Ballerina Bear - OSAAT #210

Hi and welcome to my blog again.  It has been quite a week at the office, so nice to have a weekend to relax a bit.  Relax????  Spent 3 1/2 hours out weeding the flower beds and putting in a few more plants getting ready for the yard man to come and put mulch around everything. I'll share some photos when it's all finished.  I'm using perennials so I hope this is the last time I have to do this.  ;)

 It's Sunday and time for another challenge from One Stitch at a Time. Here's my card.

Materials Used:

• Image -  Beary Dust - Ballerina Bear
• Sentiment - Ballet Princess DP
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up - Blushing Bride and Garden Green
• Designer Paper - Best Creations, Inc. - Ballet Princess
• Accessories - Nestabilities Dies - Classic Circle, Scallop Circle, Memory Box Corner Bow Die; Martha Stewart - Leaf Branch punch; Large Flower - Petaloo; Buds and small rose - Wild Orchid Crafts; Small flowers - Ribbon Girl; Ribbon from my stash; Pearls - Michael's.
• Copic Markers - E31, E35, E57; RV10, RV21, RV32

Our wonderful Sponsor for this weeks challenge is StitchyBear Digi Outlet with a 7 image prize pack of April images.

To win main prize you MUST use an Image from our store and please put an # after your name so we don't miss you.  Runner up prize for person using a non-store image is $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digital Outlet.  So everyone can win something.  I hope you'll join us.  Meanwhile check out what the rest of the Design Team has created and hop on over to the One Stitch At a Time challenge blog.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Come and Get It - Spring Flowers
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
The Squirrel & the Fox - Die Cut or Punch
2 Sisters Challenge - Teddy Bears
A gem of a Challenge - Cute and Cuddly
Totally Gorjuss - Something Cuddly
Challenges4Everybody - Anything Goes
Ditzie Digi Design - Anything Goes
Glitter n Sparkle - Use Ribbon
The Outlawz Paper a la Mode -  Lots of Pink
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Delicious Doodles - Use Pink
Simply Create Too - Stack Em Up
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Wags 'n Whiskers - Lots of Layers

Picture Perfect - CCC #60

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Is it Spring where you live yet?  It finally arrive here last week and has been so beautiful.  Casper and Corey love to sit by an open back window and sniff all the out smells.  They are so full of life, running and playing all over the house.  Yesterday after our Easter dinner, my daughter got the laser pointer out and the kitties went crazy! I'm not sure who was having more fun, she or the kitties.

On to my card for Creative Card Crew this fortnight.  From the time I saw this image in the A Day for Daisies store, I knew I wanted to use it and how I wanted it to look.  Our theme this time is "Girly."  Here is my card.

This is my first time using this size of  card.  I bought a set of cards and envelopes   a very long time ago.  Not even sure where I got them, but figured it was time I started using them.  Here's an upclose of the image.

And here is the flower bouquet

Materials Used:

• Image - A Day For Daisies - Picture Perfect
• Sentiment - Unnamed set I got at Archivers at ScrapFest last November
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Lovely Lilac
• Ink - Stampin Up - Lovely Lilac
• Designer Paper - Basic Gray - Kioshi - Carmellia
• Accessories - Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and The Ribbon Girl; Martha Stewart - Fir Branch punch; Stampin Up Scallop Circle Punch; Spellbinders Majestic Elements Radiant Rectangles Die; ribbon from my stash
• Copic markers - BG000, BG11, BG72; E31, E35, E57; E50, E51, E53; V20, V22, V25; YG61, YG63; R01; YR20, YR61

We have two great sponsors this time -

Prize - $15 Gift Voucher

 $15 Gift Voucer

I hope you'll come on over and join us  this time.  I can't wait to see your creations.  Meanwhile, hop on over to the Creative Card Crew blog and check out what the rest of the Design Team has created to inspire you.  You could be one of the big winners or chosen as one of the Top 3.

I'm submitting this card for the following challenges:
Scrap-Creations - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays - Anyhing Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Die Cuts or Embossing
My Craft Creations - Anything Goes
Wild Orchid Crafts - 3 Different Flowers
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Lacey Sunshine - Make it Feminine
Stamping Sensations - Dies or Punches
The Squirrel and the Fox - Diecut or Punch
Color Me Creative - Anything Goes
Hiding in my Craft Room - Flowers
Totally Gorjuss - Die Cuts and Punches
Cut it Up - Birthday Card
Get Inky - Die Cuts
Scrapping4FunChallenges - Use a Stamp or Digi image
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Spring Meadow - OSAAT #208

Hi my friends and welcome back to my blog.  This week was pretty uneventful which is the way I like them.  Our book group has finally gotten started again after breaking up about 2 years ago.  That was a fun evening out.  We read The Book Thief.  Next month instead of a review, we're going to watch the movie that was recently out.  I didn't get a chance to see it them.  The weather has been great and I was able to get my flower bed planted.  I'll share some photos later after it all spreads out and looks good.  There are a few tweeks that still need to be done.

Okay, on to my card for this time.  I was the lucky one to pick the image that my little team used this time and I chose Spring Meadow.  This last week it finally was really like Spring.  Beautiful days and cool evenings.  After choosing this image, I wasn't quite sure what to do with it.  I wanted a little scene kind of and hope that's how it looks to you.

Materials Used:

• Image - Spring Meadow - Alipeeps Art
• Sentiment - Whimsey Stamps - Lovely Spring Sliders 2
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Blushing Bride and Garden Green; Xpress It Blending Card; Shimmery cardstock for the clouds and I always forget where I got the stuff.
• Designer Paper - Creative Imaginations - Loolah
• Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Flowers - Petaloo; Small Oval Punch - Stampin Up; Puffy Clouds - Memory Box Dies; Nestabilities - Label Four Dies and Fancy Leaf Dies
• Copic Markers - BG01; E00, E21, E33, E34; G40, G443, G46; R81, R83; Y11, Y21

Our wonderful Sponsor for this weeks challenge is StitchyBear Digi Outlet with a 7 image prize pack of April images.

To win main prize you MUST use an Image from our store and please put an # after your name so we don't miss you.  Runner up prize for person using a non-store image is $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digital Outlet.  So everyone can win something.  I hope you'll join us.  Meanwhile check out what the rest of the Design Team has created and hop on over to the One Stitch At a Time challenge blog.

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:


A Gem of a Challenge - Spring is in the Air
Allsorts Challenge - Spring Blossoms
Sunflowerfield - Easter or Spring
BMC Crafting - Get Inky - Easter or Spring
Stampin with the Dragon - Spring Time
Moving Along with the Times - Easter/Spring

Spring - CCC #59

Is it finally Spring where you live?  I think we are finally past all the really cold weather and will be warming up.  Of course we still are having rain just about every weekend, so it's hard to enjoy the time off.  I did get some plants and shrubs in the ground today.  Nope, I didn't do it.  I have a great lawn guy who does the mowing and takes care of all that planting stuff.  I do miss digging in the dirt.

On to my Spring card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Lacy Sunshine - Zinna Flower Pot
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - A Round Array
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Groovy Guava
• Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye - On the Bright Side One
• Ink - Memento - Brown
• Accessories: - Large Flower - Michael's; Small Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts; Nestabilities Oval Die; My Favorite Things - Mini Album Bracket Die; Ribbon - Stampin Up Soft Sky Taffeta; Stampin Up mini scallop circle punch; Yellow Stickles
• Copic Markers - B0000; BG000, BG01; E23, E27, E29; E50, E51, E53; Y17, Y18, Y21, Y38; YG21, YG25, YG61

We have two fabulous sponsors this week:

with a fabulous prize

 Prize - 3 digi stamps

I hope that you'll join us this time at Creative Card Crew.  Head on over to the challenge blog and check out what the rest of the Design Team has done.  Then get your crafty on and join in.  You could be one of our winners this fortnight.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
The Cutie Pie challenge - Cute with Dies and Punches
Eureka Stamps - Ribbon and Bows
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Ditzie Digi Design - Anything Goes
Lacy Sunshine - Add Flowers
The Ribbon Girl - Spring