Butterflies and Moths

Good afternoon and Happy Friday... I have felt so much better this week. My anxiety has pretty much gone. Thanks for the well wishes Terrie. Love ya.
I did this card for the weekly sketch challenge at Cardmakers. This week it was hosted by the lovely Lora our administrator and director of our MB. I had fun doing this as I kept it simple. The sketch was great and if anyone wants to join the group just go over HERE and become a member. We have so much fun and everyone is sweet and very tallented cardmakers. It's a drama free enviroment... There is plenty of fun...crops, swaps, challenges, and lots of chats... Here is my card for this week:

I used paper from the Mariposa pack from DCWV. (love this paper)
The embossed butterfiles are cut with the embossing die cut from SU. and MS.
The ribbon is tea dyed made by me. (seam binding by "Hug Snug")
Pearls by Kaiser
Punch is by EK Sucess.
Die cuts are nesties.
Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs xx

Slim Bird...

Hi...
This is a card that I made with Alison's digi image called Slim Bird... He was fun to create a card with. I used the theme "Dare to be Different" and switched one of the birds around and colored stripes to set him off. I hope you will go see all the cute digi's she has in the SHOP and stop back again to see some more cards made with images from Stretch N Bubbles.


Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs xx

It's a little early but it's for Fathers Day!!!

Hi all,
I did this card for the weekly challenge at Cardmakers, hosted by Angelina. We were to use a fish or water animal theme. I racked my brain and remembered the stamps of fishing I bought a few years ago from SU. I thought.. "oh ya" this is fish themed!!! I stamped the image with stazon brown ink and water coloured it with reinkers from SU. I cut the fish and the fly out and placed it to look like the fish was taking the hook... I distressed it to look old so I found the sentiment to be fitting too!!! Heheheheh!!! I liked how it turned out and I hope my hubby will too...

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs xx
Challenges:
Cardmakers - anything with a fish or water animal.
Simple Doodles - anything you want that's old looking.
Crafty Creations - make your own background paper.

Kitty Cat

Good Morning... Today is Wednesday and guess what??? We have a new challenge week starting at Stretch N Bubbles Challenge Blog. I did the sketch with this darling Kitty Cat that you can get today at Stretch N Bubbles from Alison. I hope you will stop by the shop and see all the new digi's that just arrived. Darling!!!! I love this cute Kitty and I hope you will too...

 

Designed 2 Delight

Hi all,
This cute image is from Faith at Designed 2 Delight. Isn't it cute???? I fell in love with it when I saw it. You can get free images starting May 1st if you stop by her challenge blog. She has a progressive challenge where you create a card each week and she sends you a free image to use the following week. All of the images have been darling. Go and check it out HERE.

 

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs xx

Monday Challenge at Daisy Doddles

Hi and Happy Monday!!! It's time for a new challenge at Daisy Doodles, you can find it HERE. This week the challenge is to make anything but a card. WoW!!! We have some great creations from our Design Team. Check them out and they would love you to visit there blogs.
I made a Puppy Animal Cracker Box and Gift Card for my project. I used the digi images in the puppy collection "Wrinkles". The dog house image is new and I fell in love with it so I put it on the gift card. How cute are these images!!! All of Jules images are wonderful. You can shop for the images in the store HERE.
Don't forget to vote for last weeks entries. We have a wonderful prize this week created by our Design Team Member Jo... Go Jo Go!!!




I used some digi paper that I have had for soooo many years. That is what got my brain thinking.. I found this dog house idea and went with it. The ribbon is from Bo Bunny Press. I used my nesties to cut out the middle and coloured the digi images with Copics.
I hope you will join us this week for this fun challenge.

Challenges:
Air Factory - Anything but a card
For fun Challenges - Anything but a card
Sew Many challenges - Anything goes.

Love Birds

Hi All...
I just got this card done for the challenge at Cardmakers this week hosted by my dear sweet friend Terrie. We are to make a card with bird images. What better image than this??? Two cute little love birds. So cute!!! The image is from Stretch N Bubbles. Hop on over and see all the cute images Alison has in the shop HERE.



Challenges:
Cardmakers - sketch

My card for Designed 2 Delight

Hello all,
I finally got around to making a card this week. I have been so slacking on doing my cards. I haven't been myself lately and haven't had to much energy to do anything. I am seriously thinking about retiring from my Childcare business. I have a hard time taking care of them anymore. Well will see...
I did this card for the Sketch Challenge hosted by Laura this week at Cardmakers. I used Faith's darling bear image for my center. I love the bear Faith!!!! Thank You!!!


Deets:
Paper is from SU,and my stash
Sunflowers cut from flowers 2 Nesties, stamped, colored with Copics, and distressed.
Digi Image is from Faith at Designed 2 Delight. It is cut out with Deckled Nesties.
Colored with Copic markers.
Bias Ribbon from my stash...
Challenges:
Cardmakers...sketch
Designed 2 Delight...Digi Image

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs xx

Daisy Doodles Image

Hi all,
I hope your Wednesday is going great. We have a perfect day here in Northern Utah. Finally after snow on Monday.
I did this for my weekly Design Team card at Daisy Doodles. I picked this darling image, her name is Sassy. You can go and get her HERE for your digi collection. Check out all the other darling images in the store. Don't forget the challenge over at Daisy Doodles this week going on HERE. Just need to make a card with pink and one other color. How easy is that.

