I've been working on getting this jar all done up and decorated for the past few days.
Normally I just wash out our salsa or spaghetti jars and throw them in the recycle, but I decided to try and do something with this one.

So I pulled out my white acrylic paint and started adding layers.  Using spray paint probably would have been better and prettier, but the acrylic was what I had on hand and was faster/less messy.

Because it's all white, my camera had a little trouble taking good pics..so I apologize for that.
I have no idea what I'm going to use this jar for yet, but I knew that I wanted to use this fun Genie image from Saturated Canary.  I bought this stamp sometime around May and still haven't inked it up...so decided it was time!

I colored it in with my ShinHan markers and layered it onto a scallop cut oval.  I was a little sketchy about the skin color at first...it seemed really yellow and made her look like she had jaundice.  But once I got all the other colors added to the image, that yellow was muted out.  I loved coloring her hair pink!  It's a bit brighter than I was expecting, but it still looks super awesome!!

I added a heart shaped doily behind the frame just for some added sweetness.  Then used a Martha Stewart Lace Edge punch to make my border for around the jar. Layered that with some pink leopard print paper (of course!) and 2 layers of coordinating ribbon, which I also made a nice big bow with.

For the top, I cut out a scallop circle and layered on the genie bottle from the stamp set.  I've added some kaleidoscope embossing powder to both the top and the image for some extra sparkle.  The stamped sentiment says "May all your wishes come true."  I tried to make it look like it was in a smoke cloud with my chalks, but that didn't turn out too well...

Then just added some pearls around the image and it was done!  And I love it :)

I'd like to enter this project into the following challenges:
    7 Kids College Fund #86-Anything Goes
    Charisma Cardz #43-Anything but Cards
    Inky Impressions #133-Dies and Punches
    Loves Rubberstamps #77-Anything Goes
    Saturated Canary #55-Alter It

Thanks for stopping by!! <3

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Time for a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown and it's Birthday Party!!  Perfect since yesterday was my birthday, and the sponsor is one of my all time favorites!!

It's no secret I love love love Saturated Canary!  It's so easy to create with Krista's images and the inspiration just seems to pour out of them.  So I was stoked when she said yes to being our sponsor for this week!!  She graciously offered the design team an image to work with, but I decided to use a couple for my card this week.

I'm so happy with how it all turned out.  I've actually been working on this card for about a month now and it just didn't seem to be coming together at all!  But I stuck with it and finally got it right :)

The cuties I used on this card are Smokin Hot, Cali Girl, and Ani.  They all fit perfectly into the beach theme, and since I'm craving the beach so bad, I figured that would be a great theme for my card.  I die cut out some palm trees and then tore up some sand colored paper for the different steps.  I've had these beach stickers in my stash for just about ever, and thought they would work well on this card.  So I pulled a few out and stuck em on.

Matthew suggested the dolphin, which I wasn't going to add at first, but now I'm glad I did because it just seems to work.
All the cute girlies are colored in with a combination of ShinHan, Copic, and Spectrum Noir markers.  I love playing with those!  I'm working on building my ShinHan collection, but don't have enough to cover multiple color groups, so I have to combine different brands for a little while.  But I'm getting there!

I hope you will join us this week for our fun challenge, and the chance to win some gorgeous images from Saturated Canary!!!
Thanks for stopping by!  And don't forget about my giveaway here:  Birthday Giveaway
Only a few more hours to enter!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Artistic Inspirations #52-Celebrations
    Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards #44-Animals
    The Corrosive Challenge #179-Fancy Folds
    Craft Your Passion #173-3D It
    Delicious Doodles #46-Summertime
    Fussy and Fancy #94-More Than 1 Fold
    Inky Impressions #118-Birthdays
    Ladybug Crafts-Birthday Greetings
    Quirky Crafts #15-Octopus Garden
    Simon Says-Summer Food and/or Drink
    The Squirrel and the Fox #49-Nautical/Sea Life read more →

Hello!!!  I hope everyone is having a fabulous day so far!  It's amazingly a chilly 59 degrees here in Montreal!  Quite the turn around from last weeks 100 that's for sure...but I love it :)

Just a little reminder, I'm having a birthday giveaway for the next week!  Be sure to stop by and enter here:  Birthday Giveaway

So, who is with me in loving all the Saturated Canary rubber stamps available now??  I don't have too many of them, but trust me, I'm working on it :)  I was finally able to get my hands on Gardener Gayle and I absolutely love her! 

