Sunflowers

 Conie Fong has digis for any reason/occasion.  I find sympathy cards difficult, but flowers and nature always seem to be a fitting theme.  I chose to use this sunflower from Sunflower In a Pot.  I colored these lovely flowers using fall tones making my white highlights more of a tan.  

Be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

Material List:

Digi Image/stamp and sentiment: Sunflower n a Pot from Conie Fong

Cardstock CTMH

Copic Markers

Cricut Print and Cut

Cricut Access

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

I'm sending this off to the following challenges:

Double "D" Challenges:  Sunflowers

Addicted to Stamps and More:  Make Your Mark

A Bit More Time to Craft:  AG

A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG

Cards Galore:  AG

Corrosive Challenge:  AG

Crafty Creations:  AG

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Trick or Treat!

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Trick or Treat!  Be sure to include a die cut in your Halloween project for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor, Oddball Art Co!  This is the perfect sponsor for this challenge!

Material List

Digi:  Whimsical Witch on Broomstick Wendy and Friends from Oddball Art Co

Copic Markers

Gel Pens

Cardstock:  Black, White

Embossing ink and powder on web

Glitter on web

Adhesives

Cricut Maker

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

 Cricut Access:  Bat #M8B5E5CB from A Haunting We Will Go; Spider Web Corner #MCD6AF75 from Miss Kate Cuttables - Trick or Treat

This Witch is flying off to the following challenges!  

Fairy and the Unicorn:  AG Fantasy

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge:  AG Halloween

Crafty Calendar:  Halloween

Get Creative:  AG/opt Twist Holidays (Halloween)

Paper Funday:  AG with Opt Twist - Halloween or use Purple

Wednesday's Creative Inspirations:  Fabulous Fall or Happy Halloween

Creative Craft Cottage:  Autumn/Halloween

Pearly Sparkles:  Autumn and/or Halloween

Crafty Gals Corner:  Halloween Colours

Clever Dexter Ch 22:  Hello Autumn (using sponsor image, but no opt colors)

Paperminutes:  With a Hat

Try It on Tuesday:  Halloween Time

My Time to Craft:  Halloween or Fall Colours

Creative Knockouts:  Halloween Fun

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.

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Insects? hmmm....

 It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  6 or 8:  Add an Insect!  As you can see I have a little butterfly fluttering around my fall wreath from Pattie's Creations!  

    Material List 

Autumn Wreath from Pattie's Creations

Copic Markers

CTMH Ink 

Cricut Access: Butterfly #M388E5 Kate's ABCs; Sentiment #M7F046AA from Autumn Celebrations

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

This card is off to these challenges:  

Pearly Sparkles:  Autumn and/or Halloween

Country View:  Autumnal Colours and/or Halloween

CD Sunday Plus:  AG using a CD, USB or Digital Download

Dare 2B Artzy:  Fall

Unicorn Challenge:  Autumn and/or Halloween

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

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Book

  As we meander a Path of Positivity, we are challenging you to Fall Into a Book!  Yes, that's right!  This month we want you to design a project influenced by a BOOK or STORY. Getting lost in a great book/story/poetry is a wonderful way to relax and find some positivity! 

Now, I'll be the first to admit I'm not much of a reader of fiction, but I do like non fiction!  I have quite a collection of Equine Science, Horsekeeping, Riding, ....well, horse anything books!  I coached our county's 4-H Hippology Team for 5 years and added quite a few books to my already full shelves!  I thought it might be fun to art journal some of my favorite books by adhering copies of the covers in and adding some interesting notes along with the wonderful digi from Ike's Art! 

 This digi is called Demon Horses.  I assume it's supposed to be somewhat scary or horror, but for me it looks 'sciency' like some of the pics in my books!  So it's perfect for my page!  

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   We'd like to hear your ideas at Path of Positivity.  Come share them with us!  

