Embossing... Spooky Style

Good morning everyone!
 It's time for a new challenge at Moving Along With The Times!
This week it's Red's turn to host the challenge and she wants to see...
Embossing!

Our wonderful sponsor is Bearly Mine Designs and I chose one of the Halloween freebie papers to work with... love this spooky paper!  The little mummy is a image that I won from Paper Makeup... I love him too, so cute and scary! :) I colored him with Copics and the sentiment is from Crafty Secrets.  I embossed the oval background with the CB Tiny Bubbles folder and I used the CB Distressed Stripes folder for the moon. I used $1 punches for the circles & spiders and a MS punch for the bats.  Well, there you have it... my first Halloween card for 2013!

Now head on over to the challenge blog and check out all of the fabulous creations by the other team members!
That's it for now... enjoy your day and thanks so much for stopping by!      

Challenges I would like to enter:
613 Avenue Create- Anything Goes/optional-Sketch
Bearly Mine- Anything Goes
Eclectic Ellapu- Anything Goes
LEJ Designs- Die Cuts &/or Punches
Lexi's Creations- Black & White + ONE other color
Love to Create- Something for Kids
Make it Monday- always Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time- Use a Digi
Opus Gluei- Use Black

Tiny Vintage Mice

Good afternoon everyone!

Just popping in to share a Vintage Style card that I made with another fabulous image from my PrintMaster Platinum DVD.  Like a few other cards on my blog this adorable image was originally a B&W image that I changed to a sepia tone and this time I added a touch of color with a BT1 Spectrum Noir marker. I roughed up all the edges with the Tim Holtz Paper Distresser tool before adding Vintage Photo distressed ink. The designer papers are from a 6x6 MME paper pad- the Market collection and the sentiment is Hero Arts.  The cream paper flowers, also from Hero Arts are sprayed with Perfect Pearls Mist before adding a little distressed ink and pearls. You can't see it in the photo but the flowers are very shimmery IRL! :) 

That's it for now, thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day! 

Challenges I would like to enter:

 Cupcake Craft- Lots of Layers

Fashionista- Shabby or Vintage

Forever Friends- Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs- Animal Antics

Make it Monday- Anything Goes

MilkCoffee- Shabby Chic/Vintage

Our Creative Corner- Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show- use 6x6 paper pads 

Songbird- Flowers

The Corrosive- Sentiment on the Front

The Paper Nest Dolls- Pearls

Through The Craft Room Door- Anything Goes 

You're the best... Mom

Good morning everyone and Happy Friday!
 It's Alphabet Challenge time and today's letter is...
G for Glitter & Gems!
For my card I chose this adorable little girl from Crafty Sentiments to work with!  She's colored with Copics and the sentiment is Hero Arts.  I cut the hearts out with my new Memory Box-Precious Hearts dies and then heat embossed them with WOW Neutral Ultra Shimmer embossing glitter... I love this stuff!  The letters were cut with an Sizzix die, the paper is from American Crafts and the gems are from my stash...

here's a close up of one of the hearts so you can see the sparkle better! :)

 For more inspiration make sure you stop by the challenge blog and take a look at the DT beautiful creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by and for those who are celebrating Mother's Day, I hope you have a fabulous Sunday!

Challenges I would like to enter:
Celebrate the Occasion- Happy Mothers Day
Crafty Catz- Anything Goes

Creative Belli- Mother's Day
Cuttin & Stampin- Mother's Day
Digi Haven– Happy Mother's Day/Floral
Inky Impressions- Mother's Day/for a Lady
Jellypark- Girly Girl 
Little Red Wagon- All About Mom
My Craft Spot- For Mom
Penny's Paper-Crafty- Diecuts and/or punches
Sweet Stamps- For Mom

Tammy's Scrappin Corner- Mother's Day

The Squirrel and Fox- Mother's Day

Clean and Simple

Good morning everyone!

 It's time for a new challenge at Moving Along With The Times!  

This week it's Sarah's turn to host the challenge and she chose the wonderful theme...

Clean and Simple!

For my card I used one of the images and matching sentiments from The Alley Way Lighter than Air stamp set and stamped them right onto Kraft cardstock.  I paper pieced the balloon, basket and tiny heart.  The papers are from Jillibean Soup & Recollections and I used a MFT die to cut out the Fishtails Flags... added my black pearls and there you have it! 

Our sponsor this week is A Passion For Stamps so make sure you stop by the challenge blog for the prize details and to see the gorgeous CAS creations by the other team members!

That's it for now... but I will be back tomorrow with another card! Thanks so much for 

stopping by!

Challenges I would like to enter:

A Little Bit Crafty- Kraft it!

Addicted to Stamps and More- (C10)- CAS

CAS-ual Fridays- Tic Tac Toe! (Polka Dots, Kraft & Dies)
Clear It Out- Anything Goes/Stash Item: 2 or more design papers
Little Miss Muffet- Pieced Off Paper piecing
Loves Rubber Stamps- Anything Goes

 Make it Monday - always Anything Goes
Make My Monday- Anything that Flies

Sentimental Sundays- Paper Piecing
Stampavie and More- Kraft

Blossoms for Mom

Happy Saturday everyone!

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Calendar and this month the theme is...

Blooms and Blossoms!  

Our fabulous sponsor is Heather Ellis who provide the images for us to work with!  This is one of Heather's Pure Innocence images, Isn't she a cutie?!! 

I wanted to make something a little different so I created this simple pocket card and matching tag!  Usually the tag is larger but I added a packet of seeds and made the tag smaller... that way both will fit in the pocket.  Perfect for our challenge theme and perfect for my mom... I'm going to give this to my mom for Mother's Day along with a few other goodies! :)

Anyway, this sweet image is colored with Copics and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.  The bright yellow paper is from Recollections and the tag was cut with an QuicKuts die. I used a small EK Success punch for the flowers and a Cuttlebug die for the heart... added my hand dyed seam binding and pearls and there you have it!

Make sure you stop by the challenge blog and check out all of the wonderful creations by the other team members!

Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Challenges I would like to enter:

Brown Sugar– Mother's Day

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards- Mother's Day/For Mom

Crafty Creations- Mother's Day + Flowers

Creative Corner- Flowers and/or Mothers Day

Creative Stamp Friends- Mother's Day

Digistamps 4 Joy- Women are Special/Mother's day

Everybody-Art- Pearls

Hobbycutz- Mother's Day

Melonheadz Friends- Mother's Day

One Stop Craft- Flower Power

QKR Stampede– Mother's Day

Stamp n Doodle- Mother's Day

The Perfect Sentiment- Feminine

Top Tip Tuesday- Moving Parts

Victorine Originals- Mother's Day

Happy Birthday!

Hello everyone... I'm back to share with you another Penny Black birthday card that I made!

  I stamped this little cutie with Memento Tuxedo ink and colored it with Copics. The sentiment is from TPC Studio- cut out with Oval/Scalloped nesties, the ticket & postage stamp (with matching dies) are from Whimsy Stamps and the paper is from MME.  The fabulous calendar page is a free printable from Crafty Secrets... I just cropped around the months that I needed.  I love this site... there are other freebies over there too!  I distressed all the edges including the doily with Vintage Photo Distress ink... and there you have it!

 I made this for my beautiful, super sweet niece- her birthday is May 11th... I hope she likes it! :)

That's it for today... Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend!
             

Challenges I would like to enter:

Art Impressions Stamps- Layer it Up
Aud Sentiments- Birthday Sentiment
Card and Scrap - Use dies
Color Me Creative- Celebrations
Desert Island Crafters- (no flowers, teal & birthday sentiment)
Love to Create- Bingo (Doily, die cuts & Sentiment)
Paper Crafting Journey- Use a Sentiment

Penny's Paper-Crafty- Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp- Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything goes
Stampin' For The Weekend- Die Cuts and/or Punches
Sugar Creek Hollow- Numbers and Letters
QKR Stampede– Favorite Things: Copics, die cuts, paper & my niece :) 

Baby Boy

Good morning everyone!
 It's time for a new challenge at Moving Along With The Times!  
This week it's Marita's turn to host the challenge and she chose the wonderful theme...
Babies!  
Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps and my card features their beautiful A Mother's Love image.  I cut the image out with a Classic Rectangle nestie, added a touch of shading/coloring with a couple of Copics and then I sponged around the edges with Broken China Distress ink.  I roughed up all the edges including the DCWV dp and then added more Broken China distress ink.  The Sentiment is a $1 stamp from Michaels... the hand dyed seam binding, feather and pearls are all from my stash.

Now head on over to the challenge blog and check out all of the fabulous baby creations by the other team members!
That's it for now...  enjoy your day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Challenges I would like to enter:
Crafty Sentiments- Monochromatic
Cupcake Craft- Monochromatic
Hobbycutz- Monochrome
Make it Monday- always Anything Goes
Natalie and Amy's- Monochromatic

One Stitch At A Time- Use a Digi

Shopping Our Stash- (C13) Dollar Or Bargain Bin Find (my $1 sentiment)
Simon Says Stamp- Anything Goes

The Corrosive- Life's Special Occasions
Through The Craft Room Door- Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday- Say Isn't Sew

Vintage Hedgie

Good afternoon everyone! 
Today I am back with a quick post to share another Vintage style Birthday card that I made.

