Color Me Creative Challenge - Anything Goes!

NEW CHALLENGE #68 will run thru May 24th!

Your challenge this time is all about

** ANYTHING GOES**

color ANY IMAGE

In ANY COLOR OR THEME....ANYTHING GOES

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!

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Our fabulous Sponsor for this Challenge is:

Pretty Little Stamps by Chelsea Le Designs

1 lucky winner (chosen at random) will win 5 Digis from Chelsea Le

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ENTER YOUR PROJECTS HERE  by May 24th by 8 pm EST!

using this  adorable image provided by Chelsea Le Designs ..

here is my card

Copics used: E00, 11, 21, 23, 49...R05, 20, 29, 59...YG03, 63...B04...W2, 3

She was a joy to color! Love her big hat ...reminds me of a little girl dressing up "Downton Abbey" style (still upset over Matthew but cant wait for next season to begin!)  So wanted to keep it the very light grayish white that they wore...

Hope to see you in the challenge
Hugs,



Additional Supplies:
Cardstock from Marks Finest Paper - Aged Cranberry
Designer Paper from MME - The Station
Crushed Seam binding and lace from stash
Memento inks - Desert Sand, Rhubarb Stalk
Picket Fence from Cameo file
Sentiment from Penny Black

Alicia's Challenge

Hi there

so glad to say I was able to craft some yesterday...I'm enjoying the new images I got from Alicia and entering this one in her Anything Goes challenge.

Used two techniques: paper piecing and faux stitching

Supplies:
Cardstock - Stampin Up Sage Shadow, GKD Chocolate Kiss
Designer Paper - My Minds Eye " Dolled up"
Ink - Memento Cottage Ivy
Sentiment unknown
Copics: E00, 21, 99...G12, 24...B000, 95, 97...R20, Y11, 21

Great service in church this morning...now going to relax the rest of the day and gear up for the work week!

hugs,

Celebrating Suzanne's Birthday!!

Do you know this beautiful person????

Oh wait... ooops...wrong one. Sorry. Do you know THIS beautiful person????

Arrrrghhhh... that's NOT her!!!! Wait wait... let's get this right!!!! Do you know HER?????

THAT'S her!!!!!!! YES!!! The BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!!! Oh and honestly... yeah... those pics above... yep... those REALLY are her too!!! If you know Suzanne J. Dean... you KNOW this!!

Today is Suzanne's birthday and well, we ALL KNOW, Suzanne would NOT want to celebrate a birthday any other way than with her favorite country star AND a favorite sports star!!! Right???!!!

And also today, Suzanne's, Color Me Creative Design Team wanted to take a little of her time to show her how much we enjoy, appreciate and love her by hopping along to share a little birthday fun and creativity with her. Join us in wishing her that the next year is filled with even more memories and love than anyone could ever hope for!

The design team went with a "Teal/Aqua" theme today. Suzanne had mentioned her desire to "look like a mermaid"... LOL... so heck, we'll play along. (Old age is old age, peeps... just smile and say... "that's nice, honey." LOL)

I didn't go with the mermaid theme because this image from Saturated Canary must have been drawn with Suzanne in mind LOL - it just reminds me of her so much...

check out the footwork I added

 heee heeeeheeeeeeee...if you are curious about the toe - check out Suzanne's blog HERE 

She tends to have a little trouble keeping them out of harm's way

Here are rest of the DT celebrating (-:
Tina Gilliland 

Brook Guinn

Anary Baumgarth (guest DT)

Melanie LaBelle

Marie Gamber

Pat St. Martin

Jenn Cochran

Michele Spera

Andi Murdock (guest DT)

Shelby Goolsby

Marti Wills

Linda Payne - ME

Julie Price

Karen Gauthier

Shannon Kromeke

Kim DeRuosi

Thanks for sharing Suzanne's day with us!! We KNOW you all love her as much as we do and we couldn't be happier to be working with such an awesome lady!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUZANNE!!!!!

*HUGS*

Fun Saturday!

Hi there

Finally had a Saturday off to PLAY! and here we are (-:
 piled into my dining room

we colored, colored, stamped, stamped, and laughed! and oh did we eat (-:

homemade soup, awesome chicken salad, delicious chocolate pie, coffee cake and went back for more!

just a wonderful day....

