Bloom Where You're Planted

Well I thought it was time to do a little distressing!

I found a Phindy digi that I had never printed out and colored (shame of shames!) so I combined the two.

The "seed packet" is a downloaded google image of a vintage seed packet that I just aged a little with distress inks.

Papers are K&Co. and the clip is Tim Holtz.(love those clips. Each one has a different word on it. This clip says "Snipits".

The punch is Martha Stewart.

And a close up below:

I would like to enter this in:

Phindy's challenge: distressed

Stamp Something: Use a Digi

Fairy Fun Friday: New Beginning (new garden in spring)

Creative Card Crew: New Beginning (new garden)

Friday Sketches: sketch (turned clockwise)

Friends

Hi!

Today's card I made for the fun of it. this Mo image looks just like my daughter and her best friend and they're the huggy type too so its really quite funny!

I have colored on Kraft cardstock with Prismacolors.

The Dp is mostly K&Co.

Just a reminder for those who love Mo images, remember that The DP2 challenge is a weekly event and today was the start of a new challenge (Go Retro) so please be sure to join in when ever you're able to. We'd love for you to play along.

And before I love you and leave you here is a close up below

 

I would like to enter this in:

 Delightful Sketches: Buttons

Do you stack up: buttons

Have a great day everyone!!

Dorcas

Mo's Digital Pencil ~ Go Retro!

Hi ALL!

 I hope you're all having a great week! :-)

Today's challenge at Mo's is a fun one. "Go Retro".

I really don't know a whole lot about the decades before I came to be so I chose a color scheme from basically every person's home in the 1970's.

You gotta love those shag carpets, olive tupperware and mustard telephones.

A close up:

I am using a mo image colored with prismacolors on Kraft cardstock and have used assorted papers from my stash. :-)

Friends through Good and Bad

Hi Again!

Today's card I made for a friend who is going through a hard time and I really like how it came out, thanks to the wonderful Toby Tumble stamps that I just discovered! :-)

They're digis and there's not many of them but they're so sweet. You can find them here   .

I colored them with prismacolors and the papers are also digital. Tracy Ann I believe.

And a close up of the cuties!

Aren't they shweet??

I would like to enter this in:

Cooking it up with Katie: buttons, ribbon and an animal

Creative Cottage: something new: (new digi)

Sweet Sketch: sketch

Keep your eyes peeled , I may just have a couple more Toby cards coming soon!

Sassy Cheryl's Friends .....ME!!!!

Hi Guys!

Well this is a little weird. I actually wrote and posted a post today for my slot with Sassy Cheryl. I looked at it. Everything was in order. Then off I went all day and returned to an email from Cheryl asking if I was ok???? 

No post.

What is up with blogger? It ate my post! It wasn't even in my drafts or anywhere, just gone!

Anyway, I'm starting over even though the day is over.

Cheryl from Sassy Chery asked if I could participate in her Featured Friend monday post.

I said YES!

So I chose two of her lovely digis and created these fun cards.

I am using prismacolors on both cards.

Thank you so much Cheryl for the honor  and thank you all

 for coming by . I wish I could have had this up earlier but we can thank blogger for that. :-)

Hugs,

Dorcas

Sentimental Sundays ~ Friendship / Email Chocolate

Hi All!

How nice of you to come back! :-D

This week at Sentimental Sundays its all about celebrating

Friendship.

Isn't that sweet?

We all have our special friends and now's a chance to make a card for him/her and let them know how much they drive us  uh..whoops. ..I mean, how much we appreciate them!

 Yeah, that's it! lol

My Recipe:

Image: Mo manning

Colors: Prismacolors

Paper: S.E.I.

Sentiment: computer generated

How about a close up? I'm liking this one.

Gotta love that bathrobe!

And the sentiment :

(which is quite profound when you think about it and just funny when you don't.)

I would like to share this with:

I did It Creations: Fave technique (coloring on Kraft)

Creative INspirations: Use something new (new digi)

Stampin Stampin challenge: anything goes

Paper Sundaes: Something new (new digi)

marks finest paper: use something new (new digi)

Crazy 4 challenges: celebrate something (friendship)

Aly's Sunday: Anything Goes

Sunday's sketch and stamp: (sketch)

Ok, I think that's it from little ol me today!

My Top 5 (or 6 or 7...) for 2010

OK, well these pics will come as no surprise to anyone as I tend to put my favorite cards in my sidebar, but I couldn't help but play along with Debby at Scrapjourney (and you can too!) cos I think its such a great idea to wrap up the year with your favorite cards. I think if I hadn't been separating my faves   as I went along it would have been extremely daunting sorting through them .

 Below are my top 6:

I'm really itching to add one or two others but they aren't blogged yet so I can't....nevermind!

next year!

Hugs,

Dorcas

Dutch Dare ~ New Beginnings

Hello again! 

You thought you were rid of me, didn't you?

Well, you're not cos I'm back with a new challenge for Dutch Dare Card Challenges.

This fortnights challenge is all about

New Beginnings!

I'm using an image by Mo Manning colored with Prismacolors and paper by DCWV.

The sentiment was simply typed on the computer.

Awww, isn't she shweet???

Look at those cold pink toes....don't sniff em though. They're stinky!

That's it for today!

Thanks for looking. :-)



Mo's DP2 Challenge~ Bless The Child and The Beast

Hi Guys!

This week's challenge at Mo's DP2 is :

"Bless the Child and the Beast"

ok?

So get out your cutest animals and beastly children stamps! lol

Well it does have to be a Mo image, but other than that you got it!

I'm using an image by Mo and a quote I found on the computer which reads:

"If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum"

So cheeky but I love it.

A close up:

I hope to see you over at Mo's!



A yellow thank you :-)

A CAS card for you today!

Yes, it's another commission; a friend of mine is looking for thank you cards and so I made up a few new ones. I do like how this one came out. Soft and pretty.

Recipe:

Paper: DCWV

Punches: Martha Stewart border punch and ( inside) flower 'punch around the page'.

Sentiment: printed on computer

Button/ Brad: K&Co

Flower: salvaged from cheap silk flower boquet

I would like to enter this in:

Digital Tuesday: anything goes
Crazy Challenge: Punch it
Cupcake Craft Challenge: Thank You
Papertake weekly: Thank You

Thanks for coming by!

Dorcas :-)

Sentimental Sundays ~ baby

Good morning everyone!

Time to get your crafty things out and start playing again. Some of you have had FAR too much time off! lol

This week's challenge at Sentimental Sundays is something as far as far can be from snow and reindeer and fat old men with red pajamas .

 The theme is BABY!!!!!

Yay!

I am using a stamp by "In2Stamps" and colored with prismacolors.

Paper is from my stash. And sentiment is computer generated.

Close up:

And the taggy thingamajig

So think you can do it? I look forward to the snowless cards! 

That is unless its a winter baby......

*oh dear*

*PS) This was a scheduled post. Look what I just woke up to:

We've already lost electricity three times in the last hour. Its not a question of  IF its a question of WHEN it goes again. And when it does it could be gone a day or more. So if I'm MIA think of me here in the Sunny South buried deep in snow with no heat.:-)

Well the positive thing is that we had lots of company over yesterday and I am left with leftover pizza, soup, pecan pie and cranberry bars.

Hey, how do you think bears are able to hibernate for so long??

Oh a quick challenge or two if I can make it in time!

Sweet Stampin: Celebrations

Totally Gorjuss: For someone special

I did It Creations: Out with the old in with the new

Karber Monthly: Childhood



Nicecrane Designs ~ Birds Of A Feather

Hi Guys! 

Today I am using a new digi from Nicecrane Designs. Its from a set called "Adorable Children" you can purchase it here. Also he has set up a group over at CDAC and has all kinds of goodies and surprises for his new members so check it out!

So in case you were wondering from my un-Dorcas-like cards yesterday if maybe the body snatchers had got a hold of me, todays card is proof that they had not! lol 

But it was fun anyway!

I am using K&Co paper and of course, image by Nicecrane colored with prismacolors.

A close up:

I really should be cleaning my house right now so I'll say toodleloo!