Happy Anniversary!!

Hello crafters!  I usually miss Friends with Flair at Unity, because I post before Friday.  I have A LOT of Unity stamps and use them quite often.

Anyway, around 930pm I was getting ready for bed and my son's girlfriend came walking in asking if I had an Anniversary card (this was last weekend).  Her parents 25th Wedding Anniversary was the next day.  Looking through my stash, I had none.  So... she picked out the images she wanted and the colors.  I had until 3 the next day to get a card made.  Which is fast for me, I kinda work slow nowadays because I'm a bit of a perfectionist sometimes.

She had to have the cute image Milk & Cookies on the front.   She loved the sentiment that came with the image, so it was used for the front of the card. I colored the image with my colored pencils.  As you can see, black and silver were the colors for this Anniversary.

She chose a sheer silver ribbon.  I added a heart brad with a little charm, which says "Love".  You can see in the above picture, I added a few more heart brads.

Here's the inside.  She thought these little monsters were adorable.  They are from the stamp set Nicest Place to Be.  The Happy Anniversary sentiment is from Stamping Up.

They loved it SO much, they framed it.  It's the simple things....

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• 4 Crafty Chicks - #257 Anything Goes
• Inky Chicks - #54 Use a Metal Embellishment (brads & charm)
• Unity - Friends with Flair

stamps used: Unity - Milk & Cookies & Nicest Place to Be, Stamping' Up - Something to Celebrate

paper used: the Paper Studio - black & white, Hot Off the Press - HammeredSilver

punch used: Stampin' Up corner punch

embellishments: RRR silver ribbon, Recollections - brads, Charmalong charm

DT CALL

Scrapping4fun is having a DT call for October to December 2015.  Please think about joining this wonderful team :o)

Hello everyone,

Scrapping4funChallenges are looking for dedicated crafters who have a passion for creating all kinds of projects......from layouts, cards, mini albums or "off the page" creations.

The New Design Team Ladies will run for a 3 month term.

This term will be from the 1st of October to December 2015.

To take part you need the following:

1. Have a blog that you can post your creations
2. Have a Facebook account (you stay private, you only have to join the DT S4fChallenges page)
3. Means to take good quality pictures of your creations
4. You have to be a team player
5. Place a minimum of two challenges each month
6. Be a follower on this blog
7. Actively comment on creations. This is a BIG MUST!!!
8. All applicants welcome, you do not have to be English. (I can speak English, German and Afrikaans) Afrikaans is similar to the Netherlands. I understand if you send me an email in Netherlands.

This is what you can do to support this Fun opportunity:

• Please, send us your name and blog link to scrapping4funchallenges@gmail.com with this Subject - DT CALL: Oct to Dec 2015 
• Your blog name, your name (if different from blog and a short bio of you.
• Post about our Design Team Call on your blog to help get the word out
• Be a follower on this blog
• DT Call closed on the 7th of August 2015 @ 14:00PM European Time.
• DT Members will be notified by the 8th of August 2015, 14:00PM European Time
• Please, be ware of the time zone differences - on the Top left you will find the Date and Clock on the Blog.

Hope you will join in the FUN!!

We are waiting to hear from you!

No matter if you are a beginner or a more advanced Scrapper!

No matter if you are new to the DT Call, there are always a first time!

Thank you , and I cannot wait to here from you!

Happy Crafting

Scrapping4fun - #47

Hello fellow crafters!  I enjoyed seeing all your wonderful projects in our last challenge at Scrapping4Fun.  It's always amazes me the talent that is out in blogland.  I hope you are ready for another challenge, it's Anything Goes + Music Notes/Instruments.

Having a music background, I love anything music.

I know it's hard to believe, but I did a very simple note card.  Very simple. I realized I have zero notes cards left in my stash and some were needed.  I used white ink from Martha Stewart to stamp the violin and Versamark to do the music notes.  Then, I just distressed the paper edges.  I always wanted to learn how to play the violin, but got stuck with woodwinds.  Violins were not in schools bands, but I loved learning different woodwinds growing up.

I hope to see you in the challenge.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: MFT IB Music (this is a retired stamp)
paper used: the Paper Studio kraft & ivory

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #58 Anything Goes

Hello fellow crafters :o)  It's been really hot here and this week is not any better with temperatures in the 100s.  Sounds like more time to be inside and stay cool.  Once again, I want to thank all you for your sweet comments on the last challenge.

I hope you are ready for another challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  For the next 2 weeks it's Anything Goes, but remember you still need some stamping on your project, either rubber, clear or digital.  We will have 3 winners, because we have 3 wonderful sponsors.

The winner will receive a $12 gift certificate.

