PaperTake Weekly Autumn Skies Color Challenge

It's another week for a new challenge from PTW....our challenge this week is Autumn Skies Color Challenge.....use reds,greens,golds --browns....you get the drift...show us your best Autumn project and link to your blog on the PTW challenge blog and get a chance to win those darling pearl brads below..........We are being sponsored by Whiff of joy. Stop over and check out the store. They have some great items to add to your stash or add to Christmas presents....ENJOY!!!!

Now aren't these way cool...I love the softness they give off and I think these would be great on Christmas cards......

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This card has taken so many different turns that I ended up with 2 cards this week.....on this one I used Mr Straw from Digital Delights. Leaf swirly stamp from Inkadinkado--Tim Holtz metal flowers/leaves--Around the Block greeting--distress inks and MS border punch....no rhyme or reason for the watch face (on top of a metal huge brad) and metal leaves...I just liked them...lol....

here's the second card....Tim Holtz mini stamps--Inkadinkado greeting stamp--Autumn Leaves tag stamp--K&Company feather--Prima swirls--Making Memories paper....

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Well I hope that you stop by and check out what the rest of the team has done this week.....then stop over at PTW and play along......thanks for stopping by today and have a sunny day...Hugs from Charm City...

CDAC BDD--Special Release Christmas Images

On CDAC Group Bonibleaux Designs Digis be the first to catch the new releases, fun games, prizes and fun for all!! [you have to be a member so sign up and join in the fun] Here's a little peak at what is waiting for you over at Bonibleaux Designs Digis Group. The new images will be in the store during the New Release party....WOOT WOOT!!! Wait until you see these images from Bonibleaux Designs......they are soo KEWL you will want to make sure you have them in your digi collection.... ENJOY!!!!!!

this is where Santa (Santa Beach) spends his time in the off season....at the beach...look how relaxed he is...all cozy with a fruity drink....barefoot and with his belly hanging out....lol...kind of looks like my DH......but then he realizes he has to get back to work and off he goes..... The palm tree is from Digi Doodle Shop....quote on the front and inside is a rubber stamp from Repeat Impressions.....paper is Cosmo Cricket....

and this is the inside with poor Daddy just wanting Santa out of his house...lol....don't you just love the look on Rodney's face....tree and fireplace are part of the release....the mirrors are part of the stairs image that is just released to....

here's the full view of the inside of the card...the tag pulls out and a gift card can be added.....

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Well that's all I have...so hop on over and play along in the BDD Group......Hugs from Charm City.....

Stamp It Crazy--Snow

WOOT WOOT!!! It's Sunday and that means it's Craaaaazy Time....lol....This week at Stamp It Crazy we are making "SNOW"...know you all know how much I love snow....so this was a perfect challenge for me...It's a free for all with the exception you must use glitter........ENJOY!!!!!!

we were given this image to use for this week......and this quote is just so fitting for it to.....I kept this real simple and let the image speak for itself....Basic Gray paper--Sizzix embossing--MS border punches--distress inks and stickles....

just a closer view of the embossing.... and here's the inside......the rest of the quote....like I mentioned, a real simple card....and I like it....lol...... ********************** Make sure you stop by and check out the rest of the teams creations.....and then pop over to the store...Barb has some really great stamps, digi and rubber.........thanks for stopping in today...Hugs from Charm City....

DUDETIME DOODLES--Guest Spot Challenge-- WE HAVE A WINNER

Today is the day over at Dudetime Doodles to challenge yourself for a GUEST SPOT on the incredible, the fun, the amazing Dude Time Doodles Design Team for the month of December. What do you have to do? 1. Use the freebie image (that you can go grab at DTD) in a humorous creation of astounding creativity and ingenuity (hehehe no pressure) 2. Submit a photo of your creation via InLinkz at DTD 3. And on November 17th we will announce our Guest Designer for December. 4. Spread the word - you only have one week - this will be a monthly event so be sure to come back on the 10th of each month and do it again! What do you get as a Guest Designer for working with this hunk of hippie love you ask? Well let me tell you.... 1. Inclusion with the hippest, coolest Design Team Heroines in town. 2. A personal invite to the "secret club" where all the creators mix and mingle 3. Use of Bonibleaux Designs Digis for the duration of your stay 4. Participation in all monthly challenges and special events 5. To add your ideas, thoughts and humor to the inspiration board for future image releases 6. Advertising for you blog and your artwork via Dude Time Doodles networks such as CDAC, FaceBook and Blogger We cannot wait to see your creations!!

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The WINNER from my blog hop candy, "Tom Tom Turkey Digi", that DudeTime Doodles has given away goes to none other than............... ursula Uphof and this is what she said... What fantastic cards. Just love what you have done. Ursula if you could contact me I will forward your info to miss Boni.... Thanks everyone for joining in on our hop.....make sure you pop over to DTD to see if your name is on the winner's list tooo........we look forward to you joining in on the dude challenges every week....we have some other great plans coming your way this month as well, so keep a look out for those.....we have our first challenge up and running now..... I would also like to say thank you to everyone sending well wishes and prayers to my co-workers family..... it truly is a trying time for them right now.....and as always thanks for visiting and for your wonderful comments you always leave...they really make my days........Hugs from a little Chilly Charm City....

Papertake Weekly--Sketch 50

This week at PTW we have a sketch...super great sketch...and we are being sponsored by Wiff of Joy. So make sure you stop over there and check out the store....she has some lovely things...... here's the sketch for this week from our very own Dawny....you can flip,rotate, twist, well hell, anything you would like just as long as you can see the sketch still....but most importantly--have fun..no wait, have a blast....I did....ENJOY!!!!!! and here's how I used it.....I got out my trusty snowman that I just adore....it's a clear rubber stamp from Inkadinkado.....I stamped onto the background, embossed with a Sizzix folder and sponged distress inks then added stickles to Mr. Snowman and the background edges....I also used clear acrylic snowflakes from Heide Swapp and added a red paper clip and white brad to hold them together, then perched a bird button on top of them....

here's just a closer view of the snowflakes and I popped up Mr. Snowman onto some foam board...well that's all I have for today..stop by and see what the rest of the team has created at PTW........Hope you have a sunny day and many thanks for stopping in....Hugs from Charm City.....

Stamp It Crazy #13--Sketch Challenge

It's Sunday....and that means it's a new week for our next challenge over at StampIt Crazy....it's a sketch challenge and you must use red, green ribbon and buttons....I had alot of fun doing this challenge on a small canvas......ENJOY!!!!!!

here's the sketch...isn't this fun...you truly can do so much with it....twist it, flip, rotate...whatever you choose, just make sure you can still see the sketch......have fun with it.....

and here's what I came up with......we had this darling Santa face to use....one lucky person will win this.....he's such a doll to use for Christmas cards.....lil reindeer man ( I think Jesse James buttons) is a button that I just cut the shank off of the back so it could lay flat and wrapped some lights (EK Success) around his antlers...the sheet music was a download from the net somewhere...I can't remember where I got it from....sorry about that....

just a closer view of lil reindeer man....isn't he just dawling!!!.....well that's all I have for today.....make sure you stop over at SIC and see what the rest of the team had created....they always have some great eye candy.....Have a sunny kind of day.....hugs from Charm City....

Macabre Monday HDH063 - Freaker's Free-for-All

Happy Saturday everyone...well it's a little gloomy here....yesterday we lost a co-worker to an accident....she was standing in the back of her pick-up truck, fell and hit her head on the curb just outside of the bed..she had hit her head so hard that they could not revive her while waiting for the ambulance.......she ended up being brain dead when she got to the hospital and shortly thereafter past away...shortly just before that, we were chatting about life together....just about the weekend and the weather and all.....and then not even 5 minutes after I had left work, this happened....this is just another sign to live life to the fullest...and make sure you tell everyone around you how much you care and love them....to be the best possible person you can be.....it's a sad day here, but I am looking for the sun to be shining today as that's how our friend was....very bubbly, happy and always had a smile on her face.....May God be with her family in this time of need....please say a prayer for them.....

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....this week over at Haunted House Designs it's a free-for-all....just dark and creepy.... I don't know if you would consider this dark and creepy, but this is what I ended up with.....ENJOY!!!!!!!

Poor Santa is down to his bones and has one last place to deliver presents to and realizes where it is....lol.....this turned out to be a gift box of some sort......no one in particular to give this to either....I have been dying to use this image from Stamp it Crazy....sorry though, I don't think I gave Santa justice......I also used the row homes from Starving Artist--stickles----grass, fence and trees cut from my Expression----- and MS branch punch layered the trees for added texture.....

here's a side view....it's a pretty deep box.... about 2" deep...I used black stripes with Tim Burton in mind......but I'm thinking it needs a trim around the top and bottom to kind of finish it off..... just a view on it's side together.......well that's all I have for today....I'm having dinner and cake (home made apple pie instead...lol) for my Father-In-Law today....he's up here from the beach for a few days and yesterday was his 72nd birthday.....so we wanted to celebrate with him.....I hope everyone has a sunny day....Hugs from Charm City.....

DudeTime Doodles Challenge #1--Sketch

WOOT WOOT!!! This is the first challenge over at a new blog from DudeTime Doodles....if you just happened to hear about this blog, the challenges are on the 5th and 20th of the month (along with other's popped in there also)and the theme is geared towards guys...man....boy...all about the boys....lol....as I've said before, I have a hard time myself making these types of cards. We all need them in our stash for the men in our lives, including the little men...so why not come on over and join in with the challenges and hang out....I can foresee alot of inspiration coming from this blog, the images, and the team....not to mention all of you...We just had a blog hop and were giving away free images and other goodies....if you scroll down and read my post below, there's a link to the next one in the loop and check out their wonderful creations...maybe you can still find the images...ENJOY!!!!!

here's the sketch for this week....do whatever you would like with it just as long as your project/card is for a GUY....and Miss Boni is even allowing you to use any images you prefer...but you know we would just love for you to use one of her images and show us what you can do....we are also being sponsored by Glitterbabe Greetings and she is offering 4 digi's of your choice....how cool is that for a prize package for one random winner....take a gander over and see what else is in store for you....you have 2 weeks to complete your project and upload to DTD Challenge Blog and the winner will be announced on November 12th there...GOOD LUCK!!!!

On this card I used an image called youth football....now how darling is this...this is a card from DD to DH...we are football fans here in our home...totally --and all 3 of us like different teams...so this year poor Daddy just lost his quarterback (Dallas Cowboys) due to injury.....and now he is all down and out....so that leaves DD (Baltimore Ravens fan) and Me (Steelers fan) tied for first place.....and we are battling it out between us too....but I thought this image was so fitting for DD to give her Daddy a sympathy card.....lol....what do you think?

here's a closer view....I used flower soft on the football to give it some dimension......

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Well that's all I have for today...Stop by and check out what the rest of the team has created.,....they have alot of inspiration over there......Hugs from Charm City

PaperTake Weekly--It's a Guy Theme

WOOT WOOT!!! How very cool is this...I know just how hard it is to make a guy card as the next person. So what a better way than to challenge yourself to make your special guy one....make it funny, adorable, simple or a really--really special card (you get my drift...lol).....just make him one and show him how much you love him.....a just because card....

