Club Anime Color Challenge

Today is Color Challenge day over at CA. So make sure you stop by and get the color scheme so you can participate. Here is my entry:



One day I will get the coloring right on my camera. I will have to invest in a light box because it's so frustrating trying to find the right light. :)

See you over at Club Anime...the dt did a great job on these.

Over the Hump Day Blog Candy Give-A-Way

This hump day is special to me because it is also Veteran’s Day. My husband is in the Marine Corps reserves. He served over 6 years active duty. He has about 11 years total so far. He was in Iraq in 2007 and is going to Afghanistan soon. We don’t know the exact date but it is imminent. Yesterday was the Marine Corps birthday. I personally think we should honor and thank our service people year round not just on particular days, but hey, that's just me.

I am so proud of my hubby. When he was in Iraq, we had a very close family member pass away and it was very hard on him being so far away from us all especially during that very stressful time. I know there are a lot of service members that experience far worse than what he did. It is truly a sacrifice to serve our nation and be the defenders of our freedom. For that, I truly thank every man and woman that has enlisted to protect our country. Some may not agree with war. Some may not think the military is important. Whatever your opinion or mindset is, you are entitled to it. But we should still respect and be thankful for those that do serve. Happy Veteran’s Day!!!

And now on to the craft stuff. :)

Go to the Instyle Stamps Blog for all the details. There is too much to type. But I will show you a picture of the blog candy. :)



Nuff said. :)

This month the theme is snow. Here is my project:



If you like blog candy as much as I do...go check it out!!!

TFL,
Nenane

Non-paper related

Hello All,

Happy Tuesday. I made a rag quilted purse and I was so pleased with how it came out. I'm working on 2 more. 1 of them is with one of our anime images. I just finished printing and coloring the image. I am not working on cutting the fabric. I hope it comes out just as nice.

Here is my first rag quilted purse:



Although it is very time consuming (probably will get faster once I get the hang of making them) but the results are so rewarding. I used it for the first time today and got a lot of compliments on the color choices and someone even asked me where I bought it. LOL...can't wait to see what they think of the one with one of the images.

I will be back tomorrow with the Over the Hump day Blog Candy give-away and winner from last month.

:)

New Blog Candy

Hope you had a good Friday. I did. Just got back from seeing the movie Precious. It was very very good. A must see, but bring your Kleenex. :)

2ndly...no one guessed what I used on the bottom of my project...it was a grated sponge and then I added copic ink to. :)

3rdly, I will be having blog candy this coming Monday. I'm swamped for the rest of the weekend so that is when I will be able to post a new project. I finally broke down and bought a compressor and airbrush system so I'm experimenting.

Have a fabulous one!

Wednesday Challenge - Felt

Happy Hump-Day!

I hope you are all having a terrific day so far. I'm running a little behind, but I'm still here. :)

I wanted to create something for the Wednesday Challenge. When I saw it was using felt...I was soo motivated. I have a ton of wool felt and regular felt and so the ideas started to flow. I finally thought...hmm I wonder if I could use the big shot flower dies and basket to make a project. Doesn't hurt to try right? And so I did.

In fact I sat up til 4 am trying to get this to come together. And it did!

Here is my felt project:



It took forever to get the base of that darn basket to stick. I like the way it came out.

So go over and enter. You will win a digi of your choice if you do. :)

TFL, Nenane

Recipe:

Felt, Big Shot basket/flower die, crystals, Ava leaning from ISS, Copics, DCWV patterned paper.

Club Anime CAS3

Well yesterday was the CAS3 challenge over on Club Anime. You have 1 month to come up with a cute project using the sketch provided by Melissa.

This is my project:



And here is a close up of Chocolate gal and the sentiment:



I paper pieced the candy bar with a paper called raw metal. It is so great cause it looks like foil. It is textured. I love it when I'm doing metal stuff.

You will never guess what the bottom of the image is. In fact, I'm so confident that you won't I'm going to offer the exclusive Club Anime digital image as a reward for the first person that guesses what it is.

I will give you til 5:00 pm PST on Friday, November 6th to try to figure it out.

TFL and go check out the other images on Club Anime

Nenane

Recipe:

Cardstock - Neenah, Patterned Paper - Daisy Buckets, Embellishments- Swavorski crystals, metal swirl, Copic markers, dew drops ink pad, Image: Chocolate girl, InStyle Stamps.

Method Monday

I'm hosting Method Monday over at ISS this week. I made a quilt top note die card. Go check it out! :)

We have a new blog. I linked you straight to it. :)