Flying High

This has been such a sad week around the country and I just want to send my thoughts and prayers to those in Boston and now the horrible tragedy with the explosion here in Texas.
Here is  my card for the newest challenge at the CMC Copic Challenge Group.

NEW CHALLENGE #66 will run thru April 26th!

Your challenge this time is all about

**Reds, Reds & More Red**

color ANY IMAGE but it must

Have Some Red In It

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

 In one week the  CMC Classroom will be celebrating it's 3rd Birthday which means Suzanne has a huge celebration planned with fun challenges, blog hop and amazing prizes so stay tuned for that.

 For my card I used this cute image called Flying High Anna Belle by Tiddly Inks. I love that you can create your own scene with digis.  I cut out a new cloud template and sponged the sky.  The paper is Echo Park Happy Days and the sentiment is from Verve.

Copics

Hair-E35, E31, E50,YR21

Clothes/Balloons R59, R29, R27, R24, R22/BG13, BG23, BG11 

Dog-E44,E43, E41

Challenges

Copic Marker Europe- Girls Aloud  

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge- Birthday 

Inky Chicks- #2 Happy Birthday Girl

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Best Friends Forever and DT News

Hello!! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I am sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have had so many projects and things going on with my kids that I got a bit behind. The biggest project is my Riley's big girl bedroom make over, so stayed tuned for that.
 I wanted to share some exciting news!! I have been selected to be on the design team for The Paper Shelter.  If you have followed me for awhile you know how much I love their adorable images so to be on the team is such an honor.  My first official challenge will be March 6th which is right around the corner:)

You still have a few days to enter our "Girly Time" Challenge over at the CMC Copic Challenge Group.   This should be an easy one for everyone so I hope you will join in for a chance to win some great prizes and the chance to be the featured Guest Designer.
My card today goes along with the "girly " theme for sure.  My Riley's very best friend also named Rylie has a birthday coming up and this image is absolutely perfect.  I have mentioned how Tiddly Inks Wryn reminds me of my daughter, add a friend that looks just like her and this could be the two of them in digi form and you can find it HERE

 I just love this paper with all of the cute little purses so I tried my best to keep the layers to a minimum so it wouldn't cover them up. 

Copics

Hair- E49, E29, E47, E37/E49,E44, E43, E42,E41 Clothes-B97, B95, B91/R29, R27, R24, R22/Y15. Y13, Y11 Background YG93, YG91/B000

Challenges

CMC Copic Challenge- Girly Time (DT)

Crafting For All Seasons- #46 Dies and Punches

One Stop Craft Challenge-#217 For the Kids

Crafting by Design- Anything Goes

Have a great week!!

 

The Sweet Stop Sketch 174 -Howdy Cowgirl

Hi everyone!! What a crazy 24 hours it has been for my little blog. For those who don't know my blog was removed for some unknown reason and I had to go through the process of getting Google to approve to put it back online. Scary to say the least especially since I didn't have it backed up. It was one of those things I needed to find out how to do but kept putting it off. Lesson learned I tell ya.  Thank you to all of you who kept my spirits up when I thought it was lost forever:)
While I was in a panic there was a new The Sweet Stop Sketch  SSS174 that started today and here is what I came up with.

 I made this to add to my Wryn  photo tray, which BTW I found a great easel stand to hold it when I went to Archivers in Austin.  I choose this image called Howdy Cowgirl Wryn by Tiddly Inks because she reminded me of Riley's field trip to the Rodeo where she wore none other than a pink cowgirl hat.

 I made these little flowers out of some twine I had.  I started looping the twine I assume something I did making friendship bracelets in Jr. High and then rolled it into a circle and secured it with hot glue.  I added a couple of loops for leaves and a gem for the center.

 Challenges

Polka Doodles- #35 Flowers

Love to Create- #30 Handmade Flowers

Yes I did rotate the sketch:)

I hope you will stop by and visit the rest of the Sugar Babies.

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

Have a wonderful weekend and go and back up those blogs!!

