Just Because

 Hello Everyone!!

Hope all is well with you all.

It's time for the 2nd Creative Moments challenge of the month

Creative Moments is a bi monthly challenge blog and the challenges begin on the 7th and 22nd of each month. I will be participating in the challenges on the 22nd of each month. 

The theme is always Anything Goes 

The sponsor for this challenge is 

Beccy's Place

I am using a digital image from the set

Christmas Cardinals 

Check out their site, Beccy's Place has a lot of beautiful
 and oh so creative, digital sets

Here is my finished card

This is a cool digi and would make a great birthday card for a January birthday. Or a Christmas card, (OK, I know, Christmas is over - haha)

Perfect for a guy, huh??

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Digital  Beccy's Place - Christmas Cardinals Paper/Card Stock:  White CS, Red CS, DP, Gold CS Dies Used:  Spellbinders Circles, Dee's Distinctively - Pine Sprigs Accessories: Spectrum Noir, Embossing Folder, Nuvo Drops

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• A Bit More Time to Craft  #132 - Always Anything Goes (#110)
• A Perfect Time To Craft  Always Anything Goes (#359)
• Classic Design  Challenge (M, P1) Always Anything Goes (#255)
• Crafts Galore Encore (M, P1, E3) Always Anything Goes (#158)
• Crafty Animals-Always Anything Goes (#191)
• Creative Craft Cottage Challenges - #136 - Must use a Digi (#121)
• Day of the Month Cart Club  #23 - National Bird Day (#25)
• Dies R Us Challenge  #161 - Anything Goes (58)
• DL.Art Linky Challenge  Always Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede  #412 - Always Anything Goes (#59)

Submit a project to the challenge over at Creative Moments, 

who knows, you could be the next winner

I hope that every one of you is staying safe. 

I'll be back soon

Happy Holidays

Hi there! WOW!!! September has arrived and Fall will be here in a few weeks. I have been making Christmas cards and I have a darling one for you today. 

Since it's the 1st of September, it's time for the next challenge over at Craft-Dee BowZ

The sponsor for this challenge is Beccy's Place

The prize will be
1 Digital Set 

The Craft-Dee BowZ theme is always 
Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow

Let me share my project and I hope it gives you some holiday inspiration

My adorable penguin is from the
Finn's Scarf Digital set

He is perfect for a Christmas card or even a winter card.

Please visit Beccy's Place because she has a great selection of digital stamps. I'm sure you will find something that will be perfect for your project. 

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digital - Beccy's Place Finn's Scarf, Rubber Stamp - Hero Arts Holiday Ribbons (Really old set) Paper/Card Stock: Blue CS, White CS, Silver CS Ink: Memento - Danube Blue, Summer Sky; Ranger Distress Ink - Picket Fence,  Dies Used: Spellbinders - Pendents - Lattice, Scalloped Oval.  Accessories: Ribbon, Hug Snug Seam Binding, Snowflake Brad, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Foam Ink Pods, Darice Embossing Folders - Snowflakes, Kreaxions Punch - #312

I am submitting my card in the following challenges: 

• Crafty Friends Challenge   - #91 - Animals / Birds (#94)
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#85) 
• The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes (#97)
• The Creative Crafters  #7 - Anything Goes (#79)
• Sunny Day Crafting - Always add an Animal (#74)
• Paru's Card Making Challenge September - Anything Goes (#9)
• Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge   September - Anything Goes (#24)
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#33)

I hope you enjoyed my project and will submit your project in the challenge. The challenge will close on September 30.  I'd love to see what you've been working on. 
Your creative project could be our next monthly winner

 Well, that's it for today. I hope you stop back on Tuesday. 
I'll have another project for you to check out

Thinking of You

Hello everyone. 

How is your week going so far?? Great I hope. 

The next Crafty Creations Challenge has begun 

and you have til August 7th to get your project submitted.

Don't forget the theme is always Anything Goes.

The sponsor of this challenge is Beccy's Place and she has the nicest digi sets. 

Prize -  1 set - winners choice.

If you are looking for something special, start at Beccy's Place. 

All of her digi's are sold in sets and I love them because everything in the set goes together.

I decided to use an image from Beccy's Place in the Index of Freebies - Poppies

I used colored pencils and some gamsol to color and shade these beautiful poppies.

After I finished coloring I decided to give the flowers some dimension so I colored the flowers on another print and fussy cut them out and used a stylus to give the flowers some curves. Using that stylus also added so shine to the flowers. 
I am sure it was because I was adding pressure in a swirling motion over the pencil lead. 

Next, I popped the flowers up, right on top of the original print.

Here is a closer view to show what this looks like up close.

Those flowers look great in person. I love adding dimension to flowers on a card. 

I think it makes the flowers come alive.

I sponged on some Old Paper ink to the edge of the label shape to break up that stark white.

Next, I added a sentiment and the card is completed.

I hope you've enjoyed this project and will link up with us for this challenge! 

Remember, all of our challenges are Anything Goes. 

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digital - Beccy's Place - Poppies Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Red CS, Green CS, DP Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Antique Paper Dies Used: Spellbinders Grand Labels Four, Impression Obsession - Greeting Set. Accessories: Prisma Colored pencils, gamsol, Tim Holtz Blending Tool. Spectrum Noir gray - for outlining, dimensional foam

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Crafty Sentiment Designs  -  Anything Goes (#6)
• Digi Choosday Challenge - #30 - Anything Goes (#8)
• Through The Craft Room Door   Always Anything Goes (#13)
• A Bit More Time to Craft  #72 - Anything Goes (#102)
• A Perfect Time To Craft   #7 - Always Anything Goes (#156)
• Card Mania  #106 - Anything Goes (#248)
• Country View Crafts' Challenge  July - In the Summer Garden (#85)
• Crafts Galore Encore   July - Always Anything Goes (#125)
• Digistamps 4 Joy (M, P1, E3, SIO) #150 - Anything Goes + optional : Summer or Winter (#63)
• Love to Scrap (M, P1, E5, digis or stamping)  #111 - Anything Goes (#170)
• Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  July - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper (#361)
• Scrap From Your Heart  #23 - Anything Goes (#69)

• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#54)

Well, that's it for now. Thanks for stopping by today, see you soon.

Happy Birthday to You

Hello everyone

Time for the next Crafty Creations Challenge

The sponsor of this challenge is Beccy's Place and she has the cutest digi sets. 

Prize -  1 set - winners choice.

If you are looking for something cute, start at Beccy's Place. All of her digi's are sold in sets but I love them because they go together.

I chose a darling train pull toy and it's perfect for a little boy. 'Cause little boys all seem to love trains. The image I am using is in the Precious Baby digital set

I decided to make my card really simple. I colored my train and used an oval die to cut it out. I mounted a pretty blue holographic paper under the train.I decided to add some smoke coming of the smokestack so I hand drew and cut the puffs of smoke, I popped them up using foam.

Those tickets were a perfect spot for the sentiment.

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digital - Beccy's Place, Clear stamps - Sentiment - Stampabilities Everyday Expressions Paper/Card Stock: Red CS, White CS, Blue Holographic Paper Ink: Black  Dies Used:  Spellbinders Ovals, Sizzix - Tickets Accessories: Dimensional foam, Spectrum Noir

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

• Artistic Inspirations  #195 ANYTHING GOES   (#150)
• Color Inspiration Monday - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES WITH HAND-COLORED IMAGE (#2)
• Colouring in Scrapland -   ANTYHING GOES (#15)
• Crafting from the Heart - #198 ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES (#39)
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - #1810 -  ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES (#23)
• Use Your Stuff -  #303 DIE CUTS (#18)
• Angie's Digital Stamps - (March)Anything Goes (#22)

I hope you’ve enjoyed my project. Hope you will link a project in the latest Crafty Creations Challenge. Don’t forget the theme is always Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by and I will be back Saturday. Hope you can stop back then.

Merry Christmas - Late

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

The new year, 2018,  has begun. WOW!! 

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or whatever holiday you celebrate.

Since it is the beginning of a new year, it's time to get back into the crafting groove 

and what better way to start it off, than with the Craft-Dee BowZ monthly challenge.

The sponsor this month is Beccy's Place.

Beccy's Place digi's are sold in sets and she has a great selection to choose from.

Check them out here.

The digi I am using is called the Christmas Lantern.

I have had this digi for a while and I just love it. The flowers and the holly really accent this image.

I embossed the background and lightly rubbed a little gray ink to just highlight that embossed area. 

I used the Merry Christmas sentiment, but Happy New Year would be appropriate as well.

I colored the lantern and flowers and then I printed another image and cut another holly section to use over the flower section.  I offset the flowers at the bottom of the lantern for added dimension. Next, I added flowers and more holly leaves to the top right to balance out the card.

