MFTWSC4 It'll be OK & Birthdays are like purses

Patterned Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle & DCWV Spring Pack
Cardstock: Recollections
Markers: Copics
Stamp: Pure Innocence - My Umbrella
Ink: Memento, Black Tuxedo
Nestabilities: Eyelet Circle
Ribbon: Michael's
Liquid Pearls Baby Blue

Challenges:  Skipping Stones Sketch 61
                    There She Goes Inspiration Challenge

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey: Ambrosia
Cardstock: Recollections
Nestabilities: Large standard circle, Large scalloped circle
Stamp: Skipping Stones
Sentiment: Birthday - Close to My Heart; Happy- digital Whimsy
Ink: Memento, Black Tuxedo
Markers: Copic
Flower: Prima
Brad: Recollections
Ribbon: Offray

Thanks Do Little Dolly Ch. SOG Scallops

My daughter needed a thank you card for a o-worker at her daycare, and she asked me to make her one.  I gave her one that had a Some Odd Girl image on it.  I checked and they have a scallops challenge, but I just love this Pixie Dust image of Do-Little Dolly for the daycare teacher.  I was working with this Moxie paper earlier and these colors of purple, pink and blue which I think my daughter since she is a girly girl so I did use this Pixie Dust image on the card-naughty I know.  I used a Martha Stewart border punch to make my scallops as well as a Nestabilities oval with scallops for this card.

Patterned Paper: Moxie
Cardstock: Core-dinations Glitter & Recollections
Markers: Copics
Nestabilities: Large Petite Oval, Large Petite Scalloped Oval
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Heart Punch: Martha Stewart
Sentiment: Close to My Heart
Ink: Purple Pansy, Close to My Heart
Flower: Prima

Ch. 35 Quote Me - There Can Only Be One Queen and It's Me

Tiddly Winks has a challenge - Quote Me
I made a card using the CPS sketch 100 and the Everyday Princess image. I think this gothic girl is adorable and I used pink, purple and blue to match the Moxie papers.

Patterned Paper: Moxie
Cardstock: Recollections, Core-dinations
Sentiment: Studio G
Ink: Close to my Heart: Purple Pansy
Pearls: Recollections
Markers: Copics
Ribbon: Creative Expressions
Flower: Recollections
Nestabilities: Heart
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug

Ch. 47 Karen's Doodle Buttons Galore - Sweetie

Challenge 47 Karen's Doodle Buttons Galore

I used the digital image of Love Me Forever with the two intertwined giraffes.  I followed this weeks sketch from the Sweet Stop.

Patterned Paper:
Cardstock: Core-dinations, Recollections, Paper Company
Markers: Copic
Sentiment: Studio g
Ink: Memento, rich cocoa
Flower: Prima
Buttons: unknown, stash
Ribbon: Wrights

Angel in Disguise Kenny K Ch. 29

My mother comes from a family of 13 children ....so I have nine aunts and three uncles and LOTS of cousins. We rent a hall to get together for Christmas.  I have a close  family and I gave several of my cousins that I babysat on a regular basis (now they are turning 28 and 30 years old), and one of my aunts Kenny K cards.  They got quite a kick out of them and were sure that I would give one to another one of my aunts...so when I gave her a card with an angel they were shocked and made fun of me.  So for my cousin Lyndsey's birthday this coming week I couldn't decide which image to use for her card.  Naturally I wanted a Kenny K, but she got the shopping Christmas image so I couldn't decide if she should get something a little bit naughty since she made the most fun of my angel.  She was always called "Lyndsey bear" when she was little so I decided on the adorable bear image with the sentiment from Whimsy "Angel in Disguise" for her.  However, for Christmas you can be assured she will have a sexy Kenny K card.

Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye, Jillibean

Cardstock: Core-dinations, Recollections

Ribbon: May Arts & Michaels

Embellishment: Martha Stewart

Pearls: Martha Stewart

Embossing Folder: Sixxiz

Flowers: Recollections

Nestabilities: Standard Circle Grand

Punch: Fiskars

Markers: Copic

Image: Kenny K - Heart Teddy Bear

Sentiment - Whimsy - Fast Lane Sentiments

Chalk- EK Success

Kraftin' Kimmie Fairytales - You're the apple of my eye

Kraftin' Kimmie has challenge 62  to do a fairytale card.  They have so many fun stamps so it is hard to choose.  I picked Snow White since I had the embellishment of this Jolee crystal apple that I have been waiting to use with this image so I thought it would be a perfect time.  I used the Cardabilities 21 sketch for the layout.

