ROMANCING THE CANVAS

DELIGHTFUL CHALLENGES

Valentine's Anything But a Card

You are not required to use a Digital Delights Image
to join in on the fun

but if you do you can enter TWICE.

To enter twice, use your card Link for your 1st entry.

For your second entry, use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name.

RULE!

DON'T FORGET TO USE THE CHALLENGE THEME!!!

Whiff of Joy is our sponsor this week and the details will be coming soon.

I hope you enjoy my take on VINTAGE!

All of my images are from the Digital Delights Store.

Fortnightly challenge - More than one fold

Welcome to THE FOREVER FRIENDS CHALLENGE BLOG FORTNIGHT CHALLENGE. This week, the challenge is:

Challenge #86- Die Cuts

This week's challenge is:

Die Cuts

AND PLEASE DON'T USE PUNCHES AS A REPLACEMENT FOR YOU DIE CUT! They will not be allowed into this challenge.

AND OF COURSE A SENTIMENT!

This week's Sponsor is:

The last challenge was amazing! Everyone's cards were awesome. It was a joy commenting on the entrants for the challenge. Stamping with the Dragon Challenge blog will be posting the Winners under the Tab found at the top of the page under our header.

For this Challenge, it is the Theme everyone loves -

ANYTHING GOES!

And our generous sponsor is

DELIGHTFUL CHALLENGES

This weeks challenge over at Delightful Challenges is

Distressed/Vintage

SENTIMENTAL SUNDAYS

Welcome to Sentimental Sundays Challenge!

Please read the new entry rules.

I've also included a tutorial.

Thanks so much!

Thanks to everyone who played along in last week's "Snow, Blue and/or Glitter" challenge. There were so many entries...it was exciting as a Design Team member to see all the entries, and how beautiful they were and how original each one was. We all really enjoyed seeing all your entries! Be sure to stop back at Sentimental Sundays on Tuesday and see who our random winner is and who has been chosen to be in our Top 3!

This week's Sponsor is:

Fred She Said

STAMPING WITH THE DRAGON

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CARDS!

It is only fitting that I should write my post in pastel colors as I rarely do pastel cards. This is one of my RARE ones you are about to see.

It is for STAMPING WITH THE DRAGON. They do NOT have a challenge this week, but their TWO WEEK CHALLENGE is still open, so please pop over. This card is for enjoyment only - theirs and mine, and I must say, I LOVED doing this card. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Of course it is using an image from the DRAGON'S LAIR DESIGNS, SWTD store, so pop on over there and see what might interest you. You never know where it might take you...I didn't!

DELIGHTFUL CHALLENGES....

HAS JUST RELEASED THEIR NEW MONTHLY STAMP SET

THE FABULOUS 50's

I was born in 1956 so I didn't experience much of this, but it was so fun using the Fabulous 50's Stamps stamps! I have seen my parent's pictures and they look just like the stamps do. Wendy, as usual, has done a fabulous job of illustrating these stamps and putting on the Delightful Challenge with our New Designers, of which I am one.

Fortnightly challenge - White on White

Welcome to the new challenge over at Forever Friends Blog. The Challenge is to make a white on white card. It's kind of difficult to create anything with one color so it is a REAL challenge this time!

LEXI'S CREATIONS FIRST CHALLENGE OF THE NEW YEAR!!!

This is my first DT Challenge with Lexi's Creation. I am very excited about this. Working with Susan, who runs Lexi's has been a fantastic experience thus far. I can only imagine it getting better and better. Not only has she pulled together a fantastic forum for the DT to linger and meet, but she has pulled together a wonderful new Design Team (ahem - personally speaking, since I'm on it too!) You must pop over to Lexi's Creations FIRST CHALLENGE OF THE NEW YEAR to meet the DT's and see their incredible artistry. You will be in awe!

SENTIMENTAL SUNDAYS SPENT WITH

MORNING MARGARET - IN A TOASTER

Meet Margaret. Margaret is one of the many fabulous stamp from Bugaboo Stamps. Margaret and her Toaster have an intimate relationship, or so it seems to me, which is why I instantly fell in love with her!

She looks grumpy but classy, chic but ragged and just downright "who gives a poop!"

STAMPING WITH THE DRAGON....

A FIRST HAPPY NEW YEAR'S CHALLENGE
AND

FRAMES CHALLENGE

You can pick up your own design from The Dragon's Lair Designs and give your hand to this fun HAPPY NEW YEAR'S FRAMES Challenge. There are many fantastic images and papers at the Store. Just before the holidays, I could not resist the papers and their fantastic sale and chose almost every single paper design!

SENTIMENTAL SUNDAY'S KICK OFF BLOG HOP!

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S

FROM SENTIMENTAL SUNDAY'S

IF THESE CARDS COULD TALK...(me)

Well, we have a big treat for you today! Not only is there SURPRISE CANDY AND LOTS OF IT ALL PACKAGED UP FOR YOU BY THE DESIGNERS AND HIDDEN to celebrate the Sentimental Sunday's 2012 New Year's Day Blog Hop and New DT Team - yes CANDY (to qualify you MUST leave a comment and become a follower - just let me know if you are already a follower of mine in your comment,) "YOU" are participating in.....drum roll please....

....The first Blog Hop of 2012

LITTLE MISS MUFFET CHALLENGES....

Has the most adventurous stamps! I first was turned on to Little Miss Muffet stamps (digi for me) a few months ago when I saw this Zena Girl holding onto a rope swinging through mid-air!

Then I saw this Warrior Woman on the ground in Khaki's looking through binocs scoping down something or someone.

As I looked through their stamps I became more and more impressed with both the variety and the adventure of them. I think you too will love them. This is a new one that has just come out....FREEBIE ALERT - FREEBIE ALERT. Her name is Saffron. Now, you will see, I couldn't help but make "her" a bit of an adventuresome gal too!

FOREVER FRIENDS and SOME GREAT NEWS!

THIS WEEK IS A SKETCH CHALLENGE

AT FOREVER FRIENDS!

Our very own DT Patricia is offering this up as the prize!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS

A WONDERFUL TRIBUTE

I shall say no more...

Image

My last as DT for Stamp-N-Doodle before I became the Company Advisor

Take Note

I myself could not help but to notice "the light" emanating from the left side, almost in the form of a person. This is NOT on my card! I see an arm, body and leg standing over Joseph. It kind of freaked me out in a good way - the way photography can see things the naked eye can not.

Challenges entered

http://stampinsistersinchrist.blogspot.com/ - Happy Birthday

STAMPING WITH (the) DRAGON....

WOW...

WHEN G-D IS IN CHARGE

GREAT THINGS HAPPEN AT "G-D SPEED!"

I am entering a DT call with Stamping With The Dragon. I encourage you to do the same. They are a fantastic company and the people who run it, well you could not find more endearing folk! For my entry, I used 99.99% of their companies products, their frames, their elements, their ribbons, their images, their trinkets, their buttons, their tags, their pearls, their branches etc. save the outside card paper - which was from my stash. There was an endless choice of embellishments to choose from. Stamping With The Dragon has a 40% sale on their products throughout December so it made it quite affordable to purchase the elements I needed to create the card I had envisioned for the project I wanted to submit.

I must say though, I did think about the entry for about a week. The company provided the Digi to use, so that it would be fair to everyone. I let my mind flow openly and this card is where it took me. I hope you like it. I will be so happy for the people they choose as their new Designers, because as you all know - I trust G-d to guide these choices and I completely trust G-d to put me where I need to be 100%!