Pearls, Pearls, Pearls at 4 Crafty Chicks

Hello, how has your week been going?  My week has been busy but mostly enjoyable so far *wink*.  Yesterday, I had a visit from my fellow chick Lori.  It was the first time in a while that we have had a down day and it wasn't because I was sick...LOL.  Lori crocheted on her fabulous color filled blanket and I cross stitched and crocheted.  It was a day filled with tons of laughs and girlie time.  You can never get too much girlie time :)

Today, is Thursday and you all know what that means.  It means over at 4 Crafty Chicks we have a new challenge up for you.  I am the hostess this week and the challenges is an easy peasy one.  Can you guess what it is from the title?  I bet you can!  Pearls are like a crafting girls dream of diamonds right?

Before this card was started, I had something else in mind but sadly my brothers mother in law passed away yesterday and she was an amazing person.  Our thoughts are with their families as they remember good times and try to deal with losing someone so special.

My card has a Pearl Flourish that was given to me by my fellow chick Leanne.  Leanne is the queen at using flourishes.  The sentiment is from a set created by Verve and the butterflies from Martha Stewart punches.  All paper is from Stampin Up and the extra pearls are from left overs from my stash.  So sorry that the pearl flourish looks blurry, I took so many pictures and they all looked the same.

I would love to enter my card into the following challenges:
Make It Monday - #123 Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - #11 Anything Goes

We really hope that you have time to join us over at 4 Crafty Chicks.  We sure love hopping over to your blogs and sharing in your creations.  Have a fabulous week. Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my post today :)

I leave you with this image from facebook.

Color Combo at 4 Crafty Chicks and Winner of Blog Hop

Good Morning! What an amazing week 4 Crafty Chicks had with so many amazing and very inspiring creations.  Thank you so much to everyone who left a comment on my blog and to all of my new followers.  I truly appreciate all of the comments left and that you are willing to share in my crafting journey.

My winner for my blog hop prize is #14 Deedesigns.  Congratulation :)

We are onto Challenge #124 this week and our hostess with the mostess is Melissa.  She has this amazing color combo below for us.

Here is my creation below.  My mom had brought me the soft sky and blue bayou colors but in the end we realized that I had both of these colors in my other paper stash *wink*.  Sometimes it pays not to get rid of things but sadly I guess you could say I don't use all of my stuff either....LOL.  After I took the picture I realized that I forgot to add white pearls to the center of the flowers (that will still happen).

These colors are awesome but for some reason I struggled with them.  There are two other cards started but not finished.  This card is clean and simple without a sentiment...what do you think should it have one?  Maybe the color combo needs to be worked with some more.  Guess I am feeling that it needs something but just not sure what.  Can you help?

My fellow DT's made this color combo look so easy and truly just amazing inspiration.  Be sure to stop on over at 4 Crafty Chicks to check it out!!  Oh and don't forget to stop by 4 Crafty Chicks to see if you are one of the GDT, TOP 3 or blog hop winners.

Not sure where this week is going but I do hope that the flu will leave our house hold alone as well as others.  With everyone getting sick in rotations it is getting to be a little bit mundane.  Tristans basketball team won their game 54-30, it was an awesome game.

Thanks so much for sharing in my crafting journey!!

Quote or saying from facebook:

Blog Hop, GDT spots and Challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks

Welcome to our first Blog Hop and Challenge of 2013.  It is so exciting that we have another year to have fun with challenges and continue to meet with our fantastic players and followers. Thank you for stopping in for our Blog Hop, we hope you enjoy it as it is not a very long one :). We are looking for three Guest Designer for February, March and April.  If you came from Melissa's blog you are on the right track.  If you get lost along the way, just start again at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Leanne

Melissa

Tamie (Me)

Lori

4 Crafty Chicks

  Our hostess for this week is Leanne. Leanne also has a Challenge #123 for us this week.  It is too use Ribbon and Bows on your project. 

Here is my creation for your viewing pleasure!  I was lucky enough to craft with Lori in her new home.  Thanks for having us out and helping me get inky too!

Also one lucky winner will walk away with this little prize but please remember to leave a comment on each of our blogs and 4 Crafty Chicks.

 I would like to enter my card into Make It Monday- #121-Anything Goes and Challenges 4 Everyone - #10-Anything Goes

Can't wait to see what you create for our Ribbon and Bows challenge and who our next wonderful GDT will be.  Happy Hoppin!!!!

A splash of color over at 4 Crafty Chicks and Prize Week.

Happy belated Christmas to everyone. It has been a busy one with family and friends.  We still hope to get to see a few more people during our time off. Can you believe that we are on the last Thursday of December already? The New Year is just around the corner, so I would like to take this opporunity now to say thank you to all of my followers, to everyone who has left a comment for making my blog what it is.  To my fellow 4 Crafty Chicks, I want to say thank you so much for continuing to inspire me each week with the fantastic challenges. For your patience and just for being the best to work with. Thank you for making this one of the better parts of 2012 for me.

We are on challenge #122 and Lori is our hostess.  She has come up with a splash of color for us and really I love these colors.  I do believe that I would love to color an image like my fellow DT Leanne did.

Here is my creation for this week.  It is a pretty plain card but it could be used for a birthday or a wedding card.  The picture doesn't show it but the Wisteria Wonder is darker than it looks.

This is the prize offered up for this month

 

 I would love to enter my card into 

Make It Monday -  #121 -Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everyone - #10 - Anything Goes

 

Please come on out and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks as I love hopping over to your blogs to see what you have created.

Please have a HAPPY and very SAFE New Years.  May love, laughter, joy follow you into 2013.  Hope to see you next year!!

Make Your Own Pattern Paper at 4 Crafty Chicks

Good morning! Last night we went to our daughters Christmas concert and it was truly amazing.  Just one more thing to add to the Christmas excitement.  Can you believe it is only 5 days away.  Shopping is on my agenda today, since we have all been sick.  You know this bug hangs on for a while, I am running out of energy faster than I can make it...LOL.  :) Enough complaining, the positive is that I am not stuck in bed still.

Today is Thursday and that means a brand new challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks.  I am the lucky hostess.  This challenge is one that I don't do very often but I had such a fun time creating the pattern paper.  I used two individual stamps out of the same bell set. It is not too often that I use the whole stamp set to create a card...LOL. My fellow DT's rocked it out of the ball park.

CHALLENGE #121 - MAKE YOUR OWN PATTERN PAPER!

 (it can be stamps, cheese cloth, brayers etc)

This card was created for one of the board members at my husbands work.  I create 28 individual cards each year, this was one of my last ones.  Hope they will like it.

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

Make It Monday -  #120 -Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everyone - #9 - Anything Goes

We really hope that you are able to find a little bit of time to come and create with us.  I hope that this week can bring you peace and happiness as we head towards Christmas Day.  Come join us at 4 Crafty Chicks we truly would love to see what you create.

May peace, joy and laughter be with you this week, as times can be stressful.  I plan to sing when I can't handle it .  Music is good for the soul.

You're Invited at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Good Evening! Sorry, my post for 4 Crafty Chicks in a few days late.  My whole family so far with the exception of my wonderful husband have been dealing with the flu/cold virus for the last few weeks.   I have been without a voice for quiet a few days, my vocal cords, throat and chest hurt so badly. Not to mention the high fever, headaches, aches in my back, coughing and being sick to my stomach.  My kids might have enjoyed me not being able to talk...but now my voice is back...well not completely but enough to annoy them...LOL.  We are all still dragging from it. We taught our kids to share just a little too well *wink*. So as I am typing this, may the healthy force be with you. This isn't anything I would wish upon anyone.

The plus side is that I felt good enough last night and today to work for short periods of time, on getting my craftroom cleaned up. We had a new furnace put in, but the mess from drilling and all of the saw dust in my craft stuff was enough to make a person want to scream.  It took me more than a couple of hours to clean it up, but now my craft area is awful pretty :). Even did a little bit of reorganizing...thanks Lori :)

Over at 4 Crafty Chicks, on Thursday we had a new challenge brought to us by none other than Miss. Melissa!  For Challenge #120 she asked to make an Invitation.

CHALLENGE #120 - YOU'RE INVITED

Tonight, clean and simple came to mind while making this card.  I got to break out something new and a few old things. When this challenge came up, there was some worry for me because I didn't think I had any kind of sentiment to go with this challenge.  While cleaning, I came across this older Stampin Up set called Lots of Thoughts!  Wahoooooo....it saved the day and worked like a charm. It is good to have a true challenge because you never know what hidden treasures you have in your craft room until you start looking :) Thanks Melissa.

 

Recipe:

Stamps: Lots of Thoughts (Stampin Up)

Ink: Bravo Burgandy

Paper: Cranberry Crisp, Basic Grey and Whisper White

Accessories: button, twine, (stampin up products)- large tag punch, basic grey satin ribbon and Chevron embossing folder, stampin dimensionals.

Can you believe that there is only one week left until Christmas? Yikes...I am not even close to being done.  Here is too some power shopping this next week :)

Please come and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks for this wonderful challenge! I would love to hop over to your blog and get to see your inspiration. 

