It's My Creative World

Guess What? Calendar Time!

2012-02-24T10:49:00.000-05:00

Hello Everyone,

Well you guessed it! Time for another edition of the calendar page over at The Outlawz .

We have another calendar page for you to download. This time it is March 2013.

And yes Easter is in March for 2013. I almost made a big mistake and made it April. Thank goodness. My fellow team mate on The Outlawz caught it.

I think this is my favorite Stella page so far. This is a riot. Can you just hear her tone when she would say Do I look warm and fuzzy? Of course this is Bugaboo Stella. Gotta love her.

She is colored with my copics.

My paper is some very old paper that I believe was the fancy stationary paper you use to be able to pick up at Staples and Office Depot. I love those jelly beans. I don't have very much left of it and I am sure they no longer make it. :-(

Do you like her bunny tail? Little tiny cotton ball that is from a chalk set I have. Fit perfect.

I put a little glitter on her eggs in the basket but just couldn't get it to show up well in the photo.

I do hope you will join us and remember you can always get the previous months calendars.

I know I have been have a blast making these. I hope you have enjoyed seeing them. See you over at the challenge.

I am entering my calendar page into the following challenges:

Art Impressions-clean and Simple or Anything But

Delightful Sketches -use patterned paper.

Penny’s Challenges -Anything Goes

Cutie Pie

2012-02-19T13:35:00.003-05:00

Hello Everyone,

Hope you have been having a nice weekend.

I have had a pretty good one. I got to try out one of my digi stamps that was from Saturated Canary's latest release. Is this a cutie pie. I love the face on this one. It is called Murray.

I have colored her with my Copics. The papers are from a very old paper pad. I thought the colors were perfect for this stamps.

I used my Lifestyles dies to cut the scallop circles to make the card base. I also used my ovals for the image and border around the image. I cut the swirls with my Cherry Lynn die ( I have cut up two of them and used throughout the card.

The Happy Easter is a Studio G stamp. Gotta love those little stamps they really come in handy.

Of course I had to add some pretty white pearls.

I hope that you have enjoyed my card today. Thank you so much for stopping by to visit today.

I am entering my card into the following challenges.

Saturated Canary Anything but square or rectangle

Card crafters circle “to die for”

All sorts challenge Anything Goes

Fairy tale challenge blog Spring

Glitter Geeks Girls or boys

Aud Sentiments Sentiment with “happy” in it

Paper Crafting Journey Make it cute.

Inspired by a book, movie or song at The Outlawz

2012-02-17T08:00:00.002-05:00

Happy Friday Everyone,

Hope you had a great week. Anything special planned for the weekend? Going to read a good book or maybe watch a movie how about listen to your favorite music.

We have just the challenge for you this week over at the Copic/Pro Marker challenge. Yup, this week create something that is inspired by a book, movie or song using your Copics or Pro Markers. Don't forget to tell us what book, movie or song has inspired your creation.

My card today is another faboulous Krista Smith image from Saturated Canary. This is Zorana A Gypsy Dancer. My card is inspired by the song Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac. It could also work for Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves by Cher.

I have colored her with my Copics. I love the hair on Krista's images. The papers that I have used are by S.E.I.. I also got the chance to use a new Slice card I had recently purchased for the music notes.

I added a little brown twine and some brown pearl for some texture to the card.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today and invite you to join in our challenge this week. Just remember your card must be new (never appearing before you post to the challenge) and colored using copics and or pro makers.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Outlawz Rodeo

2012-02-16T12:10:00.004-05:00

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick post today. I wanted to let you know of an event that is happening at The Outlawz. Here is a short video to give you some info and links for additional information.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you will check it out.

Clean and Simple at TTCRD

2012-02-15T15:17:00.001-05:00

Hi There,

Well we go from one holiday to the next. Good old St. Patty's Day. Are you Irish or just Irish for the day.

The challenge over at TTCRD is to make a clean and simple card but it must include a sentiment. Not too hard. Well for some it is not too hard. I don't normally do clean and simple but I am really happy with how this came out.

