The Bathing Beauty

Hi Everyone
To all my new followers welcome and to everyone, thanks for stopping by today.

Have you ever started a card or project/design only to put it aside because you just couldn't get it all to come together. Well the card I am showing you falls into that category. I think I've had the card base for a year or close to it. Its a round step card and I added the round frame with smaller circles. I glittered the circles and then it sat ready for images and embellishments.

I had found the cutest image of a little girl in the bath tub, and as soon as I saw the stamp I thought of the card base, sitting, patiently waiting.

The next stumbling block was what else to add to this unusual card design. I finally decided I wanted to have bubbles floating in the air.

Let me show you how I made the background for the bubbles. What do you do with the plastic packs that hold a lot of the products that we buy? Throw that stuff away don't you. Well you may want to look at that stuff differently, now.

Here is an example of the plastic containers I am referring to. (sorry for the glare)

I cut the edges off and save the plastic for many different uses. This time I embossed a piece to use for the background.

It embosses nicely. Here is a sample for you to check out. (sorry for the glare)

OK are you wondering what this card looks like???

Here it is:

Here are some a close-up of that embossed background.

Here is a close view of the cute stamped image.

This card waited so long to become finished, and it turned out really cute. Hope you enjoy it.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Bubble Bath Ellie (Paper Nest Dolls Stamps)  Paper/Card Stock:White CS, Clipboard Ink: Black Tuxedo (Memento) Accessories: Circle Dies/Grand Circle Dies (Spellbinders), Ribbon, Bow maker tool (Craft-Dee BowZ), pearls (Fab Scraps), Embossing Folder (Sizzix), Markers (Memento) glitter, glue.

I am submitting this project in the following challenges:

• Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party by Craftin Desert Divas -  Glitter (# 15)
• Craft Your Passion -  - Girly Girl (# 56)
• Digi Sketch Challenge -  Sketch* and/or Theme: Glitter (# 5)
• Love to Create -- Make it Sparkle with Bling (# 31)
• Love to Scrap -  Anything Goes (# 63)
• Make it Monday - - Always Anything Goes (# 114)
• My Craft Creations -  Always Anything Goes ( #7)
• The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge -  Anything Goes ( #21)
• The Paper Nest Dolls Norway -  Use a Punch or Die ( #7)
• Whoopsi Daisy -  - 2 or more Die Cuts ( #20)
• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - SIO - #298 Ribbon(#16 )
• Stampotique Designers' Challenge - 1E, SIO, No digi stamps - #135 Acetate (#52 )

Thanks for stopping in today, see you soon

One So Dear

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for stopping in today. I have a quick post for you today.

My dear friend Linda called me yesterday to let me know that their boxer,Layla, had to be put down. It was very unexpected and very sad. My heart aches for them both Linda and her husband.

I made this little card to send them to let them know I am thinking of them in their time of grief.

The dog and the paw prints are from Great Impressions and the sentiment is from the Internet/Pinterest

Have a wonderful day.

Barbara

Craft-Dee BowZ Feb. Blog Hop winner

Hi Everyone,

Welcome back!!!  

Craft-Dee BowZ just announced the winner for the blog hop, so let me share the winner's name with you

It is

Darlene

Congratulations!!!


Please contact Barbara at the email below by February 15 (one week) to claim your prize. 

bbruder@fuse.net

Darlene please provide your name and mailing address so your Craft-Dee BowZ tool  can be mailed out to you. 

Thanks to everyone for participating in the Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop and leaving comments.
 I look forward to seeing you again at our next hop.

Just a reminder, stop back at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog for their weekly posts (each Tuesday) hosted by a different super talented design team member each week. 

Craft-Dee BowZ February Blog Hop

Hi Everyone

Thanks for stopping by today, if you arrived here from Robin's blog, then you are in the right spot. If not then you may want to start at the Craft-Dee BowZ  blog to be eligible for the prize that will be awarded. Leaving comments along the way on each designers blog will make you eligible for the blog hop prize of a Craft-Dee BowZ tool.

Let me share my card with you.

This card was so fun to make. Let me briefly explain how I designed the card:

I started with a white 5"X7"  panel. Then I used a heart die to cut the first heart on the bottom left portion of the panel. I placed the heart die for the second cut going off the edge of the panel on the right side. I left enough of the shape so that there would be no problem knowing it was a heart. Next I used a glue pen and outlined the hearts and covered with red glitter.

Now I made my triple loop fluffy bow and positioned it in the center of the space between the two hearts. I taped the bow tails on the back side of the panel. I cut another 5"X7" panel, using DP.and attached it under the white panel with dimensional foam.

I added a red strip of DP on top of a slightly larger pink strip. Attached the strip to the panel and added white punched hearts and pink flat backed pearls to the strip. I added red punched hearts across the top, a red framed sentiment with pearl accent and a section of a red rosette with a pearl in the center, to the panel to finish it. The last thing I did was to attach the panel to a 5"X7" card front.

Here is a close-up of my triple loop bow

I am the last of the designers in the blog hop. Please stop back at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to leave one last comment to be eligible for the prize of the Craft-Dee BowZ tool. (you must leave a comment on all the designers blogs and one on the Craft-Dee BowZ blog as well, for eligibility.)

