Another Mystery Solved!

Hello

It's time again for the Mysterious image to be revealed.

 I'm a part of a group on SCS that loves a good Mystery. We have a different hostess every couple of months that sends us images. We then make cards with the image and then mail them back to the hostess. She in turn, swaps them out and we get cards back (that other ladies in the group have made with the same image) along with the next rounds mystery image. It may sound a little confusing, but we make it work. It's a great group of ladies.

This round was hosted by our sweet Linda.

She sent us this darling MFT image. I've never worked with them and now I'm hooked.

I colored the image with watercolor pencils and blended with my blender pen.

Linda also sent the brown CM cocoa paper I use on the card base. I decided to make my card base smaller than usual. I placed the image a taller than the base so the card would fit in a regular A2 envelope. 

The snowflake accent is made with 3 SU! punches and a white brad. I popped it up off the card with dimensionals. 

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Safe in the Arms of Jesus

March 18, 2012

11:20 pm

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My sweet Mamaw got her wings.

She fought a good fight. Now she's safe in the arms of JESUS.

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Thank you for your continued prayers as we celebrate the life of Gertrude Wray.

We will shed many tears but knowing there are no tears in Heaven gives me great comfort.

She is no longer in pain. She has a brand new body. I will see her again one day.

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Having Way TOO Much Fun With Punches!

Hi Everybody!

Happy St. Patty's Day to ya! I have my green shirt on. Got it out first thing so I wouldn't get pinched! :)

I've been having so much fun with my paper punches lately. I wanted to show you a few cards I made.

This one is very simple made with a square, circle and corner rounder punch...

 The "M" is cut with my cricut. Then, I just doodled a little and....done.

It's a 4" square note card.

Here's another pretty made with the square punch! Who knew you could make a butterfly with it?

 I pierced the trail and the antenna are black metal dots.

I was very proud of myself for using my scallop square punch. I NEVER use that thing!

  This card took a little time....

 But, only because my big, fumble fingers had a hard time getting the punched owl together!

I used the scallop border, owl and circle punches with this. I used the circle punch to make the cresant shape on the pumpkin pie strip. The large circle is cut with Spellbinders and then embossed with a dots embossing folder. I turned the embossed side inward and then embossed the belly of the owl and turned it outward.

I placed black, satin ribbon over the orange circles and baker's twine (twisted and knotted) behind the owl.

Now, this card I made for the Inspirational Challenge over on SCS today...

 

Here's the photo I drew inspiration from in making this card:

(click for picture ) TRAPIRA

I love the circles and squares on the wallpaper and the color combination.

I tried to mimic the pattern with my circle and square punches.

I also tried something I never had by punching the edges of the stamped medallion and attaching with twine. I went a little crazy with the buttons and pearls.

Well, there's my punchy madness that's been occurring lately. I have another I'm working on for Sweet P's (Sama ~ SCS) Punchy swap. I will get it posted next week.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

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~ Oh, and I thank all of you that have been much in prayer for my Grandmother. She is bed ridden and her condition is deteriorating very quickly. But she has had a good 2 days with hardly any pain. Praise the Lord!!!! She still has a smile for you when you walk to her bedside. She is a dear lady and for 92 years old.....well, let's just say I pray I am as healthy as she has been her whole life and that I make it to that beautiful age. :) ~

 I LOVE YOU MAMAW!!!!

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Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Dueling Darling Blessngs!

Hello everyone!

It's the 15th and that means it's time for another Duel!

The Dueling Darlings (group over on SCS) is made up of some of the best ladies online! We are a fun, caring group of gals who love to create.

This month we are hosted by Michelle on the Dazzlers team and Barb on the Divas.

I am a Dazzler so Michelle is "my girl"! 

She sent some of the cutest papers and embellishments in our kit. I love the poem she printed out for us too.

Here's what I created:

See isn't that poem beautiful?!

Thank you so much Michelle! BIG HUGS

Our hostesses wanted us to list any traditions we hold dear at St. Patrick's Day. Although I am of Irish decent, we don't really celebrate the day. Well, if you call making sure I wear something green on that day, then yes....I celebrate it :~)

Be sure and check out all the other Darlings creations. Their blogs are listed in my left sidebar.

Other challenges I am entering:

The new challenge blog, retro sketches 2nd challenge found HERE

and here's the sketch

I turned the sketch and went all the way across my card with it.

Also:

The CCEE Stampers Challenge to use an element of International Flair.

Find the challenge HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Supplies:

Papers...

Basic Grey Origins ~ Sugar Pea, Echo Park This and That ~ dots and plaid, Reminisce...ShamRock

 Embellishments...

Ribbon, cording and brad ~ American Crafts

Glitter Shamrock ~ die cut from glitter paper

Button Candy Dots by Pebblesinc

C/S...

Irish Blessing is computer generated and printed on SU! Whisper White, and SU! Very Vanilla

SU! Crumb Cake card base

Ink...

Sponge Dauber and Soft Suede inked edges
and circle punches

Design Team Call at Twisted Tuesday Challenges!

Hello everyone!

I am starting a new challenge blog and would love for you to come check it out!

We are having an open Design Team Call starting today and running through the 24th. We will be picking 2 ladies to (for a 6 month commitment) join our team. The challenges will run weekly and will start April 3rd. All the details can be found here:

Twisted Tuesday Challenges

So, come....

with us!

Blessings!

Melina

He is Risen!

Hi! Here I am again.

I love having time to craft! Yay!

I have a couple of challenges I wanted to enter this card in....

Today's Crazy 4 Challenges blog wants us to be inspired by Spring. The flowers, Easter, baby animals, etc. You can find the challenge here ~ C4C127

Also, the CAS-usal Friday Challenge is to make a card with your sentiment as the focal point. Their challenge is found here ~ CFC43

Now, I know black is not the first thing you think of when you think of Spring. But, I loved these colors together and just went with it. :)

This is the first time this SU! stamp has seen ink. I love it, so simple and beautiful!

Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time...
Blessings...

Melina 

Genuine Friend

Hi friends!

I hope your weekend is off to a fabulous start!

Here's a card I made following the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches this week...

  Here's the link to their challenge:

Freshly Made Sketches 

...and here's their sketch....

 

I'm so glad you stopped by my little blog!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina