Happy Bunny Hop!!

  Today, is the day of the big 'Bunny Hop' being hosted over at the Operation Write Home - Stars and Stamps Blog and I wanted to INVITE you all to join in on the fun!!

   
   Due to my health limitations, (Fibromyalgia), I'm not able to take part in many hops, especially one of this size, nonetheless, I am very pleased to help promote it and wanted to invite you all to join in.  I am proud to be a member of Operation Write Home and enjoy creating cards our Troops.  I think it's a wonderful organization and I greatly admire all they do.

 
   If you are interested in creating cards for OWH, you can find all the details over at the main blog HERE.  I know it's been a joy for me to help out, and everyone is welcome to join in on the fun.  OWH, also has a challenge blog - the Stars and Stamps Blog and that is where the Hop is starting today.  It's also a wonderful blog with a variety of challenges and craft inspiration and has something new every day.   Two of my favorite challneges are the 'Midweek Throwdown' hosted every Wednesday and also the weekly 'Sunday Sketch' challenge!  These along with all the challenges are a lot of fun and again are open to all.  I hope you'll hop on over and join in the fun.

   I also wanted to give a special shout out to Gerda, of StampFairy, who is taking part in today's Bunny Hop.  I'm proud to be a member of her Design Team and was very excited when she told me she was taking part.  Gerda has been very generous in sponsoring challenges at OWH and is also a wonderful digi designer.  She has some special blog candy for those taking part in the hop.

    This is a copy of the adorable 'Spring Card' that Gerda created for the hop.  Not only is she a wonderful artist, she also is a fantastic card-maker, as this sweet card shows.

     I hope I have now inspired you all to head on over to the Stars and Stamps blog and join in the fun fulled hop.  There are oodles of fabulous projects to see, not to mention many wonderful prizes to be won!  Good Luck!

 Have a wonderful day and Happy Hopping!!

 
  

Card creations....

  I had some time this week to finally sit down, relax and make some fun new cards.  These are a variety of different techniques and styles, but I had fun making them all!

   This first card was crated for a new Challenge over at StampNation.  We had a challenge to create a card based on the inspiraiton of various videos offered in this fun group.  I picked a video that showcased cards created with 'punched frames'.   For my card I used scraps and realize now, this would have made a nice Christmas Card, has I used a Holiday Sentiment, although I do love his digi sentiment.  My new card is also being submitted to this week's 'Going Green' challenge over at Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge Blog for Challenge #48.

    My second card was made with an adorable little Spoonful images from By Lori Designs.  Lori is a fabulous digi creator and I've always been a fan of here sweet fun images.   My card is called 'SMILE' and features Nellie who I color with some of my favorite NEW Copic Colors.  

This card was created and inspired by these fun challenges:

• By Lori Designs - Challenge # 7 - Color Combo
• The ABC Challenge - Letter P - P is for PINK

   My next card features one of the brand new images from the 'Patsy April Showers' collection that was released earlier this week at StampFairy. 

   I am submitting this fun Spring themed card to these new challenges:

• Scrapbook Sister's - Challenge # 25 - Spring
• Your Next Stamp Challenge - Challenge # 37 - Feeling Blue!
• Color Throwdown - Challenge # 131 - (See the colors below)

          

   And my fourth card was created for this week's Prima and Other Medium (POM) Challenge over at 'The Outlawz'.  The theme is 'Your Favorite Color Combo' and you can find all the details over at the sign HERE!!

   
    My wonderful 'Adore' stamp is from Memory Box and you can buy yours here from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design.

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    Happy Shopping and have a wonderful weekend.  I plan on creating more cards and want to also remind you all that tomorrow is Bunny Hop Day over at Operation Write Home!!   Have FUN!!

Lots of Fun StampFairy News Today!!

  WooHoo--It's Friday and it's a sunny, but very chilly Friday here in Massachusetts.  But, it's also now March and that brings up closer and closer to Spring and warmer days.

   I am here this morning to share lots of fun and exciting news about StampFairy and wanted to start by introducing you to to a brand new release that was added to the store today!!

  Gerda has designed an adorable set of images called 'Patsy Tooth Fairy' and this is a preview of the images, which are all now available in the store here.

  Please be sure to hop on over to our blog and you'll find the Design Team gals have put together the most adorable projects with these sweet new Tooth Fairy images!!   Way to go girls, your projects are all adorable! 

   And for more excited news we are happy to tell you that Operation Write Home will be having a Blog Bunny Hop Saturday, March 5th and StampFairy will be one of the blogs taking part.   Please be sure to hop on over for an extra chance to win extra candy.

     

     If you are not familiar with 'Operation Write Home', they are a wonderful group of volunteers who spend countless hours creating and shipping cards to our deployed troops.   It's a group that is open to anyone who wants to help out and you can find all the details about making cards for this wonderful cause on their blog HERE!!  I'm proud to be a member of OWH and happy to have sent over 100 cards off to OWH in 2010! 

     I'm off now to work on some new cards and hope to be back later with some new cards to share!  In the meantime, I want to wish you all a fun filled Friday and a wonderful weekend!   Happy Crafting!!

Spring is coming....

  And that makes me a happy girl, especially since I am NOT at all a winter fan and long for some warm sunny days.

