Color My Heart Color Dare #634

  Hello!  Thank you for stopping by.  Color My Heart Color Dare #634 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!  And I am back for the challenges!

The colors we're using are...

I am working on a special tag album.  The front is more for show, art journal type...

Featuring some gorgeous dies from Tonic Studios, as well as a stencil and a mica mist on a Mixed Media Jumbo tag from Brutus Monroe.  This is just fun to look at with a way mellowed out Valentine's theme.  One I can live with since we all I am not a fan of Valentine's Day.  But I don't have anything against hearts and flowers.

The back of it features a February calendar and a little envelope to write down a special memory or moment or thought for the month.  Maybe even tuck in a picture to go along with the message.

This started when I participated in the Craft Challenge last week where the perimeters were Project: Tag, Element: January, Colors:  Disney and Random: Branch.  So I made this....

So think Belle having a snowball fight with Beast in her lovely red cloak.  And the back...

I plan on making the whole year and I also want to make one that features Gnome of the Month!

Be sure to join the challenge.

Making Cards With Friends - Mon Night - Gnome-man

 Hello!  I have no idea what to say.... Ha!  I've gotten so used to having my blog regimented for my design team stuff that I don't know how to write just a plain ol'blog post.

Some of you may know that I go live with my friends on YouTube on Sunday nights and then with Christy on Monday nights.  The channel is Making Cards With Friends.  We craft and laugh and just really have a great time.  Monday night started our Snowman series - last month was gingerbread.  My card for the snowman... I mean Gnome-man features the adorable gnomes from Jaded Blossom.

If you want to check us out - click HERE for Monday's video.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #788 - Annual Anything Goes Challeng

 Well the time has come for TMS Annual Anything Goes challenge.  Here's a project that I painted.  Gnomes and Gingerbread - just can't get any better than this!

Come join us at the TMS blog!!

Just playing around... Gingerbread Shaker

 Hello!  This is such a crazy week for me!  I leave tomorrow for my roadtrip to LA to pick up my Mom.  My plan is to make it to Mobile by 7:30pm and then I'll drive the rest of the way to West Monroe.  We'll load up and start back.  It's also Christmas, but we'll be spending Christmas on the road.  It'll be okay though.  But that does leave away from my computer.  So I'm posting my 24th day of Christmas cards today on my blog and it'll get posted to Facebook/Instagram on Tuesday.  But I needed to make sure I could post this to Jaded Blossom shaker card challenge before I didn't have access to my computer.

I have recently discovered Jaded Blossom and it goes without saying I have fallen head over heels for the gnomes and gingerbread dies they carry.  I only have a few but am waiting for a couple of their dies to come back in stock to place another order.  This month's challenge is to create a shaker card.

 This card is huge!  It measures 6 1/2 inches square.  I don't usually make cards this big but this one needed all that real estate.  I created the snow globe shaker using circle dies, glitter card and elements from Jaded Blossom Gnome Gingerbread add-on set as well as little items from another set that is unbranded but I think it's a copy of a retired set from Honeybee Stamps.  Then I used the Gingerbread dies to create the two characters.  LOOK! AT! THOSE! FACES!!!  Oh my goodness - all the cuteness!!  The word joy was created from Waffle Flower alphabet dies.  The paper I used is from Pretty Little Studio.  The shaker bits are little peppermints from Jaded Blossom, suckers from the unbranded set and Pure Sheen Confetti in Opal Cream from Nuvo.

I do hope you like my card - it was so much fun to make.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #787

 Hello!  Thank you for stopping by.  The latest and last sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  After 15 years of sketches, it's time to sunset the challenge blog.  We will still have our Annual Anything Goes Challenge next week but after that, TMS will be a happy memory.

Our last sketch is an amazing and easy one by Debbie.  My card features a sweet little ginger from Jaded Blossom, some adorable paper and a die cut sentiment.

I did forget the one vertical element but it's not needed when you look at that adorable gingerbread boy.  I recently discovered Jaded Blossom and I am so hooked!!  The sentiment is die cut from black card, the dies are from Spellbinders, Holiday Hugs.  Hugs is a little wonky looking, but we all need some wonk in our lives.  The paper is from an adorable paper pad I picked up from Brutus Monroe.

I do hope you like the card and you'll join us at TMS.  Send us out with a bang!!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #786

 Hello friends! Thank you for stopping by the blog today.  The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's a fun one. 

My card features dies from Brutus Monroe - the set it called Magnificent Wreath.  I did flip the sketch to work better with the focal image.

The paper I used is also from Brutus Monroe designed by Vicki Boutin.  The sentiment is from Kat Scrappiness.  

I do hope you'll join us at the TMS blog.  Leave some love for the team.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #785

 Hello! Thank you for stopping by my blog.  Please leave a comment, say hello.  The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's another great one by Debbie.

My card features items from the Timeless Tidings Collection from Tonic Studios and a really cool technique I woke up to.  More on that in a minute.  Let's look at the card first.

I used the paper from the 8x8 paper pad, a piece of ephemera from the Toppers and the Mistletoe Showers embossing folder. 

Now the technique I woke up to.  I have a habit of watching YouTube and falling asleep in my chair.  So I woke up to a video by GinaK where she was showing how to create this wood technique.  It starts off with taking a card stock panel and scoring lines - I did 1/2" intervals.  Then using an ink pad and "scraping" edge to edge to create streaking.  I used Tea Stain and just a little Peacock Feathers.  Then with the backside of the folder embossed the image.  So on the debossed side I used Walnut Stain and repeated the streaking.  This is the coolest looking panel!

I added just a bit of paper to finish off the card.

Here's a close up.  So cool!!  Meet me over at the TMS blog to play along!