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Winner of the March blog candy is RHONDA

Please send me your name/address (my email is on the right sidebar)

and I will ship your die right out to you!!

APRIL Blog Candy is the gorgeous JustRite background stamp "Wings Of Love"

I just purchased this stamp for myself and thought I would also give one away!!

How to win?   Just follow my blog and leave a comment on THIS post telling me you did.

Already follow?  Just leave me a comment!!

That's it, it's that simple.  Didn't win this month...not to worry, there will be more in May!!

This post will remain at the top until April 30th when the winner is drawn!

Teach A Dog New Tricks

Guess what I woke up to this morning??
SNOW!!!!!
Ugh, how can that be, it's April...and my poor, poor Spring flowers!!!
Before I "cry" I wanted to share with you my card that is at/on
the Classy Cards 'n Such blog today for our "die cuts" challenge.
This is a really easy challenge...and a great prize is being offered....
dang it, I wish I could enter...lol!!!

Hello, Diane here with you today on the Classy Cards 'n Such blog.

I have a fun project to share with you I made for this weeks challenge

 "Die Cuts Only".

Speaking of challenges, why don't you join in, we would love to have you.

You can always see our list of weekly challenges listed to the right!!

Now onto today's project!!

Who said "You can't teach an old dog new tricks?"

Well, that's what I did....

I taught this dog just  how much fun it is to fly a kite...

and his little "fluffy" buddy is waiting for his turn!!

The card base is 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" square, the background is 5" x 5".

I cut a bit of whimsical polka dot grass using Impression Obsession die "grass"

The clouds were cut with Memory Box "Puffy Clouds "

The kite is a fun die also from Impression Obsession "Kite die cut set "...

it comes with with a smaller kite die as well as  few other cutting options.

I added some "flocking" for a bit of a fur look to the little white dog

The larger dog and the smaller dog  are from Impression Obsession "Dog Die Set" 

I sponged TH inks on for a bit of golden color.

Additional items used in the making of this card are:

Scor-tape 1/2

Quickie Glue Pen by Sakura

Joy! Foam Pads Large 

Joy Foam Pads Small

Entering In The Following Challenges:

The Crafty Bloggers Network .... Die Cuts and/or Embossing
and
Challenges 4 Everybody ....Anything Goes
and
The Squirrel  and The Fox .... All Creatures Great and Small
and
Crafty Catz .... Animals

Easter Sweetness At "The Shabby Tea Room"

Happy Monday to you all...I hope you are having a great day!!

This week at "The Shabby Tea Room" Lenet is our host and she has chosen the

gorgeous inspiration photo below and we were to use "polka dots & stripes".

Our sponsor for the week is "The Cutting Cafe"....

and I chose this adorable cut file bunny card!!!

I cut out my base card and then cut the bunny again from Bo Bunny Pastel Dots paper.

I added a newly purchased fence (well the die is new..lol) and a couple of birdies

singing their hearts out for their bunny friend!! 

"My" stripes are in my ribbon...it is so pretty and came from Michael's Easter section!

I added a bit of "Easter" grass at the bottom and some "tuti fruiti sequins" I purchased

from Paper Sweeties....they are so cute in the shape of tiny flowers!

I hope you will join in our challenge this week at "The Shabby Tea Room"...

The Cutting Cafe is offering a great prize for one lucky winner.

While there, check out my "teamies" projects...they are awesome as always!!!

Don't forget you still have a couple of weeks to sign up for my blog candy above!!

Easter Spring Bird Trinket Box

Happy Sunday to you ALL!!

Not sure f you remember but a few posts back I said I was making Sunday

my "ME" day...

meaning I can do whatever I want and not what needs/or should be done..!!

So far I have stuck to it...and today was very nice out, so worked out all day....

and these old bones are feeling every second of it!!

Being my "ME" day I also choose to join in a challenge I love to do each month.

That is the Crafty Secrets "Linky Party"....oh my goodness, Sandy sent me her

new Spring line of digital papers and they are gorgeous!!

I built my entire box with these papers in mind!!

And guess what...promise NOT to tell??  Good...I have NEVER used digital papers before!!

I just couldn't resit these...the vintage little seed packet on top of my box....

well it is an entire page of them...all different...love!!

The pretty lavender paper I used is also from her digital line!

I started my box with a small round paper mache box left over from previous

crafting years...I think I found about a dozen of them!!  

The birdie...well he is a leftover, too!!

I used flowers (the Rose and the purple flowers) that had already been cut

and were hiding in my stash!! I colored them with PanPastels....the leaves

also came out of my stash....the ribbons...well, see the little bit of gingham 

underneath??  It is all I had left, so I tied it on for a bit more contrast!!

I cut my little butterfly with a SU Sizzix die from the same CS digital paper!!

I think it turned out pretty darn cute!!
I also used a few Cheery Lynn Designs dies....
The sweet little doily comes in the center of the Polynesian Sails die....
the little flowers are from The Miniature Rose
and the Leaf the birdie is sitting on s from the Flourish Leaf  Strip

Make sure to stop by tomorrow and see my Shabby Tea Room DT project....

it is sooooooooo cute!!

Also don't forget to enter my blog candy above...and if you didn't win last month

or don't win this month...not to worry, I will be offering blog candy each month

all year long!!!!

I am also entering this in the following challenges:

Cheery Lynn Designs .... Pretty In Purple
and

Open Minded Crafting Fun Challenges .... Easter of Pastel Colors

and

Sugar Creek Hollow .... Easter
and
All Crafts Challenge .... Anything But A Card

Cute Little Easter Chick

Hi All, this is my post today on the "Classy Cards 'n Such"  blog.
By entering the challenge, you could win the Impression Obsession
stamp like the one I have used here.

Hello Classy Friends, Diane here today with my "cute little Easter chick" card

I created for this weeks challenge  "Easter Inspirational Sentiment". 

To start my card I used the gorgeous "Stardream Serpentine Pearlized Metallic" paper.

I can't say enough about these papers, except once you try them, 

you will want them in all the colors available!!

I used Darice Doily Lace Embossing Folder and next layered my stamped image

Impression Obsession "Chick" on top, popped up with Joy! Foam pads Large.

The image was stamped on Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Small.

I used Copics to color the image, except I paper pieced the chick using

Bo Bunny Soft Shades Double-Dot Designs paper. Once the image was colored,

I added Clear Glitter Pen "Wink of Stella" here and there.  If you tilt the card slightly it has

a nice shimmer on the flowers, stem  and  chick.

The sentiment was stamped on Spellbinders "Radiant Rectangles"....

I added a bit of bling using "Amber Rhinestones".

I hope I have inspired "you" to join us with "your" project for this weeks challenge!!

Entering in the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday .... Anything Goes
and
Simon Says .... Happy Easter or Sweet Treats
and
Animal Friendship Challenge .... Spring/Easter, must have an animal
and
Shopping Our Stash .... Paper Piecing

CAS White On White

Hello Friends,

This week at "The Sisterhood of Crafters" the challenge is "White on White"!!

I really thought outside the box with this one....lol.

Awhile back I had a post of a watercolor wisteria stencil I had used.

When I embossed that one on watercolor paper, I also embossed a second one in case I messed up my first one (you all know how that can happen!)...

Well, the first one worked out fine and this second one has just been sitting here.

 in all my mess on my desk, 

it got turned upside down and the more I looked at it, the more it 

reminded me of white bleeding hearts, which I have in my own  gardens...

I decided why not leave it flipped and add some butterflies and have a CAS

white on white card.  

It is really pretty and the embossing shows up much better IRL, it is so difficult to

capture the beauty on camera of a white on white card!!

Head on over to "The Sisterhood" and see what other beautiful white on white cards

the DT has for you, and while there why not leave a comment and join in our challenge with us, I would love to see "your" project!!!

Entered In the following challenges:
Just Inspirational Challenges .... Embossing
and
The Crafty Bloggers Network .... Embossing
and
Totally Gorjuss .... White on White

Easter Inspiration

Hi All.....here is my post that is on the
Classy Cards 'n Such blog today.  I hope you will take a peek
over there and even better, join in our challenge this week, 
there is a lovely prize up for grabs!!
Don't forget to sign up for "my" blog candy above!!


Hello Classy Friends Diane here with you today

to show you my project I did for our new challenge this week 

"Easter Inspirational Sentiment".....

Make an Easter sentiment your "focal" point.

I hope you will join in with the DT for our challenge this week!

It's hard to believe that we are already into April and Easter is just a few weeks away.

As I write this, it is still rather dreary and cool here, but I can overcome that

by using a few of my new "Spring" items I have purchased from

Classy Cards'n Such online store.

I started off with a basic white card stock 

and embossed it with  Crafts-Too "Dots" embossing folder....

I used Spellbinders Decorative Labels Eight, 

layered to stamp my Easter sentiment on...

The sentiment  I used is from Flourishes ...

though this exact one is not stocked in the store,

there are plenty of other ones from Flourishes you can find HERE  

and many more lovely Easter stamp sets 

including JustRite "Easter Blessing Oval Medallions"  and 

Our Daily Bread "Easter Blessings" to name a few!!

The purple background paper on my Spellbinders die is the

Bo Bunny Soft Shades Double Dot Designs...love this paper!!

I next cut 3 sets of Memory Box "Dancing Tulips" colored with a few Copics.

Lastly I added a bow and my card was complete!!

A few other items used in the making of my card are:

Scor-tape 1/2 to mount my die cuts with

Art Institute Dries Clear Adhesive to glue my bow on.

Thanks for stopping by!!

I hope to see YOU at our challenge this week....

Next week (April 14th) our challenge will be Die Cuts Only!!!

Entering in the following challenges:
Crafty Sentiment Designs .... Easter
and
Cuttin and Stampin .... Easter or Rainbow
and
Die Cuttin' Divas .... Color Challenge..Pastels
and 
Card Mania .... Easter