November Duel - Hoot Hoot Hooray

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Were flying through November and it's the 15th of the Month already so it's time for our Monthly Duel between the Divas and Darlings. Heather sent the Divas (including myself) this fun Owl-themed kit using Hoot Hoot Hooray from Taylored Expressions. I think I may have to get this adorable set for myself! Our theme is Owls, just because as Heather says "Are Super Adorable!" and I have to agree!

One of my new years resolutions for 2020 is going to be using up more of my DD Kits each month - minimizing the leftovers that go into my stash. :) So I am starting that resolution early this month - as I have three cards to share! :-)

The other two Owl cards are below, aside from the card stock, everything used came from Heather's kit.

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

Monthly Duel - Out of This world!

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It's the 15th of the month so it's time to have another Dueling Darlings Duel! Terry S is the hostess of the Dazzlers and I am the hostess of the Divas this month! We chose a theme of "Out of this World". 

I sent the Divas the following kit contents and I can't wait to see what they make: 

Stamps: Rocket Age (October Afternoon)
Patterned Paper: Doodle Bug Designs

Accessories: Red, Blue, Yellow Ribbon, silver stars (Tim Holtz), gemstones (Michaels), buttons (stampin up) 

I decorated the inside of my card too (sorry for the shadows) 

Thanks for stopping by today! Hugs ~ LJ

January Duel - Encouragement

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** If you are looking for my Tuesday Morning Sketches card - please scroll up - I have two posts today :) 

Welcome to this month's Dueling Darlings Duel ~ Judy is our hostess this month and we have an "Encouragement" theme for this month. 

Here are the contents of the kit, some which are used on my card: 

Included in your kit:

Designer Papers: s e i "Field Notes"; DCWV "Copper Luxury"; echo park "Handmade Journaling"; and an unknown

Stamped Image: Paper Pretties "Flutterby" (girl and sentiment "Flutter your wings and fly; There She Goes "Spread your wings and fly" sentiment. Images have been stamped with Momento Black Tuxedo ink.

Embellishments: ribbon, twine, paper flowers and leaves, pearls, rhinestones and butterfly brad from various companies.

Thank you, Judy for such a fun kit! I will be sending this card off to someone soon that needs a little encouragement :) What a great theme! 

Thanks for Stopping By ~ Hugs LJ

Use Your Wings!

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It's the 15th of the month which means it's time for another Duel between the Divas and Darlings. Darlene and I are hostesses this month! The theme we chose is National Aviation Month.

"National Aviation History Month is dedicated to exploring, recognizing and celebrating America’s great contributions and achievements in the development of aviation. Aviation history refers to the history of development of mechanical flight — from the earliest attempts in kites and gliders to powered heavier-than-air, supersonic and space flights"

I sent the below kit contents to the Divas and I can't wait to see what they made with this kit. I used both of the airplane images. I also only sent one tag, so to get two tags, I traced one out and cut it out. (yes I did have extras - but I was trying to use what was in the divas kit! :) Both tags are sponged & I also sponged the Tim Holtz Quote Clip with Peeled Paint.

Image: Air Travel By Tim Holtz (TH) - stamped in both Peeled Paint (TH) and Faded Jeans (TH) die-cut with the Scan-n-Cut 2

Paper: Tim Holtz Paper Stash 8X8 Collage.  I thought the paper had some cool travel elements to them. 

Other: Kraft Tags (JoAnns), Ribbon Seam Binding in Pear Pizzaz (SU), Cranberry Crisp Stitched Grossgrain (SU), Blue Dots, & 2 Quote Clips (Tim Holtz Idealology) 

The Divas and Darlings will be taking off the month of December, and January we will be starting with new partners and new kits. I have loved being partners with Darlene and I am looking forward to dueling with my 2019 partner! :)

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ


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DD - Kindness

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The 15th of the month is here (already) so it's time for another Duel between the Divas and Darlings. 

The Dueling Darlings are a group of friends from SCS that swap cards and beyond and formed a new group called the Dueling Darlings! Divided into Group A and B, which wasn't a cool name so we are now the Divas and the Dazzlers, have a montly rotating hostess kit that goes out to make cards! The Divas have one card kit to work with, while the Dazzlers have another! It's fun to see what we "duel" up in cardstock, papers and wonderful images!

I am a Diva - and this month's hostess is Kelly. She sent some images and sentiments from Unity that truly represents this month's theme - Kindness! 

I colored the image using prismacolor pencils and gamsol. Because it is a larger image, I decided to make a square card (5.25") this time around.  I used most of the beautiful paper and coordinating embellishments sent with the kit. 

Here is the inside of the card: 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs  ~ LJ

Wine Gets Better With Age

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It's the 15th of the month and this week we have a wine-themed duel between the Divas and Darlings. The Dueling Darlings are a group of friends from SCS that swap cards and beyond and formed a new group called the Dueling Darlings! Divided into Group A and B, which wasn't a cool name so we are now the Divas and the Dazzlers, have a montly rotating hostess kit that goes out to make cards! The Divas have one card kit to work with, while the Dazzlers have another! It's fun to see what we "duel" up in cardstock, papers and wonderful images!

I am a Diva - and this month's hostess is Tami. She sent some images from Artistic Impressions. 

I die-cut the image on my scan-n-cut 2, then colored it in with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I'm really pleased how this one turned out! Can't wait to see what the others created too! 

Thanks for stopping by ~  Hugs ~ LJ

I Bee-Lieve in You!

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Time again for another duel between the divas and darlings. We have a bee-theme to play with this month - courtesy of our fab hostesses - Terry A (Dazzler) and Terry S (Diva) since I am a Diva (wink!) I received a BEE-utiful kit from Terry S. :) 

I chose to use the image she sent us from CC Designs (there is another image in the kit - may play with that later tonight). And of course, there were some wonderful bee-inspired papers, ribbons, and embee-lishments to play with! Of course I had to use my new SNC2 to die cut the image! The sentiment is from MFT. 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

Full of Roses

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It's the 15th of the month and time for another duel! Our theme for the month of May is ROSES! 

I so love that Carol chose so many pretty images to choose from, including this one from Gina K (which I own personally!) I colored it out with prismacolor markers added some wink of stella to the roses, die-cut it with my Scan-N-Cut2 and then the rest of the card came together pretty easily.  The patterned papers she sent are are just so pretty. Thanks Carol! 

I've posted about it before, but my grandmother and aunt had beautiful roses in the front of the house when I was living with them. They would come up nearly every year - bright pink. 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

Spring Tweet

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I am a bit late this month with sharing our monthly Dueling Darlings Card. It was supposed to be posted on the 15th but I've been so crazy busy with high school baseball season I just got around to making my card over the weekend. 

For our May Challenge, Paola and Heather are the hostesses! They decided on the theme-A Spring Tweet!   Paola is the one of the Dazzlers and Heather a Diva, the team I am on, and was are all Dueling Darlings! (disclaimer - I copied this part from Barb. Ha ha) 

I decided to use the more realistic of the two Prickley Pear images that heather sent & colored it with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I used a lot of the patterned paper she sent (so pretty). 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

DD - April Showers!

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It's the 15th of the month so time for another Duel, This month's theme from Barb for (the Divas) and Tracie (for the Darlings) is April Showers.

I made two cards with this month's kit. The first card (above) was the first card I made, I colored the Whipper Snapper image in with my prisma & copic markers. for some reason I wasn't really happy with the finished card, so I got to work on a second card (below) which is colored with Prismacolor Pencils and gamsol. I like this one better for sure :)  I think the colors are a little more vibrant.

I am ready for spring for sure! I was just in Denver where it got up into the middle 70's the last two days. While I am writing this post (Saturday evening) it's about 30 degrees and we have a Winter Weather Advisory as Mother Nature is bringing us ice, sleet and up to 6" of snow overnight. Yikes. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs ! LJ

Birthday Duel

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It's the 15th of the Month and Judy put together a fun Birthday-themed kit to play with. I decided to try to play on the colors in the bottom patterned paper panel. The card base is 5.5" Square. 

Sorry such a short post this time! Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

Something I Love

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It's the 15th of the month (again!) and it's time for another Duel. Kelly is our hostess for the Divas and our theme this month is "Something I love". Kelly chose a MFT Set - London Mouse because of her love of Europe. She also sent some fun papers and embellishments to go with the adorable images. Since we are still "around" Valentine's Day I decided to make a love-themed card. The sentiment is from another MFT Set in my own stash. I loved that Kelly chose to send some die-cut images along so I could build a little scene. That's one of my favorite "techniques" these days. 

Anyway - hope you like my card! Thanks for stopping by. 

Hugs ! LJ

Halloween Duel!

Hello Hello ~ It's still the 15th so I am technically not late for this month's duel between the Divas and Dazzlers! :-) Tami (Divas) and Terry L (Dazzlers) chose a halloween theme. The kit Tami sent us Divas is adorable! I had a blast coloring her up with my new prismacolor pencils (I got the full set!) 

I used one of this month's SCS Sketches as my starting point. 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

September Duel - Gone Fishing

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Here for our monthly Duel between the Divas and Darlings Carol sent us a fun fishing themed kit to play with this month - had a lot of fun coloring this cute little fishing boy image. I fussy cut him out after coloring it and then started to make a little scene for him. I ended up using lots of the patterned paper (there were so many flavors I could just choose one or two). There are 5 patterns if you include the sky. :-) The base of the card is 5.5" square.

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs  ~ LJ

June Duel - Roses

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It's time to duel again between the Divas and Darlings. Tracie and Barb have chosen the theme of ROSES as June is Rose Month.  Barb sent the Divas two different images to choose from, I chose the simpler image from Hero Arts called Delicate Rose Stems. I colored it with prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. The patterned paper is from Stampin Up' (Sweet Sorbet) and I used my own sentiment from another SU! set I have in my collection.

I love this theme. Roses remind me of my Grandma's/Aunts house that I used to live at where we had an abundance of Rose Bushes in the front of the house every year. I went back into my photo collection and found this pretty bloomer

And these are from later in the same year: 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

Would You Like To Ride In My Beautiful Balloon?

