Indian Betty - SBS Fan Page Challenge

Hi friends and Happy Black Friday!  Are you all out there shopping til you drop or staying in where it's warm and cozy.  I'm NOT going Black Friday shopping at the Malls, but I will be going with my extended family to take part in an annual family tradition.  Every year we go to Old Town Spring in Spring, Texas.  They have all kinds of shops and we walk around outside and visit as many of them as we can.  There are a few that are on the must go to list.  Then there is always lunch at Puffabelly's.  If I had time, I'd post a photo.  Maybe later when I get home.  It's always fun and we have over 20 of us that go.  This year that includes my older brother and his wife who came in from New Jersey to celebrate with us after about 8 years.

Getting to the job at hand.  I don't have time this morning to get all the details down for this challenge, but I wanted to get my blog post up so I could attach it to the challenge.  I will come back later and fill in all the missing details.

Materials Used:

• Image - Simply Betty Stamps - Little Indian Betty\
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - 
•  Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up - Real Rust, Ultrasmooth Vanilla
•  Designer Paper - Authentique - Thankful
• Accessories - Ribbon and feathers - from my stash; My Favorite Things - Border Die
• Copic Markers - BG0000, BG01; Hiar - C5, C7, C9; Skin - E11, E13, E15, E04; Lips - R89; Shadow E000, E01; Bow - E47; R43, R46; Dress & Shoes - E31, E33, E35; BG01; Trim - YR02, YR07; Feathers in Hair - YR01, YR02, YR07; YG61, YG63, YG67.

I'm submitting this card for the following challenges:

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Stampin With the Dragon - Autumn Colors
Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
The Crafter's Cafe Challenge - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Simply Betty Stamps Fan Page Challenge - Indian Betty  - Use feathers
Use It Tuesday - Hoarded item - Feathers
Anonymous Stamps - Anything Goes
Card Mania - Autumn Colors
Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes
Melonheadz Friends - Fall Colors
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes
Stamp and Create - Feathers or Leaves

Sweet Day - CCC No. 50

Hi my friends!  Happy Tuesday. I hope your plans for the Thanksgiving holiday are all set.  I'll be spending time with my sister's family and our extended family.  It's always a fun time.  We do lots of family activities over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Well, something new has been added to my blog that has a connection to my recent Copic workshop Dallas trip.  I met Mari at the workshops.  Mari is the owner of the Creative Card Crew Challenge blog.  While at the workshops, she invited me to apply for her DT for Creative Card Crew and I really wasn't sure that I would have the time to be on another Design Team so I told her probably not.  But after I got home and checked it out, I decided that it would be a fun group to be associated with, so I did apply and she accepted me!  This is my first card for them and the theme is Anything Goes with Sweet Treats! How fun.  I loved using this cute stamp and creating my card.

Ingredients:

• Image - Lili of the Valley - Surprise
• Sentiment - MFT - Birthday Girl
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Bashful Blue and Blushing Bride; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - DCWV - The Sweet Stack
• Accessories - Flowers ; Flourish Die; SU Large Oval Punch; Martha Stewart - Leaf Branch Punch
• Copic Markers - B21, B41, B52; E000, E00, E01, E21, E23, E41, E43, E44, E47, E71, E74, E77, E79; R81, R83, R85; Y19; W10

Our sponsor for this fortnight is the fabulous Scrapping Center.

Prize: $15 Gift Voucher to the Scrapping Center.

Pop on over to the Creative Card Crew Challenge Blog and check out what the rest of the Design Team has created for your inspiration then come join in the fun, get inky, and you might be the lucky prize winner for this time.

I am submitting this to the following challenges:

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Pink and Brown

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Anonymous Stamps - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspiration challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes

My Craft Creations - anything Goes

Ooh-la-la Creations - Birthday

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Scribble & Scrap Crafts - Anything Goes

Colour Me Creative Challenge - Anything Goes

Just some Lines - 3 or more embellishments

Paper Creators Crafts - Birthdays

Newspaper Man - OSAAT 190

Hi my friends! I hope you're doing well.  We had a little bit of a cold spell this week, but it has warmed up again.  Well, in spite of a flat tire and getting lost and driving round and round for an hour, I had a great time last weekend.!  LOL!   I was up in Dallas at the Copic Color & Ink Workshops event.  We learned about so many different techniques using those Copic markers and reinkers.  It was also great to see Colleen Schaan again and to meet Cindy Lawrence, both super nice and seeing Colleen again was like meeting up with an old friend

This week at One Stitch at a Time the theme is to Use a Digi - any project as long as you use a digi image.  Our sponsor this week is our own StitchyBear Digi Outlet with the prize of the complete set of images that the DT used in challenge #188.  To win the main prize you MUST use an Image from our store.  Runner up prize for a person using non store image is $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digital Outlet.  So everyone can win something.

Over the coming weeks or months, I'll be talking about some of the things that we learned at the workshops, as I hopefully incorporate them into my work.  On Friday night after all our workshops, we had a critique session with some of the ladies at the workshops along with Cindy and Colleen.  I tell you this because it impacts my card.  I took the image that I was working on for this card so that I could get some feedback on the coloring.  I wish I had taken a photo of it before because after I got home, I reworked it and it turned into the image I used on this card.

Knowing what it looked like before, I think it turned out pretty good on the second try.  And I'm really not so great at doing masculine cards.  I really think it needs something more, but couldn't figure out what.  The layout I used was SC388.

Materials Used:

• Image - Stitchy Bear - Pookie Designs - Daily News
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Wonky Wishes
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Cool Caribbean
• Designer Paper - Ki Memories - Metro Garden
• Accessories - MFT - Label Die
• Copic Markers - B0000, B000; C0; E34, E40, E41, E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, E59, E81, E84; Y23

Pop on over to the OSAAT challenge blog and see what the other Design Team member have to inspire you.  I hope you'll join us this week.  I look forward to seeing what you create.

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:
Hiding in my Craft Room - Use Die Cut
Paper Creators' Crafts - Birthday (inside says Happy Birthday)
Doodle Pantry Digital Doodles - Any Digi Goes
Natalie and Amy - For the Boys
Delicous Doodles - CAS
Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Totally Paper Crafts - CAS
4 Crafty Girls - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Use a Die Cut or Punch
Creative Moments - Anything Goes/CAS

Bird on a Branch

Happy November!  Hope you are having a great Sunday.  After a couple days of intense rain, the weather cleared off to beautiful Fall!

This week at One Stitch at a Time is Use a Digi - any project as long as you use a digi image.  Our sponsor this week is our own StitchyBear Digi Outlet with the complete set of images that the DT used in challenge #186.  There is also a runner up prize of $3 gift voucher.

I got to use this cute image from IKEsART - Great Tit Pine Cone

Materials Used:

• Image - Stitchy Bear - IKEsART - Grant Tit Pine Cone
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - 
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Soft Suede and Garden Green
• Designer Paper - Basic Gray Origins
• Accessories - Ambergies Doily die cut; lace - We are Memory Keepers; Butterfly Punch; Pine Branch Die cut; Small Banner die; Nestabilities Circle Die Cut; Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts (2 tone Old Gold Aster Daisies); Yellow roses (Prima); White Flower Soft
• Copic Markers - T3, T4, T5, T6, T9; Y04, Y13, Y15; B0000, B000, E32, E35, E37

Pop on over to the OSAAT challenge blog and see what the other Design Team have to inspire you.  I hope you'll join us this week.  I look forward to seeing what you create.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

Brown Sugar Challenge - Things With Wings
Crafyhands Challenge - Anything Goes
Savvy Handmade Cards - Gone Batty (bird)
Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Flutter By Wednesday - Any Winged Thing (Butterfly)
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
Die Cuttin Divas - Must have a Die Cut
LEJ Designs Challenge - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
Twisted Tuesday - Free for All - Anything Goes

Flower Boy - Sunshine Mail Foundation

Hi my friends!  I've got some fabulous news to share.  I've been invited to join the Design Team at the Sunshine Mail Foundation Challenge Blog.  This is my first card for the DT and I look forward to working with them for some time to come.  The challenge runs from November 1 to November 14.  I'm really excited to be involved with this group.  This is all about making kids' lives a little brighter by sending them cards.  Please read about them HERE.  Our theme this time is Anything Goes and the only real rule is that you send a card to the Sunshine Mail Foundation.  It doesn't have to be the card that you enter in the challenge. The guidelines for donating can be found HERE.

We're sponsored this time by Stitchy Bear - One Stitch at a Time who will award a $10 voucher to one lucky winner.

I used this adorable digi image created by BB Kakes called Flower Boy 1.

Materials Used:

• Image - Flower Boy - Stitchy Bear - BB Kakes
• Sentiment - Hero Arts - Thinking of You
• Ink - Tuxedo Memento Black
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up, Baja Breeze
• Designer Paper - My Minds Eye - On the Bright Side
• Accessories - Square Punch; Nestabilities Circle Die and Scallop Circle Die; Stampin Up label punch
• Copic markers - B0000, B32, B34, B45, E0000, E00, E02, T1, T2, T3; Y15, Y17, Y23, Y32, Y38; YG01, YG03, YG61

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:
Card Crafter's Circle - Cute cards
Challenges and Candies - CAS cards
Craftyhands Challenge - Anything Goes
Delicious Doodles - Recipe
Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T challenge - For the Boys
Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes