Festive Welcome Peeker

*The Outlawz 1000 Member Party post  is below this posting*

Hello happy crafters! I don't know what the weather is like where you live but here in Maryland was a GORGEOUS day! Lots of sunshine, slight breeze and 68 degrees! .My g/f, Tammy lives in Idaho and they had snow this week!!!  I couldn't believe it and she sent us a picture! No, thank you!! I only want to see that white stuff on Christmas Eve and not a day before! One of our local stores has Christmas decorations already and we didn't even celebrate Halloween yet. I feel that takes the whole spirit out of the season. It was fun to look forward to Thanksgiving because the day after all the stores would have their decorations out and it was the beginning of the holiday season. I just don't get it.

Speaking of the season! I made my second Christmas Card this week using a cute stamp "Festive Welcome Peeker." from the Holiday Peekers over at SCACD!  I had a lot of fun playing with her with her big bow and gorgeous hat!

My leaves are laser cut chipboard by Make it Crafty. I colored them with Pearlized Smooch then applied Diamond Glaze and sprinkled them with red glitter. They are really bright and shining! Doodlebug crushed Lily White Flock was added to the bottom of her dress. I added glittery shine to her shoes with Stickles X-mas Red Stickles...I love this color for a vibrant red! I also put it on the reef in various places!

Copics: Skin: E11, E00, E000. Hair: E59, E31, E13. Blue: B29, B28, B24, B21. Red: R29, R27. R24. R22. Greens: Sorry I didn't keep tract.
Ribbon: Olfry
Pearls: Kaisercraft

Don't forget The Outlawz 1000 Member Party with over $800.00 in prizes. Lots of fun with Scavenger Hunts, Bingo, Name That Tune, 7 challenges and much more! Tons of fun! All my products on my card are sold by SCACD and Susana generously gave a $100.00 Gift certificate for the party! And, she isn't the only one! Look at my blinkie on the top right hand side! Yep! Oozak.com also gave a $100.00 Gift Certificate!
AND on my posting below this...if you leave a comment and are a member of The Outlawz you could win a $20.00 Gift Certificate for 7 Kids College Fund!!! Come on and play!

Challenges:

Bah Humbug: Christmas
Crafty Ann's Challenges: Inspired by a Christmas Song:
Frosted Designs: Use four things from their list: I used Chipboard, rub-on (Christmas sentiment), inks and ribbon.
Prairie Fairy Friday: Girly
Floweret: Chirstmas
Joyful Stamper: Anything goes

Welcome to The Outlawz first blog hop!

In case you do not know about the party... The Outlawz is celebrating reaching 1000 members with games, puzzles, scavenger hunts and over $800.00 in prizes!!  It's a party you do not want to miss!

We have quite a line-up for you filled with great tutorials! The DT has been busy working hard to present to you techniques and awesome inspirations! Be sure to comment on all of the blogs along the way to be eligible for 9 yes 9 prizes! Each blog is giving away a prize and one random grand prize will be drawn at The Outlawz for those of you who have commented on every blog and entered your name into Inlinkz  here. 

This blog is sponsor this week by:

7 Kids College Fund

$20.00 Gift Certificate

All winners  will be announce at The Outlawz on October 12.

My tutorial is melting a digital colored image onto a candle. 

My digital image is from Fred She Said Designs

Easy Peasy

Supplies needed: Tissue paper, wax paper, digital or stamped image. Copics or other coloring medium, heat gun, card stock and glue stick. You only need glue stick and card stock if you are using a digital image.

Glue corners of tissue paper onto card stock to print the digital image onto.  You do not want any excess paper hanging over the card stock or it will get stuck and ripped in the printer. 

This is what your digital image looks like on the paper after printing.

Color your image with your favorite medium. I used Copics. You are unable to blend like you do on regular paper, however, you still get great highlights and shadowing. Place something under the tissue paper while coloring for your ink goes right through to the other side.

This is how much ink leaked through to the other side of the paper.

 Cut your image out as close to the image as possible. It's okay to leave some of the surrounding tissue.

You want to went the tissue paper slightly! I wet the tip of my finger and slightly moisten the corners to help the tissue to adhere to the candle. You do not want any of the image to become wet for the ink will bleed.

Wrap your wax paper around the candle making a handle in the back to hold onto tightly. This will keep a tight seal around the image. Make sure there are no wrinkles or air pockets. You can also secure it with rubber bands.

