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Monday, November 19, 2012

Ok here we go ...trying the iSpy Sketches
challenge ISSC42...
you must check out this blog site ...some very talented ladies there...

Here is how to play:
  • Create a paper crafting project (card, scrap book page or 3D item), based on the sketch provided.Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery (using a code ISSC42 and link it here with the inlinkz widget below.
  • Please provide a direct link to your post - not the generic link to your blog.
  • A new challenge will be posted every Friday at 12:01 AM EST, and you have until noon on the following Friday EST to submit your entry.
  • You may enter as many times as you like, but please provide a newly designed project with a new link for each additional project.
  • We will choose the top 2 creations to be featured in our "Top 2 Winners" post every Sunday where we will announce who we have picked :) The winners will receive their very own iSpy Sketches blog badge!
  • Don't forget that you may combine our challenges with others and use supplies from any company that you wish :)
  • Have fun and we look forward to "spying" your creations!

So here is my card ...
the paper used is from Memorybox ...Yuletide
the stamp is Nellie Snellen...the wording misc stamp...I used my Spellbinder Oval
now you will note the red behind the spellbinder cut is my own I don't have the next size up
so I cut the shape out so the red was the background.
Then I embossed Stampendous - Shaggy White
and emboss red I colored Nellie ...hope you like...
tried to show the sparkles
this next card was just playing ...
I used Memory Box Frostyville to do the Border...paper used Winter Fun by
Carta Bella ...the snowman was a cut out ...
again the sparkles did not show that great ....darn .
Well I see there is a new posted for Mojo Monday
and i loved the layout Nina did for the
Merry Monday #42 Challenge ...might give it a try .
Have a great week
 


Monday, November 12, 2012

Well thought I might try the Merry Monday that my SIL Nina had posted ....
you can found the challenge here
Check out Nina's Card on her blog...awesome...

Merry Monday #41-A Trio of Possibilities
so here is my try ....below are the rules ...so come on give it a try...
Challenge Rules (to keep things fair):
1. You must use the sketch and make a Christmas card.
2. Please add a direct link to your blog or to an online gallery.
3. Feel free to use other challenges or for a stamp release, it doesn't matter, as long as you add this challenge link to your post.
4. Any offensive posts or cards that do not follow the guidelines will be removed out of courtesy to fellow bloggers and myself.
5. As always, please have fun and make the sketch your own!
This linky will close at Noon on the Sunday before the next Merry Monday Challenge.
Now I know my SIL Barb has been busy creating so check out here blog
 

this picture below ...my daughter just sent me ...Mahood Lake ...
it is so awesome ....
Yes we did get snow last night ...about 3 inches ...most of it is melting away ...
made me think of decorating ...and creating ...
will post pictures has I closer to finishing my creation.
Have a great day ...
and please stop bu family and friends ...
check out what they have been up to.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

So Nina ...posted a challenge for
Here is my try ...at the challenge

How to Play:
1. Everyone is invited to play! There are no requirements or restrictions on what products you can use to create your challenge entry.

2. You have until noon on Thursday, November 1st to link your entries for this challenge below.
3. Please link directly to your entry photo or your specific blog post featuring your project, not a general link. We reserve the right to remove invalid links. If you're uploading to a public forum, then use the keyword PPC90 so we can find you!
4. Please fill in your name (not the name of your card or the name of the challenge) as the caption/label within the linky tool.
 
Now in my challenge ..I tried to color the stamps used which was actually 2stamps I just choice parts of them ...I have got the stamps from SIL ....
Hope she likes how it turned out ....
Please stop Nina's and Barb's blogs their cards are awesome...
and stop Scrapbook Paradise and try the challenge..


Sunday, October 28, 2012

Hi to All ....
thought I would try the iSpy Challenge this morning...
 
So here is my layout....for the challenge...
papers were last years leftovers so I have no idea who they belong to ...
the cutout for the tree is Taylor Expressions...so why not join in on the challenge ....
Here is how to play:
  • Create a paper crafting project (card, scrap book page or 3D item), based on the sketch provided.Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery (using a code ISSC39), and link it here with the inlinkz widget below.
  • Please provide a direct link to your post - not the generic link to your blog.
  • A new challenge will be posted every Friday at 12:01 AM EST, and you have until noon on the following Friday EST to submit your entry.
  • You may enter as many times as you like, but please provide a newly designed project with a new link for each additional project.
  • We will choose the top 2 creations to be featured in our "Top 2 Winners" post every Sunday where we will announce who we have picked :) The winners will receive their very own iSpy Sketches blog badge!
  • Don't forget that you may combine our challenges with others and use supplies from any company that you wish :)
  • Have fun and we look forward to "spying" your creations
 
This little ghost below Ethan made at daycare love his big eyes


so last night his mom and I asked him to show us how to make a ghost ....
so here is what he told us to do...
mix white glue with water....
have a shape to lay the cheese cloths over to form the ghost ...
(i know I forgot to take a picture of the cheese cloth with all the water glue over it )
sorry...
lay the cheese cloth over form and here is one of my ghost ..
(not has good as Ethan's but will what can I say )
he is a very good teacher 
below are his and his moms ....
thank you Ethan for all the fun and teaching us...
after are hard day crafting...
we watch Disney Secret of the Wings...
Tinkerbell is so cute...
well have a great Sunday ...
off to try another challenge ....
housework ...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Finally I am getting a chance to put up my attempt at the Scrapbooker's Paradise challenge PPC#89
 Our challenge for this week is to create a card, scrapbook page or altered item using the color combo or the photo

I know it is hard to tell that I tried to get close to the colors combo ...
I used the paper from the 6x6 Carta Bella --Winter Fun ...
to create the snowflake I used Bianca Snowflake from Memory Box ...
which I purchased at pour new Scrapbooking store in town
Memory Junction...you can see them on Facebook ...thanks Melissa for all the help
and your great new store love it...
 
This plant was given to me by my SIL ...it came from our old house ...
she blessed me with a piece of it ...
and here it is after having the summer to help it grow ...
thank you so much ...

Below are a few of the flowers still trying to bloom ...even with the blast of snow and cold wind



The other day we took Ethan out shopping ...

he try on this hat for me and actually let me take a picture...
he is so sweet ...
Well off to try another card have a great day ..
Make sure you stop my friends and family ...
I know there are some neat cards out there ...
HUGS


Saturday, October 20, 2012

Wow two challenges done this week....
trying for a third going to try and do a Scrapbooker's Paradise Challenge ....
my SIL Nina ...has a awesome card for that challenge...
But here is my card for the Mojo Monday Challenge
hope this works ...
yes I see the sewing but ...well time and learning ...next time
Paper used Brazzill and printed paper from Haunted Halloween ...
the spider is a Jolee product ...the other stickers are Micheal's recollection group...
my last kick at doing a Halloween card...
 
Well Papa got the kids cooking up a storm....

yes they are making Brownies...
Ethan loves to make ...him and mom do lots of it ...
Hannah is going to be a homemaker ...
have a great Saturday ...
 
 


Thursday, October 18, 2012

iSpy Challenge Issc37
So this my attempt at the challenge ....
below are the rules ...so have some fun and create....
Here is how to play:
  • Create a paper crafting project (card, scrap book page or 3D item), based on the sketch provided.Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery (using a code ISSC36), and link it here with the inlinkz widget below.
  • Please provide a direct link to your post - not the generic link to your blog.
  • A new challenge will be posted every Friday at 12:01 AM EST, and you have until noon on the following Friday EST to submit your entry.
  • You may enter as many times as you like, but please provide a newly designed project with a new link for each additional project.
  • We will choose the top 2 creations to be featured in our "Top 2 Winners" post every Sunday where we will announce who we have picked :) The winners will receive their very own iSpy Sketches blog badge!
  • Don't forget that you may combine our challenges with others and use supplies from any company that you wish :)
  • Have fun and we look forward to "spying" your creations



This card here was just me playing ...it has been so long since I did any cards...
just love how the spiders ...turned out
Now the supplies used to create the cards the first card for iSpy
I used a stamp set from Stampin Up ..I had got from my SIL Nina
the paper used was from a prize I had won at Haunted Hallows 6X6 pad...
my second card ...was Eerie Lane paper by S.E.I. the words and bats ...were from Jolee and the spiders on the corners are from Martha Stewart....
Hope you enjoy ...
I will be back
Have a great day
and
PLEASE
stop by family and friends ...I know they all have some great stuff to show ....


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

 Wow it has been a while ...sorry no cards made ...soon..
but first where I have been for just about a month ....
 I have been doing what I love to do camp ...fish ....and just be...
Just to show you from the two different pictures I have see
the colors change ...and it has been awesome...
these birds have made it so awesome each day to watch them ....some where in all
of my pictures of them..... I do have one of them diving it and getting a fish ...
my next entry I will try and put it up ...
they are so beautiful he sat there for a while before catching his fish for the day...
 now this fisherman below ...he has so many patience's....
Bare was trying to teach me how to casted with a fly and bobber...
and letting it sit and watching and seeing the fish hit the hook and pulling the line
and catching the fish ....the picture below is what he caught ...
yes a brookie and a fat brookie..
these below we caught another day of trolling with flies...
 the bottom two fish are my ...yes ...I caught fish ...
 these are just extras to show you some of the beauty there is
and some of the neat little
critters that visit for free food ....
well I am off back to camp ....
love and miss you all ...
please make sure you stop and visit family and friends ...
they have some awesome stuff to share ...
hugs 

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

WOW another card ...yes and this time 2 challenges together
now the Mojo Monday was this layout ....
and the other challenge was
What will inspire you this week? Will it be the picture or the color combo? If it's the color combo you're after.... you don't have to have the exact shade. Any shade of Orange, Yellow and Green will do!
How to Play:
1. Everyone is invited to play! There are no requirements or restrictions on what products you can use to create your challenge entry.
2. You have until noon on Thursday, August 16th to link your entries for this challenge below.
3. Please link directly to your entry photo or your specific blog post featuring your project, not a general link. We reserve the right to remove invalid links. If you're uploading to a public forum, then use the keyword PPC79 so we can find you!
4. Please fill in your name (not the name of your card or the name of the challenge) as the caption/label within the linky tool.
so here is my card ....
the paper is from a pad I have had forever ...
the lemonade stuff is from Little Yellow Bicycle...
wish my picture had showed the colors better ...one of these days....
Please make sure you stop by family and friends ...
they all have something awesome to share....
Have a great day...

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Well good Morning to All
I know it has been awhile ....
but summer is a busy time ...family ...visiting ...
but I did sit down yesterday and got 2 yes 2 cards done...I have been watching my SIL
Barb and Nina ...making the most beautiful cards
that I thought I should use some of the stuff I got when we all went shopping ...
here is the challenge from
                                                            So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:
  1. Make a project using " Black N' White Only ."
  2. Or Make a project with " Some Bling ".
  3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a " Black N' White Project with some Bling! "

so here is my try at the challenge...
paper used Unforgettable Love
oval pearls from a challenge I had won over a year ago
(boy do I stash stuff away)
two buttons for flowers middles...ribbon Celebrate...
I know I need to learn hope to take better pictures ...one day
Now this next challenge was from checking out Nina's blog...
Tuesday Morning Sketches ...
make sure you stop by Nina's to see her awesome card...
the little tassel she made for her party hat is so cute ...love it .
ok now my try at this layout ....
see what I mean about picture taking ...
the birthday paper was some of the paper I picked up from Memories and More
and the embossing powder I used was new to me so I was not sure how it would turn out ...I will keep playing with it it Shabby White embossing enamel...and if anybody out there has ideas on how to use this product ...please feel free to send advice....:):)

Well Bare and his twin Bill were starting out on their bike trip ...
Maggie and I were wishing the best for them ...and glad they get to do this at least once a year ...
great for brothers together ...they rode over to another brothers place and visited ...
Thanks Bill and Maggie for the visit ...
and oh yes Charlie said to tell you he misses Mogul..