Fall is coming!

Here's a gorgeous image from Lizzy Love today. They are having a new challenge over at Oddball art in Fall theme.  I chose this shade of green with some orange and deep yellow as my fall time colors.  I just love this artist's images. Isn't she darling?

Drop by their blog and check out the blog.  I think this past week felt a little like fall, or at least it felt a little like summer was going, as the temperatures were going down, perhaps the low nineties as the high.  When walking 4-5 hours a day, that makes a huge difference.  But this upcoming week it looks like everyday will be back to 95-98 degrees again.  So much for that lovely decline in temperature.

Midnight Minions

 Here's an awesome image from Sweet Pea Stamps Artist Rebecca Sinz.  This beautiful image is called Midnight Minions. What an awesome image for a Halloween card!  Can you imagine a girl playing with some skeleton animals? I was really enamored with this art.

 

Here's a gorgeous close up of this image, colored with copic markers.

 

Be sure and check out all of Rebecca Sinz's amazing images at the store and share your wonderful creations with us on our facebook page, Sweet Pea Stamps Friends and Fans.

Cheers, Holley

Cherry Girl

Here's just an adorable little girl from artist Julia Spiri.  This cutie is called Girl with a hair wrap, but to me, she's a cherry girl!  I have a cousin named Cherry, so every time I see a little Cherry, it makes me think of her.  That made me color her up in red and made this card with red polka dots and matching flowers.

They are having a brand new contest over on the Julia Spiri blog, it's Anything Goes + Girls!  Well you all know I love the girls!  This one is such a cutie.  Her Etsy store is full of adorable ones to choose from.  This sentiment comes from Unity stamps.  They comes up with the best sayings!  The lace I am using here is some that I got a while back when traveling to Istanbul.

Hope you have a Sunshiney Day!!

Cheers, Holley

Your Scrapbook Place Challenge

Here's a great image from SLS Scheibe today she's called Book Lover.  We're having an Anything Goes crafting contest over on the Your Scrapbook Place Challenge blog and our sponsor is SLS Lines this month.  I am using this beautiful image from her store (click here).   I added a great sentiment from author Stephen King, "Books are a uniquely portable magic."

 Drop by over at the Challenge blog and see all the new DT cards being shared today and then share some of your artwork with us.  We welcome any handmade projects, not just cards.  You will get a bonus entry in the drawing if you use an SLS Lines image.  There's also an SLS Lines challenge going on at their Challenge blog, so you can play in an additional challenge!

Winter, I miss you!

Here's a cute image from Sherri Baldy today.  She's all dressed up for winter with her cute little hat on and her fuzzy pants and boots.  I added a fun sentiment "Maybe if I dress for winter, it will come sooner!"  I think right about now, everyone here in Texas is wishing for a little bit of winter. It sure has been hot lately.  You know it's hot when you step outside at 90 degrees and think, wow, that's not bad at all....well, compared to 107 of course not.

So, here's hoping for a little cooler weather.  The contest over at the SSS Challenge blog started yesterday and it's Anything goes with a twist to add a hat.  Doesn't need to be winter theme.  I can't wait to see what you make, you could win some awesome images from Sherri Baldy.

Have a great day.

Dia De Los Muertos

Here's an amazing coloring page from artist Rick St Dennis book Day of the Dead.  How stunning is this?  I am just blown away by his amazing drawings, esp his Dia De Los Muertos, skulls, beautiful ladies, and fun horror theme.  This card measure 8.5" square, though of course, it's not a true square, as the width is actually extended due to the die cuts on the side.

I colored up the entire image in W2-W8 and R81-R89;  The Challenge over at the Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge is to use pink. I thought this image was just perfect for that. I added a sentiment at the bottom, "For love is immortality -Emily Dickenson"

Drop by the Challenge and share your pink card and as always, be sure and include a greeting somewhere, it can be a cardstock sticker, as mine is, a stamped image, a computer generated print or even a hand written message.  We can't wait to see what you create.

I totally recommend this fun book from Rick St Dennis, I love the images!