Thanks for stopping by to share my card with me.  Please stay safe and healthy this week!

Snowmen Are So Cute!

Hello everyone! Are you ready for a new challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks?  We have a new Guest Designer for the month of December and her name is Roberta and boy I can't wait to see what she has in store for us.  Please pop on over to give her a huge welcome. Our awesome hostess with the mostess this week is Leanne! She has come up with a wonderful idea for Challenge #119.  Can you guess what it might be......?  Okay I will give it up...our challenge is at 4 Crafty Chicks.

CHALLENGE #119 - SNOWMEN

There are so many different kinds of snowmen in digi's, stamps, cloth and so much more.  It is one of my other fav's this time of year.  I must say I go gaga for snowmen ornaments...oh they are so cute and it would be so much fun to squish them if you could.

Here is my creation.  I got to use this stamp set from Cynthia, isn't it just adorable.  Now it is hard to see that I have dazzling diamonds on the snowballs, hats and ear muffs :)  I truly thought the picture showed it better than this. Loving these colors together too.  All products used on this card are from Stampin Up!

 

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

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everyone - Anything Goes

Christmas is coming fast and unfortunately I don't have much of my shopping done. Will have to make time for that but being able to help my friend Lori move some stuff into her new house and watch my sons basketball game yesterday were highlights. The absolute best part is Friday not just because it is the start to the weekend but because I will get my stitches out! Yahoooo!

Please come and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks, I hope our challenge will inspire you.  I love getting the chance to know you from your blogs.

Thanks for sharing my creation with me :)  Have a wonderful day!!

Ornaments at 4 Crafty Chicks

Good morning everyone! As I am typing this my Christmas tunes are playing.  Walking in a Winter Wonderland is the perfect tune for this morning.  A cup of hot chocolate will be in order later on today as it is just a tad chilly. What is your favorite Winter drink?

Today we have a new challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks and I am the lucky one to host it.  I love this time of year with the up beat Christmas songs and when you walk into the stores not only do you see chocolate but you see tons and tons of ornaments.

Challenge # 118 - ORNAMENTS

(paper, stamps, glass etc)

Here is my simple Christmas tree ornament.  I used several thin pieces of paper that I folded to put inside.  Then I added white Rub-Ons from Stampin Up on the outside.  It sure doesn't take long and is a little something for one of Kaitlyn's teachers.

Make It Monday #117- Anything Goes and Challenges 4 Everybody #8-Anything Goes are a few challenges that I would love to enter my ornament into.

Leanne, Lori and Melissa sure have a some inspiration to share with you, so please make sure you pop by 4 Crafty Chicks to share some love. Be sure to share your creations with us. I just love coming to visit your blogs.

Today is report card day for Robin and Kaitlyn it will be interesting to see how they are doing at their new school.  Hopefully we can get everyone in school for the last day this week :)  Be safe and stay warm. 

 My Quote for this week:
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. - Cecil B. DeMille

Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing my ornament creation with me.

Tropical Destination over at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Good morning all! Well it is snowing here and I can't seem to get warm.  It isn't even as cold as it usually is here in Alberta.  Lori is our wonderful hostess this week at 4 Crafty Chicks! She really has a heart warming idea to help us out and dream about something warm with our chilly temperatures.

CHALLENGE #117 - TROPICAL DESTINATION

My creation this week is one of my favorite Riley's and truly one of my first ones I got a chance to buy.  The Palm trees remind me of a couple of trips one to Mexico and one to Florida...don't mind saying a trip back to either one would be wonderful.  I went with Cherry Cobbler because really that would be the color of my skin (LOL) and the Daffodil delight is for me the warm and beautiful sun.  My sentiment would be one normally used for Christmas but I was thinking why couldn't I use it for a holiday card, letting someone know to enjoy there holiday.  Let me know if you don't think it works.  Other than that it is a pretty clean and simple card.  Thank you so much Lori for a wonderful challenge...way warmer than my Winter one last week. Hopefully it is a creation you would like too.

 

I would love to enter this little guy at Make It Monday - Anything Goes!

Come and join us for some Tropical fun at 4 Crafty Chicks! We love seeing your creations.  Be sure to check out our what my fellow DT's have this week.

My quote for this week is one that my friend Lori posted on her facebook and was one I needed to see.  Hope you enjoy it.

Thank you so much for stopping by! It is appreciated!! :)  Have a wonderful day folks :)

Winter meets 4 Crafty Chicks

Walking in a Winter Wonderland....love this song! It is fitting for how our outdoors look.  The trees are gorgeous.  There are ups and downs to winter but for the most part there are things I love about it too.  One of my favorites is being in a cozy pair of jammies with a cup of hot chocolate and a good book or crafting makes for a great day when the temperatures are in the deep freeze.

This week it is my turn to be hostess at 4 Crafty Chicks. We are on Challenge #116 - WINTER is the theme.  So please pop on over to show us what you got.

My creation this week is clean and simple and it is one of those Christmas cards that would be easy to mail.  All products on here is from Stampin Up!

 Sorry you can't really see the sentiment but it is there...LOL.  Should have went with a darker color.

I would love to enter this into the following challenge at Make It Monday-Anything Goes!

Please hop on over to 4 Crafty Chicks...I would love to see what this challenge inspires in you!

Here is my quote":

I MUST 

EAT, SLEEP,  CRAFT...... EAT, SLEEP, CRAFT...EAT, SLEEP, CRAFT.

Thank you so much for sharing in my post today!! Have an amazing day!

Getting Sketchy over at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Good morning from a very blustery and snowy central Alberta! Yesterday was quite a day going to the city to renew our passports.  It was snowing, blowing and crazy slow going but it was a great day spent with my mom and dad.  Who know exactly what the weather holds today but regardless, I have to go out.

I am super glad to announce that it is Thursday and over at 4 Crafty Chicks we have another fun filled challenge for you. As for last weeks entrants, I will apologize for not leaving any comments, it sure wasn't for the lack of trying, for some reason hardly any of them were accepted. The creations were unique and amazing.  Melissa is our hostess-with-the-mostess and she has come up with a fabby sketch for us all to get crafty with. 

 CHALLENGE #115

 Here is my card.  While making this card, I got the chance to cyber craft with my pal Lori.  This is so much fun but often wish you could add more people and have a cyber craftying party *wink*.  If you can't see one another at least we have cyber space right?  This sketch screamed texture for me and I hopefully gave you some texture to enjoy. It was a good opportunity to make another Christmas card for my hubbies work.

I would love to enter my card over at these fabulous challenges:
Make It Monday  #114-Anything Goes.
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Challenge #195- No flowers (boy did I get giddy when I saw this one...no flower just a snowflake :)
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #101 - Lots of layers (this sketch screamed for layers :)
thanks for the awesome challenges ladies :)

My fellow DT's and our Guest Designer Erin have truly amazing creations to share with you this week.  Please be sure to stop by 4 Crafty Chicks to see their master pieces. While you are their please don't forget to join us.  We truly love seeing what you create and share with us each week.

Thought of the week:

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
      - Allan K. Chalmers

A Day To Remember at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Good Morning! Well it is official, it is the first day of November.  We had so much fun seeing all of the great costumes last night and the little ones are so precious.

Can you think of a better way to celebrate the 1st of November than with a new challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks?  Leanne is our wonderful hostess this week and she is supplying us with the idea for our challenge.  With the start of November we have another amazing Guest Designer  joining 4 Crafty Chicks and her name is Erin Gonzales.  She has some tons of inspiration to share with us.

CHALLENGE #114 - A DAY TO REMEMBER

The card I made for this challenge is clean and simple.  My friend Helen asked me to make a card for her but it needed to be a birthday card and it couldn't be too thick or layered as she had to mail it to Wales. She was thinking of a dear friend who was turning 50 and she just really wanted her know that she remembered her special day.  A spellbinder was used with a dauber to create a shadowed frame behind the flowers.  Ink, stamp and paper are from Stampin Up.

I would love to enter my clean and simple card into Make It Monday #113 - Anything Goes.

One thing I forgot to mention is that we had some totally spooky and just awesome creations over at 4 Crafty Chicks this last week.  You all made it so hard to chose because the coloring, layouts, inspiration were so fabulous.  Please pop on over to 4 Crafty Chicks we would love to see what you have for us this week and I would love to come and visit your blog.

Not sure where I saved this picture from but I thought was good.

Have an amazing week and thank you for stopping by to share in my creation this week.

Halloween and Prize Week at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Helllloooo! How is everyone doing?  We have had cool temperatures and parts of Alberta have received quite a bit of snow.  Here in small town Millet we have a wee bit of snow, really more of a dusting so far.  The wind has been super chilly through so it is beginning to feel a lot like winter.  This morning it really was chilly and one of those mornings where you think "if I get out of bed I am going to freeze, maybe I should just snuggle in a little deeper".

So today is Thursday and you know what that means! Another new challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks.  Thank you so much to all of the fabulous crafters who played with us last week.  You made our job super hard this week to pick the winners, please keep bringing on the inspiration.

