Magical Monday - Recipe Challenge

Carol West brings us this weeks challenge over at Paper Cupcakes challenge blog. Her challenge was to use the following recipe: 3 flowers (minimum), ribbon or lace, rhinestones or pearls and one die cut. This is what I came up with. I used the image Doodle Flower 2 & the ticket is Variety Tickets by Paper Cupcakes. I colored my image with my Bic-Mark-its. I wanted to keep my card clean and simple and was pleased with the way it turned out. I am so tired of winter so I wanted to do something summery and dream about the warm days to come! So I went with bright and summery colors! My die cut is the scalloped piece that the ribbon is tied around, but it is kind of hard to see with the pattern paper, mainly because how I placed it on the orange card stock I think. I actually have 4 punched flowers, the two big ones and the little white one in the center of the image with the jewel on top and then the little orange one on the ticket.





Well, that's it's for me today, so thanks for stopping by and hey leave me a note, I always love to hear from whoever stops by!

Magical Monday - Sentiment and Valentine Card for a Friend

This week over at the Paper Cupcake Challenge the challenge was to use the sentiment that is on my cards and make a Valentine for a friend. I made the 4 cards below with all new released Paper Cupcake images. I colored all my images with Bic Mark-its and used Stickles and Diamond Glazed on parts of the images, not sure if you can tell where or not by these pictures. These cards are just beautiful in real life so I wish you could really see them.

Image: Mouse Friends; After Your Heart

I just loved these cookies on a stick so I decided to do all three of them. And I must admit I love how they turned out.

Image: Heart Cookie On Stick 1




Image: Heart Cookie On Stick 2




Image: Heart Cookie On Stick 3




Well, that's it for me for today. We have the yucks back in our house once again. Avery started running a temperature mid day on Saturday and was at a whopping 104.1 upon waking up Sunday morning and is still holding that same temp as I type this at 7:00PM on Sunday. Looks like he won't be attending school on Monday. I hope no one else comes down with it!

Magical Monday - Tic-Tac-Toe Element Chart

Good Day to everyone! This week over on the Paper Cupcake's challenge blog the challenge it to use the following chart to come up with an element combination. You are to pick 3 in a row like a tic-tac-toe and then use those 3 elements on your card at least once. You can find the challenge here.

The image was a freebie this week there as well and is called "Sent with Love" by Paper Cupcakes. The three elements I chose on the chart were: something punched (flowers & border); Ribbon and bling. I did my card in earthy colors which I just loved how it turned out. I think this image is quite versatile. I think this card could easily be used as a valentine card, anniversary card, shower card if you changed the sentiment it could be used as a sympathy also. Really this image is just endless in it's uses, plus it is an easy cut out. The ticket (sentiment) is from Paper Cupcakes as well and can be found here under the Valentine Tickets.




Well, that's it for me for now. We had an extremely busy week & weekend and it's after 11:00PM now and I am overly tired and heading for bed now! So, have a wonderful week!

Magical Monday - Sketch Challenge

Hello everyone! Golly, I have been absent from here for some time now so it feels good to be back. Today I bring you a card I made for the Paper Cupcake's weekly challenge which is a sketch. I used the image "Girl with Heart" by Paper Cupcakes and colored here with my colored pencils. The ticket sentiment is from Paper Cupcakes as well and is from the Variety Ticket set. I made an easel card and like how it turned out, but my mojo wasn't quite there that day and it took me all day to get this one card together. Although, I did like how it turned out in the end. The punches are both Martha Stewart's. My papers were scraps.





This was the card I made last week for the Paper Cupcakes Challenge. It was to make a thank you card and then mail it. The image is from Paper Cupcakes and is called "Deco Flower with Flourish" I colored this image so long ago, but never used it, but finally did. I colored the image with Bic Mark-its and used some stickles on the flower. The border punch is from Martha Stewart. I loved how this card turned out.



Well, that's all for me today! Joy is contagious, commit to be a carrier.

Magical Monday - Christmas Card with Traditional Red & Green

This week Dru Cabral brings us the challenge over at the Paper Cupcake's challenge blog. The challenge was to make a Christmas card using traditional colors "red & green". Paper Cupcakes also gave away this cute snowman freebie called "A Merry Little Christmas". I came up with this design/layout and decided to use it a few times with a little change to each card. Makes it more simple that way for this time of year. I colored my image with my Bic Markets and colored the hat with my colored pencils.

You can still see the same sketch here, but I did the ribbon treatment a little different.


Kept the same design to this card as well and used the images "Santa's Helpers" and the sentiment is "Christmas Tickets" by Paper Cupcakes. I colored this image with colored pencils.



