Easter Release

Evening all!

Has the weekend started for you all yet? Mine certainly has, although I will probably spend in on the couch feeling all sorry for myself because I caught the flu! Great......actually this WAS perfect timing for once, as I just finished my scrapbook of our holiday to New York last year (yay!) and this lovely card:

The reason I am showing you this card today, is because the image I used is part of the Treasured Times New Release for Easter, there's a whole bunch of cute new images to choose from; some specifically for Easter, others less so. To celebrate this new release, our fearless leader Jody is offering some fantastic prizes; 10 prizes of one of the new release images! More information on the Inspirational Blog and our Facebook page.

Materials:
* Emo Angel (designed by Jehanne Silva-Freimane), coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique Paper Lace Doily
* Papermania Summer Bloom DP
* Memories Direct Flowers
* Washi tape around the image (what a nightmare, it kept getting unstuck!)
* Brads from stash

Challenges:
* Kaboodles Doodles (Dreaming of Spring) 29-3
* Cupcake Inspirations (Garden) 29-3
* Pile It on (Pretty Hair) 29-3
* Whoopsi Daisy (Welcome Spring) 30-3
* 4 Crafty Chicks (Spring) 1-4
* ABC Challenge (H is for Hair) 30-3
* Stampin' for the Weekend (Spring Colours) 10-4
* A Creative Romance (Spring Flowers) 11-4
* Created with Love (Girly) 29-3
* Sassy Studio (Pretty Pastels) 2-4

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Tea Party

Good evening everyone!

A scheduled post from me this time, as I am visiting my parents this weekend,but wanted to share with you that a new challenge has started today @ Treasured Times, again with the theme of "LAYERING". I've used a Christine Young image of Paper Nest Dolls fame this time, you can find here. While digging in my stash I also found this fun sentiment stamp, which worked perfectly with this card I think! Hope to see your lovely creations at the challenge :)

Materials:
* Teddy's Tea Party digi by Christine Young, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park &  Papermania Birdsong DPs, plus some scraps
* MS Doily Lace punch
* Washi Tape, Flowers from stash
* Hot Off the Press You're Tea-rrific sentiment stamp

Challenges:
* Flourishes (It's a Wash) Yellow Chevron Washi tape
* Digi Sketch Challenge (Cute)
* Digi Choosday (All About the Girl)
* As You Like It (Favourite colour medium & Why) Spectrum Noirs, love the colouring results, the price and that you can refill the pens!
* Aud Sentiments (Anything Goes)
* CCEE Stampers (Snacks)
* Cute Card Thursday (Girls, Girls, Girls)
* MilkCoffee (At least 2 Flowers)
* Crafter's Cafe (Flowers)
* Hobbybook (Make It Girly)

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Birthday Boy

Hello all,

While everyone is busy celebrating Carnaval over here, I am having a little crafty holiday :) Perhaps I will finally get around to do some scrapping this time, we'll see!

Today I have a card to share with you, though, linking up with a new challenge and stamp release party over @ Treasured Times:

We're giving away a full set of digis of the new releases, a 20 dollar gift certificate to the store and 3 packages of Vintage Trinkets to one winner. The winner will be chosen on March 9th by random drawing. to be eligible for the prizes you must comment on the new release, follow the blog and like us on Facebook. You can have a look at the new release using this link.

With regard to our challenge, our theme this time is "LAYERING". Any creation goes, but you have to show us some layering.

The DT have all used the same image from the new release, Birthday Owen drawn by Christine Young:

Materials:
* Birthday Owen by Christine Young, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy True Blue & Papermania Bird Song DPs
* Hely Cupperditch Special Delivery Twine
* sentiment stamp

Hope to see you and your creations at our release party!

Challenges:
* Passion for Promarkers (Make it Digital)
* Penny's Papercrafty Challenge (Guys and Girls)
* Card Makin' Mamas (Stack It Up)
* Delicious Doodles (One for the Boys)
* The Squirrel and the Fox (Something Spooled) Twine
* Totally Gorjuss (Happy Birthday)
* Suzy Bee (Make It Masculine)
* Incy Wincy (Birthdays)
* Simply Create Too (Shop in Your Stash) I've had these DPs forever, found them in the snippets box
* Marker Pop (Anything Goes)

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Layered Ice Cream

Woohoo, it's the weekend!

And boy, was I ready for it! A very busy week with lots of meetings, travel and social events, so I am happy to be able to sleep in and do absolutely nothing for a bit. Maybe I will do a bit of crafting today, there are several years worth of holiday photos waiting for me to get scrapped (including our honeymoon!), but I never get around to it. We will see :)

First, though, there is another challenge @ Treasured Times that I wanted you to know about. This week, we are "Layering" it up, so we want to see your layered creations. I decided to use some DP scraps, paper piecing and faux layering (I ran a Promarker around the image's edges, creating the illusion of another layer underneath the image) for this theme. All the DT girls used the same summery image, a welcome change to more wintery cards  :)

Materials:
* Ice Cream Annie digi by Rosa Silva, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Silver Stickles
* Echo Park For the Record DPs
* Inkadinkado Fun in the Sun mini stamp set & Black Soot Distress Ink
* Rounded corner punch

How about you come and join the party?

Challenges:
* Whoopsi Daisy (Include a Sentiment)
* Top Tip Tuesday (Girly)
* Creative Fingers (Anything Goes)
* Card Makin' Mamas (Make It Sparkle)
* One Crazy Stamper (Anything Goes)
* Cards Galore Encore (Add a Gem, or glitter, or Candi or any bling) I've added glitter/bling (Stickles)
* Color Me Creative (Anything Goes)
* A Creative Romance (Let's Get Sentimental)
* Bloggers Challenge (Use 2 or more patterned papers)
* Sister Act (Anything Goes)

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Sending You Speedy Love

Hello everyone,

Oh dear, the first month of the year is over already, where does the time go? Looking back, it was a busy month, with lots of deadlines and internees at work but also the start of our lovely tradition to go the sneak preview at our local cinema each week. All in all a pretty good month :)

Anyway, the first of the new month also means a new challenge @ Treasured Times. Thank you if you participated in our last challenge btw, it's fantastastic to see all your lovely projects! Hope you can join in this time too, our challenge theme is "VALENTINE ANYTHING GOES", so whatever style of Valentine project you have, you can play along!

I am sharing my card today, which I loved so much it's going to be my hubs' Valentine's card :) The DT girls all used Thomas Love on the Road, drawn by Erica Nicomedi. It's such a wonderful image, whether on its own or in a scene as I have created.

I actually made the trees in the background using a larger Christmas Tree stamp and a bit of masking. Works a treat!

Materials:
* Digi = Thomas Love on the Road by Erica Nicomedi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* EMP Vintage DPs
* DCWV The Glitter Stack Brights CS and some purple CS scraps
* Anna Griffin Letters & Borders, We R Memorykeepers Love Struck Cupid and Eline's Winterhuis Jingle Bells stamps
* Seedless Preserves & Forest Moss Distress Ink
* Sew Easy Pinecone Floss
* Sakura Glitter gel pens
* Heart gems & ribbon from stash

So if you are working on your Valentine's Day projects, come and link up with us :)

Challenges:
* Shopping Our Stash (Cabin Fever)
* Passion for Promarkers (Anything Goes)
* Little Miss Muffet (Luuuuuuuurve)
* I Love Promarkers (Love is in the Air)
* Sweet Pea Stampers (Love)
* Aud Sentiments (Sharing the Love)
* C.R.A.F.T. (Love/Valentines)
* Scrap Cards (Valentijn en/of Harten)
* Natalie & Amy (Love is All Around)
* City Crafter (Love Story)

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Hello Cupcake!

Hi all,

What a busy week this has been! Lots of meetings and deadlines at work, Saturday shopping with my friend, Sunday cooking (wanted to try something new, but boy was it fiddly!), Monday going to the movies with the hubs (sneak preview of Jack Ryan, can't really recommend it unfortunately); I can hardly remember the days that led up to this one! However, it really is Wednesday evening again and that means a new Treasured Times Challenge! 'ANYTHING GOES' this time, so come on over and share your lovely projects! The winner will get two digis of their choice from the Treasured Times store :) Here's my make:

I pimped a little notebook that I wanted to use for keeping track of upcoming challenges. This is my first attempt at ribbon pleating, I found it pretty difficult to get it all even and straight, but I am pretty happy about this first try.

Materials:
* Digi: Magda by Julie Santiago, coloured with Spectrum Noirs & Promarkers
* Papermania Sweet Nothings DP
* Seedless Preserve Distress Ink
* Petaloo Flora Doodles Flowers
* Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique Wooden Sentiments, coloured with a marker to match the colour scheme
* Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Created with Love (Color Challenge: Pink and Purple)
* Allsorts (Use Ribbon, but no Bows)
* Suzy Bees (Cute and Sweet)
* Incy Wincy (Add Texture)
* Craft Your Passion (Cool Colours)
* Polka Doodles (Anything Goes/Girly)
* Diva's by Design (Use Ribbon)
* Natalie & Amy (One for the Girlies)
* Muse Challenge (Inspiration by Muse's card) I've used the cupcake theme
* CMC Copic Challenge (Anything Goes)

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Love on the Brain

Good afternoon everyone!

Christmas and New Year's Eve are just behind us, but at Treasured Times we are already looking forward to the next one: Valentine's Day! This new release is all about love, leaving you plenty of time to create some projects with your nearest and dearest in mind.

