Sentimental Sunday Challenge #189

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you are off to a

fabulous start. I know I am.. Today I am sharing

a birthday card for our It's a BUGGY Bug World 

challenge at Sentimental Sundays

I pledged that this year I was going to use up

all of my scraps. So I won't have paper names

exact, but will assum they are mostly from

DWCM. I am a huge fan of their papers and

always buy when they are on sale.

My image is from QKR called "Little Boy"

I just love this as my grandson will be three soon

and he does love bugs.

My birthday sentiment is from a package of stickers

and the ants are from Jolene's... I love how this card

came together.. It was a blast to color as well.

I hope you will find inspiration in my project and 

create your own Buggy Bug card for our challenge at

Sentimental Sunday

Happy Scrapin

TTPH Secret Santa Blog Hop

Hello everyone and Happy New Year to you.

Today I am sharing with my  Secret Santa Gift..

All the DT's girlfrom Through the Purple Haze were given secret
names to share a smallgift with for Christmas.
It turned out to be kind of 

a nightmare with all the bad weather and people not 

receiving packages and such.. But we are all good 

now and ready to go. So from my SS, I received

5 images from one of my all time favorite designers

Heather Valentine of Lacy Sunshine..

So here they are all colored and ready

1st up is Wix Hearts a Blaze

Next is Myrlte's Flower

Next to follow is Lil Peanut Brittle

Then came Izzybella Boo Cute as a Button

and last but not least is Ladybug Lyndsey

Here is the order of the hop. Make sure you leave

a comment and even become a follower.

Anita - http://kardmakingheaven.blogspot.co.uk/
Ashley - http://marinewifesscrappinlife.blogspot.co.uk/
Becky - http://beckyscardsandcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/
Darcy - http://craftingwithdarcy.blogspot.co.uk/
Eithne - http://cardroomdelights.blogspot.ie/
Fiona - http://ahighlanderflingofcards.blogspot.co.uk/
Jacqui - http://jacqui-creations.blogspot.co.uk/
Lisbeth - http://skaperlyst.blogspot.no/
Lucy - http://loopylass2010.blogspot.co.uk/
Lynne - http://esperitecrafting.blogspot.co.uk/
Nicola - http://craftycardsbynicola.blogspot.ie/
Pam - http://alljazzed2create.blogspot.co.uk/ YOU ARE HERE
Sian - http://serendipity-cards.blogspot.co.uk/ NEXt STOP
Sylvia - http://sylviaskards.blogspot.co.uk/
Teresa - http://ceesascardcreations.blogspot.ie/

If you get lost along the way, just start back at Anita's.

I will be creating cards with these very soon, but

wanted to get them all colored up so you could see how 

fabulous her designs are..

Please stop by the other members blogs and see what

fancy scrapin stuff they all received..

I would also enjoy having you follow me along as I start this new year.

Happy Scrapin..

Sentimental Sunday Challenge #188 Make it new or Alter something

Happy New Year to everyone. This week here at Sentimental Sundays
we were to Make it New Or Alter something.. Well this is not my
best talent but came up with an idea that I will be continuing in the future.
 We all have those

birthday cards, Christmas cards, Anniversary and so on, just either laying

around  or in boxes and drawers. So, I took and old birthday card

and made it my own. Here goes.

What I did was cute the old card apart. Placed this striped background onto

a new card base. Next I added the lower portion as seen below.

These cakes are popped up for demention. Next I cut out

the Birthday sentiment and added it to the top left corner

as seen below.

The striped strip was along the bottom of the old card and I

liked it so decided to add.. and the final touch is the border

strip that I punched out with my Martha Stewart Star.

I think for  my first attemp at altering something it

turned out pretty well. I hope you are inspired to cute

those old cards apart and make new ones from them..

I know I will be

 Happy Scrapin.

Happy Birthday Anita Blog Hop

Today we are celebrating the birthday of

our very own team leader.

Anita

Today I have made this card especially for you.

I have used a5 1/2 X 6" card for the base..The background is

from my stash box. I have cut my image down to 3 X 4 and 

the frame of blue is 3 1/4 X 4 1/4.

The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbons,

and the copics I used are BG23,YG03,E11,E00,R20,RV52,

V22,BV01,R22 and RV29.

If you are just getting started you will want to

head back to Anita's

If you just came from Ethnie - http://cardroomdelights.blogspot.ie/

your next stop will be at Sylvia - http://sylviaskards.blogspot.co.uk/

Have an enjoyable hop Anita. This is all for you..

Try Stampin on Tuesday #149

Happy New Years Eve everyone.

Today I am sharing a card for Try Stampin on Tuesday.

Ringing in the New Year later and my resolution for this

year is to participate in my challenges outside of my

design teams. So, this is an early start to that.. Here is 

the sketch that they have proivided for us to use..

I must say I really love this..

Along with using this sketch they added a twist and

that was to use some bling..

My card is 5 1/2 X 6. I dug into my scrap bend and

found these two piece of paper that went very well

together. My flower is made with a Spellbinders Shapeablities

Die D-Lite called Blooms Three, and the bling is from Jolene's.

 The Sentiment is a stamp

that I purchased at my local craft store for a $1.00. Don't you

just love deals like that. And finally, my center border is

cut from a Martha Stewart punch.

As I started before I am entering this card over at.

http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/

Enjoy your day and happy scrapin..

TTPH Here comes Christmas day with Penny Black

Happy Monday everyone. I am so happy to have the rain.

After 6 days of being snow and iced in I can finally get out

of my drive way. It has been good being in my crafty space

creating more holiday cards.

This week our sponsor is Penny Black. Prize for this

weeks challenge is

Now this is something to be playing for.. Stunning

prize package..

This week both A and B teams are show casing their

cards. 

My card this week is done with all scrap papers and

3 dies. First my Icecles and Window frame is from

Sizzix. My trees and Rabbit are from Cottage Cutzs

called Rustic Sign and Trees. Really love all of these dies.

I used my Fiskars over scalloped cutter for my sentiment

and the sentiment is from Jolene's stamps..

I hope that my card will inspire you to find your

crafty space and create something fun and Christmasy

for this weeks challenge..

I will be entiring my card in these challenges:

TTPH - 1 image, 2 papers, 3 Embellishments and Christmassy

This week I have started a new chapter in my life. I made the 

move into retirement. I am still getting used to that word as

I am fairly young. So in making this card I just loved the image

from Kenny K.  I don't have her name but I truly love

this little gal..She has the biggest smile on her face, just

as I do with my decision.

Winner of this weeks challenge will recieve 3 fabulous

digi's from Kenny K. I hope you will join us for this weeks 

challenge at TTPH.

Happy Crafting