Let's Party!

Hello my Cardz TV Gallery friends, Brenda here from Friends Craftin with Friends and it's my turn to share with you today. Today I used one of Mary's sketches, sketch 6 to be exact. These sketches of Mary's make making a card so quick and easy, you should check them out if you haven't already done so! My image came from a stamp set from Disney, it has 4 of the Disney Princesses, the castle, a mirror, crown and 3 butterflies. Such a cute set if you have girls. I colored Cinderella with my Zig's.  My sentiment comes from the Cardz TV "Let's Party" stamp set, which you can get here!  All papers but the card base came from my scrap bin, I'm always excited to use up some scraps! This card will be used for my granddaughter's birthday in Dec. I can't wait to make some more of these Princesses for my other granddaughters and Mary's stamp sets make it so easy when you need a special sentiment. I hope you will come back each and everyday to see what inspiration my design team sister have for you!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting a spell, I know the weather is a little rough but it is warm inside!  Where I plan to stay today. And speaking of warm, your comments always brings rays of sunshine to me and I appreciate them so much!! 

Since I used a lot of snippets, I am going across the pond and joining in at Pixie's Playground for the second week in a row. Di is surely gonna faint with me coming 2 weeks in a row! lol 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
Disney Princess Stamp Set
My Creative Time-Bunch of Fun Circle Dies, Stitched Starburst Dies
Cardz TV-Let's Party Stamp set

Christmas Tags

Hello Crafty Friends, I hope you are having a beautiful Friday. It's a beautiful warm day here, the calm before the storm I suppose. We have been blessed with such gorgeous days and decent temps for this time of year, but a blizzard is working it's way across the mid west and supposed to hit here tomorrow night. No blizzard for us, but it will bring in the cold temps and snow showers. Tis the season!!! 

I wanted to try and get a tag in for Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas challenge. She has guest designers making tags for it too each day. It's almost over! So I thought I would rush out a tag. Yeah, it never goes well when you rush does it?! But it is what it is and I'm going with this tag anyway. So please go over to Loll's blog and look at each day's tags, you will be amazed! Oh did I tell you the tags have to be mixed media?! lol Yes, you head me right. But as it turns out, we all do mixed media and don't even know we are doing it! Anyway it is all explain on Loll's blog, so go over and check it out. She will have the linky open for a while longer, to the 25th I believe. So you do have some time to make a Christmas tag and join in on the fun. 




For my mix media, I used stamping, die cuts, wet embossing and the Splash Watercolor background. It didn't turn out as well as when Loll does it, but hey, I'm working on it. lol My ornament should have been die cut in a different color to it showed up on the background better, but I was to lazy to die cut it again. So this is what I have to offer, not great but will work I think. I also used all snippets to make this tag, I'm so proud of myself for doing that. My dies and stamp are NBUS as well, so felt good to use it! Now, I would do things differently if I was making this tag over again. And maybe I will make another and fix my blunders...But for now, this is it.

As always, thanks for dropping by and visiting a spell. Your comments always bring sunshine to my day and a big smile from ear to ear. I know I'm behind once again, but will be working to catch back up with my commenting as well. 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
My Creative Time dies and stamps-Fun Stitched Ornaments & More
tag was created out of watercolor paper and a Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper
Embossing powder-Ranger Platinum
Hand dyed seam binding ribbon 

Look Who's One

Hello my crafty friends, hope your Sunday is a good one. I can't believe that we are in November with December being just around the corner. Where did 2016 go?! I sure hope that 2017 will be a better year for my youngest son and I. As if it wasn't enough for Bret to lose his good friend and roommate, we lost my MIL, Bret's grandmother yesterday as well. I know he is getting his fill of funerals lately! But such as it is, we move on as best as we can.

I have a little CAS card for you today, or at least I think it is CAS. Not always sure about that, but it seems CAS to me. lol We had my youngest granddaughter's first birthday party last weekend to go to and this is the card I made for her. Nothing elaborate, but I thought it turned out pretty cute. I was keeping in theme with the farm for my dearly departed husband, thus the little cow. I used my Cricut to write the "look who's one".  Recipe below the photo.

As always thank you for stopping by and visiting a spell. It always brings a huge smile on my face and your comments always bring sunshine to my day!

It has been a really long time since I played over at the Snippets Playground, so I'm taking my card using my snippets over to play along with these fabulous ladies. Di always makes sure we play along nicely, but with women like these, there is no problem playing nicely! You ought to come and join in sometime!!!!

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
pattern paper and black paper-snippet from my snippet drawer
embossing folder by Darice
circle, scallop and cow-My Creative Time
Zigs to color my cow
Bristol watercolor paper for the cow
heavy white card base made from Heavy Cardstock by Hobby Lobby

Your the Best!

Hello my crafty friends, it is with a heavy heart I come to you today with my design team post. We found out yesterday that my son's friend and college roommate was killed late Friday night in an auto accident. He had just turned 22 years old back in Sept. He was with another friend, who was doing the driving. The young man hit a tree and it killed both of them. My son, thankfully, had came home Friday. This was Bret's first year rooming with Nick, but they were friends and decided to room together this year. I was so happy that Bret had Nick to room with instead of living alone up at college. After my husband passed I really worried about Bret up at college, but Nick would come over and stay with him. He was a good friend to my son and he was very nice to me. He and Bret came home last winter just before our big storm hit and the boys shoveled and plowed snow together. Nice young man and it makes my heart so heavy knowing he is gone now. And now my son has to go back to his apartment with all Nick's things being there. I can even imagine how it will be for him. He said he guesses that he and Nick's parents will just sit down and cry for Nick. I'm sure they will, I've already been crying most of the day. I know God has a plan, but sometimes it is hard to understand that he does. So please keep these families in your prayers as they deal with the deaths of their son's right here at the holidays. And say a little extra prayer for  my son as well. Thank you so much!

Well on to my post. When I went away back in Oct, a special family took care of Savannah for me. So I made two thank you cards just for the little girls who helped take care of her. They really are the best, so I had to make two cards telling them that. The Cardz TV Stamp set that I used today is one of Mary's newest, it's call Favorite Sayings and you can get it here.    

I stamped and colored the leaves with my Zig's markers, I stamped them on some Bristol watercolor paper. The Zigs color so nicely on that paper! I used my Misti to line up sentiment and was able to move my paper on it to keep stamping. 

Remember to come back each day as you get inspiration each and every week. Happy crafting to you all! Crafty hugs, Brenda

Here is a new picture of Savannah, she has finally grown into her ears, but she hasn't grown into her feet yet! lol She is 47 lbs, I think she would have been over 50 lbs, but she stopped eating as much when our little Pocket's girl got sicker and then after I had Pocket's put down. Her appetite is slowly coming back, very slowly.  She is 5 months old today and she is such a beauty. 

One last photo I'd like to share is me and all the teachers when we went to on our trip in Oct. What a good time we had!!!

As always, thank you for taking the time and stopping by to visit a spell. Your comments always bring sunshine to my life!!! I do have a couple more cards to share and I will do that soon. 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
Cardz TV Stamp Set: Favorite Sayings
Leaves: My Creative Time Gobble Gobble
Bristol Watercolor Paper
Zigs Clean Brush Markers
Misti