She's so sweet...

You could just squeeze her cheeks, huh? A bit more frilly and girly then my last few posts, but every once in a while I need to get in touch with my sensitive, inner girly girl......

Card
melon and teal gemstone cardstock, colour core white wash done in dotty embossing folder then sanded down to the purpley colour, Pink Petticoat dots paper.
Stamp The Greeting Farm coloured with ProMarkers
Ribbons from stash
Punch doily lace by MS
Sketch-ICS#68


Challenges
Inspirational Card Sketches #68-sketch
Just Add Ink#19- colours eggplant, melon, teal
Passion For Promarkers- week 53- anniversary week!!!! (entry 3)
Incy Wincy#44- for the little ones

Thanks for stopping by,





***don't forget to enter My Partner in Crafting Crime's Birthday Challenge***

Yay for sketches...

They can be so helpful sometimes.... Anyway this is just a quick post because it's that time of the evening again for the little ones...... the dreaded..... bedtime!!!! (not dreaded by me, of course)

Card
Plaid paper Pink Petticoat and cardstock from stash
Ribbon and gem flowers from stash
Image- Some Odd Girl coloured with ProMarkers
Sketch-Fab 'n' Funky Challenges

Challenges
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges #25- It's a little sketchy
Passion for ProMarkers Challenge Blog- Anything Goes + coloured with ProMarkers 53-Anniversay Week!!!!


Nighty Night!!

Skinny Latte Please....

Oh, and I'll have that cupcake with sprinkles there too..... (I know what your thinking, defeats the purpose of the SKINNY in the skinny latte, but hey, I can't help myself... better to save calories somewhere, right?? Yes, Robin, that's right!)

I talk to myself sometimes.......

Card
Digital Images- Some Odd Girl (one's a freebie.. grab it while you can!)
Sentiment done on computer then used promarkers to doodle around it.
Coloured images with promarkers and doodled with black promarker on the kraft paper
Speaking of Kraft paper... it's actually a bag I had lying around I used since I couldn't find my
kraft paper anywhere!
Papers- Dots by Pink Petticoat, Stripes by All My Memories (Heidi Larsen), and paisley by Papermania (Confetti collection) 
Brads from stash and flower punched out of kraft (bag) then crinkled and distressed with Tim Holtz worn lippy

Challenges
Some Odd Girl- 3 different brands of patterned papers
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenges #11- Recipe-3 images (1 can be a sentiment), 3 kinds of embellishments, 3 patterned papers.
Design Dollies Colour Challenge- Fuchsia, kraft and white
Passion for ProMarkers Challenge #53 (1 year anniversary!!!!!! Cheers to you guys!!)- anything goes + coloured with ProMarkers


Off to have a coffee now dudes (just black actually with a dash of cold water.. in case your ever making me one.. he he)
..... minus the cupcake :(

Banana Split anyone?

Well, we have already started our third Challenge over at My Partner in Crafting Crime... where do those weeks go?

This time we are looking for BIRTHDAY related entries so get crafting my fellow bloggers and come over and join us...

Here is the card I made with a really cool digi from Some Odd Girl.... Hungry now??? Good then I'm not alone!

Card

ball trim and brads from stash

digi- Some Odd Girl coloured with promarkers then icecream done with glossy accents

Papers-urban rhapsody by K&Co.

Challenges 
C.R.A.F.T. challenge- celebrate/birthday (it's their 1 year blogaversary!!)

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges- anything goes (they are having a bloghop soon and grand opening of their shop on June 3rd)

Order of the Opus Gluei- seasonal icons (summer- colours and icecream... a summery combo me thinks!)
Stamp Challenges- two of something (I used two of my gemstone brads... I hate using them, just like to hoard them and look at them cause they are so pretty..... he he)


Now go get yourself some ice cream!!!

Dear Islandic Volcano...

