It's Tuesday's Party Time, It's Tuesday's Party Time

Good morning!! So how many of you remember Buffalo Bob asking "Say Kids, What time is it?" and everyone would scream "It's Howdy Doody Time!" Oh no! Did I just give my age away? LOL. The old TV shows were so different from today and what we remember can be funny!

One day at the gym I said to one of the girls "Ok Kimosabe!" which is an expression I have used since I was a little girl. She quickly looked at me like I just insulted her and said "what did you call me?" I busted out laughing, once again I was showing my age. Kimosabe is what Tonto use to call the Lone Ranger and it means "trusted friend!"  Oh, when she had no clue what I was talking about...I felt ancient!

Ok, so who's been going around stealing the Mojo? Mine's gone, gone, gone and I want it back! First it is stolen from my friends and now mine...geeesh! Oh well, the show must go on!

It's Party Time Tuesday! Do you want the best challenge blog ever? Well, look no more for Party Time Tueday is here! So what's so great you ask? Well, let me tell ya!! There is one requirement, on top of the challenge of the week and it is you must have a birthday greeting on the outside of  your card! Now be honest, wouldn't it be nice to have all your B/D cards done before you actually need them? I think so!! So come on over and join the fun!! This week challenge is an inspirational challenge and the colors are Red,. Black and White!

Several things not to forget!

• Free Copic Classes over at Simply Scrapping Crafts and the awesome Copic Challenge Where you can win 2 Copic markers or 2 Variance Ink refills just by playing!
• Teddy-Stampers   one year anniversary blog hop which runs until November 18.  Awesome prizes to be won, including one from me!! You can read all about it in the below  listing
•  Party Time Tuesday is running a DT call and trust me you will love the DT . Kristie and Di are two of the most wonderful people to work for!  So come on over and put in your application and join the fun!

Challenges: 

• Party Time Tuesday:  Picture inspiration with the colors Red, White and Black
• Lexi's Creations:  Anything goes

My card for the DT Party Time Tuesday is very simple using the photo below this one for inspiration.

 

I really wasn't happy with the card above so I tore it apart and came up with this...which, not sure what to think!

 

Maybe a tad better!

Tip of the Day:   Cleaning your Copic Markers.  We have all experience the messy markers after using them a lot. Did you know when the inside of your caps are build up with dried ink,  you can actually cause your marker harm. You will no longer have an airtight seal.  What can happen is your ink dries a tiny bit in the nib and what you will might notice  is your paper will become tacky and sticky. So now what do you do. Carefully remove your nib and place it in a small plastic baggie with either 97 percent alcohol or your colorless blender solution. You leave the nib in the bag and after it turns white return it to the marker.

Cleaning your markers is very important and you want to clean inside the caps and around the area at the end of the marker where the nib slides into. You can clean it with Colorless Blender solution, rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer. Do not put the hand sanitizer on your nibs...to be honest I don't know what it could do and I just would not try it! 

 Visit the rest of the the Party Time Tuesdays design team for lots of great inspirations!  Hugzzzzzz

It's Happy Birthday to Teddy-Stampers

Hello Everyone!! It is time to celebrate! Teddy Stampers is turning ONE! Holy Cow that went fast!! We've been stamping with our teddies for a year and we want to celebrate with you! How??  We're celebrating by having a BIRTHDAY BASH!

There are several prizes to win this week and here is how to do it!  Visit each of the designers blogs
 LEAVE A COMMENT on each blog. Then when you've done,  hop back to the Teddy Stampers blog and upload a birthday creation of your own! You must do ALL of these steps in order to be eligible for a prize. And we have several sponsors today. Check this out:

Digital Delights by Louby Lou

Dragon Lair Designs

The Cutting Cafe

Doodle Dragon Studios

Deedee's Digis

Simon Says Stamp


That's a lot of prizes to win!! Plus, a few of our fabulous designers have some prizes on their blogs for one lucky hopper as well! So what are you waiting for? (hehehe I am one of them!)

I am having a random drawing for a yummy prize! To be eligible just follow me at the top of my blog  and leave a comment so I know you were here! What is that yummy gift you say?  It's a $10.00 gift certificate for Simply Scrapping Craft E-bay store! How cool is that!!

Don't forget about the free COPIC classes over at Simply Scrapping Crafts, trust me you have to see the great job Lisa and Judy did for the classroom! One word: Awesome!! And, please while your there sign up for my Copic Challenges! You will find it under challenges at the top of the page!! See you there!!

The theme today for Teddy-Stampers is "Happy Birthday!" I am using one of Dustin Pikes Digi bears to help celebrate. Isn't he so cute coming down in his Hot Air balloon to celebrate with us!!! If you like him he is Octobers free digi and November's free digi is now posted!

Challenges:

• Teddy-Bear Stampers:  Birthday Theme 
• Delightful Challenges - stitching 
• Paper Play (2 entries) - circles 
• Paper Romance - lots of whatever you want 
• Sassy Studio Designs - stitching 
• Stamp Insanity - punches
• ABC Challenge (2 weeks) - glitter 
• Creative Cottage (2 weeks) - embossing
• Freshly Brewed - anything goes, optional sketch 
• Creative Card Crew (2 weeks) - punches 
• Digital Tuesday - DIGI STAMP and framed 
• Paper Take Weekly - for boys / men
• Doodle Dragon Studio: Anything goes  (Blog of Dustin Pike... where I got today's image!)

Phew!!

If you came here first then hop right over to the Teddy-Stamper Blog and follow the bear tracks! If you are in the correct order than you want to hop on over to the talented Jerusha's blog and just wait to see what she has in store for you!! So why are you still here? LOL


HAPPY HOPPING!!

Teddy Stampers Blog

Sharon
Angelique
Cherie
Annie
Colleen ( you are here)
Jerusha
Lins
Desiree

Back to Teddy Stampers Blog


NO TIP OF THE DAY DUE TO BIRTHDAY BASH!

DT Party Time Tuesday!

Hello everyone! Did you have a great Halloween? We had over 150 children! I made up 60 little bags of candy for my grandchildren, Abbie and Andrew's preschool and wasn't home in time from my parents to mail them.  So I gave them first to the neighborhood kids and within 20 minutes all 60 bags were GONE!  Panic mode set in, but we had enough!

Ohmygosh, I have to tell ya what DH did!! We bought mix bags of candy and the other night, I walked into the living room and there was a big pile of candy wrappers. He looked at me and said "you know tonight they had on the news about certain candy bars not being good for the children and parents should throw them away, they have too many calories" as he pops another one in his mouth and he continued saying "so I am just saving the children!" I thought I was going to pee my pants!! What a hoot!

Several fun announcements today!! My card is for Party Time Tuesday. PTT is a  Birthday Card Challenge Blog with new challenges every Tuesday.  This week is anything goes so come on and join us, we all need birthday cards!! Let me tell ya, you should see the rest of the DT cards...they are totally awesome!! 

On Friday Teddy Stampers is having a one year blog  anniversary. Trust me, you do not want to miss the blog hop for they have awesome prizes lined up and one of them will be right here on my blog (shhhhh don't tell anyone!)  So don't forget to come back on Friday!! Hint, Hint...anyone can use my prize! Prizes will not only be given by the DT, but will also be given by the following Stores:

> Digital Delights by Louby Lou
> Dragon Lair Designs
> The Cutting Cafe
> Doodle Dragon Studios
> Deedee's Digis
> Simon Says Stamp

So don't forget about us and come back and play!!!

Challenges:

• Party Time Tuesday:  Anything goes
• Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge: Bling
• The Crafty Pad: Stitching
• The Paper Players: Anything goes
• Crafty Calendar Challenge: Birthday!!! Their first Birthday!
• Total Paper Crafts: Bling

Supplies! 

• Image: Sara K...I love, love, love Sara K!
• Basic Grey Paper
• Neeham for Copic stamping and coloring
• Prima Flowers
• Stickles
• Friskar punch
• Copics
• Hair: E31 E25, E50
• Skin: E11, E00, E000
• Pants E41, E43, E50
• Dress: R04, R02, R01 (I didn't directly apply R04, I kissed it with R02. 
• Shoes: W03, W01, W02
• Shirt: BG15, BG13, BG11 

TIP OF THE DAY:  Your digital ink bleeds when using Copics.  Several ways you can correct this!

 

• Change your print quality to fast draft mode. How to do this: Click print, on the next screen  preferences, next screen click on print quality and change it to fast draft. Everyone should be priniting on this mode for it will save your ink BIG time!
• Heat set it for several moments.
• Let it dry overnight before coloring.
• As soon as your image comes out of the printer, put clear embossing powder on it, click all the extra embossing powder off by turning it over and flicking it with your thumb then heat set.

Have a great day and see you tomorrow!!  Big thank you for stopping by today! Hugzzzzz
 

I'm home!

I am home!  Gosh, I missed you guys something terrible! Yet, I got to spend time with my parents and that was great!  My hubby and I helped them move from Nevada to Arizona, what a trip! It was very hard on my parents for they weren't sure where to put everything once we got there. DH went home in five days and I stayed 2 weeks to help unpack. Would you rather pack or unpack?  Me, I rather pack any day of the week over unpacking.  When you unpack everything has a new home and your just not sure where that might be. I'll tell ya though..I will never fly with US Airways again if I can help it. I wanted to stay an additional week to finish helping my parents and they wanted $490.00 to reschedule my flight. I thought maybe somebody didn't read the figures right and went to the airport....same thing. I asked what happened to the 50 -100.00 fee for rescheduling and the answer I got was "no it's now 150.00" I stood there and thought something is wrong with this picture so I asked "then why are you telling me it is 490.00 and the answer I got was "oh, that is before the fee is added"  Let me tell ya, if they go out of business it won't be anyone's fault but their own. I was not buying a new ticket and was flying ONE way in the USA...I wasn't going to Timbuktu...gesssssssssssh.

Anyhoo, my card today was designed by Daphne and I was on her DT in the very beginning. Very sad for she no longer does any digi's.  This was one of my favorites and I added the sentiment in Photo Shop Elements.
  
Challenge:

• Copic Challenge Corner: shadowing.  Each month win two Copic markers or refills for completing the months challenges
• Crafty Calendar Challenge: Birthday, they are celebrating their first year anniversary!!! YEA!
• Stamp Something: Pink
• Totally Paper Crafts:  Bling
• Digi Doodle Shop:  Anything goes

 Copics:

• Skin: E11, E00, E000
• Blue :  B04, B02, B00 B000
• Pink:  RV02, RV00, RV000
• Hair: E35, E31, YR20

TIP OF THE DAY: Shadowing your image.  Adding a shadow to your image makes it look complete. In the beginning I hated to add a shadow by taking my marker and just out lining it. I felt it was so dang obvious and didn't like it. Then I learned to take my colorless blender and go back over the outline shadow to give it a soft blend.

Simple Scrapping Crafts First Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome to Simply Scrapping Crafts First Annual Haunted Hallow Hop!  We have quite a line-up for you today filled with lots of tricks and treats!  Now what would trick or treating be without candy?  Eye candy that is!  Our DT has been busy at work in Dr. Jekyll's lab creating just the right formula to inspire your hauntingly sweet projects this year.  Be sure to comment all of the blogs along the way because we have "hidden" some extra special treats along the way.  There is no way to tell where we have them stashed, so be sure not to miss out!  Some of our hop hosts are giving an extra entry for becoming a follower.  Who doesn't appreciate more chances to win right? 

 All winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 via the DT blogs and also in the hop room at SSC, which can easily be accessed here .  You have until 11:59PM EST tonight, October 16, 2010 to comment for your chance to win.  All you need to do is click on each link and leave a comment as you hop along to the end of the list.   

My image is from Karen Doodles "Scare Crow Girl"  She really looks scary smiling at those black birds! LOL

Are you ready for a frightfully wicked Haunted Hallow Hop?  Let's get to hoppin'

• Deb 
• Maureen
• Georgia  
• Theresa
• Nikki
• Rona
• Colleen === You are here
• Amy
• Emily 
• Clare
• Pryn

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.
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 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
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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!