Where Oh Where Are You, Spring?

I know Christmas is not here yet, but Flourishes had a challenge for spring-time colors/flowers. They are releasing some gorgeous flower stamps tomorrow night - can't wait!

Blog Candy from Kellie

Head over to Kellie Winnell's Magnolia Down Under Blog to enter this candy.

Well tis the month of giving. And Lisbet feels the same ways as I do because when I asked her if she minded that I offered a personalised stamp as a candy she didn’t mind at all. A big thank you to Lisbet, she has been amazing to work with and check out her store HERE….

So you will be able to pick any stamp you see below, but of course only the ONE and it will be persoanlised to your liking, eg Name, Blog, Email…. Within reason…

I know, it will be VERY hard for the winner to pick just the ONE stamp…. But you can find more HERE… in my store…

What do you have to do to win? I have a couple of rules that I would really liked to be followed, as if they are not followed your link will be removed to make it fair for the people that have taken the time to do what is requested.

• Either do a blog post or link this candy in your candy bar, OR both. If you do both it will double your chances as I am asking all that do both, to pop their name in Mr Linky Twice!
• If you do a blog post could you please pop a direct link into Mr Linky to the blog post in question. And if you popped it in your sidebar, please leave a direct link to your over all blog.
• In your blog post about the candy please leave a link back to this here post to share with everyone else.

That is all, you are welcome to become a follower but it really it not a requirement at all.

This candy will close on the morning of Saturday 19th of December 2009 and will be announced in my blog post for the next Magnolia Down Under Challenge on the Sunday 20th of December 2009.

Good Luck….

Swing Batter,Batter- BLING!

This is my first card for the Motivet Stamps challenge. Since Dexter is playing baseball, I tried not to go to frilly, but ...there is still quite a bit of bling going on. I made the flowers with newspaper and tissue paper that had been Glimmer Misted and cut with my nestabilities. I used the Martha Steward Crown punch, and added tiny little 2mm Sworovski crystals to each of the tips. I added some pearls that I colored with copics and finally a mixture of brown grosgrain ribbon and rafia. I think the colors and textures kept all of these embellishments from turning out too girly.

I made this little card this afternoon using a stamp that I won from the Greeting Farm and a sketch from Creative Inspirations. She just looks so prissy and cute!

Clean and Simple Christmas

I don't usually make CAS cards (my sister was laughing cause this was the first card in ages that I've made that I haven't distressed and layered to death! But I used this really cute image from Louby Lou to play the CAS challenge at Flourishes.

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

We had just a tiny bit of snow here on Saturday morning- nothing that accumulated, but enough to remind you that Christmas is almost here. My image is from Sassy Studio Designs. I colored it with my copics, and added lots of stickles and Martha Stewart snow glitter. I think I have decided this gives a better snow effect than the white Flower Soft. I punched the icicle border out of silver glitter paper, and used a wonderful piece of antique metallic gold lace on my border.

This is a very sparkly card that I made for the following challenges:
Sassy Studio Designs: inspired by icy picture
The Fresh Batch: sketch
Pink Elephant: Your favorite Christmas colors
Digital Tuesday: Christmas Sparkle
Cupcake Crafts - Sing a Christmas Carol (White Christmas)
Whimsy- Die Cuts (Martha Stewart icicle punch)
Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential - Christmas flowers
Stampin for the Weekend- red, green, gold
Crafty Creations- lace and distressing
Crafty Catz- Red, green, silver

Mermaids in December!

We interrupt this Christmas season to bring you thoughts of warm weather and tropical days! I needed a little break from all of the Christmas cards, so when I saw a challenge issued from Charisma Cardz, Dreaming of Summertime, I thought this was a great chance for something different. The colors from Copic Colour Challenge fit in perfect for this tropical theme as well (Chrome Orange, Cerise and Yellow Green). I used the bonus sketch from Michelle Perkett Designs, and this is also her image, Tropical Rhapsody. I used a Martha Stewart branch punch to create my seaweed. My button embellishment started off as clear craft buttons, but I colored them with my copics.


