Sunday, October 30, 2011

Anything Goes Card Swap (A.G.C.S)!

Hello Everyone~
     I will be hosting my first Anything Goes Card Swap (A.G.C.S) starting December 1, 2011.  I wanted to try something a little different this way it gives everyone a chance to participate and you still have something at the end.  A lot of you enter challenges and put your heart and souls into your card marking, and hoping that your card or cards will be picked.  Well, for my swap you will not be randomly picked, you will be partnered up and you will be given a theme for that month to create a card for your partner.  The more participants I have on my list will make it easier to have you partnered up with.. Ex:  if my list consist of only 13 entries for that month that last person who signed up will be dropped off, I need even numbers.
     This is not  considered a challenge but a clean and simple fun swap.. You will be exchanging cards with your partner and they will have to be mailed out on a timely manner and received no later than month end.. If for any reasons you cannot get your card out to your partner on time, please have the courtesy to email your partner a week prior to month end that you will be mailing your card a little late. This is strictly  a fun swap, we are in no way competing, and everyone loves receiving happy mail. There are no restrictions to what you use on your card too.  For the month of December 2011, Anything Goes Card Swap with be in the theme of Red, Green and White.
     We want everyone to have fun, meet new friends and enjoy the swap.  So if you think you would like to play along please sign up now... Reminder entries will open from the 1st through the 15th and closed at midnight each month.   You will be notified within a week who you will be partnered up with after the cut off date.   Please forward your full name, address and blog to snases@hawaii.rr.com.  Don't be bashful some of you like to be disguised and don't want to reveal your identity that is fine as long as I can get some kind of a name or nickname, address and blog to keep on file.
     So what are you waiting for .......let's have fun swapping and the key to all this is to play fairly.  It is also your own personal preference if you want to add in a little token with your card for your partner.  You are not forced into it  at all.   Let me re-iterate signing up for November 1 - 15th is for December's card swap.  Signing up for December 1 - 15th is for January 2012 card swap and so forth.
I will be excepting entries now for December if you would love to play along.
Sign up on my comment posting and email your info.


Thank you Blog Land!
Many hugs to you all :-)
Shirl

Saturday, October 29, 2011

You're the Best!

Took a break from the Cricut and back to stamping.... Here's two cards that I created using the stamps from YNS stamp Karen has some really cute images.... They both were colored with copic makers, sentiments from Studio G, liquid pearls, stickles, papers from stash, spellbinders rectangles &hearts, button, baker's twine and cuttlebug swiss dot embossing...
Entering this card in the following challenges:
The Kraft Journal - Make It Monday Anything Goes
More than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #57 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Simon says,,,,Anything goes :-)
Scrapbook Sisters - Card Challenge #58 - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays - Challenge #39 - Anything Goes

Thanks for taking a peek!
Have a great weekend...
Hugs to all you all~

Friday, October 28, 2011

Love & Joy to You!

Hello everyone, I just go through playing with my Cricut and whipped up two more cards to share and another simple Christmas card that I did this morning.... My first two cards were done with the Cricut and I just love how they turned out, I did them as a matching card/envelope set on both....All I had to do was add a ribbon to one add adhesive and wah lah!

For my last card I just decided to use my Spellbinders Wonky rectangles die, embossed the larger size with Cuttlebug Swiss dots, stamp from Elisabeth Bell (old stash stamp), colored with MS markers, stickles, glossy accents, gems and a ribbon.

Ok, it's time to tidy up and clean up my work space..
Weekend is already here for many of you - have a great safe crafty weekend...
Toodles - and many hugs to you all~

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Seasons Greetings!

These cards were created yesterday morning but I didn't have the time to have them posted until this morning.... Our good friend whom we call tata stopped by yesterday and brought us some vegetables from his garden.... So I decided to cook up a pot of pinakbet with chicken (yummo) and we took it down to his house after hubby got home from work and spent dinner at their house...
So anywho back to my cards - since my cricut was still starring at me on my work table I decided to create two more cards and here they are:  my first card is called stitched and the second card is tweety.
I just added ribbon, sentiment (season greetings) from Studio G and I embossed it, Marvy Uchida scallop oval punch, gems, button, twine sentiment on (birthday wishes) YNS Stamp.
And my last card is for tata's grandson ) Ivan who also turned 7 years old yesterday and since he loves riding his skateboard I used my stamps from YNS along with the sentiment and star, papers from stash and ribbon...
Thanks for taking a peek!
Have a beautiful day/evening!
Hugs to you all~

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Birthday Wishes!

Here' two cards that I worked on this morning,  yes and they were so fast to put together....Who doesn't love a cricut when you need something made quickly....So for my first card  I just added a ribbon, sentiment from YNS stamp, and Marvy Uchida oval and scallop punches.

My second card is a flower card which the sentiment was cut out on my cricut, added buttons, and let my imagination go wild.....

Thanks for taking a peek - be back soon!
Have a great day/evening....
Hugs to you all~


Monday, October 24, 2011

C.C. Designs - The Group SPTHGR!

When I first bought this stamp all I said was wow this surely is a large stamp with so much to color...
So my first instincts was well I'll just do as much coloring as I can and and try to paper piece the rest of it..  It is such an adorable stamp, they can be dressed up in what ever festive way you can imagine.
I basically paper pieced their outfits with scraps from stash, coloring them with copics, added ribbon, stickles and button brads.  So for my first attempt on this family portrait this is what they all look like:

Thanks for stopping by~
Enjoy the rest of your day/evening!
Hugs to all of you~

Entering this card in the following challenge:
Lollipop Crafts Challenge - Challenge #54  - Embellish It!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Basic cards!

Here's two basic cards I did last evening - I have a couple of friends that will be having their birthday's coming up within a week so I decided to make some simple cards for them...My first card was using the stamp Penny Black (Sweet Thing) so she was inked up with copic, added a ribbon, papers from stash, glossy accents on the cherry top, spellbinder's Floral Doily Motifs and liquid pearls.
Entering this card in the following challenges:
JGSNook - challenge # 12
Crafts and Me Challenges - Challenge # 57 - Blue, Green and Pink


My second card is from C.C.Design (Bouquet Birgitta) and she also was inked up with copic, stickles, papers from stash, liquid pearls and Spellbinder's Eyelet circles.
Thanks for taking a peek!
Have a great day/evening...
Many hugs to you all~

Friday, October 21, 2011

Miss Anya Bags!

Happy Aloha Friday everyone! 
I have a card here that I created early this morning, she is part of the TGF Miss Anya Bags. she's been inked up with copic markers,, added gems, buttons/twine, ribbon, spellbinder's ovals and cuttlebug swiss dots, papers from stash...
I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Lilo's Fun Friday - join in the fun at Finding my groove!
TGF Farm Fresh Challenge Blog

Thanks for taking a peek~
Have a great super weekend!
You no where I'll be - "more crafting"
Hugs :)

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Coffee anyone!

Here's a card I just created this evening, and it's something last minute I decided to make for my dear friend who I'm meeting for Starbucks coffee tomorrow morning..... Her birthday is also coming up this weekend so I decided to make this card and also give her a Starbucks gift certificate...
This stamp is from the C.C. Designs (Coffee Birgitta), I also paper pieced her outfit and head band, colored her with copics, added gems, foam flower with a flower brad in the center and papers from stash. 
Thanks for taking a peek!
Hugs to you all~

Entering card into this challenge:
Lawnscaping -  Challenge #20  - Paper piecing

Monday, October 17, 2011

Miss Anya Bags!

Yes, my second posting for today.... I worked on another card this morning so I could have it posted to enter this card  in a challenge... I used TGF - Miss Anya Bags and colored this image with copics, added stickles, red heart gems, button, twine, spellbinders oval and scallops rounds papers from stash.
So here is Miss Anya~


Entering this card is the following challenges:
TGF- Farm Fresh Challenge Blog, - Monday Fun Day Challenge
Lollipop crafts - Challenge #53 - No sentiments allowed!
Top Tip Tuesday - Challenge #56 - Layer it Up

Thanks for taking another peek!
Many hugs to you all~

Ice Cream Birgitta Treat Holder's!

Happy Monday you all!
Well I finally accomplished another project, I already had these treat holder's cut out over a month ago so I spent my Sunday putting them together and the fun part was stamping twelve of these images and coloring them up to.   This is for an upcoming Birthday request that I was asked to help out with so here is what I came up with..... I used CC Designs (Ice Cream Birgitta) colored her up with copics, added stickles waited until they dried and added glossy accents to give it a pop on the ice cream, added ribbons, and  ribbon with pearls to the side of the boxes, Marvy Uchida scalloped punch, sponge all the edges with Stampin up (Pixie Pink), the treat holder is from Sizzix Die- Box, Carry All.  For me the best part was doing their hair - it gave me more practice and they came out awesome... I know the recipients are going to love them when she receives it.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day/evening...
Off to more creative projects...
Hugs to all of you~

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Sweet!

Here's a card I worked on this morning its from the stamp set TGF - Miss Anya Bags!.. Of course I'm becoming addicted to paper piecing and I did it on her dress and bag.... She was colored up with copics, added liquid pearls, gems, laser cut leaf from IS (Island Scrapbooking), flowers from Wild Orchid, spellbinders oval scallops, papers from scrap and sentiment from American crafts.
Thanks for taking a peek!
Have a great super weekend!
Hugs to you all~

Friday, October 14, 2011

...the Sun always shines again after the rain....

Here's another SWALK stamp after the title - the sun always shines again after the rain... This was a quick card that I did this morning, also had the umbrella paper pieced, colored her up with copic, added some stickles to the rain drops and water puddle, gems, buttons, spellbinders - label one and scrap from stash....
This will be a short post, off to do some errands this afternoon so I can be back to finish up more cards that I'm working on...
Have a great weekend you all!
Many hugs to you~

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Family is the greatest gift!

Here's a stamp that I used from SOG ( Gifty Gwen) and I actually used her for a Christmas card...  Colored her with copics and paper pieced her outfit, added liquid pearls to the spellbinder ovals, & label one, stickles,  poinsettia flowers and gingham ribbon from Wild Orchid, and papers from scrap.

Entering this card in:  Some Odd Girl Stamp Sketch Challenge

Thanks for taking a peek!
Hugs to all of you~

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Be Happy!

I have a couple of cards to share, these were done last night and finished up this morning...
My first card is from the set Hero Arts ( Be Happy) I paper pieced the flower, colored the rest of the images with copics and used ice stickles on the bee's wings to give is some bling, papers from scrap, spellbinders rectangular scallops, swiss dot button and twine.

My second card is from the paper pad "Hello Fall" set, added a button and raffia.
The last cards were for the winner's of my blog candy giveaway that I made yesterday morning they were supposed to be three cards, oops I forgot to take the pic of the card that was done in lavender.  They got mailed out  and I didn't realize it wasn't in my camera until I down loaded them. Oh well!
Thanks for stopping by~
Have a great day/evening!
Hugs to you all!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Announcement - I've got the Winner's!!!!!!!!

Good afternoon everyone~
First of all I want to thank everyone for participating in my 100 follower blog candy giveaway...
I really didn't expect that I was going to reach my goal this soon... But I did and I'm very happy indeed!.  You are all great crafter's and I became very fond with alot of you through blog land....
I've learned  alot of new techniques and also been inspired by alot of you... This is how I entered your name (s) in the drawing... I gave each entry a number, some of you had two numbers this was because you had my blog candy giveaway linked to your blog page and with this it brought alot of new follower's over to my blog page.  Big Mahalo's to everyone who went out of their way to spread the word about my giveaway...

  1. A Thousand Sheets of Paper  - Amy
  2. Sweetland Paper Treats - Sweet
  3. Sweetland Paper Treats - Sweet
  4. Clever Creations - Annette
  5. Double Click Connections- abusy bee - Carrie
  6. Double Click Connections -abusy bee - Carrie
  7. Chrissandlou. blogspot - Chriss
  8. Chrissandlou. blogspot.- Chriss
  9. Coops Cluttered Corner - Coops
10. Rinnes's Bliss - Rinne
11. Crafty Amy - Amy
12. Crafty Amy - Amy
13. Capture a Heart - Something handmade from you - Cami
14. The Crafter's Reference - Luanne
15. The Crafter's Reference - Luanne
16. Scrappinnana - Judy
17. Scrappinnana - Judy
18.  My junk loving journey - Junk loving girl
19. My Carden - Dangina
20. A little piece of me - Jo
21. A little piece of me - Jo
22. Cindys-greencricut.blogspot - Cindy
23. Cindys-greencricut.blogspot - Cindy
24. Trish and Treasure - Trish
25. Trish and Treasure - Trish
26. Deeply rooted life - Erin
27. Patterns by Sher svg files - Sher
28. Patterns by Sher svg files - Sher
29. Jens Craft Corner - Jen
30. Create with Aloha - Colleen
31. Eva's scrap n cards - Eva
32. Kathy's Kreativespot - Kathy
33. Luv this scrap - Renee
34. Luv this scrap - Renee
35. Lee arts - Leanne
36. Lee arts - Leanne
37. DL. Art - Diana
38. Creating Cards - Glennis
39. Candy's Craft Corner - Candy
40. Hawaii Paper Party - Cely
41. Chick-n-scrap - Jessica
42. Chick-n-scrap - Jessica

And the winners are:

#20 - A Little Piece of Me - Jo   ( 1st. place )
#  8 - Chrissandlou.blogspot.com - Chriss ( 2nd place )
#25 - Trish and Treasure - Trish  ( 3rd place )

Congratulations winner's please email me your full name and address to snases@hawaii.rr.com so I can mail out your package to you... You have until Friday Oct. 14th to claim your winnings if I get no response I will then pick another winner or winner's on Saturday Oct. 15th....

Thank you all for particpating!!
hugs to you all :)

Friday, October 7, 2011

Hey You're Special!

FINAL ADD ON TO MY GIVEAWAY!
CLICK here for my Blog Candy giveaway!
FYI - you need to be a follower to qualify for
a chance to win, if you link it to your blog page you're
chances are even greater!!!! Hurry I'm almost there!

Hello everyone~
I've got three cards to share with  you, my first card is my second stamp that I won at Danni's Dreams
this was for a celebration she had for her 500 follower blog candy giveaway... This image was inked with copic makers, gems, spellbinders scallop circles, sentiment from Hero Arts and scraps.

On to my second card this is from  S.W.A.L.K the stamp is called "Time Out" and she is a cutie, she's been inked up with copic markers, stickles, button, ribbon and scraps.
My last card is from TGF (Daisy) and she was inked up copic, paper pieced her outfit, gems, and butterfly charm from Wild Orchid, spellbinders rectangular scallops, sentiment from Hero Arts and scraps.  I'm entering this card in Lilo's fun Friday click here for all the deets...



Well enjoy your weekend, and keep on crafting....
Many hugs to you all!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

You're Special / Thinking of You!

CLICK here UPDATE ON MY BLOG CANDY GIVE AWAY!
You need to be a follower and if you link my giveaway
to your page more chances of you winning!  Good Luck!

Here's two cards I worked on this morning, my first card is from one of the stamps that I won from Danni's Dreams she wanted to celebrate her 500 follower's and I won 5 stamps.  All the stamps are from SCAD (Susana custom art and card design).  When I first inked it and had it stamped on my white cardstock I couldn't visualize what the image actually was so I starred at it for such a long time and just went with what I thought it should look like... Well, after the fact when I hopped back over to Danni's I went to search for my win and then I saw what the actual image looked liked.... Oops, I really thought that the back  part of her were her wings so I colored it with light pink and added Ice Stickles to it.  Then when I saw the actual stamp image this was actually the chair she was sitting on.... So I improvised it without knowing and this is what it turned out to be... I really didn't want to toss it out since I had put some time and effort to it.... I will re-do another one and post it back on later....
She was inked up with copic  markers, liquid pearls, ice stickles, spellbinders rectanglar scallops and scraps.  But I don't think it is that noticeable, huh?
My last card is from S.W.A.L.K and I just fell in love with this stamp  when I bought this from IS (Island Scrapbooking)... This is Thinking of you!  She 's been inked up with copic markers, spellbinder's ovals, paper from Pebbles, twine, swiss dot button and stickles.  And wow, check out her hair I was dazzled when I did this....

Thanks again for hopping over and taking a peek...
Many hugs to you all~

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Seasons Greetings!

CLICK here for my Blog candy giveaway~
fyi  - you must be a follower and also leave
a comment on that posting to qualify to win!

Well since my box card that I posted yesterday got mailed out today, I decided to whip up another one... What I like about  making this is their 's no scraps left after making this card box it actually uses up the whole sheet of   8 1/2 x 11 paper....  For this one  the panel dp is from American Crafts, sentiment from  Studio G, liquid pearls, gems oval scallop punch, cuttlebug embossing folder,  stamps on my tags are from imaginisce, ribbon and copic markers that's it.... I've also got several other plain cardstocks all scored for the boxes so I will be doing them later in between of coloring that I'm doing now.


 Thanks for taking a peek~
 Many hugs to you all!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Just for You!

CLICK here for my blogcandy giveaway!
FYI - You need to be a follower to qualify to win....


Here's a box card that I was  inspired so much by Joy that I was determined to give this a try so badly and I did it... I was amazed that it was so quick to put together too..... I also made matching tags to go with it.... and also did a matching cover for a note pad..... I just love the gold tones of this paper and it looks really pretty against the black CS.... I also paper pieced Mei Lings kimono to match the gold tone CS, and used liquid pearls on her flower and copic markers, embossed with swiss dots folder, Marvy Uchida oval scallops and spellbinder ovals and ribbon.....  This is a gift from me to a SBF! I hope she likes it (he,he)


Thanks for taking a peek, and I will be back shortly!
Toodles - and many hugs to you all~

Sunday, October 2, 2011

You're Special!

CLICK here for my Blog candy giveaway!

I finally got to ink up Cherry Cupcake (Mia and Butterfly) she's a stamp that has been sitting in my bin to be colored up... I believe Mia was happy to get a dab of color on her face (he,he) I decided to spike her up and paper pieced her dress, hairband and her friend the butterfly.   I colored her with copic and MS markers, liquid pearls on the butterfly and ribbon on her hair band, sentiment from Hero Arts, spellbinders rectangular scallops and dp from Target....
Well this will be a short post, thanks for stopping by!
Toodles and many hugs to you all~

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Saturday afternoon - Just for You!

Here's a card I worked on  early this morning before headed out to a luncheon for one of my SIL's birthday get together.... Of course we had so much to eat, so I'm bloated with all the good grinds I ate.
Back to my card - I inked up Tilda with Butterfly dress with copics and MS markers, papers from scraps, spellbinders circle and scalloped circle, liquid pearls, sentiment from the Stampendous set (Orchid Greetings).
Thanks for taking a peek!
Now it's time to take a little nap before headed back out for a potluck dinner at my second SIL's birthday.   Luckily I made a big bowl of crab salad so I don't have to really indulge.
Well toodles for now, and don't forget to leave a comment on my blog candy give a way all the deets are here.
Hugs to you all~


My Blog Candy Giveaway!

Hello Blogworld!
I'm have some calorie-free candy to be given away.... I started blogging six months ago and met some very great blogger friends along my journey.  I've been so blessed by my supportive hubby and families with all their encouragement to see me fulfill my dreams.....I love and enjoy what I do best and that is to pick up a piece of paper and be creative with it.  I've been inspired by so many of you and will continue to keep going forward as long as my ten finger's can keep on crafting.(he,he)LOL.  So with this I would  like to give a little something back for taking a peek on my blog, leaving me some sweet comments and being just great blogger friends...  I've got so much personal emails and became so fond with all of you.. They are so much caring and inspirational walks of life out their and you know who you all are.. Thank you for sharing and being so supportive too....  Wow, I sounded so into it, yeah (he,he).. I love you all... I never thought I would end up with having so much follower's just in a short period of time, my goal is to hit 100 follower's...
So to win this calorie - free candy you need to be a follower, if you are already a follower just leave me a comment to enter the win.....
For as long as this may go on I will keep adding a little bit more sweets to my bin, the more I keep adding in their maybe more chances of having not just one winner but second or third place winners..
Everybody loves some sorts of sweets - so grab my giveaway and have it posted on your blog and comment back that you did and more chances of becoming a winner too... Winner or winner(s) will be announced once I reach my 100 follower by random.org.
Thank you blogland - love you all!  Keep on crafting~

last final update:



UPDATED:  ADDED TO MY BIN:



CREATIONS BY SHIRL
100 follower giveaway!
 Back to more crafting!
Hugs :)

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