BunnyDuck????!!!!

 Afternoon everyone! It's Friday!! I hope you are all ready for the weekend. My son is on spring break so it's like every day is the weekend...we get to sleep in!!!! And then...the fighting begins!! My kids are at each other all day and I have no idea what I'm going to do with them once he is out for the summer...I keep telling my husband...WE NEED A POOL!!!!

Anyway...it's been a while since I have posted..things have just been getting in the way but really important things so it's not like I can whine that I haven't been able to craft...my mind has just been on my BFF who's baby was just born a preemie with heart problems and just had surgery and is trying to survive the next 3 days and so...I have been lost a bit especially since she is in Pa. and I'm here in Nc.

But today I have for you bunnyduck...he's a bit confused as to what he is I think...lol...this was my day to post over at Great Impressions and this is the images I used. Did you know that Great Impressions is doing challenges now? They are monthly so you have plenty of time to play along...the current challenge ends on Saturday but a new one will start on Sunday so be sure to join us!!

Products Used:
copics
CS~SU!
Ribbon~Stamping Bella
Stamping Bella dots

Challenges Entered:
Phindy's Place~#99 Ribbon
Simply Create Too~#10 Eggs or Bunny
Totally PaperCrafts~#110 Easter
Charisma Cardz Challenges~#12 Easter
The Paper Shelter~#57 Easter

Fanci Peacock

Hello everyone! It's Friday!!! It's feeling like Saturday here because Jodus is off of school for a teachers work day. It's nice and sunny and in the 70's...I am so ready for full force spring here....MINUS the dang pollen there is yellow everywhere...our cars look horrible!

Today is my day to post over at Great Impressions and today I am working with Fanci Peacock which you can find HERE along with the rest of the GI images!
I thought I was going to love coloring this one in but then decided to heat emboss it and add stickles for sparkle...you know everything has to sparkle!!
I have been asked how I made the flower for the other card I did so I used the other one that I made at the same time and wanted to give you the link to the girl who actually did a tutorial for them that I followed:
Whimsical World Of Laura Bird

Great Impressions is now doing challenges...we are just doing them monthly until we get a nice group of participants so come over and join us for our first challenge Great Impressions Challenge #1 you still have two weeks to participate!  

Products Used:
CS~SU!
DP~K&C Company
Martha Stewart border punch
Image~Fanci Peacock
Stickles
Recollections gemstone stickers
Embossing Powder
Twine SU!
Button SU!

Challenges Entered:
Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards~#8 Feathers and Fur
Gingersnap Creations~GC142 Border Punches
Whimsy Stamps Challenges~#30 Emboss it

Great Impressions Blog Hop!

Welcome welcome to the very first Great Impressions blog hop! I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful company of stamps and have a great DT!!! Our hop this weekend is a combined hop. We are hopping along with the girls from Creative Inspirations paints! If you have not tried their paints...now is the time to do so....they are soooo pretty and shimmery and lovely! You will see in all of our posts not only Great Impressions stamps but also Creative Inspirations paints on our projects!

You have from Friday March 9th 8:00am EST until Sunday March 11th 8:00pm EST to complete the hop. And then you will be entered into the drawing for the prize package which you don't want to miss out on!!!

Here is what I came up with for my project to share:

Wow...I really am loving the CI paints but I really need a lot of work on how to use them. I used them to stamp my image and then also painted my flowers! But I can see now why people that use mixed mediums love them so much because they are beautiful, dry quickly, and are very smooth!

Okay....so I guess you would like your letter huh?! Well...I actually got lucky and get to give you (2) letters so I have for you are A and T

So if you came here from

Angi's blog: Making Mayhem

then you are right on track and you will now head over to

Dawn's blog: Dawn's Craft Place & More

but....if you just started here with me you need to go back to the beginning which is here

Creative Inspirations Paints Blog 

and start there remebering to grab the letters at each stop, leaving each girl some love and then leaving some love along with your word/words on the last blog of the hop!

Enjoy!!

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions
CS~SU!
Martha Stewart border punch
Prima Flowers
Brads
Creative Inspirations paints in pink highlights and fairy dust

Great Impressions 1st challenge

Hello everyone!!! The sun is back out and shining today and the kids are fighting like crazy....awwww...it's Sunday...LOL! I know my son is bored especially since he works sooo hard during the week at school but dang...does he have to bug the crap out of his sister?!!!

I'm excited to share with all of that you that over at Great Impressions we have started our monthly challenges. Since the online store is officially open we are working hard to promote it and have started challenges! This month's challenge is something handmade! You have a full month to join us so be sure to stop by and link up your handmade projects!!

I did handmade flowers...this is the 3rd different kind of flower I have tried and I love this and you know...once I got the fold down (which I couldn't figure out without my husband's help...lol) it went really fast!

Products Used:
Stamp~Great Impressions
DP~K&C Company
CSC~SU!
Ink~SU!
Tim Holtz Distressing tool
Twine SU!
Button SU!

Challenges Entered:
Stamptacular Sunday Challenges~#14 Text Me
Let's Ink It Up~#21 Show me your flowers
Fussy and Fancy~#57 More than Words
Phindy's Place~#95 Distressing
Raise the Bar~#94 Twine
Desert Island Craft challenge~#26 (I used 1,2,3 distressing, vintage, and sentiment as main focus)

Great Impressions~Bunny in egg balloon

Good morning everyone! How are you? I got my hair cut this week. I finally feel almost normal again! Got it cut and colored and had a little bit of girl time which I don't get very often. It's short and it requires me to actually "do" it which is fine because I hate that I always just throw it up in a pony tail and it just looks and feels so much healthier.

Today is my day over at Great Impressions to post and this is the card I posted! Here is a link to the store and here is a link to the blog where you can find the rest of the DT's work from this week and other weeks as well!
Great Impressions is going to be starting a monthly challenge and we would love for all of you to join us so please make sure you check in on Sunday, the 4th for the new challenge, all the rules and prizes!!

Super easy card today...some paper piecing on the balloon, some MS border punching, coloring and flowers! Oh...how bout' those yellow flowers...I went a little too crazy on the stickles...yikes!!!

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions Bunny in Egg Balloon
Sentiment~Computer Generated by me
Copics
Stickles
CS~SU!
DP~SU!
Prima Flowers
Martha Stewart Border Punch

Challenges Entered:
Crazy Catz Weekly Challenge~#122 Punches or Dies
The Pixie Cottage~#110 Anything Goes
PaperCrafting Journey~#4 Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion~#99 Paper Piecing
Fab N Funky Challenges~#110 Let's Leap into Action (okay...so my bunny isn't currently leaping...in fact he's being kinda lazy but he DOES leap ;-)

Great Impressions~Get Well

Happy Saturday everyone! Yesterday was my day to post over at the Great Impressions blog. We have little challenges going on with the DT and the challenge was sentiment only. I thought this was going to be hard for me but I found a sentiment from GI ~Get Well Prayer that is pretty big so I didn't have to worry about how I was going to take up the rest of the space left on the card.
Great Impressions is having a 10% off sale right now if you use the code GIB212. This will end at the end of the month so hurry over and do some shopping while you can get a fabulous discount!
Also be sure to go by the blog so you can check out all the other DT creations from this past week!

I used the cricut for this card and got really lucky with the sizing being pretty perfect to fit the sentiment and the card size!
It wouldn't be me without some glitter so I used my stickles on some of the leaves on the DP. I "think" this DP is from DCWV but I can't be sure because this is from my scrap pile. I have been doing reallllly good with going through my scraps before getting new paper out so I can use up some of my huge pile!

Products Used:
Sentiment~Great Impressions Get Well Prayer
CS~SU!
DP~DCWV (I think)
Stamping Bella dots
SU! Ribbon
SU! Ink
Cricut
Storybook cart.
Stickles

Challenges Entered:
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge~#57 More then Words use long sentiment
Phindy's Place Challenges#94 Get Well
Delightful Challenges~Use patterned paper
The paper Shelter~#52 use a sentiment
2 Sisters Challenge Blog~#80 Anything Goes
Paper Makeup Stamps~#24 Word Art

Winter Fashion Marlee

Hey everyone! How's it going? Things here are going pretty good. Although...I am sooooo "off" lately. I can't seem to keep anything straight including my dates! Ugh!
Today is my day over at the Inky Impressions Inspirational Blog to post so here is what I came up with.
I used Winter Fashion Marlee and decided to cut her out. I'm not great at cutting but I couldn't resist with this image...it just seemed "right". I then popped her up a bit with some pop dots. Not too much else too it. Nice and simple!

Products Used:
Image~Inky Impressions Winter Fashion Marlee
Sentiment~Inky Impressions
Nesties
Big Shot
Copics
Stickles
Loose pearls from Inky Impressions
Prima Flower
CS~SU!
DP~Scraps
Corner Tabs that are bling (have no idea who these are made by)

Challenges Entered:
The Crazy Challenge~#107 use punch or die (used nesties dies)
Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog~#95 pretty in pink
CES Challenges~#73 spots and dots
The Pink Elephant~#136 print it

Great Impressions Friday

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a nice Friday! I am "suppose" to be getting ready to give my first Scentsy home party and I'm avoiding getting ready! I'm nervous. I haven't done this in a really long time! So instead I'm blogging!!!
Today is my day over at Great Impressions to post and I decided to use a silhouette image called Frolicking Trio. I don't use silhouette's much because I'm never sure "how" to use them besides to make them black so I remembered I had perfect pearls and got them out and this is what I came up with!
I also want to let you know that after many months of hard hard work the Great Impressions Website is now open for business and for the rest of this month you can get a 10% discount on your order. For more details on that visit the Great Impressions blog ;-)

So basically to use the perfect pearls I just inked up my image with my versamark (as if I'm going to emboss) and then daubed the perfect pearls on the image. After that to "set" the powder I just sprayed some water in the air and wafted the image under it (don't you love my terms today...lol). This was my first time doing it and you can see some shadowing around the image that isn't suppose to be there but I don't think it looks too bad...almost like I meant to do it!

The flower is handmade and I also applied perfect pearls to it as well. See...I always have a way to get my sparkle on my cards!!!

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions Frolicking Trio
CS~SU!
DP~We are Memory Keepers
Rhinestones~Kaiserscrapbook
Versamark
Perfect Pearls
Gem~SU!
Stickable butterflies

Challenges Entered:
PaperCrafting Journey~#3 Make it cute
Fab n' Funky Challenges~#108 Try something new (using the perfect pearls)
Anything Goes Challenges~#60 Bingo (make your own flowers, your choice, bling)

Ice Skating Rachel

Good morning everyone! I am barely alive this morning so bare with me!! We just got home last night from a 5 day trip up to Pa. for a baby shower. It was surely worth the trip but that drive sucks even more each time we make it. But we did get really lucky and didn't hit any horrible traffic like we normally do.

Today a new challenge starts over at Inky Impressions! The challenge is to use punches or dies!
I used Ice Skating Rachel and you know...I have been digging into my scraps lately and all of this paper came from my huge pile!!

Products Used:
Image~Inky Impressions Ice Skating Rachel
CS~SU!
Copics
Distresser tool
Stickles
Stamping Bella Dots
Sentiment~SU!
Martha Stewart border punch
Stamping Bella Ribbon
Charm from Inky Impressions store

Challenges Entered:
Anything Goes Challenges~#60 Bingo distress, your choice, ribbon or lace
My Craft Stop~#44 Girly Girl
Stamps R Us Challenges~Anything Goes

Angelicas Sled

Good morning! I am trying to play catch-up and work in advance because I am outta here on Friday!!! I am going up north to Pa. for my BFF/cousin-in-law's baby shower! This is a HUGE deal! She has been through a lot and I am just soooo thankful that Jodus' having days off school and Rodney being on his 5 day break all landed at the same time as her baby shower! So it's going to be a busy couple of days but totally worth it. And honestly...I am ready to escape. Some times you just get fed up of everything and need that break to get your bearings back.

Today I worked with an Inky Impressions image called Angelica Sled's. This was the image that had drawn me to Inky in the first place. She's sooo cute!

While I'm talking about Inky Impressions I wanted to let you know a few things....1. They have a new FB group that can be found HERE

2. They have a PCP group that can be found HERE

3. They do weekly challenges and you can find this weeks HERE

Products Used:

Copics

Image~Inky Impressions Angelica Sled's

Stickles

CS~SU!

Inky Impressions loose pearls

Pink sparkly ribbon

Brown sparkly DP

Sentiment~SU!
Martha Stewart border punch (I was trying to make a border but it wouldn't punch through the sparkly brown paper very well but I did get the snowflakes to come through so that is where they came from)

Challenges Entered:

Papertake Weekly~Anything Goes

Pollycraft Monday Challenges~#126 Chill Out

Pile it On~#6 For a Tween

The Pink Elephant~#134 Pink

Great Impressions~I'm so sorry!

How is everyone's weekend going? Saturday was a kinda...blah day and today was spent cleaning...so basically another blah day...lol...but a clean blah day!!! I know it's superbowl Sunday but I don't do the whole football thing so cleaning and trying to keep the kids from killing each other is what is on my agenda today.

Here is a card I made for my Great Impressions DT Friday! We have been waiting patiently for the store to open and it's almost time! Once it's open we plan on doing all kinds of great things over there including challenges!! I'm really excited for the DT to get to really be busy promoting Great Impressions.

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions Daisy & Seeded Dandelions
CS~SU!
Martha Stewart flowers
Copics
Stickles
SU! Clip

Challenges Entered:
Paper Sundaes~#106 Clean and Simple
Cupcake Inspirations~#146...inspired with the use of flowers and the colors
The Crafty Pad~#156 Spring Colors

Creative Craft Challenges Bingo!

Morning everyone! I think I'm getting myself back on track last week wasn't so great! I had a really great weekend which included attending a Scentsy training and it was amazing and lot's of fun!

Today over at Creative Craft Challenges a new challenge has started. It's a bingo challenge!!! Woohooo! I actually really love bingo challenges.
Our sponsor is Kenny K and I really liked playing with this image even though it's not my normal style. I have though, found some Kenny K images that I really do love!!! 

Products Used:
Image~Kenny K Bathing Beauty
Prima Flowers
SU! Rhinestone brads
SU! Cs
Copics
Sentiment~Stamping Bella I (it's actually two sentiments)
Rhinestone swirl (hehe...love my technical names for things I don't still have the packaging for)

Challenges Entered:
Kaboodle Doodles Challenges~#104 Make it Girly
One Stitch at a Time~#98 Use a Digi
Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturdays~Anything Goes

Inky Impressions Inspiration Day!

Hey hey hey! I'm feeling pretty good today! Yes...I said I'm feeling pretty good today. Some days not so much...but today...yes!
Today is my day to post over at the Inky Impressions Inspiration blog. If you haven't been over there to check it out...please do...all the DT girls put a lot of hard work into bringing you something fabulous to look at!!!
Also, Inky Impressions challenge blog has a challenge going on that you still have time to get in on it...the challenge is shaped cards, anything but square!
I have to say...I kinda like this card, I think she came out really cute and all the little "extras" on the card are cute as well. But...you know...I'm prejudice...since it is my work!!!

Here are some more of my rolled roses. I told you in my last post that I love these things! Look at all that yummy glitter!!

And this is little Lili close up!

Products Used:
Image~Inky Impressions Lili's Secret
Copics
CS~SU!
Martha Stewart border punch
Stickles
MS gems
SU! Lace
Inky's Loose pearls

Challenges Entered:
Cupcake Craft Challenges~All's you need is Love
Pile It On~#4 Add Lace
Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturdays~Have a heart
TotallyPaperCrafts~Make your own flowers (my rolled flowers are handmade)

Great Impresssions Friday!

 Hello everyone. I hope you all had a good week. My week was....okay I guess. Kinda up and down most of the week.
Friday's are my day's to post over at the Great Impressions Blog and this was my card for the week. If you haven't been over there to check it out...you need to...there is some amazing talent and there is a new post daily!
The image I used today is called Heart Blooming Tree and it's adorable and I thought it would be perfect for a Valentine's Day card!
I made the flowers...they are those rolled flowers and they are super easy! And of course they get even better with some bling or tons of stickles on them ;-)

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions Heart Blooming Tree
SU! Melon Mambo embossing powder and fine gold glitter
Martha Stewart border punch
CS~SU!
DP~American Crafts
half pearls
spica pens
Stickles

Challenges Entered:
Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards Challenges~#4 glitter latte
Totally PaperCrafts Challenges~Make your own flowers
Crafty Creations Challenge~#153 Valentine Theme
Pollycraft Monday Challenges~#123 Bingo (across the bottom..flowers, punches, pearls)
The Pixie Cottage~#104 embossing (I did heat embossing for my image)

Pampered Chef Caddy revamp

 Hey! How is everyone doing? I thought I'd share with you a caddy I redid for my son's teacher! I wish I had taken a before picture but that's okay. She had this caddy for years...a teacher of her's gave it to her and the stickers on it (yes...it had stickers on it) were a little outdated and she wanted it to be redone! Soooooo........this is what I came up with!
She loves black and white (has zebra print in her room) she loves yellow and dots (has lot's of that going on in her room as well) so I combined them and came up with this!

Each side has a different word on it to represent what Jodus' teacher is...i.e. she's giving, caring and inspiring!

And this is her initials!

I cut the letters with my cricut and then of course added stickle dots to it!

A little bling at the top!

Products used:
SU! CS
SU! striped ribbon
Cricut
Stickles
DCWV DP
(not sure where the dotted black ribbon is from)

Inky Impressions

Good morning everyone! I hope everyone's week is going well so far. I'm having a "I'm so tired" kinda week. Last night my DH was snoring soooo bad I came out to the couch to sleep and could still hear him...ugh!
This is my first post for the Inky Challenges and I'm horribly disappionted in it. I have to say that mamaw skiing gave me a heck of a time. I don't know if it was because it's out of my comfort zone or what but from the image all the way through the entire card I was just uhappy with it and the thing is...that was the 3rd time I colored her and it took me hours to come up with the card so it's not like I just threw the first thing together that I did. Ugh!
But here it is anyway!

The Challenge over at Inky Impressions is Anything but a square card. So I hope you will come over and play along this week!

Products Used:
Image~Inky Impressions mamaw skiing
Cricut for circle card
SU! CS
Stickles
Copics
Random buttons

Challenges Entered:
Papertake Weekly Challenge~Buttons, Bows, Bling and Blooms

Birthday Diva

It's Friday...it's Friday!!! I get to sleep in for 3 days (no school day Monday) woohooo!!! My son was out of school for 3 weeks on winter break and he just started back this week and let me tell you....I had the HARDEST time getting up this week. I got way to used to sleeping in and going to bed late.

Today is my day to post over at Great Impressions. I decided to work with Birthday Diva. She's a cute little thing huh?! I took this picture at the perfect time today, the sun was shining right in on the card....love living in N.C. where it's sunny more than gloomy (unlike Germany where you don't even know what "sun" is).

I paper pieced the presents up top...I thought it was a cute idea plus...coloring the ones on the bottom and top was a little much for me!

 

See...see...look at that...look how wonderfully glittery the flowers are! They are regular prima flowers that I added Ice Stickles too...have I ever told you I love things that sparkle???!!!!

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions Birthday Diva

Sentiment~SU!

Prima Flowers

Heart Clip from Recollections

Copics

Ice Stickles

CS~SU!

SU! Ribbon

KaiserCraft Rhinestones

Challenges Entered:

DYSU Challenge Blog~#54 Pink

C.R.A.F.T Challenge~#137 Celebrations (birthday)

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog~#101 fireworks or celebration (I'm going with celebration...bday)

Charisma Cardz Challenge~#1 Happy Birthday

Sassy Studio Designs~#107 Let's Celebrate