Eagles Soar in the Creative Freebie Challenges

If you know me, you know I love the outdoors. I most especially love photographing  birds. It is a frustrating hobby at times chasing a bird around a tree or across a state park trying to get that great shot only for the bird to fly away on you, or you have your klutz moment because you had the camera in your face and wasn't watching where you were going. 

The Eagle in the photograph  in my card above was drawn by Anne Fenton for the Creative Freebie Challenge over at The Outlawz. It reminded me of our trip to the boundary waters of Canada/United States by way of Ely, Minnesota and we took a john-boat out on Fall Lake and spotted an eagles nest. I took as many photos as I could of the eagle and its nest. If you would like to have beautiful images like this to use for your cards and projects you should come play in the Creative Freebie challenges!

Recipe Challenge at The Outlawz!

 Do you have a hard time creating a card to post in a challenge? You should try a recipe challenge! They really help! Guess what? We have just the recipe challenge to start with in the Greetings Challenge at The Outlawz! Hope to see you there!

 

Be Happy

Just messing around with the art supplies tonight.

There is GOLD behind all the Rainbows we find at The Outlawz!

It is Monday and what a beautiful day it is, Even if it is snowing outside, the bright side over on the Greetings Team at The Outlawz we are thinking Spring showers, Leprechauns, Shamrocks and beautiful colorful rainbows! Come join the fun challenge!

House Mouse - Mice Are Hungry Too!

Oh my talk about cutest littlest mouse ever, don't ya just love the mieces to pieces!! Look at the card & recipe I received from Germany! I love how Maria turned her card into a piece of cheese!! This was perfect since the recipe for the swap at Paper Craft Planet had to consist of cheese in it. Maria was so sweet to include a magnet she had made of Germany, it is the coolest!! My fridge loves it!

House Mouse - Feed the Mice!

Isn't this card adorable!! I received this from Canada! This card was made by Josie the hostess of the Mice Are Hungry Recipe Swap at Paper Craft Planet. Each participant of the recipe swap was to make a card with a House Mouse or HM image and a recipe to feed the mice with. Josie was a sweet sneaky mouse and sent a recipe to everyone in the swap as the rest of us has designated partners to swap with. 

CFC Calendar

What a fun challenge in the Creative Freebie Challenge at The Outlawz! Here is what I created with the wonderful digi images of Sandy & Anne!

Carrying My Love 4 You

Anything Goes this week in the Greetings challenges at The Outlawz! I am gearing up for valentines day cards. Here's the image I decided to play around with for this challenge.

Happy Birthday Deanna!

 

Last Thursday was a close friend of mines 42nd birthday, I have known her almost 30 years and along with a few handmade crafty gifts the crocheted chicken pot holder, an apple potholder that you will see in an upcoming post and  I decided to make her a cake with what I had learned last summer at my 1st Wilton's cake decorating class. 

 

House Mouse February Calendar

Over at Paper Craft Planet they are challenging us in the HM group to make calendar pages. This is my creation for the month of February!

My Hearts Desire

Good morning blog readers! It is my favorite day of the week... Monday! Why? It's time for another fun Greetings Challenge at my favorite craft site, The Outlawz! This week the challenge involves hearts so I do hope you come join in on the fun!

Anne's Digi's - Memory Books of Love

Here's one of the newest images by Anne for the Creative Freebie Challenge at The Outlawz! You should check these challenges out they are a  lot of fun and Sandi & Anne provide some amazing digi's!

Anne's Digi's

This is the close up of the digi I chose to make my 20 Easter cards for the Anysoldier.com Spring/Easter Card Swap.

Kickin' up the dust Western Style!

Howdy! We sure hope y'all will stop in at The Outlawz to kick up some dust with us and are willing to step into this here boot scootin' fun challenge! January has been a month full of fun creative challenges to kick off your mojo for 2012. I hope it has worked!

What else is brewing this month you may ask? I will tell you! The Outlawz turned a year old and we are celebrating with a Greetings Anniversary challenge, western style! That's right, saddle those horses and get to the barn dance to wish a Happy Birthday to each and everyone who continue to make this Greetings challenge a success!

Spring/Easter Anysoldier Card Swap

Here's the 20 cards I created for the Spring/Easter card swap! I used Anne Fenton's image for 19 of the cards for my Easter image. I was able to practice using my Copic markers and I recruited my daughter to help color them! :D 

The first card that was finished we embellished up with ribbon to show what this card can look like with just a little more added to it. I decided to keep them less bulky to send to the swap group.

National Nothing Day!

It is a weird holiday indeed and we worked it into our challenges at The Outlawz. Come celebrate America's National Nothing day with us and show us your Nothing But A Sentiment card in The Greetings Challenge!

Looking For Sponsors

Are you a Digi artist or Paper Crafts supply company, want more business for your store and don't mind giving something away for free to our monthly prize winner? How about sponsoring one of the Greeting Card Challenges at The Outlawz! We are signing up Sponsors for 2012! We have openings for Spring Sponsors but they are going fast! Please contact me here or at The Outlawz!

I am so very excited, today I was promoted to the Administrative team at The Outlawz! I want to thank all the members of the Outlawz for making me feel at home with my crafting abilities there. I also want to thank all the ladies on the Design Teams that have inspired me to join my first card creating challenges. And last but not least, I want to give a HUGE thank you to Colleen for believing in me for her design team in the Greeting Card Challenges, and once again having faith in me to be  an Administrator for one of the greatest crafty challenge sites on the world wide web!

Calendar Fun.. I can't stop Myself!

Oh why didn't I think of this last year? These calendars are such a simple and great idea! I redesigned the calendar I made for The Outlawz Copic Challenge. I changed the ribbon and gave him some patterned paper that I added photo corners so that each month can be changed. I have two calendars in the making so far.

Tag Your it!

I was inspired by  the CAS Challenge at The Outlawz to research gift tags. I discovered a page from Tim Holtz his 12 tags of Christmas. I didn't have all the products he used but I was inspired and here are the ones I created for the Tag theme in CAS. I don't think they really fall in the category of CAS but I had to show them off! :D

Sandi's Ballerina

 It is Sandi's Ballerina from the CFC Challenge at The Outlawz! Here is the card I created for the challenge. You have to see these beautiful hand drawn images these ladies created! Very talented to say the least!

National Hugging Day - January 21st

 National Hugging Day - January 21st  

In Celebration of National Hugging Day in America, we on the Greetings Challenge team want to challenge you with some Hugs or Showing Lovin'. Show your love at The Outlawz! Come join us for some crafty fun!

HM Calendar Jan 2013

House Mouse stamps are some of my very favorite! Over at Paper Craft Planet they are challenging us in the HM & Friends Group to use our HM (House Mouse) stamps to make a calendar to be finished by the end of year to give as a gift next holiday season. In my calendar I added photo corners to a piece of scrap paper so that the months can be changed out using the one page.

Happy 1st Birthday to The Outlawz!

The Outlawz is celebrating it's 1st Birthday! What a super fun crafty year it has been at The Outlawz. We have made a lot of new crafty friends and with 1428 members as of today the proof is before you that The Outlawz is the place to stop to be inspired, learn a tip or two, and make a lot of happy crafty friends! 

Happy Birthday Outlawz! May the next year be even better!

Calendars at The Outlawz

What a fun crafty project to do through the year! My New Years resolution just happened to be to make one handmade Christmas present a month so that by next Christmas I will have 12 gifts to give. This fabulous challenge at The Outlawz couldn't have been a better idea! I wish I would have thought of it! But I will be playing with the gals in the Copic Challenge! The image used is from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs. If you haven't been to The Outlawz, you should come join us! 

National Book Month

Come join us for National Book month in the Greetings Challenge at The Outlawz! We are being inspired by books!