This card is also for the following challenges:
LaLa Land- buttons
Cuttlebug Challenges- sparkle
By the Cute and Girly - Let's go to the Movies (Splash)

I am still sitting here writing this wearing a thick cashmere sweater, but at least I can pretend it is warm and sunny out!

Weave It!

The challenge at Stamptacular-Sunday Challenge this week was to weave something. I had been going to just weave a background plain and simple, but then thought, I wonder if there is some way to weave a snowflake ornament? I googled and found awesome instructions for weaving a paper snowflakes (see directions at HGTV). I used the Baby It's Cold Outside image from Sassy Studio Designs. I stitched around the edges with my sister's sewing machine, so I am using it for Everybody Art Challenge and Pixie Cottage Challenge. I think she turned out really cute!

A Christmas Wish Blog Hop

I am really excited to be participating in the first blog hop for the fabulous Michelle Perkett Studios! I am also very honored to have been named a member of her design team! This hop features the gorgeous Wishing Star Angel and also each designer will have the Christmas wish that they would make for someone else listed on their posting. You should have arrived from Tammy's blog, and after me you will head to Ellen's blog. Be sure to visit all of the blogs and leave a little love. when you are finished go to the Michelle Perkett Studio Challenge Blog, follow the directions and get a little gift! If you get lost, head back to the beginning at the Michelle Perkett Studio page at Paper Craft Planet (and if you don't belong to her group, sign up!)

My Christmas wish is for my sweet nephew Will-Will. Will is 8 years old and is a very special little boy. When he was 5 months old, he was diagnosed with an extremely rare neurological disorder called liscencephaly. Children with this disease are profoundly retarded and usually don't survive past 2 years old. He can't walk or talk, and has severe seizures. But he brings so much joy to me and my family with his sweet spirit. I was talking to a friend last week, and she said she believes babies are born not able to talk, because they've been in heaven with God - and we could not even comprehend the Glory of God that they would be able to share. That's what I always think about Will- that he smiles because he has a direct link to Jesus. So my wish and prayer would be for Will's seizures to stop and for him to be able to do things that he's never done, and some things that he just hasn't done in a long time. I also would wish peace and joy for my sister Lori. She is such a strong and amazing woman, and often people don't realize all that she has on her plate, but I love her and admire her.

Now, that I have tears streaming down my face, I can tell you that this card is not only my card for the hop, but for a ton of other challenges as well.
Papertake Weekly- sketch
Colour Create - Purple, aqua, black, white
Scrap, Stamp and Doodle - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - Swirly Girly
Stamp With Fun- Christmas
Stamp Something- Glitz
Pollycraft- Christmas
Creative Card Crew- Christmas
Pink Elephant - color something
Spoon Full of Sugar - Non-traditional Christmas colors
SophistiCat - Snowflakes and Sparkle
Kaboodle Doodles - Snowflake
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Winter Sparkle
2 red Bananas- Christmas
All that Scraps- Christmas
Crafty Cardmakers - non-traditional Christmas colors
Paper Cutz Challenge- Christmas image

A Special Challenge from Sassy Studio Designs

Can you tell I am feelin' a little Sassy? SSD has just been giving some great challenges, and with their awesome images, you just can't go wrong. Disney has a new animated movie being released - The Princess and the Frog. The challenge is to make a card inspired by the movie. I made a tri-fold shutter card. You can see the Prince and Princess frogs on the front (with Swarovski crystal crowns, no less.) When you open the card, the ballroom scene is revealed with the Prince and Princess kissing. On the left side the sentiment reads: Sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your Prince Charming. The right side reads: Happily Ever After. For a regal feel, I used SEI velvet papers, embossed in the cuttlebug, colored the chandeliers with Copic Spicas for sparkle, and added more green swarovski crystals on the inside. I think this card inspires magical romance! There is still time to play this challenge, if you want to have a go at it!