Gems and Cats!

 It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  Gems and/or Pearls.

I decided to go with Bo Bunny Double Dot Gems for my card!  

Material List

Newton Loves Coffee Stamp

Copic Markers

Bo Bunny Double Dot Gems

CTMH Inks

CTMH Cardstock

"Hugs" Cardstock from Scribble Doodle Designs  FREE HERE

Newton is off to share his coffee with these challenges:  

Simon Says Stamp:  Animal Antics

TTCRD:  AG

SUYP:  Furrything Goes (Feline)

Retro Rubber:  AG with stamp older than a year.  I've had this stamp set since December 2016.  I got it for Christmas!

The Cat's Pajamas:  Animals

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Happy Birthday!

As we continue along the way at Path of Positivity, we are exploring Family Ties.  We are creating projects that show one of our own family connections.  I chose to create a card for my son who just happens to have a birthday TODAY!! I am also showing another one of the attributes that connects my family...

FOOD! Sweets in particular!  We can't have a big family meal without dessert, and there are always twice as many desserts as there are side dishes!   

Cake is a big one in our family for special occasions!  If there is a birthday within weeks of a dinner, there's a big cake!      

Yeah, we're all great eaters and food brings us together for all the holidays!  

Come share your ideas of this theme at Path of Positivity!  

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This card was so fun to make for my son.  Keith is in his late 20's, so making a card for him can be tough.  This sentiment was just the ticket (hee hee) for a perfect card!  I went with balloon stencils I cut on my Cricut and inked with Blues, Tans, and Greens.  Then the 'oops' happened...

I was stamping another project in the middle of this one and my black ink lid went down on my balloons!  UGH!!  Breathe,,,,I can fix this...hmmmm.  Of course, this is for Keith.  This is a farm kid who works on cars, rides horses, and wears cowboy boots 7 out of 7 days.  I'll just put a few grunge marks on there!  Whew!  

I colored the ticket sentiment from Scribbles Designs with Copic Markers, cut a couple of back up tickets, and embossed the kraft paper ticket.  I inked that one to show off the embossing a bit more.  

I added a metal eyelet and gold/tan ribbon.  

Material List: 

#013 Eat Cake Quote from Scribbles Designs

Copic Markers

Adhesives:  Fabri Tac, ATG Tape Runner

Balloon Stencil cut on my Cricut

CTMH Inks

CTMH Resist Cardstock (retired)

Black Memento Ink (hahaha)

Stripe Embossing Folder CTMH (retired)

 Sharing with these challenges/pages: 

Daring Cardmakers:  Masculine Makes

Aud Sentiments:  AG with a Sentiment

Seize the Birthday:  Die Cuts

A Bit More Time to Craft:  AG

Crafts Galore Encore:  AG

Scribbles Inspiration

Always Fun:  AG

Dragonfly Dreams:  Happy Birthday!

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over to 

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and see 

what the team 

thinks about our theme!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

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Happy Fall!

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Happy Fall Y'all + use at least 3 layers! Of course you need to remember your die cut, also!  Come share your interpretation of this theme and don't forget the die cut!

At my house Fall means two things:  perfect riding weather and birthdays!!  The bulk of my family and friends were born in September and October; so these are very busy birthday months!  In fact, today is my sister's birthday!

It was a difficult decision as to whether I wanted to do a birthday card or a horse project,,,,,  Obviously, the horse won out!  hee hee  This digi is perfect for any of my horses!  They all love to have pictures taken and walk through the autumn leaves!   

I have 5 layers here including the 2 layer sentiment from Cricut Access Cartridge Simply Scarecrows.  I cut the first layer in yellow and the second layer in brown.  Then I used colored embossing powders and heat embossed the layers.  I 'double dipped' my embossing to get this textured copper look!  

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Material List: 

Digi:  Pony Chat from Hetty Clare

Copic markers

Inks from CTMH

CTMH Papers and DCWV paper

Polaroid cut:  CTMH You Are Here

Glue Pen

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade

Cricut Access:  Cricut Access Cartridge Simply Scarecrows; CTMH You Are Here
Cricut Maker

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors.

This project is off to the following challenges: 

Let's Craft and Create:  AG + Best of Friends

Tinker Dream:  Fall

Stamping Sensations:  The Great Outdoors

Use Your Stuff:  Farm Animals

Challenge Up Your Life:  Autumn Mood

Cute Card Thursday:  Autumn

Time Out Challenges:  Be Adventurous

Creative Moments:  AG opt twist ~ Make it Funny

Double D Challenges:  Don't Fence Me In

Crafter's Cafe:  Seasons

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Dance

Time for some dancing!  This adorable image is a recent release from Conie Fong!  This bundle, Dancing Emily, is perfect for so many different occasions and especially great for this time of year as we blow off the dandelions! This set comes in JPG and PNG formats!  

I'm having a little fun playing with homemade stencils and textures in my journal today!  

I have used the Dancing Emily image and printed her and the sentiment from the bundle on X-Press It Blending Card.  I used my Cricut to cut a mask to cover her and then got out my stencils.  I layered up the inks.  

