COF October Challenge

Hi Everyone today I have a post for COF October Challenge Our hostess  Sharon asked us to either make a Thanksgiving card or a Thank You card I hope this fits the bill.
Sorry this is such a short  post as don't have much power today, Ill be back to send everyone some Big Hugs tomorrow.
Hope everyone is staying safe from the storm .

Digging up a Big Thank You

Today we have a Thank You card for a lady at my church that makes the most amazing things here is a shirt she did for my grandson so I thought this was the perfect thank you card to go with the picture of him wearing it for her.




For this card I used the Beep Beep cricut cartridge and the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge

COF September Blog Hop

Welcome to the first Crafters of Faith Blog Hop! We are so blessed to have you stop by and celebrate the beauty of AUTUMN with us! The Crafters of Faith blogging group is a joyous blending of christian friends ~ joined together to fellowship, share our faith, build friendships and craft together! If you are just visiting and would like to hop with us, welcome! If you hopping along already, you should have arrived from Jackie's blog over at Kreatewithme2.

This month, our hostess is Carol over at billsfavoritestamper.blogspot.com/  She gave us a wonderful Harvest challenge and here is what she asked us to create: "I love FALL, the colors and the smells! I would like to propose that we make a card with fall colors, it should include fruits and vegetables to remind us of the harvest. When my kids were small, I canned peaches and pears, made pickles and such. So much fun to open those jars in the dead of winter! I am looking so forward to the fall festival of Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles). To Biblical historians, this is the actual time of Christ's Birth and many people believe this will also be the season of HIS return. Blessings All!"

To celebrate in this glorious season upon us, here is the card I created for you!

My jar stamp & God Loves you are both from Inkadinkado , spellbinders Lattice Borderabilities Petite  to make the lid for my jar ,Assorted Fresh Fruit from spellbinders for my Apples, Spellbinders S-4-265 shapeabilties Cross Collection Die template for my cross, for my border on top I used

spellbinders Big Scalloped Border Petites and my tag is  Labels Ten also from spellbinders. My paper is from DCWV and I cut some paper to put in the jar to look like homemade applesause. Yum Yum I remember making this as a kid with my grandmother.

From here, continuing hopping to Sharon over at ScrappingMum to see what Autumn splendor she has waiting for you! We also have a special little giveaway for one lucky hopper today and you can find that on Kelly's blog Sandcastle Stamper the last stop on the hop!

Thank you for stopping by today! In this glorious season of Fall, and the wonders of the earth changing to gorgeous colors .... in a time of gratitude and thanksgiving ... we wish many blessings for you!

Carol-billsfavoritestamper

Carolina -Cardolina Scrapolina
LizW - Right Brained Madness
Jackie - Kreatewithme2
LizD - crafts4thesoul (Me)
Sharon - ScrappingMum

Darlene According to Bijou
Jeanette CreativePlay
Carol Lost in my craft room
Kadie InMyMindsEye
Tami Blueinksdesign
Barb - Inkinintoretirement
April - April'sAlley
Kelly - Sandcastle Stamper

 

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I'm Back

What a busy month, moving , unpacking , more unpacking , getting ready for a 1st Birthday party I'm worn out but ready to get back on track with everything .
Today I'm going to post pictures of all the things we made for my grandson's 1st Birthday party we had Sunday it was a race car party full of race cards.


                                   All the important things to make a party stay on Track,
                 Invites, Food labels, Happy Birthday Banners, Highchair banners & Bean bags

                                  

For the invites I used Avery name Badges , checkered ribbion & metal rings from Michales ,Beep Beep cricut cartridge

 

 

 

        For the Fuel we used spellbinders circles and Spellbinders Grand  Labels Eleven , clip art and duct tape around the bottles .

 Spellbinders squares, clip art , duct tape and yummy dounuts

                                               spellbinders squares ,duct tape and clip art

 For the bean bag toss we put down a black table cloth some white duct tape and made some bean bags . The road was also leading up the driveway to the back yard for the guest  to walk on.

 For the banners I used the Pretty pennants Cricut cartridge and the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge for the letters. I used contact paper for the highchair banners and put duct tape on the top of each one ( the duct tape is not on the high chair)

 

              

 

For the banners I used the Pretty pennants Cricut cartridge and the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge for the letters

 

Hope you all have a Blessed  Week

 

 

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Boxes are packed

Happy Thursday ,

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far and the storms stayed away .

It's going to be a very busy a week here Were moving and the boxes are packed and ready to be loaded ,its been hard having all my craft stuff boxed up and not being able to play for the last week, I have so much to do once I get them to our new place but I'm so excited, since we don' t use a formal dinning room I'm going to turn that into my office so I will have so much more space to work and leave stuff out when I'm working on it so now I've got to come up with some cleaver ideals to keep everything hidden away since there won't be a closet to put it all in but my brain is thinking of so many things to do , my Dh is having a heart attack at the ideal of me painting our china cabnet so I may have to work around that for now but I'm thinking it could be some great storage.

