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Has your Winter Weather been as Wicked as Ours?
I Love Winter..I love the snow, the how beautiful the landscape is covered in white, how amazing the world looks transformed for a short time into a sparkling wonderland!

And then we have this year....

Thursday the forecast was for "Ice Pellets" I kid you not! Not snow, or rain or sleet, or hail or any of that mild stuff but literal ICE PELLETS!

When I was leaving work, half my car was encased in ice, luckily it was only half and I was able to retrieve my ice scrapper and De-icing spray, because silly me, I carry those in my car not my purse! I spent the next several minutes scrapping ice from the windows, and Yes, I was being pelted with ice falling from the sky all the while!

Last week I found this adorable image from Tiddly Inks, called "cast your spell" I knew I wanted to use her in some manner. I was thinking Ice Princess....Winter Wizard-ess.... Then Today's Winter Weather Forecast...and I am so not lying:

We woke up to a dense fog advisory 100% humidity
Which gave way to A Severe Thunderstorm Warning with Hail and strong damaging winds
We also have a developing Super Cell and a chance for a Tornado
Which should all be pushed out by a cold front and turn to snow over night

So now that you know that you know the story...I hope you enjoy my interpretation of darker side of winter and my "Wicked Winter"card.

Of course, she maybe the darker side, but she still has to shimmer and shine. From glitter paper to sparkling H20 on her dress and Shimmerz on her wings. I even blinged out her "magic"!!

I hope you enjoy her as much as I enjoyed discovering her! If you do, my comment link is above the picture...let me know what you think or just that you stopped by!

I am enter the following Challenges:


Craft Us Crazy ~ Brrrr-It's Cold
Crafty Purple Frog ~ Touch of Magic
Crafts & Me ~ Things with Wings
Paper Romance ~ Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday ~ Bling It On

Yes it's been awhile since I have posted on my blog. I guess you can say life change got in the way. Had to do a lot of readjusting and rearranging of my time and schedule....hopefully I have been able to work this out!


But all has not been lost! Oh No...I have been visiting a lot of my favorites sights, looking and lurking, and trying to be inspired. I have dabbled a little bit, collected a few trinkets, a new "tool" or two to play with....but haven't really had the time or energy to pull it all together, create something wonderful and share it.

I made a promise to myself to allow myself time to be creative. Even if I don't finish a project, I find the time I spend using "the other side of my brain" is very relaxing and refreshing.
Hopefully I will find some inspiring challenges to keep me motivated and creating!

Happy Crafting!


It's time for another Challenge at Sew Many Challenges!
This week's challenge is to make a Card for a male, young or old....

This week I was able to play with this great image from our lovely sponsor...KLM Designs! For my card I used "Get Well Bear"...Poor little thing isn't feeling to well....but is so sweet!

I used shades of brown for the card and the little teddy....My Mind's Eye paper and card stock. I colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils and mineral spirits and I very carefully applied some diamond glaze to the thermometer!!! His feet are layered to pop out from under his blankie! I sure hope he gets to feeling better soon! Don't you...

If you do, or if you like what you see....leave me a comment! My link is above the photo...Then Hop on over to Sew Many Challenges and join in the fun this week...and maybe you will be the winner of some cool KLM digi stamps!!!

If you are wondering about KLM Designs:

KLM Digi Stamps (KLM Designs) was started by a Mother & Daughter team. Kathryn (owner of KLM Digi Stamps) and Sue (Company’s artist) started designing digital stamps for their own creations. After much response & excitement to their designs they formed KLM Digi Stamps.
KLM carry’s a large selection of designs from clowns, which are the company’s signature design to digital sentiments. All images are delivered ZIP format. Each image file contains JPEG and PNG format files. Images can be re sized, reversed and altered to your likings.

AND .......I Have a winner!!!! Rose Petal, your are the winner of the image I used"Jovi Painting Halen" For the Sew Many Cards, New Release Blog Hop!!!!! Congratulations!!!! Please contact our Design Team Coordinator Jeri....She will be sure your receive your image!!!! Jeri@SewManyChallenges.com ENJOY!!!!!!

It's time for another Sew Many Cards New Release Blog Hop!!


We’re so glad you could join us and see Angela’s New Releases
and you will have a chance to win some fun prizes!
SO...Are you ready?!?!


To get started, let's be sure you are on track...you don't want to miss anything! You should have come here after visiting CEAL. If not don't worry you can find the start of the hop at The Sew Many Cards Challenge Blog!

What are friends for?!?! My Image for this Hop is, Jovi painting Halen....Jovi is helping Halen get all dolled up...we all need friends like that...someone to get those hard to reach places!!! I think this new image is just adorable! I always have so much fun with Angela's images!

For this Hop we have 2 sponsors! Yep 2....so this is what we are going to do....the Winner of hop will receive a gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp! AND we have a Challenge for you and the Winner of the challenge will win a $25 gift certificate to SoftPencil!!!!

Remember You Must Leave a comment on Every Blog along the way for a chance to Win....my comment link is above the picture!! Your next stop is.....Back to our Challenge Blog!

Hope you Had a Great Time...can't wait to see your challenge entries!

Challenges This card has been entered into...

Die Cut Dreams ~ #36 Easter
Inky Impressions ~ #30 Think Spring
Your Next Stamp Challenge ~ #10 Spring Colors
Incy WincyDesigns ~ # 39 Touchy Feely
Creatalious Challenges ~ #7 Create a Little Something
Lexi's Creations ~ #8 Anything Goes!




This Week over at Sew Many Challenges, we are hosting a sketch challenge, and our sponsor is Inktegrity! I was able to play with their "High There" images from the "Going Places Series"!

To me this little plane was all about being a boy....so I had to work out of my comfortable little box and think "B O Y".....I am telling you, it is hard for me to work in these colors....LOL I did have fun trying to design something different....and I even like how it turned out!

I wanted the airplane to appear to be flying....pulling the sentiment behind it, so I used the cloud to reference to sky....Does it work for you??? I hope it does...you can let me know, my comment link is at the top of the post!


As I mentioned, Inktegrity is our sponsor,
and they are offering a $10 Gift Certificate
to the winner of our Sew Many Cards Challenge!
Image ~ Inktegrity, High Hopes
Paper ~ DCWV, Nana's Kids
Cloud ~ Internet Clipart
Edge Punch ~ Fiskars
Coloring ~ Prismacolors/mineral spirits


Awww, Doesn't little Zee just make you
wanna take a nap too?!?!?!

I made this card to play along with this weeks challenge over at Totally Papercraft! The theme of this Challenge is "Lots of Spots"! AND is being sponsored by Sew Many Cards!!!

LOL...I sure had fun trying to load my card with SPOTS! I decided to use this darling image from Sew Many Cards, not only because Zee is so cute....but because there are spots on the moon!! (Holes are spots...right?!?!) LOL

I started with a purple and white dotted paper, then layered another paper with colored spots...a stripe of pink card stock I embossed with spots & dots, added a spotted ribbon...and of course I had to finish with lots of Mini-Bling spots!!!

It was a lot of fun to see how many spots and dots I could fit on one card!!! You have to give it a try too....Visit Totally Papercraft and show us your spots! Don't forget to tell me what you think of my spots before you leave....my comment link is above the photo!!!!

Image ~ Sew Many Cards
Sentiment ~ Computer Generated
Embossing ~ Cuttlebug and Spots and Dots Folder
Coloring ~ Prismacolors and mineral spirits
Ribbon ~ Bling~ Paper ~ from stash

Over at Sew Many Challenges....We Want to give a shout out to
Our Monthly Sponsor, Wags &Whiskers!!!

I was able to use this adorable Stamp called "Easter Blessings" to create a fun little card!
This is a RUBBER Stamp Approximately 2.70"H x 3.90W, and avaiable on the Wags &Whiskers Blog!

I just think these little children as so sweet...and of Course I love the Bunnies! Have you had a chance to visit our sponsor....hurry over and mybe you too can create something special for Easter too!! And don't forget to tell me what you think...You know I love to hear from you!!!!! My comment link is at the top of the post!

Paper ~ The Paper Studio
Coloring ~ Prismacolors and Mineral Spirits
Flowers ~ Bling ~ Ribbon are from my stash