If my stickles looks messed up here, it is because it is! I laid another card on top of this card before it was dry, dang, I hate when I do things like that!

I wish on this next card I would had used a white card, but I went with black. Oh well, I may pick the rhinestones off and cut a small white piece and place it in the top right corner and place the rhinestones back on that. Something about that top black corner that I just don't like. I think a pop of white is what it needs. Tomorrow maybe. Colored this image "Snowman Angel" by Paper Cupcakes with Bic Markets, the ticket is "Christmas Tickets" by Paper Cupcakes. There is stickles on the wings and the little heart and star.


This image "Friendship Never Melts Away" was colored with color pencils and I love the pinks and green. I used a white glaze pen to put the dots on the trees. This card is simple as well, but I love how it turned out. I think you can figure this out.





This is the freebie I give away a lot on the blog. I really like it, but had not yet used it so I colored a large image of it. I colored it with colored pencils and added stickles to it as well. All these cards are 5x7 so you can see how large this image is.




I colored a lot of these images weeks ago and today I spent most of the day at an indoor swimming pool volunteering to time the meets of the swimmers to raise money for our mission trip group. It was the first time I have done this and it was a little stressful, because there was very little time between swimmers and recording the scores and then being ready for the next round, but it was fun plus we raised quite a bit of money as well. When I got home around 4:00 I jumped in and made most of these cards today/this evening. I have had a busy week and it doesn't seem to be slowing down with Christmas drawing near. Believe me I still have plenty to do. This is the last week of school for the children so they will be around all next week, which I am not so sure I like for the things I still need to get accomplished.

I did do a mural this past week in someone's bathroom. It was a bit hard to photograph, so these pictures do not to the mural justice at all. The trees are not nearly as dark as what is reflected here. They really do show up and do not blend in with the background trees. But the bathroom was narrow and I just could not stand right in front of the mural and take a straight on picture, oh well, I may go back and try to get a better one later. This measures about 4.5x 3 feet. The lady was pleased, so I guess that is just dandy! Truly my horizon line is straight, but like I said I was pretty much taking these from the side or stretching my arm out to take the pic.





Here is a link to the mural I did in my own home. My kitchen is Tuscany and this mural sits on the wall behind our kitchen table. Look closely at the tile wall at the bottom. There is real tile on the wall (12x12 pieces) and I actually painted the top part of the wall which looks like the tile. Thought for those of you who have not seen some of my work before it would be fun. I should post more when I do it, but I just don't.

OK, I am dead tired. We got quite a bit of snow on the ground today and so I know I will need to be up earlier tomorrow to clean it off the car ((ugh)). With 4.5 inches of snow now on the ground this beach scene looks pretty inviting! So, have a lovely day and thanks for stopping by and visiting me!

Magical Monday - Christmas Ornament

This week over at the Paper Cupcake Challenge blog Carol West brings us our challenge. She wanted to challenge us to make a Christmas Ornament. At first I was a little stumped at how I was going to do it and then I decided I would use some felt with my image and this is what I came up with. It is way cute in person and I actually added some Stickle around the edges of the image after I took the picture so these pictures do not have the Stickles on the main image. This is actually stuffed and sewn together and you can hardly see the red thread on the outside in these pics. I used my spellbinders to cut the felt and the image. I just really kind of created as I went along. The main image is from Paper Cupcakes and is called "Moose Couple" and the little ticket on the back is the "Christmas Tickets" by Paper Cupcakes as well. I colored my image with my Bic Mark-its and used a glaze pen for the white dots.

Well, we had an extremely busy weekend, gone each night and I am extremely tired. I will be starting a small mural tomorrow and hopefully I will finish in a day or two, so I don't have any of that together yet and need to head that way and then bed. So thanks for stopping by and make it a great week!

Magical Monday - Anything Goes

This week over at the Paper Cupcake's challenge blog Patti Painter brings us this weeks challenge of "Anything Goes". So, with that is is free range of creativity, which I love. I used the image Jingles; Flying High & Christmas Tickets by Paper Cupcakes. The dp is by DCWV and it already has the swirls on it with some sparkle, but I still added some Stickles on top of that. This is really a pretty simple card, just punched some holes on the sides and added all those little bow knots. Added the flowers, the punched snowflakes and rhinestones. I colored my image with both Bic Mark-its and colored pencils. I loved how this turned out and the color combo.






We had a lovely Thanksgiving and I made a full meal. Funny how long it takes to prepare and only minutes to consume, but it was a lovely day. I hope everyone in the US had a lovely Thanksgiving as well and those outside the US, well, hope your past week and weekend was just as lovely. Well, here's to another week, have a good one!