Real Unicorns have curves

 Used Ronald the Rhino from Dr Digi’s for this card. Some of us just have some extra fluff, but are still beautiful people.

Patterned Paper: Sweet Shoppe - Manic Monday
Cardstock: Recollections
Stamp: Dr. Digi's - See above for direct link
Sentiment: computer generated
Die: Sugar Pea
Flowers: Prima & Recolletions
Gems: Recollections

Challenges
Crafty Animals - Ch. 58
2 Critter Crazies - Ch. 59
Creative Knockouts - Ch. 440 2 or more patterned papers
Crafty Catz - Ch. 583 Anything Goes with optional add a sentiment
Penny's Paper Crafty - Ch. 515 Anything Goes
Cupcake Inspirations - Ch. 538 Anything Goes

Hello Friend

This morning I saw the new Sketch Saturday and I was inspired to use the scraps of paper that I had on my desk to make a card.
 

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Sentiment: American Crafts
Die: My Favorite Things; Crafter's Companion
Punch: EK Success
Flowers: Recollection
Bling: Paper Studio

Challenges
Sketch Saturday - Ch. 659
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 489 - 490 Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - Ch. 315 All things Feminine
Incy Wincy - Mother's Day and/or Flowers
Dream Valley - Ch. 247 Embellish It

Celebrate today and every day

Today starts a new challenge at Catch the Bug and it's a Photo Inspiration. For my card I used, Bugaboo Flower Teddy and a sentiment from TLC, Create. I dry embossed a background piece. The animals are keeping their social distance to be good examples for all of us.

Patterned Paper:  Core-dinations; Recollections

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Flower Teddy (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Celebrate today and every day

Spellbinders:  Small and Large Ovals

Flower:  Prima

Brad:  Paper Studio

Embossing Folder:  Sizzix

Challenges

Alphabet Challenge - D for Dry embossing

Crafty Catz - Ch. 507 Spots and/or stripes

Scrapping 4 Fun - Ch. 167 Animals/Flowers

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 440 - 441 Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 635 Critters

Papercraft - Ch. 58 Spring

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

I can't believe we are over half way into May already so we are going to need those Christmas cards before you know it. So to help with that I used the new Tuesday Morning Sketch 555.  For this I used my Minc to foil the sentiment from Creative Visions Stamps.  I added bling and a die cut from Paper Smooches and I put some Glossy Accents in it and colored it with a Copic marker. It's a fun non-traditional monochromatic Christmas card.

Patterned Paper:  Cosmo Cricket

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dinations

Vellum:  Paper Studio

Bling:  Jolee and Recollection

Glossy Accents

Border Punch:  Fiskars

Corner Rounder:  Creative Memories

Foil:  Creative Vision Stamps

Challenges

CHNC - Ch. 490 Anything Christmas with optional Candy Canes

As You Like It - Favorite Color Combo with purple (gold - it's so elegant)

Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 22

Krafty Chicks - Ch. 507 Christmas

Polkadoodles - Wk 20 Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Ch. 251 Anything Goes with a sentiment

Sister you are like my angel

I am continuing on my Mom's birthday card stash. Since she has so many sisters I found a sentiment that I liked on Pinterest and used that with lots of flowers, pears, gems, ribbon and a bow.

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Shoppe 

Spellbinder:  Romantic Rectangles

Flowers:  Prima

Ribbon:  Michael's

Gems:  Recollections

Pearls:  Recollections

Ink: Distress - Dusty Concord

Challenges
Double D - Lavendars - Lilliacs - Purple Challenge

Seize the Birthday - Ch. 190 Monochromatic

Di digi design - Load on the flowers

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 634 Birthday

As You Like It - Favorite color to pair with purple (white) It looks so clean and crisp.

Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 121 Birthday

Crafty Gals Corner - Ch. 207 For the Ladies
Alphabet Challenge - C for Checks

Bunny with Basket

I am planning to get around to blogs this weekend....this working is interfering with my crafting time. I wanted to post this card where I found an image from Mo Manning, Bunny with Basket that I colored up a LONG TIME agon and it was sitting in a pile. So I grabbed a patterned paper from TLC, Create.  I dry embossed a white piece of cardstock and then spritzed with Glimmer Mist. I added some flowers and flourishes and hid some eggs between the flowers. And naturally the bunny needed a pom tail. I did the basket in green that reminded me of the plastic ones that I had as a child.

