DUDE TIME DOODLES INSPIRATION CHALLENGE

Hello! I decided to move my Dude Time Doodles Post here because it seemed to get lost in the shuffle of everything else. I have a few other posts today too...


CREATIVE CUTS AND MORE BLOG HOP


DESIGN D.I.V.A.S. BLOG HOP


BELLI CHALLENGE POST


Welcome to the DUDE TIME DOODLES PORTION of my post! Today is the beginning of the INSPIRATION CHALLENGE! This months challenge is to create something using these colors/ images as your Inspiration...




Here are the rules...

1. Use the image to get your mojo moving.  

2. You are not required to use BDD images although it would make us really really happy and giggle a lot if you did!

3. MUST be a masculine themed card, you can use humor, innuendo, be a little naughty, sarcastic, but it has got to be for a DUDE!

4. Be sure to use the InLinkz on the Dude Time Doodles Blog!

5. You have one week to link up your projects.  

Now here are the details to my project:

Image: Eskimo Joe  from Dude Time Doodles

Accessories: Spellbinders, Dew Drops, Rick Rack

I used the Monday MOJO Sketch as my layout design...


Take some time and check out the other DUDE TIME DOODLES DESIGN TEAM inspiration. They ALWAYS make me smile. I love these fun images!!!


Thank you SO MUCH for stopping by today! I hope you have a VERY blessed day!

Inky Hugs-

CREATIVE CUTS AND MORE BLOG HOP

YOU CAN FIND THESE OTHER POSTS FOR TODAY HERE


DESIGN D.I.V.A.S. BLOG HOP
DUDE TIME DOODLES CHALLENGE

BELLI CHALLENGE POST

Hello Everyone- 

Welcome to the Creative Cuts and More MOVEMENT CARD BLOG HOP! They are so much fun AND SO VERY EASY to make when you are using Creative Cuts and More's Die Cuts! Lickety Split, FOLD - TAPE and STAMP and your projects are done!!! Can't beat that!

Creative Cuts and More is so excited to tell you about our new Assortment Packs!  These are available in different colors. What better way to try an assortment of cards in your favorite color groups? 

Another FABULOUS NEWS FLASH is CC&M now sells envelopes to go with your cards?

If this is your first stop and you haven't seen Kristine Reynold's FABULOUS project, you will want to head back to the Die Cut Diva Blog to see what the other Designers have in store for you!

Now, without further adieu here are the details of my two movement projects...

My first project is the Pop-Up A2 Insert - Vertical - Two Pop-Up Bars, the images are from Inky Antics and Heart Song Designs

* Note, I just realized, this is supposed to have another layer! DOH! LOL Sorry! I thought it was kind of funky but I liked that it was a bit different too... What can I say, I am easily amused?

 The two pop ups are so much fun! Imagine... you could put trees or add even more details or die cuts on this!

More details: Nestibilities, SU Embossing folder, Grand Calibur (used for the Spellbinders), Dew Drops, Copic Markers, Killer White Tear-able Tape, Dimensionals

Here are the details for the second card: Accordion Insert with A6 Card, also available without the card HERE.

Stamp Set: Our Daily Bread Designs Fishers of Men and Anchor

Accessories: Copic Markers, Black Offray Stitched Ribbon, Black and White Gingham, Turquoise, Basic Grey DP, Fish Embossing Plate, Grand Calibur, Sponge, Viva Pearl Paints, Martha Stewart Scoring Board, 

From here you will want to go to Becky's Blog. She is sure to WOW you with her projects! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you found some inspiration here! Have a great day!

Thank you SO MUCH for stopping by today! I hope you have a VERY blessed day!

Inky Hugs-

ODBDSLC34 -COLOR CHALLENGE!

Hello Everyone!!! It is Saturday. Today my sweetie is at church for a men's conference! I am so hoping he is fully blessed and that the LORD will renew his spirit!


