SWALK Winter Cheer and Fussy and Fancy Challenge!

I'm so excited that today is Friday, I'm doing a happy dance!! LOL!! My sister is coming in for the holidays and we always have a special time when she's here. Next week it's a short week at work too and then VACATION!!! WoooHoooo!!

I will have some cuties scheduled so I hope you come by and take a look.

Today I am sharing double fun! Today is a new challenge over at Fussy and Fancy. It's Monochrome with sparkle. I did my best to make this easel card sparkle, photo shows only part of it. She is such a cutie. Her name is Warm Heart is she is newly released from Crafter's Companion Winter Cheer Collection. I got to play with the entire collection and OMG!! they are just adorable.

This one reminds me of Happy Feet! Love those movies for thier great music! This sweetheart is also posted today at Crafter's Companion information Blog and there is a special giveaway posted too! So hop on over there for a chance to win! And hop over to Fussy and Fancy and join us on our challenge! I look forward to seeing at both places!

Challenges:
Aud Sentiments Challenge: Winter
Crafty Purple Frog: It's Cold Outside
Sara Hurley Challenges: Coloring (Copics)
Cooking it Up with Katie: Anything Goes
Creative Belli: Winter
Inky Impressions: Winter Fun
Ruby's Rainbow: Monochrome
The Paper Variety: Anything Goes



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A Little Gift for you

Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to another challenge for Fussy and Fancy! I am completely in love with the new Sweet Dreams Christmas Collection from Magnolia stamps. Not only are they adorable for Christmas but some of them will make great all year around stamps.

Here's A Little Gift for You. That just so happens to be the Challenge for Fussy and Fancy and the name of this Tilda. I love the long braids they are just too cute! We want to so a gift, anything but a card. I created this rosette ornament for a class I was teaching and will be creating a couple more for co-workers. It was so easy and so much fun to put together! I'm putting together a quick tutorial and will bring it to you this weekend.

Hope you join us over at Fussy and Fancy. Stop on over and take a look at all the inspiration we have for you. See you there!

Challenges:
CCEE Stampers: 2 Punches
Crafty Ribbon Challenges: Anything but a Card
Creatalicious Challenge: Make it Sparkle
Everybody Art Challenge: Little Present
Magnolia Stamp Lovers: Christmas
StampingScrappingChallengeCentral: Christmas
Just Magnolia: Ribbon


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Be thankful at Fussy and Fancy

Hi Everyone! Here we are with another great challenge from Fussy and Fancy! Today we want you to be ThankFul and feature your sentiment. I have to tell you and easy as that sounds, I was challenged! I realized that I didn't have many thankful sentiments! Gotta change that. BUT I did come to find my JustRite stamp that was perfect!

So here we are. I really love the rich colors of this card. It's soooo Thanksgiving to me! I hope it gives you the same feeling. This is the second week of our challenge so hurry on over and join us before next Friday!

I am thankful today too. Today is Veteran's Day here in the USA. I am sooo thankful to all the men and women of the armed forces past and present for all they do to keep us safe. Blessings to you and your families today. Enjoy your day!


Challenges:
Auds Sentiment Challenge: Thankful
Dutch Dare: Punches and Dies
Penny Paper Crafty: Give Thanks
Scrapalicious: Thanksgiving
Sisterhood of Crafters: Giving Thanks
Creative Card Crew: Thankful


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Three B's Challenge

Hello Everyone! Happy Friday once again. Once again I'm bringing a new challenge from Fussy and Fancy. Today's Challenge is 3 B's, Bling, Black and a Border punch. Bling is always a little difficult to photograph but I hope you can see where it is.

It feels like forever since I have posted a Magnolia image. I have been sharing the love with all my other favorite stamps and I promise I do have more to come! I'm just having so much fun relaxing and just coloring. I have lots coming up in the next coming months and I hope you come by often to take a look.

Well now for a couple of details. This is Snowy Hugs from 2010 Merry Christmas collection. She's colored in Distress Inks. Her hat and fur trim is puff paint and I added my flowers are covered in Diamond Dust. Love that stuff!

I hope you come on over to Fussy and Fancy and join us for a fun challenge!

Challenges:
Crafty Sentiments: Snowmen


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Try a New Technique and a Sneak Peak

Hello Everyone, WOW is it me or the days just flying by. Can you believe it's already the end of September? I felt like I just celebrated my youngest birthday and now I am celebrating my oldest birthday. Her party is this Saturday and she is so excited! Me well I am still in disbelief that 10 years has past.

So after alot of running around for her party. I do deserve a treat and I got one. Crafter's Companion sent thier design team a sneak peak of SWALK stamps that will be released in the next couple of weeks. This one is called "Deserve a Treat". The name and the image just had me wanting to create a treat box.

During my blog lurking, I found this adorable box at Dena's Stamping Corner and she found this box instructions here. It's super simple, deifinatly a treat box I will make over and over.

I had one sheet of this DP left. It's from Daisy D's (a retired company). I love the petite roses print. I was sooooo careful not to cut no more than what I needed. My image is colored in Copics and the lounge chair is also paper pieced in this adorable paper.

So today's try a new technique at Fussy and Fancy. If you haven't tried paper piecing give it a chance. It adds just the right texture to great images or just create this fun little box. Both are sure to be fun!

Stop by Fussy and Fancy and see what the design team has come up with in techiniques. They have certainly inspired me to give it a try!

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Challenges:
Crafty Ribbons: Anything Goes
Southern Girls: Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp: Dies and Punches
Your Next Stamp: Paper Piecing
Ohh La La Creations: Punches and Dies
Stamp with Fun: Anything Goes



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Simple Betty is Back to School at Fussy and Fancy

Okay, so the first time I came across Simple Betty stamps was here, at a Fussy and Fancy Challenge. The owner allowed us a digi and then I fell in love!! These images are so awesome. Shortly after I bought (4) new ones to play with and I have a wish list for more!!

Simple Betty is once again our sponsor for our Back to School Theme at Fussy and Fancy. I got to play with my new ones! This image is Rio and Raven. I love this image because she looks so much like my little one, actually a combination of the two with the way she dresses, LOL!!

The back to school paper is Bo Bunny from my stash. Pretend like me, that you don't see that I didn't allow enough drying time on the button., lol!! This is a great theme over at Fussy and Fancy and I hope you join us!


Challenges:
Craft Us Crazy: School Theme
Divas by Design: School
Cupcake Craft: Back to School


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Best Wishes

I'm a couple of days late on this, YIKES!! I had a couple of birthdays on the brain and just never got back to my PC to post. My birthday was Thursday but more importantly my little one was Friday. And of course that spilled into whatever she wanted to do for the weekend, LOL! How is it your B-day lasts only a day but kids take the weekend, LOL!!

Anyhoo, this is my sweet Humphrey from Crafter's Companion. They have the cutest collection of Humphrey stamps. I paired this one with the new Authentique paper and Distress Inks. LOVE IT!! I have more paper from Authentique and need to play more. The sketch is from Fussy and Fancy and our Friday challenge. Lucky for me the challenges run for 2 weeks and you still have plenty of time to come on over and see what the rest of the DT has created to inspire. We are also celebrating 1000+ followers and have lots of prizes for that too.

I had an interesting time photographing this one. I broke my lightsource and had to take it outside. Well even though we didn't get Hurricane Irene the winds did pass us as it was over the Bahamas and well everytime I was postioned to shoot and gust would take it away. If anyone was videotaping it would have made a great bloopers video!

Happy Monday all! Please come by and visit us over at Fussy and Fancy for our sketch challenge and also drop by our Inspiration Blog at Crafter's Companion for more Humphreys, Popcorn Bear, SWALK and so on....so much fun!


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Birthday Tags! It's a Celebration at Fussy and Fancy!

Yeah!! How exciting we reached 1000 followers at Fussy and Fancy!! We are having a month long celebration! We want to see you Celebration projects with the option of using our blogsite's theme colors! We have tons of great sponsors for the Celebration, come join us!!

On to my tags...I have birthday girls coming up soon! These adorable tags make great invitations for the bash I'm going to have for my oldest. She's turning double digits and Mommy is not handling it to well!! Gramma is handling just as bad, she told me to have another one!!! She's lost it!

Anyway Tilda with balloon is the perfect image for a celebration and she looks just like my little one with her sweet wavy hair. If only she could stay ageless like Tilda! LOL!! They are colored in copics and all the embellies were from a tag sheet called Let's Party by Best Creations.

Come on over and join us at Fussy and Fancy!

Challenges:

Craft Your Passion: Anything but a Card

One Stitch at a Time: Anything Goes

Allsorts: Anything but a card

Craft Your Days Away: Birthday Celebrations

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Humphrey Love and a Fussy and Fancy Challenge

Oooo what a wonderful day Friday is. What is even more wonderful about this Friday is that I am now on vacation!! (Snoopy dance) I have lots of family all coming in for the last hoorah before school starts next week. I'm looking forward to lots of BBq's and beach time! Hopefully the weather behaves so far it's been raining all this week.

Have you met Humphrey? Oh well he is the cutest little elephant from Crafter's Companion. This one is from a set called Flowers for you. He's colored in Copics and sitting all handsome on My Mind's Eye Paper Hattie from Stella Rose.

Humphrey is playing with me for the beginning of this Friday's Fussy and Fancy Challenge. LOTS OF THREE. Hope you can find all my three's. IF not, go on over to Fussy and Fancy I listed them there. Go on over anyway! The rest of the DT's inspirations are just as fun and this week out sponsor joined us too!



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Christmas in July at Fussy and Fancy

It's Christmas in July at Fussy and Fancy! This was definately a change for me to do a Christmas card in July! I usually don't start thinking about them until November and then I am usually late sending them out! At least one family member will have thiers early, LOL!!

I have to tell you I'm a little upset with the way this turned out. I didn't allow enough drying time with my ink and when I applied the dimensional Viva on my tree it turned green! I added a little stickles to it and now it looks like ice. I will give it a day or so of some good drying time and go back and see if I can get white snow on it. Any suggestions?

I haven't made a Joy fold card in a long time. It's always natural to want to do a regular fold but I have to say this was fun. I have to start giving special folds more love!

Join us at Fussy and Fancy! Pop on over and take a look what the DT has to inspire you! Looking forward to hearing from you there!


Challenges:
Crafty Creations: Christmas
Craft Your Passion: Christmas
PollyCraft: Christmas
Christmas Inspirations: Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations: Christmas


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Summer Summer Summertime!

Hello and happy Friday! I'm so glad it here for lots a reasons. One, it was a crazy week at work and two Harry Potter is finally here!! Yes, I am a big fan of the books and movies and can't wait to see the last part. It is bittersweet though much like reading the last book.

ANYWAY back to the heat! You would think that after 20+ years in Florida that I would be used to this. I think this is the hottest summer ever! Which brings me to our new challenge at Fussy and Fancy. Summertime!!

Isn't Bart just too cute! He's from Whimsy stamps and was barely out of the package before I had my ink and paper ready. I tried something new to me in his coloring, not sure what you would call it. Back in my art school days it was considered pointilism. In the the crafty world I called dot coloring. Either way I love the end result.

Stop by Fussy and Fancy and see our new look and more inspiration!

Hope you're having a great summer!





Challenges:

Crafts and Me: SummerTime

Simon says Stamp: Anything Goes

Die Cuttin Divas: Summer fun

Crazy Challenge: Summer

Creative Stamp Friends: Summer

PaperPlaytime: Summer

Crazy 4 Challenges: Summer

One Stop Craft: Summer








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Fussy and Fancy Sketch Challenge

Happy Friday! I'm glad it's here! All week I battled with a head cold and today I actually woke up feeling human again. Now I have the weekend to catch up with all I left for "later".

Well we are into our 2nd week at Fussy and Fancy with a sketch challenge. Our Sponsor, Simple Betty stamps gave us a chance to play with her new collection, Jude and the Rockers. LOVE them!! This is Brittany. This is my first time coloring hair in Pink. I was so much fun!

This little one reminds my that my girls are not to far behind to enter the Tween scene. I just hope they don't come home with Pink hair! LOL!

Come on over to Fussy and Fancy and join us! Take a look at all the inspiration our DT has for you.

Challenges:
Crafts and Me: Favorite Stamp (my new Brittany!)
Bearly Mine: Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesday: Square Cards
Make it Monday:Anything Goes
Craft your Passion: Anything Goes
Flourishes: Friend



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CASE a DT at Fussy and Fancy

Yeah Friday! and another challenge at Fussy and Fancy. Today we are asking to CASE a DT. What is CASE? It's Copy And Share Everything. The Design team over at Fussy and Fancy have some gorgeous projects to inspire you.

Today I'm sharing one of my new Maggies from the Sweet Rainbow collection. I LOVE this new collection. I can't get enough of these adorable images. Watercan Tilda is colored in Copic markers. The paper is from Echo Park, For the Record and my perfect sentiment is Whimsy stamps.

Thanks as always for dropping by and sharing your time with me. I always look forward to hearing from you. Don't forget Fussy and Fancy is a two week challenge, and the team will have more to inspire you with next week too. Double the fun!


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