the Coloring Challenge Road Trip ~ Day 1

Color plucking friends is what it is about on Day 1 of the Road Trip Coloring Challenge by Kathy R

She asked that we picked random colors of copics or other alcohol medium and try to blend, not to stay in a color family!  That is kind of scary...

Kathy always travels with a couple of E50's and her reinker, that is her go to color for having that white space...

So I picked a deep purple V09 for the center of the flower, then thought I would try blending RV55, I had to work it friends. I then blended that with RV00.

I must say I had the most fun with the leaves and was pleasantly surprised by the colors and looks of them.  I started with E50 at the tips, then I used G29 (pine tree green, pretty dark!) for the base of the leaves, (then to change it up for me) I went with a BG72...a nice medium blue green, kind of teal color and ended with G00 that I blended into the E50.

I had this small brick stencil sitting on my desk, so decided to incorporate that in my background.

This card is going to my dentist!

Back in December I saw him and asked if I could purchase 150 small toothpastes and brushes (you know the kind they give away at the dentist office when you get your teeth cleaned).  He said, "NO, I will give them to you!"  I wanted to purchase them for a Homeless Shelter we have called Father's Heart Street Ministry.  They serve a hot meal 5 days a week for 150 people and give them a sack lunch to take home for later.  On nights that get into the 30's the shelter opens its doors for about 40 to sleep in cots. What a gift to have a dentist willing to donate these items for homeless. 

As Matthew says in 25:40 "What you do for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you do for me"!

Heart Hugs, friends!

Twofer Card Challenge ~ September ~ Leaves

Hi Friends, I needed to play along with the September TWOFER Challenge because I just love leaves and that is the cue word for this month!  I didn't do anything creative with my leaves, just kept them as leaves (lol).

 The stitched pierced frames from PTI was finally back in stock and boy did I jump on that and ordered itas soon as I got the notice!  I am playing with PTI Leaf Prints here, the first card is more of a fall/autumn even a thanksgiving kind of card.

My second card is a thank you card and I pulled out PTI Modern & Marbeled because I wanted to add some gold gilding flakes to the card because so many of the colors of the leaves that pop out this time of the year is full of gold and yellows and oranges, I just love all the colors of the leaves.

I used a Nuvo Glue pen to add the gilding flakes.  I even added some Nuvo pale gold drops on the card.  The sentiment was die cut twice, once in green and once in white with the Nuvo gilding flakes on the word after it was die cut.

Heart Hugs, friends!

Teacher Appreciation Cards

I had the good sense to ask my daughters if they needed "teacher thank you cards" last week and they both said YES!  Good thing because I needed 5 of them and they often just spring it on me, like I keep a bunch of teacher thank you's in my stash!

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This card is for the recess teacher that my grandson loves... I had to use balls on it!

The 5th card actually was from my stash that my grandson picked out...it was for his school counselor and it had flowers on it, I can't remember now which one he chose.

Last Day is Thursday...two graduating from 5th grade, different schools, thankfully one is Wednesday recognition day, the other is Thursday morning.

Heart Hugs, friends!

MIM # 280 Stamping Outside the Box

Lexi has a video up HERE from the Papertrey blog showing her technique for stamping outside the box!

By bringing your main image beyond the "box" you draw your eye to it!

I have been replenishing my 'thank you' cards, so thought this would make a nice CAS card.

I used the crackled stamp set and one of the pots and flowers from the Petite Pots set.

I think I could make a whole set of these and change out the sentiments and they would be quick and easy to make up!

We had sun all day today, it was so lovely!

Hope the sun is shining on you wherever you are!

Have a great week!

Heart Hugs, friends!

MIM # 275 Stamped Dangles

Amy has a video up at PTI showing stamped Dangles...kind of an artsy zen kind of card.

The sentiment is with Wonderful Words:  Thank You

All the other are little bits of various stamps all PTI

 

Thanks for stopping by friends!

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

Muse # 197 by Tracey

Tracey is our MUSE this week and I was inspired by her card...I loved how the flowers came out from the top and down and her colors were so pretty!

This is a NBUS stamp for me from Altenew called Doodle Blooms, I colored it with copics and added my sentiment from PTI called It's the Thought!

Thanks Tracey for a fun design!

Here is Tracey's card:

 

I finally have all day to play in here and I am skyping my BFF as we both play along with challenges!!  Have a great week friends! 

Heart Hugs, friends!

Seize the Birthday joins the Altenew Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop!!

Seize the Birthday was asked to join in an Altenew Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop! 

And we were so excited to join in the fun, not to mention being so honored to be asked!!  I used the new "Remember This" stamp set and I selectively fussy cut the left side and the bottom.

I needed a thank you card for some family members who made all of our food for a big Italian family reunion (71 in attendance!) and thought this card would be extra special for them.  And these ladies are in their 70's...I think they crashed the next day and probably didn't move too much.  But that is how they are...they give and give and do it all out of LOVE!  And we love them for it and appreciate them so much!

My dad who is going to by 95 asked for a thank you card he could send them, because we were honoring him turning 95 years old, and they really made it a special meal.

So this will be sent to the two sisters who did most of the work, but many other hands were involved in the planning and cooking of the meal, not to mention the clean-up!  You know what they say, it takes a village to feed an Italian family!!  (they do say that don't they? *wink)

Head over to the Seize the Birthday Blog and check out the hop!

Heart Hugs, friends!

MIM # 251 Gradient Watercolor Die Cuts

Dawn has a video over at Capture the Moment showing how she used watercolors to make a gradient look on die cuts.

I added a few flower sequins from one of Betsy's Kits and called it good.  I used the Zig water color pens.

