A Magical Ride

Hello and Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I got together with some good friends Peggy, Kristen, Pia, Michelle and Donna. We spent all day Saturday making cards or scrapbooking, eating, laughing and just having a great time together. You know when they say great minds think alike. When we were all there and talking about this week's challenge for
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and what we were going to create for it. OOPS I guess I should tell you now that the theme this week is to create something using both a digi image and digi DP. We all pulled out a Halloween image and then our digi paper and started laughing, all three of us Kristen, Peggy and myself all had the same Halloween DP from Bearly Mine (one of last year's freebies). We could not believe it! We did all still create a wonderful creation and each so different even though all 3 are cards so be sure to check out what they made as well as all the other ladies wonderful creations. Now I hope you are inspired enough to play along with us!

One more bit of excitement. Kristen is giving one lucky commenter a prize this week. Leave a comment on the Going Grey with Scrap-Creations blog telling her what your Top 3 digi companies are #1 being your most  favorite. From all that comment Kristen will pick on lucky commenter and they will get a $10 GC to their favorite digi company, how great is that!

Here are some other fantastic challenges that fit my card

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #133-A wonderful Halloween cake
Allsorts Challenge Week 126-Halloween
Card Makin' Mamas Challenge #31-Halloween
Craft Your Days Away Challenge #31-Halloween Colours
Crafting For All Seasons Challenge #12-Halloween
Crafty Boots Challenge-Autumn or Fall
Crop Stop Challenge #42-Halloween
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge #45-Halloween
Die Cut Dreams Challenge #101-So Charming
Delicious Doodles Challenge #4-Halloween with no orange
Digi Designs Challenge Blog-Halloween
Divas By Design Challenge #13-Something Spooky
Dream Valley Challenge #18-Halloween
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge-3 B's-Black, Border Punch and Bling, I gave all the bats yellow rhinestone eyes and stars around the broom (a bit hard to see in the pic)
I Brake For Challenges #12-Halloween
Fashionista Friday Challenge #94-Spooky Fall!
Just Some Lines Saturday Challenge-Halloween Theme
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #90-Halloween/ Fall
Lollipop Crafts Challenge #54-Embellish It! Rhinestones, ribbon and a charm
Magical Monday Challenges-Halloween!
One Stitch At A Time Challenge #85-Emboss It! I embossed and sanded the vertical panel
Paperplay Challenge Week 42-Use Black
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #78-Halloween
Shelly's Images Terrifiic Thursday Challenge-Show Us What you Got
Stampin' For The Weekend Challenge #19-Spooky!
Sweet Stampin' Challenge-Trick or Treat
The Corrosive Challenge #135-Flying Things
The Crafty Pad Challenge #144-Halloween
The Crazy Challenge #90-Scary Ladies
The Pixie Cottage Challenge #92-Sweet as candy and a sketch. I used the wonderful sketch
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #1-Halloween
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #57-Trick of Treat inspired
Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenge-Layer upon layer

These are all fantastic challenges so be sure to stop by and play along with them.

Thank you so much for stopping by today to see what I created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me to read, it really makes my day!

Happy Creating,
Mary

Beauty, Halloween Style!

Hello and Happy Tuesday! It is finally Fall here in New England and it is wonderful! The foliage isn't real bright but there are hints of color on a few trees scattered about. I am ready for cozy sweaters and the smell of wood burning in the fireplace. Halloween is also starting to pop up everywhere. Don't you just love it!

This week at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations the challenge is one that is going to be fun. We would like you to create a tag this week. It can be any kind of tag you choose. I was in the Halloween mood so I created this Halloween tag. I just love the DP I used. It was free from Bearly Mine last year, I love the aged look of it. I also thought I would have a little fun and have the bats fly off the tag with the help of acetate strips. All the ladies did a fabulous job this week creating tags to inspire you so be sure to stop by and see what they created for you.

Here are some other wonderful challenges that fit my creation

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #132-Halloween Creature Cupcakes
Alphabet Challenge Blog-S for Soon be Halloween
Card Cupids Sunday Challenge-Use the color orange
Color Me Creative Copic's Challenge-Halloween or Fall with the color orange
Through The Classroom Door Challenge #12-Happy Halloween
Crafty Boots Challenge-Autumn or Halloween
Craft Your Days Away Challenge #31-Halloween Colours
Crafty Ribbons Challenge #4-Ribbon and Lace, I used lots of Halloween colored ribbon and black crocheted lace
Creatalicious Challenge #27-Distress your edges
Digital Tuesday Challenge #133-Happy Halloween
Dream Valley Challenge #18-Halloween
Gingerloft Challenge #GL27-Halloween or Fall
Hanna and Friends Challenge #115-Halloween
My time To Craft Challenge #161-Orange and Black
One Stitch At A time Challenge #84-Shape Up
One Stop Craft Challenge #153-Halloween
Paper Creations Ink Challenge #11-Halloween Theme
Paper Pretties Monday Challenge-Halloween
Papertake Weekly Challenge-Spoooky Hues
Paper Crafting Journey Challenge #21-Color Challenge, black, white and orange
Shelley's Thrilling Thursday Challenge-Show us your layers
Simon Says Challenge-Simon says...Halloween/Goth
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #134-You Choose!
The Crazy Challenge #89-Halloween
The Ribbon Carousel Challenge #RCC25-Picture this with Laurel Seabrook
The Pixie Cottage Challenge #91-Dark and Spooky
Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenge #88-Use Acetate, Acetate is what is allowing my bats to fly off the tag
Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #71-A Shaped Card

These are all wonderful challenges so be sure to stop by and play along with them.

Thank you for stopping by today to see what I have created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me to read.

Happy Creating,
Mary

Dreaming of A White Christmas

Hello and Happy Tuesday! This is the end of a wonderful long weekend and now a back to school day for me. We are having summer like weather the last few days and got a lot done around the house, spent time craft shopping with my sister, and spent most of today with my hubby taking a day trip up into NH. A perfect long weekend only to realize that back to reality. I guess I need some way to pay for all my crafting goodys!

I had started this card last week and put it aside because I couldn't decide what DP I wanted to use. I bought some really snowflake paper on Sat. and thought I would use that but decided I loved the Bearly Mine more for with her. I really like blue so making a monochromatic card was easy once I picked it up again. I am pretty happy with the end result, I am glad I didn't finish it last week. I probably wouldn't have liked it as much.

Here are some fabulous challenges that fit my card

Anything Goes Challenge #51-Die Cuts/ Punches or both
Bee Crafty Downloads Challenge #55-Bling
By The Cute and Girly 2nd B'Day Challenge-Anything Goes
Crafty Ann's Challenge #51-Inspired by a Christmas Song
Dream Valley Challenge #17-Monochrome
Hanna and Friends Challenge #114-Bingo- Glimmer, buttons(the pearl snowflake on the top of the large snowflake is a button), pins
Fashionista Friday Challenge #93-Where my GIRLS at???
Just Some Lines Challenge-Reminds me of a song, White Christmas
LOTV Challenge #115-Let it Snow
One Stop Craft Challenge #152-Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey Challenge #20-Die Cuts and/or Punches
Pink Ink Sketch Challenge #7-Erica's Wonderful Sketch
Fairy Fun Fridays Challenge #63-Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
Papertake Weekly Challenge-Get in shape(3 different shapes square, circle, rectangle)
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #155-Anything Goes as long as it Sparkles
Simon Says Stamp Challenge-Simon Says... Sparkle and Bling
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #76-Anything Goes
Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #110-Anything goes
The Crazy Challenge Sept./Oct. Christmas Challenge-No red or green
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge-Lets Do Christmas
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #58-Monochromatic
Bah! Humbug! Challenge #40-Glitz and Glitter
Bizzy Becs Store Blog Oct. Challenge-Girls and Pearls

These are all fabulous challenges so be sure to stop by and play along with them!

Thank you for stopping by today to see what I created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me to read.

Happy Creating,
Mary C

Do You Smell Something?

Hello, Happy Tuesday! I have been loving this long weekend. The weather is beautiful and Saturday my sister and I went to a LSS that is about an hour away and we go to about 3 times a year. We had a lot of fun, bought some great stuff (could have bought a lot more!) I spent the day with my DH on Monday. A perfect weekend!

It is Tuesday and that means it is time for Going Grey with Scrap-Creations Tuesday challenge. This week we are having a theme of Halloween, cute, spooky or anything Halloween! The ladies did a Spooktacular job on their creations hoping to inspire you so be sure to stop by and check out what they created.

My card was made from an older Sassy Cheryl digi that I love. I just love this witch! This card is real sparkly though it didn't show up a lot in the picture. I also decided that I wanted to do the inside of this card to tie the whole card together.

Here are some other wonderful challenges that fit my card.

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #131-Spooky Halloween cupcake
2 Sisters Challenge #60-Halloween
Card Cupids New Challenge Sunday-Use a decorative punch, I used a spider, bat and corner web
Challenge Up Your Life Challenge #54-Halloween
Clear It Out Challenge-Halloween
Come and Get It Challenge-Color theme, orange, purple and black
Cooking It Up with Katie Challenge #78-F Words-Mine are feet and freaky
Crafts and Me Challenge #55-Use A Digi
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge-Lots of Layers
Creative Card Crew Challenge-Spooky Fun
Cupcake Craft Challenge-Halloween
Cutie Sunday Challenge #151-Halloween
Drunken Stampers Challenge #76-Halloween
Everybody Art Challenge #163-Halloween
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge-Fall or Halloween
I Did It Creations Challenge #76-Anything Goes
Little Darlings Challenge #8-Fall or Halloween
One Stitch At A time Challenge #83-Anything Goes
One Stop Craft Challenge Week #152-Anything Goes
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #1-Halloween
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #33-Halloween Theme
Ribbon Carousel Challenge # RCC24-Sparkle and Bling with ribbon
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #76-Anything goes
Sparkles forum Challenge #22-Halloween
Stamps & Fun =Creativity Challenge #68-Halloween
The Beary Sweet Challenge #35-Free For All!
The Paper Shelter Challenge #34-Halloween
Woodware USA Challenge #47-Anything goes

These are all fantastic challenge so be sure to stop by and play along with them!

Thank you for stopping by today to see what I created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me to read.

Happy Creating,

Mary

The Beauty of Fall

Hello, Happy Tuesday! It is pouring here so it is not exactly a perfect Fall day but I am hoping for some sun tomorrow. Being Tuesday it is time for another fantastic challenge over at
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This week we have a fun and easy challenge for you to play along with. The theme this week is FALL!
I am sure everyone is having fun already making their Fall creations so why not come play with us? We also have a wonderful sponsor this week    Designed 2 Delight Digital Stamps. They have so many beautiful images and they are giving the winner of this challenge a GC to their store! The ladies all used their beautiful images this week on their creations so be sure to stop by and be inspired.

Here are some other great challenges that fit my card

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #130-Beautiful Fall inspired cupcake
Alota Rubber Stamps Challenge # 68-Fruits
Anything Goes Challenge #51-Punches and/or Die cuts or both
Bearly Mine Challenge #20-3 or more designer papers
Copic Creations Challenge #59-Saturated Colors
Craft Your Days Away Challenge #30-Tag It!
Craft Your Passion Challenge #78-Anything Goes with ribbon
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C107-Donate your created card(mine is going to an elementary school to be sold at the handcrafted holiday fundraiser)
Creative Stamp Friends Challenge #35-Autumn Colors
Creatalicious Challenge #26-Anything Goes
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges #43-Fall Colors or Giving Thanks
DYSU Challenge #39-Swirls
Gingerloft Challenge #GL26-the Color Orange
iCopic Weekly Challenge #50-All About Fall
Just Some Lines Challenge-Fall color challenge
Little Darlings Challenge #8-Fall or Halloween
Speedy The Cat's Friends Challenge Week 75-Use Polka Dots
One Stitch At A Time Challenge #82-Use A Digi
Paper Creations Ink Challenge #10-Use the colors black and/or orange
Paper Crafting Journey Challenge #20-Die Cuts and/or Punches
Papertake Weekly Challenge-Anything Goes with something Punched
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #63-Anything Goes
Phindy's Place Challenge #75-Autumn /Fall
Rainbow Lady's Challenge #172-Autumn/ Fall Flowers
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #75-Sewing or Stitching
Simon Says Stamp Challenge-Anything Goes
Simply Create Challenge #53-Use something older than 6 months, my swirl punch, I use so many swirl dies now instead.
Sketch and Stash Challenge #71-Fantastic sketch and 3 new Fall flowers!
Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #109-Include Fruit in your creation
Stamps R Us Challenge-Autumn/Fall
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #132-Photo Inspiration
The Shabby Tea Room Challenge Week #82-A Shabby Autumn
Totally Papercrafts Challenge #86-Autumn
Woodware USA Challenge #46-Anything Goes
Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge #39-Random Recipe- Anything Goes

These are all fabulous challenges so be sure to stop by and play along with them.

Thank you for stopping by today to see what I created. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me to read.

Happy Creating,
Mary