Faith Hope and Love

It's Grand Opening at Sugar Creek Hollow!!!! I am so excited to be part of the celebration and Design Team!! They are the neatest bunch of women, full of encouragement and love for the Lord!

We are kicking off the Grand Opening with a Grand Celebration!!! For today only, we are offering a free digi for for EVERY $10 spent. Spend $10 you get one free digi, spent $20 you get 2 free digis, spent $30...well you know the rest!

All of the proceeds made at Sugar Creek Hollow today will go to Tracy's (the owner) church at Tree of Life Ministries to help stock our food pantry which feed our homeless and under employed. There are many children in this city that would go to bed hungry without this service. We GIVE AWAY over 10,000 loaves of bread and serve over 300 families with food boxes/hot meals per week. Please help her, help them. It is such a privilege to be involved in this endeavor! Thanks so much Tracy!

The Design Team has created a card for you to see these beautiful digis in use. Here's my card.

Since these images are digi stamps, it's very easy to lay out several of them, perfectly lined up. I was also able to easily add the text inside each heart.
Now go visit the rest of the DT to see their beautiful cards. Then, go to Sugar Creek Hollow's website to purchase your favorite digis!!

I added some red embossing powder along the edges and then the red crepe paper frame. At this point, my card took a different turn, I have to admit it. It ended up being much bigger than I had intended.

I couldn't find a single sheet of 12 x 12 black cardstock so I decided to make an easel card instead.

I wanted to use this for an anniversary card. My husband and I will be celebrating 10 years in March so I decided the ruffle was enough - I didn't want it to be too girly!

Now go visit the rest of the DT to see their beautiful cards. Then, go to Sugar Creek Hollow's website to purchase your favorite digis!! If you aren't already a follower, be sure to sign up at the blog - one lucky follower will win a $50 gift certificate to the store!

 Cheri ♥ Dani ♥ Donna ♥ Joan
Joseline ♥ Kristina ♥ Linda ♥ Loretta 

Marsha ♥ Nancy ♥ Sarah 

Stephanie ♥ Tracy ♥

March Guest Designer

Kelly

Thou, O Lord, Art My Shield

Good morning girls! I hope your Saturday is a beautiful one. Today I am so excited to share with you that Our Creative Corner has asked Sugar Creek Hollow to sponsor their challenge this week!!! The challenge is to use this sketch:

One lucky winner will receive $10 to appply to a purchase at SCH. Now make sure to play and link your card over at Our Creative Corner. You might be the lucky WINNER!!

Let me share my card with you! I loved this image from the first moment I saw it. This verse is such a wonderful promise from God to us. He doesn't promise us a life without trials or hardships, but that He will be a shield to protect us.

I paired this with some papers from the Indian Summer DCWV pad. I know they are fall colors and we are all tired of fall - but the rich colors really convey a sense of strength to me and that's what I wanted my card to convey.
I do hope you'll take a moment to create something with this sketch as well. And stay tuned for Monday - it's the Grand Opening Blog Hop for Sugar Creek Hollow! I've been able to have a bit of a peek at the creations the team has for you and they are phenomenal!!!
For now, take a moment and visit the rest of the designers and see their creations with this sketch!

 Cheri ♥ Dani ♥ Donna ♥ Joan
Joseline ♥ Kristina ♥ Linda ♥ Loretta 

Marsha ♥ Nancy ♥ Sarah 

Stephanie ♥ Tracy ♥

March Guest Designer

Kelly

Got Flowers?

Wouldn't you love to win $100 in Prima products?

I sure would!

They have something BIG coming soon - and in the meantime, they are having a big giveaway! GO HERE to check it out and see how you can earn a chance to win!

Happy Blogaversary Joanne Basile!

I created another card for this week's challenge (paper piecing) for Joanne Basile's blogaversary.
I apologize for the photos - I was in a rush and didn't even take the time to set up a backdrop!

The papers are from the Linen Closet DCWV pad and I used a MFT stamp that Kim so graciously sent the Cuttlebug Challenge team back in the summer. The main image is mounted on some vellum - the sentiment is embossed on it with white embossing powder. It didn't take me long to re-create that look from my Flutter By post of this morning.

Looking forward to seeing the next challenge for Joanne's blogaversary celebration! I saw her card today and am thinking it will require something that I rarely do. I would say never but I did make a card earlier this week that used it! Stay tuned!

A Fluttering Birthday

Hello again! Be sure to scroll down for my Diedrich Dare post! This week is an open challenge for Flutter By Wednesday - just be sure to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your card/project.

I needed some birthday cards for a few girls in bible study today and since I've been feeling under the weather, I thought I'd see what I already had in my stash.

I did find this card that I started of, I can't even remember when! I knew that I could easily add a sentiment and a butterfly to the base. I also added some pearls to dress it up a bit. I really love the white embossing on the vellum that I did. It's nice to be reminded of that technique/look and I think I'll be using it again very soon!

Take a spin over to the Flutter By Blog and leave a link with your creation!

Cupcakes Forever!

Good morning girls! It snowed here again on Monday/Monday night. I think we got between 2 and 3 inches although most of it has melted off by now. Still, I have had enough snow to last a decade of winters! What about you?

I do have a few cards to share today. I have been battling a sore throat for several days so I don't know how I feel about this first card.

The sketch for this week's Diedrich Dare is a great one; I'm just not sure I've done it justice. The heart paper was sitting out on my desk, leftover from valentine's and the cupcake stamp was the first one I grabbed.

You can see that I changed things a little from the sketch. I didn't really mean too, I just forgot what direction the angle was and then had to make the other elements work. I paper pieced the frosting on the cupcake for this week's challenge at Joanne Basile's blog - to paper piece.

Take a spin over to the Diedrich Dare blog to see the featured team member this week. And check out the rest of the team members too! This week we are welcoming Andrea Murdock to the group. Be sure to leave her a welcome note too won't you?

Andrea Murdock ♥ Darla Wilson (on hiatus)  ♥ Heather Schlatter 

Jacquie Nordaune (on hiatus) ♥ Jacquie Peifer ♥ Jessica Diedrich

Kim Ross ♥ Kris ♥ Randi Wall ♥ Rebecca Ednie

Sandra MacLean ♥ Sara Henton ♥ Valerie Urtiaga

God Keeps His Promises

Good morning girls! It's finally Friday and even though I no longer work outside the home, it's still a day to look forward to!

I am thrilled to get to share with you my first Friday creation for Sugar Creek Hollow with you! Even though the Grand Opening isn't until March 1st, you can pre-shop now!

Over the past few weeks, I keep getting news that is discouraging or upsetting to me. Not major things - just little things really but the other day I saw this little stamp: God Keeps His Promises. (on clearance for 97 cents no less) and it just felt like a warm hug from God himself. A little reminder in the world that He is faithful, He has my back and that He Loves Me. A prefect pairing with this flourish heart from Sugar Creek Hollow.

I saw a new challenge the other day: I Love Digis and they wanted to see pink for their first challenge. Not a problem, I happen to like pink!! And I also have been wanting to play along in the Midnight Madness challenge so I used their sketch for the layout. I paper pieced my heart with that adorable polka dot paper. I have just a little smidge of it left now.

I encourage you to take a visit over to the rest of the designers blogs. We all have creations to share today. They are such a talented, loving group of women. I have been so blessed to have been asked to be part of the team.

 Cheri ♥ Dani ♥ Donna ♥ Joan
Joseline ♥ Kristina ♥ Linda ♥ Loretta 

Marsha ♥ Nancy ♥ Sarah 

Stephanie ♥ Tracy ♥

March Guest Designer

Kelly

Whimsical & Flutter By Wednesday: Are You Ready For Spring?

ETA: My pictures - I would like to say I can't believe I forgot to add them, but that is exactly something a scatterbrain like me would do! Thanks Heather for the heads up!

Hello again girls! This is my second post today - please keep scrolling to see my quilt card for the Cuttlebug Challenge.

I have combined several challenges in this card.
Flutter By Wednesday, use hearts along with butterfly/fairy/angel
Mojo Monday Sketch from this week.
Whimsical Wednesday, a color challenge.

Color challenges are definitely a challenge for me but I am pretty happy with how this one turned out!
It's pretty basic; I did use watercolor for my image on this card.

Take a spin over to the Diedrich Dare blog to see the featured team member this week. And check out the rest of the team members too! Debbie has stepped down from the team - I'm happy to have been able to design with her for a bit. And last week I forgot to mention that Sara Henton has joined our crazy, fun bunch!

Darla Wilson (on hiatus)  ♥ Heather Schlatter 

Jacquie Nordaune (on hiatus) ♥ Jacquie Peifer ♥ Jessica Diedrich

Kim Ross ♥ Kris ♥ Randi Wall ♥ Rebecca Ednie

Sandra MacLean ♥ Sara Henton ♥ Valerie Urtiaga

Cuttlebug Challenge: Stitched Quilt

Good morning girls! So happy to be able to share this card with you this morning. This week the Cuttlebug Challenge is adding stitching to our cards.

I have used the quilt image from Sugar Creek Hollow again; I have so many ideas for this stamp so you'll be seeing some more of it! LOL! I used the Ring It In digital kit by Summer Driggs to piece the quilt and then adding faux stitching to the quilt and the background squares. It's a little hard to see the stitching on the quilt.

I also embossed each of the squares to get that puffy, quilt look.

The Sweet Sunday sketch was my inspiration for the layout although I omitted the circular layer on top. Thanks so much for stopping by today! Take a moment and head over to the Cuttlebug Challenge blog to see what the rest of the team has come up with!

Sugar Creek Hollow Preview Week

Hello sweet, dear readers.
I'm so excited to share a card using a new release from Sugar Creek Hollow with you. This week has been full of sneak peeks from the design team. Please take a moment to visit the store blog and the designer's blogs to learn more about them. You can find the list at the bottom of my post.

We are supposed to share a little bit about ourselves as part of this week long blog hop. I find it so hard to talk about myself. I'd much rather hear all about you. But here goes.
I've been married to hubby for 10 years in March and we are so lucky to have a little man in our life who is 3 and is my heart's joy. We have 3 furry pups that belong to us as well.
(and here I sit softly tapping the keys of my laptop, the blogging equivalent of twiddling ones thumbs)
I started stamping almost a decade ago too. And after taking a hiatus for about 5 years, I discovered it again once I became a stay-at-home mom. I love being able to take a peek at what other stampers are creating and share my creations too. I'm looking for 2010 to bring new ways to bless someone with the talents that the Lord has given me.
I am ♥ thrilled ♥ to be designing with the other girls at Sugar Creek Hollow. It's such a delight to be part of a group of women who love God - they inspire me every day, they lift me up every day. I know that it is a little gift from God to me to be part of something this special. I'd love to thank Tracy for selecting me to be part of her first team and the rest of the girls for their love, support and creativity. They are so amazingly, awesomely talented.
Besides stamping, I love to read. Growing up I always had my nose buried in a book. I'll read just about anything if I'm bored enough. I used to be strictly a mystery (Nancy Drew or Trixie Belden anyone) or romance (I like knowing there is a happy ending one the last page) girl until I took a Juvenile Literature class in college. We were required to read every genre out there it opened up whole new worlds to me. While Science Fiction isn't the first thing I reach for, I no longer turn my nose up at it. Lately I've completely wrapped up in what I think of as "guy" lit -- Tom Clancy, James Patterson and those Sue Grafton alphabet murders. Sudoku is one of the coolest games. Mahjong also - if I could find a handheld version of that to play in bed I'd be a happy girl.
I'm way too analytical, fiercely loyal until you break my heart for 478th time, and really good at keeping secrets. I have bad traits too but I don't feel like sharing them today. LOL!

This quilting set was such fun to work with. There are so many ways to use this set.

I began by opening the quilt in Photoshop and proceeded to "paper piece" or "quilt" the design using some free digital papers from Shabby Princess (Happy Go Lucky kit).  Then I printed it out on some cardstock that had a slight texture, trimmed and mounted it to my card base.

I played with adding some buttons but they just looked out of place to me. I really liked the quilt image alone on the base. It reminds me of quilts on display.

There are 3 images in this set and Joseline, our DT coordinator, challenged us to use all 3 on a card. I added the other 2 stamps on the inside. Take a look.

That's it from me for now. I am pretty sure it's the longest post I've ever written. I hope you enjoyed it!