A little Mojo Monday on Saturday

I hope that everyone is having a fantastic Saturday!  Anthony works this weekend so it will be a lazy one for the girls and I.  I played along with the sketch from Mojo Monday and the text challenge at Cute Card Thursday.  Its really a card to myself since I feel that exercise is a dirty word when I'm dragging my behind out of bed at 5am every morning to go to the gym.

Ingredients:

Stamps: Sweet and Sassy Stamps Chocoholic set

Paper: DCWV Citrus CS stack, PTI Raspberry Fizz

Ink: Stampin' Up Pixie Pink & Chocolate Chip

Ribbon: The Ribbon Boutique, Target $ Spot

Thanks for stopping by!

Melissa

OMG blog candy at

Kellie Winnell's amazing blog.  So stop whatever you are doing and click ---->HERE<---- to go to Kellie's blog for the list of everything thats in the picture and enter!!! 


That is 30+ stamps and over $200 worth of goodies. Here are the 3 rules of the candy…


1.You have to post the pic of the candy on your blog or in your side bar with a link back to this here post.

2.You have to add your link to Mr Linky

3.AND THAT’S IT…..

Color Me Copic's 1st Challenge!!

Good Monday morning friends!  For those of you wondering we has a wonderful week in Pigeon Forge!  The girls didn't want to come home (however I was ready to get back to my own bed). 

Here's a wonderful pic of Anthony and the girls in front of the MagiQuest Castle.  Which by the way is one of the funnest things we have ever done.  How can you go wrong with magic wands and adventure quest that range from easy to really really hard?!?!  I also just found out there is a MagiQuest at the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason Ohio (Anthony and I have been talking about going). 

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Okay on to why you are here!  My extremely talented bestie Rachel and some other very very talented ladies started a blog Color Me Copic about a month ago.  If you haven't been there, go now!  Its mainly an informational and tutorial blog with tons of helpful hints.  Rach did a fantastic tutorial on coloring images black and while and issued a challenge to use the method. Te best part is that The Greeting Farm has donated the prize!!!!!!  Since Rach is my number one cheerleader and a fabulous friend I had to try my hand at it.  I'm happy I did! 

I had to add a touch of color since I bought the DCWV Black Currant stack (its so fabulous!!) at JA's the moment I saw it. I've been waiting for it since I saw a sneak peek of it.  I also used the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #59 and turned it on its side.

Ingredients:

Stamp: Sweet November Stamps Fathom Calmsea

Paper: DCWV Black Currant

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Pearls: Martha Stewart

Button: Fancy Pants Designs

Flowers: Prima.

Have a wonderful Monday!!!

Melissa

Hello!

Well good morning bloggy friends!  We will shortly be leaving for Dollywood!  The girls are so excited!  Then tonight Anthony and I are going on a date!!  WOOO HOOOO!  He's taking me to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 

I have another Go-To Sketch for you.  This one is fabulous.  I'll be using it over and over.  Its a no brain way for me to use several patterned paper.  I'll be sending this to my great friend Margaret in San Antonio who I miss very much. 

Ingredients:

Paper - KI Memories Friendship Stack

Flower - Prima colored with Triart markers

Alpha - Recollections Acrylic Letters (pink)

Button - fancy pants design, with love line

Have a wonderful day everyone!!!

Melissa

Smooch!

Happy Tuesday everyone!  I hope that you are all having a wonderful day!  My little family and I are once again in Pigeon Forge, TN.  I'll try to have some pictures to post at the begining of next week.  We spent the morning at Dollywood, and the girls just always have the best time.  And since Anthony is along for this trip I was actually able to ride a few rides by myself.  Tonight we go the the Dixie Stampede and the girls and Grandpa are napping now so that we are all rested and relaxed for the fun show tonight.

This card I made a week or so ago.  The XOXO strip is a removable clip that I thought would make a wonderful bookmark.

Ingredients:

Paper - Me & My Big Ideas

Embelishments - Anna Griffin Peyton Collection

Have a fabulous day!!

Melissa

You are the best!

This was scheduled to post this morning while we were out having a great play date with our friends but yet again blogger has failed me on the pre-scheduling.