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  sentiment - Stampendous (old stamp) Paper/Card Stock:- DP Authentique (All) Ink:- Memento -Rhubarb Stalk Accessories: Ribbon - Glitter- (Small Hearts - hand punch) - (Pink Pearls - Fab Scraps) (Heart Die - Sizzix)

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Crafty Sentiment Designs  - Love is in the air (#42 )
• Cuttlebug Mania - A Touch Of Red (#32 )
• Everybody-Art-Challenge- #264 Valentine (#54 )
• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday -  #257 Red & Love (#27 )
• Just Inspirational Challenges  - St Valentine /Love (#16 )
• Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge -For The One I Love (# 29)
• Loves Rubber Stamps - #89 Anything Goes (#84 )
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (#177 )
• Shopping Our Stash - #129 Love/Valentines Day (#38 )
• Sweet Stamps - # 155 Pink Red & White (#12 )
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#79 )

Thanks for participating in the blog hop and we hope you had fun and saw projects that sparked your creativity.

Always and Forever

Hi Everyone,
It's time for my regular monthly post for Craft-Dee BowZ. Don't you just love February, we celebrate Valentine's Day, Ground Hogs Day,( we are half way to spring), its Presidents Day this month, my birthday is this month......more on that later in the month. LOL

Have you noticed, the colors that seem to be used a lot on valentine cards are reds and pinks. Those are warm colors and with the winter we've had so far, we can take all the warmth we can get.LOL

One reminder, it's time for the bi-monthly Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop. The blog hop starts on Thursday, February 6, so mark your calendar because you will want to stop in and check out the hop and leave comments. Leaving comments will make you eligible to win your very own Craft-Dee BowZ  tool. The Craft-Dee BowZ tool really has made it easy for me to make beautiful bows for all my projects.Click here to order yours today. Or ask your sweetie to get one for you for Valentine's Day.

Here my card, designed with a Valentine theme.

Let me show you a close up of my single loop bow.

Those flowers on the card started out as a self adhesive border. I cut the flowers apart and cut some pieces of wire and adhered a flower to the front and to the back of the wire. Also these were white and I sprayed them with a red spray.  I used my Craft-Dee BowZ tool to make a simple and easy to make single loop bow. I used some pink DP for my card panel and the main card is red. So it looks like that I too used pink and red on my card. LOL

Well now it's time to get your Valentine cards finished. Hope I gave you some inspiration today.

Thanks for stopping in and have a great week. And I hope to see you back here Thursday. There will be some beautiful inspiration projects and just in time for your last minute Valentine cards and projects.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Inkadinkado - Birds Galore, Tom Holtz Sentiment Paper/Card Stock: Red, Designer Paper, White CS Ink: Memento Markers - Lady Bug, Bamboo Leaves, Espresso Coffee, Rich Cocoa Accessories:Craft-Dee BowZ tool, Color Wash - Cranberry, Red Gingham Tape, Washi Tape, Ribbons, Adhesive Border made into flowers,

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #38 Anything Goes.(#131)
• One Stitch At A Time - Challenge #198 Anything Goes(#65 )
• Pile It On -  Challenge #5 Add Ribbon to creations(# 56)
• Robyn`s Fetish -CHALLENGE # 197 - Valentine's Cards.(# 40)
• Scribble and Scrap - Challenge #11 (1st Week) Always Anything Goes.(# 71) 
• That Craft Place -) Valentine/Love (#61 )
• The Corrosive Challenges -  Feel the Love (# 43)

Thanks for stopping by today

To My Valentine

Happy February everyone.
Time for the February challenge over at Craft-Dee BowZ. Let me share with you the inspiration card I made for the challenge post over there.

I used my Craft-Dee BowZ tool to make my fluffy multi-loop bow and it turned out really nice.

Let me share a little bit about how I made this card.

I like using 5"X7" card, it gives me more room to work with. (a bigger canvas as I sometimes will call it.)A lot of times I will start out with a card stock panel which is a bit smaller than the front of the card and make the card front and attach it to the actual card.

In making this card, I used designer paper (DP) for the background, and added paper doilies under 3 of the sides to add more visual interest. I then added that layer to the red panel. Next I made a triple loop bow using my Craft-Dee BowZ tool and added that to the side of the red panel. Then I found the cutest digital Valentine's image from Graphics Fairy (sentiment is on that image) and attached that on the DP layer. I then attached the panel to the card front. I decided to add hearts and thought that attaching them to red and white twine would look really nice.I used 2 strands of bakers twine about 7" long.  I cut 8 larger and 12 smaller hearts and sandwiched the twine between two hearts. I positioned the twine behind the bow and let the hearts dangle freely. And the card is done. Using the two sizes of hearts on the twine gave this card the finishing touch.

Here is a close-up of those hearts.

My bow is made using my Craft-Dee BowZ tool. Its a tool that is always on my table. It makes bow making a breeze. If you are a challenged bow maker this tool is the answer to your prayers.

This Thursday will be the bi-monthly Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop. You will want to come to the hop for lots of inspiration from the design team ladies and a chance to win your very own Craft-Dee BowZ tool. The blog hop starts on Thursday, February 6, so mark your calendar because you will want to stop in and check out the hop and leave comments. Leaving comments will make you eligible to win your very own Craft-Dee BowZ tool. The Craft-Dee BowZ tool really has made it easy for me to make beautiful bows for all my projects.Click here to order yours today. Or ask your sweetie to get one for you for Valentine's Day.



I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

• Everybody-Art-Challenge - #263 Heart (#80 )
• LEJ Designs  - #85 Anything Goes (#267 )
• Party Time Tuesdays - PTTYDD #157 Anything Goes (#109 )
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#143 )
• Twisted Tuesday  - Theme:  Use Tape  Twist: Use something that starts with a T, A, P or E (Week 2) (I Used Twine) (# 32)
• 4 Crafty Chicks -  #179 Anything Goes (# 90)
• 4 Krafty Girlz -  # 10 Anything Goes (#253 )
  
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - #99- Sharing the Love (#27 )
• C.R.A.F.T. - W, 5E -#244 Love/Valentines (# 48)

That's it for today. I hope to see you Thursday at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop.And thanks for stopping in today.