At 4 Crafty Chicks this week our beautiful and fun filled crafting hostess is Lori.  We are on Challenge #113 and since it is almost that time of year where we have little munchkin's and big ones walking up to our houses yelling "trick or treat". Lori would like us to show what inspires of about "Halloween".

CHALLENGE #113 -HAPPY HALLOWEEN

The prize this month is offered up to us by Melissa be sure to check it out!

Here is my inspiration for this challenge. Isn't this fun, really not much stamping and everything used here is from Stampin Up, punches, daubers, white pen, stamp.  Playing with all of these circles really make for a fun creation.  Sometimes I forget that you can make something so cool like this by just using different kinds of punches or one style of punch. My very good friend Lori, shared this idea with a quite a few us and oh did we have so much fun making them.  Thanks girlie.

Tip: Break out the punches, you don't always need stamps to make a fabulous or fun filled creation. Circle punches and other punches are so versatile. 

It has been more than a long while since I have had a chance to enter into the following challenge sites.  So lucky me that my card fits into their challenges this week.

Stampin' Royalty #147 - Halloween

Tip Top Tuesday #88 - Halloween (Tip above my picture)

Creative Belli Challenge # 155 - Halloween

Please come and join us for our fun filled challenge.  We love visiting you from 4 Crafty Chicks and each week we look forward to the difficult choice of picking our TOP 3.  Also I just love getting to know you all by coming to visit your blog.

Here is a picture for this week that made me laugh.  I used to love the these guys.  Hope it makes you smile too.  It is from  Just Feelin Good photo's, on facebook.

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe and here is a smile coming your way!

Dry Embossing at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Happy Thursday all! Do you know it is the next best day to Friday?  Thursdays can get a bad rap but I like them.  It is almost the weekend and it is our new challenge day over at 4 Crafty Chicks.  It is my lucky week also because I get to host the challenge.  Man were the creations last week ever inspiring.  My jaw hit the ground more times than I could count with all of the fabulous creations.

Onto this weeks fun challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks.  We are wanting you to add texture to your creations thru dry embossing.  It is frequently said on my blog that I am in love with my embossing folders and well truly I am...LOL.

Here is my creation. The emobssing folder used is Holiday Frame, the stamp is from Joyous Celebrations.  The paper is Core'dination Card Stock made for sanding.  These are some new products from Stampin Up.  I do believe it is all fabby.

I am entering my card into Make It Monday #111 - Anything Goes

Another busy week here at my house but one super and very exciting thing that happened is my new fridge arrived yesterday!! One more thing that had to be replacrf but it still was like and early Christmas present...LOL.  It is funny how something like that can make your day.  However they have said the (s***) word again for this weekend.  How is that every year I know it is going to come but it happens that I am never ever ready...LOL. Oh well might as well prepare for the inevitable.

Please come on out and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks, we would love to have you and see what this challenge inspires in you.

My Quote for you this week:

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo

Tag Your It at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Good Morning crafting peeps!  Well what an exciting day yesterday...we received our first snowfall.  It was so chilly and really it called for candles, hot chocolate and soup to make one feel all toasty warm :)  It was a hunker down and stay inside kind of day :)

Thank you so much to everyone who played in our Thanksgiving challenge, the inspiration was rockin!  We have a new challenge for you this week and our hostess is Melissa.  She has given us a wonderful challenge and my fellow DT's have fantastic inspirations to share with you over at 4 Crafty Chicks.

CHALLENGE #111 - TAG YOUR IT!

Here is my creation for our challenge!  I got a chance to make it with my mom and it was sure super fun to play with a whole bunch of the new Stampin Up goodies.  Cynthia has this great tag die cut from Stampin Up and it was totally perfect for this challenge.  Thanks Cynthia for the wonderful fun and letting us use all of your crafting tools.  This card was cased from her but I made a few changes to make it my own.  The fun part is the great mittens and the texture on the card stock.  Who would know that it would be snowing and my card now fits perfectly with the weather. Bring on my first Christmas card for the season.  Whoop, Whoop!

I would love to enter my card into the following fabulous challenge:

Make It Monday - Anything Goes (#110)

Please come and join us at 4 Crafty Chicks we would love to stop by your blog and share some love! It is also so much fun to be totally inspired by our crafting pals.

Here is my funny picture for the week! Now anyone who knows me knows that I just can't stand that laundry is never ever finished....LOL.  My friend posted this to my Facebook wall.  Good on ya Lori this was so perfect :) and is matching how I feel today...LOL.  Hope it makes you giggle too.

Wishing you all a fabulous day! Thank you so much for sharing in my card today!