Go Metallic! - ODBDSLC84

Hello Delightful friends and family,
Just a quick post:
I'm participating in the challenge to Go Metallic!! at Our Daily Bread Design.  And those two words inspired this card.   I kept it pretty simple in design, I hope you like it.

The stamp set I've used is called Christmas Verses (ODBD) which I've stamped with Versamark and embossed with Ranger Gold Embossing Powder.  The beautiful gold and cream designer paper is from K&Company (a couple of seasons old, I'm not sure the name of the collection - it came in a 12x12 pad) the holly leaves and berries are a gold foil embossed into the paper. The card stock is from Bazzill and the ribbon is American Crafts.  I've used the Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 22.  I've embellished with Tiny Twinkles, gold (Taylored Expressions).  The EK Success border punch is called Scallop Diamond, the Corner Punch is also from EK Success.  I've used the Cuttlebug to cut and dry emboss.

Thanks for looking and commenting, may you have a blessed day!

Thankful Blast from the Past

Hello Delightful friends and family!  Glad you've come to visit and I'm sure you are here for the Blast from the Past Blog Hop featuring the fun stamps from Taylored Expressions! The theme for the November hop is "Thankful". We are to create a card or project to show our thankfulness. It can be a card to send a friend or a simple 'thank you' for the always needed stash of thank you cards!

 The stamps are older sets released before September 2011 and it's exciting to be able to participate again this month! We have a fabulous sketch to work from, it is optional but it sure is a great way to get the creative juices flowing (thank you Sankari)!  I'm using the stamp sets In the Park and It's In the Bag, today. I've paper pieced the leaves using BoBunny (Forever Fall collection) designer paper.  It was a great way to use up some of the scraps!  You will find the list of participants at the end of this post. Enjoy!!

Taylor Expression Dies:

 Other ingredients:  Bazzill card stock; Inks: Memento rich cocoa; Distress Ink, Aged Mahogany, Shabby Shutters; Bic Z4 0.5mm liner pen; EK Success Corner Rounder; Darice, Hemp cording;  Copics: E25, E35, YG95, YG93, BG93, BG96; Cuttlebug

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  Looking forward to your delightful comments, I am thankful for them!

I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify Him with thanksgiving. Psalm 69:30

Sketch Challenge at ODBD

Hello Delightful friends and family!

'Tis the season... This is the card I've made for the sketch challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBDSLC83).  A random drawing determines the winner of a $15 gift certificate to be used at the ODBD store and I'm just going to confess this: there is a stamp set I'd really like to get for a project I'm doing for our Ladies Ministry Christmas Party.  Do I NEED it? Probably not a need but...  it has a Scripture verse with it that would be ideal for what I'm doing.  So I'd best get this posted so I'll at least have the opportunity to win!

Ingredients:  Stamp: Our Daily Bread Designs, Luke 2:11 set; Designer Paper: Girls Paperie;  Card Stock: Bazzill; Ribbon: American Crafts; Inks: Archival: Olive; Distress Ink, Shabby Shutters; Memento: Tuxedo Black; Adhesive Pearls: Kaiser Craft; Glimer Glam (Organic Garden), Tattered Angels;  Image colored with Copics: R37, R46;YG95, G97.  Spellbinders Nestabilies: Labels Twenty-Two, Cuttlebug.

Thank you for looking and may you have a real blessed weekend!

Happy Birthday, Cupcake!

Thanks for visiting today.  I only have pics of my youngest granddaughters birthday to share no crafty card, today!

The baby version of "Rub your head and Pat your tummy" (Chew on hand and Pull off sock)

She was fascinated by the noise and lights on her new toy from Grammie and Poppa!

She loved her new blanket from Gee-Gee (great grandma) "so cozy" (as cousin Addy would say!)

Cupcake time!

Delish!! (The pink marks on her forehead is lipstick from Gee-Gee!)

Kisses for her new baby!

Big sister enjoyed her cupcake and the celebration, too!  Fun day!

Happy Birthday Tucker Lynn!

Hello Delightful friends and family!  Today is our youngest granddaughter's 1st birthday! Tomorrow is her party so you can count on more pictures to come!

Last weekend we went to the school Harvest Festival and then the next day my son Sean, granddaugher Riley Ann and I went to the pumpkin patch. 

They found the face painting booth! 

And the cotton candy!

Addy chowing down on all that sugar (yikes!)

Riley jumping the bales in true athletic form! 

Picking out a good pumpkin with her daddy.

Yummy! A refreshing treat!

Christian Paper Crafts "Giving Thanks" Blog Hop and the Pumpkin Patch

Hello Delightful friends and family!

Today is the Christian Paper Crafts "Giving Thanks" blog hop and you are invited!  Just head over to the Creative Blog and either visit the participants or link up and join the fun - but hopefully you will do both!  There are some prizes to win so be sure and check it out.

Here is my contribution to the hop.  I've embellished a kraft colored gift bag and made a matching 3x3 note card.

Ingredients:  Designer Paper: BoBunny, Card Stock: Bazzill;  Dimensional Pearls (Terra Cotta) Ranger; Die Cut: (Tim Holtz Alterations Movers and Shapers) Mini Tattered Leaves, Sizzix; Ink: Versamark; Embossing Powder (Gold) Ranger.  Stamp: Gina K Designs, Thanks a Million set.

We spent a little time today with the grandkids at the Pumpkin Patch (sponsored by Mad River Community Hospital).  They have a garden behind the hospital and it was free for the employees (our daughter, Kelly) and their families, they even had a pony & buggy.  I'm sure there will be more pics to come!! ;-)

Jakob and his pick!

Addy deciding... although there was a spider giving her fits and she was not liking the dirt on the pumpkins!  Oh, our little princess!

Thanks for visiting! 

Blast From the Past Blog Hop

Hello Delightful friends, family and hoppers!  I can't believe it's been a month already since the last Blast From the Past Blog Hop!  What a fast month, don't you agree?!

I was so glad that we had a choice this month 'cause I'm not at all into the "trick" season but definitely give me the sweets!  My first card follows the sketch very closely (thank you Sankari for another fantastic sketch!) and the second card I've done my own thing (which is pretty wild 'n crazy in the color scheme!)  If you're hopping along then you know that Taylored Expressions sponsors this customer blog hop every month (Thank you, Taylor!) and it features the "older" TE stamps, in this case anything released before August 2011.  All the participants are listed at the end of the post.  Grab a cup of coffee/tea and a "sweet" and enjoy the hop!

Ingredients:

Card #1 Stamps: Kid at Heart; Designer Paper: My Minds Eye, Life of the Party (KI Kit-July); Bazzill Card Stock; From the Heart Die (Taylored Expressions); Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Distress Ink (Ranger) Vintage Photo; Spica Pens: melon, pink, turquoise; Copics: FBG2, FYG2, FRV1; R29, Y08, YR16. Ribbon (KI Kit July) Buttons, stash.

Card #2 Stamps: Make A Wish; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Spica Pens: melon, lavender; Designer Paper: Creative Imaginations (Marah Johnson); Copics: V25, YR16, FYG2; Spellbinders Nestabilities Reverse Wonky Rectangles; Fiskars Border Punch, Upper Crest; Tiny Twinkles (Taylored Expressions).

Thanks for visiting and leaving a delightful comment!  Enjoy!