Tuesday, November 30, 2010

I'm Baaaack! And I'm here with this Schweet little SoftPencil Digi!!!

Hey! Yeah that's right! I'm Back! Thanksgiving was terrific but we all have to get back to crafting soon as we can! Right? :O) This card was created using SoftPencil's A Charming Christmas. Isn't it just? Charming that is... Colored with markers and glitzed up with some rhinestones and some rhinestone brads. Check out what the rest of the DT has created.
Design Team


Kerry - DT Coordinator

Anne-Katrine

Anne-Marije

Audrey

Betty YOU ARE HERE!

Cat Darling

Dawn

Fink

Larissa

Lisa

Mary

Melissa


They've all done some fabulous creations!!!


About my Thanksgiving...
Well, if the truth be known, I did take some digis with me to color. Unfortunately I totally forgot to do my SoftPencil assignment for today, while I was away playing at the little cabin in the east Texas Piney Woods. Hubs and I had a wonderful time with our kids and our grandson, nieces and nephew, my sis and my parents and 9 dogs!!! Actually there are two cabins. :O) We fished and played dominoes, ate like food was going out of style and laughed till our sides hurt. But it was all gloriously fun!
Here's a little taste of what we did...

Baked Gingerbread Cookies...

Fished with my favorite little grandboy, Zack. Zack caught at least 1 doz. fish over the Thanksgiving holiday.


 Sat on Santa's lap in Mineola, Tx. Told him what he wants for Christmas.


Stopped on the Square in Canton. The courthouse square was totally decked out for Christmas!

 Hubs and me, reelin' and dealin'! I caught this baby! Isn't it a beaut! This catfish weighed in at a little over 3 pounds and was caught using a little itty bitty hook for small mouth fishies... Ok, this is not my Glamour Shots, o-kaaaaay!


Thanks for Looking,
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Friday, November 19, 2010

happy holidays - weeM31

happy holidays was created for the Wee Memories Challenge #31 use patterned papers. I used several from the same set. But don't ask me what they are because they came in a CupCardsToGo kit. In fact everything but the ribbon, cardstock and image came from the kit.
I added Stickles to glitz it up a bit and I just love the stick pin that came in the kit too.

Stampin; Up! Stamps - Fun & Fast Notes.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Merry Christmas - Winter - PCS22

Merry Christmas - Winter - PaperCraftStar challenge #22 - Christmas tree or ornament card. I chose to use Lovely as a Tree, Itty Bitty Backgrounds and All Year Cheer III stamps from Stampin' Up! I brayered the sky and then the ground with Post-Its and Bashful Blue and Marina Mist ink from Stampin' Up! I used the fir tree stamp to add some foiliage at the base and sides of my image. All of the trees were stamped using SU Crumb Cake ink.
Thanks for Looking
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Cuttlebugers #94 Gift bag with tag

Stampin' Up! Deck the Halls dp and real red cardstock.

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Joyeaux Noel - ICS91

Joyeaux Noel - Inspirational Card Sketches challenge #91. This is a fantastic sketch! I enjoyed creating with it. These dps from Stampin' Up! are beautiful and make a lovely winter style card. I stamped the sentiment with Versa Mark ink and then heat embossed silver powder. The ribbon is from my stash as are the snowflakes and silver cord.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Merry Christmas - SP14

Merry Christmas is a SoftPencil digital image. I colored this on my computer and then added the black outlines with my Basic Black SU marker. It's very CAS. If you;d like to see what the rest of the team has come up with then click on their links in my sidebar. Thanks for looking.

T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Howdy! from Texas

LTXTS12 - This is not an old postcard. It's a new piece of crumb cake cardstock that was burned with my heat tool. I added some Stampin' Up! stamps and from a fellow cow hand, Deadbeat Mark. This was fun to do but I almost gave my family a heart attack when they smelled something burning! I assured them everything was ok. I used my aqua painter to color the state. Inks used are early espresso, cajun craze, cherry cobbler, and marina mist. If you were born in Texas, or born elsewhere (like me) but got here as fast as you could, or if you just like Texana, then we welcome you to play along with us on Texas Tuesdays. Texas Tuesdays are every 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month. Just create something Texas-y and post it to your blog and leave your link in the comments and we'll go check it out!
You can see the lovely creations of our Trail Boss Libby and my fellow Posse members by clicking on their links in my side bar. Don't forget to leave them some love.

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Monday, November 15, 2010

A little note of Thanks - MOJO165

This is a mish mash of things to make a card for a Thank You. A friend hosted my grandson Zackary's birthday party at her home this past Saturday. And there were 15-20 children in attendance! What a saint!
Anyhoo, this is for Na'deen. Thanks hon so much!

I used my Cricut to cut the flourish frame. It's from cartridge #29-0542 Home Accents


Stampin' Up! products:
dp - love letters
stamps - whimsical words (inside sentiment), circle of freinds, cottage garden, always
inks - basic black, cherry cobbler
cs- very vanilla, basic black

other: Cricut, ribbon and brads

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Yo-Da Man! Zack's 7th Birthday~~~

Yoda Cake  &  Just one of the 100+ photos taken of the Happy Birthday Boy!
That is Zack's buddy Josiah on the left in the lime green shirt and Alex on the right. I got tons of compliments on my Yoda. I was disappointed in how he turned out myself. But he seemed to be a hit with everyone; children and grownups alike.

I've been making my grandson, Zackary's birthday cakes since he turned 3. As soon as I find pictures I will add them to this post.

Zack's 6th birthday party was at the ice skating rink in College Station. This was his cake.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Friday, November 12, 2010

2fer - C4C62

2fer - Crazy4Challenges #62 - make a square card! I made two because I wanted to make the Santa card but I hadn't inked up the polar bears yet and just felt I "neeeeeeded" to! So you get 2 fer 1 here today.
The Santa was stamped in cherrty cobbler and marina mist. He's matted with real red and love letter dp. The base is pacific point.
The polar bears are from MFT. I colored them with Stampin' Up! markers and used my blender brush to move some of the marina mist into the bears' bodies. They are matted on pacific point. Then I used a piece of bashful blue in the snow dots ef.

Stampin' Up! Stamps - Holiday Hoopla (Santa)

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Christmas Greetings - FS128

Christmas Greetings - Friday Sketchers style! This is challenge #128 and we used a really lovely sketch. I made 3 cards using the same sketch. Designer papers and stamps are all from Stampin' Up! Embellies are from CupCardsToGo.

Stampin' Up! Stamps = All Year Cheer III, Grateful Greetings, Delightful Decorations
Stampin' Up! Ink - Old Olive
Stampin' Up! Ribbon - Very Vanilla 1/8" wide grosgrain
Stampin' Up! Designer Paper - Love Letter

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Thursday, November 11, 2010

thoughts and prayers are with you - 4CCC11

Always in my Thoughts & Always Stampin' Up! stamp sets were used on this one. I love the Marina Mist blue too. This card is for challenge #11 at 4CraftyChicks. The challenge this week is sympathy cards. I love these stamps and colors together. Makes for a lovely sympathy card or even a get well card.

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

CSBZN - Dec. Swap

I made this set of cards for my Yahoo.Com group CardSketchesByZacksNana. We make one card every month from a sketch I assign. Then the next month I assign partners and we swap. One of these was made for my future swap partner. The other will go to my friend, Deb. Shhhhsh, don't tell Deb. :O)
The cardstock, dp and little paisley trees are all from Stampin' Up!
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Tags, tags, everywhere tags... PCS21

Challenge 21 Opens Wednesday
Tags! - at Paper Craft Star this week we had a photo for inspiration in challenge #21. The photo has many shades of blue, lots of white, some tan and some green. I think the only color I used that was not in the palette was the reds. I guess I could have left them out but they were all created at the same time so I put them in too. I wish my house looked as beautiful as the sample photo but I live in north central Texas and this photo looks a little beachy to me. :O) 
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

2011 Calendar - SoftPencil Designs

Here's my calendar using 2 birds on a kite calendar digital from SoftPencil Designs. I used my PaintShopPro to color Michu, the birds and the kite. This is a cute image and I like the idea of a small calendar I can use on my desk top.

Be sure to check out the rest of the DT faire by clicking on their links on the side bar.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps Texas

Monday, November 8, 2010

Cinema Saturday's 100th Challenge & MOJO164 - Pride & Prejudice

Season's Greetings - for Cinema Saturday #100 & MOJO MONDAY#164. The movie is Pride & Prejudice. Although my card doesn't reflect the movie very much I did you a lacey stencil to create my dp. I also used the Victorian embossing folder for the backdrop for my image. I used as many Stampin' Up! products as I could get my hands on that related to the challenges.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps Texas

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Merry Little Christmas - CPS89

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Card Patterns Sketches #89. I don't normally like these sketches with the little multiple images. It's just not my thing. But I had these little stamps my friend Deb gave me and they weren't really big enough to do anything else with. Except stamp on the outside of my Christmas card envelopes. But I rememebered my make your own brads and although the entire images didn't fit in the brads, I think enough did so they work. Hope you like my card.

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

heartfelt wishes - weeM30

heartfelt wishes - wee Memories Blog Birthday Bash Challenge. Make a birthday card. My card is CAS. I used Stampin' Up! regal rose  ink on very vanilla cardstock and I mounted that onto crumb cake cardstock. Sentiment is from Stampin' Up! set Always in my Thoughts. I stamped the image onto the scalloped circle punched very vanilla. Then I stamped it again on a rectangular piece of very vanilla. I used dimensionals to raised the scalloped circle off the rectangle. I adhered a piece of hot pink ricrack behind the left side of my retangle. I added a little piece of the ricrack and a button under my sentiment to help your eye travel around the face of my card.

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

Friday, November 5, 2010

Paper Sack, Stamps & Ribbon

Just a plain white paper sack. I stamped little Christmas images all over in various colors ink. Added some decorative ribbons and voila!

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Can't get any simpler...

Stampin' Up! cardstock - very vanilla and real red.
I used a 3" scalloped circle punch and punched the red disc. Then I cut my real red base 8.5 x 5.5" and folded in half at 4.25". I cut the very vanilla at 4 x 5.25". I adhered the 3 strips of ribbon to the back of the very vanilla cardstock. I used double sided tape to adhere the disc to the card. Then I used dimensionals to attach the little reindeer chipboard pieces. Glued on my buttons with TomBow Mono and called this one DONE!

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
BettyStampsTX

Red, white, and blue Christmas - CASED

Thsi card was created using Stampin' Up! cardstock and dp. The stamps and chipboard are not SU.
I CASED  a card I found HERE
Cardstock - night of navy, crunb cake, real red, very vanilla
Designer Paper - blueberry crisp

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX

This just in!

PaperCraftStar#20 - A Recipe -
  1. Base 4.5 x 5.5
  2. Double Mat #1: cut at 3 3/8 x 4 5/8
  3. with another color cut at 3 1/4 x 4 1/4
  4. Double Mat #2: cut at 2 3/4 x 4
  5. with another color cut at 2 3/4 x 2 1/2
  6. Add Ribbon
  7. Add Button(s)
  8. Add Punch or Die Cut
(Add anything else you would like to add)
 Above are my creations before I added some embellies. I just wanted to show you what the card looked like before and after embellishing. I liked them before. But I am really liking then AFTER!
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Another Day with Deb...

We made 8 cards today but I forgot one at Deb's house so I only have 7 to show you. So grab a cuppa and get comfy cause you make be here a little while! :O)

This first set of cards I CASED off the the cover of the Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog. They used strips of paper and I used a piece of our designer paper. The dp in this paper pad comes in the "In Color" series of papers which includes - peach parfait, poppy parade, pear pizzaz, concorn crush and blushing bride. I used SU cardstock to match. I used the pear pizzaz and poppy parade on my cards and Deb used concord crush and blushing bride on hers. The dp was cut using the Top Note die. The stamp is from Grateful Greetings.

This card features SU dp from last Christmas. They work so well together and even compliment with new "In Color" pear pizzaz cardstock. I am not sure which set this stamp comes from but it too, it SU.




This card uses more of last year's dp.  Again I am not sure which stamp sets were used but they are SU.


This one features the new SU fabric! It was die cut on the zigzag and then ruffled on some double sided strip tape.

This card features a lovely punched tree. It used last year's dp too. The stamps are from SU and are from the Bells and Boughs set.

This card is just punched gold, silver and red cardstock with ribbon and a sentiment that is heat embossed.

My favorite one is the one that got away so to speak. I forgot it at Deb's house. So be watching because as soon as I can get it from her I will be posting it. YOU ARE GONNA LOVE IT!

If' you've made it through to here, Thanks! I hope you enjoyed looking at my creations. Most of these cards started with something I saw in a magazine and as Deb says, I "put my own twist on it".
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Ho, Ho, Ho - MOJO163

Ho, Ho, Ho - MOJO163. I thought Santa looked like he was coming out of a chimney on this one. So I added a little bookmark. I made something similar at a recent Stampin' Up! class. All cardstock and ink is from Stampin' Up! Stamps are on loan from my friend Deb. Thanks Deb!
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Oh Christmas Tree - SSS80

Oh Christmas Tree - The Sweet Stop #80 - inks, dp, cs are all Stampin' Up! That is all! I am tired and this is my last post tonight. So see yall in the Mawnin'!

Nighty, Night.
Betty aka ZacksNana
BettyStampsTX

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Play Day with Deb Segler - what we made...



 This is the card I taught her. Stampin' Up! cardstock - crumb cake, real red, daffodil delight, garden green and pear pizzaz. Stampin' Up! ink - early espresso. Stampin' Up! stamps Always Elegant and Grateful Greetings.
Here's what Deb taught me. This little dress was made using the Scallop Circle die #113468. Once you've had die cut the scallop circle, then you cut angel wings off both sides of the dress to make this shape.
Stampin' Up! die - Scallop Circle. Stampin' Up! cardstock - very vanilla. Stampin' Up! dp - blueberry crisp.
We really had a blast today and can't wait to get back together agains soon!
Thanks Deb for all the laughs and tears and all the ideas!!!
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Tues-Steppin! - Deep in the Heart of Texas

This is my card for Libby's Tues Step Tuesday. Check my side bar for all of the Posse's links.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
Stamps - Courtesy of The Deadbeat...

Perry Christmas to You! - SP12

Perry the Pup and his Christmas Tree - SoftPencil Designs.
I used Stampin' Up! dp from the Deck the Halls collection for my matte. This image is one of SoftPencil's designs and comes in black and white, which I computer colored.


Please check out my DT buddies blogs and be sure to leave them some love. Their links are in the sidebar under SoftPencil.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Monday, November 1, 2010

love life... - PPC-CC#37

love life & it will love you back _ Picture Perfect Creations Color Combos #37 - pear pizzaz, cajun craze, pretty in pink, basic grey.
I used the fleur de lis eb folder on the basic grey. I used the acanthus leaf on the cajun craze. Sentiment from Stampin' Up! collection Cottage Garden.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Christmas Greetings - PCPCUTTLEBUG - ERs #92

Stampin' Up! Christmas card. This one was created for my PaperCraftPlanet Cuttlebug-ers challenge #92 - Christmas card, anything goes. Here's the challenge if you'd like to play...
Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. Just show me your Christmas!!! Or Chanukah if that's your holiday.
I want to see something you've never done before! Any technique, color combo, some new dies or folders you've acquired, just play ladies and have a good time.
Deets on my card:
I don't normally do CAS. But I like to give it a whirl every now and then. My "new" something is this stamp set Always from Stampin' Up! The heart is just sooo pretty! The sentiment is from another set. The cuttled part of my card was done using a Sizzix die which I used to cut multiple circles (two shades of green and one yellow).

Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Glorious Green - cardstock
Early Espresso - ink
Always & Grateful Greetings - stamps
This is a make & take for myself and my friend Deb to do on Tuesday.
TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana
BettyStampsTX

Birthday in Fall - Gift Box - SSCCCCA54


Birthday in Fall - Gift Box - Stacey's Stamping Stage Curtain Call Color Challenge Act #54 - more mustard, very vanilla, cajun craze, pumpkin pie.
I used three colors of cardstock and one double sided dp from Stampin' Up! Which can be purchased HERE. Stamps are from the Embrace Life collection from Stampin' Up!
The candy was purchased at Kroger.

Forgot to add the Card...


TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana

Miscellaneous

Graduation 2018 O