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.

Be Mine

Good afternoon. It's Friday! YEAH!!

This is my first Valentines Day card. Isn't he adorable!!! His name is Eris the Elephant by Sew Many Cards. I found this free digi last night and had to color him. I love the heart shaped balloons. After I colored them I put Crystal Effects on them. I love Crystal Effects but I hate waiting for it to dry.

My card fits into the following challenges.


Sew Many Cards - Anything Goes - These images are so cute. When I saw Eris I knew I had to make my 1st Valentine card with him.

Dare you to Digi Stamp - Buttons - I thought that buttons would be the perfect addition to this card. They look good with the cute image.

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Buttons and Bows - In addition to the buttons I put ribbon on most of my cards so the bow was a no brainer here.

Cute Card Thursday - Pink and Gray - PERFECT!!! When I saw this image I knew I would be doing this challenge.

Friday Sketchers - The sketch this week worked perfectly with my image.

Crafty Ann's - Embossing - I love embossing!! I put it on so many cards.

Daring Cardmakers - Hole in One - The card needed to have at least one hole in it. Great Idea. Mine is the hearts punch!

Paperplay - Furry Friends - Elephants have fur right?? I think of all animals as being furry friends.

Polka Doodles - Love - This is my first Valentines Day card so it fits with love.

Thank you for stopping by. Let me know what you think of Eris.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Pixie Pink, Gray
DP: ?? I forget
STAMPS: SU, Sew Many Cards
MISC: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Tonic Heart punch, Corner punch, Crystal Effects,
White Gel Pen, Michaels ribbon, Buttons, Spellbinders die cuts

Congrats

Good Morning. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I love the holidays but I also have to say I like when everything gets "back to normal". It was nice waking up and not having to think about all the things for the Holiday I still needed to do. I am on vacation this week so I can stamp, take down all my decorations, spend time with friends and basically just do what I want. Needless to say stamping will be on that list.

Isn't this little lady cute? She is from The Greeting Farm. Her name is Madelynn.
I was going to send this to my Niece as a thank you card for my XMAS gift (a gift card from my LSS) but I'm thinking that maybe I want to send it to her as a congratulations card for her new job. She got laid off in February and has been working odd jobs until she found a full time one. She finally got hired by a local company 2 weeks ago. She starts 1/4. I am so happy for her.

I thought of the idea of the congrats card instead of the thank you when I saw that some challenges were new beginnings. I obviously thought of New Years cards but when I was making this I thought that starting a new job was definitely a new beginning and remembered that I wanted to send my Niece something but got too busy with the Holidays.

The challenges this fits are:

Paperplay - New Beginnings

Daring Cardmakers - New Beginnings

Quixotic - Lace

If the Shoe Fits - Coloring

Charisma Cardz - Anything but XMAS

Cupcake Craft - A time for Celebration

A Spoonful of Sugar - Sketch

Thank you for stopping by today. Let me know what you think of my cards. I love reading all of your comments. They make me smile and make my day brighter!!!

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Bravo Burgundy,
DP: Basic Grey,
STAMPS: The Greeting Farm
MISC: Lace Ribbon, Prima Flowers, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Spellbinders Ribbon die cut, Brads (don't remember who makes them)

Thanks a Bunch

Good Afternoon everyone. This week is flying by. I have been incredibly busy at work. So busy in fact that I have not had any time to mount some new stamps I got. I usually fit in some time to do that no matter what is going on.

A couple weeks ago I was in the mood to color XMAS images. This is one of the one's I picked. I always like candles at XMAS. I don't have alot of time to post so...the challenges are:

Friday Sketches - I really loved this weeks sketch and it fit perfectly with this image.

Cupcake Craft - Red & Green

Frosted Design - Same shape different sizes

Stamp Something - Thank you card

Cuttlebug - Glitter & Bling


Got to keep this short. Thank you for stopping by. Let me know what you think of my card.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Real Red, Handsome Hunter
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: SU, Amuse
MISC: Prima's, Gold dots, Gold Stickles, Michaels glitter brads

Be Merry

TGIF!!! Don't you love Friday's? The countdown to the weekend is here.

Yesterday I was going through some challenges. I saw that Kerry's challenge was a XMAS card with NO Green and Red. My mind went to snow or snowmen. I decided that I would make a snowflake card with my stencil and paste. When I started this is not what I had in mind but I had trouble finding DP to look good with it so when I decided to stay with strickly CS I just kept refining and this is the end result. I really like the bright blue and white. IRL this card really pops. I like working with the paste and glitter. It is so easy.

I also saw that this card fit 3 other challenges. One was Crafty Calendar. The theme was Weather and snow definetly fits that theme. It won't be long and we will see it falling from the sky here. It is so pretty as it is falling but not so pretty after a couple of days.

The second challenge was Secret Crafter. Their theme was Seasons. Winter is a very long season here in the Northeast. I'm laughing as I am writing this but by February the smile will be gone.

The third was for Daring Cardmakers. This was an interesting challenge. It was to use 3 things on your card that start with the first letter of your name. Mine is Punches, Pearls and Paste.

I was also happy that I got to use my MS punches. I didn't know if I really liked these or not but I do like it on this card. I'm not sure I would have like it as much without the punch. I need to investigate and see what other people are doing with these punches. If you know of anywhere I should check out let me know. I am always looking for new ideas. It's part of what makes this craft so much fun.

Thanks for visiting. Let me know what you think. I love hearing from everyone.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Bashful Blue, Pacific Point, Papertrey White
STAMPS: SU
MISC: Embossing paste, Snowflake stencil. MS snowflake punch, Pearls & Ribbons

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

First Snow

Good Afternoon! Is everyone having a good weekend? Yesterday, I went to a craft show in Boston with 2 of my sisters and my niece. It was alot of fun. I bought a couple of things for my house. One I am going to give to my brother to give me for XMAS. My brother likes it because he doesn't have to figure out what to buy and I know I am getting something I want. I bought some aromatherapy things and some butterscotch sauce to make some really good desserts. We love going to these things. It always amazes me how talented some people are. We were joking yesterday that we need to buy bigger houses just to buy more stuff to decorate, epecially for XMAS.

When I saw the challenge on the Colour Create Challenge Blog I knew I had to do it. The colors this week are Blue, Silver and White. I started out with a lighter blue but it ended up not matching the colors on the snowman's hats so I went with Turquoise. It looked plain to me so I used the Martha Stewart Icicle punch on the top. I know this will be one of my favorite punches this winter. I also wanted to do something a little different than just square layers under the snowman so I used one of my spellbinders dies and twisted them around. I then ran it through the cuttlebug with the snowflake embossing folder. Then, of course, lots of Glitter.
This card was alot of fun to make. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Thanks for coming by to visit. Let me know what you think.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Tempting Tourquoise, Silver, Papertrey White
STAMPS: Impression Obsession, CTMH
MISC: Spellbinders snowflakes, Square die, Cuttlebug Snowflake Embossing Folders, Pearls, Silver & Blue ribbon.

All White

Good Morning! I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween. I had alot more kids last night than I have ever had before. I don't know if there are just more kids around or it was because it was a warm night here but I don't have much candy left which is really good!

We also turned our clocks back last night here in the states. This means we got an extra hour of sleep. I woke up early as usual and decided to use that extra hour to make this card. I found a challenge called Colour Create. This week the color was White. Your card had to be all white except the image. Instead of an image I used my spellbinders snowflakes. I also used Twinklets for the 1st time on this card. I can see how this could be addictive for winter cards. It adds more dimension than glitter but sparkles and shows up when you take a picture. I also used my new MS border snowflake punch for the snowflakes in the middle of the card. I had a 50% coupon at my LSS and thought this was a different kind of punch. I used a papershaper border punch on the bottom.

I hope you like what I created for this challenge. Let me know what you think.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Tempting Tourquoise, Orchid Opulence
MISC: Cuttlebug embossing folders, MS and Papershaper border snowflake punches, Spellbinders snowflakes, Twinklets