I used just Studio G $1.oo stamps. I stamp the 3 shamrocks then stamped and embossed another one with a clear glitter embossing powder. I then raised it up on a foam dot. I also stamped the Happy St. Patty's Day in the same color as the shamrocks.

I layered the white cardstock on some gold then again onto the white card.

I hope that you will join us over at TTCRD for our CAS challenge.

I am entering this card into the following challenges.

Pennys Challenges Anything Goes

Whimsy Inspires Anything but a Square Card

My Grafico Crafts St. Patty's Day

Thanks for stopping by today.

Pearls, Swirls and Lace OH My!

2012-02-15T04:00:00.001-05:00

Hello Everyone,

Wow can you believe Valentine’s Day has come and went. Did you have any special plans? Dinner with your sweetie maybe? How about getting a box of Chocolates?

My card today is using Gilli Classy. She is all dress up ready to go to a nice belated Valentines dinner and a show afterwards. She has her new outfit on today. It is a gray-purple color. She liked the look of the clean lines with that hint of purple.

I have used my new Cherry Lynn Doily die. The swirl is cut using my Slice.

I added a few ivory pearls and ivory seam binding. Also added a glitter heart from Making Memories. I have made this as a mini card that could be attached to a box of candy or a bottle of bubbly for that someone special on Valentine’s Day or birthday.

I hope you will join in on our Pearl, Swirls and Lace challenge over at The House of Gilli . We can’t wait to see what you might have in store for our viewing pleasure.

LOVE

2012-02-11T20:43:00.004-05:00

Happy Saturday Everyone,

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. It's been snowing on and off today just enough to make a mess. Can't wait for spring.

Only 3 days till Valentines day. I have a cute card for you today. If you haven't notice, I adore these images by Krista Smith from Saturated Canary. If you like these images you should check out her shop.

This is a Thank You image that she gave a while back when you placed an order. Isn't she so cute.

I have colored her using my copics. I tried a new color combo on the hair that my DT lead over at The Outlawz Lynne gave me. I really like it. The color combo is E50,51,53,55,57 not too much of the E51 and just a very little of E57. Thanks Lynne

My papers are from K and Company.

The glitter heart embellishments and the love sticker are from Making Memories.

I added a little pink and red bakers twine for some more whimsy.

I broke out my Martha Stewart heart punch border then placed it on a piece of red cardstock.

Thank you for stopping by to have a peek. Happy Valentines Day to all!

I am entering this card into the following challenges.

Saturated Canary Challenge #10 Red, Pink & White

CMC Colors of Love

SSDS Challenge Red, White & Pink

Card Crafters Circle Valentine

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #119 Valentines

Glitter Geeks To the one I love

Valentine's Day Sweetie for The Outlawz

2012-02-09T22:33:00.001-05:00

Hello Everyone,

Well that special day is coming up. Yup Valentine's Day! Do you remember as a kid when you couldn't wait to buy that box of little valentine cards that you use to sit down and write out to everyone at school. Do they even still do that in school?

Today I have a Valentine card for you. I was really happy with how this card came out. The image I have use is by Krista Smith owner of Saturated Canary. I just love her images. They are so fun to color not to mention just so darn cute too.

This image just looks like she is saying to her mom "but I need more stuff for my cards".

This week over at The Outlawz we have a special treat my fellow DT mate Dawn has a tutorial for you. We over of the CPC challenge are going to be adding some tutorial to our challenges as well. We want to keep it interesting for you. So along with the Calendar option we will have the tutorials. Dawn is doing our first tutorial. The tutorial is using your copics to create a color block and then added droplets to it.

You will see I choose to make mine into heart shapes and use them for the envelope closure.

I hope you will stop on by and check out our DT inspiration and Dawn fabulous tutorial. Please join us for the fun.

I am also entering my card into the following challenges

4 Crafty Chicks - love/valentines

Craft us Crazy - anything goes

Whimsy Inspires - Love themed

It's Mardi Gras over at The Outlawz CPC challenges

2012-02-03T08:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Friday to you,

It's time for another challenge over at The Outlawz CPC group. Break out the party gear and beads this weeks theme is Mardi Gras. So what do you do for Mardi Gras. Well party and use the colors of Gold, Purple and Green.

My image is by Make it Crafty. I have colored her with my copics in gold, purple and green. I made my green background with a "party" and "celebrate" stamp just stamping all over using versa mark pad. I have added some glittery ribbon in green and gold and some purple pearls. This was a super fun card to make.

I can't say that I have ever been to Mardi Gras but have a friend that grew up in the area and enjoys the festivities and has talked about them.

I hope you break out those green, purple and gold combo markers along with your Mardi Gras beads and join us for this challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look today.

The Doctor is In

2012-02-02T08:00:00.001-05:00

Hi there all you Gilli fans. I am here today sharing a card with you for The House of Gilli theme of LOVE. What a great theme and will help you get ready making your Valentine’s cards. But first I want to wish Gilli creator and friend anaRy a Very Happy Birthday today.

If you have a Gilli stamp we sure would love to see what you can come up with. If not that’s ok too. We love to see what everyone comes up with for the LOVE challenge.

I have Gilli Doc stamp and started looking at it. anaRy is always encouraging you to work with the stamp make it your own. So I got thinking about my all time favorite cartoon. I am going to guess there a few of you out there that know which one I am talking about. So I thought ok let’s make Gilli a doctor of love. I guess you can say one of the Advise column gals. I paper pieced Gilli’s shirt and colored the rest with copic’s. I omitted her stethoscope. I then built here “Advise” booth. I cut some brown cardstock and embossed with a little alpha stamp set from Studio G. I used toothpicks that I colored with my copics for the booth sides.

I cut a couple of hearts out and ran them through my cuttlebug swiss dots folder for some texture. I hope that my card has inspired you to join the challenge this week. Thanks for stopping by today.

Valentine's for Males at TTCRD but NO PINK

2012-02-01T09:55:00.000-05:00

Hi there everyone,

Are you ready for another challenge? This one is over at TTCRD. This is a good challenge. You know so many struggle with a "man" card. This challenge is being sponsored by Dude Time Doodles. The were so kind to draw a special image for our DT to use for the challenge.

This guy has it bad. His heart is just popping out of his shirt. The challenge is to make a "man" Valentine's card but you cannot use pink. So I went with purple.

The papers are from Nikki Sivils Sugar Cookie Collection. I cut the Love You with my slice and added some sparkle with my glitter pen. I am on a bakers twine kick. I love it. So I just added a little.

I hope you will join us for this challenge. And as always thanks for stopping by.

I am entering this in the following challenge.

Top Tip Tuesday

The Outlawz Friday challenge with Calendar page

2012-01-27T08:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Friday Everyone,

I'm excited today because it means the second installment of the optional calendar project over at The Outlawz CPC challenge. This is an anything goes challenge but with the option of making a calendar page for 2013. We are doing this once a month through November. By doing this you will have a desk calender completed by the first part of December ready to give as a gift or keep it for yourself. Make more than one. These will make great gifts. The best part is we will give you the PDF for this calender.

This week will be the February 2013 calendar page. We were very happy with all of our entries and would love to see even more join in this month. We will keep the previous months calendars houses so that you can join in anytime and still get the previous months. We would love to have you play along.

My calendar page today is using a wonderful Bugaboo Stella image. Oh these images are so funny. I love them.

Again this month I want to keep it simple so just a little layering. I have used a paper from K and Company Lovely collection. I hope you will join in with our challenge this week.

Thanks for stopping by today. I do hope you have enjoyed my card today.

Dressed for a party!

2012-01-24T16:13:00.004-05:00

Happy Tuesday Everyone,

How is your week going? Hopefully well. Well the snow and ice is gone and it is 50 plus degrees outside today. Wow... what is up with mother nature?