Use a heat gun to heat the wax paper. What will happen is the heat gun will melt the wax coating on the wax paper and this is what seals your image onto the candle.  You want to keep moving the heat gun so you do not melt the candle.  Don't put the heat gun as close as I have it in the picture or it will melt for sure! Heat until you see everything turn shinny. This will take several minutes to do.

 

The total cost $1.50 for the candle for I had everything else.  You can burn these candles and they make gorgeous gifts for all occasions.

Don't forget to leave a comment to be eligible for the drawing!

You must be a member of The Outlawz to win!

You receive an additional chance if you follow.

Good luck everyone!

You want to hop over to my sis-tah   Maureen's to see another great tutorial!  If you stumbled onto my blog without going through The Outlawz ....I am the first one on  the list so keep on hopping!

Good luck and thank you for stopping by!!!

Holiday Peekers are here!

Happy Friday my friends!! Can you smell fall in the air! Where I live is in the rural part of Northwest Maryland, not to far from the PA, WV and VA state lines! I have tree's and hills and pretty soon lots of colors! Fall is my favorite season! I love cooler mornings and evenings but still warm enough to go without a coat on. If you don't like near the eastern mountains I highly suggest you take a trip to visit  mid  October for the colors are just spectacular! You can see some of the trees starting to change their colors now. This weekend kicks off the Apple Festival at South Mountain Fairgrounds in Arendtsville, PA. OMGosh, have you ever had Apple Pizza? Five years ago when I saw the sign for  "Apple Pizza" my nose did one of those turn ups with an ewwwww.  My curiosity got the best of me and I had to check it out! It is to die for!  Now we go to the festival each and every year just so I can have some! It is a flaky  type dough spread out on a pizza pan and topped with apples, sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon. Baked until the apples are cooked, but still a little crisp and topped with your choice of either caramel, chocolate, drizzle icing and much more!   If I could send each of you a piece,  I surely would for everyone should be able to taste this awesome, mouth watering,  yummy pizza!

Today SCACD design team is show casing the "Holiday Peekers 2011!" created by Elisabeth Bell exclusively for SCACD.  These cuties are so sweet! I was the lucky one chosen to spotlight "Where On The Tree"  Let me tell ya there is a lot you can do with this sweetie.  When I saw her I wanted a big Christmas tree behind her. I tried making a few and they just didn't cut it! Then I remember I had Christmas Tree Topper's from Flower-Soft which I had to cut down quite a bit but it was exactly what I wanted! Nestabilites circle was used to cut the round Christmas ball out with and I used Versamarker watermark Pen to color the cap of the ball and heat embossed it with gold embossing power,  I replaced the sting on the image with gold string that came with a fruit basket I received. Packages were added the bottom of the photo to give a more realistic look!

Supplies:

• Basic Grey Nordic Holiday paper
• Copics: Face E11, E00, E000, Hair: E50, E39, E37,  R59, R37, R35, R32 E21, Shirt: E59. R37. R35. R32., Pants; G28, G24, G21. 
• Stickles; To her bow

TIP OF THE DAY.  Cleaning Copics. My friend Suzanne Dean showed me a really cool way to clean the tips of my copics. When your pen starts  squeaking across the page and you just filled it. Or your paper starts getting tacky and if you feel the brush it feels tacky. This means probably your brush needs clean. Before I used to take my nibs and soak them in alcohol.  You don't have to do that anymore!! Use an alcohol pad to clean it.  You can purchase them  in any drug store, walmart, CVS, etc. You have all seen these 2 x 2 alcohol pads if you ever receive a shot or had blood drawn, They are used to clean your skin. Simply take your tip while it is still in the marker, lay it onto the alcohol pad and squeeze it with your fingers and thumb. I do it until I see the white of the tip. That's it! It will act like it's brand new.

The Holiday Peeker 2011 Collection are now available at  Susana’s Custom Art & Card Design OR for those of you in the UK/Europe: Quixotic Paperie!

You can see lots more inspirations with these cuties by visiting the SCACD store blog to see my sis-tahs awesome and gorgeous creations.

Last but not least:  Read my post below for an awesome party you do not want to miss with over $800.00 in prizes being given away at The Outlawz! 

A big hug to all of my friends for stopping by!!

Winter Wonder by Sylvia Zet

Happy Tuesday everyone! How was your weekend? Did you do anything fun or just for you?  Saturday morning we delivered the favors I made for the baby shower (pictures of them are in my previous posting) and let me tell ya! The lady I made them for made me feel like I turned saw dust into gold! She raved on and on about how much she loved them and it was a good feeling to say the least!  I love to craft and make money and it is awesome when you can combine the two!!

