Bibi Gnomes!

Hello I hope you are all well I am In KC right now excitedly anticipating the St. Patrick's day Parade.

I am also very excited to share this week release from Pink Cat Studio!:

These are so cute, I created a card using Bibi Tall Mushroom.

 

This Bibi is so fun with that mushroom and I thought I'd play it up with lots of brads and buttons.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to stop by and leave comments soon.

I miss your amazing talents!

 

Challenges:

Creative Card Crew  Green 

Clear It Out  Buttons

Going Grey  Anything Goes 

Crazy Challenge  Eyelets or Brads

Happileigh Scrappin'  ! plain Cs, @ DP,3 embellishments(at least)

Stamp-n-doodle  at least 2 things that start with 'g'  Gnome digi and the color Green

The Crafty Pad  Buttons

Every silver lining has a touch of grey...

Wow we had the best day yesterday it was amazing outside, the kids had the day off from school, and we set of to the zoo! We stopped on the county roads to take pictures:

Everyone took lots of pictures!

It was a great time!

 

 

 And then Oscar tripped and broke his arm....

He was so very brave, poor little sweetie!

Nether the less, I enjoyed this day with my kids

and am looking forward to the summer! Minus the cast...

Thanks be to my Canadian Friend Tanya

Tanya you were so awesome to think of a rubber stamp swap and I swear I have been inking them up,

life has just been really busy! Creating a card card using one of Sparkles images

Charlotte With A Rose,  there was finally an opportunity to play along with

Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamp Challenge!

It's a sketch:

Here is the card:

 

This image beckoned to be paper pieced so I obliged using Basic Grey Offbeat. I know it's had to view but I used tiny green pearls for fer blouses buttons and an ivory one for her earring.

Today will be a great day, the temp will be in the 60's and my three children have the day off...

Henry Doorly Zoo here we come! Have a wonderful day
 

Challenges:

Do You Stack Up  Layers 

ABC Challenge  P=Pearls

Simon Says  Anything Goes

Fab-N-Funky  Girlie

Tuesday Throwdown  Use Scraps 

It's easy being green...

especially with Melissa's new Pink Cat Studio Release!

Today we have five lucky St. Patrick's Day  digis for you creative pleasure:

Aren't these fun!!I absolutely love Lucky Betty so I worked with her for today:

You may recognize the sketch it's from Truly Scrumptious:

  Oliver,  from Basic Grey  is used as well as a small handful it itty bitty brads

to give the button embellishments a pot of gold feel.

I can promise you a pot of gold however you will receive the cute Pixie on Shamrock free with purchase today, how lucky is that?!?

Challenge:
Going Grey  Green
Freshly Brewed  3 or more DPs
Penny's Paper Crafts  Green
Corrosive Challenge  Going Green
Creative Inspiration Paint  Gone Green
Crafty Ho's  St. Patrick's Day
Card Makin Mamas  Green
Digis With Attitude  Open
Paper Cutz  St. Patrick's Day
Stamp Something  Digi
Easy Craft Project  Green

We all do it...

that dance of elation when something goes our way. 

Today and I want to share a card I created using  Happy Dance Butterfly.

   Tomorrow I'll be doing the Happy Dance because my new camera is coming!!!!

Challenges:

Flutter By Wednesday  Anything Goes

Crafty Purple Frogs  Something That Flies

Cute Card Thursday  Signs Of Spring

Delightful Challenge  Welcome Spring

Alphabet Challenge  R=Ribbon

Simply Create  Flowers

Pink Cat Studio Rubber Release...

 Melissa made some great stamps from her amazing digi's!

  Here is a card I created quite a while back using Itty Bitty Betty- Ladybug Costume. 

 If you love these so much as a digi and just have to own the rubber,

Click here for a list of retailers for Pink Cat Studio.

Pink Cat Studio Release!

Good morning I am excited to share Melissa's newest release of Critters this week!:

These are available now at the Pink Cat Studio and compliment last weeks release of Gnomes.

I fell in love with the Hedgehogs, and you get all three for a great price!

Here is my card using this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch # 180:

Using the Wild Card cartridge I cut out this card and dug out some scraps from the abyss for the dp.

I printed this hedgie out onto kraft and colored his hair( for lack of a better word) with Cocoa Bean Prismacolor marker  and after it dried I drew some lines in for texture. (you need to click the image to see)

I want to share that Melissa is looking for some Guest Designers for next Weeks St. Patrick's Digi Release and they are cute as can be! For More Info please hop over to Melissa's Blog.

Good Luck to You!

 

Challenges:

Creative Cottage  Tags
Paper Shelter Challenge  Use Your Scraps
Southern Girls  Brads, gems, dewdrops
Creative Belli  Animals
Paper Playtime  Anything Goes + digi
Cupcake Craft  No Square
Corrosive  Distressing
I Did It!  Punches or Dies
Craft Us Crazy  Nature
Dutch Dare  Who Is In The Zoo

I need spring to catch up with me!!!

I am way ahead of the seasons; day dreaming of flowers, insects and hummingbirds.

The only problem is... it's still winter!!!