We are also hosting a blog hop, so have a look at all the lovely creations our DT made

Monica Edwards 

Beverly Steele 

DanGina Martinez 

Carol Salisbury 
Patricia Chalas

Ciska Reilly (that's me!)

Dawn Bennett 

Lori Ann Daniel Martinez
Nadja Robbins 

I've used Suzie Mailing Love by Erica Nicomedi, such a cute little image and not difficult to colour in either. I love those little pigtails!

Materials:
* Suzie Mailing Love by Erica Nicomedi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park & Authentique Remembrance DPs
* Cart-us Border Die
* Memories Direct Paper Flower
* Wooden Butterflies from local store (Xenos)
* Ribbon and flower gem from stash

Challenges:
* Natalie & Amy (One for the Girlies)
* ABC Challenge (C is for Colourful)
* Mema's Crafts Challenge (Bingo) I've used the diagonal row lower left-upper right (digi/rubber stamp, punches or dies, free, pearls or bling)
* I Love Promarkers (Frame It)
* Digi Galore (Girly)
* AnMa Creatief (Bingo) Lint, Bruin, Bloemen
* Cards Galore (Anything Goes)
* Addicted to Stamps (Lovely Wishes)
* Polkadoodles (Anything Goes)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Anything Goes)

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Anything Goes in the New Year!

Hi everyone!

Let me start off by wishing you all a very happy and crafty New Year! Have you had  a good Christmas? We were celebrating at my in-laws in Scotland, we had a lovely time . We even had time for a day trip to St Andrews, home of golf. A very nice day walking around town and my hubs even got his picture taken on the bridge on the Old Course (very famous I'm told). It was nice to be back home though and we had a lovely quiet New Year's celebration with some lovely food and drinks, just the two of us.

Now that the new year has started, crafty challenges are starting back up as well, starting with Treasured Times. This one's a pretty good one to ease you back into crafty mode: "ANYTHING GOES".The DT girls have been playing with Happy New Year Girl by Erica Nicomedi for this challenge, here's my card:

Materials:
* Happy New Year Girl by Erica Nicomedi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* DPs scraps from my scrappy shoebox
* Champagne glasses from stamp set,  coloured & Stickles added to the bubbles
* Pearls from stash

What do you say, are you up for getting back in the crafty groove? How about playing along with us, you have a fortnight to work on your project and link it up at the challenge blog!

Challenges:
* Whimsy Stamps (Party Time)
* Pile It On (P is for.....) Party theme, Purple, Pearls
* Let's Craft & Create (Celebrate)
* Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge (Vintage Sparkle)
* Card Mania (Happy New Year)
* Craft Your Passion (Something New) Happy New Year
* Whoopsi Daisy (Celebrations)
* Digi Darla (Inspired by a Song) ABBA - Happy New Year
* Paper Pretties (Ring in the New Year)
* Sassy Studio (Ring in the New Year)

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Have a Glittery Christmas

Hi all,

This is my first challenge as a DT member over at Treasured Times and our theme is "GLITTER". So if you need sun glasses to view your project, this is the challenge for you! I recently bought some bottles of Stickles, which I thought would be perfect to use for this challenge and I was right; the glitter is so sparkly in real life! Too bad it only shows up a little on the photos. All DT members worked with this lovely image by Christine Young, called Letters to the North Pole, such a pleasure to colour! I hope I've inspired you to join our challenge, we're very curious to see where you will take this theme!

Materials:
* Letters to the North Pole image by Christine Young, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Authentique Remembrance DPs
* Seedless Preserve Distress Ink
* Joy Crafts Flower Stem punch
* Golden Rod Stickles
* Gems and twine from stash

Challenges:
* Paper Makeup (Sparkle)
* Incy Wincy (Let it Snow)
* Card Makin' Mamas (Christmas and New Year)
* Digi Haven (Christmas)
* Sweet Pea (Winter Weather)
* Left of Center (Winter or Holidays)
* That Craft Place (Christmas)
* Paper Playtime (Winter Fun)
* Lisa B Design (All that Glitters)
* Sparkle 'n Sprinkle (Anything Goes, Use Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking)

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Some Fun News

Hi all,

I have some great news to share with you (although you might have seen the new badge in de side bar): I've been picked as one of the new DT members for Treasured Times! Woohoo, so excited to get started :) Even though I didn't manage to play along this time, I still wanted to let you know Treasured Times is having a Rubber Stamps Release Party!

Today we are excited to share with you our new line of stamps available at our store Treasured Times Rubber Stamps. All these designs are by the various artists we work with. We hope you enjoy looking at all the wonderful creations our design team had made.

All THE NEW STAMPS being released today are on sale for 6.50 dollars instead of 7.50 dollars.

Jody is offering some wonderful prizes to one lucky winner who comments on EVERY blog. 

Winner will be announced December 8th.

 

  

Now lets go take a look at what the team made for our release party using the new stamps! 

Beverly

Carol 

Monica
Lori Ann

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