I had started working on this card this past weekend when our power went out.  So I tried to keep the card over all simple without too much fuss, mostly since I couldn't use the computer/Silhouette.  But I still love the layout and the way it all came together.

I used my new First Edition papers from the spring drop line.  They just seemed so perfect to use with Gayle, all flowery and garden colored.  I inked up all the edges in a light green and then added a double layer of ribbon behind the image.

The final details were some little paint dots and a sweet stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Catered Crop-Summer Lovin
    Color Me Creative #73-Anything Goes
    The Crazy Challenge #150-Summertime
    Creative Creations #15-Anything Goes
    Creative Inspirations #224-Bingo (Ribbon, Stamped Image, Flowers)
    Divas by Design-Anything Goes
    Nutcrafters #48-Summer Sunshine Fun
    The Paper Shelter #122-Anything Goes
    The Squirrel and the Fox #48-Use Something Spooled
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Wishing everyone a fabulous Friday!  I'm excited that it is finally the weekend.  Not that we have grand plans or anything, but I just love being able to snuggle with my hubs and not worry about anything.

But it has been a relatively nice week for me.  I've met some fabulous crafty goals, and spent some time working on new projects.  I also ran a mile for the first time in forever last night!  My knees are killing me today, but man that felt so good to hit that marker.

So I figured I'd share one of my "out of the box" creations that popped into my head this week.  It's not quite what I was going for, I will have to keep practicing, but I'm pretty darn proud of it anyhow.

It's a very simple card.  But that's okay because I wanted the focus to be on the image.  In the past I have turned regular images into zombies...it's pretty simple, just add a few blood streaks on their face :)  So this time I challenged myself to make a white walker from the Game of Thrones series (also known as the others).  It took me a few tries.  Most of the walkers that you see are all shriveled and pale white.  But it's kind of hard to color in all white.  So I had to go with some greyer tones, but I think this one turned out awesome!

The piercing blue in her eyes and the dark grey shadows under her eyes...seems just about the right representation of a white walker :)
I also stretched my coloring talents a little by coloring her outfit to look like fur.  Absolutely love it, and think it is the perfect look for her.

 

 Of course, I had to make the cute little birdie into a crow.  Just didn't feel right making it anything else.  Oh, and the image I used is Rose Red from Saturated Canary.  Amazing how a cute little image can be completely changed with the right colors.

What sort of things have you done lately to stretch your crafting skills?  Tell me in the comments, I'd love to see what you've done!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    7 Kids College Fund #75-Just Wrong
    A Creative Romance #1-Anything Goes
    Robyn's Fetish #163-Die Cuts or Punches

Have a fabulous weekend!  And be sure to follow me on Bloglovin or Facebook so you don't miss out on anything!!

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I totally agree with that title...Disney is just too awesome to grow out of.  I still love watching the Lion King and Beauty & the Beast.  Gives me a little break from adulthood to go back in time and watch something from when I was younger.

Matthew's brother and his wife took our sweet little nieces to Disney World this past week.  We loved seeing all the fun pictures of the girls with characters like Minnie Mouse and Cinderella where they are all smiles (mostly Natalie...Clara is only a few months old :) )!  And the not so smiley ones like the pic with Goofy :)

But I wanted to send Natalie a fun little card that she could pack away in a scrapbook of this fun trip and remember that she is never too old to live a Disney life.

This card came together so perfectly I just love it to pieces!  I used the Mousey Mo image from Saturated Canary, which I have been dying to use for so long!  She's just so cute, and perfect to put on a card for Natalie.

