Friendship is a sheltering tree

This is my first card for the year 2013. Can you believe that it's already the 13th?  (I know....I'm a little slow.....lol) This is also my last Design Team card for the Clear It Out challenge blog.  It's been a wonderful 6 months on the team & I've made some wonderful friends.  Thank you, Laura, and the team for being so awesome & welcoming to me.  I wish you all the very best for 2013.

The challenge theme for this challenge is CIRCLES.  Can you find my circles?  (if not.....I think you may need some eye glasses....LOL).  The stash item is ANYTHING GOES.  Our sponsor is Digi Darla Designs & I've used "Birds in tree" to showcase my card.  You can find it HERE. It comes as a standard black line drawing so I played with my Print Shop Elements 6 program.  Can you see the cute little colored birdies?  Well this was my first time "painting" my picture in PSE6......it happened as a 'happy accident' as I was playing around with my image.   (I really need to spend some time learning all the cool things I can do with that program.)

Anywho......the sentiment I used was perfect for this card.  It comes from Paulette at Create with TLC.  She has oodles & oodles of amazing sentiments.  Perfect for any card.  And guess what?  It was FREE.  How sweet is Paulette for giving away so many wonderful sentiments & graphics.  Thank you, Paulette!  I've cut out & layered my sentiment with my Nesties "Long Classic Scalloped Rectangles small" (boy that's a mouthful! lol) What would I do without my diecuts.

My stash item for this card is another glittery page from my DCWV matstack called "All Dressed Up".  I felt it went really well with the black & white trees as the background.

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Inky Chicks:  #1 Anything Goes
Creative Creations Challenges:  #1 Anything Goes
My Grafico:  #143 Anything Goes
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges:  #1 Use Ribbon
Inky Impressions Challenges:  #92 Add a Sentiment
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog:  #109 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge:  Black & White plus splash of color
Totally Paper Crafts:  #149 Ribbon
613 Avenue Create:  #2 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for joining me today.  I always look forward to reading your sweet comments. 

Huggies & Sweet New Year's Blessings ~♥♥♥~

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

As stated in my previous post our Clear It Out challenge blog is having a super special challenge for the whole month of December.  I already told you about our FABulous sponsor........Krista from Saturated Canary who is offering the winner their choice of 2 of her amazingly cute images.  The other special surprise is my teamie Laura is giving a TON of prizes & goodies to those who enter (as many times as they choose) but there are certain qualifications in order to win.  The rest of the details can be found at Clear It Out.

Our theme for the December challenge is CHRISTMAS using any stash item of your choice in your paper creation.  If you don't celebrate Christmas then we ask that you please use the colors RED, WHITE and/or GREEN in your project.  As you can see......I've used ALL of the above in my DT card.  LOL

Krista so generously gave us our choice of which image we wanted to showcase.  Boy was that a tough challenge.  LOL  I love ALL of her digis!  Anywho.......since it was Christmas I chose this adorable little cutie with her cute little friend popping up out of the bag called Christmas Nutcracker.  You can find it HERE at her Saturated Canary shoppe.  The stash item I chose to use is from that big pad of Christmas paper that I used recently.  I cut the paper so that the big Christmas tree was behind my image.  I love the little snowman & angel hanging from the tree & you can see a little candy cane peeking out below my image.  It's all just too too cute!  (You can see the other deets about my card design below.) 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I would love to see your paper creations on the Clear It Out blog.  :)  (By the way......my card won't go "live" on the CIO blog until Tuesday Dec. 11th.)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:
Lady Anne's Stamp Challenge:  Anything Goes (must stamp digi or rubber)
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog:  #105 Anything Goes
Color Throwdown:  #221 red, tan, green & black (cording on lights)
Crafts and Me Challenges:  #113 Anything Goes with optional ornament
Creative Card Crew:  #25 Star (Christmas tree star in background paper)
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog:  #40 So this is Christmas
Die Cuttin Divas:  #94 Holiday Spirit (must include die cut)
Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog:  #75 Christmas
Jingle Belles:  December to Remember ~ Anything (Holiday) Goes
QKR Stampede:  #16 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Wags 'n Whiskers Stamps:  #93 Christmas
2 Sisters Challenge Blog:  #120 Christmas Sparkle
Catch the Bug Challenge Blog:  December Anything Goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: 101 Make it Girlie
My Sheri Crafts:  #99 'Tis the Season
Papertake Weekly Challenge:  Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique:  #61 Holiday Cards
Thru the Craftroom Door:  #47 Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday:  #91 Christmas
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge:  Bingo (Christmas tree/free/gold)
The Crafty Bloggers Network:  #6 Anything Goes
Crafty Boots Challenges:  Anything Goes
Critter Sketch Challenge Blog:  #144 Christmas Anything Goes
Made Especially for You:  Christmas card with a die cut
Paper Pretties:  #235 Christmas inspired
Tammy's Scrapin Corner:  #39 Anything Christmas
The Pink Elephant:  #177 Make it Girly
Paper Cupcakes:  Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle
Paper Makeup Stamps:  #65 Digi tic tac toe (sparkle, word art, designer paper)
Pile it on:  #49 Pile on the Embellishments
The Ribbon Girl Blog:  December ~ Christmas 