My card today is showcasing "Winter Wonder!" Yep, another cutie pie from the "Adventures of Loli" collection created by Sylvia Zet for SCACD Stamps! I really love this image and think she is so cute walking hand and hand with her teddy!

Over all I love the card, but her hair is a little bland and I am still learning to do the pleats. The pleats did look much better before I tried to add the swirl pattern into the dress with my white pen! We live and learn in crafting!

Copics: E11, E00, E000.  Hair and teddy bear: E50, E51, E53, E55. Dress, B16, B14, B12, B000, R85, R83, R81. Sparky Fluff on her cap and coat. Diamond glaze added to the candle and her shoes. Stickles added to the snow flakes and flower. My snowflakes are foam found in the children's dept at Michael's topped with Prima snowflakes



  The Outlawz Challenges is having a huge party celebrating 1000 Members!!  Oh let me tell you!! You do not want to miss this party!!! Our sponsors have been more than generous with us!! Two of the prizes are $100.00 gift certificates....YES, you read that right!! TWO $100.00 gift certificates to your favorite stores!! Plus, lots, lots more! Right now we are having a pre-party challenge going on ...do you like paper? Do you like ribbon? Then follow me over to The Outlawz Challenges and you can win these...you don't even have to do a creation to win these prizes!! Come on let's go!!!
 

 Challenges:

• Critter Sketch Challenge: Anything goes
• CupCake Craft Challenge: Teddy bear in the image 
•  Make It Monday: Anything goes

Thank you my friends for stopping by. Your the reason I'm here!

Poppy Sylvia Zet

Hello happy crafters!  Read to the bottom for important information!! I am so sorry I have been MIA. Life is sometimes very busy and you know how it can be. We made a trip to Pittsburgh to see the STEELERS win! I made 120 favors which made two cakes for a baby shower. I will post photo's below. Went on a road trip with Suzanne Dean to Delaware for her wonderful copic classes. I met anaRy (creator of Gilli), Melanie and Ann who are on my Outlawz Design Team  and had a blast!! I can't even remember everything I did! Plus, our next door neighbors are having their kitchen remodel so I have been having them to dinner. I'm tired!

My card today was made using Poppy! Poppy is one of the images from the Loli and Poppy Collection  which Sylvia Zet created exclusively for SCACD and I love them! They are adorable, whimsy, cute and fun to color! I am really happy the way she turned out!! I love fall colors!

Paper: I believe it is Victoria Gardens by Echo Park
Copics: skin: E11, E00, E000, RV11. Hair: E17, E15, E11. Mushroom. E17, E15, E11, E43, E35, YR04. Outfit: BG45, BG02, BG000. Yellow: Y18, Y11.
Scroll: Maryann Design Dies
Flowers: Petaloo
Butterfly: Stash
Nestability Lacey Circle
Martha Stewart deep doily punch
Shapabilities tags

SCACD has new embossing folders and Kraftin’ Kimmie stamps in stock—so check them out! Lots and lots of 6 x 6 paper pads with some yummy Halloween and Christmas!

This is what I have been waiting to tell you!!!  The Outlawz Challenges is having a huge party celebrating 1000 Members!!  Oh let me tell you!! You do not want to miss this party!!! Our sponsors have been more than generous with us!! Two of the prizes are $100.00 gift certificates....YES, you read that right!! TWO $100.00 gift certificates to your favorite stores!! Plus, lots, lots more! Right now we are having a pre-party challenge going on ...do you like paper? Do you like ribbon? Then follow me over to The Outlawz Challenges and you can win these...you don't even have to do a creation to win these prizes!! Come on let's go!!!
 

These are the pictures of the favor cakes I made!!

Challenges:

• The Outlawz Copic/Promarker Challenge: Anything goes 
• Four Crafty Chicks: Autumn Fall
• Art Impressions: Girls 
• Crafty Purple Frog Challenge: Autumn Fall
• Crafty Ribbon Challenge: Anything goes
• Hanna and Friends: Anything goes
• Little Miss Muffet: anything with wings!
• Southern Girls Challenge: Anything goes
• Stampin' B's Designs: Two or more Nestibilities 

Thank you so very much for stopping by! See you at The Outlawz!

Hope Sylvia Zet's Release day for SCACD

It's finally here and happening right now! Sylvia Zet images created exclusively for SCACD Stamps are released and available now! Wait until you see all eight, yes eight! Each one is cuter then the next and so versatile!  All holidays from Christmas to birthday creations could be made using these stamps. A complete year available in 8 adorable images! 

