Inspiration Destination #114

Wednesday November 30, 2016

 

Welcome to a new challenge at Inspiration Destination #114

Where it's ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES

 

Our sponsor for this card is Polkadoodles

 

I could not figure out a good sentiment for this card.. I keep looking and looking. I have so many but just nothing fit this cute image.. This image is called Mammoth Friends.. What a talented artist. I would love to have the talent to draw images like this.. but I guess it's up to us that cant to instead just bring them to life. I loved coloring this cute image. I am sure the Mammoth is not this color but in my eyes he is.  I hope you find time to play along and post your ANYTHING GOES card over at Inspiration Destination.

 

Challenges:
The Daily marker day 30 color challenge
Craft your passion #340 - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #138 - anything goes
Digi choosday wk. 48 - anything goes
Artistic inspirations #168 - anything goes
Addicted to stamps #222 - make your mark
Crafting by design - anything goes
Penny's paper-crafty #306 - anything goes
The house that stamps built - anything goes
Creative moments #107 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 258-259 - anything goes

You're so sweet - Inspiration Destination #114

Wednesday November 30, 2016

 

Sunday Nov. 20th was my birthday so we spent the whole day in Portland Oregon which is about 2 hrs. from us.. then spent the night there and the next day flew out to Las Vegas. see below

 

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and enjoyed some quality time with family. I know we did. My x daughter in law (who to me is not an x.. she is more like a daughter and her husband) sent us tickets to visit. So we got to spend 9 days in Las Vegas got some quality time with the grandkids and spent time with our son and his fiancé.. We had a wonderful time.  We just got back yesterday.

 

So now it's time for crafting and challenge time..

Welcome to another challenge at Inspiration Destination #114. It's Always ANYTHING GOES

 

Our sponsor for this card is Karleigh Sue

 

This is my card and the image is Cuppa Time.. I really just kept this CAS.. I wanted to use some washi tape and some fun bright colors.  I like the way it came out.

I hope you find time to play along. 

 

Challenges:
The Daily marker day 30 color challenge
Craft your passion #340 - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #138 - anything goes
Artistic inspirations #168 - anything goes
Lemon shortbread #29 - anything goes
Addicted to stamps #222 - make your mark
Crafting by design - anything goes
Penny's paper-crafty #306 - anything goes
Simon Wednesday - anything goes
The house that stamps built - anything goes
Creative moments #107 - anything goes

We are wonderfully made by GOD - Catch the bug ABC

Monday November 28, 2016

Monday at Catch the bug is Anything But a Card

This is my Journal Inspiration page.. Since it's so late into the year I just may have to bring this one over to 2017 journal so I an enjoy it more..  I used the image called Girl teddy hug . . I again found a quote that I liked and then found the image that I thought was so cute and printed it out. I colored the image with copics and then used a white gel pen to give some dots to the bow and dress.  I did the colorless blender liquid and terry towel to give he bear some texture.. I added the colored image to a scrap of quick quote designer paper and then laminated the whole piece and punch my holes.

Challenges:
The Daily marker day 10 color challenge

We are Blessed - Thankful - Aud Sentiments #169

Thursday November 24 to December 6, 2016

 

Welcome to Aud Sentiments #169 challenge.. A favorite for everyone..

 

ANYTHING GOES PLUS SENTIMENT

 

Beings we are not sponsored this week we can use what ever we want.. WOO HOO I dug out an old stamp. I don't even know if the company is still around. It's an image from 1994 Peddlers Pack Stampworks.. I used this wood block stamp a lot in the past as the block had ink all over the base.. LOL I had fun using copics to color this image. Before I would of used pencils or markers... It was fun bringing the basket to life.  I just recently got this die and sentiment from Tech. Tues in their Oct. mailing club.. I had to use it. I bought some paper at Michaels by mistake (poor lighting to me not awake enough) it was actually a silver shinny paper.. I cut the Thankful two times and layered it. I think I will keep the pack of paper.. well actually I have to now its been opened.. I have a 100 pieces.. well 99 3/4 pieces of paper.. Guess great time with the holiday cards that need to be made.