Copics used:  

• Skin:  E000, R11 
• Reds:  R35, R37, R39 
• Hair: E31, E41, E50 
• Eyes:  E34 
• Bag: E41 
• Tin Soldier:  R35, R37, Y15, YR24, E000, E00, R11, R20, C3, C5, C7 
• Ground shadow:  W00, W0, W1 

Supplies used:

• DP:  K&Co "EB Visions of Christmas" and Kraft cardstock
• Dies: Nesties 'Labels Four' and 'Curved Rectangles'
• Digital Stamp:  Saturated Canary “Christmas Nutcracker” 
• Inks:  Distress Ink 'Brushed Corduroy'
• Martha Stewart 'Cottage Christmas Stocking' sticker & Christmas tape
• Vintage pearl button
• Misc. Stash:  Light garland, baker's twine, ribbons
• The "Merry Christmas" was computer generated using the "Adine Kirnberg-Script" font

Until next time............I want to wish you all a happy & joyous holiday season.  Enjoy your family & friends.


Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

CIO Challenge & new Sponsor

It's time for another Clear It Out challenge.  The challenge theme for the month of December is CHRISTMAS and the stash item is ANYTHING GOES.  We want to help you get those Christmas cards or projects made.  And as always.........we're all about helping you clear out the stash items that we all have laying around unused (hence our name...."Clear It Out").

I'm so very excited to reveal our special Sponsor for December.  It's the amazing.........and incredibly talented.......Krista from Saturated Canary.  I think you'll agree with me that her images are some of the cutest ones out there. Krista is giving away 2 digital images to the lucky winner.  Yippee Skippee!!!  Amazballs!

It's Team A's turn to dazzle you with their projects so hop on over to Clear It Out & take a looksie.  We would love to have you join in the fun & have a chance to win some of Krista's cuuute digis.  Ya gotta be in it to win it!  :)  I'll be posting my card soon so watch for it.

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

CIO challenge continues & a sneaky peeky

We are in the midst of our "ugly sweater" challenge right now at Clear It Out challenges. We're asking you to use up those "ugly" papers that you have been ignoring all year. Our sponsor Digi Darla Designs is giving one lucky winner 5 digis of their choice. How great is that!!!  You still have one week to enter so pop on by.

I'm sooooo excited to give you a little sneaky peeky at our very special December challenge Sponsor. Can you guess who it is from the itsy bitsy teeny weeny hint I'm giving you?  LOL  I haven't given you much to go on but...................you're going to love it!!!!  

Hope you didn't get injured or trampled on Black Friday!!! Did you see those grown men at Victoria Secret getting into a huge fight over women's underwear? Ridiculous!!!  LOL  They're calling it "Black Eye Friday"  (you can google the YouTube video)  We women would never ever do that........right?  LOL Cyber Monday is more my style of shopping. I've done most of my shopping online & am almost finished & it's not even December yet. YAY for me! LOL I think this is the earliest I've ever done it. YAY again! :)

Now my Christmas cards are another story. I was hoping to have tons made up by now but I only have 2.  sigh.......  I'm hoping to get lots more finished using our December sponsors adorably cute images. Have you guessed who it is yet? LOL Mum's the word! Don't give it away if you know. LOL I'll do a big reveal next week. Have a wonderfully blessed week. And I hope your Christmas shopping is almost finished too. :)

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

To light the way

It's challenge time at Clear It Out challenges.  Okay.......I must admit........I had a real struggle with this one.  Our theme for this challenge is "ugly sweater time". We want you to use your ugly, unused papers. Well.......I don't "do" ugly very well. It just goes against my nature.  I like pretty things........duh. LOL  But...........since I HAD to come up with something.............this is what I did.  I went through my Christmas paper pads to find one that reminded me of an ugly Christmas sweater so I came up with this reindeer.  Now reindeer aren't ugly by any means but I seem to remember seeing one on an ugly Christmas sweater.  LOL  That may be a real streeeeetch but that's my story & I'm stickin' to it.  LOL  If you look real close you'll see that my reindeer has flocking.  He must have gotten caught in a snow storm.  :)

Our sponsor for this challenge is Digi Darla Designs .  The winner of our challenge will receive 5 digis of their choice.  How sweet is that!!!  This pretty image is called Cardinal on Lamp Post and it's already colored for you.  Isn't that cool!  (Sure saved me some time.)  I knew I wanted to use my Cryogen cardstock for this snowy image because of the pretty sparkles in the paper. Can you see it? (You can click on the pic to see it closer.) I got a bit carried away with the glitter & mica flakes for the snow. It really doesn't look "dirty" in person. LOL  I had a hard time getting a good picture of it plus I was fighting a migraine but you came to see some pretties not to hear about the perils of Pauline.....right?  LOL  Anywho.......you get the idea.

***And let's hear a big WOOT WOOT!!!  I'm also so very honored to be chosen as the Guest Designer on the Fussy and Fancy Challenge Blog.  So this card serves a dual purpose.  The Fussy and Fancy challenge is "Feeling Blue".  They want to see your blue creations.  So pop on over to see the lovely DT creations & enter their challenge.  Thank you, Fussy and Fancy & Sazzle!!!!!

To all of you celebrating Thanksgiving this coming Thursday.....Have a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving with those you love & hold close to your heart!


I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:
LEJ Designs Challenge Blog:  #29 Season's Greetings
Christmas Challenges:  #50 Sketch w/twist ~ use faux or real stitching
Tammy's Scrapin Corner:  #36 Anything Goes any artist (Digi Darla)
Totally Stampalicious:  Bling
4 Crafty Chicks:  Winter Wonderland
Lady Anne's Stamp Challenge:  Anything Goes
My Mum's Craft Shop Challenges:  #84 Winter Wonderland
Crafts and Me:  #110 Untraditional Christmas colours
The Pink Elephant:  #174 Dies
Divas by Design:  #61 Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog:  #102 Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs:  Christmas
Paper Crafting Journey:  Anything Goes
Craft Us Crazy:  #30 Favorite Theme (Christmas)
QKR Stampede Challenge:  #14 Winter Wonderland
Crafty Catz Challenge Blog:  #159 Let's have Sparkle
Craftyhazelnuts's Christmas Challenge:  #99 Use something more than 6 months old (the mica flakes & snowflakes)
Joanna Sheen Challenge:  Cold and Frosty
Dream Valley Challenges:  #45 Anything Goes
Catch the Bug Challenge Blog:  November Bingo ("B" for "bird" ~ Jewel (snowflakes) ~ Die Cut)
Sketchy Colors:  #140 (White, Green & Turqouise blue)
The Crafty Pad:  #197 It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas
One Stitch at a Time:  #140 Use a Digi
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog:  #7 Lots of Layers
Gingerloft Challenge:  #52 A touch of Gold (lantern's light)
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge:  #190 Recipe (ribbon/twine, gems, dies)
My Grafico Challenges:  #140 Anything Goes
The Squirrel & the Fox:  #31 Anything Goes
Anything Goes Challenge Blog:  #80 Stitching (faux or real)
The Crafty Bloggers Network:  #5 Christmas Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe's Crafts:  Monthly Challenge ~ Winter

Supplies used:

• Tools: 'Bow Easy' (for bow tying)
•  Dies: Nesties 'Labels One'
• Digital Stamp:  Digi Darla Designs 'Cardinal on Lamp Post'
• Inks:  Distress Ink 'Tumbled Glass'
• Martha Stewart 'Cottage Christmas Stocking' sticker, Recollections 'Merry Christmas' sticker
• Melissa Frances "mica flakes"  
• Misc. Stash:  lace doily, baker's twine, ribbon, bells, glitter, snowflake bling

~♥~As always...........I thank you for your sweet comments & I truly thank you for visiting me once again. It means so very much to me when you take the time to leave a bit of love.~♥~

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

JOY-ful

Hi Everyone!  We're in the midst of our Anything Goes challenge at Clear It Out challenges.  Plus we want to help you use up those RED supplies.  I used these red Christmas papers that I bought last year.    They were on a huge paper pad that will take me forever to use.  Unfortunately I have a lot of those unused papers that feel so neglected.  But I'm working on it.  :)

Our sponsor is Sassy Studio Designs.  This pretty girlie is called 'Reindeer Games'.  Can you see her little bells?  Well the rest of her is va va voom with long legs & more bells.  LOL  You can check her out HERE. I colored her with my Copic markers.  You can see the numbers below in my supplies list.

I had a bit of a tough time with this one cuz I got new carpeting & flooring this past week.  Remember my flood from my washer?  Well this was the big blessing we got as a result of that mishap.  But it was a lot of work packing everything up to get ready for carpet throughout my house (I felt like I was moving).  Oh my goodness.........the things we accumulate & just 'have to have'.  LOL  It convinced me that I need to start purging & getting rid of STUFF I don't really need so I've already been to the Goodwill once.  Many more trips are in my future.  LOL  But it feels good to downsize & know where everything is...........especially my craft supplies.  Most of which are still hiding in my walk-in closet.  UGH  That's why this card was difficult.  I had to search for my Christmas embellies & ribbon.  LOL  That will teach me.  Anywho........back to my card........

I used this wonderful sketch from Sketch Saturday.  They are one of my FAVorite go-to places for sketches.

I would also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafts and Me Challenges:  #108 Reds
Little Red Wagon:  #158 Coloring
Brown Sugar Challenge Blog:  #15 Bingo (Twine - Glitter - Buttons)
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long:  #36 Oops Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey:  Anything Goes
Stampin' for the Weekend:  #21 All Stitched Up (faux or real stitching)
Craft Us Crazy:  #30 Holiday theme (Christmas)
Whimsy Stamps Challenge Blog:  #53 Use Traditional Christmas colors
Anything Goes Challenge Blog:  #80 Stitching (faux or real)
Crafty Sentiments Designs:  Christmas
LEJ Designs Challenge Blog:  #29 Season's Greetings
Papelitos Challenges:  #19 Anything Goes
Lady Anne's Challenges:  Anything Goes
The Crafty Bloggers Network:  #5 Christmas Anything Goes
My Grafico Challenges:  #140 Anything Goes
OLLCB:  #118 Someone Special (this is going to a special someone for Christmas)
Tammy's Scrapin Corner:  #36 Anything Goes with any artist (Sassy Studios)
The Pink Elephant:  #174 Use punches or dies (my Nesties)
Totally Stampalicious:  Bling
Dream Valley Challenges:  #45 Anything Goes
Gingerloft Challenge:  #52 A touch of Gold
Robin's Fetish:  #133 Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl Blog:  Add Sparkle (must also use ribbon)



Supplies used:

• Copics: Skin: E000, E00, R11 ~ Hair: E31, E41, E50 ~ Blouse/Bow/Bells: YR20, YR21
• DP: Red cardstock, K&Co. 'EB Visions of Christmas' paper pad
• Dies: Nesties 'heart circles' & 'standard circles small'
• Tools: Tim Holtz idea-ology ruler for piercing holes uniformly, Making Memories paper piercer, Sakura Gelly Roll white pen med. for faux white 'stitching' lines
• Digital Stamp:  Sassy Studio Designs "Reindeer Games"
• Inks:  Distress Ink marker "frayed burlap"
• Buttons:  Christmas tree, red bell
• Misc. Stash:  Ivory ribbon, bling, 'Joy', Baker's Twine, Recollections snowflake

Thank you so much for visiting with me today.  I love to read your lovely comments.   Ya'll are just tooo sweet!

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

Challenge time

The Clear It Out new challenge is now open.  It's everyone's absolute FAVorite.........ANYTHING GOES........plus we would like to see your RED supplies.   Our sponsor is the FABulous Sassy Studio Designs.

It's the ' A' Design Team's turn to share their creations so please check out their great designs.  Since I'm on the 'B' team I'll be sharing mine next week so watch for it.  Plus you need to pop over to see who our lucky winner is from our last challenge & check out our wonderful Top 3 winners.

Remember my flood a few weeks ago?  Well this is the week we're getting new flooring & carpeting.  WooHoo!  So exciting but TONS of work (I feel like I'm moving with all this packing I have to do) plus I've been sick with IBS.  UGH  Not fun.......at all.  Then my stooopid back keeps going out on me.  BUT...I am making a card.  LOL  Have to fit in crafting somewhere....somehow.....someway......right?  LOL

I hope you're all having a blessed week.  See you again soon.

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

Ooh la la

Ooh la la.....Paris anyone?  LOL This is my DT card for the next Clear It Out challenge which starts tomorrow.  We would love to see anything having to do with the "gift of Christmas"......however you interpret that statement.  It doesn't have to be a Christmas card.  Just something to do with a special gift or presents like I have on my card.  Use your imagination & be creative.  Now as for my card...........I'm having a PINK Christmas in Paris because my recipient is oh so "fabulous" and so very loved.  So my special gift is hidden inside the cute bag & those boxes are full of FABulous things I found while shopping in some cute Paris boutiques underneath the Eiffel Tower.  LOL  I can dream, can't I?  LOL  I even thought of hanging ornaments from the Eiffel Tower but resisted the temptation.  LOL  May have been a bit too much.........ya think?  :)

Our sponsor for this challenge is Melonheadz Illustrations.  The winner of our challenge will receive $15 to spend in Nikki's Etsy shop.  I've used the cute Paris digital set already colored for you.  Easy Peasy!  She also has a lot of cute freebies on her blog you might want to check out.

My birthday was on Saturday & I spent the day sick as a dog.  Yuck!  Not my favorite way to spend my birthday.  But my oldest granddaughter brought a movie & cake over today & we watched "Snow White & the Huntsman".  I really enjoyed it!  Even hubby watched some of it with us ('course we had to use the duct tape cuz he would not stop talking.....lol).  I have the sweetest family in the world.  I am so very blessed!

Well........back to my card.......I've used this sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  Sketches make it so much easier for me to design a card.  How about you?  This was a fun one........

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:
Whimsy Stamps Challenge Blog:  #52  All things Sparkly
Simon Says Stamp Challenge:  Dies and/or Punches
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog:  #36 Anything Goes
Papelitos Challenges:  #15 Anything Goes
Crafts and Me Challenges:  #105 Anything Goes
Divas by Design:  #56 Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter:  #85 Love (the city of 'love' Paris & gifts)
Paper Crafting Journey:  Bling
Shelly's Images:  TTT Challenge Tic-Tac-Toe (ribbon-free-die)
Sentimental Sundays:  #124 Black & White plus another color (pink) must include a sentiment
2 Sisters Challenge Blog:  #113 Anything Goes
Craftymess Challenge Blog:  #19 Anything Goes
Oozak.com Blog:  #7 Die Cuts

Thanks again for joining me.  I always appreciate your kind words you leave for me.


Supplies used:

• DP: Black cardstock, NitWits ~ "Eggstra Special" (pink),  "Breath of Fresh Air" (gray)
• Dies: Spellbinders"Lattice Rectangles"
• Digital Stamp:  Melonheadz "Paris" bundle
• Stamp:  "you are fabulous" Whimsy Stamps 
• Inks:  Distress Ink "black soot"
• Misc. Stash:  Black ribbon, Recollections silver glitter dots, glittery black tulle, bling, black ribbon flower, charm

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

I need Candy!

Did that post title grab your attention? LOL We all "need" some candy every now & then.......right?  LOL   Well if you check out my card below it looks like my little Trick or Treater's pumpkin bag is empty.  aaaawwww poor thing!  That's why she's shouting "I NEED CANDY!"  LOL Somebody help the girl!  LOL

We're in the midst of our Biweekly challenge at Clear It Out Challenges.  We would love to see your creations using mostly Purple, Orange and/or Black (or all 3 like I did).  The theme is everyone's favorite "Anything Goes".   Our sponsor is once again the FABulous Bugaboo Stamps.  Jodie is so generously giving the winner of this challenge 7 free digis.  How cool is that!  This little darling Trick or Treater is called Halloween Brat Pumpkin and you can find her HERE.  I've added lots of dimension by layering the leaves, lollipop & pumpkins.  It's hard to tell from this angle.........so you'll just have to trust me.  LOL  (You can read the other deets about my card below.)