Remember, you may share any sort of artistic medium over at PoP:  writing, cards, journals, scrapbooking, painting, sewing, baking, needle crafts, etc as long as it is positive!  The theme is always optional.  

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Material List

Demon Horses Digital Image from Ike's Art

Book covers copied off internet

CTMH Stamps (retired)

Sequins and stickers: star & horseshoes

CTMH Inks

Black archival ink

Adhesives

Cricut Design Space:  Offset feature for digi

Notebook page from CTMH Artbooking 

Cricut Access   

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Critter Crazy:  AG featuring a critter

Ike'sworld:  AG/Trick or Treat

Classic Design:  AG

WWODT:  AG

Be sure to come on 

over to 

Path of Positivity 

and see 

what the team 

thinks about our optional twist!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

 Thanks for stopping by!  Make yourself at home and feel free to peruse other posts/pages, leave a comment, and/or check out my Pinterest and YouTube Channel.

Thank You, CIU Sponors!

 

We do love our sponsors and we are excited to share some cards we recently mailed to them.  We all chose sponsors from the past year and created cards for them using their unique designs!  

I was pleased to have the opportunity to share our appreciation with four sponsors: Hetty Clare, DRS Designs, Oddball Art Co, and Newton's Nook.  Each of these sponsors is such a joy and always inspires me to create something fun and exciting!

I'll start with this card I sent to Hetty Clare!   It features this handsome fellow called Pony Flower!  Leaf paper is from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles and the sentiment cut is from the Cricut Design Space Library!  

Next, I'm sharing this more rugged type card I sent to DRS Designs.  I used the Cowboy Silhouette.  The sentiment was created in Design Space using font from Old West.  Stars were cut in the front and backed with scraps of Cracked Glass iDeco Foil and I inked the front with CTMH inks.

Next Oddball Art Co!  This fun digi stamp is from CCC#132 Cozy and Thankful Digi Stamp.  The paper is from A Bit More Time to Craft and is called Star Splash Mixed Media.  I finished it off with some embroidery floss, black cardstock, and some glitter stars cut on my Cricut!

 

...and now my card to Newton's Nook!  This fun stamp set is Newton Loves Coffee!  This stamp set gets a LOT of use at my house!  I have used only a portion of the stamps here to create this thank you!  The Thank You sentiment is a free digi stamp from Newtons Nook and I cut this and the layering dies using the Offset feature in Cricut Design Space!  

Be sure to visit Cut It Up and see all the wonderful cards from the team and celebrate our many sponsors!

Again, a huge thank you to all our sponsors this year!  We are excited to work with the amazing and talented people behind the beautiful papers, cuts, and digis!  It is truly our pleasure!

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Pink!

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Pink and our sponsor is CAS-ual Fridays. Every October I like to send my mom a card to remind her how proud we are of her!  She handled her breast cancer in such a stoic way never letting fear or anxiety get her down.  With October being Breast Cancer Awareness month, it just seems the perfect time to remind her how strong she is!

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Material List:  

Copic Markers

Digi: Dandelion Wishes from Conie Fong

Conie Fong Dandelion (Inside of card) from Dandelion Wishes

Copic Markers

Gel Pens:  Pink and White

Pink Gems from stash

Studio G Glitter Glue

Adhesives

Cricut Cut:  Pink #M3F1B2 from Pink Journey

Cricut Print and Cut:  Pink Ribbon #M365AA

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
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: 

Creations in Pink:  AG in Mainly Pink

Colour Crazy:  AG hand coloured

Dragonfly Dreams:  In the Pink

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

Lemon Shortbread:  AG

TTCRD:  AG

WWODT:  AG 

little red wagon:  Girls just Want to Have Fun (Projects for girls/women)

The House that Stamps Built:  Think Pink (in honor of BC)

Time Out Challenges:  BCA

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Guest Designer at Tic Tac Toe

  So excited to be a Guest Designer over at Tic Tac Toe Challenge!  What's more fun than playing a game and crafting!  So, with no further adieu, here's the game board!    

Looks like fun, right! 

I chose the right column down:  Bird, Shades of Brown, and Snow/Snowflakes.  I think this will make the perfect card for my dad!  He loves birds and this makes for a sort of masculine Christmas Card!   

I encourage you to visit Tic Tac Toe Challenge, check out the inspiration from their talented team, and then share your take on this fun challenge!

 Material List

Cardstock:  DCWV Autumn Melody; ColorBok Sunset Glow; CTMH

Inks:  CTMH; Ranger Vintage Photo

Bo Bunny Double Dot Gems

Adhesives

Cricut Maker

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

Snowflake Cut #M4763E CTMH Art Philosophy 

Cricut Access:  Bird #M2554DD

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round:  S or T ~ S for Snowflake

Dream Factory:  The Birds

12 Months of Christmas:  AG Christmas Card

Beyond the Blue:  Layered Die Cuts

Die Cut Divas:  AG with Die Cut or Embossing Folder

Holly and Ivy Christmas:  AG Christmas

The Paper Shelter:  Layer It Up

Shopping Our Stash:  Musical Notes (in background paper in stash for MANY moons!)

Let's Craft and Create:  Things with Wings

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Make it Punny

 It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  Make it Punny.

I thought this would make a fun card to send to my nephew for Thanksgiving!  He is a math nerd and I know he'll laugh at this one...or he'll at least smile to appease his strange card-making aunt!  hee hee

    Material List 

Pumpkin with Vines from Pattie's Creations

Copic Markers

CTMH Inks

Cardstocks

Cricut Access:  Pi #M3B8C5 from Brooklyn Iron on

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

This card is off to these challenges:  

Challenge Up Your Life:  Pumpkins (6 total challenges)

AAA Cards:  CAS and Celebrate (Celebrating Thanksgiving!)

Colouring in Scrapland:  Colour Inspiration

Cupcake Inspirations:  AG

Addicted to CAS:  Code word Autumn

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

Thanks for stopping by!  Make yourself at home and feel free to peruse other posts/pages, leave a comment, and/or check out my Pinterest and YouTube Channel.

Flowers for Algernon at PoP

 As we meander a Path of Positivity, we are challenging you to Fall Into a Book!  Yes, that's right!  This month we want you to design a project influenced by a BOOK or STORY. Getting lost in a great book/story/poetry is a wonderful way to relax and find some positivity! 

 My journal page is a memory of a wonderful book I read in MS/HS called Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.  It is a thought provoking read about a young man, Charlie, with an IQ lower than average who meets up with a Dr/Scientist who makes him a genius for a short time.  

Algernon is the lab mouse who received the drug before Charlie.  Algernon's progression and regression basically predicts Charlie's future outcomes. 

This book has always had a profound effect on my thinking, so this challenge seemed the perfect time to journal it.

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   We'd like to hear your ideas at Path of Positivity.  Come share them with us!  

Remember, you may share any sort of artistic medium over at PoP:  writing, cards, journals, scrapbooking, painting, sewing, baking, needle crafts, etc as long as it is positive!  The theme is always optional.  

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Material List

Material List:  

Hello Digital Image from Ike's Art

Copic Markers

Cardstocks:  Familiar Refrain Patterned Papers Decosse's Dynamite Doodles; old piece of calendar page

CTMH Stamp in background  Retired

CTMH Inks

Adhesives

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Krafty Chicks:  AG

Love to Scrap:  Anything but a Card (Journal page)

Allsorts:  I Love....  I love working in my journal and the book this page represents!

Critter Crazy:  AG with a Critter

Classic Design:  AG

Be sure to come on 

over to 

Path of Positivity 

and see 

what the team 

thinks about our optional twist!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

 Thanks for stopping by!  Make yourself at home and feel free to peruse other posts/pages, leave a comment, and/or check out my Pinterest and YouTube Channel.