Tatoo Cutie - Digistamps4Joy

My card to day features another of Digistamps4Joy's JenLee's cute girls, Tatoo Cutie. I find that coloring is a soothing activity, unless I get all frustrated about what colors to use.  I enjoyed coloring this one.

Card supplies:

5x6.5" card base

Image - Tatoo Cutie by JenLee of Digistamps4Joy

Image colored with Promarkers

Background paper is from my stash.  Don't have the name of it but it is Reflections.

Frame - Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge.

Roses

Ribbon

Rhinestones

Thanks for visiting with me today.  I always look forward to your comments.

God Bless You!!! Peggy

Challenges for this card:

I love Promarkers -2W - Must use Promarkers - #308 Lace and/or Ribbon  (Week 2 of 2)

Inky Impressions -M, E1, C10  #284 Die-Cuts & Flowers (Week 1 of 4)

Simon Says Stamp - W, 5E - Flowers

Clear It Out 2W, 3E, Must use stash item - Challenge Theme: -  Stash: o TBA (week 1)

Lemon Shortbread 2W, E3, no digital projects Always Anything Goes (Week 1) 

Retarte 2W, E3 - #76 - Anything Goes (Week 2

Through The Craft Room Door W, 2E - Always Anything Goes

Anna Griffin Elegant Edges Card

Have you made any of the Make It Now projects in Cricut Design Space?  I am going to be sharing some cards over the next few days that I made using these files.  Some I made exactly by the file but added and additional touch to make it my own.  

The file I used is here.   You have to have Design Space to pull it up.  I added an Anna Griffin Beautiful Bouqets Floral Die Cut and Sentiment to it.  I hope the person who will receive this will find encouragement from it.

Thanks for visiting today.  We love our followers.  God Bless You!!! Peggy

A Basketful Of Love - Outlaws PAM Challenge

I have accepted a Design Team position at The Outlaws.  My Group is the Saturday Paper a la Mode Challenge.  I hope to see you join our challenges.  There is a different challenge each day of the week so this should be fun.  

Our challenge this week is Love/Valentine.  It is sponsored by artist Rick St. Dennis.  I chose his Basketful of Love for my project.

Card Recipe:
Card Base - 5 X 5 
Background Paper - Reflections Valentine Paper
Frame - Cut from Shimmer Paper with Cricut Elegant Edges Cartridge
Heart Shaped Gems
Ribbon
Image - Basketful of Love by Rick St. Dennis
Promarkers used to color image:
Basket - Almond, Putty
Hearts - Lipstick Red, Berry Red, Pink Carnation, Fuschia Pink, Magenta, Cerise
Flowers - Sunflower, Lemon
Leaves - Apple Green, Forest Green
Ribbon - Cerise, Magenta

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you will join us at The Outlaws Paper a la Mode challenge this week.  God Bless You!!!! Peggy

Challenges to enter:
A Creative Romance - Show us some Love 
Brown Sugar  - Valentines
Craftitude - Anything Goes or Valentines/Love  
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - With Love 
Crafty Catz- Love Is In The Air 
Digi Haven  - Valentine's Day - Love/Cherish/Adore 
Fairy Tale - More than 2 Colors 
Fussy and Fancy - Be My Valentine 
Graph'It Colour Challenge- Lovey Dovey
Jellypark Friends Friday Challenge - Lots of Love 
Jo's Scrap Shack- Anything Goe 
Polkadoodles-  Love Is In The Air
Scrapping4funChallenges  - Valentine
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
The Outlawz Copic/Promarker challenge W -  Must use Alcohol Markers - Must sign in to see challenge    
  

A Week of Teacups - Card 1

I have a friend & neighbor who collects teacups and tea pitchers.  She has had me over several times for tea.  I'm not a big fan of tea (I'd rather have coffee) but I love the fellowship with Mary & the other ladies in our neighborhood.  As a thank you, I decided to make Mary a card set featuring tea cups.  I will be showing them to you this week.  I searched for tea cup digital stamps but could not find the kind I wanted.  If you know of any, please let me know.  I finally found some pictures that I downloaded.

This is card #1.

 For this card, I cut a frame base using Cricut Elegant Edges, added pearls & ribbon roses.  I think this looks delicate & dainty.  

