Ballerina at Midnight (Madness)

Doesn't this image invoke certain feelings in you? To me this is such a powerful image, it has elegance, it has beauty, a feel of completion, competition, exhaustion yet total rest.  What feelings do you get looking at this Ballerina by Priscilla?

Today is Midnight Madness Tuesday and Priscilla has a great sketch for you to play with today.

As always you chose, make it fancy, make it simple or make somewhere in between!

I hope you will join in and play this week, we love seeing your beautiful creations! Now allow me to share some more of this Ballerina!

You can find this gorgeous image at Priscilla's Store as well as many, many more awesome images! There have been some brand new releases (this Ballerina is one of them) that you will definitely want to check out. You will also want to check out the work from my sisters in art aka the Design Team for Priscilla's Styles, they are all listed on the side bar!! Be sure to leave us your thoughts before leaving.

Thank you so much for dropping today, I love sharing with you and look forward to reading your thoughts and comments!

Challenges I am entering:
The Stamp Man-Mothers Day/Floral
Grafico-Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly-Something for Mom or Just be Girlie
MMSC96

SCH First Anniversay Blog Hop and Candy!

Today, in addition to announcing our weekly challenge, we are having a blog hop at Sugar Creek Hollow as part of our first anniversary celebrations.  All the designers have a giveaway for a winner chosen randomly from the people who leave comments on their blogs.

 My Blog Candy!

  

Sugar Creek Hollow Anniversary Candy!

There will be a grand prize winner chosen from the people who leave a comment on the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge blog. 
Blog Hop Grand Prize!:

Tracy wasn't able to send us a photo of the prize because it is safely packed for a house move but she did tell us what it is.



3 sets of clear stamps from Inkadinkado
1 Ranger ink pad in Vintage Photo
2 packs Vintage die cuts
3 bundles of crinkle ribbon

The blog hop will run in conjunction with the challenge from 8:00 am EST on Saturday, March 19^th to 12 midnight EST on Friday, March 25^th.  Comments left after the deadline will not be included in any of the draws.  Winners will be announced on each blog and the challenge blog on March 26^th.

To be eligible for my giveaway you must become a follower and then leave me a comment telling me which stamp in the Sugar Creek Hollow Shoppe is your favorite.  In addition, if you'd like you can tell me what types of stamps you might want to see added to the Sugar Creek Hollow line of stamps.  Don’t forget to leave a contact email in case you are the winner on my blog.

In addition to all this, Tracy, the wonderful and generous owner of Sugar Creek Hollow has a freebie for you to pick up for one week only when you go to the challenge blog during the blog hop.

Hopefully you have arrived here from Dawn’s blog but if you are lost, here is the order of the blog hop:

Tracy

Heide

Sharon

Cec

Darlene

Dawn

Donna (you are here)

Marsha

Mary

Nancy

Renee

Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge Blog

We look forward to hearing your comments and seeing your creation entered into our challenge.  Your next stop is Marsha’s blog.

Now for my card for this week's challenge "Anything Goes" I was given the Daffodil image to work with! I love this image and elected to try my hand at a twisted easel card. I have seen these on several blogs and really wanted to give it a try, what a fun card this was to make!!

I actually got some decent photos so I am just going to share them and let you scoot along to your next stop. Don't forget to join as a member and leave me a comment about your favorite SCH image. How many SCH images have I used in this weeks card?

challenges:
Stampavie and more- Spring or Easter
Stampin with the Dragon- Bring on Spring
Creative Cottage Challenge Blog - Spring Has Sprung
Wags N Whiskers - Spring Creations
SCS Inspiration Challenge - IC276
 

SCH - Handmade Flowers

This week our challenge is to make something with handmade flowers included.  Hmmm, that sounds like a reason to go googling! I wanted to try something I haven't necessarily tried before. For whatever reason I was stuck with this idea of using ribbon not paper. I found all kinds of tutorials for making flowers with ribbon, I chose two I thought I could manage, one was using a folding technique and the other a sort of a twisting technique. Mine didn't turn out nearly as beautiful as the examples but it was a learning experience! :)

Before we get into my card this week, I want to share exciting news for Sugar Creek Hollow! March is our anniversary month, we are ONE year old this month! In addition to our regular chances to win a free digi, a badge for your blog and a chance to be designer of the month, we have Anniversary Blog candy.

Be sure to go to SCH Blog to get all the details and find out all the ways you can become a winner!

For my image this week I chose one of the Insect Tiles, my choice has the butterfly on it. I used Webster's Pages digital kit called Nature's Story and yes, attached my handmade ribbon flowers.

 Those cute little ribbon leaves were an after thought but I sort of like them. Here is a easy tut for them.
A closer look at the flowers and leaves.

Be sure to visit each design team member's blog, next week each one of us will have Blog Candy when we invite to join us for a blog hop! We are all listed on the side bar and you can get to each of our sites from the SCH Blog. You will have a chance to win on each stop and at the main stop, SCH's blog. You don't want to miss this, tell all your friends and let's go hopping next week!!

Thanks for stopping in, I would love to read your thoughts, hope you will join me again very, very soon!

Ephesians 1:13-14

Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴ who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory. NIV

 challenges:

Flutter By Wednesday's - Butterfly, Fairy or Angel

Simon Says - Anything Goes 

Paper Romance Challenges-Use as many Colors as Possible

Alphabet Challenge - S is for Stripes

Craft us Crazy - Be one with Nature

MMSC94- Dragonfly!

Good morning, it is Tuesday and Tuesday always means Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge! Let's take a look at this weeks sketch:

You always have a choice with Priscilla's sketches, your can make it Clean and Simple, Fancy and embellished or anywhere in between! Most of mine are in the middle somewhere!

This week in celebration of spring coming, I am using Priscilla's Dragonfly. Such a lovely thought....spring! And speaking of spring, there are loads of new images at Priscillastyles store. Go and take a look, there are some priceless designs!

This week for my designer paper I have chosen to use digital Webster Pages. I thought it complimented this image and is just beautiful to work with!

I printed the image twice, the center circle is a piece of the second image that I printed, used a nestibility to cut it out and then used a cuttlebug folder on and finally inked it with distress inks. My flowers are from a stem of flowers bought at Michael's, the gold pearls are from Michael's as well.

Here is a close up:

Finally, the inside and an envelope!

Be sure to visit all the digital design teams sites to see their creations this week. You will find them listed on my side bar!  Thank you so much for stopping by, I would love to hear your thoughts on my challenge entry this week!

challenges:
Midnight Madness - MMSC94
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Anything Goes
Card Cupids - Anything Goes
Gingerloft Challenge - Use those Flowers
Cupcake Inspiration Challenge - Challenge #101

Lion of Judah

I have been trying to get this lion to look right much of the day! I believe this is as good as he is going to get!  So he's the one I am going to enter in the drawing contest at CDAC. You are allowed to enter 3 drawings or sketches, this is my second entry.

It's not much about winning, it's really more about picking up the pencil and letting the juices flow!  This has been so much fun, why not join in!!

SCH- Sketch Saturday!

Good morning all! I am finally able to get Blogger to cooperate and let me post!
Today at SCH we have a sketch for you to play with! Here it is, I hope you will join in and share your creations with us!

This month our hostesses have created a very clean sketch for you but you can rotate it or flip it as long as the sketch is visible in your creation.

Each week we will choose one random winner, who will receive a free digi of their choice from the Sugar Creek Hollow Shoppe and a badge to display on your blog.  If you use a Sugar Creek Hollow image you will get two entries in the random draw.  Just follow the instructions on the sidebar to link your second entry.

Each week the Design Team will choose a Card of the Week and the creator of that card will get a badge to display.  One overall winner will be chosen each month from the Cards of the Week.  That person will be invited to be a Guest Designer and participate in the next challenge.  An image will be provided to them to work with.  The Card of the Week prize will be awarded when we reach a minimum of 10 entries.

Here are several photos of my card for this week. I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed making it!

        Front

 Inside

 closeup of image

 envelope

Be sure to visit SCH Blog for previews of all the Design Team cards for this week! All the members are listed on the side bar, a visit to each of their blogs is really a must, you get to see so much more by doing that!  Thank you so much for stopping in this week, I would love to hear your thoughts! Blessing to you!!

SUGAR CREEK HOLLOW ANNIVERSARY

March is a big month at Sugar Creek Hollow as we are celebrating our first anniversary.  Throughout the month we have some special activities planned for you.  

March 5 - Tracy, our wonderful owner has put together a lovely package of blog candy that could be yours so just head to the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge blog on March 5^th and follow the instructions.  The winner will be chosen on March 31^st.

March 12 - the first Guest Designer chosen from our Cards of the Week will join us.

March 19 - we are having a blog hop with prizes to be won on each designer’s blog as well as a grand prize on the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge blog.

March 26 - we are having a contest to name a new image.

More details on all the activities will follow but make sure you mark your calendar so you don’t miss out on any of the fun.

Sugar Creek Nugget:

But Jesus' priesthood is permanent. He's there from now to eternity to save everyone who comes to God through him, always on the job to speak up for them.  Hebrews: 7:25 (The Message)


challenges:
Fab n Funky - Spring into Action
Cute Card Thursday - Signs of Spring
Stampin for the Weekend -Springtime

CDAC Sketch Contest - Rachael the Rabbit!

