VLVSep01, VLVSep02, VLVSep03 A Little Late!!

Hey there,

I hope you are all having a great start to your week!! I know I'm not quite excited for this weekend, this week marks the beginning of midterms, so I will be studying very hard for exams, so if I am not around you know why.

I know these sketches are from last months Verve Challenges but I wanted to share them with you. You may have already seen them on SCS cause I posted them there during the Challenge time frame, but  I didn't get a chance to share them with you on my blog. So here they are.

This first card was made using this sketch, VLVSep01 and the twist for the challenge was to use little round things. For my little round things I used clear Dew Drops that I colored purple with my color markers. Did you know you could do that? Yup, and it works pretty well!

Check it out, here is VLVSep01. Enjoy!!!

Next I have VLVSep02 which was a "challenge for you to go TINY! Just make a card, or set of cards, that are SMALLER than the normal 4.25 x 5.5. You can make a 3x3 card, a scrapling, a 4x4, whateva! Just not the normal." So I had a tiny card using my Nestibilites and I combined this challenge with SEP09E, to the left, which was to Bring on the Bling, so I used stick to Bling up my card.

Here it is, Enjoy!!!

Lastly I made challenge VLVSep03. This challenge was to use this sketch, to the left, and the {Twist} was GIRLFRIENDS! "Make a card for a special lady in your life...be it your mom, grandma, BFF, or whoever!"




I combined the VLVSep03 challenge with the SEP09B Challenge
which was  color challenge, to left, to use Deep Purple, Olive, Rusty Orange and Teal. What a great color combo, if I must say!! These color I would have never thought to put together. They are just perfect together and so fall and autumn like. I love this color combo.

Check it out, isn't it just gorgeous!!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!!

VLVSep01

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Verve Floral Symphony
Paper: Whisper White, Kraft, Lavender, Green
Ink: Su Kiwi Kiss, ColorBox Fluid Chalk Lavender Ink
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Dew Drops, EK Success Embossed Curve Edge Punch, Lavender Stickles

VLVSep02, SEP09E
RECIPE:
Stamps: Verve Circular Sayings, Verve Miracles Blossom
Paper: Whisper White Cardstock
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), SU Kiwi Kiss, ColorBox Chalk Ice Blue and Whisteria
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Stickles

VLVSep03, SEP09B
RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Verve Beautiful Kindness, Verve Because of You
Paper: Deep Purple, Burnt Orange, Teal, Olive
Ink: SU Kiwi Kiss, Color Box Chalk, Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Gross Grain Ribbon, Rhinestones

Digital-Ink Co. Theme Challenge (D-IC005)

Hello there,

I hope your week has started off well!!! Today I hope you will join me in playing week five of the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge (D-IC005). This weeks Challenge is a Theme Challenge and our theme is Autumn/Fall.

For this weeks challenge I decided to combine the theme with a super cute and simple sketch challenge from clean and simple stamping. The sketch challenge I chose is Fall-to Layout 60 (FTL60),which is pictured to the left.
Clean and simple always has some great sketches to share with us and they are always "clean and simple" which I love because they are also quick, which is great too!!

So here it is, my clean and simple Autumn/Fall themed Digital-Ink Co. card. Enjoy!!!!

Don't forget you still have time to join in the Digital-Ink Co.'s first ever Falloween Blog Hop, just head over to the Digital-Ink Co. Store Blog to start on the hop and enjoy some great inspiration and some free images. Also for the month of October the whole Digital-Ink Co. Store is 50% off so hurry on over there to get your favorite images!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day and don't forget to check out what the rest of the DT has for you!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 1/2 x 5
Stamps: Autumn Leaves Stamp Pack by Stamping Dragon Designs (Digital-Ink Co.), EK Success Thank you sentiment
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Brown, White, & Orange Cardstock
Accessories: Gold Rhinestone Stickers (Michaels), Corner Rounder Punch, 3-D Zots

D-IC Happy Birthday

Hey there,

Happy Sunday to you all!!! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend, I know I am. I had a great time at my baby cousins 1st Birthday. It's always a great time hanging out with family!!!

This week I have another Birthday. My moms birthday is on Monday so I made her this awesome card, lol, I think its pretty darn cute!!! Anyways,I used a Digital-Ink Co. image by Reece's Designs, it's a package set called Happy Birthday, and I totally fell in love with the super cute and sweet little girl in the package. She is just adorable and I totally had to have her!!! I think you will all really like her too!!!

Check her out, and Enjoy!!!

Don't forget you still have time to join in the Digital-Ink Co.'s first ever Falloween Blog Hop just head over to the Digital-Ink Co. Store Blog to start on the hop and enjoy some great inspiration and some free images. Also for the month of October the whole store is 50% off so hurry on over there to get your favorite images!!

