Get Your Bling On!

Wow!  Here we are at the end of July already?  How did that happen?  We've got a fun challenge for everyone this week over at the 4 Crafty Chicks courtesy of our hostess-with-the-mostest, Lori: "Get Your Bling On."  This should be a fun and easy challenge for lots of you to play along with.

My card is actually pretty basic this week. I made it about a month ago when all of us Chicks went to visit Leanne for a weekend of laughs and crafting.  I know I used a sketch from somewhere but, for the life of me, I cannot remember where.  I know it was an OLD one, though.

There you have it - a totally bling-a-licious card but also very simple.  I know there are lots of you out there who don't let your "inner glitter" out often enough... what are you waiting for?  Get busy and get your bling on!  We can't wait to see what you create!

And They Lived Happily Ever After...

Welcome to another fabulous Thursday - you all know what that means, right?  An amazing 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge.  This week's hostess is Tamie and she wants to see projects with a wedding theme.  There are so many possibilities for this challenge - scrapbook pages, cards, wedding gifts... have fun with it!

For my card, I combined Arielle's Colour Q #88 with a Clean & Simple Stamping sketch from last month:

Here's my attempt at CAS... I'm trying really hard to embrace this style because, let's be honest, cards come together in NO time at all!!!  LOL

Stamps: Happily Ever After (Darcie's)  Ink: Early Espresso  Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Kraft, Cherry Cobbler, SU! DSP  Accessories: Heart Tag Sizzlit, sewing machine, Scallop Edge border punch, corner rounder, Victoria EF, Perfect Polka Dots EF, sponge dauber

Enjoy the rest of your week - I hope you will have some time to play along with us this week!  See you soon!

Color Crazy at the 4 Crafty Chicks!

Helllloooooo Blogland!  How's everyone doing - summer keeping you busy?  We've been busy settling in and unpacking - so glad to finally be moved.  You don't realize how much *crap* you own until you have to pack it all up.  We will be having a garage sale this summer... enough is enough.  :)

So, this week's 4 Crafty Chicks hostess with the mostest is Yours Truly and I have come up with a fun, summery Color Combo Challenge for you all to play with:

For my card, I used a My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch from last month:

Stamps: To The Moon (Verve)  Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black  Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Poppy Parade, various DSP scraps  Accessories: Sewing machine, buttons, twine, Pinking Circles & Circles Nesties

Enjoy the rest of your week!  See you again soon - don't forget to check out the other Chicks' blogs... they've done a fantastic job with these colors!  Can't wait to see everyone's creations...later!

Getting Sketchy at the 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!

Welcome back everyone!  Can you believe it is JULY??  ACK! This week's hostess with the mostest at the 4 Crafty Chicks is our gal, Leanne, and she has created a, shall we say, "interesting" sketch for us all to play with this week. 

When I first saw her sketch, I was stumped....what was I going to do for those flourish-y things on the top and bottom???  I thought about die cuts, flowers, stamps but finally settled on buttons (my favorite!):

Stamps: To the Moon (Verve)  Ink: Early Espresso  Paper: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Hello Luscious DSP (Basic Grey)  Accessories: Optic Dot border punch (MS), sewing machine, buttons, Scallop Oval punch, Oval punch, Rose Red seam binding, sponge dauber

I hope you are enjoying your summer holidays wherever you are. See you next week and don't forget to visit the other Chicks' blogs! 

Putting You in Stitches at the 4 Crafty Chicks!

Welcome to the fifth challenge for June at the 4 Crafty Chicks and you all know what that means???  It's a CRAZY EGG challenge!  We've got a great prize for one random participant this week so the more you play, the better your chances of winning are.  I'm sure you are all on the edge of your seats wondering what this week's challenge is, aren't you?  Well, we want to see stitching on your card - it could be real or faux, we don't care.  :)

I combined two older challenges for my card - CR84FN Color Challenge #30 and Mojo Monday #193:

Stamps: To The Moon (Verve)  Ink: Early Espresso  Paper: Whisper White, Kraft, SU! DSP  Accessories: Sewing machine, Crumb Cake seam binding, buttons, twine, sponge dauber, Labels Sixteen Nesties

As always, thanks for stopping by today.  Our challenges wouldn't be nearly as much fun without your participation so, if you have some time this week, please play along with us at the 4 Crafty Chicks.  If you need more inspiration, please pop over and visit them (their links are to the left) - they'd love to have you!  Enjoy your week!

Clean & Simple at the 4 Crafty Chicks

Can we really be almost at the end of June?  Where did the month disappear to?  WOW.  I hope you are all enjoying the summer - my kids are done next week and then we are going to RELAX!  :)  No big plans for the summer - getting settled into the new house is going to be enough, methinks.

So this week, Lori is our hostess with the mostest at the 4 Crafty Chicks and she is challenging us to create a Clean and Simple card (CAS) - no more than two layers, please.  As most of you know, CAS is NOT an area I excel in... I love my embellies and layers so this really *was* a challenge for me.  Luckily, there are some great CAS sketch sites out there and I make a point of saving the weekly sketches *just in case*.  I found an old Clean & Simple Stamping sketch - FTL 125:

I dug through my scrap box, found some paper and then coordinating buttons and...

This card took no time at all to make and I actually made three of them because I needed some gender-neutral birthday cards.  I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week - I'm looking forward to your CAS creations!

Are You Feeling Under the Weather?

Hello again!  Is the sun shining where you are?  I hope so - the official start of summer is less than a week away and, here in Central Alberta, we need to enjoy every bit of sunshine that comes our way because you never know what the weather will be like in 10 minutes.  ;)

This week's hostess-with-the-mostest at the 4 Crafty Chicks is Tamie and she wants to see our "Get Well Soon" cards.  This is one sentiment I don't use very often so it was good to have an "excuse" to dig through the stash and find one.  :)

For my card, I combined one of the Viva la Verve sketches from last month and a CR84FN Color Challenge combo from a few weeks ago:

Stamps: Hope Blooms, Chicks Rule (Verve)  Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant, Pale Plum  Ink: Elegant Eggplant  Accessories: Paper piercer, adhesive pearls, Seeing Spots embossing folder, Nesties, Copics, Crumb Cake seam binding, Flutterby die (Verve), button, twine, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by - have fun with this week's challenge!  Have a great weekend!