Challenge 18 and Happy New Year at 4 Crafty Chicks

Good Thursday Morning! I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! May it be a year filled with tons of laughter with family and friends. Also may 2011 bring you tons of inspiration with crafting in whatever you do.

Thank you so much to the ladies who played this last week. All of their cards were awesome. :)

Our very talented Crafty Chick Lori is the hostess-with-the-mostess this week.

Challenge #18 is theme of "New Year". Whatever it mean's to you, it could be a resolution, birthday, a baby, a new start etc.

This week is the 5th week in the month so here at 4 Crafty Chicks we offer up the CRAZY EGG and a prize. Lori has supplied all of these little goodies for us. Thank you Lori!

The New Year means celebrating my sons birthday. It is hard to believe that 14 years ago I was awaiting his arrival. Thought it might even be New Years but it wasn't...LOL. It was Jan 7 and a great day at that. At the beginning of every year, I think about what the year will hold for him and us. It was a great opportunity to just sit down and make his card and think about what is to come. We don't make resolutions but we are continuing to work at eating healthier this year.

Freshed Brewed Challenges #28 is to Celebrate and/or New Year. It works perfectly with ours over at 4 Crafty Chicks. Their DT's have some really awesome creations.

The sketch I am using is from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch. She always has inspiring work. Alas when I popped on over there, it said it was her final sketch. So Mercy, thank you so much for all of your inspiring sketches. Your talent I admire and will miss seeing what you have designed for us to create with each week. I know I will still be looking to see what you are doing. So hop on over and play with Mercy and her muses for her final sketch.

Now this card is the first one I made but couldn't show you until today. Samantha from Scrapmaster's Paradise color Combo's came up with these rockin colors. They screamed to me that Tristan would just love them. Check out her talented crew, they have some wonderful creations.

Here is my son's card. He is turning 14 and has been studying like crazy to get his learner's permit. Hence the truck on the card...this scares me more than you know. They grow up so fast and are ready to move on when parent's just haven't quite got there yet...LOL. I also step out of my comfort zone and used 3 patterned paper's. Yes you heard me right...there are 3 of them on this card...LOL.

(Sorry, I can't seem to get it to keep the recipe in the post...grrr!)

Now my other Crafty Chicks have completely out done themselves again this week. Each of their cards are just stunning.

Banking on Crafts - Leanne
Inkingly Yours - Lori
My Paper Obsession - Melissa

I want to take this chance to say Thank you to my friends. I have really enjoyed the last 18 weeks of fun. I look forward to every Thursday to see what each challenge has inspired you to create. Looking forward to working with you in 2011.

Too each of our followers Thank you. Without you this would not be possible. It has been so much fun seeing what has inspired you from our challenges and getting to know you from your blogs. Here is to seeing you in 2011 for some more crafty challenges, some prizes and most of all fun.

Just a thought...does anyone know where the last two weeks has went? It is hard to believe that my kids are going back to school on Monday.!!!

Please come join us for our theme challenge this week. We can't wait to see what you make!

May the 4th time be the charm for this tonight. I went to edit it and then it would let me publish because of my html. I had it published and linked. Tried two new ones completely and they both failed. I am really hoping this work. Hugs.

Thanks for stopping bye, it is always appreciated. Happy New Year :) :)

Thanks a Bunch!!

Well it is very late this Tuesday night and I don't mind telling you...the temptures sure have dropped. I am freezing in my craft room right now. Tonight was about making some cards ahead of time and well I managed to get one done and then have some fun making one for some challenges.

So challenge hopping I went for Monday and Tuesday and low and behold I found the perfect theme for a card at Papertake Weekly Challenge: BE THANKFUL! Phindy's Place Challenge is also GIVE THANKS. This challenge blog is new to me and I want to thank Anne for introducing it to me. I look so forward to playing more in the new year. After chrismtas and spending time with family and friends who isn't thankful.

Now I had a theme, colors were needed and well I had seen Scrapmaster's Paradise yesterday and just loved them. Alarm bells were going off with these fabby colors.

Bang boom bam...now all I needed was sketch and I found an awesome one at Tuesday Morning Sketches by Melissa Craig.

