Creative Craft DT Challenge Blue/Brown/Cream

Happy Day to all of you!! The weather here in NW OH has been sunny with rain and possible tornadoes. My heart goes out to all those in the world who are being so badly effected by all the natural disasters cropping up. 'Course I think it has been these disasters that prompted that religious group to predict the end of the world for this past Saturday. That too is sad cause if they read their Bible it clearly states NO ONE knows when, only God . I just thought it interesting, so just saying.

Well the DT's have been busy getting ready for today's challenge at Creative Crafts Challenge and the theme is "Blue/Brown/Cream" Yum! But first I want to thank our generous sponsors for the lovely prizes they are offering to the lucky winners. Be sure to visit their stores and see all the wonderful images they have for sale! (click on the pic...each is linked)

                                         4 Digis to the winner  from
                                   STAMPING DRAGON DESIGNS
                                     

WHIFF OF JOY

is giving this Stamp

                                                          CRAFTS and ME

http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/

 is giving this stamp called "Refresh" by Sara Burrier

Top 3 prize(s)

Simply Angelic Crafts

Embellishment packs

The DTs were giving these great designs by Stamping Dragon, this one is called "Rupert Plays Rock n Roll".  I knew immediately that I wanted to put him on a stage. My card stock is Bazzill, the DP I unfortunately scored, pleated, and attached without writing down who made it...oops! I colored him with copics, and added a little Stickles to his chest, he is a Rock Star after all. His guitar is made from pearls you know so I used Glossy Accents to give that effect. I embossed the back wall with a Cuddlebug folder and attached the cornice of the curtain with Paper Studio Fancy Brads. The floor boards were masked and inked so it appears 3D but is not, then I pop dotted him on the stage...ROCK ON!!!

This master fisherdragon is called "Rupert Fishing", isn't he a sweetie, I mean isn't he manly....lol.

I colored him with copics and made him to appear to be at waters edge....he's going for the Big One....you know the one that's going to get away...teehee. Nothing fancy, cause it's for a manly man...lol.

These digis were loads of fun and I hope all the samples the DTs worked so hard on have inspired you.

Be sure to visit their blogs for all the deets, just click the pic of each DT to go to their blog.

So, grab you Blues, Browns, and Cream stash and join us at Creative Crafts Challenge. See you there! And remember....Have Fun!!!

Hugs and God's Blessings to All.

Debby

SAS4Kids DT Challenge #10 Sweet Treats

Happy Saturday! There is rain in the forecast, but that's OKay, I love how green the grass gets, it looks so pretty with all the flowers that are blooming. AND the Sun is definitely shining on SAS4Kids.
This is a great cause for us crafters to bring our form of Sunshine to Kids who need our support. Check out how YOU can participate here .  Currently Karen, our new owner, delivers every one's donations to her local Children's Hospitals.
But we would love to expand our outreach by you answering our DT CALL, so be sure to check it out at our blog here.

We have some great new DT's and GDT's to be announced soon and I can not wait! Be sure to check back to find out who will be joining us in the near future!
Our newest DT member Hilde Marsh is joining us today!  Welcome Hilde!!!. She has a great blog and creates beautiful cards so be sure to visit her and leave some loving...here  .


Congratulations to our "May Flowers" winner!!! Our Top 3 will be announced later this week.


So on to our Challenge #10  for Send A Smile 4 Kids. Our  theme is "Sweet Treats".  First I want to thank our sponsor, our former fearless leader Mari....woohoo!! Be sure to check out her blog  ...   Mari K Creations .  The winner will receive from Mari...  Stamps and DPs. Wowzers!

And now for my Sweet Treats.  I used two different digis from Meljen's Designs. I love their stamps, they are whimsical and great for Kids and adults.

I used Bazzill cardstock and Lighten Up paper to mat my cards and colored with copic, I then used Cuddlebug folders for embossing, Hobby Lobby Ribbon and Glossy Accents to create shiny "wrappers", also Stickles was used on the gumdrops to make them look sugary (is that a word lol) and on the rest of the suckers to add some sweetness.  Some elements have been pop dotted for dimension. And the red brads I added were from the dollar store.The sentiments on both cards I created with Word.

Here's my second card

I am sooooo glad you dropped by and I hope you have a Spectacular Weekend!

Be sure to enter your creations at SAS4KIDS and check out the DTs samples too.  I know They would like some loving too.

Hugs and God's blessings to all!!

Debby

SEND A SMILE 4 KIDS NEWS!!!

EDITED: THIS SHOULD HAVE AUTOMATICALLY POSTED AT 1:00 AM OOPS!!

Happy Saturday!! I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend. It's rainy here today, but the lawns look beautiful...teehee.

