ATC Card Inspiration

Hello all!
I wanted to share with you an ATC I made using an image from Create with TLC.
Many of you are very familiar with Paulette as she offers wonderful freebie's daily She had asked if I wanted to create an ATC using one of her images and I jumped at the opportunity.

This image is called Anniversary Dinner Vintage Collage and worked perfect for an ATC.

 I used various Tim Holtz items to create a vintage feel. I was very happy with the way the ATC came out and I am sure you will be seeing it on one of my future cards.

I was so glad that Paulette offered up this opportunity to be featured on her blog!

I would like to enter my ATC into the following challenges:

• *NEW**A Crafty Mess -  No.1 - Anything Goes
• Brown Sugar –  No. 122 - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz -  #256 - Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge -  Cards. - No. 85 - Anything Goes

Penny Black Hedge Hog

Well first of all I want to say a big THANK YOU to all my followers. I am now up to 41. Now that may not seem like a big number, but I am pretty excited about it. I have a birthday in May and plan on doing some blog candy, but maybe I will do it a little earlier when I hit 50 followers...

Well, the real reason I am here today. I had one more Christmas card I needed to post over at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles 12 months of Christmas and tomorrow is the last day. I got this stamp right after the holidays on clearance at Michael's and have been itching to use it.

I have never used  Penny Black stamp, but have admired them many times. I thought this one was so cute...and simple. I love it. I used a very simple layout to finally use my washi tape. Every time I open my craft drawer I say "Doh...I should have used my washi tape." Well this time I did.

Here is what I used:

• Paper Studios - Harper's Boutique
• Washi Tape - K&C Company & Little B LLC
• Chromatix & Copic Markers
• Rubber stamp - Penny Black
• Sentiment - Created with TLC

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

Decosse's 12 months of Christmas

Ends March 12 - House that Stamps - Black White and one other color

Ends March 4 - Paper Shelter - Animals
Ends March 3 - Loves Rubber Stamps - #92 Washi Tape
Ends March 3 - Ribbon Carousel - # 90 Washi Tape
Ends Feb 28 - CHNC - #165 Use a Sentiment

Black & White Shabby Chic

I am feeling a little under the weather today. My husband is just getting rid of his cold and I think he gave it to me. I like presents and all, but he could have kept this one to himself. In any case, I wanted to share a post of a black and white card I made over the weekend.

I had never heard of Shabby Chic" until I started joining challenges. To describe these types of cards I always used "Vintage Inspired." Well regardless, I love making these types of cards. I don't use my rubber stamps often enough, so I made a point to try and use them more often.

The rubber stamps is from Hampton Art and is one of my favorites. It works great with black and white cards. Lots of layering on this one. Designer paper, doily ribbon and brads from my stash. The sentiment comes to you compliments of Created with TLC.

I think this will make a great birthday card.

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

Ends Feb 28 - Aud Sentiment - #100 Bingo (monochrome, 3 word sentiment, 3D item
Ends Feb 28 -CRAFT - Recipe (1 image, 2 shapes, 3 papers, 4 brads )
Ends Feb 28 - Crafty Ribbon - #77 ATG
Ends Feb 28 - Crafters Cafe - #51 Vintage/Shabby
Ends Mar 3 - Digi Stamps4Joy #86 Die cuts/Punches
Ends Feb 28 - Divas by Design - Rubber stamps only
Ends Feb 28 - Inky Impressions - #147 Black & White
Ends Feb 28 - Pennys Paper Challenge - #165 Lots of Layers
Ends Feb 28 - Paper take weekly - Lovely Layers
Ends Feb 28 - Cheerful Stamp Pad - Black and White
Ends Feb 28 - Lexi's Creations - Monochromatic
Ends Feb 28 - OLLCB - #150 Fashionista
Ends Feb 28 - Timbro Scrap Mania  -#88 Monochromatic

Mid Month - Path of Positivity - LOVE

Well, Valentine's Day has passed, but that doesn't mean we can't still celebrate LOVE. It is mid month over at PoP and we would LOVE to see you play along this month. What does love mean to you? I know it is a hard one to explain, but we would love to hear your thoughts or see a project or even both.

For my mid month inspiration I chose to work with 2 of the sponsor's images, one from Creative Bug Digitals and one for Ike's Art.

The image I used from CBD is called unfrogettable. Since I did a "Frog" theme for my 1st post, I thought it would be fun to do one for my mid post as well. I used this tag to go along with my son's Valentine treat.

I used my envelope maker to create this fun candy holder. I thought this would make a cute little Valentine. The February 14th Label is from Created with TLC and makes a nice addition to this tag.

The image I used from Ike's Art is called Mother's Day 1. I talked about Family and Love in my first post, so I thought this would be a nice card to share symbolizing a Mother's Love.

The sentiment come's from a stampin up set called Mother & Child. 

Our generous sponsors have lined up some great prizes. You are not going to want to miss out. So pop on over to PoP. We would love to hear from you.

I would like to enter my cards into the following challenges:

Ends Feb 22 - Dream Valley challenges - Tag your it

Ends Feb 22 - Eclectic Ellapu - Anything but a card

Ends Feb 28 - Connie Can Crop - Cupids Arrow

Ends Feb 25 - The cupboard Trilogy - Love

Ends Feb 25 - East Wind Challenge - #1 Love

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge - #14 Add some flowers

Happy Saturday morning! Time for another challenge over at Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge. This week our challenge for you...if you choose to accept it...is to add some flowers. Well, that is not too hard, so I expect lots of participation. No arguments! LOL.

OK so I am feeling a little feisty, we all have those days.

Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo Digitals. Ooh, I just love those. If you have not played with these, you really should check them out. They give a "Friday freebie", so it is an opportunity to try them on for size.

The image I chose to work with this week is called "Sassy Girl Swing." The "Always Sassy" sentiment button is from Created with TLC.

I found the perfect sentiment to go inside of the card, which is from "A Piece of Heart." Sharon has some great sentiments, all offered up for free.

So if you have some time, we would love for you to play along. I hope that I have inspired you to check us out, if you have not yet, or join us again, if you are a regular.

In any case, can't wait to see what you come up with.

Have a fun weekend!

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

Ends Feb 17 - Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
Ends Feb 14 - Sugar Creek Hallow - #79 Love and Adore
End Feb 14 - CMC - #86 Girls Just Wanna have fun
Ends Feb 7 - QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

Bit By The Bug Tuesday - Snow Posh

It is Tuesday and you know what that means? Well if you don't, I am about to tell you, LOL. It is time to introduce you to an other Bit By the Bug freebie over at Creative Bug on the Loose. This week we have Snow Posh.

He is a cute little snowman, part of the Feeling Frosty Collection over at Creative Bug Digital Snapshots
Don't miss your chance to add this little snowman to your collection.  And isn't he a cute one? Just so happy in his stylish little hat and scarf. Wouldn't he be great on your next winter card?

Snow Posh

I used Blue card stock for the base of my card and matted it with snowflake paper from The paper studio stack collection called Ornamental Christmas. I used my fancy scissors to cut around the digi image and another piece of paper from the same stack. Blue button, twine and gems are from my stash and I finished the card off with  a sentiment from Created with TLC

Now in order to take advantage of this week's free digi stamp, Snow Posh, you have to head over to Creative Bug on the Loose and follow the instructions on how to grab it. While you are over there, don't forget to check out all the great digi's available in the store for purchase.

So what are you waiting for? Head over to Creative Bug on the Loose Now!

I've caught the bug, have you?

I would like to enter the following challenges:

• Digi Haven - Snow Buddies
• QKR Stampede - Winter fun
• Kaboodle Doodles - Baby it's cold outside
• Cheerful Stamp Pad - Snow Days

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge #12 - Sketch

It is Saturday...finally. Sometimes these weeks take so long to make it to Saturday. Well, we are finally here and ready to start another challenge over at Suzy Bee's.

This week our sponsors are Digi Darla and Broken Box. They both have some fun images, so we appreciate any support you can give them.

For your inspiration, I have used an image called Susanna Shopper. She was so fun to work with

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Life is Sweet, Indulge

The sentiment is from Created with TLC and was one of their freebies which I think works fabulously. The paper is from DCWV stack called My Favorite Things. I have used the paper from this stack on many of my cards and it is truly one of my favorite things in my stash of paper. I colored the image using my new Chromatix Markers. Still working on my shading, but I think it is coming along.

So, what are you waiting for? Can't wait to see what you make!

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

• Ends Jan 21 - Polkadoodles - Girl Talk
• Ends Jan 21 - Moving along with the times - Girly Cards
• Ends Jan 20 - Through The Purple Haze - Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throw down - Stripes

New Year's Eve 2013

It is the last day of the year. I remember when I was younger, the years seemed so long, and now they seem so short. I plan on having a quiet New Years Eve, spending it with family and probably just watching movies. We wanted to go snow boarding on the 2nd, but appears there is not enough snow up at Mount Lemmon, so I guess that will not be happening this year.  Oh, well, I guess I will just have to play in my playroom.

I wanted to share with you my very first card I made using my new Chromatix markers I received for Christmas.

So far I really like them, so I guess you will be seeing more cards in 2014 using these babies.

This is a fun image I purchased from Bugaboo stamps. The sentiment is from Created with TLC, and I think works great together. I hope that everyone has a safe and Happy New Year!

A New year with old friends

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

• Ends Jan 12 - Red Carpet Studios - New Years Eve
• Ends Jan 6 - The Crazy Challenge - Celebrate the New Year
• Ends Jan 1 - The Crafters Cafe - #43 New Years
• Ends Jan 1 - CRAFT - #239 New Years
• Ends Jan 9 - Card Mania - #37 Happy New Year
• Ends Jan 9 - Chocolate Coffee and Cards - #55 - New Beginnings
• Ends Jan 31 - Paper Pretties - Ring in the New Year 
• Ends Jan 2 - Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes