All Neutrals at Sugar Creek



Welcome to Saturday and another sensational one at Sugar Creek
Hollow.  This week our challenge is all about NEUTRALS.  We want you to create
a vintage, primitive or shabby chic card or other paper-crafted project
in neutral colors, preferably off-white, Kraft or gray.  You may
use a bit of color in your vintage style image but nowhere else on your
creation.

This should be a very easy challenge because there are so many gorgeous
neutral papers and embellishments available online and in the craft
stores now and the best part is that so many of them are of a vintage
style.

I will admit that I struggled just a bit with this one as I didn't realize how much black and brown that I use....Love the grays and ended up using two of them from Stampin' Up and finding a lovely dp from K&Co's paper pack "Julianne", a piece of Kraft colored text paper that I then stamped with Tim Holtz distress ink in pumice stone using SU's set "Close as a Memory" floral. I am really happy with this look and will be using it again. One of my other faves is this vintage lace that I have from McMahon Five. I found a pack of these wonderful heart charms while away with my niece the other weekend and tied it with embroidery floss to the Spellbinders Fleur de Lis frame.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with....
We will give one random winner a digi of our choice and a badge to
display.  In addition the Design Team will choose a Card of the
Week and the creator will receive a badge to display and will be in the
running for a Guest Designer spot.

Our designers have created some wonderful inspiration for you and if you
would like to see the details, just click on their name and you will be
taken directly to their blog.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up going gray and gray, K& Co dp "Julianne"
Ink: TH distress inks pumice stone
Images: SU Close as a Memory
Other: Spellbinders Fleur de Lis and rectangles, jewelry finding heart, DMC floss

Birthday Card!

Hello my friends....hope you are all well! I am exhausted this evening as Rick and I are still cleaning house...who knew we were so dirty??? Still loving my new steam cleaner, the windows have never been this clean and what I love is that it is so fast! On to my card for today, I put this together for two challenges, the first being the 100th challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ where Doodle Pantry is the sponsor and they are asking for a creature on your card, be it an ant or an elephant or something in between. I used one of my Doodle Pantry images "Happy Bird"...this time using the pre colored image and sentiment from this set. I placed it on a piece of DP digital paper from Laurie's Baby Basics paper set. So fast and easy. I am also entering this at Stamps R Us , I participated in a blog hop for them a few days ago and wanted to enter this challenge for a birthday card. Be sure and check out both of these challenge blogs and hopefully you will want to play along.

I am off to do some commenting and if I haven't been to visit you yet, I will be sure and see you tomorrow. Have a wonderful evening and see you soon.

Card details
Paper: Rubber Cottage blue textured, SU green and white
Images: Doodle Pantry
Other: Embossing folders- Cuttlebug dots and divine swirls, GinaK button and dmc embroidery floss

Sketch 113 at Sweet Sketch Wednesday!

It's a beautiful Wednesday morning here in Galax, VA and I welcome you to a great time at Sweet Sketch Wednesday where we are playing with sketch 113 designed by our leader Arlana....

Each and every week, you will be inspired by Arlana's lovely sketches and the great designs by my design team sisters. I hope you will stop by the blog for some beautiful eye candy.

This week we are sponsored by Lori Designs who is giving a $10 gift certificate to the grand prize winner, but remember not only do you need to link your card, but you must leave a comment at SSW.

For my card today, I used Lori's image cowboy McCoy along with some retired "Outlaw" papers by Stampin' Up. This card was so much fun and came together really fast. Hope you will have time to play along with us this week, I will be looking for your name at SSW.

Card Details:

Paper: Rubber Cottage, SU "Outlaw", chocolate brown

Ink: Copics, Tim Holtz distress ink Antique Linen

Other: Making Memories faux leather and metal sentiment, SU twill ribbon and linen thread, Spellbinders oval

Playing with new stamps





Many of you may already be aware of the store and challenge blog Paper and Such but just in case you don't I will give you a direct link to the store. Last month they came out with their very first set of acrylic stamps and after playing along in their blog hop, I was the lucky winner of all 4 new sets. Be sure and go by the store and check these out. Julie Smith, the owner and I used to be on a design team together at There's Magic in the Air and I was so happy for her when she started this new venture. You will find lots of great items at Paper and Such, so be sure and stop in for a visit.

The challenge this week is a sketch and I wanted to use the new set "Waterlily", so I turned the sketch on it's side so that I could use the beautiful sentiment as my focal image. This set has a lovely waterlily image along with these two beautiful sentiments, one of which I used inside of my card.

I hope you enjoy this, sorry to be so quiet lately, Rick and I are doing some spring cleaning in August. I have 3 rooms and a bath down so far. I have a new toy that I am super crazy about. It is a floor steamer that has a removable handheld steamer to get things above the floor. Rick has told the cats to run or they'll be next, lol. He isn't far off, I have tried it on just about everything that I can. Steam cleaned the bath, floors, windows (unbelievable job on these, never could get them clean without streaking), mattress, pillows, glass topped stove and microwave. I only got this yesterday and it is my favorite cleaning tool. Since it is too hot to be outside, thought we would take advantage of the A/C. Rick is so much help, he is wielding the vacuum and doing a fabulous job! Well, enough of Mr. and Mrs. Clean, hope you guys are having a fantastic week and will see you in the morning for my Sweet Sketch Wednesday post.

