Softpencil Studios Sunny Creation

Happy Tuesday all!! I hope your week has started off well. So far so good here!! Only 3 weeks and it will be back to reality - school starts. We are enjoying this time!!

Time to share another card using Sunny from Softpencil Studios . Here's my creation this week I used - Sunny and a Butterfly. I just love how that little butterfly is flying by. It reminds me of a beautiful summer day. 

I used the Tayolored Expressions Key Ingredients kit from May 2011 for all the papers.  

I also wanted to share another creation by Natalie - she spend at whole afternoon crafting with me a week or so ago. Of course she had to use the same images I was. :-) She modeled mult-colored Sunny after her stuffed animal - Rainbow Bunny

I love that she stepped outside the box and didn't worry about making Sunny look like a "real" bunny. She just enjoyed the process!!  I think I could learn from that. 

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges - 

Dream Valley - Summer

One Stitch at A Time - Use a Digi

Pile it On - Cute as can be (BTW - Softpencil is the sponsor)

The Crafty Pad - Things with Wings

As always, I am grateful for you stopping by today!! 

Blessings and Hugs

Happy Birthday Kendra!!!

I can't believe that 11 years ago my life changed in so many amazing and wonderful ways!! My dear daughter Kendra was born. She is becoming a beautiful young lady. My girl is so accepting, understanding and forgiving of others. I love how she does not pass judgment on others. It is just one of her many wonderful qualities.

I wanted to share a layout I finally finished from a few years ago of her and her dad. The paper is from the Summer Soiree line at Faithfully Yours. I am a huge fan of FY since the papers and embelllishments are Christian themed which can be a struggle to find. They make it very easy to include my faith in my scrapbooks!!

Allan and Kendra were heading out to a Girl Scout Me and My Guy dance. When I look at this picture, I really see just how much she has grown up. The one thing that definitely has not changed is her love for our family!!

Faithfully Yours has a lot of wonderful resources for both the beginning and advanced Faithbooker. There are a lot of great ideas of how to include your faith in your day to day scrapping as well. You can also sign up to receive her weekly ezine and daily blog posts. I hope you'll stop over and check it out.

I have really started back into my scrapping again and am enjoying it so much. I'll be posting more of my layouts along with my other projects. 

As always, thanks so much for coming by!! Many Blessings and Hugs!!

Another New Image from Softpencil!!

Time for another fun new image from Softpencil Studios!! Elizabeth created a few new Sunny images and each one is more adorable than the one before. 

For my card this week I used Sunny in a Pile of Pots!! The shaped card is a template from The Cutting Cafe. I just thought they were the perfect match

I had a blast creating this one because my 7yr. old Natalie sat beside me working with the same images I was. Here's her version of Sunny in a Pile of Pots

You'll be seeing a few more her creations over the next few weeks! :-)

Be sure to check out all the other DT girls blogs which are listed on my side bar. Also be sure to like the Softpencil Studios page on Facebook.

I really appreciate you stopping by!! Have a great day!

Blessings and Hugs,

Softpencil Tuesday with a new image!!

Hello my friends!! I am running a bit behind this week. I guess I'm just having too much fun with my girls or is it that I'm spending too much time breaking up the bickering matches?? Honestly it hasn't been bad at all the past few days!! 

Here's my Softpencil Studios creation for this week using the new Ratiny's Dad image. Are these two not adorable??

Rumor has it that some more new images are on their way as well!! Yippeee!!! I love new images!! 

Be sure to check out the rest of the DT gals creations as they are listed on my side bar. You can also visit the Softpencil Studios page on Facebook as well.

Sorry to be short but the oldest just woke up.  Hope everyone has a fabulous day!!

Blessings and Hugs!!

GHWI Challenge #23 Still Happening...

Welcome to a new week!!! Today I have a little inspiration to share for the GHWI Challenge #23 - Christmas in July with a Tag. We are only half way through the month so there is still lots of time for you to play along in the challenge.  Remember all you have to do is create a project, card, ATC any piece of art with a Christmas theme and has a tag!!I 

I decided to get a jump on my Christmas gifts and created a little box this week.I wanted it to be simple since I usually end up making 20-30 of these types of gifts for my co-workers. I cut the box using my Cameo which of course I LOVE!!! I have such a hard time when I'm crafting somewhere besides my craft room and I can't take it with me. 

I used 2 sets in the creation of this little gift - Warm Wishes and Gingham Christmas Greetings!! 

As you can see below the snowflakes with I heat embossed in silver came from the Warm Wishes set that can be found here.

Then I used the Gingham Christmas Greetings for my little tag which you can find here.

Remember these sets can be found on Aletha's sales blog or through Unity but be sure to choose to Aletha as your Ippity Chick!!

I also wanted to invite you to join The GHWI Customer blog hop on August 10-12. We are going to be celebrating Aletha as our awesome Ippity chick!!! The requirements are as follows -

1. To create a project using your favorite {ippity} stamp set. You only need to create one project for the hop.

2. Have it posted on your blog by Friday August 10^th at 8AM EST

3. Include information about and a link to Aletha’s {ippity} sales blog

And if you can't be part of the hop, we sure hope you'll do some hopping along the trail. There will prizes to win along the trail.

Sign ups will close by Friday August 3^rd.  If you are interested in joining the fun then please email me (Melissa Czapor) with GHWI August Blog Hop in the subject line. My email ismelissac1966@gmail.com

As always remember if you haven't joined the Facebook group and GHWI group at The Crafter's Cafe, you are missing lots more inspiration!!

I'd also like to enter this project in the following challenges - 

One Stitch at A Time - Anything Goes

Robyn's Fetish - Christmas in July

That Craft Place - Anything Goes

As always I am so grateful that you stopped by today!! I hope you have a fabulous week!!

Blessings and Hugs,

Melissa 

Sharing my Softpencil Studios Creation

Can somebody please tell me where the weeks are going? I feel like summer just started and yet it's almost half over. Of course I haven't done nearly half of what I planned. At least the weather has cooled down a bit!

Here's my Softpencil Studios card for today. I used the Charming Flowers digi image. It might be hard to see but I used stickles to sparkle up her wings!!

I know this is short but the girls have been keeping me really busy which hasn't left a lot of blogging time! Be sure to head over and check out the rest of Elizabeth's images!! She has so many cute ones I think you'll want them all!!

I would like to enter this in the following challenges -

Sweet Spot Sketch - Sketch

Fashionsista Challenge - Winged Things

Blessings and Hugs!!

Softpencil Studios Sharing

Just stopping by to share another Softpencil Studios creation.  You can find this and many other of Elizabeth's wonderful images in her store.  You can buy her adorable products in lots of different formats - digi images, clear stamps, and even stickers. 

I used an old digi image that is now part of the wonderful Cupcakes Collection sticker set. 

You can find the sticker set here.

If you're on Facebook, be sure to stop by the Softpencil Studios Facebook page and like it!! You can find the latest news. News like the fact that Elizabeth just joined DigiStamp Friends. 

As always, thank so much for stopping!!

Blessings and hugs,