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

Whimsy Stamp Blog Hop!

Hello, hello! Hope you all are having a fantastic week. I have been busy helping my mom so have only been taking care of my DT responsibilities. But I wanted to let you in a some FUN! Whimsy Stamps is having a NEW Release Blog Hop. It runsfrom May 18 until May 25 so don't miss out! Start the Hop here .

Have a wonderful day. Hugs and God Bless,
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

Bearly Mine Design Team Call

Details at Spring Fragrance

Bearly Mine Design is having a DT call and I am republishing 3 cards I did as an example of my work  using Free Digi papers I received from Bearly Mine Design Store.

I love her digi paper and I think it looks great with all types of stamps, flowers, and just about anything you could create.; I just happened to use them with Magnolia Stamps. There is something for everyone!

Details at Day Dreams

 

Details at  Magnolia Easter

So be sure to visit Bearly Mine Design Store and the Challenge Blog

You will definitely likd them. Thanks so much for stopping by.

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....

                                                          

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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

Ribbon Girl Giveaway!!!

                                              PRIZE GIVEAWAY
             

The Ribbon Girl is having a great prize giveaway!

You don't want to miss this!!!

Go to The Ribbon Girl Blog and enter to win this NEW RELEASE Molly Blooms  stamp

and other Goodies!

You have until Sunday Evening  MAY 8 UK time to enter.

See you there....I am entered are YOU!

Hugs,

Debby