I guess I can only dream of spring for now and bring flowers into my crafting. 

Here is a card using the stamp set Aloha Fhiona & Aloha Accessories from YNS:

I love Fhiona's grass skirt and beautiful hibiscus, I fussy cut it out and popped it up.
 Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!
PS I want to tell you a secret. I just received new stamps from Karen ans they are fantastic so keep you eyes peeled for our next new release for YNS!
 

Challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Craft  Spring Flowers

Creative Cottage  Spring Flowers Everywhere

Forgotten Scraps  Spring or Flowers

Paper Crafting Journey  Anything Goes

Paper Romance  Anything Goes

Stampin B's  Flowers

Art Impressions  Flowers

Paper Cutz  Spring

Crazy 4 Challenges  Flowers

Sweet Stampin'  Oh So Girlie

One Stop Craft  Spring Flowers

Creative Cowgirls  Tropical beach Hawaii

I Did It Creations  Punches or Die Cuts

House of Gilli  Use Green

Ooh La La Creations  Pink Pink and more Pink

It's a family of Gnomes!!!

Happy Thursday!!! I am really happy to introduce you to Melissa's 

newest creations for  

The Pink Cat Studio.

 These gnomes are adorable! And the Gnome Home Freebie the best, but remember,

you can only receive it free today with a purchase!

I created a simple and complex cards for today's release:

The Wild Child card highlights Lulibell And Friends.

 I decided to go with a Kraft neutral to highlight the funky frame from Bam Pop. I had all forgotten about the wild child button it is many many moons old!

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I love the Gnome Home, when Mellisa sent it to me 

the thought of a  shaped card was instantaneous. 

I added the digi Gladibell for aesthetic as well as functionality 

to stabilize my card.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!!

 

Challenges: 

Card 1 :

7 Kids College Fund  Square Card

Little Red Wagon  Animals

Gingerloft  Furry Friends

My Time To Craft  Hats

Pile it On  Childhood Dreams

Totally Papercrafts  Digi

Creative Card Crew  Fantasy

Card 2:

Paper Pretties  Glitter

Pixie Cottage  Something Cute

Corrosive Challenges  Magical creatures

Woodware USA  Shaped Card

I Did it Creations  Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time  No Square Cards

Alphabet Challenge  P is for Paper Piecing

Crafty Creations  In the garden

Who wants to win some fun new digis  from The Pink Cat Studio?

Here are the contest details:
To be eligible to win you will need to post the above animated blinkie on the side bar of your blog and leave it there until the contest ends. Then please leave a comment over on  this post stating that you added the blinkie and also include a link to your blog. If you don't have a blog you can still enter the contest. Just leave a comment over on this post and say that you would like to enter the contest even though you don't have a blog.

Click here to read the instructions on how to add the blinkie to your blog.

This contest will end on February 23rd at 9 pm EST and the winner will be announced on this blog on Thursday Feb. 24th. The winner will be randomly chosen from everyone who enters the contest and she will receive all 8 of the new Gnome digi stamps.

Thanks for playing along and we can't wait to show you the new digis!

I used to play with clay all day!

YNS is sponsoring the the fabulous Etsy Inspired challenge. The Etsy inspiration shop for this challenge is Claylicious, for functional and decorative pottery. I had so much fun perusing the wares and then I stopped dead in my tracks when I came this ceramic collage called 

Mother You Hold My Heart

I just wanted to reach through the screen and touch this with all it's amazing textures! 

I say Bravo!!!!

I pretty much just cased this to the best of my abilities using Yippee Fhiona.

This was a labor of love, did you know I used to play with clay all day? Yep, yep!

To play along in the Etsy Inspired Challenge:

**Go to http://www.etsy.com/shop/claylicious, look around, and find an item or two that inspires you.

**Make any *NEW* creation that you would like and post a link on the Etsy Inspired challenge blog by Friday, February 25th, 2011 at noon Pacific time.

**Give credit to the shop/item you found your inspiration from and link back the Etsy Inspired.

Challenges:

Card Makin' Mommas  Birthday

Fabulous Friday  No patterned paper

Fairy Knoll  Birthday or Thank you

If The Shoe Fits  Birthday
Simply Create  Bold & Bright
Stamp Something  Something funky
Creative Inspiration  Distressing
One Stop Craft  Birthday
Rubber Cafe  No Pattern Papers

Creative Craft World  Use a Square
Paper Play  Add Shine  I painted liquid glass on all the blocks

Mega winner list!!!!

Wow did you enjoy the amazing Valentines Blog Hop? I did, there was so much amazing inspiration.

 Here's the official winner's list:

Tracey (from Louise Healy's blog) - prize: 5 digi images of the winner's choice from Pink Cat Studio
Ronnie (from Libby Hickson's blog) - prize: 2 Cosmo Cricket 6x6 paper pads from The ScrappyChick Boutique
Terrece (from Sandie Dunne's blog) - prize: 4 images of winner's choice from MelJen's Designs
Dayle (from Berenice Rendon's blog) - prize: 2 digis of winner's choice from Karber Digital Images
Silvia (from Jennifer Dove's blog) - prize: 5 digi's of wonner's choice from Di's Digi Downloads
Jan (from Mary Collins's blog) - prize: digi stamp set of choice from Stamp Insanity
Janelle (from Sunghee Chon's blog) - prize: $20 gift certificate to Little Potato House
Erin L (from Wendy Price's blog) - prize: $10 gift certificate to Amber Ink
Allye (from Cathy Wallington's blog) - prize: 4 digi images from Kenny K's Shop
Jessi (from Patricia Hays's blog) - prize: 4 cling rubber stamp from Stampendous (new release)
Victoria (from Maria Levine's blog) - prize: 2 digi's of winner's choice from Pixie Dust Studio
BlackBird (from Tina Kiehn's blog) - prize: Meaning of Love digi set from Chi Chi Memories
Saskia (from Audrey E's blog) - prize: 5 digi images of winner's choice from Paper Pretties
Suzi (from Jessica Fitzgerald's blog) - prize: 2 rubber stamps from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps
Sharon (from Cat Darling's blog) - prize: Timeless Love acrylic stamp set from Paper Pretties
Stephanie Z (from Lynell Harlow's blog) - prize: Dreamweaver's prize pack
Mobolilu (from Julie Elak's blog) - prize: 5 digi images of winner's choice from Paper Pretties
Velma (from Joyce Martens's blog) - prize: One year general membership to Christian Paper Crafts
Beth (from Taylor Usry's blog - that's me!) - prize: $10 gift certificate to Lizzie Anne Designs
Pen to Paper (from Angelique Nederpel's blog) - prize: 3 digi images from Simply Betty Stamps


If you see your name be sure to contact Taylor at:  taylorusry@gmail.com. A big congrats to all the winners!!!

Pink Cat Studio Release!!!!

And they lived happily ever after....Don't you just love fairy tales? 

This week Melissa created some wonderful images centered around Rapunzel

for The Pink Cat Studio Shop:

Aren't they adorable I love Rapunzel's hair! Don't you just love that sweet freebie! It's all yours if you make a purchase today! I apologize for not having a project this week

however there is this plenty of amazing creations to behold if you 

stop by Melissa's Blog. You could also stop by each of the DT members blogs and show your appreciation:

• Emily Leiphart
• Jane Matsumoto
• Lysa Rohrer
• MacKenzie Bruckler
• Patty Tanuz
• Piali Biswas
• Trisha McMullen  

Have a fabulous Day!
The End

Paper Piecing...

Hello &  Happy Humpday!!!  I want to say thanks to all participated in the Your Next Stamp "Pretty Pleats" challenge your ideas were ingenious! For the next two weeks we'd love to see your paper piecing techniques. So get out those scissors and start cutting! Here is my card using Monkey Hanging Around and the Mini Monkey Hanging Around. 

I found an old stash of animal print from Close To My Heart to paper piece the larger monkeys body.

This card makes me smile because I love those minis! Well now its your turn! For more amazing inspiration head over to the Your Next Stamp Challenges. When playing along along you can either add to Mr. Linky's or use YNSC36 for the SCS Gallery. Remember there's a chance to win YNS Bucks!!!
Thanks for stopping bye!
 

Challenges:

Whoopsi Daisy  Free and Easy 

Lollipop Crafts  Favorite Coloring Medium  Prismacolor Markers

Rubber Cafe  Paper Piecing

Our Creative Corner  Cut it Out

Fabulous Friday  Use the Word Love

Paper Playtime  use an Animal Print

CES Challenge  Cute & Cuddly

Tuesday Takes With Sketches In Thyme

Firstly I want to say that am glad I made most of this weeks creations prior to this week because I do indeed have 2 sick kids! This does nothing for one's creative mojo, because I am stressed about fevers and sore throats and praying I don't get it!  LOL!

With that being said Happy Tuesday it's going to be beautiful out today and for this I fell blessed. Today we have another great sketch up for Tuesdays Takes # 13 at Sketches in Thyme. If you are a big Mojo fan I am sure you'll be pleased.

  

How great is this, it's so open for interpretation!

Here is my card using my favorite Ketto Calliope:

I really like how this card sort of took a life of it's own and came together with ease. I used my embossing button technique allowing some of the button to be exposed for a different look. Here is a close up: 

 

Don't you love that crown charm I have been hoarding it for ever!  

The card decided it was time so farewell little crown. This card is for a friend I have known
since kindergarten but it's late!!!  I am sure she'll understand!

So now it's your turn and remember, if you play along,

you'll have a chance to win this sweet sugary candy :

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Challenges:

Aly's Sunday  Bling Bling 

OLLCB  For Someone Special

Freshly Brewed  Charming

GingerSnap  Use A Charm

Charisma Card  Mythical/ Fantasy

Fab N' Funky  Tempting Texture

CCEE Stampers  Dry Embossing

Stamping With The Dragon  Anything Goes

Stamping Vacation  No! No! Flowers

Woodware USA  Embossing
Desert Island Craft Challenge    (Itinerary met) Button, No Flowers, only one pattern paper, Sparkle, Monochromatic