Chocolate Makes My Mouth Happy

 This awesome sentiment by TLC says it all! I have used it before and it rocks! Anyone that knows me knows I have a thing for chocolate. It may possibly, sort of, maybe, kind of come up in conversation every now and then! Soooo I have recently received gifts that included Godiva , Ghiradelli & Lindt Chocolate. Could it get any better than that?!!! So this is one of my Thank You cards. 

 This is another time when I used a 4x6 paper pack and pieced the paper together with stitching so you never know. I really love doing that! 

If I was more confident in my coloring I would have had chocolate all over her face and hands. It would be more accurate of how I look when I eat chocolate! LOL! I was afraid of messing it up so you get the cleaned up version! The chocolate is on pop dots to make it... well, pop! It is the most important feature!

 Inside

 Inside- Top

Inside- Bottom

Another excellent Sentiment from TLC!

 

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Bazill

Designer Paper: DCWV Garden Party Paper Pack

Image: Mo Manning

Sentiments: Create with TLC

Pencils: Prismacolor

Pearls: Recollections

Brad: Paper Studio

Ribbon: Misc from stash

Die Cuts: Lacey Ovals & Classic Ovals

Punch: Martha Stewart- Hearts Border Punch

Thank You Sticker: Misc.

Challenges I would like to enter this card in:

Bronte & Bella's Challenge: Try Something New- Color Scheme, Image, Mixing stitches (on the inside)

C.R.A.F.T. -  Inspired by a song: (The Candy Man)

Delicious Doodles –  Inspired by a Song  (The Candy Man)
Crafty Purple Frog -  Pink & girly

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Pink & Girly  

Paper Crafting Journey -  Anything made with paper goes

Sassy Studio Designs -  Use 2 or more polka dot items (The ribbon, and on the paper & her overalls)
Scrappy Frogs - M -  Seeing Spots 

ColourQ - Color Challenge* 

Paper and Such Design -  Paper Piecing
ATCs & Cards With Attitude - Anything
Paper Shelter Challenge - Anything goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Link Up Party
Fairy Tale - Paper Piecing
Totally Stampalicious - Spring is in the Air
Hotshot Crafts - Ribbon
Totally Papercrafts - Favorite Things (Pearls, Die-Cuts, Chocolate, Sewing & Bows)
Scrapper`s Delights Paper Crafts - "Bling It Up!" 
Creative Card Crew - Humour 
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - One Bow
Pile It On - Spots and/or Stripes
Jelly Park- Favorite product or technique (Pearls, Sewing, Die Cuts, Ribbon)
The Pink Elephant: 3 or more layers
Top Tip Tuesday: Stitching TIP- When paper piecing if a piece does not blend right and sticks up, you can just take the piece of the image that is lower cut another piece out and pop dot it so it now is 3D. It will blend and make your image pop! 

A Blog Hop For My Buddy Dorcas

Welcome to a blog hop dedicated to my good buddy Dorcas. She recently lost her Furbaby, and we all wanted her to know that we are thinking about her. 

It has been a very difficult week, so this hop is for her.  Please join us and see what thoughtful projects these talented ladies made for our good friend!

Surprise girlfriend!!! 

This is for you! We know this does not take away your pain, but we hope it brings a little bit of joy to your day. Grab some tea or chocolate you may be here a while.  There are a lot of people that care about you and we all want you to know that we are all thinking about you during this difficult time.

This is the order you will be hopping. If you get lost pop back here for the list.

                       

Stacey

Kelly

Dionne

Debbie

Tracy

Tine

Babs

Linda

Laura

Yenni

Uli

Jen

Gwen

Pearl

Natasha

So here is my card. Not exactly a surprise since

I already gave it to you!

 Knowing her love of ducks and her love of yellow, this is perfect for her. (So sorry I bought it for you took it away then gave it back. What a bad friend I am!)

Long story! Anyway, hope this makes up for it!

 Love the bird on the brad!

 Not a completed card without pearls!

 Love this image!

The Inside

 The Inside- Top

Could not resist some bling!

The Inside- Bottom

Sewing is a bit crooked on this one! Oops!

Ok girlfriend, enough chatter from me. Time for you to get hopping and see all the wonderful creations the other girls made for you. Hop on over to Kelly's blog and see what special creation she has for you! 

Supplies Used:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Designer Paper: DCWV Mediterranean  Cafe' Paper Pack
Image: Mo Manning
Pencils: Prismacolor
Die Cuts: Spellbinders,  Floral Doily Motif,  Fluer De Lis Squares, Classic Circles, Classic Ovals & Lacey Ovals.
Gems: Square- Recollections   Oval Bling- Want 2 Scrap Nestabling. Pearls & Gems: Recollections
Brighter Days Sentiment:  Create W/ TLC
Brad: Making Memories
Ribbon Misc.


Challenges I would like to enter this in:
Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) Bingo- (Gems, Lace, Die-Cuts)
Creative Craft Challenges - Bingo- (Ribbons, Brads, & Blue) 
Ribbon Carousel Challenge - Must include spooled item - Anything Goes
Scrapbook Sisters -  Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash - Lace
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges- Ribbon and Bling
The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - Use Ribbon 
Inky Impressions - Two ribbons or trims
Crafts and Me -  New image
Little Darlings Challenges -  Favorite Embellishments (Ribbon, Lace, Die Cuts & Pearls.) 
Forever Friends -  must include animal -  Shades of Blue
Opus Gluei -  Tweet, Chirrup and Trill 
The Crafty Pad -  Lets See Some Fresh Spring Colors
Craft Your Days Away - Get Stitchy with it
Lily Pad - Patterned Paper

Butterflies & Caterpillars

While we are in invitation mode...

Since I showed you my invitations of the girls slumber party in my last post, I thought I would share the ones I did of their party over the summer.  I mentioned in a previous post that I hosted a party for the younger girls in our congregation. It was for them to benefit from the experience of our older friends. We called it the Butterflies & Caterpillars or Roses and Rosebuds Party.  It was very lovely. Everybody brought baby pictures and we had guess whose they were. The butterflies sat on one side of the table and caterpillars on the other side and they had 5 minutes to ask lots of questions and get to know one another. They also brought each other gifts. Then the butterflies all wrote down a task they need done and something they could teach a young caterpillar and the caterpillar drew a butterflies name out of bowl. So in the future they will get together and benefit from each other. 

Anyway... this is the invitations I made for them. 

I had 12 invitations. We had 16 people total , but fortunately a few were sisters so I only had to make 12. That was plenty! This is the whole process including my messy desk. Once in a while I share!

Warning: Lots of pictures

After all the images are colored and paper-pieced, I cut the die-cut  and lay them all out. This image from Mo Manning was just perfect for this gathering! I often don't have enough of the same paper to make them identical, so I find a paper that coordinates and looks very close.

 Then I added the ribbon, bow, & sentiment

Then glued those puppies down, and whala.... 

12 invitations! If it were only that easy!

The Inside- It included a scripture that showed the preciousness of children and our older friends too.

I posted these baskets on an earlier post. They each received one. The butterflies were given one with teas and magnets. The caterpillars had lotions and lipgloss.

 Supplies for invitation:
Image: Mo Manning
Coloring: Prismacolor Pencils
Cardstock: Coordinations & Misc.
Designer Paper: Mandarin Modern Paper Pack by Tapestry
Die-cut: Spellbinders Lacey Squares & Fancy Tags 1
Ribbon: Offray
Jewels: Recollections


Challenges I would like to enter this invitation in:
Bella & Bronte- Mo's-Anything Goes with a Mo image & optional sketch*
Crafty Sentiments -   Let's Get Girly
Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug -  February Anything Goes

Ditzy Craftymess - Anything Goes

Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Craft Us Crazy -  Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up? -  Anything Goes

Truly Madly Crafty Challenges - Ribbon and Bling 
The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - Use Ribbon 
Fabulous Friday - Ribbon and / or Twine
Drunken Stampers - Use Something New (Image)
Send a Smile for Kids - Anything Goes  for Kids
Inspire Me Fridays - Link Up Party
Lily Pad - Patterned Paper
Just Tracys Crafts Challenge - Make something for a female and add something flowing (Bow) 

Party Time

It has been exactly one month since my last post. Did you miss me? Better yet are you sick of seeing my last post? I am!!!! I went out of town earlier in the month, and came down with the flu, and have been a bit wiped out since. I took a break from blogging, just couldn't wrap my head head around anything else. I  am so easily distracted, so I had to use my energy on other things.  So anyway, hopefully I will post a bit more regularly. Please forgive me for not stopping by I have neglected that too. I will be by shortly though. I have been peeking at everyone's awesome projects, Just did not have much energy to comment.

In the summer and often the kid's winter break, I throw a party of some sort for the girls in our congregation, before they go back to school. This winter I got brave and had a slumber party. We had nine girls! There was pizza, dancing, games and lots of fun! It was loud, but lots of fun. Anyway, these are the invitations.  It is a bit of work, but doing it assembly line style, it goes pretty quick. 

This is laying them all out, then I attached everything all at once. 

 Mt attempt at darker skin. Still working on that one.

 All of them completed

The Inside

Next time I will share the invitations I made for their party in the summer. Hopefully before another month goes by!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Coordinations & Recollections

Designer Paper: K&Co.

Jewels: Recollections

Ribbon: Offray

Sentiment: Computer

Image: Mo's- Slumber Party Dena

Pencils: Prismacolor

Challenges I would like to enter these cards in:

Oldie But Goodie Challenge - Must use something at least 6 mths old & state what it - Have A Heart (Must Have a heart on your project) Paper and ribbon older than 6 months. Heart is in the image on her sweater.

Card Makin' Mamas - Something Old (Paper & Ribbon)

Partytime Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

My Craft Spot - Anything Goes

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle -  Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash - People Who Need People

Paper Take Weekly - Sketch*

Crafty Boots - Something Inspired by a Song Title (Girls Just Want To Have Fun! Cyndi Lauper)

Hooked on Crafts - Something Bright (Paper) 

Kaboodle Doodles - "It`s all about Girls" (girly card)

One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi

Allsorts - One or More Heart  (Heart is in her sweater)

Crazy 4 Challenges - Layer it on

Marks Finest Papers - Cards with at least 4 layers

Secret Crafter - Ribbons

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - Must use a digi -Ribbons & Bows

My Sheri Crafts  - New Things (Digi is new)

Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - Favorite Things (Ribbon, bows, gems, & purple)