Well, you didn't come here to listen to me chatter did you? Today is Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge! This week's Challenge is.... we are challenging you to create a card or project with the colors kraft and black plus one other color and a neutral if you wish (white or cream).

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $ 15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Thursday, October 28. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.


Here are the details:
Stamp Set: Peace on Earth from Our Daily Bread Designs
Cardstock: Basic Grey Origins, Kraft, Black

Accessories: Wavy paper cutter from Creative Memories, Faux Rock, Prisma Color Pencils, Black grosgrain, Paper Piercing Tool


Some of the Challenges I participated in are
Mojo Sketch
Tuesday Throwdown- Anything goes
Tip Top Tuesday - Anything Goes
Stampin Royalty - Ribbons


If you would like to see more challenge creations, please be sure to check out the other ODBD Challenge Team creations here:

Chris Olsen
Patter Cross
Francie Gumprecht
Sabrina Jackson


We will be visiting some family tonight and Sunday, we are celebrating our youngest child's 6th birthday! I hope you all have a blessed weekend! Thank you for stopping by!

SUMMER BIRDS WITH MOJO SKETCH

Hello! We are having a heat wave today in Wisconsin, but I anticipate that since it is summer...most areas of the country are! :) I took some time yesterday to create a fun, summery card using some new and old papers I had laying around. I checked out the Monday Mojo sketch and just loved it, so chose to create a card using that.

Here are some more details:

Stamps: Flying Birdie  Happy Birthday from QKR STAMPEDE,

Cardstock: Yellow Bo Bunny DP, Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist by SU, Neenah White

Accessories: 3 Flower Punch, Riding Hood Red Ribbon, Circle Cutter by Creative Memories, Basic Grey Brads, Dimensionals

Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

GLASSY HEARTS

Hello Friends- Today, I am sharing a project with you that uses the Glassy Embossing technique from the Technique Junkie February/March Newsletter and this BEAUTIFUL set from I Brake For Stamps called Paris and Heart Collage. The sketch I used, was from MOJO Monday Sketch #139....

Did you know? YOU can CLICK HERE to save 10% at I BRAKE FOR STAMPS by using this code: SAVE10CHRIS

Here are a few more details:
Stamps: I Brake For Stamps - Paris and Heart Collage, Circle of Friends
Paper: Basic Grey Bittersweet DP, Black, White, Grey
Ink: Versamark, Pink, Black
Accessories: Utee, Heat Tool,Technique Junkies Newsletter, Nestibilities, buttons, gems, silver cord, white gel pen
Techniques: Glassy Embossing by Technique Junkies

Ok! I am off to create something else. I hope you have a WONDERFUL day! Thank you for stopping by!

Glimmer Mists Watercolors...

Good day friends! Today is Belli Challenge day and the challenge is to use your HOLE PUNCHES!!! We have a sponsor this week, but when creating my card, I spaced using the sponsor's images and used this gorgeous set from I Brake From Stamps! I guess I was just too excited to use this! :)

I used the Technique Junkie Newsletter Glimmer Mist Watercolors technique from the April/May 2010 newsletter. I used some Mustard accents on the flourishes too! :)

The sketch comes from the Monday Mojo Sketch Blog - you can find that HERE.

Here are the details:

Stamps: Birds and Butterflies Collage sheet available at I Brake For Stamps

TECHNIQUE: Glimmer Mist Watercolors from the Technique Junkie Newsletter from April/ May Newsletter

Cardstock: Basic Grey, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy

Accessories: Technique Junkies Newsletter, Paper trimmer, Glimmer Mists, Aqua painter, Paper Piercing tool, Cropodile, Brads from Basic Grey

Did you know? YOU can CLICK HERE to save 10% at I BRAKE FOR STAMPS by using this code: SAVE10CHRIS.

Be sure to check out the Belli Challenge! Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!

It's a Quirky (QKR Stampede) Kind of Day!

Hello Everyone! Yesterday we went to the Weather Day at the Brewers Stadium and had LOTS of fun! One of the local News Teams came out and quizzed the kids on weather facts. After that, we enjoyed lunch at the Milwaukee Miller Brewers Stadium and enjoyed a Brewers game. We left early, due to AWANA at night and from being COLD - but we heard the game went into over time - 15 Innings! (WOW) and the Brewers ended up losing by one run. We had a great time with our friends! Here are a few pictures from the morning portion of our day!

Todays card comes to you from QKR Stampede, you may check out more of the Design Teams work with some of their CUTE images HERE.

Here are some details for you:

Stamps: QKR Stampede Rose label, Happy Birthday

CHALLENGE: MOJO #136

Cardstock: Vanilla, Gold, Navy

Accessories: Gold Ribbon, Dew Drops, Mini Glue Dots, Martha Stewart Punch, Copics, Stickles

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a WONDERFUL day!!!

AWARDS AND A SPRING CARD

Hello again! I know TWO posts in one day! Can you believe it!? If you are coming here via a Direct Link - I have Blog Candy HERE.

First off, upon my arrival to BLOG LAND I noticed I won TWO FABULOUS prestigious awards. That brought a BIG SMILE TO MY FACE!!!

On top of those exciting Awards - I won a free stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs!

The card I am sharing with you today incorporates TWO challenges. I have TWO pictures because I couldn't decide which view I liked better so I thought I would go with BOTH of them.

The first Challenge was the MOJO Sketch which is pictured above. The second challenge was the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge ODBDSLC6 - This week the challenge team is challenging you to Think Spring and New Life- Since this is the first day of Spring, create something for spring using Spring colors, sentiments and images portraying New Life. (perfect time for an Easter Creation being that we are new creatures in Christ).

I embossed the Path of Life image from Our Daily Bread Designs on designer paper from the Western Sky Stampin' Up! - I love the Soft Sky paper and added a touch more color using Prismacolor Pencils to some of the embossed images.

Here is some more information:

Stamp Sets: Path of Life from Our Daily Bread Designs

Cardstock: Kraft, Cocoa, Soft Sky, Western Sky DP from SU

Accessories: Pearl Accents, Prima Flowers, Sponge, Nestibilities, Prismacolor Pencils, Gold EP, Heat Tool, Dimensionals, Stitched Ribbon

Have a blessed day! Thank you for stopping by!

MUSIC IN MY SOUL...

Hello! I made this card earlier, but then spent the rest of the afternoon running around picking up children and now I am making dinner, but had a quick moment to jump on in here and post here on my blog!

I have to say - I just LOVE Our Daily Bread Designs images and have enjoyed playing along with their daily challenges this week for their Anniversary special.

Todays card was made with several challenges:

MOJO SKETCH #13o

Splitcoast Stampers Color Challenge CC262 Razzleberry, Olive, Orchid were the colors!

Our Daily Bread Designs Anniversary Challenge - ODBD2AC4 we are challenging you to use your all time favorite Our Daily Bread designs Set! Well, I have several but this one is my "current" favorite!

Here are some more details:

Stamps: You Will Find Refuge from ODBD

Paper: Basic Grey Indian Summer, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive

Ink: Copics,

Accessories: MS Punch, Dew Drops, Primas, Pomegranite Stitched Ribbon, Flower Punch, Nestibilities, Dimensionals

Tonight - American Idol AND LOST is on! Those are some my favorite shows!!! Can't wait! We are also going to a friend's house to celebrate her birthday. So I may be late to watch American Idol, but we will record it. Ahhh Thank GOD for modern technology!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the BELLI CHALLENGE and we have something NEW we are introducing to you there! So come on back and join the FUN!

Have a wonderful evening!

BLOGGERS CHALLENGE GENUINELY GREEN

Hello! Todays challenge is to create something with a Color Challenge Greens/White neutrals as needed... I used Green, White and Gold... I also used the MOJO Sketch as my inspiration but went off a bit from it by adding the "Genuine Tag."

Here are a few more details:

Techniques: Wisped Frames from Technique Junkies

Challenges: Click here to see other Bloggers Challenge participants and Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge

Stamp/ Digital Image: Annie and her Hobby Horse by Mo's Digital Pencil (LOVE her images!), Bronco stamp by SU

Cardstock: Urban Prairie Basic Grey, Celery, Garden Green, Co'ordinations Earths, Gold

Accessories: Nestibilities, Star punch, Dew Drops, Copics, Stipple Brush, Green Apple Smooch, Dimensionals, celery grosgrain

For those of you who are following my weight loss - I did not have any loss this week, but you can see my before and now pictures HERE....

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

EASTER BLESSINGS

Hello! I had some time to play on Wednesday while my gremlins did school. I normally stamp or color with them while they do school. I get interrupted a lot, but it is something I can do to fill my time.

I made this card for the MOJO Sketch #126 and the Splitcoast Stampers Color Challenge #259

I used Technique Junkies Wisped Frames tutorial too!

Here are a few more details!

Stamps: Easter Blessings by FCD

Paper: Plum, Take Note by Basic Grey, White,

Ink: Memento Black, Copics

Accessories: Dew Drops, Paper Snips, Punches, Ribbon, Dimensionals, Stipple Brush, Technique Junkies Newsletter, Swiss Dots folder, Big Shot

Techniques: Wisped Frames

Tomorrow, I will be HOPPING along with Firecracker Designs By Pamela - so come ready for some ROMANCE and an announcement!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Your comments make me SMILE! Have a WONDERFUL day!

Belli Challenge #85 - butterflies and dragonflies

Hello! Today is Belli Challenge Day! For those of you who are following my weight loss, I have changed my weigh in day to Fridays... I will say I am DOWN from last week though, but for the exact numbers tune in on Friday! :)

We are SO thrilled over at the Belli Challenge Blog this week, we had a record breaking 271 players! WOW! Thanks so much for spreading the word. And if you have NOT played along with us in the Belli Challenge... COME JOIN THE FUN!

This week, we have a FABULOUS Sponsor - QKR Stampede - (they also own Eureka Stamps and Biblical Impressions) and they are giving away a generous $30 worth of rubber stamps - Your choice to one lucky winner who participates in the Belli Challenge!

We have a special Guest Designer - Jess Stockmeyer -

Today, I have TWO projects for you - the first one...well, it doesn't completely fall into the categories - so let's pretend there is a butterfly hiding in the refridgerator? Okay! I loved this image from QKR Stampede but didn't think about the Belli Challenge theme when I put my order in! LOL

I used Microsoft Word to type up the sentiment, which is one I utter (heehee) quite frequently since I have been dieting - Get it? Utter = Udder. Okay...I am over tired as I type this, so easily amused... bear with me as I finish writing this up.

Stamp Set: Raiding the Fridge by QKR STAMPEDE

Cardsotck: Wasabi, Black and White

Ink: Copics

Accessories: Dew Drops, White Gel Pen, Nestibilities, Big Shot, Ribbon

My second card fits the bill though!

Stamps: Gone Fishing by QKR Stampede

Paper: Basic Grey Archaic,Brown, Sage, White

Ink: Durango, Copics

Accessories: Brads, Nestibilities, Chocolate double stitched ribbon, Dimensionals, Cropodile, Paper Piercing tool

Be sure to check out the rest of the Belli Design Team's Blogs - they are sure to inspire you!

• Anne Harmon
• Ceal Pritchett
• Darsie Bruno
• Deb Daniels
• Fern Riley
• Holly Brown - Creator
• Jenny Gropp
• Joan Ervin
• Joy Hadden
• Liz Williams
• Maria Matter
• Melisa Waldorf
• Robin Kirkpatrick - Guest Designer Coordinator
• Steph Zerbe

Come join the fun on the Belli Challenge! We WANT YOU!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a WONDERFUL DAY!