The winner will receive a $10 gist certificate.

The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate.

Thank you to all our wonderful sponsors :o)

For this challenge I used the image Greek House 2 from Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet.  I love this scenery image and it was fun to color with my color pencils. The map behind the image was a bus map I had from my visit to Greece, but it was bright with colors.  So it didn't compete with the image I decided to copy the map and make it black and white.  I finish the inside, but my camera didn't want to focus on my blank white cardstock (it looks like the front, but without the image).

Ready for a couple of Greece pics.  We went to Greece in 2010 for a dear friend's wedding.  It was at the end of August and it was HOT!  A Greek wedding is fabulous to attend at least once in a lifetime. It is one that I will never forget. Wedding bus picked us up at 4pm, wedding at 6ish-7ish, dinner served at midnight, lots of dancing, and the bus took us back to the hotel around 4:30am.

Here is Athens, Greece from the top of Filopappou Hill.

The Parthenon at night from our hotel.  We had The Temple of Zeus right outside our window.

Yes, I was 32 weeks pregnant with my 4th boy.  It didn't slow me down climbing up all those hills to see everything. People there really thought I needed to be in bed resting, but I couldn't with SO much to see.  Besides I needed to eat some of that great food :oP  There are hundreds of pics, but can't put them all in one blog post.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Card Mania - #70 Anything Goes
• Country View Challenges - On Your Travels
• Digi Designs - Hand Colored Image
• Digi Stamps 4 Joy - #114 Anything Goes
• Eclectic Ellapu - Travel

stamp uesd: Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet - by IKEs Art Greek House 2

paper used: Recollections cape cod, the Paper Studio black & white

copy of a bus map for background paper

Pencil Class

Hello fellow crafters :o)  I'm finally getting around to posting the first image I colored in my online color pencil class from Kit & Clowder.  I know I kinda went backwards.

I colored this image with Prismacolor Pencils.  The class gives you a list of colors to use.  All you do is watch the video and color with Alyce.  It's lots of layers and building up slowly.  The image is from Ppinky Doll Stamps called Alyce Love.  When making a card I usually don't get all frilly, but since taking this class, I've learned to like it a little bit more.  There are 5 layers, plus image layer of distressed paper, lots of lace and flowers.  In the class videos Alyce shows you how to finish your projects.  She is an amazing teacher and will give you feedback on her class website.   I really enjoyed learning how to use my pencils my creatively, blending much better and learning the correct techniques.

Here's the inside.  The inside sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting From the Heart - #68 Anything Goes
• Crafting with an Attitude - #5 Anything Goes
• Crafty Friends - #9 Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday - #381 Ladies Only
• Dragon Lair - Shabby Chic
• Dream Valley - #110 Distressing

stamps used: Ppinky Dolls - Alyce Love (digital), MFT (clear stamp)
paper used: MR Designs-Whimsy Romance, Bazzill
embellishments: Simplicity lace, the Paper Studio paper flowers, jute, Stampendous shabby white frantage

Scrapping4fun #46 Summer/Winter

Thank you for all the lovely comments :o)

I hope you are ready for another challenge at Scrapping4fun!  For the next 2 weeks we want to see projects that are summer or winter.

I took this opportunity to get going on my Christmas cards.  We know how long they can take when the "good list" is long.  Last year I got started early and a Christmas Elf hid them from me.  To this day I'm still missing 10 cards from last year.  It must have been a great hiding place.  

Here's a cute little snowball sledding.  The stamp is from Unity called Snow Much Fun (snowpeep Charlie)  I colored the image with my color pencils and tried to keep it very simple.  I added some snowdrift die-cuts and put some glitter on top of them.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I hope to see you in the challenge!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• 4 Crafty Chicks - Christmas in July
• Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Winter Wonderland
• The House that Stamps Built - DCC78 White Plus One Color

stamps used: Unity Snow Much Fun (snowpeep Charlie), Stamping' Up Four the Holidays (inside sentiment)
paper used: Recollections dreamy, MFT primitive white
die cuts used: MFT snowdrifts & let it snowflake
embellishments: Recollections tinsel glitter

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #57 It's A Triple Play

I want to thank everyone for their kind and sweet comments from the Blog Hop!  I've been working hard on my coloring skills and it really means a lot to me that SO many of you have noticed.  Thank you :o)

We have another great challenge for you at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  For the next 2 weeks we want to see triplets in your embellishments.  That means use 3 of any type of embellishment, 3 buttons, 3 brads, 3 flowers, 3 gems...etc.  Remember we want to see some stamping, either rubber and/or digital.  

We have 3 wonderful sponsors for this challenge.

The winner will receive 4 images of choice.

The winner will receive a $7 gift certificate.

The winner will receive 7 images of choice.

Thank you sponsors :o)

For this challenge I worked with the set Summer Boys by Pickled Potpourri.  Since there were 4 images to this set I created a card with each image.  

Here is a cute little baseball boy.  I colored him with my color pencils.  For this challenge, I used 3 baseball type buttons.  (I did decorate the inside of my cards, but I didn't want this blog to be overly blogged down with pics.  I just don't feel like the card is finish unless the inside is done too.)  The sentiment is from MFT Baseball Boy.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenge:

• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - #9 Seeing Red

Next, is this cute little guy in the tire swing.  The image was fussy cut out so I could hang him from this tree image I had.  The sentiment, tree and grass was from the stamp set MFT Let's Hang Out.  I sponged the sky and colored the images with my color pencils.  I used 3 corner tabs for this challenge.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting For All Seasons - #105 Cute & Summery
• Crafts Galore - Use a Stamp or Digi anywhere
• Whimsie Doodles - June Challenge - Summer Fun

Here's a cute little swimmer.  I fussy cut this little guy out and put him on some waves.  I used 3 brads for this challenge.  The sentiment is from MFT Surf's up VIP Collections.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Digi Stamps4Joy - #114 Anything Goes
• Natalie & Amy's Challenge - #34 Summertime
• Pile It On - #76 Hot Fun in the Summer

I put this guy last, because he might not be actually what the challenge is all about, but I didn't want to break up the set.  Colored with my pencils again.  I saw this image where others colored like they were playing in the water, but the holding in the hand part got me.  It had to be mud, because that's what boys do :o)  He also has a cute frog friend playing with him.  I used mica around the card to look like mud splats.  I used 3 different embellishments and that's why I feel it really doesn't go with the challenge, but the image is part of this set. 

I hope to see you in the challenge!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Kleuren met Potloden - June Anything Goes (must use color pencils - 3rd entry)
• Scribbles Designs - #30 Feathers, Fins or Frog Legs
• Crafting When We Can - #98 Summer Fun

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used: Pickled Potpourri Designs - Summer Boys, MFT PI Baseball Boy, Let's Hang Out & Surf's Up VIP Collections.

paper used: Baseball card - Bazzill, Recollections dreamy, the Paper Studio baseballs

Tire Swing card - the Paper Studio kraft & white, discount paper

Swimmer card - Recollections cape cod, the Paper Studio turtle & fish patchwork, green scrap

Playing in Mud card - the Paper Studio kraft, MFT grapesicle & natural, discount paper

die-cuts used: MFT Circle Stax 1 & Stax 2, Fishtail Flag Stax & Catch a Wave

embellishments: Dress It Up baseball buttons, the Paper Studio Brads, Recollections fish brads, Making Memories antique copper brads, Ribbon Carousal twine, Stampendous mica

Blog Hop - NO RULZ

It's summer and it's hot, so let's break it up a bit! The Love To Scrap! Challenge Blog Design Team is happy to bring you our "No Rulz!" Blog Hop! We're being sponsored by River City Rubber Works! Come hop with us for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate!

As you hop, leave comments! The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win!

All of the LTSCB designers are creating Anything Goes inspiration projects for our blog hop. Everyone participating in the blog hop is invited to link up a 'No Rulz' project for extra entry/entries into the drawing! No rules for this challenge!

I used River City Rubber Works image Gas Station.  They have both rubber and digital in this image.  

For this challenge I decided to do an altered sketchbook.  Even though the book was a hardcover, I still covered it with designer paper.  Of course it wouldn't be manly without some metal...lots of metal pieces.  The clip on top is hanging by twine and connected underneath dp on the inside of the cover.  I thought it would be better not to fix it on the front, but to dangle.  I colored the image using my Prismacolor pencils.  

Here is the line-up:

Ann
Annette
Aunty Sue
Brenda
Cristina
Heather
Julie
Leslie
Tammy
Tina

We hope you are enjoying the hop and if you get lost along the way - or if you landed here in the middle of the hop and want to join in the fun - head over to the Love To Scrap!Challenge Blog to read all the details and start from the beginning!

Happy Hopping!

I would like to enter in the following challenges:

• 2 Creative Chicks - #21 Anything Goes (no cards) 3rd entry
• Craft My Life - June/July (no cards) 2nd entry
• Craft Your Passion - #268 Anything Goes
• Kleuren met Potloden - Anything Goes with color pencils
• Not Just Cards - #21 Anything Goes 2nd entry
• Open-Minded Crafting - #39 Vintage
• Simply Create Too - #88 Old, Vintage, Shabby Chic
• Southern Ridge - Masculine

stamp used: River City Rubber Works - Gas Station

paper used: Tim Holtz - Destinations

embellishments: 3 Girl Jam Ribbon rustic country, Ribbon Carousal twine, the Paper Studio clock metal charm & mustache brads, Tim Holtz hinge clips, Bead Landing found objects (gears)

Scrapping4fun #45 Anything Goes

Welcome to another challenge at Scrapping4fun!  For the next 2 weeks Anything Goes :o)  How easy as our summers our getting hectic here.  Can't wait to see your beautiful creations.

I started off with this image Octavia Friendly Hugs from Polkadoodles.  This was part of the Create & Learn monthly class from Kit & Clowder. This was April's pencil class where we learn how to do scenery(I didn't get the class until May10th, they run 15th to 15th of the months).  Because the image was 10.5 cm tall plus room for the scenery, it was a big image.  I needed to do something with it, because it was a lot of hard work.

I decided to put the image on a sketchbook.  Of course it had to be an altered sketchbook.  I didn't get too heavy with embellishments because I wanted the image to take center stage.

A couple of charms were added to the side binder.  A key with "dreams" on it and a dragonfly charm that seem suitable with the scenery.   Lots of ribbon, lace and twine was needed to hide some of the binder.   Now I have to start using the sketchbook ;o)

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my sketchbook in the following challenges:

• 2 Creative Chicks - #26 Anything Goes  - No Cards
• 3 Girl Jam Challenge - Anything Goes
• Crafting for all Seasons - #105 Cute & Summery
• Crafty Gals Corner - #25 Anything Goes
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #91 Anything Goes with twist...A touch of Summer
• Really Reasonable Ribbon - #120 Sizzling' Summer Colors with Ribbon or Trim Theme
• Sweet Stamps - #227 Anything but a Card
• The East Wind Challenge Blog - #33 Ode to Nature
• Through the Craft Door - Anything Goes

stamp used: Polkadoodles Octavia Friendly Hugs

paper used: Recollections dreamy & printed tissue, MME alphabet soup girl, MR Designs whimsy romance 

embellishments: the Paper Studio flowers & ribbon scrap pack, Momenta metal corners, Making Memories vintage metal, dragonfly charm,  Really Reasonable Ribbon & Lace, 3 Girl Jam victorian dream & seasons bundle, Tim Holtz word keys

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #56 Anything Goes

Hello fellow crafters!  Thank you for visiting and leaving such sweet comments on my blog.  Always puts a smile on my face :o)

Are you ready for another challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog?  It's a crowd favorite....Anything Goes!  There still needs to be some stamping, either rubber and/or digital on your project.

We have 3 wonderful sponsors for this challenge and that means 3 winners will be picked by the Design Team.

The winner for A Day For Daisies will receive $12 gift certificate which will equal about 3 images.

The winner for Rubber Works River City will receive a $10 gift certificate.

The winner for Doodle Pantry will receive $25 gift certificate.

For this challenge I worked with Doodle Pantry's image Asian Garden.  After coloring the image, I was told it needed to be framed.  So I kinda did that.  (It was hard to get a great picture due to the reflection I was getting from the frame.)  A Tim Holtz burlap panel was used for the background.  I added metal corner pieces, a ribbon with a charm and hammered some tacks to hang some clips.  I figured the clips could be used to hang other projects or words of wisdom.  I used the sentiment that came with the stamp set.  The sentiment and image can be changed out if needed.  The frame is magnetic and the sentiment has velcro on the back.

Here's the image right before I put it into a frame. 

I used 27 pencils for the leaves alone.  Yes, this image took me several days to get it just right and colored in general.  I'm very pleased with the way it turned out and the rich colors.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this hanger in the following challenges:

• 2 Creative Chicks -#27 Anything Goes - NO CARDS
• 3 Girl Jam Challenge - Anything Goes
• Craft-Dee BowZs - Anything Goes with a bow
• Crafts Galore - #18 Anything Goes in June
• Craft My Life - Anything Goes (NO CARDS)
• Craft Your Passion - #266 Anything Goes
• Kleuren met Potloden - Anything Goes with color pencils
• Live & Love Crafts - #36 In The Garden
• Not Just Cards - #21 Anything Goes

stamp used: Doodle Pantry Asian Garden

paper used: the Paper Studio white and black

die-cut used: Spellbinders resplendent rectangles

embellishments: 3 Girl Jam Rustic Country Ribbon, Blue Moon Buddha Amulet, Art-C clips, frame from Michael's, Tim Holtz burlap panel & metal corners