Thank You for America's Colors

July 4th is almost upon us.  Sometimes the Patriotic music brings tears to my eyes, thinking of what all our country has been thru to keep it free.  So many people have sacrificed to keep it free.
I thank the blogs that have our "COLORS" for these challenges so close to the July Holiday.
It is a good reminder.                        "FREEDOM ISN'T FREE"

My paper Flag has some tattered edges, some old wire and old string woven thru the top, with a THANK YOU tag, and a Celebrate tag attached.  The blue and white have been embossed and the red is some mesh I found at a yard sale, the wooden star has a little sparkle and some tied red and white twine.  It isn't our traditional "Old Glory"  waving in the breeze but I'll find a great place for it.

Thanks to these Challenges for their thoughtfulness

Off The Wall Craftiness  Challenge #56 Above Photo Inspiration (Red, White and any shade of Blue)
Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #95  Red, White, Blue and a Thank You
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #61 Patriotic / Use the colors of your nation's flag (plus a sentiment)
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #56 Red, White, Blue
Craft Us Crazy  Challenge #11 Red, White, Blue
Stamping Scrapping Central  Red, White, Blue
Stamp Something  Celebrate/Red, White, Blue
Die Cut Dreams  Challenge #90  Red, White, Blue
Tuesday Throwdown #55  Red, White, Blue
Ribbon Carousel Challenge RCC9  Happy Birthday America   Red, White, Blue
Just Us Girls    Jugs #90  3-D with Patriotic Colors
Simon Says Stamp and Show  A Word
The Kraft Journal  Challenge #25   Something Old/Something New
Sweet Stampin' Challenge  Something Old/Something New
The Secret Crafter  Challenge #140 Embossing
Sugar Creek Hollow The Challenge  Tic Tac Toe   (Embossing, Distressing, Paper Piercing)

After some heavy winds last night, I need to go out and pick up branches. Each day our weather has been somewhat of a challenge, but we are still very fortunate considering other areas of our country. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead. Thanks for stopping by and I appreciate all the comments.

Stars...

I found a few challenges that fit in with a Patriotic Fan I wanted to make for the holiday coming up.

I used my corner rounder on the red cardstock, used a Star punch on the silver cardstock, added a top and bottom sticker border. I have LOTS of patriotic ribbon so the striped looked great here, had and old wooden star, added some glitter and  a red button heart. Layered a couple other stars on the sides. And wahoo...all ready for the sunshine and a parade.

Challenges for this are:

The Play Date Cafe  Challenge #87 a Wonderfu Color Combo

                                                           Slate Blue, Barn Red, Grey

Cards for Men  Challenge #13      Stars
Pals Paper Arts PPA99-CAS Element of Style - Stars
Paper Play Challenges  Week #25  Stars and Stripes
Creative Belli Blog  #129 the letter "G"  glitter and Old Glory Theme.  (old wooden star)
Just Us Girls Challenge Week #90   3-D  and Patriotic

Well thanks for stopping by. It won't be too long and the 4th Celebrations will begin. I truly love the tribute we pay to our country and our people who keep us free. 

Vintage - Butterflies - Color - Challenges

Good Morning, oh so much Sunshine and Fresh air and the MoJo is doing good.

My card today is for Challenges at   Craft Your Days Away  CYDA Challenge #23 - VINTAGE

The Stamp Man  Challenge #25 - BUTTERFLIES and DRAGONFLIES

 The Ribbon Real Challenge Blog 

Color Challenge #4

BLUE-KRAFT-BLACK-GREY/SILVER

and my card

I tattered and distressed the edges, even did some stitching at the bottom, which doesn't show up so very well on the dark,( but didn't want to change the thread and end up in frustration trying to re-thread it for my last Barbie Doll Clothes) (more on that another time) !!!  frayed the edges of the burlap, added some tulle and popped up the butterfly which has a glossy finish on it and created quite the photo challenge.  I made the little flower from some scalloped circle dies, stamped it with black ink and misted  it with H2O before I scrunched it up. Added some blue lace and grey tone pearls. And oh la la...
Thanks for stopping by...have much to do outside today, our 1st nice day in over a week and the weeds and grass just keep growing...so have to get busy.  Enjoy your weekend.

The Color Purple

Hello everyone..in need of some warmth and sunshine, but the challenges today kept me pretty up beat and entertained.

My card was so fun to put together. I had made some different colored flowers a few weeks back and just had one in purple.

I embossed both the black and the kraft with Swiss Dots and distressed the kraft with a distressing ink. I used a metal tag, stamped with Love and a little sparkle. The flower is layers of a square of fringed burlap, black netting cut with a flower die  and the 7 layers of purple cardstock, cut with a die, sprayed with H2O and scrunched up, layered and  popped up with foam dots, sprayed with glimmer mist and shaped. I added a pearl heart in the center and some wired pearls in the back.
I also added 2 metal corner pieces and different forms of fiber and ribbon.

My card is for the following challenges:

Sugar Creek Hollow  they like a little vintage, shabby chic, or primitive design plus this week the colors  PURPLE, BLACK, KRAFT.

The Beary Scrap Design Team and Challenge Blog  Challenge #28  DIY Embellishment

Simon Says Stamp and Show  Some Metal

And all 3 have some lovely designs by their design teams. So hop on over and have some fun.
Thanks for stopping by, it's always nice to read your lovely comments.  Enjoy what you love best.

WOYWW #107

Happy WOYWW....at the Stamping Ground  you can Mr Linky a photo of your desk to Julia's blog and show
What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.  Then you can spend your time "PEEPING" about those entries and be amazed.

I haven't had much time for creating this past week, some yard work, painted an old bookcase while the weather was nice, making rhubarb jam from our last cutting and Sunday it was time spent with families his and mine for Father's Day, Monday my parents celebrated 66 years of marriage so while taking one for a doctors visit, we made a day of it having lunch and shopping a bit, and Tuesday I spent  doing laundry, and making my 1st scrapbook page, (posted just below) and cutting out Barbie Doll clothes (more on that later).

This little wooden item my DH brought home from a sale for me...perfect for my embossing folders and a deal at only $1.00...I have a another one in back of it I found last year and it has a drawer also.
Can't forget "Alan Jackson" he keeps my mind a throbbing...

To the right I purchased a wire holder for my Sizzix dies at a yard sale so all I need to do is turn around and my dies are all easy to reach and use. The score pal sits in back of that and in the very rear is my sewing machine and work desk.

Which really don't have too much to talk about, some beads I used on the scrapbook page, old postage stamps and domino's from the sale, a little round box I made a loom out of to make the flower on top . 

Well, have some errands to run before another storm stops by. We have had fog, wind, heavy rain off and on for 3 days. Terrific lightening and hail and tornado's to the west of us. Mother Nature is on a rampage in our area but better than the fires and floods others are having scattered all about our country.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the WOYWW of all the others. Hope to visit most of you again this week if we have electricity!!!!! 

My First Scrapbook Page

I adore people who make beautiful scrapbook pages.  I've never made one.  But the Craze Sketch Challenge  #117 at  Skissedilla   looked so fun. Their guest designer is Tara Anderson who's blog I've just started following.  I loved Tara's fun blog and it led me to some fun places.

My page was made from a piece of cardstock I have been hoarding a long time and I've no information about it anymore.   My little granddaughter "SKY" turned  "ONE" so I have this lovely little picture which just reminded me of  soft girlie colors.
I used different shaped layers and textures on the flowers, added  pearl flourishes, framed the little picture, and used old print newspaper letters for her name.

I think it turned out lovely.  I never started making scrapbook pages, I've only made greeting cards, but I think I'm hooked!!!.. just never have many picutures of the grandkids in hand but many stored thru computer communications. So will have to see if I can print quality photos.

                                                                  A little close up. 
There are some beautiful designs at Skissedill blog so have fun visiting.
Thanks for stopping by.  We survived some terrible storms last night, so I am thankful. Enjoy your week  and take time to do the fun things you love.  Life is Short.

WOYWW #106 and My Homemade PiF Gift

Always so fun to give and receive. There was some anxiety at first, but what the heck..
This was all because of Julia at the Stamping Ground was celebrating 2 years of this wonderful crazy idea to find out WOYWW. A peep about other crafty peoples work desks. And it is over whelmingly fun. Mostly to meet such great people and of course  SNOOP !!!!   My PiF went to Sally in South Wales, UK   and she emailed,,  she received it Saturday  so this post will be no surprise.

The card I included with the WOYWW tag

The front side of a little pincushion. I made several of these a few weeks back and it was a hard choice to make on which color would be ok...I'll post the rest of them in the next few days.

Backside has a pocket and I put in a few fibers..

Then I added a little bag of goodies, my card, some diecuts, a tag, small papers and stickers.
Mailed it and hoped it arrived in good time and that she would enjoy it.   All in all it was a lot of fun and I hope we do it again...(Christmas??) what fun that would be. I love Christmas and the variety of ways people celebrate would be so interesting.

My desk for #106...oh what a mess..I've been searching for doll clothes patterns to make some  Barbie  doll clothes for a friend....tore apart my storage area, piled up things I need to go thru and my desk has been in second thought land for a week. And guess what.. I still haven't located them.

This is a dumping ground for a recent garage sale. Sheet music, wire card hangers, old jewelry, old doilies, and much buried.  Make sure to stop by Stamping Ground and see what's happening today.
Sorry it's a bit lengthy, but I am a rambler..no doubt.
Enjoy the week and thanks for stopping by.

Heart Throb

Some colors just capture your heart.

CR84FN Color Challenge #31   Color Challenge

Some Technique's make the card   

The Shabby Tea Room Week 65   Technique Week  "Embossing"

Some Happy Birthday Fun
OLLCB  Challenge #81  Happy Birthday

The card was made for these fun challenges:

I did a little ink distressing on the tattered edges and the embossing.  I loved this Embossing pattern, staggered a few layers, added some hand stitching across the bottom with the buttons, a Happy Birthday senitiment, and a crochet heart is always lovely, topped with an adorable flower, some swirls, a corded bow and heart shaped stick pin with 2 pink sparkles.  Was a fun card to make and the colors were lovely to work with.

All of the challenge blogs had some truly wonderful designs.

Have a wonderful weekend, we are recovering from a hard, heavy 3 inch rainfall last night and kinda of a cloudy day today.  Our weekend forcast sounds lovely. Enjoy it and thanks for stopping by.

Today and Always

Sometimes Mojo just doesn't do what it needs to do to get my mind in sync with design.

My card today has embossing, stitching, a homemade flower, a pearl, tulle, black and white, the sentiment "Today and Always" 

Challenges:
Our Creative Corner  "Wedding Beauty" sheer fabric (organza, tulle, etc.), some trim (ribbon, lace, bakers twine, crochet trim, etc.), a flower (hand-made/bought), at least one pearl, and some stitching (faux, hand, or machine.).  
The Shabby Tea Room  "Technique Week"  #65   Embossing
Just Add Ink JAI #71  "Black and White"

Thanks for stopping by. Busy weekend and weather to be super nice. So enjoy all the things you love.

WOYWW #105

Here we are at the Stamping Ground WOYWW 105. A fun spot to entertain yourself peeping about other peoples desks. Was so fun last week Julia celebrated her 2nd Anniversary in the blogging world with this and we could make a PiF  (gift) and mail it off to the person below our name. So as
Time flies..I received my lovely PiF yesterday's mail from Andria.

She wrote the nicest card about embellishing bottles with papers, stamps and fibers. She made the flowers from an old copy of The Scarlet Letter. Thank You Andria I will display it with a little collection of tiny bottles and remember the fun WOYWW has been.
My desk today, had no clue when I went to take the photo. Was gone "Shopping" yesterday and this AM went with my DH to take a tractor part to a repair shop and pick up some paint etc at our lumber store.  

