Snowboy, Snow Day!!

Happy Friday everyone, thought I would share a card I made in celebration of winter! I used an SKdigis image  called SNOWMAN BOY, colored with copics, all paper came from my stash, as did the snowflake stickers and photo corners.  I'm not sure of a sentiment yet.  Hope ya like him, I think he is adorable!!

 I know some of you in certain parts of the country are tired of the snow, the cold, the shoveling, defrosting, frozen limbs, noses and toes, and for that I can only say, please be careful and try to stay warm!

  I live in the desert where if it does snow it doesn't stick very often and maybe once every couple years we actually get snow at all.  Well, this past December we had the biggest snow storm our area has seen in about 100 years.  Seriously, it shut our little town down! We are not equipped for snow that sticks....at all, and it froze, so the town and people were told to pretty much stay home unless absolutely necessary to drive.  Plus, alot of people just don't know how to drive in these kind of conditions.  We even had a snow day ......for church!!!!   I know this is laughable for those who are burried under 6 feet of snow, but for us desert rats, it was an experience we haven't really had before. 

 It was absolutely gorgeous!

Ash and her boyfriend had a little snowball fight and she wrote out this cute message!  

Anyway, I wanted to share my card and document our Snow Day!! 

Hope you all have a great weekend!!!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

+{PIN}spirational- based on photo below, went with the snowy theme

Digi Haven-Snow Buddies

+Cupcake Inspirations-based on photo below

+Sister Act Card Challenge-ATG

+Sisterhood of Crafters-Winter Snowflakes

+Scrap Creations-Snowman

+Paper Makeup Stamps-Snowflakes

You Warm My Heart-Open Minded challenge #2

Wow everyone, thanks so much for all the support and participation at our 1st challenge over at
 Open-Minded.  There are so many amazing entries, choosing a favorite is going to be very difficult.

Our second challenge is up and live and the theme is WARMTH -food or clothing.  I used this fun hot cocoa image from Digi Darla Designs- one of our sponsors for this challenge.  We have 4 amazing sponsors offering up some great prizes, so make sure you enter for your chance to win or to be a DT top pick!

My card uses the hot cocoa image that I linked to ^^^ I kept the colors in the pink,brown, and cream combination. I used a doily, burlap ribbon, and some older papers from my stash.  I also used a stencil and modeling paste for the swirly dots.  I hope you like it and will come join us for CHALLENGE #2!!

                                                                    Digi Darla Designs 
                                                            Prize: 5 Digital Images Of Your Choice

                                                                       Digistamps 4 Joy
                                                                Prize:  5 Digital Images of Your Choice

                                                                      QKR Stampede
                                                     Prize: 5 Digital Images of Your Choice

                                                                         Digital Delights
                                                         Prize: $5 Gift Certificate to the Digital Delights Shop

Sentimental Susan-5 images

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody-ATG Monthly

New Arrivals

I have a couple of cards to share using a new digi from SKdigis, it is the New Arrival-Stork With Baby and you can find it HERE.  Isn't this the cutest?  I say that about a lot of Sonia's images, but she really does have super cute stuff!!  I did a boy and girl card, and kept them really simple. I colored with copics, embossed with spellbinders and then used distress ink, embossed the white cardstock at the bottom, used a button, some twine and some ribbon, the banners were hand cut and the sentiment is from a sentiment stamper that I've had for YEARS! 

Hope you like them and if you need a baby card, this stork is perfect! 

To a Deer Friend

I wanted to share this cutie little Reindeer from SKdigis with you all, I think it is just too stinkin cute!  I based the card from an older sketch from Seize the Sketch #4, colored with copics and added some white dots with white enamel accents.  Used a tag, twine, gems, the stars and scallop borders are cut files and now I cant remember which files they came from......I really need to get better at keeping track of what I use!  The gems were white that I colored with my copics to match the blue and orange.  I hope you like! :)

I would like to enter the following challenges:
Color Me Creative-Anything Goes
+613 Avenue Create-ATG with color, sights, sounds of winter
Challenges 4 Everybody-ATG
+Glitter N Sparkle- ATG
+Charisma Cardz-Birthdays
+The Crafters Cafe-Animal Friends

Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenge #1

             Hi my bloggy friends!!  I hope 2014 is starting off fabulously and that you had a wonderful Christmas/Holiday season!

  I would like to invite you  to check out our first challenge at  Open-Minded Crafting Fun! Head over to see what we are all about and join in the fun!  We will be having a new challenge every other Saturday, 4 sponsors for each challenge and each DT member will choose their favorite project.

 Our first challenge is to use a new technique or new toys/tools that Santa may have left under the tree!  Me...I am my own Santa and tend to buy my own gifts, the husband did help though with a couple of gift cards! Yay him!!

So here is my card using the darling image FLORA from Crafty Sentiments.  I used a mixed media technique that I haven't tried before, I bought some new Tim Holtz tissue paper, gelatos and a couple Distress Paint daubers.  I adhered the tissue paper to the cardstock with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi-Medium in matte finish. Covered the whole area with Broken China distress paint, used a baby wipe to wipe most of it off and then  adhered everything and did another coat with the multi-medium to give it a surface that I could shade with the gelatos and use my finger to smooth it out (holy run-on sentence!).  I used some stickers  from Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection, a couple flowers, button, twine and white enamel accents for the dots on the letters.  It was a super fun technique and I will be doing more of this, but probably in an art journal.

Check out our WONDERFUL sponsors and the prizes they are offering:



A Day For Daisies-3 images



Eureka Stamps-5 images


Crafty Sentiments Designs-3 images



MilkCoffee Digital Designs-5 images

Come on over and check out what the other DT members have created and join us for a chance to win!!

I would also like to enter the following challenges:
Color Me Creative-ATG
Oozak-Anything Goes/Blue Tones

Insta Love

I made this card using the Insta Love stamp set from Your Next Stamp, I paper pieced the camera with papers from My Mind's Eye-Love Me 6x6 collection, stamped and colored the hearts and glossed them over, the grey and white strip is washi, blue polka dot paper is from my stash and I put a blue gem in the middle of the lens.

I hope you like it!!

I would like to enter the + YNS challenge-sketch or photo inspiration, my card is based on the sketch.

+The Pink Elephant-ATG

+Through the Craft Room Door-ATG

+Artistic Inspirations-ATG

Open-Minded Crafting Fun...a new challenge blog!!

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the DT over at a new challenge blog called   Open-Minded Crafting Fun,  I am being featured today (so cool, as it landed on my birthday!!!) so please come check it out and see what we have in store for the 2014 year.  We have a lot of wonderful sponsors and a lot of wonderful designers, plus two amazing ladies who are the brains behind it all!!

                                              
                                Challenges start January 4th, hope you will all come and join us!!!

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.....

Actually, I'm not really having a party.  I am having a birthday though and I do feel a little like crying.  It's not that I'm getting older....cuz really every birthday should be celebrated!!  I mean, it's one more year that we are alive, one more year that we have spent with family and friends, one more year creating memories and having life lesson type experiences. And in all honesty, I really don't feel like crying, at least not at this exact moment....give me a few and that might change!    ;)

What I'm kind of bummed about and a little down about is that there are some things/goals in my personal life that I wanted to have done by now and instead of reaching those goals, I've done a 180 and gone in the completely opposite direction.  I'm a little mad at myself, disappointed, but yet hopeful at the same time.  I'm hopeful that in a couple days I can leave 2013 behind, not that it was a bad year (it wasn't), but maybe I can leave my emotional baggage/bad habits/bad health/sometimes bad attitude and leave it all in 2013.

I'm not really a big "RESOLUTION" type person, I tend to get discouraged easily when I don't see results fast enough...especially when it comes to weight loss.  UGH!  That is the worst and that is when I throw my hands in the air and give up.....well giving up has only gotten me heavier and more unhealthy.

So..........as much as I do not care to make resolutions, I am going to make a commitment to myself to celebrate the progress.  Celebrate the baby steps, celebrate the small victories and realize that with each step I come that much closer to seeing and having a healthier attitude, healthier body and a better outlook on life.  Hopefully along this journey, I will also learn to be a little nicer to myself.

My hope, prayers and wishes to all of us is to have a blessed and prosperous New Year, to look forward to 2014 with hopeful anticipation and to have lots of love and laughter.

To all my blogland friends, thank you for stopping by and leaving love, thanks for all your sweet comments and for sharing my little space on the blogosphere.    Love to  ya all, have a safe and happy New Year!