Phindys ~ Get Well/ Thinking Of You

Hello my blogging buddies! 

Today's card was loads of fun to make, I just loved the soft colors and gorgeous DCWV papers. (Its from a nursery pack actually. lol)

The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is:

 Get Well / Thinking Of You 

and I'm using a Phindy digi called Connected Girl, colored with prismacolors.

And a close up! (a very  close close up. :-)

And the sentiment, which I just printed on the computer.

I hope you like today's project and you can come by Phindy's to join in.

 Remember, you don't have to use a Phindy image to play but if you do decided to use one you can enter your project twice for double the chance to win!

Take Care!

I am playing with these challenges:

 DYSU: layers

Little miss muffet: Designer Papers

Cooking It Up With KAtie: Sweet Sassy Punch

FabN Funky: Girlie

Fresh Brewed: 3 or more PP

Desert Island: Recipe ( 1, 4,5)

Cupcake Craft: pink polkadots

Stamp Fairy: Sketch

DDCC ~ Photo INspiration

Hi Guys!

Well it's not actually my team's turn to post this week at Dutch Dare but when I saw the photo the other side of the team was using for this week's challenge I couldn't resist making a  little somthin somethin.

Here's the photo:

And like I said on Tuesday, you all would be seeing another tissue box in a few days and here it is! This one was actually my first one but I had to save it for the DDCC challenge. It's my daughter's fave colors so I made it for her.

The images are A Day For Daisies. I paper pieced them and colored the rest with Prismacolors.

And the paper is DCWV cardstock and SEI DPs.

The punch is Martha Stewart.

The tissues are Kleenex with lotion. lol

For a note about the tutorial and sizing and shout outs etc please see my post on Tuesday here

Thank you everyone who placed me in the right direction so I could make this.

More views and close ups:

OK, so lots of pictures! Didn't mean to bore you but a tissue box has many sides!!

I hope you can play along with Dutch dare this week.

 Its such an awesome inspirational photo to work off of!

Thanks for all your support, you guys are so encouraging to me. :-)

I would like to enter this in:

Fresh Brewed: Recipe

Flourishes: Real or faux stitches

Cards and Things: color scheme

Catered Crop: Recipe: PP, Tools, Embellies

Creative Inspirations: Use a Template

DYSU: Lots of layers

Hannah and Friends: Boxes with Spellbinders

DP2 Challenge ~ Thinking Green

Hi Guys! Time for another challenge at Mo's DP2:

Think Green

I'm using papers  by DCWV. 

The sentiment you can find if you click on "free sentiments" on my sidebar. :-)

I am using Eli available at Mo's and colored him with prismacolors.

Isn't he cute?

Reminds me of my nephews helping me pick carrots in the garden (greenhouse) last week. :-)

So we're looking for projects that utilize the color green somewhere. Doesn't have to be "Irish" at all. So pretty easy right?

Can't wait to see all your projects!

I would like to play with:

Make it colorful: Create shine

Creative Card Crew: No flowers

Scrap Creations: Going GReen

House of Gilli: Green

Kaboodle Doodles: Green

Karen's Doodles: Green

Flower Girl

Hi Guys!

A few days ago Mo gave all us girls a freebie to play with and so I had to play!

Isn't she cute? She's available in the store now if you'd like to check it out.

I've colored her with prismacolors and used various scraps of paper. The flowers are made with salvaged silk bouquets and buttons.

And a close up:

I would like to join in these challenges:

Desert Island : (I chose #1 #4 #8)

Inspirational Card Sketches: Sketch

Tuesday throwdown: Use your scraps

Crafty Pad: Use Ribbon

Fab N Funky: Girly

Simon Says : AnythingGoes

Thanks Guys!

Tissue Box

Hi Everyone!

Today's a new first for me. Making a tissue box cover. Yay!! I love new projects!

I had been seeing some very talented ladies make these recently, Chris Olson and Debbie P being among them. Ladies, your work inspires me! Debbie had a link to the Splitcoast Stampers tutorial which is what I went by. 

(one little tip. There's a measurement on the lid that calls for 9/16 of an inch. If I were you I would make that 10/16 or even 11/16 to be safe. I made it 9/16 and my lid wouldn't go over the box.It's "engineer exact". Which I am not. :-) It had to be chucked and remade.

The papers I am using are Cordinations Cardstock and Lavender and Lace DP. The ribbons were an assortment given to me.

So this box I made for Stacey as she loves elegance and purpleness.