Thanks for stopping by today, enjoy the rest of your weekend!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Happy Birthday by Reece's Designs (Digital-Ink Co.), SU Congrats Sentiment set
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: me&my BiG ideas Fashion District Paper Pad, Brown Cardstock
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Ribbon, Button, Embroidery Floss

1st Birthday Girl

Hey there,

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend. Today my cousin's baby girl is having her 1st Birthday Party tonight. I'm pretty excited cause I don't often get to hang out with these cousins, not sure why, as we all got older and we all started going our separate ways and getting married we stopped getting together but hopefully that will change. I know when I get married and have my house and a nice backyard you bet I'll be inviting everyone over for dinner and for the kids to play. I love hanging out with family and having everyone united, it's a good thing to do and it's a great way to raise your kids together.

So for today I want to share with you the card that I made for baby Alayiah, pronounced Uh-lie-Uh, it's from the bible, very unique and very pretty!!! I love the 1st Birthday Girl image from Mo's Digital Pencil, so I had to buy just for Alayiah's first birthday. I always wanted this sweet little image yet I never had a little girl to give it to and then when I was thinking of what to do for the card, I remembered I wanted to buy the image, so I did!!!

So here is what I came up with, Enjoy!!!

Super Sweet huh?!! 

Oh and my cousin requested that we purchase a book as part of Alayiah's gift, so the other day I spent about an hour looking around in the kids books section at Barnes and Nobles. Let me just say I wanted all their books!!! I sure wish I had some nieces or nephews who I could spoil with some great books or maybe even my own kids, some day. I could not make a choice, that's for sure, there were just to many good ones that I wanted to bring home with me. I ended up purchasing a book called Bedtime Stories that had three great short stories in it, really cute, and something that Alayiah will be able to enjoy when she gets older and can read.

Thanks for stopping by today, enjoy your weekend!!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 6 1/2 x 5
Stamps: 1st Birthday Girl by Mo's Digital Pencil
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper:  Hot Off The Press Paper Pizazz Green w/ Daisies DP
Accessories: Martha Stewart Lace Doily Border Punch, Gross Grain Ribbon,  3-D Zots, Judi Kins Diamond Glaze, Stickles

Digital Ink Co. Blog Hop

Hello there,

Glad you've made it to my blog today. If you've come here from Jennifer's blog then you are on the right track for the first ever Digital-Ink Co. Blog Hop. If you just happened to pop in today, I'm glad, cause that means you can join in the fun by heading over to the Digital-Ink Co. Store Blog to get started. There are mystEry lEttErs to be found, great inspiration, and fun challenges along the way. So come play along, you might win the Grand Prize!!!

For today's Blog Hop I want to share with you a super spooky yet cute Jack-o'-LantErn and MicE image, this image is from M&M DEsignz and it is called MicE N Pumpkin. For this card I did SCS's Limited Supplies Challenge  #238 and SCS Sketch Challenge #246.

TakE a pEak and makE surE not to squEak for you don't know what crEaturEs may comE out to join our squEaky friEnds in this warm little pumpkin ;-). Enjoy!!! 

Don't forgEt to pickup your mystEry lEttEr to complEtE thE phrasE and make sure you leave a comment so we know that you made it here because every stop counts on your way to the Grand Prize. Now head on over to SEWN Together for your next stop on the Digital-Ink Co. Blog Hop.

 

Here is the order of the blog hop encase something happened along the way.

Digital-Ink Co Store Blog -the blog hop start

1.   M&M Designz

2.   Boni

3.   Darlene

4.   Stitchy Stamps

5.   Diane

6.   Jackie

7.   Jules Junk

8.   Micki

9.   Tanny

10. Stamping Dragon

11. Teri

12. Kim

13. Beary Dust

14. Jennifer
15. Raquel -YOUR HERE

16. SEWN Together

17. SNR Group 

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the hop and have a great day!!!!

RECIPE:

Project Size: 5 x 6 1/2

Stamps: Mice N Pumpkin by M&M Designz (Digital-Ink Co.)

Ink: Copic Markers

Paper: K&Company Tim Coffey Halloween DP

Accessories: Ribbon,Embroidery Thread, Button

ISS Retro Witch Sneak Peak

Hello there,

Happy 1st of October!!!! Halloween is just 30 days away, how exciting is that. Things are going to be changing around here. It's going to start getting colder and the leaves are going to start changing and falling. In fact the other day I noticed there were already leaves swirling around in the wind. Falll will be here before we know it and so will Halloween night!!!

I'd like to share with you a special little image by InStyle Stamps. It came in a little later than the other images so I get the pleasure of sharing it with you today. The image is called Retro Witch, and when I first saw her I was in total awww, I absolutely love her!!!! She is just perfect!!! I really love InStyle's Retro images, they are just so adorable!! I'm so glad that I get to play with this super cute image! She will be released on October 5th, so you'll have to hurry over to InStyle Stamps to get you hands an her and the other images ;-)!!!!

 For this card I decided to go with Jen del Muro's Sketch, picture to the left, from a few weekends ago. I figured that this sketch would be just perfect for this image, along with the new Halloween paper I picked up the other day at Michaels.



Check Ms. Retro Witch out! Enjoy!!!!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed today's card! Have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Retro Witch by InStyle Stamps
Paper: Recollections Halloween Cardstock Designer Paper Pad
Ink: Copic Markers
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Martha Stewart Bat Punch, 3-D Zots, Stickles, Shimmerz, SU Small Oval Punch

ISS WC Emily & Irene

Hello there,

I hope you are all having a great day. Today over at InStyle Stamps Blog the Wednesday Challenge is a color challenge using the colors Brown and Blue.

I hope you’ll join in on the fun. One lucky participant will receive an InStyle Stamps digital image of their choice. Please be sure to use an ISS image on your card and upload the link by commenting at the end of the Wednesday Challenge post on the ISS Blog by 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 6th.

For today's challenge I used Emily and Irene and I used some DP from my Instyle Kit. Enjoy!!!!



Don't forget to head over to the InStyle Stamps Blog for more challenge details.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 6 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Emily and Irene by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: InStyle Kit
Accessories: American Craft Premium Ribbon, Stickles

ISS Jack and Honey Bunny Sneak Peak

Hey there,

I hope everything is well. Today I want to share with you a couple more October release images from InStyle Stamp. I want to introduce you all to Jack and Honey Bunny.

First off is my friend Jack who is guarding all the bones and skulls this Halloween and making sure that none of them come out of their graves to give us a fright in a couple of nights, ; -) hehe.Enjoy!!!

I'd also like you to meet my friend Honey Bunny. Isn't she sweet!!! For Honey Bunny I used last weeks Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #40 and this weeks Pink Elephant Challenge #34 which is a recipe to do "something with dots." Honey Bunny wishes you all a Hoppy Halloween!! Enjoy!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day and remember if you want to get your hands on these super cute images that I have been sneak peaking they come out in October so hurry on over to InStyle Stamps to get your order in!!

Jack
RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Jack by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: K&Company Tim Coffey Halloween Designer Paper
Accessories: Martha Stewart Graveyard Edge Punch, Ribbon, 3-D Zots, Butter Cream Shimmerz, Martha Stewart Bat Punch

Honey Bunny
RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Honey Bunny by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: K&Company Tim Coffey Halloween Designer Paper
Accessories:  Ribbon, Embroidery Floss, SU Word Window Punch, Martha Stewart Bat Punch

Digital-Ink Co. Color Challenge (D-IC004)

Hey there everyone,

Welcome to another Monday Challenge issued by Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and that the beginning of your week has started on the right foot.

Lets get right to our Challenge!!

This weeks challenge at Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog is a Color
Challenge using the very hip, Stitchy Stamps Hippie. The colors challenge pallette is to the left, and the colors are burgundy, light blue,  and dark blue.

The prize for this weeks random challenge winner is super sweet Honey from Beary Dust. Make sure to play so that you can get your chance to win this super sweet image!!
Head on over to the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog for more details on the Challenge and to enter using Mr. Linky. Also when uplading to SCS use keyword "D-IC004" and "Digital-Ink Co."

Check it out, here is what I came up with!!

I combined the D-IC Color Challenge with the SCS Sketch Challenge #247 that was issued last Wednesday.

Don't forget to head on over the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog to check out what the other design team members have created and to get yourself entered to win Honey and at a chance at this Raffle, pictured below.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Hippie by Stitchy Stamps (Digital Ink Co.)
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: me&my BiG ideas Modern Milan Paper Slab, Light Blue Cardstock, Navy Blue Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock, Burgundy Cardstock
Accessories: Dew Drops, Magenta Shimmerz, Paper Piercer

ISS Cynthia Sneak Peaks

Hey there,

Today I would like to introduce you to two more new Cynthia Fairy images from InStyle Stamps. I love Cynthia she is so cute and I love that I always want to use all my glittery accessories with her. I don't know what it is about her but I always have to use my Stickles, Shimmerz and Rhinestones and everything Bling. Without them she is unfinished to me. I guess I love bling, what girl doesn't, lol ;-D !!!

First I introduce you to Cynthia-and-Owl. Quite the Spooky Scene, Aye? I love the little owl with his hat and the bats in the moon!!! Check it out!!!



I also want to introduce you to Tooth Fairy Cynthia. She is the perfect image to use on a card when congratulating a child on losing their tooth and the tooth fair coming. I combined her with Bo Bunny's beautiful Delilah DP that is in the October Club Anime Kit . Check her out, isn't she cute!!!





Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!


Cynthia-and-Owl
RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: Cynthia-and-Owl by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: K&Company Tim Coffey Halloween DP Mat Pad, Kraft, White, Black
Accessories: Martha Stewart Spider Web Edge Punch, Martha Stewart Bat Punch, Michaels Halloween Ribbon, Stickles

Tooth Fairy Cynthia
RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: Tooth fairy Cynthia by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Club Anime Kit Bo Bunny Delilah DP
Accessories: Prima Flower, Ribbon, Rhinestones, Stickles, Shimmerz

ISS Patches & Bendy

Hey Everyone,

I hope you all enjoyed yesterdays InStyle Stamps Blog Hop, I know I sure did. If you missed out on yesterday's hop there is still time to hop around so take a look at this post for more details and if you want to join in the fun and get a chance at a prize you have until 11:59pm EST today.

For today I want to introduce you to my little Pumpkin Patch friend "Patches" and "Bendy" the Bee.

If you remember Patches and Bendy were both introduced to you yesterday and they both enjoyed their debut so much that they wanted to come out and play some more today.

Enjoy!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!!!

Patches

RECIPE:

Project Size: 4 1/2 x 5

Stamps: Patches by InStyle Stamps

Ink: Copic Markers

Paper: K&Company Tim Coffey Halloween DP Mat Pad

Accessories: Ribbon, Stickles, SU Small Oval, SU Large Oval, Black Brads

Bendy

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 5

Stamps: Bendy by InStyle Stamps

Ink: Copic Markers

Paper: Yellow, White, and Black Cardstock

Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Nestibilites, Paper Piercer, Ribbon, Brad, Fun Flock, Shimmerz

InStyle Stamps Blog Hop

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the InStyle Stamps Blog Hop. This is my first time ever participating in a blog hop so I am super excited!!! InStyle Stamps has some awesome new images to share with you all. In order to see all of the new images you must visit each Design Team Members blog and leave comments on each of our blogs and at the end of the hop go to the InStyle Stamps Blog to vote on your favorite project, and then leave a comment on that post (not mine) answering the following question:

"What is your favorite fall treat?"

The design team member whose project gets the most votes will get a prize, and InStyle Stamps will also be giving away a Grand Prize to 1 lucky reader (winner will be randomly drawn from the comments on the ISS blog post).
The contest is open until 11:59pm EST Saturday, and the winners will be announced Sunday.

This months theme is Treats and the new image that I am introducing to you is Tea Society Cynthia. Isn't she cute!!! The little saying that I made up when creating with her was "Trick-or-Tea-Treats" and to go with that I made little tea bag holders so that I could give tea away as treats.

Take a look and Enjoy!!!!

All of my projects together.

The Card.

This is the outside of the Tea Bag holder.

This is the inside of the Tea Bag holder.

I hope you enjoyed, now get on your way and check out what the other design team members have in store for you and don't forget to head on over to the InStyle Stamps blog for your chance to be a Grand Prize winner and to vote for one design team member.

Now hop along!!!

Jennifer
Jodi-Ann
Joy
Kim
Lysa
Mary
Maylee
Melissa
Piali

Thanks for stopping by, have a great Friday, and enjoy the hop!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Tea Bag Holder Size: 3 1/4 x 3 3/4
Stamps: Tea Society Cynthia by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: K&Company Tim Coffey Halloween DP Mat Pad
Accessories: Martha Stewart Spider Web Edge Punch, Martha Stewart Halloween Ribbon, 3-D Zots, Stickles

ISS Frankie

Hey there,

I hope all is well. Everything is well with me. Sorry things have been slow here around my blog, my granfathers services were last night and this morning so I haven't been anywhere near a computer in last few days, but I hope to get back ontop of things.

I have several cards to show you all,I just haven't gotten around to uploading them and making posts. I need to start getting better and scheduling my posts, I always have the picture uploaded but I always fall behind on typing up the details,so I will need to train myself to upload pics and add details at the same time so that it's all set and ready to go and I don't have to worry about doing it all last minute.

For this afternoon I want to share with you all a sneak peak of one of the new Ocober Digital Anime Halloween images from InSytle Stamps.

I want to introduce you to Frankie. He is so stinkin spooky, lol!!!!


For his card I decided to go with 2nd challenge issued over at Crazy 4 Challenges blog. So here is my take on the challenge.

Enjoy!!!




Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the ISS blog hop & release. I have another project just waiting to be shared with you all!!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Project Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Frankie by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: K&Company Tim Coffey Halloween DP Mat Pad
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Oogle Eyes, Shimmerz, Silk Ribbon, 3-D Zots


P.S. Thank you everyone for your support and all your kind words and prayers, my family and I really appreciate it!!!!