Beautiful Muchacha

It’s release day at McMahon Five Designs again and this week will surely not disappoint.  We have so many beautiful images!!!

 

I chose to make a card with the Muchacha beauty!  I loved her at first sight and she was so much fun to color!!!  I kept the layout simple and used some paper from Graphics 45.

 

My second surgery went very well.  I can hardly even feel it.  However, I strained or did something to my back and have quite a lot of pain from that now.  It’s just been kind of a rough trip physically but we have had a great time!

 

 

 

Smocked Outfit & Bonnet

 

 

Needlework

 

 

 

Cinderella

 

 

 

Cherry Blossom & Butterflies

 

 

Cherry Blossom Designer Papers

 

Cherry Blossom Spring Designer Paper

 

 

 

 

Beautiful Muchacha

 

Vintage Rider

 

 

 

 

Butterfly

 

 

 

Awareness - English

Awareness - Spanish

 

Even though our emphasis is Breast Cancer Awareness,

the Ribbon stands for so many other Awareness.

Below are the

March Awareness Ribbon Colors:

 

 

National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Blue or Brown):
www.preventcancer.org/colorectal

National Endometriosis Awareness Month (Peach or Yellow):
www.endocenter.org

Save your Vision Month (Green):
www.aoa.org/x5072.xml

Trisomy Awareness Month (Light Blue):

Workplace Eye Wellness Month (Green):
www.preventblindness.org

National Sleep Awareness Week March 7-13 (Black):
www.sleepfoundation.org


National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day March 10 (red):
www.womenshealth.gov/nwghaad/

World Kidney Day March 11 (Green):
www.kidney.org/news/wkd/index.cfm

Brain Awareness Week March 15-21 (Grey):
www.dana.org/brainweek

National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day March 20 (Red):
www.nnaapc.org/news/awareness-day.htm

American Diabetes Alert Day March 22 (Grey):
www.diabetes.org/communityprograms-and-localevents/americandiabetesalert.jsp

World Tuberculosis Day March 24 (Red):
www.stoptb.org/events/world_tb_day


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Grab this months Blinkie or Badge!

For more details on the projects above, visit the Design Team blogs!

Amy
Bonnie

Carolyn

Christine
Judy

Kristine
Lorie

Michelle

Raven
Shelly
Sue

Have a great weekend!

Blessings,

Christine

Stitched Memories

 

 

It’s release day again at McMahon Five Designs and what fun images we have this week.  I chose to work with Fairy Doodler’s adorable sewing images, plus one of the sentiments that Sue created to go with the sewing images.

 

I colored the image with Copics and used some of the fun Material Girl DP by Cosmo Cricket.

 

Sorry about the late post but I’m here in Utah because I had to have some minor surgery to remove two things on my face.  I’ve been on pain pills ever since and just did not want to get on the computer.  I’m taking milder pain pills today so I’m feeling much better!!!

 

I’ll hopefully post later about the things we have been doing while visiting my sister!  Now, I’ll show you the rest of the images that were released this week.

Pincushion Jar

 

Sewing Basket

 

Eyelet Pillow

 

 

Sewing Collage

 

Sewing Set of 3

 

 

 

 

 

 Snow White

 

 

 

 

 

This is a FREEBIE for ONE WEEK ONLY!

For YOU to use in our Natural Elements Challenge!

 

If You Truly...

 

 

 

On Blackbird Wings

 

Mother & Child

 

 

 

Sewing Sentiments

 

For more details on the projects above, visit the Design Team blogs!

Amy
Bonnie
Carolyn

Christine
Judy

Kristine
Lorie

Michelle

Raven
Shelly

Sue

On the Wings of Love

Hi!  It’s my turn to post on the Paper Maniac Inspiration blog today.  I used Tim Holtz/Sizzix Heart Wings die.  I colored the wings with Ranger Snow Cap Paint Dabber and I colored the crown using gold Alcohol Ink applied with an Alcohol Ink Applicator.  The bottom layer of the heart is colored with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink.  I colored the top heart with craft paint and then applied Rock Candy Distress Stickles using my finger.  The beautiful paper is Basic Grey Curio.   As I most always do, I colored some Kaisercraft pearls with Copics.

I’m driving down to Utah today.  I have an appointment with my dermatologist to have a couple of things removed.  Since I’m on immunosuppressants he wants to do them a week apart so I’ll be gone for a while.  I’m taking my mom down with me so we’ll be having some fun mother and two daughters (missing one) time.  Mostly, we plan to create.  Of course, we’ll have to make some time to hit my favorite thrift stores plus, I really want to hit the Pepperidge Farm cookie store!

That’s all folks!  I’m off to bed so I can get up bright and early at 10:00 am!!!  Well early for me anyway!

Blessings,

Christine

Sitting Pretty

It’s new release day again at McMahon Five Designs.  We have some gorgeous images today and it was so hard to choose the one that I wanted to work with this week.

 

Percy Penguin

 

Sugar Anne

 

 

 

 

Sitting Pretty

 

Sweet Love

 

 

For more details on the projects above, visit the Design Team blogs!

 

Amy, Carolyn, me, Judy, Kristine, Lorie, Michelle, Raven, Shelly,

Sue

We’ve got a lot of other beautiful images coming your way too!  I’ll be heading out of town next week but hope to get something done for each week before I leave.

Blessings,

Christine

Everything Matters

Good Evening!!!  I’m a little, or maybe a lot, late today with my post from the Paper Maniac Inspiration blog.  I always post on Tuesdays but I forgot to photo and prepare my post last night until 2:00 am (my normal bedtime).  Needless to say, I didn’t prepare my personal blog post at 2:30 this morning.  Every time I sat down to my computer today, I would think “I’ve got to get my PM post done.  I’ll do that next.” while I was blog hopping or catching up on Facebook or whatever else I get involved in on the computer.  And I just kept forgetting!

I do have a bit of an excuse however.  I was in more pain the normal today and took the big pain pills so my mind has kind of been wandering all day.  I have a call into the doc to see if I might need to change my meds up a bit which I think would help out.  Plus, it seems I’m a little more talkative (or writative as it were) on the meds as well!  Kind of a long post!

Anyway, about my card!!!  Our theme this week is Webster’s Pages.  I didn’t have much in the way of Webster’s Pages and our February themes are all designer’s choice, so I went with the designer’s choice option with a little WB Bloomers thrown in for style.

I used GCD Studios Artsy Urban papers and Unity Stamps June store kit.  Both of these were designed by Melody Ross, my superstar!  I also added some Webster’s Pages Bloomers to the top of the card!  Aren’t Bloomers gorgeous.  I added another sentiment—Live a Good Life--from the set to the inside of the card.  The stamps are on the clearance racks in the Paper Maniac store!  The clearance is now down to 30% off!  Go take a look!

I colored the bird with my Copics and then stamped the sentiment with Palette Black and embossed it with iridescent embossing powder.  It kind of matches the sparkles on the floral DP.

A new Soul Restoration lesson started today.  I listened to the the videos (Melody does such an awesome job.  She’s is a beautiful person.) and reviewed the materials and I just can’t wait to do my lesson this week.  It is such a positive a beautiful message.  It puts me in a good mood just thinking about.

I hope you have as great a week as I plan to!!!

Blessings,

Christine

The Hotspot Challenge

 

We have exciting news to share with you!  Studio 313 and McMahon Five Designs have joined forces and have a monthly challenge called  "The Hotspot Challenge".  The First of every month will be a new Hot Challenge based on the Latest Hottest Trends!

For February our theme is Natural Elements.  For my card I used some of McMahon Five Designs Real Wood Paper and Shawne’s Studio 313 Bird on a Frail Branch image.  It’s such a beautiful sentiment.  Also, I went outside and cut a branch off of my sage plant for the birdie to sit on.

Go ahead and find natural elements to add to your card this month!  Pull out some of the items you haven't used in a while or haven't even tried yet!  We all have hemp cord, raffia, wooden buttons, cotton ribbon and how about really changing it up and using Real Wood Paper?  There are hundreds of ideas for it's use in the Idea Gallery!  Below is an Inspirational Photo to get your creative minds going!

 

Now, it wouldn't be a challenge if there wasn't a prize, right?  RIGHT!  Using our Natural Elements Theme we created a Prize Package filled with Natural Elements!

 

Prize package includes:

 

1 sheet of Birds Eye Maple Real Wood Paper

1 sheet of Cherry Real Wood Paper

1 sheet of Maple Real Wood Paper

1 sheet of Walnut Real Wood Paper

1 package Kaisercraft Wood Flourishes Vines

1 assorted package of Real Wood Paper Leaf Die Cuts

15 yards of Hemp Cord

1 foot of 100% Cotton Twill Tape

1 bundle of Raffia

1 Wicker Basket Full of Fibers – White and Multi

1 Wood Trinket Box for Altering

1 7” strand of Freshwater Pearls

2 Vintaj Natural Brass Filigree Butterflies

1 package of 10 Natural Pressed Flowers

4 Mulberry Paper Roses

 

So, let’s all go create some natural projects using images from Studio 313 or McMahon Five Designs.  That’s one great prize!!!

Blessings,

Christine