Love is in the Air

Good Morning!  I hope everyone is having a good week.  We are expecting 10-15 inches of snow in the Northeast tonight into tomorrow.  Luckily most of the snow we got a couple of weeks ago has melted so it will be easier to shovel.  I like the change of seasons and the snow is really pretty when it is falling but it is a pain to clean up and drive in even once it has stopped. 

Today's theme for Going Grey with Scrap-Creations is Love is in the air.  I wanted to do something that wasn't a straight Valentines day card so I when I looked though my stamps I saw this Sugar Nellie and thought Love Letters.   You should join the fun!  Pull out those stamps that say Love to you and play with us! 

The other wonderful challenges this card fits are:

Cupcake Craft - Something New.  My new is my lace.  I found it in a sale bin and loving lace like I do bought it.


Incy Wincy Designs - Go Dotty - I love polka dots and this card has it on both papers and her hat.

Lexi's Creations - Say it with Love - A beautiful handmade card is a really nice way to say you care.

My Partner in Crafting Crime - New - I love my new lace.

One Stitch at a Time - Love - It is so nice to get a Love Letter (with a card of course) to keep.

Craft Your Days Away - Anything Goes - I love these themes because my card always fits!

Paper Cutz - Metal - I love my charms and I knew I had to put a heart one on this card.

Fun with Shapes - Letter - Well, my card is called Love letter because she is reading it in her card.

Cute Card Thursday - Use something old - Mine is my stamp.  I bought this a couple years ago and still love it.

Moving along with the Times - Use something Old and New - My old is my stamp and my new is my lace.


Stamping B - Something Old and New - My old is my stamp and my new is my lace


Fab & Funky - Anything Goes - Yes I do love challenges where I know my card fits the theme.

Stamptacular - Sketch - I had picked out my papers and thought that this sketch was perfect with them.

Craft your Passion - Let's Tie one on - This challenge was to use ribbon, lace, anything you can tie to.  I tied my heart to my lace.

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you like my card.  Thank you to everyone who leaves a comment.  I love reading them.

Peggy

Hello Friend

Good Morning.  How is everyone today?  I am enjoying my weekend.  My week at work was a blur.  Very busy which is a really good thing these days.  Yesterday I got together with a few friends and took a road trip to a LSS that is an hour away from us.  We only go there a couple times a year.  I spent more than I budgeted, but then when don't I.  I came home with some copics and lots of paper.  They actually let us look through some new DP that they hadn't even opened yet.  I bought some beautiful winter paper I can't wait to use.

This week the theme for Stempeltraume is a sketch.  I always love their sketches.  This one was no different.  You should give it a try.  It is a very easy sketch to follow.

  I feel that I always use the same punches so I dug out an old punch for this card.  I can't remember who makes the punch but I like it.  It can punch 4 different ways and I like it on this card.

The other wonderful challenges this card fits are:

Oh Alice - Girl card - I love this Girl from Sugar Nellie.  I think this would be perfect to mail to a girl to say Hi!

Bee Crafty - Anything Goes - I love having a challenge that always fits!

Marks Finest Papers - Friendship card. - I have some friends that don't live around me that I should stay in touch with more often.  This card will go to one of them.


Stamping for the Weekend - Anything Goes - Again, I love these challenges!

Your Next Stamp Challenge - Bold Bright Summer Colors - I wanted to make a bright card before I move into making all the Fall colored cards.

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes - Yeah!  Another easy challenge to fit into!

Crafty Emma - Anything Goes - This is a new challenge blog.  I am happy to be able to participate in their 1st one!!

One Stitch at a Time - Girly with Color scheme -  I love these colors and I think this is a girly card!


Paper Players - Anything Goes - This is a new challenge for me and I see me playing in ti alot!


Thank you for visiting.  I appreciate it.  Thanks to everyone who leaves me a comment.  I love reading all of them.

Peggy

Sending Happy Thoughts

Good Morning.  Today is Sunday so that means that it is the new challenge for Stempeltraume.  This weeks challenge is to make a Different fold Card.  Believe it or not this is the first Easel card I have every made.  I don't know why because I love them! 


The other wonderful challenges this card fits are:

Crafty Catz - Summertime - What says Summer other than flowers?

Paperplay - Blue, Cream and one other color - I don't usually fit the color challenges but this one does.  My other color is pink.

