Hope Your Birthday Is a Hoot!

Hello, friends!  

It's time for another Craftaholics R Us Challenge.  

This week the theme is birds.
I used to create owl figures;  now I collect owl images.

To inspire you to join us, I have created this project. 

Won't you join us this week?

Live Life in Stitches

If you've been "taking down Christmas," you are now focusing on the new year and new beginnings.  I hope when you decide to make your written or mental list of new year's resolutions, you will include allowing time to feed your soul with creative projects.  Whether you sew, draw, paint, dabble in photography, do paper crafts or any other creative outlet, make sure this new year allows some time for these things.

It is with a heavy heart that I tell you that the new year will mean endings as well.  Diane's Daydream Designs is going out of business.  All her amazing designs on sale at her site through the end of this month. I have so enjoyed being a member of her "dream team" this year and working with her designs has been a great joy.

My card today is called "Live Life in Stitches" and uses images and papers from Diane's Daydream Designs. I love quilts, and since I don't sew, but make quilt cards instead, this set speaks to me.   I resized the papers from the Sew Sweet set and an image from Quilted from the Heart to create a card.  The stitches were created using a rubber stamp, but I'm still searching for the name of the company.

Stop in and tell Diane I sent you!

Challenges:

Little Scrap Pieces

See you soon!

Joy Snow Globe

Silver, blue, and glitter.

Another card to share with you today using

Diane's Daydream Design images, sentiments, and papers.

Images:  DDD Let It Snow, Christmas Wonderland Trees

Sentiment:  Deck the Halls with Deer

Paper:  Deck the Halls with Deer, metallic from stash

Ribbon: stash

Wishing holiday blessings to you and yours!

Snow Globe Tag

Time to share more holiday cheer.

I have a tag for you today using an image from

Diane's Daydream Designs.

This cutie is from the Let It Snow set.

I can't decide whether to put it on a package

or hang it on one of my 7 trees.

It's falalalalalala time!

Winter Wonderland Snow Globe

Winter is upon us and visions of sugar plums are dancing in our heads.

Some of you have snowflakes as well.

My card today uses images and sentiments from

Diane's Daydream Designs.

Images:  DDD Christmas Wonderland Trees and Let It Snow

Sentiments:  DDD Christmas Wonderland Sentiments

Papers:   DDD Winter Wonderland Papers and Recollections

     

Ornament Time

Hello dear friends.  

It's time to share a project using images 

from Diane's Daydream Designs

to get you in the holiday spirit.

Today I have a square card full

of joy and fun for the holidays.

Image:  DDD Let It Snow

Sentiment:  DDD Deck the Halls with Deer

Papers:  DDD Deck the Halls with Deer, Recollections

Bling:  stash

Falalalala soon!

Counting My Blessings

Is your gratitude journal up to date?

This month is the perfect time to

begin that habit again.

Don't we all have so much to be thankful for?

We will be proclaiming it aloud tomorrow, but

hopefully, we are keeping gratitude

in our hearts all year long.

If I kept an "illustrated" journal,

this card front would go inside.

Image:  Diane's Daydream Designs Blessings of the Harvest

Sentiment:  DDD's Just Being Grateful

Punches/Dies:  Spellbinders, Quickutz, Martha Stewart

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug

Challenges:

AAA Challenge

Cupcake Inspirations 

Hiding in my Craft Room

One Stitch At A Time 

Open-Minded Challenges 

Robyn`s Fetish 

Sentimental Sundays 

Treasured Times Rubber Stamps & Scrapbooking 

Word Art Wednesday

So Thankful We're Friends

Dressing.  That's what I am sharing with friends who were kind

to invite us to share Thanksgiving with them.

If anyone has a favorite recipe, 

feel free to send it along.
I'm thinking cranberries and pecans...

I love this cornucopia image and sentiment from

Diane's Daydream Designs 

and decided it would be the perfect

thank you card for our friends.

Image:  DDD's Blessings of the Harvest

Sentiment: DDD's Just Being Grateful

Papers:  SEI

Dies:  Spellbinders and Provocraft 

Challenges:

Challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations 

Hiding in my Craft Room

One Stitch At A Time 

Open-Minded Challenges 

Robyn`s Fetish 

Sentimental Sundays 

The Paper Girls 

Treasured Times Rubber Stamps & Scrapbooking 

Word Art Wednesday

My Grateful Heart

Sometimes you will see a sentiment 

and it will "speak" to you 

because of its simplicity and use of color.  

