Browsing around blogland....

We hit a whopping 50 degrees here on the Oregon coast today.  That meant, HARLEY ride.

After I was completely frozen, (HA) came home, turned on the extra little heater in my craft room

(had to thaw out my legs!), and got busy playing.  Browsed around in blogland and

found a sketch to play with on Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog.

Isn't this image just adorable!  It just makes me laugh. (and maybe remember)  I love it.  It is called 'Geeky Love' and I got it from

Make It Crafty .  They are so cute!  Can you see all the sparkle on the butterfly buttons and the Atiyou spica clear glitter pen on the butterfly punch?  Love some bling!

The sentiment is from Meljens designs.

The butterfly border is a Martha Stewart double punch.

The heart is Spellbinders.

The papers and butterfly buttons are all from my stash.

Coloring is copic markers (duh! LOL)

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:  (please excuse me if this is entered in any inappropriate challenges, it is completely unintentional)

Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog:  Sketch

Splendiferous Creations:  Wings and Things

Crafty Catz Challenge:  Use something new (new digi)

Fairy Tale Challenge:  Use something new

Cute Card Thursday:  Have a Laugh

Meljen's Designs:  Anything Goes

Pixie Dust Studio:  Put your heart into it

Some Odd Girls:  Bling it up!

Southern Girls Challenge:  Sparkle

For My Crafty Friend

Playing along with  the color challenge over at Fresh Brewed Designs,

What a great group (read easy here) of colors to work with. 

Next I chose one of my favorite FBD digi images, 'Crafty Gal'.  Want to know a secret?

She is coming out in rubber!  This is wonderful!

I know just the crafty gal that this birthday card is going to!

The PJs are paper pieced and the bunny slippers have Crafty Sparkles made by OCL.

They are soooo cute and fuzzy IRL!

The rest of the coloring is with copic markers. 

The border punch is from Martha Stewart.  I put liquid pearls in the flower centers.

The ribbon and buttons are from my stash.  Glossy accents was used in various places.

Inside the card (note the kraft color).........

This wonderful sentiment was designed by JustYolie.

The die cut is one from Spellbinders.

Get out on the web, find a challenge and get crafting!

:)  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:   (please forgive any entry that is not appropriate for a challenge, it is unintentional)

Fresh Brewed Designs:  Pink, white and kraft (DT card)
Art Impressions:  Pink, pink and more pink
Aud Sentiment:  Any sentiment and you mush use your scraps
DYSU:  Pink (photo inspiration)
DRS designs:  Paper piecing
Charisma Cardz:  Happy Birthday (ring of words around the main sentiment says Happy Birthday)
Sassy Studio Designs:  Let's Celebrate (Birthday card)
My Mum's Craft Shop:  Girls
The Kraft Journal:  A favorite color and Kraft (Using pink alot these days, hmmmm)
There She Goes:  Paper Piecing
The Ribbon Reel Challenge Blog:  Pink,Polka Dots. ribbon (Dots of color for the buttons, marker ends and Liquid pearl dots in the centered of the flowers)
Birthday Sundaes:  Birthday card
 



Fueled by Caffeine

Happy New Years everyone!  Oh, and, I have to say it, GO DUCKS!  Did they not ROCK on New Years Day in the Rose Bowl!  

YEAH!

Ok, onwards.     Playing with the grannie from Fresh Brewed Designs today.  She is so ugly she is cute.  She really needs her caffeine just to get moving in the mornings.  Me, I'm a diet pepsi kind of caffeine person!  It's never to early and it's never to late!  LOL

Can you see the ghosting on the background paper?  No?  Well, here is a different shot to try to show it.

Used versa mark and heat set it for the ghosting.  Outlined the images with a clear Atyou Spica pen for some glitter.

Inside

Granny image:  Fresh Brewed Designs

Coffee cups, beans and inside sentiment:  Our Craft Lounge

Java sentiment:  Unknown

Ribbon: Wide is part of a gift from Heather (Fresh Brewed Designs)

Narrow is from my stash.

Coloring:  Copic markers, Ranger Distress Inks

Die Cuts:  Spellbinders

This card may be entered in the following challenges:  (My apologies if I inadvertently enter any challenges that my project does not apply to)

Sassy Studios:  Use something new (granny digi)

Fab n' Funky:  Something new

Inky Impressions:  Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop:  Something new

 

Sweet Friendship

Playing with the coffee shop digis from Fresh Brewed Designs again.  Just love making these store front cards (instructions on tutorial page above).  Especially when I have beautiful digis like these that Heather from Fresh Brewed Designs made for me!

This little card is already on the way to it's recipient, hope she likes it! LOL

 

The coloring is all Copic markers.

The sentiment is from Create with TLC and the ticket is hand cut

The awning is made with SU word window punch.

The daisies are from a piece of ribbon.  The half pearls and DP are from my stash.

I love that all the papers used can be from my scrap stash as they are all fairly small!

The little colored flourishes are fussy cut from a piece of a scrap (already colored).

Have a great day!

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:  (my apologies if I miss a rule that makes this card inappropriate for any challenge it is entered in)

Fresh Brewed Designs:  DT Card
Art Impressions Stamps:  Die cut or punches (the awning is made with SU word punch)
Aud Sentiments:  Anything goes
Papercraft Star:  Coffee or Tea  (bag of coffee beans)

Another Hello

This is my second post today, the 'sister' to my other card.  As with the other card, the sketch is based on a challenge over at Our Craft Lounge.  The sentiment used is also from Our Craft Lounge.

and the inside......

The beautiful die cuts are all from Spellbinders, Christmas candy!  LOL

The fleur-de-leis border is also a Spellbinder.

The flower is pieced together from flowers in my stash.  The center of the flower is a pearl brad from Elements.  The sentiment is stamped with Ranger distress ink, the sponging around the die cut is also with Ranger distress ink.   The dry embossing is with a CB folder.

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:  (my apologies if I have inadvertently entered inappropriately in any challenge)

Our Craft Lounge:  Sketch Challenge

Ar tImpressions Stamps:  Die Cuts or Punches

Digi Doodle Shop:  Anything Goes

JFF:  Anything Goes

Rainbow Lady:  Your Choice

Outlaw Challenge-Twisted Thursday:  Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp:  Anything goes

Sending a Hello

There is an amazing amount of water falling from the sky today!  The wind is howling and the sky is dark.  This means I get a "no guilt" day in my craft room.  I need some 'hello, how are you' type cards so, here is the start!  Our Craft Lounge has a sketch challenge going that gave me a starting point.

I couldn't help myself, I had to add the extra butterfly in the right upper corner.  The sketch doesn't call for it but, well, they are just to pretty to not use!  LOL  I even added another on the inside!

The sentiment and butterflies are all stamps from Our Craft Lounge.

The die cuts are Spellbinders.  The papers, ribbon and bling are all from my stash.

The butterflies are colored with copics and then they were glittered.

Check out my other post from today for another card based on this sketch.

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:  (my appologies is I unintentionally enter in an inappropriate competition due to missing a rule)

Our Craft Lounge:  Sketch Challenge

4 Crafty Chicks:  Something new  (brand new spellbinders die set)

Art Impressions Stamps:  Die cut or punch it out

Aud Sentiments Challenge:  Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon:  Use something new (brand new Spellbinders die set)

My Mum's Craft Shop:  Anything Goes

City Crafter:  Fussy Cutting (the butterflies are all fussy cut)

Happy New years!

This one is for the girls!  Happy New Year.  You see the pics of the girls sitting in the champagne glass all the time.  Well, how about one with a guy!  LOL

Yummy!  Isn't he, *snicker, snicker*

This is a new digi for me from a new artisit to me, Tom Onkle.  Check out his blog HERE.

He has many "interesting" and different digis, often for free.  I have really enjoyed playing with them and I have the perfect 'lady' for this card.  The countdown sentiment is from Our Craft Lounge.

On the inside, 

card and twine to match the front along with a "drink line" and sentiment stamps from Our Craft Lounge, 'Celebrations' stamp set.

Copics for coloring, twine from The Twinery, pearls and DP from my stash.  Some glossy accents on the bubbles and a Spellbinders die cut on the front.  I used white embossing powder on the sentiments. 

I hope that everyone hass a great New Years!

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges.  (If I have missed a rule that makes my card ineligible, I am sorry and apologize in advance.  It was not on purpose):

Cooking it up with Katie:  Anything goes

Little Red Wagon:  Something new (New Year)

Paper Pretties:  Ring in the New Year

The Paper Shelter:  Tie a bow

Scrapbook Sisters:  Anything Goes

City Crafter:  Make the Cut

Party Time Tuesday:  Anything Goes

Shopping our Stash:  Tie it up

My Grafico:  Cocktail hour (oh yeah!)

Paper Creations Ink:  Something old (paper), something new (digi)

Paper Sundaes:  Celebrate

Sparkles Forum:  Anything but a Christmas Card

It's almost Christmas!

Mailed presents and plan on calling oldest son..........check

Took presents to youngest son who has to work this weekend.........check

Ordered the prime rib to cook for Christmas dinner for DH and I..........check

Presents wrapped and under the tree.............well, they will be tomorrow!   LOL

Last Christmas card of the year made.............check!

Don't you love that wonderful "wonky tree"!?  Designed by Heather from Fresh Brewed Designs, I have done several cards with this image and just LOVE it!

Added another image, this one from Bugaboo, a sentiment from Dustin Pike, some ribbon and some bling.  Bring it all togethers with a scrap of killer DP and a border punch in glitter paper by EK success and TA DA! you have this card.  I colored with copics (duh!  what else) and used some Glossy Accents on the tree ornaments. 

Have a Merry Christmas!

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Fresh Brewed Designs:  Christmas (DT card)

Crafting for all Seasons:  Christmas

Digistamps4Joy:  Christmas, no animals

Divas By Design:  Christmas

Inky Impressions:  Christmas Cheer

The Sisterhood of Crafters:  Christmas

Little Darlings Challenge:  Tis the Season

Friendship's Garden:  Winter Holiday

Crimbo Crackers:  Snowflakes (check out that snowflake border punch) 

Papertake Weekly:  Last Christmas card of the year

Top Tip Tuesday:  Anything Christmas

Have you been Good?

Thought Christmas cards were over, yeah right!  LOL

Here is another one using the wonderful images and sentiments that Heather over at Fresh Brewed Blog has been putting out all month so far!

and inside......

All images and the sentiment are from Fresh Brewed Designs.

Images are printed on Neenah Solar White.

Coloring with Copic Markers

Die cuts are all Spellbinders.

The DP and ribbon are from my stash (love that DP)!

Glossy accents on the ornaments.

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Creative Inspiration Paints:  The Holidays

The Squirrel and the Fox:  Christmas

Mark's Finest papers:  Make a Christmas Card

Dare I say it......Happy New Year!

Anything but Christmas......Easy Peasy......mainly because I sent out my Christmas cards last week and am ready to move on to something else!

The Crafy Pad has allowed me the treat of being a Guest Designer for the past few weeks and today is my last DT card for them.  I have loved playing with their beautiful images.

This week is "Anything but Christmas...."

I used the pocket watch image from The Crafty Pad to represent the passage of time.

I added in some New Years images from Our Craft Lounge.

The watch, ruler and cogs were all printed directly on my card stock.  The watch was printed a second time, embossed and glossed and then placed on the card with dimensionals.

The balloons, champagne and glass were all printed seperately, colored, cut out and then placed on the card.  The ribbon is from my stash.

This card may  be enteren in the following challenges:

The Crafty Pad:  Anything but Christmas! (GDT card)

CES Challenge:  Party, party, party

Card Crafters Circle:  Celebration

Alota Rubber Stamps:  It's all about the Numbers

Crafters Companion:  New Beginnings

Just Tracy's Crafts:  Celebration

Baby, Oh baby

I was going to do this wonderful post last night after coming home from our annual fire department Christmas dinner and party.  Yeah, well, that obvioiusly didn't work.  I definitely have just a bit of a "cold and a runny nose" this am!  I decided (ha!) for the better part of valor last night (actually really early this morning) that I did not need a BUI (blogging under the influence) and went to bed instead.

It is bright and early (damn fire pager of DH went off at 0515 this am) and here I am, doing my second post for my guest DT spot for The Crafty Pad.  This weeks challenge is to 'Send someone a smile', No Christmas allowed!

I just happen to have a couple of people at work that are having baby's so I decided to play with on of the baby sets from The Crafty Pad.

The card fits a standard 5.75 by 4.5 envelope, I just fussy cut on the right side of the bottle.  The flowers along either edge of a CB embossing strip that is rubbed with ink after dry embossing.  I put a little dab of liquid pearls at each center.  The flowers on the bottle are heat embossed with Ranger white detail embossing powder.  The flower image is from an Our Craft Lounge set.

The coloring is all copics.  This actually worked on this card with one layer because I wanted the ink to bleed through so that I could continue coloring the other side so that you see the bottle when the card is open also!

I took my black copic multi-liner and traced the image of the bottle and colored some more.

The footprints were printed and colored, punched out and then heat n' stik and glitter were used to make a medallion.  The pacifier (dummy) was colored, cut out and hung off a piece of pink baking twine (The Twinery) from the medallion.  The would congratualations was stamped all over the part of the inside covered by the bottle (when the card is closed).  It is a stamp from Our Craft Lounge.

I added a handwritten 'It's a girl' and the card was done!

Go by The Crafty Pad and check out the gorgeous creations done by the "real" DT, play along with the challenge and then visit the store and maybe even pick up a stamp of two!

:)  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

The Crafty Pad:  Make someone smile

Crafty Catz Weekly:  Anything goes

Totally PaperCrafts:  Anything but Christmas

Cute Card Thursday:  Anything goes

White on white

Cruising around blog world today (while watching football!).  It  is amazing the amount of talent and creativity that is out there for everyone to see and share in.

While trying to pretend that I DON'T have a cold coming on, I saw there were a couple of challenges out there for 'white on white', 'Christmas', 'Holidays', etc.  You get the idea, there are alot of challenges out there!!  LOL  I decided to give another go at the 'White on White' challenge (which also happens to fit with alot of others at the same time!  Ha!)

and inside.....

It is really quite pretty and sparkly in person.  All that white is just a little blinding!  LOL  You should see the first pic I did with it against my normal white background.   WOW

Much easier to look at on this darker one.

Image:  GingerLoft Designs - Winter Tree

Sentiment:  SU stamp

Dry embossing:  Spellbinder snowflake stencil (first time using one, not to sure yet, hmmm)

Window die cut:  Spellbinder

Snowflake dies:  Sizzix

Flourish dies:  Die-namics (finer flourishes) and Mariannes (bolder flourish)

Glitter:  OCL 'sugar' glitter

Brads and ribbon from my stash.

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Come and Get it Challenge:  Anything Christmas

Dream Valley Challenge:  Sparkle

Pan Pastel UK Challenge:  The great outdoors

The Hybrid Chick:  Make it Sparkle

The Ribbon Girl:  Jingle all the way to Christmas

Craft Your Days Away:  Buttons or Bows

Crafty Hazelnus's Christmas:  Mainly Monochromatic (can't get much more monochromatic!)

Designed 2 Delight:  Let it Snow

Di's Digi Designs:  All White except the image

Drunken Stamper:  Monochromatic

One Stop Craft Challenge:  Let it Snow

Simply Stampin' Challenge:  Snowflake Sparkle

FairyTale Challenge:  Christmas

Fun with Shapes and More:  Cold as Ice

Pattie's Creations:  Christmas

Simply Create Too:  All about Christmas

Totally PaperCrafts:  Let it Snow

Bling it On:  It's Christmas!

Creatalicious Challenge:  Christmas and make sure it Sparkles!

Guess What!!!!

I have been excitedly waiting for today to come!  I have been invited to be a guest designer for the month of December over at The Crafty Pad !

I will be doing projects or cards for Dec. 4, 11 and 18 using some of the wonderful images that can be found in the store of The Crafty Pad. 

This weeks challenge is "Give it a Punch".  The DT were all given a wonderful image to do our project with.  It is called 'Rudolph and Robin'.  You need to use at least 3 punched items on your creation!

Here is my gift card holder.  I could go in an envelope but I made this on to hang by a loop of ribbon in the Christmas tree. 

Rudolph & Robin (see him sitting on the antler) by The Crafty Pad

Pattern by The Waltzing Mouse specific post to stocking HERE

I added the snaps to make the sides more sturdy when putting the gift card in and out. 

Coloring:  Copic Markers

Dry Embossing:  CB embossing folder

Glitter:  OCL 'snow' glitter

Punches:  MS snowflake

MS holly leaf

Whimsey dies ticket die

Micheals snowflake punch (the little flakes)

The papers, ribbon and bling are all from my stash!

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Come and Get It Challenges:  Anything Christmas

Getting Cricky:  Joys of the Season, make a decoration (mine hangs on tree)

Scrappy Frogs Challenge:  Use kraft cardstock

Two Sisters Challenge:  Punches and/or dies

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps:  Dry or Heat Embossing

Little Claire's Designs:  Shaped

Crafty Catz:  Colours of Christmas with sparkle

Delicious Doodles:  Hairy Legs

Miami Doodles:  Make it Shine with glitter

Polka Doodles:  Secret element Christimas project (Pouch for gift card)

Feelin' Frosty

Feelin' Frosty!  What a wonderful sentiment and it goes perfectly with this Bugaboo image!

Image:  Ruby Christmas Tree by Bugaboo Stamps

Sentiment:  Feelin Frosty by Dustin Pike

Embossing:  CB embossing folder

Coloring:  Copic Markers

DP:  Pine needles is DCWV, Green diamond tuck is a leftover from my stash.

I still don't know who designed the ticket (But I love it!)

Everything else used is from my stash.

Check out that cool glitter paper used for the snowflakes!

I hope everyone is having a 'Frosty' December!

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Catch the Bug:  Anything Goes

Craft Your Days Away:  Buttons or Bows

So Artful Challenges:  Picture inspiration (colors red and green, (loosely) having a drink)

SSDS Challenge:  Holiday Card

Clearly iStamp:  Christmas Card

Pattie's Creations:  Christmas (digi image)

The Poodles Parlor:  Christmas

Bling it On:  Christmas

Through the Craft Room Door:  Happy Holidays

Colour Create Challenge:  Red, green and white

Sarah Hurley Challenges:  Christmas

The Paper Shelter:  Anything Goes

Craft your Passion:  Tis the Season

Building a snowman

Building a snowman is definitely childs play.  I remember how cold I would get and still not care.  I am definitely too old to be wanting to get out in the snow like that now!

I can, however, make a card about it and thoroughly enjoy it!  LOL

The images and the sentiment are all from Fresh Brewed Designs

The coloring is copic markers

The snowflake is a MS punch.

Glossy accents on the ornaments

Sentiment is on a Spellbinder die cut banner

The papers and ribbon are from my stash.

I printed the trees in green ink on my printer (I love that I can change the color that I print the digi in, makes it much easier to color).  The kids with the snowman were printed and colored several times.  Then, I cut them out and pieced them together for added dimension.

The snow banks (hard to see) that the trees sit on are made with a torn piece of paper and some sky blue Memento ink.

: )  Gale

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Send a Smile for Kids:  Winter fun for Kids

SSDS:  Holiday Card

Card Mad Fairy:  Winter Wonderland (with a digi)

Fun with Shapes and More:  Cold as Ice (must include a punch or die)

Jingle Bells Rock:  Christmas

Tando Creative Challenge:  Winter Festival

Through the Craft Room Door:  Happy Holidays

Aud Sentiments:   Any winter holiday sentiment