It's Thursday which means only  two more sleeps (how we count down to exciting things) until my super duper, fun filled, no kids allowed, whole day fun with my BFF Rachel!!! Which will include but not limited to scrapbook sales, tasty food, vampires and werewolf's.  YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (i'm excited. Can you tell?)

I've had the Paper Crafts Magazine Go-to Sketches since it came out in May but have yet to use it.  Why I don't know,  I love sketches and can hardly do anything without one.  Everyone of the Go-to Sketches is great and  they even included a few that are super simple.  So I whipped up this in no time flat.  Its actually one of my favorites from the magazine.

Ingredients :

Paper - the paper studio

Stamp - studio G

Embossing - Stars Cuttlebug folder

Circles - Spellbinders Standard Small Circle

Have a fabulous day!

Melissa

Arrrg mateys!

My second Christmas card of the year.  I love snowmen!!  So when I saw this set I had to have it.  I'll be making several of my Christmas cards with it.

Challenges:

CPS-Card Sketches - #175

Ingredients:

Stamp: Darcie's Shiver Me Timbers set

Paper: PTI Spring Moss, Core'dinations BM Hypnotic, scraps

Stickles - Diamond

Have a wonderful day!! 

Melissa

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My last card for the day! 

Challenges:

Delightful Sketches - Summertime colors

Easy Craft Projects #16 - Summer (nothing says summer like a road trip)

Creative Inspirations - On The Move

Cute Card Thursday - Summer

Doodle Palace - Roxx T. Sketch

Ingredients:

Paper - DCWV Citrus Stack

Stamp - Inkadinkado, Road Trip

Nestabilities - Label Four

Ribbon - Target $ Spot

Thanks for stopping by today!

Melissa

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My first Christmas card of the year!  If  I don't start now I'll never get them all done.  It seems that the challenge blogs are with me on that since several have a holiday theme this week.  I know the background paper looks red but its really pink.

Challenges :

Paper Cutz #49 - Christmas with no red or green

Simple Doodles # 21 - Holiday Fun

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - #57

Ingredients:

Stamp - Inkadinkado, Holiday Filigree

Paper - Core'sinations Marine Blue, PTI Raspberry Fizz & Lemon Tart

Pearls - Queen and Co Snowflake

Ribbon - Michaels

Ink - Memento Rosebud

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Here's my next installment of challenge cards today!  I used another Anya on this one.  She was calling to be inked up.  I used lots of Stickles on the bubbles but you can't really tell in this picture.  I followed Papertake Weekly's Sketch # 44 for this fantastic configuration.

Ingredients:

Stamp - TGF Me Time Anya

Paper - Cosmo Cricket

Flowers - Prima

Stickles - Star Dust

Brads - unknown origin

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy

See you back here in a few!  Don't forget to check all my post for today!

Post 1 of 4 today!

I know...4 post today! 

I have four cards that are due for challenges today and I really like to keep each one in a different post for labeling purposed.

Heres the first of the four cards that I made last night.  I just love TGF Stella.  Isn't she the cutest.  This was my first attempt at making "shiny" black hair.  With the help of a couple of utube videos and looking at all the wonderfulness on my BFF Rachel's blog I think I did fairly well. 

Challenges for cutie Stella:

little red wagon - #36 Nestabilities

Card Patterns - Sketch #72

Stella's ingredients:

Stamp - TGF Stella

Paper - My Mind's Eye, Love Nest

Flower - Prima (colored with Triart markers)

Button - making memories

Nestabilities - Label One

Ribbon - Cosmo Cricket

Don't forget to stop by later and check out my other three post.  I'll be spacing them out over the day!

Melissa

Luv you card

I feel like such a bad blogger :(  The girls have kept me super busy this summer.  I managed to get some time to create last night.  This card turned out fantastic I think.  I had to cut the petals down quite a bit.  The stamps are huge but I love how it turned out.

Ingredients:

Recollections Acrylic Alphabet Letters - Pink and clear (colored with Staz-on Mustard)

Stamps - Technique Tuesday: Loves me, loves me not

Button - Micheal's $ bin

Have a wonderful Thursday evening!!

Melissa