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Hello and happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend. I was able to clean the living room carpet, sew, embroider, and make a few more Christmas cards. I was very productive!

Today is Squigglefly Monday, and that means a new challenge:

THANK YOU/GIVE THANKS

I used Lettering Delights for he papers, the Journal Blocks are by Ashley Summers, and sentiment uses Ballpark font. Except for the sewing, this is an all digi card!

This card meets the following challenges:

• Stamp Insanity - Layout SISC36 (flipped)
• Creative Card Crew - Give Thanks

There's a lot going on at Squigglefly right now. This weekend, there was a big release and THREE new artists were introduced. One of the new artists is none other than fellow design team member Marlene! Squigglegly is also welcoming Brian Lock and Suzanne Urban.

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Here is another card for this years mail out:

The image is Maisy Dressing Snowman by Diane Carubia, colored with Copics and Prismas. The DP is from Me & My Big Ideas (from 2 years ago I think). The sentiment is Stampin' Up's Small Script, sewing, and a little chalk ink.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

• Cute Card Thursday - Layout #139
• Delightful Sketches - Baby It's Cold Outside
• Paper Play Challenges - Let It Snow
• Tuesday Taggers - Peace, Joy, Love

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I found these beanies at Target this weekend for only $1 and thought "what a deal!" So later that night I put my machine to work and embroidered the snowflakes and Beanie's name. She loved it! I'm going to put it in the wash to see (and hope) that it shrinks a bit.

I think these would make GREAT gifts! Oh, and Bean is into self-expression lately, so excuse the pic.

Music Fairy

Good morning and welcome to Squigglefly Monday! The challenge this week is:

Music To My Ears

At first I was a little stumped but then I just started putting things together. I used different digi elements to create this card:

Background paper is Lindsay's Stamp Stuff music sheet on top of Little Dreamer. The other DP's are Little Dreamer as well. The digi is Woodland Nymph by Chesney Young colored with Copics and Prismas. Sewing, liquid pearls in the corners, and glaze.

I guess I didn't tack the wings down very well because as the glaze dried, the wings lifted...and I think it looks cool. So I hope you will join us this week with your musical creation!

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This weekend Bean and I made the "hand turkey." I traced both her feet for the body, and we cut out lots of hands for the feathers. What's great about this is some day she will see just how small her feet and hands were!

Bean is glue happy, so this will NEVER fall apart! I wanted to keep it somewhere inside, but she insisted it belongs on the outside of the front door. I think she did a great job!

Retro Toaster

Hello all and Happy Monday! Today is Squigglefly Challenge day and the current challenge is:

FALL/HALLOWEEN COLORS

I have a new Squigglefly image to show off...still using fall-ish colors:

OK...tootin' my own horn here, but I LOVE this card!!! The image is TOASTER by Michelle Bertuzzi. It also comes with the sentiment "Feeling a Little Burnt Out?" but I went with my own: Poppin' In To Say....Hi.

The papers are Magnolia, shaded with Ranger Inks, image colored with Copics, a little sewing, computer generated sentiment.

This also meets the following challenges:

• Tuesday Throwdown - #22 Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday - Card Sketch
• Charisma Cards - Vintage

With Love and Texture

Hello all and Happy Wednesday! Today my Bean was in a little play at school. Her class led chapel, sang songs, did pledges, and my baby, yes, MY baby did the opening prayer! Oh, such a proud mama moment!

Here's a card I made for "just in case" occasions. It uses two Squigglefly digi's, colored with copics and shaded. I must have had a little too much coffee...my sewing looks a little questionable. But hey! That's "handmade!!" The layout is Splitcoaststampers.

Over at the SNR Squigglefly group, there's a texture challenge. Can you see all the glaze I added to her flowers and hair? I try and try to get a good pic, but it's a challenge for me!

Anyway, just a quick one today! Oh, and the DP is Pink Armadillo. Thanks so much for stopping by. Also, there's a new challenge using little shoes over at the Squigglefly Challenge Blog.

Celebrate with Squigglefly

Hello and Happy Monday! Today's challenge over at Squigglefly is:

Celebrate!

That means any celebration so I chose Birthday and my favorite Squigglefly image:

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this little bunny because he's so versatile. The DP is Me&My Big Ideas, the sentiment is computer generated, image is Squigglefly colored with Copics, fussy-cut and 3D dots, and just a tad of sewing. This was SUPER simple! I love 20-minute cards.