Crafts and Me - Sketch - I liked the simplicity of this sketch.  My image is pretty big so I couldn't put alot on it.  This fit it perfectly.

Your Next Stamp Challenge - Easel Card.  This is my first one!  It is alot of fun to make.


Crafty Creations - Make a card that is happy of sweet.  I think this card is happy and sweet.

Crafty Cardmakers - Easel Card. - I wish I had tried this before.  I like the look of these.

Alota Rubber Stamps - Glitter and Pearls - I put Stickles on the flowers and pearls on the top & bottom  of the card.


Digi Doodle Shop Best - Anything Goes - YEAH!  I do love these themes!  I hope you like my card.

Stamp Something - Something Flowery - There are flowers on the image, I used Roses to hold the Easel and there are flowers on both DP's I used.

Thanks for visiting and thanks to everyone who leaves comments.  I love reading all of them.

Peggy

Scatter Sunshine

Happy Sunday.  I hope everyone is doing well.  I have had a very long week at work so I was really looking forward to this weekend.  Yesterday I got together with some friends to do some stamping. I always love to do this.  It is so much fun to share ideas and have some laughs.  One of the great things about this craft is the wonderful people. 

Today is Sunday so it is the Stempeltraume challenge.  This week we have a wonderful sketch for you to use.

There is alot you can do with this.  Please join us.

The other wonderful challenges this card fits.


Lexi's Creations - Stitching -  I always love to put faux stitching on my cards.  I like the way it finishes the card off.

One Stop Crafts - Pink, Blue, Green, hint of Red - I have all of these colors on this card. 

For Fun - Favorite coloring technique - Hands down it is Copics.  It is the only medium I use for coloring as I did with this card.

Papertake - In the garden - This little girl is in the garden enjoying her day..


The Crazy Challenge - Hip to be square - Really cute theme!  My card is square.  It seems like I only make square cards these days.

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you like my card.  A big Thanks for everyone who leaves a message.  I appreciate all of them.

Peggy

Thoughts of You

Good Morning everyone.  Hope everyone is having a good weekend.  I spent yesterday shopping.  I work from home so I don't buy alot of dresses or even dressy things anymore.  I have a wedding to go to in 2 weeks and I don't think she would like me to show up in my regular attire of sweats or shorts.  This is the 2nd mall I have been to trying to find something I like.  I find that the older I get the more I hate clothes shopping.  This was no exception.  I found a dress but don't love it.  I would rather have spent the day at my LSS. 

Anyway enough complaining.  Today is the Stempeltraume challenge.  This week is a sketch.  I loved it!!!  It was easy to do and was made for me to use my new Heartfelt Creations stamps that you can layer and make flowers.  What do you think??  This set also fits a spellbinders set so you can either use that to cut them out or cut them out by hand.  I am still having some problems lining them up so I cut these out by hand.  They were really simple. 

The other wonderful challenges this fits are:


Cute Card Thursday - Someone Special - I think I am going to send this to a really good friend I worked with of mine who retired last week.   I really miss her and have been thinking about her alot this week.  I hope she is enjoying her retirement.

Pixie - Cut it out - I cut out my new flowers.  I really want to try more of this. 

For Fun - Use an Old Stamp - Old is relative. Right?  This stamp is over a year old so I thought it fit.  I really like my Sugar Nellie stamps

Quixotic - Use DIY Flowers - I made these flowers and now I want to try to make others that I have not tried.

Your Next Stamp Challenge - Cut it out and pop it up.  I first thought of my image and then thought of my flowers.  I cut out the flowers and then put a pop dot between each one to give dimension.

If the She Fits - Rain or Shine - I pick Shine!!  I can't wait to be out in the sunshine planting my flowers.


Simple Doodles - You are on my mind - I love this theme!  My friend who retired is on my mind this week.  I miss talking to her. 


Crafty Catz - Pearl & Petals - I made these flowers and put the pearls in the middle

One Stop - Summer Breeze - This stamp reminds me of a summer day when I am out working on my flowers.

Sweet Stampin - Get Personal - This was to make a card for someone special.  I made this for a person who was my friend at work for many years.  She retired and I want to send her something to say I miss her and I'm thinking of her.

Prairie Fairy Fridays - Flowers - This was easy.  I love flowers on my cards.  I don't care if they are stamped, silk or paper

Something Completely Different - Flowers - Yes it is the time of year for flowers!!!  Can't wait to plant mine.

