Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #132

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"
Here is the card I created for this week's challenge:
Three Kings
I actually combined two images from Create with TLC using Photoshop to come up with my card this week, "Three Kings" and "All is Calm".  My design paper is "Yuletide" from K & Company and my embellishments were made with my Cricut.
Enter one style or both this week.
Just have fun and come play with us!
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Our MMSC131 Gold Star Award goes to...
 5. Sarah T 
Please grab your award logos from Priscilla's side bar and display them proudly
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Our MMSC132 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
 29. Nancy Williams 

Please contact Priscilla with your info to claim your Prizes
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Our MMSC131 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!
Thank you for your sponsorship America. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out their challenges each week, they are a wonderful group of crafters!  Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!!
Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop

It's time for the monthly Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop and I'm honored to join in with all these talented ladies this month!  If you started at the beginning, you should be arriving here after visiting Clare's blog.
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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card ingredients:
HCPC3425 Elegant Angels
HCPC3427 Herald Angels Background
HC Christmas Cheer Angel die
My Mind's Eye Signature Christmas
I decided to use an emboss resist technique for my background stamp and really liked how this turned out with the sponged on distress ink.  

The next stop on the hop is Carla and I'm sure you're in for a treat!  I hope you will visit all the blogs on the hop for inspiration and be sure to leave comments - one lucky person will win a $25 gift certificate from Heartfelt Creations!  The hop ends on December 2nd and the winner will be announced at noon on December 3rd.
Here is a complete list of designers on the hop:

Dina,  SelmaKaren Taylor, Olga, Tesa, Marsha (me!), Carla, Debbie and Linda!


Thanks for visiting!  I love reading your comments and I appreciate all your support!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Follow Me to the TLC Winter Blog Hop!

Thanks for dropping in, I want to welcome you to the  Create with TLC Winter Blog Hop!  Christmas is right around the corner, and it seems Paulette certainly has the "spirit".  Every designer will be including the image they used as a freebie!  My vintage image is "A Day of Skating":

card ingredients:
The Paper Studio's "A Country Christmas" design paper, Weathered Wood distress inks, Copic markers, ruched ribbon and a Prima pearl center.  My snowflakes and papers were cut with my Cricut and my oval image and scalloped background with  Spellbinder diecuts.


Please be sure to grab the "freebie"!   We'd love to see what you create with this!  Your next stop on the hop is Rhonda.  If you started the hop with my blog, you may want to return to the beginning of the hop at Create with TLC.

Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Don't Miss the Blog Hop!


This Sunday starting at 8:30 PST.  Lot's of freebies too!

Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday Challenge

Good morning and welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week our challenge to you is FANCY FOLDS.  So think outside the box or past the single fold and let us see vintage, shabby chic or primitive cards with fun and fancy folds!  I chose to make a side step dresser card.  I found the tutorial for this here:
side view

My vintage image is from Clearly Vintage and the fabulous mirror is from Create with TLC's "Ooh La La" collection.  I made the fancy cuts with a Spellbinder's die and used brads as the drawer knobs.  For the final touches, I sponged my dresser and mirror with distress inks.


This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.


Don't forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from
our challenge entries
between now and Christmas Eve.



We are joined by a Guest Designer today, Brenda Brown, who was chosen from the October
Cards of the Week.  Check out all the fun folds created for today's challenge!  Just click on the design team's names listed on my sidebar.


Thanks for visiting, I love reading your comments and appreciate all your support!


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #131

Welcome to another Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge!  This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"
Enter one style or both this week.
Just have fun and come play with us!  Here is my House Mouse creation for this week:
Tumble Wreath
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Our MMSC130 Gold Star Award goes to...
  21. Nancy Brown  
Please grab your award logos from Priscilla's side bar and display them proudly!
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Our MMSC130 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
  11. Marlene (cards4u) 

Please contact Priscilla with your info to claim your Prizes!  
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Our MMSC131 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!


Thank you for your sponsorship America. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out there challenges each week. The are wonderful group of crafters :) Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!
Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and I appreciate all your support!


Saturday, November 19, 2011

Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday Challenge

It is Saturday and we have a really fun challenge for you at Sugar Creek Hollow this week. We want to see a vintage, shabby chic or primitive card or other paper-crafted project that features a RECIPE CARD. The recipe card can be shown either on the front or inside of your project and the recipe itself should be a family favorite that has been passed down over the years.  Well, that being said, my recipe has been passed down for a few years, it is a favorite I obtained when I joined Weight Watcher's a few years ago:




I don't cook as much as I did when my children were living at home and we like quick and easy meals most of the time.  After all, when you're retired you never have any time to yourself!  I have passed this on to several friends and to my children.  This is so yummy on those cold winter days!  You could easily add some other vegetables to make this ever heartier.


We hope you will join along with our fun challenge this week!  If your recipe isn't easily read from the photo of your project, then we would ask that you detail it in your post. It would also be great if you could show a photo of the finished recipe. Your recipe can be of any type and we would love to hear the story behind it. Soon your family's favorite could become someone else's family favorite so thanks for sharing.


This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.


Don't forget, we also have Christmas Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve.



Thanks for visiting my blog, I love reading your comments and appreciate all your support!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #130

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"






Enter one style or both this week.
Just have fun and come play with us!


Here's my creation for this week's challenge:
I chose this gorgeous House Mouse stamp "Choir Practice", LOL!  I think I'll take it with me to choir tomorrow night!  My image was colored with Copic markers and distress inks.  My design paper is "A Country Christmas" from The Paper studio.  My poinsettias were made with Spellbinder's Layered Poinsettia die.
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Our MMSC129 Gold Star Award goes to...
 8. Sandee 
Please grab your award logos from the Priscilla's side bar and display them proudly!
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Our MMSC129 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
9. Annette 

Please contact Priscilla with your info to claim your Prizes!  
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our MMSC130 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!
Thank you for your sponsorship America and a special thank you to Sue Drees for donating these wonderful stamps. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out there challenges each week. The are wonderful group of crafters :)
Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!!
Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and I appreciate your support!


Monday, November 14, 2011

Tiddly Inks Finale: Bah-Huggybuggs

For my final Tiddly Inks post, I chose Christy's "Bah-Huggybuggs".  I believe this is an older digi, but still as cute as ever!  Here are my Huggybuggs:
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All my coloring was with Copic markers and my diecuts were made with my Cricut and Spellbinder's Layered Poinsettias.  My design paper is from The Paper Studio's "A Country Christmas".   

Whew!  That was my final Tiddly Ink card for tonight and I'm pooped!

Once again thanks for visiting!


Challenges entered:
Crazy Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge

Tiddly Inks Encore: Christmas Joy

Here is my second creation tonight using another new Tiddly Inks digi, "Christmas Joy":


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Once again I took a handful of Copics and had such a blast with all the different colors.  My sentiment is from Create with TLC and I used a Christmas sample pack I purchased from Sweet n Sassy last year.  I then added a splash of Basic Grey's Wassail.  My trees were cut with Spellbinder's 2010 Shapeabilities Christmas Trees.  

Thanks again for visiting!  I enjoy reading your comments and I appreciate your support!


Challenges entered:
Crazy for Challenges

Tiddly Inks Fall Queen

I think this newest creation from Tiddly Inks is cute enough to be crowned "queen"of the pumpkin patch!  Fall has become my favorite time of the year and I love seeing all the pumpkins, leaves and scarecrows.  I actually colored this image about a week ago and I've been taking my time deciding on my colors and design.    Here is my finished card:


Fall Queen

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My image was colored with Copic markers and I added burlap and embossed my cardstock for additional texture.  And what is fall without leaves?  All of my leaves were made with my cricut.  I embossed the leaves and added some Viva-Decor Inka Gold for glitz.
   
Stay tuned!  I will be posting two more Tiddly Inks cards tonight. Thanks for visiting, I appreciate your comments and all your support!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday Challenge

It's Saturday and that means a new challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow. We have an easy one this week because it's all about STRIPES AND SPOTS. We want to see both on your beautiful vintage, shabby chic or primitive card or other paper-crafted project.  I made my card using a vintage digi Santa and holiday papers from Create with TLC:
We will be choosing one random winner who will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. The Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Don't forget that we have Christmas  Blog Candy for one lucky winner to be chosen from our challenge entries between now and Christmas Eve!  Just follow the challenge theme and the rules on the sidebar.  You can submit up to 3 entries each week.

Our Design Team has created some fabulous projects this week that will be sure to inspire you.  Joining them is our Guest Designer AUDHILDwho was chosen from the September Cards of the Week. To get details of any featured project this week, just click on the name and you will be taken directly to the designer's blog.



Thanks for visiting, I enjoy reading your comments and I appreciate all your support!

Friday, November 11, 2011

Blog Hop Coming!

Create with TLC is having another Blog Hop!   We had so much fun and participation during our last hop that Paulette and the Design Team unanimously voted to have another.  Mark your calendars for November 27 at 8:30 PST (USA).  There will be lots of freebies, one at every stop on the hop!


Can't wait to see you there!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #129

Time for another fabulous Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge!  This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.
Just have fun and come play with us!
Here's my card for this week using digi stamps and papers from Create with TLC:
I love the vintage snowman and the candy cane design paper!  I used Basic Grey's Wassail design paper also.  My wreath and branches were made with my Cricut.
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Our MMSC128 Gold Star Award goes to...
12. An  

 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...

 28. Merkku  
Please grab your award logos from the Priscilla's side bar and display them proudly :)
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Our MMSC128 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
36. Olga  

Please contact Priscilla with your info to claim your Prizes!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our MMSC129 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!
Thank you for your sponsorship America!
Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!


Thanks for visiting!  I love to read your comments and I appreciate your support!

I love to read your comments!

I love to read your comments!