tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80156287698191217092012-02-12T02:54:33.721-07:00This blog is a collection of this and that~ cards, digital layouts and maybe a photo or two. It is fun to be inspired, inspire others and be able to connect to so many wonderful people!MicheleVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05367793736089050703noreply@blogger.comBlogger1691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015628769819121709.post-56664655851570367472012-02-04T18:01:00.000-07:002012-02-04T18:01:49.235-07:00

Well I think when Enfys posted this challenge she gave a month so everyone could complete it - I subscribe to her blog so I knew about it right away and figured I had a ton of time...today is the last day, I'm not sure if this will make it into her challenge or not - but hey at least I have a cool little "mom type" card to send to my son for Valentines...it's not to girly and what 26 year old

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Happy New Year to you!  Thanks for stopping by! I thought I would post a bunch of pictures of some things I worked on over the past month...things that I at least remembered to snap a photo of - even if it was with my iphone...not the best pictures but you get the point - just because I haven't had any posts, doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything! On with the photos: Sympathy Card Birthday

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Wow nearly 3 months since I've posted anything!  That doesn't mean I haven't been busy I certainly have I've just neglected my blog a bit...and have been busy enjoying other peoples blogs instead!  I wanted to post a picture of a cute little bouquet I made.  ...it was very easy...if you plan on making a dozen flowers make sure you start with more chocolate...unless you have will power!  (I only

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Here are a few cards I've put together recently. "You look great" card is a donation card for a lady who needs 1500 cards for a charity function - you can read all about it here this will take you to a post at My Pink Stamper.  I only made one - I might put a few more together - the sentiment is from Create with TLC.I've been using natural kraft as a card base a lot lately - the rest of the

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Seems like I only get to play along at 365 Cards on Sundays!  Well one day is better than none! Today is day 188 and Sunday is always (...wait for it!) - Super Sketchy Sunday - a terrific sketch that I sort of turned upside down! I'm calling this a hybrid card for 2 reasons -  I have used a digital sentiment from Create with TLC and  I scanned in some paper that I wanted to use but my piece (

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I'm trying to win a Waccom Tablet in this contest and need to collect votes. I didn't realize it worked like that I entered it months back - for some reason I thought they just did a draw from the enteries received - oh well; I guess I can always go buy one! Here is my original post - thanks for stopping by!

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Happy Sunday - I have a post for a card challenge! Woohoo! It is vintage week at 365 cards  ~ not really my thing but I give it a try when I can.  I pretty much only have a vintage saying on my card - used in one of my favourite movies (A Christmas Story) - the sentiment came from Create with TLC it was part of the August Club (and boy did we get spoiled in that club!)  My card is on natural

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Happy Birthday AMY !  Amy has the most amazing blog Tsuruta Designs!  Today is her birthday - stop by and browse around - you will be totally inspired! Hope you day is great Amy!

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So those of you that know me know that I really like photoshop and have been teaching myself...slowly but surely; trial and error - ctrl Z; ctrl Z and more ctrl Z!! I have a big appreciation for all things digital; I appreciate the skill it takes and the time involved.  One of my favourite places for digital is Create with TLC Paulette is very giving of her hard work! You give her a comment of

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Nothing like posting everything all at once!  - well I didn't want anyone to think that I was slacking off! Here are a few birthday cards that I've made recently: This one is all Cosmo Cricket - I went with a long card finished size is about 4 x 9 - and it is on natural kraft. This next one is all bling for one of my bloggie friends - she looks at my blog from time to time; I don't think she

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My mom is 84 and lives in a seniors building - she is active in many different things but mostly the craft sale they have for charity in November - she asked me for some cards - I kept them simple, using what I had in my stash and tried to keep them relatively flat for mailing. I made her 5 different types and packaged them up! All I have to do now is package them up in a box and mail them

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We went for a little drive on Sunday to see this big old rock - and to stop at Dairy Queen! We were well behaved - we didn't bring any spray paint and we didn't climb it - we obeyed all the rules!It was big alright and old - you can read more about it here!"The Big Rock" is the world's largest known glacial erratic--rock transported far from its place of origin by glacial ice. Big Rock, also

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Well today turned out to be a rainy afternoon and that means a photoshop day! I had a tutorial from Jessica Sprague that was all about getting a pattern paper onto your font - the template is Jessica Sprague I added some stitching (which I just recently learned how to do) and a few other embelishments - the font is called NKOTB - fever and it was fun to use and add in patterned paper - Hope you

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HAPPYCANADA DAY!! We are 144 years young today!  Hope eveyone has a wonderful weekend and finds somewhere to celebrate!

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This post isn't a card, scrapbook page or anything about photoshop!....This is something very cool that I could never do - My friend Corry started making sugar cookies for fun!....this would be stressful for me!  She became famous with her Olympic Mitten Cookies made for the 2010 Olympics - the mitten I received was yummy - can you imagine an entire flower cookie bouquet?! Check out Corry's page

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Well today I tried my hand on a digital page...from scratch - no template, no clipping masks, just digital supplies and my good old photoshop elements 5!! I entered the layout into a contest after downloading the supplies they wanted you to use - it had to be about food.  I ended up getting to their site after downloading a free app for my ipad - it was Bamboo Paper - I had always been interested

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Well I was able to get caught up and make about 6 cards - I had to book Friday off work but it was certainly worth taking a vacation day for! I have really enjoyed the digital sentiments that are available at Create with TLC - since I love photo shop I'm getting the hang of how to work with the digital sentiments and I think they are fantastic!  If you haven't visited TLC you should; Paulette

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I just had to make this card - we bought a house that did not have a gas line hook up for a BBQ - you need to have a permit, inspection & a guy to do it! Not just a hubby who wants to unscrew the bolt on the gas meter!....It is almost June and we haven't barbecued since February!!! We ate homemade chicken soup on the weekend - I called it BBQ Chicken soup! When Paulette over at Create with TLC

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This is for the challenge at 365 Cards Day 40 - 4 ways to get colour onto your stamp.  So I started with a digi stamp - chick border - I'm sorry I have no idea who to give credit to for this digi stamp - it is very cute - I printed it onto patterned paper; used copic for the beak and grass, I added glue on glitter for the wings, which I then coloured and used the iRock for a gem in the flowers -

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Today is the day at 365 Cards that you have to follow the sketch that Pam posts - the sketch is there for you to follow or as in my case I guess just be inspired!  I somewhat followed the sketch...didn't I? hmmm....ok well maybe I was inspired to use the color purple!  ....Here is the sketch from Pam and here is my card - Funny thing about the sketch - you can turn it which ever way you want

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Well this past week I made a commitment to myself to work on being creative. For many reasons I just could not get to work on anything creative ~ I've hardly taken any pictures or even opened up photo shop; I've only made a card or two because I absolutely needed one and was too lazy to head out to the store to buy one. We relocated from the mild climate of the west coast to the cold, dry snowy

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Wishing everyone a veryMerry Christmas& Happy New Year!

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Vintage!....Wow what a challenge at 365 cards ~ I thought I was going to play along all week - well I managed to get to the blogs and admire all the fabby creations; so much talent from the DT @ 365 cards - amazing!  If you have a chance - play along with todays challenge - it is sure to be the challenge you have been waiting for!!! So the recipe for today was to collect all 10 items for your

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Melanie this is for you ~ I know I'm not there with you on Monday but I am thinking about you every minute! I will be waiting for the update and I look forward to seeing you soon!  Love you!  Michele

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Ok for sure please excuse the very bad photo - I was thrilled to have made 2 cards today so the fact that I didn't get a good photo is not the end of the world!  I really like how this card turned out - quick, fast and easy for a baby card.  The card stock is all bazzil and the stamp is from Michaels, versa stamped and embossed in white - any stamp would work.  I used swiss dots and score pal for

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WOW a post!! Can you believe I made a card for 365 Vintage week? You have to check out what is going on over there - so much fun! Vintage is hard and not my style I am in total envy of what the design team put together today - it is awesome!  It is Sunday so it all starts with a sketch - I'm somewhat far off the sketch but Pam will be happy to know that it did inspire me - it inspired me enough

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***think I'll be changing the name real soon*** Hi - in case you are stopping by and notice some changes - or a mess of miss matched paper, white spaces, pink spaces or perhaps only the beak of a bird.....you might wonder what the heck I'm doing....I signed up for a new class at Jessica Sprague called Blog Design Basics for Beginners....that's me! You aren't suppose to start with your blogger

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It's a colour challenge at 365 Cards...I'm colour challenged quite often - I like to buy my paper in groups and lots of times I'm not sure if they go or not...this is still one of those cards..... Here is the colour scheme that Pam posted: So I tried to keep as close as possible to them - I used some Bazzil card stock in the 2 blue colours and the purplish colour is some basic grey patterned

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Day 189 at 365 Cards today is a super sketch by Pam... Oops...her sketch is going in the wrong direction (wink, wink) - I don't know why but I turn it around and around until an idea pops into my head!  Here is my card - see I followed the sketch - I used Bazzil for the base and the white, also embossed it with swiss dots , the patterned paper is basic grey, the metal clips are stampin up (

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Day 188 at 365 Cards - divide & conquer - create 6 separate sections on your card.....well I knew I had some time today to make a card, just didn't plan on having it divided up in 6 equal parts - I'm not one for straight lines and exact measurements  - I like things to have lots of straight lines but have a skewed placement...HOWEVER...here is my card for todays challenge - digi image by

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....Dare to share???  My bloggie friend Amy over at Tsuruta Designs has posted a fun challenge - Everyone has to start somewhere right?... The challenge is to post one of your very first scrapbook pages, come on - you know the ones she's talking about! I started with 8.5 x 11 and only did about 4 or 5, I think it would have been about 10 years ago, then I didn't do any for years, just cards.....

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At 365 Cards this was the recipe we needed to follow - no extra ingredients allowed!  I made this card on Monday and thought I might be able to play along all week but I was far too busy -  4.25x5.5 Card - natural kraft card base 3x3 patterned paper - basic grey - green at heart Stitching - used faux stitching 3 rhinestones Sentiment - "precious" - 1 stamped image - baby carriage I didn't

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Yes I know that Pink Flamingos and Nassau Bahamas don't really go hand in hand BUT since it's my page, I thought they would work just fine!!I used the elements from Studio Gypsy Flirty Flamingo Mini ~ I love the colors and really fell in love with the flamingo ~ wanted to use it on a layout. All the elements can be found at Studio Gypsy,  including the tag. Thanks for stopping by today!

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Sketch day at 365 Cards ...well it's been sketch day for the last week and sometimes when I look at a sketch an idea will pop into my head right away other times (most times) it needs to be turned every which way just to make sense!  Well you get the idea...as Pam @ 365 Cards would say "a sketch it to be used for inspiration"....... Here is todays sketch for day 154:And here is my card - it is a

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Long time no post!!....You have to check out Day 144 at 365 cards - the challenge was "Best Seller" book cover and the picture posted is to show the cover "Summer at Tiffany"  - When I saw the book cover I see a New York street with old buildings and vintage cars and ...well the rest is history!!!  Seriously now, here is my card This is a hybrid card, the card base is bazzil cardstock, bling and

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I wanted to show you a card that I learned about from a class over at Jessica Sprague. The class was computer tricks for cards - well this image is a brush image by Lizzabeth, I printed it out on paper and transferred it to material using a product called gel medium - this was new to me but you can read about the product here It might sound like a lot of work but it was really fun to do - the

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This week at 365 cards the challenges have all been about colour ~ today is all about the colour purple!  I love purple - 3 shades of purple are required. I coloured the digi image - I do not recall who owns this image, the file is AKVBD Party - if anyone knows please let me know so I can add it to the file name - it is very cute.  The paper is Basic Grey Kioshi and the card stock is Bazzill. 

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This card was made for a hybrid card challenge at Jessica Sprague - as I write this I'm thinking I really shouldn't be making cards since I was learning digital so I could work with my photos...ok so I took a detour and I'm onto cards..little steps, small cards - then bigger layouts right?!  OK...The entire top layer of this card is digital - All of the supplies with the exception of the image

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HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!! Here are a few pics of what I've been upto lately...over at Jessica Sprague learning how to make hybrid cards - using digital images mixed with traditional scrapbooking...fun, so much fun!  Now some of you know I started taking a "go at your own pace" class at JS, I finished the course and signed up for a new one.  A few weeks back JS had a 3 year birthday celebration and

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Here is my quick post for today - 3 cards this weekend - it was nice to be able to play along @ 365 Cards, especially since I need so many cards lately - lots of birthdays and celebrations that's for sure! Here is Pams posted sketch: And here is my card.  I kept it very simple, I have wanted to try and make the rolled paper flowers that I see around lately - so here are the ones that I made - I

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Well this was a fun card to do - Ransom Note @ 365 Cards for day 118 - all you had to do was cut out some letters "ransom note" style for your card - oh what fun! I used some basic grey paper and coloured a digi image from Dawn Moore at Lost in Paper Scraps. I also used MS loopy punch and draped the pattern paper over the back of the card and added a loopy punched edge. Hope your day is awesome!

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Well this card challenge at 365 Cards will make you think so be sure to give it a try! I like a lot of different things when it comes to making cards and I don't really have specific favorites but I gave it my best shot. Favorite Colour - I really do like green Favorite Embilishment - I like bling or spica (glitter) pen Favorite Sentiment - don't have a fav but went with 'hello' on this Favorite

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Happy Sunday - today I made a card for a challenge at 365 Cards - haven't had the chance to make a card for a challenge for quite some time!  I needed to make a birthday card and I wanted to make a big card! So it fit for the challenge that Pam had on day 97.  The card needs to be 8.5 x 5.5 - that's it! Making a card this size is fun and it costs the same to mail as 5.5 x 4.25 ...ok that is

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My daughter Chantel got married on May 23rd - everything was beautiful but of course nothing was as beautiful as the bride herself! I used a kit from Studio Gypsy - Contradiction; it is so beautiful, full of pretty flowers, whimiscal flowers, hearts and of course bling!...and more bling!!! The lettering is Glassy Alpha by Linda Roos, I think its pretty cool! I hope my pages will improve - keep

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Most of you know that I am trying to learn digital scrapbooking - (aka photoshop)!  One of my favorite sites is Studio Gypsy. Lisa puts together these amazing kits - I strive to one day have my pages look as georgous as some of the postings on her blog....one day...some day....maybe....but I'm gonna try!  I have taken a course at Jessica Sprague and I think it boils down to practice, practice,

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Lets make that 4 T's....TRIED....I have been fairly busy with projects and things that need to be done and haven't had time to make any cards for 365 Card challenge in quite some time - I look at the challenge just about every day - had a peak this morning and low and behold I ended up with an idea! So here is my card for Day 69 @ 365 Cards - I used craft card stock for the base, embossed the

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This is a fun little challenge.  You can go to Digichick and check out the challenge A New You They have even provided this great template to download for free - I'm sure you can find a tutorial on their site on how to work with templates (...ah if I can do it ~ you can do it!!) I have been teaching myself through some self paced (very slow!) on line classes available at Jessica Sprague. The

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Wanna win a Cricut Cake Machine?  Check out Cuttlebug Challenges  I also have a link on the side of my blog.  There are quite a few prizes to be won - some great cartridges ....There is a little demo video and the cool part is she says  hey just buy a cake from the bakery and bring it home and decorate it!  What a great idea!  Good Luck to everyone who enters ~ hope you win something!

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Great sketch going on today over at 365 Cards You know me, I usually say they are so hard - todays sketch was not quite the challenge that last Sunday was !  Here is the sketch that Pam posted: I stuck to the sketch the best that I could. I used bazzill bling for the base and just did some faux stitching on the card - the pattern paper I think is cosmo cricket - the shoe and tag are cricut

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Here is another page I created.  The elements and paper are from Studio Gypsy from her great set called Quirky - I haven't had the chance to play around with it until now ~ I think this works!  The photo was taken by Classic White Photography, Lynn will be the photographer at our kids wedding! Do you like digital scrapbooking?  Thanks for stopping by!

