Uuumm...Candy Good

I have a little more Halloween inspiration for you today even though it was 101 degrees here again.  It seems Fall is never going to come...maybe by December.  I used this cute digi image from By Lori Designs called Frank.  The sentiment just came to me and seemed perfect.

Challenges

PMS Digi Makeover Challenge 4- Re-size your Digi (I think that is one of the best things about digis)
KB Cute Monday- 29 Halloween
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #1- Halloween

The BLD Lollipop Girls have some super cute creations to share with you so stop by and take a peek. You are going to love all of the adorable Halloween digi stamps...so cute.  Have a wonderful day and I will see you again tomorrow.

The Sweet Stop Sketch 127

***Please scroll down for the By Lori Designs Birthday Hop***

Wow, I don't know about you but it has been a busy and fast few weeks since school has gotten back in.  This is my first year to have so much running and after school activities, I had no idea how much work it would but as long as we are having fun:)  Today's card started out being for my daughter's new friend's birthday but it turns out that I might have to keep it for my littlest princesse's big day that will be coming up soon...oh and make a duplicate for Riley. Here is my take on this week's sketch at The Sweet Stop.

The Sweet Stop Sketch 127

 I have mentioned before what big fans we are of Rapunzel in this house and yes that includes the boys too, Sawyer has a thing for blondes.  This image is from Disney's Tangled and was a free coloring page that I found here.  The Sentiment is from C.C. Designs Amy R Magical Wishes , paper is DCWV Pocket Full of Posies, and the butterfly and flower punch is from Martha Stewart. I colored the flowers on the ribbon to match. 

Copics

Hair- E53, E50, YR21, YR20/Skin- E11, E00, E000, R20 Eyes- G82 Dress- R83, R81, V17, V15, V/  V12, V000/Pascal-YG17, YG13/ Shadow and Grounding V91

Challenges

Ruby's Rainbow Challenge- For the Girls 

Crafty Sentiments Design's- Happy Birthday

Don't forget to visit the wonderful Sugar Babies.

The Sugar Babies

Monika

Wendy

Janice

Korin

Cathy

Shannon

Kim

Lorie 

Have a wonderful week and I hope to see you soon!!

By Lori Designs 1st Birthday Blog Hop

Hello!! If you are here for the By Lori Designs 1st Birthday Blog Hop you have come to the right place and if not I do hope you will join in on the fun.  I am so happy to be a new member of BLD Design Team and to help her celebrate her digi shop's first year.  Lori is an absolute sweet heart and I am so happy to have gotten to know her through blog land.  And lets not forget her talent..my goodness!!
Every birthday party needs a gift so I created this altered can to hold a gift card and goodies.

Happy 1st Birthday By Lori Designs

Friday September 22 - Sunday September24

Here is a list of all of the Puddle Jumpers that I used and you can find them right HERE at BLD.

Birthday Owen, Birthday Lily, School Time Lucy, Harper, Birthday Ezra, Birthday Emma

I used a lot of Copics on this project 44 to be exact so I am not going to list them all today.  I hope you understand:)

We have some very special guest designers today and also some wonderful prizes to be won so have fun!!

Before I let you hop off...I want to let you know that if you comment on every blog in the hop...

You will be entered into a random drawing to win one of several prizes:

1 Winner will win a $50 Gift Certificate from the BLD Digi Shop

1 Winners will win a $20 Gift Certificate from the BLD Digi Shop

2 Winners will win a $10 Gift Certificate from the BLD Digi Shop

2 winners will receive a Sampler Pack of 6x6 Papers - October Afternoon, Echo Park, Etc

You Must comment on every blog in the hop to be eligible to win!

By Lori Designs Digi Shop

Lori

Jodi

Hannah

Anna Maria
Karen
Loretta
Tori
Kadie
Krista
Mary
Joni
Peggy
 Shelby 
Your next stop is  Lysa

Frances
Tracy

Arielle

Sheri


Enjoy the rest of the hop and I hope to see you again very soon!!

Inky Recipe Inspiration

 If you visit me often you know how  I love working and coloring with cute childresn's images and oh my, does Nicole at Inky Impressions have a bunch of cuties to choose from  right HERE.
For so long I have wanted to get my recipe collection organized.  You should see the mess I call a cook book, yikes!! We all love making cards but lets face it we have a huge stash and then give some of our favorites away.  I think adding a favorite stamp to a recipe card is a great way to not only be creative in another way but also have a fabulous looking recipe book.

I will say it was a bit hard for me to remember to keep it CAS because it is a recipe card after all and a lot of embellishments just isn't practical.  I used this a adorable stamp called Lili's Sweet Treat from Inky Impressions along with this fun paper from Doodlebug called Kitchen Gadgets.  I typed up my recipe which, is super yummy by the way and then added a few doodles around the edges.