This sweet little hedgehog is from Penny Black and it's colored with Copics.  The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and the gorgeous papers are from MME-the Market collection, I just love this paper pad... it's full of peach and rust colored papers!  The flowers were created with the Rose Creations nesties and I used a QuicKutz die to cut out the circles.  I roughed up the edges with the Tim Holtz Paper Distresser tool before adding some Vintage Photo ink.  The hand dyed seam binding, doily, button and gems are all from my stash!  
That's it for now... Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Challenges I would like to enter: 
Addicted to Stamps- Birthday card + Birthday Sentiment

By the Cute & Girly- Vintage

Cards Galore- Vintage

Craft Your Passion- Adorable Animals
Creative Card Crew- Handmade Flowers
Cupcake Craft- Cute & Cuddly

Dream Valley- Happy Birthday

Everybody-Art- Bling
Make it Monday- always Anything Goes
Paper Pretties Wednesday- Happy Birthday
Penny Black and More- Blossoms and Bows
Ruby's Rainbow- Round & Round
Sugar Creek Hollow- Stamp it

Totally Papercrafts– get Krafty
Visible Image Monthly- Get stamping

Shoo-Fly Pie

Happy Friday everyone!
 It's Alphabet Challenge time and today it's my turn to choose the theme. We are up to the letter E and I LOVE the color green so I chose E... for Emerald! So create a card or project with the color green... and any amount of green will do! :)

For my DT card I used an image that I won from Paper Pretties!  While browsing their store I saw this adorable frog and immediately thought of Shoo-Fly Pie!  Now, I've only heard of Shoo-Fly Pie and how it got it's name but I've never had any.  It's looks so easy to make and I like molasses so I might have to give it a try sometime! :)
Anyway, this little guy is colored with Copics and the sentiment is from C.C. Designs.  The ticket/die cut is from Whimsy Stamps and the papers are from BasicGrey.  To finish it up I added a couple different sizes of gems... and there you have it!  A very bright and fun card!

For more inspiration be sure to stop by the challenge blog and take a look at the DT fabulous creations!
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!!

Challenges I would like to enter:
Artistic Inspirations- Anything Goes
Cards For Men- Humorous + for a man or boy
Crafty Cardmakers- C15- Humour
 Digital Tuesday-  Boys
Love to Scrap- 3 (or more) Layers, 2 Patterned Papers, 1 image
Make it Monday- always Anything Goes
My Craft Spot- Cute Critters
Stampavie and More- For a boy   

Inspire Us

Good morning everyone!
It's time for a new challenge at Moving Along With The Times and I'm very excited because it's my first time to host the challenge! :)  For this week I chose one of my favorite themes...
Inspired by a Song or Film!

Our sponsor is Digi My World and I used 4 of their adorable images on my card... which is Inspired by The Beatles' song "Octopus's Garden"!
A few different techniques were used to create the background... masking, watercolor toothbrush splattering and paper piecing.  The polka dot flowers were cut with an MFT die and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I used a couple of $1 punches for the tiny flowers and sea shells.  Added my bling and googly eyes... and there you have it!

I hope you can join us and be sure to stop by the challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the DT!

That's it for today... but I will be back tomorrow with another card.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Challenges I would like to enter:
Cupcake Inspirations- Photo Inspiration: Polka Dots
Craft Your Passion- Water, Water Everywhere
Digi Makeover- Water
Forever Friends- Paper Piecing
Great Impressions- Pastel Colours and/or Polka Dots
Happy Campers- Flower Power
Heck of a Challenge- Just add water
Inky Impressions- Paper Piecing
Make My Monday- Create your own background
Natalie and Amy's- Monochromatic
Paper Crafting Journey- Monochromatic
The Squirrel & the Fox- Inspired by a Song/Movie

Spring Showers

Happy Saturday everyone!
It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Calendar and this month the theme is...
Sunshine and Showers!  
Our wonderful sponsor is MilkCoffee and my card features the sweet Girl with Boots image!  She's colored with Copics and the sentiment is from C.C. Designs. The papers are from K&Company and I hand dyed some seam binding to match.  I added a tiny paper flower, a few dew drops and there you have it... a very bright spring card! :)

We are also having a DT call... so make sure you stop by the challenge blog for all of the details and don't forget to check out the rest of the teams fabulous creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Challenges I would like to enter:
Animals Friends- Weather 
2 Sisters- Anything Goes
Brown Sugar- Spring
Catch the Bug- Anything Goes
Celebrate the Occasion- April Showers (must use an umbrella)
Color me Creative- All About the Hair
Crafty Catz- Anything Goes  
Cuttin & Stampin- Showers
Digistamps 4 Joy- Anything Goes
Divas by Design- Spring Colours
Kreativeinkauf- Spring

QKR Stampede- April Showers
Scrappy Frogs- Think Spring

Vintage Birthday Cards

Good morning everyone... I hope you are doing well!

April and May are huge birthday months for my family... so I wanted to share a couple of Vintage style cards that I made.  The first card is for my sweet Mother-n-Law.  I created the paper flowers out of an old dictionary... they were so fun to make! The one on the right might be a touch too big... I got a bit carried away! :o)  

The second card is for my wonderful Dad...  his birthday is this Sunday.  I added a strip of dictionary paper to his card and the circles were cut out of cork. I wanted to keep his very masculine!

The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping...  and it cuts out perfectly with the #18 Nestie.  I love how fast these came together and I'm very happy with the way they turned out... and no coloring was required!  I hope they like them! :)

That's it for now... Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy your day!

Challenges I would like to enter:
A Little Bit Crafty- Anything goes
ABC Challenge- K for Kraft
Artistic Stampers- Texture + rubber stamp
Cards Galore- Vintage

Craft Room- In The Library (Use Books)
Cupcake Craft- Get your Kraft on
Flutterby Wednesdays- Flowers + butterflies or fairies (1st card)  
Kaboodle Doodles- 2 Different Patterned Papers
Make it Monday- always Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly- Anything Goes + optional use Kraft
Ruby's Rainbow- Happy Birthday
Shopping Our Stash-C13 Not Your Normal Paper (used a dictionary & cork)
Simon Says Stamp- Happy Birthday

Other Supplies:

Papers- MME, Authentique & Kraft CS 
Dies- QuicKuts nesting circles & scallops

Punches- MS Butterfly Punch, small circle punch    

Versafine Black Onyx- for sentiment
Tim Holtz Distressing tool and Vintage Photo ink
Embellishments from Stash- lace, pearls, rosette stickers, brads

A Spring Daffodil

Happy Friday everyone!

  It's Alphabet Challenge time and today's letter is... D for Daffodils! A perfect theme for this time of year because nothing says spring quite like daffodils!

  

For my creation I chose a b&w image from my PrintMaster Platinum DVD and colored it Copics.  I used a MS punch for the butterflies and a EK Success punch for the corners.  The dp is from K&Company and I added some hand dyed seam binding... I think it matches the daffodil perfectly! :)  The tiny pearls and button are from my stash.

For more inspiration be sure to stop by the challenge blog and take a look at the DT beautiful creations!

That's it for now... thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a very 

Happy Easter!  

Challenges I would like to enter:

Can You Digi It- Pick A Season (Spring)
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards- Bring On Spring
Creative Corner- Anything goes
DL.ART Thankful Thursday– Spring
Digi Haven– Spring
Digital Tuesday- Spring Colours
Kaboodle Doodles- Easter or Early Spring
Paper Crafting Journey- Ribbon or Lace
Sisterhood of Crafters- Easter/Spring
Stamp n Doodle- Easter/Spring
Sweet n' Sassy Digi- Think Spring + digi
Use It Tuesdays- All About Spring (hoarded supplies- pearls and button)

Sketch Time at MAWTT

Good morning everyone!

 It's time for a new challenge at Moving Along With The Times!

This week it's Valou's turn to host the challenge and she has provided us with a fabulous sketch to work with! 

Our Sponsor this week is Stamp Fairy and my card features the sweet little Linda Spring image!  

I printed the image twice... colored them with Copics.  I fussy cut out the tiny bows, her dress and the butterflies so I could pop them up with foam tape for more dimension.  The dp is from The Paper Studio, the paper roses are from Recollections and the sentiment is Hero Arts.  To finish it up I added a touch of winter white seam binding with a pearl.

Now head on over to the challenge blog and check out all of the gorgeous creations by the other team members!
That's it for today... but I will be back tomorrow with another card.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Challenges I would like to enter:
C.R.A.F.T.- Mother's Day/Female
Craft Your Passion- Cute
DRS Designs- Paper Flowers
Forever Friends- Girls
Happy Campers- Add Dimension
Lady Anne's- Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT- Anything Goes
Make it Monday- always Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time- Use a Digi
Simon Says Stamp- Anything Goes
Stamps & Fun = Creativity- Monochrome