A Tink Inspired Flutterby

Flutterby warning!!!  It’s Wednesday so that means we’ll be seeing a lot of flutterbies.  Yay, one of my favorite things!!!  Especially when they’re this cute.  This is the inspiration for this weeks challenge!  Of course, I LOVE Tink!  I love all fairies but I think it all started with Tink!Isn’t this image stunning!  It was the first digi stamp released by the very talented Elisabeth Bell.  She has a new one coming out any day now and she has a sneak peek on her blog.  It looks like it’s going to be a little girl and boy playing patty cake.  That’s my guess anyway.

Okay, back to Flutterby Wednesday.  Do you think you might like to play along with this cute little inspiration pic?  Well, go check things out at the Flutterby Wednesday blog and then go take a look at the lovely and talented DT’s projects.  Leave ‘em some love while your there, will ya’?  And don’t forget that you need to have a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation.

Have a great Wednesday everyone.  I’m so glad you stopped by.

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolor; Image-Elisabeth Bell digi; Paper-DCWV, Papertrey Ink; Flowers-Dollar Tree; Punch-Martha Stewart; Additional from stash-ribbon, glitter glue.

Challenges:
Friday Sketchers-sketch
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle-Sparkle and shine
Gingersnap Creations-3 colors you love (My favorite color combo for cards is pink, green and yellow.)

Buttons and Bows with Papertake Weekly

2nd Post today.  Please scroll down to see more!

I’ve got another week with Papertake Weekly for you today!  The challenge this week is to use buttons, bows, bling and/or brads on your creation.  I used buttons and bows!  Pretty easy for me because I use buttons and bows a lot!!!

Be sure to go the the Papertake Weekly challenge blog and see the lovely creations by the design team and then make some time to play along!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Image-Papertrey Ink; Sentiment-Papertrey Ink;
Ink-S.E.I. chalk ink; Paper-Making Memories; Buttons-Papertrey Ink; Punch-EK Success, Marvy;
Additional from stash-ribbon.

Challenges:
Cupcake Craft-Round and round
Stamp Something-DP buttons, ribbon

Sew Material Kindness

I know that post title doesn’t make any sense, but it’s catchy!!!  It goes with the sentiment:  “Friendship is sewn with love and measured by kindness.”

I went to Archivers the other day to use my coupon and pick up my five free sheets of cardstock and guess what they had in stock?  The new Cosmo Cricket Material Girl DP pad.  I LOVE this paper.  There isn’t a sheet in it I don’t like.

I wanted to make a card with it right away but didn’t have time this weekend so I worked on it today.   As I started to put this together, I realized that this card really needed some stitching which I haven’t done on a card before so I dug out the sewing machine!

Three things about using stitches on your card for the first time: 1) Use the correct color of thread.  Can you see the stitching on this card?  It’s not much better in real life.  2) Don’t use a zig zag stitch until you know you can stitch straight on paper.  3) Don’t make rounded corners.  I’m thinking, don’t make rounded corners EVER if you want to stitch but especially not with zig zag!  The corners were HARD! It doesn’t help that I haven’t sewn in years.

Anyway, I’ve taken the plunge and I’ll probably do it again but not on a regular basis.  It’s just not for me.  However, I will definitely be using my sewing machine to paper pierce.  That looks really cool!

Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolors; Image-Tim Holtz; Sentiment-Papertrey Ink; Ink-Stazon Brown, Distress; Paper-Cosmo Cricket Material Girl; Punch-The Paper Studio; Additional from stash-thrift store buttons, ribbon, twine, pattern paper (for the flower).

Challenges:
The Pink Elephant-Add green to your color combo
Simon Says Challenge-Vintage with flowers
Truly Scrumptious-sketcb
Scrappy Frogs-stitching
Secret Crafter-Stitching

Button Smiles

I would love to say that this was a quick card.  However, not so!

The inspiration was easy.  I knew I wanted to stamp this little bird on top of the cute sentiment and use this DP.  That’s where it stopped.  It seemed to take hours to figure out the perfect layout, then a LONG time to choose just the right buttons.  Oh my, this was just crazy!!!  But I do like the way the little flower button turned out.  I tied a bow behind the button to look like leaves and left the tails to look like a stem. 

Guess what I did?  I pulled out my sewing machine to sew on a card.  It’s coming up next.  I’m making it using the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl DP and it just screams “Sew Me.”  Sew, that’s what I’m going to do!  I hope it doesn’t take me as long to choose a layout. :-(

Be back in a bit with that card!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-Hero Arts; Sentiment-Hero Arts; Ink-;
Paper-Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday; Buttons and ribbon-Papertrey Ink.

Late Again

I don’t know why I can’t remember to post my Squigglefly Challenge card before I go to bed on Sunday but for some reason, it just doesn’t get done!

Squigglefly now has some beautiful vintage digis and there will be more to come!  I have another one in my hot little hands to create something for you later this week!  This one is by Rich Davis and was released on Saturday.  The other one will be part of a mini-release this Saturday.  Squigglefly will also be releasing some digi papers this week as well.  I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to see that!!!

The challenge at the Squigglefly Challenge blog is to use fancy borders.  Easy peasy!!!  I almost always use some kind of border punch on my creations!!!

That’s all for now!  Have a great Monday!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolor; Image-Squigglefly Vintage Woman; Paper-; DCWV Linen, Punch-Martha Stewart; Pearl Swirl-Basic Grey; Additional from stash-ribbon.

Challenges:
Lexi’s Creations-Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge-Ribbon, sparkle
Cute Card Thursday-Ribbon
Dare U 2 Digi-Pearls
Sunday Sketch n Stamp-sketch

The Whole Famn Damily

This doesn’t happen very often, but we got a wonderful surprise this weekend!   All of my brothers and sisters (plus mom) were in town at the same time!!!  Everyone lives here in the Boise area except the tallest and the shortest (the two corners) but it seems like they are seldom here at the same time.  We decided this deserved a little celebrating!!!

I hope you had just a nice of a weekend!

Blessings,

Christine

Did You Notice!

If you’ve been paging through my blog lately, have you seen this!  I am beyond excited!!!  SNR chose one of my cards for publication.  I just can’t quite believe it!  I sometimes load my cards to SNR and Papercraft planet.  Especially if the image is from one of the groups I belong to.

So, the moral of this story – share your talent!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Thursday Thunks

 

This week we will answer some crazy questions brought to you by Berleen, the color of your keyboard and the number 4579.

 

 

 

 

 

1. Who is the craziest person in your family?  Me, of course!!!

 

 

 

 

2. If you could make turtle shells any color you wanted, what color would turtles be? Such easy questions – PINK!

 

 

3. How fast do hotcakes sell?  Fast if you stack them like this!  Yummy, now I’m going to need pancakes for breakfast!!!

 

  4. Can cannibals be arrested for being under the influence of alcohol if they have eaten someone who was drunk?  First, gross!!!  Then, probably—depends on how drunk the guy was!

 

5. If I had my legs amputated, would I have to change my height and weight on my driver's license?  Again, gross!   And again, probably.

 

 

6. Where do people in Hell tell other people to go?  Heaven.

 

 

7. Do you make stupid little baby noises when talking to your pets?  Of course!!!  This is my baby when she was little!   Well, she’s still little but you know what I mean.  This was taken the day I brought her home!

8. Is the light on in the room?  Yes.

9. Did the voice tell you that the light is on in the room?  What voice, I didn’t hear voice, I never hear voices.  Ya, that’s right.

10. If you were to name an alcoholic drink, what would it be called?  Pink lady is already taken so I just don’t know.  Actually, I don’t even know what’s in a pink lady!

