dannisdoodles

Baby Showers 'R' Us

no, not me, giggle.  I have to finish the decorations for the baby shower tomorrow, so this will be a real quick post UNLESS I get more accomplished than I expect....in which case, I'll be back with some more to share with all of you.

I hope this finds you, all, having a beautiful week.  With everything going on globally and here locally, well it's important to count our blessings, our health, our loved ones, our faith, really what more do we ACTUALLY need?  Okay maybe food, but with the other blessings, that too, we'll figure it out.  God Bless each and EVERY one of you and your families.  I thank you for your friendship, i am so blessed.

I have a layout to share with you before heading off to baby booties and goodies...giggle

This is my DT work for RandomChaos this week.

The challenge:

this weeks challenge is to use at least 10 stickers---letter stickers do NOT count on your layout!

(every little bit of color on my layout is a sticker, no patterned paper on this one ☺)

Us layout

 

 

I'm off to play with baby goodies, sigh, it's rough but someone has to do it.....giggle!  Have a great day!

hugs & love to all of you!

danni

They won!

The Wolves won again this week and it was faaaaaaabulous!  Buh had 2 touchdowns, one a kick-off return, it was AWESOME and I am glowing for him!

I am very excited and honored to have been asked to join amazingly talented cardmakers on a fun new site called Cardalcious. Since cardmaking is my passion, as explained inthispost, I am so honored and thankful to participate in such an incredibly exciting new adventure.  Thank you Janelle & Renee for this incredible opportunity. 

I also received some wonderful email news this morning, but I can't share yet, but I am feeling so blessed today, thank you, so much for the opportunity all!

I have participated in an on-line crop this weekend for card makers over @ CMK this weekend in honor of WorldCardMakingDay.  If you haven't been over there yet, you need to check here to sign-in and a chance to win the grand prize for signing in, here for the first challenge, here for the second challenge and here for the third challenge.  All the challenges were organized by Dani & Shanna and sponsored by BoBunny & PinkPaislee and they are incredibly awesome, your sure to have tons of inspiration and fun!

This card is for challenge #3:

the challenge:

find an inspiration piece in the world around you and use it to create a card! We want you to share a photo or link of what's inspired you and come post it here as well as your fabulous card!

(this is my inspiration piece)

 

and here's my card:

 

 

This is my card for challenge #2

Challenge: Create a card Using this Sketch: (provided by Shanna)

Here's my Card:

 

 

And last, but certainly not least, is my card for challenge #1

The challenge:

Here is the first challenge for you…Create a Tri Fold card!

And here is my card for the challenge:

  

I hope you'll find time to come and play!  Have a great rest of the weekend!

hugs & love!

danni

World Card Making Day

is here, world card making day is here!

 

This is a holiday for you, for me, for ANY & ALL who are hopelessly addicted to this passion we call card making.....giggle.  I don't believe I've ever shared with you why, why I create and love to create cards and why it continues to hold such a special, special place in my soul.  I began creating cards 15 years ago, after receiving a gift from my grandmother.  A gift for Christmas.  A gift from her.  It was a set of stamps, markers and embossing items (it's all they had back then), so that I could create the cards to send to her instead of having to buy them.  (The gift was actually purchased by my mother and she picked everything out, but it was with the idea in-mind to do so)  My grandmother.  A woman, who lived 2 states away from me and whom, if I was lucky, I was able to see once a year.  BUT, she was my soul.  I KNEW her, I LOVED her and I MISS her more than I can begin to tell you.  I wrote to her, religiously, 2-3 times a week, sharing every big and little thing and she KNEW me.  She would write back and I'd feel like a kid on Christmas, I could hardly wait to open the letter, and while turning it over and over in my hands, would finally do so.  I would read those letters and "feel" her, "feel" my heritage, "feel" my soul.  She's my grandmother and I miss her so much it hurts.  So in honor of this wonderfully "inspiring" holiday, in honor of our passion, regardless of it's origins, here's to WorldCardMakingDay, PaperCraftsMagazine, to YOU, the sweetest friends ever, and to Grandma!

Some of the cards will be "quick & easy" cards.  I usually share my more elaborate cards on my blog, but I L♥VE to create "quick & easy" cards too.  I L♥VE to have these on-hand or to give them as gift assortments. In honor of a day of cards and sharing ideas, I have shared both styles for the upcoming seasons.

(The pics of my cards are not as bright as I like them to be, we've had overcast weather all week.  I am sorry)

Merry Christmas Card

this card was created for the sketch over @ TripletheSketch in partnership with ScrapbookNews&Review 

This card was created with Pink Paislee Vintage Moon, My Mind's Eye Strip, Glitz Bling, Melissa Frances glittered chipboard, Creative Cafe & Autumn Leaves buttons, Making Memories 3-D sticker, Melissa Frances trim, cuttlebug & twine from supply.

 

 

Giving Our Hearts this Christmas Card

this is the card I created for PaperCraftsMagazine for WorldCardMakingDay and it is on the world card making day website.

 

Autumn Is....Card

I created this card with bazzill, cuttlebug, Martha Stewart punch, K & Co. bling, Reminisce & SEI patterned papers

 

 

Happy Birthday to You Card

I created this card with October Afternoon Hometown, Bazzill, Cuttlebug, American Crafts chipboard frame, Marcella by K sticker embellies, Autumn Leaves button, DMC embroidery thread, Heidi Grace Stamps, Martha Stewart Twill & American Crafts rub.

 

 

Season's Greetings Card

I created this one with the cuttlebug, bazzill, Pink Paislee Vintage Moon, Cuttlebug die, Glitz bling & Deja Views rub

 

 

holiday joy card

I created this card with Bazzill, Pink Paisle Pop Fashion, My Mind's Eye chipboard, Melissa Frances glittered chipboard, Making Memories tiny alphas, glitz bling & Autumn Leaves button

 

 

Happy to Birthday To You Card

I created this card with October Afternoon Hometown, Scrappy Cat stamps, Autumn Leaves buttons, wire from craft supply, American Crafts rub, Martha Stewart twill and cuttlebug

  

 

I hope you, all, have a wonderful, fun & creative day today.  We'll be at son's football game and I am very excited and prayerful it will be a fun and uneventful day!  I'll be checking in everywhere when I get spare moments and hope to create when we are done tonight!

hugs & so much love!

danni

 

One more day

until WorldCardMakingDay, and it's sure to be so much fun!  There's an amazingly inspiring BlogTour too that will be so much fun to take tomorrow, I just know there will be incredibly awesome projects to behold.

I have NOT forgotten about the World Card Making Day magazine RAK, sorry I didn't post last night, didn't finish baking pies until laaaaaate! 

Anyways, J.C. drew a name for me this morning and he drew:  Leigh

Leigh said:

Love your cards, Danni!
I'll try to make a card-- maybe a thank you card in honour of Thanksgiving being the following week (in Canada ;) ).

I hope you do Leigh and that ALL of us find time to make at least one card for this special day.  Please send me your snail mail and I'll get your magazine in the mail to you right away.  (Thank you Paper Crafts Mag. for the magazine)

I will NOT be here most of the day tomorrow.  My son has another football game, GO WOLVES, GO PANTHERS (wink, Lea) and so I'll schedule the post and it will have all the cards I created for this fun day.  Some were time consuming and others were quick ones, because I L♥VE both and NEED both.  So, I thought it a fun time to show both.

I will wait to show the cards until tomorrow, but I do have a couple of peeks, just for the fun of it. (Please forgive that the pics are NOT as bright as usual, it's been cloudy all week here)

 

 

 

Want to see more?  Well, I really, really want to share more, but not 'till tomorrow, yep that's the rebel I am......giggle.....sleep, danni, sleep! 

hugs & so much love to ALL of you! 

danni

World Card Making Day RAK

posted here and you have until Thursday to get your name in for a chance to win a copy of Cards,Gifts&More (paper crafting 3 ways).  I'll have J.C. draw a name on Thursday, so please make sure to get your name in onthispost to be eligible to win a copy.  WorldCardMakingDay is this Saturday, October 4th, hope you'll join in on all the fun! Lots of inspiration on the BlogTour too!

I created a card for Kazan's sketch over @ 2Sketches4You today.  I am getting in the mood and checking the calendar for all the holiday cards that need to be created in such a short period, I'll start today....will you be joining me?  What a great week to get started.  I'd love to see ALL your Christmas creations, so link back here if you begin this journey with me, k?

holiday greetings card

i created this one with my October Afternoon Hometown collection, My Mind's Eye pp, American crafts chipboard, Deja Views rub, Prima floral, Martha Stewart twill, Bazzill Just the Edges, Creative Cafe & Autumn Leaves buttons & Glitz bling.

 

 

I hope you, all, have a wonderful Tuesday!

hugs & so much love!

danni

(Updated) They redeemed themselves...