SLS Lines Challenge

Hi everyone! It's time for a new monthly challenge over at the SLS Lines Challenge blog.  The challenge this month is going to be monotone theme.  I am using a stunning Dia De Los Muertos image from the store, she has several stamps that are this theme. I colored up this image in warm greys and then added crème/warm grey papers and embellishments.

I hope you will create some cards to share with us this month, check out all the DT creations HERE (just click on the Challenge button), and join in the fun. Drop by the SLS Lines store on Etsy and see all her amazing images and we have an anything goes contest over on the Your Scrapbook Place Challenge blog, so any theme SLS Lines card could be entered there!

Cheers, Holley

One for the Men

Ike's Art is having a contest over on their blog this week for creating a card for men.  Va va va voom!  How about this hottie?  I added some beautiful papers from Paper Temptress, a simple sentiment from Cosmo Crickett, some gorgeous ribbon from Istanbul and a few buttons as embellishment.  What more could a man want?  (not that he ever saw anything more than the image, lol!!)

Drop by the Ike's Art Challenge and  share your creation with them.  They have awesome prizes and a wonderful freebie that you can download during each challenge.

Cheers, Holley

Halloween Greetings

Here's a great image from Sweet Pea artist Lemon Shortbread called Halloween Greetings.  She has some stunning images for this holiday including this beauty.  I colored her up using copic markers in some bright purples with some orange pumpkins.  What little witch wouldn't love to dress this way?

Here's a close up of this beautiful image which is available in both digi and rubber format at the Sweet Pea store.  You have plenty of time to create some wonderful Halloween cards, so drop by and check out all of the Halloween theme stamps.

If you like this image in particular, check out the other Lemon Shortbread stamps at the store.  Be sure and share your creations with us at our Sweet Pea Friends and Fans page on facebook.  We love to see everyone's work and we have regular challenges, coupons, and card sharing. 

Cheers, Holley

Gothic Witch

Here's the cutest image from artist Julia Spiri called Gothic Witch.  I combined this image with some stunning papers from Paper Temptress today to create this card.  I know last time I shared a card using this artist's images I mentioned that this image was my current favorite in her store....well, yep, I had to get it.  Isn't she adorable?  The colors just match these papers perfectly.

The beautiful papers today are all from Paper Temptress. The card base is mica/metallic called Sapphire.  The large spiderweb corners are also cut from mica/metallic in Kunzite.  Across the middle there is a beautiful border that is actually from Hambly  Studio Overlays, a small piece of Pink Mini Chandeliers.  The image is printed on Neenah Solar White Classic Crest Paper.  I use this brand in my printer all the time and get beautiful prints.

Have a purrrfect Halloween

Here's a purr-fectly adorable image from Simply Betty Stamps for Halloween time.  I totally love her cute and sassy/sexy images.  If only I had a cat suit.  The other day my husband tells me that he likes two tone hair.  Really?  we have been together almost 18 years and now you saying that.  He never ceases to amaze me.  I just laughed and said, does grey count?

You can see all the fibers coming out of the skeleton, esp the one of the white cardstock where the image is printed, that's because I actually did these diecuts using a beautiful fabric!  I wish you could see the awesome detailing the in the fabric, they are shimmery with lovely texture.

Have a great Wed. everyone.  Cheers, Holley

Love stretches your heart

Here's just the cutest little girl from artist Sherri Baldy.  As you know I have so many of this artist's images, but I totally fell in love with this little girl's images the second I saw them!  Woah, too cute!  There's several cute images in the store using this little girl (IMG659) also, if you haven't seen it yet, Sherri has opened up a new website, click here.

 

The current challenge over on the SSS Challenge blog is Anything Goes with a special Bookmark theme, so please drop by and check out all the creations as well as share your creations with us!  You could win some fun stamps from Sherri.

 

Cheers Holley 

Love

Happy Monday everyone!  It's time for the Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge.  This week our sponsor is Kenny K. I am using this stunning image called Caberet.  Isn't she gorgeous? You all know I love to make sexy cards for my hubby.  I am using a gorgeous word die cut and a beautiful die cut from Tattered Lace to go with it.  The theme is circles, so you will see circles all over my card this week.

