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I love living just blocks from the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan, in WI. I am a wife to Greg(for 49 yrs in 2021), mother to Heather and Amber (love my girls), Gamma to LJ, daughter to Marion (deceased in 2012 at 88 y/o, lived a life glorifying the Lord), sister to Paul and Samantha, aunt to Paula, Shelley (and fam) and Jeremy (and fam), Tuffy, the parakeet (2021) and most of all...a child of God, saved by grace through Christ Jesus. Life is a gift! Eternal life, a BLESSING!!!

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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year!!

 

Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year!
See you soon!

  Design Team search!!
PIP Challenges is in need of a couple
 crafty people to join our amazing DT.
Email: pammie52553@gmail.com with
Design Team in the subject line. The 
main requirements are an active blog
and being able to create a card, or 
something, for our sponsors every 
other week. Two cards a month. More
details will be shared when I reply to
your emails. We are a fun group and
very relaxed. So don't be afraid.

Monday, December 16, 2024

PIP Challenge 2450



This is the last PIP challenge for 2024! WOW!
This week's awesome sponsor is
You certainly want to be a part of this challenge!
Be sure to pop over and check out all the 
fabulous products they have! Get everything
you need in one place to create your next project!
Make sure you view their amazing tutorial
videos! They are wonderful crafting aids!
 Go check them out now!

Here's my project
This card was super easy, though it
looks like much more! What's funny?
I have the die cuts for this set and 
cut images out by hand...hmmm...? 😕
Lawn Fawn has some fantastic stamps and
I always have fun creating with them.
I stamped my images and colored them
using Copic markers. Yes, then I cut them
out, by hand!! lol. I made a couple of
snow mounds and added Stickles for
a snowy sparkle. I raised up a variety of
layers for great dimension. Stamped
the sentiment to complete the card.


Thanks for stopping by!!!
Consider "following" my before you leave!

A big THANK YOU to our 
sponsor for this challenge:
Be sure to visit our sponsor's website and begin creating
some of your own awesome creations! 

Still time to get involved with the 

Monday, December 9, 2024

PIP Challenge 2449

    Newton's Nook is this week's sponsor
Be sure to pop over and see all the 
fabulous the wonderful new stencils,
stamps, die cuts, and papers they have! 
Go check them out now!
Here is my card 
Apparently the set I used must be 
retired. I've used it a lot through the years.
I love all my goodies from Newton's Nook
They have a LOT of new stuff and so I'm sure
I'll have to go shopping soon! YAY!!
I stamped and die cut the images then 
used my Copics to color them. Some 
coordinating ribbon and a
random die cut balloon were added. I 
stamped the sentiment on the balloon.
Mounting tape was used to raise up 
the kitties. Be sure to checkout NN!!
💗

Thanks for stopping by!!
Consider "following" my before you leave!

A big THANK YOU to our sponsor 
for this challenge:

Be sure to visit our sponsor's website 
and begin creating some of your own 
awesome creations! They have sooooo 
many goodies to choose from!
Still time to get involved with the 

Monday, December 2, 2024

PIP Challenge 2448

 PIP Challenge 2448 and this week's
amazing sponsor is Gerda Steiner 

where you can find some of the cutest 
digis, dies, and stamps for just about 
any of your creative desires. 
They are kindly offering 
$15 gift code for this week's winner! 
Go check them out now!
Here's my card!
Well, I had a headache when I went to
create my card, soooo, I tried to come up
with the easiest idea. I took the 
Tangled Penguin set and stamped all
the images, on cardstock, then turned 
them into PNG files. I found a winter 
scene, online, and added the set's 
PNG sentiment to it. I colored
the penguin and tree with my Copics.
The glistening snow was made using
crystal Stickles. I added the tree and
penguin were added with mounting dots.
Sounds more complicated than it was.
Most of it was handled on my laptop.
Yup, gotta love
and I do! 
                               
Thanks for stopping by!!

Consider "following" my before you leave!

Be sure to join in the challenge and visit 

 Thanks for stopping by!!
Consider "following" my before you leave!

A big THANK YOU to our sponsor 
for this challenge:
Be sure to visit our sponsor's website and begin 
creating some of your own awesome creations! 

