Memorial Guest Book

Good morning, hope all is well with you. First of all I must say Thank You So Much to everyone that has left such kind comments for me. I really appreciate. And it feels really good to get back to some kind of normalcy. I haven't been able to do anything craft related in 2 weeks-kinda been going through withdrawals(hehe). But now it's over and I'm trying to get back into my routine. I did make a guest book for my MIL's memorial service. We looked and looked for one in the stores. We couldn't find anything we liked or wanted. And when I did finally find one it was 25 bucks(yuck)! So I decided to make my own. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. Although I kinda had a scare. I knew I had seen this paper, I just couldn't remember if I actually bought it or just saw it in the store. But I finally found it. I kept if very simple, just the DP, some velvet ribbon, the rose and a computer generated sentiment cut out with nesties. Again, thank you for all the kind words, and there will be more to come this week.

A Death In The Family

Good evening, hope all is well with you. I just need to let everyone know that I will be taking the next week off from blogging and crafting. My terminally ill MIL, who I was taking care of, has passed away. We have a HUGE family, and are very busy with them. So thank you for being understanding, and I promise to get to everyone's blog's next week after the memorial.

Sara

Disney Tag in a Bag

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Today I have a fun little thing to share. They are called "Tag in a Bag". I had never heard of these, then I saw a swap on SCS, and thought they looked like fun. So the idea here is to make a tag that fits in these cute little bags. They can be for gifts or for journaling for scrapbookers. The possibilities are huge! This swap was for Disney themed ones. The first one is a Cinderella one. I don't know the maker of the Cinderella stamp, but the glass slipper on the inside is from Sassy Studio Designs. It is a digital image so I was able to shrink it down to fit. I added diamond glaze to the shoe to make it look like glass. The second one is Tinkerbell. I used a digital coloring page that I found on the Internet. The third one is Boo from Monsters Inc. The Cinderella and Boo images were colored with prisma pencils and baby oil. The Tinkerbell was colored with copics. All CS is Bazzill, and all DP is DCWV. Don't forget that Friday is the release day for The Character Cafe', which means lots of new images and a blog hop. Lots of fun and prizes to be won. Have a wonderful day!

It's time for another sketch from Sketch Girls

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Can you believe it's been 2 weeks already? And that means it's time for another sketch brought to you by The Sketch Girls. So make sure you head over there to check it out and we are trying to reach 100 followers, once we do, there are 3 stamp sets to be given away. Also make sure you play along with us. So today I used a Tilda image. I don't know the name of it because it was sent to me-sorry! But she' so cute, I LOVE her socks. I colored her with my copics, and added some stickles. The flowers are Prima's and I just added a jewel to the center of them. Again I used the twine that I "found" when cleaning up my stamping area. I used a fiskars edge punch along the bottom of both pieces of paper. Make sure you check out the other DT's blogs to see their wonderful creations. Have a wonderful day!

WOW, it's the 7th Feature Friday already!

Good morning, hope all is well with you! Can you believe it's the 7th week of Feature Friday from The Character Cafe'? Today I have the Sunflower for you. I LOVE this sunflower and haven't used it yet, so I thought today would be perfect. I colored the image with my prisma pencils and baby oil. I so LOVE this technique. I don't why I was ever afraid of it! Oh well! This digi image comes with 4 different ones-3 of them have sentiments! How cool is that? The CS is Bazill Bling line. All DP is Bo Bunny, not sure of the line. I did distress the main panel with Tim Holtz distress ink. And in case you forget(like I did) the Work It Wednesday for this week is GLITTER! Who doesn't love glitter? So this was again perfect for me. I tend to used it on just about everything I do. Make sure you check it out, you could even win a prize!!! I colored the dew drops with my copics, and added some twine. I bought a bunch of this awhile ago, and totally forgot about it, until I found it the other day while cleaning up(hehe). I swear it's like going shopping again, when I clean up my stamping area! Is anybody else like this?! So don't forget to check out the Work It Wednesday, and the other DT's blogs to see their fabulous creations for today!

Squigglefly Bookmark!