I had fun making up my card today. It is inspired by Saturated Canary's challenge this week. The challenge is to use your dies or punches. I have used a new die that a friend gave me for Christmas as well as another die set I got for Christmas from hubby.

I love this Cherry Lynn leaf swirl die. I have been wanting it for a long time. The scalloped circles are cut from Lifestyle dies. I love how many size of dies I got in that set. I have to tell you they cut really really well. Better than some other dies out there.

My image is from Saturated Canary. This is Haley and Harley. Are they just too cute for words? I have colored them with my Copics. I added a bit of stickles to their underdress. The papers are from Prima Pixie Glen Collection.

I also added some pearls that I got from Scrapbuck.com. I love their pearls and they are so reasonable with their prices.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed my card. I am enter this in the following two challenges.

Saturated Canary Challenge - dies cuts or punches

Make it Monday - anything goes

Girls Only for The Outlawz Friday Challenge

2012-01-20T08:00:00.002-05:00

Hello Everyone,

Hope you are doing well this week and are ready for the weekend. We have a fun challenge for you over at The Outlawz CPC challenge this week. Girls Only. Isn't that fun. Just think of all those adorable little girl images out there now. My card today is made with one of those adorable images.

This is by artist Krista Smith over at Saturated Canary. She has some of the sweetest images. They are really fun to color. This one is called Ellie's Birthday. I have colored her with my copics.

The paper pad is by My Minds Eye Ooh La La for her collection. I thought it was nice bright cheery paper. I used some glitter pearls I purchased from Scrapbuck.com. They are much prettier in person.

Again I used some more bakers twine. I am telling you I might need a 12 step program for that stuff. LOL

I sure hope you have enjoyed my card today. I look forward seeing you over at The Outlawz for our challenge and be sure and check out our wonderful sponsors and other challenges that we offer there. Stay tuned for the next calendar page coming up next week.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend.

Getting Cozy with Gilli

2012-01-19T08:00:00.001-05:00

Well HELLO. It's time for another challenge over at The House of Gilli . Wow is this challenge cool or what. What a great theme WINTER. That can be all kinds of fun stuff. From building a snowman to taking a winter vacation.

My card today is Ms. Gilli getting cozy with her cup of hot coco ready to watch a movie. Wait… ”Who took the remote”

Don’t you just hate that? You get all nice and cozy ready to settle into a good movie and the darn remote goes missing. So now you have to figure out is it worth it to get up, get cold and try to find the remote or just finish your hot coco and then take a nap. Hummmm….

My papers are from Prima collection called North County. I like the snowy feel the papers had.

I sure hope you will join us over at The House of Gilli for this challenge. It’s going to be fun to see everyone’s take on this one.

Retro fun over at CMC

2012-01-16T15:17:00.003-05:00

Happy Monday,

Today is a holiday for many in the states. I'll take it. It's still rather cold here but as long as there is no snow I will be ok with the cold.

Today my card is inspired by the challenge over at CMC. The challenge is to make it look Retro using Hot Pink, Black and White.

My image is by Saturated Canary. I have colored her using my Copic.

The papers are from various companies that I have had in my collection of papers.

Of course I broke out my bakers twine....love this stuff.

A few black pearls for some more texture. You should jump on over to the CMC challenge and see all the fabulous entries so far.

I am also entering this card in the following challenges. You should check these out as well. They have some great inspiration there too.

Incy Wincy Designs - bold and bright

Make it Monday - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a wonderful week.

TTCRD Challenge - Anything but a card & create your own embellishments

2012-01-15T12:00:00.000-05:00

Hi there,

Did everyone make it through the dreaded Friday the 13th this time around? Well at least it has been a 3 day weekend. Woo Hoo.