Thank you for stopping by.  Thanks to everyone who leaves a message.  I really enjoy reading them.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS:  SU Tempting Tourquoise, Certainly Celery
DP:  Memory Box
STAMPS:  Sugar Nellie, The Greeting Farm, Heartfelt Creations
MISC:  Pearls, Melissa Francis lace ribbon, Stickles

A Daisy Hello

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Today is the Stempeltraume challenge. This weeks theme is to use your favorite stamp. I love my Sugar Nellie's so I knew that my card would be made with one of them. I saw Daisy and the decision was made. I have always loved her. She is just so cute and fun to color. This is a challenge everyone can play in. We all have a favorite stamp. Give it a try! Play along!

The other challenges this fits are:

Fussy & Fancy - Sketch - I loved this sketch and thought it would work great with this image.

My Time to Craft - On the Spot - I Love dots, spots etc. I have all the spots on my DP

Fun with Shapes - Extraordinary Card - I love this card. It is one of the favorites I have made lately.

Raise the Bar - Let's Spring for it - I do love Spring and love making spring cards.

Crafty Ann's - Let the Sunshine in - Playing in the grass on a sunny day is truly Spring!

Quixotic - Joy's of Spring - Relaxing outside with flowers is one of the greatest joys of spring IMHO

Practical Scrappers - Markers - AAHH!! Love this theme. I can't remember making a card without my copics!!

Stamping for the weekend - Ribbons and bows - I have the plaid ribbon and the big white bow.

Simple Doodles - Inspire others - I hope this card inspires everyone to take some time for themselves and create!!


Thanks for visiting today. Thanks to everyone who leaves a message. I love reading all of them and truly appreciate them.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Pixie Pink, CTMH Tourquoise
DP: Memory box (I think)
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie,
MISC: Ribbon, Prima & SU flowers, misc Brads, MS Punch, Nesties

Spring is Here!!

Happy Easter everyone. I hope everyone has a good day. It is suppose to be a great day here. It is going to be in the mid 70's. I only shut off my heat a few days ago because it was so cold here. I can't believe how beautiful it is now.

Today's theme for the Stempeltraume is Just Girls. I have so many girl stamps so I loved this theme. If you like challenges you need to check this out. The other DT's do great work, their themes are fun and you could win some great prizes! I picked this image from Sugar Nellie because it had never seen ink. Every time I tried to buy it last year it was out of stock. When I placed an order this winter I saw that they had it so I had to buy it. I used Tim Holtz new paper on this card! I wish you could see it better. I absolutely love it. It is all double sided, comes in different sizes and colors. I think this paper will fit well with so many of my stamps.

The other challenges this card fits are:

Annabelles - Say it with flowers. I love this daisy and the way this little lady looks like she is giving it to someone.

Daring Card Makers - Diamonds - The sparkly rain drops are actually fingernail art I bought in the $1 bin at JoAnns. I thought they would make great raindrops or tears.
The shiny flower is from CTMH that I have had in my stash for a while.

Fab & Funky - Spring is in the Air - I am happy now that the weather is nice enough for me to open my windows and enjoy the weather!

For Fun - Anything Goes - I love these themes!!

Little Red Wagon - Rolling into Spring - What says spring better than flowers and bare feet!

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes - These themes are great because I can use anything I want and fit the theme!

ABC - R is for Red - The paper I used is called Rose Red from SU.

Everybody Art - Spring - Love the sunshine and nice weather and love to make my spring cards!

Truly Scrumptious - Sketch - I loved this sketch. I knew I had to find a way to use it. The optional theme was fly away but I thought adding more to this card would be too much.

Stamptacular - Just for girls! I wouldn't say gardening is just for girls but I think this card with the girl picking the daisy is!

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my art! Thank you to everyone who leaves a comment. I love reading them. It's nice to know people like what I love creating.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Rose Red, Night of Navy
DP: Tim Holtz
Stamp: Sugar Nellie
MISC: CTMH flowers, Ribbon from Michaels, Nail art from Joanns, MM brads,

Relaxing Day

Good Morning! Today is Scrap-Creations Going Grey Challenge. Today's theme is to create a Spring card and, as always, use Basic Grey paper!! You need to check this out. The other DT's did great work and this is a fun challenge. I had such a hard time figuring out what stamp to use. I am itching to use all my spring stamps. The fact that the weather last week was beautiful (I opened my windows for the 1st time in 5 months) does put you in the mood to create Spring cards.

