Tiddy Inks Sugar and Spice Challenge

Welcome to another week the chapters in our life...lol...today I'd like to share a card for Tiddy Inks Sugar and Spice challenge. Make a sarcastic or humorous card......ENJOY!!!!!

here I used the Watts family to go along with the funny I found on the net....see what happens when Daddy forgets Mommy's birthday....lol.... here' the inside.....well friends to is a really short post...I need to get back to work....thanks for stopping by and I hope to be able to spend some time to visit and relish in all the glories from everyone....Have a Sunny Day!!!! ...Hugs from Charm City....

Happy Baby Party Day Diaper Cake

Happy Saturday....today is our DD's baby shower and this is what I ended up making for her party...I originally wanted to make the baby skull but that kind of got ix-nayed....lol...so here's baby Minnie in all her Glory....ENJOY!!!!

I used 110 NB diapers to make the layers and only one tall baby bottle...the bottle doesn't go all the way up....I like it that way so I can remove the top layer if needed....I loved the texture that the silver packaging gives this project.....

and here's just a little cutie that I added to her bag of goodies.....isn't she darling!!!! LOL... Baby's first piggy bank.... just a front view.....Well peeps, I hope that everyone has a great weekend.....Hugs from Sunny Charm City......

HDH094 Menacing Mermaids Challenge

Happy Tuesday all...today is a short post, but I wanted to share an envelope I made for Macabre Mondays at HDH...so this was my take on this very cool challenge (love love love mermaids).....ENJOY!!!!

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I took an 11"X14" manila envelope, folded it where I needed the crease to be, and started layering rubber stamps to make a scene.,..I really don't care for the "to box", the black squiggle's is suppose to be a black cat...but since I've had way to much coffee this morning, I kind of smudged it abit....ok way bits...lol.....I used my very dusty stipple brushes along with Rangers nibs and cosmetic applicators to color everything in....

Rubber stamps used are:

Smeared Ink--Mermaid

StampScapes--brookside boulders, crooked limb, tiki huts

Rubber Stampede--fern leaf

Inkadinkado--web, crows and black cat

Studio G--bat

Alexa Stamping--grass (bottom)

See D's--quote boxes

here's the back side where the "from" will be.... *********

Well peeps, I'm suppose to be painting today and instead I'm in here....shhh, don't tell hubby...I just have to do double time now....lol...only so many hours in a day......Thanks Minions for such a fun challenge....if ya get a chance, stop on over and play along this week....we all have a mermaid in our stash somewhere....Hugs from a cloudy Charm City.....

HDH093--and Happy Father's Day

Good Morning blogland. Today marks for a special day for all of you father's out there. I hope you enjoy your day with your families.

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Today is a quick post to share a card I made for Macabre Monday Challenge over at HDH093. It's been awhile since I've had a chance to play along and I really enjoyed this challenge. Distressing---Love it!!! ---ENJOY!!!--

here I used an image from Kenny K-Anime Girl--colored her in with Prisma pencils--I also got to use the Skulz (from the eye popping line from Gloria--love your new stuff there girlie) pop dotted onto a bat sticker from Recollections--Inkadinkado greeting--Recollections for splat rubber stamp, skull and rhinestones--Making Memories metal moon--MS and EK for border punches--Deckled embossed die from Spellbinders--Pebbles Inc for paper...other sequins --front view-- here you can see that I bowed out the top border to give it some dimension...torn the paper and added a little stone for an accent... ***************** Well Peeps...I'm off and running for the day...we have a very busy one scheduled ahead of us...I hope everyone has a sunny day filled with alot of memories to cherish....Hugs from Charm City......

Tiddy Inks Simplify Challenge

Happy Thursday bloggers...It's such a pretty one here, but I do believe we are expecting some rain sometime today. We could use it though......anywhoooo, I would love to share a card I had made for Tiddy Inks Simplify challenge....make a one layer card...anyone who knows me, knows I just can't do one layer cards..I need "STUFF"...the more the better...*smile*...so this is my attempt at making a one layer card....ENJOY!!!!

Images I used were bathing beauty-- going swimming-- going swimming boy-- light my life--harmony border-- hoppy sleepy wishes (sentiment)-- cloudy with a chance of sun...the ones without links I think were freebies...I can't seem to find them in the store....

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I wanted to try and make a 3-D look with a 2D feel...I used Microsoft Word to create my scene using all of the images. I started using the harmony border as a photo frame (kind of sorts)...I added an oval frame making the black outline at 3" to give it a frame...added the rest of the images inside and colored everything in using my Prisma pencils...I cut the image out and made a shaped card by just wet gluing the top tabs to back of card......it's alittle wonky, and the oval is off center, but I do love how it turned out for being a flat card.....

just a front view.....

here's the inside....I used StampScapes for the tiki huts and quote from Sweet Pea Stamps (plate 101)...MS border punch along with a EK circle punch for bottom corners.... just a side view.... *************************** Well I hope if you get a chance, and really want a challenge, this one's for you...stop on over and see what the team has created for this challenge...they totally knocked it out of the park (as they always do)....thanks girls for a great one this week...... ************ I hope everyone has a wonderful and sunny day.....Hugs from Charm City...