I hope you will create a fun card and join in our challenge.  As always, be sure to include a greeting on your card somewhere, even something as simple as "love" like I did.  I can't wait to see what you create.

Cheers, Holley

Pink Bunny

Here's the cutest girl that you can tell is ready to go back to school!  Have you seen that tv show called Bob's Burgers?  How can you not love that little girl who wears the bunny ears everywhere she goes?  This image totally reminds me of her PLUS I just love the little skull on her shirt and the bag that she is holding. I had to had a couple skulls to the card to go with it.

Hope you like her too, so fun to see all the kids off to school now. I get up and start walking everyday by 7:30 so I see the kids in my neighborhood actually walking to school with their parents.  How refreshing is that?  So sweet to see.

Have a great Sunday.  Check out the Oddball Art Challenge blog for this challenge, as well as their current facebook Challenge.

How punny am I?

Here's a darling image from Unity Stamps.  You know I like a good pun now and again.  This image was just too cute and it comes in a great set called Otter Nonsense.  I am using one of the three sentiments that goes with this fun image.  Now where's my otter half?

Hope you have a wonderful Labor Day weekend.  I am actually going to be working at the church both today and tomorrow, hmmm, so much for labor day weekend.  Oh well, there's always so many things to be very thankful for.  Linking this to the Unity Challenge this month, they have a pretty loose sketch challenge, which I altered just a tad to create my own card here.

Cheers, Holley

Feeling Fabulous

Here's one of the cutest images from Sweet Pea stamps artist Conie Fong. She's called Feeling Fabulous.  Well she's also looking fabulous in this color combination of orange, pink and blues.  I am so in love with this gorgeous image.  I added a fun vellum sentiment that also is printed in oranges and pinks and it says "Know that you YOURSELF are a miracle."  How true is that? most esp for me, as now I am five and half year post brain surgery(ies) and still seizure free.

Here's a close up of this adorable stamp that is currently available in digi and rubber stamp format.

Be sure and check out all of Conie's great images.  She has adorable girls like this, cute animals like penguins and teddy bears and the prettiest ladies.  Drop by our group on Facebook- Sweet pea stamps friends and fans and share your creations with us.  We have a constant contest going on and would love to see your creations!

Cheers, Holley

Trixxie Treat

Here's an awesome image from Kenny K. I totally love his hot girls and as you all know I totally love Halloween, so this image is just perfect!  She's called Trixxie Treat. All the stamps in this category are too fun. I am so enjoying making some Halloween cards now, I am sure that doesn't surprise you.

Kenny K's challenge blog is having a Halloween theme challenge, join in.  I got those totally awesome skeleton hand die cut from Oozak when I won a contest over at the Outlawz Challenge.  How cool is that?

Hope you have a great hump day.  Happy to say all my doctor appointments yesterday went really well.

Cheers, Holley

A cute little corner bookmark

Here's the cutest image from artist Sherri Baldy.  We are starting a new contest over on the SSS Challenge blog. The contest is Anything Goes + Bookmark!  So, what it is I made you ask?  It is indeed a bookmark. It's a cute little specially folded square with a cute pocket that allows it to sit on the corner of a book page.  I have included a couple of additional photos so you can see it in use and I added a location to the pattern at the end of this posting.  I wish I could say I was clever enough to come up with this all by myself, but this folded bookmark has been around long before me.

 

Here's the bookmark in  a book holding the page for me.

 

Here it is with the book closed, so you can see that I know where my marked page is.

Here's one place (of I am sure very many) where you can find the pattern for creating one of these bookmarks yourself.  Check it out and then make a bookmark for our current contest on the challenge blog.  You could win an awesome prize from Sherri Baldy Stamps.

Cheers, Holley

Your Scrapbook Place Card Challenge

It's time for a brand new monthly challenge over at Your Scrapbook Place Challenge Blog.  The Challenge this month is anything goes with our sponsor being SLS Lines.  You will get an extra entry if you use an image from SLS Lines.  I am using an adorable image called Monster in a teacup from SLS Lines site.  How fun is this image?

Check out the other DT Creations over at the Your Scrapbook Place Challenge blog and join in the fun.  Also, SLS Lines is having a challenge too, their current challenge is over at the SLS Challenge is summer holidays (that ends on Sept11), so if you create a summer holiday card with SLS Lines image, you can enter it in both our contest and the SLS Lines contest!

Today is the last day for a sentiment challenge over at Brown Sugar Challenge Blog, so if you have an SLS Lines card, please drop by over there and share it with them!

Teddy Bear cupid

Wow can you believe we are at the end of August?  I know I can't!  All the kids have already started back to school and the older kids are back in college. What a quick summer.  This week starts an Anything Goes challenge over at Outlawz Monday Greetings.  I am using this adorable teddy from DeeDee's Digis.  It comes with the adorable sentiment shown, plus several additional sentiments. It also has a precolored image.

 I had to add these cute arrows on my card because they go with the sentiment. The image set includes the colored, line image, set of sentiments and is only $2!!  It's called Love you Beary Much. Drop by and check out the other Outlawz cards this week and the theme is Anything Goes, the only requirement on the Monday contests is that your card have a sentiment on them.  Join in the fun!

Cheers, Holley

Follow Your Dreams

Here's a brand new artist that I ran across recently, her name is Julia Spiri.  I just LOVE her cute little stamps this one is little fairy.  She sells digis at an etsy store Stamps by Julia Spiri.  Too cute, my newest favorite is one called Gothic Witch...you know that one will be next image I get from this artist.

I colored up her hair in orange and her dress in blue...oh, don't you love her cute little socks.  I would totally wear mis-matched socks around.  So sweet.

Have a blessed sunday everyone

Welcome Anastasia

As I mentioned last week, my brother and his wife finally had their baby!  Here's a little card I sent them (I know many months ago I showed you a couple cards I sent them as shower gifts, but this card was just a little extra).  She was just as perfect as can be so we are all very thankful

Welcome to the world!

 

 

Care for a spot of tea?

Here's a stunning image from Sweet Pea Artist TheEastWind.  She has a wonderful stamp line using a character called Lucy Loo. Totally one of my favorites. This image is called Lucy Loo Mad Hatter.  It's currently available in both Rubber and Digi format.  Be sure to check out the links to the store as you will see how totally different the artist's original coloring on this image looks compared to my own.  How cool is it to see two totally different looks ont he same stamp.

I used die cuts from CC Designs and a tea cup from Doodle bug designs to go with some MAMBI paper for this card.  Don't you just love Alice in Wonderland theme?  I had to share this card the day after sharing my Mad Hatter yesterday.

Cheers, Holley

What's the hatter with you?

Here's a card using a fun image from SLS Lines with a great paper combination from Paper Temptress.  I love being able to use bold and bright, even neon colors to really POP sometimes. I think this image really goes with this beautiful paper combo.  The image is Mad Hatter.  I added a fun sentiment from Kraftin Kimmie rubber stamps.

 

The awesome specialty papers on this projects are all from Paper Temptress.  The base of the card is a beautiful Mica/Metallic called Fairway.  I embossed it with a Darice embossing folder.  I then added a pink/brown Hambly Studio Screenprint called Mod Circles.  It is a small portion of the sheet I linked to.  Over the Screen Print I added a Hambly Studio Overlay called Lime Mini Graph.  I printed out my image on Neenah Solar White Classic Crest and colored it with copic markers to complete the card.

So, What's the hatter with you?

Prisoner Of Love

Here's an awesome image from Tiddly Inks.  Isn't she adorable?  I had to add some fun text sentiments and a little pair of hand cuffs for her.  Too fun!  I hope everyone is having a great first week of school.

The current challenge over at Tiddly Inks is called Have a Heart, so drop by and join in the fun with your latest card.  Happy Wed everyone

Cheers, Holley