Can you believe it's going to be October on Wednesday, am I the ONLY one or did September, Labor Day and the sort just get here?  I can NOT believe that it's going to be October, truly.  In honor of October and Halloween, Janelle over @ RandomChaos challenged us this week to create something, anything, Halloween-themed.  It could be a card, layout OR altered project.  THIS is fun and the DT knocked it out, you HAVE to see all these amazing creations, you're sure to have tons of ideas.

I created an altered band-aid tin for this week, one filled with little wrapped chocolates, (it's actually what got me started on my Christmas ones as shown in a previous post, I just couldn't share this one yet...giggle) So we really hope you'll join us this week and have fun with Halloween!  Can't wait to see what you do!

boo altered band-aid tin

(i used a provo craft band-aid tin, Hallo Palooza paper by Jeff Goodsell, October Afternoon Hometown, Melissa Frances glittered star, Pink Paislee alphabet stickers, Bazzill Just the Edges Strips, K & Co. little spider, My Mind's Eye glittered Halloween Chipboard, Autumn Leaves button, Martha Stewart Twill, Bazzill Trim & Ribbon)

eeeeek, i remembered the supply list, good start to the next 100 posts right?  giggle!

 

 

 

OH!  World Card Making Day is THIS Saturday, October 4th.  In celebration with Paper Crafts Magazine, I am giving away an issue of one of their recent publications Cards,Gifts&More(paper crafting 3 ways). All you have to do is leave a comment on this post as to whether or not you plan to create a card in honor of world card making day and if so, what theme will you pick?  I'll have J.C. draw a name on Thursday, October 2nd and send you a copy of this amazing publication.  Thank you Paper Crafts for sending an additional publication for me to share with one of my readers!!!

I created a card for PaperCraftsMagazine  for World Card Making Day, mine is a Christmas card.  I also created a Christmas card for the sketch that TripletheSketch will sponsor for World Card making Day on ScrapbookNews&Review (when I can show my card and get more details on that, I will update, but will leave you with a peek, cause that's the rebel I am.....giggle)

 

Have a wonderful Monday!

They redeemed themselves yesterday, the Wolves that is!  YAY!  We won the game 82-36.  The young ones got to play a lot too, it was so cool!!!  Our offense is ranked one of the highest in the state, we score a LOT of points in every game, they are really amazing to watch and then to see the second-string offense score at-will too was very cool.  Quarterback's quote was: "No wonder it's hard to score against them in practice, they really are THAT good, wow!"  and they were.  My son who plays 1st-string defensive back and subs in at wide receiver, played well, he started really slow (in my opinion) he didn't make errors just seemed like it wasn't all popping (at least to me) but then he came up with a big reception and interception and a stop on 3rd down that were VERY helpful.  So, like always is the case in sports, you're always remembered by your last at-bat (can you tell softball was my sport?....giggle)  So he picked it up and I was a proud momma, so very, very happy for him, he ♥s this sport!

Thank you, ALL, for your well-wishes for him and his team, it's really special to share this with you.

I have missed my 1st on-line crop @ CMK this year and I am really bummed but we just weren't going to be home to have time to complete the various challenges.  I hope everyone had THE BEST time with it, created lots and raised lots of $ for an incredible CAUSE.  We, too, have friends locally fighting this awful disease and are having a benefit dinner next month to help with medical expenses for a dear friend, God BLESS all those fighting, you are truly AMAZING warriors and I pray for you!

I have created a couple of cards last week that I hadn't had time to post yet.

Hi Card

Used the new Webster's papers on this, Glitz design Rub (love you lea ;) ), cuttlebug "hi" and some fall foliage from craft supply

 

 

The next card is a quick one using some scraps, i l♥ve using my scraps up, i l♥ve notecards and this one fits the bill.

Hi Card

I created this one with October Afternoon Hometown papers, Melissa Frances trim, Creative Cafe & Autumn Leaves buttons, cuttlebug die, DMC floss, threading water punch, & craft wire.

 

 

OH! OH! OH! I want to thank Laura, Kazan and all the DT over @ 2Sketches4You and their sponsor ShortCuts cards for the incredible sketch this week.  I just found out that my card was chosen as one of the FAB 5 and I am truly honored and thankful.  Their sponsor is so generous, they are giving an assortment to the FAB 5 also and I look soooo forward to using their clear card assortment, thank you so very, very much!  HUGE congrats to the other 4 ladies whose AMAZING cards were chosen, Anja, Ashley, Camellae, and Linda.  HUGE congrats to Carina whose card was selected as card of the week, a truly amazingly whimsical and fun card!!! 

AND the drawing for the RAK....

Robin drew the name for me (he loved this and swirled his hand around the bowl until I finally had to ask him to just pick a name....giggle) and he drew: Rae

Rae said: Hip hip hooray on your 100th post Danni ~ looking forward to your next 100!! :)
You know that I love your blog, and blogs like yours... full of amazing eye candy... beautiful & inspiring work, which in turn inspires me! I also like to see supply lists, in case I totally fall in ♥love♥ with a product I see and know that I neeeeed to own it myself. I also like to learn new 'tips', and am always amazed to learn of the sometimes most basic things that some paper crafters do, that I never would have thought of doing myself. Keep up the amazing inspriation my friend :)

ALL the comments were so uplifting and fun to read.  You, all, have inspired me to consider some additions to my blog, things I didn't think of (like supply lists, for example) and so in the next 100 posts ;) hopefully we'll see some new ideas brought to life.  Thank you ALL for your love, friendship and support in this first 100 posts I am so blessed!

Rae, please send me your snail mail and I'll get the stamps to you right away.  Thank you, all, for your incredibly sweet notes, celebrating with me, sharing your likes in a blog with me and for being YOU!  i am blessed!

Have a blessed week!

hugs & much love!

danni

(Updated) 100th post & A RAK

today!!!

I am very happy to report that THIS is my 100th post, happy because I am a quiet mommy, one who wasn't sure she'd be able to do the whole "blogging" thing and be fairly "consistent" with it, or that I'd enjoy it, but thanks to ALL of YOU, I ♥ it!!! In celebration of my  100th post, I will be giving away a RAK on Sunday night!  What's the RAK?  Well it's a brand new set of MakingMemoriesClearCardMakingStamps.  I LOVE my set and KNOW you'll love them too!  So, what do you have to do to be entered?  Just leave a message stating what you look for in your favorite blogs.  Is it pics, journaling, project pics, tutorials, favorites, links, RAK's....anything, the sky's the limit, just what you LOVE in your favorite blogs.  Am I researching?  Not really, just would love reading your thoughts.  I LOVE lots of blogs and for so many different reasons, but my favorites ALWAYS have a little personal update, whether it's faith-related, family-related, book-related, craft-related, favorite findings-related, just a little tidbit to "feel" your friends, KWIM?  Anyways, tell me yours, what do you look for?  I will have one of the wee babes draw a name Sunday night.  You have until 8:00 p.m. to post a message to be entered (they HAVE to get their rest...giggle)

I have created a couple of creations using my Webster'sPages sigh, you KNOW how I feel about these delicious papers, WELL they go perfectly with my "autumn mood" and so I created a couple of cards with these papers today.  I know, first Christmas, now Autumn, well, they are so diverse when I look at them, haven't had that in a LONG time with a line.

Happy Birthday Card

 

 

Fall Memories Card

 

 

Sneak Peak of my Card we created for a TripletheSketch sketch for WorldCardMakingDay, hope you'll join us in all the fun!

Thanks for visiting me today and for all your comments that always make my day such a happy and uplifted one!  Have a blessed day!!!

hugs & much love!

danni

A new week

 and hopefully a new game. The Wolves lost the football game, BIG TIME. I am so sad to report this, breaks my heart actually.   There were some guys on the field that played their guts out, while others "took plays off" (coaches quote, not mine)  It sure showed.  I was very, very proud of Buh.  He played his guts out, not error-free, but that's to be expected with a freshman, but only 1 big error this game, he let a guy get behind him on his coverage and he burned them for a lot of yards, but he sat out while 3 more touchdowns were scored and came back in like an animal.  That's what it's all about and I was proud.  He is incredibly fast, the fastest guy in the league (no, I don't know where he gets it, but ALL my boys are that fast, must've been the salads....giggle) and he not only knocked down everything his way, he helped cover the other side and run things down on the opposite coverage.  It sure made his mom proud to see him "pick it up" and not "hang his shoulders", that's what sports teaches us right?  Get back up!

I have a couple of cards and some DT work to share today, I know I have been M.I.A., I am very sorry, I have had obligations for hubby and the teachers that I had to get to first before I could "blog"...giggle. 

The first today is DT work for sketch #25 over @ TripletheSketch this week.  You HAVE to see what all the DT did with this sketch, truly very, very cool stuff.

so thankful card (anniversary, love or just because)

 

 

The next creation was DT work for RandomChaos this week.

The challenge:

this weeks challenge:

use :

*ribbon

*2 photos

*at least 2 peices of chipboard

 

(I like the challenge because I got to use some ribbon "scraps" I had been hoarding for a bit, too small for cards but PERFECT for this challenge)

aren't they just tweet? layout

  

The next is a tin I created with my favorite Webster's pages.  I know these aren't "traditional" Christmas papers, but I completely ♥ the colors in these lines and love to make non-traditional Christmas cards too.  (my personal favorites are red and green but I have lots of recipients who like non-traditional)

happy holidays tin

(love to create these filled with wrapped mini-bars and gift cards, chocolate and gift cards, anything sweeter? giggle)

 

The next are some fun cards for the upcoming holidays, a couple based on some of the wonderful sketches out there.

The first is my take on the sketch over @ 2Sketches4You this week.  Laura's sketch and the DT are all using "transparent cards" from  ShortCuts (I haven't worked transparent cards or have the supplies for it, though I need to get some...smile, so I just used the sketch to create a "fall-themed" card)

Autumn Card

 

I created a couple of cards from the "scraps" on my desk.  I am now going to create a set of these for the teachers for the kids....

 

And finally, a quick card inspired by the sketch over @ SketchThisCards this week.  This, too, was made with my scraps on my desk.....gotta love using up any/all scraps.  This was such a quick one, but it's got a cuuuuuute Martha owl, oh I love cuuuuute owls (insert big-grin smiley)

halloween card

I hope you, all, are having a wonderful week.  I hope you are enjoying the beginning of autumn (my favorite time of year)

hugs & so much love!

danni

A driving we will go

a driving we will go, high ho the dairy-o, a driving we will go.  A football game we will go, a football game we will go, he'll catch a pass, we'll smile young lass, a football game we will go.

S.L.E.E.P is overrated!  giggle, sorry to subject you to my tired self.

I am doing laundry, omgosh laundry, packing, cooking and baking to leave in the morning for Buh's football game.  We have a 6 1/2 hour drive just to get there, yep, not a typo....giggle.  BUT, we will have food, games and smiles in our hearts as we travel on our merry little path.  We are undefeated and we play a team this weekend that was the state runners-up last year (could've easily won, we saw that game) and they, too, are undefeated.  This is the "grudge-match", the "game of the week" the "scare the omgosh out of momma" kinda game.  I.AM.BRAVE......think this will calm my nerves?  Nah, me neither. 

GO WOLVES!

I have a card I'd like to share today.  I was incredibly inspired, as I always am, with Betsy's blog, I just love her style, she's absolutely amazing,  make sure to check out all the yumminess, truly you'll sit loving it all, I know I do. 

Anyways, her challenge was: So, my challenge to you is to create something seasonal from a non-seasonal product. 

Sound easy?  Well, it was in all honesty, but only because I've been wanting to create this little guy since opening my Webster's papers and just had to wait a wee bit until DT work and pub mailings were finished.  I got to the challenge, late posting it, but it's okay, it got me going on him.  Thank you Betsy for all the inspiration and beauty you share with us!  hugs!

season's greetings card

using my the new Webster's lines, you KNOW, by now how I feel about these....giggle

 

 

Have a wonderful weekend!  OH! Lea I am thinking of you and Casey!  GO PANTHERS!

hugs & love!

danni

 

World Card Making Day

is coming! World Card Making Day is coming!

 

(Below is copied from the WorldCardMakingDaySite )

WHAT

World Card Making Day is a holiday especially for card makers around the world to:

Celebrate the creativity of handmade cards and the personal connection that they create between friends and family

Kick off (and get a head start on) the holiday card-making season

WHEN

The first Saturday of each October, kicking off the holiday card-making season, the most popular time for creating and sharing handmade greetings.

WHO

The card-making community worldwide, including hobbyists, beginning card makers, manufacturers of card-making products, retail sellers of products, educators, and press are invited to come together to celebrate this holiday and creative passion.

WHY

It is a day to connect with fellow card makers both near and far, to applaud the creativity that powers the craft, and to provide an opportunity for card makers to connect and find resources that will empower, inspire, and encourage them in their card making.

HOW

Use this site to find unique ways to celebrate this holiday, including:

Creating your own handmade cards from the dozens of sponsored ideas in the Inspiration Avenue section

Sharing your unique designs with the world in the Creation Corner gallery

Finding and visiting an Official World Card Making Day Retailer

Discovering many fun activities in the Celebrate section

Should be oh so much fun!  MyCard for the site is a Christmas one.  I am so excited to see all the amazing inspiration that will be filling the pages!

Hope you are having a wonderful week.  The Wolves won their game last Saturday, woooo hooooo! It was incredible and I'll blog more about it a wee bit later!

hugs & much love!

danni