Black Bear

I have been away from my blog for quite some time.  I have been busy with other things, curling, sewing, and have been trying to get over a sinus infection.  But I am feeling better now and must get back on track.

This is not a very good photo of my card, the glare is caused by the shiny cardstock.  The background is done with alcohol inks. The bear is a rubber stamp from Art Impressions embossed in black.  The tree is a stamp from Stampers Anonymous (Tim Holtz), stamped with Library Green Archival Ink.  The card was for one of my grandsons.

Pretty Bird

This card is for the CDAC Color Challenge this week.  The digi image is from Happi Scrappin Doodles - Leigh Grady.   The bird & flowers are colored with copics.  The background cardstock is from Bisous Zoo, the flower and other papers are from my stash.  This was fun to color and to add the embelishments - pink pearls and white rings of pearls to the flowers.
Went out last night for dinner with my husband and was surprised with another fairly heavy snowfall.  Roads were not too bad when we drove home - but we did have more overnight.  We are so lucky we moved last year to a complex where the road, your driveway and even your front porch and walks are cleared for you.

Figure Skater

The Midnight Madness Challenge for this week at CDAC is based on these two sketches.  I chose to do the plain one this week turning it on its side.  For this card  I used a digi from Gingerloft - by Tami.  I used a black Starform sticker inside the edge of the Oval.  Sticky paper, lace and two colors of glitter, black and white.  The punch is from EK Success.  The papers from my stash.
This card is for my 9 year old grandaughter who competed at the weekend , she earned two medals a gold  a bronze and a fourth place finish.

Cards for Men

 

Always find it hard to design cards for men but enjoyed doing this one  The horse at the top is a stamp from Stamping-Up.
The horses at the bottom are from a Dreamweaver stencil and I used a dark brown paste.  It does appear to be black here. Some dark brown DP and brown brads and it is complete.

Had a great day to-day.  A new Day Ladies curling series started to-day - I got to play with a new team.
It was a good game, we kept alternating getting 1 point each end.  But in the final end we made 5 points to win the game.  This series goes until the end of March and you are on a different team each week, I play lead.
This is my third year to play.  At the end of the series the 10 best skips, vices, seconds and leads will be in teams and  play against each other to become the winners of the series.
Tonight we are waiting for  a  snow storm to descend on us.  We have not had more than a few inches of snow so far this winter.  If we get as much as they say we are to get, we will be staying home to-morrow.

Valentine Turtle

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This is my card for the challenge.  The turtle is a digi from Priscilla Styles, CDAC, colored with copics.  The DP are from K&Company.  The lace is from Fabricland .  The rhinestone stickers are from Recollections       and the ribbon from Michaels.

Up Up and Away

The card above is a birthday card for my son.  The large balloon is a stencil from Dreamweavers.  I used white paste in the stencil and then colored it with markers afterward.  The background is from a magazine and the sentiment stamp is from Micheals.

The Pink Butterfly

This card is to be entered into the Midnight Madness Challenge this week.  The digi butterfly is from Priscilla Styles of CDAC.  The small butterflies were created using a tonic punch.  The sparkly background paper is from DCWV and the other papers, flowers and pearls are from my stash.  It is a sketch challenge as pictured above.

Girl with Kitty

This is a 3D Die Cut picture Stanzbogen - Christine Haworth Designs.  The frame is a sticker from a large sheet. I had removed the packaging and don't know where it is from.  The little girls do like to receive these cards.  They think they are very special because of the 3-d image when finished.  Very quick and I think very pretty card.  Two of my grandaughters were here with us this weekend.  It is very quiet here when they leave.  Because it was so cold outside they spent a lot of time doing crafts and playing on our computers.  (Barbie Games)

An altered card

This card is one that I did for the Midnight Madness sketch challenge.  The card with a turtle on it was a digi from Priscilla Styles.  The papers were from K&Company, The embroidered lace from Fabricland and the rhinestone stickers from Recollections.  After I had entered it into the challenge I needed a card for one of my good friends who was turning 80 and my grandaughter wanted the turtle so she could give it to a friend.  So I removed the turtle and added a digi from Jodie at Bugaboo Stamps. Her name is Stella (the digi) and totally suits my friend.  Liked that the card was so fancy. 

I was a challenge winner!

I have recently joined CDAC a crafters digital art center.  I entered one of my cards into their Midnight Madness Challenges.  (One of many challenges on their site.)  and won their Gold Star Award for the card shown above  It was a sketch challenge which I followed quite closely.  The butterfly image is a digi from Pricilla Styles of CDAC.  I embossed the image in gold on a transparency and layered it over a cardstock image which I had colored with pencil crayons.  The background paper is from Graphic 45 and the gold paper, flowers and brads are from the dollar store.  The sentiment is a rubber stamp from Chapel Road Art Stamps embossed in white.