4/4 GDT - Creative Stamp Friends - swirls

Happy Monday!   Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

I've created a sweet Sugar Nellie card I'd like to show you today!

For the next couple months I'll be guest designing for the Creative Stamp Friends challenge blog!  Thanks ladies for asking me to join in!

Our challenge today is swirls, easy peasy, right?

(squint real hard & you can see the dry embossing on the oval) 

Stamps: Sugar Nellie (flower girl)

Papers: Memory Box dp

Ink: Copic markers

Other: Sizzix swirls, CB emb folder, dew drops,

MS border punch, seam binding, Prima flower & floss.

I love these sweet stamps, but never seem to get to them!   They're so much fun to color!

I hope you can come play with us over the next two weeks!  Pop over to the challenge blog to see all the wonderful DT creations!  Creative Stamp Friend Challenge blog!

Creative Stamp Friends has bi-weekly challenges on Monday 

with no vender restrictions...use

 whatever you like to meet the challenge!

The challenge is written with an English translation,

 no need to use a translator!

Blessings!

I shared my card today with...


By the Cute & Girly -  Cute and Girly
Desert Island Crafters - choose 3 or more from the list (ribbon, bow, dots, child image)
Stampsmith Challenge -  The female of the species
Card Makin' Mamas - embellish it
Make It Monday -  your creation
Card Cupids - Dots and/or Stripes
Corrosive Challenges - Pastel Colours
Crafty Pad -  Flowers
Creative Cowgirls - Spring
Creative Inspirations Paint -Spring
Gingerloft -Got the Blues
Card Ideas - Spotty Dotty 
Crafty Emma - Children
One Stop Craft -  Spots and Dots 
Crazy 4 Challenges - Sketch
Catered Crop -  recipe...

• Pattern Paper –  polka dots
• Colors – green, blue, and yellow
• Color Mediums – stamping ink
• Embellishments – ribbon
• Shapes – scallops, and swirls

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11/10 Creative Belli - old, new, borrowed, blue

Welcome to the middle of the week! 

It's time for another wonderful Creative Belli challenge!  This time our theme is to use something old, new, borrowed or blue!   Use one or all and it does not have to be a wedding card!


I'm really starting to miss getting inky so I dug out this old but wonderful stamp!!!  I adore Sugar Nellies!

Stamps: Sugar Nellie (letter box)

Papers: SU! kraft & kraft dsp, K&Co dp, vintage text

Ink: Copics

Other: ribbon scrap, old button covered in vintage text, floss

This one was a 2008 Elisabeth Bell released Sugar Nellie!  Classic!   Not sure if it's still being sold anywhere!
Sorry for the sunshine streak on this photo, please ignore it!

Check out how the rest of the Belli girls interpreted this theme...
Chris Dickinson
Holly Brown
Anne Harmon
Ceal Pritchett
Chris Olsen
Darsie Bruno
Jessica Stockmeyer
Joan Ervin
Joy Hadden
Robin Kirkpatrick
Robin Parker
Shelly Schmidt

Creative Belli Challenge - old, new, borrowed, and/or blue!
also...
Stamps R Us - buttons and bows
Let's Ink It Up - recycle it...ribbon, button & text
Crafty Cardmakers - Stitching
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Marker Madness
Oh la la - Remember Remember

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Have a great hump day!
blessings!

This card won...

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Sugar Nellie-Leanne Ellis' Cup of Tea

Happy Saturday!

I've been sorting my stash and found another un-inked stamp! A sweet Sugar Nellie...

Stamps: Leanne Ellis Designs (Cup of Tea),
sentiment -CG
Paper: SU! cs, K&Co dp
Ink: Copics
Other: MS border punch, Offray ribbon,
Kaisercraft gem, dewdrops, Nesties,
charm is an altered jewelry charm,
piercing tool for faux stitching,
dyed doily from Mary Duffek

This was a fun make! The dyed doily was handmade by Mary Duffek, a DT sister from Doodle Pantry. She makes lovely creations & embellishments and sells them in her Etsy shop, Moe Joe Designs! how cool is that!

Here are some challenges...

The Sugar Bowl~sugar nellies & sketch
Stamp Magic~friendship
Think Ink Tue~stitching
Stamp & Create~stitching
Craft Your Passion~stitching
Stampalicious Mon chall~food
Crafty Angels~ circle & square
Speedy the Cat's Friends chall~punches

Did you know....The Sugar Bowl now allows you to combine challenges! Yippee!!! And Stamp & Create now allows you to use ANY stamps! Two changes I'm thrilled with!!!


We are dancing in the streets today! (ok, maybe it's more like dirt roads than streets but...) It RAINED overnight!!! Not bunches, but at least it rained!!!!

okey dokey, that's it for today! We all went out for a fun breakfast this morning...yummy homemade sticky buns; warm & sitting in butter! not too healthy but totally heavenly! Now I have to do a bit of cleaning and start the spare ribs...hubby's hungry for BarBQ ribs today! another yum!

Blessings!


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