I used papers from the Cold Hearted digital paper collection from Mindy Baxter.  The sweet colors worked so well for me to through in the pink in the image.  Then I just added a few Mickey embellishments, some glitter and paint dots, and a fun sentiment from Ginger's House and it was done!

I really hope Natalie likes it and will be reminded of all the fun she had whenever she looks at it :)

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Deep Ocean #53-For a Girl
    DigiStamps4Joy #68-Oh to be Young Again
    Send a Smile 4 Kids-Anything Goes
    Sketch Saturday #261

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Though I've never had them, a small part of me is mildly obsessed with dreadlocks.  The cool looking ones...not the gross messy ones that look like really bad bed head.

I've seen lots of the synthetic styles on Etsy and have been really tempted to buy a set, but money just doesn't allow that right now.  So I've settled on just admiring the well dressed ones here in Montreal, and coloring them up on fun images.

To date, this was the most fun image to color!  I took my time and made sure to really plan every part out so that it wasn't rushed and messy.  There was a girl on the metro last year that had green dreadlocks and they were awesome!  So I went with that inspiration for my girlies hair.

Of course, this fun paper from Pinecone Press Papers was an obvious choice for this card.  The hippie colors and sweet patterns are just so much fun!

I colored Dreads in with my pencils and added little white dots around her for accent.  I realized half way through outlining her that my blue copic marker was empty...it resulted in a very messy outline.  So I tried to work with some chalks and blend the rough line out a little.  It turned out pretty darn cool :)

Then I just layered up a flower with a sparkly paper button in the middle and added the cute sentiment tag from Birdie Brown.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Catered Crop-Yellow
    Crafting with Dragonflies #3-One for the Girls
    Creative Inspirations #216-Anything Goes with Buttons
    Fab n Funky #173-For the Girls
    Saturated Canary #44-Hair That's Different
    The Squirrel and the Fox #44-Here Comes the Girls
    That Craft Place-Dies and Punches

Thanks for stopping by!  Remember to follow me on Facebook and Bloglovin!! <3

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We watched a small video on Sunday during our virtual sermon with Eastlake Community Church in Seattle, WA.  It was about slavery.  A heartbreaking video to watch while it talked about the people affected.  What they are forced to do for the gain of another, how they are treated, and the living conditions they must live in.  It's wrong...and it needs to end.

End it Movement is shining the light on this awful issue-Slavery.
I really meant to have this posted yesterday, which was their awareness day...but for some reason I kept thinking that April 9 was today (wednesday)...So I'm a day late, but I don't think that will matter much.  Getting this information out to the world to help fight against human trafficking, sex trade, and slavery is the most important point of this message.

Visit their website to find out ways that you can help.  We need to fight against this.  We need all of you to help.

Image:  Set Free from Saturated Canary
Colored with pencils.  All edges have been distressed with a light brown ink.  Recollections pearls in the corners, and liquid pearls on the butterflies.

The joy that this little girl is feeling should be the joy that every child gets the chance to experience.

Join the movement at End It.

Challenges entered:
    613 Avenue Create #14-Anything Goes/Spring Fever
    Catered Crop-Twine Love
    Corrosive Challenge #171-Spring Fling
    Crafty Catz #177-Anything Goes
    DigiStamps4Joy #64-Anything Goes
    Fab n Funky #166-Spring Colors
    Flutter by Wednesday's #235-Anything Goes
    Ladybug Crafts-For a Child or Teen
    Let's Craft and Create #67-Anything Goes
    Nutcrafters #40-Shaped Cards
    Saturated Canary #40-Pastels 
    Shelly's Images-Use Scallops 
    Stamp n Doodle-Bows and Butterflies
    V's Sweet Ideas #10-Anything Goes
    Word Art Wednesday #75-Anything Goes

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Hello Loves!
It's time for a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown!  This week it's Fancy Folds!  We want to see your creations that include more than 1 fold!  So start making those gate folds, and Z folds, and easel cards now, cuz we have a fabulous sponsor this week that you are going to love!!

That's right!  Little Darlings Rubber Stamps is our sponsor this week!  Woot woot!  The winner will receive a $15 gift voucher to their shop...now who doesn't want to win that?  Lol!

