Happy Birthday

I started making this card for the Tiddly Inks Challenge #44- Celebrate with us and fell so much in love with their image that I wanted to find a sketch to submit with it. I don't know what your thoughts are on this little "Minnie" from Christy at Tiddly Inks but for me it was love at first sight, I think I will just stare at her for a little while!! Yesterday was Christy's birthday and her favorite colors are red, black and white, that is what they are celebrating with the challenge. For the sketch I used the Mojo Monday sketch #184 round or square and also extra colors from the Color Throwdown #135 challenge, black, red, cream and yellow. All 3 are having a wonderful challenge, so hop on over and check them out. I hope you enjoy this little cutie as much as I do and have a wonderful day :)

Recipe:

Tiddly Inks digi- Minnie

Bazzill Cardstock

ki memories paper

DCWV paper

American crafts ribbon

Queen & Co. pearls

Hero Arts Stamp

Martha Stewart daisy punch

ek success punch

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Archival Ink

Liquid pearls

Glossy Accents

Enamel Accents

Copic Markers

Prismacolor pencils

Zig memory pens by ek success

Martha Stewart twine

Photoshop

ATG gun

Pop dots

Surprise

I made this for the M.A.G. Challenge by the page # 19- Create a Critter, pg. 50. It is amazing the different things you do from one page on a cartridge. Below I put the picture up of the layers that I used for this card. Lots and lots of embellishments to make a mouth watering ice cream cup. This challenge lets you see what other people created and came up with for just that one page. So much fun, hop on over and see what you can come up with!!

Recipe:

Bazzill Cardstock

DCWV paper

Cricut Create a Critter- pg. 50 only

Sizzix tag die cut

Inkadinkado stamp

Versamark

Liquid Pearls

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Glossy Accents

Beads

Marvy Paper crimper

corner punch

Queen & Co. Pearls

ATG gun

Pop dots

Awards

Okay so I have a few awards to share and to thank my fellow bloggers for. You are all so kind to think of my and I truly appreciate it. I hope I got them all and am not forgetting anyone!! Okay lets see if I can do the math :)

Thank you D.L. Art

This one I need to pass on to 5 other people

Thank you Gloria, I feel the same in return

Thank the person who gave this to you and

award it to the people who stop by and comment

frequently.

Thank you Gloria and Tina

Thank the person who gave this to you,

tell 7 things about yourself and

share with 15 people, AAhh that's 30 right :)

Thank you Gloria

Share 3 things about myself

and share with 3-5 people

Okay so if my calculations are correct I need to be sharing this with 40 plus my frequent commenter's and share 17 things about myself :)

Firstly though I don't want the people who gave me these to get lost in all this writing:

Gloria- Girlia's Cards, the kindest soul you will ever virtually meet :)

Diana- D.L. Art, who I have only just recently met, one of my fellow DT members for CTO and just very sweet :)

Tina- Tina's Craft Creations, always a wonderful supporter and all around kind gal :)

For now I will give the BFB Blogger award:

Gloria!!!! I want you to be recognized (the one who gave me this award) as always a top commenter and I truly appreciate it. I am just putting your name so you don't have to re-issue the award :)

In no particular order:

Carri- http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/

Adrian- http://byadrian4u.blogspot.com/

Tina- http://kiehn10.blogspot.com/

Nicole- http://creativedelightsbynicole.blogspot.com/

Amo Mi Cricut- http://amomicricut.blogspot.com/

Melissa- http://melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com/

Diana- http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/

Victoria- http://victoriasjunk.blogspot.com/

There are so many more of you but this post is getting crazy long, if anyone has even got this far you definitely deserve to be on the above list, lol. I will try and post the rest later and thank you everyone for the wonderful acknowledgement and making the blogger world so fantastic!!

The Sherlocks Home

Today is Sara's birthday from The Sherlocks Home blog. She has some really cute digi's that she gives away for FREE, can you believe it. This birthday cake and sentiment are from her and I just wanted to do a quick card to wish her a very happy birthday!!! Have a good evening all :)

Recipe:

The Sherlocks Home digi and sentiment

Neenah cardstock

Bazzill cardstock

Staedtler pens

Stickles

Mark Richards crystals

Darice gems

Sewing machine

Photoshop

Pop dots

ATG gun

Everybody needs....

This card is for the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge # 94. You need to use the sketch and something with bunnies. Meljen's Designs is the sponsor this week so I am using one of her bunny digi's. It is hard to read unless you click on it but I used Photoshop to print out the saying "Everybody needs a friend who's all ears!" I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful evening :)

Recipe:

Meljen's Designs Digi- Sew Country Bunny

Digi Sparkle Digi- Circle frame

Cosmo Cricket paper

Bazzill Cardstock

Bo Bunny paper

DCWV paper

Staedtler pens

Prismacolor pencils

Inkadinkado stamp

Photoshop

Stickles

Versamark

UTEE

$1 flower brads

Celebrate It ribbon

Pop dots

ATG gun

A dream....

This card is for the Tiddly Inks Challenge # 43- Picture Me. For this challenge you needed to make shaped card (no square or rectangle) and no cricut. Also you needed to use the picture below for inspiration. I used style #2 for the card, cut out two matching dies, score and adhere. I used Tiddly Inks "Princess Fiona" digi and popped up her skirt, some tissue paper and vellum for the flower puffs and put it all together. I hope you can hop over to Tiddly Inks and join, they have wonderful digi's and challenges to boot! I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful evening :)

Recipe:

Tiddly Inks digi- Princess Fiona

Neenah paper

Vellum

Tissue Paper

Basic Grey stamp

Darice Gems

Stickles

Prismacolor Pencils

Staedlter Pens

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Tim Holtz Acrylic Paint Dabber

Colorbox ink

M.S. Large Flower punch

Fiskars flower punch

Photoshop

ATG gun

Elmers Craft Bond

Happy Sunday

I decided to take a last minute trip to the hometown on Thursday night and I just got back today. I have a lot of catching up to do, I feel like I was gone for a month or something :) Anyways, I don't want anyone to think I am ignoring them and I will get back on track here and get a card up for everyone tonight, fingers crossed. In the meantime, I hope you have a good rest of your Sunday and I thank everyone for stopping by!!!

More please

I made this card for the Hambo Hoedown Challenge #8. I used there digi and the sketch for this challenge, if you don't have this digi from Hambo you can use any Hambo image. This worked out to be a perfect "gift card" card for a special occasion. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful Thursday :)

Recipe:

Hambo Hoedown digi- Coffee girl

Cutting Cafe digi

Neenah cardstock

Recollections cardstock

Photoshop

ATG gun

Pop dots

Your in my thoughts

This is for the Sentimental Sundays Challenge #47- Let's get sentimental. The sentiment is the main focus of your card. I also used the Mojo Monday sketch 183 for this card and turned the sketch sideways. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful night :)

Recipe:

Sentimental Sundays Sentiment

DCWV cardstock

Neenah paper

K & Company flower art

Photoshop

irock and gems

Staedtler pens

rounder tool

ribbon

ATG gun

Pop dots

Welcome Home

M.A.G. challenge time- #18, you need to use this page only. This is the Cricut Celebration cartridge pg. 130 in your booklet or 71 on Cricutsearch. This one took me back to my childhood days when I used different shapes to make my dream home, lol.

I used the:

blackout tag for the card and the windows

tag for the house part

shadow triangle for the sconces

border triangles for the roof and border tags for the path

blackout triangles for the window boxes and bushes

I hope you can hop over and join there wonderful challenge, it really does give you a challenge to create something that you wouldn't normally create. I hope you have a wonderful night :)

Recipe:

Kraft Cardstock

Yellow and glitter brown cardstock

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Tim Holtz Embossing folder

Making Memories Stamp set

Archival Ink

Chatterbox brad

Loose flowers

Pop dots

ATG gun

M.A.G. Blog Hop winner

Firstly I want to thank everyone who stopped by and chose to follow my blog, I appreciate all of you and your wonderful comments that you leave me. There wouldn't be a blog without you :) Okay so on with the winner, the blog hop winner picked through random.org is #30 Esther, she said:

30. Esther said...

I love, love, love it!
All of the gals in this hop did a wonderful job!
Very Fun!

http://www.forthejoyofcreating.blogspot.com

Please send me your mailing information and I will get your goodies out to you!!

I wish I could send all of you something for being such wonderful followers and commenter's, maybe someday :)

Thank you with a tag- CTO #6

Hello everyone and a special hello to all the new followers!! It's time for challenge # 6 at "Celebrate the Occasion". For this challenge you need to make some kind of a "Thank you" project or card with a tag. For mine I chose a card, what a surprise huh ;) I hope you are able to hop on over to see what all the DT have created and join the challenge, I would love to see all of your creations!! Also a congratulations to Cheryl for winning challenge # 5!! I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Recipe:

Neenah cardstock

DCWV cardstock

Paper Shapers oval punch

Stickles

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Spellbinders Nestabilities

Stampendous stamp (inside)

Photoshop

Office Max tag

Michaels Ribbon (unsure of brand, sorry)

ATG gun

M.A.G. Spring Bling Blog Hop

Outside of Card

Inside of Card

Woo hoo, it’s time for the very first M.A.G. Challenge by the Page Blog Hop!! You should have come here from Gaby’s blog and I should be your very last stop. If this is your first stop you can start at the beginning, M.A.G. Blog, to see all the goodies and Spring Bling from all of the DT listed below!!

Blog Hop List

M.A.G Blog - http://magchallengebythepage.blogspot.com

Melissa - http://www.melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com

Nicole - http://www.creativedelightsbynicole.blogspot.com

Gloria - http://www.girliascards.blogspot.com

Gigi - http://www.thecricutbug.blogspot.com

Adrian - http://www.byadrian4u.blogspot.com

Gaby - http://www.gabycreates.com

Lucianna – You are here J

For today’s card I made a 5x7 and cut an inch from the bottom off and 3 off the top. A 3 inch flap is what was left and then I attached a 3x3 square to the flap. On the inside I made the bumblebees with beads and the wings with vellum. Recipe is listed below for you.

Giveaway Time, for today’s giveaway I have some Sassafras felties and a mish mash of American Crafts goodies. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post, a way to get a hold of you and BAM you are in. I will announce the winner on Tuesday March 22^nd, so you have until Monday by midnight to enter. Good luck all and thanks for hoppin’ with us ;)

Recipe:

Bazzill Cardstock

DCWV cardstock

Doodlebug Designs Cardstock

$1 Bin flower gems

Martha Stewart Twine

Martha Stewart punch

Colorbok Alphas

Recollections brad

Stickles

Liquid Pearls

Beads

Pop Dots

ATG gun

Zip Dry

Create Green

This was made for the Tiddly Inks Challenge #42 Lucky Me and the Sentimental Sundays Challenge #46- Let's Go Green. I used Tiddly Inks digis "tree hugger" and "3 butterflies" and the sentiments are from Sentimental Sundays- Earth Day. I love how this card turned out with the wonderful digi and sentiments together. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

P.S. Don't forget the M.A.G. spring bling blog hop tomorrow. It is their first blog hop and there will be lots of blog candy!!

Recipe:

Tiddly Inks Digi's- Tree Hugger and 3 Butterflies

Sentimental Sundays Sentiments- Earth Day

Bazzill Cardstock

Prismacolor pencils

Staedtler pens

Photoshop

Tim Holtz Scissors

Irock tool and gem

Pop Dots

ATG Gun

Tiddly Inks winner

Yeah, my little "roboto" card made for the Tiddly inks- Kraft with me challenge made the top 5. Just had to share and thank Tiddly Inks for choosing me, I love your wonderful digis!!

Every good ....

So I decided to use the wonderful SSW #93 sketch for this card also. I made this card using the Hambo Hoedown digi, their week 6 challenge is all about the sparkle! The DT has made a lot of sparkly goodness, hop on over and take a gander. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Don't forget Celebrate the Occasion is having there weekly challenge- New arrival (baby or puppy). This weeks DT has done some adorable projects and it's such a fun challenge for those who haven't tried it :)

Recipe:

Hambo Hoedown digi- Party Elephant

SSW sketch

DCWV cardstock

Dress it up buttons

Stickles

Enamel Accents

Prismacolor pencils

Staedtler pens

Tim Holtz scissors

Photoshop for sentiment

Sewing machine

Pop dots

ATG gun

Party like your going extinct

I made this card using the Sweet Sketch Wednesday #93 and the colors from The Color Throwdown #133. The sponsor at SSW is Digi Stamp Boutique and that is where I got the cute digi for the card, they have really adorable digi's to choose from for those interested. I hope you hop on over to the two awesome challenges, SSW always has wonderful sketches and The Color Throwdown have color combos that are awesome. Anyways, I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful evening :)

Recipe:

SSW Sketch

Digi Stamp Boutique digi

DCWV paper

Bazzill Cardstock

Recollections cardstock

Prismacolor pencils

Staedtler markers

Darice Gems

Stickles

White Gel Pen

Pop Dots

ATG gun

M.A.G. Challenge- From the Kitchen

It is M.A.G. challenge time- Challenge # 17, "From the Kitchen" pg. 60. Wow, this was a toughy, but I was determined to figure something out!! The best I could do was an owl because I didn't want to do more flowers. I only used the glass (mrtini-s) and the oval (ovals shadow). I used the glass a lot, for the eyes, the nose and the ears! I hope you are able to hop over and try for yourself because this is truly a fun challenge. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Recipe:

Bazzill Cardstock

Doodlebug Designs cardstock

Cricut Cartridge- From the Kitchen pg. 60 only

Stickles

Photoshop for saying

Pop dots

ATG gun

Award :)

Tina's Card Creations gave me an award, I am so awful that I am just now getting this up. She is so sweet to think of me and has a wonderful blog to take a look at!!

This awards come with a few rules. It created for bloggers who have fewer than 300 followers, but still put a lot of love and heart into their work. I have to pass along this award to 3-5 other bloggers who I feel deserve this award, which is everyone, lol, but I have to choose only 3-5. I love you all!! Here are the rules of The Liebster Blog Award. It is given to bring light to new blogs and it's a great way to share blogs that might not otherwise be seen or ones you want to share with others.

As a recipient you must share the love and pay it forward by:

1-Creating a post where you blog about the Liebster award and reveal your 3-5 blog picks

2-Let them know you chose them by leaving a comment on their blog

3-Copy and paste the blog award on your blog

4-Have faith that your followers will rally and show their crafty love back out to those you awarded

5-Have fun!


Here are a few blogs I have picked for the award, in no particular order at all because they are all wonderful ;)

http://amomicricut.blogspot.com/

http://deegeescraps.blogspot.com/

http://lilflowerslynne1.blogspot.com/

http://onecreativemomma.blogspot.com/

http://popnstick.blogspot.com/

Stop by and take a look at some of there beautiful creations!

Thanks again Tina, I truly appreciate it ;)

Spring

My Pink Stamper is having her monthly blog hop and for this one you need to make something "Spring". I chose these bright colors and this stamped image to represent warmer times are coming!!! Hop on over an join the fun blog hop, there are a lot of wonderful projects.

I am also entering this into the Wee Memories challenge #47 Spring is here- Green is here. They have a beautiful picture for the Scrappy Saturday challenge. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day and don't forget to "Spring" forward on your clocks tonight :)

Recipe:

My Pink Stamper stamps (sentiment)

Hero Arts Stamp (girl)

KI Memories paper

Nestabilities (scallop circle)

Copic Markers

Liquid Pearls

Enamel Accents

Versafine ink

Staedtler markers

Silk ribbon

$1 bin felt flowers

MOJO monday sketch

ATG gun

Pop dots

Happy 3rd Birthday

I made this card for the Tiddly Inks Challenge #41- Kraft with me, use Kraft paper. Tiddly Inks has the cutest digis and that is where I got this "roboto" digi. Hope you enjoy and have a great day :)

Recipe:

Tiddly Inks Digi

Kraft Cardstock

My Mind's Eye paper

Versamark pen

Stampendous embossing powder

Cuttlebug number die

Enamel Accents

ek success oval punch

ek success edge punch

Recollection stickers

ATG gun

Pop dots

Photoshop

Hambo Hoedown- Use Gold

This card is for the Hambo Hoedown Challenge, use the image and gold. In case you are wondering about this challenge , if you started from the beginning with this site, they send you a free image every week and you have to use it in the challenge. As long as you do it every week you will get a free image. If you didn't start from the beginning you can use any of there images to make a card. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful rest of your day :)

Recipe:

Hambo Hoedown Digi- St. Pat Hamster

Bazzill cardstock

Recollections cardstock

DCWV paperstack

GCD studios paper

Martha Stewart punch

Stickles

Prismacolor pencils

Staedtler markers

Versamark

Green embossing powder

$1 bin stamp

ATG gun

Pop dots

Photoshop

Am I late?

This card was made for Meljen's Designs Challenge #48- U R a animal. I used Meljen's "Bubble Bath Bunny" and "Happy Easter" to make the easel card. I know it's early for Easter, but I thought it would be so fun and cute to use this image for that. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

P.S. if you are here for "Celebrate the Occasion" Challenge # 4, please see post underneath. Don't forget to hop over an join the challenge :)

Recipe:

Meljen's Designs digi's

Bazzill Cardstock

Glossy Accents

Enamel Accents

Liquid Pearls

Stickles

Martha Stewart Scoreboard

G studio chalk ink

Prismacolor pencils

Staedtler markers

Photoshop

ATG gun

Pop dots