The Sweet Stop 166 Life's a Beach

I hope everyone had a wonderful week. It was a good one here filled with fireworks, family Nerf wars and a trip to Build A Bear.  Today the kids had to put up with me crafting since I had two cards due today and I just haven't had a chance to get them done.
  In honor of an upcoming trip to the beach I had to pull out Wryn Beach Babe by Tiddly Inks and used it with this week's The Sweet Stop Sketch 166.  I normally color Wryn with brown hair because she reminds me of my Riley but today this paper just called for a blonde:)

 Copics

Hair- E57, E35, E31, E50, YR21Clothes- YR15, YR18, YR12/TG25, YG23/R89, R29, R27, R24/Sand E43, E42, E41

Details

Paper Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli/Daisy Flowers Die-namics /Sentiment C.C. Designs Summer Sentiments/ Sponged Clouds with CTMH Twilight/Tiddly Inks Beach Babe Wryn

Challenges

Card Crafter's Circle #30Summer Holiday

Paper Crafting Journey-Summer

Little Red Wagon-#140 Life's a Beach

Tuesday Throwdown#104 Summertime

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 and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday Suzanne Blog Hop

The Color Me Creative Design Team has a secret!!!  Today we are hopping along to wish our fearless leader, Suzanne Dean, a VERY happy birthday!!!  Suzanne is the owner/creator of the Color Me Creative site and, as many of you know, teaches her Copic classes online and on the road!  She is one busy momma and we thought we'd take time to wish her a happy day and hope she gets to sit with her Cherry Coke and donuts (ya, a fav combination of hers!) and relax a bit today and enjoy the hop!

Each of us decided it would be fun to remember Suzanne today in "typical Suzanne" style!  Our creations will either help remember a "funny travel moment" with Suzanne or... share a secret about Suzanne.  Ha!!!  Bet she didn't see this coming!!! LOL

Here is what I created today....

 As you can see the sentiment was created by little ole me:) We all know Suzanne travels with her Copics but lately she has a bit of a....shall we call it an "Obsession" with country music singer Luke Bryan.  She has already been to several concerts over the past few months with more to come.  I fear that if he sees her on the front row again he might get a restraining order, LOL.   I can only imagine how fun Suzanne is at a concert so I hope I get to go with her some day (San Antonio Rodeo*wink wink*:)

I merged two Tiddly Inks images together for my card Bloom Q and Suitcases. The sentiments on the ticket stamps from Whimsy reminded me so much of Suzanne.

Here is a little Eye Candy to go with her card:)

Now hop on over to the rest of the DT's sites to see what they are sharing about Suzanne.  ;-)

Tina Gilliland

Brook Guinn

Anary Baumgarth

Melanie LaBelle

Marie Gamber

Ruby McGuire

Pat St. Martin

Jenn Cochran

Michele Spera

Sandie Dunne

Dana Joy

Steph Lee

Suzanne Foard

Andi Murdock

Shelby Goolsby

Renkata Pacheva

Have a wonderful Birthday Suzanne, continue to enjoy everyday to it's fullest, love ya!!!

The Sweet Stop Sketch 156

Happy Saturday!! I hope everyone has a great day and lots of fun planned. It was an interesting week with Riley coming home from school learning and spelling her first bad word the "B" word as she says.  It is so frustrating when you go eight years keeping them from being exposed to that and then poof it's gone.  Not to mention the fact that I can't believe that parents would let their Kinder girl be exposed to that.  Is it really necessary to talk like that?  I think not...sorry I had to vent a bit.

Ink Spots

*CMC Copic Challenge Group has a new challenge starting today so hop on over and check it out. The theme this time is Celebrations. I will have another card to share with you in a day or two but you can see it there now.  Summer is a great time to take those Copic classes on line in the nice cool AC:)
*This is the last week for The Sweet Stop three year anniversary celebration so that means another gift certificate to be won from Sweet 'n Sassy.
So this week is another choose a Sweet Stop sketch from the past and I used SSS121 to work om my Wryn photo tray.  I will say one thing, I love how the tray is coming out but working on a 4x6 area is very hard to get layers and a big enough image to color detail on.

Copics 

 Skin E13, E11, E00, R20 Hair E49, E29, E37, E57 Clothes B01, B00/YG93, YG91 Branch E43, E42
Accessories-Tiddly Inks Digi Hang In There Wryn, MFT Dienamics Zig Zag Border, MS Butterfly Punch w/ Diamond Stickles, Twinery Twine, Prima Madeline paper

Challenges

Poodles Parlour- Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments-Anything Goes DT Call

Paper Sundaes-#117 Lets Get Cute

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

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

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Wryn Photo Tray Part 2

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a good week.  It is flying by here as always, so much to do and so little time.   I have just a couple of things I wanted to remind you about.

Ink Spots

*The day has arrived that Blogger is removing the option to "Follow" if you are not a blogger user your self.  Please sign up using the Linky Follower or email option on my side bar if you want to keep up with me, I don't want to lose you:)

*CMC Copic Challenge Group still has a few days left of the Bright Colors Lots of Laughs challenge and you can find all of the details here.  There will be a new challenge starting Saturday.

As you may remember I am working on my Wryn Photo Tray for the CMC Copic Challenge group and here it is. I used Tiddly Inks Wryn Spring Bling along with the Prima Madeline paper (I hope it holds out to make 4 more). I have to say it is a little challenging working on a 4x6 area, not a lot of room for layers amd such.

 

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The roses were made using MFT Dienamics Mini Rolled Roses, the swirl is from Sizzix and the Lacey Eyelet Border from Sweet 'n Sassy.  The letters are from K&Company and I added a little sparkle to the flowers Wryn is holding using the Stardust Stickles.

Copics

Hair-E49, E29,E37,E57 Skin-E11, E00, E000, R20 Clothes- R85, R83, R81/BG13, BG11

Challenges

The Sisterhood of Crafters- Use a Digi

Party Time Tuesday- #57Anything Goes

I hope this post made sense I am so tired and completely forgot to get this posted yesterday.  Have a wonderful crafty day!!

A Work In Progress

Hey everyone!! I wanted to share a project that is going to be an on going work for my CMC Copic Challenge Group.  I have had this 7 Gypsies photo tray since this past summer just waiting to be inspired to use it.  Well, inspiration hit me with Tiddly Inks new stamps from the Wryn and Friends collection.  This little girl totally reminds me of my crafting buddy Riley.  I have also wanted a way to keep some of my work for myself and I think this is perfect way to do that.

 

  For my tray I am going to continue to use all Wren Images and my absolute favorite paper by Prima Madeline.  This image is called New Nest.  The die is from C.C. Designs Cutter Leafy Branch the flower punch is from Martha Stewart but I don't know the name. I used CTMH Twilight ink for the sky along with my hand cut cloud die.

Copics

Hair-E49, E29,E37,E57/Clothes B01,B00,B000/Tree-E44,E43,E42/YG67,YG63 Nest E55,E53/BG000 Grass-G85,G82,G40

Challenges

Party Time Tuesdays-#53 Anything Goes

 Lollipop Crafts-#65 Anything Goes

Polly Crafts-#125 Favorite Things- Favorite Paper Prima Madeline

Ink Spots

You still have a few days to enter the CMC Copic Challenge Wintery/ Frost.  Our sponsor this time is Lily of the Valley so please join in for your chance to win.

 I hope you enjoy the rest of your week and I will see you in a couple of days.

Back with The Sweet Stop Sketch SSS140

I hope Santa was good to everyone.  It was nice having a little break from the everyday routines and taking a little break from crafting to get some mojo back.  I enjoyed having the kids home and seeing all of the excitement and craziness.
Well after a short break at The Sweet Stop (thanks Korin!!) we are back with a super fun sketch and I must say Korin did a wonderful job on this one.
I am so excited Tiddly Inks has these brand new super cute digis called Wryn and Friends and I couldn't wait to color one up.  Wryn reminds me of my Riley so you will be seeing more of them from me:)

 For my card I started with this weeks The Sweet Stop Sketch SSS140.  The paper is from Bo Bunny Crush Collection, great Valentine's papers.  I made the little garland from Maraschino Bakers twine by The Twinery.  The image is Tiddly Inks Grow a Little Love and the sentiment is from C.C. Designs Valentine's Critters but I couldn't find a link. The heart punch is Recollections and the tab is Die-namics Mini Tab Quartet.

Copics

R59, R29, R27, R22/R85, R83, R81/C9, C7, C5, C3, C1/Hair E49, E29, E57, E37

Challenges

Tiddly Inks- #77 Celebrations

The Ribbon Carousel-RCC34 Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday-#198 Use Something new(new digi)

Paper Sundaes- #101 Something Old (Twine and Sentiment) Something New (Brand new Tiddly Inks Digi)
Please stop by and visit the rest of the wonderful Sugar Babies and I can't wait to see what you create 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 wonderful day and I will see you soon.

The Sweet Stop Sketch 119- Ticket to Life

Hello!! I have a super fast post today but a fun one from The Sweet Stop Sketch.  This is such a fun sketch and I really hope you will play along.  These cute little kids are from Tiddly Inks called Ticket to My Life Girl and Boy.  This paper from K and Company Urban was perfect for the life theme and I loved the funky colors and pattern.

 

 

Challenges

Tiddly Inks-59 Tag or Ticket Me

Party Time Tuesdays 26 Anything Goes

Digistamps4Joy- 24 International Children's Day

Please visit the rest of The Sweet Stop Sugar Babies and see their beautiful creations.

The Sugar Babies

Jennipher

Monika

Wendy

Janice

Korin

Cathy

Shannon

The Sweet Stop Sketch 116-Take Me Away

Hi crafty friends!! We have made it to another weekend.  I wish I could figure out why time seems to be going by so fast, there has to be a good reason right? So today I wish I could put myself in this card... I would love to find time to take a long relaxing bubble bath..sigh:)

Take Me Away

I started by using this weeks The Sweet Stop Sketch SSS116 and my image is from Tiddly Inks called Take Me Away.  I added the floor with my Copic Multiliner and Copics.  My girls said she is Rapunzel and I should have colored her hair more Blonde, LOL.  Tangled is a favorite around my house these days. I highlighted the bubbles and then added a coat of Stardust Stickles for a little bubbly shimmer.

Details

Copics-Hair E25,E31,E50/Skin E11,E00,E000,R20/Tub R05,R02,R01 E42,E41,Blender/Bubbles BG10,BG70/ Floor YG61,G40 Multiliner

Stamps- Tiddly Inks Take Me Away, Amy R  Magical Wishes Sentiments

Paper- Basic Grey Sweet Threads

Accessories- Martha Stewart Diamond Fence Trim Punch, Recollections Swirls

Challenges

 The Sweet Stop Sketch 

Digital Tuesday Challenge-#118 Bling It Up 

Papertake Weekly Challenge Anything Goes 

House of Gilli #11 Lots of Sparkles

There She Goes -TSG114 Glitter Glitz and Bling
Aud Sentiments -#32 Sentiments with at least 2 Words

 Please visit the rest of The Sweet Stop Sugar Babies and see their beautiful creations and don't forget to join in this weeks sketch challenge.  

The Sugar Babies

Jennipher

Monika

Wendy

Janice

Korin

Cathy

Shannon

Have a wonderful weekend !!! 

The Sweet Stop Sketch 113

I am sorry I am a little late getting this post up today.  I stayed up until 3:00 AM getting it done and completely forgot I didn't type up my post...ooops:) Today I am in Houston visiting my brothher after watching him play in his band at The House of Blues last night.  Today we will be spending the day in the pool since it will be a 102 degrees today..yikes!!
Now the reason I am here today this weeks  Sweet Stop Sketch.  It's the 3rd Saturday of the month, and it means it's Sketch with a Spin and PRIZE time. The winner of this week's sketch will receive a $15.00 gift certificate to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store.  So get ready to make those Circle cards.
I apologize my coloring is not my best , time got away from me and as I said it was so late when I finished and I just couldn't seem to get things to work out the way I wanted.

I just love this cute stamp from Tiddly Inks called Going Swimming she looks like my girls.   The sentiment is from C.C. Designs Amy R Summer Sentiments, the wave punch is from Fiskars and the paper is Echo Park Summer Days and you can find it Here. I added the water drops from Recollection.  Since I am away from home I don't have the Copic colors with me but it you would like them leave me a comment and I will get them to you.

 Please visit the rest of The Sweet Stop Sugar Babies and see their beautiful creations.  

The Sugar Babies

Jennipher

Denise

Monika

Wendy

Janice..

Shelby

Dawn

Korin

Challenges

A Spoon Full of Sugar-  #156 Splish Splash

Stamp Something- Something With Pretty Papers
Addicted To Stamps Challenge-#6 Summertime
Anything Goes Challenge Blog-#43 Here Comes Summer

Have a great  weekend and I will see you later this week.... it is a busy crafting week.