LDRS provided our design team with some stamps to use on our projects this week.
I went a little crazy with my card, but only because it is a birthday card for the wonderful mother-in-law so I wanted it to be special :)

 I went with a gate fold for my fancy folds card.  I've done a lot of easels lately and wanted to try something different.  There was this awesome idea I found at From My Craft Room to use a die cut to cut out a window in the middle of the card!  I loved the cards she made that way, so thought I would give it a shot.  And I love it!

Of course, I was a little stumped with the papers...I love this blue fuzzy paper, but because it already has detail of it's own, I wasn't sure what to add to it.  So I stuck with flowers...those go with everything right?  Especially when the center image is this gorgeous Fairy Wishes from Saturated Canary!!

I colored her in with my pencils and added glitter to her wings.  She was a blast coloring!!
 All of my flowers are handmade.  There are a few large rolled roses in the centers, and then some smaller punched roses around them.  Along with some blue daisy's and some fillers.  I misted both sprays with some shimmer mist so that they sparkled.

Since the inside of the card is still a main focal point of the card, I wanted to add something that could be used for writing a message on.  So I added a pocket behind the image so I could have a pull out tab there.

And printed off a fun little birthday sentiment :)
The card doesn't really stay closed but that's ok since it will look great on display!

I really hope you will join us this week!  You can use any images/stamps you wish and make any project you would like!  Remember there is a limit of 3 entries per person, but that still offers a great chance to win this awesome prize!

I also wanted to remind you that a great way to stay connected is to follow me on Bloglovin! 

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    7 Kids College Fund #70-Things With Wings
    Alota Rubber Stamps #104-Dress to Impress
    Delicious Doodles #30-Folds
    Mayzy Art #14-Sparkle
    Melonheadz Friends-Make it Girly
    Ruby's Rainbow-Birthday
    Simon Says-Happy Birthday
    Totally Gorjuss #178-Anything Goes with Sparkle
    Whoopsi Daisy-Swirls

Thanks for stopping by!

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TGIF!!!
Who has grand plans this weekend??  Anyone!?  I can imagine it will include lots of green :)
Our current plans are to sit on our duffs all weekend and play some games with our WA friends.  It will be pretty grand!  And then we are off on a little vacation for a few days next week.  It's just to get away before Matthew starts on his new project at work.

So I wanted to get this posted today before I forgot and got caught up in all the craziness.
It was actually going to be a foodie post...but when we went shopping to buy the parts...yeah that was a disaster.  We only went to Wal-Mart, since what we needed was pretty basic (we thought).  But it turned out that everything on our list either wasn't in the store, or was incredibly overpriced...so I'm sticking with just a card today :)

This card turned out fabulously sweet, it is my current favorite!  I just love it!

OMG what a sweetie!!  This is Shannon from Saturated Canary.  She's new this week for St. Pat's Day and I love her!  I kept my card over all very simple.  I wanted her to really pop off the page, and for the sentiment (from Create with TLC) to stand out right along with her.

How about another pic:

She has been colored with a combination of Spectrum Noirs and Copics.  Since my collection of both is very small, I had to stick with a minimal variety in color.  But I think it turned out pretty good anyhow!  I wasn't too fond of the hair at first, but after I got done coloring her dress, I swiped a few streaks of pink in there which helped.  You can't really tell though :)

Here's my list of colors used:
Spectrum Noir's-
Skin: FS2, FS3, FS6
Hair: TN7, GB10, GB8, TN2, FS3

Copics-
Dress: V000, R81, R85, G000, G28
Bag: R81, R85, RV69
Clovers: G000, G28, Y000, Y15
Blue Border: BG000

I used a gold glitter pen on the coins so they would sparkle.
I understand now why some people say they can take hours coloring an image.  Even with my limited number of markers, this still took me a good long while.
But she's perfect :)

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Creative Inspirations #205-Good Luck/St. Pat's Day
    Divas by Design-Put on Some Pink
    Fab n Funky #162-Add a Sentiment
    The Sisterhood of Crafters-Make em Green with Envy
    Timeless Tuesday #211-Go Green