Patterned Paper:  TLC, Create - Easter Brings Posies Paper 2

Cardstock:  Core-dinations; Recollections

Stamp:  Mo Manning - Bunny with Basket (see above for direct link)

Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts

Eggs:  Recollections

Stickles

Die:  My Favorite Things; QuicKutz

Embossing Folder:  Sizzix

Glimmer Mist

Pom:  Creativity

Challenges

Mo Manning - Ch. 289 Green with a Mo Manning image

Aud Sentiment - Ch. 247 Spring/Easter

Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 118 Cute Animals

CRAFT - Ch. 550 Easter/Spring

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 627 Easter

Time Out Challenge - Ch. 158 Lots or little purple

YNS - Ch. 135 Cute Critters

Crafty Catz - Ch. 499 Anything Goes with optional use kraft

Sisterhood of Crafters - Spring

Double D - Spring

Basically your fantastic and I'm so glad that you exist

Today is the Purple Day Blog Hop in awareness of Epilepsy. Epilepsy is a group of disorders that is characterized as having seizures.  There are different types of Epilepsy and different types of seizures. As a nurse, I have worked with many individuals with Epilepsy and it is wonderful to see the advances that have been made in this field.
So please join me along with my wonderful crafting friends who have joined to promote this awareness. There are chances to win prizes along the way.

Annabel

Darnell

Fikreta

Hetty

Janis

Ike

Kitty

Karen

Lori

Lisa (that's me)

Mia

Olga

Vick

I made two cards.  The first card, has a wonderful image from Ike called Puppy Love and a sentiment from TLC, Create. And my second card has an image from Digi Doodle called You Have my Heart and a sentiment from TLC, Create.  I made this a side step card.

Patterned Paper:  Core-dinations
Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp:  Ikes - Puppy Love (see above for direct link)
Sentiment:  TLC, Create - So glad that you exist
Die:  My Favorite Things
Ink:  Distress -Dusty concord

Challenges
Feeling Sketchy - Ch. 237
Creatalicious - Ch. 183 Anything Goes with optional layer it up
Love to Scrap - Ch. 131 Anything Goes
The Creative Crafters - Ch. 26 Anything Goes
Time OUT - Ch. 158 Lots or little of purple

Patterned Paper:  Recollections

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Stampin' Up; Core-dinations; Recollections

Stamp:  Digi Doodles - You Have My Heart (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Basically You're Fantastic

Punches:  Fiskars

Spellbinders: Heart

Flower:  Prima

Challenges

Penny Paper Crafty - Ch. 467 Anything Goes

Pearly Sparkles - Ch. 49 For the ladies

Dragonfly Dreams - Make it Feminine

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Ch. 128
Crafty Calendar - More than one fold

She is fierce

Today at Catch the Bug it's a New Release day or when an older image gets put into the new store. Today we have bm crawling and I have a sentiment from TLC, Create.

Patterned Paper:  My Mind's Eye; Stampin' Up

Cardstock:  Stampin' Up; Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - bm crawling
Sentiment:  TLC, Create - She is fierce
Punches:  EK Success
Die:  My Favorite Things
Border Punch:  Martha Stewart
Flowers:  Prima
Pearls:  Recollection

Challenges
CHNC Patterned - Februay
Color My Heart Color Dare - Ch. 382 Purple Monochromatic
Crafting Happiness - Ch. 37 Anything Goes with Flowers
Allsorts - Wk 560 Make it Girly
Creative Knockouts - Ch. 338 Flower Power
Make My Monday - Ch. 116 Critters
Crafty Animals - Ch. 35

Let Love Grow

It's February 1st already! I just can't believe how fast the days are going. Maybe it's because I have to work a full time regular job and don't have as much time to craft as I would like. This month I am a guest designer for Joy of Sets and they have fun tic tac toe challenges. For my card, I used an image from Mo Manning, Let Love Grow with a computer generated sentiment. I couldn't decide which elements to use in the challenge so I went for a full black out of all 9!  I pulled out my Derwent Watercolor pencils which I haven't used in some time so I used Copics on the face ad hair and pencils on the rest. I embossed the vellum and put it on a gold metallic paper. The background purple paper also has streaks of gold.

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio; Recollections

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Paper Studio; Recollections

Vellum:  Recollections

Stamp:  Mo Manning - Let Love Grow (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  Computer generated

Spellbinders:  Small and Large Petite Ovals

Embossing Folder:  Darice

Hearts:  Prima

Watercolor Pencils:  Derwent

Challenges

Crafty Friends - Ch. 128 Love/ Romance

Crafty Sentiments - Hearts / Valentine
Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes with optional twist Love
Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 619 Valentines
Creatalicious - Ch. 180 Anything Goes with optional hearts
Aud Sentiments - Ch. 243 Anything Goes with a sentiment

Violets with loving thoughts

Today starts a new challenge at Catch the Bug and it's a Photo Inspiration.  For my card, I used Violet Teacup and a sentiment from TLC, Create.  I made it 3 D by coloring second copy of the flowers and cutting it out and putting it on pop dots on the original image. Violets just remind me of my Grandmother who would have had her birthday this month so she is just in my memories.

