Shirley G

Okay everyone you'll have to bare with me on this long post. I haven't had any card mojo in days and days. But this morning, BAM, it hit big time. So I'm going to post all in one! Deep Breath!!! Here we go.... First just a cute picture of my neighbors dog, "Baby Girl"...she was my inspiration for my Bugaboo card..  Is she not the cutest thing you have ever seen?  She is eating my cats food and growled a ferocious growl for such a tiny little girl when I went to pick her up! LOL I have told my neighbors if they ever give her up, she's is to come here!! And now for the card in her honor;  This will be entered in their Catch the Bug Challenge . It's a Z fold card. I just love those cards. I did make a separate blank 4.25x5.5 for the recipient to write a message on. Love this image...I have several colored and ready to be put together. The opened view; Now to switch gears for this card. It is for the D2D progressive challenge. This weeks image i...

Hi everyone, Sorry I have been MIA lately. Some of you may know this, others not. My Dad was in the late stages of cancer and I have been spending as much time as I could with him. So no card making or blogging. Sadly he lost his battle last Thursday.  He will be missed terribly by many people. Yesterday I squeezed in some time to make two cards. The first is for Hambo . I didn't play last week so I didn't get that awesome caterpillar image so I'm using another of their's. Still awesome. The challenge is to use Bright Green and Pink. I think those are cool color combination, so I had a lot of fun with this challenge. The second is for D2D progressive challenge, Spotty Dotty Watering can. I love this image. I think I'm drawn to flowers, I just love coloring and creating with them. The sentiment is also a D2D one. If you haven't ever played in one of D2D challenges, I say go for it, NOW! Lots of cute images and you get a freebie each week you participate. He...

Oh boy do we have a cute image this week to create with at D2D . If you normally don't participate in their weekly challenge you can go buy this image, submit it in their challenge and be qualified to get a free image for next weeks challenge. I highly recommend that you do this, as all Faiths images are too darn cute to not want! Here is what I came up with for the challenge I added a couple more ladybugs in the jar, colored with my Bics and Primascolor markers. I cut out a piece of vellum the size of the jar and added it over the image. I'm hoping it gives it a "real" jar affect. I added a gingham bow and a ladybug button. The sentiments that came with the image were for "get well" but I think of this a summer fun! Enjoy. Happy Crafting, Shirley G

This week the challenge at Hambo is all about the bling. My kind of challenge. We had a very cute party elephant to play with also. Lots of fun and a perfect card for me to make at this time. I'm trying to get a few birthday cards made to give to the VA assisted living home where my Dad is at. I haven't had much time to "play" with spending time there with him and now looking for a job and new place to live! That's a long story better told elsewhere! Anywho, here is my card for this weeks challenge. I think he ate too much cake and that caused him to be a little green!  I added some googley eyes and paper pieced his ears. Thanks for a great image and challenge. Looking forward to next weeks. Happy Crafting, Shirley G

Sweet Caroline...ahh good song, great image from Faith at D2D . Okay so Faiths image is called Angel Caroline, but you get it! Not much "words" with this image...I've been busy staying at hospital with Dad...just now got the image done. Thanks Faith. Have a great day, Shirley G

Good, exciting news! I am now a design team member for IASC, In A Scrap Creations ! YAY me! I was/am so excited about this new chapter. I can not wait to see what all beautiful digital images I get to create with! The first two images I was given were pre-colored. Very cute images and I loved the soft colors I got to chose from. You will love them to. The first one I call Coffee Friends...my niece and I fit this to a tee! How cute are they? I just happened to have the perfect papers for the image. The stripped is from a Colorbok package and the border is from DCWV. The punch is a Paper Studio border punch and the little bit of bling is Studio112 pre-punched flowers. The second card is sooooo very cute. I call it Little One; Same paper sources as the first card. I added some ribbon and a flower from my stash. The Angel charm is one I have had for years. I used to make jewelry till my cats got in my way. See I need my own craft room, with a door! ;)  I love them though. So I ho...

This is the new sketch over at OWH . I have to admit I have a hard time doing this type of sketch. But, having said that, I think my card turned out pretty good. :)  I first copied my image (which I got here ) into Word, then I formatted it to 3x3. Printed the image and colored with Copics and Bic markers. I then cut it into 1" squares and adhered that to a 3.5x3.5 square. Ta da...that helped me tremendously. The sentiment is printed on my pc in Word. Happy Crafting, Shirley G