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Surprise!  It's not a card ~ it is another digi scrapbook page.  I've been taking a self paced class at Jessica Sprague called Up and Running.  I wanted to learn the basics of Photo Shop Elements just to help me crop my pictures for scrapbooking - well one thing led to another!  I'm learning and it's also really fun.  I haven't printed off any pages yet which is still something I'm not sure I

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365 Cards has a sketch challenge each Sunday.  Here is the sketch: It is always inspirational to look at a sketch and see what you can come up with ~ sometimes, well most of the time Pams sketch is quite the challenge!  A sketch can be handy to have around, especially if you need a card and are stumped as to what to do.  That was the case for me today - I needed to make an Easter/Spring card for

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Ok here are the deets of this challenge - check it out for yourself at 365 cards. It was a tough one.. This is what Pam asked for: On this card, you need to have at least 8 elements (not counting the cardstock or any background paper) and here's the challenge - all those elements must overlap with at least 2 other elements. Well I started this card on Monday for Mondays challenge at 365 but

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Trish @ Simple Doodles is posting a new challenge soon (I think it will be on March 26th) and she will also be releasing some new images.  Both of these cards were made using the cute little duck! For this card I used basic grey sugar rush along with some plain card stock - some of the pieces were embossed with swiss dots. This was all layered together and topped off with some ribbon.  The

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My very first blog award! This was given to me from Trish at Simple Doodles. She creates wonderful digital images and is a great inspiration! I need to send this off to 10 blogs that inspire me, gee how on earth would someone pick!  Some of the people Trish awarded this to are some of my favorites, I'm sending it to them anyway - have a look at these blogs and see if they make your heart smile!1

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Here are two cards created using images from Simple Doodles.  They have quite a few free images you can download for free and see how you like using digi images (hint...they don't take up any space!) .  The challenge is to have some green on your card ~ The first card is a birthday card "for an old friend" ~ I used the dino image, printed him on some cosmo cricket paper - added brads and some

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***you can now have this image for free at Simple Doodles*** This cute little bunny needs you to luv him!  It will be available next week over at Simple Doodles.  I printed him on some pink paper and added some copic coloring for some shading, colored his feet, eyes and of course his big bunny heart! The grass I cut on the cricut using plantin schoolbook...and of course as we get closer to Easter

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Well this is the first card that I've been able to do for the new year that started March 1st at 365 Cards!  They have added some new members to their DT and today is one of the new members Heidi Stock. Seems like I only have time on the weekends and not much time at that!  So the challenge today is to use more than one ink colour on your stamp at the same time - no colouring allowed - no copics,

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Today is day 365 at 365 Cards; that means that Pam and her fabbie DT have been creating a card a day for the last year! THANK YOU PAM!  What an accomplishment! Two ladies have somehow managed to create a card each day ~ I dunno how but hats off to Rose & Linda (they'll have to share gold).  Tomorrow will start the first day of year 2 @ 365 Cards - I encourage you to play along whenever you can ~

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Here are two cards using paper piecing.  I used images from Simple Doodles - the little bird with the heart - Tweetheart - is so adorable...I don't have the greatest cutting skills and managed to cut her little feet off not once but twice!...3rd time is a charm and here she is popped off the card feet and all! The saying is also from Simple Doodles - I used paper from my stash for this card - the

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Following Vicky's sketch at 365 cards for this challenge.  I am trying to use peel-offs placed on water colour paper - the entire black image is a peel off - then using gelly roll pens, water and a paint brush creating the colour in the white space - I own copic markers but I tell you I can't quite grasp the placement of shadows - I certainly need more practice....The base of this card is bazill

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Another sketch at 365 Cards and keeping in true 365 fashion - it is another GREAT sketch....don't know how they come up with something day after day but the do!  I've used todays sketch for an anniversary card for my DH...28 years - I can hardly believe it!  Lucky me ~ I found the perfect (make that as close to perfect as they come) soul mate! I used Basic Grey sugar rush - gummy bears for the

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Sketch week at 365 Cards every day is a new DT sketch - today is Thursday and the first night I've had a chance to play along.  The sketches have all been great so I plan to try making some cards later..too many Olympic festivities happening....Go Canada Go!   AND by the way 365 Cards will end up with day 365 on the closing day of the Olympics - Feb 28th; I don't think Pam planned it that way but

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Here is a card for two challenges, Day 350 at 365 Cards - Create at least 3 stacks of different items on your card.  The other challenge is Simple Doodles - Add some background. The bear on my card is a freebie from Simple Doodles - isn't it cute?!  I printed it off on some craft card stock.  I learned a new colouring technique which I used to colour in the heart - maybe this has been around for

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Well I had lots of fun making this card! This card is for a challenge at365 Cards ~ Day 342... The challenge was to use a stamp on the front and then use part of the image on the inside.  I used this great digi stamp from Dawn Moore at Lost in Paper Scraps The image is called Cake Girl and it was a free image on Dawns site. I used copic markers to colour her, I used a clear glitter pen for some

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So today is all about "Interacting Images" .... @ 365 Cards the challenge is to take two different images and get them to work together. I have this cute little Diva stamp from Stamping Bella and I've matched it up with the Ooh La La stamp from Imaginisce - My card base is kraft card stock and then I have a layer from Making Memories (heart something or other), the image is stamped on the flip

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Went to a wonderful scrapbook class this evening with two of my friends Corry & Donna ~ had a fun conversation on the way home, I'm still laughing...and well since we were driving, lets call it a road trip and I won't repeat any of it! I don't have anything to post, finished up the book we made tonight, put in the tabs and added some finishing touches - I will post it at the end of the month

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Ahhhh Valentines Day...sweet treats of chocolate & love is in the air!..... Todays sketch, just like every Sunday - is a challenge.... Here is the sketch posted at 365 Cards today What I'd tell you - tough huh?!  Well you have until next Saturday to play along and get your card posted.  Here is my take on the sketch - I had to do a scan and a photo - I just couldn't get it to sit right.  I have

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Here is a fun card for a challenge at 365 Cards - dark brown, diamonds and distress.....So my take on the card - dark brown card base - bazzill cardstock, diamonds on the first layer - Sassafras sheet, pretty in pink, co ordinations pink embossed with more diamonds, sanded & inked for distress, sentiment stamped in dark brown along with some grosgrain dark brown ribbon and a few more diamonds

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This card is for a sketch challenge over at Our Creative Corner ~ well all I can say is WOW ~ ton of talent over at OCC.  Here is my take on the sketch - I've used Bazzill Card Stock for the base, Fancy Pants Vintage Valentine paper is the red first layer and the flip side of the paper is the top layer with the little red hearts, it is very cute paper. I also used some kraft card stock as a layer

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I love paper ~ but I really love digital too!  This card was made using a digital stamp from Simple Doodles. Current challenge its a celebration pretty much is anything goes as long as you use a digital image from Simple Doodles. Trish sells these, very inexpensive however if you want to try one look under the label "freebie" and you will find quite a few you can download for free.  Never used

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Yipee ~ Spring is in the air!  The bulbs are pushing their way through the ground and the small purple blooms can be seen on a few of the crocus bulbs that I planted in November....I love Spring!  The challenge at 365 Cards is to make a card with stripes, square and spring - any color ...yesterday I got my hands on some Basic Grey ORIGINS paper - I used some on this great spring card - renew cut

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Some people are so great at sharing their talent with others!  Check out this great blog   It belongs to Kevin & Amanda - Amanda shares her love of photography, digital scrapbooking, home decor, fabby dogs and some really great recipes (check out the pulled pork for sure)! I love reading her posts and being inspired by the sheer beauty of what is around us! Quite often she will do a giveaway but

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Wow 16 days since I last posted...which really means I haven't had time to do anything in 16 days!  That is a long time. Yes January is a busy month for me, work travel, reports, budgets and some....I think I am just about caught up so work should be back to normal shortly. I tried to follow the sketch today @ 365 Cards I saved this quote from a card I received quite some time ago and I thought

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Day 313 @ 365 Cards was to use a stamp and create a reflection ~ I'm not a stamper and I don't have very many great versitile stamps - I have lots of bella stamps but they didn't quite work ~ anyway I tried,and I tried again....and then I changed the stamp and tried again...and it worked! Well I ended up with a card I was happy with. You have to stamp onto a transparency then put that face down

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Yeah ~ the weekend is here and I get to take some time to create some scrappy things! The challenge for day 314 from Pam at 365 cards was to have something braided on your card - ribbon, wire - whatever! I was tempted to scraplift Sophies card - love it, very simple and elegant....my card for day 313 was inches from the recycling bin when I realized this little dog could use a braided leash!....

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Check out the challenge today @ 365 Cards - the challenge was to stamp on some ribbon and use it on your card - I stamped on ribbon once about 4 years ago to tie onto a scrapbook - it worked but wasn't sure if there was a better or different way to do this - Gloria gave some good advice - tape down some twill at each end before you stamp it, use Stazon Ink - and use a stamp wider than the ribbon

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More info on the Digichick right here I am new at this - this is my first time participating in a digital challenge - The paper and embelishments used for this layout are from Gypsy Couture - Winter Dreams. Fonts are Impact & Squire. Thanks for stopping by!

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This is Shorty my sisters dog ~ they live in the Bahamas and have the luxury of going for a walk on the beach every morning~my sister loves to paint and take pictures but hasn't started a blog yet ~ I'm telling her she should.  I think she will be surprised when she sees what I did with the picture she sent to me ~ hope she likes it! thanks for stopping by!

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"A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other." ~ Anonymous Happy 2010 ~ hope you all have a wonderful year!

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At 365 Cards today the challenge was to divide and conquer - separate the card into 4 quadrants and use the following within each - flower embli, stamped sentiment, rhinestone and punched item. I used bazzill card stock for the base, added a stamp from SU set (?) a felt flower and I added a smidge of stickles (and messed it up when I stuck my finger in it! lol) bling is basic grey and the

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Well I am thrilled to finally get a card done!  And guess what it covers off two challenges one that I like to keep track of daily at 365 Cards day #304 was "Sounds Great" - we had an inspirational cd cover and had to come up with a card.  The challenge at Get Sketchy is "Trash to Treasure".....here is my card - this image was on a Hallmark card that I received for my birthday a few months back

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I've been interested in digital scrapbooking for the past year or so and started to take an online self paced course at Jessica Sprague and I just love it! This is the first layout I did on my own from scratch.  You know with traditional scrapbooking you have so many ways to organize your paper - well this is also a challenge with digital scrapbooking - how to find the right way to organize all

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Just like everyone else I am busy with last minute wrapping and cards, gift bags, wrapping, shopping, cleaning, decorating...I'm sure I've missed about 10 more things!  I think by tomorrow I will be ready to sit back, relax and enjoy the magic of christmas! My DH needed a large card to hold a gift certificate so I thought of the image I won from the Stamps and Smiles blog hop.  It was the

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Yippee.....I won Believe in Magic from the blog hop on Friday Stamps and Smiles I was one of many winners. (Congrats to all the winners!) Rose M is on the DT and does an awesome job with digi images.  You can check out her blog here. The images are super cute! This was my first time playing along with a blog hop and I had my time zones mixed up so I was just in from work and rushing around like

MicheleVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05367793736089050703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015628769819121709.post-68311709416060063162009-12-12T18:24:00.000-07:002009-12-12T18:24:32.313-07:00

This is my second card out of the weekly challenges - I just bombed this week - could not get any cards done! Here is my card for 365 Cards  ~ use the word PEACE on your card. I used Bazzill card stock for the base - some Carolyn Gavin designer mat  - I thought I would use an actual peace sign to replace the A - just wanted to have a fun card! I also got out the sewing maching and stitched ~ this

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Well I try to play along with 365 Cards but haven't had much luck getting anything done this week...I was determined to start with the Sunday sketch from Day 281...I was intrigued by such a challenging post and looked at it for days ~ I have a card that is acceptable but I'm not overly crazy about it. This is the sketch....and this is my card. Thanks for stopping by!