I was set to go with colors, sketch and a theme *whoot, whoot*. Now on Melissa sketch there is a curved kind of line and well not having anything to do it for me, I broke out my scissors and attempted to cut it. Now don't laugh, it was really the best I could do. Also it was so much fun to use one of my new embossing folders. My card really isn't so huge in person, it is a normal size card...LOL...LOL.

Recipe: Stamp: A Little Somethin (SU); Paper: Always Artichoke; river rock, Soft Suede and whisper white; Ink: soft suede; Accesories: 1 3/4 in circle punch, large spellbinder, dauber, pop up's, paper piercer, Swiss dots and Fleur De Lis Cuttlebug embossing folders and scissors.

Well after my fun night of creating and my DH helping me find some new and cool ways to use my computer I am ready for bed. We are trying to find new ways to load pictures to my computer since mine won't let me put any on through my SD card...it has made me just a little tired.

Thanks so much for stopping bye. Have a wonderful day if you are earlier and night if you are going to bed. Keep smiling :)

A Cheery color combo at Picture Perfect Creations

Merry Christmas everyone, hope your was filled with joy, peace, and tons of love! We ha,d a fanastic and very quite Christmas. On the 24th we went and saw Rob's Grandma who is 91 1/2 and just an amazing lady, it was an super great way to spend the afternoon. We had my mom and dad over christmas eve night and christmas day. My brother and his boys came to spend some time with us on the 25th! It is always extra special since my nephew was born on Christmas Day! We spent the day visiting and playing cards. Oh and who could forget eating...LOL. Boxing day was spent learning how to use my new computer, reading an amazing book, watching the movie Avatar with my family and working in my craft room. So many people and things to be grateful for, we are truly blessed. What did you do?

We are back this week with another fabby color combo by Megan. Picture Perfect Creations is on challenge #43 and the colors are Rose Red, Night of Navy and Pear Pizzazz. No Christmas card for me this week, I have moved onto a birthday card this week!

Stamping 411 this week put out another amazing sketch. The square card is smaller than a 5 1/4 card but it is very cute and a size I just might make more of. the ladies cards are awesome too.

Here is my card! I am sorry the color on the picture is not right on. I did use night of Navy but it looks more like purple. My camera was not working the best today! I will try to get a better picture for it.

Recipe: Stamps: Annabelle Stamps; Ink: Basic Black; Paper: Rose Red, Night of Navy, Pear Pizzazz and whisper white; SU markers, punch, Swiss Dots and Moroccan Screen, dazzling diamonds, white pen.

Today means having to get my laundry done and waiting for our dish washer repair man to come. I can't wait to get back into my craftroom today! It is sooooooooooo nice. One of the best parts of our holidays was that we finished my sons room and got him back in it! My craft room is now allllllllllll mine...LOL.

Come join us for our new color combo, I would love to come and see what you have made.

Wishing you all a totally fabby day, thanks for stopping bye.

Sketch at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Happy Thursday to you! The last few days have been really busy with the hustle and bustle of trying to get everything done, but I am almost there. First off I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. My wish for you is to have tons of love, joy and peace throughout the Christmas season. Secondly I want to thank everyone for playing with our snowmen challenge. Each creation was awesome.

Now onto Challenge #17 at 4 Crafty Chicks it is a sketch this week and our hostess that made it is Lori. It rocks and was a lot of fun to play with. Thanks Lori.

Here is my card:

Also sorry, I got my days mixed up thought it was Tuesday when it really was Thursday and didn't get my post done on time. I am off and running since my DH is calling me. I am a little behind these days...some day organization will come into my life at this time of year...LOL.

Come join us at 4 Crafty Chicks, we would love to see your creation with this sketch.

The Play Date Cafe Meets Card Patterns

Good evening my friends. It is after 11 pm here, but I made a little time to craft after painting my sons room. Thank goodness we are almost done and my craftroom will be alllllll mine...LOL. I had a very special card to make for a wonderful friend. It is her birthday and well it just couldn't go without a card made specially for her.

The color combo I chose to use was from The Play Date Cafe: Black, White and a Splash of yellow. This challenge site is one of my fav's and boy have I missed playing here. Life has just gotten too busy and boy have I missed it. Of course with it being so late and well frankly my brain being so tired I required a sketch to help me...LOL. Card Patterns has a clean and simple sketch that screamed these colors. Thanks to all of the Design Team's inspiration's, they are beautiful.

