Bring on a Little Snow Time

For most people Christmas is a happy time spent with family and friends.

For other people this time of year is stressful be it family dynamics, work, 

depression or mental health struggles can be a daily struggle.

Others find it hard to stay in this world through it all.

If you are someone or know of someone who is struggling,

please reach out. If you are the one struggling, you are

valued, loved and the world is a better place with you in it.

You matter, you make a difference in the smallest way to everyone who know you.

Please reach out to someone you love, a friend, a stranger

call 988.

You do not have to hide your struggles.

Our Christmas looks very different this year.

We lost our son at the end of last year.

It has been the hardest year of our lives.

Our lives will never ever be the same without Robin

and our hearts will be forever broken.

Men's Minds Matter Too

Stop The Suffering Within

Your Words Matter, Don't Use Them As a Weapon

Good morning,

It has been very chilly and snowy here since yesterday.

We are definitely having a white Christmas this year.

We have a brand new challenge up for Creative Knockouts.

It is our last challenge of 2024.

 Challenge #537 - Snow Much Fun

Our wonderful sponsor for our last challenge of 2024

is Beccy"s Place the Store

Prize: $10AU gift voucher

The image is called Snow Time

Thank you so much for letting me high light this image

and use this sentiment on this creation.

The card up above has been colored using Copic Markers.

The stitched outline of the image is from My Favorite Things

The die cut around the sentiment is from Spellbinders.

Please come and join us at Creative Knockouts and show

us your creative designs for this Snow Much Fun.

Always Remember to Smile - Robin

Yep, that's Me - Robin

Wishing you a beautiful day!

May you find something in it that brings you joy and makes you smile.

Happy Crafting,

Hugs,

A Little Gingerbread with Your Cupcake

 

Good Morning!

It has been a little bit chilly here in Central Alberta.

Honestly, it could be worse.

Today we are to reach a balmy -9 degrees with a chance of snow.

Not much but still a chance.

This week, I have been blessed to see Tristan, Kaitlyn and 

see a few of my girl friends.

Catching up with my sisters Tina and Jodi was

good for my heart also.

We are onto a brand new challenge at Creative Knockouts...

Challenge #535 - Tis The Season

Our wonderful sponsor for this two week challenge is 

Polkadoodles Stamps & Papercrafting

Prize is 3 Digi's (no bundles)

The image used on my card this week is called

Cupcake Gingerbread Holly

Thank you so much to our sponsor for letting

me highlight this image.

Isn't it cute...so many possibilities with this cute image.

My image was colored up using Copic Markers.

The solid paper is from Stampin' Up

The fun pattern paper is from Echo Park Papers.

I kept it as a pretty flat, clean and simple card.

Please come and join us over at Creative Knockouts.

Share your master piece with us for a chance to win

a great prize from our sponsor.

I look forward to seeing you creations.

Challenge to enter my card into:

Crafty Gals Corner : #261 - Anything Goes, with optional Twist Use 3 layers or more

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - #172 - Anything Goes

Always Remember To Smile - Robin

Yep, that's Me - Robin

Wishing you a beautiful day!

May you find something that brings you joy and makes you smile!

Happy Crafting,

Hugs,

A Little Pumpkin Happy Halloween

 

Good afternoon,

My first post for Kelly was 11 years ago at a DT for the

Creative Knockouts Challenge Blog.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kelly

for everything she has done for me over the years.

Her understanding, patience, kindness and love

has been helpful too me.

Kelly has given me so much grace and means more to me

than you will every know.

We have been through many up's and down's together.

You are simply amazing! I am grateful that God brought you into my life.

It is another cool day out but the sun in shining so far today.

A little bit of clouds too.

We have a brand new challenge going on over at Creative Knockouts.

It run for two weeks and started yesterday morning (Thrusday).

Our challenge for you this time is:

#533 - Halloween or Fall

Our sponsor for this challenge is All Dressed Up

thank you for letting me use this very cute image to

high light store.

Little Pumpkin

The cards two cards made will be for my grand daughters Arlee and Aspen.

The above images were both colored up using Copic Markers.

A punch and some dies, paper (solid colors Stampin' Up, Memory Keepers??)

Please come and join us for our brand new challenge.

I look forward to hoping over and seeing your wonderful inspiration.

Creative Knockouts - Halloween or Fall creation - #533

Always Remember to Smile - Robin

Yep, that's Me - Robin

Wishing you a beautiful day!

May you find something that brings you joy and makes you smile.

Happy Crafting,

Hugs

Stitched Together With Love

 

Hello, my fellow crafty bloggers!

It was another beautiful fall day, yesterday in central Alberta.

We reached +28. The trees are turning colors

just look so stunning with the beautiful

sunrises and sunsets.

Our brand new challenge at Creative Knockouts 

#531 - All Stitched Up 

(use real or faux stitching on your card)

Thank you to our wonderful sponsor for this challenge Polkadoodles Stamps & Papercrafting

Prize: 3 Digi's no bundles

The fun little image

that I colored up with my copic marker's 

is called Love is in the Air Elephant

The card up above has a two stitched rectangle dies

(Gina Marie Designs (scalloped) and My Favorite Things).

I used embroidery floss (white) to stitch around the inside of the scalloped rectangle.

The scallop stitched pieces by the image were punched

using a Stampin' Up paper piercing pack (blue floss).

It was fun incorporating hand stitching with faux stitching.

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

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #142 - Anything Goes (digital image)

We Love Stamping - September Challenge - Hand colored Image or Anything Goes

We would really love it if you would join us at Creative Knockouts

for our brand new challenge.

I love looking at your creations.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Take A Little Time To Spread Kindness

Happy Crafting

Hugs,

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)

over at Creative Knockouts.

#511 - Time To Be Merry

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is 

The Paper Shelter

Prize: 3 Images

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

Cocoa Jacuzzi

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:

The Paper Shelter - #578 - Anything Goes/ Use Paper Shelter Image

Crafty Gals Corner - #250 - 'Tis The Season

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,

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 & Guest Design Spot.

 Good morning blogger land!

Today, I am excited to be the Guest Designer

over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2

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

by Patties Creations Digital Images

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,

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

Creative Knockouts.

Challenge #509 - Tis The Season

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is

Pattie's Creations Digital Stamps

Prize: 4 images

Thank you for allowing me to high light

Holiday Reindeer

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,

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

at Creative Knockouts Challenges.

Challenge #507 - Fall Is In The Air

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is from

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Thank you so much for letting me showcase

Tevor's Tremendous Treehouse

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.

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

at Creative Knockouts.

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,

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

Hetty Clare Art

Prize: 2 images

The digi that has been used on my card is called 

Highland Wish

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

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 - Sketch 260

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,

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

Alex Syberia Design

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

Little Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge - #210 - Anything Goes

Corrosive Challenge Blog - #7 - July 2023 - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping in.

Crafting with you,

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 

All Dressed Up Stamps

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 Sisterhood of Crafters - Weddings

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,