Big News............

Remember when I said big news was coming your way from D2D. Well, today is the day you’ve been wondering about! It’s the January Reveal of the NEW Release of digital stamps, and digital designer papers. Every 20th of the month - Faith will release new images and the Design Team will have a blog hop showcasing their creative, handmade cards using the latest from Designed2Delight.

You should have come here from Peggy's blog. I just love her rainbow snowman....didn't you! If you missed anything, please go back to D2D's blog and start again.  All the ladies have such GREAT inspirations!!!

Spend $10 on NEW releases, and you can receive 20% off your entire order.Enter code JAN20REVEAL to your cart to receive the discount.

**Discount is only good for 24 hours. (It expires 01/21/2012 at 7:00 AM.)

Here are my creations using Faith's new digi stamps and digital designer papers.

 I used Snowman Valentine on the above card, along with the Razzleberry Doodle and Razzleberry Stripes paper.

I just LOVE this one!!  I couldn't wait to play with it : ) Sweet Love Cake along with the  Heart Paper.  The frosting looks so sparkly and yummy!!

Well, gotta run for now! REMEMBER - check back on the 20th of each month to see what 'goodies' we have for you!!

Michelle

Challenges:
Lexi's Creations~Anything Goes
Totally Stampalicious~Valentine cards or projects
Alphabet Challenge~Y for Your Choice/Anything Goes
DYSU(Do You Stack Up)~Patterned Paper
The Poodles Parlour~Valentines

Designer's Challenge

This weeks Designer Challenge @ D2D is Winter Flowers.  It is hosted by Kim McDonald. Let's see your creations with winter flowers (or any flowers) on them! I decided on the last part and made a great "Thinking of You" card.

Usually about this time of year here in the Midwest, we have fair amount of snow on the ground.  This year is an unusual one as we are WAY below our total accumulation of snowfall.  So seems how the ground is still 'green' here - I decided to use the flowers from Faith's set 'Lovely Day'.

I tried my hand again at the colored pencils & Gamsol.  I am really starting to like this stuff!!! My poor ProMarkers are collecting dust.....LOL. I carried the green and blue from the bigger flower thru out the papers in my card. 

I hope you like it and can join us this week for our challenge. 

There are some big changes coming your way on the D2D site.  SO stayed tuned!!

Michelle

Challenges:
Inky Impressions~Anything Goes

Happy New Year!!!!

Happy 2012 everyone!!

I hope you all had a great holiday season.  I did, and now I am ready to take on this new year!  I am starting off this new year by using a new technique.....well new for me : )  Back in Sept of last year while at Scrapfest, my girlfriend & I both purchased some Gamsol and just couldn't wait to use it.  Well needless to say, my first attempt was not a success.  After watching a few tutorials and experimenting - I have FINALLY made my first card using an image colored w/Gamsol.

My girlfriends lil girl turns 2 in a couple days, and when I seen this image I knew it would made a great card.  I used the Bugaboo image Birthday Penguin~Gift. It is so adorable!! I really liked how it turned out.  Of course like anything else - I will get better with time, but it was so fun to make.

I can't wait to get using my Gamsol on some more images!!  Again ~ I hope you have a great 2012 and see you soon.

Michelle

Challenges:
Party Time Tuesdays~Something New
Incy Wincy Designs~Anything Goes
DYSU~Rainbow of Colors (use at least 3 colors from the Inspiration Photo)
Stamping Scrapping Challenge~Punched Out
The Pink Elephant~Anything Goes
Stamps R Us~What You Got For Christmas or Anything Goes
Lawnscaping Challenge~Birthday

Hope you had a Merry Christmas!!

I hope you all had a wonderful time w/family and friends this Christmas.  I know I did!!  I LOVED watching my granddaughters open up their gifts.  They are at such fun ages now ~ 6yrs and almost 2yrs old.

Just wanted to share a quick post of one of the gifts that I gave to my coworkers.  My girlfriend had made some and I thought they were adorable, so I couldn't wait to make my own.

They hold the lil bottle of sanitizer that you can get from Bath & Body Works.

I know I ALWAYS have one of these little sanitizers with me all year around. And this is just a cute way to "dress" them up for the holidays.  I really like the way the red, white & black one turned out!!

Here's a link to the directions on Kendra's site.  She did an AWESOME job with hers!

Well, toodles for now. 

Love & Peace

Michelle

Challenges:
Inky Impressions~Christmas Cheer
Party Time Tuesdays~Use Ribbon
By The Cute And Girly~Let it Snow
BasicGrey~Anything Goes
2 Sisters Challenge Blog~Snowflakes

Trimming the Tree

Welcome to another Saturday's Designer Challenge at D2D.  This week, one of my best friends Kendra is hosting the challenge which is "Trimming the Tree". She loves Christmas, especially decorating the tree.  So she wants to see some beautifully decorated trees!

I used one of Faith's newer images Whimsical Christmas Tree. 

I recently purchased a pack of paper that I thought went well with this image.  Both DP's are from that pack~Holly Jolly (with glitter) from the Paper Studio. I then inked up a couple of chipboard snowflakes and spritzed them w/pearl mist, and added a gem.  After I colored my image w/my ProMarkers, I went in and kinda of lightly penned in some glitter on the tree and star w/my Gelly Roll Star Dust pen.

So......let's she your wonderfully decorated tree!! 

Michelle

Challenges:
One Stop Craft Challenge~Christmas Sparkle
PaperCrafting Journey~Christmas Creations
Divas by Design~Merry Christmas
Little Red Wagon~Christmas
4 Crafty Chicks~Christmas
Dream Valley Challenges~Christmas

TAG.....your it !!!

That is the Design Team's Saturday Challenge @ D2D which I happen to be hosting this week!!

If you are like me~you like to make homemade gifts.  Well.....how about some wonderful homemade tags to go along with those gifts!  So, let's see some great tags !!

Every year I have some great friends that just love when I give them my homemade cocoa mix.  And I have recently found a wonderful Cinnamon Pancake recipe as well that they love.  I even had one of my friends kids ask if they could get more of "Michelle's pancake mix" when they ran out.  Kids are so cute sometimes  : )

On the Cocoa mix - I reused a Marzetti's salad dressing container and covered it with some fabric. I then used Faith's Peace Trees and Tag set, colored it with ProMarkers and stamped a few snowflakes on it as well.  On the pancake mix I used Mitten, colored it again with my ProMarkers and add a lil shimmer with my Gelly Roll Star Dust pen.

Alright...your turn!!  Show us your awesome tags!!

One lucky person will win a free image from the Designed2Delight Store. Winner is announced the Sunday after the challenge closes.

~Love and Peace~
Michelle

Santa Claus is coming to town....

Well, not quite yet!  But pretty soon : )

I can't believe how fast this holiday season is approaching.  A friend at work asked me to make a card for her mother for Christmas.  She said that she loves Santa, and how her mother mentioned she didn't get her a Santa Christmas card last year.  So I spent sometime looking around for different Santa's to use on the card.

She didn't want a funky, vintage or comical Santa - just a good ol' "Holly Jolly" one. I am hoping that this one will work out for her. 



I used my ProMarkers to color the image.  Then took my Gelly Roll Star Glitter pen and added some shimmer to the ball of his hat.  And put some on the very edge of the white part of his cap.  And on top of that I added some Glossy Accents.  Stamped a Maya Road chipboard snowflake with White Pearl ink and sprayed Maya Mist Iridescent Pearl over the top for a lil shimmer. 

I hope she likes it!!

Michelle

Challenges:
Come and Get It Challenges~Anything Christmas
Party Time Tuesdays~Holiday Greetings
Craft Your Passion~Anything Goes + Glitter
The Pink Elephant~Snowflakes & Sparkle