Ocean Blue and Sand

Since it is blazing hot here and I am thinking of blue water to soak my hot feet in...I decided to make a card that matched my thoughts. This is for this week's sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday .

I love this quote and the cool shades of blues with the creams makes me think of time by the ocean. Hope you enjoy and can stop by to check out this awesome site. Wishing you all a great day. Now off to see if I can visit a few of you....Internet was down most of yesterday and I am afraid that I am behind in seeing all of your creations.

Card Details:
Paper: Bazzill textured, Unknown creams
Ink: Versafine vintage sepia
Images: Gina K Designs "Gifts of the Sea"
Other: Offray ribbon

Seaside Escape

Doesn't a seaside escape sound like a great idea? It does to me, and that is just what I am showing you today....this is one of Nina's newer images at Paper Cupcakes and for the challenge today at There's Magic in the Air  Belinda Lewis has asked the team to create a masculine card. I hope you can join us this week, as Father's Day is just around the corner and I am sure you also need some of those male cards for birthdays and such in your stash.

My card is super simple....another easel card which is one of my very fav folds with my image colored using Stampin' Up markers and Versafine onyx black. I added some cattails and a sentiment from a set by Gina K Designs.

Hope you can stop by and see what the rest of the girls have posted for today and that you see something that inspires you.

Here's wishing a great start to your week......

Happy Saturday morning and Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week our challenge is all about embellishments - HAND MADE PAPER FLOWERS, VINTAGE LACE & BLING.


We want you to use all of these embellishments on your card or other paper-crafted creation. If you don't have truly vintage lace, just use something that has the appearance of being old. Don't forget that our challenges are for your vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired projects.  So rummage through your craft stash and challenge yourself to try your hand at one of these styles using the theme for this week.  We can't wait for you to show us what you come up with.

We will be choosing a random winner, who will receive a winner's badge to display and a digi of our choice. The Design Team will also select a Card of the Week and the creator of that card will receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

For my card this week, I used a piece of dp given as a freebie at Create with TLC and an image from Doodle Pantry . My french postcard is a freebie find online. I fell in love with this image and loved using some offray ruffled ribbon as well as some lace. I just love layering all of these elements. My mistake and I cannot fix it now is that my flower is mulberry paper but not handmade, sorry for the mix up on the challenge requirements....but do as they say not as I do, lol. 

As they always do, our Design Team has created some gorgeous cards for your inspiration. So check out the challenge blog and if you want to get the details, just click on their name and you will be taken right to their blog.
Be sure and take the time in your busy schedules to play along with us this week....I will look forward to seeing your beautiful creations.
Have a happy, safe weekend!

Card Details:
Paper: Gina K Designs tan leather, Stampin' Up ivory, TLC dp
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks and SU markers
Images: Doodle Pantry fancy shoe and sentiment, SU elements of style and Well Scripted, French postcard
Other: Spellbinders Labels 4, GKD pearls, McMahon Five lace, Offray ribbon, Recollections mulberry flower


ETA; Sorry guys....out of town today and just got back and my post didn't go live....didn't mean to be late!!!


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Shopping my Stash along with some Midnight Madness

Hey there....haven't been able to visit at your blogs for a couple of days, but hope to catch up after while. Hope you are all enjoying the start of June, can you believe we are this far into the year already?

This card for today is for two challenges....the first is Priscilla's Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge, where you can use either the CAS or the more embellished sketch....you will find it here .

Number two is a site that I found through my good friend Carol and this is only their third challenge. Shopping Our Stash is doing oldies but goodies this week and we are to use one of our oldest rubber  or digital stamps. I knew exactly what to use, as this set Feathered Hope is the very first set that I purchased when I first thought about stamping. I had looked at it for quite a while and never purchased anything and then Cindy, my Stampin' Up demo called and said it was retiring, and I thought... now or never.

I knew just what I wanted to do when I saw this sketch. I hate struggling with a sketch challenge and love looking at one and seeing what I want to create. I took a branch from SU's set "Just Vine" and added the leaf pattern from Feathered Hope and then cut around some of those. My coloring is done with Tim Holtz distress inks and Versafine vintage sepia and SU certainly celery. My  dp is some retired certainly celery designer prints.

