CMC 3rd Birthday Bash Blog Hop

Hey everyone!! I bet you are here for the Color Me Creative Classroom's 3rd Birthday Blog Hop, if not you have to join in for some great prizes and inspiration.   Everyday this week there will be a new event and chance to win, you can find a list of all the details right HERE.

Suzanne Dean is also offering a Buy One Get One Half Off sale on Copic classes at CMC until Monday.  Trust me you will learn so many coloring tips whether you are a beginner or master Copic user.
The CMC Design Team is starting things off with a Blog Hop.  If you leave a comment on each DT member's blog you will be entered to win (1) of TWO crafty online store gift certificates.   Our wonderful sponsor is no other than Krista Smith of Saturated Canary.  She provided the design team with all of the fabulous images for our projects.  Not only is she super talented but she is such a wonderful person, I love reading her blog.  

 This cute image is called Harley and Haley.  I had fun with this color scheme it just seemed so bright and cheerful.  The ticket stamp is Whimsy Treasured Moments.  I used My Silhouette Cameo to cut out and create all the flowers and swirl.  I just love how the flowers turned out, they are so fun and different I do believe.  I will definitely be using my Cameo more.

Copics

Hair- E19, E18, E17, E13

Skin- E11, E00, E000, R20/ Eyes B01, BOO

Clothes- B02, B00, B000/BG13, BG11/R08, R05, R01/V17, V15, V13/G24, G21

Pig- R21, R20, R01/B01, B00/R08, R05, R01

Ground W2, W1 

I hope you enjoyed my card today and now it is time to hop over to Linda's blog or follow the list below.

Suzanne Dean
Tina Gilliland

Marie Gamber

Karen Gauthier

Melanie LaBelle

Jenn Cochran

Shelby Goolsby (you are here)

Linda Payne

Dana Joy

Pat St. Martin

Julie Price

Marti Wills

Kim DeRuosi

Shannon Kromeke

Andi Murdock (guest DT)

Michele Spera

Brook Guinn

Have a wonderful day and enjoy the Birthday Bash!!

 

Color My World

It is hard to believe that this is the last weekend in March not to mention Easter time already.  This year is just flying by already, crazy I tell ya.  Tomorrow will be filled with dying eggs, church in the evening and always fun with the kiddos.
It is time for a new challenge at the CMC Copic Challenge Group and this is one of my favorites.

NEW CHALLENGE #65 will run thru April 12th!

 Your challenge this time is

**All About Hair**

 color ANY IMAGE but it must

include HAIR of some sort

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!

I found this customizable album from American Crafts that holds 6x6 inserts so I thought I would use it to keep my cards in that I want to keep.  This image from Saturated Canary called Color Me Wonderful seemed like it would make the perfect cover photo paired with paper in my favorite colors.

 Copics

Hair- E57, E55, E53, E50.Y26(just a touch),RV17, RV14, RV10

Skin-E11, E00, E000, R20,R22 Eyes-B01,B000

Clothes-BG02, B01, B000/YG06,YG11

I love coloring hair and I know I get in a habit of using the same old colors so for this one I decided to mix it up and add some fun pink streaks to her hair. The paper I used is Basic Grey Out of Print.  I doodled around the image using a Copic Multi Liner 0.1.
Suzanne Dean has a fabulous online class at CMC to teach you all kinds of great techniques for hair and you can get all the details HERE.

Challenges

Crafting for All Seasons- #48 Anything but a Card (Mine is an altered Album)

Simon Says Stamp Challenge- Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom Door- Anything Goes

Have a great weekend and a Happy Easter!!

 

Bloom and Grow

Hello!! It has been a doozie of a week here with me and my littlest being sick all week long.  One thing would go away and then some other symptom would pop up.  I rarely get sick, honestly maybe once a year but I think it maybe longer. Lets face it moms can't get sick or things fall apart.
 The kids are watching a movie as I type this and I can't wait for them to go to bed to catch up on some shows on the DVR and maybe sneak a bowl of ice cream.  I absolutely love to watch Hart of Dixie. I guess it is one of those guilty pleasure shows.  I love the south cute small town idea.  That is where I would like to move for sure, not good for the hubby and Architecture though.  My other favorites to watch Once Upon a Time (love their take on fairy tales) this is a must watch in my book,  Castle is another great one and Revenge.  So what are your favorite TV shows or guilty pleasures these days?
There is a new challenege up at the CMC Copic Challenge Group and it is a fun one. 

