My Top 12 Favs of 2009

Happy Thursday, everyone!

It's New Year's Eve, and this past year has gone by in a flash!!! I want to share some of my favorite cards from this past year with you guys. Here we go:

January 2009-Mojo71

February 2009 - Happy Birthday...the perfect card

March 2009 - Splish Splash

 

April 2009 - Mojo82

May 2009 - Happy Mother's Day

June 2009 - SFYTT & Color Throwdown # 43

 

July 2009 - Congratulations

August 2009 - I couldn't just pick one for this month, it was too hard!

Daisy

Reflective

September 2009 - Digital Ink Co. Image Challenge

October 2009 - ISS Retro Witch Sneak Peak

November 2009 - D-IC Cornucopia Thanksgiving

December 2009 - ISS Kimi

Have a safe and joyful celebration!! Happy New Year!!!!

ISS Method Monday - Embossing Digi Images

Happy Holidays!!!

I hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful time of the year!! I have a little tutorial for you all today. If you have been over to the InStyle Stamps blog you have already seen this post. I was the host for Method Monday and I thought I would do a tutorial on embossing with digital images.

 For the longest time I thought I could only emboss with stamps because I had the ink pad but then I discovered the VersaMarker which you can use to emboss. So that is what my tutorial from yesterdays Method Monday over at InStyle Stamps was all about.

Check it out and Enjoy!!!

Embossing with Digital Images

Supplies: VersaMarker, Embossing Powder, Embossing Heat Tool and an image of your choice

I decided that I wanted to emboss Kimi's wings.

1. Use your VersaMarker and outline the area that you want to emboss.


2. After outlining with your VersaMarker, pour a generous amount of Embossing Powder over the area that was outlined.

3. After added the Embossing Powder, shake the excess amount off and clean any that may not be in the location that you want it.


4. After shaking off the excess powder, heat the area with the embossing powder. You will notice as you are heating that the powder with kind of melt, at that point you want to stop heating, to avoid over heating.


How simple is that, and it's always such a great touch!!

Recipe:

Card Size: 5 1/2x 4
Stamps: Kimi by InStyle Stamps, Hero Arts Holiday Cheer Messages sentiment

Paper: DCWV Holiday Stack

Ink: Copic Markers

Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Ribbon, Button, Embroidery Floss, Martha Stewart Scallop Dot Border Punch, SU Large Oval Punch, SU Round Tab Punch, Gold Rhinestones (Michaels)

I hope you enjoyed my simple tutorial!!! Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

Digital-Ink Co. New Beginnings Recipe Challenge (DIC014)

Hey there,

I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas!!! I want to welcome you to the fourteenth week of the Digital-Ink Co. Challenges (DIC014). This weeks challenge is to create a card or layout using the following recipe: gold or silver/gray or black and something glittery, ribbon, and incorporate some kind of distressing. Also we would love to read some of your New Year’s resolutions. You may use any stamp you choose or if you hurry, you can take advantage of over 500 Digital-Ink Co. stamps, all on sale, at an awesome 50% off, ends December 31st, so hurry!!!

To qualify for this challenge you must meet the following criteria:

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  Post your creation on your blog, or your gallery (SNR, PCP, or SCS)
  
  

When uploading your challenge card to the above gallery's please put the word DIC013 in the keywords section before you upload. Also if you use a Digital-Ink Co. images please use words digitalinkco (no caps or spaces) and DIC in the keywords section before you upload.  

• Give a short description on how you made your creation
• Provide a link back to this post on the Digital-Ink Co. challenge blog.

This New Beginnings challenge runs through today 12/28/09 and will end 11:59pm on 1/4/10. Don’t forget to sign the “Mister Linky” on this post, as it assures you qualifying to win.

Here is what you could win!!!

Now check out what I made for this challenge and don't forget to head on over to the Digital Ink Co. Challenge Blog to see what the other DT members created. 

I hope you will take the time to join in our challenge. We're looking forward to seeing your work. 

RECIPE:

Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4

Stamps: Got Mail? by Stitchy Stamps (Digital-Ink Co.),  

Paper: DCWV Rock Stars Silver Foil DP, Black & White Cardstock

Ink: Copic Markers 

Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Liquid Applique, Sakura pen, Ribbon, Martha Stewart Border Punch

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your New Year, and I hope you enjoyed my creation!!!

DBDS Home is where the heart is

Happy Holidays!!!

Just a quick post for today. I made this card using the Home Is Where The Heart Is image from Doodle Beans Digital Stamps. I just thought it was a perfect image for this time of year.

Enjoy!!!

Recipe:

Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2

Stamps: Home Is Where The Heart Is from Doodle Beans Digital Stamps

Paper: Chatter Box Sunny Day DP, Brown & White Cardstock

Ink: Copic Markers

Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Stickles

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day and enjoy the holiday!!!

D-IC Nativity

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!! I hope you all have a good one filled with family and lots of blessing!!

Here is a quick card, Enjoy!!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Nativity by Lil Diva Stamps (Digital-Ink Co.)
Paper: Imaginisce Polar Pinstripes DP, Imaginisce Candy Cane Lane DP, Green, Kraft & White Cardstock
Ink: Copic Markers 
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Embroidery Floss, Pearls Fun Flock, Stickles

ISS Christmas Tree Chick

Happy Holidays!!

I love this time of the year!!! Decorating the tree, baking cookies, the Christmas lights outside, the presents, and best of all the family get togethers. I love all of it and of course let us not forget the whole reason for Christmas, Chirst!!!

Today I want to share with you an InStyle Stamps image. She is called Chirstmas Tree Chick, and I used the MTSC50 for my layout.

Enjoy!!!

Recipe:

Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4 Stamps: Christmas Tree Chick by InStyle Stamps, Stampendous Fluffles Garland sentiment Paper: DCWV Glitter Christmas Stack, Red, Pink, & White Cardstock Ink: Copic Markers Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Snowflake embossing folder, Nestibilities, Martha Stewart Star Edge Punch, Stickles & 3-D Zots

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day preparing for the holiday season!!

DBDS Snowman

Hey there,

Just a quick card for today!!! I'm officially done with this semester. Hurray for me!!!! That hopefully means more cardmaking time for me or it might mean time away from my craftroom which I hope is not what happens. Sometimes my family likes spending time with me since I'm always away at school. But if I'm lucky I'll pack all the right things to make cards it they decide that they want me to spend time with them.

As for the rest of this month I've made a few cards before the holidays and I've got them all lined up so that I can do last minute shopping and holiday celebrating. I love this season. Christmas is my favorite time of the year!!!

With that I want to share with you a seasonal card with a snowman from Doodle Beans Digital Stamps!! Enjoy!!

Recipe:

Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 Stamps: Snowman by Doodle Beans Digital Stamp 

Paper: DCWV Holiday Stack Ink: Copic Markers Accessories: Stickles

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

InStyle Stamps Blog Hop - Love & Romance

Hi there!!,

Welcome to the December InStyle Stamps Blog Hop!! This months blog hop theme is Love and Romance. If you've landed here from Julie's blog then you are on the right track - continue on! If you've accidentally stumbled here on your own, take a moment go to the Instyle Stamps blog to start the hop off right. Trust me, you really don't want to miss any of the fabulous projects the design team has in store for you! Be sure to visit each stop on the hop and leave a comment so we'll know you stopped by.

For my project I used Dan and Mandy to create my Love and Romance themed card. Note: This image comes as a digi image and as a stamp. I then used my American Craft Romance DP, perfect for this theme, and I used this weeks Sketch For You To Try. Jen always has awesome sketch's so I figured since I haven't played in a while this hop would be the perfect time to use her sketch!!

So, here is my card. I hope you enjoy!!!

We will be giving away a Grand Prize to one lucky Blog Hop participant and also have a prize for one lucky design team member. To enter, finish hopping through the design team’s blogs, (leaving a comment at each stop, of course!) and then go to the InStyle Stamps blog and vote for the designer who's project inspired you the most. (You're going to vote for me, right? LOL!) Then, in order to be entered into the drawing to win the grand prize, leave us a comment on that post.

Thanks for playing along with us today! Next you will head to Linda's blog to see what she has in store for you!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2

Stamps: Dan and Mandy by InStyle Stamps
Paper: American Crafts Romance Puppy Love, Love Potion & Summer Love DP, Whisper White Cardstock
Ink: Copic Markers
Accessories: Stickles, Martha Stewart Lace Heart Edger Punch, Felt Ribbon

Thanks so much for stopping!! Have a great day and good luck!!!

Digital-Ink Co. Holiday Frenzy Challenge (D-IC013)

Hey there,

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend!!! I want to welcome you to the thirteenth week of the Digital-Ink Co. Challenges (DIC013). This weeks challenge is to create a last minute card, tag, gift bag, box or anything you might create as a last minute gift. You may use any image you choose or you can take advantage of over 500 Digital-Ink Co. stamps, all on sale, at an awesome 50% off. 

To qualify for this challenge you must meet the following criteria:

• Post your creation on your blog, or your gallery (SNR, PCP, or SCS)

When uploading your challenge card to the above gallery's please put the word DIC013 in the keywords section before you upload. Also if you use a Digital-Ink Co. images please use words digitalinkco (no caps or spaces) and DIC in the keywords section before you upload.  

• Give a short description on how you made your creation

• Provide a link back to this post on the Digital-Ink Co. challenge blog. 

This frenzy challenge runs through today 12/14/09 and will end 11:59pm on 12/26/09.  Don’t forget to sign the “Mister Linky” on this post, as it assures you qualifying to win. On the 26th the three winners will be chosen by random.org, and announced on 12/28/09 at the posting of Digital-Ink Co.'s next challenge.

Here is what you could win!!! 

 

Now check out what I made for this challenge and don't forget to head on over to the Digital Ink Co. Challenge Blog to see what the other DT members created. 

I hope you will take the time to join in our challenge. We're looking forward to seeing your work. 

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: Alfie the elf stamp by Jules Junk (Digital-Ink Co.), & Hero Arts Holiday Cheer Messages sentiment 
Paper: DCWV Holiday Stack
Ink: Copic Markers 
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Snowflakes Embossing Folder, Martha Stewart holly Punch, Stickles

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day, and I hope you enjoyed my creation!!!

ISS Wednesday Challenge - Snow

Happy Wednesday!!!!

Welcome to InStyle Stamps’ Wednesday Challenge. Today I was the host of the challenge over at the ISS blog.  This week’s challenge theme is Snow. So use anything snowy on your card.  I hope you’ll join in on the fun.

For my card, I happened to use everything snowflakes for my snow theme and I used a new ISS image called Sarah. Isn't she just perfect for the snow theme!!!

We hope you will join us. One lucky participant will receive an InStyle Stamps digital image of their choice and a WINNER BADGE. If you have an ISS image please be sure to use it but it is not necessary. Make sure you upload the direct link to your project by commenting at the end of this post by 12:00 p.m., PST, Tuesday, December 15th.

Recipe:

Card Size: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2

Stamps: Sarah by InStyle Stamps, Hero Arts Holiday Cheer Messages sentiment

Paper: DCWV Holiday Stack

Ink: Copic Markers
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Sizzix Sizzlits Die Set 4PK - Snowflakes Set, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, SU Small Oval Punch, Fun Flock, Bling, Sakura Glaze pen, & Spica Glitter pen 

Can't wait to see all of your fabulous creations!!!
Thanks for stopping by...

South Lake Tahoe Family Trip

Hey there,

Sorry I have been MIA, it will probably be happening more often this month with school coming to an end and with all the holiday events for this month. Today I want to share with you all another event. This weekend my boyfriends family rented a cabin in South Lake Tahoe and I was able to join them despite having a ton of assignments to finish and tests to study for. Lets just say that I forgot about all of that and just relaxed. It was a great time and we were able to see some snow fall but thank goodness the big storm wasn't coming in until today or else we may be been snowed in. Here are a few pics, I didn't get to many but here are a few.

Everyone went snow boarding on this day so a few of us who didn't go stayed behind and walked around the Heavenly Shopping Center. Here is a pic of myself  (laughing way to hard, lol) with Daniel's sister-in-law and his nephew in front a water fountain that was mostly frozen.

Here is a picture of Daniel nephew, he is quite the mover but I was able to get this pic of him.

And lastly a picture of myself with a family friends daughter. We found a great lil area in the snow and made our own trail to slide down with our disks. It was super fun!!!!

Yea and that's it. I wish I had gotten more pics but Daniel wasn't in the mood to take a pic with me and I wanted to play in the snow not take pics lol.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

Holiday Family Get Together

Hey there,

I just wanted to share with you all a little something that I did this week. My cousin from the Azores (Portugal) came in on the November 23rd so I planed a big family get together the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Everyone brought something to make the big meal and we all hung out and chatted. We haven't had a big family get together like this in quite some time. It seems that as us kids get older and get married our parents no longer want to get together cause they think all of us getting together just wouldn't work. So I worked some magic and I got everyone together, and it was literally all of my moms family that is in California minus my sister and her husband, who couldn't make it, some cousin in Washington and several others who are in Portugal. So here is a little family picture that we managed to take.

These are all the Freitas cousin (we were waiting for the adult to join us, lol)

And this is the whole Freitas family, 3 generations, we could have had 4 but our grandparents are in Portugal

 

Then the Monday after Thanksgiving I had to go back to school so I brought my cousin up with me so that she could see Sacramento and so that she could go to school with me and of course do a lot of shopping with me, lol. I was also able to take her to San Francisco to the 7 story mall and I wanted to go to Union Square for a pic with the Heart of San Francisco and their Christmas Tree but when we left Sacramento it was already late, so we didn't get any SF pics. So here are a few pics of the two of us in Sacramento.

Diana and I in Old Sac in front of the Sacramento River and the bridge

Diana and I in front of an old Pirate ship that was docking with grade school kids who had taken a field trip.

And lastly, Diana and I in front of California's State Capital Building and Christmas Tree.

We had a great time!!!

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share!!! Have a great day!!!