I finally decided on this stamp by Sugar Nellie. I love all of these delicate girly stamps. I love this color combo also. I bought the blue flowers at Michaels and wanted to use them so that was how the color scheme started. I was thrilled when I found this Basic Grey paper that compliments it so well.

The other great challenges this card fits are:

Magical Crafts - Spring/Easter - YEAH....Making this card for Spring really puts me in the mood to pull out all my short sleeve shirts! Love the challenge.

Incy Wincy Designs - Spring/Easter - Great minds think alike. I think everyone is in the mood for spring to arrive!

Crafty Cardmakers - Spring into Spring - Any day now we will be able to believe the nice weather is going to stay!!

Crafty Catz - Spring - I love it when everyone is on the same page!

Secret Crafter - Spring has Sprung - With the nice weather we had last week I think Spring has Sprung here!

Annabelles - Blue/Green - This is a great color combo for Spring. Great Idea

Pals Paper Arts - Sketch - I liked this sketch! I knew I could work with it for this image.

Handful of Stamps - Remove the Dust - How cute is this? I don't know the definition of old but if you look at my credit card lately I would say this stamp that I have not used since last summer is considered old. Writing this scares me a little but I deserve all my new stuff!!

Thank you for stopping by. Thank you to everyone who leaves me a comment I really do treasure them!

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU
DP: Basic Grey
Stamps: Sugar Nellie,
MISC: Primas, Misc brads, SU & MS Punches,

Windy Days

Good Afternoon. I hope everyone is having a good day. As you can see by my recent cards, I am in a springy pastel kind of mood!

I was looking through my Sugar Nellie stamps to make a card for the Sugar Bowl. I saw this one and knew it was the one I would choose considering all the wind we have been having and the damage it caused.

I really liked the sketch and shabby chic theme for this weeks Sugar Nellie challenge. I have not done one in a while because there are just so many wonderful challenges out there but I couldn't resist this one. I hope I got the shabby chic correct. I look at shabby chic as elegant and a little bit of distressing whether with ink or the rough edges as I did around the image.

Thank you for stopping by. Let me know what you think of my card. I love reading your comments.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Pretty in Pink, Old Olive
DP: Memory Box
STAMP: Sugar Nellie
MISC: Pearl from JoAnn's, Prima flowers, Spellbinders dies, Cuttlebug embossing folders

Young Love

Happy Tuesday! How is everyone doing? We are having nice weather here. It is 41 degrees right now, which is warm considering what it has been and it's not raining or snowing!!

I keep seeing everyone's Valentines day cards and I wondered what I wanted to do. I am not a person who buys alot of "Valentine" things so I went through my stamps and picked this Sugar Nellie image. I won this last year and thought immediately that this would make a cute Valentines Day card. I also have been in the red & pink mood since I got my SU DP last week. This is more paper from the pack. I really love this paper!

It also gave me a chance to use the new buttons from SU and their new punch. I have the corner punch also but I am having a really hard time figuring out the dimensions to use to "punch around the page". If anyone knows a smart person who has figured this out please let me know. I love the punch and would like to use it around images or cards.

The challenges this fits are:

Crafty Cardmakers - Hearts and Romance - I bought this heart punch for $1 from Michaels. It is one of those little things you pick up and use alot. The romance is the kids kissing.

Crafty Catz - Love. Young love is so sweet.

Mojo Monday - Sketch - I keep saying I am going to do one of their sketches and I love this one.

Caardvarks - Red Hearts - I think the little red hearts on this card really makes it.

Practical Scrappers - Designer Paper - All I can say is I love this pack and what would we do without it!

Incy Wincy Designs - Buttons, Bows, Ribbon & Lace - I love all of them so it was easy to work them into this card.

A Spoon Full of Sugar - This is a freestyle challenge. I love this card and wanted this to me my anything for this challenge.

Totally Gorjuss - Add Dimension. I think this card has alot of dimension with the buttons, bows, popped up image.

All Sorts - Hearts and Flowers - I love the little hearts on the side and put the buttons as the middle of the flowers

Thank you for stopping by. I love hearing what you think. Please leave a comment if you like my card!

