HIMCR Challenge #52 Freestyle

Hello Everyone,

Wow a second post for today. It's Saturday and it's the

start of a new challenge over at HIMCR. This weeks

challenge is Freestyle. In my header picture is another

Christmas card that I worked on. Actually I worked

on this one first doing a little bit of colouring before I

did the Santa which I posted earlier today. For this

challenge ANYTHING Goes!

We would really love for you to join us.
You have until Friday, July 6th to link up your

creation to get entered into the monthly drawing

this week. When uploading to online galleries

please use code HIMCR52.

Before I get to my card recipe I wanted everyone

to know that last weeks challenge had some

issues. Our challenge leader has moved an

in the process of moving had some computer

issues. We are sorry about that.

Card Recipe:

Bazzill green, red, and brown cardstock

Stampin Up stamp

Martha Stewart Penquin punch

Bakers twine

Wood button

Stazon black ink

red glitter

Water color pencils

To join in the Freestyle challenge follow the link

below

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/06/himcr-52-freestyle.html

For more inspiration check and see what the rest of

the design team has created. The links to them are

below.

AJ Scrapbooking & Cards

Craftin' and Stampin'

Jenscrapstoo

Angela's Crafty Spot

Thank you for stopping in. Until my next post

Have a Splendid Evening!!!!!

Christmas in July

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

Hope everyone is doing well. No I'm not crazy if that's

what your thinking. Most of the bloggers that we follow

have an Etsy shop and in July as do many other stores

they have a sale which they call Christmas in July. I just

want to remind everyone and that it's never to early to start

buying for Christmas. You might find that something that

you were looking at and wanted but didn't really want to

spend that much. You just might find it on sale now. In my

header picture is a card that I coloured the Santa. I like

how he turned . My colouring is getting better don't you

think? I still have a ways to go though.

Card Recipe:

Patterned paper by Me and My Big Ideas

Bazzill cardstock in white, red and green

Rubber stamps: Recollections, and

Stampin Up

Watercolors

Stazon black ink

Embellishments: Bubble stickers

Craft ribbon

Glitter

Hope you all find some great sales. I'm going to enter

this card over at Christmas Card Throwdown

http://52cct.blogspot.co.uk/

I haven't done a challenge in some time now....LOL...

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!

Proud American

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

Hope everyone is doing well and keeping safe. Today in

my header picture is a card that I made to celebrate the 4th

of July which is around the corner. I cut out the star on my

cricut using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. I then added

glitter trying to make it look like a flag. The small satrs were

a little harder to get to work out. I made the best of it I guess

you can say. Not great but it'll do. I stamped a few more

stars on the card and outlined the edge of the card with a

black sharpie. In the picture below you can read what the

sentiment says.

This sentiment is a rubber stamp that I picked up at a

yard sale that was not mounted and I have no idea who

the maker is but I like it.

Hope you all like it too. Until my next post have a

Splendid Weekend!!!!!!!

New pictures

Hello Fellow bloggers,

I hope that everyone is doing well. As many of you know by

now I had been fighting with my camera and so the pictures

that are posted on my blog today are of cards that I had already

blogged about before. These pictures are re-takes. Just trying to

get a camera any camera to work for me. Maybe it's not the

camera, maybe it's just me....LOL.....

I still have to work some kinks out as I see the pictures

here on the blog. So be patient with me as I get it together.

I also would like to remind you that LIIU has a challenge

that will be closing soon so if you want to join in, best check

it out. To join in on the challenge follow the link below.

LIIU

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-24.html

I'm off to see what else I can get done today. Until my next

post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!

Kitty-lane Stamp

Hello Everyone,

Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. I know it's a little

late this evening but the day got away from me so this will

be a quick post. In my header picture is another Kitty-lane

stamp that I playedwith adding some colour to it. I want

to remind everyone that there are just a few days left to

enter challenge #24

over at LIIU  USE YOUR FAVOURITE

EMBELLISHMENT/S

To play along follow the link below

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-24.html

Prize Package from

Sponsor - Kitty Lane Stamps

Hope you like my card. I know the picture isn't that great.

I'm still trying to understand the camera....LOL...

Until my next post Have a Splendid Night!!!!!!

HIMCR Challenge #51

Good Morning Fellow Bloggers,

Hope everyone is doing well and keeping healthy. It's

Saturday and the start of a new Challenge over at Hiding

In My Craft Room. Challenge # 51 is

Mix It Up: Masculine Birthday

In my header picture is the card I made.

I need to tell you that the Clown in the Car is not a digi

but a rubber stamp from the Kitty-lane Craft Stamps. I

had been playing around with adding some colour to it.

Now mind you I am not that good at it but I tried. I will

have to try colouring it again since I have learned a few

things in colouring. You know there are alot of tutorials

out there to teach you. Oh and I coloured the image with

water colors.

We would love it if you joined in and played along.

To play along follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/

Now remember you have until friday June 29th to add

your creation to the challenge link and to get entered

into the monthly drawing. If you need more inspiration

you can visit the other design team members by

following the links below

AJ Scrapbooking & Cards

Craftin' and Stampin'

Jenscrapstoo

Angela's Crafty Spot

Card Recipe:

DCWV The Ultimate Premium Stack

Bazzill Cardstock

Brads

Kitty-lane Craft Stamp

Inkadinkadoo  sentiment stamp

Tim Holtz embossing pad

Stampendous Black embossing powder

Water color pencils

Below is the picture of the Kitty-lane stamp and

what it would have looked like if I hadn't added some

colour.

I hope that you will join us. Until my next post Have a

Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HIMCR #50 - Embossing

Good Morning Fellow Bloggers,

Hope everyone is enjoying thier weekend. Today we begin a

new challenge over at Hiding In My Craft Room. Challenge

#50 Embossing. So everyone get out your embossing ink

and your embossing powders and show us what you have

created. You have until Friday, June 22nd to link up

your creation to get entered into the monthly drawing

this week. When uploading to online galleries please

use code HIMCR50.

This is what I came up with for this weeks challenge.

I embossed the sentiment and image with black embossing

powder. I also dry embossed part of the white layer. My

heat embossing is kind of hard to tell on this card. Please

forgive me. I'm working with a new camera my old one kind

of gave up on me.

We would really love for you to join us in our new challenge.

Please don't forget to check out what the rest of the design

team has created follow the links below

AJ Scrapbooking & Cards

Craftin' and Stampin'

Jenscrapstoo

Angela's Crafty Spot

 

To join in on the fun challenge follow the link below

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/

 

Until my next post Have A Splendid Day!!!!!!!

Trying to find Joy in Life

Hello Everyone,

Hope everyone is doing well. I know I've been gone for a

while now. I will get to that in a moment. In my header picture

is another album that I had been working on. Below is a better

picture of the inside cover and the first page.

Well first off my camera is giving me fits some days it will

work and other days it will not. For now I'm trying to get

the hang of my sons' camera. The problem with my camera

is that it won't turn on sometimes unless I beat it on something.

I was finally was able to get it to turn on and got all the pictures

downloaded that were still in my camera.

It's been a very sad and hard emotional couple of weeks for

us. On June 5th my cousin who is pictured below passed away

at the age of 46. She is my cousin from my dads' side. Growing

up we were best of friends more like sisters. Her siblings were

a bit older than her and I had no sister. I was the oldest of my

family. All our cousins were either way older than us or way

younger so we had each other. We did a lot together growing

up. I had returned to my home town 4 years ago and we were

seeing each other more regularly we were making plans for this

summer. Things we won't get to do together now. I miss her

deeply.

Enriqueta Katie Reyes

In the picture below is my cousin Felix Jr. Avila and his wife

Nina. My cousin Felix passed away yesterday. He was 63.

Felix is my cousin on my moms' side of the family.

He too was a big part of my life when I was a kid. We hadn't

seen much of each other lately but as spring and summer got

here I was expecting I would because we always caught up with

one another at the car shows that went on around this area. I

did know how the family was doing because I would visit with one 

of his daughters often.  He will be missed by his family he was

the rock that everyone could lean on. 

I have not really crafted much lately other than making Sympathy

cards and let me tell you those are not easy for me to make.

I appologize to my design team leaders and my design team

sisters for being absent. Services for my cousin Felix won't be

until the 22nd so it's going to be a long week for us. I ask you

to please find it in your hearts to pray for my family that they

find comfort in God and his teachings.

Thank you everyone for being so understanding. Until my

next post Have A Splendid Afternoon!!!!!!!!!

HIMCR Challenge #49 Super Scrap Saturday

Good Morning Fellow Bloggers,

Hope to find you all doing well this day. Today we start a new

challenge over at HIMCR. Challenge #49 Super Scrap Saturday.

So dig out those scraps and get crafting. In my header picture is

what I came up with using my scraps.

You have until Friday, June 15th to link up your

creation to get entered into the monthly drawing this

week. When uploading to online galleries please use

code HIMCR49.

Card Recipe:

DCWV Far East Stack

Nonna's Garden Paper pack

White cardstock

Ruffled ribbon

Inkadinkadoo Rubber Stamp

Queen&Company Pearls

Don't forget to check out what the rest of the design team has

created. They will inspire you.

To see what they have come up with follow the links below.

AJ Scrapbooking & Cards

Craftin' and Stampin'

Jenscrapstoo

Angela's Crafty Spot

 

To play along at HIMCR follow the link below

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/06/himcr-49-super-scraps-saturday.html

 

We would love for you to join us. We love

to see what others are creating.

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

Tag for Monthly tag swap

Hello Everyone,

Hope your day is going well. I'm trying to catch up on some

things in life that I have let slip by. I'm almost caught up at

least that is what I think. Speaking about what I think. In my

header picture is a tag that I made for a tag swap. I just love

this stamp. What do you think about this stamp? I'm going

to tell you a little secret. The stamp I used is from Kitty Lane

Stamps. I had recieved a couple of stamps from this company 

to use in June for one of the design teams that I'm on.

 Kitty Lane Stamps is the sponsor of this months challenge at

LIIU. I liked this stamp so much that I used it for Mays tag

swap that Creatively Out of Control hosts. I didn't post this

tag until I had done my project for the design team and the

challenge was up. Like I've said time and time again I am

crafting there are just some things that I have to wait to post.

At the end of this month I will drive you all crazy posting all

the things that I have made....LOL...

As you see I kept this tag clean and simple because I wanted

the stamp image to stand out. Now don't forget that I would

love for you to join in on the challenges that are currently going

on at LIIU and HIMCR.

To play along follow the links below

LIIU

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-24.html

HIMCR

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/06/himcr-48.html

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!

Another Year

Hello Everyone,

Hope you are all enjoying your last day of relaxing

as tomorrow starts another work day. Sorry in posting so

late today. We were a little busy I'll get to that in a minute,

but for now we'll talk about my header picture. Yesterday

was the start of some new challenges. One of the challenges

is over at LIIU and the other is at HIMCR. Yesterday for

HIMCR I posted the cover of my circle mini album. What

you see in the picture is some of the pages of the mini.The

challenge was to use Red, White and Kraft well I didn't use

the Kraft until I got to the inside of the mini.

As you can see I put a frame on the first page where a photo

can be added. On the second page I put a tag. I did a couple

of different things to the other pages and I'll post those later.

So as I promised here is another part of my repurposed mini.

Ok so now back to why we were busy. Today is my youngst sons

birthday he turned twenty-five. I think I have reached old age

now....LOL........ It is also mine and my husbands Anniversary.

In the picture below I cut out the Happy Birthday Casey on my

Cricut late last night and hung it on the wall so it would be the

first thing he see this morning.

It was actually three in the morning when I did this and if you

look closely you will see that some of the letters are backwards.

Oh well it was the thought right?

Now don't forget about the challenges over at LIIU and HIMCR

we would love for you to play along. Follow the links below to

join in and remember to have fun.

HIMCR Challenge

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/06/himcr-48.html

and

LIIU Challenge

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-24.html

Until my next post have a Splendid Evening!!!!

LIIU Challenge #24

Hello Everyone,

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Can you

believe a second post from me today? Well over at

LIIU we begin a new challenge for the month. In

my header picture is a card I made with one of Kitty

Lane Stamps. Really easy to use.

Challenge #24  USE YOUR FAVOURITE

EMBELLISHMENT/S

Sponsor - Kitty Lane Stamps

http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/kitty-lane/m.html?item=180803819959&sspagename=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649&_trksid=p4340.l2562

Prize Package

Is this gorgeous package of goodies.

Kitty-lane stamps are EZ foam mounted for use with acrylic

blocks, saving much needed room in the craft area. Kitty-lane

stamps are manufactured in our factory using vulcanised

gum rubber. All images are trimmed closely with open areas

cut away.

Below is a close-up of the stamp image. I just Love

this image.

Card Recipe:

Bazzil blue and white card stock

Pattern paper K&Company Jubillee

Katty Lane Stamp

Stazon black ink

Recollection Rhinestones

Shear blue ribbon

Studio G Sparkle Writer (black)

We would love it if you would join in on the

challenge. To play along follow the link below

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-24.html 

Don't forget to check out what the other design members

have created.

Until my next post have a Great Evening !!!!!

HIMCR Challenge #48

Good Morning Everyone,

It's a new day and today we start a new challenge over at HIMCR.

Challenge #48 this week is a Color Challenge. The colors are Red,

White and Kraft.

I repurposed a electrical tape holder and made it into

a mini album. The picture is of the cover. I'll show

the rest of the mini tomorrow which is were I

incorporated the Kraft part of our challenge.

Repurposed Mini Album Recipe:

Electrical tape plastic case 

Patterened paper

Recollections Rhinestones 

Silk Flowers

We would love for you to join us. Follow the link

below to play along.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/06/himcr-48.html

You have until Friday, June 8th to link up

your creation to get entered into the monthly

drawing this week. When uploading to online

galleries please use code HIMCR48.

Don't forget to check out what the other members

of the design team have created.

AJ Scrapbooking & Cards

Craftin' and Stampin'

Jenscrapstoo

Angela's Crafty Spot

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!