Midnight Madness Sketch #28

Good Morning!!!
It's Tuesday and time for the
Midnight Madness Sketch of the week!!!

Last week we had some gorgeous cards submitted!
Thanks you all for playing along! So inspiring to see everyone's creations!!!!

We have a few winners to announce!!!!

This week's MMSC27
Masterpiece Award goes to...

Sassy #36!!!!


And the Remarkables Awards
go to...

Carolyn #19
Teri Sherman #26
Craftypagan #37

Congratulations to all of you!


Now on with this week's sketch!

Our sponsor this week is
The Frantic Stamper!
Go check out it out! Great stuff!


Thanks again to
Michelle's Scrapbooking & More
for being our Monthly sponsor..
check out what they are giving away this month.


This is a fun sketch and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!



And here is my take on the sketch!



I used this wonderful poinsettia image and sentiment from Our Daily Bread designs! These November releases are called Luke 2:11 and Christmas Verses. I stamped the image and colored it with copics. I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to place the sentiment. I stamped the poinsettia several more times and colored them and cut them out to layer the flower. The designer paper is a gorgeous piece of Peppermint Bark paper by SEI! I embossed it with the new cuttlebug embossing folder called Ornamental Iron. I love embossing designer paper! Gives such texture! To finish the card, I added the spellbinders corner embellishment, SU! ribbon, silver pearls and the charm! I used my new Bow Easy to make the triple bow.
Man I love that little tool!!!


Thank you so much for visiting with me for Midnight Madness!
Enjoy the sketch and I'll see you soon!!!

Rejoice!

I made this for the Featured Stamper Challenge today! TreasureOiler does such fantastic work! I chose this card to case! I used different stamp sets, Our Daily Bread designs Joy to the World and Christmas Verses. I did do the cracked glass technique, but since it is only my second attempt, I'm not so sure it turned out quite right! I sponged with Chocolate Chip and Tim Holtz distress inks. I added a sentiment, and brads, cuttlebugged the Chocolate Chip layer with the Holly Ribbons embossing folder! I also did the ribbon a little differently, I used my new Bow Easy! I also used a Spellbinders instead of top note die. Thanks for the inspiration Dawn! Have a great week everyone! I'm glad you stopped by! See ya again soon!

Paper-Chocolate chip, Vanilla
Ink-Chocolate Chip, TH distress inks
Accessories-bow easy, ribbon, mat pack, SU vanilla brads, spellbinders, embossing powder, heat gun, cuttlebug and folder

Black Magic with a Twist and Shimmer and Some Awards!!!

Hi y'all! Hope everyone is having a great day!

I just want to remind everyone to play in the
Show us the Shimmer Challenge
on the Our Daily Bread designs Blog!
Today (Nov 15th) is the last day to have a chance to win a $30.00 store credit!!!
How cool would that be???
Come on and play!

I took a little time out tonight to play with a couple of Stampin'Up sets I just bought and I wanted to do the Black Magic technique. Karen Barber has a great tutorial on her blog that I followed. But I added some shimmer, thus Black Magic with a Twist and Shimmer! On black cardstock I stamped the image from A Cardinal Christmas with White ink. I heat set it and then colored it in with SU! colored pencils. Then I stamped the snowflake from Snow Swirled in white again and added details with a white gel pen. I heat set this again and sprayed the whole thing with Gold Glimmer Mist! I layered this onto Mellow Moss and distressed the edges. The Real Red strip is punched with Martha's border punch and embossed with a Cuttlebug border. I added three strips of narrow red organdy ribbon and a big red organdy bow. This was all added to the Real Red base card. I added the sentiment and gold pearls to finish the card!!!

Another Christmas card completed!!!

Now, I would like to thank a few people for some very cool awards this week!!!

First, thank you to my friend Barbara Diane for these two awards!

This one is for acquaintance!

And this one is for Good Luck and Good Fortune!

This next award was given to me by two people!
Thank you so much to my sweet ODBD DT sister Chris
and also a big thanks to my friend Patti Jo for this award!
I believe I now have a few questions to answer! haha! Ok, here goes!