The inside is also made with a sentiment and nest from the same set. Thanks for taking a look and hope you can stop by both of these blogs and play along this week. I think I've gotten mine done in time to give you time as well...lol, instead of just getting in under the wire. Have a great evening, now what to do for dinner????

Card details:
Paper: SU Certainly celery, Certainly celery dp, Unk gold in stash
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks, su certainly celery, versafine vintage sepia, su lovely lilac, spica glitter pen
other: Heidi Grace chipboard, flowers from friend, gems and brads-Making Memories, Swiss Dot embossing folder, Martha Stewart leaf punch
Images: Stampin' Up Feathered Hope and Just Vine

New Challenge Blog

It's the middle of the week and hope all is going well for you, I wanted to share a new challenge blog that is run by my fellow DT member at Paper Cupcakes, Julie Smith. It is called Paper and Such . I hope you will stop by and give her some support.
This week Julie is having a sketch challenge:

What a fun CAS sketch to get your creativity started. I used an image that was from one of my favorites companies when I first starting using digital and blogging. It was called Isabella's Sketchbook and is no longer up and running. I was so sad when she stopped having her blog and challenges. This is called "Saturday in the Garden". I created a ribbon flower  and used my Stampin' Up markers to color.

Be sure and stop by and see what the blog has to offer and play along if you have time, I am sure Julie would love to see you!!

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin; Up really rust and so saffron
Ink: Versafine vintage sepia, SU markers
Other: SU embossing folder, GinaK Designs ribbon and button
Images: Isabella's Saturday in the Garden, SU Garden Pleasures

My Sweet Sketch Wednesday and it's Christmas

It's time for me to post a card for one of my new favorite challenge sites.... Sweet Sketch Wednesday but I hope you will not follow my lead and seem to post so late. This is the second week in a row that I haven't gotten my card posted until Tuesday, but promise to try and do better next time. They have some of the most wonderful sketches which make me stretch in my creativity and I am loving playing with all of them. I decided to create another Christmas card,lol wouldn't it be funny if I have enough made ahead and then I will have to make Spring cards in December. I really don't see that happening.
The thing that I love about SSW is that you can use any style, stamps or creative urge you have....just follow the sketch.

I had bought this poinsettia stamp at the stamp show last summer in North Carolina and stamped it twice, once on ivory and then on dp, cutting both images out by hand. The bottom layer I colored with various mediums trying to get a matching red. The top layer I then slightly off set and used foam dots to lift it above. The papers are jovial by Basic Gray and I love the rustic look of these. My sentiments are from Stampin' Up's set Come to Bethlehem and I stamped part of the sentiment on a die cut for the front, adding the remainder on the inside along with Merry Christmas. Hope you like my early holiday card and will check out this wonderful site. A great place to pick up sketches for your stash.

Oh, almost forgot, would like to thank SSW for choosing my card last week as grand prize winner. I do appreciate it so much.

Card Details:
Paper: GinaK Designs ivory, smokey slate, dp Basic Gray jovial
Ink: Versafine onyx black, SU markers, TH distress inks
Images: Sarasota Stamps poinsettia, SU Come to Bethlehem
Other: GKD ribbon, Clear Dollar Stamps designer dies

Midnight Madness Sketch 105

Hey guys, back for post number two today...didn't want to miss the challenge at Priscilla's Midnight Madness where they are having sketch number 105.

And as always the choice is yours, which sketch you use or you can do one of each. It seems that I am using these neutrals a lot lately , but just can't seem to get away from them. Hope you don't mind too much. I am trying to get another card ready to post this evening and I promise that it has more color.

I love this set by Flourishes, called Lilac and although I think it is beautiful when using colors, I loved it in Versafine's Vintage Sepia.

My choice of Basic Gray's cappella paper pad and the brown satin ribbon was simple and quick to do. Hope you can play along this week.....they have awesome prizes and you wouldn't want to miss that.

Well, off to fix some lunch and play some more...hope to see you later on today!

Card Details:
Paper: Gina K Designs Kraft, Basic Gray cappella
Ink: Versafine vintage sepia, Distress ink walnut stain
Images: Flourishes Lilac set
Other: Queen & Co pearls, flowers gift from Carol, Martha Stewart punch, scrap ribbon

Easel Time!!!

As many of you know that follow my blog....I love easel cards and that is what Suzi Mckenzie has challenged us to create this week for Paper Cupcakes at our challenge blog There's Magic in the Air.

I used Nina's image "Cart with Flowers" and a sentiment from her set "Thankful Quotes".

I hope you will come play with us this week, I would love to see what you create....remember you don't have to use a PCC image, but if you do your name will be entered for the prize, twice.

Now, please go to the blog and check out what the rest of the team has created this week. Have a wonderful Monday, Happy Memorial Day and thanks again to all those that have and do serve our country.

Card Details:
Paper: GinaK Designs Sweet Corn and Rocket Red
Image: PCC
Ink: SU markers
Other: SU flower punch and unk sun punch, Spellbinders Labels 18, SU so saffron ribbon

Stock the Pantry Challenge at Doodle Pantry

I hope this finds you all having a wonderful weekend....the weather is gorgeous here with the heat to pick up today and tomorrow. I so enjoyed spending time with my family yesterday and seeing my cousin and his wife from Indiana that I hadn't seen in several years. They are very special to me and I loved catching up some with them.

My card is for Doodle Pantry's stock the pantry challenge which ends tomorrow, so if you have a DP image or want to pick up one of Laurie's freebies (she has several and some cuties) you still have time to enter. This is using a set that I chose a while back when I was picked for their top notch artist award called " Holy land Flowers 3". I love this set and want to get all of the others as well. I think this weekend will be when I do that as Laurie is having a 35% off sale on all digis, papers and templates. So be sure and check this out!

My card is very simple...just colored the almond flowers , after pulling some images online as I was sure what color they were suppose to be, with Stampin' Up markers. The dp is by Basic Gray "Capella" and the ribbon is some retired SU with a flower from my good friend Carol.

Thanks for stopping by, now off to marinate some steaks for later today!! Enjoy your day!

Taking Shape at Sugar Creek Hollow

Happy Memorial Day and a heartfelt thank you to all of those that have given so much in service to our great county of the United States of America!!

I hope you all have wonderful plans for this holiday weekend. We have had one cookout already and I am meeting my family on my Dad's side today for lunch. Out of a family of 9 I only have 3 uncles remaining, I am so looking forward to seeing everyone, and with that let me say.....

Welcome to Sugar Creek Hollow and another Sensational Saturday.  This week we are challenging you to make SHAPED CARDS.  Now everyone will tell you a square or a rectangle is a shape and they are correct but we want you to stretch your creativity and to try making cards in lots of other shapes.  We want to remind you that we are a vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired challenge blog so lets see your shaped cards in one of those styles.  And one other reminder - our challenges go live on Saturday morning at 8:00 am EST so please do not link to a post prior to that day and time.

This week we have a wonderful sponsor, "priscillastyles" Store.  The random winner will receive $10 worth of digis of their choice from "priscillastyles" Store and a Sugar Creek Hollow winner's badge to display on her blog.

The Design Team will also choose a Card of the Week and that creator will receive a badge to display on her blog and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

The Design Team has created some wonderful cards for your inspiration using images from "priscillastyles" Store. I have used the wash basin and pitcher, which can be found in the store here.

For my card today, I used a 6" paper doilie and then layered digital paper, lace and ribbon along with Priscilla's lovely image. I wanted you to see the inside of my card so that you wouldn't think that I had just decorated a doilie, lol.  Hope you will stop by the SCH blog and see what the other girls have for you this week, such pretty and creative eye candy for you!!

Card Details:
Paper: Wilton doilie, SU white, TLC dp digital
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks- Antique Linen and Tea Dye, SU markers
Other: Spellbinders- circles and scalloped ovals, SU beachfront ribbon, McMahon Five lace, Studio18 rhinestones, Martha Stewart punch, recollections button
Images: Priscillastyles wash bason and pitcher, SU A word for you



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