Still time to get involved with the 

Monday, November 25, 2024

PIP Challenge 2447

This week's amazing sponsor is
Be sure to pop over and see all the 
fabulous digital projects that they 
have to help your creativity!  No 
die cutting machine necessary! 
Go check them out now!
Here's my project for this challenge...using 
The Cutting Café offers so many ideas
and all you really need is paper, printer
and scissors. It's a great place for the 
minimalist card makers. Seriously, TCC 
can make card making very simple. For
this card all I used was a printer,
my scissors and Copic markers. Easy, 
for sure. I printed the "Brrr..." on cardstock
and cut it down to fit on my sparkle 
cardstock. Then I printed the cute snow 
guys and colored them and cut them out.
I took more sparkle paper and added it
to the "Brrr" panel and attached my 
snowmen. I added sparkle pens and white
gel pens accents to my finished card.


Thanks for stopping by!! 
Consider "following" my before you leave!

A big THANK YOU to our sponsor
 for this challenge:
Still time to get involved with the 

Monday, November 18, 2024

PIP Challenge 2446

 A brand new challenge over at PIP Challenges.

This week's sponsor is 
 Without our amazing sponsors the 
challenges wouldn't happen. 
SheepSki Designs is offering the 
random winner THREE DIGIS!!
The PIP Design Team has some awesome
inspiration. Be sure to visit each  
blog for additional inspiration!!

This is me when I realized that I made a 
card from the wrong sponsor this week.
SIGH!!!
Well, I'm all set for when that sponsor's 
challenge is here...in 2025! HAHAHA
My apologies to Sheepski Designs...I 
have lots of goodies I could have used.

Be sure to go and visit Sheepski Designs
Etsy shop. She has so many awesome
digital images! So much fun and so very
reasonable too! PIP appreciates the support!

Thanks for stopping by and consider
"Following" my blog and go join in with

Monday, November 11, 2024

PIP Challenge 2445

 Polkadoodles is this week's sponsor!! YAY!
We REALLY appreciate our sponsors!

Be sure to pop over and see all the fabulous digis, stamps and supplies that they have!  Go check them out now!
They have soooo many items to choose from
and they are offering a prize of 3 digis of
your choosing. You don't want to miss out.
Head over to the current PIP Challenge 2445 NOW!
Here's what I made for the challenge
I used some of my paper scraps from 
prior cards...the pattern paper and the
white oval. The cute little bunny was 
downloaded and cut out using my Scan n Cut.
The image was colored using my Copics. 
I grabbed a random sentiment stamp so
I could create a Happy Birthday inside. 
Mounting tape was used to raise up the bunny.

Consider "following" my before you leave!

A big THANK YOU to our 
sponsor for this challenge:
Be sure to visit our sponsor's website and begin creating
some of your own awesome creations! 

Still time to get involved with the 

Monday, November 4, 2024

PIP Challenge 2444

  Another great challenge over at PIP Challenges
with our lovely sponsor
Varada Sharma
VS has such beautiful images! It's 
awesome that she is kind enough to sponsor 
PIP Challenges! Please be sure to visit her site
or find her actual stamps at RubberStamps.com!!
 Here's my card for this week
I stamped some images onto my white
panel and colored them with my Copics.
I fancy cut out two additional leaves and
colored them too. White embossing was
added to my black banner and attached.
I then placed the two leaves on the panel
using mounting tape for a raised effect. 
The card was completed after I added my
white panel to a black piece, then to the 
card base itself. 
Be sure to visit Varada's Etsy shop 
Go and check out Varada Sharma now

Thanks for stopping by!!
Consider "following" my blog before you leave!

Be sure to checkout Varada's site and 
head on over to the latest PIP Challenge
HERE!!  

Monday, October 28, 2024

PIP Challenge 2443

This week's awesome sponsor is
You certainly want to be a part of this challenge!
Be sure to pop over and check out all the 
fabulous products they have! Get everything you
need in one place to create your next project!
Make sure you view their amazing tutorial
videos! They are wonderful crafting aids!
 Go check them out now!
Here's my project 
Lawn Fawn has some fantastic interactive
die cuts and with their wonderful choice
of stamps I always have fun creating. For
this card I used Pull 'n Pop Tab (tutorial). LF always
has excellent tutorials for all their stuff and
they are so very helpful. The little raccoon
is from Holiday Party Animal and all other
stamps and dies are from Sunny Skies. I 
followed the tutorial and created my own
scene. I used Grassy Hillside add-on to make
a background for my critters. The "pull" tab
makes the kite pop up and out! Great touch!
All images were colored with Copics.



Thanks for stopping by!!!
Consider "following" my before you leave!

A big THANK YOU to our 
sponsor for this challenge:
Be sure to visit our sponsor's website and begin creating
some of your own awesome creations! 

Still time to get involved with the