A Little Pumpkin Happy Halloween

 

Good afternoon,

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

Creative Knockouts Challenge Blog.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kelly

for everything she has done for me over the years.

Her understanding, patience, kindness and love

has been helpful too me.

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

than you will every know.

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

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

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

A little bit of clouds too.

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

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

Our challenge for you this time is:

#533 - Halloween or Fall

Our sponsor for this challenge is All Dressed Up

thank you for letting me use this very cute image to

high light store.

Little Pumpkin

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

The above images were both colored up using Copic Markers.

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

Please come and join us for our brand new challenge.

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

Creative Knockouts - Halloween or Fall creation - #533

Always Remember to Smile - Robin

Yep, that's Me - Robin

Wishing you a beautiful day!

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

Happy Crafting,

Hugs

Stitched Together With Love

 

Hello, my fellow crafty bloggers!

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

We reached +28. The trees are turning colors

just look so stunning with the beautiful

sunrises and sunsets.

Our brand new challenge at Creative Knockouts 

#531 - All Stitched Up 

(use real or faux stitching on your card)

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

Prize: 3 Digi's no bundles

The fun little image

that I colored up with my copic marker's 

is called Love is in the Air Elephant

The card up above has a two stitched rectangle dies

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

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

The scallop stitched pieces by the image were punched

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

It was fun incorporating hand stitching with faux stitching.

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

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

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

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

for our brand new challenge.

I love looking at your creations.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Take A Little Time To Spread Kindness

Happy Crafting

Hugs,

Cocoa Jacuzzi

 

Good morning and Merry Almost Christmas, Happy Holidays 

Happy Hanukah or to whatever you celebrate may it be bright and festive!

It is hard to believe Christmas Day is almost here.

It is the longest day of the year and the first day of Winter.

I must say, we are looking forward to the days

becoming longer.

It has been such a mild Christmas here.

What little snow we had is almost gone.

Mostly brown grass.

I think the last time this happened was in 2007/8

Let's get to why you are really here:

We are on our last challenge of 2023 (Wow)

over at Creative Knockouts.

#511 - Time To Be Merry

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is 

The Paper Shelter

Prize: 3 Images

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

Cocoa Jacuzzi

Cocoa Jacuzzi Image - The Paper Shelter

My image was colored up using Copic Markers.

The embossing panel it was one of my mom's

from her stash (apology I don't know the name)

The circle dies are from Spellbinders

The little enamel dots are from YNS

Up top their is a snowflake, punch and all the paper

is from Stampin' Up

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

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

Crafty Gals Corner - #250 - 'Tis The Season

I would like to wish you a time filled with peace, love and laughter.

With family, friends and others who just need us.

Thank you for joining us over the Christmas break.

I look forward to more inspiration from you all!!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Hugs,

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 & Guest Design Spot.

 Good morning blogger land!

Today, I am excited to be the Guest Designer

over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2

I was given two sketches to work with.

Kathie is an incredible designer of these sketches.

The fun part is you can chose to use one sketch or you can use both.

Isn't it great to have options???

They are simply fantastic and it was so much fun

to see what these designs inspired me to create.

Hope you like them.

Sketch #1

The image is colored using Copic Markers. 

I went to through my stash of older stamps

from The Project Bin  A Way With Words North Pole

All paper, punches, glitter are from Stampin' Up

Sketch #2

Copic Markers were used to color up this cute reindeer image.

This cute image is called Holiday Reindeer

by Patties Creations Digital Images

The stitched square dies are from My Favorite Things Die-namics

All the papers, punches (arrows) and felts tree and snowflake

are from Stampin' Up

Please hop on over to their sketch challenge.

I look forward to seeing all of your creation.

Thanks for joining me today!

hugs,

Holiday Reindeer

 

Good morning!

Welcome to my blog.

It is so hard to believe that we are on the 

last day of November.

The time has been going so fast.

Hoping your November has been a good one.

We have been struggling with being sick

but I finally managed to get back into my

craft room and get creative. It certainly does

feel good to color and create.

Next thing on our list is to start decorating our house.

Onto why you stopped by.

We have a brand new challenge over at

Creative Knockouts.

Challenge #509 - Tis The Season

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is

Pattie's Creations Digital Stamps

Prize: 4 images

Thank you for allowing me to high light

Holiday Reindeer

The image below has been colored using Copic Markers.

It also has some sparkling diamonds on the hat and scarf.

I would love to have this little guy. He is so very cute.

The paper, scallop punch and snowflake are from Stampin' Up.