I have some exciting NEWS!!! I have been asked to be a full time DT for Send A Smile 4 Kids. WOO HOO!!!!  I am honored to have been asked to join such a worthy cause.

Send A Smile 4 Kids is such a SPECIAL Challenge blog.  The blog is not only for entering fun Challenges and win prizes but allows you to donate your  handmade cards to Children in the hospital. Karen, the new owner and co-ordinator is in the USA (hopefully we will have someone in other countries soon too) and will deliver your donations to local hospitals. I think this is a wonderful cause, So Make a Child Smile by donating handmade cards or making monetary donations through PayPal ( all information can be obtained here).

Hugs and God Bless,
Debby

Distress/Vintage Creative Craft DT Challenge

A Glorious Good Morning to you! It's time for another Creative Craft Challenge. But first I want to thank everyone who entered their beautiful recycled creations, you all outdid yourselves. And thanks to our fabulous sponsors as well. Congratulations to the winners!!!

                          We have Wonderful sponsors for this bi-weekly Challenge....

                                                          

and

                                                                

Meljens Designs is a lovely little stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins; she illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. Meljen Designs has new releases along with new challenges Thursdays and Freebies every Monday, also a Guest designer every month at Meljens Designs Challenge blog.  Please visit Meljen Designs line of images over at the Whimsy Stamps Store

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I made a Mother's Day card for my mom, which she loved! I know Mother's day has come and gone but I didn't think about that we would be posting after that day...oops! Oh well, teehee. I used Bazzill cardstock, and this DP from my stash which had no name on it.

We were given digis from Doodle Pantry Digital Doodles and I chose this vintage shoe; I love it! I used copics to color, and  I embellished with pearls from Hobby Lobby, which I also colored with copics.

I used Spellbinders Petite Oval for the golf mirrored matting and the same for the Doodle Pantry sentiment. On the sentiments I trimmed off the embossed edge so the mirrored cardstock would show.

I used a Cuttlebug die for the deco corner, also using the gold mirrored cardstock.

The border punch is the "Double Arch Punch Around the Page" by Martha Stewart.

I distressed all the edges with SU! Old Olive and Buckaroo Blue combined.

The roses were on clearance years ago in the bridal section at Michael's, before anyone had ever heard of "Primas"...lol. They are the only store bought flowers I have. Oops I forgot Diane at Magnolia-licious gave me some larger flowers when I made a purchase at Christmas. I am saving them...a hoarder, yes it is true....lol.

I popped up the ruffle on the shoe, which does not show well because of my shadowing with C3 copic on the main image. It looks much better in real life. The key ring charm is from my stash.

The artsy angle shows the glossy "jewel" on the shoe I accented.

My second sample card is made with a digi stamp from Meljen's Design

The pic is blurry for some reason..and the tan cardstock looks off white...and the olive green looks beige...aaarrrgg...When I saw the stamp I instantly thought of a black silhouette with a touch of color. I used Bazzill cardstock and colored the image with pastel pencils.

The left black and tan stripes are punched using a Paper Studio edge punch that I love. I found the "Happiness" embellie in my metal stash and thought it would be perfect. Well this is my version of a CAS Vintage card. It looks much better in person and I wish you could see that...lol

Thanks you so much for stopping by and I hope you have enjoyed your visit.

  Be sure to enter the  Distress/ Vintage Challenge at Creative Craft Challenge . The more the merrier!

As always Hugs and God's Blessings

Debby

SEND A SMILE 4 KIDS Challenge #9 Flowers GUEST DT

Good morning everybody! I hope everyone is having a great start to their weekend. I have some fun news.
I am so excited to be a Guest DT for Challenge #9 at  Send A Smile 4 Kids , Woohoo!!


First I want to encourage everyone to check out the Blog for donating handmade cards to Send A Smile 4 Kids. Both Mari and Karen are in the USA and Wendy is in Australia and will deliver your donations to local hospitals. I think this is a wonderful cause, So Make a Child smile by donating handmade cards or making monetary donations through PayPal ( all information can be obtained here)

The Challenge is" May Flowers" and Our Fabulous Sponsor is  Robyns' Fetish Digital Stamps

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

www.ididitcreations.com

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is
is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice.

PRIZE FOR WINNER WILL BE

EITHER 5 digital stamps OR 4 digital stamps and 1 paper set from Robyns Fetish.

I had so much fun coloring and creating cards with the digis Robyn provided for us.

I used Bazzill and SU! Cardstock for both cards and the first card's flower and green polkadot DPs are old ones from my stash. When I found the little flower punch I had purchased last year at Michael's I was so pleased how it was exactly the same as the flowers on the DP. Cool huh?

I diecut the cute girl image with my Spellbinders and used a circle punch for the flowers and tab on the right side of the focal point. The little butterfly is a Family Treasures punch and has a pearl from HobLob.

There are also dew drops in the center of the spiral flowers but they do not show in the photo.

ENTERING MIM #9

For my second  card I embossed with my Cuttlebug folder, Swiss Dots and  punched the green cardstock with a Martha Stewart border punch. I had a different digi, by the same artist, with similar flowers that I colored, cutout and pop dotted, and put at the bottom edge of the card. the dew drops are actually an aqua color, and those I purchased on Ebay. The butterfly is a McGill punch.

I am hoping this post publishes properly cause blogger was acting funny. I could not get the  first part or last third of the post to be a same size font as the center....weird!

Thank you so much for visiting and be sure to go enter your Flower creation at Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge Blog here.

As always Hugs and God Bless You

Debby

Creative Crafts DT Challenge "Recycle"

Happy Tuesday Morning!  Did all of us eat our share of chocolate in the last few days?  I hope everyone has enjoyed and recovered from all the festivities this past weekend.  I spent time with my middle son and DIL, and her family ( my other two sons live on the west coast). And my youngest sister and her family were there also. It was lovely, sunny, a bit chilly but lovely all the same.

Thanks to all who particiapated in our embossing challenge, sponsors and players, but another two weeks has flown right by and it's time for a new challenge at Creative Craft Challenge.

I'm ready are you??? 

Our Lovely sponsors for this challenge are.....

Some Odd Girl who is giving the Winner 3 Digis...woohooo!

and

Flowered ribbon from Crafty Ribbon

AND

A second winner will win a GDT spot for a month.

AND

 Simply Angelic Crafts 

has an  embellishment pack for the top 3 winners!

So are you ready to go green, no not with food poisoning or envy but Recycling? That's right, we want you to use  bottle caps, an old placemat, old jeans, safty pins, or an old books , old paper, or an old man, opps how did he get in there. ?!?. Use ANY thing at all in a NEW way to create your piece of art. We all have junk, I mean prized things lying around that we can put to good use instead of throwing them in a corner or in the nearest landfill...lol.

Here's what I came up with.  

I used an empty bath salt bottle and wrapped it with scrap lace which was left over from when I made my wedding dress many moons ago, the pearled trim was also from that stash. Yes I was styling back then, broke too, so I made my own dress, but styling...lol.

The beads, except the little heart were from an old necklace, including the ones I created the finial from. The gold trim I wrapped around the cork stopper was from Christmas trim we saved when we opened presents. I am a hoarder it is true...lol. And wala..now I have a handy item in case I need a gift, it's very pretty when the light shines through it..

Here's an Artsy view.

So start digging through your drawers, cupboards and what is it anyway you have stored in all those old shoe boxes??? Go take a peek and start Creating!  Be sure to go to the Creative Craft challenge and enter your lovelies.

Also entering in......

If the Shoe Fits "Recycling" Apr 28

Thanks to all who have come by to take a peek.

 I love all my blog friends.

Have a Blessed day and Hugs to you all.

Debby

My First DT Challenge!!! Emboss!!!

Woohoo and Good Morning!! Today is my first post as a DT for Creative Craft Challenge Blog.  I am sooo excited!!! I want to thank all the sweet ladies from CCC for letting me join their team. I am really looking forward to creating and having fun and learning from them. Thank you Ladies! Woohoo!

          The Sponsor for the Top Winner is Witch Craft

And be sure to go visit them at the "Stamp" Magic" Show at The Dome in Dancaster,England on June 12.

                    And the Top 3 sponsor is Doodle Dragon Studios.

So come on and accept the challenge to  Emboss...wet or dry...the choice is yours.
We were graciously given Digi's from Dragon Doodle Studios  to play with and they are from their "Alice" Collection.
I really had fun coloring and creating with this digi; I did alter the image though by adding table details. I dry embossed my three mats with Cuddlebug folders and colored the image using Copics. The dew drops were from Ebay and the party punch is Stampin' Up.

My second sample is a altered playing card/ATC. I used red and gold embossing powders and stamped "Style" with memories ink while it was still wet.

 So come join us at Creative Craft Challenge and have some fun today!  Be sure and visit the DT's Blog to see the details for their beautiful creations and leave them lovin'!

Thank you so much for joining me on my first day as a DT  for CCC and please come back

as I continue my journey.

I am entering in the following challenges...

Crafty Catz #77 "Embossing"  Apr 14

The Stamp Man #20 "Embossing!" Apr 21

Creative Stamp Friends #22 "Swirls" Apr 17

Totally Stampalicious "Anything Goes" Apr 16

Woodware USA "22 "Anything Goes"  Apr 18

Card Makin' Mamas "Embellish It" Apr 15

My Partner In Crime #24 "Layer It Up" Apr 17

As always Hugs and God's Blessings to All.

Debby