Susana wants to make sure everyone can enjoy Sylvia's  adorable images and has made them available in discounted sets!  Buying the complete sets in good quality red rubber is the way to go! It's like getting one image free! They can be purchases at SCACD and for our international friends and the UK you can purchase them at Quixotic Paperie!

To celebrate the SCACD and  Quixotic Paperie design team with some fabulous guests have created an awesome, inspirational  blog hop for you to enjoy! Come see the adventures of Loli, Shellie, Poppy and the rest of their friends!

I have the honor of introducing to you "Hope!"  Look at this sweet, hopeful angel holding her puppy!  My card was created for my sweet cousin, Barb.   Our family has seen better days and I want her to know, she is my angel and we will always have prayer and hope together!

Copics: Hair:25, E31, E50, YR 20. Skin: E21, E00, E000, RV10. Wings: YR02,YR00, YR000. Hope chest: YR24, YR23, Y15, Y11, YR 02. YG23. 
Ribbon: Olfry
Paper: Jillibean, Dutch Mustard Soup

  
You should have hopped here from special guest:  Mary Giemza.

Next hop will be to another  fabulous quest: Zoe McGrath. 
If your just joining and would like to start at the beginning of the hop - that would be at my talented DT sister: Elaine Huges.

The complete list of all the inspirational blogs can be found at SCACD blog "Hearts and Hugz" 

Don't forget to check out all of SCACD's wonderful products,

for all of your crafting needs! 

The best selection of paper pads anywhere!

Happy Hopping and thank you for stopping!!! Enjoy the rest of the hop! Hugz, Colleen

 

Good Luck Penn State!

Happy Wednesday everyone! Yea! It's hump day!  Row, Row, Row your boat! Let me tell ya, we have been getting constant heavy rain for 3 days now. Pretty soon we will be rowing down the streets. Sure wish we could ship it to Texas and other states that are in a major drought with wild fires. Gosh, can't the weather just even out for a bit and give everyone some relief?

All the schools went back in session including the colleges this week! Sad for it means the end of summer, but it is also the beginning of football season!! Yeah Steelers and Penn State!  Can you tell I'm a PA girl? At my husbands work they have interns for the summer.  One is a young man returning back to Penn State College and is a player on the great Nittany Lions Soccer Team! They ordered a "good luck" card for him.  Oh yea, I would be happy to make him one!  I love Penn State!!

My card was created using  Elizabeth O'Dulemba's , "Back To School"  image.  Are you familiar with her work? Elizabeth is an award winning author/illustrator who creates awesome images and even better yet...she sharess them for free. Each Tuesday she releases a new creation and you can see all of them here.

Copics: Apple R37, R35, R32. Green: G28, G24, G21. E37, E35, E31 (I think) Y35, Y28, Y15, Y11.
Penn State emblem: I copy and pasted one from the internet and printed it out on Gina K 180 lb card stock.
Paper: SEI, I'm An Athlete

TIP OF THE DAY: Making flower soft or fluffy snow.  Take two Styrofoam balls and rub them together. You will create a friction and will create tiny little flakes and perfect just like it is for snow.  By placing the shavings into a plastic bag or placing them on a dish, add a few drops of re-inkers, food coloring and mix thoroughly till you have your desire color. Let dry to air. Flower soft or other fluff can be up to $7.00 per jar. A bag of Styrofoam balls $1.00, which will make you as much as you want! Easy peasy and they look almost identical!

Don't forget...

Friday, September 9th is RELEASE DAY

for the Sylvia Zet Collection for SCACD!  We hope you will join us in welcoming these cuties to the SCACD Stamp Family!!! Please, check  SCACD Store blog HERE on Friday, September 9th for an awesome blog hop with  VERY special and extremely talented designer sisters and guest!

Would you like to win? 

A $50 gift certificate to Oozak

A $25 gift certificate to SCACD

A Gilli Goodie bag from Anary

 A special Paper Temptress package put

together for The Outlawz

All you need to do is enter one challenge over at The Outlawz!! That's it...so easy! 

Challenges entered 

 Divas by design: Back to school

Dude Time Doodle   Man card

Sweet Cheeks Peeker! SCACD

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I hope where ever you live you had a beautiful, gorgeous day like we did here in Maryland! It was in the mid 80's, lots of sunshine and gorgeous clouds!! One of my favorite things to do is look at the clouds and make animals, creatures, angels or whatever comes to mind. At one time, every time I looked up I saw my dog, Sparky, who was my best friend for 15 years. The strange part is when I got Rags those clouds disappeared. LOL and I have looked and looked for them and never see them anymore. It's like once he knew I had another best friend, he didn't need to watch over me anymore. I know  your all thinking I am nutzy...well, at least it's a good nutz!

