Challenge 34 At Joans Gardens! And we are HOME!!!

Well, here we are back to reality!! Have been away on a wonderfully relaxing vacation, went to NY state to visit with my Brother, in a house on Lake Keyuka, Hammondsport NY. Weather was gorgeous, fishing was not the best, a cold spell moved in while we are there, which I enjoyed that after this un godly hot and humid summer, but evidently the fish did not!!

Anyway, I am posting about my card that I did for Joan's Challenge #34, enjoyed making my card, I love making Christmas cards, I never make all one kind to send out, I send a whole bunch of different ones out. So this is my first attempt of the season, and there will be many more, I HOPE.

So if you love a fun challenge, head on over to Joan's Gardens and check it out HERE.
You can read all about the requirements there. And if you would like to see the sample card made by Joan's one woman design team, Selma, from Selma's Stamping Corner, check it out HERE, she does fantastic work.

Well, my card will follow, and if you have any questions, just post them and I will answer you promptly. All products I have used can be purchased through Joan.
Bazzil card stock
Marianne Createable Tree Die
Memory Box Snowflake die
Fiskars snow flake border punch
Memory Box Shinning Star
Rubbernecker Snowman Stamp
White Chalk Ink
Stickles
Memory Box Snowflake corner die
Glue and that is about it. All this old brain can remember at this point anyway!! :)


Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs

Donna

Fall Challenge #32 at Joans Gardens

Well, now this is my kind of weather, (almost anyway) it is still a bit warm and humid here, but the old temps are going in the right direction for me, DOWN!!

Anyway back to the subject, I may get one more challenge in before we head out for vacation next week, as we are off to the mountains of New York State.
We will be staying at a wonderful place in Hammondsport NY, called Lake Keyuka, which our house is  right on the lake, great views and some GREAT fishing right out the back door! I can't wait. The sunrises and sunsets over the mountain and lake are just breathtaking.

And the weather is much cooler up there already, so I have started to do some of our packing now, as we have to take a lot, I hate running around at the last minute and then you end up forgetting stuff,  and bad enough with all the stuff I need and take, we do most of our grocery shopping here, as food is much cheaper, and I prepare a few of the meals in advance so it is just defrost, heat and eat.
Then, we will also eat out a few nights, and lunches are also mostly eaten out when we are out running around and doing some sight seeing and antiquing, our breakfasts are all mostly at the lake house as well, you know the nice leisurely lazy watching the sun rise type breakfast. And we all take turns cooking and cleaning. Most of the time it is just the 4 of us, me and hubby, and my brother and his wife, with time and distance I only get to see my brother once or twice a year, and as we get older those times are so very precious!!.

Anyway, I will be taking my laptop, to check in on things and to be able to keep up on my emails, TV is very limited there, that is OK, taking some DVD'S, and we play a lot of board games and cards, but unfortunately I will not be taking any of my crafting stuff, the old car is going to be full enough so don't want to overload my husband. With my health issues we have to take so much stuff, amazing what we, (I) need!!!

Then fishing gear of course is a must, my husband and I both love to fish, in fact a good friend of my brothers is a professional bass fisherman and he takes my husband out on his wonderful boat a few times for the day fishing, and he is all smiles for that, and we can't leave our dog home so packing for a 100 pound dog, her toys and blankets and stuff also take up space as well, for her she needs, THE WHOLE BACK SEAT, she sleeps most of the way, and is so well behaved. WE have to stop  for me to pee more than the dog!!! I am forbidden any beverage the morning we leave, so that we can get at least an hour away before our first potty stop!!! :)   We have someone staying at the house, but Mirage (dog) loves to travel with us, and loves laying on the dock while I fish, and you should see her when I catch them!!!  So why not, she is family!!

Oh well, have bored you all enough with my excitement, the following are the guidelines for this weeks challenge, I love Joan's challenges, always different and always fun. So take a gander over to Joan's HERE, and if you would like to see Selma's wonderful example card, that  is HERE. All supplies used can be gotten at Joan's, she has such a great variety of goodies and she ships out very quickly and if she does not have what you want, ask as she sure will try to help you get what you are looking for!!!
Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #32

• Fall card (possibly with a pumpkin)
  
• Tree
  
• Polka Dot back Ground
  
• Grass










• you will have until next Thursday (September 6) 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 #32 The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday September 7. This winner will win an Embossing Folder. 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 joansgardens, JG830 and needs to be posted with the challenge. Please enter both on the same line with a comma between as I have shown.
4. Link your card/project to the Blue Inlinkz icon listed at the bottom of the challenge.
If you have any questions, ask away, otherwise I do not list my items used anymore, it is time consuming to look some of it up and I have so few followers, it just is not worth it for me to do. I would gladly answer any ones questions, I just can not see doing something for no reason.

See you all maybe for next weeks challenge if I have the time in between packing, if not in a few weeks when I get back I will return to entering the fun time at Joan's, God willing.!!

Love ya all, and Big hugs and Thanks for stopping by.

Donna

PS, my pumpkins are layered 3d with pop dots, and there is glossy accents on the pumpkins stems. I also used 3 different colors of grass and layered them as well. It just does not show up well in the picture

Challenge 31 And in English!!

Well, Blogger seems to be letting me have my title in English this week, so guess I am off to a good start!!

I have not been about for  a bit, had a short stay in our local Hospital and I am still getting back on my feet, so I thought I would attempt this weeks challenge over at Joan's Gardens, so below as usual are the guidelines. The challenge is HERE at Joan's, and HERE is a lovely sample card by Selma, Joan's design team and to all of us following her blog, she is so very talented and offers such great inspiration. All products I used can be obtained at Joan's as well. Thanks. for stopping by. I won't list my products used, as I have so few followers, if you have any questions, just let me know.
Big hugs
Donna

Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #31

• Framed lattice background
  
• Any type of flowers
  
• A bird
  
• A vertical greeting

• You will have until next Thursday (August 30) 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 #31. The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday August 31. This winner will win a set of Summer Distressed inks by Ranger. 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 joansgardens, JG823 and needs to be posted with the challenge. Please enter both on the same line with a comma between as I have shown.
4. Link your card/project to the Blue Inlinkz icon listed at the bottom of the challenge.

Birthday for Kailey

Well, I luckily also got the time to finish my granddaughters birthday card, she loves Horses, so I thought this stamp would be appropriate. It is a Magnolia Stamp, and I thought the colors looked great!

I used copics to color the image,  and went over the mane with my spica markers by copic to make it sparkle , and it does sparkle so prettily, even though you can not see it in the picture.
I also used liquid pearls on the Birthday Girl sign. The rest was a breeze.
I Used Roses made with dies from My Favorite Things, and put some glossy accents on them to simulate dew drops, and also put the glossy accents on the horses hooves to add some depth.
I hope she enjoys her card!!!  (UPDATE) She loved her card!!)

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs
Donna

Thank You Note Challenge #29 for Joans Gardens

Hi All, hope you are all doing well. Short post for me today, here is my card for this week's challenge. I just got out of the hospital and I am very tired, so will up load my card, and post more at a later date.
Below are the guidelines for this weeks challenge,
Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #29
■Make a Thank you card
■
Use purple and green

■Use something to do with music
■Use a bird

You will have until next Thursday (August 16) 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 #29. The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday August 17. This winner will win an 3 distressed ink pads. 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 JG809 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.
Of course you can check out Selma's wonderful example card HERE, and all products used can be purchased at Joan's Gardens,
Thanks for stopping by.

hugs

Copic Giveaway

HI all, a co blogger, Kathy is a doing a give a way of her used Ciao copic markers, she has upgraded to the Sketch, so if you need some copics, check it out over at THE DAILY MARKER.
Thanks for stopping by, hope to be back later with a post or tomorrow.
Have a great day!!!

hugs
Donna

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34626929@N04/7694815462/

Giveaway - Copic Markers

Well here we are "Week 27 Challenge" over at Joan's Gardens, I can't believe that half the year is over with already! Time is flying it seems in one sense, and in another for me this summer is dragging on with all this extremely warm weather we are having! It is usually warm, but it seems like we have had 90 degree plus weather since May!! I hope it ends by the beginning of summer, we are going on vacation to NY state and I can not take the heat, and where we are going there is NO air conditioning!! Guess time will tell!!

ON to the the challenge, below are the guidelines as posted by Joan, (wonderful person) with a wonderful website! All products used for my creation this week can all be purchased through Joan and if she does not have it, ask, as she is very willing to work with you.

Here is what you need to do for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #27


■Make a birthday card
■
Use Black and pink with some green

■Use leaves
■Have a pattern design paper for your background

You will have until next Thursday (August 2) 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 #27



The winner of challenge and will be announced Friday August 3. This winner will win an a Tim Holtz Apron. 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 JG726 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.

And of course Joan's wonderful design team, consisting of the fantastic Selma, has created a sample this week and you can see that HERE, at Selma's blog, Selma's Stamping Corner, whom is so very talented and always has great tutorials and gives great inspiration.

Oh well, my creation is attached, thanks for stopping by and have a great rest of the week!!

hugs
Donna

Again, I did not put a title up for this post as it is in another language again, have to get that figured out!!