Made Especially For You - Color Combo Challenge

Hello!
Welcome to this week's Made Especially For You Weekly Challenge!! This week the challenge is to create a card using this color combo...

You don't have to match the colors exactly, but try to keep as close as possible to the colors provided.  Isn't this fun?!!  You have to get in on this one!  I know you have tons of papers to fit this challenge, so come on and use them!

Here's the card I created...

  Our sponsor this week is The Cutting Cafe!

http://thecuttingcafe.typepad.com/

The winner of this week's challenge will receive 3 images of their choice!!  Head on over to Made Especially For You and add your card to this week's challenge!!

Today's post is bittersweet.  Today is the last day of my Design Team term with Made Especially For You.  I am so grateful to have been selected to be a part of a fabulous group of crafters and offered the chance to continue as a Design Team member.  I would like to thank each one of my DT Sisters for their friendship and support.  I want to "Especially" thank Ashley for being an amazing DT Leader!!



Recipe
Paper: October Afternoon Sasparilla, AC Cardstock, Stampin Up!
Cartridge: B is for Boy - cut 2.75"
Stamp: Recollections - Road Trip
Twine: American Crafts
Button: Stash

The Scrapbooking Queen's Featured Designer Day

Hope you're having a fantastic Sunday!  I'm excited to be The Scrapbooking Queen's Featured Designer today showing off another one of her fabulous stamp sets!  The versatility of the Queen's stamps are perfect for your cards and papercrafting projects. 

The Queen also has Action Wobbles in her Royal Shoppe and I haven't seen a image on an Action Wobble that didn't make me smile. :-)

I hope you enjoyed checking out my little Miss Kissy Fish!  I plan to save this one in my card stash to give to one of my girlfriends when they need a little fun encouragement.  Sometimes encouragement should come with a laugh!

Be sure to stop by the Queen's Royal Shoppe and purchase your Royal Stamps, Action Wobbles, Twine and of course...the Queen's Royal Jewels today!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!

Create a great day!!

Stamp: The Scrapbooking Queen~Princess' Birthday
Jewels:  The Scrapbooking Queen~ Royal Jewels
Cartridge:  Smiley Cards
Paper:  Close To My Heart, Stampin Up!
Glitter: Recollections

Simply Sweet Birthday...

Hello Everyone!
I have a quick card for the weekend.  I was able to squeeze in a little crafting time again this week to get a card done - that never happens!  I got my Gypsy back and couldn't wait to use it, so I put it to work immediately.

I used the Smiley Cards cartridge for this card. This cartridge is an oldie but goodie!  I'm sending this to my cousin whose birthday is next week.  She's a lot younger than me, and I think she'll like it a lot.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!!  Hope you'll come back Sunday for my Featured Designer post for The Scrapbooking Queen!

Create a great day!

Cartridge:  Smiley Cards
Paper:  Stampin Up!, AC Cardstock
Gems, Button, Twine: Stash
Ribbon:  Offray

Just Wondering Wednesday...

It's Wednesday! It's Wednesday!!
I received the letter from the school informing us that its time for Open House!! Can you believe it?! Two weeks before school starts!  Wednesday may have taken forever to get here, but the start of the new school year is on rocket speed! 

In honor of this time of year I want to revisit a similar Just Wondering Wednesday question, but offer a little information too. In today's Just Wondering Wednesday question I want to know, "How Do  You Save Money for Back to School Items?"  I generally buy all year long by keeping the basics stocked, paper, pencils, pens, notebooks, etc., tell me how you do it?

Amy over at Scrap This, $ave That has some really great ways to save money on crafting to allow more "moo-lah" for the things we HAVE to do.  You can click here  to get to Amy's blog   Check out this post where she traded dog sitting for a craft room make over!  Say what?!! 

Well, that's going to do it for me today.  Hope you find Amy's blog a big help with your wish list and your wallet.  Be sure to leave a comment with your back to school money saving tip and come back to read what others have to say.  They may answer a question you've been just wondering about!

Create a great day!

Made Especially For You~Easel Card Challenge

Hello!
Welcome to the start of the week!  I hope you had a great weekend!

