CRAFTY CREATIONS CHALLENGE #143- PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY SANDWICH

Hello to all,

Today is wednesday right? So it's Crafty Creations Challenge time. Dawn is hosting and it is a most interesting challenge. Here are the colors she wants us to use on our cards.

"Kraft/Brown, white/cream and one other color"

that's it. NO other color

For the sake of this image, I went around and used all kinds of other colors...so sorry about that Dawn. But I still love how it came out. I also used Tracy's sketch from Eat Sleep Stamp. Drop by won't you, she has simple and easy sketch for the you all to try out!

Our sponsor is our very own Claire at Doodles by hope Jacare:

ALSO DON'T FORGET TO STOP BY OUR GUEST DESIGNER'S BLOG
BAHSFUL BLOGGING

So do enter a card for a chance to win Claire's whimisical and oh so pretty digital images!

Have a beautiful day, :)Peggy

PARTY TIME TUESDAYS #41- BLING IT ON

Hello, Glad you could drop by today because I have alot of special stuff I used on my card today from our SPONSORS. I have EMBOSSING CREAM, this cute Inked Cute Dress Maker from the Paper Shelter.Talking about special, I did use a side step card which you can find the tutorial from Beate on Splitcoaststampers.

A close-up of where I used the embossing cream from Viva Decor on my biggest panel. I used a simple scroll stencil and added it to the panel, used my hot iron and it became all sparkly and fluffy. Cool!

 I made a special row of bling since today's 

challenge does say BLING IT ON!

 And did some "wear and tear" sanding

 on this frame for a vintagy look and added the pretty Circle B enterprise ribbon. 

WE HAVE A GUEST DESIGNER Crafty creations #142- GREEN PURPLE SILVER AND SNOW

Hello to all, here we are on another beautiful day, wednesday that is. Yes, this means we have another fun challenge for you at Crafty Creations Challenge, but first I want to let you know we have a special Guest Designer for the whole month of November, so help me in welcoming LINDSEY, you can see her work here at:

BASHFUL BLOGGING

Lindsey has a unique style of cardmaking. She is very CAS oriented and  seems to have mastered the art of using less and making magic with her creative mind. Make sure you stop by her blog and have a peek at what she is creating for you all month long.

Now, on to this week's challenge. I am hosting and yep, this is my last color challenge for this year anyway. You are to use:

GREEN - PURPLE - SILVER - and snow in any way  shape or form, ie, flower soft, fun flock, snow writer, crystal fine. You get the idea. So make sure you play, our sponsor as usual have fun prizes for you. 

Remember if you upload to scs used CCCW142 in your keywords so we can see your cards.

Our SPONSOR is 

Here is a little bit about STRECH N' BUBBLES:

I really started “Scrapbooking/Card making” in 1996 when my dear friend Lisa Bearnson introduced to her new magazine Creating Keepsakes.. after that I was HOOKED!.. I do both scrapbooking and card making.. I have been published in many magazines, worked for Creating Keepsakes as a designer for products sold on QVC, and won many contests. I am the owner of Do You Stack Up?! Challenge blog, Free Digital Stamps blog, & Stretch N' Bubbles Digital Stamps blog/store. I quickly fell in love with the idea of digital stamps. Not having to find a spot to keep them,being able to get your product instantly, and buying one size fit's all.. I was on board! I have never taken an art class.. I just started doodling and putting them online. My free digital stamps within 2-3 days were getting 500 downloads, so I  thought if there were that many people who liked my designs. I should start a little store.. and Stretch N' Bubbles was born.. Now you might ask yourself, how did you get the name Stretch N' Bubbles? Well my dad "poppie" gives all the grandchildren "magic names" and my son's magic name is Stretch, and yep you guessed it..my daughters magic name is "Bubbles".. so I put them together and came up with that name.. Thanks so much to all of you for helping support my dream..HUGS

 *Alison*

stop by and check out my blogs..

Personal Blog HERE

Store HERE

Design Team HERE

Give cancer the slip

Hello to all, I just wanted to add this card to my hope you can cling to package. Still have 4 more to go. I know I am late for the challenges, but still want to send them out and I did say I was making 12, so 12 it is! I used Give cancer the slip from Deena's images.I also used today's Midnight madness sketch. Cool one again ladies!


Thank you for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Party time tuesdays #40 - Photo inspiration

Hello to all, I hope you are having a creative day because we have a fabulous gem with fall colours as inspiration at PARTY TIME TUESDAYS. 

Our sponsors are:

VIVA DECOR

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS 

I really enjoyed playing with this cutie pie  by Crafty Sentiments and had to use the sketch Victoria's (Vixx Handmade Cards) used on her card from last week's. I do warn you  though, if you stop by her blog, you might stay all day! I just loved the whole card and had to use this double sided design paper from ScribbleScrabble.net, the name of the collection is Felicity  - ferns, flowers & Gumdrops had in my drawer for some time. I just love the flowers on one side and the polka dot on the other. 

