TTCRD -- Team B

I hope everyone has survived Black Friday and Cyber Monday!

Things just start rolling past so quickly this time of year.  Don't they?

Let's all try to take a deep breath every now and then to remember what is truly important.  Things that could never be purchased at any sale.

Working on my card for the new challenge at

Through the Craft Room Door

reminded me of that!

As always, our challenge is Anything Goes.

This week it is Team B who will be providing some inspiration pieces.

Here is my card:

Because the image and sentiment felt so powerful
to me, I didn't add any embellishments.
They just seemed unnecessary.

This incredible image is called The King.
You can find this along with Krista's
other artwork at Saturated Canary.
I paired it with a sentiment from Inkadinkado's
O Holy Night stamp set.

All layers were distressed.
The upper right corner of the wood grain
pattern paper was curled around
a bamboo skewer to add just a tiny bit
of dimension to my card.

Items used to make this card were:

Cardstock:  Bazzill Basics

DSP:  BasicGrey Hey Boy

Coloring Medium:  ProMarkers

Inks:  StazOn Black, Tim Holtz Vintage Photo

Tools:  Tonic Studios Paper Distresser, Perfect Layers Rulers,

Swingline Guillotine Paper Trimmer, Scotch ATG

Thank you so much for taking time to check out my card today.

I hope you have a chance to join us at

Through the Craft Room Door.

All of us on the Design Team love looking at your new creations!

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Saturated Canary -- Distress

Crafting Musketeers -- Layer it up

Digi Sketch Challenge -- Christmas theme
A Little Bit Crafty -- Christmas Cheer

Paper piecing and Saturated Canary

This week's challenge at Saturated Canary is to do some paper piecing.  I'd never done any before so I thought this would be a good excuse to give it a go.   I love Krista's images so much and I love trying my hand at any new (to me) technique I find so it was a match made in

challenge heaven.

It was really easy and I think it makes a nice impact.  You can see in the photo below that I've pieced sweet little Whispy Fairie's wings, skirt overlay, and leggings.  I used the same DSP for some of the matting on my card to help make everything very cohesive.

 I colored her with my ProMarkers and continue to fall deeper in love with coloring digis.  It's been almost 2 months since I started and every time I finish an image I feel like a little girl waiting for someone to give me my gold star for coloring inside the lines.

Here are a couple more pictures of my card:

The items used on this card are:

DSP: K&Company 

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink

Pink rose: Handmade using Cricut Flower Shoppe

Mulberry paper flowers: Ebay

Heart charm: Michaels Dollar Bin

Bling swirls: Recollections

Tiny ball fringe: Joann (How cute is that?)

Seam binding: Etsy

Large pearl brads and beads for stick pin: my stash

Border punch: Martha Stewart

Sentiment: Papertrey Ink

Cheesecloth: My kitchen

The frame for the sentiment was stamped and cut using my brand new Cricut Posh Frames set.  I just got it a couple of days ago.  After I have a chance to play with it some more, I'll right a little review to let you know what I think of it.

Here is one final shot of my card:

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Saturated Canary -- Paper piecing
Joanna Sheen -- So sweet
One Stitch at a Time -- #184 Use a digi
Robyn's Fetish Challenge -- #180 Use a digi
The Squirrel and the Fox -- Things with wings

As always, I appreciate your visit today and would love it if you could leave me a quick comment!

Ugly Christmas sweaters and Saturated Canary

Saturated Canary has quickly become one of my favorite digital stamp companies.  Their images are so fun and sweet!  I only have a couple of their digis so far but I've had a blast using both of them.  You can see my first card using "Boobie Love" in this post.

I knew the card I was going do for this post was going to be the one called "[Ugly] Christmas Sweater."  The sweet little girl and one of the fabulous sentiments that's included just crack me up.

Here's a quick look:

The look on her face, the way her toes are pointed inward, and her little shrugged shoulders make for a complete look of embarrassment.   Don't you agree?  The artist for Saturated Canary is Krista Smith.  She is a lovely lady and I'm both inspired by and envious of her talent.  Mostly, though, I'm just thankful that she's decided to make her artwork available.

You know I can't possibly post an entry in this blog without rambling on including some sort of story.  Here's the one for this card:

The entire time I was coloring the image, I was remembering a time when hubby and our 2 younger boys were going to what we all thought was a costume party at one of my cousins' houses.  (I had to work that evening and couldn't attend.)  Well, as you may have guessed, it was not a costume party just a good old fashioned bonfire.  The 2 boys were just wearing black capes over regular street clothes so they were able to ditch the costumes easily.  Hubby, however, was in a full Superman suit.  Not Clark Kent....Superman!  Being the great sport he is, he just walked around the corner and owned it!  Everything was going just fine until the son of another of my cousins' looked at him and said, "You know Spider-Man is better."  That little boy's name is Kaleb and he was probably about 5 or 6 at the time.  Cuter than you can imagine and way too smart for his parents' own good!  (Kaleb's no longer a little boy but instead a handsome young man....wonder if he still favors Spider-Man?)

So, now onto the actual details of the card.  I'll just list the items used and then include a few more pics.

*Coloring: ProMarkers

*Papers: Bazzill, Recollections and DCWV

*Lace:  Joann

*Charm: Joann jewelry dept.  Sorry don't have the maker's name.

*Cherub:  My Mom's stash (Uses them on her incredible stained glass creations)

*Cricut cartridges used: Elegant Edges, Flower Shoppe, and Home Decor

*Beads: Dollar Tree and my stash

*Ribbon: my stash

*Cheese cloth: from my kitchen.  I did dye it with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo for that great color.

If you have any questions about any of the finer details, please feel free to either email me or leave it in the comment section.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Saturated Canary -- Shabby Chic
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long -- Cute and cuddly
Digitally Sweet Challenges -- Anything goes #53
Creative Knockouts -- Recipe Ineligible for prize due to submitting to more than 8 challenges.  Oops...my mistake.  Sorry to Creative Knockouts for not reading your rules more closely.
ABC Christmas Challenge -- Recipe: 3 papers, 2 ribbons, 1 image
Addicted to Stamps and More -- Make your mark
I Love ProMarkers -- 3 different shapes
Paper Pretties -- Distress
The Sisterhood of Crafters -- Devine digis
Through the Craft Room Door -- Anything goes

Saturated Canary's "Boobie Love" digi with thoughts of Michele

This morning I started searching around for digis to use as practice with my new ProMarkers.  More specifically, I was looking for free digis.  My Mother very successfully raised a cheap frugal daughter.  There are loads of free images out there and I came across several that are real keepers.  A later post will be about the different sites that offer several freebies so be sure to check back for that.

As I was looking, I found a phenomenal one for a PENNY.
Yes, one red cent!
It's from Saturated Canary and is called "Boobie Love."
A kinda' racy name for a super cute image that's, of course, meant for the support of breast cancer victims and survivors.  I had to have it.  No two ways about it.  (I also paid for one of their other images....it was so hard not to buy more.  Their site is chock full of yummy images!)

While I was working on this card today, my mind kept drifting to thoughts of a gal my hubby and I graduated high school with.  Her name is Michele, her spirit is indomitable, she is breathtakingly beautiful, and she is currently battling breast cancer.  She wasn't able to make our 30th reunion a couple of weeks ago and was sadly missed.  I look forward to seeing her at our 35th...if not sooner.

Before I get myself worked up too much, here's my card.
For Michele.
Sparkle on, Chica.

This card has been used as my entry for a Design Team call at a brand-spanking new challenge blog.  I'm so excited for the activity to begin at Dreamtime Designs.  An opportunity to be on a design team is exciting enough to me...get to play with all sorts of new digis, techniques, themes, etc....sign me up!  But to be able to be the part of an initial DT is really intriguing.  To get to say that "I knew them when" would be really awesome.  Wish me luck.
(I feel like I'm jumping the gun a bit given the fact I've only been blogging for literally 4 weeks.  But then again, I do like to live by the attitude of "Sure.  Why not?")

In addition to the above mentioned DT call, this card can be found in the following challenges:

Sentimental Sundays -- Ombre hair
Color Me Creative -- Anything goes
Link Up for Pink -- Challenge #16
2 Sisters Challenge Blog -- Square cards
Crafty Sentiments -- Colorful
Pile It On -- Designer paper
Love To Scrap -- Bingo: flowers, die cuts and bling
Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog -- Pretty in Pink
Loves Rubberstamps Challenges -- Round or square cards
Crafting By Designs -- Mixed media




If you have any questions about any of the materials used, please feel free to email me!  I appreciate your visit and would love to read your comments.  So  leave some love if you have the time!