HI All, hope everyone is having a great summer so far, personally I have had enough of the heat and humidity, I am so ready for fall. The 60's are so looking good to me!! Sorry, just how I am. Used to love the heat in my younger years, but now forget getting a tan, I could not lay on a beach for more than 5 minutes!!

Anyway, it is that time of the week for Joan's weekly challenge, below are the guidelines for this week, Everything I used can be purchased through Joan, over at Joan's Gardens.

Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #26


■Make a butterfly card
■
Use green and yellow

■Use something from nature (for instance a fern)
■Have at least 3 layers

You will have until next Thursday (July 26) morning 6:00 AM EST to link your project.



You can enter more than once. A winner will be chosen from the Random Drawing for week #26



The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday July 27. This winner will win an a wooden stamp. The winner will also be entered in the end of the year $100 gift certificate drawing.




Below are the guidelines:



1. You must have a blog or post to the SCS gallery.



2. Post your challenge card to your blog.



3. Or if you are posting to the SCS gallery, you will need to use a special code to tag your card to the challenge. This week's code is JG719 and needs to be posted with the challenge.



4. Link your card/project to the Blue Inlinkz icon listed at the bottom of the challenge


Well, my creation for this week is above, and is OK, there are just some I love how they come out and some that are just OK, to me this is just an OK card, but I had fun making it, and I am sure whom ever I give it to will enjoy it.
Used Card stock, Cheery Lynn Dies, Marianne Dies, Quickutz die, embossing folders, cuttle bug and Sizzix, Liquid pearls, Rock Candy Sticles, Bling, Memory Box die, Sentiment stamp inside, think that is it.



Thanks for stopping by.

If you have any questions, let me know and I will try to answer promptly.

Thanks,
Hugs
Donna

चल्लेंगे २५ जोंस गार्डेन्स

Apologies for title of this post, no matter how many times I try it, for some reason only known to them, Blogger keeps converting my title to some other language, tried fixing it 4 times, I give up!!!



Hi Everyone, Well I did it, have gotten a second card done for Joan's weekly challenge for challenge 25, will post the second creation here for this challenge, but will not repeat all the details here, please read the following post for the information regarding this wonderful challenge At Joans Gardens.



This card was very easy, and I think so pretty, I just love the colors!! Stamped image, copics, paper, and liquid pearls was all I used to create this quick and easy card.
Thanks
Hugs
Donna

Joans Challenge # 25

HI all, I hope you all are having a wonderful summer so far, to me, it seems like it should be half over by now, as it has been so warm lately, and to me it seems like it is time for cooler weather!!
Anyway, I thought as the challenge is fairly easy this week I would have had a few cards done so far, but so far there is not much happening there, got one done and Hope to do at least one more, my mind wants to be on the go constantly but my body is not in agreement!!
So here are the guidelines for this week's challenge over at Joan's Gardens,

Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #25

■Make a four layer card
■
Use ivory and green

■Use only a stamped image
■Use a sentiment

You will have until next Thursday (July 19) morning 6:00 AM EST to link your project.

You can enter more than once. A winner will be chosen from the Random Drawing for week #25

The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday July 20. This winner will win an a wooden stamp. The winner will also be entered in the end of the year $100 gift certificate drawing.


Below are the guidelines:

1. You must have a blog or post to the SCS gallery.

2. Post your challenge card to your blog.

3. Or if you are posting to the SCS gallery, you will need to use a special code to tag your card to the challenge. This week's code is JG712 and needs to be posted with the challenge.

4. Link your card/project to the Blue Inlinkz icon listed at the bottom of the challenge.


If you take a wander on over to Joan's site, and check out this week's challenge, you can see that you can get quite a few things on her site, and if you don't see something, ask and Joan is more than willing to help you find what you want!!

And you can check out a sample card made by her One woman design team, Selma, whom is so very talented, her card is HERE!!

Attached is my creation for this weeks challenge, if you have any questions, give a shout out, and THANKS for stopping by. Sorry I used the same stamped image as Selma, but I happened to have that stamp and just LOVE it, so figured why not, and I just love using my bow maker that my dear brother made for me, it looks just like the one that Becca Feekan has designed and sells, and it works wonderfully, and don't get to use it as much as I should, so I decided that today's 4 layered card just needed a nice pretty bow!!! I think that the card I made looks so much better in person than in the picture, the bow looks so dark in the picture, but it is a very nice rich crandberry color, and I also used a Spica glitter pen for the center of the flowers, so it is very sparkly but that does not show in the picture either. All basic suplies, copics, sentiment stamp, stamped image and cardstock, and Again, Thanks for stopping by!!

Big Hugs
Donna

Joan's Challenge #24

Hi All, hope you all are doing well, I don't know about you all, but I seem to be operating in Reverse lately, last week I had a card made for Joan's challenge, but never made it to posting about it or uploading my entry, can't actually say why either, gee think I will blame it on the heat!!!

Hope you all are staying cool!! Anyway, here are the guidelines for this weeks challenge:

Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #24
■Create a card very similar to Selma's Card
■
Use an embossed background

■
Use a lace border

■
Use Selma's tutorial to create flowers

■
Use Pink and White


You will have until next Thursday (July 12) morning 6:00 AM EST to link your project.

You can enter more than once. A winner will be chosen from the Random Drawing for week #24

The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday July 13. This winner will win an a pad of 8 1/2 x 11 white card stock for making flowers. The winner will also be entered in the end of the year $100 gift certificate drawing.


I had such fun making these flowers, and Selma's tutorial on how to make them is so easy to follow, I get all my supplies around me on a snack tray and make them while I am watching TV, time just flies by. I had fun making this style flower, I love to make flowers of all kinds!!!

Anyway, hop on over to Joan's HERE, all products can be purchased through Joan's wonderful web site, and if you would like to take a Gander at Selma's beautiful example card, check out her card and site HERE.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great summer.


Goodness, how silly of me, almost forgot to list my supplies.
I used,
Marianne Embossing Folder
Sizzix Embossing Folder
My Vagabond of Course
Cheery Lynn Flourish Die
Cheery Lynn Leaf Dies, 2 different kind
Spellbinders Spiral Blossom 1, and itsy Bitsy Blossom, and also My Favorite Things Spiral Rose Die.
Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch
Liquid Pearls
Distress Inks
Sentiment is From one of my Just Rite Sets

Think that is it, and card stock of course, need to get some paper for making my flowers from Joan, great stuff!! Heck maybe I will be lucky enough to win this week!!! One can but hope!!

hugs
Donna

Hi Everyone,
Hope you all have been well. Sorry to say I have been busy and have not had much time to create, but did finally do my card for this challenge. I did not have any of the type of stamps used in the samples, so did the best I could.

My card for this weeks Challenge, over at Joan's Gardens, is posted above, and I will list the products used in a few days when my life quiets back down. And if you would like to see Selma's sample card from Selma's stamping corner, check it out HERE. Most of the items I have used have been or can be obtained at Joan's Gardens, lovely place to visit.

Thanks for stopping by,
hugs
Donna

Joans Challenge 19

Well, it sure has been some time for me, won't bore you all with the details, lets just say I hope I am on the up hill swing of things, this has been a very rough year for me, Health wise !! I have also been busy with spring planting, I so love this time of the year, all the pretty colors and everything so green, well I could do without the pollen part of it, but I do love my flowers, was hoping to get all the planting and out door work done before the Heat and Humidity of the summer got here, but with NJ, that can not always be accomplished as the summer weather sometimes over takes our spring weather and we don't get much of a spring, which did happen again this year. Such is life.
This challenge is over at Joan's Gardens, a superb place to get inspiration and to shop, so many wonderful things to buy. Come check it out HERE.

Anyway, on to the challenge, following are Joan's guideline's for this week,

What do you think of when you think of the month of June? Weddings? I know I certainly do.
So, today's challenge is just that. Selma has created this gorgeous wedding card. You can read all about it by clicking here!


Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #19

Use a Wedding Theme
Use some kind of flourish
Pearls or Rhinestones for embellishments
Use only Black and White

You will have until next Thursday (May 31) morning 6:00 AM EST to link your project.
You can enter more than once. A winner will be chosen from the Random Drawing for week #19
The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday June 1. This winner will win a Cheery Lynn Die. The winner will also be entered in the end of the year $100 gift certificate drawing.

Below are the guidelines:
1. You must have a blog or post to the SCS gallery.
2. Post your challenge card to your blog.
3. Or if you are posting to the SCS gallery, you will need to use a special code to tag your card to the challenge. This week's code is JG0524 and needs to be posted with the challenge.
4. Link your card/project to the Blue Inlinkz icon listed at the bottom of the challenge.


With that being said, my card was created as I went along, just kind of happened, no plans, just sat down and this is what came up!! You can not tell in the picture but everything is in layers, 3d popped, staggered and cut using my nestabilities and one layer is embossed with the Swiss dots embossing folder, and the two wedding birds (Hero Arts stamp)are also layered. And my sentiment is on the inside. I felt the front of the card was full enough without trying to fit a greeting of some sorts in there. I do this a lot.

Will come back later and list all the products used, husband is waiting patiently for me so we can leave to go to a movie.

Thanks for stopping by, oh and by the way, most of what I used, was purchased at Joan's Gardens, or had in my stash. And the here is the sample card done by the amazing Selma, from Selma's Stamping Corner.

Have a great day,
hugs
Donna

Challenge 16/ Butterflies are Free!!

Good Morning to all, well it is now anyway, another week, another challenge at Joan's, a fun place to visit and shop!! Below are Joan's guidelines for this weeks challenge,
Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #16
■
Use any size or kind of butterflies on your card

■
Use some type of scallops or lattice

■
Use yellow or gold colors

■
Use a pattern paper back ground


You will have until next Thursday (May 3) morning 6:00 AM EST to link your project.
You can enter more than once. A winner will be chosen from the Random Drawing for week #16
The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday May 4. This winner will win a Butterfly Die. The winner will also be entered in the end of the year $100 gift certificate drawing.

To see the rest of the information and the sample card made by Selma, please visit Joan's Gardens HERE, and see all the lovely entries by the other girls as well as Selma's card.

Supplies I used for my creation this week, are as follows,

PP from stash
Bazzil Cardstock
Large flower made with Sweet Williams flower die from Cheery Lynn (6 layers)
Distress Inks
Butterfly Die from Memory Box
Lattice Die from Cheery Lynn
Flourish Die underneath the large flower is also from Memory Box
Sizzix embossing folder Diamonds and dots
Liquid pearls in each dot of the embossed paper (gold)
Bling on Butterflies
Sentiment is 3d popped as well as the label it sits on.
Tiny Yellow Bow
Fancy Butterfly Brad in center of Flower

I also jazzed up the inside of the card, but did not take a picture of that , sorry!!


Guess that is it, thanks for looking.

hugs
Donna