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dinations; Recollection

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Violet Teacup

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Loving Thoughts flowers

Circle Punches:  EK Success

Spellbinders:  Small ad Large Circles

Ribbon:  Really Reasonable Ribbon

Pop Dots

Embossing Folder:  We are Memory Keepers

Challenges

Alphabet Challenge - C for CAS

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 384 - 385 Anything Goes

As You Like It - Flowers or Ribbon (why)? I like both and think that they work well together. Flowers are perfect for spring and ribbon helps accent the color.

little red wagon - Ch. 494 Everything's coming up

Creative Sketchy Girls - Ch. 35 Flowers

Your Next Stamp - Ch. 112 CAS

Sparkles Monthly - Ch. 115 Flowers or Religious

Violet Water Can to brighten your day

Today at Catch the Bug starts a new Saturday Challenge which is a color challenge. For my card, I used the image, Flower Water Cans - Violet along with a cherry sentiment from TLC, Create.  I added some Stickles to my flowers and the heart. Also the purple paper behind the butterfly circle has sparkles in it.  Anything that sparkles can just add some extra "happy".  With all the snow and cold that we have had this is a great card to cheer up that spring will eventually come...well maybe here in Wisconsin in June.  At least all the snow fills in the potholes in our roads, lol.

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dinations; Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Flower Wanter Cans - Violet (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - To brighten your day

Dies:  Sizzix

Spellbinders:  Small circle; Grand Circle; Butterfly Circle

Stickles

Sakura jelly glitter pen

Challenges

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 370 - 371 Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Ch. 219 Anything Goes with a sentiment

Crafty Calendar - January Make it flowery

Crafting from the Heart - Ch. 235 Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty - Ch. 414 Anything Goes

Party till you melt

I wanted to make a card for me that wasn't part of a DT requirement so I made a Christmas card.  I used an image from Bugaboo called Goofy Snowmen Set and a sentiment from TLC, Create.  Naturally if it's a goofy snowman...he has to have goofy eyes and a pom on his hat.  The background is embossed.  It's a fun CAS card.

Cardstock:  Stampin' Up; Recollection

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Goofy Snowmen Set

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Party till you melt

Eyes:  Horizon

Pom:  Creatology

Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug

Ribbon:  Michael's

Circle Punches:  EK Success

Challenges

Christmas Card Throwdown - November Sketch

12 Months of Christmas - Ch. 47 All Tied Up

CHNC - Ch. 410 Anything Christmas with option use some glitter

Winter Wonderland - Color It

Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 4

Sparkles Christmas - Ch. 95 Embossing

The Merry Christmas Challenge - Oct 15 - Nov 14

Incy Wincy - Christmas

Hope you have a Rock'n Christmas

Today we start a new Stella Says Sketch at Catch the Bug.  For my card, I used Kidz Christmas Santa and colored her in purple. The sentiment is from TLC, Create.   For the background, I used Glimmer Mist spray over a snowflake embossed paper.

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Shoppe - Jolly Holiday
Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp:  Kidz Christmas Santa (see above for direct link)
Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Hope you have a Rock'n Christmas
Ink: Distress - Concord Violet
Pom:  Creativity
Pearls:  Recollection
Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug
Glimmer Mist

Challenges
CHNC - Ch. 401 Anything Goes with optional angel
The Merry Christmas - Anything Christmas
Word Art Wednesday - 350 - 351 Anything Goes
Penny's Paper Crafty - Ch. 395 Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner - Ch. 173 Anything Goes

Happy Mother's Day

There is a new release today at Catch the Bug, and it is adorable. I had to color the flowers purple and put the little girl in peach.  I made this a Center step card, which is one of my favorite layouts. I put gold washi tape on the sides.
I'm sorry if I haven't been around to make comments...with working I feel like there aren't enough hours to craft, get online to post comments, clean my house, make meals and keep up with errands. I need to find an elf, fairy or hire someone to help me out, but I've only had one paycheck so that's not going to happen for sometime.  So please be have patience with me if I don't get to see everyone's beautiful creations in a timely manner like I used to do.

Patterned Paper:  Recollections

Cardstock:  Bazzil

Stamp:  Bugaboo - MI Kidz Mom Day

Flowers:  Recollection

Washi Tape:  Stash

Challenges

Little Miss Muffet - Ch. 186 Anything Goes

Polkadoodles - Wk 14 Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts - Ch. 240 Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Ch. 201 Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - Ch. 277 Pearls or Mother's Day

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 328 - 329 Anything Goes

Hello - Easter eggs

I actually made this card last night, but was too tired to post it believe it or not.  I have been helping my best friend with caring for her Mother and now the family has intervened and that has actually caused a lot of chaos.  Now she has her niece and daughter in law that are making drama which isn't needed.  Obviously there are people who are jealous and intimidated that need to "stir the pot".  It's just that karma is ugly.
On a positive note, Easter is hopping closer and I kept this simple.  I used some punches and dies, one stamp and some flowers.

Cardstock:  Bazzil
Stamp:  My Favorite Things
Ink:  Memento - Rich Cocoa
Punches:  Creative Memories
Spellbinder:  Eggs
Flowers:  Recollections

Challenges
Sketch Saturday - Ch. 501
Color Throwdown - Ch. 481 (see picture above)
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 322 - 323 Anything Goes
Incy Wincy - Easter
Crafting from the Heart - Ch. 195 Anything Goes