The handmade bow is made using sheer ribbon. 

Using my personal favorite ribbon to make the bow with.

I made a double loop bow.

And I used my Craft-Dee BowZ tool, to make my bow.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my project. 

Hope you will link a project in the Craft-Dee BowZ monthly challenge. 

Don’t forget the theme every month is always Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow.  

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digi - Beccy's Place  Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Green CS Ink: Momento -London Fog Accessories: Ribbon, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Spectrum Noir Markers

I am submitting my project to the following challenges:

• A Gem of a Challenge  - Anything Christmas Goes Ends 6th January 2018  (#199)
• Allsorts    - Seasonal Flowers ends 5th January (#48)
• Imagine That! Creative Playground  December - Anything Crafty Goes (#32)
• Colour Crazy Challenge - No.51 - Anything Goes (#39)
• Creative Fingers -   No. 141 - Anything Goes  (#24)
• Fussy and Fancy - No. 202 - Christmas (W2 of 2) returns January 11th (#105)
• Winter Wonderland - Anything Christmas Goes Ends 19th January 2018 (#281)

Thanks for stopping by today

Heaven and Nature Sing

Hello Everyone,

Do you know it's just 6 weeks til Christmas?  Whew, where has this year gone????? card 

It's the 1st Tuesday of November and that means it's time for me share a Craft-Dee BowZ project

I'm in the Christmas mode so I want to share a card that is in the Christmas spirit.

Beccy's Place is the sponsor for the November challenge at Craft-Dee BowZ

The prize is 1 digital set

The challenge runs until Nov.29 so you have plenty of time to create something and enter it.

Since we are really in the Christmas season already, I decided to make a Christmas card and I decided to use a bird image. I love birds and this one really caught my eye.

This cutie is in the Baby Robin set

1 bird and 4 sentiments come in this set

and the bird can be used the year round.

I used colored pencils to color this bird. Gamsol was used to blend/shade. In my humble opinion, colored pencils used with gamsol offer a great way to blend/shade and to go from one color to another seamlessly. I feel I have more control with pencils and gamsol.

 I decided to use just a 2 loop bow on this card. 

Here's a closer look

 If you struggle with making a bow, let me suggest the Craft-Dee BowZ bow making tool.  It can make a bow anywhere from 1" to 4" in size. The tool is handy, portable and it's a tool that is so easy to use. Besides the instructions that accompany the tool itself, there are online videos that make it easy to follow along.

To order your very own, 

visit the Craft-Dee BowZ blog and the ordering spot is on the left sidebar.

These make great Christmas gifts, too.

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• A Snowflakes Promise  #45- Anything Goes (#205)
• Cardz 4 Guyz   #182 - Oh, Christmas Tree(#205)
• Creates and Makes  #16 - Anything Goes (#66)
• Digi Choosday Challenge - #45 - Anything Goes (#13)
• Lemon Shortbread  #54 - Always Anything Goes (Week 1) (#8)
• Retarte  - #109 - Anything Goes  (week 2) (#11)
• The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge -  #18 - Anything Christmas Goes  (#95)
• Unicorn Challenge  November - Anything Goes (#11)

Thanks for stopping in today

I'll be back soon

Candy Canes

Hello Everyone

November 1, WOW!!! do you believe it! 

Next month we will be in the midst of preparing for Christmas.

The November Challenge has started over at Craft-Dee BowZ.  

So you have all month to submit a project 

Theme - Anything Goes and include a Handmade Bow

Sponsor - Beccy's Place

Prize - 1 Stamp Set

With the holidays getting closer, I thought I'd make a tag and a small pillow box gift box
for my inspiration piece.

The pillow box was cut from an Accu-Cut die. I've had the die for years and comes in handy for a medium size gift box. I used white cardstock for the box and added a 2" strip of red CS and then stacked a 1" strip of designer paper on top. Next, I added a gold multi-loop bow to finish the box off.

Here is a closer look at the pillow box.

The tag - now that came together in a funny way.  A while ago I had cut out 3 different sizes of poinsettias on a red piece of cardstock for a different project and I saved the cutout piece. So, for this larger tag, I was looking around for something to use as a background. I spied that piece that I had already cut out and it was a great fit. I trimmed it up and added glitter in the cutout spaces. Finally, I added the candy cane image over the red background panel and used some of that gold sheer ribbon to use as the string on the tag.

Here is a closer view of the tag.

 If you struggle with making a bow, let me suggest the Craft-Dee BowZ bow making tool.  It's easy to use and can make a bow anywhere from 1" to 4" in size. The tool is handy, portable and it's a tool that is easy to use. Besides the instructions that accompany the tool itself, there are online videos that make it easy to follow along.

To order one, click here

I hope you’ve enjoyed my project. 
I'd love to see you link a project in the Craft-Dee BowZ monthly challenge. 
Don’t forget the theme every month is always 
Anything Goes include a Handmade Bow.  
Also, on each Tuesday of the month, 
a different designer will post over on the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to inspire you! 

I have the 1st Tuesday of the month, so stop back next Tuesday (November 7)
 to see what I have made.

I am submitting my project in the following challenges:

• Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes for Christmas (#162)
• Crafting By Designs -  November Anything Goes (#39)
• Creative Moments - Always anything Goes (#28)
• Inspiration Destination - Always Anything Goes (#37)
• Paper Shelter Challenge - Use a Digi (#18)
• Simon Says Stamp - Christmas Gift Tag (#15)
• Sunny Day Crafting - W, #59 - "R" is for Ribbon (#4)
• The Merry Christmas Challenge -  #41 - Anything Christmas (#20)
• Wonderful Wednesdays - W, SIO - Always Anything Goes (#16)
• Beccy's Challenges -  Month of Holiday Cards Challenge (#15)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and 

I’ll be back next Tuesday with another Craft-Dee BowZ project 

Hope to see you then.

Birthday Wishes

Hi Everyone and welcome back

Its the first Tuesday of the month  so that means its my turn to post over at Craft-Dee BowZ

A really good friend of mine is celebrating her birthday today,

 so the card I am showing you today is the card I made for her.

Since Beccy's Place it the sponsor over at Craft-Dee BowZ for April, I decided to use one of the images I have in my treasure trove of digital images.

(It's an oldie but a goodie, not available anymore)

I decided to use a floral image since we are in spring - it is spring isn't it??

 It's still cooler here in N.KY but supposed to get warmer and wetter. Oh well its not snow. LOL

I love this floral sprig. I actually used 2 sprigs, one is flipped to give me a mirror image. 

Then I arranged these to make it look like a really full bouquet.

That sentiment is a die cut,  I cut one in that light purple and I cut another in black. 

Then I mounted the two in an off-set manner.

Here is a closer view of my bow.

 I made 2 single loop bows, one a little larger than the other and stacked them. 

I just love this look and its so easy to do.

If you are bow challenged, like I used to be,

order a Craft-Dee BowZ tool here and you will be an expert in no time.

Let me show you the inside of this card.

The flower is just a portion of the original flower sprig, I needed to make the inside look great as well.

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digi Beccy's Place - Flower Sprig (No longer available) ClearStamps - inside sentiment - My Sentiments Exactly -Birthday Sentiments Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Purple CS, Lt Purple CS, Black CS, DP, White Pearl shimmer paper Ink: Memento - Grape Jelly Dies Used: Impression Obsession -Square Cutout Border, Heartfelt Creations - Decorative Oval,  sentiment - unknown Accessories: Ribbon, pearls, Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page -Fan, Spectrum Noir Markers - Various colors, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Liquid Glue

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• 613 Avenue Create - #196 (April) Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Spring has Sprung (#41)
• Addicted to Stamps  - Challenge #145  (#30)
• Colour Your World with Lacy Sunshine -   Always Anything Goes
• Dare 2B Artzy Challenges -  (April) Anything Goes (#17)
• The Ribbon Girls -  Any Card +Ribbon  (#49)
• A Bit More Time to Craft  -  Always Anything Goes (#76)
• A Perfect Time To Craft - Always Anything Goes (#43)
• Aussie Digital Artists Open Challenge - Always Anything Goes (#19)
• Card Mania #91 - April Showers bring May Flowers (#26)
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge  - Always Anything Goes (#51)
• Crafts Galore Encore (M, P1, E3) April - Always Anything Goes (#42)
• Creatalicious Challenges  #112 - Anything Goes + Option: add Flowers (#71)
• Delicious Doodles Challenge April - Ribbon and Flower  (#4)
• Noor! Designs UK  April - Flowers (#15)
• Pearly Sparkles Challenge  #15 - Anything Goes (#17)
• Sweet Stampers  #5 - Easter or Spring (#85)
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#99)

Thanks for stopping in today Have a great day and I will be back soon.