CMC Copic Challenge #60

Favorite Color Combos

color ANY image ANY way you like

but WE WANT TO SEE YOU USING YOUR FAVORITE COLOR COMBOS and tell us why they are your fave if you'd like too!

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!

One lucky winner (at random) will win a

free CMC Online Class of their choice from any of Marti Will's classes (Prisma Pencil classes, Cricut or Mixed Media classes...see all of her classes in Class tab at top of site)

 My favorite color combos happen to be pinks, blue greens with a touch of green.   I think they are so fresh and definitely girly.  I also used my favorite hair color combo and my all time favorite stamps Saturated Canary this one is Princess Rose Red.  I have some more birthdays coming up, my middle daughter Riley turns seven Monday so I decided this might be a nice gift for her to keep rather than a card. She is after all my biggest fan. This cute box is from 7 Gypsies and I found them at Michaels and Archivers. ( I have another version to show you soon).

Favorite Copic Combos

Hair-E25,E31,E50 Clothes-R85,R83,R81/BG72,BG23,BG11/G82,G24,G40 Skin-E11,E00,E000,R20 Eyes-B01,B00

Challenges

Color Me Creative- Favorite Color Combo 

Stampin' for the Weekend- Something Girly 

Copic Marker Europe-#13 Anything Goes with Copic Markers

Paper Crafting Journey- Anything Goes

Divas by Design- Make It Girly

Inspire Me Fridays-#92 Anything Goes

I hope everyone has a wonderful and crafty week!! 

Thank You Suzanne Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to a special blog hop for a very special lady.... Suzanne Dean.  

 Today the Design Team from Suzanne's site, Color Me Creative, are hopping along to give our friend and "fearless leader" a HUGE HUG and Thanks!!!  

If you've ever met Suzanne, you know 1) what a HUGE heart she has and 2) how fun, witty and TALENTED she is!!  Suzanne's site has tons of information and inspiration and WE get to help spread the word about her awesome classes by way of her bi-weekly challenges sponsored by some fabulous crafty companies!  This month Suzanne is having a month full of challenges where you can win some wonderful prizes and have some fun along the way, but we wanted to take time to thank Suzanne for all her hard work and dedication for not only us but for all the members on her site and those who are lucky enough to have attended her classes where she shares her talent and coloring tips with us all.  

Suzanne is not only a pleasure to work for, but a wonderful friend with a big love for zebras!! That's right... today we are sharing our "zeebie" (as she calls them) designs dedicated to a wonderful lady who we simply say, "Thanks".  We hope you enjoy the hop and remember, the Holiday Bash at CMC is under way and you don't want to miss our on all the fun excitement and awesome prizes so be sure to stop in and enjoy the holiday spirit with us all.  You can find all the information you need HERE.

 I am so happy and honored to be on this wonderful team.  Suzanne makes it so much fun and takes such good care of us.  Suzanne is a riot as many of you know and anyone who loves country music and life the way she does is tops in my book:) Thank you for all you do Suzanne!!  See the animal print on the suitcases? Well, I learned how to do that in Suzanne's  CMC Class 5.  This was my absolute first attempt at it...not bad if I do say so myself.  I used Saturated Canary Pack Lite for my card.

 Challenges

Bearly Mine- Anything Goes #65

Tuesday Alchemy-#44 Anything Goes

Love to Create-#45 Anything Goes

Enjoy the hop... here's a list of participants to help you get started:

Tina Gilliland 

Anary Baumgarth

Andrea Murdock

Brook Guinn

Jenn Cochran

Marie Gamber

Michele Speara

Patricia St. Martin

Shelby Goolsby (You Are Here)

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great Wednesday!!!

The Sweet Stop 165 American Cutie

Hey everyone!! I hope everyone had a wonderful week.  We just finished up swim lessons so for awhile at least we can get back to no type of "set" schedule.  I love having my kids home but I do miss having those few hours of quite time a week to craft.  I can't even believe the 4th of July is almost here, where is the year going?
I had fun making my card for The Sweet Stop Sketch SSS165 this week.  I got a tad carried away with my layers... I can tell you I won't be mailing this card, it would cost a fortune:)
I fell in love with this image from Saturated Canary called To the Lake and thought it would make a great Americana kind of card.

 I found this paper from The Paper Studio and knew the weathered deck would work perfectly with my image. The sentiment is from C.C. Designs Summer Sentiments and the  Border punch is  Die-namics Zig Zag Border. I did have to change the shape of the oval on the sketch because the size I had just did not give me enough room to color the way I like to.

Copics

Hair E49, E29, E37, E57 Skin E13, E11, E00, R20,R23(lips&toes)B21(eyes)Clothes & Float- R59, R29, R27, R24/B97, B95, B93/e41, E42  Background B000/E41, E42/ E43

Challenges

Saturated Canary Challenge Blog #20 Red White and Blue

Card Makin Mamas #48 Red, White and Blue

Wags n' Whiskers Challenge #82 Use Kraft 

Paper Crafting Journey- Feeling Krafty

Deep Ocean Challenges-#28 Welcome Summer

Twisted Tuesday- 2TC12Summer Time/Twist Use Red

 

Don't forget to visit the rest of the Sugar Babies this week.

Monika Davis
Cathy McCauley
Shannon White
Janice Melton
                   Wendy Ramlakhan(on vacation)
Chris Dickinson

Have a wonderful weekend I hope you find time to get crafty:)

The Sweet Stop 160

If you are here for the CMC Summer Blog Hop please scroll down to the next post. 

I made a birthday card for my very sweet, fun and talented friend Melissa using this week's The Sweet Stop Sketch SSS160. Melissa loves the color orange and is an amazing photographer (check her out HERE) with a fun and artistic eye so when I saw this Saturated Canary image called Krafty Kate, I knew I wanted to make it for her.

 I had fun playing with this hair color totally inspired by Melissa:) and the abstract paper had a lot of colors for me to pull from .

Don't forget to visit the rest of the Sugar Babies.

Monika Davis
Cathy McCauley
Shannon White
Janice Melton
Wendy Ramlakhan
Chris Dickinson

Sorry my post is so short, it has been a crazy week with another one ahead of me.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

 

CMC Summer Blog Hop

Welcome to a special Color Me Creative Challenge Blog Hop! The Design Team has put together some fabulous creations using Saturated Canary’s digital images to kick-start the CMC Summer Sale! Starting May 25th thru August 24th all CMC Classes will be on sale and bundled classes will be on special too...see the CMC Classroom for more details! It’s a fabulous time to take advantage of classes and once you sign up you get a full year in each of the classes you register for...but you can also buy them now and SAVE them to start this fall...your 1 year term does not start until you sign into a class.
 We hope you hop along with the CMC DT today to see all the fabulous creations and be inspired! If you leave comments along the way on the DT blogs you will be entered to win some fabulous prizes including a Free CMC Copic Online Class, a $20 Gift Certificate to SCACD and a $20 Gift Certificate to 7 Kids College Fund!
I decided to embrace the Summer theme by honoring two of my favorite summer things....flip flops and my kids at the beach.  An extra bonus our sponsor is my absolute favorite line of stamps, Saturated Canary by Krista Smith. This sweetie is called Beach Baby.

 

The challenge this week at CMC is to use the colors bright pink and green, love this combo.  I found this notebook in the $1.00 section at Michael's and used The Cutting Cafe's Summer SVG files to create the cutouts.  I wasn't happy with the patterned paper I had for the umbrella so I cut it out on my Cryogen and used my Copic multi liner to sketch one out and colored it up.  A little Stickles and bling finishes it off.

Copics

Hair-E57, E55, E53, E50 Skin E13, E11, E00, R20 /R85, R83, R81, YG23, YG00 (tip to tip)/Eyes-G24, G20/Sand-E43, E42, E41

Challenges

Cute Card Thursday- #218 Pink and Green

Paper Pretties- PWC207 Bold Bright Colors

The Paper Shelter- #65 Bling It On

Make It Monday- #90Anything Goes

Phindy's Place - #106 Summer is Coming

We hope you enjoy the hop and thank you for joining us today. Be sure to stop over and check out all the classes offered at CMC!

Now hop on over to Renkata to see what she has created today!

Blog Hop Order:

Suzanne

GDT gal--Alyce Keegan

Tina

Brook

Anary

Melanie

Marie

Pat

Jenn

Michele Spera
Sandie Dunne
Dana Joy
Steph Lee
Suzanne Foard
Andi Murdock
                       Shelby Goolsby  You are Here:)
Renkata Pacheva

Have a great and crafty weekend!!

 

CMC 2nd Birthday Bash Blog Hop

This week the Color Me Creative Classroom is celebrating its 2nd Birthday and we are celebrating in a BIG WAY with a week long bash!  There will be fun challenges, games and some awesome prizes to win and EVERYONE is welcome to join in on the fun! 

Grand Prize this year will be a NEW SIZZIX VAGABOND!!

Everyday there will be a new game/challenge that you can participate in for a chance at some great prizes!  Head over the CMC Classroom and find out more details---the Birthday Bash info can be found in the GROUPS tab, just click on the Birthday Bash Group to join in!

And today the CMC Challenge DT has a fun Birthday Themed Blog Hop to kick off all the fun! 

Make sure to hop along and leave a comment, two lucky commenters (picked at random) will each win a $20 Gift Certificate to a crafty online store!!  So have fun and party, party, party!!

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For my card today I knew right away this crazy girl would be perfect for the party. She is called Party Hardy by Saturated Canary one of my all time favorite stamp lines, love coloring all that hair.  I started off with the Sweet Sunday Sketch SSSC154 and used some fun papers from the Girls' Paperie. 

Copics

Skin- E13, E11,E00, R20 Hair-E49,E59,E25,E53 Eyes-G20,G82 Clothes-Y15,Y13,Y11,R29,R27,R24,R22,B24, B23,B21/R85, R83, R81 

Today is my Mom's Birthday too and she had a special request which was for me to make her a photo tray to start keeping her cards in so here is the first to remember the big 60 (she may kill me now):)

Blog Hop Order

Steph

Anary

Tina

Brook

Shelby (That's Me)

Ruby

Pat

Renkata

Jenn

Marie

Melanie

Andi

Michele

Suzy Q

Sandie

Dana

  Suzanne I wish you many more wonderful  years with the classroom.  Thank you for sharing your knowledge and for allowing me to be on such a wonderful team...sending you hugs!!


Thank you so much for stopping by, I would love to see new followers and don't forget to leave comments all along the way for your chance to win.  Your next stop is the fabulous RUBY.  Have fun!!

Fussy and Fancy Guest Design Card

I am so excited to share my card with you today that I made for my Guest Design Post at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge "With All My Heart".  Thank you so much for this opportunity.
 I started by using this super cute digi from Saturated Canary called Love Letter along with this fun sketch MFTWSC57.  I just loved the craft with the black and red and thought these were perfect colors for the hubby's Valentine...if only I really looked this cute:)

 

  The paper id DCWV Nantucket and the Heart Embossing folder is from Sizzix along with the scroll.

Copics

Skin E11, E00, E000, R20 Hair E25, E31, E50 Clothes E44,E43, E42 /C5, C3, C1/R29, R27

Challenges

Fussy & Fancy Friday Challenge- #56 With All My Heart

The Sisterhood of Crafters- Valentine's

The Kraft Journal- Color Me Red

Celebrate the Occasion-#50 Valentine's Day 

 Please stop by Fussy and Fancy and join in on the challenge there is still lots of time.  And thank you for stopping by to visit.

The Sweet Stop Sketch 141

Another week has come and gone and that means it is time for my regular Saturday The Sweet Stop Sketch. It was a busy one for me working on decorations for my Riley's upcoming 6th birthday party.  If you follow me on Pinterest you might have noticed a theme of Rapunzel.  By the way have you tried Pinterest? I love it and boy is it ever addicting.  I will share some pictures when everything comes together.
Today I have a card that made for my sweet friend Shanyn's birthday whose favorite color happens to be green.  I picked this Saturated Canary stamp called Whispy Fairy because it reminded me of her daughter.  I have so much fun coloring Krista's images, I especially enjoyed doing the pleats on her skirt this time.

 

Copics

Hair E25, E31, E50 Skin E11, E00, E000, E20, E21 Clothes YG97, YG95, YG93/YG63, YG61/G24, G21 Wings E42, E41

Supplies

Staturated Canary Whispy Fairy, Verve Wishing You Sentiments, My Minds Eye Fresh Collection, EK Success Punch, Diamond Stickles

Challenges

Saturated Canary-#8Clean and Simple

Paper Sundaes- #102 Saturated Colors

As always the Sugar Babies have made some wonderful creations with this weeks sketch so please stop by and see them too.

