New Card and my workspace

For products used on my cards

SHOP HERE

Hey everyone. Hope everyone is having a great week.
SORRY FOR MY DELAY IN GETTING THIS UP.
I cannot wait until Friday. Yesterday I did tons of moving craft stuff downstairs lol here is a shot of my little space lol. YES a MESS. Well I will hopefully have everything put together before the weekend is overwith and I try not to kill myself getting it done.

Yeah well I am moving out of this little corner to my fabulous old formal dining room. So I have a few bookshelves to get, put everything up in its place and you will see everything is going to be nice and neat and in its place!

So today I have two new challenges for you

ABC

 L is for Lavender and Lace

We have two great sponsors this challenge

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop

and

LOTV

Here is my new cutie from LOTV called a Special Gift. I also used some papers from MME, distress ink (Dusty Concord), a Magnolia and MFT dies, some pencils, and some copics! It is really hard to see my lace as I put the flowers on top of it.

If you get a chance stop by ABC and see what the other designers made.

Love To Create - For the Ladies

iCopic - use V copics

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes

Sweet Stop Sketch

second challenge of the day

Colour Create 

here is your photo inspiration for this newest challenge
Pink, Blue, Sage, and white/cream

plus ripped or torn edges!

Here is my newest Magnolia image from the Prince and Princess 2012 collection.

It is hard to see on her the edges are distressed not really torn or ripped. I have not done ripped paper in forever! I will have to give it a whirl back to some cards!

Sweet Stampin - Sketch and Layers

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Perfect Pastels

Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope everyone is having a great week. I am going crazy with knowing this week is almost over :(. My mom leaves Saturday and I have so so so so so so much to do. I started moving all my stuff to my new workspace. Now all I have to do is move the furniture down there and find someone to mount my desk. I really want to get some dressers or bookshelves to store my embellishments on. I need to finish reorganizing.

If you want to do some new CHA shopping stop by HERE


I have another mixed media piece I did using stencils. Hope you like it.

CMC Mixed Media Group


There is a new challenge today

The Pixie Cottage

Our challenge today is 

Perfect Pastels

There is a sketch you can play along with as well.

Remember you can do the theme, you can do the sketch, or you can do both.

Today I used I Luv My Blankie. I tried to make him look furry but that did not help that well at all. 

I used a Hero Arts sentiment, some ribbon from the newest ribbon club from RRR, some MME papers, buttons from the Ribbon Girl, twine, crinkle ribbon, and tons of distress inks.

I colored him with copics and it was fun and challenging for me.

Make sure you stop by the blog and see what else other created.

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft - Mother's Day with Ribbon

Crafty Catz - Mother's Day

Totally Papercrafts - My Favorite Things (copics, distress inks, and ribbon)

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Beachy Bling

Good evening everyone.  Well the new challenge is over at and our theme this week is

Totally Gorjuss 

 Bling It On

with

Crafter's Companion as our sponsor this week

and 

Colour Create

Our sponsor for this fortnight's challenge is Bunny Zoe's Crafts

Well here she is one of the cute images from Krista Smith.

I wish I looked like this and was at the beach. It would be a slice of heaven compared to how I feel and look. 

Here is my card. My bling is minimal with glossy accents on the earrings and glasses and then stickles on the ribbon, tanning lotion, and the glasses.

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Blogger Award

I have a few announcements today....

You still have the rest of the month to play along with 

Unique Crafters Challenge

sponsored by a huge prize from Scrapbooking Unique 

The Great Impressions Challenge #1

with a wonderful prize from Great Impressions Stamps

Next announcement is I was nominated!

Now as always this award comes with its rules, so here we go

"If you are nominated, you’ve been awarded the Versatile Blogger award.

 Thank you Cor Smyrski for nominating me! 

About Me! 

1. I craft on the floor more than I do my desk.

2. I love music so much I blast it loudly any chance I get!

3. I like to watch older Disney movies with my daughter and she watches me sing and dance to some of the songs.... okay most of the songs.

4. I am a bread lover and have yet to learn how to go 100% gluten free (I need to bad).

5. No matter how many times I freak out about getting stuff done and feel like I won't but I always do (it is a weird freak out thing I do).

6. Ice cream makes everything better for me.

7. I love natural handmade soap, orange peels with ground coffee is my favorite.

Bloggers I've selected in no special order! 

1. Krista Smith - Creating lovely images that fit so many themes and being a true artist!
2.Suzanne Dean - Without her I would have never found copics and my inner coloring spirit!
3. Melaine Holtz - I love trying her coloring techniques.
4.Cladia Rosa - Her work is just down right beautiful! I love her baby hats too!
5. Anna Dabrowska - Her style is just fun!
6. Lori - Her work is always inspiring and bright.
7. Melissa Samuels - being the first class I ever watched on ustream and got me addicted.
8. Laura Denison - Creating a ton of great inspirational projects.
9. Sharon Laakkonen - I want to be similar to her when I grow up!
10. Kellie- keeps me motivated with smashing and scrapping!
11. Jamie Dougherty - Her mixed media is motivational and moving to me!
12. Cari Fennell - Love her projects and how prepared she is and just comes up with in 1 hour!
13. Mari Harpham - She was the first person to give me a chance at being on a team and sharing my work.
14. Donna Downey - Showing me how fun mixed media is.
15. Marion Smtih - Her spirit for crafting is amazing and I love her style!
16. Donna Ellis - She is extremely motivational behind the scenes and on the scenes for me!

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Coloring on Kraft

Good morning. I hope everyone had a great weekend and had fun on our crossover blog hop with Great Impressions and Creative Paint Inspirations.  I loved seeing all the different creations. 

Have you checked out the stamp of the month yet? Aren't those images cute? The sentiments are fabulous for an card as well. 

So today I have a card with my first (yes first) attempt on coloring on kraft. It was really fun trying and then erasing and then more coloring. 

I used the stamp Jars of Flowers to create this card.

I used some lace that I twisted around to make a little border to cover up the orange ribbon strips I made for the bottom of the card. 

I used a flower punch and sprayed the yellow cardstock with perfect pearls mist. Then added pinks pearls for the center of the flowers.

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you stop by tomorrow for Jenny's post. 

Newest Lili of the Valley Stamp!

Good Morning. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. We had such lovely weather yesterday finally! I need to get my truck washed from all the rain. I got some time in on crafting this weekend. I finally decided to put my daughter in daycare for 2 days a week also. It will give me some time to get myself wrapped around some upcoming projects and really get organized with all the new CHA stuff I just got in! I am really ready to play with it all! 

Paper Sundaes

has a theme this week of 

"Feminine Flair"

Our sponsor is this week is

Whiff Of Joy


Well this is one of the newest stamps from LOTV. I had so much fun coloring her. 

I finally dipped into some of my pretty lace. I figured that it was really feminine. I also added a charm thought that added some flair too. 

I added some stickles to the flowers and added pearls to the centers for extra embellishing. I also added stickles to the bow as well. 

Buttons

If you are looking for the Great Impressions and Creative Paint Inspirations hop 

Click Here

Today there is a new challenge at

Totally Gorjuss

Anything goes with buttons

Our sponsor this week is 

 

I loved coloring this little cutie. Totally Gorjuss and fun. She is from Krista Smith don't we love her images.

I used as $1 stamp for the sentiment.

She was colored with copics and I added some diamond stickles!

Saturated Canary - Doilies

Saturday Sketch - 197

Have a Hoppy Weekend

TGIF. I have a hop for you today. So grab you coffee, tea, or juice, and a snack and grab you pen and paper. Get ready for some fun!

Today we have a cross hop between

Great Impressions Stamps

and 

Creative Inspirations Paint

The Great Impressions just opened an online store so feel free to go shopping at the New Store.

So your thinking what do I have to do and what do I win right????

There will be a prize from both companies

a $25.00 Gift Cert from Great Impressions

and 

 5 jars of paint

To qualify for this wonderful prize you have to visit each and every blog, leave a comment, and don't forget to collect your magic letter from each blog as well. You will have all weekend 9th 8:00am EST-11th 8:00pm EST to complete the hop

So you should have arrived from 

 Gini Cagle 

If you just popped up here and need to start from the beginning then start at

Creative Inspirations Paint

You will know you are done with the hop when you get to the

Great Impressions Blog

So what I made today is this

using  CIP FairyDust and Plum and GIS Clover Silhouette (F409).

I colored the image with pencils using the Black Magic technique. 

Thanks for hopping along.

Did you guess the letter???

It is in RED!!!

Next up you have 

Holly Brown

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A Special Recipe

For products used on my card

SHOP HERE

Well great Thursday morning to you all. I had a horrible Wednesday. Not one single thing went right after the wonderful Tuesday I had. By the end of the night, all I could think of was holy moly give me my red bull in the morning to get me through spin class tomorrow and then how lovely it would be to take a rest of my lifetime shower afterwards lol. As you read this I will be in spin class trying to shed the pounds. I love it and I am praying the people who are normally there that really get the class motivated will be there tomorrow to help get me through it.  

There is a new challenge over at

 Dutch Dare 

A Recipe

1 stamped or digi image
1 sentiment
2 ribbon
3 pattern papers
4 embellishments (can be 4 of the same or 4 different ones)


Our Sponsor this week is 

The Stamping Boutique

So I used this lovely Daffodil. Spring is right around the corner for some of us. Although where I live I am not sure if it wants to be summer, winter, or spring. I used papers from Crate Papers new line. These just went perfect for what I wanted to do.

I even had Wild Orchid daffodil, I added some liquid pearls, a fun brand new ribbon from the ribbon club over at Really Reasonable Ribbon. The sentiment was made using letter from a MS stamp on a die cut out from a Tim Holtz die.

Sweet Stop Sketches - 148