4CCC-109 {Health & Wellness}

I know I say this every week but, golly...is it really Thursday already???  Time for another 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge and this week my PIC, Lori, is our hostess-with-the-mostest.  She has given us a theme to create around - "Health and Wellness."  As usual, this theme leaves the door pretty wide open for interpretation so have fun with it and make sure you tell us how your creation is inspired by health and wellness.

I decided to make a card with one of my floppy-eared bunny stamps - the little dude figure skating is one of my faves and fits in perfectly with this week's theme.  Who doesn't love ice skating in the winter? It has been a L-O-N-G time since I played along with a TCP Tuesday challenge so this week I figured I should just go ahead and combine two of them together...how'd you like that?

It's really hard to see (even in this close-up), but I used my Spica glitter pens on his skates and furry parts of his hat:

I hope you will join us at the 4 Crafty Chicks - if you need more inspiration, please visit the other Chicks' blogs and leave 'em some love...I know they'd love to have you.  :)  Enjoy the rest of your week!

 

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I am sooooooo excited this morning!!!  The last week has been EXCRUCIATING trying to keep the secret a secret...but now I get to explode!  :)  I, along with four other very talented ladies, have been chosen to join Karen and the AMAZING DT over at the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!!!  I KNOW!  I can hardly believe it myself.  :)  I always have such a fun time playing with Karen's sketches that I know this will be an easy-peasy gig.  :)

Without further ado, here's this week's fabulous sketch and my take on it:

I decided to use the sketch the way Karen gave it to us for my very first week - no rocking the boat or flipping it around this time.  (But have no fear...there *will* be one before this sketch has expired :)   I also used the awesome color combo from the TCP Tuesday Challenge #218.  I *think* this combo is courtesy of one of the OTHER new Sweet Sunday Stampers, Lori Tecler!!!  LOVE it!  I used one of my favorite Cat's Pajamas images and the cloud die works perfectly for the horizontal strip.  Some embossing, a button and some fabulous red twine (from the Ribbon Carousel via my friend, Jenny...she ordered it twice!  I've never done that before...have you? :), and it's all done!

All of the fabulous Sweet Sunday Stampers have inspiration for you, so please stop on by and say hello:

Dana White 

Dawn Easton 

Jackie Pedro 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

And our amazing guest stamper for this week is Jen Shults! 

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share my awesome news with you all!  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!




 

4CCC-96 {School's Out}

SCHOOL'S OUT!!! Woohoo!  I am super-excited and the kids are too.  Right now, two of them are spending a few days at Granny's house and the other one is hanging out with dad at work...and I am blissfully enjoying every minute!  :)

This week's challenge over at the 4 Crafty Chicks celebrates this fun time of the year so we want to see your cards/projects inspired by the theme, "School's Out!"  This has lots of different interpretations so have fun with it.

As some of you know, our middle son has autism and at the beginning of this school year he switched schools, had a new teacher, new aide, new everything!!  The aide he had before had been with him since he was 3 (he's 14 now) so this was a HUMUNGOUS change for him and we were so worried that the transition was going to be a complete MESS as routine and "same" are so important for him.  Luckily, everything was amazing and the year was a complete success so I wanted to make a card for them all to express my gratitude.

I used last week's Colour Q and the TCP Tuesday #215 - both great challenges:

That's it for me - need more inspiration?  Please visit the other Chicks and see what they created for this challenge!  Thanks for stopping by today - enjoy your weekend!

 

4CCC-94 {Sketch}

Welcome back for another 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge - this is my week to be the hostess so I came up with a fun sketch for you all to play along with:

As you can see, I rotated the original sketch "just 'cause."  I think it turned out pretty nicely...I also used a color combo from the Color Q from a couple of weeks ago...light and summery.  :)

Here's that bunny again...another one from TCP's most recent release.  It's kind of hard to see, but the strip of Pool Party paper stitched down is paper pleated which was the challenge for TCP Tuesday 212!!  Thanks for stopping by my corner of Blogland!  See you again soon!

 

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Happy Monday, everyone!! How was your weekend? Mine was crazy-busy!! On Friday, Josh and I took off for Lethbridge so I could run with my sister and brother's girlfriend in the Ladiesfest 8K run.  This was the very first run I did last year and finished it in 1:03:39 so my goal this year was to finish in under an hour.  Did I do it?  You bet your bananas, I did!!!  I was thrilled to finish in 58:51 - almost 5 minutes faster than last year's result!   We ran on Saturday morning and by late afternoon, Josh and I were on the road home.  Sunday was another busy day with a community fundraising event at the arena.  The dad of one of the trainers at the gym was recently diagnosed with cancer so a ball hockey tournament and head-shaving event was organized to raise money to support him during this difficult time.  The arena was full and around 35 people shaved/cut their hair.  The support in our little community truly inspired me - I had a permagrin on all day. 

You can imagine how VERY thankful I was to have today off and figured what better way to spend it than in my craft room creating for no real reason. :)  So after baking some cookies, I sat down to blog-surf and find some challenges.  I have been VERY slack with my TCP Tuesday challenges lately ~ I don't think I played along even once last month.  :(  Imagine my excitement when I found this week's was a COLOR CHALLENGE!!

Fun, summery colors screaming out for a fun sketch and that's what I found over at iSpy Sketches...love those color blocks at the bottom!

I got to use another one of my new TCP sets, "Aye, Aye Captain!"  That bunny is my favorite.  I can't get enough of the bunny.  The waves were made using Wave border die and the clouds use the Cloud Border die, both from TCP!  Thanks for stopping by today - I know I've been awfully quiet over the last couple of months so if you've stuck with me, thank you!!!  I can't promise more frequency but I hope you will continue to stop by...

Have a great week, everyone - see you on Thursday with a new 4 Crafty Chicks' challenge!

4CCC-89 {Sentiment Only}

Welcome back for another fun challenge at the 4 Crafty Chicks!  This week, I am your hostess-with-the-mostest and I am challenging you to use a SENTIMENT ONLY as the focus of your card - no other stamping allowed.

I combined last week's TCP Tuesday #208 and this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch #158 to make my card:

Isn't this a fabulously cheery color combo?  I really enjoyed creating this card using only one of the sentiments from TCP's "Nesting" set as my stamping.  The birdhouse die and Cloud border die are also from TCP (Home Tweet Home). 

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget about the rest of the Chicks - they love it when you visit too.  :)


 

{4CCC-88} and a BLOG HOP!!

Hello all!!  Are you ready for another fun challenge from the 4 Crafty Chicks?  Not only do we have a great theme, but we are also looking for some Guest Designers to play along with us over the summer!  This week's challenge is brought to us by Leanne, and she's got an easy one for us - all you have to do is use your favorite embellishment!  Really?  That's all???  Yep!  That's all you have to do!

I haven't been in my craft room as much since I started back to work three days a week so I kind of fell behind with my TCP Tuesday challenges - time to remedy that!  I was able to combine two of last month's challenges for my card - TCP Tuesday 205 was a fabulous sketch  from Leigh and TCP Tuesday 206 was an Inspiration challenge from Jen.  When I first saw the inspiration pictures, I immediately thought of the colors as being very nautical so I took that and went with it. :)

I used an older TCP set, Whale of a Time, as well as my Waves Cut-Ups die to create this fun card:

Okie dokie, peeps - that's it for me today!  Don't forget to check out all the Guest Designer details on the 4 Crafty Chicks blog if you are interested in joining us.  Next stop on our amazing blog hop is TAMIE... off you go!

4 Crafty Chicks' - Inspired by Music

Welcome back everyone!  We've got a fun challenge for you over at the 4 Crafty Chicks - Lori is our hostess-with-the-mostest and she has given us the theme, "Inspired By Song."  What does that mean?  Well, you could use some music note paper or maybe your sentiment is lyrics to your favorite song... up to you to interpret how you wish.  We would really love to know how music inspired your creation, so please make sure you share that with us.  :)

For my card, I knew exactly what stamp set I wanted to use... "Up, Up and Away" from TCP.  And there's a sentiment in their "Take Off" set that was THE PERFECT partner for this image.   I also used the TCP Tuesday #201 Inspiration Challenge as a jumping-off point (the colors and the chevron pattern) and combined it with the iSpy Sketches sketch from last week:

Can you guess how I was inspired by music?  Ahhh...Michael Bublé's "Come Fly With Me."  Well, I *know* others sang the song before him but he does it the best (and he's so darned cute!) Take a peek here:

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you will take a few minutes to join us for Lori's "Inspired by Music" challenge...I had fun with this one!  Enjoy your week!

 

Happy Thursday, everyone!  Have you been enjoying your week?  Thanks to all of you who played along with my sketch challenge last week - the entries were amazing!  This week, Tamie is our hostess-with-the-mostest and her challenge is a theme, "Chicks Rule!"  She'd like you to make a card/project for a girl or about a girl...interpret how you may.   :)

For my card, I wanted to combine a few different challenges.  I started by finding last week's wonderful color combo over at the Color Throwdown:

 
I knew I wanted to make this card for TCP Tuesday #199 (better late than never, right?) which was a supply/stamp challenge - we had to use the Clouds Cut-Ups die as well as use any stamp(s) from The Cat's Pajamas that are "out getting a breath of fresh air" (aka, doing something outside).  I decided to go with another one of my new ones, "Warm Fuzzies." She's wearing a scarf and has a bird on her head so she *must* be outside, right?  

And, last but certainly not least, I used Jen's March Sketch For You To Try...another great one!

Isn't she cute?  I made a *little* addition to the sketch for my sentiment - I had to cover an "OOPS!  I originally stamped the sentiment right onto the houndstooth print but it did NOT show up so I had to cover it somehow and this was the best I could do. :)

Thanks for stopping by - make sure you stop by the other Chicks' blogs to see what they've been up to!  See you next week!

Anything But a Card at the 4 Crafty Chicks!

Morning everyone and welcome back for another week of fun with the 4 Crafty Chicks!  Our hostess-with-the-mostest this week, Leanne, and she wants to see your fabulous 3D projects.

For my project, I popped over to the TCP website and discovered instructions on how to make the cutest little Easter treat bag and HAD to make one!  I also used last week's TCP Tuesday Color Challenge:

Sorry the photo kind of stinks...

Thanks for stopping by - we're looking forward to seeing what you all make that "isn't" a card.  :)  Remember ST. Patty's Day and Easter are coming up - should be easy to plan something around one of those occasions. :)  See you next week!

Double Down!

 

How did another week zip by so quickly?  I swear, the older I get, the faster time goes.  I know that's how it is for everyone but it really doesn't seem fair- guess I've got to take time to smell the roses. 

This week over at the 4 Crafty Chicks, Tamie is our hostess-with-the-mostest and she is challenging us to "Double Down!"  How you interpret this is up to you - you could use two brads, buttons, ribbons, papers...the possibilities are endless.  I decided to make TWO cards with TWO patterned papers...the same, but a bit different.  I also made these for last week's TCP Tuesday Inspiration Challenge using the following picture - I was inspired by the stars (paper) and the bright, fun colors which made me think of a kids' birthday party...hence, the birthday cards!

Thanks for popping by today - don't forget to stop by the other Chicks' blogs to see how they interpreted this week's theme!  See you next week - don't forget about the There She Goes Sneak Peeks next week....you'll be able to see them starting on Tuesday.  Have a great weekend!

Stamps: Birthday Bunny (TCP) 
Ink:  Early Espresso 
Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Poppy Parade, Fly a Kite DSP (MME) 
Accessories: Buttons, twine, Circus Border die (TCP)