BOO CARROT SHOP AT THE COFFEE SHOP

Good morning to all,  I am so excited today as we are expecting a visit from Baby Alice and mom and dad too. It's been a whole 2 weeks since we saw her last...(sigh). All my 3 kids will be here too. Max, Corryn and David. So it's going to be a filled day. So, I should go on and tell you the story of this pretty girl sipping coffee and wondering if someone is going to join her, maybe a friend is meeting her...If you want to get yourself one of these to play, just stop by Deena's Etsy shop and look for the  COFFEE GIRL. 

I made this card inspired by Julie's (justwritedesigns) card, because she is our Queen for the Day at SCS. I love her work, I know I am not the only one. Every little detail of her cards is stunning to me. I also did the IC and used Boo Carrot Shop - girl paintings as inspiration because the girls in the paintings and my image have somewhat of an innocent expression to them and the fact that they are sitting and taken from the waist up. 

Hope you enjoy your Sunday, mine promises to be filled with new memories! LOL

Hugsxo :)Peggy

FREE FOR ALL EAT SLEEP MADNESS

Here are a few cards I made with the Midnight madness sketch. I always love their sketches,and I loved using it in a slightly varied way.  I also entered these in the Free for all on SCS today as Dawn suggested we post our most "dazzling cards", so I did.


The first card I made with an image from the web. I really can't remember where. Will have a look and let you know later.

I love Mo's digital Pencil, they are new from yesterday, I mean, I bought them yesterday. Just had a ball walking through her website that it did distract from actually making more cards! LOL The next three cards are made with her images.

Hockey boy

Mr. Fix it

 Paul Texting

This last card I  made with Tracy's easy peasy and so pretty sketch 
over at Eat Sleep Stamp,
and  used an image of a boy and dog by Heather Ellis. 
He is up there with my faves of hers.

This is a long post, so thank you for dropping by and if you leave some love....well, I just love you right back, if you don't well...I love you anyways! LOL

Hugs from your friendly neighborhood nutty cardmaker, me, Peggy :)

CRAFTY CREATIONS CHALLENGE #141- LEAVES

Hello to all, It is another beautiful wednesday here in my little town. It's a crisp 3 degrees in  celsius here (37Farenheit ) and I am still smiling. Why you may ask...well of course it's because I have another Crafty Creations Challenge card for you to see and this week Jaime is hosting and wants us to play with leaves. I had these beautiful stickers and thought they would work well with this dp and kraft cardstock I got just last week while out shopping with my little friend Deena. (he, he, he) We did good! Now if you want to join us, all you have to do is make a card with leaves of any kind and link it up for all to see.

Our sponsor this week is:

So make sure you add the keywords CCCW141 if you link up to Splitcoaststamper.

Have fun and enjoy the day, always glad to see you drop by.

:)Peggy

PTT#39- PARTY TIME TUESDAYS - ANYTHING GOES

This week PARTY TIME TUESDAYS theme is Anything goes. So, I used our sponsor Kenny K's digital stamp called Jeannie. She is a darling image and added a "home made" sentiment. Made me think of the show ( I used to love to watch growing up) and wanted to added another card to my donation for the HYCCT1110- Bosom buddies challenge for the Hope you can cling to  card drive on SCS.

Just thought I woul add some important info from Jenn on the challenge rules:

 "Please only 2 entries per person!  Also, we see some fantastic projects....but we cannot vote on them due to our rules not being followed!!!  Please post our badge in your personal blogs sidebar, link back to our challenge blog and mention us in your post!  Follow us, and HAVE FUN!!!  Hope to see more new faces this challenge!  We love all you our faithful followers but a party is always "the more the merrier!".

This week we are sponsored by the famous Kenny K

Our second Famous Sponsor for this challenge is:

Paper Shelter

Also used Tracy's fun sketch over at Eat Sleep Stamp blog. You should drop by sometime and check it out!

SQUIGLEFLY CHALLENGE #121 - SAYING THANKS

Hello everyone! What a beautiful week-end we had. Outside gathering leaves, walks in the crisp mornings and sometimes cooler afternoons. We even went out for breakfast on Sunday morning Pierre and I. Dinner was fun over at my sis' too. We had some cool Chicken Tahini...yummy! But enough chit chat, we have a wonderful guest designer joining us this week; KATHY BRADLEY! Yes, ladies, and she has just a beautiful card for our challenge too. Visit her blog called ENTERING KATHYVILLE to see what she has created for our  SQUIGGLEFLY challenge.


 I just love using the dotted circle and thank you sentiment by artist Jess Holland at Squigglefly. The dp is build a blossom from Jake Heath and I added a black matting to make it kind of formal looking! So don't forget to join this week using freebies and a chance to win fun images too.

Have a beautiful monday!  :)Peggyxo

MIDNIGHT MADNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE AND BLACK LEAF DIGITAL REINDEER

Here is a card I made for Midnight madness sketch and used a BLACK LEAF DIGIS I had won last winter. I love the simple sketch and big image format. Way to go Madness ladies!

CRAFTY CREATIONS CHALLENGE #140- CHRISTMAS BIRTHDAY CARD

Hello everyone, How are you all today? I sure hope you are enjoying life and doing what you were made to, whatever it is. Now, I just had to show off these 4 more cards I did with the Come and get it challenge using this week's CRAFTY CREATIONS CHALLENGE THEME, and it's all about Christmas birthday cards. Donna, our hostess thought up this great idea. So I took out a few of my favorite images.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to join us at Crafty Creations for a fun challenge and a chance to win great prizes. :)Peggy

This week's sponsor is:

My favorite things: 1-Candy cane kisses (a la mode) 2-Pure innocence- Flurry of love by designer Heather Ellis and sold in rubber form at My favorite things. And of course the 3 & 4-Snowbunny Bella from Stamping Bella.These are the papers, starting from the card on the upper left: BoBunny's nidnight frost collection papers, DaisyD's Designs, DCWV-Green Stack and Melissa Frances 6 X 6 pad called; Home for the holidays.

SQUIGGLEFLY GIVEAWAY & COME ANG GET IT CHALLENGE

Please don't forget to scroll down for my

 PARTY TIME TUESDAY POST!

 Hello all! Today I am showing you a few cards. My first one is made for the HYCCT1116- To simply use a ribbon on our card.  I have been experiencing real joy creating each card, and I put alot of thought and love in them. I sometimes stop and think how cancer patients will have a moment of delight when recieving one and that is all the fuel I need to get to the next one. I have done 6 now and as I said before, I am doubling  the number of cards I am sending out this year, so I have 6 left. YAY! I really can't wait to send them all out! So if you want to join us by donating a few or maybe just one card, believe me it will make a difference, imagine if twenty thousand of us would donate only one...food for thought and action.

Enjoy your day and keep well!

I used Snow bunny  Bella for this card and the COME AND GET IT CHALLENGE's sketch.

I used Hero Arts silhouette women for this birthday card, and used  the same sketch because I really love it!

Squigglefly Mega Giveaway!

Squigglefly is getting into the spirit of Halloween and has some awesome treats ready for three lucky shoppers!

From now until October 31st, every digi purchase at Squigglefly.com will automatically enter the buyer into a drawing for one of three prizes!  The winners will be announced on November 1st US CST on the Squigglefly blog.

1st prize – $50 of free digis from Squigglefly.com
2nd prize – $35 of free digis from Squigglefly.com
3rd prize – $20 of free digis from Squigglefly.com

Psst…if you were hesitating about some images you might have seen (wink wink nudge nudge)  Now’s the time to buy! You will find some of my images at Squigglefly too!

EVERY digi purchased will result in one entry for that buyer.  For instance, if a single purchase contains three images, the buyer will receive THREE entries for that purchase!

Have fun shopping!

PTT#38- SPOOKY HALLOWEEN CARD

Hello everyone, I hope you don't get scared with our challenge this week at Party Time Tuesdays. Jenn and the team have alot of spooky (and yes cute) images to inspire you for fun Halloween cards.

It has been a frightfully scary month this October!  We are going to continue being spooky this week!  For our challenge we would like you to show us your 

Spooky and/or use our sketch!

This week we have two Frightfully Fantastic Sponsors!!!!

Please welcome Whimsie Doodles:

Whimsie Doodles is so excited to be sponsoring the new challenge! In March of 2009 Melyssa Connolly, artist and owner, began turning her whimsical hand-drawn images into digital files for sale online. Whimsie Doodles' digital stamp line features images that range from cute little boys and girls, to punny stuff, and everything in-between. We enjoy sharing lots of samples on our company blog, where we also post challenges and tutorials.

One Winner will receive:$10 Gift Certificate to Whimsie Doodles Online Store!

Our next sponsor is Karen's Doodles:

aren's Doodles creates whimsical digital images and rubber stamps for crafters. Owned by Karen Johnson, an artist and animator. Visit her website at karensdoodles.com"

One winner will receive 3 digital stamps from Karen's Doodles!

Thank you to both of our sponsors for allowing the Party Planners to use their digital stamps!

Make sure you stop by Party Time Tuesdays blog to see what the party planners have created to inspire you all.

HOPE YOU CAN CLING TO MADNESS

Hello to all! I have yet made another card for the HYCCT challenges. I did Lee's challenge;You're my inspiration. I used the colors as inspiration and added a few more which inspired me.
I waited long enough to buy this cute and inspired Hope fights digital stamp from Whimsie doodles. Boy and I glad I indulged myself a bit and for a good cause too. All the money is donated to cancer research and...I love her!


Also used the Midnight Madness sketch challenge for this one!


I added a few close-ups because I used Amy's photographing tips you can find here: Photographing your papercrafts projects.

The little bandana is an extra and I paper pieced it to add a little dimension.

 I usually don't show close-ups, but I was so proud of how the pants came out so crisp and clean. No, I didn't wash them, I just didn't colour them in. 
(Guess you figured that out, but I had to be silly.)




That's 5 done and 7 to go! I am sending them all to the MD Anderson Cancer Center when I'm done.

Well, I am glad you could stop by today! Always fun to see what you have to say.
Hugs from me, Peggy, your favorite nutty cardmaker.