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Here is a fun image from Simple Doodles. This image will be released on December 10th and  I wanted to show you that you can make a quick card with a digi image by adding color to it in photoshop (I used photoshop elements) or paint. You don't always have to color or paper piece a digi image - they can be used in many ways.   Once I colored this, it added some stickles, rock candy on the hat, Tim

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This challenge is to have words on your card - I used a stamp from SU, I don't recall the name but it was a set of 4.  I stamped on some kraft paper and used diamond glaze over top of the word 'thanks' - it's a bit hard to see in the photo.  The green is bazzill and the card base is craft - embli is some hemp cord and buttons. Try and play along at 365 Cards ~ you won't be disappointed at the

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This card is for Simple Doodles - the band aid is one of their soon to be released images - hop on over and check em out! I used the digi image, printed on some mm paper, sakura gloss pen on the heart, some wheely cute buttons (lol), the car and words are cut on the cricut, threading water punch and trusty bazzill card stock.  This card is dedicated to all of my friends who just can't help let

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A hint of color and it has to be glitter...that is the challenge today at 365 Cards I used an image that I happened to have printed off already and it is from KLM Digi Designs (and it is one of the freebies) The card base is bazzill cardstock, background has been embossed with distressed stripes, on the image I used an adhesive product by sookwang and burnished in Glitter Ritz in chartreuse,

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At 365 Cards the challenge for the day was to create using mostly red & green ~ I am also a guest on the DT for Simple Doodles and here is one of their images...isn't she "Precious"?...she really is! I can't seem to get a decent scan or photo of the card - the cat looks kind of scruffy...oh well! I've used bazzill card stock for the background red & green, swiss dots embossing folder and for the

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Gloria & Amy are two very talented ladies! They are both on the DT at 365 Cards.  I was lucky enough to win a RAK from each of them in the early part of November - they each sent a great card along with the goodies ~ the scan doesn't do it justice but here they are:If you visit their blog you might be able to figure out who made which card! So Gloria & Amy thanks again for sharing your talent

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Trish at Simple Doodles sent out this beautiful snowflake and asked us to create something with it ~ it was a bit of a challenge, I wasn't really sure what to do with it! I ended up making a card with the image that I'm happy with - I didn't stick to the traditional winter colors - would rather have cheerie and bright! I printed the snowflake onto Carolyn Gavin designer mat pad paper and then cut

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I had fun with the sketch today at 365 Cards,  It's a great sketch and one you can be sure to use over and over again.  I checked out the new sponsor - KLM Digital Designs - their digi stamps are so cute - they had a few freebies so I snagged this one called "free fallds" - to make my card I used the digi stamp for two of the layers, I printed it off in two different sizes so you get a peak of

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I haven't had time this week to make any cards or post on any blogs to speak of ~ I've had a look at 365 Cards throughout the week and I just want to say the cards being posted are just amazing! You will learn so much by playing along with the challenges that Pam posts (ie thumb stamping & face composition...lol!)..so much fun!  So the challenge today was to use a damask pattern - I have a card

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It's late ...it took me all day to come up with a card for this sketch ~ don't know why I kept getting an image of a tree in my head so that's what I went with.  The challenge today at 365 Cards is this sketch, provided by Pam ~ challenge indeed! Here is my card, I used a craft cardstock - a tree cut from cricut, some owls from my stash (who knew I had them!) and chipboard that I stamped on ~

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Check out the new blog for Cricut Gypsy users right here ....don't own a Gypsy??  Well all the more reason to check them out as they are giving one away on December 1st!  Wouldn't you love to win one?  I sure would!  Good Luck to you! You might recognize Gypsy Spot when you get there...if you are familiar with Nilda, she started a blog for Cuttlebug and have been going strong with followers

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Easy Peasy right...one of each pattern paper, embli & sentiment....not so easy...just want to add something else, another flower, ribbon, button or some ink!  Yikes....well here is my card for the challenge at 365 cards  It is a small 3.5 x 3.5 I used bazzil card stock ( I pretty much always use this) with some basic grey paper nook & pantry collection, the flower with the bling in the middle is

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This card has to convey the message of congratulations without having a sentiment on the front.  Fun challenges at 365 cards! For this card I used a die cut from Cricut - card base and car are bazzill card stock, the blue in the background is bling - I used silver smooch to color the cans then stickled them up with diamond stickles, thought it would be fun to have them hang off the edge of the

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