Thank you for stopping by today.  It's always a delight to read your comments & know you visited.  God Bless You!!!!  Peggy 

Challenges for this card:
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes. 
Craft a Scene - Use your Favorite Technique  
Eclectic Ellapu - Texture 
The Squirrel & the Fox - Use embellishments  
 

CDAC Progressive Challenge - Phase 2

The digistamp for Phase 2 of the CDAC Progressive Challenge is provided by Back To Paper.   Click on the link above to find out complete details of challenge.  We would love for you to join us in this challenge.  Here is my offering for this phase.  I must confess I really am not happy with this card.  Someday's things just don't work out to please you.

Card Recipe:
A2 card base
Ribbon behind image.
Label produced from Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge
Rainbow image from Back To Paper 
Stickles to cover rainbow.
Promarkers used to color image:
Amethyst, Powder Blue, Mango, Yellow, Lipstick Red
Sentiments generated in Word

This is the inside sentiment.  

Thank you for your visits and comments.  We really appreciate you.
God Bless You!!!!  Peggy   

Nana Vic's Easter Bunny-Easter/Spring Digi Challenge

I'm so happy to see you back.  This is the second card I made for the Easter/Spring Digi Challenge at CDAC.  Remember there are 4 ways to enter this challenge.  Click here for details.

The image is by artist Vickie Duffill whose business is known as Nana Vic's Digitals.  You can find her shop here.  This digi is called Nana Vic's Easter Bunny.  A colored version comes with the package but I like to color mine.

Card Recipe:
6X6" Card Base
Paper - K&Co. Botanicals - for the frame
Cricut Cartridge Elegant Edges - frame cut at 6"
Nana Vic's Easter Bunny Digital Image-  I cut an extra bunny & popped him with foam adhesives.  
Butterflies were punched with a Martha Stewart Butterfly punch.  I added some stickles to their bodies.
Butterfly trail -Viva Pearl Pen
Promarkers used to color the image.
Bunny - Cool Gray 1, Pastel Pink
Eggs - Powder Blue, Fuschia, Leaf Green, Buttercup, Soft Peach, Mandarin
Tulips - Orchid, Amethyst
Leaves - Leaf Green, Forest Green
Grass - Forest Green, Lime Green

Here is a side view that shows how the bunny looks.

Thank you for your visit today.  Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.  God Bless You!!!  Peggy
       

Easter Eggs - Easter/Spring Digi Challenge

This is one of two cards I made for the Easter/Spring Digi Challenge going on at CDAC.  There are four different ways to enter for the prizes.  The details are on CDAC's home page.  

The image is by artist Patricia Gomez whose business is called Patti G's Creations.  You can find her work here.

Card Recipe:
4.25X5.5" Card Base
Cricut Cartridge Elegant Edges for the Frame Bases.  I started at 5" and decrease .25" until I had all I needed
Cuttlebug folder - Divine Swirls.  I glued all the frames together then ran them through the Cuttlebug.
Patti G's Easter Eggs Image
Ribbon 
Gems - to decorate eggs.
Promarkers used to color digi:
Pot - Pear Green, Marsh Green, Lime Green
Eggs - Canary Yellow, Gold, Duck Egg, Lavender, Purple, Fuschia, Apple Green
Bow - Pink Carnation, Rose Pink, I colored the ribbon on the digi then decided to add a bow to give it more dimension.    

Here is a close up of the Pot of Eggs.

Thank you for stopping by our little section of the blogging world.  I hope you'll come back tomorrow.  I will be posting my 2nd card for the Easter/Spring Digi Challenge.  God Bless You!!! Peggy 

My First Polkadoodle's Card-Get Well

I first saw Polkdoodle's Cds on Enfys Cashmore's Going Buggy website.  Enfys is one more talented lady.  Donna broke down and bought the newest CD called "Cherryblossom Lane".  She is letting me play with it.  It has some adorable images, papers, embellishments, scenes, etc.  All you have to do is print & cut them out and make your card.  This is one I made for a sick friend.

I worked with image to get it to print in the right place on my cardstock.  Then I folded it in half, added some bling for the flowers.  The background was really stark white so I added some green chalk to the background to give it some interest.  It doesn't show up very well in the picture.

This is the inside.  I used a leftover cut from the Cricut Elegant Edges for the frame.  The stamp is from a Close To My Heart stamp set.  I used CTMH Outdoor Denim ink.  The house shoes is an embellishment from the Cherryblossom Lane CD.  Polkadoodles has quite a few CDs to choose from.  You might want to check them out.

Thank you for stopping by.  I'm a little bit late posting today.  Jacob spent the night with me last night so I ended up watching wrestling(ugh) with him instead of posting my card.  That's more important.  God Bless You!!!!  Peggy

Past Easter Cards

We are approaching Easter, my favorite time of the year.  This is when we focus on all that Jesus did for us on the cross and His glorious resurrection.  Without these two things we wouldn't have faith.  I'm so glad He loved us that much, aren't you?

A friend was over the other night and she was looking at some of the cards I still have here.  She found two Easter cards she wants me to make her.  I made them a while back and I've posted them on the blog but since we have some new followers I thought I would go ahead and post them.

This one features a digital image from Heartsong Images.  Click here to go to the original post for directions and supplies used.

This one features a digital image by Daisy Doodles and you can go to the original post by clicking on here.

I have more Easter cards but I won't bore you with posting all of them.  I hope to have some new ones for you during this pre-Easter time.

Thank you for stopping by today.  It's always a joy to have you visit and read your comments.  God Bless You!!!!!  Peggy    

Artiste/Elegant Edges Cupcake Holder

Hi Everyone! 

I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  I've been getting ready to help with my friend's shower.  We are having cupcakes at the shower and the other day I was in the deepest, darkest part of my walk-in closet (that you can't walk in) and I found a cupcake holder that I had bought a LONG time ago at Big Lots for $1.00.  Here's what it was supposed to look like:

And here's what it looked like after I altered it.  I wanted it to match the color theme of the shower so I covered each layer with pink and orange cardstock.

Using Artiste, I cut a doily for each layer at 10 3/4", 9", and 7".  I adhered all the layers to the tops of each layer.

Using Elegant Edges, I cut multiple borders for the trim to go around the layers.  I glued these on using Zip glue.  I must say that glue has a very strong odor but it will glue anything!!

Here is the finished product.  Now all we have to do is put the cupcakes on it Thursday night. 

Thank you for stopping by today!  We appreciate your visits and your comments.  Until another day, God Bless You!!  Donna

Happy Independence Day, America !!!!!

First of all,  I want to express my gratitude that I live in America.  We have our problems as a nation but I feel we still have the greatest nation in the world.  Thank you to all the troops who have fought in all our wars to assure us of our freedom.  We appreciate your sacrifice and the sacrifice of your families.

I was invited to one of my new neighbors' house Monday night for tea and scones.  She invited some other ladies from the neighborhood. It was so good to get to meet other ladies.  I had a delightful time.  So in appreciation, I made her this card.

 Card Recipe:
A2 card base
Paper - DCWV French Country
Image - Tea Party from Clearly Vintage.  It was pre-colored so I did no coloring.
Doily folded in half
Ribbon
I used Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge to make a label for the inside sentiment.

Don't forget to leave a comment on our next post to have a chance to win the "Thanksgiving"  cartridge in celebration of 2nd Blogaversary.  Thanks for stopping by today.  God Bless You!!! Peggy

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #138 - Priscilla's Victorian Hat

It is time for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge for the month of May.  Can you believe it is May?  Where does the time go?  For the challenge this month I chose Priscilla's Victorian Hat digi stamp.  I love this image and have used it before.  I tried to keep it muted this time.  See below for the Promarkers I used.

Card Recipe:
5X7 card base
Background is DCWV Adhesive Paper Cloth-found it at Joann's.
Frames are cut from Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge.  I can't seem to get away from EE.
Border punch is a Martha Stewart Punch.
Decorative Band is also a Martha Stewart Punch.
Digital Image - Priscillastyles' Victorian Hat
Promarkers used to color image - Almond, Putty, Sunkissed Pink, and Dusky Rose.

These are the two sketches you can use for this challenge.  Make it either clean and simple or fancy.  I do hope you will play along.  You don't have to use one of Priscilla's images but it would be nice if you did.  You have a whole month to complete this challenge.  I'll be looking for your projects.

 Clean & Simple

Fancy

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope your week is a very productive and creative one.  We love to read your comments.  God Bless You!!!!  Peggy

YOU'RE "TUTU" SWEET - Elegant Edges, Meljen's

Hi Everyone - I hope you all have had a good weekend!  I was off on Friday because it was my birthday - YEAAA!!  We will not discuss how old I am though! 

I needed a Thank You card for my boss to say thanks for all the things she's done for me lately.  She's simply the BEST!!  I found this digi from Meljen's Designs and decided to use her because she's so CUTE!!  Meljen's has a challenge going on where you have to use OVALS on your card, so I will be entering this card into Melissa's challenge.

CARD RECIPE:

• Kraft Paper Cardbase
• Pattern Paper - DCWV Lemon Flower Paper Pad
• Digi - Meljen's Designs
• Digi colored with Promarkers
• Oval Frame - cut with Cricut Expression and Elegant Edges Cartridge at 4 3/4" and 5"
• Border punched with Martha Stewart Paper Punch
• Sentiment generated with Word
• Bling (a girl's gotta have some bling)

Thanks for stopping by today!  We so appreciate your visits and comments!  Until another day, God Bless You!  Donna

Challenges:

Meljen's Designs - Ovals
Make It Monday - Always Anything Goes
Crafty Boots Challenge - Yellow
Always Crafty - Anything Goes
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
The Kraft Journal - Any Sketch
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Anything Goes

Surprise Surpise I'm Here!!!!!

I have finally relocated to GA waiting for my townhouse to be built.  Donna & Craig have generously taken Max & I in.  I've just come back from SC.  My sister had breast cancer surgery and I stayed with her a few days.  She is doing fine.  She will find out later if she has to have chemo.  She will definitely have radiation.  Prayers for her would be appreciated.

For my first card, I decided I wanted to use one of the Sugar Nellie digis.  Her name is Victoria.  Isn't she adorable?

Card Recipe:

5X7" Card base
Paper - DCWV Denim Stack
Digital Image - Mine is from Sugar Nellie.
Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge - for the frame and liner.
Lace to edge the frame.
Promarkers used to color image.  I forgot to write down the colors.  I will do better next time.  


Thank you for stopping by today.  We're so glad to be back creating.  We hope to see you again tomorrow.  God Bless You!!!  Peggy

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Monday - Label It

It's my time to post with rest of my group on Fantabulous Cricut.  Our theme this week is Label It; create a label using a scalloped edge or other shape (any shape other than a plain circle.  I needed to make a birthday card for my brother so I decided to kill two birds with one stone.

Card Recipe:
A2 card base
Background Paper - DCWV Natural - this paper is great for masculine projects.
Cricut Paper Lace II Cartridge - for the Happy Birthday label.
Thickers Letters - dark brown

Inside of card - Elegant Edges for the label.
Stamp - from Hobby Lobby

Thank you for stopping by today.  God Bless You!!!! Peggy

BE GOOD TO YOURSELF - Elegant Edges, Doodle Pantry, Martha Stewart

Hi Everyone - BE GOOD TO YOURSELF - that's my motto for this year.  I've decided that this is the year that I'm going to not only be good to everyone else, but I'm going to be good to ME also!!! 

I used the "Workout Birdie" from Doodle Pantry to make this card for MYSELF!!  TO ME FROM ME, WITH LOVE!!  I'm going to put this card on my desk at work since that's the place that I spend most of my time in the day.  I want it somewhere where it will serve as a daily reminder to BE GOOD TO YOURSELF. 

To make this card:

• I covered the cardbase with green BAZZILL cardstock.
• I printed the pattern papers from Doodle Pantry
• I attached rectangles of pattern paper to the front of the card
• I used the Martha Stewart Garden Gate punch to make the border which I adhered one of the rectangles.
• Using Cricut Elegant Edges, I cut a 3" scalloped circle.
• I printed the colored version of the Workout Birdie and trimmed it to a circle.
• I glued a flower to the front of the card
• The sentiment was printed from Doodle Pantry and popped on the front of the card.

As I said, this will sit on my desk in a prominent spot so that I'll see it all throughout the day and year.  I hope this card will inspire you to "be good to yourself" also!! 

Thanks for letting me and my mom take some time off from posting.  Mom is still recovering and will hopefully be back to posting sometime this week.  Thank you for your comments and your prayers.  We hope you'll come back again - until another day!  God Bless You, Donna

Challenges: 
Sisters - #73 Things with Wings  
Catch The Bug - 3E, SIO -  January Anything Goes   
Crafty Emma - E3 2W - #67 Anything goes  
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - SIO - #110 Time to shape up! (see challenge for details) 
Craft Us Crazy - 3E, 2W - Christmas, Anything New and/or Humorous 
Forever Friends - M, SIO, must include an animal - (January) A Shaped Card  
Throwback Thursday - 1E, must use Cricut - Sports (ends 18th Jan)  
Inky Impressions - 2W, SIO - #39 anything goes  
Paper Shelter Challenge - 3E, SIO - #45 anything goes  
Penny's Paper-Crafty - 2W - #70 birds