I'm a little Monster and a GIVEAWAY

Happy Monday everyone and Happy Halloween to you if you celebrate it. I do not but it is so cute to see all the kiddo's dressed so adorably like this little card. I used a Recollections cling stamp set for the images and sentiment, stamped them on a separate piece of paper and glued them down on my distressed background. I colored them with my Prismacolors and added some liquid pearls and glossy accents for some highlighted touches. Since I don't really celebrate Halloween I thought I would celebrate you followers today with a fun little giveaway just to say how much I so appreciate YOU!! Just leave your link below, you can comment if you are a follower or not but please remember only a follower will receive the giveaway. Thank you for understanding, I will announce the winner on Monday, November 7th. If you have any questions please ask and I hope you have a fabulous day :)

Recollections Cling Stamp	DCWV Mat Stack	Neenah cardstock	Distress Ink- Fall 2011 Seasonal Edition
Tim Holtz Distress Inks	Ink Blending Tool	StazOn Ink	Liquid Pearls
Glossy Accents	Pop Dots	ATG gun	Tim Holtz Tonic scissors
Prismacolor Pencils	Goo Gone

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Live the life.....

I made this card for "My Creative Time's" First Design Team Call. This is a 3 layer card with acetate on the front. I made the background sky and ground with ColorBox chalk ink and colored the "A Day for Daisies" image with my Prismacolors. All the wonderful sentiments are from "My Creative Time", I used 2 different stamp sets, links below. If you haven't bought any of her stamps, I highly recommend it. They are AWEsome quality and it is absolutely the best customer service I have ever dealt with, you won't regret it. You still have time to get your creations in for the DT call, so hurry over and join in on the fun. As always if you have ANY questions, big or small, feel free to ask and I hope you have a fabulous Friday. Off to the pumpkin patch with the kiddos :)

Recipe:

My Creative Time- Follow your dream	My Creative Time- Turn that frown upside down	A Day for Daisies Image	The Cutting Cafe
Neenah cardstock	Stickles	Liquid Pearls	ColorBox Chalk Ink
Red Liner Tape	Mini Glue Dots	Martha Stewart Scoreboard	Tim Holtz Tonic scissors
ATG gun	Prismacolor Pencils	Goo Gone

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Hello everyone, sorry for the delay in posts, I have unfortunately been under the weather!! Back on track though and I wanted to do this post for "National Breast Cancer Awareness Month". Celebrate the Occasion has the new challenge up with DT #1 and they are all going pink for the cause, so hop on over and take a look at there wonderful creations. This cutie of a box was a FREEBIE, yes free, can you believe it, at mygraphico.com. I have posted the link for you below, it was so easy to put together and the colors came out beautifully. The top just slips off, I added two holes on top to put the ribbon through and then filled it with some yummy pink M&M's. So I hope you can join in on the challenge with CTO, you could win a $25 gift certificate to Papertrey Ink! If you have any questions please let me know and I hope you have a beautiful day :)

Recipe:

Shery K Designs @ MyGrafico	Celebrate It ribbon	Neenah cardstock	Martha Stewart Scoreboard
Crop a Dile Big Bite	Red Liner Tape

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I've been published!!!

I am super excited to share with everyone that I have been published in the Cricut Cards magazine, 3 times. I have had 3 blank spots with no cards and that is because they had to be removed for a short time until the magazine came out.

Most of you will recognize them because they were posted at one time but it is pretty surreal to open up a magazine and see your name and your creations in there. They even did a tutorial for one of them. I just had to share because I was really flabbergasted!! Hope you all have a wonderful day :)

It's time to Celebrate- CTO #26

It is time to Celebrate the Occasion again with Challenge #26-Birthday, Easel card. I chose to use this cute image from A Day for Daisies called "Strawberry Cake Birthday Fairy". My papers are from DCWV and My Grafico digital papers, I colored the image to blend in with these and ran with the cherry theme on the cake. I distressed the edges with some Tim Holtz Distress Ink and added the cute bow. I am also entering this into A Day for Daisies Challenge #24- Feeling (and Folding) Fancy. I hope you can join in on this week's fun challenges and take a peek at what the wonderful DT created, they always do an AWEsome job! Have a wonderful Tuesday and I will chat with you soon :)

Recipe:

A Day for Daisies- Strawberry Cake Birthday Fairy

My Grafico digital papers

Bazzill Cardstock

Neenah cardstock

ek success punch

Glossy Accents

Liquid Pearls

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Celebrate It ribbon

Studio g stamp

Colorbox Ink

Prismacolor Pencils

OMS

Martha Stewart Scoreboard

Tiny Tiddly Ones- Tiddly Ink GD post

It is time for another challenge at Tiddly Inks, Challenge #62- Inch My Way Along. This is my last guest designer post and it has been such a pleasure being a part of the Tiddly Inkers!! What a fun challenge to end with, tiny tiddly ones are mini cards for the wee little one's in your life. I chose to do a pack of 2x2 inspirational mini's, 4 of each card, along with a gift box to carry them in and they fit so perfectly. I used 4 beautiful fairy images from Tiddly Inks, on the box I used "Party Time Pixies" and for the cards I used "Lilli Claire-Make a Wish" for the pink one, "Sugar Plum Fairy" is the purple one and last but not least the blue is "Fairy Fae Catches a Star". I made the cute flower box with the Cricut cartridge "Tags, Bags, Boxes and More" and added Liquid Pearls around the window for some sparkle. So hop over and check out what the SUPER talented Design Team has created, they always amaze me, and see what kind of mini's you can come up with!! I hope you all have a wonderful night or day :)

Recipe:

Tiddly Inks- Party Time Pixies, Lilli Claire-Make a Wish, Sugar Plum Fairy, Fairy Fae Catches a Star

Cricut Cartridge- Bags, Tags, Boxes and More

Neenah cardstock

K & Company cardstock

Liquid Pearls

Stickles

Slicca pen

Prismacolor Pencils

OMS

Scotch Quick Dry adhesive

Red Tape

ATG gun

Reach high

I made this card for my daughter with the removal bookmark and I am entering it into the Tiddly Inks Challenge # 59- Tag or Ticket Me. I used the Tiddly Inks "Poppy" along with the "Poppy Accents" frame and flowers. I just love the image with the quote that says "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal" Pamela Vaull Starr. I hope every time she looks at it she can smile and remember "all things are possible". I hope you all have a very wonderful day :)

Recipe:

Tiddly Inks- Poppy and Poppy Accents

Neenah cardstock

Office Max blank manilla tag

Liquid Pearls

Prismacolor pencils

OMS

Ribbon

ATG gun

Pop dots

Steampunk 2 B & W

I decided to make another card for Tiddly Inks Steampunk Showoff Challenge, but this time in black and white. Boy was this a toughy for me, I think my brain was making it harder than it needed to be ;) Practice, practice though and it shall get easier!! I used a couple of different images from the Tiddly Inks shop, the first is Miss "Tanker Fairy Sits" and I also used a few images from the "Steampunk papers-extra goodies", which is the frame, the side embellishment and the strip of paper. The "Fern log" came from Make it Crafty. To get all the black and white shades I used a bunch of greys, black and my white with touches of a white gel pen here and there and layered the colors the same way I would if it were in color, just had to view in B & W. As I said I need a lot of practice in this area but it was fun to stretch my mind. If anyone has any questions please let me know and I hope you are having a wonderful Friday :)

Recipe:

Tiddly Inks- Tanker Fairy sits, Steampunk papers- extra goodies

Make it Crafty- Fern log

Neenah cardstock

Wasau cardstock

White gel pen

Stickles

Glossy Accents

Prismacolor pencils

OMS

ATG gun

Happy Birthday Mod Style

This card was made for the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge # 107. Amber Ink is the sponsor this week and that is where I got all these fun digi's. I combined "Hostess with the Mostess" and "Mod Kitchen" to make the scene. 6 different images were used and about 10 of the same one to make the wallpaper in the background. I went a little crazy but it was so fun to create. I hope you can hop over to SSW, you have 5 hours left, lol. Sorry, I am usually a little more timely, but if you don't make this one they will have a new one tomorrow and they are always wonderful!! I hope you are having a fantastic Tuesday :)

Recipe:

SSW sketch # 107

Amber Ink Digi's

laPomme Design digital paper

Neenah cardstock

Chatterbox brads

Glossy Accents

Stickles

Prismacolor Pencils

OMS

ATG gun

Pop dots

CTO Pool Party Blog Hop

Welcome to the Celebrate the Occasion's “Pool Party Blog Hop.” If you arrived here from the wonderful Judy Ann's blog you are on the right track. If you are visiting and want to start at the beginning, which I highly recommend so you can enter in all the blog candy J then you will want to start at the Celebrate the Occasion blog. Onto the card/box set J

I decided to make a fun but simple gift set for summer vacation. There are a set of (6) 3x3 minis that fit into the cute little gift box. I made two of each card, that is why you only see the 3 with envelopes to go with them. I had some really great K&Company paper that had really great bright summer colors, so it worked perfectly. With the pop dotted stickers from American Crafts it added height, so if you did flatter ones you could get a lot more into the box or leave room for a small gift on top. The box is made from a 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 piece of card stock and of course the cards that fit into it are the 3 x 3, so with one piece of 12 x 12 card stock you can get 8 cards, yeahhhh!!! So simple and a great gift for anyone :)

Now onto today’s blog candy, it is a mish mash of items from Martha Stewart, Colorbok, American Crafts, etc.. Something for everyone, brads, chipboard, stickers, ribbon and buttons. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I would absolutely love for you to become a follower but it is not necessary and you will have a chance to win it! Please, Please make sure you leave a way to get a hold of you, if there is not any contact information on your post I will have to re-choose, thank you for understanding. The Blog Hop closes Sunday and the winner for my candy will be picked on Monday the 6th. So that means you will have until midnight on the 5th to leave a comment and a way for me to get a hold of you!!

Now onto your next and final stop and it shall be the fabulous Laverne!

Don’t forget to stop and leave a comment on all the blogs for a chance to win their blog candy, there are some good prizes to be won!! Happy Hopping J

Here is the list of the blog hop line-up just in case you have lost your way:

CTO-http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.com/

Ivette-http://www.allaboutmeandmyscrapbook.blogspot.com/

Girlia-http://girliascards.blogspot.com/

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

Amy-http://www.lovetocrop.com/

Nicole-http://nadialax13.blogspot.com/

Amber-http://my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com/

Rayna-http://purplepeepstechniques.blogspot.com/

Lisa-http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/

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

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

Kristen-http://fantabulouslypink.blogspot.com/

Katie-http://kwilliamskreations.blogspot.com/

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

Linda-http://www.fancyframework.com/

Maquel-http://papermaineiac.blogspot.com/

Mary-http://marebearscraps.blogspot.com/

Judy Ann-http://craftyjar.blogspot.com/

Lucianna-http://dilsaverdesigns.blogspot.com/ (You are here)

Laverne-http://www.acraftershaven.blogspot.com/