DS4J New Release Sunday!

 Time for another new digi image release over at Digistamps 4 Joy! You must see the new images they are fantastic I know I want them all and you will to!

Challenges Entered:

1.  Challenges 4 Everybody - 2W, 3E - (1st week) Challenge #30: Anything Goes
2.  Red Carpet Studio - W, movie inspired, layout, card - Challenge #54 Pretty in Pink.
3.  Scribble and Scrap - 2W, SIO, E3, C15 Challenge #2 Always Anything Goes.
4.  The Squirrel & the Fox - 2W, 2E - (2nd week) Challenge #53 Happy Birthday.
   

International Peace Day!

What an adorable surprise I found in my mailbox to celebrate International Peace Day September 21st! This sweet little notebook from Mary Gregor over in the Anything Goes group at Paper craft planet we joined a swap group called the September Holidays. 

New Release Sunday!

Another great image released today Misteri - Artist! She's not the only NEW RELEASE so come on over to DS4J store and check out more!! 

Challenges Entered:

1.  Robyn`s Fetish - W -CHALLENGE # 178 -Back to School.
2.  Artistic Inspirations - W, E3 - Anything Goes / Bright Colours
3. Digi Makeover Challenge - W, SIO, must use digi - Anything Goes

Color Challenge at Digistamps4Joy!

 

Color Challenge With a Twist - Add twine or ribbon

Your creation can be anything as long as you use the colors in the inspiration picture, and you must add a stamped image.  Use more than one color.

Challenge #76 runs from September 18 to October 1

DATE CHALLENGE STARTS ON DS4J BLOG : Wednesday 18th September 2013
DATE CHALLENGE ENDS : Tuesday 1st October 2013 


Challenges Entered:

1.  Ruby's Rainbow - 2W, JFF, C10 - #62 Masculine (2nd week)
2.  Penny's Paper-Crafty - 3E - #144 Anything Goes
3.  Lady Anne's Stamp Challenge - M, must use a stamp - anything goes

March with Modern Wagoneerr Sam

This beautifully designed layout although I take a crooked photograph. I found at Let's Scrap challenge site. I have less than a month to finish my scrapbook and I feel like I am so far behind that I may not make it! But at least I am taking in some crafty time fun! That has been my main focus lately searching for new places, sites, and groups to join in some fun challenges and make some new crafty friends as well as take on a challenge or two!

I recently was searching for a paper challenge site where the groups are not stagnant like at Paper Craft Planet. Don't get me wrong my current design team Digistamps4Joy has a group located at Paper Craft Planet but most of the groups at PCP have been stagnant not just for months, some haven't had a topic for years. I sent the owner of the site Suzanne Boyd a message about this, her advice rather than delete these groups and clean up house at her Ning site, was for me to step right in to the groups and get them fired up again. Why would I want to step on someone's toes and just start taking over their group? That just doesn't seem right to me.

 I joined  a couple groups at PCP and I started taking on old stagnant challenges, some groups it encouraged others to start chatting again but others not a word, just silence. I found a challenge group I thought I could possibly kick start into gear, but being that it was started by someone else I decided to send her a message asking if she would relinquish her group to me. That didn't work out, the group has been silenced so long that I never received a response. 

I found the Anything Goes group which isn't really anything goes challenges that I have noticed it is mostly Random Happies, where you send someone from that group a random greeting card, and they also do Holiday card swaps where you pick a silly holiday in the month you join and send cards to group members. I joined Anything Goes and the Cuttle-buggers group.  The cuttle-buggers started to clear the cob webs and get it going again.. YAY!

Feel free if you have a challenge site that you think I may want to try out please let me know in my comments section! I would love to stop by!

I'm A Top 3 Pick!

 

Lzazovi I Slatkisi  ("Challenges and Sweets") Top 3 -  Angela Bonanno, & Margy (DS4J) 

So exciting that not only I was in the Top 3 pick but the owner of the Design Team at Digistamps4Joy is also in the Top 3! YAY!

New Releases Sunday 500th Image!

Wow, the amazing, artistic and very talented designer Jen Leeflang has made it to her 500th image drawn for Digistamps4Joy! Congratulations Jen! I am so thrilled to be designing with your beautiful images! 

Want to see more of her wonderful NEW RELEASES stop on over at Digistamps4Joy shop!  In my card is the Misteri as Dorothy image.  

Challenges Entered:

1.  Challenges 4 Everybody - 2W, 3E - (1st week) Challenge #28: Anything Goes
2.  Come and Get It Challenges - W -Focal Image on Side of your Card/Project
   

Teddy Bear Day!

That's right in September we celebrated Teddy Bear Day, thanks to my Paper Craft Planet, Anything Goes group, September Holiday Card Swap partner, Mary Gregor. What an Adorable Teddy Bear card!

 

 And from Josie Hancock for Read A Book Day I received this beautiful card! What a super fun swap to take part in!

Modern Wagoneer Sams Month Two

Here she is, page two of my Scrapbook for the Modern Wagoneer Sam Oklahoma Chapter. Yes, I am way behind on getting this Scrapbbok made. I am at a rush to get it done and I am not sure at this point if I am following the guidelines for the competition or not.

 I am designing my layouts from the challenges at HOME AND SCRAPPED. For this layout it was a fun game of tic-tac-toe and my line of three items are the color black, stars, and cogs. I incorporated all three items in my page for the challenge!

 If you have a really good eye you can look at my first layout and you may recognize the gray paper on the background. My objects in my first layout were cut from this piece and I incorporated the scraps out of the stash!

Cuttle-buggers Challenge

In Challenge #160, all members of the Cuttle-buggers group at Paper Craft Planet have been challenged to make a card using only the colors black and white, an embossing folder, and at least one die cut.  Be sure to label your card Pccuttlebug 160.

In my project I decided to make a tag, my Cuttlebug Embossing folder, a Cherub cut from my Cricut Expression, I tossed in some punched flowers and a little tied bow! 

Monthly Freebie!!

Time for a monthly freebie at Digistamps4Joy! This is a perfect image for the 60's themed challenge as well! I call it a 2fer! 1 great image + 1 great challenge= 2 a great time to be visiting and playing at Digistamps4Joy!

Using Image called: Moon walk

For my card I added some adorable space stickers that were given to me years ago, 2008 when I joined some of my first card swaps for Anysoldier.com. One of the ladies was finished with swapping and sent me all of her scrapping stash!  I used the stickers from the stash to create this fun card for a boy! I definitely need more cards in my stash to give to the guys in my family, since guys out number the girls in my family!   

Challenges Entered:

1.  Creative Corner - W, 3E  - No.34 - Child's Play
2.  Daring Cardmakers - W, C5 – Colour Combo*

FAR OUT! 60's Inspiration Challenge!

Be there or Be Square! It's Going To Be A Groovy Time at the Digistamps For Joy Challenge for the next 2 WEEKS!

THEME : '60's inspiration

This is going to be fun! The 60's are synonymous with the following, so you have such a variety of ideas to work with:

The first moon walk
Painted VW combis
Music - Temptations, BeeGees
MINI skirts!!!
Straight dresses (Twiggy style)
Twiggy hairstyle
HUGE round sunglasses
BLACK eyeliner (see Twiggy again)
BIG earrings

I'm sure you will come up with many more!

So come on over, Don't Lose Your Cool, Don't Sweat It , Get A Load Off!  Hang Ten! Can You Dig It?  Catch You On The Flip Side! Beam Me Up, Scotty!

Challenges Entered

1. ColourQ - Colors*
2.  Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #25 Birthday/Anything goes
3.  Stampin' Royalty - C3 - #192 Patterned paper

Mystery Mouse Swap

Over at Paper Craft Planet in the House Mouse group they were having a Mystery Mouse Swap. For my mystery mouse, I made this mini magnet board with a set of House Mouse paper clips, I used Digistamps4Joy digi from a set called Buttons on the bottle cap magnets, I used a Butterfly Gina K stamp on my magnet board, made my adorable little mini pencil out of a piece of wood and Copic markers, added a bow in twine. All of this in an  up-cycled cigar tin of my husbands that I covered in zebra print duct tape.

Challenges Entered:

New Release Sunday

Sunday is the best day of the week at Digistamps4Joy!

 It is New Release Sunday! 

Above is the card I made using Misteri In Uniform based off the movie A Soldiers Love Story, and below you will find the other wonderful images released today! 

So what are you waiting for? Go shopping right now at Digistamps4Joy!

Mini Misteri - arms full of love

Mini Misteri - belle of the beach

Misteri in uniform

Misteri - mistical dancer

Misteri with bouquet

Challenges Entered: 

1.  Addicted to Stamps Challenge - 2W, Must use stamp- Challenge #62 (1st Week) Anything Goes.
2.  Challenges 4 Everybody - 2W, 3E - (1st week) Challenge #28: Always Anything Goes
3.  Gingerloft - 2W - (2nd week) It's a Small World. (Ends 7th of September)
4.  Glitter n Sparkle - W - Challenge #48  Anything Goes.
5.  Red Carpet Studio - W, movie inspired, layout, card - Challenge #52 Anything Else.

I'm A WEINER!!!! I mean Winner!!!

 I am so excited I made Top 3! For this beautiful embossed, with punched out flowers and a gorgeous digi from the Garden set at Digistamps4Joy!

 Artistic Inspirations W- Winners Top 3: Angela B

Popsicley Deliciousness!

I feel crafty mojo running through my veins this weekend!! Woo-hoo! Having a blast! I decided to mosey on over to the Fabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and see what kind of challenges I could attempt today.

Just so happened there was this cute tutorial on how to make a Popsicle shaped card. It is so easy! For my card I used the phrase "You Warm My Heart", the scalloped oval, and on the inside of the card is the cut word "I Love You" all of these were cut out on my Cricut machine. I admit to you now that I did not break out the Cricut machine today, I know its almost like cheating, but I already had all of these cut from some Valentines I had made a few years ago for cards that I had sent to our soldiers. Love it when I can use up some of my stash! :)

The Popsicle stick was the hard part to find. I heard the ice cream man music playing, as we always do on Saturdays in the summer, we scrambled for our dollars, run outside and he's already passed the house and he's not even driving slow enough for anyone to be able to get anything without chasing him down the street. So we gave up on that.

Then I remembered my hubby bought me something for Christmas that had some glue and I remembered seeing Popsicle sticks, I searched through every little box of stuff I have stashed here and there. I finally found it and it was just one stick. But hey, I was able to finish my card, punched the corner with my circle scalloped punch to give it that bite. And what a YUMMY delightful card I have to give to my sweetie when needed!

Cyber Crop!

So there I was surfing the internet for challenge sites and there she was, Home! Home and Scrapped that is! (giggles) It all started early Saturday morning Australia time, it was late into the night for me here in the states! But I was eager to take part in my first ever Cyber Crop! Every 20 minutes you receive a step by step process of making a Scrapbook page layout, it was so much fun!  Here's my creation during Saturday August 24th's Cyber Crop over at Home And Scrapped!

For my scrapbook page I decided to start on the much needed scrapbook I am to finish within the next month from the past years events for my RVing Good Sam Club chapter of Oklahoma the Modern Wagoneer Sams. 

Sunday Funday!

It's SUNDAY FUNDAY! 

Time for some NEW release digi images at Digstamps4JOY! 


Challenges Entered:

1.  Cheerful Stamp Pad - 2W, JFF, mixed media - (2nd week) Anything Goes
2.  Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party by Craftin Desert Divas - 2W - (2nd week) Anything Goes
3. Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (August) Anything Goes with Handmade Bow
4.  613 Avenue Create - W -  Challenge #34: Anything Goes (Or Create your own Challenge) I chose COLUMN 1- Patterned Paper, Sentiment, Image
5.  Challenges 4 Everybody - 2W, 3E - (2nd week) Challenge #27: Always Anything Goes (listing ends 30th August 9:00 p.m.) Presently DT Call.
6.  Robyn`s Fetish - W -CHALLENGE # 174 - Rectangle Cards Only.

Your My Favorite!

I made this note card to enclose with my Mystery Mouse gift. I joined a Mystery Mouse Swap over at Paper Craft planet in the House Mouse group. I am so late, as i am late to everything, my wedding, my mother's funeral, I am always late, late, late!  I hope she likes it!

Mystery Mouse Received!

 I received this adorable handmade card and bookmark from my Mystery Mouse over in the House Mouse group at Paper Craft Planet. I just love these mieces to pieces! Thank you so much Mystery MOUSE!

Toilet Paper Crafts?

In the Cuttle-buggers group at Paper Craft Planet we were challenged to try this technique using toilet paper.You can locate the technique at this website:

http://www.blockheadstamps.com/TechniquesPages/tp-embossedpaper.html

The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug it is called Mary Ann. After mine dried, I used an Inky Roller and ran it through my baby blue stamp pad and just rolled it over the embossed toilet paper. The handmade flower embellishment I won back in the Fall of 2010 at a card challenge site called Simply Scrapping Crafts from the Scrapbook Challenge that a girl named Emily was hostessing. SHe hand made me these beautiful fabric embellishments! 

Anything Goes at DS4J!

It's time for one of those really easy MC-SQUEEZY challenges 

- ANYTHING GOES -

Your entry can be a card or a paper creation, with no prescribed requirements or themes (except of course for the "no gory/scary creations")! 

Have fun, and we look forward to receiving LOTS of entries!

The challenge starts on Wednesday 21 August, and ends Tuesday 3rd September 2013.

In my card I used an image out of the Garden set, punched up some flowers and with a little embossing made this beautiful creation! 

Challenges Entered:

1.  Artistic Inspirations - W, E3 - CAS (Clean & Simple)                           

1.  Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party by Craftin Desert Divas - 2W - (1st week) Anything Goes
2. Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Summer Flowers
3.  Digi Darla Challenge - W, SIO - #76 Birthday Celebrations
4.  Imagination Crafts - M, 3E, 7C, SIR to win prize - (August) Flower Power

Stenciling with Your Spellbinders!

In the Cuttle-buggers group at Paper Craft Planet We were challenged to stencil using your Spellbinders in the Cuttle-bug. For my card I used the stencil shown below. Do you have a Cuttle-bug? Want to know more of what crafty kind of stuff you can do with it? You should join in the challenges at Paper Craft Planet. The Cuttle-buggers are looking for more participants! In my card I used the flower cut border that is at least 3 years old, I cut it when I first received my baby Cricut machine.

 

 To help me with my card making skills. I am currently in Class 3 of Color Me Creative Classes taught by Suzanne Dean. I am learning how to color darker skin tones at the moment and this image I used as a practice piece. I apologize for the novice coloring.. practice makes perfect right! I am really enjoying the classes, Suzanne is a very classy, smart, talented artist and I can say she is an absolute sweetheart; I have met her in person so I can attest to that! 

She has inspired me to want to take my Copics to the next level, after I feel more comfortable with my skills from my classes my goal is to pursue my Copic Intermediate Certification and help other crafters in my area become familiar with using their Copic markers.

Challenges Entered:

1. Can You Digi It 2W- #42 Lift Me Up* (Week 2)
2.  Crafty Sentiments W, 1E, SIO - Colourful
3.  Going Grey With Scrap-Creations 2W, 2E - Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Week 2)
4.  Oldie But A Goodie Challenge 2W, must use something at least 6mts old  & state what it is- Embossing (Week 1)
5.  Papertake Weekly W- Flower Power (floral, image,papers,or embellishments)
6.  Sweet Stamps W, 1E, SIO, C10 - #131 Anything Goes

Folding Tea Bags?

No, no, no, we are not folding tea bags. When we say we are making a tea  bag fold there are a ton of different paper or fabric folds that are referred to as a tea bag fold. Over at Paper Craft Planet in the Cuttle-Buggers group they challenged us to make a tea bag fold. I decided to take this challenge! I had no clue what a tea bag fold even is. I google searched online for it and found a link to a Pinterest page with several to choose from. I picked one and went with it. I didn't think I was accomplishing it, but once I had my pieces folded and put together it looks pretty neat.

New Digistamps4Joy Images!

Heres the latest new release image this Sunday at Digistamps4Joy! She's such a beautiful mermaid! I hope you like the card I made using this image! It has actually been a while since I made a card. I put the paper down and started on some crocheting projects. As usual after a while I get bored of my hobby and have to do something else so here I am making a card. I miss the majority of new release Sunday image release days so I wanted to take part.

Challenges Entered:

1.  Challenges 4 Everybody - 2W, 3E - (1st week) Challenge #27: Always Anything Goes (listing ends 30th August 9:00 p.m.)

   2.  Lacy Sunshine - 2W, 3E, SIO, Challenge #15 Digi available. (1st week) - Challenge #14 -Girls, Girls, Girls.

 

3.  The Squirrel & the Fox - 2W, 2E - (2nd week) Challenge #50 Whimiscal