I'm a Craft-a-holic !!

  I LOVE to create and nothing makes me happier than to be working in my craft room, taking craft related classes or shopping for new supplies.   And this weekend, I did it all, which made for a very fun and happy weekend for me.

   I started by little shopping spree earlier last week and had placed some online orders for some more Hero Arts images and also had a nice little spree at 7 Kids for College after winning a Gift Certificate from the 'Through the Craftroom Door' Birthday Challenge!   Thanks to Marti and Suzanne!!  I also hit Marti's store 'Pezzadoodle'  to take advantage of her 40% off sale !  Yippee!!

   And speaking of fabulous prizes, today the wonderful prize I won from the Copic Musketeers arrived and I am now the happy and very excited new owner of this new 'Bind it ALL' machine and accessories.  My thanks again to Melanie for putting up this fabulous prize !  You're a dear person and I am really happy that I was the lucky winner!

   On Saturday, I headed off to my LSS to take two more technique workshops and was pleasantly surprised to find out that the entire store was on-sale -- yes everything was 20% off for the Mother's Day weekend and I had a blast shopping in between my classes.    What FUN!!  I also totally loved the classes and this weekend we worked with Dabber Paints and also with Alcohol inks and learned 10 new techniques using both products.

   I was excited to use some of my new goodies yesterday and spent all afternoon in my craftroom creating some new backgrounds using my alcohol inks, along with some of the new Hero Arts Stamps and inspiration I had also learned in the Jennifer McGuire Workshops.   Here are some of the first cards  I have created using the new backgrounds/stamps I bought this week.

    This card is also being submitted to these challenges and everyone is also welcome to join the fun:

• Get Hippity with Ippity - Challenge # 2 - Flowers
• Make it Monday - # 36 - Anything Goes
• Simon Say Stamp and Show - May 9th - Anything Goes 

 

    The above card was also inspired and created for this week's CAS Challenge over at 'The Outlawz'.  Tee challenge this week is to create a card using this Recipe - Flowers, Pearls and Kraft.   For my flowers I used one of my favorite new Hero Arts Clings, I then created my own 'Gold pearls' with a Viva Decor Gold Pearl Pen and then mounted my image on an embossed and die cut piece of Kraft colored card stock. 

      All of these were created with the same stamp, which comes from this set of Two Wildflowers by Hero Arts.   I created several different backgrounds, all using Alcohol Inks, Assorted  Mixitives, along with various techniques.  All of these were created on Gloss Paper by Ranger and each image was stamped in Jet Black Archival Ink.  I also have several images now stamped and heat embossed in white, that I'll be suing for more cards using the Resist Technique.   Fun Fun Fun!!

       My next card was inspired by a few new challenges and features a cute little digi from By Lori Designs, which you can find HERE!!    My card was also created based on this Sketch from the current challenge:

Sketch

My Card

 This cutie is being submitted to all of these fun new challenges and you are all invited to play along:

• By Lori Designs - BLD Challenge # 16 - Sketch Challenge
• The Outlawz - Monday Greeting Card Challenge - For a Child
• Bee Crafty - Challenge # 49 - Birthday for the Little Ones (Digi Required)  

  I am also very happy and excited to tell you that I just found out, (while over at the challenge site), that I was one of the Lucky Winners for April and one my choice on one of Lori's adorable images and as this cute banner, which I'll be adding to my Challenge Awards Page!   My thanks to Lori and all her team for picking my card!   Yippee!!

 
   I also have two more cards to share and both were inspired by Challenges over at the Stars & Stamps Blog (Operation Write Home).  The first is another attempt at a Dimensional Ruffle Layer card I learned how to create from Sandy's awesome video which you can find HERE!  This time I used a new different punch and was much happier with my end result.  

    And I also have this new card which was created based on the current Sketch Challenge # 68, which you'll find HERE!!  I have also included a copy of this sketch and hope you'll play along too!

Sketch # 68

My Card

  And lastly I have a few more cards that I had created for a variety of challenges last week, but ran out to time to post on my blog!   They were all a lot of fun and making them is the perfect way for me to relax, have fun, and practice my card-making and coloring!!   So yes, as you can see I am accraft-a-holic -- it's my Passion and I love it!

 

   And that is it for today!  It's a long post and I had a lot to catch up on.  This week should be more quiet and give me more time to create and also keep up on posting!   I hope everyone has a wonderful week and as always -- Happy Crafting!!