Vintage Journal of Hope

It's time for a new challenge over at 

The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  
Vintage.

This is such a great twist and perfect for the beautiful papers and journal pages from Vectoria Designs.  

For more about this journal and the pages within, see the video below!  
Completed journal 'flip-through' shown at end of video:  16:43

Material List

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Journal Pages from Vectoria Designs:  Shabby Chic Journal Kit
Cas-ual Fridays Stamps and Dies:
Ruffle Ribbon Fri-Die (currently sold out) Hope Ribbon Stamp Hope Fri-Die (currently on sale!) CTMH Inks CTMH Piercing Tool Adhesives
KaiserCraft Pearls
Copic Markers Various Charms and Beads Ribbon/Seam Binding/Lace
Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker to cut doily

Cricut Access 

Sending this journal off to the following challenges and sites:
  TTCRD:  AG
Always Fun:  Female or Mom
Dragonfly Dreams:  Ribbon, Lace and/or Pearls
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG
Corrosive Challenge:  AG
Crafty Friends:  Lace and/or Ribbon
The Artistic Stamper:  Journaling
Clever Dexter:  Spring Blooms
Craft-Dee BowZ:  AG
Creations in Pink:  AG Mainly pink
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper:  AG with Patterned Papers
Mini Album Makers: Finished journal/album; handmade book
Love to Craft:  AG
Pearly Sparkles:  Add a Ribbon and/or Bow
The Crafting Challenge:  May - Flowers


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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Doggone!

May is here and we have seen lots of changes in our world.  l wonder where some of us would be without our furry/feathery friends to keep us company through all of this.  

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, so here are some pics from my furry/feathery world!  More to come at the Midway post!  

 

We are celebrating these amazing friends with our challenge this month at Path of Positivity!  So, create a project that honors the furry or feathery friends that surround you, whether in your home or in nature and share with us.

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Material List: 
Digi from Oddball Art: Cute Whimsical Puppy Maddy Image No. 246
Pawprint paper from Scribble Doodle Designs~  Puppy Power Papers
Copic Markers
Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker to cut digi flattened on rectangle

Cricut Access Sentiment Just Because Phrases
Inside Sentiment created in Mac Notes

 Sharing with these challenges: 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  AG with Critter
Crafts Galore Encore:  AG
Outlawz Festive Friday:  Male Birthday
Aud Sentiments:  Masculine birthday
Krafty Chicks:  AG

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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An afternoon ride

This is a free digi from Molly Harrison and I think it's adorable!  I found it HERE. I think it would be quite fun to take a magical bunny ride!  It certainly would break up the doldrums right now!  hee hee     

I printed the digi card size and colored it up with Copic Markers and Gel Pens on the rainbow.  To finish it off I backed it with some green cardstock and added some silver to the wings.

I'm sending this off to the following challenges:  

Creatalicious:  AG with option of Sparkle on Rainbow and Wings

Colour Crazy:  AG colored
Classic Design:  AG
2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  AG with critter
Challenge Up Your Life:  Animals
Fairy and Unicorn:  Fantasy

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Music Birthday for a Friend

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Friends;  as always, don't forget your die cut.  

Having studied music most of my life and performed/taught for years, I have several friends and relatives in the field of music.  So a music themed card is so appropriate for the majority on my card list!  ;)

This is a quick 5 minute card!  Cut your papers, adhere them, and attach  sentiment die as the focal image!  This is such a fun die called Birthday Bash Phrase Die - CUTplorations.  

Come share some a Friend project at Cut It Up!  

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Material List: 
Sentiment Die Cut from Stamplorations
Papers from Polkadoodles
Adhesives
CMH Inks

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 card is off to the following challenges: 

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Twilight Hope

Sometimes it's just fun to venture into something new, and for me Fantasy is definitely not something I typically do!  I'm not really sure why not, just doesn't come up that often for me.  

This image really appealed to me, so I decided to get to coloring with my Copics and gel pens.  No dies, no fabrics, just coloring for the sake of coloring!  I think it shows hope in the twilight; so I'm sending it off as a card.