It was a wee bit of a challenge to make this card cuz if anything could go wrong or break at my house........IT DID!  LOL  Starting with my washer that overflowed into my carpeted hallway.  UGH  What a mess!  I just got my new washer last night so you know what I'm doing today..............yeppers........LAUNDRY!  But the blessing is that we're getting our whole house carpeted.  Yippee Skippee!!!  I won't go into all the other events of the week.  Let's just say it was the week from H*LL.  But the Lord helped us get through it & we're happy as clams again.  Whew!  We really don't need that kind of drama in our lives......right?  LOL

Back to my card......I've used this GREAT sketch from Sketch N Stash.  I will definitely be using this one again.

I would also like to enter this challenges:
Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog:  #37 Costumes/Dress Up
Crafts and Me Challenges:  #104 Sentiment on front of card
Penny's Paper ~ Crafty Challenge Blog:  #96 Die Cuts/Punches
The Paper Shelter:  #84 Distressing (I used Distress Ink on edges)
Simon Says Stamp Challenge:  Glimmer and Sparkle
Whimsy Stamps Challenge Blog:  #51 Anything Goes
Bearly Mine Challenges:  #55 Halloween
Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes & a blog hop
Creative Card Crew:  #20 Purple
Party Time Tuesdays:  #88 Halloween
Ribbon Carousel Blog:  #73 Halloween plus ribbon or twine
Thru the Craftroom Door:  #38 Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe's Crafts:  #28 Distressing (I used Distress Ink on edges)
Forever Friends:  #46 Anything Goes
Hookedoncraft Challenges:  #25  Halloween
My Craft Spot:  #71 Halloween
The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog:  #28 Use a Digi
Totally Stampalicious:  Anything Goes
Catered Crop:  Halloween
Pile it On:  #40 For a Child
A Gem of a Challenge:  #56 For the Girls
Catch the Bug Challenge Blog:  Anything Goes
Craftymess Challenge Blog:  #17 Anything Goes
My Sheri Crafts:  #95 Include apple or pumpkin somewhere
Broken Box Stock:  #11 Make a Halloween card
The Poodles Parlour:  Halloween
WKR Stampede:  #8 Halloween Fun
Craft Us Crazy:  #27 Halloween and/or Anything Goes
Paper Play Challenges:  #40 Shine On (sparkle, shine or gloss)
Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge:  Anything Goes
Shelly's Images ~ TTT Challenge: Tic-Tac-Toe (orange, bling, die cut)
Oozak.com Blog:  #7 Die Cuts

Supplies used:

• Copic markers: Skin: E000, E00, R20 ~ Hair & Shoes: E53, E33 ~ Socks: YR20, YR21 ~ Leaves: G40, G82, G94 ~ Leaf Stems: YR24, E57 ~ Pumpkins: YR20, YR21, Y38 ~ Sucker: R81, R83 ~ Sucker stick: YR24
• DP: from my stash
• Glittery Black Tulle cut with Tim Holtz' Alternations Sizzix Die "Pennants" 
• Dies: Spellbinders Circle & Scalloped Circle
• Digital Stamp:  Bugaboo "Halloween Brat Pumpkin"
• Digital Sentiment:  'Digital Scrapbook Place' Candy Love word art
• Inks:  Distress Ink "black soot"
• Misc. Stash:  Button, MME Baker's Twine, Recollections glitter dots, rhinestone black trim

Thanks so much for visiting with me today. Your comments always brighten my day.

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

Clear It Out challenge time

It's time for our next challenge at the Clear It Out challenge blog and we would love to see your Purple, Orange and/or Black projects.  It's an "Anything Goes" theme so break out those colors & join in the fun.  But remember that we want to mainly see those colors on your project.   Your project could be Halloween, birthday or what-have-you.  Skies the limit.  I'll be posting my challenge card next week so watch for it.  I also have 2 birthday cards to work on in the next 1-1/2 weeks.  Yikes!  That's a lot for me.  LOL  I better get to work!

