Happy Birthday Candy Holder - OSAAT #256

Hello again my friends. I hope you are all doing well. Our weather has been gorgeous all week, but it's been a rough week for me. Got over the throat infection and then came down with allergies I guess, scratchy throat, runny nose, stuffiness. . .  I need to be over it by Monday morning. My sister is having a lumpectomy. They found it when she went to have her mammogram. Luckily, it's very small so after this surgery and a few weeks of radiation, she should be just fine. We'd appreciate your prayers.

Meantime I have a project to share with you for One Stitch at a Time. Our theme this fortnight is Anything Goes with 3-D. Not a card this time, but a bag, box, pop up, anything with 3 dimensions. Here is my project. You could use this as a party favor. It will hold little candies - kisses, m&m's, nuggets, or you could even use it as a gift box for a little trinket.

Materials Used:

• Image - Floppy Latte Designs - Clown Doll
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Cameo Coral; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - My Minds Eye - Life of the Party
• Accessories - Balloon Stickers; corner punch
• Copic Markers - B21, B32, B41; E04, E07, E19; E50, E51, E53; Y23, Y26, Y28; YG91, YG93, YG95; YR12, YR15, YR68

Our fabulous sponsor of course is our own Stitchy Stamps and the prize for one lucky winner will be a gift coupon for $10 to use in the store.

This is a terrific gift since there are so many fabulous images and digital papers to choose from. I hope you'll come play along with us. You could also be chosen as one of the Top 3.  Don't forget that there is also a Facebook challenge for those of you who use FB, but you have to use a Stitchy Bear image to play along in that challenge. Have fun!

Happy Valentine's Day

Hi friends!  Happy Valentine's Day!  I hope that your day has been a sweet, fun one that has brought happiness to you and that you have been able to bring happiness to someone else.  I hope my little card will bring  some happiness to you. Since I can't send a card out to each of you, I'm sending this one to all of you.

This card is one I made as part of my Monthly Challenge Group I belong to - Girls of the Baker's Dozen. The kit was sent by Carol (momcgw) on SCS (Splitcoaststampers).  I added the bling as my contribution to the card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Art Impressions - Show the Love
• Sentiment - Art Impressions - Show the Love
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Pretty in Pink
• Designer Paper - Papere Studio - Random Doodle Hearts
• Accessories - Ribbon and bling - stash items; Atyou Spica Gold and Red gel pens; Cyrstal Effects
• Copic Markers - B0000; E40, E31, E35, E37; E50, E51, E53; R01, R20, R21, R24, R37; R46

 Hope you have a wonderful week coming up.

Tea Time for Teapot Tuesday

Hi my friends.  I hope you are all doing well. I know that I am feeling much better after 6 days of antibiotics. Our weather right now is very dry so that's doing a number on the throat and the skin. My skin hates dry, cold winter weather.

While I was recuperating over the weekend, I decided to make a card for this week's Teapot Tuesday over on SCS. If you don't know what that is, you can check out the one for this week HERE. I kind of knew what I had in mind for it and was pleased with how it came together.

And the inside:

Materials Used:

• Image - Bildmalarna - Mimosa Tea Party
• Sentiment Outside - Stampin Up Mixed Medley; Inside - Stampin Up Heartfelt Sympathy
• Ink - Tuxedo Memento Black and Rich Cocoa
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Cool Caribbean; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Basic Gray - Lucille collection
• Accessories:  Martha Stewart Cat punch and Fir Branch punch; Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts; Lace, Really Reasonable Ribbon; Stampin Up scallop punch; Bling from Prima
• Copic Markers: BG0000, BG01, BG11; E00, E01, E11; E40, E41, E43; R01; Y11, Y21, YR000, YR01, YR02; YR16, YR23, YR24

That's it for today.  I need to go post this on the SCS Forum.  

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Crafty Sentiments - Dies or Punches
Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Not Just Cards - Anything Goes
Our Crafty Corner - Anything Goes
The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge - Anything Goes

Heart and Rose - OSAAT #255

Hello again my friends. Wow!  Two cards in one week. I'm on a roll.  At least I am finally feeling much better. With the meds that I got from my primary the other day, my terrible, horrible sore throat is just about a distant memory, well, more like a nightmare!

I'm glad that I didn't have to get this card together at the last minute because I probably wouldn't have done it.  I've been such a slug this whole week, not really wanting to do anything.

We have a new challenge over at One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes With Love.  Ahhh! Valentine's Day on Sunday.

This was pretty easy. The image itself was so ornate that I didn't want to add any further embellishments to the card  Well, I wanted to but it just didn't need anything else added to it.

The front says Friendship is a wondrous thing.

And on the inside it finishes the poem with --  "There's so much happiness it can bring. I'm really glad that you're my friend And I hope our friendship will never end."

