FYI - Earth Day

Hi All,

The For Your Inspiration Challenge today is in honor of "Earth Day"!  Fabulous photo, right?  If you would like to join in the challenge for an opportunity to be a Guest Designer and earn the right to post the "Lovely Lotus" badge, please join in and link your creation to the FYI Blog!  Any art medium is welcome! 

Here's my card, simple but totally inspired by the photo!  It's all punching and the sentiment is Woodware USA "Mixed Greetings" set.  Easy peasy!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

For Your Inspiration! Challenge #3

 Hello Friends!

This photo is the inspiration piece for this week's For Your Inspiration Challenge!  I loved the color theme and the seaside inspiration, so this is what I came up with.

The DP is DCWV Green Stack, decorative trim from Hobby Lobby, and a Nestie label stenciled with TPC Studio Aqua ink.  The image is Inkadinkadoo stamped in Blue Bayou.  Oh...and I had to toss in one of my little Tim Holtz die flowers!!







So what what inspires you in that photo??  Create whatever it inspires you to do and share it with us on the FYI blog!!  This challenge is open to all crafters and any medium can be used to express your creativity!


Link up to the blog and win a chance to be a Guest Designer and this blinkie for your own Blog!  See who won our last challenge and meet our Guest Designer is for this week!!





I hope you'll join us!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Inspired by an Amazing Sunset!

Hello All!

The second ever "For Your Inspiration" challenge is posted over on the FYI Blog -- check out the awesome projects inspired by the photo above!

Here's the card I came up with.  I stamped Stampin' Up!s "Dotted Spring" in the background with Versamark and used hologram glitter EP for some sparkle.  The Butterflies are from  Kitchen Sink's Butterflies set which I stamped using a variety of blues, purples and pinks.  I threaded the satin ribbon through holes that I punched with a Fiskars border punch.

Join in the fun and show us your beautiful creation by linking it to the blog!!  You can find all the details posted there.  Can't wait to see what you come up with!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

For Your Inspiration! Challenge #1 !

The very first "For Your Inspiration" challenge is underway today over on the "For Your Inspiration Blog!"  Head over there as fast as you can to join in and see what the DT has come up with!  We'd love to have you participate and see your creativity at work!!  All the details on what you can win and how to enter are posted there! 

This is the gorgeous photograph to inspire you this week!  This was the first time I'd had a scenic photograph as inspiration, so this really challenged me -- I love that!! 

I started with black CS and smeared some Blush Rose and Ivory Colorbox chalk inks lightly across the bottom of the black panel.  I erased some chalked areas with a plastic eraser in rectangular patterns and then dotted them with a white Signo gel pen to simulate a skyline.  I then die cut daisy shapes from silver "mirror board" and placed them randomly on the black panel over my skyline.  I layered the panel onto Rose Red and Black CS.  I created a frame for my picture using some of the scraps of mirror board.

So what do you see in that photo??  Create whatever it inspires you to do and share it with us on the FYI blog!!  This challenge is open to all crafters and any medium can be used to create anything at all that the photograph inspires you to create!

I hope you'll join us!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

For Your Inspiration!

Hello Friends,

Beginning this Thursday, March 3 and continuing every 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, there is an awesome new challenge that you can join in!!  It's called "For Your Inspiration" (aka "FYI") challenge!   I'm very happy to let you know that I have been invited to join the Design Team by the very sweet and talented coordinator Steph (aka "Where'd All My Money Go") for the next six months!

This challenge will present gorgeous photography to inspire you to create!  The "Lovely Lotus" badge (shown here) will be awarded to the winner of each challenge and each participant has a chance to be a Guest Designer for the challenge!  I hope you'll join me THURSDAY for the inaugural challenge!!  (Specifics about how to participate in the challenge and be eligible to win will be posted on Thursday on the new "For Your Inspiration" blog!!  Be sure to check back!) 

Here is the list of the FABULOUS DT Stephanie assembled:

Steph (our coordinator) "Where'd All My Money Go"
Brenda "Rose Blossom Legacies" 
Corinna "Stampin With a Java Junkie"
Debbie "Live, Life, Loud"
Valerie "Paper & Cookies {creative pursuits of a crafty suburban mom} "
Wanda  "Cullen-ary Creations"

I had not "met" most of these ladies in my blogging circles yet, but I have to tell you, I'm now wondering where the heck I've been looking all this time -- these are some truly talented crafters!!  I think you'll agree!!  Hope you'll get a chance to visit them and leave some congrats love!!

See you Thursday!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Anything Goes!

Stamps: Girlfriends Live Well; Paper: Webster's Pages Lifes Portraits DP collection; Copics, handmade flower

Quickly posting my Woodware Challenge card for this week!!  As always, you are invited to join in for a chance to win a free WWUSA stamp set!!  Head over to the WWUSA Blog for the deets and to see the awesome inspiration the DT created for you!! 



I'm in Las Vegas this week with DH as you read this!!  Yahoooo!!  We're attending the "2011 ASD Trade Show" with my cousins who own a small boutique in NM (where they sell my cards and crafty items of their own!).  This trade show is for retailers and wholesalers to see what's new and place orders for product being showcased in over 40 categories -- cooking, cosmetics, clothes, jewelry, (yes crafts!), toys, home decor, etc. etc.!  There are over 3000 exhibitors !!  Whew!!  It should be fun to see "other" new products just hitting the market. We'll have plenty of time for other touristy stuff to do while we're there too!

BTW, I hear "Viva Las Vegastamps" is where I want to hang out!!  See this You Tube tour of the store!   Anyone out there in blog land been there??  What did you think?

Thanks for stopping by today!   Hope you come back tomorrow for the launch of a NEW challenge and Design Team news!!

Have a blessed day!