   I'm so done with Winter and want to totally focus on bright colors and happy fun Spring and Summer creations and today that is exactly what I started to do.  My card today was created for a variety of new challenges and I was very happy to find several with a Spring theme.  I had a lot of fun coloring my image and I hope that maybe someone can help refresh my memory on where these image is from?  I can not remember where I bought or grabbed this digi image and I since I really do want to give credit to the artist, I'm hopeful someone will recognize it.  If so, please post me a note, so that I can update by post and thank the artist.

    I have fallen in love with digital images and in the last year I have established a wonderful collection.  I literally now own 100's of images, but unfortunately, I did not always organize them well and I now, I do not know all the artists and for that I apologize.

   This is my latest card created today for a variety of new challenges!  I hope it will help us all - THINK SPRING!!

 
    I started with this wonderful image, which I colored with my Copics.  I also used my ABS to highlight spray on a light background, also to match the flower pot and the flowers.  I then cut out the image with a scalloped nestie die and cut two larger ovals in matching colors.  My flower was created by using a variety of die cuts I created with my Expression two new Cricut Cartridges (Bloom and Mother's Day Bouquet).  I cut several petal/flower shapes in assorted colors of lavender and purple and then layered them to create my flower.  I completed it by added a stem and leaves (also cut from Bloom) and lavender gem and a sweet little Green butterfly.

      I am submitting my new Spring Card to all these new challenges and invite you ALL to join me!!   THINK SPRING and have some fun -

• Copic Musketeers - March Challenge - Waiting for Spring
• By The Cute & Girly - Springtime Challenge
• Everybody-Art-Challenge - # 131 - Spring
• Oldie but Goodie - Challenge # 13 - Spring is in the Air
• Bunny Zoe's - Challenge # 9 - Spring Flowers Everywhere 
• If the Shoe Fits - Challenge # 68 - Let Your Purple Shine
• Flutter By Wednesday - #144 Angel, Fairy or Butterfly

     I am looking forward to spending more time this week working on Spring things and will be looking forward to the real thing!

     

 

PS:  Do you love Copics?   Have you had a chance to see or buy the new colors yet?   (I have included a picture of my set below).   Guess What?  If not, I can tell you where you can go to have a chance to WIN the brand new set!!   PLEASE  hop on over to my friend - Dana's Blog - HERE!  

    You'll then have the chance to sign up to win and also PLEASE be sure to wish her a HAPPY BLOGAVERSARY!!  She's a fabulous crafter and artist and you'll be totally inspired by her wonderful talent!!   WOOHOO!!!

It must be my LUCKY DAY!!

   Today has turned out to be a really good one for me.  First, I woke to to a bright sunny day and our temps are going up to the 40's...Yippee!!!  I slept in too and felt pretty good when I first woke up.

    I opened my email to find out I was one of the lucky Winners of the February Challenge over at the Copic Musketeers and I won a pack of Cryogen Cardstock from 'Paper Temptress'. ..!! Yaay!! My thanks to Danielle and Melanie at the Copic Musketeers and also to Patricia from the Paper Temptress for the sponsoring this challenge!!     I love this paper and have bought it many times from the Paper Temptress, so this is a great prize for me.

    My next good news was finding out that Jennifer McGuire will be coming to my LSS to teach a weekend of classes in April and I signed up and got into her Techniques class today.  I also recently learned (last week) that Kerry, who is also on the Baby Bud Design Team, lives in NH and has been to my LSS (Absolutely Everything) many times and she hopes to come down and take the class too.  It's so nice to meet another crafter from the area and I hope to do another shopping trip with her in the future.  She also told me all about the CKC Convention being help in Manchester, NH this year and I wish I had known early and called an booked a room at the hotel.  I called yesterday, but it's so close that everything was sold out!!   I am still trying to figure out a way to go, but know that to drive up and back in one day, would be way too much for me. If I could have stayed over it might have worked, and I'm still looking into other options!!   It sounds like a great time....and I would love to go!!  Still working on some ideas and hoping!!

  And this afternoon I was over a Feline Playful when I realized I had won another challenge and this was one hosted by Crafty Cardmakers and it was their Challenge # 37 - Use Red and a Die Cut.  This is the card that I had submitted!   Yaay!!

    Lastly, I have one new card that I can share now, and this card was created today for the new Color Combo Challenge which started today over at 'The Outlawz'.  You can hop on over HERE and find all the details.  The colors for this week are black, white and color and this is the card I created.

  I made a 5" square card and started with a coral colored card base.  I think picked out two digi papers (in black and white) that I had bought at Shery K Designs.  I printed out two sheets and cut the first piece to be the first layer of my card.  I used the second piece along with some coral designer paper to created my flower with my Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die.  I then cute a 2" strip of black cardstock and embossed it in my Cuttlebug.  I tied a piece of black sheer ribbon around this piece and that's that where I added my flower with pop dots.  It was really a fun card to make and I really love this color combination.  I know it's one I'll be sure to use again.

  The card was also inspired and will be submitted to these challenges:

• Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week # 92 - Make your own Flowers
• The Outlawz Group - Color Combo - Black, White and Coral
• Crazy for Challenges - # 4 -  Include Flowers on your project

  I'm off now to work on some new Spring Cards and can't wait for the Spring weather to be here to stay!   I hope you are all enjoying the first day of March and hope by the time the month is over we'll all be enjoying warm sunny days!!