Birthday Wishes at Sugar Creek Hollow



Hello everyone, I hope your Saturday is starting out wonderfully and I am so happy you could stop by here to see what the gang at Sugar Creek Hollow is up to. If you are not familiar with SCH, we are a vintage, shabby chic and primitive challenge blog that posts a challenge each Saturday morning. I hope you will join us in creating a card in one of these styles using this week's theme of Birthday Cards. We are sponsored this week by Phindy's Place where our winner will have their choice of one digital image.

I used Stampin' Up cherry cobbler card stock with design papers from Webster's Pages, I cut one of the jars from this and attached it to my sentiment banner. I love how this turned out, but then I love yellows and reds together. Hope you will find time to create a card for us this week since we all can use another birthday card for our stash.

On a personal note, I am having computer hard drive problems and as I am typing I have it in for repairs. I forgot how slow my old computer was, lol, but at least I have something to post my card on. Wish me luck as I am a little lost without all of my fall backs on my computer. I just hope and pray that I haven't lost too much.


Edit: I had a virus that showed my hard drive as failed but it was not, Thank you Lord! They just had to do a virus removal, run some updates and good as new. I was very lucky to find a place that they could work on it so quickly. I am blessed in so many ways!

Happy Day my friends!

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up cherry cobbler, Webster's Pages Petite Papers Spring Market, PTI white
Ink: Prismas and Oms
Other: Spellbinders Labels one, SU punch, Martha Stewart seam binding, SU cherry cobbler twine
Sentiment- A Word for You Stampin' Up

Snow Drifts and a Tea Bird......

Happy Thursday, hope you are doing well out there.... I have a card today that I am entering for the first time, in the Make it Monday challenge at Papertrey Ink. This week, you will see a video by Dawn McVey showing how to make a background using die cut borders. The only border die that I own by PTI is the "In the Meadow" set which you can find on this page here . It is two different size snow drifts. I cut two of each of the larger one in the teal and brown and then one of each color in the smaller size, by taking a small bit of the straight edge on the teal off, I was able to layer these. I used Tim Holtz frames and florals embossing folder to give a little texture to the pieces, then layering all three of these on a piece of white card stock. My cute little image is "Tea Bird" by Phindy's Digital Stamps and can be found here . Phindy's Blog challenge #87 this week is a color quartet....

My card base and the twill ribbon are Stampin' Up certainly celery which along with chocolate chip and bermuda bay and a couple of flesh copics were used to color my image. The button is also one of Papertrey Ink contributions. I love the dies at PTI and if you have never tried these, please do....you will love them. I have a few of the other style dies that they sale and they all cut like butter... I am going shopping at the new release on the 15th and hope to have more to show you soon. Hope you will stop by both of these and check out the great things happening at their sites.

Now to a more personal note,
For those of you that read my blog you will remember that I started a gratitude journal which I showed you in my post last Saturday for Sugar Creek Hollow and for today I am thankful for the good news we received at the hospital today. Rick went in to have the light run down his esophagus to check for problems, he has been have a lot of heartburn and acid reflux, they did find a high heital hernia, but the doc seems to think that it can be controlled with his medication and then just keep an eye out for future problems, His blood work came back very good. Hope to be by soon to see you...thanks for stopping by here.

Playing at Phindy's at Sugar Creek Hollow

Welcome to Sugar Creek Hollow and another Sensational Saturday.  This week our challenge for you is to create a vintage, shabby chic or primitive card using the technique of PAPER PIERCING.  You don't need any special tools to prick holes in your paper because a sewing needle will do the trick.  If you want to use a pattern rather than just pricking holes in a line or circle and don't have any, there are quite a number of freebies out there (just Google "Free Paper Piercing Templates").  There are also lots of tutorials available.



This week we have a wonderful sponsor, PHINDY'S PLACE, who will provide our random winner with a $10 gift certificate to her store.  The random winner will also receive a badge to display on her blog.

Each member of the Design Team has used an image from Phindy's Place on the card that she has created for your inspiration. If you want to see the details of the cards, just click on the designer's name and you will be taken to her blog.

For my card, I have used Phindy's "Tea Bird", isn't she just the cutest???  I just loved the peaches, pinks and rose colors in this paper by Pink Paislee and had to use it. My coloring was done with my few copics and the paper piercing with my templates from Gina K Designs and Stampin' Up. This is one of my favorite techniques, I hope it is one of yours and if you've never tried it before, join our challenge this week. We will be looking for you.

I am also going to enter my card at Phindy's where their challenge 63 is to use buttons this week.
Hope you are off to a wonderful start on your weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Card Details:
Paper: GinaK white, dp Pink Paislee
Ink: Copics
Other: Buttons GinaK, Stampin' Up template, GinaK template, flowers-gift