesome is that? Trust me you will want this one...it is beyond adorable.

You need to answer this question to win tonight!

Q. What do you think that rounded shape is of?

 RUN...you know you want to guess! Hurry be the first one!!

New Copic Challenge Group!!

Happy Wednesday everyone! Yesterdays post I told you my card for my husbands birthday was almost completed!  Oh let me tell ya what I did! Yep, DH's card was really completed with the poem I wrote inside with x's and o's  and the whole nine yards. As I am looking at it I thought "gee,  I should sew these layers together to give it a really nice finishing touch"  Yep, I surely gave it a finishing touch!!! I sewed the dang card shut!! NO lie! I had to get a razor blade to cut the stitching to open it back up!! It was finished alright, I totally ruin it!!  I salvage the image and here is a new card I made with it. Nope, I didn't stitch this one!!! I am a ditz, but not a stupid one! LOL
    
The image I used is  "I love you grandpa" from  Karen Doodles images.  I love this image and my hubby is one of the best grandpa's around. He loves to spend time with the grandchildren and it's a good thing because we have 10 of them! We have both gained weight over the past couple years and this was just too cute and was perfect for his card!

Don't forget the Copic Challenges over at Simply Scrapping Crafts (SSC) and starting today  we will be giving two copic markers OR two Various (Copic) Refills to a random winner at the end of each month to a lucky person who completes all the challenges for that month!! Is that not awesome!! So you could enter the challenges and walk away with two Copic markers and they will be the color of your choice! Come on over today and join SCC and then join the Copic Challenge group! I would love to see you there!
Challenges:

• Simply Scrapping Crafts Copic Challenge Group: Coloring with grey, either hair or metal 

• A Spoonful of Sugar: Sparkle and shine 
• Digital Tuesday:  Digi, ribbon, buttons or bling
• Kaboodle Doodles Challenge: Colors that are around you.
• 
  

 Don't you just love it!

Supplies:

• Cryogen White for Copic coloring
• DP: Basic Grey
• Ribbon: Offry
• Sentiments: Hero Arts
• Punch: MS
• Copics
• Blue: B16, B14, B12
• Pants: E17, E15, B13, B11
• Grey Hair: C05, C03, C01, C00
• Brown hair: E31, E35, YR21, YR20
• Outline: BGOOOO and I went back over it with my colorless blender marker

TIP OF THE DAY: Copic Color Charts; I have taken several online and off line Copic classes and one thing almost everyone had in common is:  When you are ordering a lot of markers at the same time you order duplicate markers or markers you already have. Talk about frustrations...this is a big one and it happens more times then not. Solution: use the 334  Copic Color Chart which you can find here and color in the square after you receive your marker. I keep a chart for my markers and another one for my refills. Here is a picture of both of my color charts to help you understand this better! 

Have a great day and be safe my friends!

Elisabeth Bell Digi Showing

Happy Monday everyone! It is time again for the sneak peek of Elisabeth Bell's October Digi! Oh lordly, wait until you see this wonderful creation because it is going to be my new FAVORITE  and I would bet to say, it will be your new favorite too!! 

  

Today through to Thursday, I will be featuring a different sneaky peek here of October's Digi'.

And yup, there will be a blog candy give away every day between today and Thursday for each Sneaky Peek! So if you thought there was a lot of candy flying about, well, get ready for MORE!

For the chance to win today's Sneaky Peek candy - answer the question below in blue and you will be able to win your choice of digi from EB's digital gallery - all you need to do is answer the following question:

Q. What do you think you see, and which season do you think this digi is set in?

The first, most correct answer will be the winner. The winner's name will be on top of the Digi's blog post tomorrow at 7pm, Arizona time, followed by our second Sneaky Peek.

Leave your answer on the Elisabeth Bells DT blog  in the comment section!  Good Luck!!

Please scroll below to see my earlier post with great news for Copic Lovers!

LQQKIE I am so excited!

Happy Sunday Everyone!! How was your weekend? Mine was a fabulous weekend ending a fabulous week. One of the greatest things happened this week and let me show you my surprise when I hopped on over to Simply Scrapping Crafts!

Meet Colleen

"Certified Copics Designer"

Copics Challenge Group

**Announcement**

Starting in October the "Copics Corner" will be a challenge group only.  Colleen will be handling this group offering you a weekly Wednesday challenge for all Copic Lovers.

Copic Challenge

Good morning everyone!  It's Wednesday at12:41AM and I know to many of you this is morning, but it is still my Tuesday night! Between being a night owl and severe insomnia I am usually up until 3 AM or better.  Lots to tell ya! Did you notice a new blinkie in my side bar? This past month I have been a guest designer at Teddy-Stampers and was asked to join the design team! Yahoo, of course I said "yes!"  Teddy-Stampers is one of the very first blog challenges I entered and I  love my teddy bears! It will be announce on Oct. 8 with their bi-weekly challenge!

Also! Do you like Elisabeth Bell and Victoria Case images? I absolutely love them and being on the Elisabeth Bell's Guest Design team is even sweeter!  Right now, SCACD is holding an exciting Store Blog Candy! Click HERE to check out the details and to enter. There will be a super fabulous Elisabeth Bell and Victoria Case Mini Release exclusively for SCACD on the 30th! Come on and hop over to SCACD’s blog for all the details. Trust me you will want to enter this contest and you only need to answer a very simple question!!

