~Miss You

Happy Monday!! We are all tired here today, but we had a super fun day yesterday so it is worth the sleepy eyes this morning!  Kirsten & I went over to Okotoks to my parents place to visit with family that was up from Kaysville, Utah.  It was so nice to see them and wish we could of stayed longer.  Lance and Landon went to a branding and Landon wrestles his first longhorn calf...and let's just say, that made his entire week!!

Karen's Doodles challenge time is here again.  This week we are asking to show us your farewell or miss you creations.  Here is mine:

I have used the adorable Flower Bear as my image and paired it with some fun papers from my latest Taylored Expressions Kit and the fabulous sketch from this week's Sweet Sketch Sunday!

Now you may be asking why such a sad challenge...well, unfortunately for reasons beyond any of our control, this is the last challenge for the Karen's Doodles Challenge blog. However, we are not going out without a bang!  There will be double prizes available, so still print off or stamp out your Karen's Doodles images to use and hopefully win one of the 2 available top prizes.  There will also be two 2nd place prizes and two 3rd place prizes as well. 

Also, just because this is our farewell challenge, I will have a Karen's Doodles image available for one lucky commenter on this post!

I need to get on with my day and get some laundry done, but I am  hoping to see your entries over on the Karen's Doodles Challenge blog for our farewell!

Happy Crafting!

Kelly

Springtime Smiles!

Happy Monday everyone!  It's a happy Monday here as we are on Spring Break now, so we are off until next Monday!  I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter with your family and friends.  We had my sisters out for an Easter dinner as my parents are in Sandpoint right now. We had a little egg hunt too for my nephew as he is walking now and it was fun!  It was super windy outside so we just did it in our basement, but it was fun.  The kids and I got him a bear from Build A Bear the day before so it was fun!

It's challenge time over at Karen's Doodles and for this challenge we would like to see your Spring Has Sprung creations.  It is definitely nicer around here so far, but the wind can buzz off...my headaches would go away and all would be well!!

My image is Bunny Basket and of course is available from Karen's Doodles. Have a look-see at the rest of the fabulous DT creations and be sure to play along with us.  You do not have to use a Karen's Doodles image, but if you do, you will be in the running for top prize!

1st - 3 images of your choice plus the card of the week blinkie

2nd - 2 images of your choice

3rd - 1 image of your choice.

My layout is this week's sketch from 2 Sisters and I paired it with some fun Echo Park papers! 
I see I am almost at 250 follower sand that's fabulous! I have a couple of fun CTMH stamp sets that I will have as blog candy here this week, so be sure to come back!  Have a wonderful week and thank you so much for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Kelly

Lovestruck

It's Monday!!  We at Karen's Doodles took a wee break over the holidays, but we are back now with a brand new challenge!We would like you to show us your Valentine/Love creations this week!  Here's  mine:

The image is called Lovestruck and of course is available from Karen's fabulous store.  Karen has all kinds of fun Valentines/Love related digis for you to pick from, you should take a look right here:-)

You don't have to use a Karen's Doodles image to enter our challenge, but if you have 'em why not use 'em! 

I have a few challenges that my card was made for:

Sweet Stamping- Spots & Dots

Sketches By Carly- #47

Papertake Weekly-Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments- Love & Romance

Top Tip Tuesday- Anything Goes

Just a wee side note- I have the brand new Spring 2012 CTMH catalogs in my hot little hands.  If you would like one, just email me your mailing address and I will pop one in the mail for you!  You'll love it- a ton of fabulous new products and inspiration!

Happy Crafting!

Kelly

Merry Christmas Angel

Monday again, man I sure hope this week i s better than last week.  Landon was sick the entire week and I'm stil not even rally sure what he had...but he is better and I am hoping no one else gets it.  We have only 10 days of school left before our Christmas break and I just want us all the stay healthy:-)

We have a recipe for you over at Karen's Doodles and it's a really easy one, so i hope you will dust off your Karen's Doodles images and play along with us.  You will need to include 3 different embellishments (I went with wee halfback pearls, ribbon and the bow and crystal stickles all over her wings), 2 papers and 1 image...see...easy!

The image is Angel and is from Karen's shop and really could be used for many other occasions as well, but I paired her with some older CTMH papers and went for a Christmas card.  The sentiment is from a new set called Holiday Cheer.  My layout is from The Sweet Stop, love Korin's sketches!

Here's hoping we have a quiet, healthy week around here and same to you all!

Happy Crafting!

Karen's Doodles-SBC42

Welcome to Karen's Doodles day here!  This week I have a very fun, festive image to share with you, along with a fun sketch too!  Our challenge for you is Embossing...so the dots on my corner piece are embossed as are the silvery dots on the paper and I applied some fun pearly white dimensional liquid to the furry parts of the hat and it is popped up and feels nice and glossy too, similar to heat embossing.

I have used this super cute Christmas Tree Guy (I colored the gloves and slippers pink though, so mine's a gal!!) from Karen's hop.  It is one of her new Christmas images that were released at the blog hop last month. Lots of great selection over there too for all of your Christmas/Winter crafting needs.  

The sketch is from Sketches By Carly from this week!  I loved the sketch and it worked well with this image, so I wanted to play along!!

Trick or Tweet

***Click here to enter my BLOG CANDY!!***
Happy Monday!  It's Karen's Doodles time again.  My winner from the log hop image has not contacted me, so I re-drew a name and the new winner is 

HETTY! 
 Congrats Hetty, contact me to claim your digi and I will email it off to you!

So this week over at Karen's Doodles we would like to see your Halloween creations!  I have used the adorable Trick or Tweet image from Karen's fabby shop and paired it with some K & Co papers I picked up at Michaels last week.

Now remember, you do not have to use a Karen's Doodles image to join in the fun with us, however, if you do, you could win card of the week as well as:

1st - 3 images of your choice plus the card of the week blinkie

2nd - 2 images of your choice
3rd - 1 image of your choice.

Karen absolutely has some of the best images out there, try your hand and enter in our fun challenge!

Before I leave you for today, please have a click on over to Mo's site and rad this letter.  I'm sure you are all aware of the copyright violations she has been experiencing lately and her letter is written just perfectly!

Happy Crafting!!

 

Here Comes The Bride-KD78

Monday...is here again...already???  Wow the weekends fly by so fast.  Only three more sleeps and we are back to school time around here!  Those early mornings are going to be tough for the first week or so:-)

I have a great sketch to share with you today from our wonderful challenge happening at Karen's Doodles Challenge blog!  Elaine has made us a wonderful sketch to work with and I do hope you will play along!

 

I have used Here Comes The Bride from Karen's Doodles store for my image and some great CTMH papers for the fall inspired wedding card.

The prizes that are available just for playing along with us are wonderful, take a look...

1st - 3 images of your choice plus the card of the week blinkie

2nd - 2 images of your choice
3rd - 1 image of your choice.
Please note that only cards featuring Karen's Doodles images will be eligible for the top prize, but any image can be used to join our challenge.

Be sure to pop on over to the challenge blog as well to see the fabulous inspiration from our very creative DT!!

PSSSS...  Be sure to stay tuned on September 19th as we have a fabulous blog hop happening on the Karen's Doodles Challenge Blog featuring a spectacular Christmas release!

Happy Crafting!!

Bugsby Gift-KD77 & SFYTT

Good Monday morning!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  We sure did!  Didn't do anything exciting, but it was great to just relax. We did celebrate Lance's birthday yesterday (his birthday was actually Friday) and had his Dad and Carol down for supper, it was great!

Karen's Doodles challenge time is here and this week we are asking you to use your punches and die cuts!

I have used the oh so cute Bigsby Gift for my image, from Karen's Doodles store of course and paired it with some DCWV papers and a fun, star looking punch made my embellishments.  My layout is from Jen's Sketch For You To Try-this months sketch!

You don't have to sue a Karen's Doodles image to play along with us, BUT if you do, you could win our top prize!  So if you have them, why not use them.

Here are the prizes available for you to win, just by playing along!

• 1st Place - 3 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles and Card of the Week Blinkie, awarded to the DT choice of best entry using a Karen's Doodles image
• 2nd Place - 2 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles
• 3rd Place - 1 Digi stamp of your choice from Karen's Doodles

I hope you have a wonderful week!  Count down until school starts...not long now.  That September 1st date will creep up on us sooner that I think, I just know it!