Patterned Paper: October Afternoon, Little Yellow Bicycle
Cardstock: Bazzil & Recollections
Embossing Folder: Quic Kutz
Markers: Copic
Ink: Memento, Black Tuxedo
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Lace: Wrights
Apple: Jolee

Follow your heart

I made a card for a friend who is having to make some tough decisions in her life right now so I thought the sentiment "Follow your heart" would be perfect.  This card is using the digital image of Hansel with flowers from the Stamping Bazaar.  They have a challenge this week that involves stitching which I have around the image and the outside of the card so the card can qualify for that.  Paper Pretties also has stitching so I will enter that one as well.  I used the sketch from the Sweet Stop for this week.

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey, K & Company, Color Bok
Cardstock: Recollections
Flowers:  Prima
Markers: Copics
Sentiment: Close to My Heart
Ink: Memento-Rich Cocoa; Versa Magic-Pixie Dust
White Thread & Brown button
Lace: Wrights
Ribbon: May Arts
Bling: Recollection

TSG-91 Stir Crazy & Bugaboo Winter White Easter Egg Card

There She Goes has a sketch challenge this week.  I used the Chemistry stamp set for this one.

added 3D crystal lacquer to image

Card base: Bazzil Scalloped
Patterned paper: Target
Cardstock: Recollections, Bazzil
Brads: Recollections
Border punch: Martha Stewart
Ribbon: May Arts
Nestabilites: Small standard circle, Eyelet Circle
3D Crystal lacquer over glass beaker
Markers: Copics
Ink: Memento, black tuxedo

Bugaboo has a challenge to do a winter white card.  I used the Easter Egg 4 that has the tulip on it.  I colored it with my Copic using light pink shades.  I also outlined the outside of the die-cut and the embossed paper with pink ink just to define the layers.

I also added this card to the Some Odd Girls Challenge which is embossing.

Metallic paper: Polar Ice
Cardstock: Recollections & Bazzil
Markers: Copic
Corner stickers: Recollections
Ribbon: May Arts
Embossing Folder: Spellbinders tulip
Nestabilities: Tulip
Flower: Hersberger & Schultz

Greetings Farms -Pop- Have Faith & All that Scraps- Valentine - Love you tons

Greetings Farms has a challenge to have your image "pop".  I have a stamp set that I found at our Scrapbook garage sale this summer.  I think the set is called "Believe in Miracles".  It has a cute shepherd boy sleeping with a sheep that I used for my image.  I raised the head of the sheep and the walking stick of the boy by three images.  Then then sentiment of "Have Faith" is up on one pop dot.  For the layout I used this weeks Mojo sketch.

Patterned Paper:  DCWV- Let's Get Crafty
Cardstock: Core-dinations, Paper Studio, Recollections
Markers: copic
Ink: Memento, Black Tuxedo
Ribbon: May Arts
Flower: Prima
Button: Unknown-stash
Twine
Circle Punches: EK success
Nestabilties: Large Circle, Large scalloped circle


For All that Scraps the Challenge 63  is to make a Valentine's card and I used the Motivet stamp "Lucy Valentine".  For the layout I used the Crazy for Challenges sketch.

Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny - Crush
Cardstock: DCWV, Bazzil, Recollections
Lace: Wrights
Flowers: Prima
Markers: Copics
Ink: Memento, Black Tuxedo
Sentiment: studio G
Bling hearts: Recollections
Nestabilities: Oval standard large, Oval scalloped large

Fun in the Sun

Challenges:  MFTWS03
                   Paper Pretties for paper piecing
                   Pixie Dust for buttons
I used My Favorite Things Beach Bum stamp set and paper pieced her swimming suit from the DCWV Spring pack which has bright flowers. I used the Sixxiz Tim Holtz embossing folding that looks like sun rays on an orange piece of cardstock.  And I used the core-dinations glitter paper that is tan that looks like sand to me.  With this past week having temps of -30 this was a great card to work on.  I think today it is actually going to be warm, around 25.  We have usually gone to the Florida Keys the first week of February for my husband to attend an Astronomy Convention, but because of his surgery we won't be going this year so we have both been talking about how we are missing out on some warm weather.  Maybe next year- otherwise we will have to wait until about July around here.

Patterned Paper: DCWV Spring Pack
Cardstock: DCWV Spring Pack, Core-dination, Recollection, Bazzil
Flowers: Prima & Recollections
Button: JoAnn Basics
Twine
Corner Rounder: Creative Memories
Ink: Memento: Black Tuxedo
Markers: Copics
Embossing Folder: Sixxiz, Tim Holtz

Karen's Doodle - Tent Card - Greysen's First Easter

Karen's Doodle Challenge 46 is to make a Tent Card which I thought was perfect for my nephew's First Easter card.  I used the Bunny Boy image for this card.

Patterned Paper: DCWV Spring Pack
Cardstock: DCWV Spring Pack, Core-dinations, Bazzil, Recollections
Circle Punches: EK Success & Fiskars
Nestabilities: Circle Standard Grand, Circle Scalloped Grand
Markers: Copic
Flowers: Prima
Brads: Recollections
Lace: Wrights
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
White thread
Sentiment: Computer font: Lucinda handwriting , Myriad in grey

Kenny K Ch 27 Blue without you - Bearly Mine Ch 2 Recipe - JUGS color Hello My Friend

I will use the same card for Kenny K's challenge which is to use blue, white and silver.  Then Bearly Mine has a recipe challenge to use 3 flowers, 2 design papers and 1 image.  I used the digital image Download Diva along with two digital papers by Bearly Mine and three Prima flowers (my favorite).  The sentiment is "Blue without you" in which I think I will save this card for my daughter when she is off to college since I think this beautiful young lady looks like her, and that is the image of her with her ipod every morning.

Patterned Paper: Bearly Mine : freebies
Cardstock: Recollections, Core-dinations - blue, Silver unknown
Markers: Copics
Nestabilities: Small Petite Oval, Small Petite Scalloped Oval
Circle Punches: EK Success
Flowers: Blue- Recollections, Blue/white - Prima

My second card is for the JUGS color challenge 67 for this week.  I didn't finish it in time, but thought I would post it here anyway.

Patterned Paper: DCWV - Garden Party
Cardstock: Recollections, Core-dinations
Stamp: Unity
Ink: Memento-Rich Cocoa, Stampin' Up-Cameo Coral
Markers: Copics
Corner Punch: Tonic
Pearls: Recollection
Flowers & Butterfly: Prima
Lace: Wrights

CPS 98 Bowl of cherries

I've had this Unity stamp for some time, and thought this was the perfect layout for it.

Patterned Paper: October Afternoon
Cardstock: Core-dinations, Bazzil, Recollections
Nestabilities: Large standard circle, Eyelet Circle
Stamp: Unity
Ink: Memento, Black Tuxedo; Ladybug red
Markers: Copics
Flower: Prima
Button: unknown, stash
Bling: Recollections

Stamping Bazaar #11 & Kraftin' Kimmie Ch. 61

Today my husband had a MRI since I drove him so he could take a medication to relax, I took some images to color.  I didn't want to take my Copic markers along instead I used my watercolor pencils which I haven't used in quite some time.  So both of the cards today are using the watercolors.

For the Stamping Bazaar the challenge is to use punches.  I used the Nestabilities label #11 for the image and a tonic flower punch,  I was able to use my new Hansel image that I got early this AM - he is such a cute deer.  My son agreed with the purchase.  I followed the layout from the Skipping Stones sketch.

Patterned Paper: K & Company, Paper Pizzaz, SEI, Creating Keepsakes
Cardstock: Bazzil, Recollections, Core-dinations
Sentiment: Close to My Heart
Ink: Memento, Rich Cocoa
Pearl: Recollections

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge is to have flowers.  I added the primas around the Clara image.  I followed the CPS sketch 201.

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey, Marjorane
Cardstock: Core-dinations, Bazzil
Sentiment: Close to My Heart
Ink: Memento, Rich Cocoa
Gold Bling: Recollections
Flowers: Prima
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Corner Rounder: Creative Memories

Sympathy card & You make me smile

I have a co-worker whose Father passed away so I made this sympathy card for her.  I used There She Goes Sweet Pea stamp and Just Rite sentiment along with this week's Mojo sketch.

