Once Upon A Time......

 Shopping Our Stash had a very good break and now it's time for our first Challenge of 2024!! Once Upon A Time so it's fairy tales, princesses, knights, dragons, if it isn't obvious let us know what the fairy tale is. I had some problems with this challenge, every fairy tale I thought of I had nothing to design it with so I went with a "new" fairytale made by Disney. If you can't guess what it is I will add it to the end of my post.

The image is a digital image from Lacy Sunshine and I have had it for a long time, sorry didn't take note of the date I downloaded it, but I have a lot of here images all of them were free.  I used Elizabeth Craft Designs Oval and Postage stamp Rectangle dies I added two extra layers of ovals under the image to elevate it. The inky background was a semi-fail attempt at blending and somehow it surfaced when I was putting the card together I did put it through a falling leaves SU embossing folder, of course I didn't check which way the inked side was on so instead of using the embossed "white" side I used the debossed. blended side. 

I added a couple of leftover scraps and a Hero Arts vertical  ancient sentiment.

Now if you haven't guessed what my nursery rhyme is I will let you know it's Disney's Ariel from the Little Mermaid. 

I am adding this to 

Seize the Birthday ~~ #275 Embossing (I used dry embossing)

Thanks for stopping by today and I'm looking forward to seeing your Fairytale card in our gallery,

Seize the Heroes!!!

There is an extra challenge at Seize the Birthday blog and it's called Seize the Heroes, make a card for one or more (up to 3) for the challenge to say Thanks to our frontline workers. The first card I made is to honour my daughter's profession, Cleaning!! Along with their regular cleaning of buildings they were asked to disinfect a retirement building.

The digital image is from Lacy Sunshine, I love these images and it's hard to find something pertaining to cleaning, I'm glad I had this one in my stash. I followed the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 There are two sketches to choose from. Thanks was cut three times from navy cardstock and glued together for elevation. After playing around with many many many pieces of cardstock to match the turquoise paper I had to go with navy and I love it.  "note to self AGAIN...pick paper first)

Couldn't resist a close up, look at the "dust bunnies" 

I am entering this in:

Seize the Heros ~~ #188

Sweet Sketch Wednesday ~~ 

Thanks for visiting today and check out the the challenge and make a thank you card for our frontline workers. (I will be dropping this off at my daughter's house tonight so she finds it when she gets home from work)

Clear it Out Tuesday's Challenge is one of my Favourites.....Anything goes!!!

When I see an Anything goes challenge I see an opportunity to make a Christmas/Winter card and this week is no exception. Clear it Out Tuesday's theme is Anything goes and the Stash item is anything goes as well. The Sponsor for this two week challenge is Lacy Sunshine.  Yes you heard me right the challenge blog is changing to a two week format, you can get all the information at Clear it Out. Here is my "winter" card for the challenge.

The image I used is Bubbles ~ ice skating. 

Finished inside

Now I have one more Christmas/Winter card for my stash. I haven't progressed to using Reds and Greens yet it's just too early for that. Remember it's a two week challenge so you have until September 14th at 8 p.m. to enter your project.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a creative day. 

Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend ~~~ use bling!!!

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Welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend which means to use BLING....do we need a reason to use "bling"? No it comes natural to any card/project/scrapper. Head over to the main blog and check out the rules and see all the bling laden projects the DT has made.

I used a digi from Lacy Sunshine I have had printed for a while now and decided it would go well with this challenge The sketch I used is from The Crooked Stamper Sketch 6, unfortunately is closed now but I love the sketch. I used a black base which is 4 X 6, it is a package I bought at the $$ store and comes with black envelopes too, the bling and the patterned paper is also from the Dollar Stop in Simcoe ON.

Semi finished inside of the card.

It was another hot day in SWO, the family came to the cottage today and brought burgers and buns and dessert. I picked up corn on the cob and tomatoes from the road side stand, nothing like farm fresh produce.  While the "kids" were at the beach  I stayed in the cottage with the fan and  I managed to get a card made while they were out.  

Thanks for stopping by today and dig out that bling and join the challenge at Shopping Our Stash.

Second Week of "My Style" challenge at Clear it Out Tuesday

Clear it Out Tuesday  continues the "My Style" challenge stash item is your favourite crafting item. As you know I love using die cuts to frame my coloured images and I used one of my first spellbinder dies I bought and that is Circles, I also love using embossing folders.  The sponsor for the challenge is Lacy Sunshine check out the new releases they are awesome.  I didn't use a new release I used a digi I won when I entered a challenge at their challenge blog, it's the first time I have coloured her up.

As you see I used another favourite colour combo I just love blue and lime green together, I used a combination of Spectrum noir and copic markers  and I am hoping you can see I did a cloudy sky with some chalks and my finger.

Closer look at the super cute mermaid 

Simple quote for the inside 

Thanks for visiting my blog today and lets see your crafting style and favourite crafting things.

Clear it Out Tuesday’s first Challenge of 2015!!!

I hope you all had a great Christmas and wonderful New Year’s Day, now all that is behind us we can get down to creating something other than Holiday cards.  The theme for this first challenge of 2015 at Clear it Out Tuesday is Anything Goes and the stash item is anything goes….easy peasy for the first challenge of the year. The sponsor is one of my favourite sponsors Lacy Sunshine Designs stop by and have a peek at what great digis they have to offer. I picked a super cute image called Lily of the Valley Enchantress. and I used PINK.

Isn’t she adorable and there are so many more Enchantresses in the store. I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch, I saw it Sunday morning on Facebook and just had to make my card with it.

A close up of the image. I used a Spica clear glitter pen on the flowers

Finished inside of the card.

Challenges I would like to enter this in:

Lacy Sunshine challenge blog….Sparkly and New challenge #49 spica glitter pen on flowers

Hiding in my Craft Room….use PINK challenge 181

Glitter N Sparkle… Anything Goes challenge #118

Sweet Sunday Sketch #250

Love to Create Challenge Blog challenge #148 Anything goes
Design Teams Showcase January 12 to 13 2015

Thanks for stopping by today and have an awesome week don’t forget to take some time for yourself.

Challenge #174 at Shopping Our Stash is…Halloween

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There are a lot of challenges are geared to Halloween  and this week  at Shopping Our Stash it isn’t any different. Let’s see some Halloween colours, orange, black, green and purple. I picked one of my witch digis and this one is from Lacy Sunshine.   

The image was coloured with my Spectrum noir and copic markers the I fussy cut her out I used a Decorative floral die and large oval die to cut the frame.I layered the patterned paper on pumpkin pie and black.

Close up so you can see some of the paper.

Finished inside of the card, the sentiment is from a clear October set I think it is from Hero Arts but not sure as I have had it for a long, long time.
challenges I’m entering this in:
Lacy Sunshine challenge Halloween
Crafty Hazel nut’s patterned paper challenge October anything goes.
Simon says Stamp Wednesday...Colour challenge (orange, green, black, slate, lavender)
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can find some time to visit the SOS Blog read up on the rules and have a look at what the other design team members have made.