Springtime Bear

Happy Sunday my friends.  I hope you are having a great weekend.  Our weather here is just beautiful and should be for a few days. I've been spending a lot of time cleaning up and organizing my stamp room. It's a work in progress, but I look forward to it being all done. I'll share photos when it's all finished. In the meantime, I'm sharing a card that I made just for fun.

Materials Used:

• Image - From Lili of the Valley, but it's no longer in their store and I don't know what it's called
• Sentiment - See D's Piece of Cake (old stamp set)
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Calypso Coral
• Designer Paper - Prima - Believe collection
• Ink - Tuxedo - Memento Black
• Accessories - Flowers, Petaloo and Wild Orchid Crafts; Martha Stewart leaf punch; Martha Stewart edge punch; ribbon from my stash
• Copic Markers - BG11, BG13, BG57; E04, E08, E13, E17, E31, E33, E35, E39, E47; G14, G09; N2, N4; R08, R22, R43; Y15, Y21, Y26

That;s it.  I do have a destination for this card and hope that the recipient likes it and enjoys looking at it.  Have a great week!

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - Flower Power
Ribbon Girls - Easter/Spring or Anything Goes
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Di's Digi Designs - Lots of Layers
Imagine That-Creative Playground - Happy Birthday
http://livelaughstamp.blogspot.co.uk/ - Anything Goes with Something Colored
My Time to Craft - Flowers
Scappers Delights - Anything Goes
Artbymiran - Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
The Outlawz Festive Friday - Plant a Flower Day

Floral Cupcake - OSAAT #257

Good morning my friends.  I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  The weather here has been picture perfect.  Unfortunately, March will be coming in like a lion this week with stormy weather. Not that we can't use the rain. Other than that, everything is great. I'm finally over my ickies and my sis's surgery went well and she's on the road to recovery. So, here I am with my card for One Stitch at a Time this fortnight.  Our theme is Anything Goes with a Fancy Border.

I actually did the inside of this one and wanted to show you the cute sentiment that I used. I do need to put a paper boarder on this before it gets sent out.

Materials Used:

• Image - Floral Cupcake - Kaz Kraftz
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Remembering Your Birthday
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Crushed Curry
• Designer Paper - Basic Gray - Tea Garden (So sorry to hear that BG is going out of the designer paper business.  I love their papers).
• Accessories - Martha Stewart - border punch; Pink Liquid Pearls; Cheery Lynn Designs - Italian Flourish Tiny Doily
• Copic Markers - B0000; B91, B93, B23; E30, E31, E34; R43, R46; R81, R83, R89; BV00, BV02, BV11; Y06, Y13, Y19, Y23, Y32, Y38; YG11, YG61, YG63.

That's it for today. Our wonderful sponsor - Stitch Bear Stamps is giving away a prize to one lucky winner.

Don't forget you could also be pick as one of the Top 3.  So come on over and join in the fun.  Stitchy Bear also sponsors a Facebook Challenge, so you could be a double winner if you use an image from Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet.  Hope to see you there.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams - Use a Die Cut
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends Challenge - Floral
Imagine That: Creative Playground - Birthday
artbymiran challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty-With-Friends - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Crafting With an Attitude -Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes

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