Material list:

Molly Harrison Digi:  Twilight Companions Fairy and Owl

Copic Markers

Gel Pens

Black Paper (Stash)

Olive Paper DCWV Shimmer Stack

I'm sending this off to the following challenges:  

Watercooler:  AG

World Wide ODT:  AG

Arty Divas:  AG

Colour Crazy:  AG colored

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Really?

I really love the Pony Digis from Hetty Clare!  This one is The Mouse!  I colored with Copics and have backed it with stash paper.  It seems every horse/pony image she draws reminds me of one of our horses, a show/barn experience, or one of our barn friends!  If you love horses and crafting/coloring, you need to see images from Hetty Clare!

This image reminds me of my horse Harry!  I loved that guy, but he would have jumped into our arms at the sound, sight, smell of anything strange!  He was such a baby...a 1200 lb baby, but still a baby!  hahaha

This page is off to the following challenges:  
The Library Challenge:  Cover words "What you see can hurt you!"
stamps & fun = CREATIVITY:  Cute
Make My Monday:  Use a Digital Stamp
Dream Valley Challenges:  Our 4 Legged Friends
Crafting Happiness:  Occupations ~ Card for my friend who works in a horse barn
Crafty Catz:  AG
Creative Knockouts:  Friendship (No greater friends than a girl and her horse!)
Outlawz ~ Paper a La Mode:  Friendship

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Happy Mother's Day Tag

It's time for a new challenge over at 

The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  
Use an image from this month's sponsor!

I chose this STAMPlorations printable tag from Spring Blooms and Mugs Digital Stamps.

Material List

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Image: Spring Blooms and Mugs Digital Stamps
Copic Markers
Black Twine 
Adhesives 
Kraft Paper
Ribbon Retired from CTMH
Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker to cut digi and globe

Cricut Access Sentiment and tag

Sending my tag off to the following challenges and sites:
  Stamplorations AG: AG using Stamplorations

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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Style and 'a different for me' sort of video!

Continuing down our path and discovering style, I had a wonderful time creating this in my journal for Path of Positivity.  It's always fun to just sit down with a bunch of scraps and old stamps and create inspired by a new image!  This PRE-COLORED image from LunaGirl was perfect to get my style going.  

Check out the video below for a look at my process and how my style translates to a journal page!   
** Now this is a very different video for me; so if you watch, be sure to let me know what you think.  Trying to figure out if people like straight to the point videos like I usually do, or more rambling ones!  ;)

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Material List: 

PRE-COLORED LunaGirl image from: Cowboys & Horses in Sepia Digital Collage Sheet or Dominoes (1x2) Cowgirls & Cowboys Digital Collage Sheet 
Sentiment:  An old tag from Blue Jeans  
Denim
Burlap
String
Strip of wood
Eyelet and Crop-A-Dile Hole Punch and Eyelet Setter
Scrap of wood vaneer
Washi Tape from Stash
CTMH Inks and retired Stamp Sets
CTMH Metal Embellishment (retired)
CTMH can be found HERE
Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade Cricut Access for Old West Cartridge (barb wire cut)
Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges: 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media:  AG MM
Simply Create, Too:  Anything but a Card
Bitten by the Bug 2:  Lets get outdoors
2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  AG with critter
Bleeding Art:  AG mixed media
Classic Design:  AG
Country View:  Animal Magic
Crafty Animals:  AG
Crafty Cardmakers:  Anything but a Card
Creative Craft Cottage:  CAS or Fully Loaded
Die Cut Divas:  Animals
Love to Craft:  AG
Outlawz:  Festive Friday ~ AG

Be sure to come on over to Path of Positivity and see what the team 
thinks about Botanicals!  

You can also find more information about entering the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

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Bartholomew

I'm so happy to share this fun digi from SheepSki Designs as their guest DT!  This is Bartholomew and he is my choice for this piece of steampunk art.  I had so much fun coloring him and playing with all the fun materials/medium.

He started out as a journal page and turned into a piece of art for a vet at the clinic!  I think she's going to love this guy!

Be sure to visit the SheepSki Designs Challenge where the theme is Wings this month!  Or stop by the FaceBook challenge!  

Material List:

Bartholomew Digi Image from SheepSki Designs
 Copic Markers Adhesives, twine, clock button, cog from Stash CTMH Inks and paper Urban Paper
KaiserCraft Embossing Folder Clocks
Multi media paper backed by photo mat
Ribbon laced in hat
Folk Art Gold Metallic paint
Bo Bunny Bronze Glimmer Spray (painted on with brush)
Bo Bunny Glitter Paste Copper
Glasses are made with: Zig 2 Way Pen and iCraft Deco Foil (Opal)

Close up of eyes, cog, ribbon, etc

Bartholomew is off to the following challenges:

SanDee & Amelie's Steampunk: AG Steampunk/Industrial
A Place to Start: Ribbons and/or bows (Ribbon)
Show Me your Pussycats: Furrything Goes
We Love 2 Create:  AG mixed media
Simply Create, Too:  Anything but a Card
Bleeding Art:  AG mixed media
Crafty Cardmakers:  Anything but a Card
Coloring in Scrapland:  AG with optional embossing
Inkspirational:  Paint Splatters
Through the Purple Haze:  AG
Outlawz~ Crash Your Stash:  Ribbon

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Our Beautiful Earth

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Our Beautiful Earth (Earth Day, April 22)  respecting nature - flowers, trees, animals, butterflies, birds, etc;  as always, don't forget your die cut.  

I am so fortunate during these times to live out on some acreage.  I can go outside and see the new grass turning bright green, see squirrels and bunnies playing, enjoy the songs of birds, and hear the far off sounds of owls and coyotes.  

If you can't get out safely during this pandemic, my hope for you is flowers out your window and soft breezes through your windows!

Come share some your beautiful earth at Cut It Up!  

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Material List: 
Cricut Sentiment:  The Earth Laughs in Flowers #M28FB161
Tag from Cricut Sentimentals #M30551
Gel Pens
Floral Paper:  Stash 
CTMH products (green paper)  found HERE
Yellow Ribbon:  Stash
Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

Cricut Access 
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 card is off to the following challenges: 

Bitten by the Bug 2:  Let's Get Outdoors

Perfect Time to Craft:  AG
Crafter's Cafe:  Flowers
Sparkles Monthly:  Spring is in the Air
Crash Your Stash:  Ribbon
Creative Knockouts:  Spring is on the Way!

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Flowers!

As a member of DT for Conie Fong, I get to share this adorable digi.  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.

This digi stamp is Penelope Poppy.  This digi is perfect for birthdays, get well, Mother's Day, etc!  It also can go several different styles; I decided to go with a sort of country feel with some twine, Kraft paper, and burlap.      

Material List:

Digi and Sentiment:  Penelope Poppy from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Adhesives:  Fabri Tac, ATG Tape Runner
Stash paper

Embellishments:  Burlap, Twine 

CTMH Inks and gems (retired) However you can find beautiful CTMH papers, inks and embellishments HERE.

I'm sending my card off to the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams: Add A Flowers/Flowers
The Library Challenge: Child's Gard of Verses (I had this book!!)
Alphabet Challenge: A is for AG!
CCEE Stampers: Garden Month
Southern Girls: AG
time out CHALLENGES: quote at right
CCC Digi Creations: Add a Flower/Flowers
Creative Fingers: AG

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Masculine Thanksgiving Card!

It's time for a new challenge over at 

The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  
Maps or Signs.

I love this twist since I enjoy old maps!  This map reminded me of Christopher Columbus with the ships and such; perfect for a Thanksgiving card!  

This STAMPlorations digi is retired; but don't be dismayed, STAMPlorations has LOTS of great coffee stamps.  You can find some HERE.  Looking for other digis?  You can find them HERE. 

Material List

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Image: STAMPlorations digi - retired
Copic Markers
Cereal box for dimension 
Adhesives 
Map from internet
Tag from Kitten Scraps
Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker to cut digi and globe

Cricut Access Sentiment (Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice)

Sending coffee off to the following challenges and sites:
  
All Sorts:  Something Old, Something New  (Old digi stamp, recycled cereal box, tag)
Coffee Lovers FaceBook:  
Stamplorations AG: AG using Stamplorations
TTCRD:  AG
Tuesday Morning Sketches:  I turned it horizontally
Arty Divas:  AG

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.