Here is my card:

Clean and simple it is and well you know how I love my dry embossing folders...when you need a little pazz...emboss.

Recipe: Stamp: SU(??); Ink: Black; Paper: Daffodil Delight, Basic Black and Whisper White; Accessories: white pen, paper piercer, D'Vine Swirl, black pearls and black satin ribbon.

It sure is wonderful to sit and create something to make someone happy. Wishing you all a great night and thanks ladies for the wonderful challenges.

PPC Specialty Challenge #2

Good Monday morning! Can you believe we are only 5 days away from Christmas Day! I am almost done my shopping but no rapping done yet. Friday, was a busy day filled with shopping and appointments. Saturday, Rob, my dad and I worked in Tristan's bedroom grouting the titles. We are done that so now we have to seal it and I needed to go back and finish putting the final coat of paint on the walls. I think I can see the light...LOL and Tristan might be in his room bye Christmas. Are you all ready for Christmas?

So this week is my turn to help Megan out with posting. It is so much fun. Megan picked our Second Specialty Challenge at Picture Perfect Creations. Use the picture below to find some inspiration and then create ANYTHING CHRISTMAS RELATED!

Stamping 411 has another fantastic sketch this week. I played with it a bit because my image was a little bigger, but oh man I just had to use it! It is so cute and makes me smile. Thanks ladies for the great inspiration and wonderful sketch to work with.

Here is my card:

Stampin' Royalty- is Bring on the Bling (my bling is dazzling diamonds on his hat). Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog - Celebrations (I chose christmas since I am still in that mode). Paper Sundaes - is to Cut It Out (spellbinders for circles and my image is cut out). Fresh Brewed Blog - Merry Christmas (well my little image says it all, Merry Christmas). These challenges worked perfectly with my card, thanks ladies for all the wonderful inspiration.

Today, you will see me cleaning like a mad women, trying to find time to paint and make a very special birthday card. Although...struggling a little health wise...I am sure I can be superwomen until at least Christmas Day...LOL

Have a wonderful day and see you soon.

Thanks for stopping bye!

Stamp: Gillian Roberts- Christmas Stocking; Ink: Basic Black; Paper: Holiday DSP, cherry cobbler, old olive and vanilla; Accessories: SU markers, large and small spellbinders, dazzling diamonds, Swiss Dots embossing folder, gold elastic, scissors, pop ups, glue pen and glue dots.

Thanks Stamping 411

I want to sent out a huge Thanks to Stamping 411. The Operators on Friday picked my card (click here) along with others to put in their showcase. Just wanted to say thanks and I really appreciate it! You have made me smile and jump up and down like a teenage! *whoot, whoot*. Congrat's to the other girls, your cards are all amazing too! It is a wonderful challenge blog...be sure to stop bye and see their work.

Should be going to bed now, but I am to excited to sleep. Have a wonderful Monday!

Snowmen at 4 Crafty Chicks!

My friends for the last few days we have been having a Winter Storm...not quite a blizzard, but close enough. We have had lots of snow and there are huge drifts on the roads. We were teased you see with warm weather (-4) and blue skies on Monday and by Tuesday afternoon it started to snow and is now -20 with a very high wind chill.

Can you believe it is Thursday already??? Boy I sure can't but it is here and I am lucky enough to be the hostess this week at 4 Crafty Chicks. So with all of the snow falling who couldn't think of making snowmen. I couldn't believe it when I came home last night from my son's vocal lessons and there was a little boy playing out on his front lawn making a snowman...just happy as could be. He inspired my card for today's challenge. I had another idea but well this one just kind of took over. So I challenge you for CHALLENGE #16 TO USE SNOWMEN.

Here is my card:

I love this stamp aren't they just so cute? It worked so perfect with my new snowflake embossing folder (Northern Flurries???)from Stampin Up. Versa Fine Black ink, Night of navy paper, whisper white paper, and bashful blue paper, dazzling diamonds, night of navy satin ribbon and light blue pearls and SU & Copic markers.

I would like to enter this card into:

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Christmas card (Challenge #133)

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog - Merry Christmas (Challenge #44)

Stampin Royalty - Bring on the Bling (Challenge #50)

Creative Belli Blog - Christmas Theme Embellisments (Challenge #106)

At all of these amazing challenge site, the ladies have shared really stunning work. Thanks ladies for all of your inspiration.

I really hope that you will be able to join us at 4 Crafty chicks this week. I just love stopping bye your sites to see your inspiring work. Snowmen are a great christmas card for anyone.

Please stop bye to see what my other Crafty Chicks have created. They are very talented and have awesome blogs. Thanks girls for rocking out my snowman challenge with me.

Leanne - Banking on Crafts
Lori - Inkingly Yours
Melissa - My Paper Obsession

Can't wait to see your creations this week. I just love snowmen and hope you do too!

If you are getting snow here is hoping you can stay warm and safe. No snow well here is hoping you are in the full swing of Christmas spirit.

Have an amazing day, thanks for stopping bye!

A New Creation for Picture Perfect Creations #42

Good Monday Morning to you! Well where did the week go and I think I blinked and the weekend was gone...LOL. What a great weekend it was. Friday night my mom and I went to our Stamp Club wind up and we laughed so hard I cried, it was so much fun to share in a good time with some really wonderful ladies. On Saturday, my daughter had her last day of rhythmic gymnastics and we got most of my son's floor tiled. A little bit left to go and then we the grouting starts...LOL. Sunday, was a cleaning day and a bit of a lazier day but I did get to play in my craft room..yahooooooo!

Our hostess this week at Picture Perfect Creations is Paula. She does amazing work each week be sure to hop on over to check out her blog. Megan set up some colors that I just couldn't get a christmas card around and wouldn't you know it I think of an idea now...LOL. If I am lucky I will be back later to show you a christmas card with these colors. My daughter wanted a birthday card for her teacher...so I thought a flower might be nice with all of our snow.

Every Saturday, Stamping 411 has a sketch challenge and I love the clean and simple look of this card.

Here is my creation this week!

I love these colors but for some reason I struggled, maybe it was because I so badly wanted to make a christmas card...LOL. Or maybe it should have been plain on the bottom, no embossing. It did turn out okay. The flower stamp is from a Verve set, small and large spell binders, green pearl, stamping up paper: basic grey, garden green, daffodil delight dsp, whisper white, ink: was basic black and basic grey, D'vine Swirl embossing folder.

This morning I am babysitting and then once I get 5 kids and my dh off too school and work then I will be going christmas shopping, well I hope anyway...LOL.

Don't forget to stop by Sandy, Paula, Lori, Melissa and Megan's blog to see how they made their creations and even to share some love. Again they have made some rockin creations.

Thanks for stopping bye. Hugs!

A Surprise, Thank You and Crafting with my Daughter!

Good evening my crafting pals! I was searching to see what everyones new challenges are for the start of this week and let me tell ya, their are some real gooders out there...LOL. Love it! Any way I got to one of my new fav's The Paper Players and as I was looking at their posts I saw that Anne Marie had picked my card (click here)to be one of the Headliners this week! IT has made me smile tonight (to tell you the truth I am totally giddy and hopping around...LOL. Anne I appreciate being picked and I am very thankful for the honor...I will wear the badge proudly on my blog. Thanks ladies for such an awesome challenge blog.

Onto some more fun. My daughter Kaitlyn is 8 and at school they made these really, really cute ornaments, but my daughter has figured out they make a perfect barbie hat...LOL. On Saturday afternoon she was soooooo excited to teach her grandmother and me how to make them. So out came my very lonely balls of yarn and cotten yearn to make these hat (my yarn has not been touched it so long it felt nice to feel it on the fingers). I must say they are easy and a complete blast to make. Thank you so much Kaitlyn and mom for crafting with me.

Mine is on the left and Kaitlyn's is on the right! She does amazing work!

I have been meaning to put this card on here since the end of November. My mom every year goes above and beyond with her talent at making out Christmas invitations. This year was no exception...her card is just stunning and she makes around 45 of them. Mom these are stunning and just keep getting better every year. Thank so much for all of your hard work.

I hope you all enjoy these two little crafts. It brings me joy to show you the work of my family. One day I hope to get a blog started for my mom and then she can show you on a regular bases.

See you tomorrow morning for a new Picture Perfect Creations challenge and also come join us at 4 Crafty Chicks, we have 1 day left for our color challenge!

Super Color Challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Good morning everyone! Sorry, my morning is off to a slow start for posting. I was actually in bed extremely early last night. Guess the shopping was to much and all the clothes I bought for my son's concert tonight didn't fit so I will be spending my day running around trying to find clothes. Usually I have this posted at midnight...*sigh* and my hubby was hogging the computer...LOL.

Wow what amazing creations we had for the Birthday Challenge last week. I loved the inspiration and learned a few things too! Thanks to everyone who played, we hope you will come and join us this week.

Melissa is our wonderful hostess this week for challenge #15 at 4 Crafty Chicks. She has picked an awesome colors for us to work with. Now this week has been a mad house here so clean and simple is what I could do, but I am hoping to make another card with these colors with more layers and a little more complicated.

The sketch I used this week is a clean and simple one from Stamping 411. The ladies have some awesome creations with it! Stampin' Royalty challenge this week works for me it is a Winter Holidays challenge (christmas, Hannakua...), their cards are also super :). Since christmas is approaching fast, I am just having a super hard time not working with christmas images...LOL. Top Tip Tuesday Tip #13 is Use Ribbon, all of their DT's have super fabby creations. MY TIP: use tweezers they are amazingly helpful when trying to place items straight on your card! l. I encourage you all hop on over and see their works and even join in one of their challenges. Of course we would love you all to come and play with us at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Here is my creation. As you can see, I must love my snowflake punch from MS because it has been used on my last three cards...LOL. The stamp set is Snow Swirl from Stampin UP, not quite navy ink, corner rounder punch, gems and pearls. Of course who could resist a little embossing... *wink* certainly not me...LOL. Clean and simple seem to be my cards lately. Hope you still like it.

Stop bye and join us for a fun challenge, take a break from all of the crazyiness of this time of year and play a little. I know I am going to try and follow this and make another card. It is so much fun seeing all the inspiration from everyone and it is a blast hopping over to your blogs and commenting. Have a very Happy Thursday...come see us at 4 Crafty Chicks and then hop on over to Leanne, Lori and Melissa's blog to see their amazing creations this week.

Happy Thursday, I am off and running to try and find black pants and a black dress shirt to fit my son for his concert tonight...can you say a little stressed...LOL. What is stressing you this season? Hugs and smiles to you all.

Thanks for stopping bye!

Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo #41

Gooooooood Monday morning! Well this morning is so exciting! First off Megan had a little baby boy and we are so exited for her and her hubby. He is just so darn cute. So this week Sandy will be our PPC host.

How was your weekend? My weekend was really busy on Saturday it was my daughter Rythmic Gymnastic preformance. Their whole group performed a routine for us and then Kaitlyn along with another girl were the only ones to put on a ball routine. She was so nervous, but they did amazing. After we went and did some christmas shopping...don't mind saying I am soooooo behind this year and not at all organized...LOL. Sunday was my step families christmas and it was wonderful to see everyone and all the little babies...who would not love cuddling up with those honeys. We found out that their are 2 more on the way.

Enough of my chattering and onto Megan's delicious color combo! We are on Challenge 41 here at Picture Perfect Creations and it is so much fun. Hope you don't mind but I am still in Christmas card mode...so I managed to knock off another christmas card with this color combo ( it is definately not a traditional color combo...LOL). Guess, I will toot my own horn, but I think it turned out pretty good. Can't wait to see what you make for us!!! My fellow DT's rocked the crafting planet with their creations this week.

The sketch that inspired me this week is from The Sweetest Thing...thanks Karen it was an awesome sketch and it worked so well with The Paper Players challenge of a CHRISTMAS THEME. Sundays With Crissy is Challenge #12 CHRISTMAS IS COMING OR WINTER IS HERE! All of these challenges worked soooooooo good with Megan's Color combo.

Here is my creation! I used Holiday Line-Up from Stampin Up. Instead of using my fav dazzling diamonds, I got out my northern lights embossing powder and used it on the snowmen and the background snowflakes. They might have been better either versa marked or embossing in white. Oh well it doesn't always look the way you want, but I tried something new...LOL. Still got my embossing folders in though...LOL. I used stampin up markers, versa fine black ink, clear embossing powder, martha snowflake punch, white pen, pearl and gems.

