Load It Up!

What a fun challenge we had this week for Fabulous Friday at Sugar Creek Hollow! The design team was challenged to make cards that were loaded - you could interpret that any way - could be loaded with layers, or embellishments or stamps - whatever your heart desired. Here's my loaded creation. Not so many layers this week, but lots of shabby chic sort of embellies. I used the wonderful Bee Tile from Sugar Creek Hollow and decided to stay with black and white to make a sharp impact. The white panel was embossed with the Victoria Cuttlebug EF, added a Prima black rhinestone flourish, a strip of fabric flowers (purchased in a strip at Jo-Ann's, white paper roses, a florist's pick embellishment and a silver heart. Enough embellies for you? Actually, I was second-guessing myself on this one, wondering if it was too over the top, but I came around to liking it and decided it was just enough - LOL!!!

Don't forget to stop by the Sugar Creek Hollow store to pick up your Fabulous Friday Freebie. Thanks so much for stopping by today and thank you for your comments.

Blessings & hugs,

No. 1 Dad

Hello and welcome to my Fabulous Friday post for Sugar Creek Hollow. This week, the DT was challenged to make a Father's Day card. I used the Father's Day set from Sugar Creek Hollow. It's a great set and a great deal - you get four images for $5 at the Sugar Creek Hollow store.

The card stock used here is Really Rust and Mellow Moss. The DP is from the Cosmo Cricket Outlaw pack. I was trying to remember where I got the twine and I think I picked it up at the food pantry I run. I believe it was used to fasten a crate of green beans together - LOL!! I snag anything I think can have a second life on one of my cards. It sure did come in handy to give this card an authentic western feel. I bought those star brads at a LSS when I first stared stamping. They've been hanging aroiund in my stash for at least 10 years and I've used them maybe twice before - not a great purchase, but came in handy here. I used a Spellbinders Nestability for the wanted sign and the poster was printed on my printer and distressed with Frayed Burlap distress ink. I printed the #1 Dad badge on SU gold paper and really wasn't happy with the way it looked, but couldn't really find anything better in my extensive stash so I went with it.

That about wraps up the details on this one. Let me know if you have any questions. Hope you will stop by the Sugar Creek Hollow store and pick up your Friday Freebie. Don't delay, they are only available for a week.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope to see you again real soon!

Blessings & hugs,

Challenges Entered:

The Shabby Tea Room - Just for Dad

Cards for Men - Father's Day

My Partner in Crafting Crime - Show Papa Some Love

My Time to Craft Challenge - Xtra Special

One Stitch at a Time - Boys to Men

Pixie Cottage - Father's Day and/or sketch

Paper Cutz - Father's Day

CCEE Stampers - One for the Males

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Father's Day

Sugar Creek Hollow Blog Hop

Welcome to Linda's stop on the Sugar Creek Hollow Blog Hop. If you came here from Loretta's blog, you are on the right track. For today's hop game, we are asking you to collect one letter from each blog as you go to spell out a word. You will leave the answer on Tracy's blog and on the Sugar Creek Hollow blog.

If you want to begin the hop, your first stop will be on Joan's blog. When you leave here, you will continue on to Kristina's blog. To play and be eligible for the wonderful prize basket which includes a hand-made card from each of the design team members, you will need to leave a comment on each post plus leave the correct word on Tracy's and the Sugar Creek Hollow blog. Have you figured out my secret letter yet?

My card was made with the lovely Vintage Graduation digi set from Sugar Creek Hollow which can be found here. I'm sure you will find many uses for it during this graduation season and in the future.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoy our blog hop. Good luck on winning the prize basket!

Blessings & hugs,

Kicking Off Our American Summer

Hello! Thank you for stopping by. I'm so glad you are here!

I seem to be in a very patriotic mood approaching this Memorial Day weekend. I think summer always puts me in that mood and this weekend will officially kick off our American summer. I'm looking forward to a barbecue, swimming and watermelon this weekend. What are your plans?

I made this card for Fabulous Friday at Sugar Creek Hollow. The DT challenge this week was to make a recessed window card. I started by assembling the designer paper (Melissa Frances/Stars and 7 Gypsies/Strips), the white CS and the border punched strip. I machine stitched around the outer edge and then used a Spellbinders Nestability to cut the circle. I had to use a shim and run it through the Cuttlebug three times to get it to cut all the way through. I applied two layers of craft foam to the back of the front panel to make a fairly deep recess. I took the cut out circle, rotated it 180 degrees and glued it to the front of the card. Then I layered the front panel over it. The cute little primitive angel is a digital image from Sugar Creek Hollow. I digitally paper pieced the gingham dress, colored the rest with Copics and blinged up her wings, heart and belt with Stickles. I thought the rolled flower and wood heart button were in keeping with the primitive theme I had going, but wanted something more. I kept thinking fireworks but couldn't figure out how to make them. I had the red paper and flourish die on my work table from a card that you will see tomorrow and though the flourish could give the impression of fire works. I added a little red stickles for firework bling.

Now that you know all about my card, I enourage you to stop by the Sugar Creek Hollow blog and see what the rest of the design team has come up with. I promise you won't be disappointed. And be sure to stop by the Sugar Creek Hollow store and check out this week's Fabulous Friday Freebie.

Thanks for stopping by! Please drop back by later this morning to see the card I have made for Fairy Fun Friday.

Blessings & hugs,

Challenges Entered:

No Time to Stamp - Flying High & Proud (colors of your country's flag - obviously mine is USA)

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Going around in circles

Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge - Going round and round

A Vintage Graduation

It's Friday and it's Fabulous and there's another freebie over at Sugar Creek Hollow! I'm so glad you stopped by today to see my design team card for Sugar Creek Hollow's Fabulous Friday. Our design team was challeged to make a card using our favorite Sugar Creek Hollow image. That's a pretty tough assignment - tough because there are SO many great images in the store. I chose the vintage graduation set from the May release that I have been itching to make a card with. Do you believe I made a card with no sponged or ripped up edges? I wanted it to look very sharp and elegant. I love the way this turned out. I debated quite awhile about putting the flower on it. On one hand, I liked the stark black and white but part of me wanted to throw a little whimsey in so I went with the flower.

For this card I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. It's a new challenge for me - haven't played in that one yet. But I was looking to crank up my mojo with a sketch and I thought this one worked really well with the image. I used the Stars EF from Cuttlebug because anyone who graduates is a star! But I wanted vintage as well so I used the Textile EF for the top layer. The DP is Designer Digitals, printed on my home computer. I used the SU scallop border punch and also a Spellbinders frame die which I stenciled and trimmed to use only a portion of the bottom piece. I made the flower out of crepe paper and the leaves are a Martha punch.

Now I hope you will stop by the rest of the teams' blogs to see what their favorite Sugar Creek Hollow image is. I was super impressed with the work the DT did this week!! And don't forget to stop by the store and pick up your Friday Freebie!

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥ ♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥ ♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥Kristina♥Cassie♥Bernadette - May Guest Designer ♥

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are having a wonderful morning. I'll be back later this morning with my post for Fairy Fun Friday. Hope to see you back again then!

Blessings & hugs,

A Rootin' - Tootin' Fabulous Friday

Good morning! Thanks so much for starting your Friday off with me. It's another Fabulous Friday with Sugar Creek Hollow. You know what that means, right? It's time to get on over to the store and pick up your Fabulous Friday Freebie.

This has been an exciting week for the design team because we have a new release. We've had the images for several weeks, but this is the first time we have been able to post with the new images. There are four new sets and let me tell you, Tracy has outdone herself this time. They are all seasonal/summer related and I love all of them. The DT was given a color challenge this week: Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip and Vanilla. Those colors seemed perfect for the Howdy Partner Father's Day set. There are four images in the set, of which I chose to use only two. The other sets in this release include Summer Picnic, Vintage Graduation and Jelly-Makin' Day.

The card uses the colors I mentioned above plus designer paper from the retired Western Sky DP pack. I dry embossed the Chocolate Chip panel as well as the sentiment panel with theCuttlebug Paisly EF and sponged the Chocolate Chip lightly with Craft White ink. The sentiment panel was sponged with Creamy Caramel. The wooden buttons are from Jo-Ann's and the chipboard star was cut with the Sizzix Stars #2 die. I added a little rafia to give it a country feel. The cowboy hat was colored with Copics.

I hope you will take time to stop by the other DT's blogs and see what they have made with the new release.

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥
♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥
♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥
♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥
♥Kristina♥Cassie♥
Bernadette - May Guest Designer♥

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will come back later today to see the card I have made for Fairy Fun Friday.

Blessings & hugs,

Challenges entered:

ABC Challenge - U is for unused stash (mine is the rafia I've had forever and the retired DP)

Cute Card Thursday - For someone special

A Fabulous Friday Mother's Day Card

Wishing you top of the morning on this Fabulous Friday morning! Thanks so much if you are starting your day with me today. This week, Tracy, the owner of Sugar Creek Hollow has challenged her design team to make a Mother's Day card. So I have put together this quick and easy card, the highlights of which are the beautiful Sugar Creek Hollow images along with a super Spellbinders diecut and Cuttlebug embossed panel. Actually, what took me the longest was making the rolled lace flower. I made a completely different one first, which took awhile and then it was too big so I set it aside for another project and whipped up this one instead.

Be sure to hurry on over to the Sugar Creek Hollow store to grab the Fabulous Friday Freebie. This week Tracy is giving you the lovely Mother's Day sentiment that I have used inside the Mirror Frame. And you'll definitely want to stop by the blogs of the rest of the design team and see the wonderful Mother's Day card they have designed for this Fabulous Friday.

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥

♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥

♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥

♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥

♥Kristina♥Cassie♥Bernadette - May Guest Designer♥

Thanks so much for stopping by this morning and for any comment you care to leave. I love to hear from you, whether it's comments or questions. It's so nice to know folks are out there and reading my blog!

Blessings & hugs,

Challenges:

Stamp Simply - April Showers Bring May Flowers (3-D Flowers)

S2G Twisted Thursdays - Add the words 'Mom' or 'Mother' to your card

Tea for One

Good morning, thank you so much for making my Fabulous Friday post part of your morning routine. I'm here with my design team card for Sugar Creek Hollow, but that's not all. Tracy has a Friday Freebie for you at the store site so make sure you stop by and pick it up. For today's card, I've used two Sugar Creek Hollow digital images - the tea pot and the tea cup. I used the layout for the Shabby Tea Room sketch this week so I could enter my card in their challenge. What a tough sketch. I think it is one of the most difficult, er challenging, sketches I have ever done. I spent several days trying to figure out what I was going to do for that sketch challenge. I knew I wanted to work it in with my Fabulous Friday card for Sugar Creek Hollow. I'm quite pleased with the end result. I think the blue and the lace really sets off the tea pot and cup nicely.

The Details: The CS is Bashful Blue from SU and the designer paper is printed on my home printer. I altered the blues in both the print and the gingham to match Bashful Blue. The tea set is digitally paper pieced using Photoshop Elements 7. No stamping and no coloring on this project. A CB border embossing folder was used, the flower is handmade using Bashful Blue CS and the leaf branch is a Sizzix die. The chunky glitter was purchased at Jo-Ann's. I think that's it, but if you have any questions, feel free to leave it in the comments or email me.

I hope you will take time to stop by the rest of the design teams' blogs and leve them some love. They have some amazing samples to show you today using Sugar Creek Hollow digital images. And don't forget to pick up your Friday Freebie!

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥
♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥
♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥
♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥
♥Kristina♥Cassie♥

Thanks again for stopping by. I love to hear from you so comments are appreciated! Hope you have a Fabulous Friday!

Hugs & blessings,

Challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room - Sketch Challenge

Dare You to Digi Stamp - Use Flowers

ABC Challenge - S is for Sparkle

Wildflower Wednesday - Paper Piecing

Vintage Boots

It's Fabulous Friday again over at Sugar Creek Hollow. You know what that means, don't you? It's the Friday Freebie and I think Tracy has something great for us today. Be sure to stop by and pick it up! This is my design team card for Fabulous Friday. We had a sketch challenge this week and I decided to use the boots. It was one of the first images in the store, but I have never used it. I wanted to do something with a strong vintage flavor this week and the boots fit the bill perfectly!

Details: Digital image from Sugar Creek Hollow. The paper is the retired SU Porcelain Prints matched up with the also-retired Blue Bayou, a combination which I never seem to get tired of. The corners of the die cut were embossed with the Cuttlebug Fancy Corners embossing folder and brayered with Blue Bayou ink. The edges of the DP were sponged with Old Paper distressing ink, as was the circle focal image. I went a bit heavier than usual with the sponging on the focal image because the first few passes were pretty gray from the printer ink smearing a bit, even though I had heat-set it. I kept sponging and blended away the gray. The flowers were hand made using the Cuttlebug Flower die and topped off with a silver-toned bead cap I purchased on eBay.

I hope you will stop by the blogs of the other design team members and see the beautiful work they have done with the Sugar Creek Hollow digital images.

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥
♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥
♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥
♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥
♥Kristina♥Cassie♥

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by my blog to see what I have to offer for inspiration today. I do so appreciate all the love comments too! Have a great Friday!

Hugs & blessings,

Challenges entered:

Cute Card Thursday - Touchy Feely (Texture)

All That Scraps - Distressing

Little Red Wagon - Dry Embossing

Stampotique - Make it Girly

Digital Tuesday - Paper Piece with Digis

Another Fabulous Friday

Here is my design team sample for Sugar Creek Hollow's Fabulous Friday. Fabulous Friday is the day the design team gets together for a team challenge and it's the day you can pick up the Fabulous Friday Freebie on the store website.

For this card, the center medallion is actually two digital images. The text and border is one and the cherries are another. I reduced the size of the cherries and superimposed them four times on the quote, rotating and flipping as needed to fit nicely around it. They are colored with Copics. The image panel was also sponged with Creamy Caramel ink. The paper is from Cosmo Cricket and the border punch is Fiskars. I followed this week's Mojo Monday sketch and will be entering their challenge.

Hop on over to Sugar Creek Hollow and pick up the Fabulous Friday Freebie. And be sure to stop by the other DT's blogs. They all have beautiful samples to show you using the wonderful digial images from Sugar Creek Hollow.

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥
♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥
♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥
♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥
♥Kristina♥Cassie♥

Sugar Creek Hollow New Release Blog Hop

Good morning and thank you for stopping by. Today is a brand new day at Sugar Creek Hollow. We have some exciting news, new digis and a blog hop game to play today.

First up, we want to welcome Martha from Creating Is Fun as our April Guest Designer. We also want to share that Kelly our March GD from Sandcastle Stamper has joined the SCH family as a full time designers. Please help me welcome these talented ladies to the team!

Now it's time to play and have some fun!!! Today is new release day. What better way to show you the new digis than with a game? The game is to find a secret letter in each of the design team's blog. Post the secret letter in their comment before you move on. Once you have found the secret word, post the entire word on the SCH's website. If you followed the game correctly, you will have a chance to win a fantastic prize!! You must visit each of the design team member's blogs. Here's a picture of the grand prize. In addition, you will win 2 SCH digis of your choice!



You should have arrived here from Sandcastle Stamper's blog. If you randomly arrived here and want to start the blog hop, click here for the first stop.

For my card, I colored my image with Copics and matched it up with Wild Wasabi and some DP from Scenic Route. The edges are all sponged with Antique Linen distress ink. I typed the sentiment on my home computer and overlayed it on top of the geranium image in which I had decreased the opacity to make it more like a watermark image. I am really starting to love digis because of the incredible flexibility they provide!!

Please continue on the blog hop in search of all the letters to learn the secret phrase. Now it's Time to hop to the next stop. Just click on the icon below. Thanks for stopping by. Have fun on the hop and best of luck in winning!

My button doesn't seem to be working so here is a link to the next stop.

It's Fabulous Friday at Sugar Creek Hollow

Every Friday, the design team for Sugar Creek Hollow has a challenge. This week it is a sketch. You can play along too starting on Saturday. Each Saturday, a sketch challenge will be posted on the blog. You can get inspiration by hoping around the DT's blogs on Friday to see how we have interpreted the sketch. And don't forget about the Fabulous Friday Freebie. Be sure to pick it up on the Sugar Creek Hollow website every Friday. Here's the design team with a link to each of their blogs:

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥
♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥
♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥
♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥
♥Kristina♥Cassie♥

For my card this week, I chose the dogwood digi and paired it up with the scripture verse from Luke. The image was colored with Copics, cut out and popped out. The flower centers are Martha Stewart Micro Beads. I tried some fancy stitching on this. I always admire it on other's cards, but I find it very difficult to do. Mine came out a bit crooked. The paper is all SU except the gingham which is just generic scrapbooking paper from Jo-Ann's. I used an SU embossing folder and sponged the panel and all the edges with Creamy Caramel. The label is a Spellbinders die. I think I have covered all the recipe, but if you have questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you have a wonderful Friday and a great start to your weekend.

Blessings,

Update: This card came in #1 in the Spring Inspired With Stitching challenge last week at the brand new blog The Shabby Tea Room. I'm so excited to have another challenge blog devoted to shabby and vintage. Click the teapot and pay them a visit!!

Update #2 - This card also won first prize in the Caardvarks' Lacy Days challenge and I won an incredible prize and a one month guest designer spot from JustRite Stampers!!!

Challenges entered:

Paper Cutz - make an Easter card with no bunnies or chicks

Sew Many Cards - Use punches

Stampin for the Weekend - Easter

Charisma Cardz - Spring has spring

CRAFT - Easter

Cute Card Thursday - Dimension

I Love Digi - Easter

PaperPlay Challenge - Easter

ABC Challenge - Q is for quote

Gingersnap Creations - Growth

Cardvarks - Use lace

Digital Tuesday - Happy Spring

Crafty Cardmakers - Spring into Spring

Stamp With Fun - Easter

The Shabby Tea Room - Spring Inspired with Stitching

C is for Cat, of course

Hello and welcome again to Fabulous Friday with Sugar Creek Hollow. Friday is the day that the design team all posts their challenge cards PLUS you can go to the website and pick up your Fabulous Friday Freebie. I am having SO much fun with these vintage flash cards that have recently been released. You can buy them on the Sugar Creek Hollow site. A-D are just $5. So now I am up through C and this one I just fell in love with. I think it is something about the color combo - the rose and green are so pleasing to my eye. This sheet of DP is called Baby's Breath by Fancy Pants Designs. I have only one sheet of it and I used about a quarter of it on this card. I wish I had bought a couple of sheets so I had some in reserve.

To make the flash card, I started with the digital vintage cat image that I got free from the Graphic Fairy's website. I reduced the opacity then digitally paper pieced it onto the flashcard, printed it, trimmed it out and sponged it liberally with Creamy Caramel (my favorite distress ink color). Then I roughed up the edges with my scissors and sponged it some more, this time with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The vanilla panel was embossed with the Victoria Cuttlebug embossing folder and sponged with Creamy Caramel, then die cut with a Spellbinders die. It was layered over a Mellow Moss panel that I had stamped with the Script BG stamp inked with Vintage Photo and likewise distressed with the same ink. A bit more scissor/Vintage Photo distressing around the edges of the other panels, a little stitching, ribbon, lace, linen thread and a button topped off the tag. Then I added some Prima flowers and a pretty silver colored bead cap and the card was finished and ready to photograph.

Now it's time to check out the rest of the design team's offerings. Hope you will take time to stop by their blogs:

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥
♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥
♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥
♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥
♥Kristina♥Cassie♥

And don't forget to stop by Sugar Creek Hollow. Tracy has some brand new releases available now. And, of course, the Fabulous Friday Freebie is just waiting for you to pick it up!

Blessings,

Challenges Entered:

The Shabby Tea Room #1 - Elegant Shabby - colors pink, cream, red, brown & green

Frosted Designs - Think Spring, use a flower on your card

Stamp Something - Distressing

Vintage/Distressed Tutorial

I thought you might be interested to know that I have recently written a vintage/distressed tutorial for Sugar Creek Hollow. I joined the design team about a month ago as the tutorial facilitator and this is the first tutorial I have done for them. I know making distressed/shabby chic cards is something of a mystery to many card makers so I tried to break down the process that I use step by step. So if you are interested in how I make my cards, please stop by and check out the tutorial here. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment on the tutorial page of Sugar Creek Hollow or here on my blog.

B is for Blessings

Hello and welcome to Fabulous Friday with Sugar Creek Hollow. Be sure to drop by and pick up this week's Friday Freebie. This week I have another vintage letter flash card and more fun with digital images and papers. But before I tell you what went into making this card, let me just mention blessings. You probably would have expected my post to be entitled B is for Bicycle. But in my life, B is definitely for blessings. I am keenly aware of how blessed I am and of all the many blessings in my life. I thank God every day for sending Jesus to redeem me and lead me to Him. I thank Him for things as simple as having a clean, dry bed to sleep in and enough food to eat. And I try to give back, to share what I have and to call others to be mindful of their blessings and the need to share with our brothers and sisters who are struggling to have enough food and to have shelter. I believe that those who have been given much are called to give back just as much. Just something to reflect in this season of Lent.

But I guess you came here to find out about my card. Everything you see here, with the exception of the SU Basic Black and Creamy Caramel CS, started out as a digital image and was printed on my home printer. The DP is from Designer Digitals. I changed the brown hue a bit to better match up with the Creamy Caramel CS. The vintage word studies sheet is from The Graphics Fairy's free vintage images. I digitally imposed it into the background of the digital flash card. I made it more transparent so it wouldn't overpower the flash card. I printed it, trimmed it out and distressed it a bit. The edges of the DP were scissor distressed and sponged with Close to Cocoa ink. The DP was stamped in Basic Black with the A B & C from SU's Collage Alphabet. The embossing folder used here is from Stampin' Up and the border punch is Martha Stewart. Buttons from my stash and a little embroidery floss topped off this creation.

Hope you will take time to stop by Sugar Creek Hollow to pick up the Friday Freebie and then swing by the blogs of the rest of the design team to see their Fabulous Friday creations.

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥

♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥

♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥

♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥

♥Kristina♥Cassie♥

Thanks for stopping by and for the lovely comments left. I so appreciate hearing from my visitors. Hope you've had a great week and are ready to enjoy the weekend.

Blessings,

Challenges Entered:

Lots to Do - Distressing

A Yummy Strawberry

Hello and happy Fabulous Friday to you. Fabulous Friday is the day that the Friday Freebie comes out on the Sugar Creek Hollow website. It's also the day that the designers from Sugar Creek Hollow all get together and do a DT challenge. This week our challenge is to use the following colors from SU: Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip. For this card, I used the SCH strawberry digital image and digitally paper pieced it. I printed it off in several sizes, used Crystal Effects on the chocolate and stickles on the green hull. I made up the sentiment seal on computer and then inserted a smaller version of the paper pieced strawberry. The more I work with digital images, the more I see advantages to using them. For example, I digitally paper pieced the strawberry. Not only could I print it off in several sizes, but I didn't have to fiddle with cutting and piecing 5 strawberry images, one of which was very tiny, manually. Very cool, huh?

Be sure to stop by Sugar Creek Hollow today to pick up your Friday Freebie. Here's the rest of the design team. Hope you'll stop by to say hi and see all their beautiful samples created with Sugar Creek Hollow digital images.

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥
♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥
♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥
♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥
♥Kristina♥Cassie♥

Thanks for stopping by today and blessings,

Challenges:

ABC Challenge - P is for Paper Piecing

Sugar Creek Hollow Grand Opening & Blog Hop

It's Grand Opening at Sugar Creek Hollow! I am so excited to be part of the celebration and Design Team! We are kicking off the Grand Opening with a Grand Celebration! For today only, we are offering a free digi for for EVERY $10 spent. Spend $10 you get one free digi, spend $20 you get 2 free digis, spend $30...well you know the rest!

Want to win a $50 gift certificate on Grand Opening Day? Here's how:

1. Become a follower of Sugar Creek Hollow

2. Post the Sugar Creek Hollow banner with a link on the sidebar of your blog.

3. Leave a comment on the SCH blog that you have done so.

The winner will be chosen at 11:59 p.m. on March 1st. Your name will be posted on the SCH blog the next day. You will then have 24 hours to claim your gift certificate. If not claimed, another name will be drawn.

All proceeds from the Grand Opening Sales will be dontated to Tree of Life Ministries to help feed the hungry in the city where Tracy lives. Won't you join us in making this a GRAND event, and by doing so you are putting food in little children's bellies that may otherwise not have anything to eat.

The Design Team has created a card for you to see these beautiful digis in use. Here's my card.

Now go visit the rest of the DT to see their beautiful cards. Then, go to Sugar Creek Hollow's website to purchase your favorite digis!!

♥Donna♥Stephanie♥Loretta♥Cheri♥
♥Sarah♥Dani♥Tracy-Owner♥Kelly♥
♥Marsha♥Joan♥Nancy♥
♥Joseline-DT Coordinator♥
♥Kristina♥Cassie♥

Blessings,

Challenges entered:

Stamptacular Sunday - Back in Time

Sugar Creek Hollow Design Team Preview

It's Preview Week at Sugar Creek Hollow and each day on the website several design team members are being introduced. Friday is my introduction. For preview week, Tracy, the owner of Sugar Creek Hollow gave each of the team a set of three quilting images and turned us lose to do as we wanted. It's been such fun showing and sharing our wonderful creations with this set on the team blog. At first I was very nervous about what to do with the quilt image. As you know, I'm not very experienced in working with digital images, although I am always game to learn something new. The team members have been so fabulous about sharing their knowledge as each of us added to our body of knowledge about digi's. Two main things I learned this week that I am very excited about using in the future are layering in a photo editing program and digital paper piecing - a very cool technique.

So here's my quilt card. Considering that I went from being at a total loss as to what to do with the image to creating this card, I was pretty happy with the outcome. I tried to channel "country" with this card and the image of a stamped tin ceiling came to me. So I dragged out the alunium foil - you can read more about that adventure in the You Make My Heart Sing post below. The quilt blocks were not digitally pieced here, but rather paper pieced by hand (that's what convinced me that I HAD to learn to do it digitally).

The paper is mostly SU - Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla sponged with Creamy Caramel and Chocolate Chip, Rose Romance DSP and the quilt blocks are digital paper that I printed on my home computer. The beautiful country-ish brads are from Michael's.

I hope you will stop by Sugar Creek Hollow and get acquainted with the other design team members and see their take on this very cool digital set. While you are there, be sure to check out the Friday freebies and the details about the grand opening March 1st.

Sugar Creek Hollow

You may remember this post from last week when I announced that I had been invited to be a guest on the design team for an brand new digital stamp company specializing in vintage/primative stamps called Sugar Creek Hollow. Well, things have developed from there and I have been asked to stay on as a full time design team member . They have also asked me to write a monthly vintage/primative tutorial. That's an awesome opportunity for me and of course I said YES!!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow will open on March 1st, but you can already go to the website and sign up to be a follower and perhaps win a digi. There are also some freebies on the site to get you started. While you are there, check out the design team and their awesome samples. Tracy, the owner and artist, created a special quilt set for us to use this week for the DT introductions. We have all made a card with the set. My day to be introduced is Friday so be sure to stop by Sugar Creek Hollow and see the card I made with the quilt set.

I created this card as a Country Valentine with two digi's that are already for sale on the site. Click the New Releases butto and you will see a number of images that are already up for sale, long with beautiful samples from the design team. This is a pretty simple card - card stock is Basic Black, Ruby Red and Old Olive. The DSP is digital papers which I digitally paper pieced. Tools: A Martha punch and a Spellbinder die, some ribbon and black lace and a tiny metal frame from SU's Silver Hodge Podge Hardware.

Hope you'll all stop by Sugar Creek Hollow and get acquainted!!

Blessings,


Challenges Entered:

My Time to Craft - Hearts & Kisses

Fun 'n' Funky Challenges - Shabby Chic

Gingersnap Creations - Spicy Supply Challenge/Lace & Fibers

Die Cuts R Us - Love

Crafty Cardmakers - Digital Delights (use a digi)

Incy Wincy - Use Red or Pink and Black on a card

Quirky Crafts Challenges - Valentine's or Foreign

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Be a Little Ripper (ripped edges)