Wink Wink Ink DT cards Welcome Baby!

These are my design cards for this week at Wink Wink Ink Stamps.

The name of the stamp is "Special Delivery".

By changing the colors and sentiments a little it is very appropriate for girls or boys!

My papers are of course my favorite Bazzill and baby papers from Heidi Grace.

I found a cute little Stork Charm for the boy card

and a little dressy baby shoe for the Girl card in my stash.

The ribbons were leftover pieces also from my stash, and my images were colored with copics.

My sentiment was computer generated.

Anniversary Blog Candy: 80th Birthday and Bridal Shower!

This post will stay close to the top of my blog: For newer posts please scroll down!

I had every intention to post my anniversary blog candy on the first, however time just did not allow! I had such a busy weekend.
I will be giving away 3 yes 3 blog candy offerings and for every 25 followers over 600 I will add another give a way in honor of my blog anniversary! All that you have to do is follow me, leave a comment and link my blog candy to your blog. If you do not have a blog, just send an email to 5 of your friends about my give a way!
This candy will end on the end of the month! (May)

On Friday night we attended my father-in-law's 80th birthday cookout. We had lots of fun visiting with family! Saturday, had me heading to northern Indiana, for my niece's Bridal shower. I am so proud of her that she waited until she found the best that God had for her. She was thinking that she was going to be an "old maid"(She is 28). But instead of settling and compromising her values she is marrying the perfect fella for her! I made a bridal card for her last week. I have to say that Charlotte from Midnight Madness gave me the idea for this wonderful card.

I wanted to use musical paper, in my card but had difficulty finding anything without alot of color in it. I ended up printing a song sheet out on card stock. Flowers were purchased at Archivers.

I used my new Holtz sizzex die cut for the swirls that were cut out of the same musical paper.
My eyelet trim are actually paper ribbon, that I just had to fasten down. Scripture sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Stamps. I thought that it was a perfect reminder for her that waiting on God's best is a beautiful thing!

This is a picture of one of the games that we played at the Bridal Shower. We were divided into 3 groups and given 3 rolls of toilet tissue and had to create a wedding dress. The two girls on the left side are my nieces, Molli and Britney along with one of their friends. They were all good sports. It took forever to braid that toilet tissue without it breaking. Can you tell which group I was in? (hint... far left ;) ) It was lots of fun!

Jessica (The up coming Bride, in the background) and her sister Molli. Even though there is a wide age span (11 years) , they are very close!

Pixie Cottage Challenge #20 with 2 cards this week!

It is another Once Upon A Wednesday . It is wonderful to have Bev Rochester from All The Things I Love as our guest designer this week.
Bev designs cards for companies like Magnolia, Stampavie and Whiff Of Joy and others too numerous to mention. So here is this weeks sketch.

As well as the sketch we have an optional technique of adding a Tag or a Pocket to your card, remember you can chose the sketch, the technique or both!

One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.
Winners will be announced on the Friday following the end of the challenge.
I have 2 cards to share with you this week for The Pixie Cottage. Both cards have images from The Pixie Cottages' new Digital Line. The new Digital Stamp line is illustrated by ARTISH.

This graduation card was created with Artish's Monkey Digital Stamp that is available over at The Pixie Cottage called Digital Stamps Let the Monkey Business Begin by ArTish
I used Bo Bunny & Bazzill papers for this cute card. My graduate was colored with copics and cut out and layered on cardstock that I embossed with my cuttlebug folder.

My next card was created with Digital Stamps Beary Special Wedding Bride by ArTish and Digital Stamps Beary Special Wedding Groom by ArTish. This card was created for a challenge that Michelle's Scrapbooking (Pixie Cottage) is sponsoring this week over at the Creative Inspirations Challenge. I distressed the edges of my papers and cardstocks. My cute Bride and Groom were colored with copics and layered for dimension.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
AI Factory - Brads and Animals
Speedy the Cat - Animal
One Stitch At a Time - Furry Friends
Paper Popsicles - Animals
365 Cards Day 85 - Flora and Fauna
Digital Tuesday - Cute People (I don't think bears ARE people but these ones are dressed up like people and sure are cute and are brand new digis!)
The Town Scrapper - Flowers and Lace
Creative Craft Challenges - Bows and Ribbons
Paperplay - Wedding Celebrations
Etsy Inspired - Wedding Invitation

MMSC #55 and the Anniversary Red Carpet Party!

