Dragonfly Journal Page

 Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Any Animal or Insect.  Our sponsor is CAS-ual Fridays and I had a great time creating with their stamps, dies, and a stencil in my art journal!  

Join me in the video below for some fun mixed media type art journaling!

Curious about the button on my page?  Check out the video below!

Material List

CAS-ual Friday Everyday Dragonfly Stamps

CAS-ual Friday Dragonfly die (retired)

CAS-ual Fridays Flower Stencil (retired)

CAS-ual Fridays Flower Stamp (retired)

CTMH Stamps (retired)

CTMH Puffy Gold Stickers

Gems, Button, Twine, Gauze, Ribbon and Flower from Stash

Gel Pens

Adhesives

Border Strip from CTMH (Retired)

Ranger Inks

CTMH Inks

This Journal Layout is off to the following challenges:   

We Love 2 Create:  AG Mixed Media

International Art & Soul:  Things with Wings

Creative Artiste:  AG Mixed Media 

Die Cut Divas:  AG

Pearly Sparkles:  Layer It Up!

Crafty Animals:  AG with an animal

Stamping Sensations:  AG Stamped with option of Floral and Fauna

Mixed Media Lovers:  AG Mixed Media

Classic Design:  AG

Creative Crafters:  AG

Mix It Up:  AG 

Sognando Scrap:  AG

Tic Tac Toe:  Board Below ~ Die, Flowers, Gold for me

River of Creativity:  AG 

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. 

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.    

Sentiment Down Under

 It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  Sentiment Down Under.  The idea is to put your sentiment under the top layer of the card!  I have used the Offset feature in Cricut Design Studio for this ....

I'll just show you in this video!  So grab a cup of your fav and join me!

 

    Material List 

Digi: Sunflower Bouquet from Conie Fong

Sentiment from Hello Sweet Friend Conie Fong

Designer paper from Vectoria Designs Teal Memories

Copic Markers 

CTMH Ink

CTMH Distress Tool

Blue gems

Yellow Ribbon CTMH (retired)

Print and Cut using Offset feature

Cricut Access  

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

My card is off to the following challenges: 

Colour Crazy:  AG Hand Coloured

Your Next Stamp:  Flower Power

Pearly Sparkles:  Layer It Up!

CD Sunday Plus:  AG using a CD, USB or Digi 

Dragonfly Dreams:  Butterflies and/or Flowers

A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG

WWODT:  AG

Crafts Galore Encore:  AG

Passion for Markers:  Flowers

Get Creative:  Use Flowers

Simon Says Stamp:  Feminine

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. 

Friends and Ice Cream!

As we meander a Path of Positivity, we are challenging you to Celebrate!  We will share different optional themes every month for you to celebrate!

We are starting May with this theme: Celebrate Something Special About Your Friends!  

   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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My card is for my "horse" friend who loves to go get ice cream with me!  Ice cream and Starbucks are sort of the food of all my equine friends....Ok, let me make this clear, I'm referring to human friends who all have horses!  We humans eat the ice cream!  hahaha

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Material List: Digi Sentiment from QKR Stampede Godmother Cardstocks: CTMH  and Digital CS: Polkadoodles Sparkle Cardstock from Stash

Adhesives: Double sided tape, Fabric-Tac

Cricut Design Space for Layout Cricut Print and Cut

Cricut Access:  Milk Shake from Nifty Fifties; Ice Cream Ticket from Yummy Sweet Treat Labels 

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Krafty Chicks:  All Occasions

Creatalicious:  AG 

Time Out:  Spring (time for ice cream stands to open!!)

QKR Stampede:  AG

Die Cut Divas:  AG with Dies

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

TTCRD:  AG

Be sure to come 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 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. 

Mother's Day at Paper a La Mode

 Time for a new challenge at Paper a la Mode over at The Outlawz and the theme is Mother's Day!  What's a better gift for Mom than a day of rest with her feline companion!  

 Material List 

Digi: Dream Catcher from All Dressed Up

Plaid paper from CTMH (retired)

Copic Markers

Gel Pens

Adhesives:  Fabri Tac, ATG Tape Runner

Cricut Design Space:  Designed, Printed and Cut from CDS

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

Cricut Access  
Cricut Maker

My card is off to the following challenges:

 

Crafts Galore:  AG

WWODT:  AG

All Dressed Up:  AG

Simon Says Stamp:  Whatever the Weather

Crafty Catz:  AG with opt add Ribbon or Twine

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Paper a la Mode 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.  

A Little Water and Some Gorgeous Flowers

  Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is April Showers bring May Flowers.  So I thought it only appropriate to add some water to my creation in the form of Watercolor pencils!  

I also incorporated the "showers/water" theme in my quote and image on the opposing page.  

Material List

Pink and Main:  Tall Flowers 

Pink and Main:  Tall Flower Dies

Water Color Pencils (Prima and Derwent Inktense)

Adhesives

Homemade Journal

Woodgrain Paper CTMH 

Papers from CTMH (Retired)

Text paper from something I had copied for my music studio!

CTMH Inks

Embossing ink and Powder

Black Sequins and Baker's Twine CTMH (retired)

Lace, burlap, black ribbon and eyelet from stash

Cricut Design Space to cut dies and use offset feature

Cricut DS for Print and Cut Feature

Cricut Access :  Watering from A Child's Year (#M2EFD8)

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

This Journal Layout is off to the following challenges:   

Clever Dexter:  Use Watercolor

Crafts Galore Encore:  AG

River of Creativity:  AG opt Twist is Spring  (No Cards)

Stamping Sensations:  I Love...I love working in Journals and adding images, fibers, and layers of stuff.

We Love Stamping:  Stamp of the Moment  I really enjoy working with this floral stamp; it's big and bold!  It works well on watercolor paper.  I also have a card in the works with this same stamp!

We Love 2 Create:  AG Mixed Media

Creative Artiste:  AG Mixed Media

Happy Little Stampers:  AG Watercolor

Get Creative:  Springtime

Tic, Tac, Toe

Heart 2 Heart:  Flora or Fauna use at least 1 CTMH

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. 

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.   

Feathers Appear

It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  Furry Friends.  Our sponsor, Eureka, has such a HUGE variety of digis.  I chose to create with Feather on Side for this card.

If you are unsure how I did the masking of the feather stamp, I invite you to take a look at one of my older videos about this technique!  Instead of using a stencil (as I did in this older video), I simply stamped over the masked image of the feather.  

 Or you might check out this older video where I talk about the masking technique with stamps.  I start this at about 7:20 in the video!  Of course, you are welcome to watch it all, but in the interest of time, I thought I'd give you the exact spot!  

    Material List 

Digi Feather on Side from Eureka

Copic Markers

X Press It Blending Card

CTMH Retired Stamp

CTMH Ink

Striped Vellum CTMH

Gold Paint

Gold Sequins CTMH

Print and Cut using Cricut Access:  Sentiment Font is BFC Danger

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

My card is off to the following challenges: 

DL Art:  AG

Beyond the Blue:  Use Your Words

Creative Fingers:  AG

Challenge Up Your Life:  Splatters

Dream Valley:  Add Embellishments (Sequins)

A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG

Everybody Art:  Monochrome 

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. 

All About the Golden!

  This year, and as we meander a Path of Positivity, we are challenging you to Celebrate!  We will share different optional themes every month for you to celebrate!

We continue to Celebrate with Something Special About Your Pet(s) or Animals in General!  

This is our girl Khloe!  She is a red haired Golden Retriever and she is a real sweetie!  I have to admit, she could do without me; she is all about my guy, Kelly!  She and Kelly are pretty tight while I hang with Luther, my Shepherd, or the the horses!

I could do the theme of animals for 6 months straight and not run out of ideas inspired by my crew!  When I saw the stamp above from DragonflyBuzz, I had to have it!
 

If you are interested in seeing more about wax seals, join me in the video below!

   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: Golden stamp from Dragonfly Buzz

Papers from CTMH

Inks CTMH

CTMH stamps

Gold Sequins CTMH

Wax Seal

Bit of Burlap Ribbon

Washi Tape

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Unicorn:  Include an Animal

Craft Rocket:  For Boys/Men  This card was for my husband who loves his Golden!

Heart 2 Heart:  AG with at least one CTMH product

Crafty Animals:  Include an Animal

Stamping Sentiments:  I Love...I love animal stamps and layering paper with fiber and such!

TTCRD:  AG

Fab 'n' Funky:  Feature a Creature

Little Red Wagon:  Three of Something ~ 3 pattern papers

Creative Knockouts:  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 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.   

Spring/Easter Bunny Storybook Style!

As a member of DT for Conie Fong, I get to color some amazing digital stamps!  I'm sure when you see Conie Fong's art, you will be inspired to create!  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.

I have combined this beautiful digi, Daisy Carrot Bunny Bouquet Bundle, with some papers from my stash to create this storybook style card!  

Material List:

Digi: Daisy Carrot Bunny Bouquet Bundle from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Tuille Ribbon

Digital Paper Retired from Fleurette Bloom (Bunny Hop)

Adhesives:  Fabri Tac, ATG Tape Runner

Cricut Design Space

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

Cricut Access:  card cut from Fabulous Finds #M37009
Cricut Maker

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

Through the Purple Haze:  Include an Animal

Double D:  Easter Mood Board (I was inspired by the bunny, bright flowers, carrots)  

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday:  Animals

Everybody Art:  Duck, Chick or Bunny

Crafting Happiness:  AG

Cupcake Inspiration:  Bunnies

Get Creative:  Springtime

Inspiration Station:  Rabbit Food (This bunny travels with flowers and dinner!  I was inspired by the bunny and bright colors!)

Dragonfly Dreams:  Easter/Spring

Crafty Catz:  AG

Cutie Pie:  Bunnies and Blooms

Four Seasons:  Spring  (Pinks, greens, flowers, polkadots and bunnies)

Double Trouble: "KISS - Create a Scene"

Thing 1: Create a scene; Thing 3: Add bunny; Thing 2: Cupcake Inspirations

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.

Bunnies at Paper a La Mode

  Time for a new challenge at Paper a la Mode over at The Outlawz and the theme is Bunnies!  

 Material List 

Digi: Butterfly Bunny from All Dressed Up

X-Press It Cardstock

Sparkle Cardstock

White Cardstock

Copic Markers

Gel Pens

Adhesives:  Fabri Tac, ATG Tape Runner

Cricut Design Space:  Designed, Printed and Cut from CDS

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

Cricut Access:  Card base from Wild Card (#M30470)
Cricut Maker

My card is off to the following challenges:

Four Seasons:  Spring  (Pinks and bunnies)

Passion for Markers:  Animal Magic

All Dressed Up:  AG using an ADU image

Creative Knockouts:  For the Girls

CD Sundays:  AG using a CD, USB or Digi Download

International Heart & Soul:  Include a Circle

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Paper a la Mode 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. 

Easter and Dogwood Branch

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Easter and/or Create Your own Background!  

I chose to go with Easter and my background is paper from Polkadoodles Belle Papillon!  That is one of my favorite paper collections!

The focal image is a lovely stamp from our sponsor DRS Designs!  They have so many wonderful stamps for all occasions!

Material List

Dogwood Branch from DRS Designs

Copic Markers

Belle Papillon Digital paper from Polkadoodles

Brown Dotted paper from Bazzill

Mocha Gems retired from CTMH

Chocolate ink from CTMH

Adhesives

Scalloped square cut from CTMH Art Philosophy cut on Cricut

Cricut Design Space to cut dies and use offset feature

Cricut DS for Print and Cut Feature

Cricut Access Square and Sentiment from Sarah Hurley - Easter

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

This is off to the following challenges: 

Crafter's Cafe:  Use some Flowers

Happy House:  Spring

Krafty Chicks:  Stamp Act

Polkadoodles:  AG

 The Outlawz ~ Monday Greetings

Stamps & Fun = CREATIVITY:  Favorite Flower  I love the floral blooms on the Dogwood Tree!  My grandparents had a beautiful tree out their bedroom window; I think of them every time I see the lovely blooms!

Simon Says Stamp:  Easter/Spring

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. 

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.