Meljen's Challenge #14

Red White and Blue!!!

God Bless the USA!  This weekend is the 4th of July - get those flags ready!  I know most people are getting their fireworks ready, but for us, it will be a quiet night at home - but our flag will be flying!

This weeks challenge at Meljen's Designs is to create a card using our patriotic colors!  There are also 5 new, amazing images just perfect to celebrate our freedom!

I wanted to showcase a few images, so I made a little 4x4 notecard set.  I will probably add to this and make a coordinating box to give as a gift.  It was sure fun to play with these images and colors!

And here's a closer look at each card individually

"Proud to be an American"

"Festive Firecrackers"

"Twin Star String"

Come along and celebrate with us at Meljen's!  We'd love to see your Red, White and Blue creations!

This card set also fits the challenge at 

Freshly Brewed Challenges: Fireworks

Wish List Wednesday!

It's been a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't been looking for fun things to post!

So, here we go!

Melissa (owner/designer of Meljen's Designs) shared this with her Facebook friends a few weeks back - so funny!  Think I need these recipe cards!

Here's another fun T-Shirt that I found

I love the author Jane Green and she has a new book out

Long story, but I want a new coffee maker - I'm don't expensive tastes... this one will do!

And finally - there are a few things from the Tim Holtz line that I really want!

This bird case die is just cool!  I had to borrow it from a friend to make a card and now I want my own!

Another die for some scallopy borders

And my Mom just got this and says that I need it, too!

Meljen's Challenges

Did you see my post yesterday about all the wonderful challenges that Meljen's Designs is sponsoring this week?  Go ahead, scroll down, check it out - there's some fun stuff going on!

As promised, I have created a couple of cards to go with a couple of these challenges and I will work on more in a few days.

This one is for Cards for Men and is a super fun sketch

Image: Muddle Puddle Boy

And this one is for the awesome sketch at Sketch and Stash Challenge

My neglected stash on this one is the chipboard letters.  I got a box of these for Christmas, and I just always keep forgetting to use them!  They were just perfect for this challenge!

Image: Giraffe's Necktie (freebie)

If you haven't had a chance to play along with these awesome blogs, you should really get crafting!  Each blog has 4 Meljen's images (of your choice) up for grabs to the random winner!

Card Makin' Mamas meets Kenny K

Hi All!

I was surfing around the internet yesterday and found these new, fun, totally rockin' images from Kenny K.  Apparently lots of people know about him, but well.. not me!  So, I grabbed the freebie and a couple other images that I really liked so that I could play with them and see what I thought.   Well, they're pretty darn cool!

This one is called Miss Thang, and she's just all attitude and awesome!  I love her flippy hair and flirty little smirk!  Normally, I would have done her as a brunette, because I'm a brunette, but something today was telling me blonde!  I think she makes a perfect blonde!

The colors for my card come from the color inspiration challenge at Card Makin' Mamas.  Super fun colors to work with and they matched Miss Thangs outfit wonderfully.  The card is transparent with just the 3 bands of color.  I haven't done up the inside yet, as I don't know what the occasion is or who to send it to, but I like the way it turned out.  It's also a larger card than I normally work with, I made this one a 5x7 and I like that too!  I guess I just like my card!  :o)

Image: Kenny K

Are YOU playing??

Did you know that Meljen's Designs sponsors lots of challenge blogs?

We Do!!

And, if YOU play along, you can win FREE Meljen's Images!!

Below is a list of current and upcoming Challenge blogs that Meljen's Designs is sponsoring. Play along if you would like to possibly win some freebie digis of your choice from the store! Click on the links below to see the details of their challenges and how to enter to win!!!!!!

June 20 - Paper Sundaes 

June 21 - Cards for Men

June 21 - Sketch and Stash Challenge

June 30 - Creative Inspirations

July1 - Moving Along with the Times

I'm going to try to get some cards done for some of these this week, as well!  Hope to see you there and Good Luck!

Stamptacular Sunday #65

It's Sunday!  Time for another super fun challenge at Stamptacular Sunday!!

Our challenge this week is Stars & Stripes!

(you can use any colors, just as long as there are stars and stripes!)

We are sponsored this week by:

Susana's Custom Art & Card Designs

and the prize is...

One SHEET of Victoria Case SCACD Spring Collection Stamps
Yay!!

Here's my Starry, Stripey card!  I got just a itsy, bitsy, tiny bit patriotic with this one!

Image: Karen's Doodles

Love Love Luigi!

I just got this new stamp in the mail and couldn't wait to ink him up!  I've been wishing for him for a loooong time, and finally gave in and bought him!

I was inspired by another Easel card that I had seen made with the Labels 4 (I believe) Nesties, and thought that I would try it with my favorite Nesties, Labels 10!

I made this one for my Mom - because she's the best :)

A couple challenge for this one:

High Hopes - Anything Goes

Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes

Shirleys 2 Girls Twisted Thursday - Something New (new stamp, Luigi)

Image: Luigi - High Hopes

Meljen's Challenge #13

This week's challenge at Meljen's Designs Thursday challenge blog is to create a bookmark and/or tag!  So much fun!

Here's the card that I made, using the new release image "Teacup Poodle" (isn't she just the sweetest??)  Don't forget, you can find Teacup Poodle, the other 4 new release images and many more Meljen's images in the Whimsy Stamps shop!

It's so hard to tell in the photo, but there really is coloring on the image!  I wanted a white poodle, and of course white cream... but I also wanted a white-ish teacup!  Wow, how to do all that white??

So, I basically shaded everything and kept the coloring super light.  Looks good to me, but looks much better in person!  The lace that I added is really nice, as well, at least, I think so!

Have you had a chance to play in this weeks challenge?  We'd love to see your creations, so don't forget to enter!

Croppin' with the girls

This afternoon, I wandered into the scrapbook store just to see what was happening and ran into a whole bunch of my scrappin' friends in the crop room. So I sat down for a few minutes to chat and decided to run home to grab some stuff so that I could stay and play for a few hours.  It was a lot of fun!  Turns out it was a friend's birthday, so we had lunch and cake and the whole shebang!  The birthday girl happened to have some of the new Tim Holz Sizzix dies and I just fell in love with them!!  So, I borrowed them while I was there so that I would have some to play with until I can get my own!  :o)

Here's the one card I managed to make in 3 hours!  Funny how I can make 6 cards on my own, but add friends and I can only get one done!!  LOL!

Pretty in Pink Princess

This card is an example of what I do when I have no idea what to do and just want to play around!  It was a fun card to make!  Hubby says "that's a whole lotta pink, but I like it, it's cute".  He's so supportive!

I'll enter it in some challenges, and see how it does!

Paper Sundaes - Pretty as a Princess

Freshly Brewed - Anything Goes

Oh, Alice - Daisy

Totally Gorjuss - Sugar and Spice

Images: Meljen's Designs

I Love Digi #10

Time for another fun challenge at I Love Digi!

This week we challenge you to EMBOSS IT!

either dry emboss or heat emboss, we're not picky!

Our sponsor is Bee Crafty and they're giving 3 digi images to our random winner!

Here's my embossed card, which I made for a high school friend to give to her parents for their anniversary.

I didn't get a photo of the inside, but it has the same embossed swirl panel, with the white Nestie panel and a small stamp that says "Happy Anniversary"

Hope she likes it - and hope you do, too!

Image: Meljen's Designs

A simple card & some Non-Paper projects!

I've been enjoying a "week off" while the kids are playing at Day Camp!  It's been lots of fun for all of us! And so relaxing for Mommy!!

I have agreed to do a couple of craft demonstrations for Day Camp later in the summer, so I have been working on projects for that.  I have come up with 2 that I think we'll be doing.  The ages range from 2 1/2 (my little guy) to about 13.. so I had to keep things simple but interesting enough for all of them... I hope I managed that, and I hope the kids like the projects!

First, I have a card - because I just have to use paper somewhere!!

It uses circle punches and I will probably use a crimping tool for the cone instead of my scor-pal, because that might be easier for little hands.  I also added a dab of glitter (for the girls, mostly!), some doodling and of course, a stamp on the inside!

This next project uses fun foam!  I tried it with paper, but decided that the foam would be more durable for rough and tumble kids!  I got the idea from my Stamptacular Design Team buddy, Sarah and her Cute as a Bug project :)  Thanks, Sarah!  I thought the kids would enjoy punching the holes out in the wings and playing with the brads... I will cut out the scallop circles with my Nesties, so that all the kids have to do is glue the pieces together.  My Mom had the idea to put the stick on the back, so the ladybug can "fly"!  Good idea, Mom!

And, this last project was just something that I did today.  I saw the idea in a crafts for kids book at a friends house and thought it was super cute!  Michaels had flip flops on sale for $1 and I got some ribbon from the $1 bin, grabbed small bunch of flowers for $1 and put together these super cute flip flops for Emily!  She LOVES them!!  They MIGHT last her through the summer... as you can see in the last photo, they're almost too small already!  I might have to go grab some more flip flops and make more for when she outgrows these!  For $3, why not??

So, that's what I did today!  :o)

Lil' Lolita Meets Mojo Monday

Happy Tuesday!!

I have just a quick post today to share this card with you!  I made a whole bunch more stuff today, but I have to wait to show you those!!  You'll have to check out I Love Digi and Meljen's Thursday Challenge on Thursday and Stamptacular Sunday to see what I worked on today!

Here's a card that I made to play along with the Lil' Lolita challenge and the Mojo Monday sketch this week.  The Lil' Lolita challenge is to use a photo of a beautiful wedding cake as inspiration.  So, I picked up on the soft pink of the roses and the brown from the ribbon.

Image: "Ivy" Lil' Lolita Stamps

SSC #64 - Cute As A Bug!

Time for another awesome challenge at Stamptacular Sunday!!

This week we challenge you to create a card or project that has a BUG on it!  AND - if you create it for A BABY, you will be entered TWICE to win a fabulous prize from Simon Says Stamp!

PRIZE: $25 Gift Certificate plus FREE SHIPPING

That's worth playing along, isn't it?  :o)

Here's the card that I made for this week's challenge

Image: Sorry, don't know who makes it - it is a foam stamp from my daughter's stamp pile!

Karen's Doodles Kids Challenge #8

Hi everyone!

I'm going to have to keep this quick today, as I am packing things up, getting ready to head over the mountains (and through the woods), to Mom & Dad's house we go!  :o)

This week's challenge at Karen's Doodles Kids is to make a Father's Day card!

Emily and I had a nice quiet afternoon (though quickly) while baby brother napped to each make a card for the challenge.  You can view Emily's card on her blog - remember to leave her some love, she loves reading her comments!!

Here's the card that I made - this one is for my hubby - wish we had trees this lush and green on the desert side of the state!  I hope he likes it!

Image: Karen's Doodles

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there!