Breast Cancer Awareness Card ~ Squash It {3rd Post}

I have another progressive challenge card for you.

I got this little cutie from playing along with 

the September challenge at Imagine That.

I am praying that everyone fighting cancer
will squash it just like this sweet elephant.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Elephant digi from the Let's Squash Cancer set from Imagine That Digi Stamps.
*B23, R83, R32 and C4 markers from Copic.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges
Imagine That October progressive challenge

Just Because Card ~ Apple Market {2nd Post}

Seems like I have been doing a lot of catch up lately.

I got this CUTE digi by playing along with the 

From the Heart progressive challenge in September.

I thought this would make a fun card to send a friend.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Apple Market digi from From the Heart Stamps.
*E17, E59, Y06, Y21, YR04, R29, G07, YG06 and C4 markers from Copic.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges
From the Heart October stamp of the month progressive

Christmas Card ~ Peace and Joy {1st Post}

I have a little winter joy to share today.
The sentiment is a freebie to play along in the
Christmas progressive challenge at Digi Stamps 4 Joy.


I added some snowflake die I just got from My Creative Time.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Sentiment from Digi Stamps 4 Joy.
*Snowflakes cut using the Winter Flake Dies from My Creative Time.
*Design paper from the David Tutera Collection.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Christmas challenge Oct 2014 {progressive}
DL Art October linky party
Word Art Wednesday #156 Anything goes 

Halloween Card ~ Pumpkin Patch

Halloween is fast approaching.

I created a little Halloween scene to share.

I used a mix of cute My Creative Time goodies then 

gave my pumpkins some Peachy Keen character.

Eek! The design paper is really a combo of dark and light orange 

but I just couldn't get the true colors to photograph. 

The darker orange in the design paper is really just a 

tiny bit paler than the orange I used for the pumpkins.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Clouds cut using the Stitched Cartoon Cloud Dies from My Creative Time.
*Happy cut using the Boughs of Holly set from My Creative Time.
*Halloween from the Happy Thoughts set from My Creative Time.
*Fence cut using the Loyal Friends set from My Creative Time.
*Pumpkins and moon cut using the Bunch of Fun Circle Dies from My Creative Time.
*Faces from the Happy Lashes Face Assortment set from Peachy Keen Stamps.
*Design paper from the 6x6 Eek-a-BOO Stack from DCWV.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges
My Creative Time Designer Challenge {see inspiration photo above}
Moxie Fab World Fab Fri Just something to "chair" {I was inspired by the colors and the patchwork design}
Jo's Scrap Shack #63 Haunted Wishes
Cardz TV Card challenge #3 Scene it {Halloween}
DL Art October linky party
DL Art Thankful Thursday #143 Halloween
Craftin Desert Divas #43 Brown and orange
Die Cuttin Divas #189 Happy Halloween
Connie Can Crop #27 pumpkin patch
Hiding In My Craft Room #171 Any holiday
Crafts 4 Eternity #199 Halloween
Red Carpet Studio #181 Haunted mansion
613 Avenue Create #95 Anything goes
Open-Minded Crafting Fun #22 Halloween or dressing up
Scrapbook Blessings Club #32 Anything goes
Simon Says {Mon} Treats
Simon Says {Wed} Anything goes
Scrappy Moms Halloween

 My Creative Time photo                  Moxi Fab photo            
 

Halloween Card ~ Spidey Party

Hello my sweet followers.

I had fun making the spider for my last card 

so I decided to throw a spidey party.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Spiders cut using the Bunch of Fun Circle Dies from My Creative Time.
*Leaves and stem cut using the Love To Learn set from My Creative Time.
*Sentiment from the Teeny Tag Holidays stamp set from My Creative Time.
*Design paper from Recollections.
*Google eyes from my stash.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges
My Creative Time Designer Challenge {see inspiration photo above}
Moxie Fab World Fab Fri Just something to "chair" {I was inspired by the colors. And the black and white fabric inspired my web design background}
Jo's Scrap Shack #63 Haunted Wishes
Cardz TV Card challenge #3 Scene it {Halloween}
DL Art October linky party
DL Art Thankful Thursday #143 Halloween
Die Cuttin Divas #189 Happy Halloween
Cuttlebug Mania Itsy bitsy spider 
Hiding In My Craft Room #171 Any holiday
Through the Craft Room Door Anything goes
Crafts 4 Eternity #199 Halloween
Red Carpet Studio #181 Haunted mansion
613 Avenue Create #95 Anything goes
Open-Minded Crafting Fun #22 Halloween or dressing up
Scrapbook Blessings Club #32 Anything goes
Simon Says {Mon} Treats
Simon Says {Wed} Anything goes
Scrappy Moms Halloween

 My Creative Time photo              Moxi Fab inspiration photo
 

Halloween Card ~ Just Sayin'

Oh my gosh I have to admit I am ADDICTED to electricity!

I need my heat, I need my lights and shhh don't tell I even need my TV. lol.

I had big plans to craft this weekend since some of my energy is coming back.

The head and chest cold I have been living with is persistent to say the least.

I still do not have my voice back. Wednesday it will be 2 weeks.