The Fabulous Sugar Babies 

Wendy Ramlakhan

Janice Melton

Monika Davis

Korin Sutherland

Shannon White

Cathy McCauley

Kim O'Connell

Shelby Goolsby (That's Me)

Lorie Ames

Chris Dickinson

I hope you have a wonderful and crafty weekend!!

The Sweet Stop Sketch 136

I hope everyone here in the US enjoyed your Thanksgiving and for everyone else I hope that your day was a blessed one.  The kids had fun making "thankful leaves" for everyone.  We cut out leaves for everyone and they write what they are thankful for.  It is always cute to see what the kids will say.  Addison said she was Thankful for Thanksgiving Day..so cute.  Anyway on to this weeks wonderful sketch from The Sweet Stop.  Don't forget the sale over at Sweet 'n Sassy stamps, there are some great deals.
I have to say, I kind of love my card this week.  I love large image panels for coloring and I absolutely adore the Saturated Canary stamps.  This one is called Crushing on the Quarter Back and you can get her here at Krista's shop.  I did leave off the sentiment and replaced it with buttons because it just seemed to clash with the team pendant she is holding.  The paper is from Prima Madeline collection, one of my favorites. I cut out my own cloud template and sponged the background with CTMH Twilight.

 

 Copics

Hair E25, E31, E50 Skin E11, E00, E000, R20 Eyes G20, G21Clothes- BG78, BG75. BG72, BG000/YG99, YG97, YG91/E40, E41, E43. E44

Challenges

The Sweet Stop Sketch- SS136

 

Saturated Canary-#5 Anything Goes

Dutch Dare Challenge- #140 Recipe(at least 3 from the list)

Sassy Cheryl's #91 Anything Goes 

 Now I hope you will stop by and visit the rest of the Sugar Babies, they made some amazing cards this week.

The Fabulous Sugar Babies 

Wendy Ramlakhan

Janice Melton

Monika Davis

Korin Sutherland

Shannon White

Cathy McCauley

Kim O'Connell

Shelby Goolsby (That's Me)

Lorie Ames

Chris Dickinson

Have a fantabulous weekend friends!!

The Sweet Stop Sketch 128 and I Am So Excited

What a busy week it has been outside of crafting this week and I am so happy it actually rained one day...yipppe.  The ground was so dry it soaked it up by morining but it was great.  I have so much to share I don't know where to begin.  I am going to do a little Ink Spot Recap to let you know about some things but first by BIG news.
I have been keeping a secret and I can finally share it with you.  If you follow me you know coloring with my Copics is probably my favorite thing ever.  To me a colored image is my embellishment.  When I first got my markers I discovered I had no idea how to use them so I Googled and found tutorials from Suzanne Dean and shortly after that she started her on line Copic Classes at Color Me Creative Classroom and I signed up for class 2 and the improvement was amazing.  Here we are today and I can't even believe it I am now a member of the Color Me Creative Copic Challenge Design Team:) To be on a team with the person who taught me so much and to be with an exceptionally talented and sweet group of ladies is a blessing.  So I hope that you will check out the challenge and the classes if you love Copics like I do and please visit the other wonderful team members I will have them on the side bar.

Ink Spots

CMC Copic Challenge- #28 Vintage and Distressed

My Partner In Crafting Crime- #32 Sweet Treats Challenge

Inky Impressions Challenge- #26 Die Cuts and Punches

And last but certainly not least this weeks

The Sweet Stop Sketch 128.  

This month we are revisiting some great sketches from the past.

Now I have to say I goofed a little.. I wanted my iamge to be a bit more of a square but I printed one a bit smaller and then didn't realize until I was almost done it was the wrong one, oh well the elements of the sketch are the same.

 Yes, I found some more totally cute digi stamps from  Saturated Canary this one is Violet Ragamuffin and I love her!!  I will be using more to come because coloring these is so much fun with that great hair.

 Copics

Hair- E25,E31,E50/Skin-E11,E00,E000,R20 Eyes-G82,G40/ClothesYG93,YG91/R83,R85,R81/Colorless Blender/Grounding W2,W1

SSS128(revisiting past sketch)

Don't forget to visit the wonderful Sugar Babies.

The Sugar Babies

Monika

Wendy

Janice

Korin

Cathy

Shannon

Kim

Lorie 

Challenges

Stampin for the Weekend-#17 What a Cutie

4 Crafty Chicks -57 Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes- #88 Anything Goes

Thanks for sticking with me through this long post.  I apprecaite each and everyone who visits and comments... Cyber Hugs to You.