Well today's challenge at TTCRD is a little different but we hope will get you to look outside the box. The challenge it to create anything but a card but you will need to create your own embellishments as well. Wow that's a different one. We sure hope you will put your thinking caps on and amaze us. Our challenge this time is being sponsor by Ippity by Rona. She will be giving a $15 dollar gift certificate to her store for the lucky winner.

My project is a luminaire. This is Gilli House by anaRy. Isn't it just the cutest little house? At the end of the post I have an overview of how I created this. Mostly I just went with it.

This is just a "daylight" view of this cute little cottage. The trees are from a Sizzix die.

Here it is in a more "evening" setting.

Here is a "daylight" view at a slight angle.

And the "evening" setting at a different angle.

After I colored the image I placed it on another sheet of card stock and traced the shape to make the back part of the house. For the sides I just cut some pieces of cardstock that would allow after attached to the sides of the house a battery operated candle to fit inside. So what I am trying to say is I just winged it...LOL.

For the widows I cut them out then took some clear acetate and colored it with one of my yellowcopics. I then took a copic multiliner and recreated the window panes. For the base I used some heavy chipboard. I have an old template of a cobblestone so I sponged in a sidewalk. I then used glossy accents over each stone to give it a raised effect. The grass is created with lots and lots of green flower soft.

I also added multi colored flower soft along the sidewalk and flower boxes to give it that nice spring time look.

My embellishments that I created are:

A piece of background paper that has a newprint on it to make the newpaper on the sidewalk
The little bunny was part of a large stamp that I cute him out and added a little cotton ball to.
The baseball bat a drew and added a white pearl for the baseball
The jump rope is some twine with little pieces of cardstock for the handles.

I sure hope you will give something like this a try is really was fun. Not sure I would make a dozen of them but for someone special or just because you want to try something different sure.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you over at TTCRD.

I am also entering this into the following challenge.

Top Tip Tuesday

Beautiful Nevaeh

2012-01-14T14:41:00.004-05:00

Happy Saturday,

It is a cold day here. No snow which is ok with me but still cold. Last week we had temps in the upper 50's and now this burrrrrrr.... is it spring yet?

I finished this card up late yesterday and photographed it today. I am really pleased with they way it came out. As you can tell it is a Valentine's Day card. My super cute image is one of Krista Smith's Saturated Canary designs. This is Nevaeh. Isn't she so pretty?

I have colored her with my Copics. I loved the pink that I was able to achieve on her dress. I love how here hair took on a shine. Krista's images are fun to color. They have a lot of whimsy.

This is a 5x7 card. The papers are from K and Company call Lovely. The heart embellishments are by Making Memories. I think they are so pretty and sparkly. Speaking of sparkle I added some clear stickles to the bottom of her underdress and used some Sakura clear glitter pen to add a little shine to her dots on her dress.

The Happy Valentine's Day verse is one of the small clear Studio G sets from Michael's.

After some encouragement from some special ladies I decided to enter this into Saturated Canary's DT call.

Friday Challenge for The Outlawz

2012-01-13T08:00:00.000-05:00

Well hello everyone,

Happy Friday. I hope everyone has had a great week. I sure did. I got to visit with my best friend and stamping buddy. We had a blast. But then we always do.

Can you believe it, it's Friday again and we have a new challenge for you this week over at The Outlawz.

Be sure and check out our Guest Designer Linda Palmer's Card. She comes up with some of the nicest cards as do all my DT mates. I feel so lucky to be part of such a fantastic team.

This week challenge is to use the colors Blue, Aqua, Turquoise and Sand. We have added an optional twist of seaside/coastal. Just remember if you choose the optional twist you will need to use the color combo as well.

The Outlawz has some of the best sponsor for our challenges. They offer some wonderful prizes.

Ok with that said. Here is my card. I hope it will inspire you to join our challenge.

My card is done use images from Make it Crafty. I have merged these images (boy, girl and sandcastle) together.

The beach and water I drew in. I was really happy with how it came out.

Of course it is all colored with my Copics. The clouds are created using my trusty old ( and I do mean old) template from All Night Media.

