Art Impressions announcement!

Hello Ai fans!
It's finally time to announce the winner of an Art Impressions Girlfriend set of their choice (from the new releases)!

The winner on my blog was #6 
 Michele Bruns
  Congratulations!!

   Don't forget to stop by the Art Impressions blog for the new challenge
      starting today.  The challenge for the next two weeks is LOTS OF LAYERS.  

  

Sugar Creek Hollow Vintage Thank You

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow and the last one for 2011 as our designers are going to take a well-earned break until the New Year. Our challenge to you this week is to make vintage, shabby chic or primitive THANK YOU cards.

You have until Friday, December 23rd to submit up to 3 Thank You entries, which will not only put you in the running for our weekly prizes but for our Christmas Blog Candy.

 

 This week one random winner will receive a digi of our choice and a winner's badge to display. In addition, the Design Team will choose one project as Card of the Week and the creator will receive a badge and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot. The winner of the blog candy will be selected on Christmas Eve.

We want to thank all of you for supporting us this year and to send our best wishes for a Happy Holidays - enjoy the time with your family and friends. Be sure to come back to see us on January 7th for the first challenge of 2012 as we have some great ones lined up for you.

I will be scaling back a bit due to so many family obligations.

I absolutely did not want to quit this team because I love everyone

involved and love creating in the vintage style so I'm grateful to 

Tracy for letting me stay on as a "featured designer".  I will

be participating in all of the trash to treasure challenges as

well as any others I can find time for. (thank you Cec!)

 Tools and Accessories...

Cuttlebug Thank You folder

Spellbinders ovals

Pizazz Aplenty flat back pearls

Country Crinkle ribbon

curling ribbon

paper roses

Stickles

lace

Anna Griffin leaf punch

I've entered my card in the following challenges...

Fussy and Fancy: Monochromatic & Sparkle (green, stickles & sparkle paper) (closed)

The Poodles Parlor: Thank You  (YAY!! I WON!!)

Raise the Bar Guest Designer!

I'm so honored to be a guest designer this week over at Raise the Bar.  The challenge this week is "I'm just saying..."  We are being challenged to make a card with NO image on the front, just a sentiment.  Here is the card that I designed for this challenge.  I can't wait to see what YOU come up with! 

Here's a close up...

 

Here's the inside...

 

I've loved being a guest "bar tender".   Can't wait to play along with another of their challenges!

Card Makings:

Sentiments: Gina K

Marianne's Creatables: flower, flourish and corner dies

Sizzix: flower die

Prima flowers

Crystal & button

Cuttlebug embossing strip

Spellbinders: circle and scalloped circle dies

Cornish Heritage Farms: rubber stamp on inside

I think frogs are lucky!

This little frog from Mel Jens has been very lucky for me.  I just found out that my Party Time Tuesdays card  was the top pick out of 145 entries over at Creative Craft World Challenge Blog!  I'm so excited.  This made my night.  I'd like to thank everyone there for this honor. I'd also like to thank Stamping Boutique for their generous prize.

Some wins last week!

I had a couple of challenge wins last week.  One with my Frog card and one with my Bunny card.  It was a big week for the animals I guess!  Thanks to Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog and Pink Cat Studios for their generous prize and also Raise the Bar for having me as a future guest designer.   

 Kaboodle Doodle Winner                                            Raise the Bar Winner

I will be a guest designer at Raise the Bar next week so I hope you'll come by and check that out.  This week their challenge is called "Mug Shots".  No, not THAT kind...you know, coffee, tea, latte etc.  Hope you'll play along. 

They say it's your birthday!

I had a request for a Beatles birthday card and I'm so glad because this was SO much fun to make!  All of the images are just clip art that I printed.  The only stamping is the phrase inside which is from Stampin' Up. 

The record and label were separate.  I found the birthday label and cut it out to fit on a record from another piece of clip art.

Inside I used some individual shots and a one of Ringo at his drums.

I've entered this card in the following challenges:

Paper Romance: Masculine Birthday

Prairie Fairy Fridays: Happy Birthday

Kaboodle Doodles: B&W plus one other color

Cards for Men: Let's Party

Creative Cowgirls: Turq. & Black

Creative Inspirations: Celebrate

CES Challenge Blog: No Designer Papers

One Stop Craft Challenge: Card for a male

Delicious Doodles: Use any 3 colors

Totally Papercrafts: Happy Birthday

Freshly Brewed: B&W and one more color

The Sisterhood of Crafters: Birthday

Pile it on: Anything Goes

Card makings:

Clip art

Cuttlebug embossing folder

EK Success: Le Symphony border punch

Spellbinders: Label One, Snowflake Pendant (inside of record label)

Stampin' Up: Birthday Sentiment, Taken with Teal paper & Ink

Big, Huge Thank you

I'd like to send a big thank you out to the people over at Southern Girls Challenge blog.  I was chosen 2ce in Dec.  I was a winner with my CDAC angel (so also thank you to Carol & Priscilla for arranging the wonderful class) and I had a top 5 finish with my Baby Jesus card. (thank you Tracy from Sugar Creek Hollow for the beautiful stamp!)

What a great end to 2010!  Thank you everyone!

Big, Huge Thank you

I would like to thank everyone over at Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club for their wonderful challenges.  I took first place in last weeks Christmas Carol challenge.  I would also like to thank Sentiments 4 You  for their generous prize!  I took a look at the store and they have some adorable sentiments!  You should check them out!  They've got another fun challenge this week,  Christmas with Orange and Purple.  There should be some fun looking projects with that combo!  I can't wait to see them.  Here's my winning card...           

   

Big, Huge Thank you

I'd like to thank everyone over at City Crafter Challenge Blog for all of their inspiration and their wonderful challenges.  I was a spotlight artist last week with this card.  Thanks for everything!

 

Bird loving snowman MMSC83

I'm planning on entering all three sketch challenges this month over at Midnight Madness but for now I just have this one finished.  I've been dragging out a bunch of my old PSX stamps lately.  I wish they hadn't gone out of business but I have enough of them to keep me busy for a very long time!  They have the best detail in their images.  I think this little nature loving snowman is so sweet. 

I've entered this card in the following challenges...

City Crafter Challenge: Kraft Creations

Paper Romance: Backwards Color Challenge (anything BUT red & green)

For my star I took two punches that I punched out of white paper to make it a little bit sturdier.  Next I brushed on a triple thick glaze and then I sprinkled chunky diamond dust glitter all over it.  The glaze really helps adhere the glitter so that you don't have a mess when people handle the card.  (pardon the glue under the metal dots...I'm always too impatient to wait for glue to dry when I take my photos.)

Card makings:

PSX: snowman

Star punch

Spellbinders: border die, circle dies, flower dies

metal hot fix dots

diamond dust glitter

copic markers

white colored pencil

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

I had a lot of fun planning out this card.  I've had the angel and sentiment for quite some time but only now did I think to print out some sheet music for that song to go along with it.  I changed the color of the SM from black to brown so that it would match my color scheme better.  I sponged some Tim Holtz distress inks (antique linen) on the paper to give it an aged look.  I also inked some brown pigment ink on the embossed portion of the frame to really make them stand out. 

My flower is not only a flower.  I also used two snowflake punches and layered them between the prima paper flowers. 

I've used a gold and silver paint pen on the hearts and stars and to make her gown shimmer I have used Stickles Icicle. I'm such a girl...the more sparkle the better!

I've entered this card in the following challenges...

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club challenge (Chal. #47 Christmas Carol)

Stamps R Us (anything goes)

Lexi's Creations: Glitter & Pearls

Fresh Brewed: Christmas

Card makings:
PSX: Angel
Lake O: Hark the Herald sentiment (Don't worry...I've never heard of them either)
Stickles: Icicle
Gold & Silver paint pen
Martha Stewart & EK Success: snowflake punches
Prima paper flowers
Satin ribbon
Pearls
Spellbinders: frame
Sheet music (from internet)
glittered brad
lace

Big, Huge Thank you

I'd like to thank everyone over at City Crafter Challenge Blog where I was a spotlight artist.  Their challenge theme last week was Blue Christmas (which I love!) and I was spotlighted for this card.  Thanks again for the fun challenge.

  

Big, Huge Thank you

I'd just like to thank everyone over at Scrap-Creations this week.  I made the top three.  Thanks for the fun challenge!  Here's my card that I won with.

                                    

 

Beautiful Bluebirds

This has always been one of my favorite stamps.  I make at least one card with this every Christmas.  I enjoy watching the birds at our feeder though we don't get blue birds in the winter.  Hope you like it too.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges. 

Artful INKables (all about punches and die cuts)

City Crafter Challenges (Blue Christmas)

Cute Card Thursday (The blues)

Lexi's Creations (Blue & Silver)

Paper Romance (Winter)

Stamptacular Sunday (Blue...Blue...Christmas)

Card makings:
Blue bird stamp: PSX
flower punches: Marvy
Silver brad
Spellbinders dies
Cuttlebug corner die
Flower Rhinestones
Copic markers

Some exciting news!

I just logged onto Winter Wonderland to see what their new challenge this week was and found out that I was the weekly winner plus I made the Top 3.  I love their challenge blog!

Thank you to Simon Says Stamp who has generously donated the prize.  I'm so grateful to them!  

Also, a big thank you to Sugar Creek Hollow where the two digi stamps came from that I used on my winning card!

Here's the card...

Pink Passion!

This card is not your traditional holiday card but I couldn't resist trying these stamps in pink.  I love how they turned out!  These are going to be holiday cards but they certainly could be used for other occasions such as baby girl, birthday etc.  I have used two stamps from Sugar Creek Hollow.  I used the Blue Plate Special and Christmas Plaque.  If you look at how these stamps started out and then how the ended up on the card you can see how versatile digi stamps are.  Here is my card...

and this is how the stamps look when you purchase them...

I have used the Christmas Plaque for the background/base of the card and two of the Blue Plate Special plates are in the center.

I am entering this card in the following challenges...

Charisma Cardz Challenges:  One for the girls
Cute Card Thursday: Blast from the past (Anything but a square June 10, 2010)
Winter Wonderland: Shape Card (anything but a square or rectangle)
Allsorts: Monochrome


Card makings:
Sugar Creek Hollow: Christmas Plaque & Blue Plate Special digi stamps
crystals
pearls
stickles
Spellbinder dies
ribbon

I made the top 3!

A big thank you to the crafters over at Party Time Tuesdays.  I'm so proud that I made the top three with this card!

 

Happy Birthday... Pretty ~but humorous

One of the teachers at school has a birthday next week and I wanted to make her something pretty yet humorous since that's sort of the way she is.  I decided to do 3 panels across and make the flower in the center my focal point.  I layered 3 floral stamps and placed dimensional foam in between to pop them up.  They're highlighted with Crystal Stickles.  Then I took a branch punch and punched some black leaves which are painted with Gunmetal Stickles.  The humorous part is the phrase inside. 

I will be entering this card in the Party Time Tuesday challenge.



Card Makings:

Flower stamps: Stampendous

Happy Birthday: Cornish Heritage Farms

Ginger Rogers: Inkadinkado

Crystal Stickles

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Branch punch