Thanks a LATTE!

Thanks a latte for coming by my delightful friends and family!

I have a cute little card to share and I've managed to meet two challenges! The first challenge is to paper piece using Cocoa the mouse for the Crazy 4 Cocoa Challenge Blog! Hope you like this one, I enjoy paper piecing so this is fun for me. The second challenge was to use kraft on your card for the That's Kraft Thursday challenge at the Spotted Chick Blog. I love this paper from MME (Fine and Dandy line) we are almost out of it at the store, I may have to grab a couple of extra sheets!

TKT#47, C4C#11

Here's a closer look so you can see I've used the Liquid Pearls (cantaloupe) to embellish. And I did a little bit of stitching around the designer papers. I used 3 different colors of Distress Ink(dried marigold, mustard seed, scattered straw) to blend around the edges of the embossed circle (Nestabilities circle, scallop circle). I used Moonlit Smooch (pearlized accent ink) on the cup lid. The card stock is from Bazzill and Neenah, bright white for stamping the image. The ribbon comes from my Key Ingredients Kit from Taylored Expression. I've colored Cocoa using Copic Markers: C0, C1, C5, R000, R01, RV13. The finished card is 5.5 x 5.5.

Hope you are having a fabulous Thursday, thanks for coming by and remember:

"Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." Philippians 4:6

Happy Birthday, Sondra!

Hello Delightful friends and family!

Today was Sondra's birthday (my boss) and so I made her a card. Now it's just a little intimidating giving her a handmade card. She owns the local scrapbook store, went to Ranger U, she's Copic certified, and teaches classes on just about everything paper craft related. I take that back, she does not teach the pergamano class! If you are ever in the Humboldt County area (northern Calif.) you should come and visit the store, it's massive and a wonderful place to get your creative juices flowing!

Here is the sketch I started with from Gloria (her blog). Gloria is our Sketch Tuesday hostess at at Christian Paper Crafts

I was hoping to incorporated our Color Monday Challenge but it just didn't happen on this card. I'll post the inspiration picture from Mary at the end of this post, just in case you'd like to play along. I hope you will visit us at the Creative Blog of Christian Paper Crafts. You will find lots of fun challenges and info about an upcoming blog hop!

CPC ST#95 (sorry I got in a hurry and forgot to crop the picture)

Here's a close-up of the sun, I used liquid pearls to embellish!

On this shot you can see, {well just barely} I added some zig zag stitching on the center "band" and then some "faux" stitching on the skirt. I used Smooch pearlized ink to make the stitches and also to color her shoes a snazzy hot pink! Our sweet little girl has been framed by the Labels Six from Spellbinders Nestabilities, embossed and ink blended around the edges while the die was still in place.

CPC-CM#95

Here is the inspiration image for Color Monday at CPC. I'm sorry it's so small, (same with the sketch) I'll have to ask my "tech" girls why it is so copying small and then remedy it!
Here are the details:
Paper: American Crafts, Dear Lizzy (Enchanted - Curious Matilda); Bazzill card stock; Neenah, bright white cardstock for image.
Stamp: Greeting Farms, Hope and Grace
Ink: Memento, rich cocoa; Distress Ink, antique linen, faded lipstick
Ribbon: Taylored Expressions, kit
Last but not least the rest of the ingredients:

Thanks for taking time to look, I hope you are having a blessed week! Tomorrow the grandbabies will be over and then it will be off to the Morning Women's Bible Study. We are studying with the Beth Moore DVD Series "Beloved Disciple."

God bless!

Cup of Tea Anyone?

Hello Delightful friends and family,

SSS#93

Another crazy busy week gone by and I need to sit and have a cup of tea and just take a timeout! And who better to spend time with me but the adorable Cocoa! He is so fun to color and I think coloring with Copics is my therapy that melts the stress away! Of course, I must admit that praying is at the top of the stress reducing remedies so I highly recommend that first and foremost!