I made a card for the Anything Goes challenge over at Alicia's Challenge

...with her adorable image "Alicia and her little cat"...

Is it Copics or Colored Pencils ???  LOL

i know, the hair gives it away ....

It was also a gorgeous day outside today ...loved having the windows open!

have a beautiful " rest of the weekend"  everyone

hugs

Color Me Creative's 3 yr Birthday Party Blog Hop and new Challenge!

Hi and Welcome!

NEW CHALLENGE #67 will run thru May 7th!

Your challenge this time is all about

** CELEBRATIONS **

color ANY IMAGE but it must

CELEBRATE SOMETHING

We are celebrating CMC's 3rd Birthday starting today thru Monday! So lots of fun challenges, games & prizes up for grabs!

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!

Our fabulous Sponsor for this Challenge is:

Saturated Canary

1 lucky winner (chosen at random) will win

5 Digi Images from Saturated Canary

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My card is created using the adorable Saturated Canary image Jules

 Colored with Copics: E00, C3, 5, 7...B00,01,04...BG02, 05, 07, 72...Y17, 28...R01, 22, 29, 39

TO SEE ALL THE BIRTHDAY BASH GAMES, CHALLENGES & PRIZES CLICK HERE

BLOG HOP TO CELEBRATE

So the CMC DT is having a fun Blog Hop to kick off the Birthday Celebrations at CMC!

If you hop along to each DT blog and leave comments you will ALSO be entered to win (1) of two $20 Gift Certificates to an online crafty store of your choice!

Now on to the Blog Hop:
Suzanne Dean
Tina Gilliland
Marie Gamber
Karen Gauthier
Melanie LaBelle
Jenn Cochran
Shelby Goolsby
Linda Payne  - ME!
Dana Joy
Pat St. Martin
Julie Price
Marti Wills
Kim DeRuosi
Shannon Kromeke
Andi Murdock (guest DT)
Michele Spera
Brook Guinn

Phew! a lot going on...so much to win! hope you can join us in the celebration...and remember, if you enter each birthday challenge - you will be eligible to win the $75 gift certificate to any online craft store of your choice!!

enjoy the hop (-:
hugs, 

Supplies:
Cardstock: SU's Bashful Blue
Designer Paper: MME - Dilly Dally and scraps
Dies: Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork
Stickles

Color Me Creative 3rd Birthday Celebration - Mark your Calendars!

The CMC Classroom is celebrating their 3rd Birthday and we'd love to have you join us for the fun! We will have a fun event every day planned and there will are lots of prizes and winners for each challenge.

All are welcome to play! Whether you've taken a class or not, it doesn't matter...all are welcome to join in so tell your friends too! We have lots of prizes to give away!

Please join the Birthday Group HERE to see all the challenges everyday!

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SPECIAL BOGO SALE

(Buy One Get One)

Buy one Copic Online Class & get the 2nd HALF OFF!

Starts this Friday thru next Monday!

*not valid on past purchases

*discount taken off lower priced class

*buy one for you & one for a friend

*makes great gifts :)

*no coupon needed, if you purchase more than 2 classes send me an email so I can send you one invoice with discount deducted via PayPal....if you purchase only 2 classes you will be refunded your discount within 24 hours via the way you made payment OR you can request an invoice too from me at sjdean@smartneighborhood.net.

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Schedule of Events

Everyone is welcome to enter each day for a chance to win! Every day's challenges has multiple prizes to win so make sure to check in!! Each challenge goes live midnight the night before.

You have until Friday, May 3rd to enter all challenges!

* AND *

If you enter ALL the challenges you will be entered to win a

$75 Gift Certificate

to any online craft store of your choosing!

Big THANK YOU TO ALL OUR FABULOUS SPONSORS

(click here to see the list)

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Friday, April 26th

Blog Hop with the CMC DT & Saturated Canary

and NEW CMC Challenge Up!

Saturday, April 27th

Crafty Trivia Fun

Sunday, April 28th

Scavenger Hunt

Monday, April 29th

Search & Find Puzzle

& Live Chat at 8 pm EST

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Thanks everyone for supporting & being a friend to the CMC Classroom for the past 3 years....I sure appreciate it!!