 Copics

Hair-E25,E31,E50 Skin-E11,E00,E000,R20 Clothes-B02,B01,B00/R27,R24/Y17,Y15,Y13/C9,C7,C5,C3

  I am going to try and keep up doing at least a few more recipe cards a month..fingers crossed.  That time thing can sometimes get the best of me though.  Don't forget about the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog we would love for you to join in.  Have a great day and I will see you on Friday for the BLD Blog Hop.

By Lori Designs Blog Hop this Friday

Hi everyone!! I am working like crazy to get some things done for this week's posts but I wanted to let you know that this Friday September 23rd By Lori Designs is celebrating her 1st Birthday and you are invited to a fun and inspirational Blog Hop.

I hope you will join the BLD Design Team and some very special guests.  All of the fun will start right HERE or come back to my blog and I can lead the way:) Have a great day and I will see you soon!!

The Sweet Stop Sketch 126

It is time for another great sketch from The Sweet Stop.  Now I must say I was a bit of a rebel this week and flipped the sketch around because I couldn't wait to use this cute new digi from By Lori Designs Called Witchy Prue.  I also wanted to share with you that Lori has asked me to join her wonderful design team at By Lori Designs...**squeal**.  Lori is such a wonderful and talented lady and I am so thrilled that she thought I would fit in with her amazing DT (yikes the pressure:).
The Sweet Stop Sketch SSS126-Sketch with a Spin Starstruck 

I couldn't resist making a little broom for my card today out of raffia it just seemed perfect for a broom ride.

Details

Copics-Hair E19,15,12/Skin E11,00,000, R20/Clothes C9,7,5,3,1/ V17,15,12/YR18,16,12/YG25,23 Broom Y28,23,26 E59,57,31/Background V91

Stamps- BLD Witchy Prue Digi and Halloween Sentiments

Paper- Basic Grey Eerie

Accessories- Recollections Star Brads,Celebrate It Ribbon, Memento Tuxedo Black,Raffia

Challenges

Papercraft Star-#62 Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday #182 Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons Challenge #2 Anything Goes

Please stop by and visit the rest of the Sugar Babies, they made some amazing cards this week.
The Sugar Babies

Monika

Wendy

Janice

Korin

Cathy

Shannon

Kim

Lorie

Have an outstanding weekend everyone and thank you so much for stopping by!!

Foto Friday-Lilly

I am going to try to start doing something a little different on Friday and that is to join in with the wonderful Lori Boyd's Foto Friday.  Every Friday Lori shares a picture and you can link one of yours to share with others.  Well, I promised pictures of our new Fur baby so I thought this would be a perfect time.
This is Lilly our new Maltipoo  (Maltese/ Poodle) she is a toy and weighs 1lb. but she is a fur ball of feisty.
My three year old brought her in the other day and thought it would be fun to roll her around in her brother's roller skate..yikes!!!

I hope you will join in on Foto Friday I think it is fun way to get to know a little bit more about our crafty friends. I will see you again in a few hours for The Sweet Stop Saturday.

Inky Impressions Dressed to Impress & DT News

Hello my crafty friends!! I am so happy to share that I am a new Design Team Member for Inky Impressions.  Inky Impressions has the cutest rubber stamps and they are made of the best quality rubber that stamp beautifully.  Today there is a new challenge starting at the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog

Dressed to Impress

We want to see you add something extra to your cards.  Whether it be a little or a lot of embellishments it is all about how you dress up your card. 

 For my take on the challenge I used Joseph and Lynette's First Day it seemed a perfect fit.  I thought the paper from Echo Park Happy Days is so cute by it self but to Dress it up a bit I added  a little bit of bling, swirls and ribbon along with the cute cherry charm that you can find here. 

Copics

R29,27, 24.59/C9,7,3,1/E50,51,53,39,35,34,25/W3,2,1

Challenges

Inky Impressions- Dressed to Impress

Deconstructed Sketch #18

2 Sister's Challenge Blog- Black White & One Other Color

The rest of the Inkettes Design Team- B(we are alternating weeks between teams) have some wonderful inspiration to show you right HERE so please stop by and visit.  

Have a wonderful day!!

My Partner In Crafting Crime is Back

Hi everyone!! I just wanted to stop in and let you know that My Partner In Crafting Crime is back with a new challenge.

The theme for this one is 

#31 TRAINS, PLANES, and AUTOMOBILES.

and since we are just starting back we will keep it easy and allow any mode of transport!!

 With that being said I used this cute Digi called Spring Ride from one of our two sponsors Bows & Berries.  Our other sponsor this week is the fabulous Glitterbabe Digis so I hope that you will play along for your chance to win.

I kept my card clean and simple this week and just let these fun papers called Blossom Soup by Jillibean Soup and the cute digi take center stage.  I made the sentiment and tag my self and used my Martha Stewart punch to add the flower details.
The Challenge runs until September 25th so there is plenty of time to enter.  Please stop by and visit the rest of the wonderful team

My Partner's In Crafting Crime DT

Jenny 

Robin
Elaine 

Janet 

Rachel

I will be seeing you a few more times this week, I have a lot of stuff in the works:)  Have a blessed and wonderful week.

ATS "Tweet" Release

Hello!! How is everyone today? The nights have turned a little cooler which means the days aren't sweltering and we have actually been able to go outside and enjoy it.  Now if we could just get some rain  to help put out the wild fires.  Today (Saturday)All That Scraps has two new digis by C.C. Designs.  These little birds are just so fun!!

For my first project I used Tweetie Fall Digi and the sentiment was one I made up.  I created the bird house by taking  5"x11" piece of card stock folded in half and then cut two 1"x4 1/2" strips of paper and crossed them to make the the roof.  I then added my pattern paper and glued the roof down and cut the remaining corners off to create the shape.  I then added the oval Nestie to create the bird hole and decorated away. I was pretty happy with the way this turned out.

 

 Challenges

Shopping Our Stash- #16 Birds, Bugs & Beasts- I went with the bird part of the challenge and all of my paper and punches were pulled from my stash.

Crafty Creations Challenge- #135 Anything But  Square

 For my next project I used Batty Tweetie and sentiment digi.  I have a few of these Halloween envelopes and I am hoping to create some more to make a little scrapbook.

And last but certainly not least Riley has made a card to share with everyone.  

 The ATS Digi Team has created some wonderful projects and you can find them HERE and the stop by the ATS Store and pick up Tweetie.
** Please scroll down to see this weeks The Sweet Stop Sketch**

The Sweet Stop Sketch 125

Happy Sweet Stop Saturday!! How was your week? Busy as always here. The after school activities have definitely filled up the week and then crazy Mommy decided to get a new puppy, like 3 kids and a big dog isn't enough...heehee. I will try and show some pictures later in the week. 
And now on to some crafty business.  Here is my card for this weeks sketch at The Sweet Stop.  Yes once again I have done something a little different than my normal style.  I am just wild and crazy like that:)

As I am looking at this picture I realize that I lost a lot of the shadows that I added around the flower.  One day I will spend more time on taking pictures and get it figured out.  The stamp set I used is from Sweet 'n Sassy called Poppies & Sentiments and the paper is Laced Grace by Glitz Designs.

 The Sugar Babies

Monika

Wendy

Janice

Korin

Cathy

Shannon

Kim

Lorie

I hope you can find time to play along with us this week and don't forget to stop by and share some love with the rest of the Sugar Babies.

CMC Challenge Guest Designer- Fall Fun

Happy Labor Day Weekend!!! I am so excited to share my project today that I made as a Guest Designer for the CMC Challenge Group.  If you haven't already you really should join in on the fun,  There are great challenges and always great prizes to be won and you too could be selected to be a Guest Designer.

Challenge #26 FALL OR HALLOWEEN Theme using YOUR COPICS, COPIC REFILLS OR COPIC AIRBRUSH SYSTEM (Or ProMarkers if you have them).

 This weeks sponsor is The Stamp Fairy and I was given this adorable Chubby Scarecrow 1 to work with..love him!!  I used this great new fall paper by Bo Bunny called Forever Fall along with The Upsy Daisy & Dizzy Doily Die-namics by MFT to create the fall bouquet. I loved the unexpected "pop" of color this paper has so I played off of that.
Here is a close up of the bear so you can see the added touch of raffia to his sleeves and hat.  

Copics

Bear E35, E34, E30, E53, E51, E50/Hat Y21, Y26, Y28/BG09, BG13,/YR18, YR116/Background BG000, BG70/Ground E41, E42, E44, Y26, Y28/ Leaves R59, YR18, YR16

Challenges

Jellypark Challenges- Die-cuts or Punches

Polka Doodles- #35 Autumn Leaves

 Poodles Parlor- Animal Antics

Charisma Cards #35 Anything Goes

Craft Us Crazy-#16 Autumn Colors favorite embellishment(hand made flowers)

 I hope you will stop by and take a look at the wonderful Design Team Creations and if you haven't taken any of the online Copic classes by Suzanne Dean you should, they are fabulous no matter what your level of expertise.

Enjoy your weekend!!

The Sweet Stop Sketch 124

Hi everyone!! This is going to be a fast post but I will be back with more in the morning hours.  Here is my card for this weeks The Sweet Stop Sketch.  Yes I know it doesn't look like my normal style but I thought I would try something different and well, I think I better stick with what I am more comfortable with:)
Here is this weeks sketch, Korin has come up with another great one and I hope you will join us.  I used the sentiment from Your Friendship from Sweet 'n Sassy .

Please stop by and visit the rest of The Sugar Babies.  Sadly Jennipher Lowery's DT term was up at The Sweet Stop and we are going to miss her but don't forget to stop by and visit her she is starting a new challenge blog and is having a Design Team call and you can check it out HERE.  I would also like to send out a big welcome to Lori Ames who is joining the team this week.

The Sugar Babies

Korin Sutherland 

Monika Davis 

Shelby Goolsby 

 Lorie Ames

Wendy Ramlakhan  

Janice Melton 

Shannon White 

Kim O' Connell

I will see you again a little bit later today but I need to go get some sleep before I start rambling on:)