~SMC #25....HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY with a lil COURAGE~

Alright I finally got through with my project. It took a little longer than I thought and I'm not quite sure it's what I had in my head, but I know my grandma will like it. She loves the little things even with imperfections. When I was a really little, I had a Fischer-Price Tape player, that I would walk around my grandma's house singing into, and my favorite song to sing to my grandma was Eric Carmen - All By Myself. My grandma is getting up in age now, she's close to 90 and not doing so well with her health, and its this memory that I hold on to, and I know she holds on to as well, because she has to tell everyone about it everytime I go home. So I thought I would use that songs title in my card that I'll be sending to her for Grandparents Day and for her birthday.
Hope you enjoy and thanks for looking!!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Sew Many Cards -- Jovi in Swing

Everyday Little Things -- Tree with Leaves Cut File

Circle text created by Angela Doescher using the Explosive Font

Marvy Uchida Circle Punch - Giga

Nestabilities -- Basic Circles

Flowers -- Hobby Lobby from my dear friend Nancy

Twine

DCWV The Stack 4 -- Grass Paper

DCWV Latte Stack

DCWV Latte Cardstock Stack

Copics C1, C2, C3, C4, C5

E000, E00, E11, E13, E33, E53

R20, R22, R29

YG11, YG13, YG17, YG67

I'm also entering this card into the following challenge

Charisma Cardz -- Inspired by a Song

Tanda Teaser -- Heartfelt
Crafty Catz -- 3 embellies, 2 papers, 1 digi stamp

 Tonight though I want to post my project I made with our sponsor this week...Purple Panda Designs. Kayla was nice enough to let our sponsor team play with one of her images, so I chose to use her adorable Koi image. Purple Panda Designs is a new digital stamp company and we're happy to have them as our sponsor this week!!! So be sure to check out Purple Panda Designs and have a little visit to Kayla's blog as well. You can find it HERE. 
So on to my sponsor project this week.

~SUPPLIES USED~

Purple Panda Designs -- Koi Image

Create with TLC -- WIshing You all sentiment 

DCWV Far East Stack -- Wood Plain, Wind Plain, & Fire

Copics - YR02, 00, 09

Y11, 13, 17

C1, 2, 3, 5, 7

CTMH Edge Distresser & Sander

Stampin Up Classic Ink -- Ruby Red, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie

Flowers -- Hobby Lobby from my dear friend Nancy

Neenah Cardstock

Computer generated Chinese words -- "Courage"

~OUT OF THIS WORLD BIRTHDAY~

Yes it's me again! 2 Cute Rubber Stamps has this cute little cupcake being offered in their FREEBIES section to use in their current challenge. There's quite a few different variations of the cupcake, female or male, so hurry over and get yours and see what ya come up with for their challenge this week!  While you're there, check out the 2 Cute Design Team Call they have going on! You have until Aug. 31st to get your application in!

I decided to use the little boy cupcake to make a Birthday card for a little boy. I hope you like and thanks for looking!!!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

2 Cute Rubber Stamps & Digi Stamps --  Mini Cupcake Dots

DCWV Latte Cardstock Stack -- Solid Purple Paper

DCWV Summer Cardstock Stack -- Solid Brown & Teal Paper

DCWV All About Boys Stack -- Patterned Paper

Neenah Smooth Cardstock

Liquid Pearls -- Mint Green

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Twinklets -- Diamond Dust

Stickles -- Platinum

Metal -- Metal Bling from pair of Jeans that were bought

Stampin Up Classic Ink -- Close to Cocoa

Copics - 0.3 Multiliner

BV000, 11, 13

E34, 37, 39

G20, 21, 40

R24, 27, 29

I'm entering this into the following challenges -

2 Cute Rubber Stamps Challenge -- Use Cupcake Freebie

Challenge Up Your Life -- Celebrations

Paper Cutz -- Use Metal

Bee Crafty -- Anything Goes

Pixie Dust Studio -- Stitch it Up - Real or Faux

Meljen's Designs -- Happy Birthday

Cute Card Thursday -- Dying For a Punch (NO Punches/Die Cuts on your project)

~SMC #24....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!~

This week at Sew Many Challenges, our challenge is to make any project with a Birthday theme!! This one will be very easy for me...since my birthday is Sunday, Aug. 29th, and lucky me, I also share this day with my husbands nephew, my aunt, and lets not forget Michael Jackson, and the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina...so much for my own day haha Ahhh well, it's just another really, so I'm happy to share it with everyone. 

So for my challenge, I made a card for my husbands nephew. He's a really neat guy and has grown up to be a very responsible and mature young man. We're all really proud of him. So hopefully he'll like this card, as well as all of you!
We hope you'll join us for our challenge this week. Simon Says Stamp is our sponsor and we know how awesome they are!! Everyone would love to win a Gift Certificate to Simon Says Stamp...so hurry on over and join us!! 

Front

 Inside

 ~SUPPLIES USED~
Sew Many Cards -- Toga Birthday 
Sew Many Cards -- Toga with Cane
Sketch by Arianne
DCWV -- The Stack 6
DCWV -- Christmas Cardstock 
InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents
Copics
Computer Generated Sentiment -- Font - LD Unique
Stampin' Up Classic Ink -- Close To Cocoa
Metal Embellies from extras given on a pair of jeans I bought awhile back..lol
Stickles -- Baby Blue & Orange Peel

I'm also entering this into the following challenges---

C.R.A.F.T -- Milestone Birthdays/Anything Goes
Create4Fun Challenge -- Birthday
Paper Cutz -- Use Some type of Metal (jean embellies)
Wild Orchid -- Make It Sparkle
Cute Card Thursday -- Dying For a Punch - No Punches or Die Cuts (All cuts were made with trimmer or by hand)
Meljen's Designs -- Birthday

~Runnin' A Lil Behind..Stitchy Stamps & More Inspiration~

This week at Sew Many Challenges we have an awesome sponsor for our "Christmas In August" challenge...Stitchy Bear Stamps!! Stitch is an awesome artist and lady, so you need to hurry over and check out all her images and the fun stuff they have going on at their challenge blog, One Stitch At A Time, as well!! 

Stitch was generous as always and allowed our sponsor team to pick out an image to work with, and I chose "Lil Behind". She is absolutely adorable...the image that is...well Stitch is too, but we're on the image now!!..lol Anyways, as soon as I seen her, I knew exactly what I was going to use her for, my belated Birthday card for my Father-In-Law! Isn't sad when you know a month ahead that you're going to need a belated card lol And I was right! Maybe I can tell him I was distracted by mine coming up on Sunday That I forgot about his?? lol Hopefully when he gets it, he puts the sentiment inside the card with the image..we'll see...lol 

I love checking out challenge entries because you never know what talents you'll come across, and that's exactly what happened today! We had an entry over at Sew Many Challenges and when I went to the blog, I discovered a blog of inspiration through Sketches! Arianne Addicks has some awesome sketches that you can use for inspiration on her blog, and thats exactly what I did with my card. You need to really check out her blog. Not only are her sketches great but her work is amazing!! 

 

So what are you waiting for?? Grab ya some images at Sew Many Cards and Stitchy Bear Stamps and start creating!! We've got two great challenges for you to join in and have fun with!!

Ok so I'll hush now and post my project lol Thanks for looking and hope you like it!!

~SUPPLIES USED~

 DCWV Summer Cardstock Stack

DCWV The Stack 6

Neenah Super Smooth Cardstock

Copics

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher (Staples as Candles)

Smooch -- Moonlight & Kiwi

Computer Generated Sentiment -- Comic Sans Font

Martha Stewart -- Cake Charm

 Stampin' Up Classic Ink -- Taken with Teal

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time -- Say It With Shapes

Rosie-D's Challenges -- One for the Big Boys

Andrea's Stampin' Moments -- Simply Squared 

Create 4 Fun -- Birthday Card

Stampin For the Weekend -- Anything Goes

Stamp Something -- Use Something Digi (Image on front)

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp -- Blooms and Charm (flowers on front and charm inside)

Meljen's Designs -- Brown, Teal & Orange

Paper Romance -- Metal Heads (Birthday Cake Charm inside)

The Craft Den Anything Goes Challenge -- 3 Layers

Digital Tuesday -- Use Your Scraps (Papers are from Scrap box)
Paper Cutz -- Anything Goes

~Paulette's Day Off Blog Hop~

Welcome to Paulette’s Day Off blog hop!  If you didn't come here from Jennifer's blog than ya just have to go back to the beginning! The beginning would be Cheryl's blog!! You don't want to miss any freebies or the awesome projects created using these great freebies Paulette is offering! Don't forget to visit Paulette's blog and leave some love!

Paulette, the owner of Create with TLC is known for her talent and generosity, so some of her faithful followers have come together to repay her by giving her the day off.  Normally you would hop over to Paulette’s blog to collect all the awesome freebies for the day; however, this time you are hopping to the following blogs to collect the goodies. Don't forget to leave some love as you hop along! Everyone needs a little love through the day!

Your next stop will be the amazing Marlene!! 

I hope you enjoy checking out my project and don't forget to grab your freebie! All you need to do is click on the sentiment below and it will take you to a larger view of the image and you'll just need to right click and save the image to your computer! If you have any problems saving it, drop me an email and I'll be happy to send it to you! Jeri@SewManyChallenges.com

  ~SUPPLIES USED~

Flower is a Gift Of Sunshine Sentiment -- Create with TLC

Eris Watering Flowers -- Sew Many Cards

Neenah -- Super Smooth Cardstock

DCWV -- Spring & Summer Stack
DCWV -- Stack 4 (grass paper)

DCWV -- Spring & Summer Cardstock Stack

EK Success -- Small Butterfly Punch

Martha Stewart -- Med Butterfly Punch

Stampin Up Classic Ink -- Caramel, Bordering Blue, YoYo Yellow, Only Orange

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Stickles -- Silver

Doodlebug Designs Sugar Coating Glitter -- Tangerine

Copic Multiliner 0.3

Copics -- B01, B91, B21--C9--G12, G14, G16, G20, G21--R22, R24--RV21, RV23--T1, T3, T5--V12, V15, V17--Y11, Y13, Y17--YG03, YG13, YG63--YR16
I'm also entering this project into the following challenges---
The Character Cafe -- Use Dimensional Glaze (Water, Eyes, and a few Petals)
Paper Cutz -- Anything Goes
The Res-Q Challenge -- Indulge in "You Time"--80s music, coloring with my copics and having time to create in general
Stampin For the Weekend -- Anything Goes
Stamp Something -- August Digi Day -- Use something Digi(sentiment and Image)
Aud Sentiments -- Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz -- Die Cuts (Fence, Sun and Butterflies..I interpret punches as a form of die cuts but please let me know if they're not! :-)
Stampin' B's -- Circle(sun), Die Cut(fence), & Flower
Crafty Creations -- Butterflies
Fab 'n' Funky -- Flower Power
Paper Pretties -- Summer Theme
Creative Card Crew -- Sparkle and Shine
The Crafty Pad -- Glitz and Glitter
Order of the Opus Gluei -- You've Got To Move it...Use Stash.(Didn't buy anything for this project)
One Stitch At A Time -- Pack A Punch (Sun, Fence, Butterflies)

~CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST~

Aaaah I love Christmas!! So when challenges present themselves to help me get some of my Christmas projects completed ahead of time without the hustlin' and bustlin' of last minute creating, I take advantage. Every year I try to make a few new handmade ornaments for our Christmas tree and make a few as gifts. My goal is to have our entire Christmas tree all handmade ornaments, so we'll see how that goes and how long it takes me to get there lol 

This week at Sew Many Challenges, our challenge is to exactly that. Make a Christmas themed project. So I took the opportunity to make another ornament for my tree. For this ornament I used the lovely Bear in Stocking image from Sew Many Cards! I think he's such a cutie looking over the top of the stocking. Reminds me of boys faces when they were younger and would keep getting up and checking their stockings to find that Santa hadn't came yet. With both of them leaving the 'nest' soon, it'll be a bittersweet happy reminder of those times as they're off starting their new journeys!

We hope you'll join us this week at Sew Many Challenges as we have

 sponsoring us!! You have a chance of winning 3 digital images from the Stitchy Bear Store! I'll be posting another project later today using an adorable image that Stitch let me play with this week!! So be sure to check back!

Hope you like this weeks project and thank you for looking as always and for leaving such nice comments! They're all appreciated!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Bear In Stocking -- Sew Many Cards

Neenah Smooth Cardstock

Stickles -- Frosted Lace

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Doodlebug Design -- Bon Bon Flock
RibbonFX (Hobby Lobby) -- Red/Black Plaid

Copics

Multiliner 0.3

G12, G14

R22, R24, R27, R29

E13, E33, E34, E53

I'm also entering this project in the following challenges:

A Spoon Full Of Sugar -- Christmas In August

Pollycraft -- In Stitches

My Time to Craft -- Glitter and Glitz

Creative Cottage -- Christmas 

The Character Cafe -- Use Dimensional Glaze (Eyes, nose and heart on stocking)
Crafty Ann's Challenge - Christmas In August 
 The Beary Sweet Challenge -- In Stitches 

~Inspiration & an Anniversary~

Wow..two posts in less than a week. I must have a fever..lol Actually no, I've just found some great inspiration lately and wanted share what they inspired. During a past challenge over at Sew Many Challenges I came across a blog that totally blew me away with inspiration. Her name is Wendy and her blog is SugarPea Designs, which I've linked the direct post to the card she had entered, but you must take a look at her entire blog. Her work is amazing and inspires me with everything she posts! As soon as I seen her posting, I knew I wanted to CASE the image she used from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps Digi Stamps, but of course put my own twist to it, as not to rob her entire piece of art. So below you'll see what I came up with. I do want to thank Wendy for her kindness through her emails and all the inspiration she has shared with me and so many others!! 


I've also just recently come across two other places that is full of inspiration and talent! Those two places would be Create with TLC and Baubles by Bri. This is a mother/daughter team and they are both so creative. It shows on both of their sites. Paulette, the owner of Create with TLC, shares her talents with everyone so freely, each and every day. She was so nice and kind to create the sentiment that I'm using across the bottom of my easel card. It wasn't a surprise to me though, Paulette is very kind on her blog to all of her followers with tons of freebies and creative sentiments for your images. Bri, her daughter, is a talented bracelet maker. You have got to check out her Etsy store at Baubles by Bri to see how the talent and creativity runs through this family!! As soon as I seen her Penguins Love Ice Cubes bracelet I knew it would be a great addition to the anniversary gift I was making for my nephew and his wife. They both love penguins, and I think it fit right in with the theme I was going with. This bracelet is beautiful. The pictures don't do it justice! 


So to Wendy, Paulette, and Bri...thank you for the inspiration and the creativity that you share with all of us! It doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated!!
Ok enough jibberish from me...Below you'll find my 8 Drawer Easel card. My nephew and niece went to Sea World with us a few years back and we had such a great time. So the theme was inspired by that trip as well and the love I have for the both of them. 
I hope you enjoy and thanks for looking!!!

Be sure to click on the pic below so that you can see a larger pic of the beautiful bracelet!

~SUPPLIES USED~

Manatee Friends -- 2 Cute Rubber Stamps Digi Stamps

Great Marriages Sentiment -- Create with TLC

Penguins Love Ice Cubes Bracelet --  Baubles by Bri

Sands Of Time Paper Pack -- The Angel Company

Super Smooth White Cardstock -- Neenah

Sand Cardstock -- DCWV

Pop It Hearts -- Ranger

Glossy Accents -- Inkessentials

Penguin Brads -- Creative Imaginations, Seaworld Adv. Parks

Aquarium -- Jolees Boutiques

Corner Round Punch -- Stampin Up

Creamy Caramel Ink -- Stampin Up

Decor Sand -- Akasha

Decor Shells, White & Green Mix -- Akasha

Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive

Copics 

C1, C3, C5

YG03, YG63, YG67

T1, T3, T5

E00, E53, E33, E51

R27

BG10, BG11

I'm also entering this project into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion -- Anything Goes

Design Dollies -- Catch the Wave

Kaboodle Doodles -- Add a little Metal (Penguin Brads) 

Glenda's Papers, Scissors & Rocks -- Blue and Green

 Order of the Opus Gluei -- You've Got to Move it...Use Stash(everything is from my craft room)

Pixie Cottage -- Sketch/and or A Fancy Fold 

Papertake Weekly -- Something Old(paper pack), Something New(lots of things that I hadn't opened, shells, brads), Something Borrowed(sentiment), Something Blue(paper)

Lil Red Wagon -- Summer Theme 

Charizma Cards -- Easel Card 

Totally Gorjuss -- Aqua

 Sweet Stampin Challenge -- Favorite Stamp or Image(Manatee Friends)

Fab n Funky Challenges -- Favorite Colors(blues and browns)

Creative Stamp Friends -- Friend Theme 

Craft Your Days Away -- Favorite Things (Glossy Accents, Copics)

Simon Says Challenge -- Summertime Blues  
Challenge Up Your Life -- Celebrations 
The Stamp Man -- Easel Card