Good afternoon, hope all is well with you. Today I have another Squigglefly creation for you. I decided to make a bookmark with this adorable image. The image is called "Tiny Tina Goes To School". I just love this little girl, she has quite a few images to go with her. The dp is DCWV, and I just added some stickles to her headband, shoes, belt and the hearts on her dress. I cut the top is CS and DP with decorative scissors. I added an eyelet and some fibers, voila', it's finished. The challenge for today is to use fall colors, so I thought a back to school thing was perfect. Don't forget to check out the SquiggleflyBlog for the challenge, and make sure you play along to win some free images.

TCC Feature Friday!

Good morning, hope all is well with you! Today is Feature Friday for TCC again. For the Work It Wednesday this week, Shelley gave us a tutorial on playing with ribbon. I LOVE LOVE LOVE ribbon, so this was perfect for me to play along with. Although I must say this wasn't the easiest ribbon technique for me, but it was fun. I used the image "Tree Hugger Bailey". Isn't it cute!? I colored with my prisma pencils and baby oil. The CS is Bazzill Bling, and all DP is DCWV. I added some prima's, stickles, and a few brads, and voila'. Don't forget to play along with Work It Wednesday, you could win some adorable images.

Do You Believe?

Good afternoon, hope all is well with you. Today I have a card that was made for the Sassy Studio Design's Release. Saturday was their release, and they had a masquerade ball for the event. This release had a fairy tale theme to it. I've never participated in any of the release parties for any company, but I LOVE SSD, and decided to give it a try. It was so much fun, they had 4 different challenges, I only got 1 done, but oh well. This is it!!! The challenge was to use lots and lots of bling! Perfect challenge for me! Of course the image is from SSD, the sentiment was made on the computer. CS is Bazzill Bling, and DP is DCWV Once Upon a Time Stack. Thanks for looking, have a wonderful day. And if you like fairy tale's make sure you check out SSD. Also don't forget about Work It Wednesday for The Character Cafe'. Their are prizes if you play along!
P.S. This card qualifies for the Digital Tuesday Challenge.

A Sassy Studio Fairy Tale

Good evening, hope all is well with you. Tonight I have a card made for the Sassy Studio Designs challenge. The challenge was to make a fairy tale card using any image from them. I chose to use the free image that she gave us. Isn't it beautiful?! I love this gorgeous mask. I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers. The CS is Bazzill Bling, and the DP is DCWV Once Upon A Time Stack. The ribbon is from the Dollar Store, and I added some pearls to the bottom. I colored the image with prisma pencils and baby oil, and added some stickles. The card also qualifies for Simon Says Challenge, which is distressing, and the Dare You To Digi Stamp Challenge. Woo Hoo!!! Four challenges in one card-how cool is that! So if you haven't visited any of these fun blogs, please do. Sassy Studio Designs is having a new release tomorrow, which is their Fairy Tale Collection. I can't wait! Have a wonderful evening!

TCC Feature Friday

Good morning, hope all is well with you. First I must apologize for this not being up earlier this morning. My computer decided to just go black last night, I still don't know why. But I finally got it to come on. YAY!!!! So today is Feature Friday for TCC. Today I used GiftGiverKittE. I just love this image, it's so cute, and fun to color. I used my prisma pencils and baby oil. In case you haven't noticed, this is my new favorite coloring technique. I added some stickles to her eyelashes and whiskers, and the charm on her collar. The CS is Bazzill Bling, and the DP is DCWV. The ribbon is from wal-mart, and I love this ribbon, it's gorgeous! The jewels are from Michael's. The sentiment is from The Greeting Farm, and I used my nesties to cut it out and mat it. Please don't forget to check out the other DT's blogs for their wonderful creations this week, also don't forget about Work It Wednesday's on the TCC blog. They have a tutorial every week and a challenge to along with that. And of course there are prizes to be won. The sketch I used is from The Pink Elephant. Have a great day everyone.

Sketch Girls Sketch #2

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Today is the 2nd sketch brought to you by Sketch Girl Blog. I finally got to use one of my new huggabugg's. This is showerbugg, isn't she adorable!? I colored her with prisma pencils and baby oil. I added some icicle stickles to her wings. The hearts are colored with a spica glitter pen. I used my nesties to cut her out and mat her. The CS is Bazzill bling, and the polka dot DP is DCWV. The pink stripe is MM. The ribbon is from the Dollar Store, and the sentiment is The Greeting Farm. So please hop over the Sketch Girl Blog and participate. Their are prizes to be won. Make sure you check out the other Sketch Girls blogs and leave some love. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

An Award and Some Scraplings

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Today I have an award to share with you that I got from my good blogging friend Sue. This is the "I Like Your Style Award". Isn't this the coolest award! So here are the rules:
#1 By accepting this award you recognize that the giver likes your style.
#2 You agree to display this award proudly and include posting back to the giver.
#3 You can share this with as many people as you like, as long as you "like their style"
Ok, gotta tell the truth here, Sue gave me this a couple of weeks ago. I always have such a hard time figuring out who to give these too. But here it is:
1. Joanne
2. Michelle
3. Vicki
4. Dru(mom)
5. Jennifer
So ladies, please know that I LOVE Your Style, and have fun!

Now onto the next picture! These are the scraplings that I made for a swap on SCS. Hope you like them, and thanks for looking!

It's Squigglefly Day!

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Today is Squigglefly challenge day, and Rhonda has given us a sketch to play with. I have to say that sketches are my favorite. I used the image called "Beach Baby", and it can be found here. I absolutely love this image, it's one of my all time favorites. I finally tried coloring with my prisma pencils and baby oil. I have to tell you that I LOVE this coloring technique. I did try it once before but got frustrated and haven't tried it since. So now back to the card! All CS is bazzill, and dp is DCWV. I used the square scallop nestie to cut out the top squares. I'm not sure where the clear buttons are from, I got them in a secret sister thing. And it's finished off with blue fibers. So thanks for looking, have a great day, and don't forget to go to the Squigglefly blog to play along for a chance to win a prize!!

TCC Feature Friday 4

Good morning, hope all is well with you. First I must apologize for not having this up sooner, and for not posting anything all week. My back has been out, and it was everything I could do to get this project done. And I just couldn't sit here anymore. But I'm back and with my project. So, today is the 4th week of Feature Friday for TCC. It's of course also the fourth week for the Work it Wednesday over on TCC's blog. This week for WIW, Tesa gave us a tutorial on stitching. So, I figured I could do this, doesn't look that hard right!? Yeah, right!! As you can see mine looks nothing like hers, and of course it's not straight even though I used a ruler, but oh well I did try! I used the Flower Ziggy image, and made a notebook. I colored my image with copics, and tried something else new-outlining the image to make it look like it's shadowed. I like it, what do you think. I most definitely like it better than the stitching(lol). The CS is Bazzill, and the DP is MM. The ribbon is from Michael's. And the flowers are primas with jewels added in the middle. Oh, I did add stickles to her wings. So, now for the business. We've started having a guest DT on Friday's and this week is Verda, if you go to this blog you will be able to meet her and see her gorgeous card that she made. Of course please visit the other DT's blogs to see their fab creations this week. Also don't forget that if you participate in the WIW challenges, leave us a link on the blog and you could win a prize and be our next guest DT. If you upload to SCS please use TCCWIW4 in your upload so that we can find it. You have until Thursday the 28th at 12 pm EST to be eligible for the prize. If you don't have a blog you can email your submissions to tesabroman@yahoo.com. So have fun, I can't wait to see what you create.

The Character Cafe Release Day and a Blog Hop

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Today is the 2nd Blog Hop for TCC. So if you came here from TCC's DT page, then your are on the right track. Now from here you will go to Mary's blog. From there she will have a link to where you go next. Remember you have to go on the hop in order to collect the code. Everyone will have 1 piece of the code and you have to have them in order. The code will be good for 30% off. And don't forget that one person along the way will have a "freebie". Don't forget to leave a comment for all the wonderful work along the way. Now, onto my card. I'm using the new release called "Ty the Lemonade Guy". Isn't he such a boy! I love his little frog in the jar, totally reminds me of my son, Jesse. He' s always bringing something home to keep in a jar. I gotta tell you that this card was a lot of work for me. I don't usually do boy cards, and now I know why. I think I just need to go buy some boy paper, it would probably help alot! I'm sure my husband will love that-lol! Anyway, I colored him with my copics, and added some ink around the edges. The CS is bazzill, and DP is DCWV. I added the buttons which totally made the card, in my opinion.

Now, my piece of the code is the number "8", and don't forget you have to have them in order for them to work. There will be drawings for prizes also, but you do have to leave a comment on every blog along the way, and at the TCC blog as the last stop. So have fun, and get some great new images!

Feature Friday with TCC, a sneak peek

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Today I have a sneak peek for you from the new releases from The Character Cafe(TCC). I know, I know it's not fair because you only get to see a corner of it. Trust me, it's adorable! All of their new releases are too cute, your gonna love them. Monday the 20th is the release date for the new images and we will be having another blog hop. The hop starts on the TCC DT page, and then you will come here. There will be another code for you to get for 30% off of your purchase. You do have to get the code in order for it to work. And there will be freebie along the way. So don't forget to check back on Monday. You won't be disappointed!!

Cute Daisy Mae

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Today I have a card I made for the Cute Daisy Mae challenge. Their challenge this week was to use 3 of a kind. I did that 3 times over(lol), the flowers, bling, and dew drops. The image is of course Cute Daisy Mae. The CS is Bazzill Bling, the DP is MM. I colored with prisma pencils, and added some garden green ink around the image. This card also uses the sketch from A Spoon Full Of Sugar. And it also qualifies for Digital Tuesday Challenge which is a recipe-1 digi image, 2 dp's, and 3 embellishments!!! So hope you like, and thanks for looking. Don't forget that tomorrow is a sneak peek of a new release from The Character Cafe'. Monday July 20th The Character Cafe' will be having another blog hop, to show all their new releases. So make sure you stop by and say Hi, and of course pick up some new adorable images! Have a great day!

Cupcake Craft Challenge and Mojo Sketch

Good afternoon, hope all is well with you. I'm having a very relaxing day, ALL of my kids are gone to their cousins house to play all day!!! WOO HOO!!! I'm so lovin this! So, this card is for the Cupcake Craft Challenge and the Mojo Monday Challenge. I just received my first Magnolia stamp from a ss swap on SCS. I cannot tell you how excited I was to get this. At first I didn't like these stamps because of the whole no mouth thing. But they keep growing on me, and I finally decided I wanted one. Although, I did not ask for a stamp, just some images. But, my wonderful ss sent me a stamp-yay me!! I can't tell you the specific name, because I can't find one on the pkg. The red CS is bazzill, and the DP is DCWV fun in the sun glitter stack. I colored her with prisma pencils and blender pencil. I used a MS butterfly punch, with a flower on the bottom. The ribbon is from the dollar tree. I used scallop scissors for the edges. The challenge for the cupcake craft blog is blossoms and butterflies. Hope you like it and thanks for looking.

YAY!! It's finally here-Sketch Girls #1

Good morning, hope all is well with you. YAY!!! I'm so excited! Today is the first day of the Sketch Girls Challenge Blog! So make sure you head over there to check it out. Like I said Today is the first day of the sketches, and there will be another one every 2 weeks. Ok, now my computer is being not very nice and won't let me highlight anything, so If you click on the picture of the sketch on my left side bar it will take you to the blog. I don't know what the heck is going on, but I'm getting frustrated already!!! So, onto my card. Annie did our first sketch(again go to her name on my sidebar). I decided to do a gatefold card. I used an image from Rachelle Anne Miller, and colored with prisma pencils and blender pencil. All CS is Bazzill Bling Line, and DP is MM. I used the square scallop nestie to mat the image. The ribbon is from my stash and either from Michael's or Wal-mart. I used prima's in the corner and the jewels are from Michael's. Make sure you check out the other girls creations, and show them some love. Have a great day!

Squigglefly Challenge #10

Good morning, hope all is well with you. Today is the 10th challenge over on the squigglefly blog!!! Rhonda was the hostess with the mostess this week and gave us the challenge of using 1oval, 1square, ribbon, and glitter. So much better!!!! For this weeks' challenge I used the image called "flowermice". Isn't it the sweetest! I colored with my copics, and cut around the image-there was too much white space for me. I used my nestabilites to cut the rectangle, and the ovals. CS is bazzill bling, and the green dp is DCWV, and the polka dot is MM. I cut the corners with my circle punch, and the ribbon is from Michael's. I added some stickles and voila' it's done! If you haven't been over to squigglefly lately, run, don't walk! They've added a ton of new images-all adorable! Have a wonderful day, and don't forget to go to the squigglefly blog to play along, their are prizes to be won!