An Angel for you

Good Evening Everyone,
I know I am posting a bit late and I am so sorry to be doing so. I simply forgot the date so itis better later than never to post. I received this image to use for http://Crafter'sCafeChallengTeam.com I am on Team B and thisis the image we were to use and thisis my take on the challenge. Our theme this month is Ribbon and/orlace and as you can see I used a pink ribbon to placeon my card in the lower right hand corner. I just love this little digi angel and I cut her out then mounted her with foam dimensional tape (one of my have to have's)
I used cream cardstock cut at 11 X 81/2 ince cardstock folded to make the card a standard A2 card size. I then emossed the cardstock with my flowers embossing folder and my Cuttlebug. I took a light green dye ink pad and ran it over the embossing on the card just to accent it a bit more. The angel is colored with my prima markers and I used gold stickles for her halo, some in her hair and a touch of silver stickles on her wings. Her skin is colored using my prima colored pencils, I hope you enjoy this card and will check out the web site for more incredable cards and projects.
Good night for now and God Bless.
Love,
Aud

Scrapbook Layout first ever!

Good Morning,

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Monday and had a great weekend. The weather here in Mexico is just beautiful. The nights and early mornings are cool and the days are warm. Our hot weather will begin in Mid April and last until mid June when the rainy season starts. That is my favorite time of the year here as the mountains get green and the flowers are gorgeous.

Today I am showing you a layout I did for the DT I am on at Queen of My Craftroom. I have never scrapbooked in all the years Ihave been making cards so thisis truly a first for me. The paper is a 12X12 sheet of pattern paper with another pieceof paper set off square in the middle with a picture of our wedding in the middle. The picture show me looking at my husband and singing to him. I added the sentiment in the lower left hand corner "On Your Wedding Day" and then made 3 paper flowers for the lower right hand corner of the photo. These flowers are super simple to make and I learned how from watching a UTube video from Jess at KinderstampO stamps.

I know I have been MIA for quite a while and I really am hoping to remedy that situation. Have been facing health issues and just life in general has kept me away from my studio and my blog way to long. Praying that most of those issues are behind me now.

Have a wonderful day and God Bless. My thoughts and prayers are with you all!

Hugs,

Aud

Stampndoodle and Queen of my Craft room challenges

Good Morning! How is everyone doing on this fine crisp Feburary morning? It has been beautiful weather here in Mexico with sunny days and cool nights. I thought today I would bring you a card that I am entering in 2 challenges this week. The first challenge in for a DT tutorial on Stamp n Doodle Stamps. I have been selected ot ebon their design team and I adore their images which I will be sharing more of this month. The other DT Challenge is for Queen of My Craft Room where we were to maea party favor which is what I will be using to decorate the tables at our church dinner thsi upcoming Saturday night in celebration of Valentines day.

This is what is known as an easel card and it quite simple and fun to make. I started my card with a normal A2 sized card and folded one half over to give the tent apperance to the card. Used my base of cream cardstoc for this then cut 2 41/4" X 51/2" pieces of pink paper and embossed one wiht my cuttle bug and an embossing plate of flowers. This brings such a nice texture to the backgroundof the card. I then used some red velvvet paper and my Cricuit using the Sweethearts cartridge and cut out a 5" scalloped heart. The image of hte young couple is from Stamp n Doodles digital stamps and I adore it as thisis a sweet young Mexican couple. I colored the couple using a combinationof Prismacolor markers and pencils. I used orange and chartreuse for the boy´s shirt and Aquarmaring Blue of his pants with a black pocket and rose pink heart. His shoes are colored in dark umber brown. The girl´s dress in colored in violet with rose colored trim and ruffle and black on her shoes, The skin tones are in an off light brown and I can´t read the color on the pencil with a dash of carnation pink for cheek color. On the bottom of the card is the same pink cardstock as the top with no embossing except for the words Will You Be Mine which I stamped in versamark ink and embossed iwth gold embossing powder and my heat gun. The multicolored pink ribbon I got at a local fabric store here in Mexico. I sure hope you like this card and will check out both of the sites for some great inspiration. Have a great valentine´s day, it will also be my 14th wedding anniversary. Time sure does fly.

God Bless!

Queen of my Craft Rpm Chalenge for Jan 24th

Good Morning Everyone,

Well, I am up bright and early this morning to share a new project with you and to get a jump on the days work. I have a 4 day craft show coming up tomorrow morning and my weeki s just jammed with things to do, with tomorrow being the busiest of the 4 upcoming days. Not only am I doing a show starting tomorrow, but taking my dear friend to the dentist and then picking her up afterwards. She is such a sweet friend so it is no bother to me to do this. I just love her so, she is going with me to set up for the show then off to the dentist we go. I will return to the show by 9:30, then when the dentist calls I will go and pick her up to take her home. Then return to the show. Wednesday I am taking her 12 year old daughter with me (my Goddaughter, Destiny9, and she will get to help ME and then we will go to lunch. The show is from 10-2 daily. Should be a fun time.

Any way let´s get onto the card I am sharing with you today. As you all know I am on the Design Team for Queen of My Craft Room and the challenge this week is to make a card using only stamps. Well, let me tell you that is a challenge as I use my Cricut for just about every card I create so I did some brain wracking and designed this valentine card. I love to make easel cards and why I don´t make more I don´t know but this card today is an easel card and I think it turned out so pretty. My card base is cream colored cardstock then I layered a pink/red tone on top of the front and bottom part of the card. I stamped a heart using a sstamp I have had forever and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder on a piece of scrap patterened paper and attached that to the front of the card along with a work stamp "Love" which i also stamped in versmark ink and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. On my base I placed a lovely gold and pearl button that I cut off the shank and used a large glue dot to apply. These buttons were a steal at Michaels and I have had them for over the last 5 years since before I moved to Mexico. I then stamped "Happy Valentines Day" with versamark ink and again heat embossed it using gold embossing powder. The "Happy Valentines Day" is a stamp I used from Flourish stamps and I have had that for many years also. I love making easel cards as they are so different and are meant to sit out on a table and be looked at. Hope you like this card and will head on over to my Gueen of My Craftroom to see what else the design team has created for you to see.

Have a great crafty day and just remember that you are all so very special to me and I love ya all! God Bless!

Snowman card

Good Evening My Dear Friends,

The card I am featuring today is for Queen of My Craft Room. The Design Team was challenged to make a winter card with a snowman on it. Well, my litle card has 3 cute little stamped snowmen on it and they are colored using my Prisma Markers and mounted on the bottom in the lower right hand corner with some foam tape. In the lower left hand corner there is a poinsetta flower (I tried) made from Crystals I bought in Michaels in Guadalarjara. Believe me this Michaels store is nothing like in the States, They have beads, crystals, artifical flowers and ribbon. They have styrofoam and some wood things downstaires. Believe me when I say I truly miss Michaels and JoAnns in the States. The snowflake paper that I used as the background on the card I have had for approx 6 years. Probably about time I used it huh?

Well I guess it is my turn to need medical attention now. Last year it was my husband with prostate cancer and other problems, this year it is me. My kidneys are losing their functioning power and so I go once a week to the Dr's for IV iinfusion. He is trying to hold off on starting me on Peritoneal Dialysis. Had to cancel my plans to go to the States to see my girls and grandkids for my big 60 in August as we don't know when things will happen. I was so looking forward to seeing them and spending some time in the craft stores. But, God knows what he s doing and He is in control. My life has never been my own so I am fine with whatever God has in store for me, I know He is with me all the way. Well I have rambled on long enough. Please head over to Queen of My Craft Room to see what the other designers have done and enter your own card for the challenge.

Thank you all for stopping by and God Bless!

Design Team Post

Happy New Years's Everyone,

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and are all ready for the New Year. I have recently become involved with another Design Team, "Queen of my Craft Room". Super nice team members, we will be posting weekly projects so please come along and see what these wonderful talented ladies have to show you all. Our post for New Year's Day is any project you would like to share. With Valentine's day coming around the corner, I have been working all ready on valentine cards so I thought I would share one with you. I hope to be able to post every other day if not every day. I love you all so much and I am so blessed to have all you wonderful followers. Have a wonderful New Year and may God bless you all beyond what you can even imagine!

Here is one of my valentine cards. You all knw I like clean and simple cards and this one is no exception. I have cream cardstock for my base, added a layer of multi pink paper. I punched my bottom pink paper with my heart border punch from Martha Stewart. I then cut my heart ballons out with my Cricut using the Sweet Heart cartridge. The hearts are cut in various sizes. I then embossed the hearts using my Cuttlebug the embossing folders I used were swirls and swiss dots. The hearts are then layered with mounting tape. Added a little heart sticker in the left hand corner, rounded the edges and there you have it. I will be sharing more valentine cards with you in the near future. Stop on back over and see the fun things the Design Team is creating at http://Queenofmycraftroom.blogspot.com

See you all soon!!

Here comes Santa

Good afternoon,

Just thought I would take a quick moment to share this Santa's seigh card with you all. This card is a standard A2 sized card with a white base for the cardstock. I then took some cream/tan colored paper and ran it through my Cuttlebug embossing folder I believe is Cassie's Brocade. It gives the paper a bit of antique look. I cut the sleigh at 3"using my Cricut and the Christ Noel cartridge, I then added a bit of gold stickles to the sleigh's runner. I had some very fine red ribbon that was given to me by a dear friend so I wrapped that aroud and tied a knot That completes this simple but elegant looking card.

I will share a little secret with you. When I lived in PA and in NY we almost always had a white winter. Now you all know I am a bit too old to believe in Santa, but every Christmas morning I would check out to see if I could see foot prints or deer prints in the snow. I know, totally silly but I did it anyway. I guess I will always be that little girl at heart. I still believe in Miracles and I always will, although now I beleive in the Miracles send from God. God is real and still to this very day will answer our prayers, my broher-in-law- is proof of that. May you all have a great day. Hug someone close and share a kiss or two with the ones you love. God Bless all of you hugs and love to you! See you soon!