HUGS AND KISSES - DT CARD

Hello, Cardies,!  Over at Friendship's Garden, our challenge this week is a sketch!  I am the world's worst at sticking to the absolute true sketch design, but I try to get close.  I think you can see the sketch.  Although it is hard to see, the Focal Panel is actually sitting in a frame.  It's a pretty cool effect in real life!

Supplies:  Neenah Classic Linen Cover - Solar White; Memory Box Dies - Serfina Heart (I ued the negative); Embossing Folder: Couture Creations Pinstripe; Butterfly: Offray - Stylish Accents; Ribbon -Dollar Tree; Sentiment: Inkadinkadoo - Hearts and Love Clearstamp set.  Miscellaneous: Pearls-Want@Scrap; chalk,

Thanks for taking a look!  head over to FG and enter the Sketch Challenge, just remember, no stamping (except your sentiment) is allowed.  Digis may be used but they must be pre-colored.  I love this challenge site.  You really get to use all your wonderful dies, charms, embossing folders and other design elements that usually only compliment a stamped image.  It is a great way to learn how to use paper in more challenging and decorative ways.   IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE COLOR CHALLENGE CLICK HERE!

Wild Wild West - Outlawz Greetings Challenge

Digital Image "LiL Cowgirl" by Robert Jackson

Happy Birthday to The Outlawz!!!  Happy Birthday to Us All!!

The Outlawz Ning Social Network is a year old, and to celebrate, the Greetings Challenge Design Team is having a Rootin' Tootin'  Wild West Design Challenge.  So mosey on over to The Outlawz Saloon and leave us some lovin' and some dad burn pistol whippin' good designs!!!

Like This Robert Jackson Digi?  It Can Be Yours.   Enter a design in the  Outlawz Greetings Challenge  and you could win this digi and the companion "LiL Cowboy"!

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LOOKING FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A $25.00 E-CARD?  ENTER YOUR PROJECT IN MY WEEK FOUR COLOR CHALLENGE

YEEEEEE HAW!!!

GOT SNOW?

DIGI - "Serena On Skis" available at Guylou's Inimitability

HELLO CARDIES!! ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN FUN PRIZES.

This is my first "official post" as a member of Guylou's Team!  Read the challenge information very carefully.  There is an opportunity to win Serena On Skis and it is not very well hidden!

   Winter Wonderland Color Challenge

To start the new year, Guylou is challenging us to make a project with the following winter wonderland colors:

Deadline:

You have until 10:00pm on February 2nd to submit your project.  Click here to find out the corresponding time where you are) to enter your cards or projects. One entry per participant, please. Be sure to add the link to your entry and not your whole blog as this makes it much easier on the team to find your creations. Thanks for participating!

You may enter only one project per challenge, but if you use a Guylou's Inimitability digistamp, your project will count for two entries. If you don't have one of her digistamps and your budget is tight; please check her online store where several freebies are available.  The first person to comment on this posting here at CARD-D-OLOGY will win "Serena On Skis" the digi I used for my DT Card!!

Prizes:

A winner will selected randomly and will win:
1. A $10.00 gift certificate from Guylou's online store
2. A one year online subscription to Through the Craftroom Door magazine

3. and the winner will also be invited to be a Guest Designer on one of our upcoming challenges.

REESE"S IS JOY!!!

The CAS Challenge at The Outlawz this week is "Design a Card using Baker's Twine."  I made this card and, after I was done, I realized that my "supposed to be a daisy"  looked more like a Reese's Cup!  The Negative is from the Memory Box JOY pop up die!!  Have fun!  The contest continues.  Comments on this card will be included in the weekly drawing!

National Nothing Day

Hello, Cardies!  Well Today is National Nothing Day!  Over at The Outlawz, The Greetings Challenge Group's theme for the week is "Nothing But Your Sentiment and One Embellishment."  You can use layers, but they cannot have decorative edges.  Embossing and Die Cuts are okay!  I am commenting on all entries, so if you join THE OUTLAWZ AND THEN JOIN THE GREETINGS CHALLENGE, Nothing may take on a whole new meaning for you!!

