Weekly Challenge | Must Use Flowers!

Good Morning! What a wonderful spring day and for this week's Delightful Challenges, your creation must use flowers!! For my 6×6" card I did a masking technique in the freeware program GIMP to place the bride and groom inside the oval frame. I accented the frame and the bride's veil with ultrafine glitters. The flowers are punched from Stampin' Up punches and burnished with a large ball embossing tool. They are adhered to the card with 3D Zots and...

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Challenge #54 Truly Scrumptious | A Sketch--Guest Designer Challenge

I have the extreme honor of participating as a guest designer with the team at the Truly Scrumptious. They have a bi-weekly challenge on Wednesdays that you can use any image you want. This week they have a sketch challenge. I chose to use Digital Delights by Louby Loo sets  and GIMP software to make this adorable Easter Card. Happy Easter Scalloped Circle Card ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Easter Basket Snuffles [Snuffles and Snookie Easter Set],...

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Invitations for the Crafty Birthday Girl | Sam's 5th Birthday

This weekend is my daughter's 5th birthday party and she decided she needed a Crafty Party. There will be lots of crafts for her friends to do. Her daddy is making her a special crafting table and some of her favorite crafts have been collected for her birthday celebration! She had creative control of how her birthday card came together and she was quite pleased with the final result. I will be adding a scribd document here next week with complete...

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Weekly Challenge | Pastels & Ribbon

Today there is a new challenge at Delightful Challenges.  For this week's challenge we want to see you usePASTELS & RIBBON Happy Easter Peyton! ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Easter Egg Peyton, Happy Easter Sentiment [inside]CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics Cardstock, Easter Kids Digital Paper Pack, Easter Fun Paper Set INK: Stampin Up Soft SkyMARKERS : BIC Mark-Its ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Ribbon, Chalk, Diamond Glaze, Queen & Co. Brads Happy...

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Weekly Challenge #14 | Walk the Line

This week at the I am the Diva Zentangle Challenge, Laura challenges us to use ONLY STRAIGHT LINES in the Walk the Line Challenge--details here. Walk the Line The name immediately took me to the Man in Black's hit Walk the Line. This was an interesting challenge for me because as you all know I LOVE circles which are well curvy...not straight. I did my best not to deviate from the challenge requirement. I would say that dots...well they walk the...

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Come2Chat Craft Challenge | Cardboard Classic

This weeks Come2Chat craft challenge is the Cardboard Classic. Amanda Marks of the Creative Edventures team chose this fun theme and challenges us to make something practical--that can be used! As soon as I saw that cardboard was involved, I knew I had to try Wenche's Book Tutorial! Wenche, a Norwegian blogger,  has many amazing projects on her blog Wenches Kort og Papir--take the time to translate her blog and experience the beauty of...

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Just a tanglin'

Happy Sunday! I was just hanging out with my husband on his night off watching some episodes of a favorite series and decided that I would doodle while we watched. The following makes me smile when I see it! :) I hope you enjoy it too! Tanglin on a Saturday Nigh...

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Weekly Challenge #13 | Non-Dominatrix

This week's challenge at Laura Harms' I Am the Diva Blog is is to complete a tile or Zentangle inspired piece using ONLY your NON-DOMINANT hand. Complete details can be found here. While it was feared that this challenge might strike fear and horror in us regulars, I embraced the challenge slowly and happily. My family carries the gene that makes the use of both hands equally, easier. ambidextrous [ˌæmbɪˈdɛkstrəs] adj 1. equally expert with each...

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It's My Birthday Blog Hop Winner Announcement!!!

Congratulations to Kathy at Kathy's Kreative Spot!!! Her number was drawn by Random.org to receive the gift certificate to cutnpastememories.com!! Thank you Jennifer for hosting this amazing Blog Hop! I had a great time participating and seeing all of the inspiring birthday cards. I hope you all enjoyed viewing mine as well! Thank you for looki...

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Weekly Challenge | Show Us Some Green

This weeks challenge over at Delightful Challenges is to Show Us Some Green! While today is St. Patrick's Day, my green card is a Hero Card That I will be creating several of to send to Operation Write Home for Heroes to send back to their families. I colored Private Peter with BIC Mark-Its and Chalk highlighting his goggles and eyes with Diamond Glaze. I created a Missing You sentiment with the Blank Ticket on the Ticket Sentiments Set. Thank...

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Come2Chat Craft Challenge | Upcycled Spring Toilet Paper Rolls

Come2Chat is a live interactive chat time at Creative EdVentures where guests can chat live with artists working in their studies and share ideas, ask questions, show what they're working on or just chat about fun stuff. It's weekly Monday Wendnesday Friday at 11:00 a.m. CSTWith March being Craft Month, Come2Chat decided to kick the fun up a notch with a weekly craft challenge. The first challenge was as follows: Our first Challenge is : Upcycled...

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It's My Birthday Blog Hop 12-15 March 2011 | Card #3

Welcome to the last day of Jennifer Restivo's It's My Birthday Blog Hop! This celebration of Jennifer's birth runs from Saturday March 12-15th! There are 40 crafters with lots of cards to look at! Some will be showing more than one project during the hop, including me [this is my 3rd post--my 1st post can be found here, and my 2nd post may be found here.], so be sure to check back for new inspiration! If you came to this hop from Laura's...

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It's my Birthday Blog Hop 12-15 March 2011 | Card #2

Welcome to Jennifer Restivo's It's My Birthday Blog Hop! This celebration of Jennifer's birth runs from Saturday March 12-15th! There are 40 crafters with lots of cards to look at! Some will be showing more than one project during the hop, including me [this is my 2nd post--my 1st post can be found here], so be sure to check back for new inspiration! If you came to this hop from Laura's blog then you're in the right spot! If you wish to start from...

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It's my Birthday Blog Hop 12-15 March 2011 | Card #1

Welcome to Jennifer Restivo's It's My Birthday Blog Hop! This celebration of Jennifer's birth runs from Saturday March 12-15th! There are 40 crafters with lots of cards to look at! Some will be showing more than one project during the hop, including me, so be sure to check back for new inspiration!If you came to this hop from Laura's blog then you're in the right spot! If you wish to start from the beginning hop over to here. My 1st card for this...

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Weekly Challenge | Pastels/Butterflies & Digi Day at SNR

Today is a wonderful day at Digital Delights by Louby Loo! Not only do we have a FABULOUS new challenge at Delightful Challenges, but it is also DIGI DAY at Scrapbook News and Review!! So, for you I have 2 cards today!! I hope you enjoy what you see! For this weeks challenge at Delightful Challenges, you are to use Pastels and Butterflies! I chose to use the adorable Fairy and created a mushrooms with Stampin' Up's owl punch! The Butterflies are...

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Weekly Challenge # 12 | Something Blue!

In honor of her Mother's Birthday, Laura Harms choose this challenge to incorporate some of the beautiful blue--seen in a picture of her mother by the ocean in Jamaica--to help chase away the winter blues and welcome in Spring!! You can view the details of the challenge at Laura's website. This is the first time I've ventured past the normal color of Black. When I finished it was just my normal zentangel but BLUE. I then reached for another...

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OWH Bunny Hop Candy Winner!!

The Blog Hop was AMAZING! Such an honor to be in a line up with over 130 talented cardmakers! I am pleased to announce that #3 commenter MARILYN WEB is the winner!! Congrats Marilyn!! You have one a $10 Gift Certificate to my favorite papercraft store: cutnpastememories.com! Thank you all for your wonderful comments! I'm glad you enjoyed the cards--I really enjoyed sharing them with you a...

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Operation Write Home's Bunny Hop Blog Hop

Welcome to the Operation Write Home's Bunny Hop Blog Hop! I am so honored to be part of this organization's wonderful hop! There are 135 stops in hop--if you came here from Kelly's You and your Big Dreams, you are in the right place. If you would like to start from the beginning, go here. Operation Write Home is an amazing organization and helps connect soldiers with home in many ways. One of my favorite ways to connect is by using the printables...

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Delightful Challenges | Welcome Spring

It is Release Day at Digital Delights and a new challenge here, and we would like to..... WELCOME SPRINGI made a buckle card using the newly released Dylan Bunny in his cute bunny suit and slippers and the Easter Accessories!! Also featured on my card is the Happy Easter Stamp from the Circle Sentiments Set and the NEW Easter Fun Digital Paper Pack ! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for looking! Dylan Bunny Easter Card with DigitalDelightsbyLoubyLoo ALL...

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Weekly Challenges #10 & #11| The Space Between & Monotangle

Wow! Where did last week go!?!? It was a GREAT week, just full of activities! I remember looking at Monday and thinking, what a great tangle challenge! And then it was Monday again! So after a great weekend of enjoying the outdoors with the family--we've had BEAUTIFUL weather here--my tangle feels earthy to me for Challenge #10| The Space Between. Challenge #10| The Space Between   This weeks tangle for Challenge #11|Monotangle brought...

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