2fer - SASSC17-JCI38 - July 4th

Howdy!
Ever since I won the big bundle at Stamps and Smiles I couldn't wait to use these stamps! I love the little stars and Cuppy is all decked out to "CELEBRATE" Independence Day on the 4th of July. So today I played along with Stamps and Smiles sketch challenge along with Stacey's Jewelry Inspiration challenge (red, white & blue). INSIDE

Ingredients: Stamps and Smiles Stamps, Scarlet Lime Stamp - sentiment inside, Copics, Stampin' Up markers, Martha Stewart Stars border punch, Bazzill - cs, MFT - white Perfect Paper Panels

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

SC230 - Heard you're Ale `in

Hello Again:
Thanks for popping in. This card is for the SplitCoastStampers sketch challenge #230. My German ale waitress is a digi-image from Charmed Cards & Crafts. She was already colored, I just added some shading and some glitter pen highlights here and there. My b-i-l is ill right now and I thought this would be a really cute card to help cheer him up. Hope it made you smile too! Inside:

Ingredients: DCWV - The Whimsy Stacks pp, Nesties - inverted scalloped square, Bazzill - orange cs, Sentiments are computer generated and from my own mind, Image - digital download from Charmed Cards & Crafts

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

SC229 - Hot Summer Fun

Hello:
I am back!!! Hope you like this little card. I used the sketch for SplitCoastStampers Sketch Challenge #229. The image is from Charmed Cards & Crafts. I downloaded the image and then colored her in with Copics and Spicas. I created the shadows with my clear gel glitter pen. I do so love all the images at Charmed Cards & Crafts. They are just so cute and fun!
I used the branches embossing folder in my Cuttlebug and then I drug my Encore! Metallic Bronze ink pad over the raised areas. My metal embellishment is from We R Memory Keepers. Bazzill cardstocks. Plaid pp is from My Minds Eye. TFL
Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

MOJO MONDAY 88 / SOATHS1 - Just a Note

This is my first creation since my return from my vacation. This card was created for the Stampin' Out Alzheimer's Treehouse Stamps Color Challenge and the MOJO Monday #88 challenge. Treehouse Stamps colors were : Regal Rose, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Pumpkin Pie, & Rose Red. I didn't have those exact colors so I got as close as I could get. I loved Julee's sketch for the Monday mojo. TFL

Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Stampin' Out Alzeheimers

Stampin' Out Alzeheimers

I'm sure you've all heard about this by now - but I wanted to tell you about the widget I added to my top right sidebar. Once again the stamping community is rallying together to help fight this horrible disease. Here's what's going on, borrowed directly from Melanie's blog...Jen Tapler, from Jen Tapler Designs, and Susanna Boyd of Card of the Week are hosting a 7 day stamping and scrapbooking event to help raise money and awareness for Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's Disease is currently the 7th leading cause of death in the United States. It is a fatal, progressive disease that slowly robs a person of their precious memories.We are involved in the memory preservation hobbies - so what better cause for the papercrafting community to join together to support? The site, Stampin Out Alzheimers.ning.com, will feature a variety of challenges, contests, classes and more in different paper crafting categories (stamping, cardmaking, paperscrapbooking, digi scrapping, hybrid, etc) - with prizes donated by over 30 generous sponsors. It's set up as a "Pay to Play" community.For a small donation (any amount will do), you'll get permission to join the online community which will be up from May 25 to June 1st. 100% of these funds will be donated to the Alzheimer's Association to help with their efforts to provide and enhance care and support for all those affected by this heartbreaking disease.The site isn't "live" yet - it will open soon and the events will begin on Monday. For a quick link to join and make a donation, check out the widget in my sidebar. Check out the video on Paper Craft Planet's home page for a special mesage from Susanna and more about the event by clicking here.I'd LOVE it if you'd share the badge (see it on the sidebar on the right? just click where it says "add to site" and it will give you the html to copy and paste) on your blog and help us spread the word! We'd like this to be the largest community fund raising effort in the stamping and scrapbooking space. Please help. You'll help us raise awareness and money for Alzheimer's.

PTW15 - Congratulations

My card for PaperTakeWeekly sketch #15. This is Dawn's last sketch for PTW. She is starting her own sketch blog. My Godson Joshua is graduating from 8th grade on Thursday. This card is for him. The inside reads:
God be with you as you graduate & move on to high school.

I will instruct thee
and teach thee
in the way which thou
should go.
I will guide thee
with mine eye. Psalm 3:2:8

God bless you
on this wonderful achievement...
Best wishes as you continue to grow
and use the gifts and talents He's given you. Image is a download from Charmed Cards and Crafts.

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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

MOJO MONDAY 87 - Sweet Happy Birthday

Well it's Monday again and that can only mean one thing, it's time for MOJO!!! Julee's sketch this week was perfect for these pp from DCWV's The Sweet Stacks. I am really loving these paper packs. As if you couldn't tell! ;o)
The lollies are from Stamps & Smiles. The sentiment is Verve. My lollies are colored with Copics. The spiral candy is from a Keep In Touch Kit. I used my pinked edge circle Nesties. All elements stamped in Stampabilities Brown ink then embossed with silver embossing powder.

I'm off to fix some dinner.
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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Verve VLVMay03 front, inside and back - Across the Miles

Another late night!

It's been a while since I played with one of these challenges. I simply forgot they were going on. But tonight I was looking for something fun to challenge me and I stumbled upon this sketch and "FAVORITES" challenge - use your favorite color combo, embellishments & Verve stamps (or other favorite stamp).

Well here's my post for the May week 3 Viva La Verve Challenge at SCS .

Here's the sketch:

This is the front of my card. I cut the bird and the flowers from the Whimsy stacks pp. The border on the left side is from the All Dressed Up stacks. I cut 2 pieces from one sheet and glued them together. I added ribbon, mini envelope and rub on from a Keep In Touch kit. I layered a transparency to the right half of my card front. My favs: Color Combo - GREEN, black, blue & white, Embellishments - brads, ribbons, rub - ons, Verve Stamp - my favorite Verve stamps are the scripture ones ( I didn't use any stamps on my card though). This is the INSIDE. More of the Whimsy Stacks pp.

This is the BACK. Still More of the Whimsy stacks pp.

Ingredients: DCWV stacks - Whimsy, All Dressed Up, Sweets

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

SFYTT1 - Smile

Good Sunday evening to you:
This is my first try at a sketch from i{heart}2stamp's Sketch For You To Try challenge this week. I love my card and I really love the sketch they presented for us to try. Hope you like my card. I cuttled with my Cuttlebug. Then I stamped with Stamps & Smiles - Cuppy's house. I colored with Copics and Spicas. I inked with ColorBox Chalk. I got bling-y with Kaiser's rhinestones. The pattern papers are from DCWV's All Dressed Up stack. Enjoy!

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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

PCPCuttlebug-ers26 & USS06 - Fabulous Dad

Hi There!
After a long afternoon/evening road trip I came home and got right to work on my Challenge for the Cuttlebug-ers at PCP. I sure hope you will play along with us this week. The Cuttlebug-ers 26th challenge is to use metal or foil in your Cuttlebug. I used a piece of copper and the Floral Fantasy embossing folder in my Cuttlebug. Then I took my heat embossing tool and heated up the copper. This speed tarnishes the copper. It's not very noticable in my photo but the heated spots change from the normal copper color to different shades of blue and purple, depending on how long you heat the metal. I saw this effect on Carol Duvall's show a long time ago and totally forgot I had this copper until I started thinking about this challenge. I used Unscripted Sketches #26 to create my card.
A HAPPY FATHER'S DAY card for the Hubs!!!
Ingredients: Copper, all embellishments are from Keep In Touch Kits.
BELOW is my 1ST attempt at the CB#26 challenge but you can't really see the embossing.

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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

USS05/JI11 - A 2-fer - Why the long face?

You're Baaack!!!
This card is for: Jazzy's Inspiration Challenge #11 & Unscripted Sketches Saturday Sketch Challenge #05. Here's Jazzy's inspiration for this week.

Judging from the sketch this looked pretty simple. But I cut everything out and then realized I'd gathered too many elements. So I had to cut back. I finally settled on this. So I believe I used the correct colors and the sketch is right. What do you think?

Ingredients: PollyCraft - image & sentiment, Love Elsoe - notebook paper, DCWV - All Dressed Up Stack - pp, Bazzill - red, white & black cs, ribbon & staples.

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

ASASMay1509 - Inspire

Hello!
Here's is my DT card for A Scrap Addict's Sketches. I made this mid April so I really don't have deets. Except that it's made with some products from a Keep In Touch Kit and Bazzill cs. I also used JustRite Stamps. TFL
Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

MFTSC81 - What's the Dish?

Hi There! Glad you stopped in!
This is my card for the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge #81 presented by Cindy Haffner.
I'm not sure my card qualifies but I'm posting it just the same. When I saw the pp in the DCWV The Pets Stack I had to use it! So I started cutting out bits I wanted to use to make a scene. The only stamps used on this card are the paw prints. All the other elements for the scene were cut from the pp. The paw prints on the front are stamped in ColorBox Sky Blue and then embossed with clear powder. The base cardstock is also from the stack and it has little doggy bones on it. The swirlie is just the number 6 cut from white cardstock I colored with my Copic marker #B12.

The 'dish' popped up on dimensionals on the front of my card. I drew on the grass with Copic marker #G99. I used the Martha Stewart picket fence border on the top of the front of my card to add a little more color on the brown. I used the zig zag Nestie to cut the frame for my window.

Thanks For Looking!
Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

CCTC60 - Happy 16th Birthday

Last call for the night or first call for the morning...
This one was created for my Godson, Joshua who is turning 16 in June. But it's also the card I made for this week's Cute Card Thursday Challenge #60. I used my Cicut to cut my numbers and the th is handwritten. I used JustRite Stamps Happy Birthday stamp. I masked Happy to stamp Birthday and then I masked Birthday to stamp Happy. I colored my numbers with Stampin' Up markers and then went back over them with my clear glitter gel pen. PP is from Basic Grey's Lime Rickey paper pack and the others are from DCWV All Dressed Up stack. As this is a card for a young man I didn't add a lot of embellies, I simply placed a piece of white ribbon on an angel. I used the Martha Stewart stars border punch. Voila!

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Toodles & Goodnight Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

2S4YS26 - It's Party Time & Bonus Sketch - Longing to see you!

I'm Baaack!!
Here's more of those wonderful glitsy pp from DCWV Stacks. These are from All Dressed Up Stack and Sweet Stack. The cupcake cake is cut from one of the pp in The Sweet Stack. The flowers are from Petaloo. The card stock is from Bazzill; it came cut with the scalloped edge. This is a tri - fold card. I made a belly band from chocolate rick rack. I also used two Martha Stewart border punches for this. This one was made for Kazan's Sketch. I may be back later with my creation for 2 Sketches 4 You's Bonus sketch. Here's my Bonus card. My grandson, Zack called me on Tuesday night and he was missing his Nana. So I had to make him a card. I'm not crazy about this card. May have to do another for the sketch. But tomorrow this one goes out in the morning mail to Zack. Love you Buddy.

Houndstooth and Diamonds & Dots embossing folders. PP - Basic Grey's Lime Rickey.

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

SK050909 - Happy Birthday Cupcake

Hello Again!
I just finished this one and had to get it posted. I am thrilled with it! This one is for the PaperCraftPlanet Sketch Challenge for 05/09/09. Don't you just love this color combo of pinks and chocolate? I know I do. I used to think blue and black were universal colors that went with everything. Now I think brown 'fits' in that category as well. I love mixing brown with pink, or blue or green or ever orange. I think it goes well with all of them. I added a bit of shimmer here with this wonderful shimmer pp from the All Dressed Up Stack from DCWV. I also matted my cupcake & sentiment on a silver cs.

Ingredients: Bazzill - cs, DCWV - pp, Imaginisce - cupcake stamp & brads, JustRite Stamps - sentiment, Martha Stewart - border punches, Rick Rack

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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

ART SHARE/BLOG CANDY - From Snoop in Missouri

Hello & Welcome:
I just wanted to post the first gift I received from my Art Share/Blog Candy Exchange. This beautiful Note Card Set is from my friend Snoopy. Snoopy and I are both members of Card_Crafts_Group @ Yahoo.com. Snoopy is a very telented card maker. I have always enjoyed swappin g cards with her. I was sooo happy when she signed up to play along with the AS/BC Exchange. But I was even HAPPIER when this arrived in the mail the Saturday before Mother's Day. Isn't it stunning. Photos don't do it justice. Snoopy embossed the white cs with the sheet music folder in her Cuttlebug. She not only made the folder to hold the cards but she made 4 cards as well. Each one as lovely as the next.

Thanks 'Snoop Dawg' ever so much!

Please drop by Snoopy's blog and see how wonderfully creative she is. And PLEASE leave her some love!

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration #36 - have a blooming good day

Hello!
Well here's my card for Stacey's Jewelry Color Challenge #36. The colors we had to use are: tempting tourquoise, lavender lace, so saffron, & whisper white. I used more of the pp from DCWV Stacks. I used my Martha Stewart border punch on all my background cs. Lace pieces are from a Keep In Touch Kit from waaay back. Ingredients: DCWV - Pocket Full of Posies Stack & The Sweet Stack, My Favorite Things - stamps, Martha Stewart - picket fence border punch, My Minds Eye - purple ribbon, Copic Markers

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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

MOJO Monday #86 - Sweet Summer

MOJO Monday #86 - My 'Sweet' Summer!
I used a glossy yellow cardstock and embossed it. Then I used pp and Bazzill cs to mount and layer my elements. This one was fun. I think once I picked the cs the hard part (not really, just time consuming) was Cuttle-ing with my Bug. Ingredients: DCWV - The Sweet Stack pp, Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots & Flower Border embossing folders, Martha Stewart Bordr Punch, Stampin' Up! - stamps, Marvy - ink, ColorBox chalk - ink, Rubber Stamp Paintbox - ink, Stampabilities - ink, Bazzill - green cs

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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Lemonade Stand Award from Stacey

Thank you, Stacey from Stacey's Stampin' Stage, for giving me the Lemonade Stand

Award! The Lemonade Stand Award for being a blogger who shows great attitude and gratitude.Now it is my turn to pass the award onto ladies that visit my blog and are bloggers who show great attitude and gratitude.

They are:
Libby's Little Addiction
Creating with Chrissy
Beate's Fresh & Fun
Valita's Designs and Fresh Folds
Dottie's World
iralamija

Go check out all of theses ladies blogs, they all have great ideas and great blogs!The rules of the award (To pick up the Lemonade Stand Award):- Comment on this blog.- Cut and paste the award logo and use it in your own blog.- Nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude.- Link to your nominees within your blog post.- Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.- Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.

TPE Challenge #14 - Color Challenge - Feeling Ruff???

Hi! It's early Tuesday morning and I just finished this card. Hubs stopped by Joann's on Monday and bought me the DCWV paper stacks that were on sale. I love them. I have The Pet Stack, The All Dressed Up Stack, The Sweet Stack, The Whimsy Stack, and The Pocket Full of Posies Stack. For this card I used one paper from the All Dressed Up Stack and one from the Sweet Stack. I love them because all the sheets have glitter on them.
I used the color challenge to create this card for The Pink Elephant challenge. Ingredients: PollyCraft - image & sentiment, DCWV - pp, Flaire - button, Imaginisce - flower, Copis, Spicas, Bazzill

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PPCW16 - NOT SWINE FLU!

Hi There:
No this is not a card about the "Swine Flu". This card was created for PaperPlay Challenges Week 16 challenge Flying High, use wings. So I have a little pink butterfly on Miss Piggy's knee and a dragonfly about to light on my flower. Miss Piggy likes bling! She has rhinestones everywhere! From the top of her sunbrella to the dots on her beach towel. She's so shiney!
I used my Nestie and cut Miss Piggy's scene out. Then I took another piece of cs - the hot pink, and cut slits with my exacto and slipped the top pieces into those slits. I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder over Miss Piggy and the hot pink. I came back with Spica and highlighted some of the embossed dots. Ingredients: Bazzill - cardstock, PollyCraft - image, Spicas, Copics and gel glitter pen, Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Kaiser - rhinestones, Provo Craft - Art Accentz - dragonfly, Keep In Touch - embellies

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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

BIG NEWS!!! Cuttlebug-ers @ PCP!!!

Hello everyone. I just wanted to post a note to let you all know I've been asked by Steph Castro of Cuttlebug-ers to take over the Sunday Challenges. Steph is stepping down due to more responsibilities at her REAL job. Steph will surely be missed. But I will try my best to keep the challenges fun and interesting.
So if you love your Cuttlebug and want to play along, join me on Sunday for MY first challenge!

Thanks!
Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

2S4YS25 - R U My Mother?

Hello Again My Peeps!
Here is my card for Laura's sketch #25 at 2Sketches4You. I love this set from Unity. I used it in the previous card too. This is all colored on white cs. The sky is colored using Copics #BV31. Then I used my clear glitter pen to make my clouds. The pps are from Tinkering Ink. The grass was colored with Copics and Spicas. The images are colored using Spicas. I used the pinked circle from Spellbinders to create my sun.

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

CPS114 - To Cheer You

Hi There!
Today I worked on this card for the CPS114 sketch challenge. I love this little turtle from Unity. I cut her hat from coordinating paper and added a Petaloo flower cut in half and layered. I used my Spellbinders scalloped oval to base my image. I colored with Stampin' Up! and Copics markers then came back over with my clear Glitter pen. I used the reverse scalloped squares Nestie for my background. Thanks for looking.
Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

USSC04 - Love Bugs

Hi It's late and I am about ready for bed. But I wanted to post this card I made tonight for the Unscripted Sketches Challnge #4. My big bug is stamped in Marvy Red. Then I used my black Copic marker to outline and draw legs. The hearts are the punched pieces using my Martha Stewart heart punch. I colored then with a clear glitter pen. Ingredients: Scenic Route - pp Grafton, Technique Tuesday - bug stamp, Unity circle stamp - grandma's button, American Crafts Flair - Adhesiver Badge Smile, Keep In Touch Kit - buttons, ribbons and cb star, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Bazzill - cs, Color Box Chalk - stamped circle

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Toodles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

MOJO MONDAY #85 & The Cuttlebug Spot Challenge #29- Mother's Day - Gate Fold Card

HelLo Again!
Here's my card using Julee's MoJo Monday #85 sketch. This card was also made for The Cuttlebug Spot Challege #29. The deets are below the photos now.

Ingredients: Tinkering - Flossie pp, Bazzill Weave Textured - cs, Keep In Touch Kits - ribbon, die cut & brads, Prima - flower, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Stampin' Up! Border Punch

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

pcpcuttlebug24 - To My Mother on Mother's Day

Hi There, I know it's been a few days since I posted. But we had a fun weekend of blog hops and hubs and I took a Sunday road trip! Here is the card I created for the Cuttlebug-ers Challenge #24. I did do some embossing on this card but with all the layers it's a little difficult to see. It's behind the bright yellow cs. What you see below is both the front and the inside of my card. Ingredients: Tinkering Ink - pp, Cuttlebug - embossing, Keep In Touch Kits - yellow embellies & ribbon, heart punch, Bazzill - cs

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Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana

Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot1st Annual Spa Retreat - Join the Fun!!!

There's over $1000 worth of prizes to be given away! Join the fun May 1, 2, 3, 2009 at Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot.

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CPS113 & Seasons Card_Craft_Swaps - Seasons in the Sun

Hey!
Sheesh, I have been fighting with my printer for the past 2 hours. It's new-ish and I can not seem to get it to print on colored cardstock which is REALLY pi$$ing me off! Anywhoo, I got it to print on plain white and it's okay. The theme for this swap was to do a card representing the seasons or a season. I used my Rubber Stamp Paintbox by ClearSnap and stamped my Unity Tree in a rainbow of colors to represent my seasons. I smudged ink in blue and green to make my sky and my ground. I added Copic orange to my Imaginisce flowers to give them a little more seasonal color. The sentiment is computer generated. I used the sketch from CPS113.

INSIDE of my card: TFL

Toodles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana