CC In Pink.

A sweet card today! The Mojo Monday sketch 139 is a great one. Did a few other challenges on this card.

Pile It On: Photo Inspiration Challenge 18.

Creative Inspirations: Challenge 60 Fairies.

ABC: U Unused stash. The papers are old! The fairy I pulled out from my stash of IRAKs.

Cute Card Thursday: For Someone Special. This is a card for Gabi. She's got big testing this week. So, I'll slip it in her backpack as a little surprise for her.

Drunken Stampers: Use Scraps. All of my pattern papers were left over cuts of papers.

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #59. The colors really grabbed me.

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Supplies: copics, nesties, scrappers floss, close to cocoa ink, Basic Grey Bittersweet, primas, Pink Pirq. cardstock.

Flutterying By Lily, and Scrapping Pages.

Hard card today! Make your own, no pattern papers were challenges at Cute Card Thursday, and Fab n Funky . So, I made the background for my little Lily Fairy. Difficult for me! First off coloring without a starting point from picking colors from the pattern papers. And I came up with blue?! How often do I use blue?! I am happy with how it turned out, but it did take me awhile to get there. Clean is simple was the challenge for Flutter By and that was a challenge for me! I've gotten used to pattern papers and layers. It was also Thank you at ABC.

Than catching up on scrapbook pages still. These are from Gabi's birthday party in Nov. She and a friend turned ten a week apart. We did it up at The Great Wolfe Lodge. Loads of fun there. Indoor water park, Magic Quest, and a very cool birthday cake were in store for their party.

A friend made the cake. The girls both love Littlest Pet Shop, so she made a cake that came apart, so each girl had part of the cake at the end of the night, and all the guest got to pick out some of the pet shops. Very cool cake. It looked like a park, and all of it was made out of frosting. And she made little carrots, and stuff for the animals.

Needless to say, Gabi disliked the green page. Girl is so funny! the other page is okay, cuz it was purple. But the cuteness factor of the cake page didn't win her over! It's another one that will be appericated when she's 25! I love the page, it looks great. Used the Cricut again on both of the pages. That tool is so much fun. Even got it to connect to my computer finally! So yippie for me!

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Supplies: copics, Taken with teal cardstock, misc SU inks, Lily Fairy stamp, nesties, stickles, DCWV papers for the scrapbook pages,

Birthday Magnolia

A few challenges on this card today. I paper pieced her outfit. The pack of paper has tags, and I used the tags to get some different fun patterns for the clothes. Looks like her cheeks need to be blended better. I also ran out of room for my sentiment. I grabbed that swirl punch at Joann's last week. Thought it looks so cool, I'd add another row on the top of my pink sheet. Didn't like it so much afterwards.

JUGS-Pink, Green, Lavender, and yellow-optional. I thought this paper line, Angelee from The Angel Company was perfect for this challenge.

Just Magnolia-Sketch.

Cute Card Thursday-Touchy Feely-texture. I added flowers, embossed the nesties, and a fun trim.

ABC-Sparkle.

Flutterby-Open Challenge.

Working on scrapbook pages still too. These are of Gabi's dance recital last year. She's not overly pleased with these two pages. The Best Friends page was for her baton class, and she said it was "Too Green!" Um, kiddio, you're wearing green and black! Kids! I'm sure she'll appreciate it more in a few years! I used my Cricut to cut out the title. That black sheet is covered in glitter. I found those papers at Target. They have some fun colors. I used a silver sheet on the page below.

The ballet page is beautiful, as far as I'm concerned! She wanted me to use a purple sheet instead of the blue that was in the K and Co paper pack. But the photos looked prettier with the blue. (I think it was because it pulled out her eye color.) I will get good used out of this pack of papers, as all of her costumes this year will be black and white. I found this pack at a scrapbook store, but also saw it at Michael's in the wedding scrapbook area.

My friend took these photos of Gabi, and they turned out so good. She has three boys, so she doesn't get to play with girly photos too often.

Gabi was in Swan Lake at the recital last year. They have one big ballet dance during the recital, and a few classes are part of it. Her group was Russia, I think. Her costume was so pretty! I loved this costume. Made her seem like she was a little flower blooming out of her costume. I snapped some photos of her at the recital with friends, and will make a page with it. But these photos were too pretty not to make a page of them too!

I'm adding big photos of the Swan Lake pages, because my family hasn't seen these photos yet. Also, so I can let my friend see how pretty they turned out in a scrapbook page. Didn't she do a great job on those pictures?! Can I say again, how much I just love these photos?!

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Supplies: TAC paper, PTI and SU cardstock, perfect plum ink, Magnolia stamp, stickles, nesties, Blossoms and butterfly DCWV stack, K and Co stack, primas, Jolee's flowers, Martha punch,

Cool Blue!

Mercy, I love this card! Seems like forever since I was able to stamp. Busy with the holidays and Gabi's birthday. We were able to give her a very memorable 10 year birthday. Not only did she get to do a night at the Great Wolf Lodge, we took her to American Girl and Bistro for a birthday shopping trip. She loved it and went crazy in there. She was able to pick out a new doll, and got Elizabeth. The place is so cute, both dolls ate at the table with us! Such a fun day for us to share together.
Amazing how quickly life gets sometimes, as I can't believe I haven't been on here since last week! I was able to squeeze in quite a few challenges on this card! And man, does it look great because of it! I love playing along with the challenges, and am so thankful that so many talented people put them on line for me to play along! I snatched this Greeting Farm set at Rachel's Store when she was having a fun Cyber Monday sale. Grabbed a few more Greeting Farm stamps from her while I was there. I popped out the hand muff, the cuffs of her boots, and cut and glue the ear muffs down. They looked weird popped out. The glitter part is made out of white fun flock, and green glitter.

Here's my challenges:

Pile It On: Flowers and Flourishes.

JUGS-Sketch.

Cute Card Thursday-Swirly Girly!

La La Land-Buttons.

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge-The cool blue and the snowflakes were part of my inspiration.

Pink Elephant-Favorite Coloring Medium-Copics.

Ooh La La-Child's Card. My 10 year old daughter loves this image, and all the bling! This will go to her 10 year old friend for Christmas.

Farm Fresh Friday-Color Combo-Baja Blue, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, and White.

Gotta show off my kid for a moment too. She created a card for her friend whose party was today. Sadly, the little girl fell at the skating rink, broke her leg and ankle in the fall. Right as the party was getting started. So, the poor thing left to the hospital, came back right before it eneded to open some gifts, and say bye to her guest. I felt so badly for her. Than my sweet kid wanted to come home and make her a get better card! I'm guessing we'll work on that tomorrow. I helped color the skin on her card, and helped glue it down.

Supplies: Copics, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses, stickles, Martha glittler, SU cardstock-choco chip, baja breeze, choco chip ink, Greeting Farm stamp, nesties, CB folder, fun flock

Gabi's-Raspberry Fizz paper, and ink, Copics, DCWV Sweet stack, Greeting Farm, stickles, nesties,

Like, Adorable!

Been a crazy week! No time to stamp this week. At least it feels that way! Here's a quick card I finally got done. Did a few challenges on this one.

Mojo Monday sketch.

Flutterby Wed open challenge.

Cupcake Inspiriational Challenge.

Cute Card Thursday-Teen Terrors.

JUGS-Dry embossing and birthday.

Pile It On-5 pearls, and three flowers.

Cupcake Craft Challenge-digital image. I got my image from All That's Scraps, it's the digital version of it.

Supplies: Basic Grey Nook paper line, SU Cameo Coral cardstock, and ink, Close to cocoa ink and cardstock, nesties, TAC sentiment, one is retired, stickles.

Friday Challenges

I got a lot on this card! LOL!

Just Magnolia sketch.

Three Clovers Designs-Halloween.

A Spoon Full of Sugar-Halloween.

Caardvarks-use ribbon. The brim of the hat is ribbon tucked underneath.

Dutch Dare-2 cardstocks, 2 pattern papers, 2 flowers, 2 brads, 2 gems/buttons. Check, check and check!

Cute Card Thursday-Charm

Pile It On-3D.

Macabre Monday-Treat Bag.

Daring Cardmakers-Purple.

Supplies: Copics, Old Olive cardstock, Basic Grey paper, PTI purple cardstock and black, primas, Martha punch, gems, stickles, EK punch-bats, nesties.

I had ordered this stamp in hopes of using it for a swap, but it was back ordered, and took a month to get to me. But so glad to have it in my hands now! I had a hard time getting the colors to photograph right. She looks a little washed out. I also tried to color her face green, man, I just can't do stuff like that! So hard to color outside the box!

Good news on the washer front. I got a new one delivered today. It's a lovely Samsun in a light blue. And a tip, if you ever find yourself with a washer full of water, a wet/dry vac is so the way to go to get the water out! Thanks to my friend Melissa for that tip! Cuz I was clueless as to how to empty it!

Maxwell graduated from puppy training last night! Still got a lot of work to do to get him where I'd like him to be, but here's a shot I had to snap of him outside today! Looked so cute!

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A Warm Hello

Man, this card turned out so cute! So happy and bright! Gotta love that! I got this image from Tammi ages ago. I'm thinking it's a Hangler, but I'm not as familiar with them to know for sure. I decided to stamp first today, after vacuuming. Have to tackle a few other rooms in the house, but thought I earned some free time this morning.

This is my take on the Mojo Monday sketch from Sarah. I had cut out the image when I realized I had meant to make it an oval to work better with the layout. I tried to create the visual focal point in the center by putting flower soft in his basket. Thought of my little guy bring flowers home to momma!

This card also covers some more challenges.

Pile it on, For the Boys.

Spoon Full of Sugar-Travel.

Not sure if it covers Transportation from Three Clovers..cuz it's not a motor bike.

Pink Elephant's challenge is Summer.

Cute Card Thurday's Lazy Days.

Stamp Something's Vacation theme. Love pulling out those bikes on vacations at the beach.

Supplies: June Bug Paper, Pure Poppy PTI cardstock, flowersoft, copics, nesties, dew drops, paper glaze,

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Sitting Pretty!

Whew, been a busy week for me. Gabi had dance camp this week, and a trip to a local water park yesterday. So, we've been out a lot this week. First time sitting down to stamp I think since like Tuesday. Anyhow, enough rambling, on to the crafting...

Here's my card for Just Magnolia, which was a sketch! I also combined it with a few more challenges. Cute Card Thursday was to use red and teal. My papers are Green from DCWV. I also did Stamp Simply, which was to make a friend card, used a friend sentiment on the front of the card. Hard for me to pull off sometimes. I never seem to leave enough room for sentiments. Stamp Something Challenge was to use a charm. I have a fun starfish one on the corner of the card with the flowers.

Supplies:copics, primas, charm, TAC Tag Tidbits sentiment, SU taken with teal ink, stickles, scrappers floss.

Distressing Magnolia

I've been working on a project this week for the Anya Blog Hop, so I've not had time to stamp outside of what I was working on. I can't wait to show that off tomorrow, cuz I threw a party when I finished it up today!

Since I was all done, it meant I got to play the Just Magnolia challenge. And what a challenge it was for me! It was distressing. I struggle with that style. I love seeing cards made all nice and shabby, but it's so hard for me! I completed my card though! I also did another challenge with this card. It was get fruity off Cute Card Thursday. My papers have fruits on them. Shockingly, I had no layout challenge on my card! I do love those lately.

Supplies: Magnolia stamp, copics, primas, MS punch, dew drops, DCWV Summer Stack, glimmer mist, nesties, scrappers floss, SU So Saffron and Cool Carr. cardstock, close to cocoa ink pad, stickles.

Danni Fluttersby

This stamp is a new Elisabeth Bell stamp from Susana's store, called Danni. Danni hosts the challenge Flutterby so I thought it was a perfect choice for that challenge. I had planned on playing yesterday, but took the kids to Water Country on the spur of the moment for the day. Had a wonderful time up there with friends, so I never got around to stamping yesterday.

For Flutterby Wed the challenge was limited or no pattern paper, and make a scene. I pulled out some neglected CB folders, since I wasn't using pattern paper. Than at Three Clovers it was to use bling, never a problem for me. I've got stickles, pearls and shimmerz on here. On Cute Card Thursday, use eyelets. I got my layout off Stamps and Smiles. At Dutch Dare the challenge was to use dies or punches. I used a nestie die, Martha Butterfly punch and a Fiskars punch on the edge of the choco chip cardstock. My color combo is from Color Throwdown, which was Cert. Celery, Choco Chip, and Perfect Plum.

My image is colored with copics.

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Snow Birds

Hope you all aren't getting tired of seeing these cuties. Yes, Debbie, I saw the Christmas ones! I grabbed a set of them too! LOL! I purchased them off this site in the UK, Rachel. She had super fast shipping. I saw a set of them off Sugar Nellie, thought they were so cute, but at the time, they were out of stock, so I googled it, and found them there, and got three sets! This is one of the images from one of the Christmas sets.

On to the card. I did a few challenges on this one. I'm becoming a serious fan of doing several challenges at one time. The layout is from Stamps and Smiles. I did a Christmas in July challenge found at Cute Card Thursday, and also at Three Clovers Designs. At Colour Create the challenge was blue and white, which went perfectly with the holiday theme of my card. And finally, at Dutch Dare they challenged us to use punches or cutting dies. I used nesties, and a MS punch for the snowflakes.

This card is full of bling. I used DCWV Christmas Glitter stack paper, glitter paper from Target for my snowflakes, and Martha glitter on my image. I also topped it off with stickles and shimmerz. They are colored with copics.

**I have blog candy up for grabs. You can get to it by clicking here. I think I might even have to stick some images of these cuties in the package with the other goodies! Seems lots of you like the images as much as I did!

Stylin' Magnolia

You all remember me winning that way cool blog candy off Midnight Madness, I picked out some new Magnolias and they arrived this week. This is one of them. I love long hair on little girls, so just about all the ones I grabbed have long hair. I wasn't able, or should say didn't have the mojo yesterday to do Cute Card Thursday, which was a thank you card for a teacher. I thought this Tilda would look so perfect to be dressed in plaid-and she did! I grabbed two packs of Basic Grey today, June Bug, and Lemonade-thanks, Kim! And stay tuned, I grabbed another Lemonade pack for a blog candy I'm getting ready to post soon.

I used June Bug on this card, and SU Ruby Red and Old Olive cardstock. I followed the sketch on Just Magnolia, and I think I beat Debbie today, but gotta post quickly to make sure! I also tried another challenge I saw on Pile It On, called Use It. They had a challenge to use two punches-those are my SU word punches, texture-flowers, ribbons, and buttons, favorite paper company-lately, I'm in love with Basic Grey, and a bonus to use a pearl, which I topped her hat with one! My sentiment is from TAC, and I colored her with copics.

Cute Card Thursday

Another challenge card for me. This one is from Cute Card Thursday, and the challenge was to use wheels on the card. I grabbed an image from an image swap forever ago. I used a paper pack from TAC called Uptown Girl. Such a fun girly paper line. I used colored pencils, and was really missing my copics on this one! I was having a hard time blending them! Been so long since I used them, I think they were on strike! I layered the car in shimmerz, and gave her some diamond rim caps! Other supplies: SU Pure Pom cardstock, PTI black, Q and Co brads, primas, nesties, SU Loads of Love Accessories stamp.
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Cuteness Galore!

Oh! Man, I had a surprise in my mail box today! Gee oh gee! I need some of these! They are so stinking cute! I kept seeing Tammi and Kim use them, and thought they were uber cute cards! Kim sent me a few to play with-thanks a ton, chickie!! Dangerous! UGH! Loved them! Had to whip up another card with one! That's four cards in one day! Woo hoo for me! I did Amy R's sketch from Friday. A bit late! And today's Cute Card Thursday is Tag your it. So, I got a cute little tag on there with a Hero's Art sentiment! I added some shimmers to her wings and outfit. I grabbed three, yup, three new paper packs at Michael's today. I'm awful with paper. I just love the stuff!

Other supplies: nesties, Old Olive cardstock, primas, cuttle bug die, martha punch, copics, Queen brads. Copics:E000, E11, E49, E93, BG15, BG23, E47, RV34, G00, E37.

Tinkerbelle Saturday Sketch

I combined two challenges today. This card uses the Sketch Saturday, and The Cute Card Thursday challenge. The Cute Card Thursday was to use a quote on the card. This Tinkerbelle quote is from a TAC set called Just Dream. I thought it would go very so nicely with Musing Melinda. I used Basic Grey's Two scoops papers. Other supplies are nesties, SU cornor punch, Regal Rose ink, sage shadow cardstock, primas, stickles, and copics. The copics I used were: Skin-Eooo, Eoo, E11, R20, hair-E33, E43, E31, pants-G21, G85, shirt-RV34, R22, wings-R00.

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Cute Whiff of Joy full of Bling

I finally got to stamping today. I've been dying to get to it all day. I worked on Trey's room painting trim and his closet doors! I so badly wanted to skip it and stamp, but I was good, and painted first! I combined a few challenges into this one card. More bang for the buck, with a short amount of time! Trying to get stuff done before the kids are out of school in a few weeks. The Whiff of Joy Challenge was to make a card that was blue and brown. Hard for me, I'm not good with blue! Happy with the end result, but wished I had a better matching blue to my papers. Than it was Cute Card Thursday, which said bring on the bling! I have stickles on there, brads, flowers, and a ribbon. And on the Stampin Out Alzheimer's site, there was a sketch challenge, so I did it too. This was the Sweet and Sassy sketch.

Supplies: K and Co paper, brocade blue, creamy caramel cardstock, stickles, close to cocoa, choco chip ink, nestie, copics. Skin-E000, E11, R11. Dress-blender, B39. Apron-E53, E33, Hat-E74, Boo. Hair-E37, E49, E57. Flowers-B32, YG63.

Golffella Dude

Did my first Cute Card Thursday challenge tonight. The theme was sports. I have a few sport themed sets, but they weren't 'cute', so I went digging thru a stash of images, and found I had Golfingfella. From there I pulled out Basic Grey's Mellow. Than I used SU More Mustard, and Old Olive card stock. My other two shades are scraps. I used a sentiment from TAC's Golf set. I added some diamond glaze to the tops of the clubs after I added the dew drops.

Copic markers- skin Eooo, E53, hat and bag R59, clubs and covers YG63, W7, W3, grass G99, clothes E57, YR23, B93, B97, B95, hair E47. This will probably end up being hubby's birthday card, which is in a few weeks.