I adore sketching and doodling! When I was a little girl my Dad and I used to chose a comic from the Sunday funnies and we would each draw the same character, then Mom would have to try to figure out which one of us had drawn which character. I am sure she always knew but sometimes she would choose mine as the best drawing. Anyway, there is a digital sketch contest over at CDAC. I decide to jump in and give it a try. Here is my bunny rabbit, I think she looks like a Rachael!

What do you think? Isn't she cute?  Join us over at CDAC, it is a wonderful place to play!!

SCH says Inside Out!

Good morning bloggers! Today we are asking you to show us not just your beautiful card from the outside but take the next step and include the inside! Yeah!

I take many of my cards down to a local consignment shop, when I start picking out the cards to take I have to sit down and finish up the inside. Anyone else put off the inside until it is needed? Most times my outside is pretty generic, it could be for a birthday, an anniversary, just to say hello, sympathy or whatever may be needed; the inside is used to personalize the reason I am sending it/or selling it. So this challenge was really good for me. Since we are discussing the inside, let's take a look at the inside of this week's card.

That beautiful butterfly image can be found here.  The designer paper is from a digital kit by Webster's pages, isn't is scrumptious?  It's from the kit Nature's Story. Are you inspired yet to join us with the challenge this week? Go to SCH's blog where you will see each of the Designer's Teams cards this week along with instructions on how to enter, how to win a freebie, how to become a guest designer!!! Go, go now!! Wait, finish looking at my card first!! :)

Now I would like to share a few more photos of this weeks card.

Hopefully you will able to see the layers! I printed the image a couple of times and popped up the butterfly. Can you see that wreath image that surrounds the butterfly, well that is from Graphics Fairy. I masked it into the Webster's pages print to bring focus to the butterfly, cut out some of the flowers and leaves from another printed piece and layered it. I did a blanket stitched along one side of the card. It looks really cool in person!

Another close up, can you tell I love this image!! Ok, enough already! Here is the card front.

Before you leave let me make a suggestion. Although you can see the Design Team's creations on SCH's blog you really miss so much unless you visit the creators blog. There you will find so much more information and a chance to look around at all the amazing talent in this group. I privately think of this group as "The Dream Team",  there is just so much talent, inspiration and imagination in these ladies, I feel quite honored to be included in this group! You can find each blog listed on the side bar, treat yourself!  I would love to hear from each of you as you blog along, thank you for stopping in!! 

    this is the envelope front

      envelope back

I look forward to visiting your site to see your creations!!

From the song Who Am I by Casting Crowns:
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord You catch me when I'm falling
And You told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours

challenges:
Stamp Something-Something with Flowers
Shelly's Images - Let's Play with Ribbon
Alphabet Challenge - Q is for quotes or sayings
Creative Creations - At the Bottom of my Garden lives...
CES Challenge - Flowers and Flutterbys

Playing around with Sketches

I love to sketch, sometimes I cannot make what is in my head come out on the paper! So I googled, what else!! I found a site callled How to Draw (your choice) and found some flowers. With spring on it's way I wanted to try my hand at daffodils and lilies. Here is the site if you want to try your hand at sketching:   How to Draw.

Thanks for stopping by!

MMSC92- Midnight Madness!

It's time for another Midnight Madness sketch challenge. This week's challenge is #92. Here is what you will be working with this week.

Make it plain, make it fancy or anywhere in between. 

I chose to use one of Priscilla's new designs called "Bird Cluster".  You can see it on the Midnight Madness Blog  and at Priscilla's store.

This is my take on the sketch this week. I love this line of birds and after I finished with the card my Dad mentioned his sister is having her 90th birthday the first part of March. I decided to go back and make a couple of adjustments so I could send it to my aunt for this wonderful occasion.

 

Since this is such a special birthday I wanted a very special envelope to put the card in. I used the same image on the outside of the front of the envelope and mimicked the stitching that is on the card. By adding the "90" to the front of the card it personalized it as a birthday card, plus the envelope has "Happy Birthday" gold embossed on it. The inside (which I forgot to take a photo of) has a very personal message along with the song "Happy Birthday". I hope it brings a smile!!

This is the front and back of the envelope. My Dad has it now and will be mailing it to Texas tomorrow!

On the sidebar you will find links to my team mates blogs where you will find some astounding eye candy. Please take the time to visit each one and enjoy the beauty and inspiration! Come play with us at Midnight Madness this week using Priscilla's latest amazing sketch!! Thanks for dropping by!!

challenges:
Midnight Madness - MMSC92
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - #99 SOS
The Res-Q-Challenge - Something that Makes you Happy
Guylou's Inimitability - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Sewing on Cards and All Stitched up Challenge
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes