This Weeks Challenges at Christian Paper Crafts!

Hello friends!

I've been slacking this week (sort of!) at least in the creative sense! However, I do have a newly organized and clean craft room!! AND the guest room is nearly done, just needs the baseboards, painting the closet and a few paint touch ups to be done. I put the second coat of paint on the last wall that needed it. ( I did that for hubby so he could move on to something else in there) It will be a while before we do anything about the floors but it's looking good. I have been working my fingers to the bone today getting all the dust and tools out of the way and I've even gotten the walls decorated!! Whoo-hoo!! Just in time for our guest to arrive on Monday!

Well, I said all that so that you would be understanding why I've not posted this weeks challenges at Christian Paper Crafts but here are the three for this week so far:

Color Monday: light green, peach, pink & white (When uploading to our gallery at CPC, please use keyword CM43 and when uploading to your blog or other online galleries, please use keyword CPC-CM43.) Be sure and check out Jen's adorable card Here

Sketch Tuesday: Here is Gloria's fabulous sketch for this week (CPC ST 43)

Bible Verse Thursday: Angella has a gorgeous card HERE
This week's Bible Verse Thursday Challenge is "Do Not Worry"!! There are many verses about this subject.....grab your concordance or head over to Biblegateway.com or blueletterbible.com to find a verse for your project.When uploading to our gallery here at CPC, use Keyword BVT41. If uploading to any other online galleries, please use CPC-BVT41 there.

There are no time limits and most definitely no challenge police! Have fun and glorify our Lord through your work!!!

Well, I can't wait to play (glad there are no time limits!) but first I've got to head over to Bible Study, we are in the Book of Jeremiah and it starts in less than an hour so I'd best get myself ready!! Have a great evening.

PS. I attended a Copics class last night!! I'm excited to share but I've got to run!!

A Belated Blog Anniversary!

You are going to think me nuts but I just realized I've been blogging for about one year. I was curious to see what the date of my first post was and to my surprise it was February 5th, 2009. Happy Anniversary to me, one day late!! How weird is that? I should have been paying attention and had some sort of giveaway to celebrate. Well, I'll keep thinking about that one and maybe I'll have an end of the month giveaway!! I'm fairly new so I don't have a lot of extra stuff but I'll see what I can come up with! I just want to thank you for following and reading my ramblings and making such sweet comments about my projects!! I'm blessed!

Thank you to my followers.... (this pic isn't the greatest, those buttons go perfectly with the blending or the four ink colors, but they look really dark in the pic. I think the battery was low when I took this a couple of days ago.

I have something even better than an anniversary to celebrate! I got my craft room rearranged and cleaned!! (the twin bed is outta here!!) This is incredible, I can walk in here now!! Whoo-hoo!! I still have a little more organizing to do with my scrap papers but I've made labels for the folders to make it nice and neat. I have labels for: cardstock, florals, winter, spring, summer, fall, kids and holidays. Can you think of others? I've got hanging folders to put them into. Hubby is making me something for my spools of ribbon that are to big for my jars. And hopefully I'll incorporate some of my smaller punches on that too. I have a place for my Cricut and Cuttlebug and now I need to figure out a spot for the sewing machine. Hmmmm..... I forgot about that until just now. I do have a spot under the window that could be perfect! We will see! Well, I'm off to Costco and then to a baby shower for my great nephew who was born on Christmas day, they are down here to meet all the family!! Can't wait.... Have a blessed day!

Love Ya, Mojo Monday!

Hello friends!!

Here is my card for Mojo Monday, (MOJO124) this is a great sketch and if you have a chance, be sure to check out the site because there are some very talented ladies on the Design Team. I think this is the first time I've ever played along. But I chose a great week, the first week of the month is prize week. That's exciting! I would love to win a set of Verve stamps! I've been browsing (or stalking!) the Verve Blog site for some time (and drooling over all the great stuff) and also seeing other cardmakers projects on personal blogs as well as the Christian Paper Crafts gallery and let me just say, they are fabulous stamps! Wow, I'm going to say it again, I would love to win a set of my choice! (don't know how I'd decide though, so many styles to choose from)!!

