~CEL-E-BRATE GOOD TIMES...with Limited Runs & The Cutting Cafe~

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!! Hope you remembered to wear your green today!! Unless you're into the kinky stuff and like to get pinched ... lol 
Anyways...two weeks sure has flown by! To hell with the weeks, this year is flying by! We're already half way through March. Anyways, we've made it to Thursday, and that means its time for a new challenge at Craft Us Crazy!! This weeks challenge is CUPCAKES and/or a CELEBRATION theme! I used a cute image from Limited Runs Stamps called Tall Drink #2 and a few great printable/cuttable files from The Cutting Cafe called Happy Birthday Frame Word Block and Frame Shaped Card. We hope you'll be able to join us because we have a great sponsor for the next two weeks.....

When I started creating christmas cards for my friends I didn't realize how addictive it could be and it's slowly been getting larger. We all start somewhere and it's been growing.Creating Digi's just happened to be a blend of using my drawing and computer graphix together to create "Limited Runs"which is my digital stamp store. I've also started Freebie Fridays and will be doing this for a Limited time too. Each may be posted from 1 day to ??? (Limited Time Offer) May you all enjoy my digi's as much as I love to make them. So if your looking for some YUMMY cupcakes I've got over 70 Varieties to choose from with more always in the works. Don't worry there are also others available too from Cute to a little scary. Pop by and you'll see what I mean!!! And we have occassional large seasonal Digi's for those who scrapbook digi's that are 8 By 8 Inches too these will pop up from time to time and be Limited Runs too.  

Be sure to check out The Cutting Cafe and Limited Runs for some awesome digis and printable/cutting files. Limited Runs is offering 3 Digis to the winner and a digi stamp to each Top 3! There's also an inspiration challenge at The Cutting Cafe where you could win 3 stamp sets of your choice and a buy one get one deal on all background files. 

Now on to my card....

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Limited Runs - Tall Drink #2 

The Cutting Cafe - Happy Birthday Frame Word Block

The Cutting Cafe - Frame Shaped Card

Copics - BV04, 08, 11, 13

C1, C2

E25, 33, 34 - Lt. Choc

E29, E39 - Dk Choc

DCWV - Nana's Nursery Baby Boy Stack - Patterned Paper

GA Pacific Cardstock

DCWV - Christmas Cardstock - Solid Brown 

Stampin' Up - Lavender Lace Ink

CTMH - Organdy Ribbon - Purple

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Amber's Crafts and Stuff - Anything Goes
Freshly Brewed Challenges - Spots and Dots
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges - From the Kitchen
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Happy Birthday
Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Happy Birthday
Try It On Tuesday - Chocolate Therapy
Kaboodle Doodles - Happy Birthday
The Shabby Tea Room - Birthday and/or Celebration
Stamps R Us - In The Kitchen
Meljen's Designs - Dots 
Do You Stack Up - Add A Bow

~HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM THE CUTTING CAFE~

Happy Sunday!!! Boy did this weekend fly by rather quickly, at least to me it did. I can say it was an entertaining weekend but I'd be lying. I'm actually glad it's almost over. But anyways, I did find some time to make this birthday card with the NEW! Ribbon Sentiments Banner Set & Shaped Card that was just released over at The Cutting Cafe! Regina has done it again by creating a wonderful stamp set! You can't go wrong with 48 images and a shaped card cutting file for only $4.99! So many possibilities with this set and so fun to play with. I used a freebie image from Cuddly Buddly, I thought it was cute little birdie. I can see many more cards made with the Ribbon Sentiments Banner Set in my future! I have quite a few birthdays coming up in the next couple of weeks. So one down...upteen more to go! 

 I hope you enjoy my card and hope that it inspires you to find some time and create something for yourself or someone special! And if it doesn't, then there's creativity and inspiration surrounding us all over blog land and especially at THE CUTTING CAFE! I hope the upcoming week is a great one for everyone! 

~SUPPLIES USED~

 The Cutting Cafe - Ribbons Sentiments Banner Set & Shaped Card

Cuddly Buddy - Freebie Birdie Image

DCWV - The Summer Stack (Printed Paper)

The Summer Cardstock Stack (Solid Paper)

Papertrey Ink - White Cardstock

Stampin' Up - Classic Ink Real Red

Stickles - Orange Peel, Xmas Red

3/8" Red Nylon Ribbon

Glossy Accents

Creatology - Wiggle Eyes - 4mm
Green Buttons from Stash
Hemp Cord

Copics - C2, R27, RV21, Y11, Y13, Y17, YR12, YR68 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges: 
All Sorts - Luck O' The Irish
ECP Challenges - GREEN
Send A Smile 4 Kids - Anything Goes
Card Makin Mamas - Something Green
Delicious Doodles - Use Green
Fairy Fun Fridays - It's My Party/Party Theme
Totally Papercrafts Challenges - Shaped Cards
Aud Sentiments - Birthday Theme
Crafty Purple Frog - Something with Wings
PaperCrafting Journey - Things with Wings
StampInsanity - Anything Goes with a pop of Green
Creative Card Crew - No Flowers
Paper Sundaes - Keep It Simple

~A Few Birthday Cards~

Happy Monday to everyone! Wait...is that even possible....a HAPPY Monday?? Hmm I'll have to think about it and let ya know on Tuesday. Anyways just a short posting today with a few birthday cards that I made for my sister and sister in law. It's very sad that I've been married to my husband for almost 20 yrs, and I really don't know anything about his brother's wife. With us in the military, I see them MAYBE once a year at the holidays and then nothing in between. So it was really hard to come up with something for her, not really knowing things she liked. But I think the decoupaged card I finally settled on works, and hopefully she'll like it. So far so good on my resolution of sending out cards to everyone!

Ok so this one was for my sister. I was inspired by Holly and loved her sentiment that she used, so I knew it would make a cute card for my sister. More than not, my sister has a pretty good sense of humor, so hopefully she got a chuckle out of it.The image is from Squigglefly. Papers are from the DCWV Latte Stack. Her favorite color is Purple, so tried to make that the main color of the card.

The card below is the one I finally decided on for my sister in law. It's a decoupage sheet I bought from CraftsuPrint and made by Carol Clarke
I liked the colors of it and though it was subtle and would fit any personality. Well I hope so anyways lol I printed it out a few times and pieced different areas. Some that were shown on the sheet, and other areas that I chose to do on my own. Highlighted some areas with Crystal Stickles and Tiara Glitz Stickles and put it on a black cardstock base.

Thanks for looking and hope they inspire you to make something today!

~BINGO!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY...THE CUTTING CAFE~

Hey yall!!! Phew thank gosh it's Thursday! This year is already flying by, I mean we're almost done wih January! We'll be celebrating 2012 before we know it!!  But that means I need to get realllllly moving on Birthday cards then! It's my goal this year to make and send out a birthday card to most of my family this year. I would love to send out to everyone (cousins, aunts, uncles, 2nd-3rd cousins and so forth), but geez I would never be doing anything else if I done that, and honestly I don't know everyones birthday...oops! Ahh well if it wasn't posted on Facebook, they wouldn't know mine either lol so we're all even!

 Anyways, on to my card this week! This card was made for my mother in law. I love the Bingo sets that Regina has at The Cutting Cafe, so for this card I chose to go with the Bingo Card Set Printable Stamp set. There are SOOOOO MANY pieces in this set, that you could make a card for any occassion! Hopefully she'll get what I was going for with the Happy 'Bee' Day, but if not, she'll think it says HAPPY DAY! lol I used the bee from the Animal and Bug Mini Colored Circle Printable Stamp Set and cut it out to put on top of my ribbon flower, layering it twice to give it some depth. Used some black wire from my stash to make his antennas. Not real thrilled with the colors but it's her favorite colors and her card so what can I do..lol I probably would've threw this paper out since it came in one of my stacks but I think I'll put it in a special 'Mother In Law' drawer. 

 I hope you enjoyed checking it out and as always thank you for visiting and taking time to leave me little comments! They're always fun to read and always appreciated!! Now what are you headed for, head on over to The Cutting Cafe and check out all the inspiration that's posted there, along with all the wonderful stamp sets and cutting files and see what you can be inspired to make!!

~SUPPLIES USED~

Bingo Card Set Printable Stamp set - The Cutting Cafe

Animal and Bug Mini Colored Circle Printable Stamp Set - The Cutting Cafe

The Spring Stack - DCWV

The Spring Cardstock Stack - DCWV

White Cardstock - Stampin' Up

Walnut Stain Distress Ink - Tim Holtz

Ice Green Pearls -- Basics by Kaisercraft

Organdy Autumn Garden Ribbon - Close to my Heart

Glossy Accents - InkEssentials

Crystal - Stickles

Black Wire from stash
I'm entering this card into the following challenges -
The Stamp Man - Distress
Fairytale Challenge Blog - Flowers
Fairy Fun Fridays - Birthday
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Anything Goes
 Our Daily Bread - Wing It (bee)
 Creative Inspirations - Birthday
Craft Your Days Away - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Flowers
Pile It On - Anything Goes 
One Stitch At A Time - Theme is NEW! New year of life, New ribbon, New Stamp Set
Gingerloft - Celebration (Birthday)
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Things with Wings (Bee) 
Karber Weekly Challenge - Ribbon (Flower made of ribbon)
Stampin' Royalty - Anything with Wings
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Birthday
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Anything Goes 
Delightful Challenges - Celebration (Birthday)
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge - Distressing
AiFactory Challenge - Anything Goes
Wee Memories - Ribbon

~OUT OF THIS WORLD BIRTHDAY~

Yes it's me again! 2 Cute Rubber Stamps has this cute little cupcake being offered in their FREEBIES section to use in their current challenge. There's quite a few different variations of the cupcake, female or male, so hurry over and get yours and see what ya come up with for their challenge this week!  While you're there, check out the 2 Cute Design Team Call they have going on! You have until Aug. 31st to get your application in!

I decided to use the little boy cupcake to make a Birthday card for a little boy. I hope you like and thanks for looking!!!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

2 Cute Rubber Stamps & Digi Stamps --  Mini Cupcake Dots

DCWV Latte Cardstock Stack -- Solid Purple Paper

DCWV Summer Cardstock Stack -- Solid Brown & Teal Paper

DCWV All About Boys Stack -- Patterned Paper

Neenah Smooth Cardstock

Liquid Pearls -- Mint Green

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Twinklets -- Diamond Dust

Stickles -- Platinum

Metal -- Metal Bling from pair of Jeans that were bought

Stampin Up Classic Ink -- Close to Cocoa

Copics - 0.3 Multiliner

BV000, 11, 13

E34, 37, 39

G20, 21, 40

R24, 27, 29

I'm entering this into the following challenges -

2 Cute Rubber Stamps Challenge -- Use Cupcake Freebie

Challenge Up Your Life -- Celebrations

Paper Cutz -- Use Metal

Bee Crafty -- Anything Goes

Pixie Dust Studio -- Stitch it Up - Real or Faux

Meljen's Designs -- Happy Birthday

Cute Card Thursday -- Dying For a Punch (NO Punches/Die Cuts on your project)

~Runnin' A Lil Behind..Stitchy Stamps & More Inspiration~

This week at Sew Many Challenges we have an awesome sponsor for our "Christmas In August" challenge...Stitchy Bear Stamps!! Stitch is an awesome artist and lady, so you need to hurry over and check out all her images and the fun stuff they have going on at their challenge blog, One Stitch At A Time, as well!! 

Stitch was generous as always and allowed our sponsor team to pick out an image to work with, and I chose "Lil Behind". She is absolutely adorable...the image that is...well Stitch is too, but we're on the image now!!..lol Anyways, as soon as I seen her, I knew exactly what I was going to use her for, my belated Birthday card for my Father-In-Law! Isn't sad when you know a month ahead that you're going to need a belated card lol And I was right! Maybe I can tell him I was distracted by mine coming up on Sunday That I forgot about his?? lol Hopefully when he gets it, he puts the sentiment inside the card with the image..we'll see...lol 

I love checking out challenge entries because you never know what talents you'll come across, and that's exactly what happened today! We had an entry over at Sew Many Challenges and when I went to the blog, I discovered a blog of inspiration through Sketches! Arianne Addicks has some awesome sketches that you can use for inspiration on her blog, and thats exactly what I did with my card. You need to really check out her blog. Not only are her sketches great but her work is amazing!! 

 

So what are you waiting for?? Grab ya some images at Sew Many Cards and Stitchy Bear Stamps and start creating!! We've got two great challenges for you to join in and have fun with!!

Ok so I'll hush now and post my project lol Thanks for looking and hope you like it!!

~SUPPLIES USED~

 DCWV Summer Cardstock Stack

DCWV The Stack 6

Neenah Super Smooth Cardstock

Copics

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher (Staples as Candles)

Smooch -- Moonlight & Kiwi

Computer Generated Sentiment -- Comic Sans Font

Martha Stewart -- Cake Charm

 Stampin' Up Classic Ink -- Taken with Teal

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time -- Say It With Shapes

Rosie-D's Challenges -- One for the Big Boys

Andrea's Stampin' Moments -- Simply Squared 

Create 4 Fun -- Birthday Card

Stampin For the Weekend -- Anything Goes

Stamp Something -- Use Something Digi (Image on front)

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp -- Blooms and Charm (flowers on front and charm inside)

Meljen's Designs -- Brown, Teal & Orange

Paper Romance -- Metal Heads (Birthday Cake Charm inside)

The Craft Den Anything Goes Challenge -- 3 Layers

Digital Tuesday -- Use Your Scraps (Papers are from Scrap box)
Paper Cutz -- Anything Goes

~SMC #20...IT'S "SEW" GOOD TO BE BACK CHALLENGE~

Welcome back to Sew Many Challenges!! Our team took a small summer break to regroup and have some family time but we're back and ready for some new challenges!! This week's challenge is...."To use stitching, faux or real stitching on your project!" There are some amazing images at the Sew Many Cards store, so head on over if you need some images for your challenges this week!!  
We've got a new sponsor joining us this week! Tiffany Doodles is giving 5 digital images, singles or sets, from the Tiffany Doodles store to the winner!! How awesome is that!

 Tiffany has got some really cute images up for sell in her store, so you have to go check them out. Be sure to read all about Tiffany Doodles at Sew Many Challenges under the Sponsor Spotlight!! Join Sew Many Cards and Tiffany Doodles over at the Crafters Digital Arts Center!

Tiffany let the SMC Sponsor team play with a few images this week and I chose to use the "Let Them Eat Cake" set! I love watching the Food Network when they design these cakes so thought I'd try my hand at it in a different medium lol My nephews birthday is coming up next week, so thought I'd make him a cake using his favorite college football team as a theme. Hope you enjoy!!!

Supplies Used

Tiffany Doodles -- Let Them Eat Cake Image Set

Neenah Cardstock -- Super Smooth White

Sports Solution School Scraps -- Georgia Tech Paper 

Solid Cardstock -- DCWV Cardstock Stacks

K & Comp Collegiate Dimensional Stickers -- Georgia Tech Grand Adhesions

K & Comp Collegiate Clearly Yours -- Georgia Tech

Glossy Accents

Signo Uniball Broad -- White Pen

Stampin' Up Classic Ink Pad -- Night of Navy

Liquid Pearls -- Platinum

Stickles -- Yellow & Frosted Lace

Copics -- Cake Dish - C1, C2, C3, C5

Cake Icing - Y11, Y13, Y17

Dots - B39  
I'm entering this in the following challenges!
Your Next Stamp -- Birthday
Sentimental Sunday -- Anything Goes 
Stamps R Us -- All Male Theme 
Stamptacular Sunday -- Just for Boys 
Secrety Crafter -- It's a Man's World 
C.R.A.F.T Challenges -- Insects
Papertake Weekly -- Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (one or more of these) -- I chose something new as most of project contains all new images and products 
Lil Red Wagon -- Circles, Circles, Circles
Challenge Up Your Life -- Celebrations 
Penny's Paper Crafty -- Anything Goes 
Crafty Creations -- Winged Things 
Ooh La La Creations -- Spots and Dots 
Incy Wincy -- A Bug's Life 
2 Sisters Challenge Blog -- Stitching 
Craft Your Days Away -- Favorite Things (copics, Glossy Accents) 
Crafty Cardmakers -- Birthday
Donnas Den of Crafts -- Something Sweet (Birthday Cake) 
I Did It Creations -- Anything Goes 
Party Time Tuesday -- Birthday Anything Goes 
Scrappy Frogs -- Stitching 
Simple Doodles -- Celebrations 
The Stamp Man -- Easel Card 
Charisma Cardz Challenge -- Easel Card

~Sew Many Cards..Challenge #9..."Miki's having a party!!~

This weeks challenge at Sew Many Cards is a sketch challenge!!

I've included it below so that you can get started!! You can use any image you'd like but we'd love to see it made with a Sew Many Cards image! We've still got Breast Cancer Awareness Kitty up for grabs from Freebie Friday...so hurry before it's gone, if you'd like to use her for your challenge!! Once you're ready please use Mr. Linky on the Challenge post or email Angela with your card or details to angela@sewmanycards.com - Mr. Linky seems to not work all the time, so just shoot her an email and she will manually enter you.

This challenge ends midnight PST 10/26 and you will win 3 images of your choice and a surprise gift!

This week I chose to new an upcoming New Release from Sew Many Cards. It's Miki getting ready to dig into his birthday cake!!

~Supplies Used~

Sew Many Cards Digi Image.. "Miki having Cake"

Debbie Mumm Paper Stack from JoAnn's

Stampin' Up! Whisper White Cardstock

Prismacolor Pencils & Gamsol

Computer Generated Sentiment using the font Berlin Sans FB

Uniball Signo Broad White Pen

InkEssentials Glossy Accents

Stickles -- Waterfall & Cinnamon

Hope you like and thanks for looking!!!!

Make sure to check out the design team work this week. Don't forget to say "HI" while you are there:
Cheri Graves

Deanette Wooster

Donna Hurst

Georgia Smith

Jenn Grisom

Jennifer Scull

Jeri Moody

Julie Gastelum

Kim Greenlee

Mary Grubbs

Sarabeth Burke

Sheila Currie

Stephanie Vaughn

Trish Fairclough

Wacky Wednesday Freebie at Robyn's Fetish

Wacky Wednesday Freebie at Robyns Fetish Challenge Blog!!!

This pegasus is a such a cutie!!! Imagine the possibilities this awesome digistamp!

Hurry and get your freebie before it's gone and be sure to post it on the challenge blog! We would love to see what you do with it, and feel free to use the freebie in future challenges on our blog!!!
Hope to see you there!!!!

I used my freebie pegasus along with another Robyn's Fetish Image! See how versatile the images can be with each other! You're not just limited to one image or the other, you can use them with each other as well!!!

I thought this image, along with Princess Gina, would make a cute birthday card!

~Supplies Used~
Robyn's Fetish Digi Images -- Pegasus & Princess Gina
DCWV Once Upon a Time Stack
Stampin' Up! Whisper White Cardstock
Prismacolor Pencils & Gamsol
Cricut cartridge -- Castle from Paper Doll Dress Up
Stickles -- Tiara, Sequins, Cotton Candy, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Yellow

Hope ya like!!
Thanks for looking!!

~Edwin sings Happy Birthday & Twilight Bookmarks~

My youngest son asked me to make him a birthday card last night to give to his friend at school today. He really made my night when he asked me to do it. Of course he didn't like the, what does she like, what colors, what...what...what....lol so he said "just do what ya want..." lol So I did...lol I ended up having to tell my son the story behind the Magnolia stamps, he thought I had left off the mouth. He did tell me that he couldn't be Edwin because he (my son) has a big mouth lol

Anyways enough babbling....

~Supplies Used~

-Magnolia stamps..'Edwin with Guitar' & 'Rock Wall'

-prismacolor pencils and gamso

-Stampin' Up! Whisper White Cardstock

- Debbie Mum Paper Stack
-Computer generated sentiment using the fonts -- Care Bear Family & Webdings

-We R Memory Keepers Crop A Dile Corner Chomper

-Dew Drop Ink... Red, Blue

Hope ya like and thanks for looking!!

Next are some bookmarks I made for a Twilight swap on the Cricut board. I got the cut file from a member on the board, cydnewright.

Supplies used--

Plantin Cricut cart

Xmas Red, Green, Frosted Lace and Black Diamond Stickles

Glossy Accents

Uniball Signo White pen for stitch look

Black and Red cardstock

Happy Birthday....

I made this card tonight for my Father in laws birthday. It was totally inspired and cardlifted from Okie over at Okieladybug's Scrap N' More. Ever since Okie posted it on the Cricut MB last year, I knew I wanted to make this card, and who better for, than my father in law lol Thank you Okie for sharing your talents with all of us!

Ok...The mountains, mountains shadow, donkey, and rope was made from the Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut cartridge. Sentiment was cut with the Base Camp Cricut cartridge. I'm not sure about the sizes because I used Design Studio to size, but the size of the card is 6 1/2in x 5in, if that helps any. The background paper is from the Debbie Mumm Baby Stack. I went over the clouds with white flock and used black flock on the mane and tail of the donkey. The eye, nose and hooves are accented with Glossy Accents. I went over the rope cut with Westrim Crafts Jute Packaging Twine.

Thanks for looking and hope you like!

Sorry So Slow....

Here's a card I made for a friend of mine for her birthday. It was funny though because this was the one time that the post office got the card there ON her birthday lol so kinda deleted the purpose of saying Sorry so Slow lol But anyways, the turtle is a Dustin Pike image. He is awesome!!

I was experimenting with my copics and with layering...I think it turned out alright. i know I have a lot more learning to do though. Coloring was done with Copics and PrismaPencils w/Gamsol. I printed off and colored the image 3 times.

Hope you like and thanks for looking!