It's not what I would call "Chris elegant" but it's as elegant as Dorcas gets. lol

Stacey will soon  be working on a scrapbook of her late cat Cody so I figured a  box of tissues wouldn't be amiss. 

And while we're speaking of cats, Gingerboy is heading for a stroke if he doesn't lay off the "American Dream" and start exercising and watching his calorie consumption! 

"Do you think this fur makes me look fat?"

"Uh no, your fur is fine, its your 18 pounds of fat that makes you look fat. "

"I take exception to that."

I would like to enter the tissue box in the following challenges:

(The cat wouldn't fit!)

Happily Scrappin: Purple

CardCreationsbyC: Sparkle

Tellen's Place: embellish embellish

Totally Papercrafts: pearls and lace

Wags and Wiskers: Use more than one fold

Thanks for visiting!!

by the way, you will be seeing another tissue box in the next couple of days. They make such nice useful gifts and are such fun to make I couldn't resist!

Sentimental Sundays ~ Pearls and Lace

Hi Guys!

Thought I'd do a  blue card today.

Found this cute as can be digi from Designed 2 Delight and since my mum loves sheep of all kinds, this one is for her.

The papers are all assorted from my stash, the punch is Martha Stewart and the dies are nesties.

I'm using prismacolors for painting the image.

So this week the challenge at Sentimental Sundays is :

"Pearls and Lace"

I'm not a very lacey person so I decided to use the paper punch that looked kinda lacey. that should satisfy everyone, right?

I can't remember where I got the string of pearls from, I'm thinking it was Hobby Lobby in the sewing section..

I think that's it. Not a whole lot of explaining to do with this one. No dirty nappies or anything. lol, you know, sheep just....oh nevermind!

I would like to play with these challenges:

Bee Crafty: Use a digi

Annabelle Stamps: Say it with love

Frosted designs: 3 Dp, 2 Fonts, sent tag

Totally papercrafts: pearls and lace

Stamp with fun: monochrome blue

I hope to see you around!

Phindy's Place~ Oh Baby!

Hi Guys!

Well it seems to be the week for baby themes, cos you guessed it, the challenge for this week at Phindy's Place is: BABY!

Soooo, this means that if you still haven't posted a baby card after I whetted your appetite yesterday well, you'll have one more challenge you can enter your project in. :-)

I hosted a  few baby showers over the years and one game we played involved these little felt diapers.

I made  tons of them and the game was this:

Everyone pulls a diaper out of the basket and the ones who got a "dirty diaper" (i.e. a chocolate covered raisin or two inside their diaper) won a prize.

Well the reason I'm telling you this is that I was looking in the attic for my little sweet clothespins you see here on this card when I came across a bag of party supplies and a small ziploc bag of these felt diapers. They were a tad too big for my card, but on inspecting the design once again, lo and behold........

a dirty diaper!!

Yessirree, someone left a "fudgie" in their diaper and this chocolate covered raisin in question was particularly dehydrated now after about three years of  "Sahara" heat up in the attic.

I removed the raisin  (of course! I'm a tidy person, never mind what they all say) and was surprised to see that after all this time,  it still left a skid mark.

I kid you not!

OK then! Are you all set to get crafting?

I hope to see you around!

My partner in Crafting Crime: Baby

Dir Cut Dreams: Spring garden scene

Shelly's IMages: use lots of layers

Fab N Funky: Spring

Stamp Something : digi

Stampin For the weekend: spring

Room For One More / DDCC ~ Zoo

This week over at Dutch Dare the theme is ZOO.

I found a real cute giraffe image over at Phindy's and decided to use it as part of a zoo themed baby card.

Embossing folder: cuttlebug

Punch: Martha Stewart

Pearls: Recollection

Cardstock: DCWV

Sentiment: printed on computer

String of Pearls: can't remember

And a close up...

So I hope you can dig out your zooey stamps and play along!

I would like to join in on the following challenges:

Creative Belli Blog: Animals

Pixie Cottage: Spring

Everybody's art challenge: Spring

paper Playtime: anything goes with a digi

My partner in crafting crime: baby

Fab N Funky: Spring

Cute Card Thursday: Signs of spring

Charisma Cards : Four legged friends

Meljen's : Use an animal

Delightful Sketches; Welcome spring

Crafty Purple Frog: Things with wings (chicks)

Mo's DP2 Challenge ~ Baby

Hi Guys!

It's time for a new challenge at Mo's DP2. The theme is BABY.

For today's card I used two Mo images and merged them. 

(For those of you interested in how to do that in Paint.net you've got to check out Deb's fantastic tutorial here)

This finished image came very close to being "binned". I just couldn't stand the purple pajamas. Stacey was over at the time and she said it would be fine once I got my papers sorted. But Stacey, if only you knew how close that image was to being trashed once you went home you would've died (cos you saw how many hours it took me!) The pajamas were actually the last thing I colored so alot hung on them.

In the end I decided well, what have I got to lose? I'll find some papers and if I still don't like it, I'll trash it.

(my daughter's been known to fish through my scrap trash bin for good reason.lol)

But she was right. Once the papers were there it all kind of came together.

But I still don't like the pajamas!

Mo's got lots of cute baby images so hop on over to the shop and maybe you can play along with us this week!

I would like to enter this in these challenges:

My partner in Crime: Baby

Peachy Keen: sketch

Kaboodle doodles: recipe

Ooh la la: Pink

Stamps R Us: For the girls

Dir Cut Dreams: Spring garden scene

Scrap Creations: Kids

4 Crafty Chicks: Stitching

Shelly's Images: LOts of layers

The Rubber Cafe:  Sewing

Hanna and Friends: sketch

Sentimental Sundays ~ Anything Goes

Hi All!

You should be very happy to hear that the challenge this week at Sentimental Sunday's is:

Anything Goes

I feel like I should plug my ears and hunker down for the stampede. Its cool that we can do whatever we want  but I think I'll be holed up all week commenting on  the entries! It's ok, you all knock yourselves out and have fun. :-) I'll be ok. If  I go quiet, have my husband have a look at where the computer is ; he might find a  dehydrated skeleton sitting here fingers in the process of typing "thanks so much for joining us at......"

Anyway, I digress....

We are being sponsored by Heart Song Designs and I chose this sweet kitty.

The sentiment is by Raindrop Echo Designs.

Dies: Spellbinder's Nestabilities

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug

Paper: Scraps

Flower: Handmade

A close up:

OK! I think that's it!

You all have fun and I'll be round to see all your lovely creations!

I would like to enter this in:

Gingerloft:  Furry Friends

Make It colorful: coloring technique

The stamp man: Curls and swirls

Delightful challenges: Use your scraps

Allsorts: Make your own flowers

Pattie's Creations: Make your own embellie (flower)

Phindy's Place ~ Sketch

Hi all!

This week's challenge at Phindy's is a sketch. I chose this little cutie and colored him with Prismacolors.

The paper is K&Co. And the sentiment just one I printed on the computer.

It's a pretty simple design, not much to it. Not my favorite actually. lol But you can see that I DID finish the inside. So that's something!

I hope you can head over to the blog and see what the others on the team have done as they're far more inspiring than me today. :-)

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Mo's DP2 Challenge ~ Spring Colors with Handmade Flowers

Hi Everyone!

I'm back with a card for Mo's DP2 Challenge this week which is

 Spring Colors With Handmade Flowers

(and no I didn't choose this theme. lol)

The image is Mo Manning and the sentiment is by the Doodle Pantry.

The papers are DCWV  and K&Co. and the flowers are my own creations. You can see that I crocheted one of them. The others are ones I cannibalized  from big silk bouquets  and reassembled with buttons.

The image I colored with Prismacolors.

A close up of the flowers:

So I hope you can play along!

I would like to play along with:

PLay Date Cafe: blue, rust and green

Crafty Creations: In the garden

Creative Cottage Flowers

Lexi's Creations: Flowers

Stamp With Fun : Recipe

New Purse Box in Inches

Hi Guys!

A few of you have been asking me for the directions to this purse box in INCHES.

As you know, Randi was the person who's directions I used to make my first purse box and she is in Europe and so uses metric measurements. Her directions are excellent so if you use metric by all means check out her site!

Since then I have been working on "adjusting " her  pattern for us "Inchie People"

You can see my complete tutorial in inches here.

Keep in mind that my directions will not make the exact same size purse as Randi's. It will be about an inch larger all around. But I have tried to stay true to the shape as much as I could.

I plan on filling it with candy. I think every craft table needs one!

So there ya go! I hope you can go and have some fun now!

I would like to enter this in:

OLLCB: Pink!

Bunny Zoe: Flowers

The pink elephant: buttons lace and ribbon (buttons are in the flowers on the sides of the purse)

Fresh Brewed: Ribbons and Bows