I am so excited, I got a message in my email from Lori...

over at http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/   I won my first blog candy. The scrapbook software from MyMemories. I have been wanting to try the program but with all my other expenses the past several months I really couldn't afford to buy it not knowing if I would use it regularly because I am an old fashion kinda scrappin' gal, I like the feel of my hands actually doing the work and seeing the end results with my elements and actually being able to feel it.

Thank you Lori for offering me the chance to try the software and a big thank you to MyMemories for offering it to Lori to offer to her followers. 

After dealing with a major water leak and no water for almost 6 hours, that makes my day a whole lot better. 

I plan on trying to work on a project this weekend that I want to post if it turns out the way I am hoping it is because I am wanting to give it to several family members if it goes the way I hope it does.

Well until next time....

Just playing around today and...

I was playing around with an idea for a card that I seen somewhere in my traipsing around the internet. The only information that I was sure of was that it was 3x3 mini card. So I got me an image worked with it, and cut me a 3x6 piece of card stock scraps and here is what I came up with. I am giving it to my hubby in his lunch tonight as a "sweet" note. I haven't had time to do this in a long time and I thought he might like a "surprise". :)

 

Some of the long awaited Christmas card pics...

 This was my first card of the year. I didn't realize the already made card base so was much bigger than the card front I made. So after this one I started cutting down and making my own bases for them. :)

 This was the second card, I knew it needed a little something. So I ordered up some Stickles and while waiting for them I made another one just silimar to it to add the Stickles to, wanted to see which one I liked best. :)

 This is the one I added Stickles too. I dont know what I did wrong with it. I got that weird coloring on the snowman. I think it was where I used the applicator tip to spread the Stickles because I didnt want a lot but I wanted some. I decided if anyone noticed it and asked about it, my answer was going to be I heat with a wood stove all my snowmen look like that....lol

 This one was a little more complicated than planned. Kaitie and I played with it and played with it and found that we liked the gold part embossed backwards because it gave it a better look than all of it being embossed upwards like the silver in Happy Holidays... what do you think? Everyone seems to like this one best of all of them I have made so far.

 This one was just one of those whimsical ones you have to have for the kiddos. I liked this image so I made several of them. I was going to try one with Stickled ornaments but I aint sure how that will go over so I haven't tried it yet. There is still time if I need the extra cards.

 

 This one was just playing around to see what I could come up with. I had the diecut for the snowman and I was curious if I could make something that looked like this. And by golly, look how it turned out. Not to shabby if I might say so myself. :)

 Similar card to the above one, the only difference is this runs longer instead of side to side (I aint sure what that is called, lol). I wish I had made the snowy bottom taller and moved it up on the card base some, but it still looks nice I think.

This one I tried to distress the Happy Holidays but it didnt work quite the way I planned but still overall, a nice card. I was really disappointed I couldn't get the distressed look on this that I was going for but sometimes what we want and what we get aren't always the same.


So there is some of them. If I make any more different ones I will be sure to post them. But those are the ones I have done as of now. 


Until next time......

Here is a card I made for Especially Made For You Blue Green Pink Challenge

I realize it isn't anything like some of the fabulous cards I have seen done. But as I am just starting out with the card making, I thought it turned out quite  nicely. The challenge was to use pink, green and blue in a card or layout. As I needed to make a card for a friend, I choose to do something that I thought that the friend would like, hence the pot of flowers. The image is a digi stamp (I don't recall where I actually got it from, sorry) and I colored it with Crayola Colored Pencils (those are my favorite, who can resist Crayola from our childhood?). I put it on a mat cut from a piece of KI Memories paper I bought in a stack pack years ago, inked along the edges on the sides and a little farther on the card on the bottom. I also put some Diamond Dust Stickles along a few of the leaves to give it a dew drop look although you can't see that in the scan. I am pleased with the end result.

 Thanks Ashley for offering up the challenge. I hope it meets with what I needed to do for the challenge.
 

Here is the card I made for Making Greeting Cards November Challenge

The challenge was to pick a line on the tic toe board and use those three elements in the card. I chose to do Stickles (they are all over the snowman (Star Dust) and his buttons (Black Diamond) and the little girls pompom (Star Dust). The second element I used was coloring with pencils, I colored it all with Crayola Colored Pencils. The third element was brads, which is the "JOY", which came from Oriental Trading's Christmas Embellishment box I ordered a week ago. It also had to be in the theme of winter. 

When I saw this image, my first thought was how much it reminded me of Kaitie. She studies everything she does and she wants it perfect. So I had a lot of fun with this card. I am going to make several variations to give as Christmas cards this year I think. 

Well I guess that's the update for today. Have a great day and I will be posting again soon. The weather is suppose to turn colder here at the end of the week so I know I am going to have fun crafting and will post some more soon.

Until next time.....

Not much crafting going on around here today.....

Okay maybe that isnt totally true. Kaitie has been making family members (drawing em and making em look like all of us). My refrigerator is once again covered with drawings by Kaitie. 
I been blog hopping around trying to get some new ideas to work on in the new year. I was suppose to work on my last few Christmas cards today but just wasn't feeling it. So I decided to jump online and go see what I could find as new ideas for the new year. I came across an Epilespy Awareness Blog Hop scheduled for Friday I want to participate in. Its a subject near and dear to me as I have a seizure disorder myself and this will be my FIRST blog hop so I am looking forward to it. 
I still haven't figured out how to upload my photos of my cards yet but I will figure it out soon. Once the weekend is over and the house is all quiet, and I can concentrate on what I am trying to do. Right now this blog is pretty boring, just a bunch of typed out messages from me about what I am doing crafty, but I promise as soon as I figure it out I will get busy. 
Okay well I better get going, I got a birthday party to attend in a few hours and I still got a couple blogs I want to hit for ideas before I go. Have a great and blessed day!
 

Been working Christmas cards this week....

I have 2 designs of them finished. I will post as soon as they are dry. I have some that still need the stickling done on them (still waiting on supplies I ordered for that). 
I tried heat embossing today. Kaitie and I found that we like to emboss the image and do it with the indented side down, it embosses better. I need to figure out how to get the stranglies, as we were calling em today, the little spots we didnt catch before we embossed so we just scattered some loose ones around and made it look like we meant to do that...lol
We looked through all my embossing stuff and found that I really dont have that much Christmasy type stuff, so we did what we had to do with. I refuse to do anymore shopping for these cards. I have spent way to much on them as it is for no more than I am giving and sending out.
I used the polka dots embossing folder on one of them, I am curious to see when it dries how that looks with the reindeer on the front. :) Just a different look for it is what I was going for so hopefully it turns out okay.
Well until next time..........