Happy Day all!

Card Details:

Paper SU old olive, certainly celery

Ink: Stampin' Up old olive

Other: Cuttlebug embossing folder, SU mellow moss grosgrain ribbon, Queen & Co pearls, Spellbinders oval die



Make Your Own....

Design paper that is and Welcome to another Sensational Saturday. Our challenge to you this week
at Sugar Creek Hollow is to MAKE YOUR
OWN DESIGNER PAPER. We want you to use your stamps or
digital stamps and create your own background paper. Then we want you
to turn that into a vintage, shabby chic or primitive card or other
paper crafted project. We are a vintage challenge blog so please
ensure that your images and embellishments are of a vintage style and
that you follow the challenge theme.

Inkadinkado came to the rescue this week when I used two of the new sets that I found on clearance for $2.00 a piece, score! My background is from one of these and the dress, sentiment and shoe from another. I used some inks by Martha Stewart to stamp and distress with as well as dye my white lace ribbon. I really like how this turned out. I think the Spellbinders die Fleur De Lis is going to be a new fave.

This week a random winner will receive a digi or our choice and a
winner's badge to display.  The Design Team will choose one
project as Card of the Week and that creator will also receive a badge
to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Our designers have created some lovely inspiration and if you want to
check out the details, just click on their names and you will be taken
directly to their blogs.

Here's hoping you will take up the challenge and play along with us this week, I'll be looking for you!

Sorry to be late posting.....blogger did post my scheduled post!!

Just for the fun of it!!

Just for the fun of it, or at least that is what these two cards turned out to be....I made these sometime during the first of the week and then promptly didn't get them posted soon enough for the challenges, life has just not cooperated this week for me. One of our outside cats, Satin, was missing Monday morning which is very unusual for her, and Rick found her under our deck in a large insulated box he made for our outside babies. She was unable to stand or walk and her eyes were jumping around, we took her to the vet and she was diagnosed with vestibular syndrome, which is very close to vertigo in a human. Sent home with meds and a caution to keep her up, due to her being unable to defend herself in this condition, we started in on our "cat house" which is really a child's play house that Rick bought a few years ago from a gentleman whose grand kids had out grown it and turned it into a house for our kitties, complete with screened windows, shelves to look outside, cat beds, and a front porch with flowers and a cat door to come and go....so we closed the cat door so she couldn't come and go and put a fan via extension cord (no there is no electricity at the cat house) to help keep her cooler in this heat.

She was so pitiful, not able to move about without falling and after a day and a half of being unable to keep food or water in her we took her back yesterday and they are force feeding her and giving her fluids. She seems to be holding her own today and the vet says that this can go away as quickly as it came, praying it will. So between worrying about her and the daily job of MIL care, I just simply forgot to put these on, so hoping you will like them and oh well, two more cards in my stash.

This first one is done with a freebie given by Bugaboo stamps at CDAC during the last challenge series.  I bought some new Christmas papers by Memory Box when we at the stamping expo a few weeks back and the new border punch is one that I found on clearance. Do you like the HO's, these are Christmas confetti that I bought last year at Walmart.

My other card was suppose to be for the challenge at CAS-ual Fridays where they were using rubons or stickers.

I found these circle cards and envelopes in the dollar bin at Michael's and these rubons I have had for a while. The sentiment is from K&Co and the flowers are Basic Gray. I decided to dress up the envelope as well. I bought some Spellbinders on Scrapace the other day and one of the sets was "bugs" , the dragonfly is cut and embossed using a piece of scrap dp that I am not sure of the designer with added Studio G gems.

Well, off to fix lunch, I am going and try and post another card later and hopefully this one will be on time. Take care and stay cool or warm, depending on where you are in our wonderful world.



Sweet Sketch Wednesday!!

I fell in love with this sweet image the moment that I saw it at A Day For Daises and just knew it was the one for this week's great sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday .
Tammy at ADFD is giving away a $12 gift certificate to her wonderful store to our Grand Prize winner this week!

Here is Arlana's wonderful sketch for this week......




For my card this week I used some new papers from My Mind's Eye "Lost and Found" along with my new Martha Stewart border punch....loving both of my new goodies. I loved these soft pinks and grays together and I hope you do too! Please stop by SSW and check out what the ladies have been up to as well and here's hoping you'll find time to play along with us this week. Here's a peek at the inside of this card, I didn't use a sentiment since I am not quite sure who I will give this to.

Wishing you all a wonderful week.....

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up going gray, MME Lost & Found, Recollections Light Gray, Basic Gray Basics Manilla
Ink: Prismacolor pencils and oms, copics
Other: Martha Stewart border punch, D.Tree ribbon, unknown chipboard, Spellbinders ovals and scalloped ovals, Offray gems

It's a Sensational Saturday and you are Invited!

I am hoping that blogger is kind and this is posting as scheduled, as you read this I am away for an overnight girl's trip with my only niece. It is the only time she has this summer, in between college classes, raising her family, work and church obligations to play and we are taking advantage of the couple of days she has off.  We are away  at Boone, NC in the midst of the Appalachian Mountains near the Blue Ridge Parkway....shopping, antiquing and of course eating! There are lots of sweet shops in this area, can't wait to tell you all about our trip.
For the important stuff now, at Sugar Creek Hollow we are challenging you to make a tag or use a tag on your card....since I couldn't decide which I wanted to do and the themes....I did both. For my card I tried to create a French Country look, I used a new embossing folder which is one of a set of 4 in the Ornate frames set by Sizzix which I sponged to highlight the detail. My stamps are from Stampin' up's set Vintage Vogue. I love these flowers from the set. I even finished off my envelope with the flourish stamp.

Then I created this Christmas tag. I layered a tag and doilie that I received as a gift in some blog candy along with a piece of freebie digital music paper from "Far Far Hill" that I cut with my Spellbinders tag die and K&Co chipboard. The vintage skaters image from SU's set Winter Post is colored with Tim Holtz distress inks. My ribbon and linen thread are left over scraps. Hope you've enjoyed seeing my indecision and will hop on over to see what the rest of the team has cooked up at SCH and play along this week. Have a wonderful and happy weekend.

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up so saffron, unk blue
Ink: SU so saffron, night of navy
Stamps: SU vintage vogue
Other: Spellbinders labels 18, studio18 rhinestones, sizzix ornate frames embossing folder

Tag Details:
Manilla tag and doilie- gift,
Images: Musical digi paper Far Far Hill freebie, Gina K designs "Blessed is the Season" , SU Winter Post
Other: SU tag punch, K& Co chipboard,
INks: Tim Holtz distress inks, scrap ribbon

Welcome to Sweet Sketch Wednesday ....

Welcome to another Wednesday at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and one fabulous sketch for you to play with...

and a great sponsor this week with Sally Ann and her gorgeous designs from

Digi Stamp Boutique who is giving away to our Grand Prize winner 6 of her stamps.

For my card this week, I used Stampin' Up cherry cobbler card stock along with some retired design paper by them also. My image is the lovely Ava with Flowers, and I love it. I colored her using prismas and oms and then added glitter to the flowers.  I created the flowers using my new Spellbinders Carnation Collection, punching my centers with a 1/4 inch punch. The ribbon is also retired from SU. I am really happy with how this turned out and  this is one of my favorite sentiments, I have lots of friends that I could send this to.

Be sure and check out the gorgeous eye candy from the rest of the team this week and you can see a little about the area of Virginia that I am from, as it was my turn to do the post for SSW this week.
Happy day everyone!!

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up cherry cobbler, dp Berry Bliss
Ink: Prismas, oms, stardust pen
Other: Spellbinders rectangle and carnation collection dies, Clear Dollar Stamps designer die, 1/4 inch circle punch,SU ribbon, Studio G rain dots, Martha Stewart gliiter,
Images: Digi Stamp Boutique Ava and Flowers, sentiment and flower-SU Small Sayings and Sweet Summer

Sugar Creek Hollow "Wing Things"

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.
This week we want to see cards with WING THINGS.  Your vintage, shabby chic or
primitive card could feature fairies, angels, birds, butterflies or
other insects.

We will be choosing one random winner who will receive a digi of our
choice and a badge to display on her blog.  The Design Team will
also choose a Card of the Week.  The creator of that card will
receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest
Designer spot.

Our designers have created inspiration for you with a variety of things
with wings on them.  To get the details, click on their name and
you will be taken directly to their blog.

This week we are pleased to introduce you to CHRIS VENERUSO who was chosen as the Guest Designer
from the June Cards of the Week.

So be sure and stop by Sugar Creek Hollow and check out all of the goodness.
For my card, I started with a base of Stampin' Up's soft sky and layered papers and ephemera from the Pink Paislee collection "butterfly garden". I also used another of my punches that I found while shopping the other week, it is Martha Stewart's iron gate. I am crossing my fingers that the scheduler works for blogger and this posts as I am planning to be an hour away at the stamping expo in NC with some of my online friends shopping for more goodies. I have looked forward to this shopping trip and lunch for a whole year and am so excited. Hopefully we'll have some pictures to post later as well. Take care and I will see ya soon.

Card Details;
Paper ; SU soft sky, Pink Paislee Butterfly garden, Recollections yellow
Other: Doily gift, punch Martha Stewart irongate, Martha Stewart seam binding, Spellbinders Labels 4, Embossing folder "Frills" Cuttlebug,
Images: Stampin' Up "Elements of style" sentiment and hummingbird.
Ink: So Saffron SU

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