CWLC 55 Anything Goes!

I am running a little behind today....forgot to do my post for 

this weeks challenge at Created With Love Challenges.  

Anyway, on to my card for today!

Today at Created With Love Challenges we are starting a new 

challenge Theme and it is Everyone's favorite!! ANYTHING GOES!!! 

By The Way if you check our Facebook page out we will often surprise you with a sneak peak of our up coming theme on the night before the new challenge, just to get a heads up!

Our sponsor this week is 

I chose to do a Christmas card with a Digi Darla image called Christmas Tree

Using my cuddle bug to emboss the background with snowflakes, and used 

my Grand Calibur to cut and emboss the image.

I added some stickles to the tree garland too.

Have a Great week and Happy Crafting!

i {heart} Card Sketch no. 31

Hello everyone....Today I have been in the craft room with my Sister-in-law who is staying with us for a bit. I have her addicted to card making!!! she has seen what I do and was like Oh My...I gotta try!! and she LOVES it! She is over browsing From The Heart Stamps as I type this!!!

Anyway today I worked on the Delightful Inspiration Sketch # 31

 

using this sketch and an image from From the Heart Stamps

I came up with this Fab birthday card. I have a hard time finishing the insides of my cards and have a stack sitting here that have no "innards" so to speak. so this time I went all the way and finished the whole thing. SO proud of me....LOL

Thanks for stopping by!

*Sneak peak..........
New Challenge tomorrow 8/26/13 at Created with Love Challenges....ANYTHING GOES theme!!!

CWLC 54 Something Sweet

Good Monday morning!  

Hope you all had a great weekend, mine was busy with the grandson!

this week at Created With Love we are having the theme Something Sweet!

Our wonderful sponsor is 

I used a retro cupcake image from Limited Runs

 

I used paper from my Retro stack and matched ribbon, glimmer mist, ink

 and gems to match the colors of the DP and the colors I chose for the image!

Be sure to join us this week at Created with love for our Something Sweet themed challenge!

Thanks for stopping buy have a great week!

I heart Sketch # 30 and August Freebie

 I Heart Sketches

#30

Another new sketch at 

I Heart Sketches.

I am using 

Cats Out of the Bag..

a new image at From the Heart Stamps

For each sketch challenge you enter,

you get $1 off any image at 

From the Heart Stamps.

You can use it as a $1 off, 

or save them and get images for free.

I have been saving them and will be turning them into a free image!!

Here is the card 

I put together for this challenge...

 I am also using this as my submission for the Free Stamp of the month Progressive Challenge

With this challenge, you use the image of the month, 

and next month they send you next month's stamp

FREE!!

If you didn't take part in the past month's challenge,

no fear.  

Simply buy this month's image,

enter this month, 

and next month you will get the image of the month...

for free.

Thanks for looking ! 

CWLC 53 Back to School & Blog Candy winner!!

Hello fellow crafters!

What a fab turnout the last 2 weeks with our Anniversary Blog Hop at Created with love!

I did have some candy that I was offering and Random.org has chosen the winner for me!!!

Thank you all that commented I had 44 comments!! WOW the most ever on my blog!! 

So here is the winner....

That is PAM! 

PamAugust 6, 2013 at 7:54 PM

Stunning card. Love the cloud and the air balloon.Thanks for sharing
Pam
Papillondigitaldesigns

Congrats Pam! Email me ASAP with CANDY WINNER 

in the subject and your snail mail addy and I will get your candy in the mail!!!

Now on to the project I have for you this week!!

This week at Created With Love Challenges we are looking at BACK TO SCHOOL!!

School starts next week here in Virginia! My boys are grown so I dont have to deal with all the shopping and hoopla that goes with the Back to School season anymore and I dont miss it! LOL

Anyway Cedar Chest was generous enough to offer the Design Team a couple images to work with! I chose Ariella With Heart and I added a set of school books image that I got online!

The doily was white and I spritzed it with daffodil glimmer mist,  The apple border was cut on my Cricut with a free SVG file I ran across online!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving the love!!

CWLC 52 1st Anniversary Blog Hop!

It's our First Anniversary!!!
 

And we are having a Blog Hop.  Wow where did the year go!!
Thank you to everyone of you for making this first year so great!
we have really enjoyed every single entry!!

This will be a  2 week hop and challenge.

To be considered for the random.org winner,

you must:
 *enter the challenge,

*be a follower,

*leave a comment on all the design team members blogs.

And it is a very popular Theme this week...

Anything Goes 

 

Our sponsors are

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. Meljen's Designs has a new challenge every Thursday, and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the adorable line of Meljen's Designs stamps at our store HERE to browse all of Melissa's lovely designs! You can also see Melissa's exclusive rubber stamps at her corner of Whimsy Stamps, too!  Don't forget to join Meljen's Designs on Facebook HERE to take advantage of special sales and promotions that are just for her facebook fans!

Prize is $10 Gift Certificate!

AND

GINGERLOFT

prize is 3 images of winners choice!

AND




V's Sweet Ideas

V's Sweet Ideas is owned by Vanessa Vergara. V's Sweet Ideas was created to offer handmade cards for all occasions and now has expanded to offer crafting supplies. V's Sweet Ideas carries a variety of known brands such as My Minds Eye, Maya Roads and May Arts Ribbon to meet the needs of all types of crafters!

We are happy to offer the winner a $10 gift certificate to our online store!

Here is what I have created with an image from
Meljen's Designs called Hot Air Balloon

 

Here is the order of our hop.

Chris

Dawn- You are here!

Chris B

Kate

Linda

Maria

Rachel

Head on over to Chris B now to see what she has created for our Anniversary Hop!

Some of the design team have offered up some
BLOG CANDY.
So be sure to leave a comment and become a follower on my blog
to win the Candy I have pictured here.

~CANDY~

~CANDY~

Now you have until
Saturday, August 10, 2013     9 PM EST,
to hop and enter the challenge.

CWLC 51 All About Dogs

Good Monday morning!

Today over at CWLC we are focusing on DOGS!!

We want to see anything to do with Dogs!

We are being sponsored by Stamp N Doodle

and they were generous to offer up a couple image for our DT to work with! 

This image is called "If you cant beat them"

Thanks for stopping by hope to see you join us over at

Created With Love Challenges

Delightful Inspirations i {heart} card sketch 26

Good Friday Morning!

My sister-in-law and I are going cloths shopping today!! Yaaa

 I used to HATE to shop for cloths but now that I have lost 140 lbs I don't 

mind it at all and actually Love trying cloths on, just to see if they fit!!

So that is what my plans are for today!

 I mentioned last night in my post that 

I had 2 cards to share with you, well here is my second one! 

Another "I heart card Sketch"

 

Love their sketch and playing along with the monthly freebie image too!

this is my take on the Sketch using an image from Digi Darla Designs.

I wanted to get a start on my Christmas Cards so thats what I used a Christmas image!

Thanks for stopping by!

Delightful Inspirations

Good evening all! 

I have has some time in my craft room today and I got some much needed work done! 

I have a couple that I want to share! here is the first one! 2nd will come tomorrow!

Over at Delightful Inspirations, they have a GREAT weekly sketch, 

I kinda needed it for a little mojo and it worked!!

Here is the Sketch

 

using an image from

 "From The Heart"  called Happy Mail

This is what I came up with using the sketch!!

Colored image with prisma color pencils, then blended with OMS, I used

chalk for my clouds, The DP is from my stash and the glitter tape is from wal-mart. 

The ribbon I used is from Joann Sheen.

 

 Thanks for stopping by and looking!

Layout Salem Fair!

We took our grandson who is 27 months old...Big boy for his age...to the Salem Fair! Its a Great little fair with lots to do with little kids, and even a few adult rides. I decided to add to his Scrapbook album that I am working on with a couple pages of our trip to the fair!

Entering this in the following challenge:

Lasting Memories