Happy Crafting!!

Summer Fun-KD71 & CP123

Welcome to Monday!  Another weekend just whizzed by around here as I'm sure if did for most of you as well.  So with it being Monday, it's time for another great challenge over at Karen's Doodles.  This week we want to see your Summer Fun creations!   

I have used the Swimsuit 1  from Karen's Doodles for my card, along with some fun Echo Park Splash papers.  The sketch is from Card patterns this week.  Now remember you do not have to use Karen's Doodles images BUT  only entries using Karen's Doodles images will be eligible for the first place prize and Card of The Week. 

• 1st Place - 3 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles and Card of the Week Blinkie, awarded to the DT choice of best entry using a Karen's Doodles image
• 2nd Place - 2 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles
• 3rd Place - 1 Digi stamp of your choice from Karen's Doodles

Don't forget we are having a DT call over at Karen's Doodles right now as well.  If you love Karen's images as much as we do, why don't you play along with our challenge this week and put your name in the DT call as well!

Happy Crafting!!

 

Karen's Doodles Double Trouble

Double Trouble time over at Karen's Doodles this week...well it could be more than that if you choose! We would liek to see you use more than 1 image in your creations this wek.

I have used 2 images on mine today... Fun In The Pool and Fun In The Pool Girl .

I have used some fun new papers by Jillibean Soup called Watermelon Gazpacho Soup!  I liked how the sentiment popped of the orangey pattern paper, so I just left it like that!  I used liquid glass on the kids snorkel mask as well as the water for some added dimension.

As for the Karen's Doodles challenge, anyone can enter our challenges, but remember only entries using Karen's Doodles images will be eligible for the first place prize and Card of The Week. 

• 1st Place - 3 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles and Card of the Week Blinkie, awarded to the DT choice of best entry using a Karen's Doodles image
• 2nd Place - 2 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles
• 3rd Place - 1 Digi stamp of your choice from Karen's Doodles

Don't forget we are having a DT call over at Karen's Doodles right now as well.  If you love Karen's images as much as we do, why don't you play along with our challenge this week and out your name in the DT call as well!

My kiddos start swimming lessons in town tomorrow for 2 weeks then home a week to pack the 5th wheel and then off to Sandpoint (Idaho) we will be for 3 whole weeks...I am so excited and know the kids are too.  Kirsten already has the countdown days on the calendar!

Happy Crafting!!

Funky Birthday Fairy~Karen's Doodles #69, SSSC123, Paper Sundaes #75

I hope you had a fabulous weekend!! Today I have to pick up 3 grade 9 students for a final exam and then as soon as they are all finished, I take them home and I am done for the summer!! I am looking forward to it!

Well, I'm back with a Karen's Doodles card for you and will now be back contributing to the Monday challenges from now on!

Our challenge for you this week is Perfect Purples.  My paper is kind of pinky purple, but it works!  I have used the funky Birthday Fairy as my image along with this weeks sketch from Sweet Sundays.  I have also used all of the topping choices (purple, gems, wings, paper piercing) at Paper Sundaes as well!  

As for the Karen's Doodles challenge, anyone can enter our challenges, but remember only entries using Karen's Doodles images will be eligible for the first place prize and Card of The Week. 

• 1st Place - 3 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles and Card of the Week Blinkie, awarded to the DT choice of best entry using a Karen's Doodles image
• 2nd Place - 2 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles
• 3rd Place - 1 Digi stamp of your choice from Karen's Doodles

I hope you have a fabulous week!

Happy Crafting!!

 

Oldie But Goodie & DDCC 117~For The Boys

Here I am multitasking again!!  I have one card that works for a couple different challenges and DT commitments.  First off is Karen's Doodles, Oldie But Goodie day and I have used It's Your Day for my image.  Although this is one of Karen's older images, you really need to check out her website as she has just released some fabulous summer images!!

 

Next off is Dutch Dare Card Challenge and our challenge this week for you is For The Boys, so this is the card that my kiddos will give Lance for Father's Day.  I used the sketch from Ribbon Carousel Challenge from last week (I always seem to be a week late!!) Anyway, it was a great layout for a masculine card like this, so I used it anyway!!

Today is my little man's kindergarten graduation.     He looks so spiffy and is so excited for today...but with mixed emotions.  This is a little boy who really didn't want to be at school at all, he is my sidekick, my shadow, and he didn't want to be away from me at all.  For the first 6 weeks of school I would have to wait with him until the bell rang and walk him to his classroom. 

Now...while he is excited to be done school for the year, he really loved his kindergarten teacher Mrs Ballance and wished she would follow him through school!  His grade 1 teacher is  Mrs Schmidt and she going to be wonderful.  I'm off to his graduation this afternoon

Have a wonderful day!!

Happy Crafting!! 

Oldie But Good Day & Dutch Dare

Oldie But Goodie day is here along with Dutch Dare challenge day as well!  The challenge over at the Dutch Dare blog is a Recipe challenge.  You will need the following ingredients to play along and I hope you'll join in the fun.  You could even win 3 digis from Karen's Doodles.  Ok, so here is the ingredient list:-)

3 pattern Papers

2 embellies (flowers and bling, ribbon and brads, etc)

1 image

I have used the sketch from last week  DCS4 at Deconstructed Sketches for my layout!  One of these days I will have it done on time to actually enter the challenge!!  I have used some of the new Splash paper from Echo Park that I bought from Sweet N Sassy.  My image is Ice Cream from Karen's Doodles, American Crafts Ribbon and Kaiser halfback pearls.

So there we have it!  I will be back tomorrow to share with you the finished wedding invitations that have now been delivered to the bride-to-be!

Happy Crafting!! 

 

Oldie But Goodie & Dutch Dare

Good day to you all and thanks for stopping by today!  I have a fun Karen's Doodles image to share with you using the Dutch Dare sketch from this week..what a way to combine hey!!

I have used Date Night from Karen's Doodles and although it's one of her "older" images, it's perfect for many occasions.   

Our challenge over on the Dutch Dare blog is a wonderful sketch, so I have used that  for my layout. 

Just counting down the days until summer holidays.  I know a lot of kiddos in the US are done or almost done school, but we go right until June 27th!!  The kids do have some fun field trips planned in the next few weeks though, so it's all good!!  Then it'll be 2 fabulous months of what-the-heck ever we want to do!!

Happy Crafting!!

 

Oldie But Goodie

Time for another Oldie But Goodie and I really love this lil mouse!  Here's Apple of My Eye and some fun new Echo Park papers I bought from One Crazy Stamper! 

 

For all my Canadian friends, One Crazy Stamper is a fabulous online store, awesome selection, great customer service and fast shipping!  I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate there, so I have lots of fun shopping to use that up ( of course and more:-)) check it out!

It's a long weekend here in Canada and I am enjoying the extra time to relax..oh yes an I am working on a super fun wedding invite..I will share soon!

Happy Crafting!!

Oldie But Goodie-April 28

How on earth does time by so fast?? I thought with having a week off, I would have lots of time to craft away, but no such luck. We have been taking it easy and enjoying the nice weather that has finally made an appearance in Southern Alberta...for now at least...rain and snow expected tonight/tomorrow.

I have a cute lil card to share with you today.  Oldie But Goodies day is back at Karen's Doodles and this sweet gal is called Flower Girl.

Our fun theme over at Dutch Dare this week is Mom, so I thought this gal would work perfectly for a Mother's Day card or even a birthday card for Mom.  I used the fun sketch from last week at My Time Made Easy and although I am too late to enter the challenge, I really liked the sketch, so I used it anyway!

Enjoy your Thursday, we are off to visit with my parents today and tomorrow, so I won't be back for a few days, but I will be back with a fun new card for The Hotspot Challenge!

Happy Crafting!!

Oldie But Goodies-SSS104-Love At First Sight

I am so excited that today is our last day of school until May 2nd!!  Yahoo for some down time!  After Easter dinner and such wraps up on Sunday, I hope to just relax. We will be meeting up with my sister Kristy and my adorable nephew Jaxon and hopefully will get a chance to see my parents as well (they are Sandpoint, Idaho bound this weekend, so we'll miss them for Easter).  All in all I am just glad we aren't on the go for the next bit.

I have an adorable little girl to share with you today.  This image is called Love At First Sight and is available at Karen's Doodles.  She is one of Karen's "older" images, but cute nonetheless.

The challenge at Karen's Doodles this week is Lots Of Layers, so why don't you join in the fun, you could even win some Karen's Doodles images of your very own...and there are some brand new ones available too!

I have used the fabulous sketch over at The Sweet Stop for my layout...I just didn't add text, I used the fun pennant border die and coordinating stamp set from Taylored Expressions instead.  

So there we have it!!  I see I have reached 200 followers and my gosh, that is so exciting!  I remember when I first started my blog, I honestly thought I could twist my sisters arms into "following" me but never did I think I have have 200 fabulous followers!  Thanks everyone!  I will be making a surprise draw during our spring break and will post it on the blog-o!

If I don't make it back before Easter, please have a wonderful holiday and enjoy time with your families!

Happy Crafting!!

 

Oldie But Goodie Meets April's SFYTT

Oh man, another week has ran away on me....I thought I would have a routine sorted out by Oct/Nov ish and now it's April and only 2 months of school left and I still run around like a chicken with my head cut off!! If it's not one thing it's our lovely Alberta weather...our road to the Trans Canada highway (our only way out) has been flooded and we finally got a pump there and it has been pumping water 24 hours a day since Friday and still is, now... the creek that runs through our place has flooded...it's not threatening the house and my FIL tells me it won't come that high, I am just hoping he's right!!

I thought I better get my act together and get something done in the crafty world!  Here is my Oldie But Goodies card for Karen's Doodles this week.  

I have paired it with the sketch for Aprils SFYTT over on Jen's blog.  I just got this cute cute Little Girl paper from Echo Park and love it!!  My image is called Rainy Day and of course can be found in Karen's fantabulous store!!

Thanks for popping by my somewhat sporadic blog lately...but I'll be back and posting more often soon!  Oh...and I see I have 199 followers, how awesome is that...when I jump over the mountain to 200, I will surprise one of my lucky followers with a CTMH goodie pack!  It won't be the day after I hit 200 though so this goodie pack will definitely be for some one who follows me because they like what I do not just because I am offering an awesome CTMH prize pack( all my fellow Canadian friends can shop from my CTMH website, be sure to check it out because CTMH is always putting fabulous bargains up in the While Supplies Last catagory)...no-sir-ree, I will just randomly choose a lovely spring day and a lucky faithful follower will get a surprise!!

Until then...

Happy Crafting!!

Oldie But Goodies Time!! SSS102

Yikes, I've been gone for a bit...well not really gone, but life has just been busy.  Lance and the kids have been sick, our road is flooded and now I feel like I'm getting a sinus cold or something!!  Anyway, I am back here with you this week to share a wonderful Oldie But Goodie image from Karen's Doodles.  I think this is one of my very favorite images, so I'm happy to be working with it again! It's called Flowers For Mum and is available in Karen's store...along with a ton of other fun images too!!

 

I am also using Korin's wonderful sketch over at The Sweet Stop.  Love her sketches!!

Sorry my pict is cut off a bit!  I see I am at almost 200 followers....so when I get there, I will do a random draw for a CTMH prize pack for one lucky follower!!  Please don't follow just to be entered in the prize drawing though, be fair to those that do follow faithfully:-)

I hope you have a wonderful day!  Both my kiddos are at school today, so I am thinking I will be having a snooze this afternoon. 

Happy Crafting!!

Triple Whammie! OBG, DDCC106 & SSSC110

Time just sneaks away on me and then I am down to the wire and have to combine challenges! So, yes, I have combined three challenges for my card today.

I have used the adorable Dragon Birthday from Karen's Doodles for my image and my Oldie But Goodies post, the layout is from Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #110 from this past week and the challenge at Dutch Dare this week is Distressing,so I have inked up and used my edge distresser on my papers!

Hope you like my lil dragon!

Happy Crafting!!