Sweet Music

Hello lovely bloggers,

Tonight I have a quick CAS card for you.   I've used a free digital from ADFD that is offered if you participate in their current challenge, which is my intent.  

Now my little fella is not really a bluebird but he thinks he is :)

I stamped white paper with an Impression Obsession cover-a-card background stamp called music and then cut 2 of the larges SB poinsettia die, distressed the edges and shaped the leaves a little for interest.   I dry embossed the white panel with CB music folder, stitched around the edge....and this is the finished product....

Will also be entering this card into MIM Challenge #108

Thanks for stopping by and your lovely comments are always appreciated.

Hugs, 

Pat K.xx

Don't wanna be a grown up !!

Good day all,

Another gorgeous fall day out, perfect for the Terry Fox run/walk that passes my house about this time every year.  All of the students and staff from the local High School participate.   You can hear them coming before you see them....all talking and having a good time.  I'm always impressed how respectful they are but must admit, I appreciate when it's over .....back to my peace and quiet :)

For my card share today I've made an easel card using a very cute image from Mo Manning called "Talk to the Bear".  Isn't she just the best !    The lattice ribbon is a gift from a friend...you might be seeing a lot more of it in future:)   I laced pink ribbon thru the openings and then added some teddy bear ribbon on top.  The sentiment is a freebie from Ginger's House.  The white panel has been embossed with SU Square Lattice folder.

Here is closeup:

I would like to enter into the following challenges:
Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge #154 - Ribbons and/or Bows
In the Pink:  Challenge #4 -  Embossing
Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #75 - Stitching & Lace (ooh I've laced the ribbon)
The Stamping Boutique Challenge #52 - Embossing

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs, Pat K.xx

Fab n Funky Challenge #140

Hi everyone,

My second post today is for Fab n Funky Challenge #140. 

 Emma is our hostess this week and would like to see anything 

that starts with the letter "F" on your card.  

The lucky winner will receive a prize from Di's Digital so come on over and join in the fun.

For my card I've used another ADFD stamp, this time it's "Fairy Flower Delivery".

Details:

Pion Papers 6x6 sheet

SU Pale Plum

Rose made using SB Donna Salazar Rose Creations

SB Marvelous Squares

Cheery Lynn Doily

SU sizzix leaf die

MS leaf die

I expect to enter the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew Challenge #20 - Purple
Stampin for the Weekend Challenge #18 - Feeling Floral
Card Mania Challenge #4 - Handmade Flowers
Lollipop Crafts Challenge #90 - Break out your punch
Love to Create Challenge #34 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge - For the Love of Sparkle
Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #3 - Anything Goes

That's it for now....see you next time and thanks for your lovely comments..
always appreciated.
Hugs, Pat K.xx

Creative Belli Challenge #153 - Sports

Good day everyone,

Brrrrr, it's been cold here the past few days, especially in the morning.  

Our poor old dog does not venture out of her bed for hours.....

only gets up to go outside when it's absolutely necessary!  

And that's how I feel some mornings too :D

Enough of my chatter....time to let you know the theme we have for the new challenge at the
 Belli Challenge is "Sports".
 Remember, we would like to see your old or forgotten items on your creation.

This time I've created an easel card using a cute image from Bugaboo. I found some very old Magic Mesh and was so surprised it was still sticky....after all these years!   I also used a metal clip from my stash....think it was from Making Memories.   The dp is a Karen Foster 6x6 pad called Sports, sentiment is computer generated.  The tickets are cut from the same paper pad. I used an old Quickutz die to cut the #4 for his jersey.  

I expect to enter the following challenges:

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge #68 - One for the Boys
Digi Makeover Challenge #55 - Anything Goes
Make it Monday #108
Tammy's Scrapin Corner Weekly Challenge #29 - Design a Kiddie Card
Clear it Out Challenge - Project with Child Image
Cards and More Challenge #65   Sport
Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #81 - Sports

Thanks so much for being here.
Hugs, Pat K.xx

Fashionista Blog Hop - My Sponsor ADFD

Good morning all,

Well it's Week 2 at Fashionista Challenge #7 Anything Goes Christmas + Blog Hop 
The Challenge Sponsor is the wonderful LOTV who are offering a very generous prize to the winner.

Every DT Member has a Sponsor for this part of the Challenge and I have the great privilege of being Sponsored by the fabulous
ADFD 

  The entrant who completes the hop
and is chosen as the winner on My Blog will receive
3 Free Digi's from ADFD at the end of the challenge.
How great is that!
Please join in the fun and you could be a winner!
 See the Fashionista Challenge for full details.

  There are so many wonderful images at ADFD .
  I have chosen this little beauty called Holly Dance 
 which was generously supplied by my sponsor ADFD
and can be found here in the shop.

I plan on using several more ADFD images for my Christmas cards this year so stay tuned :)    They had a sale on this weekend so I grabbed a few more :D  Can't wait to start coloring!

 

 

  This is my first time making a round box. I seriously had to wing it but using SB Grand Circles and a bit of hand cutting, things came together better than expected.

The bow and belly band were recycled from an old candy box.

Details:
SB Grand Decorative Circles One
SB Grand Circles
SB Grand Scallop Circles
SB Large Circles
SB Parisian Accents - Sentiment computer generated
Coloured with Copics
Glamour Dust on wings

I expect to enter the following challenges:
Brown Sugar Challenge #8  - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too Challenge #22 - Anything Goes
Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge #88 - Circles
Shelly's Images - Show us your Shape
Little Miss Muffet Challenge #44 - Anything but Square
Just Keep on Creating Challenge - Christmas is just around the Corner
Sparkles Monthly Challenges #36  - Away with the Fairies
No Matter Which Challenges #2 - Die cuts
The Hybrid Chic Card Caravan #27 - Round

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do hope you get a chance to join the hop and are lucky enough to win one of the fabulous prizes.
Hugs,
Pat K.xx

Delicious Doodles - Little Pumpkin Fairy

Hello everyone,

Please scroll down for Fab n Funky Blog hop

 ****************************************************************

Are you ready for the weekend....won't be long now.   DH has a golf game planned on Sunday so looks like I'll get some crafting time in...(smile).....no I don't golf.   I worked a charity hole once and was paired with a Gold Medalist from Team Canada's Womens Hockey Team.....now that was fun...chasing a little white ball thru the bushes...for me...not-so-much!

Enough of that.....it's time to let you know we have a new challenge at
Delicious Doodles
and we would like to see Metal on your creations. 
I chose to use Little Pumpkin Fairy, coloured her with copics and paper pieced her dress.
 Hasn't she got the most fantastic face!
 I've used a metal frame with a computer generated sentiment.

Copics:

Pumpkin: Y15, YR09, YR04, Y19

Skin:  E0000, E000, E11, E01, R20

Bat Wings:  100, C9, C5

Hair:  Y00, Y21, E31, E33

DP: MM Spook Alley- 2 years old

Metal frame - $ store find sometime ago

Grand oval nesties

MS bats and fence - from my stash

Black netting from a friend

I would like to enter the following challenges:
Crafting for all Seasons Challenge #11  - Things with Wings
Clear it Out Challenge Time - Child
Digital Tuesday Challenge #178 - Things with Wings
Papertake Weekly Challenge - A Haze of Autumn
Twisted Tuesday Challenge #24 - Flying by to say Hi
Love to Create Challenge #33 - Things with Wings
Songbird Challenge #4 - Defying Gravity
Charisma Cardz Challenge #37 - Things with Wings
Copic Markers Europe Challenge 9  - Halloween

Thank you so much for stopping by and your lovely comments are always appreciated.
Hug, Pat K.xx                             

Fab n Funky Challenge #139 - Things with Wings

Hello everyone,

For the Fashionista Blog Hop, please scroll down to the next post.  Thanks :)

Today at the Fab n Funky Challenge the very talented Wendy is our hostess and she would like to see "Things with Wings" on your creations.

Our sponsor this week is Doodle Pantry

I've made a Flat Backed Treat Box ...oooh say that 10 times fast.....and coloured a Doodle Pantry image called "Happy Bird" which is a freebie at the shop.  I filled the box with a favourite...Werther's Original candy.  The tree die was cut twice, once in brown, once in rust, then I cut and glued the rust coloured leaves on the brown tree to give it a fall look.

The instructions for this box card can be found here under SCS tutorials.

 Details:

Coloured with Copics:  R29, R27, R24, R22

Tree: Marianne Creatables

Sun, Clouds, Fence:  MFT

Grass:  MS Punch

SB Double Ended Tags

Sentiment:  SU Sweet Little Sentiments, Core Color Core'dinations

Paper:  SU Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss

I expect to enter the following challenges:

 Crazy 4 Challenges - Anything Goes - Fall

Digi Design Challenge - Use more than one die cut / punches

Clearly Inspired Challenge #59 - Leaves

Raise the Bar Challenge #111 - Anything with wings

Simply Create Too Challenge #22 - Anything Goes   (1)

Make it Monday Challenge

The Crafty Pad Challenge #18 - Autumn colours

Lollipop Crafts Challenge #90 - Punches & Dies

Paper Playtime #84 - Punches & Sentiment

Twisted Tuesday Challenge #24 - Flying by to say hi

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you get a chance to join us this week. 

Hugs, Pat K. 



Fashionista Challenge #7 and Blog Hop

Happy Monday everyone...

We have a couple of very special events happening at the
Fashionista Challenge

First, we have the fabulous LOTV as our Sponsor and the theme for this Challenge is Christmas

 

 

Next news is....we are having our very first

Blog Hop

Every DT Member will have a sponsor and there will be a

Peoples Choice Challenge Winner as well as 10 Blog Hop Winners

 

My blog sponsor is ADFD

and I will be featuring a Christmas Card using an image generously supplied by
 them next Monday!

You should be coming to me from Natalie's blog.  For the list, scroll to the bottom of this post.  Hop on over to Eva's blog next. 

Here is my LOTV Christmas project using a stamp supplied by the lovely Bev and is called "Christmas Present".   

 

 

Here is the order for the Hop:

 

Rina

Suzie

Natalie

Pat  (me)

Eva

Julie

Carol

Samantha

Christy

Katie

Card Details:
MS Vine Trim punch
Marianne Creatables - evergreen
SB - Fancy Tags Two, embossed with SU Pink Pirouette
Lace - Websters Pages
SB Parisian Motifs
Flower from my stash
Silver rope - Michaels
Copics
Stickles - Stardust

I will be entering the following challenges:
Squiggles and Giggles - Punches & Dies
The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge #26 - Anything goes
52 Christmas Card Throwdown Theme Challenge
Di's Digi Challenge - Use more than 1 Die cut
Sugar Creek Hollow #29 - Pretty in Pink
Southern Girls #53 - Bling Bling
Craft you Passion Challenge #128  Bingo (emboss, pink, flower)
The Poodles Parlour - Here Come the Girls
Make it Monday Challenge #107
Ladybug Crafts Inc. Challenge - Christmas
  

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do hope you get a chance to join the Challenge and Blog Hop.  Hugs, Pat K.x

Fab n Funky Challenge #138

Hi Folks,

I'm back again with my second post for the day! 
 This time I would like to show you what I've created for

Fab n Funky Challenge #138
 

 Our hostess is the lovely, talented Vicky and she has set the theme as

 "Harvest Festival".

Our sponsor this week is Digi Doodle Shop, who are offering a $10. prize
to spend in their shop.

For my card share, I've used a digi from the Fall Harvest set.  The Niagara Region in Southern Ontario is well know for it's vineyards and produces many award winning wines.  I coloured this beautiful bunch of grapes to represent the Riesling variety...one of our favourite whites.   This grape is also used in making Ice Wine.  The grapes are left on the vine to freeze and picking time is crucial.  The result is a delicious, sweet dessert wine.
 

 

Inside view:

 

 

Copics used:

 

 

 

Details: 

Spellbinders Layered Elegant Swirl

inside: Spellbinders Decorative Labels One

TH Vintage Photo distressed ink

Ticket is from a Whimsy Stamp set, called Holiday Ticket Sentiments

I used the blank stamp and created the sentiment in word.

I align the stamp with the sentiment using my Stamp-a-ma-jig

 

Entering the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Leaves'

Make it Monday Challenge #106

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and as always, your lovely comments are appreciated.

Hugs, Pat K.xx

 

 

Creative Belli Challenge #152 - Fall

Good morning everyone,

I hope this finds you well.  Yesterday my friend Carol and I spent the morning browsing thru our local scrapbook store, which unfortunately is closing. When everything is 40% off it takes alot of willpower.  I did not feed my paper obsession!  New dies on the other hand, well that's another issue :D

 

 It's time for a new Challenge at the Belli Challenge. 
The theme, chosen by the owner, Darsie,  is Fall.

I've used a Saturated Canary image called Cornelia to make a "Magic Card".  I followed the great tutorial for Marianne Skjelstad's Magic card  here on Tracy's blog.  The flowers are my "something old"....they've been in my stash for a very long time, along with the punches.

Inside:

 

Verse:

 

Martha Stewart punches used around the edges. The leaves are also MS, punched out of cork.  SB Romantic Rectangles used on the inside.  Autumn Blessing stamp - Cornish Heritage Farms (another oldie), mounted on cork again.

 

We would love it if you joined us at the Creative Belli Challenge this time.

 

Entering the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everyone #2 - Anything Goes

Come and Get it Challenges - Tic Tac Toe  (die cuts, free, punches)

The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge #26  - anything goes

2 Sisters Challenge #108 - Fall

Send a Smile 4 Kids - Fall or Halloween

Cupcake Craft Challenge #209  - Stitches

Eureka Stamps Challenge #5 - Fall Fun

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs, Pat K.x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delicious Doodles Challenge #1 - Celebrations

Happy Friday Everyone!

The Delicious Doodles Challenge is baaaack!   We are now a weekly challenge with 2 teams of lovely ladies to inspire you.   We thought it only fitting our first challenge be Celebrations. 

I coloured up this gorgeous Delicious Doodles image called "Iris" for my friend Vera's birthday, which is today!   Happy Birthday V 

 

Details: 

DP:  SU Lovely Lilac, Elegant Eggplant, Almost Amethyst

SB Large Circle, Large Scallop Circle

Embossed with SU Square Lattice embossing folder

Silk ribbon - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Birthday stamp - SU

 

Entering the following challenges:

City Crafters Challenge #125  - Monocromatic

 

 

 

Fab n Funky Challenge #137 - Colours of Autumn

Good morning all,

WOW, Wednesday already....that's what happens when you have a long weekend!   I'm scheduling this post as I will be out for the day with my cousin.  We are taking a trip down memory lane you might say...to cottage country to visit an area where we spent the summers as children.   It's sure to be a fun day .... I hope you get to do something special too!

 

...on to business... It's time for a new Challenge at Fab n Funky.  This week our lovely, talented hostess Pat has asked us to use the Colours of Autumn on our projects.   Our fabulous sponsor is  My Creative Classroom and they have a wonderful prize for our winner this week.

 

I couldn't resist colouring up a new digi from Mo Manning called Fall Fairy Jesen.  I did a little distressing on this one too.....not my usual, I know.  

Here is a view of the inside.    I like to print a digi on the inside.  I cannot take credit for the idea....I saw it done a few years ago and unfortunately do not know who originated it.  The little acorn is a stamp from an old SU set.

 

Details:

DP - Recollections "Autumn" 8x8 pad

Burlap:  7 Gypsies Trading Card taken apart and frayed

Rafia - scraps from a bouquet I received

Co-ordinations paper used on one layer, embossed and distressed

MFT - Flourish

Coloured with Copics

 

I will be entering the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenge #40 - something old (acorn stamp), something new, (digi stamp)

One Stitch at a Time Challenge #129 - Use a Digi

Send a Smile 4 Kids - Fall or Halloween

By the Cute and Girly - Boys/Men

Ladybug Crafts 1st Challenge - Anything Goes

Unique Crafters Challenge - September - Anything Goes

Lexi's Creations #73  - Fall Colours

 Creative Craft Challenges - All About the Boys

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hugs, Pat K.

 

 

 

Delicious Doodles, Cloaked Lady

Good day everyone,

I'm scheduling this post because I have my granddaughters with me for the day.  Their first day of school is not until Wednesday and with Mom & Dad off to work, they get to come play with me.  We plan on making cake pops for the first time....promises to be a little messy but I do love our times together.  

I've made this card to introduce myself on the Delicious Doodles Challenge Blog as one of their newest members.  I still can't believe I'm with this fab group and get to play with the amazing drawings created by Teri Sherman....pinch me!

I've used the digi called "Cloaked Lady".  If you like colouring folds, this one's for you.
 

Details:

Copics:

Skin: E000, E00, E11, R11

Cloak: YR00, YR02, YR07, Y08

Hair:  E27, E25, E21

Tree:  E59, E57, E55, E53

Shading: W3, W1, W00, W7

Snake:  Jellyroll pen Sakura

 

 

DP - 7 Gypsies - Gypsy Market

Crystal Stickers by Mark Richards

Sizzix Maple Leaf Die, Embossed with CB Folder

Metal sentiment:  Dollar Store

Rose:  WOC

 

Entering the following challenges:

Make it Monday

Paper Pretties Challenge - Make a Square Card

Smudgy Antics Weekly Challenge:  Tic Tac Toe (ribbon, emboss, sparkle)

 

Thanks for stopping by - your lovely comments are always appreciated. Hugs, Pat K.