So don't forget to enter your Celebration card over at the Challenge Blog and I recommend you check out the rest of the DT creations because they are a groups of super talented ladies (all blogs listed to the right ----->).

Welcome Baby

It's already Thursday! This week has gone by SO fast. Last night I worked on my Yudu and this card...I didn't have any success with the Yudu, but hopefully I'll have something to show soon,

I really like the colors I chose for this one. The image is Quackers by Revi Devi Paat - but this is a sneak peek and won't be released at Squigglefly till Saturday. I colored it with Bics, added a couple rhinestones, and put glaze on the waves and ducky parts.

Other details: Mustard Seed and Faded Jeans Ranger Inks, Me & My Big Ideas DP, sentiment is Stampin'Up's Short & Sweet. The layout is The Pixie Cottage, #37.

I also want to share with you a Squigglefly sketch challenge going on over at Paper Craft Planet. It's a sketch with a "twist" and from what I understand, there's a pretty good prize involved!

My Favorite Squigglefly

Today over at Squigglefly, the challenge is to use your favorite Squigglefly image. That was difficult for me since they have so many! I was torn between the bunny and the rooster...and the rooster won.

But really, how can you resist this cocky little guy? A few details: Me & My Big Ideas DP, Squigglefly image colored with Copics, nesties with Fired Brick Ranger Ink, Stampin' Up Sweet Shapes sentiment, and sewing.

The layout is Splitcoaststampers SC167. Hope you get a chance to join us this week at Squigglefly for a fun challenge!

BTW, I'm still in Hawaii having a GREAT time (I can't see the future, but I don't see how I couldn't be having fun right?).

Dragonfly Praise

Hello all. I've had this image printed for a while now and finally decided to put some color on it. By the time this posts, I should be walking off the plane in beautiful Hawaii!

The background paper is Pink Petticoat (these circles come in a variety of colors and is one of my favorite backgrounds...no I don't represent PP in any way LOL!). The image is Designed2Delight colored with Copics and I took a small dabber with Mustard Seed Ranger Ink to shade the inside. I was going for sunlight.

The sentiment is Praise by Roann Mathias over at Squigglefly. I did a little fussy cut around the image, added Liquid Pearls and put on pop-dots. Sewing as usual :)

Super quick and I think CAS as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope everyone had a fun and safe Labor Day weekend.

Ho Ho Ho

Hello all. Hope you had a great weekend. Bean has been sick, so I haven't been gettin' my craft on as much as usual. BTW, if anyone knows of a good DIY tool belt for kids tutorial, please share! Bean loves to carry around her tools when she's "fixing" things around the house, and her belt is falling apart.

Anyway, to my card:

Is she sexy or what?! This image was just released this weekend at Squigglefly. Her name is Official Mistletoe Tester by Chesney Young, colored with Prismapremiers, shaded with Firebrick Ranger Ink. She's actually colored and popped up, so I have a few layers going on.

I put "fuzzy soft stuff" on white areas. DP is MMe Wild Asparagus (dusted off for a challenge - it's not even Christmas paper). This will probably go to the lovely Ginger this season. We joke and call each other names...and I just put her name on this card 3 times!! LOL!! Oh how I amuse myself.

This card meets the following challenges:

• Cupcake Craft - #106 Let's Get Digital
• Ooh-La-La Creations - #61 Elegant Ladies
• Sketch & Stash - #43 sketch (stash - new digi, stashed papers)
• Paper Sundaes - #33 Christmas in August

Missing You

Hello all and welcome to Monday with Squigglefly. The challenge this week is:

HOT COLORS

I'm using yet another image by the talented Cheryl Alger, Lonely. I don't know if she really looks lonely...she reminds me more of Bean, contemplating what kind of trouble she can get into, all the while looking so pretty and innocent.

I'm using DP from my unknown stack, sewing, Squigglefly digistamp colored with Prismas and Bics, cut with nesties and shaded with Mustard Seed Ranger Ink. The sentiment is Inkadinkado.

So play along this week using your Squigglefly image (FREEBIES available!) and HOT COLORS for your chance to win more Squigglefly digis!

This card meets the following challenges:

• Splitcoaststampers - layout SC293
• Tuesday Taggers - Sunshine
• Little Red Wagon - #41 Summer

Sisters

Hello and happy Wednesday. I'm catching up on things around the house little by little. I've come up with a plan: do at least one thing each evening so I'm not doing an entire house cleaning on my weekends. Let's see if it works.

Anyway, I was able to spend some time in my room last night and played with a new release from Squigglefly...but it won't be in the shop until this weekend. So this is a kind of "sneak peek."