Last but surely not least is my card! My image is "Cowgirl"  from Nana Vic's Digitals and if you haven't been there yet you need to go! You should see her sentiments they are so dang cute and only $2.00 per sheet! How awesome is that? She has one for potty training and some of the sayings are "caution wet floor" or "remember when life was simple?" and it has a picture of a diaper and diaper pin! Too cute! Grab them now for she said there will be an increase in price. Take a peak!

Any how on my card tonight I used the sentiment "Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway!"  This card is for a very special friend of mine and all women who have been diagnose with breast cancer or any type of illness and even though scared out of our wits.... we go on and fight and with the grace of God and win! My light bulb went off right after I was done making it ..I should have done it in all pink!  Next time! I made this card for the copic challenge I made up over at Simple Crafting Scraps! Come on over and join the Copic group because, next week we have a super duper announcement to make!  If you love Copics and Copic Challenges you do not want to miss it and hint hint it has to do with prizes!! So come join me for this week's Copic Challenge! Scroll to September 29 Challenge!

Challenges:

• SSC Copic Group/Challenge: Something white, something blue, something old and something new!
• Craft Your Passion: Clean and Simple
• The Crazy Challenge: No ribbons or buttons

I kept my card very clean and simple!

Supplies:

• Cryogen White for coloring with Copics
• Diamond Glaze on glasses, boots and barrel
• Copics:
• Red: R27, R24, R22
• Blue: B26, B24, B23, B21
• Skin: E11, E00, E000
• Boots (brown) E74, E71, E70
• Barrel: E37, E33, E31, E29, E25
• Bowel: Y8, Y4, Y00  my yellows always turn green and have no clue why
• Barrel Straps: C03, C01, C00

TIP OF THE DAY!  When you cut your card stock do you ever end up with fray's or stringy cut?  If you pull on them it rips the paper more and cutting it off usually ends up with an uneven cut. Easy Peasy! Use an Emory board  and file up and down on the side. Not from side to side for this will fray it more . just up and down and watch it disappear!!

If you found one bit of info helpful then I am a happy camper!!  Till tomorrow! Hugz and keep safe.

Teddy Bear and Stink Bugs

Yahoo it's the weekend! Do you have any stink bugs? Omgosh I never knew what a stink bug was until last year. They are horrible and we have literally hundreds of them climbing up the sides of our home. DH was trying everything from squirting them off with a hose and then spraying bug killer which did not work. I have to tell ya this story!!We have a two story home and I kept hearing noises so I go to the bedroom window and look out and cracked up big time!! We have a hand held vacuum sweeper, the hose with the extention wands is about five feet long. Down on the deck is my hubby, 6'2 holding this little vacuum sweeper and he is swinging the wand all through the air and  he would thrust it forward like he was stabbing someone! My first thought was "what the heck is he doing?" He was trying to catch the stink bugs in mid air with the vacuum sweeper!! I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants! If our neighbors were home they would have called the men with the white coats to come and get him! You just had to see it! I went to let the dogs out tonight and before I even opened the front door he was yelling for me to close it! I said; "the dogs have to pee!!" He says "go out the back door their waiting to come in the front door". "who is waiting" "the stink bugs!!" I lost it!

Dustin Pike is the artist of the image I used today.  Dustin designs for several companies and one is High Hope Stamps. I love this  teddy bear angel with the big smiling!!

I am still a guest designer at Teddy-Stampers who I love their blog for every card or project has to have a teddy bear on it! I love teddy bears big time! I collect Cherish Teddies and Boyds ceramic and stuff bears!

Challenges:

• Teddy-Stampers: Acrostic BEAR ...Bear, Easel, Angle wings, Ribbon
• Flutter by Wednesdays: All Winged Things
• Spoonful of Sugar: Anything goes
• Little Red Wagon: Glitter
• Secret Saturday Crafters: Anything goes
• 
  

Supplies: 

• Cryogen paper for stamping and coloring
• DP: stash
• Pearls: Prima
• Flowers stash
• Copics:
• Bear: E53, E51, E50
• Angel wings: BG01, BG000
• Sack: W0, W1
• Watering Can: C1, C3, C5
• Diamond Glaze added to the watering can.
• Diamond Stickles added to the angels wings
• Ribbon: Offry

Tip of the day:  Did you ever cut card stock and it has a lot of little strings hanging from the side you cut? When you try to pull them off it rips your card stock. Take an emery board and go over the rough area like you would your finger nails. Poof! They're gone!!

Thank you for leaving the kind thoughts for I love reading every single one and it totally makes my days brighter! Have a great weekend my friends!

Elisabeth Bell Carousel

I am making this a Wednesday card by the skin of my teeth! I tell ya this day went flying by so fast my head is still spinning! That is why I decided to use Carousel Dreams by Elisabeth Bell! I figure carousel go round and round too just like I did all day long!  CD is one of the stamps in  Edition 5 Collection made exclusively for Susanna Custom Arts and Card Designs. I received it in the mail the other day from a very dear friend, Sharon Keanly from South Africa. She sent me a package that was loaded with all kinds of goodies! What a beautiful surprise it was for I never expected it! The carousel is one of my favorite rides at the amusement parks! Honest! My kids used to walk me in the other direction so I wouldn't see them...ya know why don't ya? Because I would make them ride it with me! When I was doing blog hopping I came upon Lori Argon's blog and loved the way she colored Carousel Dreams and I lifted it! Visit her blog for she does awesome creating!