Patterned Paper: Recollections
Cardstock: Bazzil, Core-dinations, Recollections
Ink: Versa Mark; Memento, black tuxedo; Distress weathered wood
Markers: Copic
Embossing Powder: Zing, silver metallic
Pearls: Recollections
Butterfly punch: Martha Stewart
Nestabilities: Small Circle, Eyelet Circle
Ribbon: May Arts
Silver Button: unknown from stash

My other card is for Greeting Farms in which the challenge is Black, Tourquise, and your choice of the third color which mine is pink.  This works perfect for the Basic Grey Olivia paper.  I used the Sweet Anya stamp, and followed the SSSC 100 design.

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey:  Olivia
Cardstock: Bazzil, Recollections
Sentiment: Verve, Blue Skies
Ink: Memento, Black tuxedo
Markers: Copic
Bling with butterflies: Recollections
Border punch: Fiskars
Nestabilities: Grand standard Circle

If the shoe fits...buy it

Yesterday my husband had his first IV cancer treatment which he hates getting "poked".  The worst part is that in order for insurance to cover the procedure he also has to get Interferon by subcutaneous injection.  Unfortunately, by supper time he was reacting to the Interferon by having chills and was shaking then became nauseated. Needless to say he had a rough night until about midnight.  I'm hoping today will be better for him. Since I was spending quite a bit of time keeping an eye on him, I didn't get a chance to sneak downstairs to work on a project until after midnight.  This is what I came up.

Using Jak Heath's digital image to support Katie I thought was perfect last night.  I colored the shoe blue for the Create Colour Challenge which is Pink, Blue, Grey, and white with the optional additional feature of flowers.  I found this beautiful soft pattern by Memory Box.  I think this will also work for this week Pollycraft has a challenge of pastels.

Patterned Paper: Memory Box
Cardstock: Bazzil, Recollections, Core-dinations, Paper studio
Ribbon: May Arts
Grey Flowers: Recollections
Pink & Blue Flowers: Prima
Nestabilities: Large Circle, Large Scalloped Circle
Embossing Folder: Tim Holtz Sizzix
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Markers: Copic

My favorite things sketch #2 - Happy Birthday Princess

Well my husband loved the card that I made him yesterday.  He usually gets up before me, and today he came back upstairs to thank me for the card as soon as he heard my alarm go off.  Today is post #100 for me - whew- that didn't take long.
Today I made a card using the Pure Innocence stamp Birthday Princess with the design sketch.
MFTWSC2

I have had this stamp set for a while; however, this is the first time that I have used it so it was NEW to me and the Jilibean paper I just purchased on Thursday.  So I will enter this card in the Pollycraft Challenge for something new since the papers and the stamp are new.

Patterned Paper: Jillibean

Cardstock: Bazzil, Recollections

Ink: Memento, Rich Cocoa & Black Tuxedo

Markers: Copic

Ribbon: May Arts

Flowers: Recollections

Nestabilities: Grand Standard Circle

Through rain or shine

This Color Throwdown challenge is in honor of Katie Renz who lives in Washington State and was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer and has started chemotherapy.  There is more information on her on the site.
http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/
Since my husband has stage 4 renal cancer and has gone through another surgery with the plan to re-start yet another treatment this coming Monday, my heart goes out to Katie and her family.  There are times that all you can say is, "Cancer sucks."  I feel for my husband since there is a lot of emotional things that go with the cancer that a pill can not take away or make better.  There are times that I wish I could take away the pain or do more, it is difficult to watch someone you love go through treatments and to feel helpless.  We always want to make things better or fix it so it is with pure frustration to not be able to do so.  That is why this card has so much meaning to me.  It is the umbrella that may be hiding a kiss or tears.  And it will be left for my husband to find by his computer when he wakes up tomorrow.

Patterned Paper: SEI, K & company, Jillibean
Cardstock: Core-dinations, Recollections
Embossing folder: Cuttlebug
Ribbon: unknown
Button: Papertrey
Twine
Stamp:  Unity
Ink: Memento, Rich Cocoa & Black Tuxedo
Markers: Copic
Corner Rounder: Creative Memories
Nestabilities: Eyelet Circle
Metal Bling: Recollections

Time to Unwind Ch. 60 Kraftin' Kimmie - You're a Real Treasure

Kraftin' Kimmie has Challenge 60 - Time to Unwind which means no ribbon or bows.  I used the Genevieve stamp and used a Google map as my background paper.  It was hard, but no ribbon.  I did have to add the bling to her dress buttons.

Patterned Paper:  Google Map
Cardstock: Core-dinations, Recollections
Markers:  Copic
Bling: Recollections
Chipboard flourish: Pebbles