This card will be for one of my grandchildren.

Please come and join us at Creative Knockouts

my fellow team mates have amazing creations to help inspire you.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Wishing you a wonderful day ahead.

Hugs,

Trevor's Tremendous Treehouse

 

Good morning! 

It is still dark out while I am typing this up.

This weekend our clocks go back an hour!!!

Can you feel my excitement of having

an extra hour of sleep?

The extra hour of sleep just makes body happy.

Our snow is slowly melting away which

totally makes me happy.

Hoping everyone had a terrific Halloween,

it was a beautiful evening for us out with

our 3 awesome grandkids.

We have a brand new challenge for you today

at Creative Knockouts Challenges.

Challenge #507 - Fall Is In The Air

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is from

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Thank you so much for letting me showcase

Tevor's Tremendous Treehouse

It is a great image for any type of card.

The above image has been colored with Copic Markers (Spectrum Noir paper)

All layered papers are from Stampin' Up.

We would love it if you would join us for 

Fall is in The Air challenge this week.

It sure has that crispness outside.

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

The Crafty Addicts - Challenge #7 - Anything Goes

Thank you so much stopping by my blog.

Flower Dreams

 

Good morning!

It sure is starting to feel like fall here in Central Alberta.

We have a brand new challenge starting today over

at Creative Knockouts.

We are on Challenge #503 - Use Your Favorite Embellishment

(as you can see on my card it is Pearls)

 Our sponsor All Dressed Up

Prize: 2 Images

Thank you so much for supplying me with

the Flower Dreams image

to high lite

My image Flower Dreams was colored up using Copic Markers.

The dies are all from Spellbinders.

The paper/pearls is from Stampin' Up.

Paper piercing tool was used to create the double poke edging.

Please come and join us for this brand new challenge.

I would love to see what your favorite embellishment is.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Wishing you an amazing day!

Hugs,

Highland Wish

 

Good morning to you!

I am in shock at August being half gone.

It is exciting, to pick our daughter up

and her boyfriends family at the airport tomorrow.

They have been away in Germany for a month.

We have been camping this month

with our grandchildren and their parents.

We splurged and got a paddle board and that has been so much

fun with our kids and grandson. 

Not sure why we waited to long to get one.

Let's get to why you're here.

We have a brand new challenge for you at Creative Knockouts.

Our challenges run for two weeks so plenty of time

to share with us your awesome creations.

What is our challenge you say?

Challenge #501 - Anything Goes

Super easy for this time of year.

Our fantastic sponsor for the brand new challenge is

Hetty Clare Art

Prize: 2 images

The digi that has been used on my card is called 

Highland Wish

So this cute Highland Wish image was colored up using Copic Markers.

The embossing folder is of clouds

Yellow pattern paper just reminded me of my 

grandma's house (old country style) and card stock is from Stampin Up.

Other than the cloud layer the other layers are stitched

(Gina Marie and Your Next Stamp)

The sentiment is Penny Black.

Adding a few embellishments from Stampin Up 

and bam this card is complete.

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

The Crafty Addicts - Challenge #4 - Anything Goes

The Paper Funday Challenges - Challenge #56 - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - Great Outdoors

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 - Sketch 260

Please come and join us at Creative Knockouts

as I would love to see your wonderful creations.

My fellow Design Team members have amazing creations for you too.

Have a fantastic week!

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Hugs,

Christmas in July

 

Good morning everyone!

Where is July going?

The Summer seems to be flying by.

Unfortunately, with all the smoke we have

not been able to get out and enjoy camping. 

Maybe in the next few weeks that will happen.

We bought a paddle board so hoping we can use that more too.

We are still enjoying our holidays.

High light of the last few weeks for me has been

having our whole family together, including my sister

a fire/hot dogs and smores.

Creative Knockouts is starting a brand new challenge today!

No time better to start working on your Christmas cards for this year.

We have the perfect challenge for you.

For challenge #499

Kelly would like us to create

Christmas in July

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is from

Alex Syberia Design

The Prize: $15 voucher for digital images

The image I used for this card is called Gingerbread House

Thank you for letting me high light this image.

Isn't it a cute house? It has been colored using Copic Markers.

Glitter (dazzling diamonds) has been used for the chimney, edges of the house, window

base of the house. It was used to act like glittery snow.

Also the sentiment came with this image from Alex which is simply perfect.

A clean and simple design, however, the image is popped up.

On the tag, the image was roughed up around the edges

and I used Gina Marie Stitched framed die for the snowflake

pattern paper.

We would love for you to come and join our challenge.

My team mates have incredible inspiration for you too.

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

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - #143 - Anything Christmas Goes

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

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

Thank you so much for stopping in.

Crafting with you,

First Dance

Good morning!

It is another beautiful day here in central Alberta.

We have had much needed rain, to help with the forest fires and crops.

Everyone is done school for this year tomorrow.

We will be going to our grandsons, kindergarten graduation.

I have some goals for this summer,

get my craft room and bedrooms organized.

Do you have any goals, that you are working at accomplishing?

Today, we have a brand new challenge over at Creative Knockouts

We are on Challenge #497 - All Stitched up (real or faux stitching)

Our challenges run for two weeks.

(usually I do hand stitching but decided to use a stitch dies this time)

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is 

All Dressed Up Stamps

The prize is 2 images

The image used on this card is called The First Dance

A beautiful image to color up and one that is great

for graduations, engagement, wedding, anniversary...etc.

Thank you All Dressed Up for the beautiful image.

Our daughter's childhood friend since kindergarten is getting

married this weekend and this is the card, that is made just for them.

The image was colored up using Copic Markers.

The pattern paper being used is a retired Stampin' Up (from my mom's collection)

The stitched dies are from My Favorite Things.

For the sentiment Your Next Stamp was used.

I would like top enter my card into the

All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge Blog - June 2023 - #141 - Anything Goes

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - June Challenge - Anything Goes

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - #575 - Use a Sentiment 

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Weddings

The Crafty Addicts - Challenge #2 - Anything Goes

Please come and join us for our challenge over at Creative Knockouts.

In the up coming week, my sister is coming to visit

and boy am I over the moon about this.

Thank you for coming to my blog and checking it out!

Hoping my card has inspired you in some way.

Come and craft with me,

Hugs,

The Book Elf - Thank you

 

Good morning!

Hoping you are having a good week so far.

May is just flying by.

We celebrated our anniversary this past week

and we had a long weekend.

Who doesn't love a long weekend?

It has been very hot and windy

so many fires in our province.

Praying for gentle rains that will help

with all of the fires.

We have a brand new challenge for you

over at Creative Knockouts.

for challenge #495

we would like to see Fun Fold cards

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is

Star Stampz

Prize: 3 Images

The Book Elf is the image being high lighted on this card.

It was colored using Copic Markers.

Fun fold cards are great. It has been a while.

The fun fold I am sharing with you is called a W Easel Card.

My image is probably a little bigger

than it should be but it still works out.

You use a 4.25x11"

Score at 5.5"

Score at 2.75"

Then you fold it to the inside.

or you fold it in half and then fold one piece in half again.

It was so much fun to color up this image.

I adore books and absolutely love

to read outside in the summer, especially while camping.

One of my dream spots to read would be to have a 

spot with pillows and a bench around

a tree with lights, a good drink and then relax.

Just read until my heart is content.

The stitched dies are from Gina Marie Designs.

The two punches with the sentiment are from Stampin' Up

The thank you stamp is from Stampin' Up

Paper is from Stampin' Up.

Please be sure to join us over at Creative Knockouts

for our Fun Fold Challenge.

We would love to see you creations.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have an amazing week.

Hugs,

For Someone Special

 

Good morning to blogger land!

It sure has been a busy few weeks

for us with our families.

Two special highlights for me in the last couple

of weeks is:

1. I got to see my many of my aunties/uncles,

it has been way to long. Every minute counts.

2. My husband, friend Helen and I have

all started swimming again. 

It absolutely feels great. In the last month, I have

been able to accomplish all my goals in the pool.

10 years ago before my accident,

I was swimming 44 lengths with very good speed.

Even though, my speed is not there, once again

I am able to swim that many lengths.

My goal will be to reach 1 mile which is 64 lengths.

Onto why you are really here:

We have a brand new challenge up at Creative Knockouts

Challenge #493 - Flower Power

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is

LeAnn's World 101

Prize: 2 Images

Thank you for letting me showcase this image

called Bouquet

Bouquet is colored using Copic Markers

Spellbinders were used for the scalloped circles

and the stitched dies are from My Favorite Things.

The adorable paper used is from a Stampin' Up (several years old now).

Pearls are unknown.

Be sure to check out the fantastic creations my

teammates have created. They will be sure to inspire you.

Thank you so much for coming to my blog.

Hoping, there is some inspiration for you here.

Have an amazing week ahead!

Hugs,