Going Batty

Hi Everyone

Hope you'll all pop over to

Cardz TV Gallery

and become a follower

boy this is a jam packed blog

daily post from some very

talented crafters

I am still working on my

Halloween cards for my co-workers

 

Started with Simply Charmed

page 59 

cut this little bat from glitter paper at 1.5 inches

added him to a pierced oval

from

MFT

on a scalloped oval

and long rectangle with the sentiment

from spellbinders

the sentiment

from

CARDZ TV STAMPS

"More Spooky Sayings"

 

 

 

some google eyes a button and a bow

and this card is ready to go

 

 

Hope everyone has a great day!

 

Karen

 

Show it off Saturday Linky Party and happy fall ya'll

 

broke out my circuit today so sad to say

I haven't used it in quite a while

made this little card with a

action wobble

  Simply Charmed

Martha Stewart fence punch

wooden dots

a water color background

going to send this to my grand daughter

sentiment from

CARDZ TV STAMPS

Thankful for You

 

 Show it off Saturday

 Linky Party

any Project, handmade item, 

card or Layout

one entry per person please

winner will received

8 skeins of  seam binding ribbon

colors will vary depending 

on availability

 

 



An InLinkz Link-up

Merry Christmas and Fun Friday Linky Party winner

Santa from Simply Charm cut at three inches

some embossing 

Merry Christmas from

Cardz TV Stamps

Classic Christmas 

The winner of the Fun Friday December 13th Linky Party

23. Pat N. 

Pat's Scraps

Pat please email me your address to 

kfranciola@ nycap . rr . com

 take out the space 

"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars

 and open a jar of it every month."

 ~Harlan Miller

CARDZ TV CH#25 "LUCK OF THE IRISH"

Cardz TV
 Ch# 25 "Luck of the Irish"

Make a card, layout or craft project using stamped, digital, or electronically cut
Shamrocks or Leprechauns.

Starts: Fri, Feb 22

Ends: Thurs, Mar 7 @ Noon EST
Prize: 1 set of 
Cardz TV Stamps 

I used both here is my card

 

started with a vintage cream base from Papertrey Ink

card is a 5.5 square black mat

then some pattern paper from My Mind's Eye

the Celtic  knot is from

SVG cuts.com

Leprachan is from Simply Charmed

some crinkle ribbon and a button

stamp is from



if you are Irish or just love green this is a

must have set!

Hope you will join us in the challenge

 

CARDZ TV "KIDZ KARDZ" CHALLENGE #24

Cardz TV Ch# 24 "Kidz Kardz"

 

Make a set of 3 - 3x3 Valentines for kids

Starts: Fri, Feb 8

Ends: Thurs, Feb 21 @ Noon EST

Prize: 1 set of Cardz TV Stamps 

acutally had a little bit of a hard time getting an idea for this

challenge then I realize I was just over thinking it

thought back to all the Valentines I got as a kid in school

everything fell into place

 

started with some kraft and Pure Poppy

card stock from Papertrey Ink

Elegant Edges

Lady Bug Simply Charmed

Cup cake Sweet Treats

Kohala from Create a Critter 2

some twine and a few buttons

and all the Sentiments from

Sweet Talk

CARDZ TV Stamps

 

this set is so wonderful

Love that you can put the single

words together to make your own

special sentiments

 

 

and what would a Valentine challenge be with out some

Candy....

 

simple rules to win be a follower leave a comment.

Will be picked by random.org announced

on

Valentine's Day



 

 

 

 

 

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500th post! Fun Friday "Anything" Goes Challenge

Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year!
setting this post up I realized this in my
500th post
 thanks to everyone for all the comments, emails, encouragement
any making this an amazing blogging journey

now on to the challenge
Christmas is over the New Year has begun

so this week "Anything" Goes
any card, project, or layout

lots of Fabulous inspiration again this week!

Lisa

Jayne

Shelly 

 

Sherrie 

Carri

DIANA L. 

Georgiana

 

Karen  

 the bottle is from Simply Charmed some prima bling

a little embossing, stamp from PTI, and some black crinkle ribbon

This week's prize

a pair of Sizzix embossing folders

and some crinkle ribbon for your Valentine projects.

HoHoHo

For the Fun Friday make it Sparkle Challenge Click Here

 

Simply Charmed

Elegant edges

Pattern paper from K&company

HoHoHo stamp from

Home for Christmas

CARDZ TV STAMPS

 

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,

everything is softer and more beautiful. 

~Norman Vincent Peale

 

 

Sweet Grandmother

For the Fun Friday Stitch it click

Here

use the Simply Charmed cartridge

welded together on my Gypsy

at 5.5 "

some Papertrey ink Card stock and buttons

My Mind's Eye pattern paper

a little lace, some doodle dots and a crinkle ribbon bow

sentiments from 

Cardz TV Stamps

sentiment combined 

sweet from

Grandmother from

Made this for a friend at work just became a grandmother 

she is thrilled.

Have a great night everyone. 

Karen

Guest Designer Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog

I was so very Lucky to be the 100 Winner at

Fantabulous Cricit Challenge Blog

and today was asked to be a guest designer

I can't even begin to explain what an honor this is

I was so nervous thinking about the challenge and what to make 

but when Beckie told me the challenge was

Egg-ceptional Easter

I knew I had seen a card 

Nichole Heady  

had done and I was dying to make a version of it 

From Papertrey Ink  

vintage cream , Kraft, Lemon tart, and Everyday Blessings pattern paper

I used a couple of studio G stamp with versa mark ink

to form the little floral background for my egg from

Simply Charmed

Fiskars border punch apron lace

a little crinkle ribbon and a button

Thank you so much for stopping by today

and thanks to everyone at 

FCCB

who provide wonderful Monday challenges with amazing prizes

Quick tip Tuesdays

Thursday Tutorials

Fantabulous Fridays

 Scrappin' Saturday

and

 Spotlight Sunday

they are one of the first challenges I ever entered.

Karen

Happy St Patrick's Day

For the Cardz TV Design Team project click Here

For the "Make it Happy Challenge" Click Here

 

Stamp from StudioG Host of green papers from my scrap pile

and a little leprechaun from Simply Charmed

on an action wobble so he can dance his Irish Jig...
entered in

 Cricut Cardz Challenge #104
 This week's challenge is ”Wearing of the Green”!

Hope everyone has a wonderful St. Patrick's day!

Karen

In a Jam? CTV challenge #6 Anything Goes

CTV Challenge 

 "Anything Goes!" February 24th, 25th & 26th

Create a card, craft project or layout for any occasion, using whatever you'd like!

 Mary will be giving a set of stamps to the challenge winner!

A2 card base Kraft card stock pattern paper from My Mind's Eye

strawberries from Simply Charmed 

and I know this is hard to see in the picture looks soooooo cute

in person I use velum to cut the top layer of the jar placed over the

strawberries so they look like they are in the Jar

the Jar is from Doodlecharms

In a Jam from

Garden Greetings

 some of Mary's favorite gingham ribbon a button and some twine

Happy Fall

Scarecrow & Happy Fall from Simply Charmed

pumpkin from Stretch your Imagination

french is a svg file

A2 card orange zest from PTI

black mat DCWV

pattern paper My Mind's Eye Halloween Scary Sparkles

Twine from My Craft Spot

for challenge at

Paper Cutz Challenge #112

"Keeper of the Crows"!

Make a card, LO or craft project for Fall using a hand stamped, digital stamp, or Cricut cut

image of a scarecrow using orange, yellow, brown, black, blue, and white ONLY!

and

Trendy Twine #2

Use a Pumpkin or Jack-o-lantern & some sort of twine on your card or project

Fantabulous Cricut #80

Pumpkin Time!

This week’s challenge is perfect for all of you working on your

 Fall, Thanksgiving and/or Halloween projects!

As long as you’ve got a pumpkin on your project (and have used your Cricut!)  

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend

Karen

Boo

Paper Cutz Challenge 

Challenge #109 is 

Caution - Ghost Crossing!" Make a card, LO or craft project for Halloween using Cricut cut, hand stamped, or digital stamped ghosts, and the colors black, white, purple and orange ONLY!

Used Simply Charmed 

Tim Holtz embossing folder for the tree

a little inking some faux stitching purple sticks for the ghost eyes

and a bit of twine to hold it all together.

Have a great day everyone 

Karen 

USA Celebrate

Sorry Lisa still thinking on how to use that last bit of striped paper

Use my new Simply Charm Cart I won from Shelly 

at  My Paper Love

it's even cuter than I thought can't wait to use if for Christmas

A2 card kraft base and twine from 

The Kraft Outlet 

coated all the elements in glossy accents

a little faux stitching, a little bling

and of course a few buttons for good measure

Entered in 

Cricut Cardz Challenge

cook out or picnic theme
and
Bitten by the Bug 2
Watermelon

Hope everyone enjoys their Holiday, cook out or picnic this weekend

Karen