Jammin' with Kenny K

Mornin' peeps.  Hope everyone is having a great MONDAY.  I know, I already wish is was Friday. :-)  Anyway, I have a card for you.  Jumped in on the chance to play along with Kenny K Girlz challenge.  It was to showcase a fun/game card.  While my card is jamming out to some Zumba music.  I love Zumba and I think it's a great way to exercise and get your "groove" on at the same time. 

Well hope you like my little piece today and I hope to see ya back here soon. 

Hugs and love~

So many challenges...so litte time

Hey peeps.  Hope your all having a wonderful day.  I have been busy in my stamp room trying to create a card to fit multiple challenges.  Man, 'm beat from all the work on this card.  I had the thought in my head but it was stuck and I had a hard time shaking it out.  It still didn't come out has I had planned it but that's how it goes some days.  I'm entering into the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks -Best Friends (this is me and my twin) :-)
Party Time Tuesdays - Color Inspiration
Raise The Bar - In The Garden
Paper Sundaes - Spring Blossoms
Splitcoaststampers - Featured Stamper

Since my card is FINALLY done, I'm off to the Mac store.  I see a new IPad in my future. :-)

Hugs and love~

Color Me Creative Blog Hop Still Going On

Hey peeps. No card today but wanted to remind you that the CMC blog hop is stilling going on. Sure don't want you to miss out on the fun and awesome prizes. Click on the link in my previous post to join in. I'm typing this from my IPad so I'm not sure how to link it up to this post. A little tech challenged on this device. ;-). Hope everyone is having a wonderful day. See ya back here soon. Hugs and love~ Dana

Happy Birthday Color Me Creative

Yep, there's a celebration going on at CMC.  The incredible site by the lovely Suzanne Dean has turned TWO and we are celebrating with a blog hop.  YEAH!!!  If you have gotten here by way of Sandie's blog then you moved right through the hop.  I know you don't want to miss out on any of the fun so make sure you start at the beginning at Steph's blog.  My birthday card is made with the adorable birthday present image by Spesch stamps.  Isn't she precious!?!  And she fits the bi-weekly challenge at CMC which is "anything goes".  I used one of my all time favorite things to do on a card...a really cool sketch.  So I decided to followed the March SFYTT.  There are some great challenges going during the hop too.  If you complete ALL the challenges you will be entered for the GRAND PRIZE...the grand pumba of prizes...a NEW Vagabond Machine!! 

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Schedule of Events

Monday, March 19th

Birthday Kick-Off Blog Hop with DT

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Word Search Challenge

Tuesday, March 20th

Birthday Trivia Challenge

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Live Party Chat at 7:45 pm EST

Wednesday, March 21st

Scavenger Hunt Challenge

Thursday, March 22nd

Sketch Challenge

Friday, March 23rd

Word Scramble Challenge

Saturday, March 24th

Crossword Puzzle Fun

Each Challenge will be listed in their own area under the Discussion Area at CMC.  All challenge details will be listed there for that day and how to play and enter and win!!!

By leaving a comment two people will have a chance to win a $20 gift card to the craft store online.  The deadline for all challenges is March 28th!! Winners will be announced on March 29th on the front page of CMC.  Good luck everyone!!

Also don't forget to join us in the biweekly challenge.  Let's see what your favorite "anything goes" item is.  Would love to see some birthday cards celebrating CMC.

Hugs and love~

Lovely as a butterfly

Oh it feels like spring here in Georgia.  Hey peeps how are you today?  First let me say thank you so much for all the birthday love.  I really appreciate the wishes.  My family and I had a great day yesterday not really don't much at all.  Had a great lunch, did a tab bit of shopping and strolled through the Cherry Blossom festival.   

Had a chance to get into my stamp room and make a card in honor of Diane at SCS.  She's the featured stampers today and her gallery is lovely.  You should take a peek. Congrats Diane.  And I also took a walk on over to the Paper Sundaes challenge and I loved the photo inspiration for today.  Such pretty colors.  The paper for today's card is My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Dolled Up and Lime Twist Life Of The Paper.  I love how these two paper packs came together for my card.  I'm a HUGE fan of My Mind's Eye paper.  The image is from The Stamping Studio and the sentiment from Stampin' Up.  Can you believe it....no coloring!!

Thanks for stopping by today and have a blessed Sunday.  Oh, don't forget about the birthday blog hop staring tomorrow for Color Me Creative.  You're not going to want to miss it.

Hugs and love~

Happy Birthday To ME

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Dana, happy birthday to me!  LOL, I'm celebrating my birthday today can you tell?  And what a beautiful day it is.  There is not a cloud in the sky on this St. Patrick's Day.  So I'm going to get out and enjoy some of this gorgeous weather.  First things first, I have to post a card.  ;-)  Today's card is heading over to the DP2 Challenge (buttons and bows) and the Sketch N Stash challenge.  I love how "spring" like my card came out.  Makes me want to start planting my garden so I can enjoy some wonderful veggies and fruits in the next few months. 

Well thanks for stopping by peeps.  And don't forget about the CMC blog hop starting on Monday.  It's going to be a blast.

Hugs and love~

Kenny K and Raise the Bar Challenges

Okay so I have a weird sense of humor for a Mother's Day card.  My Mom can take a good joke every now and then so I thought I would send her this card for Mother's Day.  Awww...so sentimental.  I put the image on shamrock paper as a reference to "good luck" with getting a good rest home.  LMBO.  This image by Kenny K reminds me so much of my daughter with her little waist and hip self.  Oh to be young again.  I know my Mom will get a kick out of this image too.  I've had this sentiment forever and I finally organized my sentiments stamps (700+ and still counting) and it made me giggle.  I'm adding this one to the Kenny K Challenge to make "Mother's Day" cards with green and to the Raise the Bar challenge to use four-leaf clovers.  I sure do hope everyone has a sense of humor.  Thanks for swinging by and hope to see ya again real soon!

Hugs and love~

Card Two - Go Fish

Oh, is it Friday yet?  Hey peeps can you tell I'm ready for a weekend.  I guess I can be happy that the week is almost over.  I had a chance to have some coloring fun with one of my LaLa Land image so I thought I would go ahead and enter into a few challenges.  The colors are from this week's Color Throwdown. I'm also sending my card over to LaLa Land Crafts Customer Gallery.  I actually like how Luka turned out.  He reminds me of my son when he was little.  He loved going fishing.  We have a pond at the front of our neighborhood and he would go up there and try to catch "dinner".  Oh he was so cute!!  Of course, dinner never came from that pond.  Ewww!!  LOL

Thanks for swinging by today.  Hope to see ya soon,

Hugs and love~

Wild Side.

Happy hump day peeps.  Have a "wild" card for you today.  My birthday is this Saturday (yep drinking green stuff all day celebrating St. Patrick's Day too) and I needed a card for my BFF (my twin sister) from my kids.  I had Veronica from Mo's Digital pencil all colored up in her leopard print dress. I think this is the hottest image out there.  Shows that real women have curves. :-) LOL  For the challenge this week at DP2 you needed to use something new so I used my new monarch punch and I love it.  It just adds something cute to a card.  You'll be seeing this a LOT. Found some matching paper and Veronica was ready to go. The Sweet Sunday Sketch was a perfect layout for my card.  I love the leopard print coloring technique I learned in Class 5 at Color Me Creative.

Here's a closeup of her adorable dress.  If you have not taken a class yet at CMC you are sooo missing out.  Suzanne has come great classes on using your Copics and other alcohol based markers.  Gotta check out a class.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Hugs and love~

Spring Sketch

Hey peeps.  I have a fun, cute and simple card for you.  I participated in SCS color challenge today.  I love these colors together as they remind me of spring. Spring is here next week already.  The weather in Georgia is crazy.  We will be in the 80's tomorrow and it's still March.  I love it!!  And look NO coloring today.  Surprise, surprise!  I followed the Eat Sleep Stamp sketch. Won't you play along with Tracy this week?  I love her sketches and this one will be fabulous for any card.  Come on let's show Tracy some love!! :-)

Also a big THANKS for everyone who stopped by my blog during the Your Next Stamp release.  I appreciate all the love you guys give me.  Makes me love having a blog.

Hugs and love~

It's time to hop!!  If you've made it here from Jenny P's blog you are on the right track.  If not head back to the starting point on Maureen's blog so you don't miss a thing.   I'm showcasing the new release Tags Galore One stamp.  I love this adorable stamp because it's super versatile.  I chose to use it today as a tag on my gift bear.  I stamped it on some festive paper and used the Sugar Cone set sentiment.  Super fun!  The blog hop is running from today MARCH 11 (8:00 EST) through MARCH 13 Midnight - EST) Karen has some amazing bundles deals and don't forget to swing by the bargain bin to pick up some discounted goodies.

Here are the stamps and dies being released this month:
Tags Galore One Stamp and Die
Tooth Fairy Ellie
Dress Up Fhiona Stamp and Die
Bunny Ellie

So many awesome stamps I know you are going to fall in love.  Make sure you leave a comment on each blog and swing by Your Next Stamp to enter for your chance to win.  The prize is the new Tags Galore One Stamp and matching die.  SWEET!!!  Now it's time to send you off to Wendy's blog.  Have fun and good luck.

Hugs and love~

Your Next Stamp Sneak Peak

Happy Friday peeps!!  I have some exciting news.  Your Next Stamp is at it again.  Karen is releasing some adorable images this month and I got to use the adorable Tooth Fairy Elle. Isn't she precious trying to trade her tooth for some cold hard cash!!  Smart and cute...great combo Elle. :-)  I have to tell you the images being released are going to WOW you.  Oh I can't let the cat out of the bag so stayed tuned...there is more to come.  I'm passed the days of kids loosing teeth so I never really have small boxes on hand.  So I stretched out and made my own box.  Noooo...I didn't cut it out by hand, I cheated and used my friends die cut.  Thanks Theresa.  You probably don't even remember that you left it at my house.  LOL   Anyway, try to think "outside the box" every now and again and get creative with your images.  I have such a tendency to always make cards.  And then when I need a box, bag, or topper I'm scramble around like a dog chasing it's tail.  Silly me.  So get a little creative.  I would love to see what you come up with.  I'll swing by your blog if you leave your blog addy when you comment. 

Hugs and love~

Sparkle With Twine and Green

So many challenges...so little time.  Hey peeps.  I'm a little multi-challenged today.  Want to join in on tons of fun so I made this adorable card featuring the ever so cute Hippie Honey from All That Scraps.  Can you see her sparklin' hot boot?!!  LOL.  So hip!!  I'm participating in the following challenges today:

All That Scraps - Sparkle
Paper Sundaes - Green or Good Luck
Raise The Bar - Twine
Eat Sleep Stamp - Sketch by Nana Connie

So what do you think?  Does Hippie Honey have a chance?  Let's hope so.  I think I'll send this card to my twin sister.  Our birthday is on St. Patrick's Day and she's the hippest person I know so I think she'll like this one.

Hugs and love~ 

CMC Challenge - Fur Inspired

Welcome, welcome!  So glad it's the weekend.  Hope everyone doing well.  Let's get into our stamproom or spaces these weekend and get ready for a new challenge at Color Me Creative.  So many super cards from the last challenge.  You guys really out did yourself.  Now for this bi-weekly challenge we have "fur" as our inspiration.  So pull out all of these animal stamps and digis and get to coloring.

I have to admit that "fur" scares me.  LOL  It's a challenge for me to add that kind of texture to my cards.  But through the classes and videos over at CMC I'm overcoming my fear. :-)  Suzanne makes it looks soooo easy.  Well, here's my shot at adding "fur" to my cat.  So how do you think I did?  Okay?

Well now it's your turn.  Don't be scared.  It's all about practice, practice, practice.  Plus you have until March 16th to over come your fear.  LOL

Hugs and love~

Multi Challenge

Happy Friday.  YES....the weekend is finally here.  Not like I have much planned but I do enjoy a good weekend. ;-)  Just purchased a few of the Saturated Canary digital images and I'm in LOVE!!  Oh my goodness these images are darling.  I've been seeing so many people coloring up these fabulous images that I thought I had to have them.

Today's card is heading over to the following challenges:
Paper Sundaes - Circles
Cute Card Thursday - Spring Card
The Paper Variety - Tic Tac Toe (Embossed, Create a Card and Die Cut)

Here are the Copics I used for this card:
Skin: E00, E11, E13
Hair: E35, E57, E27
Gown: Y18, Y21, Y23, Y26
Bedding: G21, G46, BG72, BG75
Wall and book: E41E42, E31, E33

 Now I'm off to color some more images.  Hope you guys have an awesome weekend.  I'll be back tomorrow with another challenge from Color Me Creative. 

Hugs and love~

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge 124

Hey peeps.  So glad you stopped by.  Haven't been posting much as I'm going through some medical issues but I do have a card for you today.  I decided to play along in the sketch challenge at Splitcoaststampers.  Haven't done a sketch there in awhile so I thought I would tackle one.  I had this adorable image from Mo's Digital Pencil colored up and ready to go on a card.  I swear this is my daughter when she was younger.  Always in my shoes.  Still can't walk in heels.  LOL  Love you Jazmin.

I'm also going to send my card over to the Mo's Digital Pencil challenge (anything goes).  Haven't play in one of those challenges in awhile too.  Is it me or do you get caught up in a rut and can't seem to get back to participating in the challenges you really miss?  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE all challenges but there are ones that I used to do all the time that I have fallen away from.  I guess it's because there are SO many new and exciting blogs, sketches and products out there that I want to try.  My habit always gets the best of me. (he he).  Hope everyone is having a great day and I'll see ya back there soon.

Hugs and love~