Well, I've got to get off the computer, we just had a 6.0 earthquake and it's was not as big as the last one, but still a good shake. I'm sure people are still a little unnerved from the January 9th shake. The wind is just a howling today, need to get things prepared in case the power goes out.(which it just did and I had to jump back on real quick to post and now I'm going off again!!) Have a wonderful day and be safe out there!! I'm so glad I have the Lord, He just takes the fear away! Praise the Lord.

Edited: I'm back on briefly to add the ingredients to the card!!

Paper: American Crafts and Bazzill Cardstock; Stamps: Unity (sentiment); BoBunny (tree); Inkadinkadoo, (tiny hearts, stamped then cut out)Inks: Archival, coffee; Distress inks for blending: Antique linen and worn lipstick; Embellies: Buttons, Making Memories; Ribbon (dotted) American Crafts; light pink from Michaels; Tools: EK Success: corner rounder and border punch; Marvy Uchida: scallop circle punch.

Two Challenges this Week (so far...)

Hello friends!!

I've had a very busy day!! Started off with a great Bible Study in the Book of Daniel (Beth Moore DVD series) she is such a gifted teacher! We are in week three and my Ladies group here really enjoyed this weeks lesson and we had a terrific discussion afterwards, I LOVE THAT!! So much input, you know they are listening and really "hearing!"

After that I came home and began the "fun" work of cleaning the house (I didn't put a dent in it, well maybe a little one) after the remodeling and updating going on here, there is dust and tools and tools and dust all over the place, it's beginning to wear me down!! (just kidding, I just hide in my craft room, which is part of the problem, if I'd clean instead of hide out I probably wouldn't feel so overwhelmed! Well, today was a good start! Then came dinner and now I'm in front of the computer, nothin like stating the obvious!) I worked on two of the cards I had done last night that I just didn't like, well, I'm still not thrilled with them but with a little adjusting and adding I'm not too embarrassed to post them. They are for our color and sketch challenge at Christian Paper Crafts this week. So without any more excuses here they are: (I guess you'd like to know what the challenges are ... silly me!)

Color Monday: Everything goes with Chocolate. So today it's chocolate, 2 shades of pink, any shade of orange + white or cream. When uploading to our CPC gallery, please use keyword CM42 and when uploading to your blog or other online galleries, please use keyword CPC-CM42.

CPC CM42

My list of supplies are at the end of the post. One technique I'd like to share is that I cut out two of the butterflies and added Glossy Accents (Ranger)and then added some pop up squares to add some dimension. I also added some of the Glossy Accents to the "SPRING" you can see the shine. The curved line is part of the Pink Paislee paper that was a diecut I trimmed it too fit because what I originally had in mind didn't work!! Lemonade from lemons :-)

Next is our fabulous SKETCH TUESDAY Challenge:

Here is my take on the sketch! I also incorporated the colors from Mondays challenge.

CPC ST42

List of ingredients:

Paper: Pink Paislee (Enchanting line) both of the cards base is part of this Pink Paislee line

Cardstock: Bazzill

Stamps: Pink Paislee (Spring) Inkadinkadoo ( bloom, thinking of you, tiny flower)

Ink: Archival, coffee, Prismacolor pencil (orange)

Embellishments: flower: BoBunny and Making Memories; button: BoBunny; Ranger Stickles, pink, Glossy Accents.Tools: EK Success, corner rounder; SpellBinders: Nestabilities: Label 1; Fiskars border punch, Creative Charms: pearls

So sweet of you to visit, thanks for looking!! Have a blessed day!

One more thing... my sweet little grandson Jakob loves to call me on the phone. Tonight when he called he told me he went to a basketball game with Mimi (Aunt Amy) so he told me all about it and then he said "I love you, grammie" and then told his mom, "I'm done" and handed her the phone!! He is so cute!! Yesterday he called me on my cell phone while I was at work cause he wanted to "leave Grammie a message." It's so nice to know he is thinking of me. I love you Jakob!! My almost three year old little sweetheart!

At the music store Jakob picking out a bass guitar!

