January 1, 2016 Bestie International Challenge

Happy New Year my friends and welcome to our very first My Besties International Challenge for 2016.  There will be many many more to come throughout the year, but this is the beginning of a new year and new beginning for us all.  Did anyone make any New Year's resolutions?  I stopped that practice years ago, but I am beginning the New Year once again with a grateful heart regarding all the blessings I have been given and looking forward to a wonderful new year.  I plan to continue to stay on my "healthy" journey.  This past year I was able to stay the course and I reached a goal that my Dr. set for me, losing 85 lbs, completely off  all insulin and my diabetic pills, and was able to mark an item off my bucket list.  What you say.....well I walked my very first 5K ever.  Not too shabby for a 71 year old gal.  So thankful and grateful to be where I am in my life.  Looking forward to more awesome "firsts" and changes to come for the better.

OK, so lets get on with the awesome challenge for this month called Color My World - Lots of Color.  Well I think my card certainly lived up to the challenge, cause there are lots of colors used.  I chose one of Sherri Baldy's 3D Images this time.  When Sherri first came out with these, I was afraid to try them, thinking I could never do all that cutting.  Well I bit the bullet a couple years ago, pulled out my scissors, then decided I liked cutting them out better with an xacto knife.  So the rest is history.  After my first one, I absolutely fell in love.  I love the 3D look on the cards.  So many dimensions.  You can find the image in Sherri Baldy's Etsy shop and can see it by clicking HERE

This is my card for the challenge:

Here is a side view so you can see the layers on the image.

I absolutely love the layered dimensions of the card.  So much fun.

Supplies used:
Sherri Baldy's 3D Image
Bazzill Cardstock
Lace from joAnns Fabrics
Flowers from Wild Orchid
Miscl papers I had on hand
Spellbinders scalloped Oval Die
Butterflys from AC Moore Crafts
Sentiment from Stampin Up

I truly hope you all will consider joining us in our challenge for this month.  It is a fun one and I can't wait to see all the beautiful creations you will use with all the color you want to add.

Please go to our blog and see all the rest of the design team's creations, and don't be shy, add one of your own to the challenge.  You can see the DT cards and enter your own by clicking HERE

Thanks again for stopping by.  Hope you all enjoyed my card and want to wish you all a very Happy New Year and may abundant blessings come your way during the new year.

I have entered this card in the followiing challenges:

http://creativecornerchallenges.blogspot.de/

Happy Stamping and Blessings,
Pat

January 1, 2016, Aussie Besties Challenge

Happy New Year everyone. Hope everyone had a wonderful new year's eve and looking forward to seeing what 2016 brings us all.  Wishing you all a very prosperous 2016 filled with lots of love, joy, and blessings.  

Today starts a brand new year as well as a brand new challenge with the Aussie Besties DT Challenge. It is called Anything Goes + Flowers.  This should be a challenge that appeals to a lot of you, as we all like to do our own thing a lot of times, so anything goes is a great way to start the new year.  Plus I think most of us use a lot of flowers, so anything goes plus flowers is an exciting challenge.  I have used one of Sherri Baldy's My Bestie digis and you can find this image in her Etsy store by clicking HERE

Here is my take on the challenge.  

I decided to use my one my favorite color combinations, purple and green and since flowers was a requirement, I certainly took advantage and used a lot of those.  

Supplies Used:

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Butterflies - AC Moore

Prima Doily Die

Miscl papers plus Sherri Baldy Papers

Watercolor paper for Image

Distressed Inks

This image is one of Sherri's newer ones.  I loved her when she came out and just had to color her to use for this challenge.  

I hope you will join us in this first challenge of the New Year.  You can see all the other DT's creations on our challenge blog and you can enter your own there too.  To do that, click HERE

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my card this month.  I would so appreciate if you would leave comments, I truly truly appreciate each and everyone.  

Challenges I'm Entering with this card

http://creativecornerchallenges.blogspot.de/

Happy Stamping and blessings to all,

Pat 

August 17, 2015 - My Besties International Design Team "Anything Goes" Challenge

Good Monday morning my friends.  Today is the beginning of our new challenge of Anything Goes on the My Besties International Design team.  I have two different cards to share with you this time.  Both are from Sherri Baldy's new release on August 15.  

The first image was one that Sherri designed from a photo of herself when she was in a wedding several years ago.  It is ohhhhh so cute.  I just had to color this one and wanted to make if a very "delicate" and "girly" card in honor of our amazing Sherri Baldy.  :-)  I hope you all like it.  You can find the image by clicking HERE

For this card, I started the design by using some of Sherri's beautiful new papers.  They just seemed to match the colors I was using for the image perfectly.  

She was colored using Prismacolor Premier pencils.  I colored lightly as I wanted a delicate watercolor.  The die is from Memory Box, the laces from JoAnn's, and the beautiful flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  

My next card is such a sweet image and I decided to do something a little different.  You can find this image in Sherri's Etsy shop by clicking HERE

 I colored her hair, skin, slippers, and santa's list with Copics.  But remember I told you I did something a little different?  Well I printed the image on some snowflake paper and then cut it out and paper pieced the dress and hair bow to the image I had colored.  Then added some really cute Christmas papers, die from Memory Box, Lace from JoAnns, and again flowers and white swirls are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Hey it's not too early to start on your Christmas cards or your Christmas list.  :-)  

I hope that you have enjoyed checking out two of Sherri's new releases and also hope that you will create one of your own cards to enter in our challenge this month to win some of Sherri's amazing digi images.   You see all the DT's cards for this challenge and also  enter the challenge by clicking HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by.  I hope you will come again and I also would love for you to leave comments.  They are truly appreciated.

Blessings and Happy Stamping to all!!!!

Pat

July 20, 2015 Challenge #15 - Anything Goes

Good monday morning everyone.  Hope everyone is enjoying their summer and staying a little cool.  Has it been hot in your part of the country.  We have had some pretty hot days here in South Carolina.  I cannot believe that it is almost the end of July.  The time is flying by for sure.  

Welcome to our brand new challenge for July.  Anything Goes.  This definitely leaves you a world of possibilities.  I have used the cutest image this time.  Well to me they are all cute and I so enjoy coloring them.  This one is a brand new release of Sherri Baldy's amazing My Besties.  You can purchase her by clicking HERE

This image just makes me smile and I love her sunny look.  I hope you like her.  

I used Tim Holtz Distressed Reinkers to color her.  I love the watercolor look and really like the Distressed reinkers.  You can also use the Distressed Pads or the Distressed Markers.  Either of these are fine.  

Would love for you join us in our Challenge at My Besties International Design .  Remember it is Anything Goes this time.  So get those creative juices going and color one of Sherri's images.  You can join us in the challenge or just go and see all the other DT cards and entries by clicking HERE

Thank you for stopping by.  Please feel free to leave comments, they are so appreciated.

Happy Stamping and Blessings,
Pat

April 1, 2015 - My Bestie Aussie Challenge 4

Hello everyone  and Happy April Fool's day.  Hope you all have had a great day and no one has played any April Fool's jokes on you.  It has been great here in sunny warmy Florida and no jokes anywhere thank goodness.  

Today is the beginning of a new challenge for the My Bestie Aussie Design Team.  This month's challenge is using one of Sherri Baldy' My Bestie images and incorporating Spring, Flowers, Bunnies, and Eggs.  You can use just one or two or all of these things in your design.

I have chosen another 3D Deco image for my challenge card this month.  She is called Fancy Pants 74 3D Sheet and you can find her at Scrapbook Stamp Society in Sherri's shop by clicking HERE

Here is the front view of my card

Side View to see layers

I just loved this image and all the layers that are involved it making it stand out.  I used cardstock that I had on hand and was amazed at how well it all went together.  Used Spellbinders die and butterflies are from another company that I cannot for the life of me remember.  When and if I can find the source, I will come back and edit the post.  Of course the beautiful flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, my favorite of all flowers.  The leaf flourish is a memory box die.

Sure hope you like the card and that you will join us in our challenge.  Please click on the link I am posting to go the our challenge blog and look at all the lovely cards that the rest of the design team created.  You can visit the blog by clicking HERE

Thanks again for visiting my blog and please leave a comment.  I truly appreciate each and everyone of them.

Happy stamping and blessings,
Pat 

March 30, 2015 - My Besties International DT Challenge #7

Good Monday morning everyone and welcome to our new My Besties International  DT Challenge using Bunnies/Eggs.  Well this is certainly a very appropriate challenge since Easter is just around the corner.

I have chosen another 3D deco image from Sherri Baldys beautiful images.  This one is called 3D Bunny Girl and you can find her in Sherri's Etsy Shop by clicking HERE

I have absolutely fallen in love with the 3D sheets and had a great time designing this card around the image.  I have also fallen in love with creating easel cards.  I just love they way they look and the added area that I can embelish the area that shows when the card is standing up.  So without further ado, here is my creation with this precious sheet.  

Front view standing up:

And here is a side view so that you can see the 3D layers:

This card has 5 cut layers of various parts of the image.  Normally I would not cut out the base part of the image.  I usually just use a die cut to frame the original image and then cut the other layers out, which usually consist of about 4 layers.  But I had this absolutely beautiful piece of paper that had a doily look surrounded by flowers and I knew that I was going to have to incorporate it somehow in this challenge.  Sooooo then I kept looking at it trying to figure out what I was going to do and the a light bulb went off and I said ok I know, I will also cut it out too.  Oh my, I didn't know what I was getting myself into, as there are a ton of flowers and leaves around the doily.  But I took out my trusty x-acto knife and my glass mat went to town.  it was not the easiest thing I have ever cut, but I was soooooo pleased when I finally got it done So I mounted Ms. 3D Bunny Girl in the center and thought ok I love the look, but it still needs some depth, so I pulled out some of my beautiful Wild Orchid Flowers and did groups of 3 around the doily, leaving spaces between so you could see the paper flower images in between the wild orchid flowers.  This piece of paper was in a set that I received and is by Anna Zaprizelska, It is called Just Love Me.  

The design papers are from Lili of the Valley.

Pink beaded swirls from AC Moore

Lace is from JoAnns Fabrics

I so hope that you like my card and that you will consider entering our challenge this month.  I would invite you to visit our Challenge Blog and see all the other lovely creations our very talented Design Team menbers have created.  And while you are there, why don't you enter a card of your own.  We would love to have you join us.  You can get to our blog by clicking HERE

Thank you all so much for stopping by and visiting and I hope that you will leave a comment here.  I truly truly do appreciate each and everyone of you who take the time to comment. 

Challenges I entering:

My Besties 3D Deco Blog 

Happy Easter all and Hugs and blessing to all,

Pat 

March 2, 2015 - My Besties International Challenge #5

Good Monday morning everyone.  Hope you all had a great week-end and ready to jump in and join us in our new challenge for this month.  We have a great challenge called 3D or 3 Layers with Option of  Using Buttons.  Well if you have been following me lately, you know that I have a big love of Sherri Baldy's 3D Deco Sheets, so this fit perfectly for me.  And I think the image I chose was right on spot.  LOL  Yep I chose her 3D image called Betsy Button....well that was appropriate, right?  You can find this beautiful 3D sheet by clicking HERE

I absolutely love this sheet.  Here is my card and take on the challenge for this month.  

I decided to do an easel card to showcase this image.  And of course I had to add a lots of embellishments.

Here is a side view showing a little of how the card is layered.  

And another side view from the other directions. 

The papers used were from my stash.  Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Spellbinder dies for the easel and the ovals.

I really hope that you all will join us in our great challenge this month.  You can find out the details and also join us by posting a picture of your beautiful creation by going to our blog by clicking HERE

Thank you all for stopping by and I look forward to your sweet comments.

Entering this card in the My Besties 3D Challenge HERE

Happy Stamping and many hugs,

Pat