 

Deets:
Paper by Basic Gray (Koashi) also from my stash.
Punches and Borders by Martha Stewart and Fiskars.
Ribbon and Brads from my stash.
Ink and Senitment from Stampin Up.
Nestablities - long rectangle dies.
Copics.
Glitter Martha Stewart.
Challenges:
Critter Sketch Challenge use pink purple and green
Crazy 4 Challenges 1 ribbon - 2 buttons or brads - 3 punches
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Cutie Pie
Our Creative Corner - bows
The Pink Elephant - 1 image 2 dies 3 embellishments
Fun 2 Stamp - flowers

Chick-e-poo Bird

Happy Tuesday all,
I did this card for the Stretch N Bubble Design Team. I love this image. I chose the paper because it looked so much like the bird that Alison has for sale in her shop. If you want this image or any of the other cute ones she has hop on over and give the store a visit. HERE.

 

Thanks for stopping by,
HugsXX

Good Afternoon....

Hi all... I just finished this card that I did for a challenge at Cardmakers hosted by Jeanette. It was for the sketch this week. I used one of Alison's new images from Stretch N Bubbles for the cupcake. So cute!!!! Go visit HERE and you can get one for your own. I loved the sketch and I hope I followed it ok Jeanette (wink)...

 

I uses my new Dear Lizzy spring paper, new twill ribbon for MS. The border punch is from MS. I colored with copics and used stickles on the white frosting. I die cut the flowers with my Cookie Cutter Dies from Quikcut. The brads are from Basic Gray.
Thanks for stopping by and hugs to you all...

Challenges:
Cardmakers

DAISY DOODLES CHALLENGE - APRIL 12-

Hi all... Glad you stopped by. I have some exciting news to share. I have been chosen to be on the design team at Daisy Doodles. I am so honored.

We have a new challenge going on over at DAISY DOODLES Creative Challenges. This week it's a color challenge. Make a card and use the color pink + one. Thats it!!! You can enter it HERE Check out the digi stamps HERE where you will find some very very awesome digi's for sale. Here is my card...

I picked this cute butterfly image she has available in her store, to use on my card. I decided to paper piece the image. I used Making Memories paper and printed the image on the dot paper, cut it out and then cut another set of wings from vellum. I colored the body with copics and made the antena's with wire. The buttons and stick pin are from Fancy Pants designs, ribbon is from my stash, and Martha Stewart punches.
Hop on over and see all the entries for this week. At the end of the challenge you can vote for your favorite...
Hugs xx

Challenges:
Simple Doodles
Stampin for the Weekend
Our Creative Corner
Meljen's Designs
The Creative Cottage
My Time To Craft

Designed 2 Delight Challenge entry...

Here is my entry for the challenge over at Designed2Delight. Faith gave us this darling image to work with this week. Here is my entry...

Thanks for stopping by...
Hugs,
Jane

Welcome to the first Stretch N Bubbles Blog Hop!!!!

Welcome to the StretchNBubbles Sketch Challenge Blog Hop. If you came here from Pauline's blog you're in the right place. If you stumbled upon this hop by accident, go to the SNB blog and start there. Be sure to leave comments on all the DTs posts along the way to be eligible for some great prizes!
StretchNBubbles is excited to announce their new Weekly Sketch Challenge. Each week there will be a new sketch designed by Alison for you to play along with. You can use ANY StretchNBubbles image (if you don't have any, you can pick up a new freebie every Wednesday) combine that image and the SNB sketch with any other challenge of your choice. Post your entry to the SNB Sketch Challenge Blog and you're in the running for a weekly top three award. A random winner will be chosen each week as well and that person will win any SNB image of their choice.

Here is the sketch:

I chose this darling Giraffe image to make my sketch card. I followed the sketch pretty close. I just left out two of the squares. All in all I loved how cute it can be for a new baby card, or you could do a Birthday card or anything else that you can imagine... So......
Be sure to leave a comment here on this post. I'll choose a winner from all the comments on Wednesday, April 14th and that person will win the image I used in my card. Leave comments on all the DT's posts along the hop and you can win the images they used too. Once you've made your way through the hop, you'll be in the running for the overall blog hop winner which means FOUR SNB images of your choice.
Your next stop is Marcy. After you've visited all the DT's blogs and left them comments, we invite you to play along in the first ever SNB Sketch Challenge.
Good Luck and have fun today and thanks for stopping by...
Hugs xx

Flower Teapot... from Stretch N Bubbles...

Hi all... I did this cute Teapot for Alison to display on her Stretch N Bubbles blog. I hope you will pay her a visit and pick up this cute digi that she has for sale or maybe one of the many other digi's she has to offer.

 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Creating!!!
Hugs xx

My Guiding Light...

I finally got this card done just in time for Faith's Challenge this week at Designed 2 Delight. I fell in love with this darling light house digi. It's a change from all the Spring cards I have done lately. It's a great image for a man's card. I used watercolours on this to make it look more old looking. I kept it more simple than I'm use to doing, but I loved how it turned out.

 

Hugs xx