Challenge:

• Papertake Weekly: Animal

Supplies:  

• Cryogen:  Paper used for stamping and Coloring
• DP:
• Nestabilities Ovals
• Heather Flower Soft: used on the flowers
• Diamond Glaze:  on the hoofs and carousel pole
• Diamond Stickles:  saddle 
• Copics:
• Body of the horse: E50, E51, E53
• Saddle and Reigns: RV34, RV32 RV11 RV10 RV00
• Mane, Hooves, Tail and Pole: E17, E15, E13                                                                   

It's Monday!

Hello everyone! Did you have a nice weekend? Not to many more left before old man winter  comes a knockin at our doors, Blah! I am just not ready for this. And, do you know we have less than 100 days til Christmas!! I have no clue where this year went! We went to PA for two of our grandchildren birthday party! Abbie turned five and Andrew 3..oh no the baby of 10 is 3 years old...yikes...come on Jennifer!!  LOL Jennifer is my DIL who still wants more children!

Before we left for PA I filled some card orders and tonight's card is one of them. LOL  when I was adding my watermark I almost died for I noticed it wasn't completely colored! OMGosh and it was delivered on Friday and I haven't heard a word about it! Let me tell ya, I almost died for it was made for my best customer. I will have to do her next card for half price! Only I could do this!!

Challenges:

• Cards For Men: Transport

Supplies:

• Image: Rosie on the road again designed by Karen Doodles
• DCWV DP
•  Cryogen White paper: The paper I  stamp my image on and lowest price I found was at Cut Card Stock: $8.55 for each pack of 25. The sheets are 8 x 11 1/2. If you buy over 10 packs the price drops to $8.07 and any order over $125.00 is free shipping. Right now they are have a $7.00 off coupon on orders over $35.00.
• Ribbon: Offry
• Buttons: stash
• Copics:
• YR18, YR17, YR16, YR15
• B18, B16, B14
• C00, C01, C03, C05
• Y6, Y4, Y02, Y00
• R20 for the ears and mouth
• Stickles: X-mas Red

TIP OF THE DAY: Stamping on Vellum. I have stamped my sentiment on vellum paper before and was greatly disappointed when I tried to adhere it to the card.  No matter what I tried to adhere the card with such as tape, glue, etc. it would show through the vellum and look horrible.  The cards I posted on September 14, I tried something new and it is awesome! Stamp your sentiment onto the vellum and then dry emboss it with a Cuttlebug folder. Walaaa!! You can use regular two way tape and it will not show through! Plus, I love the look for it  looks more professionalism! Remember to stamp it first and then emboss it.  Trust me...you will love this!

Can't believe it

Happy Week-end everyone! Let me tell ya, I am not a happy camper today. When I first log onto my blog  I was ecstatic for I had over 100 followers! Then I noticed two of the small postage stamps had girls in bikini's. I clicked on their names to see the profiles and of course it had porn blog addresses. I was very insulted and even madder that some of my followers might have witness it. If it happens to you...you can get rid of the picture by clicking on options and then block them. Unfortunately, I think I blocked a legit follower. Grrrr so angry that no matter what  you do on the internet ...someone can ruin it for ya. KWIM?

Let's move onto happier thoughts! Tomorrow we are leaving for PA for our grandson and granddaughter's birthdays! . Now here is an interesting fact:  Two of our daughters had two children in different years from one another. Renae's children birth dates are; Tyler March 21 and Travis August 15. Amy's children birthdays are: Abbie September 15 and Andrew September 21st. The days are the same! 15 and 21st! Two of our grandson's were born on the same day ...one year apart!  Son, Richie  was born on the day his grandmother died and the same day as his cousin's b/d only one year difference. The list goes on and on!! Just thought I'd share our amazing dates! Do you have any in your family?

My get well card is using an image from coloring pages for children and I believe it is from this site. You will find over a thousand images in Jpeg format that you can save to your computer and they aren't cheesy images either and all kinds of characters including TV, history, movies, etc. ! Have fun surfing!

Challenges:  

• Flutter by Wednesday; Butterfly, angel or fairies with buttons
• Alphabet Challenge: Unused stash 
• Crafty Calendar: blue
• Daring Cardmakers: Fly, flutter, hover or waft about "up there" in the sky!
• Fairy Fun Friday: Wet or dry embossing
• Sew Many Cards: Wet or Dry embossing

Supplies:
All of my supplies are from my stash...so sorry.

Tip of the day: You want to color a lighter color with your copic, however, you only have the color in a dark shade. Pre-soak your paper with the colorless blender solution or 93-95 percent rubbing alcohol first with the colorless blender brush. Make sure you do not go over the lines for the color marker will follow the colorless blender solution. While it is still wet apply your darker color and it will be slightly lighter. You will use less ink, since your paper is already saturated and your color area will be smoother. This is really good to do if you are coloring a large area.

