.... And the count down begins!! 5 more days until Christmas whew I think I'm ready for it to be here already!! hehe

I haven't posted a project in 9 days!!! Holy Moly!!! That's a long time! well today im not playing along with any challenges I just wanted to share a card I made for my good Friend Cheryl. I used a stamp from a company called Hanna Stamps ( no longer opened)

Thank you so much fro stopping by!

Exciting News!!!

I wouldn't wait to stop by and tell you guys that I have been chosen to be a part of the digital design team for Whimsy Stamps!! This will be my VERY FIRST time being a part of a team and I am more than excited! and so very grateful.

Birthday for a Friend

Good morning!! just poppin' in today to share a birthday card I made for a great friend of mine Patricia ( Happy Birthday Trish!!) I am really excited about how this card came out. Its the first time I have made a window card! whoo hoo!

Today I have used a Simply sassy stamp from Sugar Nellie called Fabulous Darling LET ME TELL YOU.. These girls are seriously the cutest EVER! I got some cash for my birthday and that money burnt a hole straight through my wallet and went straight to the  Funky Kits website & it was so hard to choose they are are so pretty! Hopefully my birthday comes back around quick so I can order more! haha 

I added a party hat on top of my TH rosette with a tiny stamp I got from a craft convention this year It totally made it look more like a Bday card. The  flowers used are from WOC and the ticket stamp and die is from whimsy stamps.

I will be entering my card into the following challenges:

Whimsy challenge- patterns and pearls

The sugar bowl: Cathy's sketch

Thank you for stopping in today! I love any comments you leave and while your at it add yourself to my followers list! My list is still kinda lonely! :)

Shaker Ornaments

Good Morning My fellow crafters! Today I would like to share with you a little project I made for a few of my friends and family members.  I was looking through my craft area when the idea hit me! I had plenty of these little shaker windows to make a shaker ornament! I personalized them by using my cricut machine and adding there names on the inside. I used different types of beads and glitters for the insides.

I will be entering my projects to the following challenges:

 Whimsy stamps challenge- anything but a card

Magnolia down under- Christmas decoration
Tomic #27- shaker card

back side

Denise, Trish

back side

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have  a great day Everyone!

Pretty with Pink

Good morning everyone!!! It is a beautiful snowy day here in Albuquerque! school is canceled and no work for me.. WHOO HOO can you say  LAZY DAY!!! haha
I was sooo excited to find out I was the LUCKY random winner at Kraftin' Kimmie challenge last week!!!! I have never won anything before so I was THRILLED!
Today I have made a card to play along with Kimmie's dry or heat embossing challenge.  I have actually done both on my card today and it was sooo fun!
So you might be wondering where my embellishments are? well... I don't know why I thought part of the challenge was to NOT having embellishments on your card and I was wrong.. so sad, I struggled with it looking so plain but didn't feel like going back and adding so here she is....

I used my dot folder to dry emboss and sanded it down so it looks more distressed and also added some wet embossed snowflakes on my sentiments background

I made a wet embossed snow flake background with some glittery  silver emboss powder 

Shaped Card

Hello my crafty ladies! Happy Friday to you all! I'm extra excited about this weekend.. Not only do I have a 5 day weekend! woot woot! But it is my birthday on Sunday!! I love my birthday! hehe and if that wasn't good enough my little monster is turning 2 on Tue so we will be celebrating her birthday Saturday. Gosh they grow so fast, its so sad I just want her to be a baby forever. :(

Anyhoo... enough of that I wanted to drop in and show you ladies not only my VERY FIRST shaped card, but also my very first magnolia card!! whew I'm very excited about this one! I do have to apologize for the awful lighting its pretty gloomy out today so my pictures look pretty dark.