Thanks so much for playing along with us.  It's been so much fun to see all of the creativity come alive on your blogs.  This is a two week challenge so you have plenty of time to enter. 

Thanks a bunch for visiting.  See you again.

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~

Boo Boo Hugs

Hey Everyone!  Our new Clear It Out challenge starts tomorrow.  Our sponsor this time is the amazingly talented MelJen's Designs.  The winner will receive 4 digital images of their choice.  You can pick up this cutie named "Little Girl Bear Hugs" at MelJen's Designs HERE.

 My poor little darling has a boo-boo (notice the bandaid on her leg).....but she doesn't look sad at all cuz she's hugging her sweet little teddie bear & giving him oodles of love. I've colored them both using my trustie Copics (listed below).  The background papers are another NitWits collection.  I just love their digital graphics.

I recently got a 'Scrabble' alpha rubber stamp set from Whimsy Stamps.  They were having a huge sale & this girl just can't pass up a good craft sale.  :)  I love this set!  It was such a good price!  It came with all 26 letters of the alphabet.  LOL  Imagine that!  That's 26 stamps for one low price. Well actually you get 2 extra...one with a heart & a blank so that's 28 stamps.  I just love a good deal.  I try not to pay full price for anything.........especially craft items.  Anywho..........just wanted to share with my friends.............back to the challenge..............

Our challenge at CIO this time is "Use an image of a Child or Children".  The Stash requirement is everyone's FAVorite "Anything Goes".........just tell us what you've used.  My stash item is the pretty flower I've layered.  Actually the pearl button on top is from my stash too.  I'm so glad that CIO helps me clear out that huge mountain of craft supplies I've hoarded bought.  LOL

I used this great sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

In addition to the sketch challenge I would like to enter these challenges (Oh my.....I found a lot this time):

Crafts and Me Challenges:  #101 In the Pink
Divas by Design:  #52 For a Child
Ink Impressions Challenges:  Pink and Brown
My Mum's Craft Shop Challenges:  #74 Buttons (pearl center is a button)
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog:  #93 Pink and Brown
Ruby's Rainbow:  #37 Bingo ~ Pearls (button) / Flowers / Ribbon (ok it may be a stretch to say that baker's twine is 'ribbon')
Whimsy Stamps Challenge Blog:  #51 Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe's Crafts:  #28 Distressing (edges distressed with DI)
Hiding in My Craft Room:  #6 Distressing (edges distressed with DI)
Bearly Mine Challenges:  #52 Anything Goes
Scrap Creations:  Pick 3 (distress, die cut, glitter)
Papertake Weekly Challenge:  Things that make you go Awwww :)
Tuesday Throwdown:  #115 include Gems (on card corners)
DYSU:  #89 Kraft & Twine
Shelly's Images: TTT Anything Goes
Thru the Craftroom Door:  #35 Anything Goes
Papelitos Challenges:  #11 Anything Goes
Use it Tuesday:  #39 Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter:  #81 Punched or Die Cut
Southern Girls Challenge:  #53 Bling, Bling
Digi Doodle Shop:  Final challenge ~ Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey:  Use a Sentiment
Meljen's Challenge Blog:  #127 Scrap It (used scrap Kraft paper for letters)
Joyful Stamper Inspire Me Fridays: #76 Anything Goes
Jellypark Challenges:  All About Children
Our Craft Lounge:  #134 All About TWINE
The Kraft Journal:  Lavishly Layer
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog:  #137 Babies and/or Children

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I always look forward to reading your sweet sweet comments.  :)


Supplies used:

• Copic markers: Skin: E000, E00, R11, R20 ~ Hair: E31, E35, E37 ~ Bandaid: E000, R11 ~ Clothing, Hearts & Flowers: R81, R83, R85 Grass: G40, G82, G94 ~ Flower centers: YR21 Bear: E53, E31, E34, E57, R00, R11 ~ Outline: W00
• DP: NItWits collection "Grin & Bear It" & Kraft cardstock
• Dies: Spellbinders "Labels Two"
• Digital Stamp:  MelJen's Designs "Little Girl Bear Hugs"
• Rubber Stamp:  Whimsy Stamps Raindrop Echo Designs "Spell It Out"
• Inks:  Distress Ink "frayed burlap", Memento 'tuxedo black'
• Misc. Stash:  Flowers, pearl button, MME Baker's Twine, pink bling

Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~