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Real Red, Pretty in Pink
DP: SU
STAMP: Sugar Nellie
MISC: SU punch, SU buttons, Prima flowers, Ribbon & Heart punch from Michaels

Wish you were here

Good Morning. I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

I love challenges because they can take you out of your comfort zone. I was trying to figure out what to play with yesterday and started going through some challenges to get inspiration. A couple of them where Purple themes. I love purple so I though I would go with that. It turns out coloring and mataching with just purple is hard. I also wouldn't pick this DP without specifically looking for some with mostly purple.

I love this image but need to find a good sassy saying for it. I also couldn't think of anything to print out. The best saying I could find was too large for the card so I went with Wish you were here. I also wish my copics matched a little better but overall I like the way this card came out.

I found the following challenges

Friday Sketches - I always like their sketches.

Sew Many - Purple and White with a touch of black. My touch of black is the buttons and top of boots.

Secret Crafter -Inspiration - the inspiration I got was the color - Purple and White

KL Stampling - Use Nesties or punches. This was easy. I love my nesties that I used for the ovals and the side rectanges. I used an EK success punch for the corners.

Charisma - Fruity Colors - My sister and I were talking about food yesterday, specifically grapes which I kept thinking about while making this card.

Hand full of Stamps - Swirls - I was going to punch some swirls for this card but decided I wanted my swirls to be a little different so I used the pearls to make the swirl.

Allsorts - Hearts and flowers. I bought these prima roses yesterday at my LSS with the last of my gift certificates from XMAS. I had not intended to put a heart on the card but I wanted to fill the blank space in the saying and the small heart fit perfectly.

Daring Cardmakers - What's the point - okay...I love the theme of this challenge and sometimes I get in this wierd corney mood. My points are her hair and the fact that I love how her feet "point" into each other. Sorry if this is too corney but it's the mood I'm in while writing this.

Thank your for stopping by and thank you to everyone who leaves comments. I really love reading them.

Peggy
CS: SU Pale Plum, Perfect Plum
DP: ??
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie
MISC: Spellbinders dies, CTMH flowers, Joann's pearls, EK Success punch,

A Happy Hello

Good Morning. How is everyone's week going? Other than all the snow we got here it is nice. Today is bright and sunny for a change.

I got my SU shipment the other day and had to make a card with some new paper and punches I got. I love both of them. I had not used this Sugar Nellie stamp in a while and I really like her so I thought I wanted to make a real girley, feminine card with her. I hope you think I succeeded.

Going though the challenges last night I found the following:

Techno Stamper - Sketch - I really loved Mary Jo's sketch this week. Due to the size of my stamp some of the squares turned into rectangles but I think I stayed true to the sketch.

Spoonful of Sugar - Lots of Layers. Is there such a thing as a card without alot of layers? HA HA

Pile it on - Use 3 ribbons - I have the beige bow, the beige lace ribbon and then I ran pink ribbon through the lace. Great idea for a challenge.

Creative Card Crew - Punch it. I do love my punches! I used the new border from SU and MS snowflake punches on the card

Papertake - PINK - The card had to be mostly pink. When I looked at this card I though wow...lots of pink so I laughed when I saw the challenge.

Quixotic - Use an old stamp or one you have not used in a while. I love this stamp and have not inked it up in months.

All Sorts - Pink and Brown - The paper has brown and I colored her fur the dark beige.

Thanks for stopping by. I love to see my visitors. If you like my card please let me know by leaving a comment. I love to read them.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Pretty in Pink,
DP: Stampin Up
STAMP: Sugar Nellie
MISC: SU Ribbon & border punch, MS Snowflake punch, SU glitter, Michael's gold dots. MISC ribbon.

Build a Snowman

Good Morning! It's back to work after the long weekend for me. I didn't get as much stamping done as I thought I would would but did get a chance to make my card for the Sugar Challenge.

This is one of the stamps I got when I won the challenge. I think she is so cute. I should have made this card bigger than 5 x 5 though. I didn't realize how big the image was. This week the challenge was a sketch and distressing. It's hard to see my distressing around the paper but it is there. I love the blue and purple. It's really hard for me to not just pick it up for every card, especially in the winter.

I wanted to add some sparkle so I colored the snowman's hat in shimmerz, glittered the fur around her hood and put stickles on the snowflakes. I pulled out my polar white flower soft for the snow. I bought this a while ago for this purpose but keep reaching for glitter on the snow. I remembered it this time. I like the look.

Well I don't have alot of time today since I am catching up from being off yesterday. I hope everyone has a good day.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you like my many layers of card! Let me know if you do. I love reading your comments.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Bashful Blue, Almost Amethest, Papertrey White
DP: CTMH
STAMP: Sugar Nellie
MISC: Ribbon, Silver Dots, SU Glitter, Shimmerz, Polor White Flower Soft

Dressed for Snow

It's New Years Eve!! For the second year in a row my plans may be cancelled due to snow. It is snowing out now and I am waiting for the news to come on to see what they say about the rest of the day. Last year we just went out New Years night but this year that may not be an option because we are suppose to get snow for the next few days. One of the storms will be a big one.

The Sugar Bowl has started up again and you know me, I have to play. This time it is a sketch the the theme "new". You could do New Years, New Baby etc or use a new stamp. I decided to use a new stamp. I really liked the patchwork jacket on this snowman. It was also easy to cut out which worked perfectly with this sketch.

I was tempted to put some glitter on this card but I wanted it to look a little more country so I resisted the temptation.

I hope everyone has a fun and safe New Years Eve. I'll see you in 2010!!!

If you like my card please leave a comment. I love reading all the things you say.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Always Artichoke, Tempting Tourquoise
DP: Basic Grey
STAMP: Sugar Nellie
MISC: MS Snowflake punch, Tonic Snowflake punch, Amuse dots, SU Corner punch, SU brads

Dear Santa

Good Morning. Long time no post....I am sure I am not alone when I say I am just too busy to stamp. I still can't believe XMAS is 10 days away. I'm heading to the mall at lunch today to hopefully pick up the last couple of gifts I need.

I love this image by Sugar Nellie. Unfortunetly I colored him at night and you can see all my mistakes which I didn't notice until I edited the photo. This card looks much better in real life.

I have to keep this short but this card fits the following challenges.

Friday Sketchers challenge - Sketch

Frosted Designs - Holiday card

I hope everyone is having a good week. I hope you are getting all your gifts bought and wrapped. Thanks for stopping by. Let me know what you think of my little guy.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CARD STOCK: SU Real Red, Night of Navy
DP: Basic Grey, ??
STAMP: Sugar Nellie

Merry Kissmas

Good afternoon. Today is the new Sugar Bowl challenge. This will be the last one until 12/30!!! AHHH!! I guess the other Sugar Nellie Christmas images I have will be used for other challenges! I guess I should spread the wealth!!!

This week in addition to the sketch was to use your favorite color. Normally Red and Green are not what I would consider my favorite colors but at XMAS they are IT!! I always just pick out red and green markers and paper. I love XMAS cards in red and green. I don't think twice unless it is a snowflake or snowman!

This is one of the free images I received when I won the Sugar Bowl challenge. It was one of those stamps I kept looking at and couldn't figure out what I would use it for. When I won the challenge this was the first stamp I thought of. I just think this is adorable! I didn't have a mistletoe stamp so I made my own. I wanted to put Merry Kissmas as the saying but the image is bigger than I thought and so now I don't have any space on the card.

This was a really fun sketch but I didn't have a regular circle that fit any of the images I have colored so I used the scalloped and picked the image based on what would look best with scalloped. I then thought it looked too "blank" and didn't just want to put dots so I found a $1 Michaels heart punch and just started punching. I think it looks really cute. I'm sure you will see a similar card Valentines Day.

Well I think that is it for today. I hope everyone is having a good Thursday...the weekend is almost here!!!

Thanks for visiting. I hope you like my card.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Real Red, Handsome Hunter
DP: Basic Grey
STAMP: Sugar Nellie
MISC: Michaels Punch, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Michaels ribbon, MM silver brads, Michaels glitter brads, Spellbinders circle die

Make a Wish

Good Morning everyone! I hope everyone is having a good week.

I made this card for the Sugar Bowl #24. This week in addition to the sketch was Zig Zags. This was a big problem for me. I don't own any zig zag ribbon that went with my image and I don't have a zig zag punch. I started thinking outside of the box. I found a herringbone cuttlebug folder that I thought looked like zig zags so that is what I went with. The orchid in the background is embossed with this folder. I put the card together and then thought it needed something else so I glittered some felt snowflakes I have and layered them on my silver squares.

I really love this stamp. She is so dainty and she is made for glitter which I love. I love Blue and Purple so it was not hard to pick the colors I thought she would look best in. I really liked the end result.

Well, I have to keep this short. I need to get back to work. I hope you like my card. Thank you for visiting my blog. Let me know what you think.

Peggy

SUPPLIES
CS: SU Orchid Opulence, Tempting Tourquoise, Silver, Papertrey White
DP: S.E.I
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie
MISC: Ribbon, Pearls, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Copics

Just Hanging Around

Happy Wednesday! We are half way to the weekend!

As everyone knows, I am addicted to Sugar Nellie. When I won some stamps a few weeks ago they didn't have a few in stock that I wanted. I got an email a couple of weeks ago saying that I could get 20% off all stamps as a Sugar Nellie Birthday offer. I took advantage of that to buy the ones I didn't get free. This is one of them called Magna Girl. Isn't she cute. I really wanted one sitting down. I'm not one to do alot of cutting out but you almost have to with her.

I made this card for 3 challenges. The first is Mary Jo's Sketch challenge #95. I really liked the sketch she picked out this week. The second is for Stamp Something for Love. This week the challenge not only has a recipe of using Ribbon, 2 papers and 3 embellishments but is also a call out to make a card for Jaimie. You have probably read about this so I won't go into all the details again. If not please go to Stamp Something for Jaimie blog to read all about it. It is a story that reminds you of what is important in life. It also reminds me of all the big hearts in our crafting community. If you have a card sitting around, send it to Jaimie. The address in on the Stamp Something for Jaimie blog. The 3rd is the Basic Grey challenge. This was an inspiration challenge. The picture was Maroon & White so originally this card was not make for that challenge but while I was making it I thought of the picture so I figured that it inspired me so....

I have not put a sentiment on this yet. I still haven't decided what to put but will stamp something before I put it in the mail.

I love to see people come and look at what I have created. I would love to hear what you think. All comments make my day!

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: Papertrey White, SU Old Olive
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie
MISC: Cuttlebug embossing folder, Prima Flowers, CTMH & MM Brads, Michaels Ribbon

Give Thanks

Good Afternoon everyone. I hope everyone is having a good week. Mine is busier than I thought it would be. I had hopes of making a couple of cards for challenges but didn't have time until today. I have had a touch of a bug and I have had no energy to do anything after work.

It is time for the Sugar Bowl. In addition to following the sketch, this week we needed to include Thankfulness. I had this image colored and had to use it soon before Fall turned into Winter. I decided this was a good time. The colors looked like they matched better before I put it under the OTT lite to take a picture. After I put together the card I had a piece of paper left on my desk all cut. I looked at the card and realized I forgot to lay down one of the pieces. I didn't dare try to lift the DP knowing that it would rip so you will need to imagine the 3rd layer in the bottom right of the sketch. I will keep it to use on a later card.

The image is tall and thin which made it difficult to fit into one of my spellbinders circles so I used the scalloped which gave me more room. I'm not a person who likes alot of blank white on a card so I filled it with the saying and brads. All in all I like the way it came out.

Thank you for looking at my card. Let me know what you think.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Rose Red
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie, Stampin UP
MISC: Cuttlebug embossing folder, No Name Brads

Merry and Bright, Sugarbowl 22

Good Morning. Thanks for stopping by my blog and looking at my cards. I hope you like what I have created.

I made this card for Kathy's Sugar Bowl sketch challenge #22. I received my stamps yesterday from winning the challenge a couple weeks ago and wanted to use one on this challenge. I kept looking at them and decided on Demure. She is so darn cute! I always saw her as a summer stamp but then I thought if I colored her in red & green she would make a cute XMAS stamp so that's what I did. I have some issues coloring and blending reds for some reason. The sleeves look alot more shaded in real life.

I really wanted to color the lace red but didn't dare since I didn't have much left. If it got messed up I wouldn't have enough to finish the card today. I have a busy weekend so I really wanted to finish this and get it posted.

If you like my card please let me know. I would love to know what you think.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Real Red, Garden Green
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie, SU
MISC: Gold dots, Michaels Red Ribbon, JoAnns lace Ribbon, MS lace punch, Spellbinders oval die, Hero Arts Poinsettas