Yummy Goodness

Our {Pin}spirational Challenge starts today with a YUMMY photo!  Come on over and join in on the fun for our challenge and you may be the next winner.  We're being sponsored by The Digi Garden - who also provided us images for this challenge.  Be sure and enter our challenge this week........we'd love to have you!

I did something a little different this time and decided to fill a jar with candy and decorate it.  I never do this type of thing so it's not very elaborate or anything like that but at least the sentiment (SU) and image sums up what's on the inside of the jar.  I used some lemon drops and candy corn for the inside.  I would say the candy corn is left over from Halloween, but it's not.  About the only thing I like about Halloween is the candy corn - so I buy a bunch of it  - AND THEN EAT IT!  No other way around it......If it's here, I'm going to eat it!!!  So to fill up the jar, I just bought more!  By the time you finish reading this post, I'll probably already have eaten all of this.  Is that considered an addiction?  LOL!

Anyway.....here's the yummy {Pin}spirational Challenge photo!!!

Stay tuned for my Shopping Our Stash post - which is coming up in a minute - and can you say GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by........
Lynn

Ladybug Love

The challenge at CAS(e) This Sketch really had me stumped this time - and then I remembered I had these buttons.  Two ladybugs buttons (placed at different lengths) and one heart button (placed a little lower than the "bugs").  The sentiment is from Wonderful Words (SU).  When I first started stamping, this was one set that I HAD to have!!!  I think maybe I've used it two times - max!   Oh well......I used some textured white card stock - and that's about it folks! 

A short post and a CAS card!

Thanks for stopping by........and I'll be by to visit everyone later.
Lynn

On A Roll

This may not look like much to y'all, but I'm so proud of myself!  I present you with a Ric-Rac flower!!!

I've never even attempted anything like this before and it only took me one "mess up" to get it done!  I had about four feet of this red Ric-Rac and was determined I'd do it - so found some instructions, cut it, stitched it, heated up the hot glue gun (that I swear is older than me), and started rolling......and I was really on a roll too!  In fact I rolled it so tight it wouldn't budge.  SO, grabbed the two feet of this stuff I had left and tried it again!  It may not be perfect, but it was an accomplishment for me......not that I'll ever do one again though!

The hot glue gun is NOT my friend!  I hate those things and guess that's why I've never bought one of the newer, sleeker, smaller ones.  Mine is so old and gunked up with glue and it uses those big fat glue sticks - not the skinny kind you see now.  The glue won't even go through the gun anymore so if I need two hands for the project, I have to bend down and use my teeth to press the glue through.  Not a pretty site at all!!!  I only burned myself once or twice doing all this, so that was a plus.

This flower and card were actually done for two reasons - I wanted to enter the challenge at Marks Finest Papers (to use Ric-Rac) and also for a SCS group I belong to called Stamp Addicts.  We have a  challenge among ourselves ever so often to try a different technique.  The technique this month was to make a flower.  Next time I think I'd just punch out a bunch of flowers and glue them together!  LOL!

Thanks for stopping by.........I won't be around much this weekend, but will check back with everyone on Sunday or Monday.

Lynn

A Deal of a Stash

This is my second post of the day!  To see the {Pin}spirational Challenge, please scroll down.

Shopping Our Stash starts a brand new challenge today - and our theme for the week is:   BEST DEAL EVER!   Create something using one of your best bargains/had to have/ it was on sale!   Be sure and tell us what you used and use something from your stash!  Head on over to the blog and be inspired by all the DT creations!

My best deal ever - the Bow-Easy!  A couple of years ago, I'd been seeing so much about this handy little tool on the internet.  The directions of Youtube made it look so easy so I figured I'd try!  Got it ordered and then tried to follow the directions on "how to use".  I FINALLY figured it out and it's so easy!  If you've followed my blog for a while you know I use a lot of ribbon/bows on my cards.  I'd be completely lost without this.   I also used a sentiment from SU that I don't think I've ever used, some unknown DP that I've had for a while and was gathering dust, and an Edgelit from SU that I've also had a while and never, ever used.    I embossed the sentiment in Egyptian Gold  and added some red rhinestones.

Thanks for stopping by...............and be sure and enter Shopping Our Stash challenge.
Lynn

What is This

A new challenge starts today at {Pin}inspirational and we have a yummy looking photo for your inspiration.  Be sure and check out the blog for all the inspiration from the DT - and enter your creation for a chance to win a wonderful prize package from our sponsor, Beccy's Place.

Oh, and don't forget, {Pin}spirational Challenge is having a Design Team call right now.  Check out the blog for all the details on that.

When I saw the {Pin}spirational inspiration photo for this week, I was completely stumped on what it was!!  It looked similar to a cupcake (although I've seen more attractive cupcakes before) or a Bundt Cake (but way too small for that).  Ok, hey, maybe it's some type of chocolate candy covered in icing?.........No!  Thanks to all the sweet ladies on the DT, they informed me it was a Figgy Pudding!!!!  Now you gotta remember I live out here in the boonies in Texas - so I can honestly saw I had no clue what they were talking about!  After "googling" Figgy Pudding, I decided it just might be pretty tasty!  Has anyone ever eaten it or made it before?

Anyway, here's the inspiration photo - there's a lot of you do with this inspiration - how about a cupcake, cake, chocolate, Christmas holly, colors......etc....Let your imagination run wild and enter!  Looks rather yummy doesn't it!

I'll be back in a few minutes with my Shopping Our Stash challenge (still thinking about Christmas) - so see you then.....at least I say I will.  Blogger and I aren't getting along too good since the time change and it doesn't seem to want to post my cards as scheduled.  We'll just have to see what happens!

Thanks for stopping by..............
Lynn

Seeing Stars

A really quick post to say hi and show you a card I made for a couple of challenges.  I used a Sizzix stars die, Square Lattice embossing folder, a sentiment from Close to My Heart, brad, and twine.  The base of the card is done on Confetti White.

I'll enter this in the challenges at CAS(e) This Sketch and CAS-ual Fridays (masculine).

Thanks for stopping by............
Lynn

Shooting the Bird

Happy Funny Friday!!!

Dove season ended around here several weeks ago...the hunters get a little wacky during that time and you wake up every morning to the sound of shotguns going off all around you (one of the "nice" things about living in the country)!  This was pretty much a shock to me the first time and you WILL wake up in a hurry!  Anyway, right after we moved out here, Jim decided I'd go dove hunting with him.  The deal is that you shoot them in the air as they're flying by - and this is not an easy thing to do since they're flying at super sonic speed to get away.  After he shot one, he told me to go retrieve it (do I look like a hunting dog or what!!!!) which I did.  I picked it up with two fingers, extended it about as far away from my body as I could, and brought it back to him.  Then he told me I had to "clean" it (not pretty),  but I figure the "retriever" is only required to do so much.  The next year, he bought me a shotgun, told me how to aim at the dove, and shoot.  This was just not going to happen with me but I accidentally shot one and immediately wanted to bury it and say a prayer or two!!!  I'm just NOT a dove hunter at all I don't guess.  One thing they don't have a season on around these parts are buzzards/vultures though.  Thank goodness!!! 

Anyway, I was checking blogs the other day and on Leslie's The Crooked Stamper blog she'd made a card using this same stamp and sentiment. I not only loved her card, but also the stamp!  SO, I immediately HAD to have it.  It's from Art Impressions - What's not to love!!!!!

And before you even ask....no, the feather is not from a real bird.  It came in the mail several weeks ago on a dream catcher and they were trying to get you to donate to something and you got the dream catcher free.    I started plucking all the feathers off the thing and Jim thought I'd lost my mind.....he just doesn't "get" all this creative stuff!  LOL!  The clouds were made using stamped off black ink and I added a bit of liquid applique around his neck.  He was stamped and colored, cut out, and then popped up.

Thanks for stopping by............and have a great weekend!
Lynn