This week at PTW we are being sponsored by Wiff Of Joy. Do make sure you hop over there and check out what's in store......there are alot of goodies......ENJOY!!!!!

and here's my guy card....this is another image from Imagenation--Just Inklined Designs--Maude Merry Christmas....she is a freebie right now, but I don't know for how much longer...I absolutely think she looks just like me....except her belly is smaller....lol...you can see her belly button...I just love how she's perched up on the banister waiting for Santa to come. All sexy looking, smelling purdy and wearing Santa's favorite hat....lol.....I also used these stairs that I got from Bonibleaux Designs. They aren't released yet, so this is kind of like a sneak peek. You will be able to purchase them the middle part of this month....so in the mean time, stop over and grab some of the other images....there are so many....all other images are from Starving Artist and pattern paper from Basic Grey....

and here she is all ready to give Santa an early Christmas present....lol...now tell me, what hot blooded man wouldn't jump on that....I need to add bubbles to the tub where there is an opening though...I couldn't find any that I liked so I left it blank for now....I also used the bed that I've used before from Starving Artists, but I turned it upside down and trimmed off a couple of pieces and made this into a bath tub....Have you ever turned rubber stamps upside down to see if you can see other images inside them....you know kind of like 2fer's....I do this all the time...that's how I had seen this as a tub....then I seen others had the same idea with this stamp on blogs....try it with your stamps....and you can even try it with digi stamps to....Just open a program that is installed on your computer that allows you to flip--mirror or even rotate an image and play.....you never know what you will see in the shadows.....lol....

just a side view.....

Well that's all I have for today...I want to thank everyone for your sweet comments and for taking time to visit each time.....Have a Sunny Day...Hugs from Charm City

Paper Cubed Challenge--Votive Decoration

WOW...Where on earth did October go? So it's now the first of the month and that means we have another challenge from P3. Our challenge this month is to make some type of votive (candle) wrapper/ decoration. It can be any theme.......ENJOY!!!!!!

Here's what I came up with after I seen the sweet Miss Debbie's project....you have to go and check out her project....it's simply darling.........let me tell you, I went round and round with so many different things I wanted to make. But in the end, I ended up with this very simple votive holder with just the flip of your wrists....lol....all you have to do is cut cardstock and pattern paper to the size desired, and bring one end around to the other end and softly pinch the middle top on opposite end to the two ends.......here I just used a 3" circle punch to cut my windows and layered my paper together...I took a piece of transparency and used Krylon frosted glass spray (found at Michaels in the paint section) and lightly sprayed the transparency for my window....I also added a piece of white cardstock to the inside to give the light alittle more glow as opposed to a darker background.......Mr Turkey is from a new place that a Dudette had shared with us called Imagenation....

just showing the top view so you can get the jest of it....very simple and easy to make....I hope that you will all join us this month....Why not make that special little votive holder for you holiday decorations......So stop by and check out what the rest of the team has created....they always blow me away every month....Hugs from Charm City.....

Stamp It Crazy--Challenge#12--Candy

WOOT WOOT!!! Another week so that means another awesome challenge from SIC.... 1. Create a NEW Candy Card, Project, or page. 2. To have your entry in by Saturday Nov 6th 2010, 5:00 pm central time over at SIC. 3. Winner will be able to choose this image as DIGI or Rubber!!!! Good Luck....ENJOY!!!! Now aren't these two just so cute....I loved this image instantly....I think of the two of them saying, I see you out there....I did however leave the greeting blank for now...I might just use it as a note card.....I used MS border punches, rhinestones and some black pearls....colored in the image with distress inks.... closer view of bottom..... side view....it ended up being a super simple card...so make sure you stop over at the Store and then pop in at Stamp It Crazy Blog and play along this week....who knows, you might be the lucky person who wins this stamp.......Hugs from Charm City......

DudeTime Doodles Blog Hop

This is the event of the year! Come and join in the fun. It's our first official monthly New Release Blog Hop. You will see all of the new release digi's on the last day of the month. But for today, there are 2 freebies. But you have to go hunting for them. Visit the blogs to find the 2 freebies and make sure you leave comments for the other prizes.... Stop by DudeTime Doodles to get the scoop on all of the other prizes.....and for one lucky commenter here will win Mr. Tom Tom....now isn't he just the cutest....love the tude...lol....good luck!!!!

And as stated above, there are freebies along the way....and here is one of them....all you have to do is right click and save to your computer....this will be removed after the hop is over......ENJOY!!!!!!! *******************************************

This blog hop does not have a start and ending point. So no matter where you hop, you are in the right place. Just keep hopping until you get back to the original location.....and after you have finished and come back here, just make sure you stop at DTD blog and see what's happening...then visit the store and grab yourselves some of those darling images you just seen and make some cards for that man in your life....after all it is football and deer season...turkey season is right around the corner...but you can use these images in other ways than what they were intended for to. ..........ENJOY!!!!!!!

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Now look at Pilgrim Paul....doesn't he look ready to go hunting..he reminds me of a cartoon way back when with Elmer Fudd and how he would go off hunting.....that's what I think when I look at him. It's game day for the hunters looking for their first turkey of the season. So as I'm thinking of how I wanted to use him, I thought of him standing outside of the Turkey Mansions waiting for the biggest, fastest turkey of them all. Mr. Tom Tom....the one that eludes him every year.....lol....calling out to Tom to come out and play....

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other images (which are rubber) are from Starving Artists (background)--Magnolia (beach fence)--Stamp Scapes (pebbles)

and this is Mr. Tom Tom inside his home looking at his calendar realizing what time of year it is....and remembering that he is retired....lol....when I first seen this image, WTF was the first thing that came to mind. like, how dare you.....lol....

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other images are from Starving Artist(backboard-rub-plant) and Magnolia(chair-jars), I colored everything in with distress inks, alpha's are from Making Memories and computer generated....I wanted to keep it simple since it is a manly card. I don't know about your man, but mine is simple. Give him a beer, the remote and something neck 'id (as Jeff Foxworthy very elegantly puts it...lol)....oops, I shouldn't have said that....

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And here's a little side cart...lol...I used the same images (except the background and lighthouse images) and made a different scene....it's a spin off of the one above....this is Mr. Tom giving Pilgrim Paul the boot out of the Community...it's a retiree community for those birds that got away . And now they are to old to play any more so they all congregate here under armed guards to keep the hunters away....lol....

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I change the direction of Mr. Tom in my software program. All I did was a flip, copy and paste into MS Word to print it off. I cut the calendar off of this image to....you can see the original here....I used the beach scene from Make it Crafty, lighthouse from Tiddly Inks and branches from StampScapes......it ended up being on the dark side again...seems like I've had a heavy hand lately with the water and colors get muddled together....sorry about that...

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Well your next stop is over at Tammy's Blog ......go and see what scrumptious she has to offer.......and make sure you stop in the store @ Bonniebleaux Designs........ and then stop back at the challenge blog Dude Time Doodles.....We hope you enjoy your journey and get some inspiration for those guy cards for that man in your life.......Hugs from Charm City.....

Trick or Treat

This is a Halloween card from Me to you (blogland)...I hope you like it..Happy Halloween.......ENJOY!!!!!

I used the Spooky Hallow Damien dig from Simply Betty Stamps...printed, cut out and added pop dots behind some of it....the frame and greeting were cut from water color paper on my Expression...and I can't even remember which carts they are from...sorry about that....but I think they are from Happy Hauntings....that's what's in the machine...lol....bottle caps are from Lil Davis Designs...colored everything in with distress inks.....

I added black stickles to the words to have them stand out abit more..... and yep, you see it...lol...I bowed out the top portion of the frame once again...I bet you all are getting tired of seeing this, aren't you....but I am so addicted to this little added dimension...it's FREE and EASY to do to your cards....and it gives them so much more than if you would just use pop dots or even leave your pieces flat....what do you think? ************************** Well that's all I have for now....I have another post coming later tonight for the DudeTime Doodles blog hop tonight...so be on the look out for that as well.....Hugs from a windy Charm City....