For those who want to know, it’s a gin, applejack, lemon juice, grenadine, cream, and egg white (according to About.com) and of course the marschino cherry!  It was one of the first "girly drinks" and a favorite of the high society ladies of the 30's.

That’s it for this week’s Thursday Thunks!  You can play too!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Butterfly Dreams

It’s Flutter By Wednesday today!  Yay, I love Wednesdays!!!

I didn’t use one of my stamps that the guy in the Big Brown Truck left.  I just couldn’t get the inspiration with that one.  But I used another one I love.  Plus, I got to play with my Copics again!  I really love how this turned out however it really looks even better IRL.  Oh, the sentiment is from my new set!

I wish I would have colored the flowers a different color but I still have a limited number of colors.  With the Copics Club at Paper Maniac, I am accumulating shades of each color but still have limited colors.  I can’t wait to see what the come up with for March’s set.  Me thinks green, huh?

That’s about it for tonight except to say that the challenge is open this week and, of course, to use a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation.  If you'd like to play along, go check out all of the other lovely DT blogs by clicking on their links on the right sidebar and then go to the Flutter By Wednesday challenge blog to link up your card.  While you’re there, be sure to check out the lovely GDT creations.

Are you tired of looking at Valentine’s yet?  Hopefully I’ll get my background and header changed by tomorrow!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-Anna Griffin; Sentiment-Papertrey Ink; Ink-Palette Black Noir; Paper-DCWV Luxury; Pearls-American Crafts; Additional from stash-ribbon, embossing powder.

Challenges:
Creative Belli-wings

Tea Party Picnic

I seem to be missing the motivation to create lately and I just couldn’t get a handle on the reason why.  I was going through some stamps that hadn’t yet been mounted and saw this cute little Dolly and stamped her a couple times and begain to paing one of them.  I finally figured out what was wrong.  I hadn’t stamped just for the inspiration of it for a long time!!!

It’s been kind of cold around here the last few days and this sweet card really cheered me up!!!  I got some new Papertrey fun from the Brown Truck today so I’m off to play with some of those for my FBW card!  Please come back to see it tomorrow!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolor; Image-Dolly by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD; Ink-Stazon black; Paper-Making Memories; Buttons-Papertrey Ink; Punch-EK Success; Ribbon-American Crafts.

Challenges:
Cupcake Craft-Friends/friendship
The Pink Elephant-sketch

Papertake Nest

I’m so pleased to be guest designer at the Papertake Weekly Challenge for the next 4 weeks.  As always, their challenges are always fun and intriguing.  My first challenge as guest designer is a sketch challenge.

And here’s my take on this weeks sketch.

Haven’t the Olympics been great!.  I think the free skate in ice dancing is my fave Olympic event.  It’s so entertaining.  Now the women skating.  Yay!!!  Plus on Thursday, fellow Idahoan (he’s even from Boise) Jared “Speedy” Petersen does the freestyle and he is favored for the gold.  We had a gold medalist cycler in the summer Olympics so it would be great to also have a winter gold medal from Boise!!!

I’ve got a lot of things coming up here on my blogo and I’m trying to get a bit ahead of myself so I don’t get overwhelmed.  That can happen so easy!!!  Plus, if I would get back organizing my creative space, I might get more done!!!

Blessings,
Christine

Deets:
Medium-Twinkling H2Os;
Image-Inkadinkado;
Sentiment-Amy Butler;
Ink-Stazon Brown, Papertrey Pure Black;
Paper-DCWV Mariposa;
Punch/die-Nestabilities, EK Success;
Additional from stash-ribbon, pearls colored with Copics.

Challenges:
Cute Daisy May-Flowers
Kaboodle-Fancy folds

Stamp Something-Touch of spring
The Corrosive Challenge-Wings

Did You Miss the Paa-tay!!!

I didn’t see you there!  We had a party at SNR Squigglefly tonight!  We had tons of fun talking and chatting.  But we missed you.

Anyway, you can still get in on the fun.  There are a couple of challenges and a free digi that is oh so cute.  You won’t want to miss out.  You could even win a free digi of your choice!!!

So go here too see what it’s all about.  Holly will be announcing the winners on Saturday!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Aqua Fairy

If your a Cricut Fan, please scroll down for my earlier post!

One more quick post!  I’ve been trying to get to bed a little earlier lately so, I’ll make this short!  Like 12:30 is early!!! I made this card based on the Curious Case at the Greeting Farm.  This is one of the beautiful seasonal fairies!  This is Autumn but I didn’t color her like Autumn at all!  She’s a lot more summery!!!

I used Twinkling H2Os on her and added some glitter glue to her wings.  I wish I’d have gotten a picture of her where you could have seen all the sparkle!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Twinkling H2Os;
Image-The Greeting Farm;
Sentiment-Clear Art Stamps;
Ink-Papertrey Ink pure black;
Paper-DCWV Pure Linen;
Buttons-Papertrey Ink;
Additional from stash-fibers, pearls colored with Copics.

Fantabulous News!

Are you a fan of the Cricut machine? Then you’ll want too know about the new Cricut challenge on the block!  The Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog.

Plus, I have even more fantabulous news!  Robin has asked me to be on the design team.  Yay me!!!  Plus, she is looking for a few good gals (guys to if you want)!  Check out the FCCB Design team call!!! 

I’ve been having some computer issues today.  My cat was sitting on my laptop yesterday while I was on my creative table.  Somehow, he changed the orientation on my screen so that I had to turn my computer on it’s side in order to read things.  I’ve spent the day on and off (while doing some creating) trying to fix it.  I finally figured out what it was but now don’t have any idea.  I was just looking at everything related to “display” until I figured out that it had been rotated 270 degrees.  The reason I don’t remember the fix?  Because that wasn’t really the issue.  The issue was that I left my laptop out so the cat could sit on it!!!

I’ll be back in a bit with a new creation!!!

Blessings,

Christine

So How ‘Bout Shawn White!

There are so many time that I’m proud to be an American and one of the best times is during the Olympics!  What a day we had topped of with Shawn White’s victory run when he did the Double McTwist!!!  He’s an amazing athlete.  And it doesn’t hurt that he’s so cute!

Congratulations to Lindsey Vonn as well!  She did an amazing job winning a gold medal when she was in pain every second of her run!

And we can’t Shani Davis’ gold in speed skating. 

The USA had a good day at the Olympics!!!

I go to the neurologist tomorrow to get a treatment to help my migraines.  I’m hoping that it helps!

Blessings,

Christine

A Fairy with a Heart

Today, at Flutterby Wednesday, we have a sponsor – Susana’s Custom Art and Card Designs.  I’m not sure of the prize but you’ll definitely want to play along.  Susan is going to be releasing some new Elisabeth Bell stamps soon so you’ll want to go check it out on the store blog.   While you’re there, be sure to check into the chance to win a whole bunch of Elisabeth Bell stamps!

I thought it would be appropriate to use an image that I purchased from SCACD.  Isn’t this little fairy adorable.  She is the sweet Groovy Fairy from Fairie Song Art Stamps.

So, since Susana’s tag line is “Follow Your Heart in Art and Life” our challenge this week is to use hearts somewhere on your creation (their are hearts on my paper) and, of course, to use a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation.  In order to be in on a chance to win the prize for this challenge, you must have your creation linked before Monday, Feb. 22 at midnight.  The winner will be announced with the next challenge on Wednesday.

If you'd like to play along, go check out all of the other lovely DT blogs by clicking on their links on the right sidebar and then go to the Flutter By Wednesday challenge blog to link up your card.  While you’re there, be sure to check out the lovely GDT creations.

Now, go forth and create!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolors; Image-Fairie Song Art Stamps; Ink-Stazon black; Paper-DCWV Whimsy; Punch-Martha Stewart; Additional from stash-ribbon, pearls colored with Copics.

Challenges:
Incy Wincy Designs--Punch it out
A Spoon Full of Sugar--Springtime
Get Sketchy-sketch

Better Late than Never

I forgot to post my Squigglefly challenge  card before I went to bed.  As you probably know, I’m late to bed and late to rise so here I am now.  Don’t you just love this cute little Rabbit Blast image from Cheryl Agler.  It’s not in the store yet so you’re getting a great sneak peak here!!!  The challenge this week is to include an animal on your project.  To be eligible to win this weeks prize, you must include a Squigglefly image on your creation.  If you’d like, check out the Squigglefly store for some freebies!

Back in a minute with the details and other challenges.  For you, head on over to the Squigglefly challenge and take a look at the projects from all of the other lovely ladies on the DT.  I hope you play along with us this week!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Twinkling H2Os; Image-Squigglefly; Paper-DCWV Baby Girl; Cutting-Nestabilities, MS Doily Lace; Pear Swirl-Basic Grey and colored with Copics; Additional from stash-pearls colored with Copics.

Challenges:
Flourishes-Easel cards
Digital Tuesday-Animals
Dare U 2 Digi-Punches
Stamp Something-Something cute
Sketch Saturday-sketch
Secret Crafter-Multifolds
Paper Sundaes-Glittery spring
Pile it On-Flowers

Fabulous Flowers

Another quick card for a PTI release challenge.  This time the challenge was to make a card and make some floral embellishments and put them on an acetate sheet to include in the card.  The flower on the outside and the floral embellies are made with a QuicKutz die set.  Everything else is Papertrey Ink.

Blessings,

Christine

Mrs. Charming and Rose

First of all, I want to apologize for not visiting you lovely ladies blogs lately.  I have been waking up with a migraine each morning for the last couple of weeks and it hurts to spend much time on the computer.  However, it’s very relaxing to sit with a brush in my hand coloring one of these fun images.  This morning the headache was pretty bad but after I took a nap this afternoon I felt a little better and was able to finish my card!

Yesterday, Phindy’s Place held a contest to name her latest digi stamp.  Are you familiar with her Mrs. Comfy character?  The image was of her having coffee with a friend after a day of shopping.  It reminded me of my sisters and I so I submitted the name “Rose”.  It was a random drawing and she picked mine!  So I got this cute image for free!!!  Today, they were having a cardathon on Papercraft Planet so it gave me the perfect opportunity to play with my new image.

When the cardathon started, they had us cut several pieces of cardstock/DP at various precise measurements.  I hadn’t painted my image yet but cut and did my layout then finished my coloring.  The one I originally cut didn’t look very good with this image so I did another one.  I think these papers are perfect and really highlight the cute image.  I wish I new where Mrs. Comfy got her jacket.  A pink faux fur jacket -- way too cute!!!

That’s it for tonight.  I finished my Squigglefly card for Monday’s challenge so come by to see the cute new image.  It was just released today and I tell you, it is so adorable.  Squigglefly sure has some talented stamp artists.

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolor; Image-Phindy‘s Place; Paper-DCWV-Baby Girl; Additional from stash-buttons, ribbon.

Challenges:
Crafty Creations-friends

Picnic Daisies

2nd card for tonight! 

Please scroll down to see a beautiful Squigglefly image!!!

I’ve been trying to play along with all the Papertrey Ink contests this week for all of their announcements and the February new release.  I made tonight’s  card for the Card Positioning System sketch the PTI is sponsoring. Everything you see is from PTI with the exception  of the American crafts ribbon.

How’d you like the Opening Ceremonies?  They were beautiful weren’t they.  The only time I cried was when the Americans walked into the stadium.  It’ll be interesting to see the metal to tear ratio once the Olympics are over!!!

Blessings,

Christine