Comments left on this project will be counted in the drawing for prizes (but not for the FEATURED PROJECT DRAWING)! 

A NEW LEAF!

Hello, CARDIES!  This is our FEATURED PROJECT 

 Leave a comment telling me about your new leaf for 2012.

  I will read each comment and choose 2 winners.

  Hint:  I love witty people!!!

BE THE FIRST ONE TO TELL ME THE NAME OF THE DIE USED ON THIS CARD AND THE MFG AND YOU WILL WIN THE DIE!!  CONGRATULATIONS TO AJSCRAPBOOKING!

Remember there are prizes hidden throughout the site...so you might want to check out some of my previous posts.  Somewhere out there is a chance to win a set of Spellbinder's Dies of your choice (GRAND DIES are not included..sorry.)

Hey!  Have You Checked Out The Clean and Simple (CAS) Challenge at Outlawz?  Maybe you should?

Friendship's Garden  also has a CAS Challenge this week!  An entry there might be beneficial!

Monday, I am Hosting the Greetings Challenge at The Outlawz.  Who knows what I might do IF I SEE THE NAME  OF A CARDIE Inside That Challenge...Hmmm!

I Will Always Love You!

Hi, over at Friendship's Garden Challenge blog, we have a great challenge this week.  Design a CAS card that highlights a sentiment!   My card highlights one of my favorite songs.  I thought the movie was dumb, but the song was fantastic.  Of course is was a rework from Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, but Whitney took it to a new level.  I would love to see some of your creations in our challenge.  If you hop over to Friendship Garden and/or if you decide to enter the challenge, come back here and leave a comment on this project and you will be eligible to win two Robert Jackson Digital Images!  There will be more than one winner!  REMEMBER Friendship's Garden is a Non Stamping Site!

BIRTHDAY HUGZ!!

This week, over at The Outlawz, The Greetings Design Team is sending out Love and Hugz.  Just a precursor to get everyone ready for Valentines Day!  Check us out...we would love to see your design!

I just love this image from Fuzzy Bear Stamps!

Leave a comment here and win a Digi!

Become a Follower Become Eligible for The Weely Drawing 

Click Here for Details

Thanks for looking!

The Perfect Polka

I created this card for the Sketch Challenge over at the Outlawz.  This paper was so pretty and the polka dots are raised to give it even greater texture.  I just love the Memory Box Dies and it took a while to decide which one to use.  This is actually a buckle but I decided I could hide the slide bar with a row of half pearls and I think it works just fine!

Papers: Neenah Natural White CS; Springhill "Orchid" Vellum Cover; DCWV "Nana's Kids (Purple Polka Dot Paper) 61/2" x 41/4 Premium Stack; Brown Polk Dot Paper (From My Stash); Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots; Die cut:  Memory Box "Ringed Buckle"; Lace: Prima (purchased at The Frantic Stamper); Brad:  Basic Grey Stitched Brads; Ink: Momento Rich Cocoa; Sentiment: studio G

I HOPE I DANCE!

Happy New Year to all my followers and visitors!  I seemed to have lost one follower, which is devastating when you only have twenty-nine, but I am eternally grateful to the remaining twenty-eight. Thanks for your support.

My crafting resolution for 2012 is to "Grow Bold!"  I want to branch out into really bold design elements.  I am pretty sure I will always be in the CAS arena, but I want to use bolder papers, embellishment, and color combinations.  This is so "not me" that it will be quite a challenge but one I undertake "boldly."

I have been blogging for a year now and I hope to make some changes to the site for 2012.  I plan to sponsor a few challenges here, have some blog candy, and a blog hop or two.  I have met some wonderful designers over the past year and I hope to get some of them to drop in from time to time for a GD project.

To start things off,  I wiil be giving gift certificates to visitors who leave comments on the site and those who join as followers. 

Here are some of the prizes:

Gift Certificates:  Crafty Steals, Oozaks, SCACD, Joann's, Michaels

As new members join, there will be a random drawing for a Memory Box Die of your choice.  These drawing will continue until I have reached 100 followers.