Don't forget if you get color on your colorless blender pen to wipe it clean on paper or paper towel. You do not want the color to enter your clear solution or  you will no longer have a colorless blender.

Have a great weekend everyone!! BE SAFE xoxoxo

Excuse me Santa

Good day everyone! Today is my anniversary and a beautiful one at that! Last year my sweet hubby forgot our anniversary and didn't realize it until we went out to dinner with one of our daughters! When she said "Happy Anniversary" the look on his face at the restaurant  was priceless! So this year I received  two cards and gifts, one at midnight and the other today! I asked if he was trying to make up for last year!! He just gave me that beautiful smile of his and said he didn't want to live through it again! LMBO! Yeppers, I gave him a really hard time!!

Yesterday,  I received a package for Sharon Keanly who lives in South Africa! What a pleasant surprise! She sent me one of her cards and she has it posted on  her blog today and trust me, the pictures don't show the real beauty, as it does, in my hands. In the package were 2 rubber and a clear stamp, by one of my most favorite artist, Elisabeth Bell!!! I am so ecstatic to receive them! Also, stamped images of Tilda, Edward and other ones, roses, flowers and I am sure I am leaving something out,  it was an awesome package to open!!! Thank you Sharon!  I am borrowing my friend Lisa's sayings; "My Friends Rock!!!"

Are you making any Christmas cards yet? I started with  today's card which is featuring  Santa Claus by artist Elizabeth O Dulemba who offers her digi's for free and has granted me permission to use and post it today! Elizabeth does illustrations for children books written by other authors and for those she has composed herself!  The books are bright and cheerful and surrounds life events. You can see both the free digi's and her children books on her web page.  I edited Santa Claus in Photo Shop Elements today and added the sentiment. Easy Peasy and if you would like to know how to do this please email me and put Photo Shop in the subject line. 

Challenges:
Oh LaLa Creations: Stripes
Die Cut Dreams: Children Christmas
Bah Humbug: Christmas Card, Favorite medium
Fussy and Fancy: Christmas Colors
Stamp Something: Spots and Stripes
Colour Create: Red, White and Gold
Fab N Funky: Anything goes
Gingersnap Creations: anything goes
Your Next Stamp: anything goes
Simon Says Challenge: Halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas
Creative Inspirations: lace and sparkle...Martha Stewart lace punch
ABC Christmas: Santa

Isn't this just the cutest card? LOL I dearly love it!

Supplies:

• Cryogen: Paper used for stamping and coloring.  
• Copic Colors
• Red: R39, R37, R35,R32
• Black: C5, C3, C1
• Green: G05, G03, G00
• Blue on Teddy: B18. B16. B14, B12
• Blue on Package:  B04, B02, B00
• Gold on package: Y28, Y26, Y11
• Doodlebug crushed velvet: lily white flock on his beard, cap, cuffs of pants and jacket. 
• Martha Stewart Punch
• DP; SEI last years paper
• Bow: Offry Ribbon made with Bow Easy
• Packages: K&C

TIP of the day:  Copic's Colorless Blender:  if you use the colorless blender to fix a problem, tip to tip, or palette blending,  make sure you wipe any color on the blender tip off onto a piece of scratch paper or paper towel. By  not cleaning your tip it will permeate the entire marker and you will no longer be a clear blending marker and instead will have a light color marker. Be extremely careful not to put the wrong cap onto the colorless blender.  Once another color permeates your marker it will be very hard to take it back to it's prior state of being colorless.

Elisabeth Bell Digi!

Happy Monday!!! Did you enjoy your weekend? It rained here all day Sunday, but I kinda enjoyed it for we didn't have anything planned anyways! Did you see the new digi release from Elisabeth Bell on Friday?  Her name is "Catch Of The Day" and you can see her on the post below!

On today's card I am using "I love you this much" I love this digi and I have to tell ya this!! When I look at her I start singing "The Hills Are Alive With Music!!"  I just imagine her in front of large rolling hills singing it just like Julie Andrews did!! Shhh Don't tell on me! She also has her arms wide spread to tell ya how much she loves you! I used her on a birthday card for she is sending  big time birthday  wishes. Isn't she adorable? You can see the entire collection of  Elisabeth's Digi's here! Nothing like having something instantaneously! I love that part!!

Challenges:

• Aly's Sunday Challenge: Sparkle and Glitter
• Paper Sunday's: min. 3 embellishments
• Total Gorjuss: Flowers
• Paper Romance: Clean and Simple 
• Southern Girls: Anything goes 
• Fab N Funky: Anthing goes  
• Color Me Copic: Feather blending hair (this has an awesome video on hair coloring)

Yes, I do know how to color more than red!!! For the past several weeks I have been coloring almost everything red! When I look at my DP only the red ones are appealing to me! But, I did a pink one today so stay tune tomorrow!

Tips of the day: Sales!!  Read below where you can find everything I used on sale somewhere and I did the searching for the cheapest price for ya!

The DP is DCWV, The Mariposa Stack which  is so dang beautiful and tomorrow you will see 3 more cards made from it! I just love it!  It comes in 48 sheets of 12" x12" and the cheapest place I found for you is at JoAnn's for 9.99! LADIES!!!  That is 20 cents a sheet!! Oh my gosh! I am ordering more of it right now for it knocks my socks off!  Look how beautiful those butterflies are!

Sales:

• DP: DCWV Mariposa Stack 48 sheets of 12 x 12 at JoAnn's,  9.99 or 20 cents per sheet!
• Copic Markers:
• Red; R29, R27, R24. 
• Yellow: Y04, Y02, Y000
• Blue: B24, B21
• Copic Markers:   Sketch Markers for 4.46 @ McCallisteres
• Roses: Wild Orchids Crafts
• Nestabilities Dies: Today 16.49 at Overstock! That's a bargain!

Have a great day everyone!! Thank you for stopping by and see ya tomorrow!! PS. I am going to have a blog candy real soon!!

Elisabeth Bell Digi Showing

Happy Saturday everyone!  Today is the day we have all be waiting for and that is to see this month's new  Elisabeth Bell Digi! We have been giving sneak peaks all week! Do you think you know what it is for sure?? Let me tell ya.. it is the sweetest digi stamp and I know you will love her as much as I do!  Here she is the "Catch of the Day!"

Drum roll please! 

Ta da!

Did you guess right? I was really surprise how many guessed correctly on the first peak what she was! I wouldn't have thought you ever guess a child in a mermaids custom, inside a grocery cart! I'll tell ya...you have more insight then me!! YIKES!! For some reason my yellows are green and no matter how I tried to fix it in Photo Shop I couldn't ditch the green....including the yellow in her hair! I really didn't color her hair green!! Trust me! Any who you want to see what all the designers did with this cutie so make sure you hop on over to the Digi Bell DT Blog  and take a look around,  for you surely will not be disappointed! You can see all of Elisabeth Bells Digi's collection here. Isn't it fun to see an image you love and have it instantaneously?

Challenges:

• Craft Calendar Challenge: Blue or flower
• Glitterbable Challenge: Sparkly
• Crafty Creations: Transportation (hehehe!)
• Fab N' Funky: What eva
• Ginger Snap Creations: Punches
• The Sister Hood of Crafters: 1 ribbon, 2 DP and 3 flowers
• Your Nest Stamp: Anything goes
• Cowgirl's N Up Sunday: Anything goes
• Paper Sundaes: Mixed Medium

Supplies:

• Copics
• Blue:  B18, B16, B14. B12, BG02, BG000
• Yellow:  (the bottom of her cart is bright yellow) Y06, Y04, Y02 Y00
• Red: R28, R24, R22, R21
• Skin: E11, E00, E000
• Brown: E35, E31, E30
• Hair: E35, E31, YR21 (no green!!!)
• Paper: Basic Grey
• Stickles: Diamond added to the mermaid costume and head band
• Diamond Glaze to the buggy to make it look like plastic
• Flowers: Wild Orhids Crafts
• Cherries and circles: Nestabilities
• Ribbon: Offry

Tip of the day:  Diamond Glaze is  a water-based dimensional adhesive. It is great as a glue, but even greater to add on top of anything to make it shine! It is also mixable and I have mixed it with water, stickles and copic colors to add a 3D effect to my project. You will love it and it does not change your copic coloring!

Thank you for stopping by and to everyone who has left comments or followed me....thank you from the bottom of my heart, it brightens my day big time. God Bless the USA and all the other countries on this date 9/11 and every day there after!

Teddy Stampers Guest Designer

Hello everyone and Happy Friday to ya! Yesterday was my third day at the athletic club with the personal trainer. It took everything I had to go and let me tell ya, I am still feeling it today! Thank goodness for Aleve! It has been my best friend yesterday and last night!! I was doing hurls, curls, lifting, pushing, squatting and in positions I haven't been in for a very long time and my body let me know it too!

Exciting news! Teddy Stampers asked me to be their guest designer for the month of September! I am so excited! Teddy Stampers was the very first blog I joined when I entered blog land!! I love teddy bears and collect Cherish Teddies, Boyds and Stuff Teddy Bears! Yep, I am still a kid at heart who loves her teddy bears!

The Theme at Teddy Stampers this week is "Back to School"   My card was made with "Teddy Bear Teacher" designed by Meljen Digital Stamps! If you love 'warm and fuzzy' designs that make you smile and inspire creativity then you will love Meljens Digitals Images!

Challenges:

• Teddy Stampers: Back to school
• Meljen's Designs: Back to school
• Air Factory: Back to School
• Fab and Funky: Anything goes
• Fresh Brew Designs: Brown

 Isn't she a hoot with all her books and the apple on top! What was your favorite subject in school? Mine was Science! I loved my ninth grade Science teacher who inspired  me to love anatomy which, eventually led me to becoming a paramedic and ER/ICU nurse.  Did you have a teacher inspire you?

I will be back later tonight at 7 PM Arizona Time with the Elisabeth Bell new digi release and the tip of the day! Stay tune for some fun times and thank you for stopping in! Hugzzzzzz

Happy Friday and Labor Day Weekend!

 Wow, can you believe this is the last weekend of the summer months. For those who do not live in the US.   Do you have plans for the weekend? Sunday night I will be driving to Pittsburgh to be Copic certified with Colleen Schaan on Monday.  Once I am certified I can teach Copic's at the local craft store. No, you don't need to be certified to teach, but they want to see the credentials...so that is where I am spending my labor day!


My card today if using a digital image that I do not know where I purchased it. Back in the beginning I didn't think to keep a record on who's digi's were who's. Please tell me if you recognize it so I can give credit to the artist! Now I keep my digi's in files by the designers web address and it makes life so much easier!

I just love this image!! Let me tell you...I love teddy bears! You can tell immediately after walking through my front door and I gave a lot of my stuff bears away or to charities! The granddaughters love coming here!

Challenges:

• Digi doodle shop's Best: sentiment
• Glitterbabe's challenge: Glitter or Bling
• Stamp Insanity:  Birthday
• The Creative Cottage Challenge Blog: Celebration
• Penny's Paper Crafty:  Birthday
• Your Next Stamp: Anything goes
•   The Wild Flower Patch: Fall colors

Supplies:

• DCWV: The Natural Stack...12 x 12 paper pad is perfect for making men's cards! I love it!
• Cryogen White : Perfect paper for Copics
• Brad and pearls: Prima
• Tim Holtz: Antique Linen
• Copic markers:
• Blue: B00, B01, B04
• Purple: V12, V15, V17
• Orange: YR07. YR04, YR02
• Green: G05, G03, G00
• Browns: I think all of them!!! 

No Tip of the Day! Please read older post to see what ones you missed!

Thank you for stopping by and have a super, fantastic weekend!

Party Time Tuesday Design Team!

Hello blog land!! Lots more exciting news my friends!  My announcement I promised for today is: Party Time Tuesday asked me to be a member of their design team and of course I said "YES!" I love it there. Each week you make a card to a theme, but there's a catch! You MUST have a sentiment on the front of the card saying "Happy Birthday," "Best Wishes," "Your day!" You get the point! Great way to get those birthday cards made! Like I said before "made" I didn't say mail! My daughter, Renae's birthday was yesterday and I am sitting her looking at her card. I do not know why I can't get them in the mail on time! I really don't!

Another exciting thing happened today! I received an email from Card-Making-Magic.com
stating they accepted the tutorial I did on Monday (see below) and it is now part of their tutorials! If you have a sec. could you hop over there,  comment on it and rate it!!! If you take the time, Thank you! You will love this web site!! Full of tutorials and all kinds of good info on card making!

Not done yet!! Tonight I clicked on Simply Scrapping Crafts and low behold there were my two cards I made on Monday featured for the month of August and the flower card, plus another card I made were August gallery favorites! I tell ya...it's a good week here!

One last thing!! Wait until you see Elisabeth Bell's new digi for September!! It is so stinking cute...I love it and can't wait to color it  for the upcoming showing on Friday, September 10. Elisabeth moved the date back one week since we just received the most adorable image today!!

Finally! My card for my  first DT challenge at PTT! The little girl in my card is one of Elisabeth Bell images made exclusively for Susanna Custom Art and Card Design. Isn't she adorable...makes you want to pack up a picnic basket and go to the park!

Challenges:

• Party Time Tuesday:  Brads
• Cards and Things:  Color challenge: Wild Wasabie, Crumb cake and real red

Supplies:

• Cryogen White Paper
• Charm Blue Moon at SCACD
• DP Basic Grey
• Prima pearls
• Rose: Wild Orchids Crafts
• Ribbon: Offry
• Copic: 
• I will list these later on today. If you need to know sooner...please send me an email!

Thank you for coming and seeing me. If you wouldn't mind please become a follower so I can see your creations too!

Simply Scrapping Crafts Design Team!

 Hello! Remember me? LOL..I have been MIA for most of the last two weeks.  This is going to be a super week for several announcements all week long!  I have been asked to join the Simply Scrapping Crafts Design Team! Wow, that is a mouthful, how about SSC DT!! SSC is the place you want to be if you love learning, challenges, a whole page  of groups outside of SCC. I will be doing the copic challenges! Right up my alley wouldn't you say! Before vacation I was chosen to be a guest designer on Elisabeth Bell Design team for September and October! We will be getting the new digi today and I just can't wait to see it! And, on Wednesday I will have another announcement. Things are looking up!

My card business is starting to pick up pretty good considering it is only by word of mouth at this point! Good days lately!

I made two cards today and  you are going to see red for quite a bit for the next week! I had specific orders on my cards and what can a girl do!

Challenges:

1. Flutter-by-Wednesday:  Open and there is suppose to be a BIG announcement on Wednesday! 
2. Alys Sunday Challenge: use pink (I have a pink rose!)
3. Cowgirls Sunday Challenge: Flowers and embellishments
4. The Crafty Pad: Pearls (Wedding Card)
5. One Stitch At a Time:  Girly or color scheme (Wedding, Ivory and red)
6. The Paper Players: Anything goes
7. Be Crafty: anything goes
8. Cinema Saturday: Anything goes 
9. Crafty Emma's Store: Anything goes
10. Lexie's Creations: Embossing
11. Mark's Finest Paper: Friend card ...Red flower card
12. Our Daily Bread: Embossing
13. Alphabet Challenge: R for roses! 
14. Fairy Fun Friday : Pearls and lace...wedding card
15. Stamping For The Weekend: Anything goes

First Card I do not know where I got the digi from. So sorry and if you know and inform I will list the designer.

Supplies:

• Cryogen
• Copics
• Red: R39, R37, R35, R32
• Green: G94,YG23, YG24, YG21, YG03.YG01
• Ribbon: E-bay
• Friskar Sunburst Punch

Supplies:

• Karen Doodles Digi: Here comes the bride!
• White roses colored with copic and alcohol. See Tip of the Day
• Cream Color Gown: E53, E51, E50
• Red top: R39, R37, R35,  R32
• Market Stewart leaf punch
• Friskar Sunburst Border Punch

Inside

Tip of the day:   Coloring lace, ribbon, flowers. You can use Colorless blender solution or 91-95% Isopropyl rubbing alcohol, which is a LOT cheaper. Pour some alcohol into its lid or very small container. Lay down the copic color you want onto an acrylic block. You do this by pressing the tip of the pen onto the block with gentle pressure. Take a regular small paintbrush and dip it into the alcohol...the more alcohol on the brush the lighter the color. If you want a vibrant color, wipe the brush one time onto a paper towel. Next, take the brush and mix it with your color on the acrylic block and brush onto flower, lace etc. You will see that you use very tiny bit of marker. You can make it as dark or as light as you want by how much alcohol solution you have on the brush. Here is a white rose and white lace I did with R29 in a super hurry to show you!

I hope you enjoyed  looking as much as I have enjoyed creating!! Thank you! It's a good week!

An award from Sharon!

Yippee! It's Friday! I had the most pleasant surprise given to me by my very special friend Sharon! It is an award for beautiful blog with a little bit extra! I am so proud to have received this from someone who is so dear to me. Thank you Sharon!

Accepting the award you need to do the following:

1. Thank the person who gave it to me. Sharon thank you! It means a lot!
2. Put it on my blog
3. Mention 3 things I love doing. I have more than 3!
1. I love doing things with my hubby and family
2. My dogs make me laugh every single day!
3. We know what this one is! Making cards! 
4. My favorite picture: Hmmmm hard one. I will have to post it later for my daughter in law has it. In November I had my whole family together...course others are in it also. But, I love seeing everyone in one place!
5. I have to pass the award to five other people! Well, if I was the one starting it Sharon most definitely would get a spot!
1. Lisa Haines: Who keeps me updated and gives me encouragement every single day!
2. Suzanne Dean: She doesn't post awards on her blog, she's getting one anyways! Suzanne has taught me so much and has the patience of a saint. She is the reason I am where I am today! She is also the sole reason I am going broke for she demonstrates and shows new products all the time!!
3. Danni: blog is entertaining  and full of blogs to visit and challenges to be done. She started another blog called Flutter-by-Wednesdays which requires a butterfly, angel or fairy on your card! I need all the angels I can get!
4. Party Time Tuesdays; Kristie helps me keep on tract making birthday cards on time. I didn't say mail...I said "made" for each week is a theme around Birthdays!
5. Elisabeth Bell:  Digi Bells DT  If you love Eisabeth Bell's stamps and digi's as  much as I do then check it out!

 Thank you Sharon for this honor!

We are home!

How are you? It feels like forever since I last written! Our plane landed around 6 PM last night and we came home to two jumping, kissie, lickie happy dogs! They were so excited to see us and nothing is greater than to see wagging tails greeting you at the door rather you have been gone nine hours or nine days! We had an awesome time with our children and grandchildren and it just warms your heart when everything goes perfectly! Christian, Abby, Trinity and Olivia were fabulous to be around! It is really special to see how much they have grown and mature. They're no longer babies and never knew how special it would be to talk to them as children instead of toddlers. They are so loving and beautiful and I enjoyed every minute with them!

There was a T-shirt coloring day at our Resort! Yippee, I was really excited for it allow me to color! Here is what we did!

 This is a book bag Trinity, 9 and I colored together!

Christian, 11 colored this all by himself!
I thought I had Bill's T-shirt and mine but it is not on the disc:(

Trinity on the beach!

Christian boogie boarding

Trinity laughing at her Grandpah!  I love this picture of her!  You see the blanket behind her....that is where Christian is!









He had to get his hat on before I took his picture! His hair was messed up!!

Reef Ocean Resort is right on the beach!

On the beach looking back.

Bill, Trinity and Christian went to find shells for me to place on my cards! They were so sweet and wanted the perfect shells for grandma!

Our grandchildren in Florida!
Trinity (9), Abby (8) Christian (11), and Olivia soon to be 5!









See you tomorrow!! Thank you for allowing me to share my time with you!

Craft Alley Sketch

Hello! Let me tell ya... it is hot, hot, hot here in Vero Beach! The temperature was 93 but it felt 20 degrees hotter!   Today we took Christian and Trinity school shopping! Lordy, lordy what an adventure! Guess what? The peace sign is back and the kids love it! Funny how we keep going back to the good old days! Tie Dye T's with the peace sign!!

This is a card I made before we left home for a sketch on Craft Alley and the prize is an adorable stamp image name Lottie from the Greeting Farm.   My image on the card is a dragon from Dustin Pike. This is the second card I have made using one of his dragons for my grandson's birthdays! I just love them and Dustin has a wide assortment of really cute images!

Lousy picture!


Craft Alley: Sketch

 Greeting Farm rubber stamp: Lottie! Is she not adorable. Of course I am going after this one!  I only had two stars though!

• Copics:

• G04, G03, G00, G000
• B04, B02, B00, B000
• E50, E51, E53 
• Sorry everything else is from my stash.

Be safe!

Congratulations to Elisabeth Bell Digi DT!

Hello everyone!! Well, as you know I applied to the Elisabeth Bell DT call and was chosen to be a guest designer for September and October! What an honor to say the least!  The following 8 were chosen for  EB Digi DT! Congratulations ladies!

1. Janiel Corley
2. Lilian Tan
3. Patricia Soldenhoff
4. Lynda Nielsen
5. Jodi Ann Lee
6. Tracy Valure
7. Lisa Futch
8. Wendy Ramlakhan

Guest Designers for September and October!

1. Colleen Holmes (me!)
2. Lydia Bancroft
3. Lori Ng 
4. Crystal Irwin
5. Angelique Nederpel

Good luck  DT and GDT and can't wait to work along side of you!

We are on vacation in Vero Beach and can't believe this is our fourth day! Trinity and Christian, grandchildren are keeping us quite busy! On Saturday we will leave to go to Orlando and will see our granddaughters Abby and Olivia!  We have managed to see and spend time with 8/10 grandchildren within a month! Gosh, that makes me sound old!! I was five when I had my first child!!

Have a wonderful day everyone!! I have one card to post this week!

Wednesday

Hello!!! Hey can someone please turn off the fast forward! Where did the summer go? Gosh,  I have too much to do before Friday and it's coming rather quickly too! I am so looking forward to this vacation! Can't wait and yet I have a ton to do!!! Sound familiar!

Today I colored a Elizabeth ODulemba image. Have you ever been to her site? If not you are missing out on super great digi's and guess what? They're free! Yes, you read that correctly she posts her digi's for everyone to enjoy. Elizabeth is an illustrator and author for children books. Her talent is utterly amazing and she loves what she does and shares her talent with everyone! If you are buying children books...I recommend her books and those she illustrates and they are on her blog! I made this card for a student at my husbands place of work, who is leaving to attend law school...well, we know how many books he will be carrying around! I love this paper!!

y

Supplies:

• DP: DCWV; Natural ....this paper is beautiful and has lots of browns, perfect for male cards. I love it!
• Prima Pearls:  you can buy them here at SCACD. 
• Stamp: stash ...acrylic
• Copic markers
• mouse: C05, C03, C01, C00
• Green: G07, G05, G03, G00.
• Red:  R29, R24, R21
• Blue: B05, B02, B01, B000
• Brown: E07, E04, E13, E11
• Diamond Glaze on the glasses. 
• Gold: YR24, Y11, Y05, Y00

Challenges:

• Everybody's Art Challenge: Checking it out
• Paper Take Weekly Challenge: Something old, new, borrowed or blue! My last card!!!
• Paper Sundaes: Metal
• Craft Hos' Challenge: Primary Colors
• Sentimental Sundays: Anything goes
• Clearly I Stamp: Cute and fuzzy

Tip of the day:  Bows! Do you have trouble making bows? Don't feel alone...I can't either and use Bow Easy. This gadget is only $5.00 and will save you oodles of frustrations trying to get that perfect bow. Your bow is perfect every single time you use it. It makes 7 different sizes: 3/4", 1 1/4", 1 3/8", 2 3/8 and 2 3/4". You can purchase it at SCACD  .   Suzanne Dean made a great video on how to tie the bow with the Bow Easy and is a must have for me!!

Correcting Copic Mistake

Hello dear friends! Is it a good weekend so far? Mine has been okay, not the greatest and surely not the worst! I did go to the pool for awhile and  read more of my book "Blood Games" which is a goodie! Irish Johansen is the author and most of her books are mysteries and really intrigue me.  I love good mysteries to the point  me and my hubby have gone to Mystery Dinners, Mystery Train rides and even a mystery weekends which were lots of fun.We arrived on Friday night at a hotel in PA. The hotel is very old and has kept the decor to the era it was built. It has the old heavy doors to the rooms, Carve stairways, dark beautiful wood and you transfer back in time the moment you enter it.  Shortly after we arrived we were invited to have cocktails with the rest of the guest and while we were socializing, a man runs in with a gun and shoots and killed the guest who we were talking with! YIKES  However, when the police went to the killers room, they found him dead in the the shower with a bullet to his head. Blood is splattered all over the walls, broken shower door that was hanging lopsidedly from the frame and lots of other goodies! Yep, we went and inspected it looking for clues! You spend the rest of the weekend trying to figure out "who dunnit" lots of fun!!

TIP of the day! There are many ways you can correct your mistakes when coloring with Copics. One of course is using the colorless blender. Yet, sometimes it does not remove all the color and this is when I take my white  highlighter pen and carefully go over the spots I couldn't remove the color. I also use it to cover any place where I may have gone out of the lines.  My last resort is to paper piece it. What is paper piecing?  It is when you stamp your image again and cut from it the part you need to cover up your mistakes.  Clear as mud right?? LOL Here is a video by Gina K who really describes and shows  you how to paper piece.  In the video she not only demonstrates how to paper piece, but how you can do it with pattern paper! Much easier to comprehend watching instead of reading about it!

See you tomorrow!