SNSS Digi - Sports

Hi there. Happy Friday! What a week. All my girls have officially started school now! I can't believe all my babies are so big! Also with the month of September comes what I consider a very sad time of year...Football season. HA HA HA. I loose my Sundays to football, but that means I get Sundays in my craft room! So I guess it isn't that bad. Keeping in line with the sports, that is our challenge this week at the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge! We want to see what you come up with using digi images and a sports theme. Here is my Sports creation. I started with the Cocoa Loves Football digi. I colored with colored pencils and gamsol. I used my CM cutting system to cut the image into a circle, and cut a brown CS circle. I then layered all the papers from Echo park. I added some twill ribbon, and the star eyelets.

Well that is all from me. Head on over to the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog now, and see what the other DT gals have come up with. Then play along!

Duck, Duck,....

Hello there! I hope September has started out well for you all. We started school here yesterday, and so far so good! The kids had no problem getting up and ready for school in the morning, mom...well that is a whole other story. I don't like mornings. Well today I thought I would share a fun waterfall card with you. I have only made this style card one other time, but I really like the way this one turned out. I went with a humorous card today using 2 images from QKR Stampede. First I used the little ducky called Sitting on Log. I also used the Stitched Goose stamps. Here is what I came up with.

HA HA HA...I told you it was a silly card. When I was looking through the QKR Stampede store, I saw all the duck stamps, and thought it would be cute to do a duck duck goose card. The waterfall style card was perfect for it too. I stamped the images and colored with colored pencils. Then I hand wrote the words. I felt the card needed a little more then just the images, so I also added a few of the little paper flowers that you can also pick up at the QKR Stampede store too.

Well that is all. Thanks for stopping by today, and have a wonderful day!

This card is for the Simon Says Challenge - MultiFold ( can't get the site to load fully, so I don't have a link for you. Sorry)

Deer

Ok...I got less then 15 minutes to get this typed out for you. We have a guy from the Internet company coming today. We have been having "issues" every time it rains, and well frankly I am sick of it...lol. So...Here is a very quick post with my Biblical Impressions card for this week. As you can see this is a very simple card. I really wanted to make this gorgeous Buck in Forest stamp. I used my brayer to ink it up (since it is so large). Then I stamped it off on cream CS. I then used watercolor crayons to add some subtle colors to the image. Then I trimmed it down, and rounded the corners. I layered onto some PP and CS from CTMH.

Ok...that is it...like I said...short and sweet. Time is running out, and the phone/Internet guy is going to be here soon!

This is also for the Do You Stack Up challenge - Friendly Critters.

Harvest Time

Hi there. Sorry this is so late. We went camping last night at our property for a little Labor Day fun. Well, I totally got my days all mixed up with camping on Sunday night instead of Saturday night. So...better late then never...lol.

Today I thought I would create a fun fall themed project. With school starting up on Wednesday, and it being September...my mind is now focusing on fall things. Here is the card I made. I started by using the Leaf Background stamp from Eureka Stamps. I wanted to have some fall colors on it, so instead of inking it up with an ink pad, I used my brayer to add 3 different ink colors to the stamp before stamping it. Next I used watercolor crayons to color some of the leaves in the image. Next I layered that onto some PP from CTMH. Next, I used the Harvest Time stamp. I inked it up with Versamark, and stamped onto the velum. Then I embossed with copper embossing power. I layered that over the leaf background.

Well that is all. Have a fabulous day!

A little Saturday Fun

Hi there. Today it has been very hot here, so I have been spending some time in my nice cool craftroom. Well, I decided to play along with a contest on Facebook. The challenge was to create a 1 page LO. Here is what I came up with. My middle DD got to ride on the roller coaster at one of our favorite amusement parks for the first time this year. So I created this page to document that ride for her. My papers are from SEI. I couldn't' find just a roller coaster, so I cut the one on the top of one of the SEI papers off and put it along the bottom. I layered all the photos onto mint green mattes to go with the green in the BG paper. I used my Cricut to cut the title.

Have a great weekend...and a Happy Labor Day to all my readers in the USA!

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi - White on White

Ugggg...so I meant to have this post up first thing this morning. My plan obviously feel through...lol. I was going to get the post all ready last night while my DH took 2 of my girls to the Buffalo Bills football game. Well instead I spent my evening catching up on my TV show that I have been watching via DVD episodes. So...I am sooo sorry...but here it is now!

Today is Friday, which means a brand new challenge at the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog. This time our challenge is white on white...so...you can only use white or ivory papers. You can add a little color to your image, but all the papers have to be white. So here is what I came up with. When I saw this challenge I knew right away I wanted to use the Ocean Paradise Digi from the SNSS store. This image is just so peaceful looking, and I thought the white would just go great with it. So I printed it out...a little side note, my printer is almost out of colored ink...so for some reason the image was a little "tinted", but it actually worked well with this image, or at least I thought so...lol. I wanted a very soft look, so I used watercolor crayons on this one. Then I rounded the corners of the image. At first I couldn't think of any white papers that I had, UNTIL I remembered I had some left over from the wedding scrapbook I made. So I pulled those out, and used those to layer. I used my corner rounder on all papers and the CS base. Last, I added the ribbon and bow. Be sure to head on over to the SNSSDC Blog now and see what the other DT girls have created for this challenge. Then play along! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Well that is all...I am off to hang with my girls for their last Friday before school starts.

HAPPY SEPTEMBER!!!!!

I can't believe it is September already! Where did the time go???!!! Seems like it wasn't that long ago that I got the girls signed up for their first swimming lesson for the summer, and now I am getting ready to ship them off to school. I am on the Home School Association (PTA) at my girls' school, and last night we hosted our New Family Welcome night. Well, that just got the girls more excited about going back to school next week. I guess being in the building, and seeing some of the teachers just did it for them. It is nice to see them so excited about their new adventures this year. Well, with September comes Fall...so I decided to share a fall themed card with you today. I just love this LEAF stamp from QKR Stampede. This is also the stamp that I was using to demo this past weekend at the convention. Such a simple image, but just so gorgeous. I also decided to play with the Gold Leaf so more for this card. I started by stamping the the image with an orange ink. Then I made a mask and stamped 2 other colors (brown and green) on the white CS strip. Next I stamped the image with Versamark, and used the Sticky Powder on it. For this card, I used the reddish colored Gold Leaf. There is some reds, silvers, and a little bit of orange and gold in this color.

This picture shows you a little closer what the gold leaf looks like. Last I layered everything onto some fun fall papers from BoBunny, added some ribbon, and some buttons.

Well that is all for now. I am off to go attempt to make homemade fruit roll-ups with my girls. This should be an interesting experiment.