Bear Hugs To The Rescue

Hello yet again blogging friends. This has to be a record of the most consecutive days of posting a card on my blog. Don't get used to though because I don't think I can keep it up for too much longer. 

Sadly this is going to be my last card as a Di's Digi Download DT member. I'm bummed that I had to step down but I have over committed myself with DT responsibilities and need to let some of them go. It's not fair to the companies I represent to not give 100% or to myself to be super stressed about getting my cards made. It was hard deciding which team to step down from. Di's term was open ended so I felt like it was the best one to drop at this time. If I still feel like I can't give 100%, I will reevaluate my other Design Teams when their terms end. I will still use Di's images because I adore them. 

Supplies:

To The Rescue Bear

sentiment by Waltzing Mouse from the Help For Katie Digital Package #1

SU card stock

Xpress It Blending Card

Echo Park Playground pattern paper

Copics

Welcome Little One

Hello friends, I can't believe I posted a card everyday since Sunday. Today I'm posting a card for Di's Digi Download DT. I used Baby Blanket, such a cute image. I figured I could make a few of these in different colors and list them in my Etsy Shop. I haven't decided if I'm going to list this one or save it in my stash. 

Challenges:

Card Patterns 112- Sketch

Bearly Mine- Beautiful Babies

Supplies:

Baby Blanket

SU card stock, pattern paper, border punch and sentiment

Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

Sweet Thing

Here's a quick post to share a card I made yesterday. This is Strawberry Lou by Di's Digi Downloads. She's so cute, I colored her to go with this Echo Park For The Record pattern paper. 

FYI, if your looking to get you hands on some Echo Park Paper, Simply Betty Stamps is offering these coupon codes till April 1. She also has some other sales you can read about here. 

Any 12 Echo Park Papers for $8.00 use code Echo800

Any 6 Echo Park Papers for $4.00 use code Echo400

Challenges:

Get Sketchy 80- Sketch

Die Cut Dreams 86- Food Themed Digi

Supplies:

Strawberry Lou

SU card stock, border punch and ribbon

Echo Park For The Record pattern paper and letters

Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

You Rock

Happy Friday everyone. Today I am sharing my card for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 32. Our challenge is to use the fabulous sketch created by Mindy. 

I made a card use 2 of my favorite things, Echo Park Paper and an image by Di's Digi Downloads. This is Little Rocker Chick, isn't she adorable. I paired her up with For The Record, the stickers are part of the collection as well. I love the little scrabble tiles especially because right now I'm a bit addicted to the game called Words with Friends. I'm not as good as some of my friends but it's still fun just playing with them. Well, thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend!

Challenges:

Cute Card Thursday 156- Music and dance (rocker chick loves her music)

Freshly Brewed 39- Spots and Dots

Supplies:

Little Rocker Chick

SU Card stock

Copic Xpress It Blending Card

Kaiser Rhinestones 

Echo Park For The Record Collection (pattern papers and stickers)

Copics

Little Lou Times 2

Hello friends, today I am sharing 2 cards I made for my Di's Digi Download DT responsibilities for this month. I used 2 different images of Little Lou. She's a cutie, I see a few new images of her I already want to use for March. Both of my cards are very similar since I used the same sketch from Sketch and Stash. I colored both of them in colors from the Little Girl pattern paper by Echo Park. Below are the challenges I made these cards for. 

Challenges:

Sketch and Stash 55- Sketch (new Echo Park Pattern paper) (Both Cards)

DICC 2-  Itinerary items 4. The word “ FRIEND(S)”,5. Border Punch, and 8. No flowers (second card)

Gingerloft 12- Our Furry Friends

Supplies:

Little Lou and Bear

SU card stock, ribbon, border punch and sentiment

Copic Xpress It Blending Card

Little Girl pattern paper by Echo Park

Copics

Supplies:

Little Lou on Swing

SU card stock, ribbon, border punch and rub on sentiment

Copic Xpress It Blending Card

Little Girl pattern paper by Echo Park

Copics

Little Princess

Hello, are you all having a great weekend? I am planning on spending my weekend getting ahead on my DT cards since I was not on top of things last month. 

This is my card for Di's Digi Downloads. The image is Princess Lou, she reminds me of my niece. She has long wavy hair and is a girly girl. I kept my card pretty simple because I didn't want to cover up any of the Echo Park Little Girl pattern paper. I hand stitched around the card just to keep it from being too plain. Have a good weekend. Hopefully I will have more cards to share later.

Challenges:

Cards and Things 64- Sketch

Stamp Something - Use Digi's

Stamping Vacation No No Challenge- No Tags

Supplies:

Princess Lou

Echo Park Little Girl pattern paper

Copic Xpress It Blending Card 

Ribbon from Michael's

Copics

Fussy and Fancy 29

Here is my card for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 29. Our theme is Valentines without pink or red. Our sponsors is Di's Digi Downloads, Di is generously donating 5 of her gorgeous digi's to one lucky winner. 

My card features Because I Care. I followed the sketch from Unscripted Sketches. I'm not sure if you can tell but I hand stitched for the first time on this card. It wasn't hard, just time consuming. I will definitely be doing it again. I think I may give this card to my daughter's teacher. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you get a chance to join us at Fussy and Fancy.

Supplies:

Because I Care

Sentiment from Zeke and Maddie set by StampInsanity

Pink Paislee's Cupid Collection

Kaiser Rhinestones

Copics

Looking For My Mojo

Hi blogging friends, I feel like such a slacker when it comes to making cards lately. My mojo has been on hiatus ever since I started working out in the beginning of the year. Seriously I want my mojo back, but I can't stop working out. I need to drop a lot of weight and this is the only way I'm going to be able to do it. Well, since my mojo has been missing I just now realized I had not created this months DT cards for Di's Digi Downloads. For some reason I thought I still had till next week. Where did this month go??  I have no clue, but it's just about gone. I will be at CHA this weekend so I needed to get this card done pretty quickly. I colored Carlys Caress to go with this pattern paper by My Mind's Eye. I used the sketch from Sunday Sketch and Stamp. I'm becoming more and more of a fan of less is more, shh don't tell the girls at Fussy and Fancy that I said that, lol. Anyways, I feel like I'm babbling and I know most people don't even read this so I will stop now. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Supplies:

Carlys Caress

SU sentiment, and card stock

My Mind's Eye So Sophie Graceful Collection

Copics E000, E00, E01, E19, E18, E17, E15, E13, V99, V95, V93, YR20, YR21, YR24, R24, R22, W0, W10

My Top 10 Cards of 2010

Wow, I can't believe 2010 is just about over. This has been a very fun crafting year for me, probably the busiest ever. When I saw that Suzi was having a Blog Hop for My Top 10 Cards of 2010, I thought it would be fun to look back on all my creations for the year. It was really hard narrowing down my Top 10 but after a few days I managed to pick the cards below. 

This card features  Nicholette ( Les Coquettes) by StampInsanity (original post can be found here). I think is my number 1 card for 2010. I love everything how the aqua color just pops off this card. 

This card and ornament set feature  God's Little Angel by Karen's Doodles (original post can be found here).

This card features Hilda  by StampInsanity (original post can be found here).

This card features Joszette by StampInsanity (original post can be found here).

This card features Bitten by Stamp Happens (original post can be found here). 

This card features Grumpy Gretchen Cowgirl by Digi's With Attitude! (original post can be found here). 

This card features Cousin Carly by Di's Digi Downloads (original post can be found here).

This card features Katie for a Cure by StampInsanity (original post can be found here).

This card features Nicholette ( Les Coquettes) by StampInsanity (original post can be found here).

This card features Hello! ladybird by Di's Digi Downloads (original post can be found here).

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my Top 10 cards of 2010. I have a little prize to offer to one lucky person who leaves a comment here. Di from Di's Digi Downloads has kindly offered 3 digi images. I will be drawing one winner who leaves a comment between now and Dec. 29 by 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time. I will use random draw and announce the winner on Dec. 31. 

Merry Christmas

Here are a few Christmas cards I made last week and forgot to add to my blog. The first two cards are featuring Candy Cane London by Simply Betty Stamps. I used Everybody Loves Christmas by Echo Park Paper. 

 This card features Hugging Snowman by Di's Digi Downloads. The papers and sentiment are from SU. 

These last 2 cards feature this sentiment from Morgan's Star stamp set by StampInsanity. I used Wintertime pattern paper by Echo Park Paper.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 

Fussy and Fancy 26

Hello my fellow blogging friends, today I am sharing a couple of cards. The first is for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 26 where the theme is Snow. I used  Love This White Stuff by Di's Digi Downloads. I didn't use any pattern papers just a couple of cuttlebug folders on white card stock. 

Challenges:

Sketch and Stash 51- Your Choice(pick one of the past sketches) I chose Challenge 40, the new item is the brad

This is my second card, I used Christmas Wishes by  Di's Digi Downloads. The pattern paper is Wintertime by Echo Park . The sentiment is by SU.  I love the way this one turned out. It's a simple layout but the image pops.

Santa's Visit

Hello fellow bloggers, yesterday I finished all my DT cards for the week so I had free time to create a card for fun. Well, this card includes an image for my DT duties at Di's Digi Downloads but I always think of those duties as free play. 

I made this card for Sweet Sketch Wednesday. I really don't get to play in their challenge as much as I'd like to. Since I already had this image colored, I decided I would hurry up and get this in before the challenge ends. 

Challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch

Crazy 4 Challenges 63- Christmas

2 Sisters Challenge 13- Christmas

Bee Crafty 42- Christmas

Stamp Something- use a digi

Supplies:

Polar Bears Visit by Di's Digi Downloads

SU card stock and ribbon

Echo Park Everybody Loves Christmas pattern paper

Queen & Co. Berry Red Pearls

Copics- I didn't right them down but know that the grays are from the C's and the reds are R24-R29

Fussy and Fancy Challenge 23

This is my second post for today, if you are looking for my Digi's With Attitude! card please scroll down. 

Here is my card for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 23, this lovely sketch by Mindy. I used this adorable bear called Snuggle Up Christmas  by Di's Digi Downloads. I love being on Di's Digi Downloads DT because here images so much fun to work with. The only hard part is deciding which images I want to work with. 

 Fussy and Fancy is currently having a DT call. You can find the details here. 

Fussy and Fancy 22 Winter Wonderland

Good Morning, this is my second post for today. If you are looking for my Digi's With Attitude! post please scroll down. 

This is my card for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 22 Winter Wonderland. I used Cuddle Christmas by Di's Digi Downloads. I colored her to go with this SU pattern paper that I've had for way too long. Below are the list of other challenges I am going to enter this card into. 

Challenges:

Sketch and Stash 47- Sketch (pattern paper from stash 2 yrs old)

The Crafty Pad 94- Christmas Theme

Bee Crafty 41- Christmas
Gingerloft 4- Winter

Paper Pretties 27- Make a square card
Creative Belli Challenge 103- Flocking or Flower Soft

Supplies: 

Cuddle Christmas by Di's Digi Downloads

Georgia Pacific white card stock

SU card stock, brads, pattern paper and sentiment

Sparkly Fluff on trim of girls outfit and santa hat

Flower Soft on ground and falling snow

Copics: E000, E25, E27, E29, E33, E35, E51, E53, R24, R27, R29, BG72, YG63 & YG67

Guest Bar Tender

Yes, I'm a Guest Bar Tender over at Raise The Bar. I was so excited when I found out last week :). This weeks Challenge 41 is Orange Black and Purple (doesn't have to be Halloween). 

I made this card with Broomstick Bear by Di's Digi Downloads. It's such a cute image that I wanted to let it be the focal point on my card. 

Challenges:

Dutch Dare Card Challenges 89- Halloween or Purple, Black, Orange Green

Hanna and Friends 67- Halloween

Pile It On 41- Kid-Themed Halloween

Penny's Paper Crafty 40- So Long As It Flies 

Fab 'n' Funky 45- Things that go bump in the night!

Supplies:

 Broomstick Bear by Di's Digi Downloads

Sentiment from Morgan's Spell Rubber Stamps by StampInsanity

SU card stock 

Georgia Pacific White card stock

Echo Park pattern paper

Target Dollar Spot Ribbon

Kaiser Black Rhinestones

Copics

Fussy and Fancy 20 Chocolate Cherry Cake

Yeah it's Friday! Today I am sharing my card for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 20. The sponsor is Bunny Zoe's Crafts and the challenge is a sketch by Mindy. 

  Jennifer made me these cherries with her Cricket. Thanks Jennifer they worked out perfect for my card. 

I am entering my card in The Creative Cottage Challenge 24- Bling It On.

Supplies:

Cherry Cake by Di's Digi Downloads

SU card stock, rub on, ribbon, border punch and pattern paper

Kaiser Lippy Red Rhinestones

Copics

Cousin Carly with a Sweet Sketch

Here's a card I made for Sweet Sketch Wednesday 68 and A Spoon Full Of Sugar 123 Spots and Stripes. I colored Cousin Carly by Di's Digi Downloads a while ago so I don't remember which Copics I used on her. I do remember that I colored her to use with this pattern paper from My Mind's Eye So Sophie Graceful Collection. The colored card stock and ribbon are from SU.

Thanks for stopping by. I am trying really hard to get back into creating. Hopefully soon I will get back to posting on a more regular basis than once or twice a week.

2 Cards for Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge 19

Happy Friday blogging friends. Today I am sharing 2 cards for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 19. Our current theme is Christmas Colors. I wasn't sure if I wanted to make a Christmas card or a regular card. I decided in the end to make both. 

This first card features Cousin Carly by Di's Digi Downloads. I love the way she turned out. I colored her to go with this Pink Paislee's Cupid Paper.

Sketch is from Inspirational Card Sketches 83

The second card features A Letter To Santa, also by Di's Digi Downloads. I paired this image up with Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Pattern Paper. I added some Polar White Flower Soft on the trim of the Santa suit and hat. I also  added some to the ground and the top of the mailbox. 

Sketch is from Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge 4

 

Fussy and Fancy 17

Good Morning! Today I am sharing my card for Fussy and Fancy 17. This is my interpretation of Mindy's awesome sketch.

Challenges:

Fussy and Fancy- Sketch

Fab and Funky 36- Flower Power

Stampin Vacation (For Your Amusement Challenge)- "Bear" With Me

Basic Grey Challenge 26- Pearls

Sentimental Sunday 16- Ribbon or Lace and a Sentiment

City Crafter Week 18- Isn't She Lovely

One Stitch At A Time 26- Pack A Punch

Crafts and Me Challenge 11- Petals and Pearls

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 64- Photo Inspiration 

Supplies:
Rosie Bear by Di's Digi Downloads
SU card stock, ribbon, rub ons
Basic Grey Nook and Pantry Pattern Paper
Prima roses
Pink Pearls
Copics

Back To School Thank You Card

Hi everyone, I am here for a quick post. I made this card on Friday for Raise the Bar Challenge 31, the challenge was ABC or Animal, Brown and Clean and Simple. I used Back To School by Di's Digi Downloads. Thanks for stopping by!