Using Cardboard

This weeks challenges are up over at Challenge Masters.  My "Go Green" challenge for this week is to use some cardboard on your layout or card.  Our sponsor this month is My Creative Classroom

Here's my example.  The photo is of my son looking at a catalog of heavy equipment that belongs to his dad.  He loved to look at all the machinery.

Materials Used:  Lily Bee Designs - Pattern Paper, Stickers; Making Memories - Alphas; Basic Grey - Stickers; Jilli Bean Soup - Card Board Flower; Crate Paper - Chipboard; Misc. - twine, button, paint

Challenge Masters is looking for......

A few new Design Team members! 

 If you are interested you can find more information here:

Challenge Masters

Valentine Blog Hop

Love is in the air and the Challenge Master Divas are celebrating by having a blog hop!

The hop is going to run from Friday January 28th until Sunday January 30th. We have lots of prizes, fun and inspiration for you this weekend. If you have arrived from Jamilie's Blog you are on the right track. If you just got here then you need to head over to our Stash/Tag Diva Tammy's blog to get started.

All of the Divas are creating love inspired projects for you to enjoy. We also each have a word for a secret phrase. You need to stop by each blog and collect the words (they are all jumbled so you will need to visit each one) and once you have unscrambled them, send the phrase to tealeaf@shaw.ca to be entered to win one of the two grand prizes. We each have a small blog prize as well so you want to make sure that you stop by all the blogs and leave us some love, so that you have multiple chances to win!

Another way to win, is to create your own love inspired project and remember it can be anything you love (a person, a place, a thing, a hobby..whatever love means to you) and upload it to the Challenge Master’s Gallery in the forum. You will have until Sunday February 13th to enter your projects and then after careful deliberation a winner will be announced on our challenge blog! The grand prize winner will receive a great prize pack donated by our Stash & Tag Diva Tammy! You don’t want to miss out on this so start creating! You can enter as many times as you wish as long as you create new projects each time.

Here's my project for you......a cute little mini book:

Materials: My Mind's Eye "Love Me Do" line, Prima Flowers, Misc. Lace

One lucky commenter will win this RAK from me.  It's a Basic Grey 2011 Calendar Kit! 

 In order to win you must leave a comment and tell me one thing you LOVE. Don't forget to put that in, only those comments will be entered! The winner will be announced on Monday, Jan. 31st. The winner must contact me with their addy.

My word for your secret phrase is:

LOVE

Now, on to your next stop......the very creative KAREN

Go Green with Flowers

Challenge Masters has some new challenges up this week for the month of Janurary.  I have a new "Go Green" challenge.  The challenge is to use handmade flower on your creation and save your stash.

Here's a quick card I made using scraps too!

Here's a layout with handmade flowers...

Challenge Masters has a Valentine Blog Hop coming up at the end of this month so mark your calendars for JANUARY 28-30TH and join us for lots of love inspired projects, lots of prizes and most importantly, lots of fun.

We hope to see you there!

Wine, wine, and more wine....

Got your attention didn't I? I am on a wine kick recently.  I discovered some new yummy wine that I am hooked on.  Normally I am a sweet wine drinker, mostly German white ones.  So, I've been on a hunt for red wines that I can actually swallow.  Most just haven't been to my liking.  I found that I really like the "muscadine" wines.  Now, I realized these are hard to find so I've had to order them online from the winery themselves.  I did that and had a few sent to the house to try different ones and I'm hooked.

On our trip to Savannah Georgia I happened on a wine store downtown.  I went in a low and behold the wines I love were right in front of me!  I was EXTREMELY excited.  I think I drove the girls nuts talking about going to the winery and wine store.  There was a really sweet man there that was telling me about all the wines. I tried a bunch and even found some Peach Wine that was SOOOOO yummy. I decided I needed a picture of the bottles because I know I've never had that many bottles of alcohol in my house at one time!  I had to preserve this moment in time!

I decided to use the photo in a layout for Challenge Masters.  This was for a "Scraplift" challenge. When I started this I really wasn't thrilled with it but I came to love it by the time I was done.  I think it may be because of the little sticker phrases by the title!  Click on the layout to read them....they make me laugh!

Materials:  Webster's Pages Papers & Lace, Prima Flowers, i-rock bling

I'm back! :)

Wow, it feels like I haven't posted in FOREVER!  There has been a lot going on here.  We just got home from a great trip to Savannah, GA.  It was FREEZING but we had a great time. We ate way too much because we had to get to all the great famous places to eat. Now, I'm feeling a little rounder than I was, ugh.

So, I hope you all have had some time to be crafty.  I haven't really had time to catch up on the blogs but I will gradually make my rounds, hopefully.  We're off soon on another trip because my oldest daughter is moving out of state.  Good for her, sad for mom :(

On to my reason for popping in today.  I have a Go Green challenge for you over at Challenge Masters. Maybe you would like to come play?  You have until the end of the month to be entered in to win our monthly prize. The challenge is to make an ornament from paper.  Here are a few that I made.  These were pretty simple.  If you want to know the how to, let me know and I'll share. 

Pink Paislee Paper, Glitter, Beads, Ribbon

Go Green with Scraps

This month my "Go Green" challenge for you over at Challenge Masters is to use your scraps, anyway, anyhow!  Give it a go and see what you come up with.  These are two cards I made from my scraps.

Winner of my RAK for CM Blog Hop!

I had the winner for my RAK from the Challenge Masters Blog Hop

chosen by Random.org and here's the number:

And the winner is......... Martine Labelle

Martine, please contact me via email with your mailing info.

Ch{all}enge Masters F{all} into a Ch{all}enge Blog Hop

Welcome to the Ch{all}enge Masters F{all} into a Ch{all}enge Blog Hop! The challenge Divas have gotten together to create some fantastic Fall themed projects for you to be inspired and enjoy. You should have arrived here from Pat's Blog. If not, then you need to start back at Tammy's Blog . We all have a secret word that you need to collect to spell an autumn phrase and to be entered to win one of the grand prizes. All the details are on her blog and you don't want to miss out on any great prizes along the way as we all have something special that you can win!

Here's my Fall Themed layout for you.  My cutie pie little guy (not so little anymore) with his Big Boots like Daddy :)  I used some stamping on here as well as added some cork.

I will be giving away a RAK for one lucky commenter :)  No need to be a follower (unless you want to) just make sure you check back to see if you won. It will be a nice combination of flowers and embellishments.

"Now we are sending the ch{all}enge out to you! We want to see your fall themed projects! You can upload them to the CM gallery . You'll need to sign up to the forum and while you are there we hope you'll have a look at all the great challenges we do every week! You have until midnite on Saturday September 25th to upload your project and then the winner will be announced a few days later! You can win a fantastic prize pack!"

Now you are on your way to Liz's Blog to see what she's created for you and don't forget the word you are looking for from me is....................

Glad you stopped by to play with us!

Go Green Challenge at Challenge Masters

I have this months Go Green Challenge over at Challenge Masters. This month we are going to conserve.  Conserve what?  Pattern paper! That's right, this months challenge is to use ONLY CARDSTOCK in your creation.  Easy Peasy!  Won't you join us?  I have a little RAK for a random participant at the end of the month! Here's my simple, easy layout:

Challenge Masters blog hop is coming up real soon so check back!

There will be lots of prizes and RAK's!