Because it was a large image I kept the layout very simple just layered it a little bit. No additional embellishments.

**Challenge Rules**

§ Your projects must be new. No back linking (not appearing anywhere prior to your posting to The Outlawz).

§ Project/images must be colored using alcohol-based markers such as Copics and or Promarkers as well as following the provided challenge theme.

§ You can enter our challenge as many times per week as you like...BUT...you can only link ONE entry per week into the monthly Inlinkz.

I hope that you have enjoyed my card and I want to Thank You for stopping by. See you over at The Outlawz.

Monochromatic Vintage - Outlawz Friday Challenge

2012-01-06T08:00:00.001-05:00

Happy Friday Everyone,

Is everyone back into the swing of things now?

I am pretty much. All the holiday decorations are down the house is all cleaned up. Glad we took the outside decorations down already it has been really cold here this week.

Today's card is for the challenge over at The Outlawz CPC group. The image is one by Tickled Pink. She is colored with my Copics.

The paper collection is by K and Company called Ancestry.com. The paper has a lot of texture in it. It shows up in the pictures pretty good. The newspaper print paper is from My Minds Eye. I added some pearls and a ribbon for something extra.

I hope that you will join us for the challenge this week. We have some wonderful sponsors that offer great prizes. Also if you missed last weeks challenge option to make a calendar page each month. You can still download the calendar template for Jan 2013 and catch up and be ready for Feb 2013 during out next anything goes challenge on the last Friday of the month.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

TTCRD Challenge - Monochromatic

2012-01-02T14:18:00.007-05:00

Hello Everyone,

Hope you are all rested up after ringing in the New Year. TTCRD has it's first challenge for 2012. The challenge is Monochromatic. So everyone break out your favorite color family and show us what you have.

Isn't this little one a cutie?

My card to day is using a Bildmalarna stamp. I have colored her outfit with my Copics in various shades of blue. I added some white polka dots to her shirt and headband for some added detail. The butterflies are punched using a Martha Stewart punch.

I have to tell you though. I photographed this card a number of times. I guess the paper just had a mind of it's own. Some of the stripes in the papers look more yellow green and they are not. They are blue with a hit of green to them. Over all I still think it fits the bill for Monochromatic.

I hope that you will join us at Through the Classroom Door for this wonderful challenge. We have some great prizes up for grabs.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges.

Robyn's Fetish - Anything Goes

Sir Stamp a Lot - Monochromatic

Heart Song Inspirations - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you will join us.

Happy 2012! New DT for House of Gilli.

2012-01-02T08:00:00.000-05:00

Happy 2012. Can you believe that it is 2012 already?

As you may know I was a guest designer and filled in over at The House of Gilli.

anaRy has asked me to join the Gilli DT. I of course was thrilled to say yes.

anaRy has a lot in store for 2012 with Gilli and The House of Gilli. Be sure and check back often to see what is happening.

Today Asian Gilli is all decked out in pink. She has been attending parties meeting and talking with her fans and supporters.

Gilli would like to Thank all of her fans for a wonderful 2011

Gilli has a lot in store for you in the New Year.

The challenge this time is an easy one. Anything Goes! Can’t get much easier than that can it?

My card today is done in soft pinks. Gilli is colored with Copics. Her dress has a little bit of stickles added to it as well as her handbag and headdress. She is wearing a stunning pair of pearl dangle earrings to add even more elegance to her outfit.

The paper is by K and Company called Lovely. It really is a Valentine paper pad but this soft pink paper had some pretty butterflies in it. Not really easy to see in the picture but is what has inspired me to break out my CC designs butterfly die cut. I also used my Slice to cut Join Us.

As the card says “Join Us”. We here at The House of Gilli sure hope you will for our Anything Goes challenge.

Be sure to keep stopping back to check out what my fellow DT gals have in store as inspiration. They come up with some of the cutest cards to motivate you. I am honored to work with them here at The House of Gilli.

We hope to see your wonderful creations.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Crafting in 2012

Anything Goes with a twist- Outlawz Friday Challenge

2011-12-30T08:00:00.006-05:00

Hi there,

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Mine was great. What I can hardly believe is that everything is almost over. All this prep work and decorating and boom it is over in a few hours LOL. I so enjoy it though. Just think tomorrow everyone will be getting ready to ring in the New Year wow 2012. Ok that just looks weird to type it out. So I guess you are saying not any weirder than me having a picture of a January 2013 calendar up on my blog..... yes but there is a reason for that.

We thought we would add a little bonus twist to our Anything Goes challenge that we have each month. Just something to shake it up a little. This time we will have a 2013 calendar that you can download and make one each month starting now and by the beginning of December 2012 you will have your calendar done for yourself or for a gift for someone. If you want you can make a bunch of them each month and then have a special gift to give someone maybe a co-worker or friend. Now do you have to do this? No, it is optional but we hope you will give it a try even if you just make one for yourself to put on your craft desk.

My calendar I am going to make it a humor one. So I chose my image from Bugaboo's Stella Collection. Oh my gosh have you seen these yet. They are so funny it is hard to choose which ones. They have more than the Stella collection but I just love her.

She is colored with my Copics. The calendar is printed on Kraft cardstock. My paper is from Recollections Holiday Traditions paper pad. This has some really pretty papers in it. I used my Copic Spica clear pen on the drink and her shoes but then used my glaze pen on her shoes and glass right over the Spica. I also used the glaze pen on her earrings, glasses and necklace. The verse came with the digi stamp. I hope that you will decide to join us for a year long calendar making Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and Have a Happy and safe New Year's.

JOY

2011-12-28T18:39:00.003-05:00

Hi there everyone,

Can you see 2012 waving at us? Can't believe how close the new year is. Just when you get use to writing 2011 now it's time to start over again. LOL

Does anyone have an resolutions yet? Still thinking?

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Hopefully you were able to spend it with family and friends. Did anyone get any new crafting supplies? I got a few. So I am a happy camper.

Can't wait to dive in and try all my new goodies out.

My card today is another card that I have used the inspiration colors from the CMC site. Gold, White and Cream. It really is a pretty combo together.

My image is by Make it Crafty. Isn't she cute with that big old package she is handing someone?

I have colored most of her dress in golds. Her little shirt in a darker cream. The package is colored in creams and I have added clear and sand Spica pens on it for some added shine.

The "Joy" stamp is out of the Michael's dollar bin. I thought is was beautiful when I saw it and with it embossed in gold WOW it is stunning.

I am entering this card in two challenges today.

Suzanne Dean owner of CMC is allowing a second card into the challenge if you enter both the Copic challenge and the Bookendz challenge.

The other challenge is Penny's Challenges where the theme is Holiday Gifts. I thought this was a perfect image for this one.

Thank you for stopping by today. Also a reminder there are a few days left on the TTCRD Challenge.

Also watch my blog for Friday's post for The Outlawz Copic/Promarker Challenge. We have something a little different lined up for you.

Merry Christmas to All

2011-12-24T11:14:00.004-05:00

Hello Everyone,

Happy Christmas Eve to all,

I wanted to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas. I would also like to thank you for all the wonderful comments and encouragement throughout this past year. It has meant so much to me. I don't always get to go out and comments as much as I would like but I do see your beautiful creations through RSS feeds that I get. When I started my blog I never knew how many wonderful people that have the same obsession as I were out there. You are all truly wonderful. I hope everyone is able to spend the holiday season with family and friends. Merry Christmas to all.

My card today is one that I made using the tutorial that I watched on SCS. I have used a Just Rite stamp.

I have used some die cut chip board to add a little something to the card.

The center is cut and embossed with my spellbinders circle and scalloped circle dies.

A little red seam binding ribbon for the bottom and I called it complete.

Don't forget if you are looking for some challenges to enter so you have a good excuse to use some of your new goodies that you have received for the holidays. Check out the following.