Its Dueling Time!

Hi Friends!

Its our March duel! I was the hostess for the Dazzlers this month, and our topic/challenge was St. Patrick's Day. So I went totally green bonkers with the card kit that I sent out. The hard part was getting an image. I sent out a couple of links to free digital images that could have been used, or they were to use one they already had. In the kit I included three different patterned papers, a computer generated copy of an Irish Blessing, die cut shamrock, ribbon, cording, brads, and button candy dots. Another part of the challenge was to describe any traditions your family has to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

My card:

front

inside...with computer generated Irish Blessing

front...again.

Items used

Image: Free digital image from Elizabeth O. Dulemba.  http://www.dulemba.com/

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey, Origins, sugar pea

Ribbon: American Crafts

Embellishments: Button candy dots by Pebbles, copper brad by American Crafts, die cut shamrock.

When celebrating St. Patrick's Day, we usually will have some sort of food, usually potato soup, bread, and sometimes we will make shamrock cut outs for dessert.

February Duel

Happy Wednesday!

Today is our February Duel, and our lovely hostess is Deb. She sent a wonderful card kit, it was full of images, patterned paper, and embellishments. Our theme is "Let Me Call you Sweetheart!"

In the kit we had a choice of several images and sentiments. The one I chose is for a general Valentine's Day card. As you can tell, I kinda went overboard with the embellishments. The cording that was in the kit was to thick to thread thru the charm so I unraveled it, using only one strand.

My Valentine this year was my daughter. She and I cooked dinner, and had a relaxing evening.

Card details
image-Happy Heart Day, SU!
paper-Bazzil
pattern paper is by My Minds Eye
assorted embellishments, ribbon, cord (I unraveled it to make it smaller to fit the charm)
image colored with copics and colored pencils with gamsol.

Thanks for stopping by!
Have blessed day!

Calendar Girls January Challenge

Happy Sunday!

Our challenge this month which was given to use by our dear friend Jeanette. We were to pick a previous card...and use the image to create a whole new card.

Previous card and image.

New card and image.

I did color the image pretty similiar.

With the new card I colored the image, cut it out and secured it with popdots, making it into a baby card.

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Snowflakes....My One Word Challenge!

Hello dear friends...its been a very long time.

This month our challenge was to make a card using theone word that was given to me by Carol,  a friend and  fellow Calendar Girl. Mine is Snowflakes.

My snowflakes were from a previous card kit that I had recieved, not sure if they are dies or punches...if you can help me out, I would love to know were these are from. I heat embossed the swirls using snowflake embossing powder, and sprayed the snowflakes with glimmer mist. It doesn't show up very well in the pictures. I got this great camera for Christmas and am still trying to figure it all out.

Here it is...hope you like it!

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August Duel

Good Morning Friends.....

I cannot believe that summer is almost over! Fall is a great season, but I could do with a longer summer and shorter winter.

Our theme this month is 'It is Hot!~~~~~Lets Keep it Cool!

Paola is our hostess, and she sent an amazing card kit this month. There were so many goodies to chose from!

Our favorite summer past time is picnicing and going to the beach, when the kids were younger we were at the cabin at least 2 weekends out of a month.

My card:

Image: Whipper Snapper Designs.

Thanks for visiting today!

Calendar Girls July Challenge

Good Morning Friends!

This month I challenged the Calendar Girls to make a card without using a stamped image. They could make it for any occasion, any season, any color....but just not use any stamping, except for the sentiment. I chose to make a card using 1sheet of patterened paper by 7 Gypsies, and ribbon.

The sheet of patterened paper is from 7 Gypsies...Lille Paper: Beautiful. I cut different pictures from the paper, mounted it on black cardstock (scrap stash), the card base is Natural (Archivers), and the ribbon is from SU!.

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July Dueling Time....

Hello Friends, Welcome!

Our July hostess for our duel was Terry, and she sent us an awesome card kit! Thank you, Terry!

Our theme is 'Garden of Friendship', and our challenge is to give a story or memory of a good friend.

My circle of friends is pretty limited. One memory that I have is from high school, and I guess that has been on my mind due to our class reunion that is coming up. One friend that comes to mind is Judy, she was my BFF all through junior high and high school. We would do everything together, we even worked at the same cafe in our little town. I haven't seen her in years and hopefully this summer I will run into her. (My mom still lives in the town I grew up in.)

Now for my card:

Front view

showing the layered flower

Inside the card

The whole kit was so cute that I had a very hard time choosing what to use.

Items used in the kit.

Image and sentiment: Fred Bear "Oopsie Daisies" - My Favorite Things

DP: Flower Words, DCWV

Felt Flowers: Favorite Findings

Buttons: assorted

Doily Martha Stewart Crafts. (which actually was white, but I sponged ink over mine to make it pink)

Thank you for peeking at my blog today!