Love Struck Cartridge Giveaway

Be sure and check out Amy's blog she's giving away this cartridge and it's just in time for Valentine's Day!! Get the details HERE at Scrappin N Style! Be sure and let her know you saw this here at Delightful Details!!

Sketch Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers (SC265)

Okay, I'm supposed to be cleaning... but you know (I'm inbetween loads of laundry and I'm having a quick cup tea before I tackle the vacuuming, any excuse to sit in front of the computer!)

But I've got these three cards I just want to share with you all. I'm loving this Basic Grey Origins paper! Love the colors and each paper design.

This card is for SCS Sketch Challenge 265 and it's posted at Splitcoast. I've not posted too much there and this is actually the first time I've participated in a challenge, I've only put my DT work from Christian Paper Crafts over there but there certainly is a lot to check out. Lots of fun tutorials and some great ideas! Here is the link for the Sketch Challenge site The ribbon is from Michaels, the flower and button is from Making Memories. Cardstock is from Paper Accents. The stamp is from Inkadinkadoo. I used my Cuttlebug to diecut the Nestabilities Label One for the sentiment. Ink is Archival, coffee and I blended Distress ink (antique linen) around the sentiment.

OCCSC #49 I started this card with the inspiration from Our Creative Corner but I've not posted it over there but I do want to give them credit for starting the creative inspiration!!

I love the how the butterfly turned out. I first stamped and heat embossed with gold embossing powder and then I used Perfect Pearls (Forever blue and Forever green) to color it in. I then cut it out and then added the green pearls for the body. I love the shimmer. There are two ways to use Perfect Pearls and I chose to use them by mixing them with water on my craft sheet and then painted them. I wasn't particularly careful because I knew I would be cutting the image out.

The ribbon is from Michaels (I hit a sale!! whoo-hoo), the stamps from Inkadinkadoo, the pearls from Creative Charms and the card base from Bazzill. You'll have to click to enlarge to see the border punch from EK Success towards the bottom of the card and I also used my Cuttlebug to diecut the Nestabilites Label 1 for the sentiment and inked the edges with Distress Ink antique linen using a blending tool from Ranger.

Here is my last card and my least favorite, although I love the papers! The only additional product I used would be my EK Success photo corner (scallop) punch. Everything else is covered in the above descriptions. Sorry the pic is not the best, I should have cropped it so that you could see a little more detail. But if you click to enlarge you'll definitely see ALL the details!!

Well, it's back to cleaning the house and I need to finish making dinner for a friend who just had a masectomy this week and is recovering at home. Hope you'll check back later to see our BIBLE VERSE THURSDAY CHALLENGE FROM CHRISTIAN PAPER CRAFTS!!

Have an excellent day!

Sketch Tuesday at CPC!

Just a quick hello and a card to share for this weeks Sketch Tuesday! Gloria has a fabulous sketch for us at Christian Paper Crafts and I managed to get a card done late last night and finally able to get it posted! I had fun trying a new technique to make this "blossoming" flower that I saw on Mercy Kerin's blog and HERE is the link to the tutorial. I did use a smaller scallop circle punch so I used less layers and it doesn't look exactly like the one in the tutorial but I guess that's the fun part of improvising when you don't have the exact tools on hand!

I kept mine pretty plain but can you see this sprayed with some GlimmerMist? I will be trying this again (with the Glimmer Mist!!). Wonderful way to use up those scraps! I recommend using doubleside paper. I used cardstock and a couple of the BG Origins paper.

Here's a side view so that you can see the layers (approx 6)

Ingredients:
Paper: Basic Grey (Origins) and Bazzill
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo (sentiment) and Swirls by Hot Off the Press
Ink: Archival, coffee
Embellishments: brad, Making Memories; Dimensional Pearls, Adirondack
Tools: Punches (3) EK success, corner rounder; Large Blossom, Marvy Uchida; Small scallop circle, Marvy Uchida.

Tomorrow I'll have another card to share from the Basic Grey Origins paper, I'm almost done making a set of cards for my mom. Thanks for looking and have a wonderful week!