F is for Friend

Hello dear friends and followers!  A quick post today to share a card I made using a Lacy Sunshine digital image that I got for free from the wonderful Heather - just for playing along in her Facebook contest at Lacy Sunshine Crafting and Design Group (there is a tab and link to this on the Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog site).  Here's my card using "Mayde's Puppy Bathtime" - hope you like it!

I love this image because it reminds me of my little doggies. One of them especially loves to dig in the yard and often comes into the house with a very dirty face and paws.  It drives me crazy I tell ya', especially since they are mostly white - or should be if they aren't diggin'.  But... then they look at me with those big dark eyes and suddenly it's hard to remember why I'm irritated at their dirty faces. 

They are just so stinkin' cute and such great cuddly company.

Anyway...as I mentioned, a shorter post today as I need to get my taxes done.  I've been putting off this task as long as I possibly can, but am now feeling like I better "get em done".  

Oh..and go grocery shopping, visit my Grandma and maybe give the dogs a bath too :o)

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

    The Paper Players #188 - sketch

Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog - #49 "anything goes"

Sister Act Card Challenge #50 - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Challenges - Challenge #14 "Anything Goes"
Digi Galore - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today - I'm sure glad that you did! 

Til next time friends...hugs and happy crafting!D

Stay Classy and Sassy

Hello again! I'm back to share another card I made last night.  

I recently purchased several Kraftin' Kimmie stamps (mostly thanks to Nicole from Nicole's Craft Nook and her lovely creations using these stamps) and am in love with them! They are absolutely a joy to color with my copics.  Without further ado...here is my card using "Hey Hot Stuff".

   This card is going to a special friend of mine for her birthday.The image reminds me very much of her fabulous self.  I'm especially pleased with how the hair turned out this time.  I hope she will like it!

I have something else to share with you,  I've been taking an online hair and skin coloring class. 

I love to color with copic markers and felt it would be fun to hone my skills,
 so I signed up and joined the classes at Kit and Clowder.  

This is an 8 week course but you can do it at your own pace - thank goodness. 

I will probably need about double that time to get through it all with my more than full-time job.  

Anyway... I've already learned a ton and am really enjoying the progress I'm seeing in my coloring.  

Over the course of the next couple of months you will see my efforts too 

(the good and the not so good) - practice definitely helps :o).

If you like to color with alcohol markers and want to improve your skills, I would highly recommend this.

The cost is very reasonable (I've paid as much for a live 3 class session and learned a lot less),

the videos, instructions and homework materials are very helpful, and there 

are lots of additional learning opportunities with great digital images.
You can get to the Kit and Clowder site by clicking on the button on my blog side bar.  

This weekend Kit and Clowder will be doing a Live Colour Along tutorial using a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp called "Hannah Hearts".  I can't wait to colour her up and share it with you after the session.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Kraftin Kimmie Challenge 222 - Pretty in Pink

Sentimental Sundays - Challenge #199 - Flowery Springtime (lots of flowers)

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Sketchy Free for All (I used sketch #88)

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today - I'm sure glad that you did! 

Til next time friends...hugs and happy crafting! D

H is for Happy...Spring and Easter

Hello friends and followers - hope you are having a great day!  I've been taking some much needed personal time from work this week and enjoying some time with my darling daughter who is on spring break.  We've had lunch, gone shopping and had pedicures together (very relaxing).  I've also been catching up on lots of little (and not so little) projects as well which hasn't left me as much time for crafting as I'd hoped  - 

but I have managed to make a few cards that I'd like to share with you.  

Today I have an Easter card.  It's nice that Easter is a bit later this year -  more time to get my cards together for family and friends.  Plus, maybe by then the snow will be gone and we will really be experiencing some spring weather and flowers.  Ahhh... a lovely thought.

 Here's my card:

This cute digital image was a recent Friday Freebie at Bugaboo Stamps called "Bunny Chic Topper" - absolutely couldn't pass it up!  Did you notice the cute little chickies in the paper?  I thought it was perfect for this image.  

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
                   Stella Says Sketch Challenge #206 at the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog.  
                                                                       Here's the sketch

Creative Card Crew Challenge#58 - Animals

613 Avenue Create - Challenge #64 Anything Goes/optional twist "Birds of a Feather"

Digi Galore - Anything Goes

Sister Act Challenges #49 - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks Challenges #187 - Spring 

Thanks so much for popping in to visit me today.  I hope to be back again today with another card to share with you.  Til next time friends....hugs and happy crafting! D

Love You Bunches for BIC#50, Corrosive Challenges #195, Less is More Week #164 - Recipe of 3

Hello dear friends and followers! Today I have a fun CAS card to share with you 

that I made to enter in a couple challenges that I've been wanted to play along with lately.

