An Award!!

From a dear, sweet friend of mine Betty! Be sure to check out her blog...she has some amazing art on there!

Thank you so much for this award Betty!!

I absolutely agree on your #2 fact!

I thought I was the only one who drooled over Gordon Ramsey! lol

So here are the deets for this awesome award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place in on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 Kreative Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

O.K. 7 random things about me are:

1. I can't go buy groceries if my kitchen isn't spotless. The thought of putting away food when there is clutter in my kitchen is frightening to me.
   
2. I am a gadget junkie. If I were rich, I would probably buy infomercial doodad that existed. But then...I wouldn't be rich anymore, would I?  lol
   
3. I hate mornings.
   
4. I have mini panic attacks when anything in my house or surroundings is out of place.
   
5. My ideal day is one where I can stay in my PJs and do nothing but read. 
6. I am so anal about my art that it can take me hours (even been known to take days) to make a card that any other person would be able to whip out in 20 minutes.. I will change it a gazillion times before I am happy. 
7. This blog award has taught me something....I think I am probably OCD! lol

I am supposed to now nominate 7 other bloggers, but I am so exhausted and need to go to bed. I will come back and edit this post later with my choices. I just wanted to make sure that I properly thanked Betty for being so thoughtful!!

Have a great week & thanks for stopping by!

The Pink Elephant Challenge #43

Happy Monday and Pink Elephant Day!!

This week, we have a super fun challenge over at The Pink Elephant!

We are challenging you to use your Favorite Coloring Medium!

Super easy, huh?!?! I love my Prisma pencils, but I chose to use Copics on all of my pieces this week. I am starting to get better with them and do really love using them.

Our sponsor this week is Christine Wooden from All That Scraps

I am so in love with the CC Designs images! They are the sweetest little things ever!

I was lucky enough to buy the whole Christmas release (dh bought it for me for my birthday!) when Christine had it available for a limited time. Don't fret though....it will be available again on Dec. 1st, I believe.

This is one of the sweet stamps from that set along with the sentiment. Sadly, the camera doesn't pick up the sparkle...but this is a really sparkly card!

I used  Stickles on his antlers, sweater and the green brads. I also added dots of Stickles along his 'seat'. I cut out the circles with Nestabilities and embossed the white one with the CB Season's Greetings embossing folder. The background was embossed with the Candy Cane Stripe folder.

Next I had to use the Santa Birgitta Swiss Pixie. She is so sweet!

I colored her with Copics and then added Stickles to her wings, cuffs and bottom band of her dress. I used Marvy Velvet Puffy marker on her hat brim and ball. I embossed the background with the Candy Cane Stripe folder even though it is hard to see in the picture. The sentiment is from that Christmas set I bought from Christine.

Finally....my favorite project this week:

This ornament uses  Swiss Pixie Nora. Isn't she the cuuuuuuuuuuutest???

I used Copics again and added polka dots to her boots and scarf with a white gel pen. I added Stickles to her wings and to the snowflake buttons. This is all layered onto a child's wooden domino that has been covered with Eskimo Kisses paper. I then wrapped ribbon around the edges, brought it through the button and tied it at the top for a hanger.I left Nora's scarf unattached and curled it up to add even more dimension.

Here is the ornament from another angle:

You can see the curled scarf and the ribbon that goes around the edges better in this shot.

I had so much fun with this week's challenge. A HUGE thank you goes out to Christine for sponsoring us this week. Please do stop by All That Scraps and check out all of the fabulous stamps that she has to offer. You won't be disappointed! Also don't forget to stop by TPE and see what all the other designers did this week!

Crazy 4 Challenges #13

Did you all make it through Thanksgiving and Black Friday????

I hope your turkey was yummy and the sales were plentiful!!

Today is Saturday and that means it is time for another fun challenge at

Crazy 4 Challenges!!

This week our hostess, Frances, challenged us to use punches in our artwork. Well....I did, but not like I wanted to. Do you ever have a plan that totally blows up in your face?? Well, my plan backfired big time. lol

I colored this adorable girl from Kraftin Kimmie with Copics and a great plan in my head. Since she had paint splattered on her, I was going to pull out my very dusty splatter punch. I haven't used it in YEARS and it was going to be so happy to feel loved again. This is where my plan went bad. I can't find that darn punch!! I know I had it, but apparently it ran away because it felt so neglected. But, I couldn't come up with a different plan. I so wanted to see this card in my head come to life. So, I used various flower punches and just cut little bits away to make them look like splatters of paint. It kinda goes with the challenge, right? I DID use punches, they just don't look like the original punchies anymore. lol I had very little extra time last week, so I had to make this work. After placing the splatters down on the card, I went over each one with Matte Accents. I also went over the various spots of paint on the girl with it.I stamped the word, colored the T with Copics and then went over each letter with Matte Accents as well. It is a pretty simple looking card, but I really love it.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Be sure to check out what great punchy art the other C4C girls did this week!!! Have a great weekend!

Be Merry

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I thought I would share a quick little ornament I made using the Polaroid Cutie stamp from Artistic Outpost.

I don't own any of AO's gorgeous Christmas stamps (note to self...buy them!), but I thought that I could Christmas this little sweetie up!!

I stamped the image on a child's wooden domino. I picked up a TON of these last year in the Target dollar spot. I love them for ornaments!! So lightweight and easy to work with. I colored her with Copics. It was a little trickier to color on this type of surface, but I think it worked out okay. I added the whites of her eyes and polka dots to her dress with white gel pen. I used gold peel off borders along the top and bottom. I stamped the sentiment (Hero Arts) with Versamark and embossed in white. I attached the lights ribbon trim to the back of the domino and glued rattail cording around the edge, stringing both ends through a gold bed and tying it off with a knot for hanging. I then covered the back with a piece of sturdy cardstock to finish it off. Finally, I added a snowflake to the bottom corner. I thought it came out cute and Christmassy looking!!

Also, I wanted to be sure to let you know all know that there is a sale at Artistic Outpost!!

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Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!  We hope you are fortunate enough to be with friends and family this Thanksgiving.  We will be enjoying the traditional green bean casserole, corn bread dressing (that's what we eat in the South), pecan pie....and lots of shopping!!

We hope Artistic Outpost becomes one of your stops this weekend.

20% off all rubber stamp collections, mounted, and unmounted, as well as individuals.

Just use the coupon code holiday2009 when you check out. Remember, free shipping on orders over $50 in the US and $150 for international. Our free shipping "kicks" in prior to calculating discounts, so you could end up with free shipping and only spend $40!!!  Awesome, huh?

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Thanks so much for stopping by today. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow. I will be shopping first thing in the morning and then coming home to cook. Friday...black friday shopping is not in the cards for me :( I have to work. But, I may sneak in a quick trip to Walmart before work!! lol

The Pink Elephant Challenge #42

The only good thing about Mondays is that it is the day we have a new challenge at The Pink Elephant!

This week, we have a recipe challenge:

Something Plaid, NO ribbon and any number of brads

This week, our sponsor is Wildflower Kids. They have the cutest stamps!

I used Lily Elf for my card.

First off...no laughter allowed. I just got a sewing machine and I so cannot sew!! lol I had an awful lot of fun, but my stitching is VERY random. Since I am so bad at it, I just covered the card with stitching and random strips of cardstock to make a crazy quilt look!! lol I thought that pink checked sections of the pp could pass for plaid (I know it is actually gingham, but I am calling it plaid!). I used no ribbon....that was TOUGH for me. And the snowflake on top of the punched snowflake is a brad covered with chunky glitter. I chose to just use one... Lily is colored with Copics and I added Marvy Puffy paint pen to the furry parts of her outfit. I finished her off with white gel pen accents. The paper is K&Co Brenda Walton paper that i recently got. I love it!

That was actually the second card I made for this challenge. My life is hectic right now and I am having a really hard time keeping all of my challenges straight. I thought WildFlower Kids was sponsoring next week's challenge, so I made my first card with one of my digi images that is available from Squigglefly....

I colored my turkey with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I printed two and cut the body from one and layered it with foam tape to make my turkey have more dimension. I added brads to the asterisks that seperate the words and then one to the hole in the acrylic word. The background paper on this is plaid, so I covered all the bases...NO ribbon too! lol The paper is from last year's fall matstack from DCWV.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to drop by TPE to see what the other designers created this week!

More of my digis coming to life....

I really hope I am not boring you all to tears with all the cards using my digis from Squigglefly!

I am just having so much fun creating with them. I just spent so much time drawing them and making them to come to life is just a blast!! lol

I just did a couple of quick cards today. I hope I am showing you the versatility of the images.

This little reindeer makes me smile everytime I look at him for some reason. I colored him with Copics and added Glossy Accents to the ornament, lights, his nose and his eyes. I added details to the trees on the background paper with a glue pen and sprinkled with glitter. I tried something I got last year when my scrapbook store went out of business. They are by Around the Block and are glue designs. They are in sheets like rubons but are sticky and you can add glitter, flock, etc to them. They aren't the greatest product because the glue seems to want to stay stuck to the release paper and it doesn't give you the crispest design. I remember trying them as soon as I got them last year and hated them. I gave them another chance today. The string of lights came out 'okay' I guess. I just added a white fine glitter to add a bit of sparkle.

This one is so simple!! I just colored the image with Copics and then used red and white puffy pens to do the stocking. I LOVE fluffy, soft stockings!! I added Stickles to the patches and the snowflakes on the sentiment. Used the new Season's Greetings embossing folder (love it!) and just added the image as an accent. Quick and easy card!!

I also took some time today to draw a few more digis. Any requests for the themes?? I am always listening and would love to know what YOU want!!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a creatively wonderful week!!!

It's release day!!!!

I have 13 new images released today on Squigglefly!

There are shoes and a princess along with tons of holiday and winter themed images.

Here are a couple of quick cards I made today using my images:

This was just a super fast one. I know that the little elf is a boy, but I am loving pink and green right now....so he is on pink. I like a man in pink....lol Colored with Prismas and OMS. Paper is DCWV.

No laughing at the sewing skills (or lack of them!). I am just learning and have never sewed a day in my life. I do think I am getting "little" better though! Colored with Prismas and OMS. I added Matte Accents to the clock face and Santa's boots. Stickles galore....garland, stockings, trees!!! Paper is DCWV again.

It is DIGIDAY at SNR cardiverse and Squigglefly is the host of this week!!! If you want to come hang out with the Squigglefly fans head over HERE at 8 PM est. That is about 45 minutes from now. I will be there and would love to see you there too!!!!

I have another card almost done and will hopefully share it with you all tomorrow.

Today, we went and saw Planet 51 with Shanyn. Was a cute movie, but not nearly as funny as the previews make it out to be. Shelby was in the next room watching New Moon. I could cry! I wanted to go see New Moon, not Planet 51 darn it!! But, Shelby went with friends (she said I could go in with her, but I didn't want to cramp her style lol) and Shanyn didn't want to see New Moon. I guess I will just have to go on a day off by myself and watch it, right?!?!?!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!!

Crazy 4 Challenges #12

Woohoo!! Saturday is here and that means another fun challenge at Crazy4Challenges!

This week, our hostess with the mostest, Frances, has given us a sketch challenge.

I just LOVE sketches!!

Our sponsor for the month of November is Kraftin Kimmie!

I used the adorable Bernadette image from her line. Isn't she the sweetest?!?!

I colored her with Copics and added Marvy Puffy paint pen to her muff and tuft of hair. After they dried, I added Stickles to the muff just to make it more interesting. I added some gel pen accents and cut her out. I just LOVE her! I used Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses paper. The sentiment is a preinked stamp from JustRite Stampers and it is stamped on a labels trio Nestability. I stamped snowflakes with Versamark on the mauve background. Punched snowflakes with button centers finish off the card.

I am also entering this in the Kraftin Kimmie challenge this week. The theme is Christmas/Winter, so I think this little sweetie qualifies!

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great weekend! Be sure to drop by C4C to see what the other fabulous girls did this week!

New Releases coming soon!!

I'm excited to announce that I will have a new release of digis available at Squigglefly

on November 21st!! I created lots of holiday/winter and a few girly ones. I also had a request for some square sentiments and images, so there are a couple of those too!

Here is a peek at a couple of the digis that will be available for sale this Saturday:

This sweet snowman was printed twice. I colored the snowman with Copics and did his earmuff and dots on the scarf with a Marvy Puffy paint pen. Added Stickles to the edges of his face to give him that shimmery snow look. I cut out the uncolored one with my nesties, cut the snowman out and attached him the circle with foam tape. This was a quick way to get a perfect circle, but keep the scarf intact. The sentiment is pre-inked stamps from JustRite Stampers. I added glitter glue to the snowflake border. The pp is from K&Co and I used a Martha Stewart Border punch.

Here is one of the square images I have coming out. I just love this little girl bearing a gift!! In real life, the card is so much cuter. The colors of the pp (K&CO) don't show well in this photo. The Copic colors I used really are all in the paper. I used those wonderful Marvy Puffy paint pens on the brim and ball on her hat. Stickles on the dots on her hat and glove, the present and the snowflakes in the corners. The border punch is from Fiskars.

I hope you like this sneak peek and will drop in at Squigglefly on the 21st to see what other digis are available!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creatively wonderful rest of your week!!

The Pink Elephant Challenge #41

Hey Pink Elephant fans! It's Monday and you all know what that means!

Another super fun challenge!

This week is a sketch challenge by our own Lori Boyd!!

Here is my interpretation:

I started with a round card like the sketch, but it drifted! lol You can still see the sketch though. I didn't like my little round card because it felt too heavy. I shouldn't have used such a large image...totally my fault. But, by adding it to a regular shaped card, I felt it balanced a whole lot more. I like having the white background and I felt that it still kept the integrity of the sketch.

I colored this sweet CCDesigns iimage with Copics and added white gel pen polka dots and accents. It is hard to see in the photo (bad light and had to take a straight on shot), but her bangs are popped up. I just stamped them a second time and cut them out and used foam tape to attach them. I used the Autumn Type embossing folder for the circle and the white background. I stamped the words using two different alpha stamps.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Be sure to stop by TPE to see what the other designers created this week!

Crazy 4 Challenges #11

It's Saturday....Crazy4Challenges day!!

This week, we are challenging you to use acetate on your card. You can use it as the base of your card, part of your card of as an embellishment. What fun!! I don't have any card quality acetate (note to self: get some!), so I had to get creative!!!!

I had some Zsiage acetate letters and one sheet of printer transparency. I colored the letters with a sharpie marker (didn't have the right color in Copics) and then used Stickles over that. The "N" was the perfect seat for my sweet little CC Designs Christmas image. I LOVE these little kids!

I punched out snowflakes from transparency and patterned paper. Glued them together, offsetting the transparency and added glitter glue to the transparency snowflakes. Finally, I added pearls colored with Copics to the centers of each. When dry, I bent the transparency snowflake spokes up to add dimension. My image is colored with Prismas and Gamsol and the paper is yummy Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses. I added Marvy Puffy Marker to the hat brim and ball for some dimension. It is hard to see in the photo, but the green layer is embossed with Quickutz snowflakes embossing folder. Here is sideview picture that shows the transparency snowflakes a bit better:

You can also see the embossed a bit from this angle.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to drop by C4C to see what my fellow design teammates made this week!!

The Pink Elephant Challenge #39

It's Monday, which means another fun challenge from The Pink Elephant!

This week we are having a color challenge!

Use brown, yellow, neutral and a color of your choice. What fun! These colors definitely aren't in my comfort zone color wheel!!! lol

This is what I came up with:

This card was super fun to make. I colored one of my newly released digis with Copics. Then, I used a Marvy Puffy marker to color the marshmallows and then heated it to puff it. It is hard to see in the picture, but irl, it is super cute!!

I also hope that this yellow counts. It is yellow-like, right? I went through my patterned papers and couldn't find any that had brown, yellow and just one other color...so I figured this tan-yellow tone would be okay!

Obviously my 'other' color is pink.

Other big news...we have another new dt member at TPE! My bud, Vicki Garrett, is now on our team! You will love her work....she rocks!!!! So, please stop by TPE, check out the other designers' samples, join in on the challenge and don't forget to welcome Vicki to the crew. Also, welcome Hannah and Betty who joined the crew 2 weeks ago!!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creatively wonderful week!

Squigglefly debut....

The day has come. My new digis are available for sale HERE at Squigglefly!

I am still in shock that I am finally selling something I have created. Everything has happened so fast. I had a few days to create some images to sell and didn't even have time to make samples to show! So, I spent the afternoon making a few things to spark your creativity and maybe make you want these digis to use in your own creations!!

First, I used the snowman digi:

I colored him with Copics, cut out with Nestabilities and layered it on card with foam tape. The background is Cuttlebugged and inked with white ink. Pretty simple card.

Then, I used the Indian girl Thanksgiving image:

She is colored with Prismacolor pencils/Gamsol. I wanted to show that even though these images are round, you don't have to cut them in circle shapes. I think she looks very cute on a rectangle with the corners punched. I embossed the orange panel and white strip. Added buttons from Rusty Pickle and I have a quick and easy card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a creatively wonderful week!

PS...stop by tomorrow to see my TPE challenge card, it uses another one of my newly released digis!

Halloween Pics

I thought I would share a couple of pictures of my girls all dressed up last night.

Shanyn is such a goofy girl. She found a nose that squeaked at the Halloween store and just HAD to be a clown this year. Funny part of the evening:

(driving in the car, halfway through the evening)

Me: Shanyn, what shoes did you wear tonight?

Shanyn: My clown shoes, what else?

Me: Those are shoe covers honey. What are you wearing under them?

Shanyn: um.....nothing, I thought they were regular shoes. No wonder it is so hard to walk!

I love her guts!

Here's a closeup that is quite boring. We had face paint, but it kept raining and she decided it would make a mess if she got it wet. Silly girl went to 90% of the houses forgetting to put her nose on too. It hung around her neck most of the night!

Then there is Shelby. She is entirely too cool to hang our with us on Halloween now. Makes me a bit sad....

She went to a friend's party last night and she totally made up her costume from mostly stuff on hand and bought a few accessories (eyelashes, tattoo).

She is wearing black boots too, but I didn't get a full body shot, I guess!! Oh and it is hard to see, but she DOES have shorts on under the shirt and on the pantyhose. lol They are black bicycle shorts, but they are there....she didn't go pantless as it appears. The shirt is actually a long shirt, almost like a short dress, but in this pic, you can't tell that. I didn't want you thinking I let my 13 1/2 yr old go out half naked!

Here's a shot of her face....

So, that's it for our Halloween. Nothing exciting....

But a couple of cute girls.