Sentimental Sundays…Dry Embossing

Hello and happy Sunday bloggers. 

Today, is another wonderful  challenge at Sentimental Sundays.

This weeks theme challenge is: DRY EMBOSSING!!

I love this challenge, because I LOVE the look and feel that dry embossing does to paper. 

It can be simple, grungy, and/or elegant, all depends on you and your embossing folders!!

This weeks sponsor is Heather Ellis!!  I LOVE her images...they are so adorable and sweet. 

Here is my card for this weeks challenge:

I used two different dry embossing folders, one was by accident, but it came together very well.

I am at CHA this weekend and I hope to coma back with lots of pictures to share with you.  Until then, I hope that you all have a fantastic weekend.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

I Heart 2 Stamp January Sketch

Aud Sentiments
Craft Us Crazy
Little Darlings
Whimsy Stamps Inspiration Challenge
Sweet Stamps
Cupcake Craft Challenge

hugs,
Calypso 

Thanks a bunch

Hello everyone-

I hope that you are enjoying your Wednesday day and guess what just a few days till the weekend and CHA!!!  YEAH!!! It will be my first visit to CHA and I am feeling the excitement among those that will be attending. YEAH!

So on to today’s post.

I have some fantastic news to share with you too!!!  I am now a member of ALL THAT SCRAPS Store Design Team!!!  Wahoooo!!!  I was so excited to get an email from Lesa and Pam, that I ran up and down the stairs several times!!! LOL!!! Really, I wish I could have recorded myself!!! LOL…again. Every week I will be showcasing products that is carried on the ATS site.   If you have never visited the site before, I really encourage you to.  Lots of items are currently on discount and lots of new items arrive daily and shipping....any order over $40 ships FREE!!  I love that!!

So for today's post I made this card using Penny Black Betsy Bluebell stamp set.

She is so sweet holding that  big bouquet of flowers.

Thank you for allowing me to share my news/card with you today. 

I'm leaving Friday night, so you most likely will not see another post from me til Sunday.

So I hope that you enjoy the rest of your week and I will see you back next week. 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges: 

365 Cards

Challenge Up Your Life #61

Basic Grey Challenge #61
(Stiching-Ribbon-Buttons)

Whimsy Stamps Inspiration Challenges #23

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #71

Hugs, 

Calypso

Sentimental Sundays:Die Cuts

Good morning my blogging buddies~

It is so COLD right now...it's 37 degrees outside right now!!

I have my kettle going so that I can prepare myself a cup of my favorite tea right now!!

It's by Teavana and it's called Samurai Chai Mate Tea.  I love using loose tea, because you actually see what's in it and the smell and taste is much more intense, more so than tea bags. 

So while my water boils, I would like to share with you my creation for this weeks challenge at Sentimental Sundays, which is all about die cuts.  

Since Valentine's Day is just around the corner, I decided to put my Cameo to work.  I purchased a file from the file, which is Lori Whitlock's design, but if you don't have a Cameo, this file will also work with the Sure Cuts A Lot program.  So I finally had a chance to use the cut and print feature on the Cameo, which is my opinion the greatest thing EVER.  I placed the image inside the heart, so I would know how big the image needed to be .... it printed on my computer, placed the printed image back on the mat, cut and WHHHALLAAAA!!!

Look at how cute this cupid is.  Ever since being introduced to per-colored images, I think I have picked up a new addiction!!!  The colors are so amazing, that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use this image, which was offered to us by The Paper Shelter, who is our sponsor this week!!

Ok...so lets let to the photos:

This is the top of the heart box

This is the bottom/back of the box  

And this the box opened and ready to be stuffed with chocolate!!! Yummy!!!

I love this die cut and I think that I will be using it a lot.  It was very easy to put together and just think of all the possibilities for embellishing a box like this!!! ENDLESS!!

Make sure to stop by the Sentimental Sundays blog and check out what the Sentimental ladies did with their die cuts!!  You will love it!!

I would like to enter creation in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp and Show

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #152

Papertake Weekly Challenge

Shopping Our stash

Aud Sentiments
Paper Issues

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Kiss GoodBye

 Hi everyone-

Oh....can you hear the pain in my voice!! LOL!!

I am finally getting my little craft room organized and adding some order that will allow me to be productive as productive as I can be!! 

So one of my crafty goals this year, is to complete at least 2 layouts per month!! 

It does not seem like a lot, but I tend to contemplate too much on my layouts, so it will be a good way for me to just start to get going. 

I want to share something special with you. 

This is a layout of ALL my sisters!!  Yes...ALL my sisters...I am the oldest of five. 

The one in the center is the third in of the group and was married two years ago. 

Sorry about all the boobies!! 8) Anyhow...she is due to have a baby in a few months and I am excited about being an auntie for the second time.  I have two boys of my own, trying to have a girl, but in the meantime I love spoiling my nieces and buying all those cute girly clothes!!!  How my heart melts when I see tutu in red with glitter slippers.  LOL!!

This layout was inspire by the song: The Kiss Goobye by Little Big Town. 