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It's time for another duel between the Divas and Darlings. This month Darlene is the hostess for the Darlings and I am the hostess for the Divas. We chose the theme "Would You Like To Ride In My Beautiful Balloon?". Darlene and I chose this theme together in February, when Darlene flew to Milwaukee from the east coast for Camp-Stamp-In-Oga. It was so good to see her, Barb, and Terry. Such special memories for me. 

Anyway, for my kit I chose to use a retired set from My Favorite Things called Up Up and Away. The balloon stamps have coordinating dies, so I die-cut some of those to go in the kit. Also in the kit was DSP from Fancy Pants (Life is Beautiful collection), some ribbon, blue gemstones, buttons, chipboard accents, and craft doilies.  

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

November Duel - Give Thanks

Hello ~ I'm finally here with this month's duel card between the divas and darlings. Below is the description of this month's duel.  Carol is the hostess for the Divas - and I am part of that group :) 

 The theme Shelley and I (Carol) chose is "Give Thanks". With the Holiday Season upon us we reflect upon all that we have to be thankful for so as an extra we would like you to share (if you are comfortable with it), what you are especially thankful for.

The image on the front of the card is from Stampin Up. I used SU! Watercolor Crayons and a Blender Pen to color the image. The pattern paper is from K&CO and Carol included some coordinating embellishments to use on the card. 

Here is the inside of my card, i used my own sentiment from PTI, and the apple was cut-out from some of the patterned paper in the kit that Carol sent. 

I am thankful for many things. My family is a big part of my life, My mom, Sister Tracy, Tavi (my niece) and Scott. I cherish each moment I have with them. I am also thankful for a successful career, a roof over my head, and being able to do the things I love so much (travel and crafting) 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~LJ

Going to Rio!

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It's the 15th of the month (really - where did summer go? It's already August) and the Divas and Darlings hostess this month have come up with a fantastic Olympic Themed kit to play with. I had such a fun time playing with this kit over the weekend, as it is the first card I have made in nearly three weeks (foot surgery has kept me away from my crafty business). 

The adorable image on the front of the card is a digi from Scrappin Doodles. The owner of the company graciously gave Judy permission to use these digis for our duel this month, so I invite you to check them out :) I don't normally use digi images myself, but these cute kids are giving me second thoughts. 

In addition to the images, there was some beautiful patterned and solid colored paper, ribbons, brads, sequins, and Olympic Ring die-cuts, some of which was used on my card which measures 5.5" Square. 

Here is the inside of my card (the sentiment was created by Judy) I colored it in with a red spica pen. 

Our additional challenge is to share our favorite Olympic Event. I can't pick just one actually :)  My favorites are swimming, gymnastics, and beach volleyball. My niece has been active in swimming and gymnastics but those two have always been favorites. My favorite sport, baseball, is returning for the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo and I am really excited about that!

Thanks so much for stopping by - Hugs ~ LJ

Get Well!

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After a holiday break, it's time for another duel between the Divas and Dazzlers. Each month, the hostess sends out a fun kit with stamp images, patterned paper, and embellishments to create with. This month our hostesses are Barb and Tracie.

I love the kit Barb Sent this month! Our theme this month is "Soup - Get Well", Barb sent an adorable Whipper Snapper image to color, papers from SU! (Comfort Cafe - I love this collection!) and lots of pretty ribbons and other embellishments to use, some of which is on my card.

I'm not much of a soup-maker - but my favorite kind of soups are Chicken Noodle and Clam Chowder.

The Divas Are:

Barb ** Blog: Barb's Inkin' into Retirement
Carol ** Blog: Lost in my craft room
Judy ** Blog: Paper Hugs & Kisses
Kadie ** Blog: In My Minds Eye
Kelly ** Blog: *Sandcastle Stamper*
LJ  (me)** Blog: Bucky Girl
Suzy **  SCS Gallery
Tami ** : : : : BlueInks Design

And here are the Dazzlers: 

Dazzlers:
Darlene ** The World According to Bijou
Debbie ** The Ink Igloo
Jeanette ** Cre8tive Play: It's Cheaper than Therapy
Paola ** blog That's Amore! SCS Gallery
Shelly ** My creative rumblings
Terry A **  SCS Gallery
Terry L ** It's Totally Terry
Tracie ** Crafty Creations

Thanks for stopping by today ~ Have a great day! Hugs ~ LJ

Summer Fun!

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Finally got around to creating (and sharing) this month's duel challenge between the divas and darlings! Carol and April are our June Hostesses & we have a Summer Fun challenge - with a twist - making a 3D project. Carol sent me a 3X3 box to use! I had so much fun putting this one together! I love doing 3D projects! The image is from an older SU! Set - Summertime Fun (one of my favorite sets - that I do not have)  I used nearly all of the pretty patterned paper she sent to cover the box and die-cut some flowers for the top. and I am in love with this striped ribbon she sent!

Here are a few more pictures:

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great summer fun day! Hugs ~ LJ