Thursday, December 21, 2023

Cocoa Jacuzzi

 
Good morning and Merry Almost Christmas, Happy Holidays 
Happy Hanukah or to whatever you celebrate may it be bright and festive!
It is hard to believe Christmas Day is almost here.
It is the longest day of the year and the first day of Winter.
I must say, we are looking forward to the days
becoming longer.

It has been such a mild Christmas here.
What little snow we had is almost gone.
Mostly brown grass.
I think the last time this happened was in 2007/8
Let's get to why you are really here:

We are on our last challenge of 2023 (Wow)
#511 - Time To Be Merry
Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is 

Prize: 3 Images


The image that they let us all use for this challenge is called


Cocoa Jacuzzi Image - The Paper Shelter
My image was colored up using Copic Markers.
The embossing panel it was one of my mom's
from her stash (apology I don't know the name)
The circle dies are from Spellbinders
The little enamel dots are from YNS
Up top their is a snowflake, punch and all the paper
is from Stampin' Up

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



I would like to wish you a time filled with peace, love and laughter.
With family, friends and others who just need us.

Thank you for joining us over the Christmas break.
I look forward to more inspiration from you all!!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Hugs,

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 & Guest Design Spot.

 Good morning blogger land!
Today, I am excited to be the Guest Designer

I was given two sketches to work with.
Kathie is an incredible designer of these sketches.
The fun part is you can chose to use one sketch or you can use both.
Isn't it great to have options???
They are simply fantastic and it was so much fun
to see what these designs inspired me to create.
Hope you like them.

Sketch #1
The image is colored using Copic Markers. 
I went to through my stash of older stamps
from The Project Bin  A Way With Words North Pole
All paper, punches, glitter are from Stampin' Up


Sketch #2
Copic Markers were used to color up this cute reindeer image.
This cute image is called Holiday Reindeer
The stitched square dies are from My Favorite Things Die-namics
All the papers, punches (arrows) and felts tree and snowflake
are from Stampin' Up

Please hop on over to their sketch challenge.
I look forward to seeing all of your creation.

Thanks for joining me today!

hugs,









Thursday, November 30, 2023

Holiday Reindeer

 

Good morning!
Welcome to my blog.
It is so hard to believe that we are on the 
last day of November.
The time has been going so fast.
Hoping your November has been a good one.
We have been struggling with being sick
but I finally managed to get back into my
craft room and get creative. It certainly does
feel good to color and create.
Next thing on our list is to start decorating our house.

Onto why you stopped by.
We have a brand new challenge over at
Challenge #509 - Tis The Season

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is
Prize: 4 images


Thank you for allowing me to high light

The image below has been colored using Copic Markers.
It also has some sparkling diamonds on the hat and scarf.


I would love to have this little guy. He is so very cute.
The paper, scallop punch and snowflake are from Stampin' Up.
This card will be for one of my grandchildren.

Please come and join us at Creative Knockouts
my fellow team mates have amazing creations to help inspire you.

Thank you so much for joining me.
Wishing you a wonderful day ahead.

Hugs,

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Trevor's Tremendous Treehouse

 


Good morning! 
It is still dark out while I am typing this up.
This weekend our clocks go back an hour!!!
Can you feel my excitement of having
an extra hour of sleep?
The extra hour of sleep just makes body happy.
Our snow is slowly melting away which
totally makes me happy.
Hoping everyone had a terrific Halloween,
it was a beautiful evening for us out with
our 3 awesome grandkids.

We have a brand new challenge for you today
Challenge #507 - Fall Is In The Air
Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is from

Thank you so much for letting me showcase
It is a great image for any type of card.


The above image has been colored with Copic Markers (Spectrum Noir paper)
All layered papers are from Stampin' Up.

We would love it if you would join us for 
Fall is in The Air challenge this week.
It sure has that crispness outside.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenge:
The Crafty Addicts - Challenge #7 - Anything Goes

Thank you so much stopping by my blog.

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Flower Dreams

 

Good morning!
It sure is starting to feel like fall here in Central Alberta.

We have a brand new challenge starting today over

We are on Challenge #503 - Use Your Favorite Embellishment
(as you can see on my card it is Pearls)

 Our sponsor All Dressed Up
Prize: 2 Images

Thank you so much for supplying me with
the Flower Dreams image
to high lite

My image Flower Dreams was colored up using Copic Markers.
The dies are all from Spellbinders.
The paper/pearls is from Stampin' Up.
Paper piercing tool was used to create the double poke edging.

Please come and join us for this brand new challenge.
I would love to see what your favorite embellishment is.

Thank you so much for stopping by.
Wishing you an amazing day!

Hugs,

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Highland Wish

 

Good morning to you!
I am in shock at August being half gone.
It is exciting, to pick our daughter up
and her boyfriends family at the airport tomorrow.
They have been away in Germany for a month.
We have been camping this month
with our grandchildren and their parents.
We splurged and got a paddle board and that has been so much
fun with our kids and grandson. 
Not sure why we waited to long to get one.
Let's get to why you're here.

We have a brand new challenge for you at Creative Knockouts.
Our challenges run for two weeks so plenty of time
to share with us your awesome creations.

What is our challenge you say?
Challenge #501 - Anything Goes

Super easy for this time of year.

Our fantastic sponsor for the brand new challenge is
Prize: 2 images
The digi that has been used on my card is called 


So this cute Highland Wish image was colored up using Copic Markers.


The embossing folder is of clouds
Yellow pattern paper just reminded me of my 
grandma's house (old country style) and card stock is from Stampin Up.
Other than the cloud layer the other layers are stitched
(Gina Marie and Your Next Stamp)
The sentiment is Penny Black.
Adding a few embellishments from Stampin Up 
and bam this card is complete.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
The Crafty Addicts - Challenge #4 - Anything Goes
The Paper Funday Challenges - Challenge #56 - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - Great Outdoors

Please come and join us at Creative Knockouts
as I would love to see your wonderful creations.
My fellow Design Team members have amazing creations for you too.

Have a fantastic week!

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Hugs,

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Christmas in July

 
Good morning everyone!
Where is July going?
The Summer seems to be flying by.
Unfortunately, with all the smoke we have
not been able to get out and enjoy camping. 
Maybe in the next few weeks that will happen.
We bought a paddle board so hoping we can use that more too.
We are still enjoying our holidays.
High light of the last few weeks for me has been
having our whole family together, including my sister
a fire/hot dogs and smores.

Creative Knockouts is starting a brand new challenge today!
No time better to start working on your Christmas cards for this year.
We have the perfect challenge for you.

For challenge #499
Kelly would like us to create
Christmas in July

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is from

The Prize: $15 voucher for digital images

The image I used for this card is called Gingerbread House
Thank you for letting me high light this image.


Isn't it a cute house? It has been colored using Copic Markers.
Glitter (dazzling diamonds) has been used for the chimney, edges of the house, window
base of the house. It was used to act like glittery snow.
Also the sentiment came with this image from Alex which is simply perfect.
A clean and simple design, however, the image is popped up.

On the tag, the image was roughed up around the edges
and I used Gina Marie Stitched framed die for the snowflake
pattern paper.

We would love for you to come and join our challenge.
My team mates have incredible inspiration for you too.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - #143 - Anything Christmas Goes
Corrosive Challenge Blog - #7 - July 2023 - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping in.
Crafting with you,

Thursday, June 22, 2023

First Dance


Good morning!
It is another beautiful day here in central Alberta.
We have had much needed rain, to help with the forest fires and crops.
Everyone is done school for this year tomorrow.
We will be going to our grandsons, kindergarten graduation.
I have some goals for this summer,
get my craft room and bedrooms organized.
Do you have any goals, that you are working at accomplishing?

Today, we have a brand new challenge over at Creative Knockouts
We are on Challenge #497 - All Stitched up (real or faux stitching)
Our challenges run for two weeks.
(usually I do hand stitching but decided to use a stitch dies this time)

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is 
The prize is 2 images


The image used on this card is called The First Dance
A beautiful image to color up and one that is great
for graduations, engagement, wedding, anniversary...etc.
Thank you All Dressed Up for the beautiful image.


Our daughter's childhood friend since kindergarten is getting
married this weekend and this is the card, that is made just for them.

The image was colored up using Copic Markers.
The pattern paper being used is a retired Stampin' Up (from my mom's collection)
The stitched dies are from My Favorite Things.
For the sentiment Your Next Stamp was used.

I would like top enter my card into the
All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge Blog - June 2023 - #141 - Anything Goes
Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - June Challenge - Anything Goes
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - #575 - Use a Sentiment 
The Crafty Addicts - Challenge #2 - Anything Goes

Please come and join us for our challenge over at Creative Knockouts.

In the up coming week, my sister is coming to visit
and boy am I over the moon about this.

Thank you for coming to my blog and checking it out!
Hoping my card has inspired you in some way.

Come and craft with me,
Hugs,

Thursday, May 25, 2023

The Book Elf - Thank you

 
Good morning!
Hoping you are having a good week so far.
May is just flying by.
We celebrated our anniversary this past week
and we had a long weekend.
Who doesn't love a long weekend?
It has been very hot and windy
so many fires in our province.
Praying for gentle rains that will help
with all of the fires.

We have a brand new challenge for you
for challenge #495
we would like to see Fun Fold cards

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is
Prize: 3 Images
The Book Elf is the image being high lighted on this card.
It was colored using Copic Markers.

Fun fold cards are great. It has been a while.
The fun fold I am sharing with you is called a W Easel Card.
My image is probably a little bigger
than it should be but it still works out.
You use a 4.25x11"
Score at 5.5"
Score at 2.75"
Then you fold it to the inside.
or you fold it in half and then fold one piece in half again.

It was so much fun to color up this image.
I adore books and absolutely love
to read outside in the summer, especially while camping.

One of my dream spots to read would be to have a 
spot with pillows and a bench around
a tree with lights, a good drink and then relax.
Just read until my heart is content.

The stitched dies are from Gina Marie Designs.
The two punches with the sentiment are from Stampin' Up
The thank you stamp is from Stampin' Up
Paper is from Stampin' Up.

Please be sure to join us over at Creative Knockouts
for our Fun Fold Challenge.
We would love to see you creations.

Thank you so much for stopping by.
Have an amazing week.

Hugs,

Thursday, April 27, 2023

For Someone Special

 
Good morning to blogger land!
It sure has been a busy few weeks
for us with our families.
Two special highlights for me in the last couple
of weeks is:
1. I got to see my many of my aunties/uncles,
it has been way to long. Every minute counts.
2. My husband, friend Helen and I have
all started swimming again. 
It absolutely feels great. In the last month, I have
been able to accomplish all my goals in the pool.
10 years ago before my accident,
I was swimming 44 lengths with very good speed.
Even though, my speed is not there, once again
I am able to swim that many lengths.
My goal will be to reach 1 mile which is 64 lengths.
Onto why you are really here:

We have a brand new challenge up at Creative Knockouts
Challenge #493 - Flower Power
Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is
Prize: 2 Images

Thank you for letting me showcase this image
called Bouquet

Bouquet is colored using Copic Markers


Spellbinders were used for the scalloped circles
and the stitched dies are from My Favorite Things.
The adorable paper used is from a Stampin' Up (several years old now).
Pearls are unknown.

Be sure to check out the fantastic creations my
teammates have created. They will be sure to inspire you.

Thank you so much for coming to my blog.
Hoping, there is some inspiration for you here.

Have an amazing week ahead!

Hugs,

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Some Platypus Love

 

Good morning everyone!
Welcome to my blog.
It is hard to believe that we are at the end of March already!
We have a few birthdays in the last few days of this month.
Our son Robin's birthday was yesterday.
My 50th birthday is today...
who knows what this year will hold.
One thing, I do know it is going to be a year
of self growth and self love.

Today, we have a fantastic brand new challenge
for you over at Creative Knockouts.
Our challenges run for two weeks
and give you time to create and enter
to win a prize from our wonderful sponsor.

Challenge #491 - 2 or more pattern papers.

Our wonderful sponsor is 

Prize is a $10AU Gift Voucher

The image you see here is from


Our son Robin was given a platypus stuff toy when he was little.
He just loved it and well these little babies are so
very cute. When I saw this image it was
simply perfect to make his birthday card with.

Thank you so much to Beccy's Place for letting me color up
this super adorable image and share it.

The image was colored up using Copic Markers.
I used two types of pattern paper and layered them.
All layers used stitched dies (rectangle and triangle).
The pattern paper is from my scrap stash.
A little heart brad in the top left hand corner to finish it off.
Pop-ups were used under the top layer.

A clean and simple card today,
hoping it inspires you.
My fellow DT's have created some master pieces.
Be sure to check them out and share some love.

Remember our challenges run for two weeks,
we would love to see your creations over at 

Wishing you an amazing day/weeek ahead.
Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs,