Debi's Crazy Life;

Hello everyone.  It is Tuesday again and that means it is time for another Papertake Weekly challenge !  Sorry I missed last weeks, I was having a super crazy week between my hubby making a trip to the hospital and our celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary by renewing our vows.  If you are of a mind to pray my hubby sure could use some.  He is seeing a surgeon today about a chronic health issue and I am really hoping the surgeon has some answers for him.  Anyway enough chit chat from me, I know you want all the details on the PTW challenge and my card.  This weeks challenge is entitled "one".  For example I used one stamp, one ribbon, one brad, and one piece of designer paper (it is two sided and I used both sides).  Make sense?  Why don't you join us and play along? Make sure you pop over to the  team blog  and play along with us. Check out what the rest of the team has done and show them some love. Dawny Jill Katina Lols Man...

I managed to feel up some time yesterday to play around in my office with some of the August release from Our Daily Bread Designs that hadn't seen ink yet.  The Scripture Collections have always been some of my favorites and on this one I used a scripture from the first set.  It paired up so nicely with the new Flower Frames 2.  I stamped the verse in the frame then masked the center and sponged around the frame with wheat colored chalk ink.  I add a bit of color with some Copic markers as well.  For a finishing touch I added one fancy metal brad in the corner so that I could enter the card in this weeks S tampin' Sisters in Christ challenge .   What I used: Our Daily Bread Designs Flower Frames 2 and Scripture Collection 1 SU whisper white, basic black and ruby red card stock more scraps of designer paper that have become anonymous over time Versafine black Versamagic wheat clear embossing powder Copic markers SU designer brad wide black grosgr...

I hope you are having a blessed Sunday!  I know I am.  Since I spent a large portion of the last week cleaning and cooking I didn't have to do either today so I spent the afternoon in my office stamping away.  I did this card for this weeks Sweet Sunday sketch .  I used Our Daily Bread Designs Harvest Blessings and the matching dies.  I can't begin to tell you how much I love these dies.  I love to cut things out and pop them up and these dies make even the most intricate image super quick and easy to cut out.  I stamped each of the flowers 6 times.  Once on the white with the greeting below and twice on the gold and brown and one more time on the green.  Each of them are embossed and then all the layers are cut out and reassembled.   What I used: Our Daily Bread Designs Harvest Blessings and matching die SU whisper white and chocolate chip card stock Basic Grey Max and Whisker designer paper Versafine black clear ep wavy edge pun...

It's week four of the Stamping Bella 's search for a new design team member and this week we are challenged to show off our best stuff.  I think this card is certainly one of my best.  I love this king of the wild things image, probably because I have 3 boys and each of them have at one time or other been a bit of a wild thing.  I colored up my image with colored pencils and layered on some fabulous BoBunny designer paper. What I used: Stamping Bella, wild thing SU whisper white, chocolate chip card stock BoBunny polka dot designer paper Momento black Versamagic wheat Prismacolor pencils, OMS and blending stumps Spellbinders wide brown grosgrain ribbon brown brads

I've had a bit of a rough week and that may show a bit in this card.  Please over look any imperfections and concentrate on the fabulous Mojo Monday sketch and the yummy color combo here .  Doesn't it remind you of chocolate covered cherries?  Maybe that is just my stress level talking... What I used: Our Daily Bread Designs Don't Worry SU whisper white, cherry cobbler, chocolate chip 7 Gypsies Gypsy Market designer paper Various Tim Holtz distress ink pads sponges wide chocolate grosgrain ribbon brown brads

I took a couple of minutes out of my crazy, insane week of cooking and cleaning for the hubby's and mine vow renewal this weekend.  Looks like we may have around 70 people, OH MY!  I banged out this card using Our Daily Bread Designs Happy Fall and the matching die and the Lord Have Mercy sketch  and the Color Throwdown color challenge. What I used: Our Daily Bread Designs Happy Fall and matching die SU pretty in pink, rose red, so saffron, pear pizzazz, basic black and just a tiny bit of chocolate chip card stock Prisma designer paper Versafine black clear embossing powder pear pizzazz ribbon

I am playing along again this week with the Bellarific Friday challenge.  This weeks challenge was a sketch by Paulabella (whom I have stalked since we were both members of the first Elzybell design team) that I found a bit challenging but I managed to make it work.  I colored "cakey Watt" with my Copic markers instead of the usual Prismacolor pencils to match some Basic Grey designer Oliver paper. What I used: Stamping Bella cakey Watt SU whisper white, basic black, cherry cobbler card stock Basic Grey Oliver designer paper Memento black Copic markers black brads, black grosgrain ribbon