This die is from PTI: Paper Clippings:  Thank You.

These are a couple of Dawn's cards:

going to a BBQ now!

Happy Monday everyone!

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

PTI Day 2 ~ Dress Up Inspiration Challenge

 Day 2 of the PTI Anniversary Challenges brings us to Dress Up Inspiration...

I need a new raincoat because my zipper broke and just the day of this challenge I received the Nordstrom catalog in the mail and saw this raincoat:

I am sorry the color is not true to the real picture because it was definitely a camo green and I loved the cuffs and inside of the jacket.

I used an assortment of flower stamps from PTI 

flower fusion, bitty bouquet, daydreamer

think big # 2

PTI Anniversary Challenges ~ Day 1

Oh how I love when this time rolls around every year!

It is the month of the PTI Anniversary festivities and they are  always so FUN!!

Everyday from now to Feb 15 there will be challenges and prizes over at the PTI blog

Today it is a color challenge.  Each designer has chosen her favorite card from last year and given us her color combos and she has made a new card with those same colors.  Los of inspiration over there!

I selected Kay Miller's beautiful color combo

Thanks for stopping by!

30 Day Color Challenge

I managed to find time to color in between sneezing and coughing this weekend.

I think I am now on the mend.

I love this Persian Motif from Altnew, I colored it up with copics, added a strip of washi tape on the side and stamped the sentiment from Love Labels an Altnew set also.

It really does help to color every day to get better...and to not forget, that is my problem!

This is for the 30 Day Coloring Challenge

over at the Daily Marker.

Thanks for taking a look, supposed to be 93 today and it is already 87!!

Heart Hugs,

thank you cards

Wow!  What a HOT and HUMID place Tulsa, Oklahoma is!  We were there for 11 days to watch granddaughter, Ellie (13) play on the USA Continental High Performance Volleyball team.  She was the number one libero on her team...so exciting and fun to watch!  While they were practicing and making up the teams, we had some down time.  So my Husband and SIL played some golf. 
They played at the Golf Club of Oklahoma and then they were able to play Southern Hills!!  To play at Southern Hills, they needed to be with a member...so through knowing people, they arranged to play with Scott Sutton who is the son of the legend Eddie Sutton who coached Division 1 BB for 36 years.  His son Scott coaches BB at Oral Roberts University.

Jamie and Scott at the First T at Southern Hills CC

Every hole had 2 or 3 of these huge fans to keep the moisture off the greens.
Scott said it was so loud you couldn't even talk when they were putting!

While the boys were golfing, Dina and I did a little mall walking.  We decided to go to the movies and kill a couple of hours.  We saw "Heaven is for Real"...beautiful story!  When I went up to the window to get our tickets I asked how much:  $2.50!!  for two of us!!  AYKM?? The next day we took the husbands to the same theater and it happened to be "senior" day, so Scott and I got in for 75 cents each!!  We saw 5 movies while in Tulsa...what else is one suppose to do when you are living out of a hotel room and it is too hot and humid to do much outdoor exploring?

Here is Ellie's team...she is number "2"
Ellie wants to send some "Thank You" cards to her two coaches, and the boys want to send the same to the men they played golf with...I was commissioned to make them!

Ellie's goal is to be on the Olympic team one day (she needs to grow quite a bit for that to happen I think!) and she just turned 13, so no telling where her interests may lie in the near future, probably NOT working out as much as she has to this point, but maybe...!  She is in the pipeline now, and this is her second year, but every year she has to try out again...so who knows where we will be next year...I am hoping Colorado or even Florida, anyplace but Oklahoma!!
Heart Hugs,

 

Paper Players # 186

Paper Players  this week has some colors for the challenge.

A beautiful person from my church moved to Bend, so I don't get to see her very often.

On Friday morning I got a text telling me she was in town and could we do lunch!

I immediately said YES, so excited to see her!

And my friend Linda even knows her because we all took a pilgrimage to Medjugorje in Croatia a few years back.  She bought our lunches and even a dessert to share because it was my birthday on Wednesday.  Of course I have to send her another thank you...like I need a reason to make another card!!  This is for her..

 

Simon Says Stamps and die:  Thanks

colors:  blueberry sky, summer sunrise, HA Soft granite

 

Thank for taking a look and I hope you all have a great week, sadly my friend will be heading home tomorrow morning, but that is okay...we Skype a lot while in our craft rooms...besides, I think my DH will be happy to have me all to himself again!

 

Heart Hugs,

Colleen

Paper Players ~ A thank you Theme

The Paper Players challenge is to make a Thank you card.

It just so happened that a really sweet mom from my husband's volleyball team

found out it was my birthday yesterday, so when the girls came for practice today,

she had me go down to the gym and she gave me a box of See's Candies!

Isn't that sweet and thoughtful?

That is just the kind of person she is!

So when I am done here posting this card, I am going to write inside and go down and leave it on her windshield!

 

Stamps and dies:  PTI Bold Bouquet

paper:  PTI white, spring rain pattern paper

ink:  spring ran, blueberry sky, simply chartreuse, ripe avocado, versafine black

 

 



A series of "Thank You" cards

These cards are not being made under the best of situations.  My MIL's health is failing and we have her under hospice care.  She has received some flowers and another little handmade gift and she wanted to send a thank you card, so I brought over several for her to choose from...and I thought I best start making a lot of these as we will need them in the coming days or God willing, months...I tried to keep them very simple so I could mass produce without a lot of thought ...I have made several using the same layout, maybe even different color flowers (I tend to get bored making the same exact card more than three times!)

Thanks for taking a look.