Plus there was that darling pumpkin as well.  

It's all to be found at Diane's Daydream Designs. 

I challenged myself to work from the basket 

and here is my completed card. 

 I hope you like it.  

Image:  Fall Journal Mats 

Sentiment: Give Thanks to the Lord Scripture/Sentiment Set

Papers:  Recollections, DCWV, Debbie Mumm

Punch:  Recollections

Fiber:  Dollor Tree jute

Challenges:

A Crafty Mess 

Brown Sugar 

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards  

Jo's Scrap Shack

Lacy Sunshine  

Mema's Challenge  

QKR Stampede 

Scribble and Scrap 

Sister Act Card Challenge 

The Sisters of Craft 

Word Art Wednesday 

  

See you soon!

Give Thanks

When I think of November, I think of gratitude.  

My card today uses word art, frames, and images

from Diane's Daydream Designs.  

Image:  Bushel and a Peck

Sentiment:  Thanks to the Lord Scripture Set

Fall Journal Mat Frame

Papers:  Recollections, DCWV

Martha Stewart Maple Punch

See you soon!

Falling for Fall

Our mountain is full of poplar and birch yellows and we take rides through the countryside to see the yellows and oranges on the hillsides. 

If I had my choice, I would take a long vacation beginning in New England and following fall all the way down to Georgia.  A friend of mine just visited north Georgia and the colors haven't started there yet so it seems my trip would continue well into November in order to "follow fall." 

Did you guess that I have another fall card to share with you today?

Image:  Diane's Daydream Designs Signs of Fall

Papers:  Recollections and Diane's Daydream Designs

Embellishments:    Darice Quilt embossing folder, MS corner punch, Offray ribbon

Here's a little bit of detail I used at the bottom of the card using a MS corner punch to create a border.

Happy Fall, y'all!

Fall Is Here

Fall images are everywhere and today I have a favorite one to share from Diane's Daydream Designs.  

I love to create a quilt-like background by resizing digital papers from a set called 
Fall Digi Papers.

The image is from Fall Is Here.

Welcome Fall

Is September or October your favorite month of fall?  Here in NC, I am torn between the subtle changes that occur in September and the bursts of color in October.  Each has their own beauty and each should be welcomed with thoughts of gratitude.  I have a lovely leafy wreath from Diane's Daydream Designs to share with you today.  Welcome fall and enjoy!

Tuesday Throwdown Opposites Attract

Take out your color wheels and create with an image using opposites on the color wheel.  My card uses an image from Diane's Daydream Designs and should get you in the mood for fall with a colorful scarecrow using orange and blue to carry out the opposites theme.  Join us at the Tuesday Throwdown this week for some "opposites" fun!

Fall is in the Air

It's September, the days are getting shorter, and the angle of sunlight creates softer shadows.  Breezes force the first of the leaves off the branches before the colors can change.  The summer flowers are beginning to fade and the mums are in the garden departments.  Fall is in the air!

Today I have a flip card using images from Diane's Daydream Designs that I would like to share at the Just Us Girls Challenge.  It's a photo inspiration challenge and I believe this card will qualify.   

The outside uses a sentiment from Fall Is in the Air.

The inside circle has an image from Pumpkins and Sunflowers.

I would like to enter the following challenges as well:

Bearly Mine September Autumn Colors

Crafter's Companion September Autumn 

Crafting for All Seasons Colors of Autumn 3E

Crafty Girls AG  

Cuttlebug Mania Anything Die Cut   

Dies R Us Fall Festival

DL.ART Fall 

Eclectic Paperie Fall

Just Us Girls  Autumn Photo Inspiration

Let's Craft and Create AG UE

Lexie's Creations Autumn Colors 

Love to Scrap AG 

Melonheadz Autumn Colors 

Mema's Fall Colors 

My Craft Creations AG UE

Not Just Cards AG UE

Oldie but a Goodie Autumn 

Ruby's Rainbow AG UE

Sister Act Cards Only AG UE

Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 

Birthday Celebrations at My Sheri Crafts

Hello, my friends!  Today I am happy to share a project as guest designer at the My Sheri Crafts challenge.  Thanks so much, Sheri, for inviting me to participate.  The theme of the challenge is "birthday celebrations."  You can't ever have enough birthday cards on hand so why don't you stop in and participate. 

My card uses images from Diane's Daydream Designs from a set called Quilted from the Heart and the sentiment is from Diane's collaboration with Kris Breach called Birthday Bash KD Kit.  I embossed the kraft card blank with a wood grain embossing folder, popped up each layer and tied a jute bow.  I'm thinking fall since the first official day of fall is right around the corner.  

Thanks for stopping in today and join me at these challenges:

613 Avenue Create   Anything Goes 

Brown Sugar   Celebrations

Come and Get It -  Use a Digi with An Autumn Theme

Crafting At the Weekend  Anything Goes 

Lacy Sunshine  Use Something With Wings

QKR Stampede Things with Wings

Simply Create Too   Fall/ Autumn

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenges   Autumn or Fall

The Squirrel & The Fox -  For a Male

Happy Bee Day Boy

Happy Tuesday!  I am sharing a cheerful card today using an image from a KD Kit that you can find at Diane's Daydream Designs. It's a collaboration set from Diane Noble and Kris Breach and is so cute!   It's bright and sunny and this image is perfect for a little boy.  I'm entering it in the progressive challenge at Imagine That.  

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Back to School

It's back to school time and the stores have been jam packed with school supplies.  Nothing could be more fun for a child than to have some of those wonderful supplies in their backpack.  That inspired me to do a digital collage using Diane's Daydream Designs set called School Supplies Color Set you can find HERE.  I think it is a love for these supplies that created a whole culture of crafty people.  Here is my card.

The Beach Calls My Name...

Hello and welcome new followers:  Joejaykandi, Sanda, Vicki, Emily T, Shelly S, 3ickleangels, Judith, Benzi, Zella, aussie aNNie, Danielle V, and Debi.  If I missed anyone, let me know and if I repeated your welcome, you are welcome again!

What inspired the card I will share with you today?  We haven't been to the beach in quite a while and the beach is calling my name.  It was cold and gray when we went last winter so we should try to go again while the sun is out.  That is what inspired this card using Diane's Daydream Designs digis.  I couldn't decide how many of the shells to pop up so it turned out to be a fairly flat card.  Easy peasy mailing!

 

I love to use burlap with blue and so I was happy to use Diane's pre-colored image for the card. My Cuttlebug shell dies and wood-grained embossing folder seemed just right to finish off the card.  

I couldn't decide how many of the shells to pop up so it turned out to be a fairly flat card.  Easy peasy mailing!

Thanks for stopping by and if you join my blog, don't forget to leave your blog address in a comment so I can follow you as well.  Have a breezy, sunny, sandy, summer day!

I will share "The Beach Calls..." with these challenges:

A girl who crafts  E5 Always AG

As You Like it Challenge  E3 Fave 2 Embellies and Why (burlap and die cuts—earthy and natural elements)

Cards Galore Encore E3 Anything Goes

Chalk N Stock 2E Anything Goes

Crafty Bloggers Network Summer Fun

Crafty Creations  From your Stash (burlap)

Digi Makeover Challenge  Summer Vacation

4 Krafty Girlz  E3 Anything Goes

Inky Impressions  Anything Goes

Inspired by Stamping  sketch/colors/nature 

Mema's Challenge  Anything Goes

My Heart Pieces E3 Use a Digistamp

Our Creative Corner  3E ‘Summertime’

Paper Minutes  Die Cuts

Papertake Weekly To Die For

PDE Linky Party Dies or Punches 

Scrappers' Delights anything goes/die cuts 

Top Tip Tuesday 3E Anything Goes 

WordArt Wednesdays 5E Anything goes

Hammock by the Sea

Give me a hammock by the sea, please.  The days of August just call us to the beach and sand between our toes.  Take a moment to create a mental hammock by the sea if you can't take a trip or if the sea isn't nearby.

Image:  Beach Getaway Set from Diane's Daydream Designs

Papers:  Recollections

Dies:  Cuttlebug shells, QuicKutz frame

Embossing folder:  Darice Clouds

I will enter these challenges:

Pinspirational Challenges AG 5E

Word Art Wednesday  AG uplifting 5E