Materials Used:

• Image - Crafty Girl Creations - Heart and Rose
• Sentiment - Computer Generated
• Cardstock - Papertrey Ink - Pure Poppy
• Designer Paper - Prima - Madeline collection
• Accessories - Stickles Red; on the inside is stamped a red heart from Stampin Up, Love Ya retired stamp set.
• Copic Markers:  R24, R35, R45; YG93, YG95, YG99,

I hope you'll all come play with us this week.  You could be picked as one of the Top  3 or be the lucky winner of this prize pack from our awesome sponsor - Stitchy Bear Stamps.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Dragonfly Journeys - Queen of Hearts
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes/Valentine
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - Love is in the Air
Crafty Cardmakers - Love, Love, Love
Dream Valley Challenges - Valentine's
Get Creative Challenges - Hearts
Not Just Cards - Anything Goes
The Paper Girls - Valentine/Love

Snow Friends

Hi my friends.  It's been a down week here. I've been home ill with a terrible sore throat and finally went to see my doctor yesterday and got some meds for a throat infection although not Strep. Feeling better, but still not 100%. Hope the weekend makes a difference. It's hard to be productive when you're not feeling well.

I did work on this card for the swap group that I belong to - Girls of the Baker's Dozen Monthly Challenge.  The image and all the supplies came from Barb.  Thanks Barb. It was fun to play with this.

Materials Used:

• Image - Whipper Snapper Designs - Best Friend Trio
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• Ink - Memento Black
• Sentiment - Whipper Snapper Designs
• Cardstock - Stampin Up
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up - Winter Frost
• Accesssories - Stampin Up - Silver Cord; plastic snowflake - Barb's stash
• Copic Markers - B2l; BG000, BG01; BG02; BG15; C5, C7,C9; G14, G16, G19; R24, R37, R39; Y11, Y15, Y18, YR04, YR07, YR09

That's it for today.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Crafting With an Attitude - Always Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes
Digital Delights with Louby Lou - Anything Goes
Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps - CAS
Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes
Fresh Brewed Designs - Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
Ruby's Rainbow - Anything Goes

OSAAT #254 - Tic Tac Toe

Hi my friends.  How is everyone doing?  I hope that you are safe and warm wherever you are.  I know the Northeast got blasted with an incredible snow storm. I'm so glad that I get to watch it all on TV and not out my window. And I grew up in Pennsylvania, so I know what you are going through and dealing with. Just remember, it will melt!

I do have a card to share with you today for the One Stitch at a Time Challenge - Anything Goes With Tic Tac Toe!

I took the top line straight across using 3 or more layers, lots of blue, and pearls.

Wow, there is NO coloring on this one. The image and background papers are from Coosty Creations. Love when they come in a set. The cardstock is from Stampin Up, Pacific Pointe; Pearl flourishes from Recollections. I have to check on the name of the die cut I used; it's from Spellbinders.  Nice and easy this time. I did cut out another black cat and adhere it to the inside with a birthday message.

I hope you'll join in with us this week and play along. You could be the winner of our wonderful January Prize Pack and/or be chosen as one of the Top 3.  What do you have to lose?  You know you want to.  ;)

That's it for this week.  Hope to see you soon.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes - No Twist
Dragonfly Journeys - Cats!
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes
My Sheri CRAFTS - Something Fussy
Scrapper's Delight  - Anything Goes
artbymiran challenge - Anything Goes
Craft for the Craic - January Blues
Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
QKR Stampede - Mostly Blue
Simply Papercraft  - Anything Goes

Alice's Birthday Shaped Card - OSAAT #253

Hi my friends and Happy New Year!  Gosh, it's been such a long time since I've posted a card.  Seems that I've really been on vacation. Well, I was.  Spent the Christmas holiday in "Sunny" ??? California with my older daughter and most of her family.  Hahaha!  It rained and was colder there than here in H Town.  One grand daughter was with her husband in Arizona with his family this year.  Sure missed seeing them. Got back from CA and then on New Year's Day celebrated Christmas again with my other daughter and her family. It was a lot of fun traveling and seeing the family and having fun, but I'm glad that it's over for another year and all the decorations are packed up and put away. Now, if I can just get my stamp room cleaned up and organized.  Yeah, do you think that will ever happen! 

I'm glad to be back though with One Stitch at a Time. We have a great year planned for you with our challenges.  This one was a real challenge for me. The theme is Anything Goes But Not Square or Rectangle. I agonized most of the week trying to figure out what to do. I finally came up with this one that I cut out using my Cricut and my Elegant Edges cartridge.

Materials Used:

• Image - Beary Dust - Alice
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Birthday Wishes
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Soft Sky
• Ink - Memento Black
• Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye - Now and Then Izzy Collection
• Accessories - Cricut; Elegant Edges Cartridge; Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts; Bling- Recollections; Stampin Up Oval punch
• Copic Markers - BG0000; BG01, BG10, BG11; E50, E51, E53; R21; Y13, Y18, Y21

I hope that you'll come join us for our challenge this week and in the weeks and months to come. I know I need to get busy getting some new cards done.  Our Sponsor this week is our own Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps and we have a great prize package for one lucky winner.

 Of course, you could also be chosen as one of the Top 3.  And did you know that we also have a challenge every month over on our Facebook page?  So, you have two chances to be a winner! Hope to see you there!