Say "Hello!" to Sweet Cheeks, just one of the adorable images from the Peekers # 2 collection,
created by Elisabeth Bell exclusively for SCACD Stamp Company. Doesn't she just melt your heart!?!!

Copics: Skin: E21, E00, E000. Hair: E25, E31, E50. Bathing Suit: R39, R37, R35, R32.
Paper: Stash
Flowers: Prima
Nestability Big Scallop Oval and sponged Memento Ink:  Summer Sky around the inside edges.
Magic Mesh
Sentiment: Stash

If you love adorable - you will love all of the Peekers!

All of the stamps at SCACD are over the top! Not only are the totally adorable but are made with good quality rubber. The images, stamp with distinct clear lines the first time, every time!!

SYLVIA ZET FOR SCACD BLOG CANDY! Sylvia designed 8 super darling stamps exclusively for SCACD and Susana split them into two sets, Poppy and Loli! And that's now all!! She is giving one set of each away!! How can you win a set? All's you have to do is answer one question!! ONE! And, they could possible in your hands next week!

Talking about cuteness! Did you see who else is designing for SCACD now with a HUGE release on Friday, September 9? Honestly, you have to check these images out by Sylvia Zet!! Sylvia designed 8 super darling stamps exclusively for SCACD and Susana split them into two sets, Poppy and Loli! And that's not all!! She is giving one set of each away! How can you win a set? All you have to do is answer one question!! ONE on the SCACD store blog, Follow Your Heart and they could possible be mailed to YOU the day of the release. You can only have until 10 EST on September 1 to answer the question! RUN!!!!

Check out SCACD store for all kinds of new products.  These are two to die for embossing folders by Craft Concept!

TIP OF THE DAY:  Did you hear about the new Scor Pal No More Shims Embossing Folder?  Check out this video for everything you can do with it!! Mine came in the mail yesterday and can't wait to try all of this myself! You can emboss a lace, material, bottle caps that you have in your house! MONICA: This reminds me so much of you and your crafty creations with household items!!

Challenges entered:

• Crafty Creations Challenge: Die cuts
• Little Darlings Challenge: Ruffles or Pleats
• The Paper Shelter: Anything Goes
• Ruby's Rainbow: Buttons or brads
• The SisterHood of Crafting: Flowers

Gecko/ Happy Birthday Ryan!

Happy Saturday everyone!  Well, we arrived home from Florida on Monday afternoon, had an earthquake on Tuesday and a hurricane headed our way today! Gesssshhhh who's bored?  Let me tell ya about the earth quake!  We have a two story home and we made an office out of one of the upstairs bedrooms. My hubby and I are sitting there and he says "the house is shaking."  We look at each other and both go and look out the window! Smart huh? It felt like you were in an old building next to a train and it was rumbling by. It started out with just a small rumble and kept getting stronger.  The walls were shaking and my first thought was  possible an old coal mine shaft was shifting underneath the house and DH says "your not in PA anymore!"  Since he is from Florida he thought it might be the beginning of a sink hole. Have you ever seen a sink hole? A huge hole in the ground suddenly appears and anything standing there sinks into the hole including houses. Egaddds my heart started racing like a jet plane ready for take off.   After we didn't sink into oblivion DH says "that was an earthquake" I looked at him like he was nutz!  Who the heck would think it could be an earthquake in MD? I sure as heck didn't!! But low behold it was! EEEEkkks!

I had awesome news!! I won the Color Me Creative Challenge #24!! My prize was 4 Copic refills and a Gilli Stamp!! I was so excited for I never win anything! It's a fun challenge with friendly members!! This week is winged thing!

The card I am sharing today is a birthday card I made for our son, Ryan. He loves snakes, lizards and has both in his house. Not me!  I don't even like worms near me all alone a snake! I found this cute Gecko on a coloring page you can download for children to color...adults too!!! Isn't he cute!

Copics: G28. G16, G14, YG23. Y11
Paper: My Minds Eye: Stella Rose Hattie

TIP OF THE DAY:  I have several tips for you today!  Many times there is a too much space between one die cut to the next size. This is using one die! 

• Using a black Copic-multi liner, I traced the inside of the die onto my cut out piece.  As you can see  above it makes a nice frame surrounding my image.
• Using a cutting blade, I laid the die onto a piece of card stock and cut around it.

 

LOL, I switch to another color. I used painters tape to hold the die in place.

 

 I have a beautiful framed Gecko using one die. On the card you will notice I have a butterfly ...it wasn't planned! I goofed up the top of the die cut by cutting too short and my ink tracing wasn't the best right there!!

I made this card the day we were leaving for vacation. To anchor my image by just dotting around it with different colored markers. If I were to do it again, I would have only used colors specs you see in sand.

Would you like to win? 

A $50 gift certificate to Oozak

A $25 gift certificate to SCACD

A Gilli Goodie bag from Anary

 A special Paper Temptress package put

together for The Outlawz

All you need to do is enter one challenge over at The Outlawz!! That's it...so easy!

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Did you see the new Fall Fairies Collection at SCACD?  Check these cuties out!

 

Challenges:

•  Challenge Up Your Life:Male Card
•  CMC Copic Challenge:  Must use Copics and have a winged something!
• Crazy 4 Challenges: Male card
• Ellephantastic Challenge: Layering
• Sugar Creek Hollow: Male Card
• Digi's With Attitudes: Anything goes/ ends August 31.
• If The Shoe Fits: In the jungles: Lizards are in jungles and butterflies!
• Fun With Shapes and More: Water
• Joyful Stamper: Anything Goes
• Jelly Park Friends: Die cuts or punches
• The Poodles Parlour: Anything goes
• Show and Tell: Anything Goes
• The Outlawz: Copic/ Promarkers Anything goes
• Flutter-by-Wednesday: Must have a butterfly, angle, or something with wings.  Anything goes this week

Hope you enjoy!  I want to welcome all of my new followers and thank those who have stayed with me!! 

Happy Birthday Travis! Karate Boy!

Hello Happy Crafters! Gee, I can't believe half of our vacation is gone here in sunny Florida...Sometimes I just wish time would stand still for awhile!! Don't you? Our grandchildren, Trinity 10 and Christian 12 are here with us. It's been a week full of swimming in the pool and beach! Today we went for a bike ride and it felt wonderful to be on a bike again with the wind blowing through my hair! Until after we did 2 miles and it's noon time with the sun beating down on us...it got very hot out indeed! The kids started complaining of the heat and  that didn't  help the situation, so we cut it short and return after riding for an hour. I felled not once but twice because the bike was a tad big for me. I don't know what was hurt more...my leg or my pride? I am fine but have HUGE bruises on my legs! I look like someone who was beaten up with a baseball bat. Eeeekss.

Monday, was our grandson, Travis birthday and he turned 10!! And, believe it or not his birthday card was there on time! That is the first one this year! Patting self on the back for if you follow my blog you know ...I am always late:(

TIP OF THE DAY: 

Travis lives in Las Vegas and loves Karate! He has his yellow belt, so when I saw Karate Boy created by Karen Doodles  I had to have it! Perfect card for a very special kid!

• Copics: C01, C00, C000. Belt: Y13 Y11, Y00. Hair: E35, E31, E51, E50. Skin: E11, E00, E000, R20. Wood: E74, E34, E 70. Highlighting the image: BG0000 and Colorless Blender.
• Paper: S.E.I  6 x 6 paper pad. #1 All Star: SCACD
• Ribbon: Stash
• Fiskar Punch
• Sentiment: Just Right Stamps

Would you like to win?

Oozak

    
$50.00 Gift Certificate

SCACD

    $25.00 Gift Certificate

Gilli Rubber Stamps

Gilli Goodie Bag

Paper Temptress

$20.00 The Outlawz Special bag of paper!

All you have to do is enter one challenge over at The Outlawz and you will qualify to be entered in the random drawings! Come on and join the fun!!!

Thank you for stopping by my friends! Your all very special to me! 

Hydrangea Hugs and Sylvia Zet!

Happy Sunday from Sunny Florida! We finally made it to Vero Beach and will write more details next week!   I have to tell ya about our exciting time at the airport on Friday! Our flight was to depart at 12:48 and after arriving at the airport, we found out we had a two hour delay. Eeeeks, I hate delays and I always arrive at the airport the very last minute and Friday we were early...go figure right! So we are sitting there and I am playing on the my laptop when they announce "anyone willing to give up their seats and leave on the 9:30 flight will receive two free round tickets to anywhere Airtran flies. Well, it took me a total of 10 seconds to be at the counter.  Some big guy tried to cut me off! I might be only five feet tall  but let me tell ya! Don't get in my way when I am on a mission. I asked the ticket clerk "do you need two seats" and when she said those magical words "yes" immediately I started planning our next trip!! .Airtran flies to Aruba, Cancun, Puerto Rico, Key West and Dominican Republic and baby I am going!  We received four free round tickets (2 each),  2 $25.00 gift certificates to use with Airtran and you are allow to use it for your luggage and 2 $10.00 meal tickets for anywhere in the airport. Wowzie I was so excited,  I couldn't quit talking and had smiles from ear to ear! It  was like winning the lottery!

Well, you have seen bits and pieces of Sylvia Zet's image for SCACD Collection. Do you want to see the entire image? Today is the day you have been waiting for!!  Why? Because you can see the unveiling of the 1st stamp from Sylvia Zets image for SCACD's Collection on SCACD's Blog;  Follow Your Heart!  My DT sister, Elaine is doing the unveiling, so you know your in for a real treat because all of her creations are  gorgeous!! That's not all!!  You can pick up the official Sylvia Zet's SCACD blinkie, colored by Sylvia herself, for your own personal blogs! All of this is on the stores blog; Follow Your Heart  today!!

The card I am sharing with you today is created using Hydrangea Hugs by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD stamps. Isn't she adorable? I love her adorable happy face, which was perfect for my thank you card!! I just love the way it turned out!

 The bumble bee buttons were found in my stash and sure wish I knew where I got them!!!

Copic: YG97. YG95, YG93, YG91. Yellow: Y18, Y15, Y11

Stickles: Frosted Lace on the white area of the flower pot.  Flower Lace by Stickles is very thick and perfect for creating snow, icing or anything you want to add a texture area to.  Star Dust on the flowers and ribbon.

Paper: Stash 
Scrolls by Marianne's Design Creatable dies

Tip of the day: How to remove paper from the intricate detail die cut  (Marianne's, Spellbinders, etc) You have read to run the dies through your Cuttlebug using wax. Or to use a paper piercer to lift it out. This trick is so dang easy!Hold a piece of tape and apply the end of it to the die cut paper and lift! Like you were picking up a piece of lint! It comes out of the die with no problem!! No tearing or marring of the paper!! It is so dang easy to do!!!

SCACD: is having another new set release next week created esp. for SCACD Stamps! These images are cuties and you will want to check them out!

New paper pads by at  SCACD] and much more!

And much, much more!!
Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to pop on over to the SCACD Store blog to see Sylvia's for reveal image for SCACD!!

Challenges:

• The Crafty Pad: cute and girly
• Ginger Loft Challenge: sparkle or glittery
• One Stitch At A Time: Anything goes
• CMC Copic Challenge Group: Color embellishment.with Copics and friend inspired.
• Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge: use 3 or 4 of your favorite embellishments
• Inspire Me Fridays: Anything goes

Secret New Artist At SCACD

Join us at the SCACD Store Blog to Welcome the Newest Artist to SCACD!!!
There is also a chance to win something but you will have to go to the Store Blog to check it all out :o)
We are all very excited about this addition and look forward to the upcoming release next month!!!
SO head on over and check it out!!!‖ Ladies and Gents ....trust me...you are going to go ahhhh, ewwww , how cute...and everyone is going to want them all!! Lots of fun things to do!!! Here is a sneak peak!! Can you tell anything? LOL
Here is a sneak peek!!!

Hugzz see you over there!! Love you stopping by today!!

What's In The Box? Peeker!

Happy Friday everyone!! Yeah the weekend is here! Even though I am not working I still love the weekends, esp. in the summer! What are your plans this weekend? I am having my hair cut tomorrow and then a corn roast! Have you ever had fresh corn on the cob cooked on an open fire or grill...it is the best corn you will ever eat!! Yummy and I can't wait to sink my teeth into one!

Did you go see the Peekers yet at SCACD store? Hmmm, your asking what are the Peekers? They just happen to be the  most adorable, cutest images ever by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD Stamps. Susana, who owns the store, says they're selling like crazy, so if you want oneor perhaps all of them I wouldn't wait to long! Personally, I had to have them all!

Today's card was made for my granddaughter, Trinity. Her birthday was August 3,  I know, I know it's late. I didn't want anyone to go into shock for a card arriving on time! Let me tell ya something! I had my daughter-in-laws card made early and her birthday was on July 27, when  I was visiting my parents. I packed the card in my suitcase with stamps on it! All's I had to do was drop it in the stupid mail box and thought this card will be on time! HAHA fat chance! Every time I went out, I forgot to take the card with me to mail. Dang if I didn't bring it back home and mailed it late.. So I just give up!  I am not meant to be on time.

Let me introduce you to "What's In The Box?" Peeker!  She is as precious as can be. Right before mailing the card, I  folded a $20.00 bill into a very small fold. I placed it behind the box on the card with a fan fold showing at the top of the box! Too cute!

Isn't she adorable!?!

                                                     

• Authentique Paper Pad - Journey I love, love this 6 x 6 paper pad.
• Copics: E11, E00, E000, Hair: E18, E09 YR14, YR04. Dress: B18, B16, B12, B00.
• Pearl Scrolls: Zva Creative
• Nestability: Label #16
• Ribbon: Ofry
• Flowers: Prima
• Ribbon Charm::  Blue Moon Charms - Medium Hearts   

SCACD received 18 different  My Mind's Eye 6 x 6 paper pads! OmGosh, paper heaven over there! While you're there check out the Christmas Paper section...GORGEOUS.

Would you like to win?

Oozak

    
$50.00 Gift Certificate

SCACD

    $25.00 Gift Certificate

Gilli Rubber Stamps

Gilli Goodie Bag

Paper Temptress

$20.00 The Outlawz Special bag of paper!

All you have to do is enter one challenge over at The Outlawz and you will qualify to be entered in the random drawings! Come on and join the fun!!!

Challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge:  Navy plus one other color!
• Frosted Designs: Color with Copics
• Joyful Stamper: Anything goes
• Mami Doodles: Flowers
• Raise the bar: Anything goes
• Craft Us Crazy: Anything goes

Thank you my friends for stopping by!

Mama's Purse Peeker

Happy Monday! Hope everyone had an awesome weekend.  We traveled to Pittsburgh to attend my cousin's funeral. En-route we learned our daughter-in-laws grandmother passed. I'll tell ya, it's been a heck of a year for us with cancers and death and hopefully this will be the last.  Today, I got up and said "this is my day!"  Since my hubby works at home 3 days a week and he was gone today....well, let the cat play! I drank my coffee on the deck, played with my dogs and made this very pretty card! It's the first time, since the beginning of June, I have been relaxed and it felt soooo good! Life is way to short not to enjoy it.

This sweet card was made with "Mama's Purse Peeker," isn't she adorable!?! She is from the Peeker's Collection 2 set by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD Stamps! What little girl does not love playing in mama's purse? And, you think she is adorable, you should see the rest of the set! Each one is more adorable then the other one!  For the first time I paper pieced (her purse) and it is so easy to do! Lots of fun too!

 

• Design Paper: Echo Park, Victoria: Yummy, yummy paper pad!
• Copics: Hair: E57, E55, E31, E51. Rose: R37, R35, R32, Dress: BG75, BG72, BG70, G000. Skin: E21, E00, E000. Money: YG61, G10. 
• Flower: left bottom; Prima Flower, Flewurs de Prima, Bluemen...so pretty for they have gold tip glittery edges! 
• Flower, right top: Prima 
• Nestability:  Labels 14. 
• Leaves: Marianne Design Creatable Dies: Open Flowers Trendy

TIP OF THE DAY:  If your paper is not colored through all of the layers, it will show white on the side edges, after being cut. Glide the edge of  your paper over a similar colored ink pad and you won't believe how much better it looks!
 
LQQK at the awesome sponsors over at The Outlawz this month!! You only need to complete one challenge out of 28 to be eligible to win!  There are also more prizes within some of the challenges! Come on and join us in all the fun and win some awesome gift certificates and prizes!!

Oozak

    
$50.00 Gift Certificate

SCACD

    $25.00 Gift Certificate

Gilli Rubber Stamps

Gilli Goodie Bag

Paper Temptress

$25.00 Gift Certificate

Have you checked out SCACD lately?  Susana has the new Gorjuss girls in stock and are totally adorable. Susana's store is growing, growing and growing! You would not believe the stamps she has in stock now! Or the pretty Christmas Paper in 6 x 6 pads. You should stop by and check it all out, Susana has everything you need for your paper crafting needs!  

Challenges:

• Craft Your Passion: Anything goes
• Hook On Craft: Cute and Cuddly...don't you just want to pick her up and hug her!?! 
• Icopic: Copic skin tones 
• Make It Monday: Anything Goes 
• Paper Creations Ink: Stitching ...outside of my card is stitching with machine. 

Thank you my friends for stopping by!