PaperTake Weekly--Anything Goes

Smack me in the head Batman, it's another card for a challenge....lol...Happy Thursday peeps...just think, one day closer to the weekend...not that matters here, just means more work to do with Hubby home....I tell ya, I have been working on redoing our landscape in the flower beds...been digging plants up and relocating them to other beds...trying to get that curb appeal thing going on again...lol...not to mention, that they have just gotten to big for the places I had them planted in....this is what I have been doing these past couple of months (not to mention, taken the master bedroom's closet apart)....at the same time I had decided to truly do the "DIET" thing once again....and really apply myself...so far it's been working...I have gone down 2 sizes in my clothes and it feels great....I was watching an infomercial one morning after work and it totally motivated me...it was the Zumba Training one...have you seen it? Know about this program? I have been reading and talking to others about this and they totally are in love with it....I have yet to get the DVD's or sign up for a class, but I have checked out some DVD's from the library and like them.... *********************

I want to thank everyone that has asked and wondered how I've been doing....you all make me smile...thank you...and that really is something I've needed for a time now..... ***************************

I guess when one gets to what we think is middle age, then you look at life through different glasses....re-evaluating everything....kwim??? And my health right now is a priority...you know, the most important thing to oneself, but tends to get shoved aside in the everyday hustle and bustle of what we call life...a few months back, things were done and said that really made me WAKE UP!!! So this is the first part of me waking up...lol....so to speak...

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I have missed everyone here (more than you really can know)...and have truly missed being creative....in here that is....lol...although I have been doing research on backyard designs...and in my design that I came up with is a little section that I have designated for a (pirate/beach theme ) mini-golf pad(s)...I know, I know....but I believe that everyone will have some great times playing this all year.... I'm looking to make one that you would find when on vacation...with all the bells and whistles...sound like fun?!!! Lol..

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Anywhoo, I've talked your ears off....sorry about that....Here's my entry into this weeks challenge over at PTW anything goes plus one....hop on over and play along this week....ENJOY!!!!!

I truly am sorry about the photo...Me, camera and white spaces are like oil and water...lol...I used a rubber stamp from Kraftin Kimmie (Drucilla)...ain't she perdy....she actually is holding a pin in her right hand, but it got cut off....I used the felt flower roll and pearls from Queen and Co, Prima flower, Cosmo Cricket alpha stickers with stickles and tulle...the finished size is 4 1/2"...

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Well blogland...I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend ahead...and thanks again for all your thoughts....Hugs from a very sunny and hot Charm City....

Helloooo Blogland

Howdy Howdy Howdy!!!! It's been such a long time since I've been able to post. So much has been going on. Mainly, I needed a break...really...I felt like my puter was running my life instead of me running the puter....not to mention other things that's been going on....but anywhooo, how the heck have you all been??? Really!!! I would love for you to drop a line or two...I miss everyone...

Have you noticed the new background....lol....this is how I've been feeling, somedays....*smile*...not to mention, school gets out in a week....Ohhhhh MYYYYYY!!! I can tell it's going t obe a long summer...so much on the list of things to do and I'm not feeling the "love" from the little one in helping...KWIM!!! Teenagers....what would we do without them....

Well posted below is my LATE entry into Tiddly Inks challenge last week....I made this card yesterday and thought I had until last night to post...but I missed it....boohoo...and one for this weeks challenge.......ENJOY!!!!!

Here is used Minnie's Berry.....I call her my happy happy Diva...everytime I look at her she brings a smile to my face....although I didn't do her justice...it's been so long since I've picked up a paintbrush....lol....I used SEI (Winter Song ) paper...Making Memories ribbon, metal word plate rub on alpha stickers, Recollections flowers pom pom ribbon, MS border punch

here's the inside using I think was a freebie from Christy...thanks girl.... super simple card but I think the recipients will like it.....

And here is my entry into this week's challenge...A treasure diva b-day gift box......I purchased these images a couple months back and have been dying to use them....here I used Pirate Jane Pirate Fun and Treasure Map Colored.....have you been over to Tiddly Inks Store lately....Ohhh My goodness...yes, such eye candy to play with....I want all of them....lol....really really do.....I constructed the box out of 2 pieces of 12X12 black cardstock....sorry no instructions...I had done this awhile ago and it's been sitting here on my desk....I also used a guitar pic ontop of the skull image in left corner...it's one that changes as you move it....pretty cool...I picked that up at the local 7-11 store...lol.,..

here I scrunched up the fence (EK Success) and just made it alittle more rustic....

here's the handle to open it...I used a piece of wooded fence, a door plate and knob added some rhinestones and hot glued it to the box....

here's the gift tag (I think this was a freebie from Caz..thanks girl)...I added some charms using swivel connectors found in the fishing section at Wal-Mart... sorry for the photos...they really suck....lol.... just a closer photo of the guitar pick.... here's the opened view of the box.... Well peeps....thanks for stopping in today....I hope to be popping in on a regular basis now...but I really do have a summer full of reorganization, purging, swimming and hangin out with the new baby soon....oh, ya keep an eye out for another diaper cake....baby shower is later this month....lol.......Have a sunny day....Hugs from Charm City....