Warm Winter Wishes

Are you tired of winter yet?  I know it was reported last week that 49 states had snow.  Crazy huh?  Except Florida.  It escaped the winter fluffy stuff.  We have been blessed with the beautiful fluff but not enough to keep us immobile.  I like that.  :-)
My card for today is a simple one.

Supplies:
cardstock: Recollections
pattern paper: SEI
digital stamp: Raindrop  Echo
snowflkae: craft
rhinestones: MAMBI
button: craft

The newest challenge at Sentimental Sundays is winter with a sentiment. I seriously feel honored to be on this design team because the creations my fellow DT's create are out of this world!  Please go visit and leave some love if you can! 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative Belli:  snow
Dutch Dare:  stitching
Freshly Brewed:  black, white, and one other color
Papercrafting Journey: use a digi
Top Tip Tuesday: anything goes
Papertake Weekly: cold and frosty morning


Have a blessed Sunday!

Butterfly Thanks and winner from Crafty Creations blog hop

Time is flying by now!  I have so much to do and so little time to complete it.   Isn't this the case for everyone?  We got a touch of snow last night to cause a 2 hour delay today.  Bummer.  Was hoping it might be a full day off but we have a 3 day weekend coming up.  :-)  

If you read my blog you know I share stories about my beloved daughter out of love.  My latest story to share is her boot debacle.  She and I have suede boots except hers are a camel color and mine are dark chocolate.  Hers are a size larger than mine and mine come up higher.  Sunday when we got in, we both pulled our boots off and placed them next to one another.  Monday morning, she gets up rushes off to school which is typical.  I get dressed come downstairs for work, and see one camel colored boot and one dark chocolate colored boot.  Hmmm.  It seems she chose the wrong boot.    Turns out she put the boots on in the dark and never noticed that one was shorter, smaller, or darker than the other or that they were both left feet.   I asked if anyone at school thought it was odd?  She said, no one said a word.   High school rocks!  She said, "it's not that big of a deal Mom. They felt fine."  Hee hee!  She just rolled with it.  Being Autistic doesn't mean she always conforms.  She sure has changed.  Then she threw in, "you know in a few more weeks, I am turning 15 and then I can start thinking about driving."  Eek! 

 I want to thank everyone for their super sweet comments and for participating in the 100th challenge blog hop at Crafty Creations.  I had my daughter select a number and she chose...23 which is

Please contact me about your prize from The Cutting Cafe!

Supplies:

cardstock: Recollections,,pattern paper: Imaginesce, doily: Wilton, digital image: Raindrop Echo,  sticker: SRM, red diecut: Bazzill edgers, buttons: Autumn Leaves; rhinestones: Studio G, florist wire: craft supply

Challenges I would like to enter this in:

A Spoonful of Sugar: Thank You cards

Aly's Sunday Challenge: Things with Wings

Crafty Cardmakers: Use Red and a Die Cut

Oh La La Creations: Bling It On

Scrappy Frogs: Sentimental

Secret Crafters: Tons of Texture (doily, rhinestones, wire for antennae)

Sentimental Sundays: Something with Wings and sentiment

I want to thank everyone for their super sweet comments and for participating in the 100th challenge blog hop at Crafty Creations. I had my daughter select a number and she chose...23 which is...

xxxtglxxx

Alison's  comment:

Gorgeous card - you have worked that sketch perfectly and it looks brilliant! :)

Great image, simple and classy

hugs

xxalisonxx

                                                        December 31, 2010 6:18 PM

Please contact me about your prize from The Cutting Cafe!

Party time!

Okay not literally.  But very soon.  My daughter is having a birthday and I can't wait. She is making her  invitations to give to friends because it's not "cool" anymore to have your Mom do things for you.  Except your laundry.  :-)  Apparently, I embarrass her.  Who me?  Wink wink.
My card today is for her.  A surprise if you will.  She doesn't frequent my blog very often so it's a safe bet she will not see this.  I made this card based on quite a few challenges.

I recently purged my paper supplies and found this single sheet of Rusty Pickle paper I purchased quite a while ago.  I love it! I was happy to discover I had something like this in my collection.  I cut the paper doll out to be the main image which I placed on  this super cool hot pink embossed felt.  I have no idea where it came from.  I have just a smidgen of it but it was enough for this card.    The ribbon is "new" because a crafty girl can never have too much ribbon. ;-)  The stamps are "Close to My Heart" that Amy Heller sent me a while back.  The rub on was another remnant I discovered and thought the ticket would be cute with this.  The Making Memories stick pins are from last Spring.  I also found some vintage school book paper.   Finally, I used my PTI distressing inks to make this a true vintage feel.  
Create with Connie and Mary: #132 sketch
Gingerloft: 8 distressing (I used my PTI distressing inks on edges)
Paper Issues: new (ribbon)
Paper Sundaes: something new (ribbon)
Pile It on: brand new (ribbon)
Stampin' Royalty:  #53 birthday
and
The Shabby Tea Room: #43 use 11 elements breakdown of this: cardstock, pattern paper, felt, ribbon, rhinestone, stick pins, rub-ons, floss, button, ink, and stamps= 11 items for this card.  Whew!  I was challenged for this but in a good way!  :-)

Okay off to play on the Wii with my daughter.  We are going to try the 'Just Dance 2' tonight.  Wish me luck!  :-)

Sentimental Sundays and MSW

Happy Sunday to you!   I hope you are having a very blessed day!  I am back with my card for this week's Sentimental Sundays challenge: " Celebrate Friendship"   and my monthly challenge over at MSW to recycle something.  There are prizes to be won at both spots so please be sure to join in for your chance to win!

Supplies:
cardstock: Recollections
pattern paper: Making Memories and KI
recycled items: doily and ribbon
rub-on: Wordsmith
button: Dress It Up
floss: DMC

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges as well:

Colour Create:  Use pink, red, and white
Crazy 4 Challenges: Celebrate Something
Little Red Wagon: Leftovers
Secret Crafter: #115 Buttons and Bows
The Play Date Cafe: #62


Thank you for stopping by!

Crafty Creations 100th Blog Hop and give away!

Hey there!  It's Crafty Creations  100th challenge BLOG HOP filled with lots of  prizes and of course a challenge! We've been planning this celebration for a while; we wanted a special way to say THANK YOU to our weekly players!

We've had many fabulous sponsors along the way, and we know we couldn't have done it without them too. We invited them to join in our celebration and they have generously offered amazing prizes for our blog hop and challenge winners!! If you pop over to the Crafty Creation Blog you will find a list of all the fantastic prizes.

You should have arrived from Crafty Creations blog. If you did, great!   Please be sure to stop by each members blog and leave a comment for a chance to win.   You will then finish at Crafty Creations where you should leave a final comment.  You can always go back to Crafty Creations if you get lost or would like to see the entire list of participants. 

Our challenge to you is to combine 3 elements:

1. the sketch

     2. these colours below:

                         3. a recycled element: ribbon for my card

I used a recycled ribbon from a Christmas gift paired with two great digital sites that offer fabulous images for your paper and digital crafts.  

Black Leaf Studios generously donated the Christmasy set for me to make my card and is offering the entire set of 7 images as one of the grand prizes we are offering.  I colored in the reindeer with ink and then used brown flocking powder for the body.  I added silver horns with fine glitter.

The sentiment is from The Cutting Cafe  and Regina has graciously offered 3 sets of the winner's choice by simply leaving me a comment here.  Yeah!  What an awesome prize!  The winner will be selected on January 11th and announced on the Crafty Creations blog.  **The challenge lasts for two weeks. *

 You will find full details of the challenge requirements, all the sponsors and the fabulous prizes on offer at Crafty Creations blog! But for now, your next step on the BLOG HOP IS..

BERNIE

don't forget to leave a comment on all the blogs for a chance to win!  :-) Winner announced on Jan.11th at Crafty Creations blog.

Sentimental Sundays and winner announced!

