A End of a Journey

This is a bittersweet post for me today as it is my last post as part of the design team for Paper Cupcakes and the wonderful Nina May. I owe her so much, as at the time she selected me to join her and the team I had only been posting on my blog for a short time. I appreciate her confidence and trust in me and I want to personally thank her for the great guidance and the friendship she has shown me this last year. I look forward to continuing on my journey with you my friends and to many wonderful and creative things in all of our futures. I know that Nina knows that I wish her and Paper Cupcakes only the best in the world and will always be here if she needs me.

Now to my card: Ildiko has challenged us to create something with a 1920's or 30's feel to it and I chose to use the image "Dresser Bureau" which I framed in Word. My coloring was with my small collection of copics. I hope you can join us this week and play along in this fun challenge.

I hope you will still visit at Paper Cupcakes each week, I know that I will and I hope if you come from there , that you will visit me again in the future.
Happy Day my friends!!

I'm Hosting Paper Cupcakes!

It is my turn to host the challenge this week at There's Magic in the Air Paper Cupcakes challenge blog and I chose an inspiration photo I found at Pinterest .  This site is for you to pin some of your favorite photos and things you love. Check this out if you haven't already.

My image is Nina's "Tulip in Bottles" and I colored it using my Stampin' Up reinkers and Tim Holtz distress inks. I also used an image from Gina K Designs that I stamped with Versamark and heat embossed using white embossing powder. I know my tulips are not a natural color but I am using creative license....lol. Hope you can stop by TMITA and see what the rest of the team has created.
I am hoping this is a wonderful start to your Monday and a great week ahead.

Card Detail:
Paper: GinaK 120lb white, chocolate and unknown dp
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks and SU reinkers. Versamark
Other: Labels 4 by Spellbinders, white embossing powder SU

Paper Cupcakes and a Freebie

Happy Monday morning to you my friends....isn't this the sweetest image and sentiment?  It is the freebie being offered this week at There's Magic in the Air  , Paper Cupcakes' challenge blog and we, the DT have each created a card or project using this adorable " A Little House" image designed by our own Nina May. Please stop by and pick up your image and play along with us this week, we would love to see what you create using it.

Our host this week is Gloria Westerman and she is asking us to create using 2 of the following:
Flowers, Ribbon, Pearls/Gems or Die Cuts....for my card I used my Spellbinder Curved Rectangle die and made my flower from some of the Basic Gray "offbeat" design paper and the Bazzill textured card stock that I used for my card base.

So, on to TMITA and to see what the rest of the team has to show us....come on, what are we waiting for?

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......

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

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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Let's make flowers

Monday already? Can you believe how this month is flying by? At Paper Cupcakes this week we are making handmade flowers to adorn our cards. Sheng Yang has challenged us to make our own flowers and to do this I used Sizzix #6 Flower and Little Leaves. Nina's image "Flower Teacup" is one of my favorites which I colored using Stampin' Up watercolor pencils. I also used an inspirational word background that I got from Isabella's ages ago and then sponged old olive and rose red ink across it.
Hope you can visit with the rest of the design team this week and see their creations and please play along if you can. We would love to have you join us. Remember, you can use any image to play, but if you use a PCC's image, your name will be entered for the prize twice.

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up old olive, Prima Sparkling Spring, rose unk
ink: SU old olive, rose red, watercolor pencils
Other: Labels 3 Spellbinders, Sizzix Little Leaves, Flowers #6, unk rose
Images: PCC Flower Teacup, Isabella Inspirational Word Background

Freebie Day at Paper Cupcakes

Happy start of the week my friends!! It's time for the Monday challenge at the
Paper Cupcakes blog where Molly Ritterbeck is asking for embossing....your choice!

It is also time for Nina to have a wonderful freebie for us to play with and this week it is "Peony in Bottle", peonies are one of my favorite flowers and I loved making something with this beauty.
This is some more of the stunning paper "Butterfly Garden" by Pink Paislee and I used a Spellbinders peony die to cut out my image. I die cut a tag and then embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder "Script".
I also used a border embossing folder to emboss my inside sentiment.

If you can, I would love to have you join in our challenge this week, you can use any image you would like, but if you use a PCC's image, your name is entered in twice for our prize.

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up old olive
Ink: Copics and SU markers, SU old olive
Images: PCC Peony in Bottle, Flourishes Thank You, SU Elements of Style
Other: Embossing Folder Script and border floral, Dollar Tree sheer ribbon, MM eyelet, DMC floss, Walmart pins, Spellbinders peony die and standard tag

Sketch Time at Paper Cupcakes

Happy Monday Morning and welcome to the latest challenge at There's Magic in the Air for Paper Cupcakes . This week Lucy Marino has created a fun sketch for us all to go by:

Don't you just love spring time and the new plants, seeds and gardening tools. It makes me happy to see the pretty flowers and green grass every time that I look outside and maybe because of that I adore seed packs. That is why I chose one of Nina's newest images (by the way, now available in the store) "Forget Me Not Seed Package" to use in Lucy's sketch.

I used some Doodle Rubs rub ons to create my floral border on the twill ribbon and colored a few of the flowers with Stampin' Up's Bliss Blue marker which is what I used on the forget me nots. I dove into my embellie stash and used some things that I had for a while. The rubons, metal clip and chipboard. Hope you can stop by and see the rest of the team's creations this week and play along with us, too! Looking forward to hearing from you and visiting with you later on!!

Card Details:
Paper: Sasha Collection dp, Stampin' Up groovy guava
Ink: SU markers, Versafine onyx black
other: SU twill ribbon, hemp twine, Doodle rub ons, Unk chipboard, Making Memories clip
Images: PCC Forget Me Not Seed Package, SU Silhouette Sentiments, Stampendous

It's a Birthday at Paper Cupcakes!

Happy Monday and welcome to the latest challenge at TMITA, Paper Cupcakes challenge blog .

Julie Smith has issued a challenge this week to create something for a Birthday and since I needed a gift bag, that is what you get! For this I used two of Nina's images...."Flower Tea Pot" and some of the tags from "Variety Sayings". This is a premade bag from Martha Stewart's line. I used my new Sizzix die called Layered Flowers to make my flower. The  teapot was colored using SU markers and adding GinaK pearls. Hope you have time to check out the rest of the DT and their pretties this week and hope you find something inspiring. Looking forward to seeing your creations.

We are back from our trip and had a wonderful time. Beautiful weather and great food! Hope to be by to visit with you all soon. Happy Day, all!

Twisted Easel for PCC

Happy Monday and welcome to another magical Monday with Paper Cupcakes....our challenge this week, issued by Jenn Cochran is to create a card using your choice of any multi fold card and I am sure you are aware there are quite a few out in cyber land to choose from. One of my all time favs is the easel card and I have been wanting to try a twisted easel card and this was the perfect time to give it a try. I had so much fun making this card!
I used Nina's beautiful image "Tulips" and you can find the challenge here and a link to the store if you would like to purchase this image.
This first photo shows my card closed and this is the card sitting up:

My papers are from Prima's pack "madeline" and I used my Stampin' Up markers to color the image. Now that Easter is over, I am going to try and get some Mother's Day cards made to sell. I also want to show you a close up of the image which I cut out using my Spellbinders Peony dies. The only different thing about this card is to make sure your image will be positioned correctly when closed and open, especially with an image that needs to be upright. I hope you will check out our challenge this week and play along, I know a lot of you our there make some beautiful multi fold cards.

I am also entering this in the challenge at   Our Creative Corner where they want you to make an easel card. Was so happy to see this ....worked with this card but I would have played anyways, any excuse to make an easel card. lol
Take care and thanks for stopping by.

Card Details:
Paper: GinaK ivory, SU old olive, Prima madeline
Ink: SU blue bayou, baja breeze, old olive, always artichoke
Images: PCC Tulips, SU Well Scripted
Extras: Michael's ribbon, stardust glitter pen, Queen B pearls, Spellbinders peony dies, EK Success border punch, crimper,pop dots

Freebie time at Paper Cupcakes

Hello Sunshine!!! That is the name of our freebie at Paper Cupcakes and it can be yours....stop by There's Magic in the Air our challenge blog and get yours. Ildiko Cseh has challenged us to create a bright and cheery card and how could you not with the colors that she chose for us to use: Green, yellow and orange? I had so much fun with this card and was able to use my Only Orange card stock from Stampin' Up and an orange satin ribbon that I found at the Dollar Tree. IRL this cards sparkles like crazy from the Studio G glitter glue that I used ... wish you could see it better. And if you think you are dizzy looking at my sentiment (SU Well Scripted) , it is o.k. I just stamped it using the shadow stamp technique in orange and black. Hope that you will try and play along this week with us....as always you may use any image but if you use a PCC image , your name will be entered twice.

Please stop by the blog and check out what the rest of the DT has created this week and hope to see your name entered later this week. Take care everyone and have a happy week.

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up , watercolor, dp Basic Gray Origins
Ink: SU markers, Memento Summer Sky, SU old olive
Tools: Spellbinders Circle die, Ribbon-Dollar Tree, Martha Stewart border punch
Images: PCC Hello Sunshine, SU Happiness Shared, Well Scripted

Magical Monday for Paper Cupcakes

Well gang, it's Monday again and that means time for my card for this week's challenge for Paper Cupcakes where Chelsea Barnes is our hostess and challenges us to use fabric and stitches in our creations. As you all know, I do not sew with a machine so I had to resort to my old cross stitching days and decided to use a piece of aida cloth that I am still holding on to. I love to cross stitch but my eyes don't like for me to do it as much as they used to. My papers are from the new Prima pack called Madeline that I recently ordered and my coloring was done with Prismacolors and OMS. I really love this image by Nina which is called "Decorative Egg" I hope you can join in on the challenge this week. You can use any image you would like to, but if you use a PCC image your name will be entered in the draw for our prize, twice.

I hope you all had a super weekend...Rick and I got away for a few hours on Saturday to shoot in a fund raiser tournament for a local church in our area. It was such a blast, we were able to meet up with some friends that we haven't seen in quite and it was a gorgeous day set up on a local horse farm and next to the beautiful New River that runs through our area. Here's wishing you all a happy day!!

Flowers for Paper Cupcakes

Welcome to another Magical Monday for Paper Cupcakes where one of our newest design team members Belinda Lewis has challenged us and you to use flowers on our cards....nothing more, except to have fun doing it!
I decided to use one of my favorites by Nina called "Wildflower Bouquet". I had just gotten this paper by Memory Box "Pixie" and love the design in this one. I hope you can stop by and see what the rest of the team has created and play along with us this week. Nina will have a freebie if you don't have any of our images (you will be entered twice for the prize) or you can use any image of your choice.
Wishing you all a fabulous week!!

Color Challenge at Paper Cupcakes

Welcome to Monday and a color challenge at Paper Cupcakes hosted by Gloria West using the colors yellow, pink and green. If you use one of Nina's images at Paper Cupcakes, you will be entered in the drawing for the prize twice but you may use any image you want to enter. I hope you can join us this week...these colors remind me of springtime and Easter candy. On my card this week I used PCC's image "My Cup of Tea" which I colored with Prismas and OMS. I used a sentiment from the Doodle Pantry.

Stop by the blog and visit to see what the DT has to offer, you won't be disappointed. Have a great week....I will be back later to visit and see what you ladies have been up to while I have been on vacation. I missed visiting with you! We had a fab time and will give you some of the details later.
Happy Day!!!

Card Details:
Paper: Gina K White, Memory Box Pixie dp, green galore SU
Ink: Prismas and OMS, Martha Stewart Pink for sponging
Image: PCC My Cup of Tea, Doodle Pantry sentiment
Tools: Spellbinders Labels 2, Flourishes rhinestone, Martha Stewart ribbon

Vintage Time at Paper Cupcakes

What a great way to start the week....with a vintage card challenge and a freebie, all courtesy of Paper Cupcakes and our lovely Nina May. This week's host is the wonderful Carol West and she chose to have us create something vintage which is probably my favorite style of all.
I used Stampin' Up Mellow Moss as my base adding K&Co design paper and a paper doilie which I stamped with a script stamp by Hero Arts. The coloring on this lovely freebie image "Doodle Flower 4" was done with Stampin' Up markers. Don't you love my flourishes ,pearl heart and flower, which were all a gift from my dear Carol. I colored the flourish with ink and added GinaK pearls. Thanks Carol for a great challenge this week and hope you can stop by, pick up the  image and play along with us. Now, off to see what all of my DT has to show. Have a great start to your week!!

Going Monochromatic

Happy Monday!

Do you love monochromatic cards? Then we have the challenge for you this week at Paper Cupcakes where
our host this week is the wonderful Katrina Benton. For those of you not familiar with this type of card...monochromatic: one color with variations of that same color from light to dark.

My image is Nina's "Moss Topped Birdhouse", isn't it adorable? My dp is Memory Box's Minuet. The Flowersoft on top and at the base was so easy and I think it adds the perfect touch. Hope you enjoy it and will try and play along with us this week. As always, you may use any image but if you use one by PCC then you will be entered twice for our prize drawing. Stop by and see the other ladies lovely projects. Blessings to you all.

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up mellow moss, Memory Box Minuet, watercolor paper
Ink:SU markers
Image: PCC Moss Topped Birdhouse
Tools: Spellbinders Labels 4, GinaK buttons, SU hemp twine

My Week to Host at Paper Cupcakes

Hello my friends and welcome to Monday morning and our challenge at Paper Cupcakes where it is my turn to host....and for this week I have created a sketch, you are welcome to flip or rotate it if you would like, as long as we are able to see the sketch in your creation. I hope to see some of you play along with me this week. You have until next Sunday, March 13th to enter your link.

I have used PCC's image "Deco Flower" today ... I am in the mood for light airy Spring colors and I am sure you are also. Be sure and stop by the blog to get all the details from Nina and to see what the rest of the DT has created.

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up Green Galore, Recollections light green, dp unk and watercolor paper
Ink: SU markers, SU chalk
Extras: Spellbinders Oval Die, Clear Dollar Stamps Designer Die, SU punch, Cuttlebug EF Stylized Flowers, Gina K rhinestone, Ranger Stickles, GKD ribbon
Images: PCC Deco Flower, SU Well Scripted

Is it Spring?

It felt like Spring here yesterday....so warm but not much sunshine. Pat Pedder has chosen the challenge at Paper Cupcakes this week and it's to use Spring colors in our cards....Yellow, Green and Blue. And since I hear you, and most of you are more than ready for springtime to arrive, I know you will want to play along this week. As always, you can use any image, but if you use one from Paper Cupcakes, you will be entered to win Twice!

I used my newest embossing folder to create a frame which I then ran through the big shot and cut out the center so that the lovely image "Sunday Afternoon" could show through the opening.

For the inside I simply used a border punch and then punched my sentiment and mounted on top of the border. I hope you will stop by and visit with all of the DT...I know I can't wait to see what they all post today.
As always, I appreciate your taking the time to stop by and leave a comment. Have a great week and happy day to you all!

Card Details:
Paper: Stampin' Up So Saffron, Bazzill blue, SU white
Ink: Copics, SU markers, Versafine Onyx Black
Images: PCC "Sunday Afternoon"  SU Short and Sweet
Extras: SU oval punch, Spellbinders Oval die, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Child's Birthday Card

That's the challenge this week at Paper Cupcakes's challenge blog and hosted by the lovely Marie Bridgeman who asked us to create a child's birthday card. I found these cute takeout containers and matching bags at my local dollar store and decided to make a complete gift set. I used PCC's image "Birthday Wishes"....creating it in 3 different sizes and coloring all of them the same. I really like the way this turned out and hope you will, too. The other ladies have some eye candy waiting for you at the blog and I hope you will take the time to stop by, and remember, you can use any image you would like but if you use one from PCC's you will have your name entered in to win, twice. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fabulous week!

Card Detail:
card stock- Stampin' Up whisper white, Recollections white and blue
ink-Prismas and Copics
images-PCC Birthday Wishes and sentiment from SU 4 Square
accents- Spellbinders Circle, Scalloped Rectangles, Cuttlebug embossing folder, SU scallop punch and corner rounder
              Stickles-Crystal, K&Co party hat, Clear Dollar Stamps Designer Die