I hope to be in Canada for Father's Day this year (Ash depending, of course) so I am starting early making Father's Day cards. Used Kody from Some Odd Girl for all the cool dads in your life... he he
My Dad used to be a drummer for a band called Fat Chance (never heard of them, you say.. when I googled it apparently there is another with that name now... but I have the T-shirt to prove they existed!!) and another called Plastic Stone (influenced from The Plastic Ono Band and the Rolling Stones I am guessing??) .... although his hair has been MIA for as long as I can remember the old pics of him behind his drum kit show different!!

Here is a scrapbook page from an album my Mom gave me when I got married.... funny, huh?

Challenge

 Design Dollies colour challenge- green, blue, white, and brown

My Partner In Crafting Crime Challenge 2... Mystery Prize

Hi folks,

Our prize for challenge two is a good one! Enter in for a chance to win. Whoever comes up with our 'Most Wanted' card gets the 'Most Wanted' Blinkie and these Quickutz Oval Cookie Cutter Dies.

Challenge ends this Monday so get those entries in ASAP!

Cheers,

Jenny & Robin.

Click here to see the challenge

A sight for sore eyes!!

I have an eye infection.... they kinda suck! Never had one before and have to say I am a bad patient. Through out my nursing career I prob instilled more eye drops then I can remember and not once do I remember anyone flinching and scouring away from me like I did yesterday when my hubby tried to put my eye drops in! I put them in myself and the suckers didn't even sting or anything... just the idea of something foreign heading towards my eyes scares me.........

Not only that, but I headed to bed last night around 7:30 feeling sorry for myself.... I'm kinda laughing at myself now..... 

Anyway, this little get well soon card is NOT intended for someone with an eye infection...... if anything it might cause one.... he he!

Digital Stamp- Some Odd Girl
(the rest of the card was made from bits from my stash that need to be used up!)

Challenges
Frosted Designs- Rainbow
Crafty Angels-ripping and tearing
My Time to Craft Challenge- under the weather
Oh La La Creations- bright and cheerful
Drunken Stampers- use your scraps
Digi Doodles Shops Best- ribbon

Hope this card finds you well,

Let the sunshine....

I received a lovely little surprise today from a fellow blogger.... Denise of Lala's World... I always said I didn't like surprises but the more I think about it........ I lied (sorry)!! So now I want to spread the sunshine myself....

Here are 12 (15) peoples blogs that brighten my day and I hope this award does the same for them......

JR Creations- what can I say, Jenny is my "Partner in Crime" (crafty crime of course) she has rubbed off on me with her love of promarkers and I always am jealous admire all of her work!

Shirl- puts up with my cheekiness in class and is always giving me great tips!

Coops - not only is she very talented, she always has a nice comment about every card I make!!

Marlene- makes me giggle daily!! And heck, we all need that!

Creative Breathing- it always makes me smile when I see one of her posts in my news feed... her stuff is so cute!

I Have Prettier Stuff- and "yes", I often say to myself, "you do!" Her creations are always so bright and cheerful that I always have to click to have a better look!

Both Sides of the Paper- this women is the master of challenges!! If you need the "how to" check her beautiful creations out!!

and then the crew from Some Odd Girl, they are my fave digital stamps and I always look forward to their creations!!
Kristy (they are her fab creations)
Leah, Shelly, Robin, Ann, Marcie, Kim, and Jennifer.


sorry that's 15!! The rules say 12..... who makes up these rules anyway???? heheh........ 


PS check out these crocs on the little guy..... Scooby was my all time fave cartoon... if it's on now I watch it with the kids..... sometimes I find they have left the room and I am still watching.... he he......

Hey Fun-gi.....

This little mushy card I made this eve for the Design Dollies Colour Challenge. He is one of four Mushies in the set over at Some Odd Girl and I really dig them so you will probably see the others soon! The ball trim idea I think I saw first at Design Dollies and I can't wait to go home (Canada) for a visit and get it in every colour I see!!!

Design Dollies Colour Challenge- turquoise, yellow and black

Challenge time again!!!

Hey Everyone, just wanted to let you know about Challenge 2 over at My Partner in Crafting Crime... 

this week we have a colour challenge for you... we want you to use these three colours on any of your work

Brown

Gold

Pink

here is what I came up with for you and check out Jenny's take here

but I am dying to see what you can do so hop on over to My Partner in Crafting Crime and play along with us... 

see you soon, Robin

Like, gag me with a shovel...

Well, this week Some Odd Girl Challenge Blog is celebrating the 80's and since it was a "totally awesome" decade I had to join in.......

the music was legendary, the clothes, well, heck most of them are back in style this season (well, here, anyway), the movies... classics... 

Anyway the one thing I kept laughing about was bicycle shorts with the fluorescent line down the side (I think they were banned at our school.. he he) so I am afraid I had to give Kaylee a pair...

the Rubix cube.. which I spent too many hours at and ended up just trying to peel the stickers off and putting them in the right place... (I know there wasn't pink on the original.. but there should have been.. he he)

jelly shoes and bracelets... my kids have a few so I sneaked one onto the card as well!

I really wanted to spatter paint on the card to finish it off but was too afraid I would have to start over....

It was early in the am when I took the pic and the sun was out in full strength, so I have a few shadows but I think it looks cool so I didn't take another....

Some of my 80's faves...
Hungry like the Wolf- Duran Duran
"Look man, the pizza dudes here" The Burbs
Thriller dance routine
Atari Space Invaders
The Money Pit
and the list goes on.......

Challenge
Some Odd Girl-80's

"i don't shut up, i grow up and when i look at u, i throw up"

Short and Sweet...

Just a quick little post as I am cutting it close to the deadline.... I gave the 'trifecta' a whirl this week and let me tell ya... it's not as easy as those Dollies make it look!!!

Challenge
Design Dollies- colour, elements, and sketch (trifecta)

gotta run,

Looking for "devilment"!!

This card I made for IC Sketches which gave a sketch to follow but also a colour combo this week as well as Cute Card Thursday which was Boyz to Men. I think the lad on the front of card looks like he is looking for "devilment" as they say in Ireland!  The card looked too clean when I finished it so I decided to distress the edges to look grass stained.... and it is also my favourite of the Tim Holtz colours (as some of you know!!)

Below is a pic of my own little devil (1 of 3 of them I should say!) His new favourite pass time is turning off the computer mid blogging.... (don't mind the dirt!)

Card
papers Pink Petticoat and solid cardstock
ribbon, clip and brads from stash
stamp The Greeting Farm
coloured with ProMarkers (and now that I look at it I am not completely satisfied.. but what's new)
Tim Holtz distress ink (in Peeled paint!!!)
One of Tim Holtz stamps (harlequin looking) embossed in white on green circle

Challenges
Inspirational Card Sketches 65 (sketch and colours lime green, yellow, white, turquoise and light blue)
Cute Card Thursday #111- Boyz to Men 



Cheers!

So a Very Merry Un-birthday to You!!!

Well, this is one of the new Mae's from Some Odd Girl... I love her... so I had to enter her into some challenges... her cuteness can not be wasted!! I pictured her with some of my "May flowers"... even if they are weeds!!! lol!

Card

Papers (2) Pink Petticoat
Flower dies Joy Crafts
Coloured with ProMarkers
Gems and brads from stash

Challenges
Charisma Cardz 17- girly card with flowers
Order of the Opus Gluei 53- "Can I quote you on that" (Can't say we all don't use this one from time to time.. never gets old... haha)
Crafty Angels 33- 3 flowers, 2 papers, 1 ribbon
Oh, Alice! OAC 11- card for a child
Sophisticat Challenge 30-card for a child
Digi Doodle's 5 DDSB#5- anything goes
Pile it on- 17- boyish colours  (blue, green, and black)
Cutie Stampers- flowers (made with new Joy Crafts dies and brads from stash)
Alota Rubber Stamps-34- flowers
Beary Scrap Challenge 1- BSC#1-may flowers
Incy Wincy- Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time Challenge 11- one for the children

thanks for looking!!







Don't forget to enter your card into My Partner in Crafting Crime's first challenge (anything goes)