I'm thinking that this will be for my DH this year for our 23rd Anniversary.

He recently told me that he likes my CAS (he didn't use the correct terminology - he said "plainer - less fussy") cards the best.  It doesn't get much more CAS than this, so I think he'll like it. 

Details: Stamps - Veggin Out and Face It (The Alley Way Stamps)

Ink: Memento Black Copics - G03, G05

Cardstock - Whisper White and Gumball Green (Stampin Up)

The first challenge is The Alley Way Stamps Be Inspired Challenge (BIC) #50:  Re-Inspired

I drew the green color and the nature theme from the photo below for my inspiration

  

The second challenge is Less is More - Week 164 Recipe

they want to see 3 of something on our CAS cards - 

two bunches of broccolli and a heart in the sentiment makes 3 of my something for the recipe.

The third challenge is The Corrosive Challenge Blog Challenge #195 - Go Green

I used the first option of the three which is the photo color inspiration

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today - I'm sure glad that you did.  

Til next time friends...hugs and happy crafting! D

Easter Wishes - ATS&M Challenge #88 - Holiday

Hello friends! Time for another weekly challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More!  This time the challenge is our Holiday Challenge.  That means you can make any holiday themed card or project.  

We have the wonderfully creative Anni as our guest designer again this week. 

Check out her blog - you'll be glad that you did. 

Here's my DT card to share with you for ATSM Challenge #88 - Holiday.

This is a CASE of a card that a friend of mine, Marlene (whom I also affectionately call ET) had made using the watercoloring technique.  I embossed the stamped image prior to putting on the watercolor so that I would know where I wanted each color to go.  I had so much fun making this card and am really pleased with how all the colors turned out!  Isn't it fun to be inspired by others?  I hope that I've now inspired you to play along with us this week at ATS&M Challenge #88 Holiday.  The rest of our lovely DT members have made some wonderful creations to share with and inspire you as well.  Please go visit and say "hi".

Thanks once again to our wonderful challenge sponsor Shery from STAMPlorations who is offering a prize to our challenge winner this week.

  
I am also entering my card in these challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges 228 (C4C228) Shake your Thing (Free for All)
4CC - Challenge #186 - No Patterned Paper

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today! Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D

Egg-spect the Un-Egg-spected

Hello friends - hope you are having a most wonderful weekend! 

Didn't this card just make you smile?  

I love that funny little kitty hatching out of the egg.

Un-eggspected indeed - LOL.

This darling digital image comes from Deedee's Digis and is the March Digi of the Month called "Uneggspected".  I got it for free by participating in the previous digi of the month challenge. 

I definitely want to keep getting great free digis each month so I'm playing along again this month.  

You too can get free digis to enter in the Deedee's Digi of the Month Challenge.

Just pop on over to the challenge site and get the details.

I'm also entering this card in these challenges:

Inkspirational Challenge 52 (totally inspired by the bright colors and Easter/spring theme)

and

Catch the Bug Challenges - Stella's Sketch 205

   

So that's it for me tonight :o)  Off to bed I go to get my beauty rest.  

I hope I've inspired you to create something fun and enter one of these challenges.  

Creativity loves company :o) 

Til next time dear friends...hugs and happy crafting! D

Think Spring!

Hello dear friends and followers - happy weekend to you!  On the first official day of spring we had snow - groan.  But in the spirit of optimism, I believe that it really is just around the corner (even though it's only 23 degrees today) :o)  Until spring really gets here I'll make a few cards with lovely spring images to help fake myself into believing that we are "almost there" - lol.

I made this card using a digital image I got for free.  How did I do that you might ask? Well last month I purchased the special digital image of the month and used it on the February challenge at From the Heart Stamps. Then this month, because I had participated and used the February digi of the month - in my email box came a freebie for the March Challenge.  How cool is that?  Part of the fun of blogging is "sharing the love" with others - so consider yourself shared with on this wonderful opportunity to get a free digi.

Here's my card which I am entering in the From the Heart March Stamp of the Month - Hamlet Pigwit Think Spring"...take a look:

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:

MOJO Monday 337

STAMPlorations March 2014 Challenge - Stamps and Spring

Crazy 4 Challenges 228 - Shake your Thing (Anything Goes)

Inkspirational Challenge #52 (I was inspired by the colors and spring theme)

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today! I'm sure glad that you did. 

Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D