Anywho today I did get to create one of the cards 

I had planned on doing this weekend.

I used goodies and the inspiration photo from one of 

my FAVORITE stamp and die companies, My Creative Time.

I started by adding spider web washi tape to a strip of light gray cardstock.

To create my pumpkins I die cut two circles in the web strip 

then backed the circles with orange corrugated paper.

I topped them off with a stem and a leaf.

My sweet pumpkins have a little message for you.

Don't look now but a little spider snuck in there, too.

I cut him with with a circle die then gave him some legs.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Pumpkins & spider cut using the Bunch of Fun Circle Dies from My Creative Time.
*Leaves and stem cut using the Love To Learn set from My Creative Time.
*Speech Bubbles cut using the Fun Speech Bubbles set from My Creative Time.
*Sentiment from the Teeny Tag Holidays stamp set from My Creative Time.
*Spider web washi tape from Recollections.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges
My Creative Time Designer Challenge {see inspiration photo above}
Moxie Fab World Fab Friday Just something to "chair" {I was inspired by the colors. And the black and white designs for my spider web background}
Jo's Scrap Shack #63 Haunted Wishes
Cardz TV Card challenge #3 Scene it {Halloween}
DL Art October linky party
DL Art Thankful Thursday #143 Halloween
Hiding In My Craft Room #171 Any holiday
Cuttlebug Mania Only when you leaf 
Through the Craft Room Door Anything goes
Pile It On #43 Create a scene
Crafts 4 Eternity #199 Halloween
Red Carpet Studio #181 Haunted mansion
613 Avenue Create #95 Anything goes
CRAFT Challenge Autumn/Halloween/Thanksgiving/Bonfire night
Open-Minded Crafting Fun #22 Halloween or dressing up
Scrapbook Blessings Club #32 Anything goes
Simon Says {Mon} Treats

Gilligan's Island

No lights. No heat. No computer.. Food spoiling in the fridge. Yikes.
This is my first official post typed on my phone.
We have been without power for over 11 hours now.
There are over 60,000 customers without power here.
All my plans to craft and post my cards today were blown away like all the fallen trees here.
Crews have not gotten to us yet so they can't give us an ETA for when we will get power back.
Part of the torture is looking out our front window and seeing our neighbors in their warm well lit houses.
Yup just 100 feet away lives civilization. lol
We have a little island of 61 dark houses among those lucky households.
So as you probably have guessed that is where my title came from.
Okay time to crawl under some warm blankets and get some shut eye.
Maybe I'll wake to a big surprise.
Fingers, toes and eyes crossed for luck.

UPDATE.... Still no power. 22 hours and counting.  No crews in sight. And they say they do not know the cause at this time....  Having to go out to my car to warm up and charge the phones. 

UPDATE!!! our power came back on Sunday night.
Sadly we had to throw out all the food in our fridge and freezer. 

Hugs,
D~

Halloween Card ~ Thanks

Lawn Fawn is one of my favorite stamp and die companies.

I usually shop for them at my little local craft shop.

When I saw they had all their Halloween stamps and dies 

50% off  I ran right there and picked up all the Lawn Fawn 

Halloween sets they had. How could I not. LOL

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Trees cut using the Sweater Weather-Lawn Cuts from Lawn Fawn.
*Pumpkins {apples} cut using the Sweater Weather-Lawn Cuts from Lawn Fawn.
*Ghost cut using the Spooktacular-Lawn Cuts from Lawn Fawn.
*Sentiment cut using the Scripty Thanks from Lawn Fawn.
*Design paper from the Fall and Halloween Combo Matstack from DCWV.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges:
Loves Rubber Stamps #123 Warm colors {Lawn Fawn available here}
Simon Says {Mon} Anything goes  {Lawn Fawn available here}
Lawnscaping #92 Halloween or color combo {used both}
ETA {Edited To Add} Tree-mendous Tree challenge in the Moxie Fab World.

Thinking of You Card ~ Prayers

I have another card to share with you.
I wanted to make this one so it can be used for anyone
in need of support whether it be someone who is fighting
breast cancer or has lost someone to cancer.
It could easily be given to someone to
support them for another reason, too.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Butterfly from the Die Sidekicks stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Butterfly cut using the All Aflutter Die Set from Verve Stamps.
*Flowers from the Joyful Blooms stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Flowers cut using the Joyful Blooms die set from Verve Stamps.
*Sentiment from the Inspire Hope stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Sequins from the Pastel Sequin Mix from Verve Stamps.

*Tuxedo Black stamp pad from Memento.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges:
Viva La Verve October sketch wk #3
Verve Diva Dare Pink power
Word Art Wednesday #155 Anything goes
DL Art October linky
Add a Little Dazzle #48 Wrap it up or Anything goes
Simon Says {Mon} Anything goes
Cardz TV #2 To die for
Die Cuttin Divas #188 Think pink

     Inspiration sketch

Thinking of You Card ~ Fall Flourish

I switched gears a little and created my card with a fall color combo.

We went straight from 65-70 degree weather to pouring rain.

We had record rainfall here and many of the streets are flooding.

All the sweet leaves that have fallen are now in mushy piles on the ground.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Leaves cut using the Sprightly Sprig Die Set from Verve Stamps.
*Sentiment from the Take Note stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Embossed using the Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirl folder from Provo Craft.

*Rich Cocoa stamp pad from Memento.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges:
Viva La Verve October sketch wk #3
Word Art Wednesday #155 Anything goes
DL Art October linky
Cardz TV #2 To die for
Loves Rubber Stamps #123 Warm colors
Add a Little Dazzle #48 Wrap it up or Anything goes
Simon Says {Mon} Anything goes

     Inspiration sketch

Thinking of You Card ~ Flutters and Florish

I had a little fun playing with this pink, white and black color combo 

and this week's Viva la Verve sketch.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Butterfly from the Die Sidekicks stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Butterfly cut using the All Aflutter Die Set from Verve Stamps.
*Sentiment from the Joyful Blooms stamp set from Verve Stamps.

*Tuxedo Black stamp pad from Memento.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges:
Viva La Verve October sketch wk #3
Verve Diva Dare Pink power
Word Art Wednesday #154 Anything goes
DL Art October linky
DL Art Thankful Thursday #142 Breast cancer awareness
Add a Little Dazzle #47 Wrap it up or Anything goes
Simon Says {Mon} Anything goes

     Inspiration sketch

Breast Cancer Awareness Card ~ Hang In There

Last year I asked the very sweet Diana from DL Art where she got the ribbon
embossing folder she used on her card and guess what this sweetie did?
She couldn't help me with locating a folder but she sent me
an assortment of ribbon embossed card stock.
I used one of those for my card base. Thanks Diana.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Ribbons cut using the Ribbon Die from Verve Stamps.
*Scroll cut using the Scroll Die from Verve Stamps.
*Scroll from the Die Sidekicks stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Sentiment from the Always On My Mind stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Sequins from the Pastel Sequin Mix from Verve Stamps.

*Embossed background from the sweet Diana at DL Art.
*Tuxedo Black and Angel Pink stamp pads from Memento.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges:
Viva La Verve October sketch wk #3
Verve Diva Dare Pink power
Word Art Wednesday #154 Anything goes
DL Art October linky
DL Art Thankful Thursday #142 Breast cancer awareness
Add a Little Dazzle #47 Wrap it up or Anything goes
Hiding In My Craft Room #170 Embosing
Through the Craft Room Door Anything goes
Path of Positivity #19 Courage
Little Scrap Pieces Show it off saturday

     Inspiration sketch

Breast Cancer Awareness Card ~ Always On My Mind

I have another quick post today.

I made this card to post on Wednesday then got real sick.

I stayed home from work Thursday and today.

With the help of my inhaler, decongestants and my sweet pillow it will pass.

My Mom lost her battle with cancer 24 years ago in November.
She faced her fight with unbelievable courage.

Mom this one's for you. You are always on my mind.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Ribbons cut using the Ribbon Die from Verve Stamps.
*Heart cut using the Wavy Hearts Die Set from Verve Stamps.
*Sentiment from the Always On My Mind stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Sequins from the Pastel Sequin Mix from Verve Stamps.

*Handcut banner embossed using the chevron folder from the Cuttlebug Starter Set.
*Rich Cocoa stamp pad from Memento.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges:
Viva La Verve October sketch wk #1
Verve Diva Dare Pink power
Word Art Wednesday #154 Anything goes
DL Art October linky
DL Art Thankful Thursday #142 Breast cancer awareness
Add a Little Dazzle #47 Wrap it up or Anything goes
Hiding In My Craft Room #169 Super scrap Saturday
Through the Craft Room Door Anything goes
Path of Positivity #19 Courage

                 Winner                                              Top Pick                               Random winner        
   

            DT Delight Pick                      Inspiration sketch

 

Thinking of You Card ~ You

I hope your week is a wonderful one.

I am thinking of you!

Thanks for stopping by.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Flowers from the Framed Florals stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Sentiment from the Treasured Words stamp set from Verve Stamps.

*Circle cut using the Nesting Circle die set from We R Memory Keepers.
*R83 and G05 markers from Copics.
*Tuxedo Black stamp pad from Memento.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges:
Viva La Verve October sketch wk #1
Verve Diva Dare Pink power
DL Art October linky Anything goes

Breast Cancer Awareness Card

Hello bloggie friends.

I have a quick card to share with your today.

*Card base 4.25 x 5.5 in.
*Flowers from the Petals & Wings stamp set from Verve Stamps.
*Sentiment from the Inspire Hope stamp set from Verve Stamps.

*Ribbon cut using the Ribbon Die die from Verve Stamps.
*Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa and Angel Pink stamp pads from Memento.

May your day always be filled with love.

Crafty hugs,   

D~

Please join me and play along with these wonderful challenges:
Viva La Verve October sketch wk #1
Verve Diva Dare Pink power
Word Art Wednesday #153 Anything goes
DL Art October linky
DL Art Thankful Thursday #142 Breast cancer awareness
Loves Rubber Stamps #121 Anything goes
Hiding In My Craft Room #169 Super scrap Saturday

     Inspiration sketch