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC54 Gold Star Award goes to...
45. Bonnie O'Clair
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
6. Christina C.
7. An
8. Chris Olsen
9. Karen Wallace
24. Gini Cagle
37. Nancy Bush
56. Gry-Beate
Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Random BBQ Comment Door Prize winner is ...
Bobbi
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Our MMSC54 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
37. Nancy Bush
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This Weeks Sneak Peeks (last week) for our Special Blogaversary Celebration!!

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*Our MMSC55 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

D' Amour Allure

Language of Love Text Collection – 24 Stamps
Pretty Little Things – Melissa
D' Amour Allure stamps include vintage styles to character art. Please browse the collections at our exclusive retailer, http://www.mcmahonfivedesign.com/
Thank you again Jeni for your wonderful prize :)
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**Our May Monthly Sponsor is....

PB Stamps
Dick over at PB Stamps has very generously offered up a 15% life time discount to 5 of our players….YES, you heard me right, 5 (five) winners will be randomly drawn at the end of the month!! WOW!.
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This is the envelope for my 3 step card

that followed this weeks sketch!
I just love Priscilla's Butterflies!

The template for this easy envie as well as those wonderful Butterflies are available at her store.

For the sketch I made my matching envelope to my Butterfly Happy Birthday Step card.

My main butterfly was created using Priscilla's Butterfly Digital Stamp Set.
I used chunky glitter as well as stickles for my glitterly affect on the butterflies.

This is a closer look at my Butterfly envelope front.

The design team will be showing off their RED CARPET DESIGNER DRESSES and we invite you to join in. Who are you wearing?
This is "who" I am wearing to the Red Carpet Celebration! Woohooooo come and join us!
I am linking my card to the following challenges this week!

Crafty Creations - Celebration Birthday!
Your next stamp challenge - Cut it out and pop it up
Stamp Something - 2 of something
Sew many cards - Anything goes
Doodle Palace - 3D (pop it up)
Pixie Dust studio - Cut it out

Wink Wink INk Stamp Fiona The Fish!

This is the birthday card that I created this week. I used Fiona the image 2 times, as well as her fish bowl. This set can be purchased at Wink Wink Ink Stamps.
My papers were by Basic Gray. and Bazzill. I used my cuttlebug embossing folder for the water in the fishbowl. I flipped the fish image so that they were facing each other before printing. My Fiona images were colored with Copics and then cut out. I used my Holtz sizzix cutter for the swirls. Stickles were added for glitter. I used crystal lacquer for the fish bowl to represent water.

I am linking this card to the following challenges:

Going Grey - Children (and BG)
Doodle Palace - Pop It Up
Charisma - 3D
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper
One Stop Craft Challenge - Summer Breeze
Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge - Cut it Out
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Summer Blooms
The Crazy Challenge - Something new (My new Tim Holtz
Die Cut)
Your Next Stamp Challenge Blog - Cut it Out and Pop it Up

Pixie Cottage Challenge # 19 ; 3-D Decoupage Paper Tole

It time for another Wednesday Challenge from the Pixie Cottage.
This week we have a wonderful sketch for you designed by one of our own design team members Pam!
As well as the sketch we have the technique challenge of Paper Tole. Some people call this Decoupage and the technique involves multiple layers of the same initial image. So you stamp more than one of the image and then cut out and pop up parts of the image to form dimension in the layers. It is not cutting out a whole of the image, just the parts that would be at the front/top layer if the image was in 3D. Hopefully you'll be able to see some of the effect on the teams cards.
Remember also that our challenges are "Take Your Pick" and you can choose to do the sketch, the technique or both!

One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.
Winners will be announced on the Friday following the end of the challenge.

This week I used this adorable stamp called
Love Bug by Eileen Gutierrez

My papers were 29th street Market by My Mind's Eye and my favorite solid is by Bazzill. While I was out at our local Micheal's, I found the Ladybug MS punch on clearance as well as these cute ladybug embellishments by Jolee. So I just had to use them!
I colored and shaded my ladybug image with copics on 3 layers. By cutting out just parts of the image and popping it up with dimensional foam pieces the 3-D look was achieved.
Join in our challenge with either the sketch or both and show us that beautiful artwork.

I am linking my card to these challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - Someone Special
Digi Doodle Best - Ribbon
Twisted Thursday - Ribbon
Pixie Dust - Cut It Out
Your Next Stamp - Cut It Out and Pop It Up
Creative Inspirations - Punches or Die Cuts (I used both)
Crafty Cardmakers - Inside Out

Midnight Madness BBQ Party and Sketch #54!

We had so much fun at the party last week!
Here are our winners of the door prizes! Congrats Girls!

Holly Moore – “Best Dressed” Disco Party

Beadz – “Best Dance Moves”

Gwen – “Memory Lane” Thanks for sharing.
Lori G.– Roaring 20’s “Best Dressed” and she made hers too ;)
CrystalBee – Ross Sister Party “Best one liner” OUCH!!
Sassylassy- Funniest Baby Comment

Now let’s get to this weeks Party for our Blogaversary Celebration. As promised we are going to have a BBQ. We would like you to share anything that pertains to a BBQ. By posting a comment below you will be entered in our random BBQ comment contest. It could be your favorite recipe, favorite game, favorite location, a family picture, or just a fun story. We would love to see what you would like to share with us and in return, our DT have all picked out one of their favorite recipes to share with YOU. So, as you drool over their fantastic creations this week you can also drool over their yummy BBQ dishes. Have fun and I can’t wait to see what you will all post this week.
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Now to this weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC53 Gold Star Award goes to...
28. Guro
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
36. Grace N
37. Gry-Beate
51. Barbara Anders
Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)

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Our MMSC53 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
11. Gloria Dojlido

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This Weeks Sneak Peeks for our Special Blogaversary Celebration!!

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Stamp n Create is once again our weekly Bonus Sponsor. Thank you for being a reoccurring Midnight Madness sponsor. We love working with your adorable images.

MMSC54 Weekly Bonus Prize is a $25 Voucher
Thank you Lacey
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**Our May Monthly Sponsor is....

PB Stamps
Dick over at PB Stamps has very generously offered up a 15% life time discount to 5 of our players….YES, you heard me right, 5 (five) winners will be randomly drawn at the end of the month!! WOW!.
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For my card this week, I used one of my favorite stamps from our sponsor Stamp and Create! This angel is sooooo sweet! She was colored with copics. Her wings were glittered with dazzling diamonds from Stampin Up. I broke out my old button box, for this card. I used some old and some new buttons to find the right color combination. I added a few rhinestones in the centers too. Even my ribbon was layered on and was from some old ribbons that were purchased at a garage sale years and years ago. My designer cardstock was from my stash from several years back. I used my favorite standby of solid bazzill in the layering.


For my BBQ Recipe, I decided to include my favorite recipe for BBQ sauce. I always seem to run out of sauce and this is so easy to make from ingredients that I always have in the house.

Denise's Smoky BBQ sauce:
Mix in a saucepan:
3 Tbsp Worcestershire
1 minced glove of garlic
1 cup ketchup
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup cooking oil
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 Tbsp vinegar (I use apple cider vinegar but white will work)
2 Tsp liquid smoke (any kind will do)(is in the section near to the worchestershire sauce and is a clear smokey flavored liquid)
1 medium onion, grated
1 Tsp celery salt
1 Tsp chili powder
Tabasco (depends how spicy you want it, a few drops for flavor, 1-2 tsp or more for spice)
Simmer on low for 1/2 hour
Wonderful on chicken, beef or pork. Enjoy!

Please share your favorite recipes with us! I will stop by for a sample!

I am entering this card into these challenges:

The Character cafe - recycle and reuse (my buttons are from old recycled buttons)

ABC Challenges - U is for unused stash (I have had my papers for several years)

Tusday Taggers - Step out of your comfortzone (I am really uncomfortable with using alot of buttons)

Shellys Images - Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - Someone Special ( I made this card for one of my best friends)

Pollycraft - Summer Blooms (blossoms in my image)

Pixie Dust Studio - Cut it out

La la land - Anything goes

Your Next Stamp - Cut it out and pop it up

WhoopsiDaisy - As you like it

Wink Wink Ink Thinking of You card using "Cat Napping" Stamp

This is my design card for this week for Wink Wink Ink Stamps. This set is called Cat Napping and it is just adorable. What I like the most about digital images is the ability to change the size. I have popped out my chair as well as my adorable kitty.
Flowers are by Prima (I colored plain flowers with my copics to match my image.
Papers were by bazzill and my designer papers were in an old stack of cardstock by DSW.

The Pixie Cottage Sketch Challenge #18 Vintage and or Distressing!

It's Wish Upon Wednesday time and it's time for another Special Guest Sketch Artist!
This time we have one of the Queen's of the Copic Markers, it's with great pleasure that today our sketch is designed by the very lovely Suzanne Dean from Scrapbitz!
Suzanne is a whizz with Copic's and has done many tutorials showing us mere mortals how she creates her masterpieces. She also has online classes at her Color Me Creative Classroom for those wishing to learn hands on.
As well as designing the sketch


Along with the super sketch for this challenge we'd love to see you get your hands a little inky and add some Vintage or Distressed touches to your creation.
Remember you can use the sketch, the technique or both!
One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.
Winners will be announced on the Friday following the end of the challenge.


I used one of our new stamps Dancing Maisy by Di Carubia, for my distressing technique card..
MS punches were used for the butterfly border as well as my butterflies in flight.
Make sure that you check out all of the other beautiful vintage and or distressed cards from our DT at The Pixie Cottage Blog challenge. I look forward to seeing your creations.

Challenges that I am linking this card to:
Crafty Cardmakers - Distressed
Die Cut Dreams - Shabby Chic
Tuesday Taggers - Out of Your Comfort Zone (this is the 1st Distressed card I've ever made)
Crafty Pad - Use Punches
Crafty Ann's - Anything Goes
Paper Scissors Rocks - Die Cuts

Midnight Madness Anniversary Party and Sketch #53

There's a party goin' on right here

Yes you have come to the right place!

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All week long the party is going on so keep checking back as we will be changing it up. We are going to be having so much fun and hope you will be joining us. So ladies, now is the time to put on those party dresses and dancing shoes!!! Now let’s get the party started.
This is no ordinary week at Midnight Madness!

Each day something different will be posted on the blog to keep the party going. To be eligible for the prizes, make sure you come back each day to see the new party theme and post another comment.

It will be an exciting week of activities and we need you to help with our celebration. You may not want to leave the party!!! We will be having door prizes from the comment section in addition to our regular drawings for each of the activities we post. The only requirement is that you have played "ONE" of our challenges in the past year and post your comment. That's it!! You’ll want to log onto the Midnight Madness Blog, grab your crafting supplies, and party with us each day for a chance to win.

If you are new, just join us for MMSC53!

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Now to this weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC52 Gold Star Award goes to...
31. Nancy Brown
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
17. SuperNan
35. Brenda
52. Holly Miller

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Our MMSC52 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
41. Stephanie Hester
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This Weeks Sneak Peeks for our Special Blogaversary Celebration!!

Scroll further down to discover which one of these is the one I am giving away!

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*Our MMSC52 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

The Stamping Boutique

**Our May Monthly Sponsor is....

PB Stamps
Dick over at PB Stamps has very generously offered up a 15% life time discount to 5 of our players….YES, you heard me right, 5 (five) winners will be randomly drawn at the end of the month!! WOW!.
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Here is this weeks Sketch

In honor of our Anniversary Party my design card this week has a musical theme. I used a cute Penny Black Stamp that I have had for a long time.
I embossed the image onto watercolor paper and pulled out my watercolors for these cute little mice. My flowers are by Prima with touches of pearls in the center. What a wonderful sketch this week.

These are my contribution to the prizes for our Anniversary party! These yummy flowers are by Prima and will be a lovely addition to someone's projects!
Good Luck!

I am linking this card to the following challenges:

Craft Angels - One for the Girls
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Any Way you Like
Pile it On - Cute and Cuddly
Stamp with fun: Friends
Totally Papercrafts: stitching
Crafty Creations Challenge: Magical
Wednesday Stamper: Flowers and rubber stamps
Wee Memories - Stitching

Wink Wink Ink DT card: Dream

This is my design card for Wink Wink Ink this week. As we are having a challenge to make an non traditional card. (No squares or rectangles), I chose to make a little circular card. What an adorable little girl. My image was colored and shaded with copics.

Midnight Madness Sketch #52 & Anniversary

As our one full year of Midnight Madness Sketches draws to an end. we bid a sweet farewell to Chris as this is her last week with the MMDT.. She will be missed so very much. Thank you Chris for helping bring the Midnight Madness Sketch challenges to where they are today. We could not have done it with out you. May your next Crafting Chapter bring you much joy and happiness! I will miss you, but know where to find you ;).

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We also have a TUTORIAL for you this week, so be sure to check it out too.

Once again, it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC51 Gold Star Award goes to...
5. Karen Wallace
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
15. Grace N
29. MrsBoz
53. Holly Miller

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Our MMSC51 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
Leigh
Our April Month End Winner is.....
Lori G
The Cruise Blog Candy Winner is....
Art Girl
Congratulations!

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Our MMSC52 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Throughout the month, our Design Team members will be randomly sending our weekly winners something special in the mail as part of our Anniversary celebration. Some DT may post these gifts on their blogs and some may leave it as a Mystery, but rest assured, if you are our weekly Bonus winner, not only will you win our Sponsors gifts, but you will also be getting showered with a few extra surprises in your mail box from the team!! How fun is that? :)

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**Our May Monthly Sponsor is....

PB Stamps
Great news PB Stamps stock most of the old retired stamps that are available nowhere but PB Stamps (an exclusive arrangement between them & Penny Black). You can even view old catalogs on his site: http://www.pbstamps.com/ Are you ready for this Months Sponsorship prize? Well, Dick over at PB Stamps has very generously offered up a 15% life time discount to 5 of our players….
YES, you heard me right, 5 (five) winners will
be randomly drawn at the end of the month!! WOW!.
So come play with us. Break out your Penny Black stamps or stop by PB Stamps and get yourselves some. (Any stamps are welcome to play our challenges, but let’s have some fun with Penny Black this month)
Thank you Dick we love Penny Black stamps and will be showing them off all Month. Thanks for the awesome Giveaway.. You are going to make a few Penny Black Lovers Very Happy :)
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For my design card this week, I inked up a Penny Black stamp that I have had for some time called "Coop Party". I found some nifty glue stickers that I used sparkle on for color. It was the first time that I have ever used them and thought that they turned out pretty well. It actually looks like it was part of the ribbon instead of an added embellishment. My papers were from a old stash of DW that I needed to use up. On my tag is stamped "Happy Birthday". As you can see I simply flipped the sketch on the side to accommodate my image shape.

I am linking this card to the following challenges:

The Creative Card Crew - May Flowers

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Summertime

By the Cute and Girly - Celebrations

Corrosive Card Challenge - Let's Celebrate

Cute Daisy May - As you Like It
The crazy challenge: bling bling

SD: something old (mine is paper, I have tons)
Crafty Hos': flowers
Kaboodle Blog: Celebrate Spring
Crafts and Me - Sparkle
Oh Alice - Card for a Child
One Stitch at a Time- Card for a child
Charisma- Girly card with flowers
Stamp with Fun- friends (Penny Black card)
Lexis creations- Animals (Penny black card)
Incy Wincy- anything goes
Saturday Secret Crafter- friendship