PaperTake Sparkly and Bright Challenge

Good Sunny Morning Peeps...today is the day for a new challenge at PTW. This week is sparkly and bright for the challenge....Let gets some sparkle in your step this week and show us what you can do. And we are being sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. So be sure to stop by the store and grab yourselves some goodies.....ENJOY!!!!!! There is a $25 voucher up for grabs for you to spend in Heidi’s shop and as she is so brill and pays for the shipping as well, you get to spend every bit of the $25 on goodies. Here I used an image from Provo Craft. Do you remember those cd's that Michael's use to sell with all of the images? I swear I have every single one of them. Not to mention I use to go to their site and purchase other images. Well anywhooo, this is one of them. I am a snowman 'aholic...and this is my first Christmas card of the season....so I see many more to come......I also used Snow and added diamond dust on top for the added sparkle....colored in images with distress inks and added a layer of stickles...MS border punch, Doodle Bug red sparkly paper and Christmas stamp from Wally World...lol...(Wal-Mart)....

just a closer view of the snow and diamond dust....

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Well I hope you get a chance to stop by and show us some sparkle to....and make sure you stop over and check out the rest of the teams creations...they are absolutely wonderful.....have a sunny kind of day...Hugs from Charm City....

Some News Technique Challenge and HDH061 - A Lil' Lurid & Lovesick Challenge

This is my second post for today...If you're looking for Stamp it Crazy's post, please scoll down....

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Today I have some exciting news...I am a new designer for a new challenge blog called DudeTime Doodles. This is a new blog and all of the challenges are geared towards a "GUY" theme. Now I know how we all are about making "guy" cards, and they tend to be very difficult sometimes, so this is a great new place to get inspiration and challenge yourselves to get those cards made for your guy friends and family members. So stop on over...We are having a blog hop on October 31st to reveal a new set of images.....and they are really cool...I can't wait to show you.....ENJOY!!!!!

you can click on image above to be taken to the store

I am so Happy--Happy--Happy that I actually got to make a card for a couple of challenges -- Macabre Monday and Make it Crafty...I haven't had much time lately to participate in other challenges so this is a welcomed change....and I just had to use images from Bonibleaux Designs Digis (Gabby Goblin--Mr Bones Jangle and the barbed wire background circle) which are so fun....this opens up to an easel card with pop up images.....

view of the front closed This is the card opened...I added some MS/EK Success border punches, some black webbing (thanks Glo-I finally found some), and a darling Glo Skullz (thanks again girl), printed onto water color paper and colored everything in with distress inks. Bat and kitty are from Recollections.... just a closer view of the front here's a side view of the easel...... ***************** Well have a happy Sunday, Stop over at Haunted Design House and check out the rest of the entries and DT's creations.... and I hope to see everyone at DudeTime Doodles Challenges.......Hugs from a sunny and bright Charm City......

Stamp it Crazy--Anything Halloween

Happy Sunny Sunday blogland....This week's challenge from Stamp It Crazy is Halloween....We were asked to use the haunted house background (scroll towards bottom of page)and the trio (also rubber) going my way digi's.......ENJOY!!!!!

this is the front of the stair step card....I printed the images and greeting onto water color paper, cut out and added to the card after I sued the Tim Holtz distressing tool....the tree is a die from DCWV that I traced and cut out for the second fold....I used MS/EK Success border punches...this was such a fun card to make.....

this is just a side view so you can see the layers.....

here's the other angel...you can see that I added some pop dots behind the tree so it wouldn't lay flat onto that layer.......

and here is a total different take on the Haunted House background digi.....I was just sitting at my computer with no mojo...this background image was on my computer and I just decided to play abit....I changed the bacground to gray scale and then using the negative filter in Paint Shop Pro, I changed it to negative....how cool is that...I added a gray rectangle over top of the image (this is where I added the photo of our little one)....imported this into MS Word and printed off onto water color paper....now how fun is that...you have your very own, one of a kind, photo frame card.....MS/EK Success border punches, Cricut tree (Happy Hauntings--pg 71--4"--flipped--trimmed way back)...

this is the back with the stand that I made using scrap piece of cardstock....

I left this blank....didn't know what I wanted to add......

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Well, I hope that you stop by and check out the rest of the teams creations. And stop over at the store to pick yourself up some digi's and stamps....there were some that already had the photo frames inside the picture so all you have to do is just add your own photo and print....easy peasy breezy....lol.....hope to see you.....hugs from a sweet sunny Charm City......