Suzanne J Dean

WOOO HOOO! now this is such a fun celebration (I won my mini-Cricut from Suzanne's holiday celebration 2 years ago so I'm a BIGGGG fan of her celebrations LOL)

 Hope everyone gets to play!

"Can't win if you don't play" so c'mon!

  hugs

Color ME Creative Challenge #66 - REDS

COLOR ME CREATIVE's

NEW CHALLENGE #66 will run thru April 26th!

Your challenge this time is all about

**Reds, Reds & More Red**

color ANY IMAGE but it must

Have Some Red In It

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!

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Our fabulous Sponsor for this Challenge is:

Through the Craftroom Door Digi Magazine

ONE (RANDOM) WINNER WILL WIN A (1) Year Subscription

to the magazine!

WOW WOW WOW!

here is my card hoping to inspire you to get out your REDS and come play!

This image is no longer available..but I love it! Needed it to send a recipe to a friend...asking her to bake it! (now that's a friend LOL)

and NO...those aren't potatoes...supposed to be "brown speckled eggs" (-:

April 26th is the Big Birthday Bash celebrating Color Me Creative's turning THREE!

Mark your calendars - going to be LOTS of fun (-:

hugs

Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge

Hi there!

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week we want you to make a vintage or shabby chic project ...with the theme...

NO DIGITAL IMAGE - MUST USE ONLY A STAMPED IMAGE

woohoooo! immediately went to a loved stamp set by Nina Brackett called Silhouettes (now retired from GKD) but Nina has other silhouette sets available through the Crafts Meow.

Hope you like and are inspired to join us (-:

This is my last post as a Design Team member...due to severe lack of personal time for probably next six months due to increased responsibilities at work. Just had to cutback on commitments.....hope to get to play in the challenges (-:

Blessings,

Supplies:

Cardstock - Kraft

Designer Paper - MME "the Station"

Stamp Set - Nina Brackett's "Silhouettes" retired from GKD

Spellbinders - Labels Ten, Ribbon Banners

Stash lace, seam binding

Vivid Pearl Pen - Salmon

ink - Memento Black, Angel Pink

STV's Center Stage Spotlight Group Hop - Sketch challenge

Hi there and welcome!

The first hop for the month of April is a sketch challenge brought to us by Brenda Turner - thanks Brenda!

Love this sketch - you can create "quick" or "advanced" with it...

I stayed pretty close to the sketch itself.

Love GKD's "Powder Blue" cardstock and coordinating ribbon and ink! and of course the stamp set "Birds and Blossoms" by Theresa Momber!

Hope you were inspired ...now you should have come from my wonderful teamie Lori McAree's beautiful blog ....and if you want to start at the beginning of the hop then just click here ...now your next hop is over to super star Kay Simmon's lovely blog

Make sure to leave a comment as you go along because we will choose a random comment and that stamper will win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products!
Look for the winner announcement on Tuesday, April 16!

Now off you go (-:

enjoy,

Color Me Creative Birthday Bash - coming soon!

We will have a fun event or two every day planned and there will be prizes and winners for each challenge. On Friday we will have a blog hop with the DT and a LIVE CHAT that night and it will be full of fun, laughs and some prizes of course!! So hope you can join us!

Mark your calendars

April 26th thru April 29th!!

hugs,

Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge

Hi there!

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week we want you to make a vintage or shabby chic project ...with the theme...

FABULOUS FLOURISHES

use flourishes on your project - stamped, pearls, punch, dies...

I chose to stamp my flourish and added hand drawn dots then pearls...image is from (I think) Graphics Fairy. Enhanced the large rose with a touch of Copics RV 21 and 42.

Hope you get to join us (-:

Have a beautiful weekend

hugs,

Copic/ProMarker Challenge at the Outlawz

Hi there!

This week the Friday's Copic/Promarker Design Team at the Outlawz challenges you to create with theme...

APRIL SHOWERS!

and WOW isn't that the truth! I have umbrellas stashed everywhere (-:

went to another image from Phindys Place (sure miss her!) called Spring Shower ...perfect for this theme!

Had fun layering...PLUS ...its helping me whittle down my stash. I am refusing to buy new until I make a serious dent in the old...KWIM!

I know the cardstock is from Stampin Up and pretty sure the designer paper is too.

Sentiment is from the Cottage Stamper (have had it for years)

Copics used: E00,11...RV21, 34...G24...YG63,67...C2

decorative scissors, added Glossy Accents and a little bow

That's it for me - hoping to see you over at the Outlawz

hugs,

Color Me Creative Challenge #65

Hi there ...Welcome, welcome...

Color Me Creative's NEW CHALLENGE #65 will run thru April 12th!

Your challenge this time is 

**All About Hair**

color ANY IMAGE but it must

include HAIR of some sort 

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!

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Our fabulous Sponsor for this Challenge is:

7 Kids College Fund

ONE (RANDOM) WINNER WILL WIN A $15 Gift Certificate from

7 Kids College Fund

I'm using this cutie image from

Make It Crafty called Whisper Princess

image cut with Cameo, colored with Copics and mounted on pop dots

Copics:  E00,04,7,8,9,93...R89...B01, 6, 29...G05...BG15, 34...Y11,26

My goal (besides her hair) was to color her robe to match the Dylusion Sprays...

need to work on that more (-:

Coloring hair can be intimidating...BUT it doesn't have to be! Practice and find your own style...

sometimes you may want to blend hair smooth...or add a streak of color...or keep lines to show movement. Pop over to CMC and check out the DT's inspirations for this challenge

and then....

CHECK OUT SUZANNE DEAN's HAIR COLORING CLASS!

you can do the practice on your own time

She is really the best "hands on" teacher in working with Copics

hugs,

cardstock - Deep Olive, Turquoise
Mat - Dylusions Sprays, stamped with Flourishes from Retired Layers of Color set "Touch of Elegance"
Ink - Memento's Bahama Blue, Dandelion
Spellbinders Frame done with Classoc Scalloped Ovals
Pearls - Viva Pearl Pen

Celebrating the Risen Saviour!

Blessings to all who believe....and sincere prayer for any who seek Him ...

that today will be your day of salvation

He did this for you and me

But He has Risen...and will be coming back again

Won't you take his hand, give Him your heart and life ...and Believe!

John 14:1-6

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

² In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

⁴ And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

⁵ Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 3:16

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Today is the most wonderful day of celebration...

Our Saviour lives!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow Vintage/Shabby Chic Challenge

Hi there!

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. This week we want you to make a vintage or shabby chic project ...with the theme...

Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes

Projects must reflect either a fairy tale or nursery rhyme

Each of the Design Team members received an image to use for this challenge from our wonderful sponsor

  A Day for Daisies 

WINNER WILL RECEIVE $12 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO a Day For Daisies!

I chose their adorable image

  called Promises, Promises

let's see...the cardstock and designer paper is all from stash, along with the flower ribbon and WISH tag

I made the pink flower with punches, wet them, scrunched them and then let em dry...

colored with Copics:

E00, 21...RV04, 21, 34...Y11, 23, 26, 28...YG03. 95...C2

gold stickles in her hair and dotted pearls with white Vivid Pearl Pen

Spellbinders Scalloped Edge Frame....doodling with white gel pen

you know how most of the time we aren't "crazy" about our own cards...

welllll I actually like this one LOL

Hope to see you in our challenge 

reminder, Winner will receive $12 gift certificate to A Day for Dasies !

Wishing everyone a blessed Easter - so glad we can still celebrate the Lord's resurrection!!

hugs,

Outlawz Copic/Promarker ANYTHING GOES challenge

Hi there!

This week the Friday's Copic/Promarker Design Team at the Outlawz challenges you to create with theme...

ANYTHING GOES

and remember Christmas is welcome (-:

I chose another adorable image from Phindy's Place called Odd -Bod- bunny

This is all stash odds n ends...with Spellbinders die and Copics

...lightly sponged sky

Hope to see you over at the Outlawz - they really do have awesome sponsors!

With trying to keep up with my job AND get ready for Easter...this sentiment kinda sums it up LOL

I'm posting a little early due to worrying about computer not auto posting

Have a glorious Easter everyone!

 NO SNOW...woooo hoooooo (-:

hugs

PS I've added to my sidebar the Blog Lovin app to use if you want to continue to follow my blog

Google is ending their followers app in the near future...bummer )-: