Whiff Of Joy~Fancy Edges Challenge

 Good morning everyone! I hope that everyone is enjoying fall. The temps. have certainly started to drop around here. Tonight we did our pumpkins...I'll post some pictures of them later. Leila did Minnie Mouse and Jodus did some for walker thing from Star Wars and my pumpkin isn't done yet...lol...it took quite a bit of time to get the kids done. Rodney worked pretty darn hard on cutting and did a great job! Thank goodness because I can't cut to save my life.

Today over at Creative Craft Challenges there is a new challenge. The challenge is fancy edges. I hope you will all come over and join in and take a look at the fantastic work of the DT. The challenge runs for two weeks so you have plenty of time to play along!
I am actually pretty happy with this. Even though....I have the hardest time coloring my Whiff of Joy images. I love them soooo much but get so frustrated when I'm coloring them. Maybe it's just my coloring skills and I just need to keep practicing!! I am going to toot my own horn here for a second or should I say toot a horn for Martha Stewart....I just LOVE her punches/border punches....I have a ton of them and I have not been able to find any other border punches that punch as easily or cleanly (is that a word..LOL). Look how wonderful that border is and I used the same punch (the corner one) to make the little "thing" under the sentiment. So in case you didn't realize....I LOVE MARTHA STEWART BORDER PUNCHES!!

Materials Used:
Image~Whiff of Joy
CS~SU!
DP~My Mind's Eye
Rhinestones
Copics
Stickles
Sentiment~SU!
Circle punch SU!
Martha Stewart border punch

Challenges entered:
Totally Paper Crafts Friday Challenges~#89 layer upon layer
Christmas Inspirations~#35 die cuts or punches
Crafting When We Can~ almost christmas

A very Special Card

I have a very special person in my life and I recently made this card for her, for her birthday, as a way of saying "I love you", and to say thanks! Her and her husband opened their home to us several months ago when we came home from Germany. We were only suppose to be home for about 2 weeks and it ended up turning into 6 weeks (long story) but none-the-less she let us basically live with them. It's a lot to take in a family of 4 and to make us feel soooo at home. She had a room done up for the kids, a room for Rodney and I and basically said "what's mine is yours". She is family Rod's cousin but she's soooo much more then that and I love her with all my heart and I am sooooooo glad that we grew so close and became the best of friends!

Materials used:

Image~Stamping Bella Lulu collection (some of my fav. images)

Martha Stewart flowers

SU! punch

copics

rhinestones

Sentiment~Stamping Bella

SU! CS

DP~DCWV

Challenges Entered:

Pollycraft Monday Challenge~#115 Girls, girls, girls

Stamptacular Sunday Challenges~#134 you choose

Sweet Stamps~#37 lots of layers

Top Tip Tuesday~#56 layer it up

Craft your Passion~#80 double up with pink

For my Mom!!

My mom who is a breast cancer survivor has been asking me for a journal. I was really excited about putting this together for her. I am very proud of my mom for going through all she did to beat this horrible thing called cancer. So of course it makes me happy any time I can make something from the heart for her.
Don't you just LOVE Princess Jennifer Latte Breast Cancer image???!!! This is one of my favorite images...I say one of my favorite because if you've ever been over to The Stamping Boutique and looked at Tracey's images you'd know that all of her images are just fantastic!!!! All the links are on my sidebar if you want to have a peek!!!
BTW: my mom has received this and loves it and even took it to work to show off her the people she works with!!!

Products used:
Image~TSB
Cricut
Martha Stewart border punch
copics
stickles
ribbon
brad
adhesive spray
composition book

Challenges Entered:
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge~#134 you choose
C.R.A.F.T Challenge~#124 recipe
Pile It On~#41 just because
Stamp Insanity~SISC#77 anything but a card

Whiff Of Joy

My aunt asked me to make her a few thank you cards and since it's fall (already) I thought my Wiff Of Joy Fall Willow Catching Leaves would be perfect! I tried doing blonde hair but I don't think I quite have down the technique yet.....I'm a work in progress, especially with copics since there is so much that goes into shading.

Products Used:
Image~Whiff of Joy
Sentiment~SU!
Ribbon~SU!
CS~SU!
DP~DCWV
Copics
Ink~SU! and memento black
Dots from Stamping Bella

Challenges Entered:
Fab n Funky Challenges~#94 Crazy for Color
Kaboodles Doodles Challenges~#88 Let's see those leaves
One Stop Craft Challenges~#152 Anything Goes
Stamping for the Weekend~#18 colors of autumn
ABC Challenges~A Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenge Week

 Okay....so I have been having this horrible cold and Wed. will be 2 stinkin' weeks of coughing myself silly, feeling totally drained....ALL the time and just feeling like crud in general! Yes..yes...yes...I know....go to the doctor...blah blah blah. I hate the doctors. I avoid them at all costs! So instead I'm gonna complain  to all of you!!! LOL!

This week over at Creative craft Challenges the theme is Congratulations! Our sponsor is MelJens...if you haven't been to Meljens before....you MUST take a look at her stuff....it's fantastic...I love and have quite a few of her images and the one I used today is also from her.
I decided to dedicate and donate my card to the hospital that Splitcoaststampers is sponsoring the month of October for Breast Cancer Awareness month. They are having a new challenge every day, have a long list of prizes to give out and all your cards go to this wonderful hospital in Texas for breast cancer patients.

Materials Used:

Image~Meljens

Dots from Stamping Bella

Copics

CS~SU!

spica pens

Stickles

Sentiment~Hanna Stamps

Punches SU!

Charm

Challenges Entered:

One Stop Craft Challenge~#152 anything goes

Totally Paper Crafts~#87 animals

Pile It On~#41 Just because

Lexi's Creations~#50 pink is for boobies