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!

Cigar Box Make-Over 2

Anything Goes Greetings Cards

I hope everyone had a very happy holiday yesterday! We made it easy for you this week in the Greetings Challenges at The Outlawz! Come play... Anything Goes!

Photo Tile Coasters

First print out pictures on tissue paper using painters tape to hold the tissue paper to a regular sheet of printer paper.

You will need cork, a tile, and a good adhesive to glue the cork to the back of the tile.

Cut the tissue paper pictures out and modpodge the tile then lay the tissue paper down and modpodge the top, do not put to much glue on it will cause the ink on tissue paper to run more. A thin layer of the mod podge, let dry about 20 minutes and place on two more coats allowing to dry in between. Once it has dried. You will need to seal with a Clear Acrylic water proof sealer. Allow 72 hours to cure. You did it! 

You will see behind this card I wrapped the tiles in floral fabric that I had on stash from flowers I have received in the past and this home made project is ready to give to family and friends!

Just Bling It!

This week we have a wonderful challenge for you at The Outlawz! We want you to break out the bling on some Greeting Cards! On my card I used Anne Fentons Santa image and a message that I had found in the Freebies section of The Outlawz!

Cigar Box Make-Over

 

First I cover the top and sides with scrapbook paper.

Next I added a little slight touches of my daughter's favorite color..pink.

With the tools above and a few rhinestone embellishments this was an easy fun project to give my teenaged daughter.

Making of a Quilled Snowflake

Tools: Quilling tool or toothpick, tweezers, template  is nice to have, glue, and quilling paper strips


First Step: Using your quilling tool whether it is a toothpick, a slotted tool or not you will spin your strip of quilling paper into a circle and make it the 3rd  circle from smallest to largest on your template tool. Shown in photo above, note the circle holes. You will make 18 of this size and after gluing the end down to close the circle you will pinch it on both sides forming what is called a marquise. You start the snowflake by gluing six of the marquise together as shown in photo above.

Second Step: Glue 1 inch strips or little longer can always trim down later. Glue in between marquise shown above.

Third Step: Glue in pairs on the strips till you have used all of the largest sized marquise.

 Should look like photo above.

Fourth Step: Make 12 circles in the 2nd circle from smallest to largest on your template tool. Pinch into marquise shapes. Attach these 12 shapes around in pairs on the strips. Should look like photo below.

Fifth Step: Make 18 of the smallest circle on your template tool. Pinch into marquise shapes. Attach 12 in pairs on strips. Trim the tails if needed and attach remaining 6 marquise onto ends when dry shape as needed.

Let It Snow!

Let it Snow at The Outlawz! Come join us for Letting it snow in the Greetings Challenges! Hope to see you there!

This card was made by my 17 year old daughter mostly. I guided her in where to place to things and the added snowballs, but for the most part this is her creation. ;) She's a natural!

Twisted Thursdays Challenge

 What a super fun challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursdays! For my ornament I quilled snowflakes. I searched the internet for the perfect snowflake poem and found a unique poem from Emily Wilburton. I chose to print the poem out and attach it to the tags of the snowflakes. On the back of the tag is says that this snowflake was made by me! :D I love how they turned out. It was a perfect craft to do while watching movies with the family, with the exception of the lights were so dim I thought I was using all white paper to quill but oh well, it is definitely a one of a kind snowflake!

Each of us are a snowflake
not two of us the same.
Reflections of the endless loving
source from which we came.
Unique in form and beauty
Crystallized at birth.
Little flecks of heaven
born to melt into the earth.
We are each of us a snowflake
of infinite design.
Transitory dancers
on the window panes of time.
Unique in form and beauty
No two of us the same.
Reflections of the endless loving
source from which we came.
We are each of us a snowflake
a falling star in flight.
A traveler through the universe
in search of our own light.
Unique in form and beauty
No two of one design.
Transitory dancers
on the window pane of time.

Color Challenge!

Love these colors from The Outlawz Color Challenge! You must go play! Beautiful inspirational cards to see!

For my card I used my first ever Quilled Snowflake ornament. Isn't it cute! I hope who ever receives this card loves it as much as I do!

Anysoldier Winter Swap Cards Returned

Here they are the cards I received back from the Anysoldier.com card swap team! Aren't they awesome! Look at those snowflakes Trudy crocheted! WOW! Some amazing people with some great talent in this group. So proud to be swapping cards to send to the soldiers with all of them!