I then came in with some Versa Mark embossing ink and and swiped the edges of the card.  After sprinkling some blue embossing powder I hit it with a heat gun and then repeated the steps using a brown/copper colored powder.  

I backed the piece with a dark purple from DCWV and then adhered it to my page.  There is a bit of ribbon slipped between the layers!  This page is finished off with a few little gems.  

Material List:

Digi: Dancing Emily from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Adhesives:  Fabri Tac, ATG Tape Runner

Bo Bunny Double Dot Gems

Stash ribbon

CTMH Inks

Embossing ink and powder

Music Stencil TCW Carmin Medlin

Polka dot, flower, heart, and other are from homemade stencil 

*Cricut used to make some stencils used in background and 

to cut my mask for the focal image

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

Cricut Access CTMH  Art Philosophy

Cricut Maker

You can learn more about Conie and her art on her Etsy Site or Facebook.  There is also a challenge site for Conie Fong images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  Everyone is invited to join and play along using Conie Fong images!

She is dancing off to the following challenges:

Mod Squad:  Step Up Your Stencil  (Stencil and embellish)

Do-Al(l) Kreatives:  Inspired by a Song ~ "I Hope You Dance"

My Time to Craft:  Embossing Wet or Dry

As You Like It:  Fav Stencil...wow that's like asking your fav child!  hahaha  Well, I have to say I use this music stencil quite often.  I'm drawn to it since music works with everything when you're a musician!  ;)

Creative Knockouts:  Lots of Layers

Allsorts:  Incorporate something you love ~ I love music, coloring, inks, stencils, mixed media

A Gem of a Challenge:  AG

Crafty Catz:  AG optional twist use glitter and/or gems (I used gems)

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Little Blue Newton!

 

It's time for a new challenge over at 

The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  Little Boy Blue.

My card today is a bit different for me as it is a bit of a hybrid!  I computer generated the entire background.  Then I die cut, Copic colored, and adhered Newton and his coffee to the front!  

As for the coloring of this cutie, I decided to go for a bit of a Siamese/Burmese look and used E40's for the most part.   

Material List

Newton Loves Coffee Stamp

Newton Loves Coffee Die Set
Copic Markers

Background Papers and collar:  Polkadoodles

Flower, frame, ribbon butterflies:  NSDesigns

Bo Bunny Double Dot Gems

Computer Mac Notes Program

Newton is off to share his coffee with these challenges:  

SUYP:  Furrything Goes with a Cat!

TTCRD:  AG

Crafty Animals:  AG with an Animal

CCC:  Include an Animal

Crafty Animals:  AG with an Animal

Happy Craft Challenge:  AG

Be sure to visit

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Princess Aria with Cottage

 This recent release from Conie Fong called Princess Aria Fairytale Cottage.  This bundle comes with 3 images:  Princess alone, background, and Princess with background.  This set comes in JPG and PNG formats!  

I colored up the Princess with background for my coloring.  

You can learn more about Conie and her art on her Etsy Site or Facebook.  There is also a challenge site for Conie Fong images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  Everyone is invited to join and play along using Conie Fong images!

The challenge at Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge has 2 challenges every month:  one for completed projects and one for coloring only.  

Material List:

Digi: Princess Aria Fairytale Cottage from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Sending my coloring off to the following Challenge(s):

Colour Crazy:  AG hand colored

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Family Ties

 

As we continue along the way at Path of Positivity, we are exploring Family Ties.  We are creating projects that show one of our own family connections.  I chose to create a page that actually shows one of the attributes that connects my family rather than showing a connection between two individuals.

I am creating in my journal again for this challenge.  I saw this wonderful quote in the Bugaboo shop called Frame It -Courage... and that, my friends, sums up my family ties!   Yep, we are one tough bunch of characters who constantly battle something or other.  

What ties us together is the courage we all share in doing what we need to do!  This page in my book shows a pic of my horse Jake and me working through some issues with a wonderful trainer.  This is one example of when I was a bit nervous about the experience, but my family all encouraged me just to go and do it!  

In the past couple of years,  I have battled EGPA (Churg Straus), my daughter has gone a round or two with Dermatomyositis, and my mom has taken on cancer!  We've all been tough and shown courage!

My son grew up stumbling through the Autism Spectrum, but he did it with courage and strength!  I could go on and on with examples, but I'm sure you get the idea.  

Yeah, we're all pretty gnarly and courageous!  

Come share your ideas of this theme at Path of Positivity!  

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Material List: 

Frame It -Courage  from Bugaboo  
Background:  Old Piece of Denim 

CTMH Paper Wood (retired)
Copic Markers

CTMH Inks and Stamp (retired) used on a

piece of stamped paper I found on my desk!

Denim

Snippet of lace

Old button

Metal eyelets

Twine

Adhesives:  Fabri Tac, ATG Tape Runner

 Sharing with these challenges/pages: 

Catch the Bug:  AG

Creative Artiste Mixed Media:  AG (Fabric, inks, paper, metals, fibers)

We Love 2 Create:  Mixed Media

Dare to B Artzy:  Fav color ~ Blue with Brown

Papercraft:  Animals

Be sure to come on 

over to 

Path of Positivity 

and see 

what the team 

thinks about our theme!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

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Newton's Wheels!

 

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Wheels on the Bus Go; the idea is to use wheels in your creation!  Come share your interpretation of this theme and don't forget the die cut!

Since our sponsor for this challenge is Newtons Nook, I decided it would be fun to give Newton some Wheels of his own!  And what better than a VW!!  Now, you might be wondering what is a VW kind of birthday....well, 

My background is made using different cuts from the Cricut DS.  I chose to flatten them and use the Print feature.  The VW cut is a bit altered so Newton would fit and that cut is in the Cricut Library/Access:  Indie Days.

I also did some 'fancy' cutting to make the Newton stamp fit his car.  I fussy cut the paws and strategically stamped masking out the cup from his left side.  The car is adhered with 3-D tape.  

Sentiment is my own from my corny sense of humor!  hahaha

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Material List: 

Newton Loves Coffee Stamp set from Newton's Nook

Copic markers
Inks from CTMH

CTMH Papers

3-D Tape

Glue Pen

CTMH Grey Gems (retired)

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

Cricut Access (Indie Days for car;  Font from A Child's Year; Sun/clouds from Miss Kate Cuttables -Springtime; Trees from Nursery Tails;  Hills from a cut in 3 Birds -Life's a Party)
Cricut Maker using Cut and Print for Background and Die cut Car

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors.

This project is off to the following challenges: 

Aud Sentiments:  AG + a Sentiment

Moving Along with the Times:  Create a Scene

SUYP:  AG with a Cat

2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  AG with a critter

WWODT:  AG

Creative Crafters:  AG

Always Fun:  Cute Critters

TTCRD:  AG

Cute Card Thursday:  AG

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Pasture? Beach?

 There's nothing like a dip at the beach on a hot summer day...unless there's no beach around your landlocked midwestern state!  

So, you improvise and create a swimming hole with your horse trough!  As you can see, our one horse Rubin is not too sure about this idea.  But he finally comes to investigate the fun!  I had to include this wonderful digi from Hetty Clare in my layout because the look on that horse's face was exactly how Rubin was looking in the middle photo. 

Material List:

Beach Pony Digi from Hetty Clare

Papers from:  Decosses Dynamite Doodles Taste of Summer; CTMH Resist

Copic Markers

Computer Generated Sentiment in Font: Marker Felt 

Die cuts from Cricut Access (see below)

Ribbon

Lace

Twine

Embroidery Floss

Button

Bo Bunny Double Dot Gems

CTMH Enamel Dots

Stamps from CTMH (retired)

Adhesives:  ATG Tape Runner

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

Cricut Access:  Kate's ABC's; The First Few Years  
Cricut Maker

Sending this layout to the following challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner:  Summer Fun!

Double D:  Colorful  

little red wagon:  Anything but a Card  

Unicorn:  For a Child

2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  AG with a Critter

Papercraft:  Animals

Always Fun:  Cute Critters

Cupcake Inspirations:  On the Farm 

CRAFT ROCKET:  Baby/Kids

Krafty Chicks:  Stamp Act (use a stamp/digi or physical)

Stinkin' Inkers:  Times 3~ 3 gems, 3 Pics

Time Out:  Seasons ~Summer with twist coloring markers

Sweet Stampers:  Outdoor Fun

Classic Design:  AG

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Pink Sunflower?

This is a recent release from Conie Fong called Sunflower in a Pot.  This bundle is perfect for so many different occasions and especially great for late summer/early fall!  There are 5 images in this bundle:  1 sunflower in a pot image, 1 sunflower, 1 sunflower with leaves and 2 sentiment images.  This set comes in JPG and PNG formats!  

I decided to Google some sunflowers and see if theycome in different colorsand found theycome in several different colors!  One of the colors I found was called Strawberry Blonde!  How fun is that!!  I'm sure if you go searching the internet, you'll find many beautiful colors to try on this amazing bundle!

Here are some examples I found via the web. 

So back to the card itself!  Using Cricut Design Space, I printed the flower onto the the cardstock and placed the sentiment (included this stamp bundle) over the top.  I also printed and cut just the sunflower blossom (also included this stamp bundle) to color and place on top using 3-D Tape for dimension. 

You can learn more about Conie and her art on her Etsy Site or Facebook.  There is also a challenge site for Conie Fong images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  Everyone is invited to join and play along using Conie Fong images!

Material List:

Digi Sunflower in Pot PNG or JPG from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Papers from CTMH (retired)

Adhesives:  Fabri Tac, ATG Tape Runner, 3-D Tape

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade

Cricut Maker

Sending flowers to the following challenges:

Country View Crafts:  Complimentary Colours ~ Pink and Green

Crafter's Cafe:  AG

WWODT:  AG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

TTCRD:  AG

Colour Crazy:  AG hand coloured

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