Looks like I should be making a card for a challenge, in fact 2 different ones, but I may have to skip one as I have lots planned for tomorrow already also.
Well thanks for stopping by, I am hoping I hear from Sal my PiF receipiant...she lives across the sea so could be a few more days for snail mail.  Enjoy the few days left in this week.  We are having a wonderful sunny day.  Our humidity left so I really should be outside watering flowers and trimming as I think my DH will be mowing later.

Enjoy..

Girlie Shabby

Hello fellow bloggers.  What a beautiful day we are having, humidity left us so kinda feel guilty spending time inside.

My card today is a bit Girlie Shabby..

I distressed the edges, added some stitching to the patteren paper, made the flower with a die cut and inked it up with inkers and glossy accents, to complete it I added some bling and lace.
Challenges entered.
Sugar Creek Hollow  PAPER FLOWERS, VINTAGE LACE & BLING.
Really Reasonable Ribbons  Challenge #25   Colors of PINK and BROWN
Mark's Finest Papers  Week #58    3-D FLOWERS

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your week it's half over. Time just flies by.  

Its a Sketch Challenge with a Color and Text Challenge

I enjoy challenges and at Embellish Magazine they always have something with color. This time it is
"Text Color Trends" 

I paired it up with the Card Patterns Sketch #118

I struggled with these colors, first I really couldn't tell what they were, checked back to see the DT  teams great creations and the entries and that helped but still nothing.  Then Mojo hit, the Sketch hit, and the card went together pretty easy.

I used some script background paper, embossing folder with script, a border punch and a heart die that I topped with  the Hero Arts text stamp.  I made the flower from tulle. And walla..

Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy a great week.  It's 104 here with high humidity so a great day to stay inside.

Challenges

I have always thought Blue and Silver make a great color combo. This week in Moxie Fab World 
the   "Tuesday Trigger" is just that.  "Classically Modern"

 At  Our Daily Bread it is   ODBDSLC63 Sentiments Only
 At  Just Add Ink   it is a    JAI 70 - Round Sketch
 At  Fussy and Fancy Friday  A Card for a Man or a Boy
 At  Simon Says Stamp   Father's Day For a Male
 At Craft Your Days Away   CYDA Challenge #21 ~ Fathers Day/Special Man

My card for these challenges and my Dad:

I used my Round and Scalloped dies for the background, a Silver doily, embossed the "Dad", added the truly appropriate Sentiment from Our Daily Bread, and added a small pink rose, as I detected a dash of pink in the Moxie Fab World trigger.  Besides I think my Dad loves flowers more than my Mother. To mother they are work, to dad, life is only good if he can work at something no resting allowed.  (But he's in his chair a lot at approaching 89!!!! ). Dad is Dad and I love him.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the weekend and stay cool. Over 90 here and VERY humid.

My Favorite Colors

I've always been a fan of our country's colors. RED, WHITE, BLUE, nothing makes me prouder than to see our flag waving in a slight breeze.  When my son joined the military it took on a whole new meaning. Tears when they play the Natinal Anthem, and hurt when people don't respect what it all means and Pride to know that my son is helping us to be a free nation.
 
My card today has some shabby goodness on the edges, even did a little stitching, finished off the inside and made an envelope.

And "THE SPIRIT OF THANKFULNESS"  the Sentiment is just what it's all about.

Challenges for this Card:
The Kraft Journal   Memorial Day
Welcome to Flourishes   Let The Colors of Your Flag Show
Creative Belli  Letter S Challenge #117   Stars Stripes

Stop by these places and enjoy the Design Teams Inspirations. Such pretty creations.

Thanks for stopping by, take time to enjoy everything that comes your way.

Anyone with Problems in Blogger Comment Land.  Someone gave me a tip...uncheck the Stay Signed IN box and all should be well.     Life's too short for that much frustration.

Happy Weekend.

OH " I AM SEW EXCITED"

Oh I saw this Challenge in the Moxie Fab World  "I'm SEW Excited" and I knew I'd have to get out my collection of Vintage Sewing things and participate.

Most of the things here are from my grandmother's sewing box or my husbands mothers sewing machine drawers.  So I plan to hang this in my sewing area.

Started with crimped cardboard for the base. I made a felt blue flower  and a zipper flower in the top right corner. Added a pearl earing and necklace to the patterned lady.  The lower corner are zipper pulls I stashed when I take the zippers apart to make the flower.
Notice the Prices.  15 cents for Needles, 10 cents for Hook and Eyes, 49 cents for Ruffled Trim,
10 cents for Woolworth buttons. The Singer Tag was from his mothers Machine and who would know what the price for that would have been back in the 30's. 

What fun I had putting this together. Now it can be on display rather than in a box.  Stop over to Moxie Fab World, Cath has some awesome photos posted. And the designers some great fun cards.

Thanks for stopping by.  What a beautiful weekend in store for us.  Enjoy every minute.

Challenges "Just Because"

BLOGGER IS NOT LETTING ME POST COMMENTS   TRYING ANONYMOUS, if anyone has ideas please comment, This has been happening for 2 wks or better.

Family's left, laundry's done,  house is clean, lawn is primed, car is washed and prayers are said.  Well I'm back at it. MoJo stopped by so I am enjoying my creativity.

This has punched out pieces to create  a "Shaped Card" using layers, buttons, patterned papers, favorite stamp, and colors of Light Blue, Lt Yellow and Kraft.  I distressed the edges, used some distressing ink to make it a bit shabby.

Challenges for this

CR84FN30 Color Challenge

Sugar Creek Hollow  Shaped Cards 

The Shabby Tea Room Week #64  2-4-6   TWO PATTERNED PAPERS (manufactured or handmade), FOUR BUTTONS AND SIX LAYERS!

Simon Says Stamp and Show  Your Favorite Stamp

Crafts and Me Challenge  #37  Punch it Out

The Design Teams at these blogs have some very lovely inspirations. Stop by and take a look. I mentioned Prayers Said earlier, they would be appreciated for a few weeks. The residents of Dakota Dunes SD are being evacuated from their homes as the Missouri River is flooding. My niece and her family and my nephew and his family have loaded semi's, sandbagged, and have left there homes. Not knowing what to expect, except for rumors, the area could be destroyed. Most have no flood insurance as it has never been a flood area. Besides their homes, businesses, churches, care centers are all being affected.
They were lucky enough to get the warning, fortunate enough to have a circle of friends and family to support them, finding temporary places to live and strength to endure the unknown.  Our prayers and God above will control the outcome. Lets hope it is for the best.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day and happy crafting.

Todays the Day #104 WOYWW 2nd Anniversary

Happy 2nd Anniversary Julia, master mind of WOYWW's fun of sharing and peeping. Thanks Julia, the visits to your Stamping Ground has been such fun.

Today is the day Julia at the Stamping Ground has planned for a fun PiF day. I've mine ready to go, just have to have the address.   I am a PiFing  WOYWW participant.  You will have to hop on over to see all the details. It's a really fun day, when we capture our workspace on film and let others view it.

 Cannot wait to use some of these fun things. 

We took a 3 hr drive to visit my son and family in Cedar Rapids. It was our granddaughters 6th birthday. So before we picked her up from school I got to shop a little!!!!  What fun and             Michael's was having a Sale to help out....so some new flowers, and some patriotic extra's to use with our next holiday...the 4th of July.                                                                                                            

So our Thursday day away and  Friday thru Sunday my military son and family were here visiting. Monday was a holiday in the US with lots of activities to attend. So it all accounts for the fact I've been MIA.  (missing in action).

And the good news is we are going to be grandparents again. Another little girl in September!!  I was soooooo excited.

Sky was 1 in April and what a great time we had with her.  Just hated to see them drive away.

Just so much fun to spend time with the family.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you enjoyed your visit. Just hop on over to Julia's and join in the fun.

Wishing you a wonderful day. Maybe say a prayer, my sister left yesterday to help out her daughter 

 and family and her son and family. They are being evacuated from their homes. Semi's to be loaded   and other places to live for at least 2 months. Their area Dakota Dunes is involved in a controlled      flooding of the Missouri River.  I pray they have homes to go back to, thankful they had the              warning to get out ahead of time, and asking that they have the strength to go thru this horrible       mess.