Well, I must ask what is your favorite tea? I have many favs but the one at the top of the list is spiced chai by Big Train. It's probably a little sweet for most but something about it just makes me go ahhhhh reeelaaax! It's also wonderful cold with crushed ice and a big dollop of whip cream. Yum! Of course right now I'm all about hot tea, too cold to add any ice! I happen to have a free drink card I need to take advantage of and you guessed it, it will be spiced chai 16 oz. extra hot, nonfat milk and whip cream!! (I know whip cream with the nonfat, why bother!!) You know, I think I'm already starting to relax... ahhhh.

Here's my card which inspired this post! It's another Sweet Stop Sketch and of course Cocoa from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! I'm too late to post over at the Sweet Stop but couldn't resist sharing this fun creation. Korin the owner of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps which is one of our partnering companies at Christian Paper Crafts and she is a delight, check out her blog at Rejoicing Every Moment.

I'm still a novice at the Copic coloring but they are a lot of fun to work with - makes me feel like an artist (ha!).

Here are the ingredients:

Paper: Basic Grey, Hopscotch; Card Stock, Bazzill and Neenah; Stamp, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, Ink, Palette black; Ribbon, American Crafts; Button, Making Memories; Copic Markers to color; Distress Ink, Worn Lipstick for blending around image; Spellbinders, Nestabilities Deckled Rectangle.

Thanks for visiting now go grab your favorite cup of tea!

Introducing Ella and BY LORi Designs

Hello dear delightful friends and family!

I have a new digi stamp and illustrator to share with you today. The digi is Ella and oh what a sweetie! Oh my goodness talk about cuteness! Her creator is Lori Boyd and you can find her at By LORi Designs You should head over to her blog and check out her sweet digi design work! Adorable stuff and super fun to color.

I made this card last night for my niece (Bobbi) who lives in Oregon. It was her birthday a couple weeks ago and I knew she would be in town this weekend so I thought this would make her smile, especially after she runs her race today (Clam Beach Run in Northern Calif. ) with her mom, my sister Nicki. These two are crazy runners! Running is not my cup of tea, I wish it was then perhaps I would not be battling the weight all the time. However, today I did spend a couple of hours with the kids and grandkids shooting hoops and running after t-ball hits etc. so I did get my exercise! I even beat my dear hubby at H-O-R-S-E TWICE!! (tee-hee) I've still got the soft touch when it comes to the hoops!! We managed to get a good afternoon of fun in and now it's pouring down rain. Thank you Lord for making the rain hold off so we could play!!

Here are the details:
Base 4.25 x 5.5
Dark brown card stock, Bazzill
Designer Paper, Bo Bunny
Gingham Ribbon, Bazzill
light pink ribbon and dk brown button from my stash
Inks: computer (Ella) and Distress Inks for blending: 1st layer: antique linen, 2nd layer: worn lipstick
Spellbinders Nestabilities, Deckled Rectangle; Cuttlebug
Fast and easy card after coloring Ella with Copic markers

Thanks for looking and have a blessed weekend!!

Hello, it's already Thursday!! Another week flying by. Hope your week has been a good one. I cannot believe how warm the weather turned on Wednesday, I'm sure it hit 70 degrees and where we live it rarely reaches that in the summer (that is a slight exageration) but it is very mild weather year round but we do experience cold wet winters (rarely snow though) so having a break from the cold and wet was welcomed!! I hope the plants and trees aren't psyched out, we just pruned! My two grandkids, Jake (3) and Addy (19 mo.) decided to help me rake the leaves and get them into a big garbage bag, I missed a photo opportunity so I'm hoping the weather will be nice again today (I'm writing this at 12:15am so officially it's Thursday!) so we can "play" in the backyard again.

Tonight I got busy and was able to pull off 3 challenges in one card.

Here is our Christian Paper Crafts Sketch Challenge from Gloria (who should be on her way to CHA by now!) and the following inspiration picture was chosen by DT member Mary (aka softangelkisses) for our color challenge.

I've also incorporated a Scripture verse that speaks of Christ love which happens to also be the challenge for Bible Verse Thursday from Angie! See, three challenges in one card!! I'm on a roll!! Well enough talk here is our creative inspiration for part of the week!!

More challenges I'll be sharing soon!! And I cannot wait to share with you some new adorable images from a new site I just found but you'll have to come back and see!

Here are the deets to my card:

Designer Paper: DCWV, Mediterranean Cafe line; Card Stock, SU and Neenah; Ink: Memento, rich cocoa and Distress Ink, Dried Marigold; Stamps: Hero Arts, butterflies; Sentiment: Taylored Expressions, Rest & Renewal; Spellbinders, Nestabilities Deckled Rectangle and Standard Circles, Large; Adhesive Pearls from stash colored with Copics; Butterfly colored with Copic Markers; Cuttlebug. Finished card is 5x5.

Thanks for looking and may you experience God's faithfulness through the steadfast love of the Lord Jesus Christ!!

As always, I love reading your delightful comments, have a wonderful day!

I'm So Cute!

Ummm, that would not be me, my dear delightful friends and family! That is the name of the stamp I used from Penny Black (Margaret Sherry Collection). What an appropriate name once you scroll down and see the card I did. I finally came out of my 48 hour slump from creativity. I could not make a card if my life depended on it. Well, that might be a little drastic but you get my drift! I was so grateful to Korin owner of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and the Sweet Stop Sketches Blog who shared this "easy" (her words) sketch with us at Christian Paper Crafts. It was just what I needed to get the creative juices flowing. I was desperately wanting to use this stamp and desperately wanting to use kraft paper to play in the challenge at the Spotted Chick's "That's Krafty Thursday" and my short-lived craft drought has officially ended!! Whew....

TKT#46 and SSS92

Sorry one of the markers is upside down (didn't wear my glasses when I grouped them together.

Ingredients: Designer Paper: BoBunny "Crazy Love Fudge and Flowers"; Card Stock: Bazzill & Neenah; Stamp: Penny Black; Ink: Memento, rich cocoa, Distress Ink, worn lipstick; Embellies: Bazzill ribbon; Rhinestones: my stash (sorry!); Tools: Nestabilities Labels One, Spellbinders; Scallop Circle border die, Taylored Expressions; Cuttlebug; Image colored by the above Copic markers. Finished size 4.25 x 5.5

PS If you want to see something really cute scroll down one post and check out two of my grandkids! They aren't babies anymore... (boo-hoo)

Thanks so much for visiting and I love reading your delightful comments!!

Sweet Cupcakes and a Couple of Sweet Cutie Patooties

Hello Delightful friends and family!

Earlier in the week I shared this sketch from Gloria Stengel for Christian Paper Crafts and today I have the card which was inspired by this delightful drawing! Fun challenges this week over there so be sure and take a peek! I think you'll be pleased with the Creative Blog and all the fun challenges.

CPC-ST92 (ingredients listed at the end of post)

We had fun watching Jakob "play" basketball this morning and I took a bunch of pictures but I'll only share one! Also Addy got bored with the inside game so she decided it would be a better idea if her momma took her outside to play and it was such a gorgeous day. So, I was able to take a few pics of her as well. These kids are growing up too quickly!

Jake getting ready to dribble. Look at that concentration! If you click to enlarge, you can see his "shiner" he ran into his dad's elbow.

(Addy age 19 months)

Ingredients to my card:

Designer Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle (Cupcake love) from the Taylored Expressions Key Ingredient Kit and KaiserCraft Candy Lane Collection (paper piecing); Card Stock: Bazzill and Neenah, bright white; Stamps: Taylored Expressions: Kid at Heart set; Colored with Copic markers, Embellished with: Dimensional Pearls, Expresso; Smooch, Sassy Pink; Tools: Scallop Eyelet Border Die, Taylored Expressions; Craft & Jewelry hemp cord by Cousins

I always look forward to your delightful comments, thanks for visiting today!