The rules:

Pass this award onto 5 people, post on their blog to let them know they won, and then answer the following questions in ONE word:

1. Where is your cell phone? Nearby
2. Your hair? Gray
3. Your mother? Mom
4. Your father? Daddy
5. Your favorite food? Shrimp
6. Your dream last night? Forgotten
7. Your favorite drink? Sprite
8. Your dream/goal? Retirement!
9. What room are you in? Craft-room
10. Your hobby? Stamping
11. Your fear? Drowning
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Retired!
13. Where were you last night? Chili's
14. Something that you aren't? Retired!
15. Muffins? Blueberry
16. Wish list item? Time
17. Where did you grow up? Decatur, GA
18. Last thing you did? Stamp
19. What are you wearing? PJ's
20. Your TV? HGTV
21. Your Pets? Several
22. Friends? Lots!
23. Your life? Happy
24. Your mood? Good
25. Missing Someone? Yes
26. Vehicle? Dodge Ram
27. Something you're not wearing? Earrings
28. Your favorite store? Hobby Lobby
29. Your favorite color? Green
30. When was the last time you laughed? Tonight
31. Last time you cried? Forgotten
32. Your best friend? Mark
33. One place that I go to over and over? Work
34. Facebook? Yes
35. Favorite place to eat? Ella's (Calabash NC)

Now, all three awards go to...

Mary

Angella

Sheryl

Randi

Sabrina


Thanks for visiting with me and please come back again soon!

USMC Birthday

Good Morning and Happy Veteran's Day!!!

Thank you to all who have served and those who are now serving in our country's armed forces! I appreciate the sacrifices you and your families have made for our United States of America!

I made this card and gave it to my husband yesterday to celebrate the United States Marine Corps birthday! He is not active duty and regrets this fact! Once a Marine, always a Marine!!! To continue the birthday celebration, I made my version of SOS for dinner! haha! Just ground beef with white gravy and biscuits, served with green beans and a salad. Actually, it's pretty yummy!!

Anyway, back to the card! I used the embossing technique, where the center is free of embossing. I used this tutorial from The Cuttlebug Spot that was given to us during a recent TLC. I used the star embossing folder and a round nestie. I added some stars and rhinestones. To make the bow I used my new Bow Easy! I think this little tool will get quite a bit of use from me!!!

Thank you again to all of our military and their families!
And thank you for visiting me today!

Burgundy Joy

I had to take some time out to make this card for the color challenge today! Bravo Burgundy, Kraft and Vanilla were the colors. In real life the organdy ribbon matches perfectly with the burgundy! I have no clue why it looks red in the photo! I used the double embossing technique found here. I used SU! poinsettia folder and a round nestie. I stamped this beautiful sentiment from the new Christmas Verses set from Our Daily Bread designs with versamark and Bravo Burgundy ink and then clear embossed it. I had to use my stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up inside the circle. I used SU! punches for the poinsettia, sponged them, and sprayed them with Gold Glimmer Mist. I made the bow with the help of my little Bow Easy!. And I doodled with a gold paint pen inside the embossed flowers. I added gold cord and gold pearls to complete!

Thanks for stopping by again today!

Midnight Madness Tuesday

It's Midnight Madness Tuesday!!!! Good Morning everyone!

Once again the MMSC Team has a fantastic sketch to challenge you!
I had so much fun with this one!

This week's MMSC sponsor is Michelle Perkett and I'm using one of her digis for my card!

I loved Holly, The Christmas Friendship Fairy immediately!

Thanks Michelle!

I cuttlebugged the SU! Christmas designer paper with their poinsettia embossing folder and sponged the edges with Real Red. This is layered on Real Red and then on a base of Pretty in Pink. I colored Holly with copics to match the papers and added Polar White Flower Soft to the trim of her dress. I sponged the edges of this before layering again with the same colors. To complete the card, I added double Cuttlebug corners, ribbon, a Flower Soft covered Martha snowflake and a red rhinestone!

Now for the winners of last week's challenge!!!!

The Midnight Madness Masterpiece award goes to....


#1 Grace


And the Midnight Madness Remarkables Awards go to...


#9 SuperNan

#16 Connie


Congratulations to all of you!

I can't wait to see what you all do with this sketch!
Have fun!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Green Poinsettia Christmas

Happy Sunday everyone!!! I made this card for today's Featured Stamper Challenge! Today's FS is Christine aka Chrisations.ink! Wow! What a talent she has! I chose to case this card. I used some beautiful SEI papers for my squares. On the squares that did not already have a little sparkle, I doodled on them with Stickles. These squares are matted to a layer of Always Artichoke and then placed on a base card of Bashful Blue. For my flower, I used the new Our Daily Bread designs set called Blessed Christmas. I stamped the poinsettia three times with Versamark ink and clear embossed. I sponged them with Mellow Moss and Always Artichoke ink and then cut them out. Then I 'painted' them with Marshmallow and Olive Glimmer Mist. I pieced this all together adding the organdy ribbon with a rhinestone brad. Then I added some Martha twigs to finish the card! Hope all of you have a blessed day! Thanks for stopping by!