Thursday, June 30, 2016

AYLI #83 {Favorite Coloring Tools}

 

Welcome back to my blog everyone! For the next 2 weeks, the challenge over at As You Like It is as follows:

As You Like It #83 - showcase a project using your Favourite Markers, Inks or Pencils (& why). You MUST explain WHY it is your favourite


The sponsor of this challenge is
Prize - £10.00 Voucher
For my card, I had the priviledge of using "Snoozing Ralph" from DigiStamp Boutique - thank you very much for this adorable image - reminds me of my hubby! LOL... My favorite coloring medium are Copic Markers. I love how they blend and I really enjoy mucking with a bunch of different color combinations :)

Be sure to hop on over to the AYLI challenge blog HERE and link up your project for us - we are super excited to see all the different mediums of coloring! Happy crafting!

4 CC #305 {Anything Goes/Crazy Egg!}


Happy 4 Crafty Chicks Thursday everyone :) Welcome back to my blog....

This week, miss Tina is our hostess and since June has 5 Thursdays, we always have a "CRAZY EGG" challenge which is a free-for-all! Yep, ANYTHING GOES is the theme this week!

 I decided to color up this cutie from Bugaboo Stamps:

Thanks so much for stopping in today - be sure to check out what the rest of the Chicks have created for this week's challenge - click HERE to head over to the challenge blog! Happy crafting!!

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Digi Choosday Week #26 {Add Some Bling!}



Hello everyone! 

It's Tuesday and that means that it's a new challenge over at Digi Choosday. This week, the challenge is Add Some Bling

For my card, I used the Design Sheet from the Winnie Fruit Punch digital printable papercrafting collection from Polkadoodles. I added gems to the top left corner, her bow in her hair and the bow in the pressie! 



I cannot tell you how EASY and FUN these downloads are! You literally get hundreds of images, embellies, papers, sentiments etc that you can make OODLES of projects with! Come check them out and play along with us this week! There are many collections to choose from and just for you today you can grab the discount code here.


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

Robyn's Fettish - Butterflies
Crazy 4 Challenges - Add a Butterfly
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

To celebrate my first post as a Polkadoodles DT member, and as a special treat to my readers, I will be choosing one comment at random, and the winner will receive this cutie-pie, Barista Coffee/Cake Digi Winner will be drawn July 8th! 

Barista Coffee/Cake Digi Stamp - Digital Stamp Scrapbooking Download 

I hope you will come play along with us at Digi Choosday Challenge Blog
Don't forget to check out what my super-talented teammies have created just for you with their amazing DT projects....

Why not join our Polkadoodles groups on Facebook to keep up with all the news and releases?

Monday, June 27, 2016

Merry Monday #211 {Navy, Gold, Silver/White}


Happy "Merry Monday" everyone! This week over at Merry Monday Christmas Challenge, miss Colleen is our challenge hostess and she's looking for the following colors on your cards:



For my card, I used the Paper Players sketch as my "jump off" point - turning the bottom layer a smidgen ;) Then, used a poinsettia die , some stitched rectangle and square dies, navy, silver paper and gold gems....so fun!!



I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Goes

PLEASE NOTE: this will be our last challenge of the summer - we will return the first Monday in September! Have a wonderful summer break! xoxoxo

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop....


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Hello everyone! I am JUST sneaking this post in under the wire over at the Coffee Lover's Summer Blog Hop!! I've been extremely busy around the farm, yard, spraying business, DT commitments etc. that I haven't had time to get this card blogged LOL....


For my card, I am using one of 4 cards that I created using Debbie's awesome card kits from Paper Sweeties - who just happens to be one of many sponsors in the hop! I absolutely LOVE the cuteness of the seam binding, the coffee images/dies and the color of pink reminds me of summer time and a little polka dotted bikini!


Thanks for stopping in today - I hope you get a chance to hop along and see all the UH-MAY-ZING coffee projects along the way! I know I am :) I am in java/crafting heaven! CHEERS!!!

4 CC #304 {Sew Cute}


Welcome back to my blog :) This week over at 4 Crafty Chicks, it is my turn to play challenge hostess and I am wanting to see some "sewing" on your projects. This can be faux or real - your choice! I love both techniques and can't wait to see the gallery....

4 CC #304 {SEW CUTE!}


On my card this week, I used some dies and let them do most of the work for me - they are stitched stars and then I did faux stitching around the outside of the base.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Ruby's Rainbow - Hip to Be Square
Stampin' Royalty - To Die For
A Snowflake Promise - Anything Goes (must be Christmas)
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Be sure to hop on over to the hen house HERE and see what Melanie (our Guest Designer) and the other Chicks have for you - their projects are absolutely gorgeous! Link up your "sewing" project for us and we'll be around to leave you some love as well. Happy crafting! Cheers! 

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Exciting News and some Blog Candy!!

 Welcome back to my blog everyone. Today is a very exciting day for me :) I am thrilled to share that the amazing Nikky Hall from Polkadoodles asked me to join their Digi Choosday Design Team! I found out on my birthday so man, what a present for me, hey?! Thanks again, Nikky - I am so excited to share all these adorable (and EASY PEEZY to create with) images, papers, embellies and designs! 

The Digi Choosday Challenge Blog offers a new challenge every Tuesday and you have 2 weeks to play along with us. The challenge for the next 2 weeks is "Add a Ribbon or Twine" and you will have until June 28th to play.
Each week there is a HUGE DISCOUNT offered so be sure to hop on over to the challenge blog for that....click HERE.

For my card, I used the pre-colored Treetop Winnie image from the following collection:





Isn't she just darling?! I colored in the sky on my image with Copic Markers, but the background paper, flower, leaves are all from the collection and I simply copied the images I wanted to a word document and re-sized them to my liking and wa-laaa! Printed and cut out :) Easy as pie! Anyone can 'stamp' and create with these amazing collections!

Here's a little close up of sweet Winnie:


I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Catch the Bug - BINGO (I chose top row across) 
Crafty Creations - TIC TAC TOE (I chose top row)
Cute Card Thursday - Butterflies and/or small bugs

 To celebrate my first post as a Polkadoodles DT member, and as a special treat to my readers, I will be choosing one comment at random, and the winner will receive this cutie-pie, Barista Coffee/Cake Digi


Barista Coffee/Cake Digi Stamp - Digital Stamp Scrapbooking Download 

I hope you will come play along with us at Digi Choosday Challenge Blog
Don't forget to check out what my super-talented teammies have created just for you with their amazing DT projects....

Why not join our Polkadoodles groups on Facebook to keep up with all the news and releases?

Monday, June 20, 2016

Merry Monday #210 {Peace, Joy, Love}


Happy "Merry Monday" everyone! Have you heard about Merry Monday Christmas Challenge before? NO?!? Well...do you want to have a nice, purdy stash of handmade Christmas cards all ready to go in the mail come the holidays? YES?! Awesome - this might be a challenge for you! 

Every week, we have a new theme for our Christmas cards and if you play along with us each week, you will accumulate quite the little stash of cards for your gift giving/mail outs come November/December! 

If you play along, you have the chance to be our guest designer in an upcoming week! This week, our challenge hostess is none other than miss Bonnie....check it out:


For my card this week, I dug through some oldie Stampin' Up! sentiment sets and came across this one - PERFECT! :) 


I am entering my card into One Crazy Stamper's "Anything Goes" challenge for the month of June :)

I hope you will find some time to come and play along with us Merry Makers this week - we'd love to see your creations and have a chance at being our Guest Designer! ** Please Note: we will be closing down the challenge blog for the months of July and August to give the Design Team a bit of a break and enjoy the summer months ** Happy crafting!

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Our Favorite Dies at AYLI #82


Welcome back everyone! For the next 2 weeks, the challenge over at As You Like It is to show us your favorite die and why....here is a bit about our sponsor:

The sponsor of this challenge is

Bunny Zoe
£10.00


This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using 
your Favorite Die (& why).
You MUST explain WHY it is your favorite.


I have so many dies that I love, but my go-to favorite dies that I grab for almost every card are the rectangle, square or circle stitched dies from Lil' Inker Designs. I love how they just add that little bit of extra detail to an image!

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

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - TIC TAC TOE (I used top row across)
Come on over and see what the rest of my uber-talented teammies have in store for you and then link up your card using your favorite dies. We'd love to see your top picks in dies! Happy crafting!

4 CC #303 {Metal}


Happy "4 Crafty Chicks" Thursday! Our challenge hostess this week is our wonderful miss Tamie....she's looking for some "METAL" on our projects.

4 CC #303 {METAL}


Mine is sort of hidden lol...I used metal painted brads on my flowers and mini silver brads in my mini flowers. The dies are from MFT and the sentiment die is from Paper Smooches.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

I hope you get some time to pop on over and see what our Guest Designer, Melanie, and the rest of the Chicks have for you and to play along with us - we'd LOVE to have you! Click HERE to be re-directed to the 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge Blog and link up your project using "metal." Cheers!

Monday, June 13, 2016

Merry Monday #209 {Inspiration Challenge}

 

Welcome back to my blog everyone! This week, the challenge over at Merry Monday Christmas Challenge is being brought to you by none other than our wonderful leader, Lesley - here is the inspiration photo she chose:


I decided to go with the tea cup theme and the colors - I used a Paper Sweeties image from the super cute set called Eat Cake and let the designer paper and sequins finish it off:


Thanks for stopping in today - be sure to hop on over the the challenge blog HERE to see what the rest of the Merry Makers have created for you using Lesley's photo...you will NOT be disappointed! Cheers!

Thursday, June 9, 2016

4 CC #302 {Gus is Mantastic!}


Happy "4 Crafty Chicks" Thursday everyone! The temp's have cooled down a wee bit here in central Alberta, which, I am grateful - we've had heat advisories with 30C+ temps for the past 4 days and I was ready for a cool-down ;)

This week, miss Tina is our challenge hostess and she's looking for cards related to a vacation...I knew immediately that Mr. Gus from Bugaboo Stamps had to get some color ;) 

4 CC #302 {VACATION}


Our Guest Designer, Melanie, and the rest of the Chicks have created some amazing Vacation projects for you to admire - hop on over to the 4 CC Challenge Blog and check 'em out then get crafty with us and show us YOUR creation...we'd love to have ya! Cheers!

Monday, June 6, 2016

Merry Monday #208 {Party Time!}


Welcome back to my blog everyone! This week over at Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge, miss Sue is our wonderful "hostess extraordinaire" and she's wanting to see some "FUN CARDS FOR KIDS" - I figured this little guy was PERFECT for her challenge:


I used one of Mo Manning's pre-colored digi's for this fun, cheery "party" card! 


Come on over and see what the rest of the Merry Makers have in store for you - and play along with us this week. You have a chance to be our Guest Designer if your card is chosen as our winner! Click HERE for more details!

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Bringing it all together....


As many of you know, I have a deep love of coffee, crochet AND paper crafts....so today as I was getting some dish cloths put together with these adorable free printable bands (link at bottom of post), I thought, "ya know...why not bring all this stuff together and place it all in one home? Ya...great idea! Now...what to call it?!" 


Caffeinated Creativity could not suit me better. My creativity is almost always fueled with a strong, delicious, creamy, sweet cuppa joe. And so it is. My new blog. I have had Inkingly Yours for quite some time so all I did was change the blog name and address so that all my settings etc. would remain the same. Thank you to anyone popping back in to follow me again! 


I have a Facebook page, also called Caffeinated Creativity, where I am currently selling my handmade crochet items and I will also be incorporating my cards there as well. I am not certain if I will open up an Etsy store for this yet or not...one step at a time! 
  

Alright...a little bit about these adorable free printables for my dish cloths...I came across Kim Layton's amazing blog HERE and I was so tickled when I found these labels. They are so me :) Thanks again, Kim!

Here is the lot of what I have done so far and so many more to come yet...I keep adding more colors of yarn to the stash ;) So, remember, if you go to my Facebook page and like them but you don't see the color you'd like, shoot me a quick message and I will let you know whether or not I have your color. If not, I will sure try my best to accommodate you!


Most of the dish cloths in the picture are waffle stitch pattern like the ones you see below:




The pattern for these can be found HERE.

Well...there you have it! A fresh start - with all my loves in one place :) I have a lot more crochet items over on the FB page but you can wander over there anytime and check it out. I will be updating and blogging here more often now as I will have blog posts related to yarn and coffee to share as well as cards.

Cheers for now.....