Celebrating the Risen Saviour!

Blessings to all who believe....and sincere prayer for any who seek Him ...

that today will be your day of salvation

He did this for you and me

But He has Risen...and will be coming back again

Won't you take his hand, give Him your heart and life ...and Believe!

John 14:1-6

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

² In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

⁴ And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

⁵ Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 3:16

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Today is the most wonderful day of celebration...

Our Saviour lives!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow Vintage/Shabby Chic Challenge

Hi there!

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week we want you to make a vintage or shabby chic project ...with the theme...

Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes

Projects must reflect either a fairy tale or nursery rhyme

Each of the Design Team members received an image to use for this challenge from our wonderful sponsor

  A Day for Daisies 

WINNER WILL RECEIVE $12 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO a Day For Daisies!

I chose their adorable image

  called Promises, Promises

let's see...the cardstock and designer paper is all from stash, along with the flower ribbon and WISH tag

I made the pink flower with punches, wet them, scrunched them and then let em dry...

colored with Copics:

E00, 21...RV04, 21, 34...Y11, 23, 26, 28...YG03. 95...C2

gold stickles in her hair and dotted pearls with white Vivid Pearl Pen

Spellbinders Scalloped Edge Frame....doodling with white gel pen

you know how most of the time we aren't "crazy" about our own cards...

welllll I actually like this one LOL

Hope to see you in our challenge 

reminder, Winner will receive $12 gift certificate to A Day for Dasies !

Wishing everyone a blessed Easter - so glad we can still celebrate the Lord's resurrection!!

hugs,

Outlawz Copic/Promarker ANYTHING GOES challenge

Hi there!

This week the Friday's Copic/Promarker Design Team at the Outlawz challenges you to create with theme...

ANYTHING GOES

and remember Christmas is welcome (-:

I chose another adorable image from Phindy's Place called Odd -Bod- bunny

This is all stash odds n ends...with Spellbinders die and Copics

...lightly sponged sky

Hope to see you over at the Outlawz - they really do have awesome sponsors!

With trying to keep up with my job AND get ready for Easter...this sentiment kinda sums it up LOL

I'm posting a little early due to worrying about computer not auto posting

Have a glorious Easter everyone!

 NO SNOW...woooo hoooooo (-:

hugs

PS I've added to my sidebar the Blog Lovin app to use if you want to continue to follow my blog

Google is ending their followers app in the near future...bummer )-:

STV's Center Stage Spotlight Group Hop

Hi everyone, Glad you could join us (-:

The second CSS Group hop for the month of March is all about simplicity and sparkles!
Our challenge was to ...

Create a clean and simple (CAS) card or project,
 use only embellishments that sparkle (glitter, rhinestones, etc.)

OK - I'm in trouble...cannot do CAS...
soooooo headed over to team mate and sweet friend, Vicki Dutcher's blog,
to get my CAS mojo going LOL.
landed on this card of her's and then I was good to go!
This is from her Feb 5th post...

and here's my first card for this hop casing Viki's CAS above (confused yet LOL)
All of my cards were created using Theresa Momber's "Birds and Blossoms"
my bling is the silver pearls in flower centers

ok, now I'm on a roll - here is my second card
my bling is green stickles

and my last card, the bling is blue pearls done with Vivid Pearl Pen


WOOOO HOOO I created CAS cards....and if these aren't considered CAS - don't tell me LOL

Now you should have come from sweet, talented blog of Kay Simmons and if you didn't and want to start at the beginning, you can click here ...
now your next stop is over to awesome, adorable blog of Lori McAree....

Make sure to leave a comment as you go along because we will choose a random comment and that stamper will win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! 
Look for the announcement on Tuesday, April 2.

Enjoy and hope you found something that got your sparkly CAS mojo going!
hugs,

Sugar Creek Hollow Vintage/Shabby Chic Challenge

Hi there!

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week we want you to make a vintage or shabby chic project ...with the theme...

Alter something in a vintage or shabby style

Woohooooo! I've been loving working with Dylusion Sprays, Gesso AND acrylic paints...so pulled out a plain ole brown notebook and went to town with the acrylicpaint, stencils and stamps...

here's what I came up with

the back is done also...

Used an old favorite stamp set from Stampin Up called "Long Time Friend" for primary image..the rest of the stamped images are just random stamps (some you can see clearly but some are "ghosted" and didnt show in picture...also used stencil from Dylusions for the leaves down the side, image is colored with Copics. Also used some Gelato sticks for the orange areas, white craft ink and a white Sharpie pen...stash lace.

The entire cover (front and back) is sealed with Modge Podge

I had so much fun creating this!!!...going to go back to Target and get some more notebooks!!

hugs,

Copic/Promarker Challenge at the Outlawz

Hi there!

This week the Friday's Copic/Promarker Design Team at the Outlawz challenges you to create with theme...

EASTER or SPRING

Chose an image from Heartfelt Creations with this beautiful cross...
unfortunately it is a retired image, sorry :-  But check them out, they have more!

This is for my MIL - hope she likes it (-:

hope you get to enter our challenge

The Outlawz has awesome sponsors!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!

hugs,

Supplies:

Cardstock - Taken with Teal from SU

Designer Paper - MME

Stamp - Heartfelt Creations Vintage Cross

Ink:  Memento Summer Sky, Bahama Blue, Dandelion

Flower Center - Blue Gala Glitz (avail at Heartfelt Creations)

Copics: E13, 17, 18...YG03, 17...B32, 34

Color Me Creative Challenge #64

NEW CHALLENGE #64 will run thru March 29th!

Your challenge this time is all about

**SPRING COLORS**

color ANY image in

SPRING COLORS 

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!! 

*******************

Our Sponsor is:

Digi My World

I used one of the adorable images from Digi My World

Hope to see YOU in the challenge (-:

hugs,

supplies:
Cardstock: SU Sage Shadow
Designer Paper: MME - Miss Caroline's " Howdy Doody"
Sentiment from Great Impressions
Stash : Lace, doily, flower
Ribbon: SU Sage Shadow
Ink:  Memento Rhubarb
Die: Memory Box - Elegant Scrollwork
Viva Pearl Pen - light green

Copics: C0,1,4...RV02,23,34...Y32,38...YG03,67...BG11,72

Sugar Creek Hollow Vintage challenge

Hi there!

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week we want you to make a vintage or shabby chic project ...with the theme...

VINTAGE EASTER

I don't know where I got this image from...but its so cute! love the little chic pulling that Egg (-:

My background mat is 100% hand made stamping with Gesso onto dark brown cardstock and coloring with Bic markers...there are a couple scraps of stash designer paper on it also...

outlined and doodled with gold pen.

colored up some stash white paper flowers, used clear Vivid Pearl Pen and a piece of stash lace...

cardstock is Sage Shadow from Stampin Up

Now really hope we get to see your vintage Easter projects!

hugs,

Copic/Promarker challenge at the Outlawz

Hi there!

This week the Friday's Copic/Promarker Design Team at the Outlawz challenges you to create with theme...

St Patrick's Day. Irish or Green

I went with "Green" ... don't really use Irish cards :-( wish I did because they are so cute! But instead I chose this cutie from the Saturated Canary.

It will work for almost any occasion

colored my paper flowers with Copics used in her dress, added some stickles and Viva Pearl Pen for my pearls (love that stuff)...doodled my background edges...cut out my background mat using 

Spellbinders Label 14 and placed my image under the mat... don't know where the sentiment is from - it has found its way into my odds n ends stamp box that I use when finally cleaning off my craft area...

stash designer paper, ribbon and bold green cardstock from SU.

as always, hope you get to play in our challenge!

TGIF

hugs,

Two Design Team Challenges

hi there,

 Not having power for 4 days really set me back...so to catch up I'm going to post

 two Design Team challenges in this post...

First Challenge was to have gone live on Friday for the  Copic/Promarker Design Team at the Outlawz challenging you to create with theme...

FASHION

I'm using an adorable Phindy image from Phindy's Place...she's all dressed up and ready to celebrate (-:

Second Challenge was to have gone live on Saturday for the Sugar Creek Hollow vintage or shabby chic project ...using this beautiful photo inspiration.

 I created my card using stamp set from GKD

Both cards were colored with Copics...

well that was quicker and saved everyone from going into two separate posts....
Hope you get to play in both challenges (-:

looking forward to seeing what you create
hugs,

PS after this snowstorm, DH and I see a BIGGGGG generator in our future...
soon as they go on sale (-:

Color Me Creative Classroom challenge #63

Hi there,

NEW CHALLENGE #63 will run thru March 15th!

Your challenge this time is all about

**ANYTHING GOES**

(optional twist is to use bugs/butterflies/reptile images)

color ANY image in any style or color because its

ANYTHING GOES

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!

*******************

Our Sponsor is:

Digital Designs by Louby Lou

ONE (RANDOM) WINNER WILL WIN A $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE

TO SPEND AT DIGITAL DELIGHTS BY LOUBY LOU

I chose this adorable little sea turtle

Turtle is mounted on a Wobbler - so daggone cute! couldn't get a pic of the wobble action and have no idea how to do a little video..

kids are gonna love this little swimmer (-:

Copics: G000,05,14,24,...YG 03,63...C 1,4,5...BG 04,13,18...RV 11,21...V04,09...BV08, FV2

Background from my Art Journal using Dylusion sprays and various stamps

hope you like AND come on over, check out all the cutie images colored by our Design Team and join our
ANYTHING GOES challenge (-:

hugs,

PS Two more posts coming (the Outlawz challenge and Sugar Creek Hollow)

Snow, no power.....seriously behind

Hi there,
Oh my, the last few days have been an experience....don't realize how truly much we love that electricity until its gone....I'm behind on posting Design Team challenges but going to try and catch up tonight.....be ready (-:

Sugar Creek Hollow "Vintage or Shabby Chic" challenge

Hi there!

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week we want you to make a vintage or shabby chic project ...with the theme...

LOVELY LACE

Since 2013 is about "new" stuff for me - check this out...that background design is not an embossed folder. I used a stamp and brushed gesso on the stamp and stamped it.. Let it dry and then lightly sponged with Memento ink!

something new and I like-y!!!

Verse is from new set "Hymns" by Nina Brackett over at the Crafts Meow...

C'mon and join us! Let's see your gorgeous lace projects!

PS: I'm still in North Carolina - daughter and husband have arrived home from their trip as high school chaperons to Disney World (rough life huh!) - but a dear, dear friend went home to be with the Lord on Thursday (he was 86) and his funeral is Saturday afternoon...so I'm headed home early am

hugs,

Copic/Promarker Challenge at the Outlawz

Hi there!

This week the Friday's Copic/Promarker Design Team at the Outlawz challenges you to create with theme...

PETS!

check out this cutie pie image...it was a freebie some time back from Meljen's Designs...so glad I was online and grabbed it!

Colored with Copics (blues n browns)... didn't write it down when i drafted my post ...

 and now I'm in North Carolina doing the actual post

Hop you get to pop over and check out the other team mates cards - they are REALLY REALLY tooooo adorable...

and then come on over and join our challenge (-:

hugs,