Sentimental Sundays #5 - Thankful

Welcome back for a new challenge with Sentimental Sundays. This is challenge #5, and the theme is: Thankful

I've used one of Ann's lovely sentiments from Annika's Sentiments, a set that you'll find on this week's challenge post! The little boy and his dog are Bobby and Me by Penny Johnson (Stampavie).

Be sure to use a sentiment somewhere on your card, and to follow the theme however you may interpret it. While Ann (Raindrop Echo Designs) offers fabulous freebies, and also sells a wide variety of sentiment stamps at Whimsy Stamps, you are free to use any sentiment. Be sure to link up on the Sentimental Sundays blog before the next challenge to be in the running for a fabulous prize, and use a direct link to make it easy for us to find your new card or project!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Tuesday Throwdown #1: Use Any Image
My Time to Craft Challenge #93: Vivid Greeting Cards
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge #24: Round and Round

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Flutter By Wednesday #111

Challenge #111 is an open week at Flutter By Wednesday! Please use a butterfly, faerie, or angel on your new card or project. When your card/project is ready, please add a direct link to your work on the FBW blog. This is our last week before a one month break, so be sure to mark your calendars that we'll be back in July!

I used Coriander on this card, she's a Sweet November stamp by Amy Young (for C. C. Designs).

Thanks for stopping by!

Sentimental Sundays #4 - Get Well

Welcome back for a new challenge with Sentimental Sundays. This is challenge #4, and the theme is: Get Well

I've used one of Ann's lovely sentiments from the Get Well Soon Sentiments set, along with a cute little mouse and flower from Bugaboo.

Be sure to use a sentiment somewhere on your card, and to follow the theme however you may interpret it. While Ann (Raindrop Echo Designs) offers fabulous freebies, and also sells a wide variety of sentiment stamps at Whimsy Stamps, you are free to use any sentiment. Be sure to link up on the Sentimental Sundays blog before the next challenge, and use a direct link to make it easy for us to find your fabulous card or project!

I'm entering this card into these challenges as well:
Everybody Art Challenge #91: Using their fabulous sketch
SPCC #48: Color Challenge of Old Olive, Crushed Curry, and Tempting Turquoise
My Time to Craft Challenge #92: Theme of Under the Weather

Flutter By Wednesday #110

Challenge #110 is another theme week at Flutter By Wednesday! In addition to using a butterfly, faerie, or angel on your new card or project, the theme this week is flowers. A great time of year for inspiration with the flowers blooming in many parts of the world. Thanks goes to Kris for this fun theme! When your card/project is ready, please add a direct link to your work on the FBW blog.

I've used Fleur Anya from The Greeting Farm, and a butterfly from Studio Calico in making this card.  The flowers and leaves are made usng Marvy and EK Success punches.

Cowgirl Up Blog Hop and Challenge #2

Welcome to a special day for Cowgirl Up Stamps, and the Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge #2. You should have arrived here from Jovita's Blog, but if you've gotten yourself turned around, please stop back at the Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge blog to get back on track.

To help celebrate the Grand Opening of Cowgirl Up Digital Stampen Ranch, we're having a blog hop! Here are a few exciting points you don't want to miss:

1. Every stamp in the new store is 25% the regular price until May 31, 2010.

2. We have a sponsor this week, Crafty Ribbons, who are sharing some lovely goodies:

3. With your digital stamp purchase of $5 or more you will receive a lovely stamp for free!  9you can take a peek right HERE)

4. The blog hop winner will also get the Freebie, along with 2 additional stamps of their choice, and a $5 coupon to be used in the store.

You must leave a comment on each of the blogs you visit in the hop and as you stop by you are also collecting numbers from each of these blogs. My number is 14! you'll want to start at the beginning with the Cowgirls Sunday Challenge. Please follow the directions on the challenge blog for entering your total for a chance to win!

This week we have a color challenge that is one of my favorite color combinations: Red, Black, and White. I've chosen to use the lovely winged Angela on my card. While we would love to see you use one of the Cowgirl Up Stamps from the Digital Stampen Ranch, please feel free to follow the challenge with a any stamp that works with the week's theme.

