Patches 'lil nap

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Milan Kundera

Good Morning Crafty Peeps!

A new month and new Progressive Freebie Challenge at DigiStamps4Joy Facebook Group.

This month our image is adorable puppy! Patches 'lil nap … If you wanna play along with the rest of us you can purchase the image HERE for a discounted price to get started!

My card is on the clean and simple side this month. I had ordinally printed the image so I could do a single layer card but when I started coloring I used ProMarkers instead of my Prisma Color Pencils and well … all that lovely bleed through had me getting creatiive with a few cuts and layering up! I am also practicing coloring with shades of black ... I'm not super thrilled with how his coloring turned out as it appears I did not do a grat job blending out the black but I'll get better.

Close up of the leaves with a touch of glitter to them.

Supplies

Digi Image Patches “lil nap from DigiStamps4Joy

Card stock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!

Glitter Glue from Studio G

India Ink from Memories

ProMarkers

Sentiment from Unity Stamps

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

From the Heart ...

Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.... ~Khalil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

Good morning! 

Today we start a new Anything Goes Challenge at Through the Craft Room Door!

Our sponsor this week is My Favorite Things with a $25.00 store voucher

I created a clean, 5 x 7 one-layer card using painters tape to create an edge mask. This is one of my favorite ways to create one-layer cards

Supplies

• Bubblegum Silk from Fun Stampers Journey
• Card stock from The Paper Studio
• Ink from Stampin Up! and Close to My Heart
• Sentiment from Stampin Up! All Year Cheer
• Stencil "Clockworks" from Stampers Anonymous (T.Holtz)

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

In the Beginning ...

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939 

Hi there!

Today starts a new monthly challenge at SheepSki Designs Blog Challenge. This month our challenge theme is “Red / hearts / romance / love”

The image I am using this month is Poppies – image no 116

Supplies

• Image printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White and colored with water based inks and a water brush
• Ink: Stampin Up!
• Rain Dots: Cloud 9
• Sentiment: Momenta 

Now ... You have two ways to play along with SheepSki Designs!

BLOG ... Where you can use any hand colored image for a chance to win 3 images ... BUT, if you use a SheepSki Designs image and are the winner, you get an additional image choice

or

FACEBOOK ... Where you must use a SheepSki Designs Image for a chance to win 3 images 

As a bonus, when you are done shopping in the STORE, if you use my code SKICARA10 at check out you will receive a 10% discount off your purchased! So, come along and play one or both! Can't wait to see what you create!

Looking forward to seeing your lovely creations!

(Hugs) Cara

Simply Lovely ...

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw

Good morning! 

Today is February 1^st and the start of a new Progressive Freebie Challenge at The Outlawz Challenges. 

This month we have this lovely image “Wild Rose” from Beccy’s Place and I am using her pre-colored version.

I tend to do more CAS/Simple cards and this one is no exception. It’s a single layer card with minimal embellishments.

Supplies

• Pre-colored image printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White card stock
• Glitter glue from Studio G
• Rhinestone strip from my stash
• Sentiment from Happiest of Birthdays by Stampin Up!
• Washi tape from Close to My Heart

If you would like to participate in our monthly Progressive Freebie Challenge, please register with your name and email address to: outlawzprogressivechallenge@gmx.com.

Each month we send you a free digital image to use in the Freebie/Progressive challenge. Once your creation is completed, upload it into the freebie challenge and you will automatically receive the next month free digi.  We will have one image per month so you have plenty of time to create a project using the image.

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to stop by The Outlawz Challenges where a new challenge starts every day of the week! 

(Hugs) Cara

May-June Edition of TTCRD Magazine

Good evening everyone!

The May - June 2016 Edition of Through the Craft Room Door is now available in the Subscribers Only area of Through the Craft Room. Our theme this edition is Birthdays, Baby's and Grandparents and we have loads of inspiration to get those creative wheels a spinning!

This edition offers several craft related articles as well as over a dozen tutorials including one for an awesome do it yourself spray dye. Ever considered trying your hand at Quilling? We have a tutorial offering the basics for this fun and interesting papercraft and if you love to use flowers on your cards but never seem to have the right color or size, we have two tutorials that work in both fabric and paper!

Here is the card I made using the "Flutterby" image, one of three given to us for personal use, by our Featured Digi Artist Andrea Norris of SheepSki Designs. 

More details about this card and others created by the Design Team of TTCRD can be found in the magazine!

If you are not a current subscriber, $18.00 gives you access to 2 years of back issues full of articles, tutorials, free images and lots of inspirations as well as 6 new bi-monthly magazines.

Click HERE to be taken to the website.

Flower Frenzy!

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey

Good morning all my crafty friends...

Today is the start of a new Anything Goes Challenge at Through the Craft Room Door.

