Winter tree, yet again!

I have repeatedly said how much I love this image.....Winter Tree by Tami from GingerLoft Designs has to be one of my favorite images to work with of all time.

This is my 3rd Christmas using it and is still my most requested card!  It has great shading which makes is quick and easy to color, add some glitter and Ta-Da!

Today I added some lace at the bottom of the card so that I would fit in with the new challenge at GingerLoft - "Fabric, felt or lace"

Isn't this beautiful!  I know, I know, I say that every time that I use this image, but, well, Isn't it?  LOL

Image:  Winter Tree, GingerLoft Designs

Coloring:  Copic Markers, Memento ink

Window die cut:  Spellbinder

Flourish Die Cut:  Vintage Flourish, MFT die-namics

Snowflakes dies cuts:  Sizzix winter flurry (SU)

Tag:  Scribbles by Sandy

Glitter paper:  SU

Glitter:  Sugar from Our Craft Lounge

Embossing folder:  Swiss dots, CuttleBug

Pearls:  Liquid pearls in opal

Brads and Lace:  stash

Remember to enter  to  win a free copy of  My Memories suite 2 by Polaroid!

The drawing is on November 21.  You can read about it HERE

: ) Gale 

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

GingerLoft Challenges:  Fabric, felt or lace (DT card)

Paper Sundaes:  Use digi image

Ellephantastic Challenge:  Weather related

Do it with digis challenge:  Texture

Crafty Catz Weekly challenge:  Use a digi

Floweret:  Christmas card

Miami Doodles:  Christmas card

Polka Doodles:  Swirls and Pearls

Inky Impressions:  Glitter it up

Give Thanks to a Veteran today!

First things first, PLEASE REMEMBER TO THANK A VETERAN TODAY! 

They gave their all so that we could have our 'all'.

I am continuing on my journey of making Christmas cards.  Seems like every time I make some, they disappear into someone else's stash at work!  LOL   At this rate I am going to have to buy the ones that I send out!

Today I worked with a couple of new releases from Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs. 

This first image is called 'Holiday Candles'.  It is a very classic image for Christmas.  I think it makes a very elegant card.

Image:  Holiday Candles from Fresh Brewed Designs

Coloring:  Copic Markers

DP:  DCWV photo stack

Ribbon:  SU (new ribbon in the just released holiday book)

Flourish:  My Favorite Things die cut with glitter paper

Shine:  Glossy Accents on the flames and berries

My second card was using the FBD image 'Wonky Tree' as a background element.

Tree image:  'Wonky Tree' Fresh Brewed Designs

Snowman image: 'Snowman with Holly' Beccys Place (amazing amount of free digi's on this site)!

Snowflakes:  SU glitter paper, Sizzix die

Coloring:  Copic Markers

Tag:  sorry don't know

Shine:  Glossy Accents on ornaments, buttons and berries

DP, brad and ribbon:  from my stash

This art may be entered in the following challenges:

Crimbo Crackers:  Make it sparkle

Delightful Challenges:  Snowflakes (snowman card)

Sarah Hurley Challenges:  Use more than 2 images (snowman, tree, tickets)

Party Time Tuesdays:  Bling it on

Sweet Stamps Blog:  Red, green and gold (Candle card)

There She Goes:  Holiday projects

I Did it Creations:  Christmas



Something different

Wondering around the web and found this quirky site called 'Beyond the Fringe' .  Talk about some awesome art.......really unusual things.  One of the projects that was shown was a card made to look like a bakery, awning and all !  I love it!

There is a wonderful YouTube video by Diana Gibbs that shows how to make this card in detail.

Beyond the Fringe has the bakery items digi as a freebie and now has a pet store digi that can also be used in the store front.  Even better, every piece of paper on this project is from my scrap bin!

Card design:  Diana Gibbs

Bakery Image:  Beyond the Fringe

Sentiment:  Beyond the Fringe

Red card stock:  Bazille swiss dots

DP, ribbon and button:  from my stash

Cupcake sticker inside:  Jolee's

Punches:  EK success large scallop

SU word window

Bling:  Glossy Accents, Sugar glitter from Our Craft Lounge

Check out my picture/instruction step by step tutorial HERE

This card may be entered in the following challenges: 

C.R.A.F.T.:  Cute

Chrisma Cards Challenge:  Cutesy Card

Digital Tuesday Challenge:  Anything goes with a digi

Use it Tuesday:  Cooking (all papers are bits and pieces left over)

Daisy Doodles:  Anything goes with a digi

Heart Song Inspirations:  Anything your heart desires

Shelly's Images:  What's on the inside?

Winter penguins

Christmas is coming and I am working on my cards, one at a time!  LOL

I love these cute little penguins, all wrapped up for the winter weather!

These cuties are from Our Craft Lounge.

They are colored with copic markers.

There is crafty sparkles on the scarf and rim of the hat.

The cirle and snow die cuts are done with Spellbinders.
The embossing is a CB folder 'Swiss Dots'

I don't know who designed the ticket.

The ribbon, bling and DP is from my stash.

One more Christmas card down, ........hmmm....how many to go!

Don't forget to go to THIS PAGE and enter to win the free software for the 'My Memories' scrapbook program.  What a great way to finally do something with all those photos on your computer!

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Challenges:  One for the Boyz
Stamps & Fun = Creativity:  Winter

I love you a latte!

I love you a latte!  Doesn't that just mean so much.  Especially to this caffeine rich, latte, mocha, espresso drinking world!  LOL

When I saw the cute freebie image over at Fresh Brewed Designs for MMM (that's Mocha Manic Monday in Heather speak!), I knew I had to add their love you a latte sentiment onto the little coffee cup!

This is a little 4 x 4 note card  with matching envelope (how to posted on SCS).

I think the pie is supposed to be  pumpkin but I like apple so the little lines in the filling were drawn in with my copics (so don't blame Heather if you think it looks hokey!)

The die cuts are Spellbinders.

The ribbon, buttons and paper are from my stash.

Coloring is all copic markers.

The coffee cup is coated in Glossy Accents.

Head over to FBD pretty quick, the image goes away after today, and pick of this great digi!

Don't forget to visit THIS POST if you want to want to enter to win some free scrapbook software from 'My Memories' made by Polaroid.  You have until Nov. 20 to enter!

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion:  Anything goes plus brown

Daisy Doodles:  Anything goes with a digi

My Partner in Crafting Crime:  Use a freebie

2 Sisters Challenge:  Use ribbon

Digi design Challenge:  Ribbon and Bow

My Memories scrapbook software

If you are looking for the chance to win the My Memories scrapbook software from polaroid, click here

: )  Gale

Christmas cards coming....

Working on some more Christmas cards for my stash.  No where near enough cards done yet but I am working on it!  LOL.

Rained most of the day here in beautiful, green, WET Oregon.  No work today either!  That means time in the craft room!

My first card is a new image from Fresh Brewed Designs.  Heather just did a new release of winter images.  Quite cute!

This image is called "My Snowman". 

Colored in copic markers

Glittered with Sugar crystals from Our Craft Lounge

The die cuts are Spellbinders

The ribbon and brad are from my stash. 

The DP paper is a gift from my friend Mindy (she let me raid her amazing stash of DP last night and I got to have whatever tickled me!  Too Cool!)

Some Glossy accents and the card was all done.

My second card all to has artwork from Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs.

This has 2 FBD images on it!  First there is 'Christmas Room'

Second image is "Kiss Me - Santa Baby"

Kiss me was colored, fussy cut-out and placed in the room on dimensionals

Coloring was again copic markers

The die cuts are Spellbinders (isn't that border too cool!)

Glossy accents on the ornaments

Sparkly Fluff from Our Craft Lounge on the trim of her hat and dress.

Liquid pearls for decoration.

Striped DP is from my stash.

Don't forget to stop by THIS POST on my blog for a chance to win some awesome

scrapbooking software from me and 'My Memories'!

Cards may be entered in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks:  Die Cuts (red card entered)

By the Cute and Girly:  Christmas girls (Both cards)

Card & Scrap:  Christmas

Cupcake Craftroom:  Sweet Christmas (red card)

Really Reasonable Ribbon:  Christmas (red card)

BINGO anyone?

The GingerLoft Challenge blog is starting it's newest challenge!  It's BINGO!

These are your choices.  Draw a BINGO line  through three and get to creating.

Once again, I have used my favorite GingerLoft image.  The 'winter tree' is so easy and quick to work with.  Tami did an outstanding job of shading the digi so that a little color goes a long ways!

To fit the challenge I used a GingerLoft image (duh!),  I dry embossed the background and used ribbon.  The choices on the BINGO card make this an easy challenge to join!

On the inside of the card:

Image:  Winter Tree, GingerLoft Designs

Sentiment:  Our Craft Lounge

All die cuts:  Spellbinders

Coloring:  Copic markers

Glitter:  Our Craft Lounge

Stick pin:  Handmade

Ribbon, buttons and brad:  from my stash

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

GingerLoft Challenge:  BINGO (DT card)

A Gem of a Challenge:  Cold and Frosty

Little Claires Designs:  Christmas

SSDS:  Monochromatic

Wee Memories:  Brads, buttons or bows (I used all three)

Bah! Humbug!:  Use those die cuts

Card Makin' Mamas:  Use your die cuts

Crafty Purple Frog:  Sparkle

Crafty Ribbon Challenge:  BINGO (glitter, button, handmade embellishment)

Crimbo-Crackers:  Anything goes - must be Christmas

OMG! Scrapbook layouts ahead!

I have been playing with a new program.  A new digital scrapbooking program.  A totally new thing for me to be doing.  I have only done conventional scrapbooking in the past.  Now I have a new toy to play with!

Even better, I will be having a giveaway on my blog.  It will start next week and the winner will recieve a free copy of the digital scrapbooking program "My Memories Suite" v2 by polaroid.

Here are a couple of layouts that I created using 'My Memories Suite', some word art from Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs and some freebie scrapbooking downloads (see end of post for list).

The first LO has a picture of my oldest son and his SO.  They flew to Oregon in Jan. of 2010 for his dad's 50th birthday.  This beach picture is so romantic to me.  Heather's word art fits the LO perfectly.

This second LO is my niece Bethany and her son Brayden.  They are so cute in this photo!

Once again, the 'Warms my Heart' sentiment fits in perfectly.  All those wonderful sentiments that I have on my computer, and now they can go on my scrapbook layouts also!

The papers and elements on my layout are all from the My Memories Suite program (they were many preloaded  things to play with).  The remaining papers and elements came from

RDickson and were listed in the following groups:

Chill, Brisk, Sea Swept and Winter Blues.

I also used the scrapbook sets Heart & Soul and Beach Day (sorry I don't know the artists).

This art may be entered in the following challenges:

Crafts & Me:  Winter blues (card 2)

Creative Card Crew:  Romantic (card 1)

Scrap Creations:  Do it digital  (both)

Lollipop Crafts:  At least 3 embellishments

Meet Geoffry Giraffe

No idea where the name came from.......he just looks like a Geoffry! (just got a note on the FBD blog page that this is the name of the Toys R Us giraffe.  My kids are in their 20's, completely forgot about Toys R Us years ago! LOL)

This is another new fold for me also. ( Sorry, can't remember where I got it from but will edit this when I find it! )

Isn't he just too adorable.  Wanted something using the colors from the Fresh Brewed Designs color challenge "Black, Orange and Purple" but didn't want to do any more halloween.  So..Geoffry is what I came up with.  Nothing like a 'different' color scheme to stir up an image!

The little 'doors' are dry embossed with a CB embossing folder and the band is just purple card stock cut out with a MS punch.  The buttons and twine are from my stash.

Open the little doors and.......

There is Geoffry in all his glory.  Love his purple spots! 

The border punch is Fiskars, the flourish is a Marianne's die and the image is mounted on a Spellbinder's die.  The flowers are from a prize package and the centers are glittered brads from my stash.  The scarf and hat are colored and then sparkley fluff was added on top.

Lift up the flap that Geoffry is on and you have a nice place to write on the card and another Spellbinder's die cut with the sentiment on it.  There is another flourish under the sentiment, can't see it in this pic.....no idea......hmmm......

Sentiment is perfect for a giraffe with purple spots and wearing a hat and scarf.

Oh, and lets not forget the pretty orange leg warmers!  How 70's are they!  LOL

Image and sentiment are both from Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs

Coloring is with copic markers.

Sponging is done with memento inks.

: )  Gale

This card may be entered into the following challenges:

Fresh Brewed Designs:  Black, Orange and Purple  (DT card)

Charisma Cardz:  Embossing-heat or dry (I used both)

Forever Friends:  Anything goes, must use an animal

Papertake Weekly:  Spooky Hues-use halloween colors

Sweet Stamps Blog:  Lots of layers

Tuesday Throwdown:  Shaped cards

Top Tip Tuesday:  Layer it up

KB Cute Monday:  Anything goes

Tent fold card for fall

Browsing around in blog land and found this site, Crafticious.  Hasn't had any posts in quite a while but browsing through the older posts, I found the instructions for a tent card.  I followed her general instructions using the measurements that fit for the card I wanted to make!

The images and the sentiment is from an Our Craft Lounge stamp set.

The card base is made of kraft cardstock.  The images and sentiments are stamped with Memento cocoa brown ink on Neenah Solar white cardstock.  The coloring of the images is with copics.  The sky is watercolored with distress inks and the edges sponged with antique linen distress ink.

The DP is another page from a DCWV photo stack.   The ribbon is from my stash.

This card folds up flat on itself but if a little on the thick side with all the layers  :)

:)  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

C.R.A.F.T.:  fall/autumn

CCEE stampers:  fall/autumn

The Paper Shelter:  harvest

City Crafter:  harvest

Stampin Sisters in Christ:  2 of everything (used 2 images, 2 sentiments, 2 ribbons and 2 embellis)

Sentimental Sundays:  fancy fold

Save a horse.....

My friend Jodie has so much going on.  She is in her second year as a nursing student, her son just got married and she just turned 40 beautiful years old.  She also happens to be married to a nice guy that wears a cowboy hat, rides a horse and makes her very happy.

I don't have any real reason to give her this card except that she was the one that I thought of when I saw this digi stamp over at Nana Vic's on Crafters Digital Art Center.  What better reason to make it!

and inside

close-up of the boots

The main image is from Nana Vic

Hat and boots from Digi Doodle. (This is actually a digi stamp of a baby standing in the boots and wearing the hat.  I just cut them out, colored and put them on the card.)

The fence is a PTI die, embossed in a wood-look CB folder.

The DP is from DCWV photo stack.

The bling is from Recollections.

The waxed twine from my stash.

The card base is kraft cardstock.

Scor-pal used for score lines at bottom edge of card.

Thanks for visiting, would love for you to leave a comment!

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Lia Stamps:  2 stamps or digis

Marianne's Design Diva:  Dying for die cuts

Mo's Digital Challenge:  Inspired by a song (Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy by Big&Rich)

Paper and Such:  Muted autumn colors

My Mum's Craft Shop:  Remind me of a song (Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy by Big&Rich)

Little Darling's Challenge:  Use your scor-pal or scor-buddy

Just Some Lines:  Remind me of a song (Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy by Big&Rich)

Fall colors

Well, the deer is cut and wrapped! (except for the backstrap and one pack of steaks, really good!

DH is still going out with his hunting buddy (he hasn't got his deer yet) so once again I get to play all weekend long!   Good for me, not so great for any housework, laundry, etc.  LOL

Today I am posting a card using the image "Fall Collage" by GingerLoft Designs.

This is a beautiful and versatile image.  I love the faces on the leaves!

I tinkered with the image in Word and printed the image in that rusty orange color instead of black.  I printed it twice so that I could cut out the second set of leaves and the second clock.  They are colored and then put on the image with pop-dots.

The matting is black cardstock cut with a spellbinder.  There is clear fiber around the picture, between the image and the mat. The streaks of rain and the drops have Glossy Accents on them.  The leaves and ribbon are from my stash. The leaves were green wo I played with my copic markers until they looked like fall instead of spring!  Once again I have used this wonderful DP from DCWV.  If you haven't used one of their Photo Stacks, you really don't know what you are missing!

The card is 4 X 4.

:) Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

GingerLoft Challenges:  Fall or halloween (DT card)

Card Cupids:  Color orange

Paper Sundaes:  Fall

RRR:  Fall, must use ribbon

CES Challenge Blog:  Forever Autumn

SSDS Challenge:  Falling for you...anything with leaves

Fussy and Fancy:  Fall or halloween

Crop Stop:  Falling Leaves

Rainbow Lady's Challenge:  Falling Leaves

Delightful Challenges:  Colours of Fall

So I lied, one more halloween project!

Good morning!  I have a surprise, IT's NOT THURSDAY!  TaDa!

Unfortunately, I thought it was and was late posting to FBD for my Friday post this morning, (sorry Heather).

I worked a different schedule and apparently that is all it takes to mess up my poor mind!  LOL

I did one more treat box for halloween as I figured I was one short for my special trick or treaters! 

Isn't it just too cute.  Love that image.

Image:  Fresh Brewed Designs (Dr. Corn, mad scientist and scared jack o lantern)

Sentiment:  No idea, sorry

Coloring:  Copic markers

DP and ribbon from my stash

Gable box pattern from Split Coast Stampers resource section :)

Sorry the post is so short but we are cutting and wrapping our deer today and they are waiting on me!

:)  Gale

This project may be entered in the following challenges:

C.R.A.F.T.:  One ribbon, two shapes, add some glitter

PaperCrafting Journey:  Black, orange and white

Sarah Hurley Challenges:  Halloween

Southern Girls Challenge:  For a boy or man (This one is for Grant!)

More than Favors:  Treat bag or Box

Whimsical Wednesdays:  Treat bag or box

Clear it Out Challenge:  Halloween, use up some old stuff!

Creative Card Challenge:  Spooky Fun

My Time to Craft:  Halloween

Getting a new post up pronto!

This post is just to get another post up quickly so that my 'front' post isn't one with profanity in it!  LOL

This card is one of my final halloween posts (I think).  This is a wonderful image from Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs  Doesn't she look too comfortable sitting on her broom like that!  Ha!

 and inside the card

 Front image and sentiment are FBD

DP is a freebie digi download from Free Paper Challenge
Inside Sentiment from Ginger's House

Coloring with Copics

Sponging with Memento Ink

Die cuts by Spellbinders

Ribbon is from my stash

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy:  Halloween
Stamps and Fun:  Halloween
Victorine stamps:  Halloween
Come and Get it Challenges:  Halloween
Quirky Crafts:  Halloween/Fall 
Anyone for Anya:  Photo inspiration 
Drunken Stampers:  Halloween
Forever Night Challenges:  Trick or Treat
Crafty Ribbon Challenge:  Pretty Spooky 
Samuel Taylors Crafts:  Halloween 
More than Favors-Wacky Wednesday: Purple, Green and Orange