Up, Up and Away at 4 Crafty Chicks

Good morning peeps!  I hope this post finds everyone doing well.  Last night we had another wicked storm, where we lost power.  Of course I was on my computer changing up some stuff on my post when we lost power and find out this morning that I lost my whole post.  Ha Ha....I don't remember exactly what I put but a short little story was being added.  Now this is going to be a quick post as I am running up to Edmonton to take my son to his volleyball/basketball camp.  He is so sore this morning he can hardly walk...guess he is getting prepared for the start of the season here soon.

We have another fabulous challenge this week at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Our hostess with the mostess is Melissa.  Our new GDT, Lori, Leanne and Melissa have really wonderful inspiration for you to see.

CHALLENGE #102: UP, UP AND AWAY

(plane, birds, butterflies, balloon etc...)

Here is my take on the challenge.

Oh man time is running out and still have to get lunch and breakfast made for my boy today.  When I get back I will finish my post properly...LOL.  One crazy Thursday morning it is.

This card is being entered into the following challenge Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Please come join us at 4 Crafty Chicks for another fun filled challenge.

Thanks for the challenge Melissa!
Thank you so much to my followers and who ever pops by for a peek at my card. 

Distressing with 4 Crafty Chicks

Good Morning to ya all! Happy first week of August...oh man where is the time going?  We are onto another fun challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Our very talented host this week is the one the only Leanne.  She has challenged us to something fun and really something very easy.

CHALLENGE #101 - DISTRESSING

Here is my creation.  I was super excited about this challenge because I could break out my new Tim Holtz (sp??) distressing tool.  It was messy oh but so much fun.  Leanne is a Distressing queen in my books, she gets those tears and rough edges just perfect each time.  Lori and Melissa are also Distressing queens with their daubers, oh to shade like they do.  All in all my adventure with this new tool was worth the purchase and look on the card.  Wish my camera showed it better in this picture.  Oh and this is my first ever Tilda...saweeet.    I used two kinds of pattern papers, Early Espresso, Whisper White (ribbon and paper).  Three Stampin Up punches, one Stampin Up Stamp, Copics, pearls and gems.

Please come on out and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks for this wonderful challenge.  Show us what it inspires in you. Can't wait to see what everyone has created.

Have a wonderful week.

Challenge #100 at 4 Crafty Chicks and Prize Week

Good Morning!! What an exciting day it is for us at 4 Crafty Chicks, we have reached 100 CHALLENGES this week! Wahoooooooooooooo girls and to all of our followers for supporting us and playing in our challenges :)  First off I want to thank my fellow DT and all of  the present and past Guest Designers for making this an amazing adventure.  I look forward to seeing what each challenge inspires us to create every week.  To Lori, Leanne and Melissa, thank you so much for your support this year thru many life challenges for me.  I appreciate it more than you know.  Let's bring on the next 100 challenges :)  WAhoooooooooo :)  My fellow CHICKS inspire me more than they know each week...thank you :)

Our lovely hostess with the mostess this week is Lori!!  She has an amazing challenge for us this week.  Leanne, Melissa and Judy have come up with some amazing creations to help inspire you.  What is the 100th challenge you say?

CHALLENGE #100 - WEDDING - SOMETHING OLD, NEW, BORROWED AND BLUE

This was such an amazing challenge for me.  It is another clean and simple card.  Hope you like it.

Something old - my Cuttlebug Embossing Folder
Something new - my stamp
Something blue - my papers (night of navy and bashful blue)
Something borrowed - my daughters dazzling diamonds

 I can hardly believe that it is the last week of July already and so you know what that means a little prize.  This time the prize is being given by me.

Have an amazing week everyone.  Can't wait to see what you create with our challenge this week.

Challenge #99 at 4 Crafty Chicks

Good Morning blogger land!!! Today is Thursday and we at 4 Crafty Chicks have another rockin challenge. Can you believe that we are already on Challenge #99....I am truly super excited about this.  This week I am the hostess with the mostess and I look forward to challenging you to think "outside the box".

So this last week has been filled with tons of family fun.  We surprised my mom by having my sister, her kids and my brother and his kids here together in the same room for the first time in 9 years.  We even got my grandma to come out.  Then we had a family reunion with my other brothers and sisters. My family has been extremely lucky to have my sister and her family with us for some crafty time.  Sad to say my niece missed this as she had to go back to Victoria to work :( :( .

CHALLENGE #99 - MAKE (CREATE) A BOX

You can make a box from scratch and decorate it 

or 

you can decorate a box that has already been made.

This challenge was super hard for me as I had a mental block about actually making a box on my own.  In the past with my stamping group Lori helped me and also gave me tons of instructions.  So as I was admonishing myself for picking this kind of challenge and trying to find other ways around it...LOL :)  I went onto to the web and found an easy peasy box recipe from Dawn's Stamping Studio.  So yes I had instruction but I did do it myself...LOL.  My sister was here and she not a crafty gal...but to appease me she broke out the paper to start creating a box with me.  Just to let you know this was her VERY first paper craft EVER!!!  Enough of my blabbing I will show you my take on this challenge.

I have decided with this mini pizza box to make it a Worry Box, where you can write your worries down and leave them in the box.  My box has some texture with dry embossing and paper piercing on it.

Here is my sisters take on my challenge.  Apparently for a first timer she should pick up the scissors, glue gun, ribbon and gems more often.  She had a blast using my punches and trying to using my spellbinders...after asking many times what is this and how do I use it???  Super glad to have her first creation be with me.  Can't wait to see how her family and my mom react...LOL.  Now how on earth can I get her to start a blog??? and create with us gals.  My sister box she has decided will be a Dream Box, where you keep a copy of the dreams you would like to fulfill.

 

Leanne, Lori, Melissa and Judy have some really stunning boxes to share with you. Hope you will be able to come and play with us at 4 Crafty Chicks this week.  Can't wait to see what this challenge inspires in you.

I would like to enter these boxes into Make It Monday - Anything Goes.  It always has tons of inspiration for you too see.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Challenge #98 at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Good morning! Wow this last week we have been living in a heat wave....with the temperatures as high as +34.  However, in the middle of the night we did have a crazy thunder storm that lasted for over 1 hour.  I don't mind say that I am MELLLTING!!!

Can you believe that we are on Challenge # 98 at 4 Crafty Chicks?  Our wonderfully talented hostess for this week is Melissa.  She has come up with such a wonderful challenge for us.  The best part is you can use paper, ribbon, stamps, embossing folders to create this look.  Are you ready to find out what it is?

CHALLENGE #98 - STRIPES

Here is my creation.  It was made having a fun day with Lori.  She once again let me use some of her new supplies. The stamp was from My Favorite Things and the flower was a die cut from My Favorite Thing and the felt from the flower were also from My Favorite Things.  The designer paper was from Echo Park and the black and white paper is from Stampin Up!!

So please come and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks for our newest challenge.  Lori, Leanne, Melissa, Judy (GDT) and myself love it when you join us.

On a sad note it has been almost a week since my darling husband Rob's dear grandma passed away.  She would have turned 93 the very next day. She was an amazing woman someone that others could look up too and aspire to be like one day.  Her generosity will always be remembered, her big heart and the way she never judged anyone.  Thanks you so much Grandma for loving my husband, myself and our family whole heartily.  We are sure glad you knew that we loved you back!!

Thank you everyone stopping by to share in my card and our new challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Hope to see you there this week.

RED and WHITE at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Holy smokes! I came on here this morning ready to link my card to 4 Crafty Chicks and nope there was nothing.  So off I went looking for my scheduled post and it was no where to be found.  Off I went running up stairs to talk with my husband Rob since I was completely frustrated. He figures that when our internet shuts down at night that it didn't actually save or schedule my post (I had just finished it when it was blocked).  We have blocked our internet service for our family from a certain time to a certain time to start controlling how much they are on it; so that means for me get my post done a little earlier...LOL.  I must say I thought my post was a fabulous one last night.  Not sure if I can repeat it but let's see!

Good morning fellow bloggers.  I hope where ever you are that it is sunny.  We have blue skies here this morning and no wind; boy does it cheer a person up.  Today, is Thursday and you know what that means another fabulous challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Our hostess for this week is our fabulous Leanne from Banking on Crafts.  She has picked an easy color challenge for us and they are colors that I love to work with.  What a wonderful way to start off the month of July with this color combo.  We also have a new Guest Designer this month and her name is Judy!!  My fellow chicks (Leanne, Lori and Melissa) have some really incredible inspiration for everyone.

CHALLENGE #97 - RED AND WHITE

When reading what our challenge was I immediately knew what kind of card I was going to make.  Making wedding cards is one of my favorite things to do.  I must admit my friend Lori has a congratulations stamp that I thought would look better on here so I just might be looking to buy one more stamp set...LOL. My paper is Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White; Ink: Cherry Cobbler; Accessories: butterfly punch, cherry cobbler seam binding, heart punch (SU), scalloped punch and circle punch (SU), butterfly punch (MS), pearls and two cuttlebug folders.

I would like to enter my card at Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Nope this post isn't as good as last nights but I think it is okay...LOL.  Last night I had the gift of gab on here...LOL.  Thank you so much Leanne for the wonderful challenge this week at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Please come join us for our challenge this week.  I look forward to stopping by your blogs and sharing in your creations.  Please have a fabulous week!!!

School's Out at 4 Crafty Chicks

Helloooooooooo! Where has the week gone? What have you been up too? Me, well I have spent the better part of the week gutting out stuff from my house, laundry and driving my oldest son around to different towns.  He is a soccer Referee and oh is he loving making money.  The best part is the quiet time I get to have to think and work on a bible study.  In case I don't get on here by Sunday, I want to say a huge Happy Canada Day to my family, friends and all Canadians out in blogger land.

It is Thursday so you know what that means.  Another wonderful challenge for us at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Our very talented hostess for this week is Lori.  It is an awesome challenge and one that many of us already do so it should be easy peazy.

Challenge #96 - SCHOOL'S OUT!!

My kids were out of school on June 15 but many school's around our area were not out until yesterday.  Two of my friends (fellow chicks) Lori's and Melissa's children were out of school yesterday.  So now we can all jump for joy and enjoy our summer. 

My card is one that I made for one of Kaitlyn's teachers.  That week was so busy so clean and simple was the way to go.  This card is made using Rub-Ons.  At one point and time I had to buy almost everyone that Stampin Up came out with...LOL.  Sadly, they get forgotten in my crafting drawer. 

I would love to enter my card into Make It Monday - Anything Goes!

Please hop on over to 4 Crafty Chicks and see what my fellow Design Team members have created for us this week.  Come join us for this fun challenge.  It is so much fun to see what you create and coming to see so many fabulous blogs.

By the Sea for you and me....

Good morning! This week is my week to be the hostess at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Every 2-4 years we are lucky enough to go to Victoria, B.C. to visit my sister, my niece and nephew and my auntie, uncle and cousins.  It always is an amazing time and always too short.  The ocean is a huge part of the visit. It is a place we spend tons of time exploring and sometimes just sitting still as a family and watching the wild life in the ocean. We all love the lighthouses too!

For this challenge I thought of my husband, he has always wanted to learn how to sail and he truly loves watching them glide across the water.

Here is my creation for this week.  I am hoping to add another card later on as I found I stamp that oh has not been used in way to long.  Clean and simple, it is but I hope you enjoy it.  Be sure to stop bye and see my fellow chicks since they have such amazing creations to share ( Leanne, Lori, Melissa and Alethea).

I would love to enter my card into  Make It Monday - Anything Goes!! The DT's also have fabby creations.

Be sure to stop by and join us! I just can't wait to see what you create.  It is always awesome hopping on over to your blogs.

Please have an amazing day and a super positive one!!

Fabulous Sketch at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Good Morning to you! Today is a rainy day and is kind of following my mood a little bit.  To my fellow DT members, I apologise to all of you for my lack of commitment of getting my creation done on time this week.  To my fellow followers, to you I say sorry for not having my regular post ready for you to see.  The last few weeks have been very emotional and this last week my emotions are sitting so close to the top that I cry at the drop of a hat.  School is finally done for me here but who knew that I could feel so incredibly happy and devastated at the same time.  Enough of my blabbing and whining and onto the challenge for this week.

Our fabulous Melissa is our hostess-with-the-mostess at 4 Crafty Chicks this week.  We are on challenge #94 and since we haven't done a sketch in a while Melissa has whipped a nice and easy one up for us. 

Check this out!!!

Here is my creation! This weekend is Father's Day and well I must say where has the month of June gone already!  Half over fore sure.  So when I saw Melissa's sketch for us, my idea was a Father's Day card, after a few wrecked cards from my tears this is what I came up with.

Hope you enjoy it!!

Please come out and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks.  We love seeing what you create each week and truly it is a blast to come over to your blog and get to know you a little bit.   Be sure to hop on over to see what my fellow DT's have whipped up!!

Have an amazing weekend and thanks for stopping bye.

My second Monochromatic card!

Good Morning! Whew, I think that I am glad Wednesday is over. So many unexpected things happened yesterday, so really I hope today is going to be a little more quiet.  For my oldest son today is his official last day of classes and then exam week is next week.  My middle son got a concussion and basically his last day of school was May 30 and no finals for him.  Our daughter's last day of school is next Friday!! Bring on summer right....LOL.

Man did I ever love all of the branching out creations this past week.  Some casing just might have to happen.  We are onto challenge #93 at 4 Crafty Chicks this week and our very talented hostess is LEANNE!

 Challenge #93 - Monochromatic

She has an amazing challenge for us and one I struggle with but in the end it must be coming easier because this little baby was whipped up in a 1/2 hour.  WHOOT, WHOOT!! If only you could see my crazy dance.

Here is my creation.  It is made with whisper white card stock, using a stamp from Stampin Up, oval punch, border punch and one of their embossing folders.  The other folders are cuttlebug.  Now my beautiful butterfly was hand made my Lori's auntie Sharon.  She does amazing crocheting. She makes flowers for us too and well she is so talented and has more patience than me to do this delicate stuff.  Thanks Sharon.  I feel it adds a bit of pop to the card.  Hope you think so too.

 I would love to enter my card into Make It Monday - Anything Goes

We have a surprise this week and it is that we have our new Guest Designer Alethea.  She is going to be with us for the month of June and boy is she one talented lady.  My other fellow chicks have fabulous monochromatic cards for you too.  Be sure to stop bye and see Leanne, Lori and Melissa.

Come and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks for another fun challenge, can't wait to see what you have for us this week.

Thanks for stopping in and sharing in my creation this week.

Branching Out at 4 Crafty Chicks

Good evening! I have been trying so hard since January not to vent on here about my children's school.  Every time I think they have showed me how low they can go they surprise me with something else.  Yesterday, was one of those days and my time was taken up taking care of my middle son Robin.  Today, was quite a few hours in at emergency where we found out he has a concussion and we had to have a CT Scan done.  Alas, my post for 4 Crafty Chicks is late.  We are truly counting down our last day of school of June 14th.

We have an awesome challenge for you this week and since there is 5 Thursdays in May we have a Crazy Egg prize up for grabs.  Leanne, who is also our fabulous and incredibly inspirational DT is our hostess with the mostess this week.  She is also offering up this beautiful prize for ya all.

This week we are onto our 92nd challenge.  Are you ready to see what it is?

CHALLENGE #92 - BRANCHING OUT (trees, shrub...)

Here is my creation, I hope that you like it.  The colors are chocolate chip, pink pirouette, a lite pink and white.  A stampin up stamp, circle punches, ribbon and a cuttlebug folder.

I would like to enter this into Make It Monday - be sure to check them out after you come and share you information with us at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Be sure to stop bye Leanne, Lori and Melissa because there creations are outstanding once again.

Please have an amazing day and thanks for sharing in my creation.

A Truly Inspiring Color Combo!

Sorry, had my post scheduled but blogger did not post it on time. Have a wonderful Thursday everyone!

Hey all!  It is that time of year again when life gets a little bit busy.  Our long weekend was busy but filled with some good old fashion relaxation.  I actually picked up my cross stitch and did about 4 hours of work on it.  It felt good, my tiger cross stitch has been being worked on for well to many years.  One day it is going to be on my wall...LOL.

Are you ready for another challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks?  Our beautiful and completely inspiring hostess for this week is Lori Turner from Inkingly Yours.  We are really excited for this challenge.  Although there is color challenges out in blogger land we don't have many at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Lori came up with a truly inspiring color combo for our 91st challenge.  We hope you will come and join us and for more inspiration from Lori, Leanne and Melissa hope on over to 4 Crafty Chicks.

CHALLENGE #91 - COLOR COMBO

Chocolate Chip, Marina Mist, Not Quite Navy and Whisper White

(you don't have to have the exactly colors but please try to get as close as you can :) )

Here is my creation.  It is another clean and simple card.  The border around the rectangles is hand drawn.  The wonderful sentiment is from a Verve stamp set.  I was lucky enough to enjoy a crafting day with Lori and this is what I came up with.  Thank you very much Lori for the crafting day, it always goes by way to fast and it is always awesome.

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

Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Challenge #11 - Dimension

Please come and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks for our color combo challenge! We would love to see what you create and a chance to come and see your blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing in my creation!! Have an amazing day.

It's Graduation Time at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Hey all! It is time for another challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks and well it is my turn to host the challenge.  First off thanks to all who shared your Sentiment Only creations they were amazing!

Today, my oldest son is graduating from grade 9 and I know quite a few people who also have kids graduating from grade 12 in the next few weeks.  It is really another reason to celebrate our children.  Now there are kindergarten grads, grade 6 grad's for some and well we sure can not forget the University/College graduates. So as you probably have guess by my title and everything said up above our new challenge is:

CHALLENGE #90 - GRADUATION!!

My fellow DT's have sure out done themselves this week, thanks ladies.  Masterpieces have been created.  My card is made with Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White paper.  The ribbon is Cherry Cobbler, twine, black ink, candy.  I used two square punches from SU and both stamps are from SU, the grad cap is a retired one and the sentiment is from a newer set.

I would like to enter my card into:


Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Please come and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks, we love coming to see you all.  Be sure to stop bye and check out Lori, Leanne and Melissa, their work really is incredible.

Today is another busy day for us but the best part is that we have a 4 day weekend...gotta love those.  Really how did we get to the May long weekend already?  Enjoy your long weekend.  Thanks for stopping in  I appreciate it.

Challenge 89 and Blog Hop Winner!

Hi everyone! How is everything going.  I am just back from Vancouver B.C. and well came home to see that my post didn't post and that none of my chargers have been found for my camera or my daughters camera*sigh*.  So as soon as I can I will get my picture on here for you all because we have another rockin challenge for you this week.  Vancouver was super beautiful and it was a good time.  For 5 days, I did not touch a computer...and I must say withdrawal was had but it was also very good for me.

First off My Blog Winner is - Louise

Second is to thank all of my new followers, welcome aboard, I sure do appreciate it.

Thank you so much to everyone who Blog Hopped with 4 Crafty Chicks last week.  I am super excited to see who our GDT's are and look forward to getting to know each and everyone of you. A huge thank you to Lori my fellow Chick for helping me out with my Winner's post, it is truly appreciated.

Onto our wonderful challenge for this week!  Melissa is our beautiful hostess with the mostess this week and she is totally bringing us a wicked challenge.  It is one that I love, love, love but maybe should do a little more often.  The girls have rocked it again this week.  Can you believe we are on challenge #89 this is soooooooo "stinking exciting"...LOL.

CHALLENGE #89 IS SENTIMENT ONLY 

 It sure has been a blast tonight looking thru some of the creations for last weeks challenge and I am going to try super dooper hard to go back and catch up on my commenting.  Be sure to join us this week with a new challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks.  We love having you.

Thanks to everyone one stopping bye.  I will try to get a picture on here of my card as soon as possible.  Have an amazing day!

 

GDT & BLOG HOP Time at 4 Crafty Chicks

Good Morning everyone we are so excited to be having another Blog Hop and search for our Guest Designers for June, July and August.  If you have come from Melissa's blog then you are in the right place.  If you are popping in too say hi and want to join in on the fun then please go Leanne's blog, the link is below to start at the beginning :)

Our challenge for you this week at 4 Crafty Chicks is a fun one

 Favorite Embellishment 

 whatever that is to you, brads, flowers, ribbon, it is endless, and write what yours is.

Here’s the low-down on the Blog Hop:

• Each Chick has graciously donated a prize to be given to one lucky Blog Hopper who leaves a comment on the Chick’s blog.  The winners will be chosen by each Chick using Random.org.

• To be eligible to win Blog Hop prizes, participants must: (a) become a follower of the 4 Crafty Chicks blog; (b) leave a comment on each of the Chicks’ blogs; AND (c) leave a comment on the 4CC blog.
• Sorry I am struggling getting my picture of my prize on here, blogger is not being nice...LOL.  Let's hope later today will be my lucky day and I can put a picture on for you.
  
• My Prize: 
• Stamping Bella - violet BITTYBLOOM
• InkadinkaClings - Every Day Expression (5pc)

  So here is my card for this challenge! On this particular card, I didn't find the room to really highlight what my favorite embellishment but it is pearls.  I also am finding a new one twine, it was a hard sell so I put both on...LOL.  Pearls just always add a pop to the card.  On this baby card, it is multi layered but still is very clean and simple. Love the adorable image too and I colored it with Copic's...still learning how to play with them.

Would you like to join the 4 Crafty Chicks as a Guest Designer? If  you participate in this week’s Challenge and would like to be considered for June, July, and August's Guest Designer positions, please put (GDT) after your name when submitting to inlinkz – please remember that you will be committing to a month of challenges (which you will receive immediately after being chosen as Guest Designer.)

That's enough of my babbling -  I suppose you ALL want to get busy hopping, right? Well, what are we waiting for? Off you go!!  Don't forget to leave your comments because each Chick has their own blog hop prize to give away!  


The next stop on your Blog Hop is Lori's and her link is just below.

Leanne

Melissa

Tamie - you are here

Lori

4 Crafty Chicks' Blog

I hope you will all take a few minutes to play along with us this week – we can’t wait to choose our next Guest Designers!  Have fun, everyone!

Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my new creation with me. Can't wait to see what your favorite embellishment is.  Have a wonderful week.