 

Lets see your card and remember to add the sentiment to your card..

 

 

Challenges:
The Daily marker day 23 color challenge
Melonheadz friends - harvest blessings
Love to scrap #90 - anything goes

Nothing more glorious than the beauty of fall - Inspiration Destination #113

Wednesday November 23, 2016

 

Welcome to another fun challenge at Inspiration Destination #113

It's always ANYTHING GOES

 

Our sponsor for this card is Bugaboo stamps

 

This is my card using the image called Autumn critters.. I love the colors of fall. I am not a big fan of the cooler weather.. Our squirrels in the Pacific Northwest.. well Washington for sure are grey in color.. I know other states have different colors.. I used this fun sentiment from Technique Tuesday.
I hope you find time to play along. It is getting close to the beginning of the holidays. But it's always anything goes so hope you can play along.

Challenges:
The Daily marker day 22 color challenge

Thinking Thankful Thoughts - Bugaboo New Release

Tuesday November 22, 2016

 

Welcome to Bugaboo New Release day.. This image today is called Sweet Angel.. and yes she is.. This image is so darling and you can see what the design team did over at Catch the bug..

 

 

So like I don't have enough coloring tools.. I went and purchased a 60 pack of Zig watercolor markers.. I just got them so decided to use on this image since there really wasn't much to color.. Other than her arms looking quite tan I like them.. As for her arms and hands being too dark she has her head kind a over them so it's casting quite a shadow.. It's my story and I am sticking to it.. LOL. I will have to practice. I still have them in the container so I really haven't got a grasp on how to see all the colors with out taking them all out.. Right now I don't want to do that as the container is so handy for storage. Anyhow isn't this Sweet Angel just too cute?? I love the peaceful feminine girly girl look. I used this awesome perfect sentiment from Tech. Tuesday and punched it out with my Stampin up punch. The other papers were scraps and the DP I have no idea.. lot's of times they come in kits which only give you a few sheets and of course the paper work that comes with it shows the name but once I separate the kit I have no idea what paper is what. Sorry.  The strip of embossed teal behind the sentiment is a scrap.  I used a white gel pen to add some dots and sequins to give it some background eye movement. I hope you like and head over to Bugaboo to see the new releases and Catch the bug to see the DT cards. 

 

Challenges:
The daily maker day 22 - Coloring challenge
Love to scrap #90 - anything goes

Fall wheelbarrow kids Bugaboo / Catch the bug Free Friday

Friday November 18, 2016

 

It's Friday and so that means it's Free Friday at Bugaboo.. You can see this image done up by the Design team at Catch the bug..

 

This is the Free Friday image.. Fall Wheelbarrow Kids.. This is a fun fall scene. I remember playing in the leaves in the fall.. praying that there wasn't a spider crawling around on me.. I do love the fall season but summer has my heart.  I hope you get a chance to pick up this fun image.

 

Challenges:
The Daily marker day 18 color challenge

Happy Holidays - Inspiration Destination #112

Wednesday November 16, 2016

 

Welcome to Inspiration Destination #112 where it's

 ALWAY ANYTHING GOES

 

Our sponsor for this card is Fabrika

 

This is my card using the image Naughty Elf.. He is obviously eating the cherries.. If they are Maraschino Cherries I cant blame him.. I love those cherries. I tried to make it look like there were a lots of cherries in the container.. the image only had a few cherries but I wanted it to look like there were more so did different color of reds to give more depth.  He was fun to play with.

 

 

Challenges:
Word art Wednesday wk. 256-257 - anything goes
The Daily marker day 16 color challenge
Crafty catz #346 - anything goes
Scrapping4fun #78 - Christmas
Art by Miran #71 - anything goes
Crafty Hazelnuts #307 - coral/or pink,red,orange
Crafty purple frog -Nov. - Christmas

Inspiration Destination #112

Wednesday November 16, 2016

 

Welcome to a fun new challenge at Inspiration Destination #112

It's always ANYTHING GOES

 

Sponsor for this card  Morgans Art World

 

 

I use to be on the design team for Morgan's art world and always had fun using their image. This is a new image that I did not have. It's called Dragon 28.   I had a lot of fun coloring this fine looking gal. I had to add the purples and teals.. I love lizards and this is close to one just a lot bigger.. I did not add a sentiment and up in the corner it says Dragon queen.. If you head over to Inspiration Destination you can see what the other design team did with an image from MAW.

 

Challenges:
Word art Wednesday wk. 256-257 - anything goes
The Daily marker day 16 color challenge
Crafty catz #346 - anything goes
PDE linky party #146 - cards only
Creative fingers #120 - anything goes
Allsorts wk. 389 - feature a creature
Glitter n sparkle #214 - anything goes

It's your birthday - Mid month reminder Creative with Stamps #8 - use a bird stamp

Tuesday November 15, 2016

 

Mid month reminder that we still have a challenge going on at

Creative with Stamp #8 - Use a bird stamp

 

You still have some time before the Holiday's get here to get your card made and posted at Creative with Stamps. Hope to see you over there. use a bird stamp..

 

This is my mid month reminder. I got this awesome stamp set recently. I won  a gift certificate at a challenge and I could chose a few companies to get images from. Since I do not have Mama Elephant images this was a fun great time to find something. Well I found an awesome stamp set and of course had to have the dies. I am so spoiled by dies, I hate cutting out images unless I have to and these are so tiny.

I had fun trying to figure out a scene so used my My Favorite Things grass and Paper Trey ink banner die.. Then it still looked plain so I used Simon Says ink and balloon and stamped a group of balloons and drew on the strings and added a Simon Says heart to the ends on the strings.   I cant wait to use some more of the images. There were like 12 or so critters and all so cute.

Lets see you bird stamp and add your card to Creative with Stamps challenge.

 

Challenges:
Creative moments #106 - anything goes/opt. thank you /giving thanks
Word art Wednesday wk. 256-257 - anything goes
Crafty girls creations #29 - anything goes
The Daily marker day 15 color challenge
Brown sugar #224 - anything goes
Crafty catz #346 - anything goes
PDE linky party #146 - cards only
Creative fingers #120 - anything goes
Pattie's creations #128 - birthday
Art by Miran #71 - anything goes
Allsorts wk. 389 - feature a creature
Glitter n sparkle #214 - anything goes
Amuse studio - anything goes

Happy Holiday - Bugaboo New Release

Tuesday November 15, 2016

 

Welcome to New Release day at Bugaboo..

Today we have Christmas Troll.. You can see the design teams use of this fun image at Catch the bug.

 

This is the fun new image.. I remember my daughter use to collect the troll dolls in the 70's. She had quite a collection of them. This cute image was fun to color and remember my daughters little loved ones. I stamped and embossed a bunch of snowflakes and hearts on the background and then used this pretty spellbinder die. I like the red and white with a hint of green.  I hope you find time to head over to Bugaboo and see the new releases for November and possibly grab some other awesome images.

 

Challenges:
Word art Wednesday wk. 256-257 - anything goes
Crafty girls creations #29 - anything goes
The Daily marker day 15 color challenge
Brown sugar #224 - anything goes
Crafty catz #346 - anything goes
PDE linky party #146 - cards only
Creative fingers #120 - anything goes
Scrapping4fun #78 - Christmas
Art by Miran #71 - anything goes
Crafty Hazelnuts #307 - coral/or pink,red,orange
Glitter n sparkle #214 - anything goes
Crafty purple frog -Nov. - Christmas

Gifts of love

Saturday November 12, 2016

 

I was just looking at some sketches and saw again a great sketch on Paper Play challenges.. so thought I would create a card.. It wasn't quite what I wanted as the images were bigger then they should of been.. but I do like the CAS feel to the card.

 

Challenges:
Paper play #21 - sketch
Crafty Hazelnuts #307 - coral/or pink,red,orange
Little scrap pieces - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk.256-257 -anything goes
Crafty catz #346 - anything goes
Addicted to stamps #219 - CAS
The daily marker day 12
Crafty purple frog -Nov. - Christmas

Happy Smile Happy Smile - Bugaboo Free Friday

Friday November 11, 2016

 

It's Friday and so Bugaboo has a Free Friday image for you..

You can see the image and how the design team used her at Catch the bug..

 

 

This is the image called Cheer leading... I really kept this simple and used a PTI inks and Simon Says sentiment.. I got some die cut postage pieced from Monika in Germany. I have a postage die and she had a different one so we exchanged some die cuts .. I like the fresh feel of the colors. I hope you grab the image while it's free.. have fun. 

 

Challenges:
Craft your passion #337 - anything goes
Lemon shortbread #28 - anything goes
Cards und more #171 - girls girls girls
Penny's paper-crafty #303 - anything goes
Addicted to stamps #219 CAS
Creative moments #106 - anything goes/opt. thank you /giving thanks
Word art Wednesday wk. 256-257 - anything goes
Crafty gals corner #97 - use a sentiment
Crafty girls creations #29 - anything goes
The Daily marker day 11 color challenge

String up the lights - Aud Sentiments #168

Thursday November 10-22, 2016

 

Welcome to Thursday for our two week challenge at Aud Sentiments #168

 

It's ANYTHING GOES + SENTIMENT

 

Our sponsor for this card is Aurora Wings

 

This is my fun card.. I love this cute image.. I have to tell you I wanted to make light shining from the bulbs.. but I was so scared I would mess up the image so for this card.. the lights aren't plugged in yet.. LOL.. I love when I see artist make that awesome shadow glow but I was not confident enough that I could pull it off.  I took a piece of left over watercolor paper that was from a prior project and used the Stampin up ornament die and cut it out and added the sentiment from Paper Trey ink to it.  I also found a jar of small star sequins and so added them to the background.  Kind a tie'n in the colors.

This card made me happy.. I hope you play along and remember to add your sentiment so we can see it.

 

Challenges:
Crazy Hazelnut's Christmas #306 - Christmas
Craft your passion #337 - anything goes
Simon Monday - shine bright / sparkle (sequins sparkle and wink stella on lights)
Melonheadz friends - add a sentiment
Crafty sentiment - winter
Digi choosday wk. 45 - anything goes
Inky chicks #75 - winter wonderland
Lemon shortbread #28 - anything goes
Cards und more #171 - girls girls girls
Penny's paper-crafty #303 - anything goes
Addicted to stamps #219 CAS
Creative moments #106 - anything goes/opt. thank you /giving thanks
Word art Wednesday wk. 256-257 - anything goes
Crafty gals corner #97 - use a sentiment
The Daily marker day 10 color challenge

Happy Holidays - Bugaboo new release

Tuesday November 8, 2016

 

It's Tuesday and it's New Release day at Bugaboo.. You can see the design teams card at

Catch the bug and how they used this cute image.

 

This is the fun image called Elf 003... This cute Elf has a hand full of ornaments and I am sure rushing to get these to a tree to decorate.. It's almost that time of the year to get those Christmas / Holiday ornaments out.. I added some fun banners from assorted papers by Basic Grey and added some fun sequins from Stampin up.. It needed something else so I added the twine and this card is so cute in real life.. I hope you grab this fun image.. could be used for our Christmas Chaos that is coming up Dec. 3-9. 

 

Challenges:
The pencil case wk. 32 - anything goes
The ribbon girls - anything goes
Addicted t o stamps #135 - banners
Crazy Hazelnut's Christmas #306 - Christmas
Craft your passion #337 - anything goes
Simon Monday - shine bright / sparkle(wink of stella on the ornaments caps and sequins
Melonheadz friends - add a sentiment
Crafty sentiment - winter
Digi choosday wk. 45 - anything goes
Inky chicks #75 - winter wonderland
Lemon shortbread #28 - anything goes
The daily marker color challenge day 8

You're my kind of peep - happy birthday

Sunday November 6, 2016

 

I have a dear friend who I use to work with who loves peeps. She has quite a collection of them. I never knew how many there were.. so many different styles.. Well her birthday is November 26th and I will be seeing her this coming Wednesday and another dear friend who works with her so I will ask her to give my other friend her card on her birthday..  I saw this cute sketch at Paper Play sketches and knew it was perfect for the peep card. I've had this peep idea in my mind but couldn't figure a sketch.. well this one was perfect.. I love sketches and so want to get on another sketch design team.. I loved when I was on Unscripted Sketches.. It was so much fun bringing the sketch to life..  I think I said it before ... if anyone knows of a sketch design team with an opening.. let me know.

 

 

Challenges:
Paper Play Sketches #20  - anything goes
Amuse studio - anything goes
A bit more time to craft #31 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 254-255 - anything goes
The pencil case wk. 32 - anything goes
The ribbon girls - anything goes
PDE linky party #145 - anything goes
Crafty catz #345 - anything goes/ opt. snowflake
Brown sugar #223 - anything goes
Jo's scrap shack #163 - anything goes

Oh really! - Bugaboo - Catch the bug Free Friday

Friday November 4, 2016

 

Well it's been a nice first week of RETIREMENT!!! I can get use to this.. LOL

 

Today we have a Free Friday image for you all.  It's called Boxing punch..

You can find the image at Bugaboo and see the Design Teams cards using this image at Catch the bug.

 

This is the fun little guy. I wasn't sure what to do and since I am in love with the snarky Dylusions sentiments I had to chose one that I thought would fit.. This looked good so I just colored him up and added some nice papers and embossed the brown then added the sentiment. Quite simple.

 

Challenges:
Crafting by design - anything goes
Penny's paper crafty #302 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 254-255 - anything goes
CCC digi creations #60 - happy anything
A bit more time to craft #31 - anything goes
Crafty girls creations #29 - anything goes
Jo's scrap shack #163 - anything goes
Brown sugar #223 - anything goes
PDE linky party #145 - anything goes
Alphabet - R for recipe - (sentiment/digi/embossing)
Simply paper-craft #40 - anything goes

If you want the best seat in the house - Inspiration Destination #110

Wednesday November 2, 2016

 

Welcome to another fun Wednesday and a challenge at Inspiration Destination #110

It's always ANYTHING GOES

 

                         Our sponsor for this card is Just Ink Lined

 This card sure made me laugh.. The image is called Best seat in the house.. I just happened to have this fun OLD sentiment. I don't know or remember who it's by.. sorry.  But it was perfect and I just cut the stamped sentiment apart and went around the outside edge with copic pen.  I colored the image with copics and used a Dylusions stencil for the background. I colored the chair and then took "0" copic solution on a small piece of old blue jean and gave the chair some denim texture. My little fur babies are too small to fill a chair but they do have the best seat in the house no matter what size.

Challenges:
Moving along with the times #32 - cute animals
Crafting from the heart #134 - anything goes
Artistic inspirations #166 - anything goes
Crafty sentiments - anything goes
Digi choosday wk. 44 - anything goes
Crafting by design - anything goes
Penny's paper crafty #302 - anything goes
Fab n funky #325 - animals
Word art Wednesday wk. 254-255 - anything goes
CCC digi creations #60 - happy anything
A bit more time to craft #31 - anything goes
The 30 day coloring challenge - day 2