Almost Friday...

Has this week been long in your world?  It sure seems like it has in mine!  Perhaps it is because I am pretty excited for the weekend.  Abby, Mom, and I have a little of a girls day planned for Saturday and I simply can't wait!  It doesn't matter if we were just all together this past Saturday doing the same thing at the house - it's always a blessing!  The following cards are some little pretties I whipped up for our Church's Prayer Shawl Ministry using the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge sketch!  Love me some TE!  All the pretty papers you see used are from the kits, with the exception of the kraft and white cardstock, which is from PaperTreyInk

Have a great Thursday!!

God Bless You,

What Matters Most...

Good morning!  I'm wondering if your summertime is as hot as mine is here in Eastern Kentucky?

Today my card for i heart{ippity} focuses on the stamp set What Matters Most.  What a great little stamp set it is, and how thought provoking that little title is as well.  As we go through our days, it is so important to remember what truly does matter most!  For me, it is simple - God, family, friends, and my patients matter a great deal to me as well, so I must add work in there...

Be sure to check out the i heart {ippity} blog to see what the other girlies have made for your enjoyment today!

God Bless You,

Merry Monday

If you are needing a little boost to help you out in making your Christmas cards, check out Miss Boo's Color Monday challenge over at Christian Paper Crafts today!  Definately an answer to the lack of MOJO I've been feeling!  Add that with the wonderful sketch from Card Patterns and here is one of my first Christmas cards of the year!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk; Images: PaperTreyInk; Accessories: ribbon, jute, button, lace, Tattered Angels

Glimmer Mist, Fiskars Border Punch)

Have a wonderful day!  I hope your week gets off to a wonderful start!

God Bless You,

*Happy Birthday Daddy*

Today is my Daddy's Birthday!  He really is the best daddy in the world, and I am so blessed to have him as mine!
Being a total girly girl, my daddy always gets the girliest cards from me even though I try not to make them that way...  This is the most masculine card I could sum up for this year!  Of course it may be cheating a little bit since I had to use Halloween colors to pull it off :o)  Ahh, the joys of an October birthday.  And I just had to add some sparkle for the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge this week!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, Misc; Stamps: PaperTreyInk; Accessories: Copics, Button, PaperTreyInk template, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Stickles)

God Bless You,

Welcome to Monday!

Today is my little girl's first day of dance school and we are so excited :o)  She's been talking about it forever and the day has finally come!  I hope and pray it is all she ever dreamed it would be!
Be sure to check out the challenge over at Deedee's Digi's today!  Seasons!  I totally love the change of seasons, especially the season of Fall!
This little guy makes me think of Fall and is available in Deedee's store!  In fact, if it is Fall images you are looking for, you have GOT to check the store out!  (Oh, and the wonderful sketch is from the Paper Works Company!)

(Image: Deedee's Digi; Paper: PaperTreyInk, Cosmo Cricket; Ink: Copics, Misc: Ribbon, Tattered Angel's Glimmer Mist, Button, Jute, Lace)

This next little lovely is some fun colors that totally don't fit in with the Season of Fall!  They look more like Spring or Summer, hehehe, but they are the colors for today's Color Monday over at Christian Paper Crafts!  I decided to combine them with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #85 for this:

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, Misc DP; Ink: PaperTreyInk; Image: PaperTreyInk; Misc:Buttons, ribbon)

God Bless You,

Good Morning

Good Morning!  I can't believe the weekend has went by so quickly.  I feel like I didn't get much accomplished at all because our electricity was out yesterday...ugh!

This morning, I have a couple of little cards for you!  The first one uses Deedee's Digis, and the second is a little something I put together using the MOJO Monday sketch #115.  I hope you enjoy!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk; Ribbn: American Crafts & Cosmo Cricket; Image: Deedee's Digis; Ink: Copics; Misc: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Cuttlebug)

(Paper: PaperTreyInk Misc DP; Image: PaperTreyInk; Ink: Copics; Misc: Cork, ribbon, nestabilities)

God Bless You,

Thankful Thursdays

I seem to always want to title Thursdays posts as Thankful Thursdays!  I'm not sure if it is because the weekend is coming close and that makes me so much more thankful than usual or what!
Today, or should I say tonight when I am typing this LOL, I am thankful to have a moment of internet service in this aggravation of not having consistent service for almost a month now!
Looking at the calender, I see that Christmas is just around the corner and so I decided to use a cute little Deedee's Digi, along with this week's Sunday Sketch and Stamp Sketch to come up with this:

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, misc pp; Image: Deedee's Digis; Ink: Copics; Misc: Cork, lace, ribbon, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Frost)

God Bless You,

Oh Baby Baby...

And before you get any wild ideas - no, we're not having another baby!  It's the wonderful new Baby digis from Deedee's Digis that has me saying that!  You see, I have always dreaded making baby shower cards.  To be honest, I usually *faints* buy them from the store... <---that is how bad I really dislike it!  But with these stamps - I actually made 3...in one night....SUPER easy...no pain to it!
First off, my kind of baby!  Kraft, the vintage feel of Basic Grey paper, some distress ink, an edge distresser, and a homemade flower (Christian Paper Crafts Bible Verse Thursday Challenge)...  Meet Ms. Shabby Chic!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk,BasicGrey; Image:Deedee's Digi;, Ink: Copics, Distress Ink - Tea Stain; Accessories: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Lace, homemade flower, pearl)

Followed by this little number where I placed an image from Deedee's Cuties for a Cure on the onesie!  They are all inchies in that set so it works out perfectly:

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, Basic Grey; Image: Deedee's Digis; Accessories: Jute; Ink: Copics, Distress Ink - Tea Stain)

And last but not least, for all the momma's of boys out there, this little card is made using the same concept as the previous girly card.  Meet little dude:

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, Basic Grey; Ink: Copics, Distress Ink - Tea Stain; Accessories: Jute, cuttlebug; Image: Deedee's Digis)

*All card layouts were inpired by the sketch at CPS this week!

Thank you for stopping by today!

God Bless You,

Monday of Color!

Wow!  You know it really is a Color Monday when the challenge at Christian Paper Crafts AND Crafting with Deedee's Digis are colors...and opposite colors at that LOL!
First up - here is what I came up with for Deedee's Digis:

(Paper:PaperTreyInk; Image: Deedee's Digis; Accessories: Copics, Cuttlebug)

Now, notice the same sketch from Card Positioning Systems, but I changed it up and added the Christian Paper Crafts Colors and a different image!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk; Image: PaperTreyInk; Accessories: Cuttelbug, Jute, Copics)

I hope that beginning of your week is wonderful!

God Bless You,

Merry Christmas &a Pig...Say What?!

Well, I know that it is Summer time, but Christmas challenges seem to be popping up everywhere! Have you noticed it too? I figured that I may as well jump on the band-wagon, that way I would have at least one card done come Christmas time!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, Basic Grey; Ink: Copics, Distress Ink, White Ink; Image: Deedee’s Digis; Accessories: Fiskars Punch, Edge Distressing Tool, CuttleBug Snowflake Embossing Folder, Jute, Buttons, Acetate Sheets)

I decided to combine multiple challenges into this one though! First of all, the Christmas challenge is from The Cuttlebug Spot – notice the snowflake embossing done on kraft and highlighted with a little white ink! The colors, well they are from Color Throwdown #102, so pretty, and although they were chosen to be Summer Colors, I think they worked great for a Cool Winter card. The corners of the card have paper piercing added as a result of the Tuesday Throwdown challenge. And last, but not least, Midnight Madness is responsible for the awesome sketch! If you notice the snowflakes on the card in the corner, my dear friend Candace was looking for some “Ghost Snowflakes by Heidi Swapp”, so I decided to see if I could create them… Not sure if I am happy with them or not LOL It’s sure not something I would be happy enough with to give LOL

Next up is a cute little pig card that I made to go along with a Prayer Shawl that I am working on. The cute little image is from Deedee’s Digis and you can find him in the Dollar Digi bin over there at the Deedee’s Digi’s Store!  The wonderful sketch is from Sweet Sketches.

(Image: Deedee’s Digis; Paper: PaperTreyInk, BasicGrey; Ink: Copics, Distress Ink; Accessories: Ribbon, Prima, Stickles)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

God Bless You,

Mary

Case Artist Day @ CPC

It's Wednesday, so you know what that means, right?  Of course, it's time for the Wednesday CASE Artist over at Christian Paper Crafts!  Today the CPC site is being a tad bit silly, so we are directing everyone to the Creative Blog for the day!

Today's featured artist is Janaria.  Take a peak at that gallery and see what you want to CASE.  I chose and layout as inspiration this week and the card below is what I came up with!  This cute little bear from Deedee's Digis was the perfect touch! I did try to use the color's from the Curtain Call Color Challenge again, because they were just so fun - but had to add in a little splash of blue and purple on the parachute!  :o)

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, BoBunny; Image: Deedee's Digis; Accessories: Nestabilities, Lace, Jute, Buttons, cuttlebug; Ink: Tattered Angel's Glimmer Mist, Copics, Distress Ink - Tea Stain)

Hope your week is absolutely fabulous!

God Bless You,

...Relay Wrap Up...

Tonight is our "Relay Wrap Up" meeting, which also means it is time to start planning again for next year!

I have a little card that fits into a couple of challenges to share with you today:

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, BoBunny; Accessories: Ribbon, Button, Jute, Flower, Pin, Cork, Nestabilities; Stamp: Paper Trey Ink; Ink: Copics, Momento Rich Cocoa, Distress Ink - Tea Stain)

This little number is for the sketch challenge over at Christian Paper Crafts this week and the Stampin Sisters In Christ Challenge!

God Bless You,

...Blowing Kisses...

Jen's Color Challenge over at Christian Paper Crafts for Color Monday is Shades of Brown.  Well, a couple of weeks ago, it was chocolate with celery, which at the time I couldn't find paper that would have been "fresh" celery.  Now that I have, I am not sure which gallery I should upload it to, this week's or the other week LOL!  I definitely think it will go in this week;s - Jen knows I can;t follow some directions well already :o)
This wonderful sketch is from Card Positioning Systems and the colors also fit the color scheme at Curtain Call Color Challenges for the week!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk; Image: Deedee's Digis; Accessories: Ribbon, Copics, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Cuttlebug embossing folders)

Be sure to check out Deedee's Digis for this week's challenge on the Craft Blog!  It is a super fun one!  Plus, my cute little bear on there is a Deedee's digi!

Hope your week is starting off wonderful!

God Bless You,
Mary

...Sparkles...

Everything on my projects sparkle today... 
When I saw the current sketch for Card Positioning Systems, rather than a card, a scrapbook page was the first thing to come to my mind.  Today's Scripture Saturday over at Christian Paper Crafts is Psalms 19:1.  Although I knew the picture I wanted to use for my page, I was unsure on the layout until I found that one!!  I also had to combine it with the Fussy and Fancy Challenge of Scallops, Stitches, and Sparkle!  Such a fun way to remember such a fun vacation!
Here is my page:

(Paper: BoBunny, Accessories: Prima Flower, Lace, Button, Pin, Cork, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist)

Since the CPS and Fussy and Fancy challenges are really geared toward card making, I decided to make a card using these "guidelines" along with one of my favorite Deedee's Digis (and yes, it is "upside down", but I just love it that way for some reason):

(Paper: PaperTrey Ink, BoBunny; Image: Deedee's Digis, Accessories: Copics, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Lace)

Have a wonderful Saturday!

God Bless You,

Woot Woot

I received my grade back from my Statistics midterm and found out I scored 95%!  So excited :o)  Now if the rest of the class goes that good I will be all set!
This week's Fun on Friday over at Christian Paper Crafts is to make something with a monogram.  I decided to make this little number for my home office following the sketch from 2Sketches4You this week:

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, Cosmo Cricket - Girl Friday; Ink: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Distress Ink - Tea Stain; Accessories: glitter letter, ribbon, lace)

Next up is a card I made for MOJO Monday and Digi Doodle Shop - just getting some MOJO on with my scraps, LOL!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, BoBunny - Peacock, Stamps: Ippity - What Matters Most; Ink: Momento - Rich Cocoa, Distress Ink - Tea Stain; Accessories: Copics, ribbon, cuttlebug embossing folder, pearls, jute, button)

And last but not least, I made a scrapbook page for Scrappin' Silhouettes:

(Paper: BoBunny, Misc; Accessories: lace, Cork, Prima Flower)

I just loved our fun time at VBS!  The top pic is me with my Teen Class and the lower one is my hubby and me covered in shaving cream on the day of the VBS Party!

Have a wonderful weekend!

God Bless You,

There's No Place Like Home...

Dorothy said it, and I believe it to be true!  Today's challenge over at Christian Paper Crafts for Bible Verse Thursday is "Home Sweet Home".  Come play along with us and have lots of fun ;o)

My little card is made with Deedee's Digi's, PaperTreyInk Cardstock, Various Designer Paper that I had scraps of, and some lace that's been kissed by a little Glimmer Mist of course!  I added the faux stitching around the embossed layer (this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge) and of course, I admittedly don't like birds, so they are not what brings me comfort, but of course scripture and thoughts of home do (Stampin Sisters In Christ Challenge).  Oh, and I followed the SplitCoastStampers Card Sketch Challenge for this card as well :o)

Hey, it's almost Friday!

God Bless You,

Still Missing the Beach...

Really, you would think I would be over it by now, but I wanna be back at the peaceful beach!

I couldn't resist playing along with some "beachy" themes and accessories to reminisce on our sweet vacation time.  The super images are from Deedee's Digis, and guess what?  Deedee has a Dollar Digi section now!  That is totally awesome, and if you wanna know why, well here is the scoop:  You see, for just a dollar, you get a digi image that you can resize, print, and color as many times as you want.  Now, most of us are guilty for buying the stamps in the dollar bin where we are stuck to the small size the stamp is.  But with these, you can make them as BIG or little as you wish!

(Cardstock: PaperTreyInk, Abbey Road; Image: Deedee's Digis, Accessories: Tattered Angel's Glimmer Mist, Prima Flower, Lacce, Copics, Spellbinder's Nestabilities)

Head on over to the Deedees Digi's Craft Blog to see more ideas with today's stamp and play along with this week's sketch challenge!

My next card once again uses a Deedee's Digi's image - and it's one of my faves - The Flops!  Over at Christian Paper Crafts, today's Color Monday challenge is Royal Blue and white.  Being a Kentucky girl, those colors tend to come naturally, so here is what I can up with:

(Paper: PaperTreyInk, BoBunny; Accessories: cork, prima flower, Stickles, CuttleBug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder)

Over at Kaboodle Doodles, they are having a luau and you should totally go check it out!  Both of my cards fit the theme!  I hope you are having a Blessed Monday!

God Bless You,

Sweet Sunday Summertime

Well, another VBS has come and gone, but the kids AND adults are saying this is the best one ever...  I don't think it could have anything to do with me wiping a couple of stores clean of Barbasol shaving cream, could it?  ;)
Welcome to the Craft Blog today! I'm Mary, but you would probably know me better by Softangelkisses since that is the name of my blog and the name I use mostly in the crafting world! My little card today is made with one of Deedee's cute little bears and I just fell in love with him! I hope you do too!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk and Cosmo Cricket-The Boyfriend; Ribbon: Offray; Image: Deedee's Digis Leap of Faith; Flower: Prima; Misc: Button, Jute, Copics, Dawn McVey Download from PTI)

Hopefully this will be a restful and relaxing Sunday since we are all headed back to work tomorrow!!
 
God Bless You,

Super Soaker Saturday

Today is our VBS wrap up party and we are so excited to be "plotting" against Water Woman!  HEROs week has been so much fun!
Today is Scripture Saturday over at Christian Paper Crafts and our verse today is Psalms 98:4.  Here is the most joyful noise to my ears:

(Papers: BoBunny, lace, twine, prima flowers, button, pin, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Cork Tag, American Crafts Glimmer letters)

Come on over and play along!

God Bless You,

Monday Already...

As I sit at home typing this, the dreading thought of "Monday already"... pops into my head!  I am very thankful to be alive and well (although I realize it does not sound very evident in that thought), but I am trudging to work today while my hubby and little girl are enjoying the day at home :o(
I am excited to FINALLY be sharing my Scripture Saturday page with you - just a couple of days late!  I had a picture in my mind of how I wanted to do the page and would not stop until I got it that way!

It's my sweet little one on her first trip to the beach - All done in BoBunny Line with some primas, ribbon, lace, and a cork journaling tag (homemade).

Next up is for Color Monday at Christian Paper Crafts!  I love playing along with the colors, even if  I don't get them exactly right, it gives me a springboard to start from!  Today's colors were brown and celery.  Well, since I could not find any green that could be considered "celery", just consider this celery that has been left in the bottom drawer of the fridge for a few days too many!

(Cardstock: PaperTreyInk, Stamp: PaperTreyInk, Ribbon, lace, twine, Cuttle Bug embossing folder, PTI Tag Die)

Have a wonderful Monday!

God Bless You,