Hope you all have a Happy Weekend and the next time I see  you I'll be in our new home !

Big Hugs ,
Liz

IT'S A ......

Happy Monday Everyone ! what a great day,

I didn't get any crafting  done this weekend but had so much fun with our grandson at the zoo on Sunday 6 hours of walking half way though it he started to get into it took 246 pictures while we were there , I guess when your daughter is a photographer there is going to be lots of pictures now to go though them and make those scrapbook pages.

Ok so now to show you the card I posted last week but this time you get to see what our new grandchild is going to be, drum roll..... It's A

Hope you all have a wonderful day and I'll be back later this week .

Hugs till then

Liz

What will it be???

As some of you know my daughter is having another baby and were so excited to have him or her join their big brother so to let everyone know what she is having we made a special card.

I used spellbinders banner die, spellbinders circles and Cricut create a critter for this cute giraffe.

We made a mixture of silver paint and dish soap ( at the bottom of this post) we typed the gender on paper then cut out and painted with the paint and sent a penny to everyone to scratch off and  reveal the gender.

What do you think little girl pink or little boy blue?

Prepare your mixture. Two parts paint for every one part dish soap. Mix it up good, but try not to stir too aggressively - you don't want too many little bubbles.
  Use thin, even layers. Don't worry if you can still see through it after the first coat, it will most likely take two or three coats to get it all covered.


Be sure to check back this week to see what are new family member will be!

Hugs
Liz

1ST FIRST BIRTHDAY

Where did the week go? It's  friday already and I hope that means there will be some time for me to go the Heirloom Production rubber stamp show this weekend  that will be in town, always fun to go and see all the products in one place .

Here is a special card I made for a very special princes for her first Birthday last week.I used the cricut and  the Once upon a Princes cartridge.

A day in the park

WOW where did the time go, life has been so busy  I haven't had time to post  . I've been working on things for others and can't post them yet .

Today I have a quick post of a card I made using my cricut , it came together by using things I already had on my desk from other projects. I call it a day in the park.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend
Hugs

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COF July Challenge

 

Today we have this beautiful Butterfly girl stamp that our Host Kelly surprised us with in the mail, along with the supplies to make it .

When I took everything out the Buttons they landed by this cute image and I said it looks like she's holding a lollipop I'm sorry but I couldn't get that out of my mind and so I went with it.

I propped her on the green ledge to look like she was sitting , I just love the saying on this paper and played with it by using a spellbinder heart and printing" = You" on it to give a friend, I colored the cute girl with copics and some glitter for her wings , I also used the purple ribbon from Kelly and then layered it on some colored card stock trying to use the colors in the pretty flower paper. On the inside I used a Fiskars heart punch and some left over green card stock for a little border .

Thanks Kelly for such a fun card , I had so much fun :)

Please be sure to stop by all my fiends on my side bar to see all the cute cards made using this very sweet girl.

Sail boating

Its Saturday and what better way then to spend it sailing .

 In Honor of the Port Huron to Mackinac Race

The Port Huron to Mackinac race is the longest consecutively held freshwater race. Originating outside of Port Huron, MI, this offshore race is conducted along two courses (Shore and Cove Island) and finishes at Mackinac Island, M

life is always moving

Happy Thursday

Life is always moving

Take time to sit and listen to the stillness around us.

I used Northwoods stamp , Hero Art and some love to make this card.

Take Flight to Freedom

I was blog hopping over at The Scrapping Cottage/CottageCutz June Blog Hop the other day and first let me tell you these ladies did a Wonderful job showing off all their Amazing Creations , I fell in love with so many ideals and as you will see couldn't wait to get started, Now I didn't have the dies they used so I had to come up with my own ( so sorry )

This  was taken from Lorie over at http://thethinkinspot.blogspot.com Lorie Thank you for such a great card I never thought of using Butterflys in this color but just love how yours turned out and wanted to see what I could come up with so here it is.
 I used Nested Butterflies Two , Butterflies Circles & Labels Four I used pop dots and popped my blue circle up I then popped up each of the Butterflies so there wings wouldn't lay flat added some ribbon and some bling and this Butterfly is readdy to fly . Thanks again Lorie for the insparation.

Hope your all having a Safe and Wonderful 4th of July!
Hugs to all our Service Men and Women !

Liberty for all

Happy Tueday

I needed a few cards to send out this month and wanted to stay with the Freedom theme ,I cut my circles using Spellbinders dies then cut anohter set using my scalloped circles from  spellbinders in each color then cut them in half stamped my Liberty Lady.

Quick , Simple and ready to go.

United We Stand

Happy Monday, What better way to start the week then to celebrate our Freedom,

Thank you to all the Men and Women who make our Freedom Possible and to all their Family's

For this card I used Baby shower cartridge from cricut for my hot air balloon I popped the red stripes up on pop dots to give it some depth, my banners are made using Pretty Pendents cricut cartridge , the little guy is from Stampdious along with his flag I popped the flag up with pop dots I stamped United We Stand and the fireworks also from this set and embossed them with silver  the stars are from sizzix , the tag is also from Baby shower cricut cartridge with a homemade star to cover each end.

Until I posted this card I did not see my fireworks were all in a row

Hugs

COF June Challenge

Hi Blog land friends,

Its the end of the month again and that means COF Challenge is here.

This month it was my turn and I wanted something that screamed "Fun in the Sun" .
I wanted to see:

A Sun, something Blue, at least one thing using Pop dots, and some Summer toys, bike, swimming toys, what ever is your ideal of Summer toys ,I wanted  to do something with the inside of my card , I just love how some of the ladies do theirs and this is something I wanted to work on myself so what better way. So I hope everyone enjoyed and had fun with this months Challenge. Make sure to hop on over to all of the COF and see their exciting creations. Listed on my side bar.

So here is the card I created:

This little Chanito was one that I put on my desk months ago to use and was my inspiration for my COF Challenge , I first used some left over paper I used for some bottle wraps I made for a party the first of the month, then stamped my cute Monkey , I masked his inner tube then stamped my layers of water using some foam stamps I had gotten Yikes 10 years ago that had never been opened from Making Memories, the sun and beach ball are also from this set, I cut some wavy paper to look like sand dunes and layered it with the top one on pop dots, for my sand castle and bird I used a Inkadinkado stamp and cut the bird off and stuck him behind the layer of sand I used pop dots for the castle ,  for the inside I used the same sky paper and cut a plane using the Beep Beep cricut cartridge and the banner from the Baby Shower cricut cartridge and this cute stamp Fun-n-Sun ( sorry no name on it , funny how we find things we never use) and stamped a wave across the bottom.

As I was making this card we got an invite for our great Nephew's 6 birthday party at the beach so you know where this card will be heading.

Make sure to check back at the end of July to see what are talented Linda of http://paynehollercards.blogspot.com/ has asked us to come up with .

Sending a Bouquet of Good Cheer

                                                              Happy Thursday ,
Today I have another very quick card , I wanted to send Grandma a Thank you for my Birthday wishes and since she loves to garden I wanted something bright and cheerful and what better way than with some flowers cut using my "walk in my garden" cartridge, this stamp from Stampabilities, a fancy die from spellbinders and some ribbon and this great watering can card. I just happened to run across over at

http://www.waltzingmousestamps.com/products/freebie-watering-can-card this morning, its just so darn cute so make sure to hop on over and check it out along with all her wonderful products.

 Going to be around 100 here in Michigan so stay cool my Friends.

Silver Anniversary

Today I have a very quick and simple Anniversary card to share ,
I used some shimmer  cardstock in sliver and white , Embossing folder and my cricut wild card cartridge for the bride and groom and some ribbon from my christmas stash.

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” ~ Charles Kingsley

Guy gets Girl Engagement card

Happy Sunday ! Hope your all having a Wonderful Day!

Today I have another Engagement card this is an 8x5 card  .

I love these stamp and use them for so many cards, One is  called Iguanna Love from Stampendous and the other is Birch Buddies from Stampendous.

I first stamped my trees one on each side of my paper then stamped in my Iguana then the little grass , hearts and the little owl looking down , I used my cricut pretty pennant cartridge for the top and bottom of my card , For the inside I stamped my trees, owl and grass again and this time put the Iguanna stamp with the happy couple kissing I then added a banner using again Pretty pennant cartridge and cut some letters saying Congrats.

Love is in the Air

See you later with an Anniversary card .

Hug's to all in blog land

Engagement card

Good Morning Blog land, such a wonderful day!!!

Today I want to share with you an Engagement card I made for someone very special.

I used Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background, spellbinder's for my cut out and used pop dots make it stand out, this cute owl stamp I've had for years from stampendous , some white ribbon from my stash ( if you hate when you cut your ribbon and it frays check out "fray check" from Joann's it is awesome and makes your ribbon so clean.) I then added a double hung heart from my stash with some wire . for the inside I embossed the same color as my background and wrote a wish for the Happy Couple.

Hope you all have a Wonderful Day filled with Sunshine , Smiles and Love

Hugs
Liz