Food for Thought at Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog

Here's some food for thought: the optional theme at Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog is "For the Foodie in You." Got some yummy images to color up? Maybe some delicious papers or embellishments? The challenge runs until the 14th of the month so create and link up your projects for your chance to win free digis from the Scribbles Designs Store.

Speaking of the Store, my Scribbles images are Tea Cup Stack found HERE and Tea found HERE. After printing my images, I colored them with Copics, framing the cup stack with black cardstock and adhering it onto some leftover DCWV paper. I fussy-cut the Tea bag so I could "hang it" over the frame. My designer paper is so busy I decided to embellish with a simple baby blue bow.

Challenges I am Entering:

Classic Design DT Open - Anything DT Goes

Craft-Dee Bowz - ANything w/handmade Bow Goes

CraftyHazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything w/pp Goes

DigiDoodle Studios - Anything Goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Oddball Art Stamps - Anything Goes

The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

World Wide Open DT - Anything DT Goes

Feeling Peckish at Ike's World Challenge Blog

People don't come to the table just to ingest food. They gather with family and friends to spend time together, talk and laugh and catch up with their lives and loves. You could say that food brings people together. Well, FOOD is the optional theme at Ike's World Challenge Blog this fortnight.

I created a card using an Ike's Art image (called The Tea Party) for one of my bff's to let her know how much she means to me. I can pour out my heart to her (and I have), and she will listen without judging, giving advice only when asked. she makes me laugh when I need to, and let's me cry out loud when I have to. So I'm popping this in the mail for her today! No time like the present.

FOOD is an OPTIONAL theme for the challenge; otherwise, it's anything goes. So get out your inks, markers, water colors, paints, scissors, and other weapons of choice, and create something to link up to the challenge at Ike's World Challenge Blog for your chance to win free digis from her store.

Happy crafting!

Find LOVE at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog

Welcome to the midway point of the February challenge at the Path of Positivity challenge blog. While it's always ANYTHING GOES, the optional theme is Expressions of Love. Our sponsors for this challenge are:

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My card today is for my sister Dee, whose support and love have carried me through some tough times this month. I thought she would like this card because, like me, she loves puns! The digi image I used is called "Love You 2 Pizzas" and is offered in the Imagine That! store.

SPONSOR & PRIZE INFORMATION: 

• $10 gift certificate from Imagine That! Digistamp for the post or project that is deemed most inspiring of the bunch. To be eligible for this prize, you must follow the optional theme of Expressions of Love.
• The same three digis used by team members, provided by Mari Digis for a person chosen in a random draw based on all entrants.  To be eligible for this prize, entry must be positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature.
• One digital image from Creative Bug Digital SnapShots for each person chosen as a DT Delight.

Whether you choose to express love for someone in a birthday card, a sympathy card, a scrapbook layout, or other media, be sure to link it up at the Path of Positivity Challenge blog for your chance to win prizes!

Challenges I am Entering:

Crafty Calendar Challenges - Love is in the Air

Crafty Cardmakers - Add Some Texture

Get Creative Challenges - Use Red + Another Color

*Anything Goes Theme*

Crafting from the Heart

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

Imagine That

Congratulations Are in Order

I created a Congratulations card for the midway challenge reminder at the Path of Positivity challenge blog. This month we have been exploring the positive elements of Achievement. Since graduation comes to mind during June, I created a care for my daughter's friend who has graduated from Culinary Cooking School. I used a digital image called Bakendayz from Robyn's Fetish, one of two guest sponsors this month.

 After coloring my image with Copics, I fussy-cut it and popped it onto a scalloped oval die-cut and scalloped ribbon border. My background paper is homemade using glossy cardstock and alcohol inks. I stamped my sentiment and added it with an assortment of coordinating embellishments.
I am so proud of Margaret, whose life has been a bit bumpy. She persevered and achieved her life goal of landing a job in the field for which she dreamed. I am as proud of her as I would be were she my own daughter, and wish her good luck. I hope she gets to eat her cake AND frosting for years to come!
The challenge runs until July 3rd, and is also sponsored by Kitten Scraps.

SPONSOR & PRIZE INFORMATION: 

• 3 Digital Stamps from Robyn's Fetish, one of our guest sponsors this month, for the post or project that deems most inspiring of the bunch.
• A $20 gift certificate from Kitten Scraps, one of our guest sponsors this month, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all entrants.

There will also be:

• A small selection of digital designer papers from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles for one lucky person who leaves a comment on posts published during the challenge time frame.
• One digital sentiment for every single person who enters the challenge.

Holiday Baking with Lacy Sunshine at Craft Your Passion Challenge Blog

Chicago lived up to its reputation for fickle weather this weekend. After a very mild November, Bella blew in and dropped 8 inches onto my part of the northwest suburbs--which puts me into a holiday baking mood. And this gorgeous image from Lacy Sunshine, called Pinni Cookie Crumbler, carries my mood into my crafting.

My granddaughter was over this weekend, and we baked a few goodies for our Confirmation Bake Sale. The 8th graders bake for and work the weekend-long sale, and the monies go toward a Christmas Party they host for families in the New Hope Program of Catholic Charities. This is our 8th Annual bake sale and Christmas party, and in Chicago we don't let a little snow get in the way of going to church and supporting our students.

Lacy Sunshine is this week's sponsor over at Craft Your Passion challenge blog, and I used Pinni Cookie Crumbler on a side-step card. I just love the presentation a step card makes! And every bit of my card except for my image comes from last year's holiday crafting leftovers!!
The weekly challenge starts today, so go visit Craft Your Passion for some inspiration, then link up your own Anything Goes project for your chance to win prizes.
And as always, crafters, have fun!

Challenges I am Entering:
Lacy Sunshine challenges - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends challenges - One for the Girls

Alphabet challenges - T is for 'tis the season (tis the season for baking holiday cookies)

Digitally Sweet challenges - All about the Title

Jingle Belles - Holiday leftovers

Cardz 4 Galz - Favorite Christmas Color combo (red & green)

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - Photo inspiration (I used the color combo)

Tag You're It--Christmas Tags, That Is!

The house is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.  The tree is up, there are even presents underneath it already!  Started my Christmas baking and froze the dough (you can't trust me with chocolate chip cookie dough).  And I am up to my elbows in ink and ribbon and bows and Mod Podge!!  I'm making it a homemade Christmas this year!

I had my newest granddaughter over to the house for some Christmas crafting recently.  When I asked her in October what she wanted for her birthday, she said a day crafting with my new grandma!  She has already won my heart, and now she's won my Copics (and my stash and whatever else she can create with).

Here she is working on some "Santa Hat" brownies.
We took a break from our painting and stamping to make some sweet treats for later.

She made some awesome presents for her siblings and her cousins.  Two of her cousins are getting an altered Starbucks Frappe bottle crafted into a Christmas treat container.  The youngest cousin and her new step-sister (my Bella) are getting handmade fleece pillows.  And she also made snowman ornaments out of round coasters for her uncles, aunts and grandparents!  She was one busy crafter.

Meanwhile, I managed to pump out a couple projects myself.  One of them are these cute wooden Christmas tags using Crafters' Companion stamps from the Humphrey collection.

First I used alcohol inks and blotted some red and green ink onto my tags.  I used a green Copic marker on the edges.  Then I stamped small reindeer from the Humphrey Christmas set and used a scallop circle punch on them.  I framed them with red cardstock and adhered them to the tags.  The set came with a couple sentiments, so I used the "For You" sentiment and framed them in red as well.

I tied the sentiments onto the tags with white ribbon and finished off each with some Stickles around the edges.  I added a bit of green lace to the bottom of one.

Come back tomorrow for the Handmade Christmas Gift Blog Hop!  I'll show you my next project and if you hop along the way, you're bound to find inspiration around every corner!!