MOJO MONDAY #115 - Merry Christmas

Hello Again!
I am finally home from my Thanksgiving vacation. It was a wonderful time and I really cherish the time spent with my dad and mom. Dad is now 81 and seems to be feeling the wear and tear on the old body. In 2008 he had 5 by passes. So every moment spent with him is hard to let go of. We had a lovely time. The setting was setting of the cabins was just gorgeous and we fished all day and played most of the night. I caught approximately 40 fish (we threw them all back) most were perch and I caught my first bass. It was small but pan fry-able. :O) Our grandson Zackary caught a LOT of fish too. Hubs, Mike caught a few but the real prize was his two catfish weighing in at 4 and 5 pounds respectively.
Saturday night we went to Lindale and went through a Christmas light drive-thru display that was set to music. It was beautiful!!!
House is finally empty today; parents are gone, their little pug (dog) in tow. All is quiet. Just sitting and waiting for my youngest daughter to get here to drive me to a doctor's appointment out of town. Then when I get home I can finally relax.

Now on to my card for the MOJO MONDAY challenge. This is an image from PeachyCheap.com. I loved it and it just seemed to "fit" this challenge. Hope you like it.

TFL

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Betty aka ZacksNana

PCPCUTTLEBUG#52 with a TWIST!

Hello my Friendz!
Here ya go! A real challenge for you to try your hand at! PCPCUTTLEBUG CHALLENGE #52 if your game come play along.

For this challenge I want you to use at least 3, you are not limited to 3 but you must use at least 3. There's a twist: you must make an ornament (not a card).
1. Acetate
2. EF
3. Die
For my example I used the heart die (largest and next size down) to cut my acetate and my image. Then I used the dots to emboss my acetate. I punched holes and ran a ribbon through to hold the pieces together. Can't wait to to see what you wonderfully creative folks come up with for this challenge.
Please use tag: pcpcuttlebug52 when posting your creations.
Thank you ALL so much for hanging in with me and continuing to play along. I enjoy the challenges more when you all participate and have fun creating.
I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all my American friends a very Happy and Safe Thanksgiving.
See you all on the 29th.

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Betty aka ZacksNana

CM1 - Joy

Hi There!
So glad you could drop in.
Today's feature is my creation for Ch{all}enge Masters . The challenge was to create a round card and use a little blue on it. I think I covered both parts of the challenge.

TFL!

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Betty aka ZacksNana

ICS43 and AiF12 - Be merry

Last post for the night...
This card was created using one of Dawn B's sketches over at Inspirational Sketch Challenges #43 for a chance to win some blog candy. This one can also be included in the AiFactory challenge #12 to use chipboard in your creation. TFL!
GoodNight Peeps
Betty aka ZacksNana

MTSC48 - Peace

Hello:
The first card I created for Mercy's sketch challenge #48. I tweaked the sketch a little. But I really like my card. The card below wasn't for any challenges, I just love this Imaginisce stamp and wanted to try my hand at using it for a background. How'd I do? This card is really simple and could easily be duplicated or multiplied for holiday greetings.

TFL!

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Betty aka ZacksNana

PCPCUTTLEBUG-ers #51 - a little birdie

Hello Again my Friendz!
For this week's challenge at pcpcuttlebug-ers I chose this sketch to work with. You just have to use your Cuttlebug to emboss or die cut. Thanks for playing. Below is my card, created for the challenge. I used a Spellbinders Borderabilities on my card. The stamped image is from Inkadinkadoo. It's colored using my Stampin' Up! markers and Copics. The birdie chipboard is from Scenic Route and the pp are from Basic Grey. Cardstock is Bazzill.

TFL!

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Betty aka ZacksNana

JIC21 - i love you

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Hello Friendz!
Since I recommended the inspiration for Jazzy's challenge this week, I figured I'd BETTER play along. Sharkey Bonano is one of my husband's distant relatives.

A little history on Sharkey:
Joseph "Sharkey" Bonano (he sometimes billed himself as Sharkey Banana or Sharkey Bananas) (April 9, 1904 – March 27, 1972) was a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist.

Sharkey was known for playing searing hot and technically virtuoso trumpet with a beautiful tone. His great musical abilities were sometimes overlooked in part because of his love of being an entertainer; he would often sing silly lyrics in a high raspy voice and break into dance routines on stage.

Sharkey was born with the name Joseph Gustaf Bonano in the Milneburg neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, by the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. He was a well regarded professional player by his mid teens, in his youth mostly playing in New Orleans other than a period with Eddie Edwards' band in New York City in 1920. Sharkey then started traveling widely, seldom staying in one place or with one band for more than a few months. He briefly replaced Bix Beiderbecke in the Wolverines Orchestra, and Nick LaRocca in the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Sharkey first recorded in New Orleans with Norman Brownlee's band in 1925, and soon after had a band under his own name. He returned to New York for work in Jimmie Durante's band, then with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra in 1927, returned to his home town to play with Leon Prima, to Los Angeles, California to work with Larry Shields. After time back in New Orleans played with the Ben Pollack Orchestra in 1936. After leaving Pollack's band he led his own band on 52nd Street in New York for three years. After World War II he toured Europe, Asia, and South America, played residencies in Chicago and New York, and then was a regular on Bourbon Street in the New Orleans French Quarter.

According to one story, Arturo Toscanini heard Sharkey in New York, then hired him to come to a rehearsal of the New York Philharmonic to play a couple of numbers unaccompanied for the orchestra to listen to. After Sharkey did this, Toscanini berated his trumpet section at length about their inabilities to get tones out of their instruments like this jazz musician could.

Sharkey Bonano died in New Orleans.

Here's my card. The image is from The Greeting Farm. Pattern papers are from DCWV stacks. The border punch I used on my tag is EK Success. Ribbons are from k i memories. My image was colored using Spica.

TFL!

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Betty aka ZacksNana

C4C11 - Country Road

Hello Friendz!

I'm here for a short time. Family visiting and I don't get much creating time. So when I saw this challenge I put everyone on stand by.
This is my creation for the Crazy4Challenges Challenge #11. This week Frances is challenging us to use Acetate. I used two of the suggested techniques. One is called "Smakin' Acetate". They provided a link to the incredibly talented Beate's tutorial HERE. The other suggested technique is embossing acetate in an embossing folder. I used the stars ef. The old pickup & trees stamps are from ArtisticOutpost.com . The border punch is a new one from EK Success.TFL!
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Betty aka ZacksNana

Zack's Happy Feet Igloo

Hello!
I just wanted to share the cake I finished today. This is Zack's cake for his 6th birthday. Weds. was his actual birthday, but the party isn't until Sunday and I am bringing the cake! So what you see here is one layer of chocolate/vanilla marble cake. Then the igloo is made of vanilla cake. I used a 14 inch round for the base of the cake. Then I filled a 4" spring form pan 3/4 of the way up. When this little cake baked it rose above the rim into the perfect dome for my igloo. Below is the cake crumb coated.



Below I frosted and placed my fondant sculpted penguines.


Below are the penguines with the candles.

Nothing is to scale of course but I am happy with the cake. I believe Zack will be too.
TFL
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Betty aka ZacksNana

More Happy Feet - SC254 - Zack's B-day

Hello:
Happy 6th Birthday, Zackary!!! Love You, Nana

It's been a few days since I posted. Been rather busy round here...
Since Zack, decided he wants a Happy Feet/penguin theme for his birthday party my mom asked me to make a birthday card for her and dad to give Zack. This is what I came up with using SplitCoast Sketch Challenge #254. I love these stamps from My Favorite Things. It's the same set I used in my previous post. The pp is from DCWV The Glitter Stacks. I used my Martha Stewart star border punch and my NEW EK Success snowflake border punch on the inside. The sentiment reads: Hey, Zackary! Twinkle, Twinkle. You're the star...
Inside reads: And wonderful is what you are!
So here's a wish that's just for you -
May all your birthday dreams come true! TFL!

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Betty aka ZacksNana

HAPPY FEET ZACK

Hello Friendz!
This card was created for my grandson, Zackary's 6th birthday. He chose Happy Feet invitations so I kept with the theme and used MFT penguines WINTER BLAST SET to make my birthday card for him. I stamped the images twice and colored them with my Spicas. Then I just popped some up on dimensionals. The igloo is computer generated, as is the sentiment. I gave things a shimmery look with my silver glitter gel pen. I added a couple of happy feet to the inside of my card along with my computer generated sentiment which reads: Happy Birthday! Hope it's a toe-tapping good time!!!

Thanks for looking.

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Betty aka ZacksNana

CBersC#50 - Noel

Hello Again!
I was trying to come up with something special for this Cuttlebug-ers Challenge. I think I may have stumbled upon something. So here goes. This challenge; use an embossing folder and emboss a scene on WHITE cardstock. Then color the scene leaving the background white. For my example, I embossed with the "Winter House" folder. Then I colored the raised areas. Now you can color the raised areas OR flip your embossed image over and color in the recesses. But what I am looking for is a predominantly WHITE image. I colored my raised areas with my Stampin' Up! markers. Then I highlighted the roofs and the drifts with my silver gel glitter pen. For my sentiment I stamped the word Noel in brown ink then using silver embossing powder and my heat tool I embossed the word. Then I used a pale blue/green ink pad and inked up the tag. Covering my tag with clear embossing powder, I heated it again. I repeated this process several times until my tag looked like it had melting snow on it. I dipped the edges in clear ink then in silver embossing powder and heat set.
I hope you will join me in PaperCraftPlanet's Cuttlebug-ers group and play along with the challenges. Please use the tag: pcpcuttlebug50 when uploading your cards.
TFL
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Betty aka ZacksNana

... Joyful Stamper: THREE'S A CHARM blog hop!

... Joyful Stamper: THREE'S A CHARM blog hop!: "Spreading joy....uplifting others. Stamping on a shoestring."

C4C10 - Color Challlenge with JustCards Group

Hello!!
Happy you could join me today!
My project today was a 2 - fer. I combined the justcards yahoo group color challenge with the Crazy4Challenges design challenge. The colors for the justcards challenge are Baby Blue, Burnt Sienna, Pink, Red and Ultramarine. You must use at least 3 of these. I used baby blue, pink, red and ultramarine. The C4C10 challenge was to make an easle card. I have NEVER attempted one of these but it was a lot easier than I had first thought and it is such a cute card. If you'd like to try your hand at an easel card HERE is a very good tutorial. If you'd like to join in the fun and maybe win something free from KRAFTIN KIMMIE STAMPS then go HERE.

Thanks for looking and have a crafty day!

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Betty aka ZacksNana

The Greeting Farm - Stocking Stuffer

I call this little fellow the Stocking Stuffer but the folks at The Greeting Farm have another name for him. Meet Timmy in the Stocking which you can purchase HERE. Timmy was printed out on Whisper White cardstock and hand colored with markers and silver gel glitter pens. He's mounted on DCWV The Glitter Mat Stack. The white background is Doodlebug Designs White Chenille cardstock. HERE'S THE DEETS:

INTRODUCING: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: a TWO WEEK CONTEST/GUEST DESIGNER SEARCH brought to you by THE GREETING FARM!


Yep, you heard it right! For the first time ever, The Greeting Farm is having a Guest Designer Search to work specifically with the WONDERFUL Animal images by Marina Neira!

We are looking for someone to work with these adorable critters for our next release (beginning approx a few days before 12/1/09 through 12/31/09. Are you interested?

Here's how to throw your name into this WILDLY awesome contest:

RULES:

*You MUST use a TGF image by Marina Neira. If you do not own any, there are several digital downloads available through the TGF store. Normally it's not like us to use specific images, but because this is a Guest Designer contest, we want to see what you can do using her stamps.

*For this week's CHALLENGE, you must create a "WILDLIFE" themed card using one of Marina's animals. Whatever that means to you is what you should create! We can't wait to see what you come up with!

*Please Upload your creations by WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009 at 11:59 PM CST into the TGF Galleria>Contests/Challenges>

Farm Fresh Fridays>WILD WEEK 1

*This is a TWO WEEK cumulative contest. Although there WILL NOT be a prize this week, there will be at the end of NEXT week's contest. The chosen Guest Designer will receive ALL THREE images by Marina in rubber, plus all digital images by Marina in addition to the December release they will be working with and will be asked to sign a one-month Guest DT contract with TGF.

We are SO WILD about this contest I can't even tell you! We wish all participants the BEST of luck and can't wait to see YOU out there...WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE!

If you have ANY questions about this contest, please email Jessica. GOOD LUCK to all who enter!

Thanks for looking.
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Betty aka ZacksNana

Sweet N Sassy Digi Thursday - Duck the Halls!

Good Day to YOU! Isn't it just "Duckie"? This is Dilbert Duck. He's a NEW release at Sweet and Sassy Stamps. They are having a FUN day over on the NING Network at Sweet N Sassy Digi Day Forum. I printed Dilbert but first I enlarged the image a little because I wanted him to stand out. He was colored using Spica. I did a faux wood technique for my "halls". For this technique I used my Stampabilities Brown ink pad and my Color Box Chalk ink pad in Amber Clay by dragging them across cardstock I embossed with the Forest Branches Cuttlebug embossing folder.My sentiment is computer generated. The ribbons and stickers are all from JoAnns. The holly wreath around Dilbert's neck is one small stamp I stamped once then turned and stamped in the other direction. It's colored with Spica. The circle chipboard embellishment is from DCWV Holiday Collection - The Chipboard Box. The glittery background cardstocks are from DCWV Holiday Collection - The Glitter Mat Stack.

TFL!

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Betty aka ZacksNana

MTSC46 - Celebration of Light

Hello Again:
This card was soooo much fun to make. Thanks Jessie at THERE SHE GOES Stamps for my Hanukah Stamp set! I used these goodies to create my entry in Mercy's Tuesday Sketch challenge #46. I LOVE Mercy's sketches!!! My camera is giving me fits. Sorry this is so adrk but with all the shimmering cardstock, inks and embossing it just reflected too much light when the flash went off. The corner punch is from Fiskars.

Inside: May the warmth and glow of each candle you light, make your heart and home happy and Hanukkah bright.

TFL!
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Betty aka ZacksNana

MMSC26 - Powerful Chic

Hello!
It's time for another Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge and below is my creation for this challenge. I purchased Rock Star Hanna from Hanna Stamps. I love this "Chic"! My heart pp is from DCWV Doodlin' Stack. The ribbons are K i Memories and are self adhesive. I colored my Rock Star girlfriend with my Yasutomo pearl watercolor paints, Copics and Spicas. Thanks for looking.
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Betty aka ZacksNana

AiFactory 10 - Merry Christmas

Howdy!
This week our challenge at AiFactory is going to be players choice! With only one stipulation: alter something! You can use ANY image you want! Let's get you out of your comfort zone and do something cool and different! I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Prize this week will be a digi paper of the winner's choice!

Here is Angie's altered item: baby onesies using the Sweet Bugs in the Garden!
I used an image from THIS set. This image started out blackand white. I changed the colors using my Paint Shop Pro - program. Check out what the rest of the girls have altered!
Angie, De, Fink, Lola, Kerry, & Carole

You have until next Monday the 9th before midnight to play along. If you upload to on-line galleries, please use aif010 and aifactory in your tags.

Now go and find something in your house that you can alter and post it at Challenge10!!!!

Have a great day!!!!
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Betty aka ZacksNana

Be Merry - AiF4 & MOJO MONDAY #111

Hello Again!
It's MOJO MONDAY #111! I used an AiFactory image from THIS set. I printed the tree (4) times and then cut (3) of them out. I adhered them together with dimensional adhesives then layered them on top of the base image. I added stickles in red and green. DCWV stacks created my background. Sentiment is from Imaginisce. Ribbons and brads from JoAnns. TFL!
T%dles Peeps!
Betty aka ZacksNana