This week over at Made Especially For You, the challenge is to create an easel card!  I love easel cards, but for some reason hadn't made one in a while, hmmmm... I'll have to fix that and create them more often. 

Here's the card I made for this week's challenge.  This little froggy thank you card already has a home, its going to my neighborhood tailor.  My skirt, my boss's SUV and well...nevermind, long story. Why are those vehicles so high off the ground anyway?!! (LOL!!!)

And just for fun...I added an action wobble...look at her go!

Our sponsor this week is Paper Piercings by Nikki!!  Our challenge winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to the store!

We hope you'll join in on the fun and create an easel card for your chance to win!  You can get there by clicking here.

Thanks for stopping by today!! 

Create a great day!

Shore Do Miss You...

Happy Friday!

It's Friday and I'm ecstatic by that simple fact!!!  Since I started crafting about a year ago I live for the weekends, but much to even my surprise I found myself with some free time earlier this week after work and decided to sit and make a card.  

One of my co-workers recently moved on to a great opportunity for her and her family and I found myself thinking about her and how much I miss her at work.  We sat next to each other and talked fashion, crafts, paint colors, room designs, and occasionally business. LOL!!   She's only been gone for a couple of weeks and I "shore do miss her!"

I cut this lonely little island from Cricut's Pack Your Bags cartridge and used my chevron embossing folder for the water.  The cute punny stamp is from Joy's Life~Pun in The Sun stamps.  I love this set, but then I love punny stamps.

Well, that's my card for today. I'll try to get a better picture tomorrow and add it here later.

On a sad note...my Gypsy stopped doing layers so I had to send it to Provo Craft for a replacement...so I'm patiently (not really patiently, but...) waiting for them to send me the new one. Waaaahhhh!!!

Until the next time, create a great day!

Cartridge:  Pack Your Bags
Paper: Stampin Up, AC Cardstock, DCWV Citrus
Embossing Folder: Chevron
Twine: Trendy Twine

Just Wondering Wednesday...

Hi Everybody I'm back with another Just Wondering Wednesday question.  Today's questions is, "Are you chomping at the bit to see what's coming out of CHA (Craft & Hobby Association) this week?"  I sure am!! 
Michele Kovak of Thoughts of a Cardmaking Scrapbooker gives us a good idea of what we can expect.  You can see Michele's blog post from CHA today here! (thanks Michele!)

Be sure to check out your favorite brand and company blogs/websites to get a sneak peek at what they'll be offering in the next few months.  Here's a few of my favorites...

        

        

                    

To see more log on to Facebook and Like your favorite brands.  Each day companies are giving sneak peeks and offering giveaways of their newest products!  How exciting!!!  I love stuff!!  And I'm always just wondering! 

Create a great day!!

Made Especially For You ~ Three Color Challenge!!

Happy Monday and welcome to another challenge by Made Especially For You!  This week's challenge is to create a card using only 3 colors.  Black and white are acceptable as accent colors.

Here's my card of 3 colors.  I used ivory, black red and yellow.  I finally used my Spellbinders Madallion nested shapes instead of cutting a shape from a cricut cartridge. 

This week's sponsor is Verve Stamps!  Verve will be giving away (1) stamp set of the winners choice!!  Go on over to Made Especially For You and link up your 3 color card creation today!!

Don't be shy, go ahead and join in on this easy challenge for your chance to win a set of Verve stamps!!

Paper: October Afternoon, Stampin Up

Spellbinders

Embellishments:  My stash

Ribbon: Stampin Up

It's A Girl!! - Featured Designer Day!

 

Today is my day to post as Featured Designer for The Scrapbooking Queen!!  My card today is a baby girl card. Friends of ours is having a baby girl and we're so excited for them.  The baby shower is later this month, but I thought this was a great opportunity to use The Scrapbooking Queen's Royal Nursery stamp set.

 This stamp set has a lot of cute baby sentiments, like this one...Heaven Sent.

Well, that's my card for today!  Hope you'll go over and check out The Scrapbooking Queen's blog for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cartridge:  Create A Critter cut at 3"
Paper: Core'dinations, Stampin Up!, Bella Blvd.
Punch: EK Success
Twine:  Trendy Twine
Ribbon/Gems:  My stash

Fun In The Sun Blog Hop!!!

Welcome to the Fun In The Sun Beach Blog Hop, brought to you by the fabulous design teams of Made Especially For You and Digi Haven! 

These two design teams have joined together to create some fun in the sun beach-themed projects! Inspired by the concept of the Digi Haven challenge blog, all of our creations we have for you today we're made using free digis! 

If you came from Dana's blog, you're in the right place!
If you just came across the hop and would like to start at the beginning, please visit Ashley's blog, Made Especially For You. 

My star fish is a free digi from a set called Ocean Fun by MyGraphico.  I thought I'd play with patterns and colors of papers to make this card fun. 

The papers are by My Little Yellow Bicycle, Splash collection. I added some gems to the side in matching colors for a little interest. I used some twine to give it a beachy feel.  The fun pun stamp is from Joy's Life.

We have some wonderful sponsors giving away prizes for those who comment on each stop of the hop! Let's see what they have to offer...

As Cute As A Button

$25 Gift Certificate

Paper Piecings by Nikki

$15 Gift Certificate

Scraptastical Kreations

$20 Gift Certificate

The Stamping Boutique

3 images of the winner's choice

You must comment on every stop of the hop to be eligible to win a prize. Hoppers have through Sunday July 15th to comment. Winners will be randomly chosen and announced on Made Especially For You on Tuesday July 17th. 

Your next stop is Sandy's blog...

Here's the entire lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Ashley - http://especiallymade.blogspot.com

Denise - http://www.scrappycardsbyd.blogspot.com/

Karen - http://simplyfrenzied-karen.blogspot.com/

Eileen - http://www.scrappingactuary.blogspot.com/

Krista - http://kristadesign.nl/

Cyndy - http://arcyscraps.blogspot.com/

Tammy - http://tampatha.wordpress.com/

Robin - http://www.thecricutscrapper.blogspot.com/

Candice - http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com/

Kristy - http://scraptasticalkreations.blogspot.com/

Dana - http://iwycd.blogspot.com/

Susie - http://www.susiecrafthappy.com/

Sandy - http://sandyscraftycreations.blogspot.com/

Pam - http://scrappinfabpam.blogspot.com/

Sandra - http://crea-sandra.blogspot.com/

Laura - http://scrappinaroundtheclock.blogspot.ca/

Jeannie - http://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com/

Happy Hopping! :)

Blog Hop and Giveaways!!

No Just Wondering Wednesday question today, but I do want to tell you about a SEVEN DAY giveaway going on over on the Made Especially For You Facebook Fan Page! All you have to do is go over and LIKE the page and leave a comment on what you LIKE about the Made Especially For You Blog...easy right?!!

Please come back on Friday for the Made Especially For You and Digi Haven Fun In the Sun Beach Blog Hop! There's going to be some awesomely cute cards and projects in this hop and since MEFY and Digi Haven have tagged team, there is sure to be tons of inspiration along the way!



Hope to see you back here on Friday!!  Have a great rest of the week!!!

Howdy Partners!!

Hi there!

It's the start of the week and you know what that means...noooo, not that my week long vacation is now over and back to work I go, it means its time for another Made Especially For You Weekly Challenge!!  This week's challenge is to create a card based on the sketch below:

Here's my take on the sketch...

You'll have to pardon his lean as he's busy wobbling away on an action wobble.   

Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps!!!  Bugaboo Stamps will be giving away SEVEN images of the winner's choice!!

Remember all you have to do is create a card using the sketch provided.  Remember, the sketch can be turned or even flipped, but do keep the main elements in the card.   If you're a digi stamp lover, you definitely should join us!!

I hope you'll give this sketch a try and link up your card or project for a chance to win!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!

Create a great day!!

Cartridge:  3 Birds on Parade

Paper: Stampin Up!

Patterned paper: My stash

Wobble: Action Wobble and gem - The Scrapbooking Queen

Ribbon and Twine:  My stash