I don't have any sisters. The closest I had was my little cousin Sarah. And I'd love to give Bean a little sister (or brother), but we think she broke my uterus on the way out! So she's going to be an only child. Anyway, a few details: Hey Soul Sister by Lynne Stasnbery (Squigglefly) colored with Copics and Bics.

I used a lot of items I was either stashing away or are new and never used (for a challenge) and it was actually quite liberating. I need to do more of that instead of hoarding all my goodies!

This card meets the following challenges:

• Digital Tuesday - #71 Butterflies or Lace (I did both)
• Cupcake Craft Challenges - #103 Lace
• Sketch and Stash - sketch and stash items include: lace, butterfly punch, G-stamp, new DP
• Flutter By Wednesdays - #117 Open (my butterfly is in upper left corner)

Special Day Fairy

This is my second post for today...so please look further down for info on the upcoming Character Cafe blog hop.

When I saw this Woodland Nymph by Chesney Young, I saw a challenge!

Details: digistamp from Squigglefly colored with Copics, nesties and Mustard Seed Ranger Ink for shading, K&Co Wild Saffron DP, sewing, pop-dots, Inkadinkado sentiment, and sketch is Splitcoaststampers SC292.

Beautiful Blooms

Hello everyone and welcome to Monday with Squigglefly.

Anyway, hope you all had a great weekend. I had to wait for over 3 hours in 100 degree weather to see Rob Zombie - but I'll tell ya, it was well worth it! He put on a GREAT show!

Oh, but now to Squigglefly. This week over at the SF Blog, the challenge is:

BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS

I didn't want to overdue it with lots of flowers since my image is a little boy-ish, so hopefully my DP is "bloomin'!" I also thought CAS would really compliment this image, Tug of War by Cheryl Alger. I colored them with my Prisma markers, nesties and Peeled Paint and Jeans Ranger Ink. The sentiment is a $1 acrylic set from Michaels and the gorgeous ribbon is Stampin' Up (I won it as a door prize!).

Cheryl's images really are so sweet and wonderfully drawn. So if you have a Beautiful Blooms creation this week, don't forget to link it up at the Squigglefly Challenge Blog.

Have a great Monday and try to keep cool. It's already 92-F outside!

Lip Balm Holder

Happy Monday! Last week I stumbled across Project Tuesday. They have a weekly challenge, but not for cards. Since I've been trying to make more "not-card" items, I thought I'd jump right in. Last weeks challenge was to make a lip balm holder.

First I thought: I don't really need a lip balm holder made of paper. Then I saw the examples and said "duh! It's a cute gift idea!" I was a little slow last week.

I used the small dots paper from Pink Petticoat, the digi is Beach Duck by Mark Hicks from Squigglefly colored with copics (I used white pen on his teeth since I was having coloring issues!), and the Summertime Cricut cut is from Stretch Your Imagination at 3" plus shadow.

OK, so I don't give out much lip balm, but I was thinking with a little adjustment inside, you could easily fit a roll of Life Savers or something! How cool is that? And a little FYI: the challenge today at the Squigglefly Challenge Blog is Christmas in July! So if you want to get a jump start on your cards, make sure to enter your card in the challenge!

Some Bunny

I LOVE bunnies...and frogs...and owls....and, well, some animals are just more versatile than others. Think about this little guy:

He could say:

Some Bunny Loves You

Hoppy Birthday

Some Bunny's thinking of you

and the list goes on and on!

So I'm a new DT member for Squigglefly and I already missed my first deadline! Well, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'll figure this all out. Anyway, this SUPER CUTE Herbie the Bunny, by artist Crissy Armstrong, is from Squigglefly. I added just a touch of color using copics for highlights. Nesties and Peeled Paint and Denim Ranger Ink for the background shading. The paper is Magnolia and zigzag sewing in orange on PTI CS. The layout is 2Sketches4You #56.

This little guy is going in my "just in case" box since it can be used for just about any occasion. These are so good to have on hand.

CAS Wedding

Hello all. Today I want to share a Squigglefly creation. This is also my "Celebrations" card for the Grand Opening of the Squigglefly PCP Group. Visit, sign up, and join in on all the challenges!

This set is Cinderella Story by Michelle Bertuzzi and comes with several fairy tale images as well as sentiments. I immediately thought of a wedding card, which made me think CAS!

I colored my image with copics and added one piece of bling. I love simplicity when it comes to wedding cards.