Please continue on for the blog hop by visiting the lovely Marion's blog!  Have fun, and happy hopping!

Sentimental Sundays #3

Wow, where do the weekends slip away to? Well here is a fun point to add to your week, a new challenge with Sentimental Sundays. Be sure to stop by the blog and see the fun creations by the rest of the design team!  This is challenge #3, and the theme is:
New Beginnings

I've used one of Ann's lovely sentiments from a Celebration set. I was thinking of new relationships, the similarities and differences that bring people together, and of the variety in the beautiful new flowers of Spring.  The flowers are stamped from a Basic Grey set.

You must use a sentiment somewhere on your card, and follow the theme however you may interpret it, in order to enter the challenge. While Ann (Raindrop Echo Designs) offers fabulous freebies, and also sells a wide variety of sentiment stamps through Whimsy Stamps, you are free to use any sentiment you choose (from any company, one of your own, etc). Be sure to link up on the Sentimental Sundays blog before the next challenge, and use a direct link to make it easy for us to find your fabulous card or project!

I'm entering this card into these challenges as well:
I Love Digi #7: Charming
Clean and Simple #90: Sketch (their sketches are really helping me clean up cards!)
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge # 83: Metal (Charm)
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges #23: Metal Mania (Charm)
ColourQ Challenge #32: Kiwi Kiss, Groovy Guava, Kraft, Basic Black, Vanilla
Oh La La Creations Challenges #53:  Minimalist

Rycher - A Darque Obsession at Stamp Happens

This hunky male vampire is 'Rycher', and he's part of the new 'Darque Obsession' line at Stamp Happens.

(an extreme close-up, as the glasses look much less intense in real life, more like a golden sheen over the black)

Isn't Rycher just yummy? Tonya had such a wonderful vision in having these stamps drawn up. My first thought when I saw Rycher was that he could easily look like Eric from HBO's True Blood (I'm a huge fan of the Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris, and of course cannot miss an episode of True Blood), so I've colored him up with Eric in mind. My second thought was that he's what I'd imagine Wrath from the Black Dagger Brotherhood series of books by J.R. Ward to look like. Both are fabulous characters, and I will have a great time coloring this digi up to look like either of them, or someone completely new.

There are 3 new digi stamps being released today, and this time they are the fabulous men with fangs:

Be sure to stop by Stamp Happens to see the wonderful cards made with these sexy vampire men.

Look What's Coming...

Please join us this Sunday (May 16, 2010) for the Grand Opening Hop for...

 Cowgirl-Up Digital Stamp'en Ranch!

Be sure to stop by and join us for the Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge as well!

A Touch of Christmas #19

This is week #19 for A Touch of Christmas, and I've used a Memory Box stamp with PTI cardstock to create this card. I ran the white cardstock through with a Sizzix Texturz plate that resembles snowflakes, but getting a good picture of it proved nearly impossible. I also used the fun piercing set from Bazzill to add a bit more interest. I do have a hard time with CAS, but I'm trying!

Challenges entered:

Totally Papercrafts #15: For the faux stitiching

For Fun Challenges:  Anything Goes

Flutter by Wednesday #109

Flutter By Wednesday challenge #109, is a theme week. In addition to using a butterfly, faerie, or angel on your new card or project, we would like you to do some paper piecing! I love the look of paper piecing, so if you're looking for someone to blame for this challenge that would be me! When your card/project is ready, please add a direct link to your work on the FBW blog.

The adorable faerie image and sentiment I've used is from Sweet November, Fruit of the Month - Banana (by Amy Young) and is sold by C.C. Designs. Of course I had a lot of fun paper piecing her hat and dress!

Sentimental Sundays

The Official Announcement for the Sentimental Sundays Design Team was posted last night, so we can share the news! As a thank you to everyone who applied for a position, Ann has posted a free sentiments set so be sure to stop over for that fabulous download. While you're there don't forget to add yourself as a follower!

The Mother of All Blog Hops

Welcome to the Mother of All Blog Hops with There She Goes!

*Please Note* If you have not arrived here from Joy's blog (Crazy for Daisies), please hop back to There She Goes to get back on track! You don't want to miss finding out about the exciting prizes being offered with the blog hop!

The set I chose to work with is 'Fairy Good Day'. Such a cute collection of stamps, and I had a lot of fun creating a card to show some of them off!

After visiting with me, your next stop is at Paper in the Works with the amazing Kim Teasdale! Happy Hopping!

Darcy - A Darque Obsession at Stamp Happens

This gorgeous image is 'Darcy', and she's part of the new 'Darque Obsession' line available today at Stamp Happens.

Beautiful right? Did you see those dainty fangs? I'm a big fan of the preternatural (vampires, werewolves, faeries, etc), so of course I was thrilled and eager to participate when Tonya asked if I'd like to join in on the excitement of their release!

There are 3 digi stamps in this first release of Darque Obsession, and these are the lovely ladies:

Be sure to stop by Stamp Happens to see the fabulous cards made from these new lovelies, and to see what goodies Tonya may have waiting for you there!

Meet Tiare, a sweet little Faerie

Meet Tiare, she's a Cowgirl Up cutie by CJ, with just a touch of attitude. She's also a faerie, which I just love! You can see more of CJ's work by visiting the challenge blog, Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge, where the DT hangs out!  The sentiment used is by Ann Vento from Raindrop Echo Designs, from The Basics Collection that can be found on the Sentimental Sundays Challenge Blog.

Just a few challenges entered:
Sentimental Sundays #2: For Someone Special
Color Throwdown #91: Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, and Kiwi Kiss  (I actually had to paint some stripes to match the turquoise in this challenge, that was kind of fun!)
Tuesday Morning Sketches #44: Fabulous Sketch!
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #81: Friendship

A Touch of Christmas #18

Welcome back for A Touch of Christmas #18! This week I've used a sweet little House Mouse stamp to make a gift tag. My holiday tag box is starting to fill up, a tiny bit anyway!

Flutter By Wednesday #108

This week at Flutter By Wednesday, challenge #108, is an open week. Just use a butterfly, faerie, or angel on any new card or project and add a direct link to your work on the FBW blog. This week is a special treat, because we're also being sponsored by Meljen's Designs. Melissa was kind enough to share some of her digital stamps for us to create with, and I've chosen this sweet image to use, the Pixie Dust Fairy.

The winner of this week's challenge will have the opportunity to choose 4 digital stamps from the Meljen's Designs store. To learn more about Meljen's Designs, and this weeks challenge, please visit the Flutter By Wednesday challenge blog.

A Thanks to Keep on Hand

A Thank You card to have on hand. Seems like I make so many cards and very few are for something specific. Something I really need to work on, so I used this little Shelly digi.  I've also added a Thanks stamp by AmyR ( from C.C. Designs)!

The challenges this card was made for:
Crazy 4 Challenges #35: I used their fabulous sketch
I Love Digi Challenge #6: Thank You theme
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #57: A Celebration for Moms (use woman/lady)
Cute Card Thursday #110: Make Your Own (Shelly is my own doodling)

Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge #1

Welcome to the first of the Cowgirl's Sunday Challenges! The challenge this week is a theme challenge for Mother's Day or Spring.

For my card I chose sweet little Mackizne, and used the Mother's Day theme.

Be sure to stop by the challenge blog to learn more about entering, and to see the fun cards each of the DT has shared! HERE

To learn more about the Cowgirl Up Stamps, please visit CJ's blog: HERE

What I used on this card: The DP is from My Mind's Eye, the crystal pin is from Maya Road, the sentiment is by Ann at Raindrop Echo, and the flower (Marvy) and leaves (EK Success) are made with punches.

Kyle

Here's a little cutie from Cowgirl Up Stamps by CJ, his name is Kyle. I'm sure I'll be using him again in the future, because he'd be perfect for a boy birthday too.

I'm entering him into the following challenges:
The Shabby Tea Room #7: Comforts of Home (I used the colors and the little boy, as my having my son is a huge comfort in my life)
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #28: Make a Shaped Card (or project)
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #48: Shaped Card (no square or rectangle)