Weekly Challenge | Halloween & New Release!!!

It's time again for Delightful Challenges weekly challenge and this time it's HALLOWEEN!!! Wendy is releasing a really cute new line of Halloween stamps and the paper is AWESOME! For this card I am working with Sasha the Witch and the Halloween Accessories and Sentiment Set #1. Thank you for looking! Digital Stamps: Sasha the Witch, Halloween Accessories, Halloween Sentiment Set #1 Digital Papers: Spooktacular Digital Paper...

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | You had me at GRRR!

Thank you for stopping by! I made this card for my husband using AJs Digi Shoppe digital stamps and papers....fly on by the AJs Digi Shoppe Blog to learn how I did it and enjoy other projects made by the talented AJs Digi Shoppe Design Team! I hope you enjoy my car...

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Hostess Monday @ Digital Delights by Louby Loo!!

What a fun week I'm having! This week I have the opportunity to be featured on the Digital Delights blog!! I took this opportunity to make a few cards using her Circus Capers Collection--a collection which admittedly made me squeal with joy when I saw it! Hop on over to the Digital Delights blog and see my cards and a quick tutorial on coloring with BIC Mark-Its. I hope you love it! I leave you with a fun photo from my Grad School days--I was Boss-Clown of the Tarleton Player Clowns...can you guess which one I am?? I'll give you a hint--I discuss...

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Blog Announcement | Sakura Hobby Crafts Design Team!!

I am so honored to announce that I have been named to the Sakura Hobby Crafts Design Team--that's that 3D Crystal Lacquer that I've been using that everyone loves!!! It's super cool stuff and I can't wait to share new and exciting projects and techniques with all of their lacquer products and kits!! I join this team of AMAZING artists! Be sure to check out the incredible work they do!! I will be posting featured projects about 2 times a month...

leslierahye's crafty handmade holiday challenge | August

Thank you to the participants in July's Challenge...the slide show of their work is below. The Rulesmake an item [or 2 or 3] that is a gift for someone you give to during the holiday season. You can make as many gifts each month as you wish as long as they are unique. post an image of it somewhere that is linkable to this blog--if you have a blog, post it there. If you don't have a blog, you can post to your facebook, to your online photo...

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Blog Announcement | Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog & a tease!

If you're looking for my Festive Friday Blog Hop Post, click here.I am SO EXCITED to announce today that I have been named to the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Design Team!! Crafty Ribbons has a amazing selection of ribbon, fibers and buttons and you all know how I love all three of these! It's an honor to design for them and take on the Crafty Ribbon Challenges with you all! I just LOVE a Challenge!! Hop on over to Crafty Ribbons and see all the...

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Festive Friday #16| HO HO HO

Happy Friday everyone!! It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Becky's blog BC Designs , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog.This Festive Friday...

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Weekly Challenge | Must Use Digital Paper

It's time again for Delightful Challenges weekly challenge and this time it's really fun! This weeks challenge is to use DIGITAL PAPER! Wendy has created over 20 paper packs with a great variety of digital papers to please all types...they range in size from 4 papers to 8 papers and print out really nicely!  For this challenge I chose to work with the Circus Capers Paper and the Circus Digi stamps. I LOVE clowns and the circus...this weekend...

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Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog Design Team CALL!!

Crafty Ribbons Challenge  is a fantastic new challenge blog that will be launching on the 1st September 2011. Every two weeks they will host a new challenge using R I B B O N!!! Exciting, right!??!? There's only a few more hours left to join the hunt for a new design team...it's really pretty easy and all the details are located on their blog here.  I'd love to share with you a project I created recently on my bi-monthly show leslierahye's...

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Weekly Challenge #35 | Tile within a Tile

Tile within a Tile This week over at the I am the Diva CZT blog, the challenge is for your tangle to look like a Tile within a Tile! This was fun for me as you know I LOVE filling in the spaces! You will notice several of my favorite tangles here! Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my tang...

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Weekly Challenge | Primary Colors or Back to School

It's hard to believe that summer is about over and school is starting up on Monday for us!! What a crazy summer! It went too fast! This weeks challenge at Delightful Challenges , we are completing projects with Primary Colors or in the Back-to-School theme.  Digital Delights by Louby Loo has many wonderful papers and stamps for this fun theme!!! When I saw Penny and her Teddy, I thought of my own young Kindergartner saying...

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | SOAR! with Mama Owl

Fly on over to AJ's Digi Shoppe Blog to learn how to make this easy card with Amanda's ADORABLE digis and BEAUTIFUL paper! WHOO wouldn't want to receive this for a Back-to-School/Encouragement card?!...

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Weekly Challenge #34: "Opposites Attract"

"Opposites Attract" Today brings me back to my centering passion...zentangles...I have be absent from the Weekly Challenge of Zentangles for a while over at the I am the Diva challenge blog. My body feels it--it's yoga for the brain and my brain of late has felt stiff. So for myself I tangle this tile. I hope you enjoy it. It was actually LAST weeks challenge and the new challenge for the week has already started! lol The detail for THIS challenge...

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Festive Friday #15 | Quick & Easy cards with Digital Delights!

 Happy Friday everyone!! It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Becky's blog BC Designs , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog. As...

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Weekly Challenge | Things with Wings!

If you haven't already guessed, I have this THING for things with WINGS!!! I love bugs that fly, I love animals that fly, I love magical beings that fly! SO, when this weeks challenge for Delightful Challenges over a Digital Delights by Louby Loo was Things with Wings, I was THRILLED!!! So many possibilities!!! I have utilized many of Wendy's stamps in the past that included critters with WINGS. So my challenge was two-fold...1. Things with Wings...

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Gift Card Holder and Sakura Hobby Craft Crystal Lacquer

As many of you know I'm hand-making the holiday gifts that come from my family this year. While it is my goal to give everyone a hand-made item, there is one category of recipients that might get a gift card or two for their holiday gift--the teachers. We usually bring homemade goodies for the teachers--truffles, candies, apple dip. When we can swing it we try to get them a gift card as well, either to a favorite store or to Staples or the local...

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Weekly Challenge | Stitching & New Release!

It's time again for a wonderful new release at Digital Delights by Louby Loo. These super cute images have been introduced to help bring in Fall! I love them all and am especially pleased to see SUNFLOWERS!!! You all know I'm a big fan of the sunflower!  I hope you enjoy these cuties as much as I am! This weeks challenge is for you to show us your STITCHING!!! You can either do pen-stitching like I did here or REAL stitching!! I can't...

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AJs Digi Shoppe Posting | Mrs. Frankenstein Bookmark

I LOVE Amanda's new Owls that she released at AJ's Digi Shoppe yesterday!! Mrs. Frankenstein is just too cute for words. I knew when I saw her she need to be done up in FELT! Fly on over to the AJ's Digi Shoppe Blog and see how I made h...

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