I would like to enter this layout in the following challenges: 

Celebrate the Occasion

Color Throwdoown #175

Bling it On Challenge
ScrapFit
Papertake Weekly
(Bling, Blossoms)

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,
Calypso

The art of LOVE

 Hello everyone-

I hope that you had a great weekend and are enjoying your Monday thus far. 

We are just planning on doing some light cleaning around here...Picking up leaves from the backyard and go grocery shopping!!  

Yesterday, I got some crafty time in.  It feels really good being in my craft room and siting at a desk!!

Ahhh....no more squatting!! LOL. 

So I worked on 4 cards yesterday.....2 are for DT assignments and the other two were just for fun!

Here is one of them:

I love how this all came together so beautifully. 

I wasn't sure if I was going to like the combo, but I LOVE it!!!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crop Stop Challenge #53

Sweet Sunday Sketch 150

CR84FN Color Challenge

I will try to do some more challenge postings later, I have to go run these errands first!!

See you later. 

Hugs, 

Sentimental Sundays- Ribbon

It's Sunday...it's Sunday!!

It is tome for another Sunday challenge over at Sentimental Sundays!

This weeks theme challenge is:

RIBBON

(don't forget to use a sentiment)

This weeks sponsor is:

Fred She Said 

And Tracey allowed the team to pick up a few images to play with for this weeks challenge. 

I was eager to play with pre-colored images.  The thought of just printing an image and putting it on a card was exciting for me and besides, these images were amazingly colored and they printed beautifully.  I chose to work with the"Old Truck" digi.

Here is my card for  this weeks challenge:

Now remember...I did not color this image.  I simply printed it out on my Copic Express paper. 

Gorgeous right?!?!  Told YA!! LOL!!!  The file comes with 3 other colors of the vehicle.  I was not able to finish all of the, but if I do, I'll edit the post and add the extra pictures.  I also picked up another image that will be awesome for practicing doing doing the pleats. 

Well that is it for me today.

If time allows you, make sure to stop by our sponsors site and see all the great images.

There is something for everyone.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenge:
Dream Valley Challenge
The Poodles Parlour
Catered Crop

Hugs.

LiaStampz Guest Designer

Good morning my blogging buddies!!!

Today, Lia Stampz is back and has a brand new challenge for you to take part in. Fun!!! Fun!!

I won a spot for guest designer back in November and I was SUPER excited. 

When I got the email from Laura  and of course with my exuberant personality, replied….

YES!!!  YES…I would LOVE to!! LOL!!!  She sent me “Leah Catch a Star”  which can be found at the Whimsy Stamps, you can follow the link down below. I had to much fun coloring this card and putting it together.  

The patterned paper was a bit on the bright side, so I washed it with a cream watered down paint. 

Once it dried I took a cloth and wiped a little of that paint off of the side brackets, just to let some of that gold shine come through!

The image was colored with Copics, then cut it out using Spellbinders Petite Ovals Large (s4-138) using the out of the box technique.  Then I colored the back ground with Antique Linen/ Frayed Burlap Distress Inks, then I used a sentiment from Raindrop Echo Designs, to finish my card for today's post. 

Well I hope that you enjoy my card and I encourage you to visit Lia Stampz and participate in this months challenge and you don't have to use a Lia Stampz image, you just have to follow the theme, which is a sketch.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Digi Doodle Shop

Southern Girls Challenge

Crafty Cardmakers

Hugs, 

Calypso

Friends are the Flowers of Life - Tiddly Inks Blog Hop

Hello….Hello!!

I am SUPER excited about this blog hop. I know that you have been seeing the new Wryn and Friends images from Tiddly Inks swarming the blogging community.  When I saw these images…I just had to get my hands on them….not just one but all 5 of the first set.  Today, there were two more released!!!  LOL.  So I have to get those too!!  LOL!!!  Anyhow…..Tiddly Inks has opened up this blog hop to all Tiddly Ink lovers, like myself and MANY other out there.

THEME:

Friends are the Flowers of Life

Use any Tiddly Inks digital image to create a card or project and participate in the blog hop.

I made and had a card with the new Wryn image, but I had started a little something for my friends using a cut file from My Scrap Chick and I just had to share it, since I LOVE it so much!!!  It does fit the theme of the blog hop, because it’s for a friend and it has flowers!!!  I colored the edge of her hair and face with chalk, but I think you can see that more in her hair. 

So here is my entry for today blog hop.

And her flower bouquet!

Well there you have it my lovely Tiddly friends….My Party Girl Gift bag.

I hope that you will play along with us today and I can’t wait to see what everyone else has created.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks

DYSU
Paper Take Weekly
Chalk-Ah-Lot

Hugs,

Calypso

Mermaid Fairy

  Evening everyone-
I wanted to come on really briefly and share a card that made using one of the new images from ADFD.  This image is called Mermaid Fairy.  I wish I could afford the entire collection, but I opt on this image.  

Here is a close up.  I did some major fussy cutting, trying to keep a thin layer of white around the image.  Paper piecing was also done to her tail and top.  Her head, wings and tail are not adhered to the paper. It is simply just floating sort of speak.  

Body, wings and hair were colored using Copics. 

The circles were cut out using Spellbinders and pearls were just placed randomly around the image. 

This is a very simple card for me, yet I love the look and colors.  I wish I could have taken a better picture, because the patterned papers actually have beautiful shimmers. 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

ADFD

Card Positioning System 250

Moving Along with the Times

Craft Your Passion

Cupcake Craft Challenge- (new image)

And I am trying out this new linky system!!!

S.E.I. Marquisette Pearl Foil Paper

S.E.I Pique Mint Foil Paper

Mermaid Fairy: A Day For Daisies Digital Image

Hero Arts Pearls

Inkssentials Mini Glossy Accents

InLinkz.com

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #84 Snow, Blue and/or Glitter

Morning everyone-

Happy Sunday to all of you!!! 

Today is the second challenge of the over at Sentimental Sundays..

This weeks challenge is:

snow, blue and/or glitter

You can use choose to you all three, two or just one of those three things, but just make sure to use at least one, plus your sentiment. 

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps.

They generously provide the team with our choice of digital image. 

I chose to play with "Christmas SB Skatng"

and here is a close up of the image itself:

So I distressed the edges and applied "Snow" around the base and the center base and sprinkled super fine glitter onto, before it dried out.   The image was colored with Copics and the snowflake background was cut out using my new Silhouette Cameo-Which I am in LOVE with!! 

So there you have it...I hope that you will join us this week or at least pay us a visit and say hello. 

And the winner of last weeks blog hop candy is: Using my iPhone app!!! Love it!!

You have til Wednesday to claim your prize, so please email me at:

calypsocandycrafts at yahoo dot com

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Catch The Bug

Paper Sundaes

Crazy 4 Challenges

Sweet Stamps

DYSU

Sketch N Stash

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day. 

Hugs,

Merry Christmas (Last Card)

Hi everyone-

Happy Thursday to you and I hope that it is a good one!!!

I just wanted to pop in and share a card that I just finished and will keep as a jump start in this years Christams cards!! LOL!!!  I had colored lot of images but I didn’t get around to having the time to putting them all together…so I am a little ahead of the game.

Anyways….This card is using Mo Mannings Little Elf Pipa!!!

I love the fun feeling of this image….Weeeeee!!!  LOL!!

Here is a close up…can you see all the glitter?

I've been practicing on my ethnic skin colors and I think this is the best I have done yet to date!!

Before I leave you, I would like to share a picture of my Yorkie sun bathing:

He is my little (only 3lbs) shadow.  Everywhere I go, he follows…even if he’s asleep and he hears me get up, he wakes up and follows me!!  He’s the little man of the family!!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Bronte and Bella’s Challenge

Simon Says Stamp (my image)
Craft Us Crazy

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hugs,
Calypso

Sentimental Sundays "ANYTHING GOES" Party

Good morning everyone-

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY!!!

A brand new year....wow, wow!!!

Did party like rock stars last night? LOL!!  We didn't, we stayed home with the boys....ate dinner, had some sweets and played some board games all NIGHT!!! It was the kind of mellow fun we needed after our long weekend of birthday celebrations and Christmas!!!  Whew!!! I am really glad it's all over!!! :0)

Now, for the day we have all been waiting for!!!

The return of Sentimental Sundays Challenge Blog!!!  WhooHOOO!

We had a LONG and exciting break!!
Did you see the new blog yet?
You have to go check it out....IT's GORGEOUS!!!
Did you see all the new faces?

There are now 18 members on the team!!! Some of them are oldies like ME!!! And a big scoop of newbies!!These gals are bound to knock your socks off with their amazing creativity!!  You just have to check them out!!  And did you see all those sponsors?!!?!?!
This is some PARTY, right?!?!?

Well let's keep the ball rolling, shall we....

You should have arrived here from Archana's blog. If you didn't arrive from her blog and would like to join in the hop, please start at the Sentimental Sundays challenge blog.

For my card today, I used Clown Owls in Car by Pink Cat Studio.

The card itself is very simple, because I got lost in coloring this image and I couldn't find the right patterned paper in my stash that would work well.  I do LOVE the way it turned out though, it's bright and cheerful and PERFECT for this day/occasion!!

AND......I have a bit of candy to giveaway!!!
Check this out!!!

Now whatcha think about that!!! Pretty nice right?!?!?!
Thank you, thank you!!  :)

Your next stop on the hop is Olivia.
If you should happen to get lost along the way, you can find the blog hop list over at the Sentimental Sundays challenge blog. The hop ends on Sunday, January 8th. The winners will be announced on the Sentimental Sundays challenge blog on Sunday, January 10^th . So, hop on over to the next stop and good luck!!
Don't forget to leave a comment, for a chance at the Spellbinders Presto Punch Templates Plain Jane (Capitals and Lower Case).  Winner will be announced on my blog next Sunday!

Entering  the card in the following challenges:
Fairy Tale Challenge Blog
Inspire Me Fridays
Charisma Cardz Challenge
Digi Doodle Shop
DYSU
Little Miss Muffet 

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Hugs,