October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

 

Last year there were more than 2.6 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women.
Thanks to research and medical advancements, foundations such as The Susan G Komen "For The Cure" and many others too numerous to mention, the rate of death is decreasing about 2% per year.
We can all continue to make a difference by monthly breast checks and reminding our friends to do the same.
My dear friend, Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs is sponsoring the Link Up for Pink Challenge No. 6. Just make a BCA card using a product from LUFP (they have great freebies you can use!) and join the fun!
I made this card to "support" all my friends and help spread the word about breast cancer awareness.

Supplies used:

Link Up for Pink: patterned digi paper

Colorbok: white card stock

Michael's: pink cardstock, liquid pearls, rose, ribbon, pop-up dots

Spellbinders Die: Labels Seventeen

Cuttlebug die cut and embossing machine

Martha Stewart: lace edge punch

Sentiment font: Garton

Bra: ( I couldn't find one I liked, so I made an SVG)*

Fiskars: paper trimmer

Zig 2 Way Glue

*If you would like this SVG, just leave me a comment with you e-mail and I'll be happy to send it to you!

I'll be entering my "delicate lingerie" card in LUFP Challenge #6

How Important Friends Are

 

We are all so blessed to have special people in our lives. It seems in this crazy busy world, we need to slow down, spend more time with our friends, and let them know how much they mean to us! This week at "House Mouse Challenge Blog" they are celebrating friends! One can not create too many cards for friends and I had so much fun making this one!

Supplies used:

Colorbok: blue cardstock

K&Co.: Life's Journey pattered cardstock

Cricut machine and Plantin School cartridge: tag cut 4", shadowed with blue

Michael's Crafts: roses and leaf, tiny clothes pins, lock and key, buttons, twine, pop-up dots

Cuttlebug Embossing and Die Cut Machine

Cheery Lynn Die: Swedish Spring Oval Frame

House Mouse stamp: Relaxing Bubbles

Memento ink pad: Tuxedo Black

Thermogrip hot glue and gun

Martha Stewart Scoring Board

Fiskars paper trimmer

Zig 2 Way Glue

Sentiment typed in brown using Garton font

Copic Markers: E0000, E21, E35, E40, R00

This precious bubbling bunny will be entered in the following challenges:

House Mouse Challenge #HMFMC128: Friendship Challenge

Brown Sugar Challenge #8: Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge #129: Spots or Stripes

Paper Crafting Journey Challenge: "My Sentiment Exactly"

Crafty Catz Challenge #151: Buttons

Color Throwdown Challenge #210

The Poodles Parlour Challenge: "Tag - You're It!"

Joanna Sheen Challenge: "So Sweet"

A Carriage Fit For A Princess!

 

Fran has a habit of finding cute little things on the internet for me to make. She's done this several times and really keeps me busy! She saw a carriage similar to this and wanted me to create an svg template so we could cut them using our Cricuts. She uses SCAL and I have MTC. I spent most of the day drawing and cutting, then scanning and scaling to get what she wanted. All in all, I think I did pretty good! If you would like it, go to 4shared.com . If you have trouble downloading, just leave me a comment with your e-mail address and I will send it to you. The pattern I drew is just for one side, so cut two. I did not include the "box" part as all you have to do is make the bottom part of a box and glue to the sides. This forms the outward sides of the box. I cut it 4"x9" and scored at 1/2".

Supplies used:

Colorbok: pink, green cardstock

Michael's: ribbon, jewels, Liquid Pearls, flowers

HP Deskjet Printer/Scanner

Cricut Expression

MTC cutting program

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Scotch ATG 700 tape gun

This will be entered in the following challenges:

Creative Cutting Challenge #1~ Anything Goes

Heck of a Challenge #1 ~ Anything Goes

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #53 ~ Anything but a card

Come and Get it Challenge ~ Tic Tac Toe (pearls, free, ribbon)

Divas By Design Challenge #52 ~ For a Child

Whimsy Inspirations Challenge # 51 ~ Anything Goes

Happy Birthday Chriss America Real!

 

It's a very special day! One of my dear blends is celebrating her birthday by having a Birthday Blog Hop! Please go to her blog, Scrappin with Chriss and Lou to wish her a happy birthday and participate in her blog hop. She has several wonderful prizes that she will be giving away. How sweet! It's HER birthday and you could win a prize!
Chriss is truly a precious person. We met in blogworld and she has always been so supportive and helpful with all of my blog endeavors. I feel very honored to be a friend of hers. She is one of my besties! Happy birthday, Chriss!

Oh, BTW, this is her birthday card and she will be seeing it here first as I was late getting it to the post office!

I'll Take Care of You!

 

Can you tell how much fun I'm having with Copics?!! If "practice makes perfect", I'm going to keep on practicing. I've always loved the House Mouse series of stamps by Stampabilities, but didn't buy them since I wasn't into coloring. My, how times have changed! Being a nurse and loving all things related to healing I was so excited to get this stamp and pull out the Copics!

Supplies used:

Copic Sketch Markers: C1, E51, E53, R00, R27

Memento Ink Pad: Tuxedo Black

Stampabilities House Mouse Series, Dr. Amanda

Colorbok: white cardstock

Bazzill cardstock: Ruby Slipper

Silhouette: oval frame die cut

Zig 2 way glue

Aleene's Fabric Fusion glue

Michael's Crafts: small dot punch, red gingham ribbon

Fiskars paper trimmer

These cute mice will be entered in the following challenges:

Cut It Up Challenge #1: Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy Challenge #30: Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel Challenge #69: Beautiful Bows with Katie Shiff

Let The Music Play

 

I had so much fun with this card. I cut up die cuts to make different shapes and used two of my fav colors, pink and green. I named it "Let The Music Play" after the song by Barry White. Who doesn't like Barry? In fact. I'm listening to it while I write this post!

Supplies used:

Colorbok: white cardstock, pearl pink textured cardstock

DCWV Cardstock: Autumn Melody (patterned paper)

Cricut cartridge: A Child's Year (Violin)

Memory Box Die Cuts: Ivy Trendil, Fauntleroy Crest, Madera Corner

Cheery Lynn Frame Die: Swedish Spring Oval Die

Cuttlebug Die Cutting machine

Wild Orchid: pink and white roses

Liquid Pearls: white opal

Michael's Crafts: green sheer ribbon, green net and pearl spray, pop-up dots

Fiskars paper trimmer

Thermogrip hot glue and gun

Zig 2 Way Glue

Paper Glaze

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

The Pink Elephant Challenge TPE 164 ~ Use Patterned Paper

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge 36 ~ Music

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge 135 ~ Music, Dance or Any of the Arts

Papercraft Star Challenge 111 ~ Something Girly

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge 127 ~ On The Job

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop Challenge 14 ~ Lace and Pearls

The Ribbon Girl September Card Challenge ~ Just Add Pearls

Freshly Brewed Designs Extra Challenge

 

This is an "extra challenge" where we get to make a 3-D card! I used an image Heather e-mailed to me to use for the facebook challenge. I wanted to do something different, so I fussy cut the pumpkins to make 3 layers. I colored the first layer you see from the stamp. Then, I printed out 2 more. The first layer, I cut all 3 pumpkins, colored and attached with pop-up dots. Next, I cut just the two outside pumpkins, colored them and attached with more pop-up dots. It looks better in real life than in the photo! I'm having so much fun with these images and using my new Copic markers!

Go to http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/ for all the details!

Supplies used:
Copic markers: E02, E13, E15, E21, R05, Y08, Y17, YG13
Cardstock: DCWV "Autumn Melody
Colorbok: ivory cardstock
Scrapbook Unique: green sticky buttons, Memento ink pad in Rich Brown
Spellbinders: Nesitbilities Labels Seventeen
Cuttlebug embossing and die cutting machine
Zig 2 way glue
Fiskars paper trimmer
Michael's: pop-up dots

This card is also entered in:

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 233 ~ Autumn Gold

Playing With Copics

 

I'm absolutely amazed by the talent I see from my blends using Copic markers. This is a new beginning for me, so please don't be too harsh! I just got my first set of markers and I'm having so much fun. I feel like I'm around a 3rd grade level right now, but I've signed up for my first class and I figure with a lot of practice, I will get better. In the meantime, I'm having loads of fun and already learning so much. Some things I've learned....
1.) StazOn is not the best ink pad to use. Memento Tuxedo Black is recommended.
2.) My printer is just an inkjet and it works fine for digi stamps.
3.) Hair and shading are my biggest quests.
4.) There's no such thing as too many digi stamps!
5.) Copics make you feel like a kid again (I like that!)
6.) Paper Glaze works great over colors. No bleeding!
That being said, I will humbly share with you what I've done so far.

Okay, back to more coloring, fun, and learning!

Unique Crafters Challenge #7 ~ Anything Goes

 

Wow! It's hard to believe that we're already going into the eighth month at Unique Crafters! I remember their first month. I made a stacked set of wedding boxes that formed a wedding cake and entered it in Lollipop Crafts Challenge Blog. While perusing through the other entries (yeah, I do look at the other entries), I found Carol and her blog, CMDesign, and noticed that she entered her beautiful card in Unique Crafters Challenge #1. I'd never heard of this challenge blog, so I clicked on the link and, WOW! I was so impressed! This was their first challenge and they were awesome! The whole blog blew me away! I liked their ideas and where they wanted to go with this brand new challenge blog. Needless to say, I entered. I was just so excited to find such a fab blog. I had no idea I would win! But, I DID! I won a BIG prize (and I'm still having so much fun with all the goodies!).
I continued to enter every month. There wasn't one challenge that I missed.
The beginning of May brought the opportunity for me to be a Guest Designer! Oh happy day! After that I got to stay on full time and the rest is history! Every month I get to include my creations with some of the best crafters on the planet! It's such an honor. Thanks to everyone at Unique Crafters Challenge Blog for allowing me to be a part of this wonderful blog!
And, it just keeps getting better. We have some changes in the works; new categories, lots of fabulous prizes, contests liked you've never seen! I can't wait. This month we're going all out and you won't want to miss it!

Big Chance Giveaway Contest

I'm so excited to announce the Big Chance Giveaway Contest for September at the Unique Crafters Challenge Blog. You will have over 20 chances to win great prize packages when you enter this month.

The theme for this challenge is: "Anything Goes"

This month is going to be a little bit different. Instead of commenting on the posts our designers will be focused on discovering great new blogs to be highlighted in our Friday spotlight Posts. Also, check back on September 15th for information about the Designers Blog Hop where you will have another chance to win prizes. Remember, with an "Anything Goes" theme you can post up to 3 links with any paper or any digital craft project you have designed during the last three months.

We will be giving away awards for the following categories:

Best Home Decor Project

Best Party Favor

Best Alcohol Marker Colored Image

Best Altered Art Project

Best Digital Craft Project

Overall Favorite Scrapbook

Best Use of Photos on a Scrapbook Page

Best Theme on a Scrapbook Page

Best Color Combination on a Scrapbook Page

Best Simple and Clean Scrapbook Layout

Most Elaborate Layout

Overall Favorite Card

Best Birthday Card

Best Boy Card

Best Color Combination on a Card

Best Simple and Clean Card

Funniest Card

Most Elegant Card

Most Elaborate Card

One Big Grand Prize Winner

Our very generous sponsor for this month's challenge is
Scrapbook Unique
Click on the link above to visit the store.



I just got a new Cricut cartridge, "Over the Hill" and want to share with you the first "little pretty" I made using it. I cut it from pearl cardstock, coated it with Paper Glaze, and added just a bit of sparkle glitter. The Paper Glaze helped give it more body and was an easy way to apply the glitter.

I hope you like it. I had so much fun making it. Now, enter your fab creations and check out what amazing crafts all my DT buddies created for your inspiration!

Supplies used:

Cricut Event Cartridge~"Over the Hill" (mask)

Wild Orchid~ pink roses

Michael's Crafts~ feathers, ribbon, pearl stems, liquid pearls, wooden skewer

Colorbok~ white pearl cardstock

Martha Stewart~ white pearl paint (skewer)

Thermogrip~ hot glue and gun

Fiskars~ paper trimmer

My "little pretty" will be entered in the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations Challenge #178 Bingo (glitter, flowers, ribbon)

Everybody Art Challenge #202 Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #91 Sparkle and Shine
Party Time Tuesdays Challenge #83 Anything Goes
Southern Girls Challenge #52 It's All About the Flora