We have a new sponsor this week

"Drawn with Character"

Please stop by her blog - she has quite the collection of adorable images and here is one that I am using called "Smiling Flowers" This set comes with a really cute bouquet smiling flowers as well as several sentiments.

Supplies

Image "Smiling Flowers" by Drawn with Character/Drawn by Krista

Cardstock from Georgia Pacific

Prisma Color pencils

Clear glitter glue from Studio G (Love this stuff!)

Lavender Liquid Pearls from Ranger

Aleen's Paper Glaze

Copic's

Sentiment from Halo Rubber Stamps

CAS Anything Goes!

They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.

Author Unknown

Good morning my crafty peeps!

Not only am I tardy getting this posted but I have been pretty much AWOL from my blog for a bit. But very little crafting has been taking place for me these past weeks! It hasn't been intentional. January is always a hectic month for our household as we try to reestablish routines disrupted by the holiday schedule. 

I finally sat down last night and wrote myself a daily routine list - It was something I really needed to do as I seem to be running around each day trying to fit everything in, only to hit that point of the day when I have to stop. Then I look around and wonder what the heck I did with all my time because my to do list does not appear to be any shorter than when I started!

The perpetual spinning of wheels in the mud bog. Lots of energy being expended but no forward momentum.

Add to this - my mojo decided  to head south for vacation too so I have been trying to track it down and drag it back home where it belongs!

I am actually not scheduled for this week at the Outlawz, but this is the last post for my dear CAS Sistah Charlene as she is headed off on a new adventure, both personally and artistically and I wish her much luck in this new endeavor.

Click HERE to visit her blog Crystaldolphin's Blog. You won't be disappointed!

We also have had a few other changes, one of which is the addition of a monthly prize specially for our CAS Challenge. 

Our Sponsor

Anonymous Donor

Is offering a $10 gift card to a store of choice for the winner this month!

Thank you so much Anonymous Donor for sponsoring our first ever CAS prize!

So this week the challenge at The Outlawz is Anything Goes which is perfect because I needed a fast birthday card for a co worker birthday.

This is simple CAS with no layers, direct to cs stamping with the imaged colored with watercolor pencils and a blender pen.

SUPPLIES

Card stock from The Paper Studio

Black India Ink from Memories

Watercolor pencils from Staedtler

Blender pen from Stamping Up!

Image "Leaves & Branches" from Martha Stewart

Sentiment from Hampton Art

Dots from Stamps by Judith

Thanks for stopping by by blog and don't forget to stop by The Outlawz to play along with us this week!

Click HERE to join us!

Diamonds & Pearl Challenge

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.  ~Author Unknown

Good morning!

Today is the start of another Clean and Simple Challenge at the Outlawz Challenge Blog!

This week Pryn is asking us to use diamonds (rhinestones, glitter, Stickles, anything that glistens) and/or pearls on our card or project. I opted for pearls for this party dress made with my niece in mind. Her 16th birthday is right around the corner.

Size A2

SUPPLIES

Card stock, ink, pearls and sentiment (Party Hearty) from Stampin Up!

Image - "Dressed Up: from Stampendous

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

(Hugs) Cara

Easter Sunday: The Outlawz Clean & Simple Challenge

Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal.  It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown.

Author unknown, as quoted in the Lewiston Tribune

Good morning!

Grace unto you as we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior. May the peace of God, which passes all understanding, keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Today is Easter Sunday!  Show us, in CAS style, what Easter means to you and perhaps you might share a brief happy Easter memory with us.

Easter has always been a happy time for my family, whether it was the Easter egg hunts with the kids when they were little or sharing dinner with family and friends. I love everything from the chocolate bunnies to hearing the story of Jesus's return from the grave to remind us that we too, can find everlasting life if we believe in him.

Here is my card 

Size A2

SUPPLIES:

Glossy card stock from Expedex

Image "Dainty Daisies" from Great Impressions

Sentiment from Stampin Up! "Never Ending Joy"

Ink used to color daisies from Stampin Up!

Bling on small flowers (hard to see in the picture) from The Paper Studio

Looking forward to seeing your CAS Easter creations and hear your stories!

Outlawz CAS Challenge: Masculine Birthday

Thought for the Day

“I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”

Thomas Paine

Good Morning! Did you all have a nice weekend? I sure did.

Today is the start of a new CAS Challenge at The Outlawz and it's perfect timing. My Father-in-laws birthday is coming up and this card will fill the bill nicely!

This is a pretty basic, no layer - stamped right on the card base card.

And I am pretty pleased with it! It actually came out like it looked in my head!

SUPPLIES

Card Stock, Brad, Ink & Sentiment from "Occasional Quotes" (Stampin Up!)

Image "Tiled Quad Cube" (Stampendous)

Be sure to click HERE and come play along with us this week!

The Outlawz CAS Challenge: "New Beginnings"

Good morning Friends,

Where did 2013 go already? As a matter of fact, where did any of the past years go? Although I would not change anything, every now and again, I do miss the days when my children were young. Especially around the Holidays when viewing everything through their eyes always pulled at the child that still dwells in my heart to come out and play. It's seems to me, that as adults, we do what society expects of us and we ignore that inner child in us in favor of "adult" behaviors. Speaking for myself, I often forget, that the small child inside me is a very large part of the foundation of who I am as an adult today.

We all make these lofty goals for the New Year. Lose weight, read more, get more organised. But these are not the resolutions I want to make for myself this year. Not this time .... What I want to do is  to try and let my inner child out to play a bit more often. To laugh out loud at the antics of our cats. To just stop and listen to the wind in the trees and the song of a bird. To see the wonder and beauty in everything. To gaze upon the world around me without prejudice.

Today's CAS Challenge at The Outlawz is "New Beginnings" 

Something new, like a new baby, a new house or job. Or maybe a new attitude!

My card is to remind me that I need a "New Attitude" about my inner child. That I need to "Be Playful" and find that something fun and special in everything I do and see.

SUPPLIES: Card stock (Stampin Up!), Image name unknown (Provocraft), Sentiment (TAC "Sail away"), Prisma color pencils

Come show us what your  "New Beginnings" for 2014 are.

Also entered into
2 Creative Chicks Anything Goes Challenge
Challenges4Everybody
Allsorts Challenge Blog

Outlawz Clean and Simple Challenge: Rest and Relaxation!

More fabulous cards from the CAS Design Team ... Please click HERE to visit the Outlawz Challenges!

This week we are celebrating Rest and Relaxation!

Something most of us are not going have much of with the incoming Holiday season! :O)

Here is my card

I colored directly onto my stamps and then stamped the images right onto the card stock. 

Quick, clean and repeatable!

SUPPLIES: Card stock (unknown), Images (Stampin Up!), Sentiment (The Angel Company)

NOW COME SHOW US YOURS!

You could win one of these fabulous prizes!

$15 store gift card from OOZAK

$15 store gift card from 7 KIDS COLLEGE FUND

$20.00 Value Gift Package of 20 Sheets of Cryogen Paper from THE PAPER TEMPTRESS 

3 free digi images from SQUIGGLEFLY

3 Prizes of 3 digis each of your choice from RICK ST. DENNIS

$10 store gift card from TOUCHED BY A BUTTERFLY 

HUGS

Cara

Sapphire

Good morning! Today is a new Clean and Simple Challenge at the Outlawz!

It's a September birthstone challenge. 

"Sapphire, the September birthstone, has been popular since the Middle Ages and, according to folklore, will protect your loved ones from envy and harm.  Medieval clergy wore sapphires to symbolize heaven, while commoners thought the gem attracted heavenly blessings".  This challenge is to make a monochromatic card using Sapphire Blue as the dominate color....keeping it CAS.

Here is my card for the challenge!

The mother/child image was given to me several years ago by a friend. I stamped with versamark onto glossy card stock, heat embossed with clear EP then lightly sponged with brilliant blue.

SUPPLIES: Stampin Up! (Ink), The Angel Company (Sentiment), Stash (Glossy card stock, image, sequins and clear embossing powder)

Please stop by top play along and take a chance at winning one of these fabulous prizes!

$15 store gift card from OOZAK
$15 store gift card from 7 KIDS COLLEGE FUND
$20.00 Value Gift Package of 20 Sheets of Cryogen Paper from THE PAPER TEMPTRESS 

3 free digi images from SQUIGGLEFLY

3 Prizes of 3 digis each of your choice from RICK ST. DENNIS

$10 store gift card from TOUCHED BY A BUTTERFLY 

Giving Thanks for you!

Another card from Crafty Peeps Scrap day.

This is a very simple CAS card. I think it took longer for me to make the stencil than the card!

I used a Leaf punch from Marvy to create a stencil that I placed on the paper and sponged over.
I stamped over the leaf with a wheat image and the sentiment

Supplies:
Card stock, sentiment and ink: Stampin Up!
Leaf punch: Marvy
Wheat image: $1 bin find

Thanks for looking!
Cara

One layer Birthday card (for Oscar)

This card will be entered into the Outlawz Clean & Simple Challenge

SUPPLIES:
Card stock: Confetti Kraft (Stash)
Image: Biblical Impressions
Ink: Stampin Up!
Sentiment (Unknown)
Spellbinder die (Used to create a mask which I used to sponge on the background)

Birthday for Alex

This is a card for co worker and was entered in the Outlawz CAS challenge

SUPPPIES:
White cardstock unknown
Image: Stampin Up! (Lovely as a tree)
Sentiment: Stampin Up! (Unknown set)
The trees were heat embossed with Aspen (Mfg unknown)

3-24-13 Outlawz Clean and Simple Challenge

Made this card for The Outlawz CAS Challenge CAS032413

Birthday card for Steve