Happy Boxing day!  Living with a Brit has taught me about this event.  I don't think we have ever had a proper celebration but at least I am aware of it.  :-)  It's really quiet in the house and I am watching the snow fall.  It's very peaceful and beautiful.  Until I have to go out and shovel it that is.  I am going to make crawfish Monica for dinner so that will be a treat.  I so love NOLA food, it's spicy!  It's basically pasta in a creamy sauce with lots of green onions and Cajun seasoning and of course crawfish.  Read lots of calories.    The recipe is at the bottom of this post.
So did those celebrating Christmas have a joyous day?  I was grateful to slow down and relax.  Always like the chance to catch up on events and just sit.  Christmas Eve is spent with my family and a huge feast that is always delicious.  The kids head down to the basement and play while the adults mix and mingle getting dinner preparations ready.  There is more food than 18 of us could ever eat.  I think my Mom and Dad try to have something for everyone.  My DD does not eat red meat (like her Mama) so they prepared a turkey for her.  It was brined and cooked on the grill.  I did not eat any because not a huge meat eater but dove into the veggies and bread.  They also fixed  prime rib and had southern salted ham.  I think Simon was in red meat heaven. 
Today sets a new challenge at Sentimental Sundays for cards with the theme, "Baby."  I used the Bundle of Joy sentiment and image.  I think this baby is just the cutest with his curly cue. 

Once again, I pulled some paper tidbits out to create this.  It's Sass Lass pattern papers paired with Recollections cardstock.  The card base is a textured card from Jo Ann's that I bought too long ago to remember.  The cardstock sticker is Sass Lass and  I used my Crop a dile to punch holes in the scallops.  The white grosgrain ribbon was recycled from a gift and then I used some Dress It Up buttons and Martha Stewart baker's twine to tie together.  That's it.  Pretty easy and simple.  Please stop by the blog and visit the other DT's to leave some love. 
I used Card Patterns sketch #96.

I have a winner of the huge priority mail box give away as promised!  The random number selected was.... #5
Creativedawn with this comment:


You make such fabulously beautiful art! I would love some papers and such...maybe I'll spend some time with paper, eh...lol! Count me in! Thanks for the chance.



MERRY CHRISTMAS!



hugz

Pam

Thanks Pam!  Please send me an email with your mailing address so I get that box out to you.  :-)  Thanks to everyone who commented.  I will have another give away this week for the Crafty Creations 100th blog celebration so please check back on Wednesday for details!



Crawfish Monica
1 1/2 lbs. rotelle pasta cooked al dente
8 oz. butter
1 1/2 quarts of heavy cream
3 tbs. of Cajun seasoning
1 cup chopped green onions
1 1/2 lbs. crawfish tails (can use shrimp also)

Heat butter in skillet until bubbly hot.  Add seasoning and sitr.  Add heavy cream and cook until reduced by half.  Add green onions, pasta, and crawfish.  Heat through.

Are you ready for Christmas?

I'm not quite ready. I managed to snag a cold (?) which kept me down yesterday.  But today I have to get out.   Especially after reading the latest forecast which predicts we are going to have a very white Christmas.  Like maybe 15 inches of white fluffy stuff?  I bet the stores are bare.  I will take my chances.  I am awaiting the arrival of my DD to ask how her last day of school went and then heading out.  I actually have to mail some Christmas cards. 

Today I would like to share a non Christmas card.  It was nice to take a break. 

This is for Crafty Creations latest challenge: Angels.  We are sponsored  by Wink Wink Ink, the maker of super cute digital images.  Please be sure to join us for your chance to win the $15 gift certificate to their store. 
I used lots of PTI products on this.  I adore the vintage distressing inks.  You have to buy these if you like the aged look. 
Challenges I would like to apply this card to:
All Sorts: #83 Free and Easy
Card Patterns:#95 sketch
Crafty Creations: #99 Angels
Sugar Sweet Paper Treats: Anything Goes
The Crafty Pad: Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday: Get Embellishing
Not sure if I will get back on here prior to Christmas so want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and don't forget that there is still time to enter my give away!  Check it out here!