Hope you all liked the finished look of this unlikely christmas card color combo. it was a blast to make.

What are you up too today? You will find me working in my sons, bedroom painting. I have learned that dark colors are hard to paint, we are now going on our 3rd coat of red paint in his room. May the third time be the charm or I just might work on the doors today, put the second coat on them and then start the other color. Soon well maybe in another 2 weeks he will be in his room and I will have my craft room back...LOL. I also have to register my daughter for gymnastic's again. Oh and do some laundry....does anyone have a laundry genie laying around? I sure could use one...LOL.

Well I should get the show on the road and start doing something! Hop on over to PPC to see the inspirational creations from the DT's (Paula, Lori, Sandy, Melissa and Megan). They really are talented ladies. Can't wait to stop over at your blog and share some love.

Sharing a smile with you and wishing you a chance to relax and craft. Hugs.

Thanks for stopping bye.

Challenge #14 at 4 Crafty Chicks

Well good afternoon to you! I know this is really late posting but man have I did not like my computer last night and then when I got home this afternoon to try and post this quickly...it did not save my post...it was gone. So maybe the third time will be the charm....LOL.

Thank you to everyone who played in our inspiration challenge last week. It is just soooo much fun to see everyones creations, they were really fun, cute and creative.

Can you believe we are on Challenge 14 at 4 Crafty Chicks. Our beautiful hostess this month is Leanne. She is challenging us to a Birthday card. The card I made for this challenge is for my sons friend. I let Nicole pick the stamp she wanted and her favorite color is Teal. I hope this turned out good, it is a very simple card.

I love fairies and this stamp is awesome.

Have a super week and I just can't wait to see what you all create....I LOVE COMING TO VISIT YOUR BLOGS!

Don't forget to stop bye the other crafty chicks blogs: Leanne, Lori and Melissa.

Thanks so much for stopping bye!! Hugs.

2 for 1 SPCC Challenge meets Crazy 4 Challenges

How was your Monday today! Mine was okay. Do you ever sometimes feel like you have forgotten something but nothing is written on your calendar and you just can't seem to remember? It happened to me today and well when I finally remembered it made me a little sad. Today, my dad would have been 66 years old. It was like I had someone sitting on my shoulder saying you are forgetting something really important today. So a little teary eyed I have been. Enough of that and onto my post tonight.

I have been wanting to make something with Samantha's sketch from her blog hop for (Scapmaters Paradise Color Challenge)...all week. The time has gotten away on me and now I have just about missed getting my card entered. So tonight I went down to my craft room and got to work. For the life of me my brain just could not think of a color combo....so whose better to use than this weeks SPCC Color combo #76. Thanks Samantha for the awesome sketch, colors and a chance to win a set of your new stamps. Be sure to hop on over to see the DT's works too!

Here is my card! The stamp I used is from the Little Paper Shop. A friend stamped her for me so sorry I don't know her name. She is darling though. Well, I couldn't find any Sahara sand paper sooooooo into my scrapbox I went and found a little piece left and it worked perfectly for Samantha's sketch.

One last challenge to enter this cute girl into. Cindy Haffner is the host this week at Crazy 4 Challenges and she is asking everyone to use script paper or script embossing folder. I used the script embossing folder behind the girl.

Well it is pretty late for me and there is still some laundry that needs to be done. Tomorrow, I am hoping to do some baking with the little boy I babysit. It should be a good day! Oh and painting will soon be starting in my son's room...if I am lucky reno's will be done by christmas...pray for before that...LOL.

Wishing you a good night. Thanks for stopping in.

PPC #40 meets My Wintery Friends :)

Good Morning! It sure is a foggy one here in Millet! How was your weekend? Mine was very busy but it was a fun one but we did manage to take the kids and one of their friends to Harry Potter this weekend. Our weather this last week has been crazy. Snow and -30 something tempatures and then by Friday we were at 0. I wish it would stay at about -10. The roads in town are slushy and the snow was already melting some (it makes it easy to get stuck). We also watch the Grey Cup (Sunday) game it was a close one.

Lori will be our hostess this week at Picture Perfect Creations. We are hoping that Megan has had her little bundle of Joy and that she is enjoying being a mom. Congratulations Megan!

We are on Color Combo #40, Not Quite Navy, Daffodil Delight, Poppy Parade a bright one. Christmas time is still in my head and so I went out of the box with this color combo and created a christmas card. You heard me right...a Christmas card was made...LOL. It turned out pretty good too! So come and play with us and show us what inspires you with these colors.

Techno Stamper : Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge #149 Mary Jo Price-Williams has created this awesome sketch. I realized after I finished my card that I would be late for linking it, but I wanted to let you know that is was her sketch with the colors that inspired me. Crafty Hos' Challenge also has an inspiration picture that made me think of my polar bear and penguin image would go with their snowy picture too.

Here is my card. I also have entered into the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #87 is a christmas challenge. The Paper Players Challenge #26 is to get your heat gun out and wet emboss ( my whole image is embossed with black embossing powder). I tried to get an angle of the card to show you the embossing girls but it didn't work to well (sorry). The full card is just below the first picture. What do you think of this stamp...aren't they just adorable! My cousin is an animal lover and works at the zoo so he just might get this one for christmas.

Thank you Lori for posting for the last few times. I hope to see you at Picture Perfect Creations this week. Don't forget to stop bye the other DT Creator's blogs to share them some love for their wonderful creations this week. Wishing you a fantastic Monday!!!

Challenge #13 at 4 Crafty Chicks!!!

What a week we had at 4 Crafty Chicks! Everyone who entered my challenge of anything but a card ROCKED IT OUT OF THE CRAFT PARK!!!! Thank you so much for playing and sharing such awesome creations. Can't wait to see what you do with this weeks challenge!

Sooooooo onto the good stuff! Our very crafty chick Lori is our hostess this week! We are on Challenge #13 and it is the last Thursday of the month so you know what that means, it is a Prize week. Lori found this amazing picture to inspire us. What a picture! It sure makes me want to put my tree up. I already have my Christmas tunes playing (a little Johnny Reid). You can make anything that inspires you from this picture. If you are linking to a gallery please use 4CCC-13.

Challenge #13

This is what I came up with from Lori's picture.
My colors are cherry cobbler, always artichoke and whisper white. Silver brads, scalloped border punch, swiss dots folder, D'vine Swirl Folder and Stamp set...(got to get back one this one it is from Stampin' Up though) and silver elastic.

The Paper Players have an amazing sketch that was screaming christmas to me this week. Last week I had really wanted to play in their color challenge but sometimes life gets in the way and well I couldn't. What is really cool is the colors I chose from the picture this week are the same colors of their challenge last week. How cool is that a 2 for 1...LOL. Their DT's have some really amazing creations too! Thanks ladies for the sketch.

Challenge #24 over at Freshly Brewed Challenges is to create something with a Winter/Christmas Theme. My card fits the bill with the sentiment and the snowflakes.
Another challenge blog I really like to see each week is Crafty Creations and their challenge #95 is also a Christmas theme. On both of these blogs the DT's have some amazing creations too!

The girls at 4 Crafty Chicks have made some really awesome creations again this week. Please hop on over to the individuals blogs to see how they made them and share some love.

Leanne - Banking on Crafts
Lori - Inkingly Yours
Melissa - My Paper Obsession

I want to wish all of my friends in the U.S. a very happy Thanksgiving week and weekend. May you all enjoy sharing time with family and friends. It is another great time for thanks.

Come share your creations with us. I would love to hop on over to your blog and see what you have created and comment! We are very Thankful for all of your support! Don't forget it is a prize week!

Snowflakes and PPC #39

Good Morning from chilly, snowy Millet! It has been freezing and snowing most of the weekend here and yes I am whining...LOL. Yesterday, was my last monthly Stamp Club of the year, which is always a blast and we created some really neat things (they made me laugh so hard my cheeks still hurt this morning) *giggle*.

So let's get onto the really good stuff. Thanks to everyone who played along with our sketch challenge last week. Megan has another fantastic color combo for us this week. We are on Color Combo #39 at Picture Perfect Creations. Now these colors I would never have put them together, but they are awesome. Since it has been snowing so much and chilly also all I could think of is Christmas and snow...LOL. So my idea was snowflakes, yep, you heard me right snowflakes. Oh and guess what???? I am completely done all 25 cards for my husbands work. Now onto my christmas list...hee hee.

This is my creation! Snowflake embossing folder, snowflake stamps, dazzling diamond glitter, pearl, punches and a stamp. Easy peazy right!!! LOL. Hope you like it too.

Now after coming home from creating some really awesome calendar pages and cards yesterday, my brain was a little over loaded and well I wanted to spend sometime with my hubby and kids. So the inspiration for my layout was from Clean & Simple Stamping sketch #117.

My card will be entered into these other fabby challenges this week:

Pile It On - #46 Winter means..... oh to me it sure means lots of snow, cold weather and that christmas is close.

Delightful Challenges - Baby It's Cold Outside (Winter Weather)...girls it is cold here, but not as cold as it could be...LOL.

PaperPlay Challenges - #46 Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow - girls boy did we get snow this week and most of this weekend.

Stampin' B's Design Team - #85 Joanne has picked Snowflakes to be used on the card. It was sure fun to watch the big fluffy snowflakes this week fallening endlessly outside.

Hop on over to Picture Perfect Creation and play this wonderful color combo this week. Be sure to check out the other DT's work...they have some super marvelous creations for you this week (links on my right hand side bar). I would love to hop on over to your blog and share in your creations.

Wishing you a fabby Monday!

Thanks for popping in.

ANYTHING BUT A CARD at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Good morning Crafter's. We sure can say winter has hit! It snowed all day yesterday and we have quite a few centimeters of snow! The roads were just nasty to drive on last night. Now I will have to offically dig out my shovel and snow boots...LOL. Not looking forward to going out today after school but alas I need to get Kaitlyn's glasses picked out and ordered.

Thanks to all of the ladies who played in last weeks challenge. There were so many amazing and inspiring cards made.

Onto the good stuff Challenge #12 at 4 Crafty Chicks is hosted by me this week...and I am loving every minute of it. At this time of year everyone is making cards to give out, me included, so I thought it would be fun to make ANYTHING BUT A CARD this week. Do you make other homemade gifts? Every year I do for my kids teachers, my girlfriends and grand parents.

My camera would not work for the last couple of days and so we continue to have a love hate relationship. Thankfully it started working so I could get my projects posted. I started off with two to show you but while I was waiting two more ended up being made...LOL.


Project #1 : Will go to Kaitlyn's teacher. I bought this at Micheals for $2.49 and used STAZON ink, red, green and black.


Project #2: Was made for my dining room table. A little something for me...LOL


Project #3: was made for Kaitlyn's TA in her class. This lady is super amazing and so fun. Candle, stamp, ink, tissue paper, ribbon, snowflake brad, heat gun and wax paper.

Project #4: was made for my nephew. It is a tiny tin that can be used to hold a gift card or gift certificate, notes. Rub-ons were used and then ribbon.

This was so much fun, hope you don't mind me sharing all of these items with you. I can't wait to see what you create this week. Going to see everyones blogs to comment has been awesome for me, I even learned some new techniques and tips this week. Come join us we love having you.

Please hop by to see the other crafty chicks...they made some really amazing creations

Lori, Leanne, Melissa.

Thanks for stopping in.

Huge Thank You to Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge

First Off, I need to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Mary Jo at Techno Stamper : Monday Lunchtime Sketch challenge #147, she picked my card to be in her TOP3 (click here to see my card)! Thank you so much for the honor and Mary Jo your badge will be worren proudly on my blog! You sure have made my day!!!


I really wanted to show you some of my christmas cards that I made. On October 28th Samantha from SP and Company (Scrapmaster's Paradise)was holding a Guest Designer Team Call. I made two cards with this sketch but could only send one in and have just been dieing to show you at least one. So I have decided to show you the one, that I didn't send in. Thank you Samantha for a really neat sketch to work with...yes, I still am secretly hoping that I get picked to work with a wonderful team of ladies. Here is my creation! Riley was another christmas stamp that hadn't been inked! He is so cute and I am going to be doing some more work with this little guy!

It is snowing here a wee bit and just a tad bit chilly! I have my little man Ethan here to brighten my day! I would like to do some crafting today later...so hopefully I get back on here with something fun.

Have a wonderful Tuesday!
Thanks for stopping in and sharing my blog with me. Hugs :)