Also, if you've heard the rumblings about Google Reader going away and want to switch, feel free to follow me on Bloglovin!  It's a fabulous resource!  I love having all the new blog posts from the day grouped together in my email for me to easily look through.  You can find the Bloglovin link above under the "Ways to Connect" header.
Thanks for stopping by!  And Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

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Happy Wednesday!!..right...it's Wednesday?  I swear I woke up this morning dreading that it was Tuesday...again...I mean, I had a nice day yesterday, but I much prefer to be moving toward the weekend instead of away :)  Are you with me on that?

So we had a pretty big event happen in our family last week.  Matthew's brother and wife welcomed their second little girl into the world on Wednesday!  I can't believe it's been a week already!  She came a day earlier than planned, but she is gorgeous in every way!  We can't wait to meet little Clara Annabelle in June when we finally get to go to MI again.  As I mentioned, this is their second little girl.  Natalie is their oldest at almost 3 years old in May.  It is going to be so much fun loving and snuggling with these 2 little sweeties when we visit!

Little girls always make me think of playing dress up!  For this past Christmas, Matthew's mom made Natalie a dress-up box and filled it with costumes!  It was so adorable watching her try on every single one of them and prance around the living room!  So now that she has a little sister, I can only imagine the fun they are going to have some day!

That was the inspiration behind my card today.  Sweet little sisters playing dress up together and dreaming of being in a fairytale.  Take a moment and remember all those times you wished you could be Belle or Cinderella...ahhh...
Ok, back to my card :)  A little picture heavy...but I love this card and want to show it off...heavily :)

The sweet image is Queenie and Princess from Saturated Canary.  This is one of those images that I have had for a long time and never got around to using it.  It was one I just longed to have in my stash so I could look at it and remember being young again.  But I figured it was about time I used it!
I used some pretty rich papers on this card.  Even though it's inspiration was fun little girls playing dress-up, I didn't want to use bright or goofy papers.  I wanted it to more reflect the royalty of what they are representing.  Thus the dark purples and black.

For my sketch, I did something a little different than I normally do.  I took the sketch from Sweet Sunday sketch

 and made it into an easel card!

It just seemed to work perfectly that way!  And once I thought of that idea...it seemed to be all I could think of, so I rolled with it :)
Here's some side views:

In this one you can see that I tucked a small tag behind the sentiment so that there was a place to write a message if desired.
The flowers are all cut with my Cameo.  The very small centers of the smaller flowers are a little tiny flower punch I have that worked well to fill the space under the pearls.
I used my MS Lace Border punch for the easel stand and tucked my flags under that.

The card came together pretty quickly once I got it all worked out, and I'm so extremely happy with it!  Thanks for stopping by and reading my long post today :)

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Cupcake Crafts #232-Sparkle
    Eclectic Ellapu-For a Child
    The Paper Shelter #102-Punches and Dies
    Pattie's Creations #62-Fancy Folds
    Saturated Canary #38-Good vs Evil
    The Squirrel and the Fox #38-Fairytale or Fantasy
    Sweet Sunday Sketch #179
    Sweet n Sassy Digi Challenge #94-Girl Time
    There She Goes #197-Black Cardstock
    Whoopsi Daisy-2 Patterned Papers
    Word Art Wednesday #70-Anything Goes

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Good day my crafty friends!
I hope all is well in your part of the world.  We are on day 2 of a gusty snow storm. 

I'm sharing with you today an Easter card.  I decided to try 2 different layouts for this card...mostly because I love the image and wanted to make multiple cards with it :)

Aren't they darling!?  This sweetie is Murray from Saturated Canary.  I bought her probably last Easter and never colored her up!  So I broke out my pencils and got to work. 

The first card I made followed the sketch for challenge #195 at There She Goes this week.  I've found that my paper collection is starting to lack in the pastel eastery colored papers, but I found this multi-colored purple one and figured it would work well enough.  And I paired it with a soft green pattern.

I used my Cameo to cut out a doily and then trimmed off a small part of the bottom so it was flush with the edge of the card.  The butterflies are from a MS border punch I got for Christmas.  I just trimmed around the ones I wanted and stuck them onto my card.  There are small liquid pearl dots down the centers and 2 of them are covered with blue stickles.  The last touch was to add little pearl trails for 2 of the butterflies.

This next card turned out better in my opinion.  I love them both, but I think the layout worked a little better on this card.

For this card, I followed the sketch #22 at Graphicat Sketches.  And found an Easter ribbon that I purchased...yup!  Last year!  Maybe these were like after Easter clearance items or something...not sure why I would buy something and then not use it at all...

I didn't add any stickles to the butterflies this time, but I did add a small pearl trail and pearls to all the corners.

As I said, I love both of the cards and think they both turned out fabulous.  What do you think?  Do you like one of them better than the other...and why?

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Hello!  Happy Thursday!
Hoping your week has been fabulous so far.  It's almost the weekend!! Yay!

Today I wanted to share an altered project with you! (long post here...sorry)  I don't do these very often, but this one was so much fun, I just might have to try more!
Matthew and I have been trying to adjust our lives to live a more healthy lifestyle.  It hasn't been easy, but we are trying.  He will be participating in a Tough Mudder at the end of June with our best friends, so once we got back from Christmas vacation, the real work began.  We have been trying to run a lot more (our poor treadmill...it's so old, sounds like it's going to fall apart every time we get on it :) ), and we have been doing a lot of cardio/lifting.  I have started the BodyRock 30 day challenge, and I love it!

We bought a new set of hand-weights that we both can use.  They were pretty pricey, but we got a refund on our home loan, so we were able to purchase them.  I love them!  They are adjustable from 5 to 50 pounds and perfect for our lifting workouts where our weight tolerance varies from each move.

So with our attempts to better our lives, I decided I needed a workout journal.  I received a few for Christmas this year and figured one of them would work perfect!
Here she is in all her glory!

It took me the better part of the day yesterday to get everything put together.  All of the flowers are handmade.  So of course time is spent cutting, coloring, let each layer dry, assembling more, letting them dry...it was a long process.  But once everything was dry and ready for assembly, it came together perfectly!

I'm not used to coloring images this large.  I've used the image Jamie Workout from Saturated Canary.  She's printed out at about 4 inches, which is huge for what I normally put on a card.  But I loved that I could really get into the details of the image.  Normally when they are so small, the little stuff get's missed.  I tried to give her more of a tan coloring, but it didn't turn out quite the way I wanted.  Colored pencils can only do so much :)

I chose this image because (even as a drawing) I draw inspiration from it.  I loved coloring the hair!  She's fit and holding 15 pound weights like their nothin...and she's confident.  The perfect image for inspiration.
And she has a leopard print sports bra...um yeah.  I wish I had a leopard print sports bra...
The leopard background paper was a purchase I made about 3 years ago.  Before we moved to Montreal, I had repainted our bedroom in our Seattle house brown with a leopard spotted border.  So I was going to use this paper for the scrapbook.  I've been hanging on to it because I absolutely love it, and finally decided that this was a great project to use it on. 

This journal cover has all my favorites on it:  Leopard Print, Blue, Roses/Flowers, Glitter, Beads, Saturated Canary, Gems in her hair!!
So what's not to love :)
The rest of the papers are from my scraps stash that I have accumulated over the last 2 years.  I hang on to everything!  I figured, using some of them as little flag strips would work perfect, and they look great!  So good choice on my part :)

The last thing I did to the cover once I was done was spray the whole thing with some Pearl Ex glimmer mist. 
You know I love glitter and the glimmer mist just completes the whole gorgeousness of the cover!

I know this journal will definitely help me out!  Every time I look at it, I'll be driven to work out just so I have something to write in it!  Lol :)
Anyhow, have a fabulous day!!

I'd like to enter this project into the following challenges:
    A Gem of a Challenge #62-New Beginnings
    By the Cute and Girly-Cute and Girly
    The Corrosive Challenge #165-Out with the Old
    Cupcake Crafts #225-Anything but a Card
    Deep Ocean #43-Anything but Square
    Designed to Color #8-Metallics
    Digital Tuesday #193-Flower Power
    Fab n Funky #154-Get Moving
    Incy Wincy Designs-Tic Tac Toe (Alter Something, 3 Different Papers, Embossing)
    Nutcrafters #34-Lots of Flowers
    Ruby's Rainbow #45-Smile
    Sassy Studio #160-Ribbon, Roses, Rhinestones
    Totally Gorjuss #166-Spotty (leopard spots right?? :) )
    Word Art Wednesday #63-Anything Goes

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Absolutely no one that knows me better
No one that can make me feel sooo goooood
How did we stay so long together?
When everybody, everybody said we never would
And just when I, I start to think they're right
That love has died...

There you go making my heart beat again,
Heart beat again,
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time?
There you go pulling me right back in,
Right back in,
Right back in
And I know-oo I'm never letting this go-ooo

I'm stuck on you
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby we're stuck like glue
Whutooo whutooo
Stuck like glue
You and me baby we're stuck like glue

Hello everyone!!  Today's post and card I want to dedicate to my wonderful husband!  The one that makes me smile even when I feel I can't, the one that still gives me butterflies, who drops everything in a heartbeat to help me with the smallest things.  The man that takes time away from his games to help me with my girlie projects, and still walks away a complete man.  

He has been such a rock for me over the last several months while I have been teetering on the edge of breakdown.  He pushes me to do better, to be better.  And when I'm having a rough day, he never hesitates to just sit on the couch and hold me while I cry.  I love him.  More than anything.  And I pray that someday I can be that perfect wife for him.  The one he can lean on when he needs a shoulder.  The one that makes his heart soar because of the joy visible on her face.  The perfect wife!

When we lived in Seattle, my ringtone for Matthew was Sugarlands "Stuck on You."  I love this song and every time I think of it or hear it on the radio, I instantly think of Matthew, because it's true.  I am so stuck on him!

And while browsing different blogs and challenges, I found a sketch at Deconstructed Sketch that really stood out to me.  I was searching for inspiration and it hit me instantly when I saw Jen's sketch.

I used Washi Girl from Saturated Canary!  I know the song is "stuck like glue" but tape is sticky too!  This card is so perfect!  And I know it's really pink and girlie, not really a mans card...but every time I look at it I will smile, sing the song and dream of my wonderful husband :)

If you haven't seen the music video for this song...you must!  I never watched it until yesterday when I started this card.  Such an awesome video!  Could not stop laughing!

Over the next few days I will be making several changes to this blog.  It's time to revamp it!  I want it to flow together better and look professionally fun.  Of course, most of my help came from Matthew :)  We've been doing a lot of coding together (which is what he does..every day...he's perfect at it), so I owe him a huge gigantic Thank You!  More to come on that later!  Check back soon!

Much love!
<3 Emily

Entering this card in the following challenges:
    Deconstructed Sketch #83
    Saturated Canary #34-Song Inspiration
    Inky Chicks #1 read more →

Happy Wednesday!
I wanted to pop in here for a really quick post before starting my mad rush to get ready for our trip home to Michigan tomorrow morning.  It's been a crazy couple of days of crafting, baking, cleaning...all that fun stuff :)

Here is one of the many handmade gifts I am giving this year:

The jar is a layered mix for Peppermint Hot Cocoa!  I am all about hot chocolate in the winter...well all year actually :)  So making these up to give to family was a blast!  The cute jars are from Ikea.