3D view

Gold Stickles

Inside

Donations for a Family in need

Hello Everyone! I was just starting to look through blog land at all the awesome blogs I follow when I read a very sad story from a blog called pretty pressings by Claudia Rose.. I know I only have 17 followers but if even one person can take their time an hop on over and read this sad story and maybe help pass the word on so we can help this poor family in a time of need.
xoxo thanks everyone for your time, Denise

Thanks a latte

Has everyone stopped by Kraftin' Kimmie stamps yet???!! she is having a HUGE HUGE sale this week and I must confess.. I couldn't resist the temptation!!!! All I have to say is that my collection of Kimmies will soon be larger!!! hurry up mailman!!! hahahahaha well, If you haven't.. hurry I believe the sales ends Monday!!
Today I am playing along with Kimmies Challenge for the week "Giving thanks"  This is such a great challenge! Thanksgiving came and went faster than ever this year and we have officially put up our Christmas decor! sheesh!  kinda hard to believe!
Today I used Angie, she is so adorable! and guess what is she drinking??? yup coffee!!!! haha

Stickles!

flowers from WOC

Thank you for stopping by!!!

Bella Birthday card

Good morning!! I just wanted to drop by with a quick post to show you a birthday card I made for my friend Deborah who is having her bday at the end of the month.. Happy birthday Deborah!!!

I have used a stamp from stamping bella, she is a uptown girl called posh has a present. I just LOVE the uptown girls they are ALL so adorable!

Thank you for stopping by!!!

Samantha #2

Hello everyone!!! I just wanted to drop by and first of all and thank all my new followers for joining my blog I am so excited I have 15 followers now!!! woot woot... :)

I would also like to finally share with you my "Nice" version of Samantha! I made an Evil version of her Here.  I just LOVE this stamp! and I LOVE the no lines look too.. Isnt she so pretty! I colored Samantha with my Copic markers and I used pretty flowers and butterflies instead of a skull this time around ;)

My Co-workers made fun of me the other day because I saved My Starbucks hot cup sleeve.. and told them I was going to use it on a card somehow... I'm glad I did! because It gave my butterflies some texture... 

Thank you for stopping by today!! xoxo

Christmas Cafe!

Hello everyone! I just wanted to stop by and show you a card I finished today for Stamping Bella! The challenge for this week was to use a Christmas stamp or to make another image into a Christmas theme..

I unfortunately don't not have any Bella Christmas images.. so I used Clarissa and Camille with a cafe..

I kept my card very simple because I wanted my Image with the diamond glaze on the cup to really stand out...

I stamped my image in memento black ink and colored with my copic markers.. I picked up this awesome kraft paper with red and green Christmas presents printed on it! Isn't it pretty!

On the inside of the card I used a stamp I got from Elzybells that has a bunch of teas and coffees, I love to use this as a background  :)

Thank you everyone for stopping by my blog today!

Samantha

Hello everyone!!! I must say I am very excited to share my card with you today!!! after looking at many blogs I kept seeing everyone doing the "no lines" stamping and It looks so amazing!! So I finally got the GUTS to give it a shot and I LOVE IT!
Today I am playing along with Stampin' Kimmies challenge : to use a pin. I of course didn't have ANY of those fancy pins everyone uses... So I had to make one out of my little stash of push pins ( no judging me ok! lol)  I added some tiny beads I have for making shaker cards to make it look as pretty as possible!
I decided to use Samantha today because she is just SOOOO sassy! and it is just evil how beautiful she is! hehe

I OF COURSE added diamond glaze to her outfit for some shine and used my new Tim Holtz skull die.

This is my more evil version of samantha... I also colored another "no lines" samantha that I will use in another card later on :)

Thank you for stopping by everyone! let me know what you think!!!

Ready for snow!?

Wow its so hard to believe that It is time to bring the winter coats out soon! It seems like once Halloween passes, Its freezing outside!
Today I am going to share with you one of my new stamps from stamping bella!  I placed my first order about a month ago and went a little CRAZY! I couldn't choose they were all just way too cute! This stamps is called Javabuggs. As we all know I have a weakness for coffee! so this lil stamp just won me over right away! It reminds me of me and my BFF just gossiping with a cup of Joe! haha
I made this card for stamping bellas challange : add snow to your card. I used my snowy slopes stamp as my snow today. Dont these lil bugs look cute drinking there coffee outside in the snow! I think so too :0)

I am also entering my card to the Truly scrumptious BINGO challenge !

I chose to go with the center row, down. 

I used gems on my bugs antennas, flowers, and my leaves are cut from my new spellbinders (foliage set)

Kimmie Loves Apples!

Happy day off  #2 to me!! You know what that means right! I had plenty of time to play along with another challenge!!! today I am playing along with Kraftin' Kimmies sketch  challenge !

Today I am using Abigail Apple! Isn't she such a cutie!  She was given to me by my card friend Marilyn  ( thank you Marilyn! ) I was sooo excited to add Abigail to my Kimmie collection! One thing I love about Kimmies stamps is not only is the actual stamp adorable, but the accessories ( in this case the 2 little apples)  are ALWAYS an awesome addition! I used my apples in my circle background AND on the inside!

3D shot
with stickles and diamond glaze

a look Inside

Love Balloon

Good evening everyone!  Aahhh what a relaxing day!  No work for me today! and weather was gloomy so I just stayed in drank coffee all day and made a new card to play along with a couple of challenges! I MUST admit that the hardest part about making a card for me is the layout of my card.. A great paper friend of mine Cheryl ( Hi Cheryl ! )  recommended me to a VERY inspiring blog by Amy Sheffer called pickled paper designs  If you haven't seen her site yet, you must check it out!
today I am entering my card into 2 differant challenges: color throw down the challenge is to use the following colors:

and I'm also entering my card in to the Mojo Monday sketch challenge

using a sketch layout was a TON of help for me! maybe after following a few sketch challenges I'll get better at my layouts! I also had a Ton if inspiration this week from my new paper friend Marilyn ( Hi Marilyn! ) and from a blog called sending you a little smile these ladies do a lot of multiple stamping of the image and layering to make the image 3D! here is my take on it!!
Today I used a stamp from a company called Elzybells, which I'm sad to say is no longer opened. I used my Copics to color my image and Tim Holtz distress ink in Vintage photo to distress my edges. And of course i couldn't forget my diamond glaze and yellow stickles!

Please pretend that you dont see my bubbles in my diamond glazed balloon :(

3D shot
Thank you to everyone who took the time to stop by my Blog today!!  Your comments are very much appreciated! 

Shaker Card!

Hello Everyone! thank you so much for stopping by my blog! I'm still VERY new at this... so If you have an suggestions for me... ALL helpful tips are WELCOME!! haha
Today I am playing along with truly scrumptious challange to create a shaker card... Its been awhile since I'v made one, but it was tons of fun! I used a set of Peachy Keen stamps that I purchased last year for Christmas and never "Inked" :(  I know how DARE me right! haha.. This cute little snowman is a set of three and there little gloves are meant to be cut out and used as a 3D object! sooo cute!

I used White micro beads and chunky glitter inside 

3D hands on outside of window 

I colored my snowman with Copic markers and my micro beads and glitter were from my stash.. Thank you for stopping by today!!!

Halloween Hattie!

Good evening everyone! Today I would like to share my VERY FIRST card with you! I am playing along with kraftin' kimmie's 2nd birthday challenge where a LUCKY crafter will get a chance to be a part of her awesome team!! wish me luck!
Today I have used 2 of my favorite kimmie stamps just PERFECT for Halloween cards!!

Hattie and the Haunted House.
I used my Mask it paper to mask Hattie so it looked like she is flying out of the Haunted house. I stamped my image on Neenah white card stock and colored my entire card with my copic markers. The scary fence and pumpkin punches are both Martha Stewart. I almost ALWAYS use stickes ( I love sparkles) or my diamond glaze. Today I used  lime green stickles on Hattie's dress and used diamond glaze on  my moon.

Here is a quick look at the inside... The small little ghosts actually come with Hattie!
Thank you to everyone who took the time to stop and look at my blog!!! I

I'm official!

Whooo.. Hoo! I'm so excited to finally have a blog! I know its not fancy smancy yet... but stay tuned!...I have a TON to learn... so bare with me!