I made a little tag using the sweet image Latte from Saturated Canary.  Colored her up with my colored pencils and then layered her onto a tag with a few overly glittered punched snowflakes.  I never seem to have enough ribbon to use for my tags, but I have a large spool of twine that seems to always work just fine :)

These all turned out so cute!  I loved putting them together!  They are going into little handmade fabric bags with some foot scrub or bath salts:

Pictured here with Lavender bath salts :)

I will be away for the next few weeks.  The posts that follow will be scheduled since I won't have a reliable computer connection while home.
I hope everyone has an absolutely Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!  Be safe, enjoy time with family, and remember that at Christmas-calories don't count :)

<3 Emily

I'd like to enter this project in the following challenges:
    Catered Crop-Tag You're It
    Celebrate the Occasion #93-Christmas Anything Goes
    Crafty Ribbons #34-Label/Tag
    Delicious Doodles #15-Anything But a Card
    Digi Design-Christmas Creation-Anything But a Card
    Fussy and Fancy #78-Tags and Banners
    Ladybug Crafts-Anything Goes
    Little Red Wagon #164-Christmas Tag
    Saturated Canary #32-Marshmallows & Hot Chocolate
    Sweet n Sassy #84-Tag You're It


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Happy Tuesday!
We're starting a new challenge this week at Tuesday Throwdown after taking last week off for Thanksgiving!  This week we want to see lots of layers!!

Our fabulous sponsor is MyGrafico and they have provided our design team with some fabulous images to use.
Here is my card:

I made a card recently for a design team call using these pink and aqua colored papers and just loved they way they looked together, so I decided to make another one :)
The butterflies are from the Woodland Silhouettes bundle from MyGrafico.  They were so fun to cut out and add some paint and beads to!  I just loved they way they look lining the blue panel.

I've also used Butterfly Princess from Saturated Canary.  Colored her in with my colored pencils and did some dotting around her with my copics.  The butterflies in both the image and the sentiment are covered in glitter to give them some sparkle, as well as all the edges have been distressed :)

I hope you will join us this week for our fun layers challenge!  Be sure to visit the rest of the design team to see their fabulous creations!!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Charisma Cardz #46-Color Combo
    Cute Card Thursday #244-Girls Only
    Delicious Doodles #12-Something That Flies
    Digital Tuesday #188-Girly

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Happy Tuesday!
I hope you have had a fabulous day!  It felt so good for me to get back into my craft room with inspiration and determination!  The motivation has been lacking quite a bit lately and I've felt like what I've been making has been less than par...and it hasn't made me happy.  So it felt great to work up a card that I love and to be totally proud of it!

Isn't she a sweetie!?  I recently received this Snow White image from Krista at Saturated Canary as a prize and I just love her!  I again fussed with my colored pencils to get the coloring right, and while it's not perfect, I'm still happy with it :)

I broke down this weekend and bought some crochet lace ribbon...finally!  I'm so glad I did!  It adds so much elegance to this card and sort of softens it up.  Perfect addition!

Most of my day was spent learning how to make those roses though.  Since my cricut died, I haven't really been able to find a quick way to make roses and that has really bummed me out since I love making my own flowers.  I had bought a few flower punches so I could make cute little buds, but I wanted to make some larger roses as well.  So I found a 5 petal image on the internet and turned it into a die cut file for my Cameo.  Then I started with the punches for the centers and made each layer of the cut file slightly bigger in Silhouette Studio.  It took me a few tries to get the staggering correct, but once I worked it out, the results were perfect!

I took some of my Copic sketch markers-R81, R85, R27 and colored in the layers of the roses to give them a two-tone affect.  I just love doing that!  Probably one of my favorite ways to use the few copics that I have.
Then I cut out a leaf flourish to tuck behind the flowers and arranged everything together!

The last element I added was the handmade punched heart button attached to the sentiment.  Along with flowers, I love making my own buttons :)  I can make them in almost any shape and size that I want to!

Love love love this card!  I'm so happy with how it turned out and I hope that inspiration streak will continue as today was really fun :)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
    2 Sisters Challenge #118-Sketch
    A Gem of a Challenge #59-Ribbon and Lace
    Catered Crop-Arsenic and Old Lace
    Fussy and Fancy #76-Feeling Blue
    Kaboodle Doodles #146-Buttons and Bows
    Papertake Weekly-Ribbons and Pearls
    The Ribbon Reel #41-Crochet
    Saturated Canary #30-Fairytales
    Whoopsi Daisy-Die Cuts and Punches

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