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Welcome to my crafting blog. After retirement, my husband and I moved to a beautiful location in the Okanagan area of British Columbia. I love all paper crafts including mixed media, journaling and cards. I also dabble in papermaking, photography, fibre art, and altered books. I am an active member of several card and mixed media groups and on the design team of several challenge blog. I love the world of blogging, it has opened many doors for me. My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” I hope you join me in my search for my creative side. Thanks for stopping by!

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Showing posts with label Crafty Gals Corner. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #267 ~ Fill in the Blank - Fancy ________ (05/14/2025)

Welcome to Crafty Gals Corner's May Challenge

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Fill in the blank - Fancy_____ ~
(folds, lace, buttons, ribbons, papers, bows, etc.)

 Our sole sponsor for this challenge is: 

Moondrea


          

Prize: $10 Gift Certificate

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I decided to fill in my blanks with  "Fancey Folds" 

My fold is called a stand up card. 
I used a digital image from Moondrea collection called:





I love this cute little girl, she makes a great image for a lovely card for any little girl and can be used for a multicable designs including Halloween. 

I used two embossing folders  for the back layer of card. One embossing fold paper was Yubo papers and and coloured with alcoholic inks. The second embossing folder I cut out the image for my card. I also used some designer paper for the folds for the stand up portion.  The sentiment also came from the designer package of papers.

Thank you for stopping by remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.

Remember also to visited Moondrea Designs at there new web site to see their new designs. I would like to thank Moondrea Designs for being such a generous sponsor. 


Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #265 ~ Fill in the blank - Fairy Tale _____


We have another great challenge happening at Crafty Gals Corner this month. 


The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Fill in the blank - Fairy Tale _____ ~
(fairy, princess, mermaid, leprechaun, etc.)

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(listed in alphabetical order)



Prize ~ 3 Digital Images




Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

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This is my card for the challenge 
and I have filled in the blank with "Believe  in the magic of Fairytales". 


The beautiful image I used for my card is Luna Moon from 
Colour of Love

The produces I used to make my card along with the beautiful image of Colour of Love are:

Copics
Die Cut Flowers
Wink of Stella
Pencil Crayons
Pearl Gem
Nuvo 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting us and generously supplying us with beautiful images. 
Join us this month. We would love to see your beautiful projects. 
Create your project and enter it here

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Craft Gals Corner - January 2024 - Winter Fun

Time for another great challenge at Crafty Gals Corner. 

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Winter Fun~

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(listed in alphabetical order)

Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate
Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi's, Pre-colored images, Papers, Sets, Fred's Flower Kits, and even digital cutting files.  Have some fun with Fred!

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Prize ~ 3 Digital Images



This is my card I created for the challenge. 



Polkadoodles

I just love this little image of Winnie, she is so cute. I coloured her with copics, gel pen, pencil crayons, stickles,  and Nuvo. 

I also added Pentart snow paste for texture and some glitter paper. Thank you for stopping by  and  have a creative month. Remember to stop by our challenge blog to be view the work of our talented design team. Hope to see you back here again soon. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges

Polkadoodles Card Making - Anything Goes


 

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Crafty Gals Corner - Challenge 245 - Christmas in July

Time for another great challenge at Crafty Gals Corner this month and the challenge is to create a project with the theme of Christmas in July. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is: 


Prize ~ 3 Single Digis

Conie Fong is a self-taught artist residing in California, USA with her husband, daughter, pet hamster and fishes.  In her early childhood years, she was inspired by every kind of art and crafts.  She loved watching demonstrations by artists on the streets and at festivals and spent most of her free time perusing arts and crafts books in the library, drawing, crafting and experimenting with her art supplies at home.  Conie first started sharing her art with the world by selling ACEO reprints of her ACEO paintings of fairies, mermaids, and kitty art on Ebay in 2010.  She was a full time account manager for a University before becoming a full time mom and part time artist.  She currently enjoys spending time with her family traveling, exploring the outdoors, and designing beautiful, cute, and magical art for craft and coloring lovers. 

Conie offers our team and crafters who view the CGC blog 25% discount during our sponsored month - the code is JULYSPONSOR25.

This is my card I created for the challenge using 
using the bendy fold



 I just love this kitties image. It will makes such a cute Christmas card for one of my grandchildren. To make the card I followed one of the you tube videos and adjusted the size to accommodate my design. 

The images were coloured with Copics, pencil crayon, gel pen, and Wink of Stella.  I used scraps from my Christmas designer papers for the card also and a Christmas tree and stars die cut for the trees.

Hope you will join our Christmas in July challenge this month. check out our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. Have a creative week.  Thank you for stopping by. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Crafty Gals Corner - Fancy Folds for Dad

Time for another great challenge at Crafty Gals Corner this month.  

The theme of the challenge is 

~ Fancy Folds for Dad ~


 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 

(listed in alphabetical order) 


Prize ~ 2 Digital Images


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Using: Dad Stuff
Last Minute Manda


Prize ~ 3 Sets of Digis

This is card I made for this challenge using the bendie  card  fold and  an image from Last minute Manda collection  called  Dad Stuff



I used many of the images from from Dad's stuff to create a collage.  I printed the images in various sizes so I could use them when I created my cards.  

My images were coloured with Copic markers, Marvy markers, pencil crayons, and Wink of Stella.  

 Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. Hope you can join us this week. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.


Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes Challenge November 22, 2022

         Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner

                       As always the challenge is anything goes.

                                   Our generous Sponsor is ……….

Colour of Love


The prize for this challenge is

3 digital images from the store.

This is my card I made for this challenge using a digital image from Colour of Love 

called  Sugi Sugar Plum




I coloured my image with copics, added white and gold Gel Pen, glittered die cut flowers, gems and pearls and layered the image on several background die cuts. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join in this anything goes challenge.  Pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 


Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Spring/Easter Challenge at Crafty Gals Corner


Time for another great challenge at Crafty Gals Corner.

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Spring/Easter ~

Our sponsors for this challenge are
(in alphabetical order) 
 
Prize ~ £8.50 Gift Certificate


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The Paper Shelter
Prize ~ 3 Digital Stamps

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This is my card I made for this challenge using an image called
Spring Elves by The Paper Shelter. 




I just love this cute image.  I coloured the image with Copic Markers, Pencil Crayon and then added some sparkle and Nuvo.

I am so glad spring is here.  It is one of my favorite times of the year,

I hope you will join us this month in the challenge.  The prizes are wonderful.  Remember to stop by our blog to be inspired by our talented design team  Check out the images of our fabulous sponsors.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Greetings from the Funny Farm - Add a Flower

Time for another great challenge at Crafty Gals Corner. 

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Add a Flower ~

Our sole sponsor for this challenge is  

 Beccy's Place

Prize ~  $10 Gift Certificate

This is my card I made with Beccy's Place's image Funny Farm Animals

Make sure you visit her site to view her great collection of inspiring images.




To create my card I used the following products:

Designer card stock from my stash

Donkey from the Funny Farm Colletion

 Copic Markers

Gel Pen 

 Pencil Crayons 

Barbed Wire empossing folder

Nuvo Crystal Drops

Small flower stamps from my stash

Closer view  




Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by the cards of our talented design team.

Hope you will join us in this "add a flower" challenge. 


Wednesday, August 11, 2021


Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner this week.

The theme for this challenge is: 

Summer Fun

Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(in alphabetical order) 



Prize ~ $10 Gift Certifcate


Prize ~ £8.50 Gift Certificate


Prize ~ £8 Gift Certificate
(to be used on digital content only)

I made my card this month with the Milkshake Digi from Twinkle 
Lane Designs.

This is my card. 



Nothing says summer more to then ice-cream milk shakes. 

This is such a cute image to colour.  I used copics, Wink of Stella,  and a Pitt Pen to colour the card.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to join us this challenge, we have such super prizes this month for the lucky winners.

Remember also to visit our blog to be inspired by our talented design team  and the sites of our generous sponsors.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Easter/Spring Challenge at Crafty Gals Corner

Time for another challenge ay Crafty Gals Corner

The theme for this challenge is: 

Easter / Spring

Our sponsors for this challenge are:
(in alphabetical order)  




Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate



Prize: 3 Digital Stamps

This is my card I made for this challenge using our sponsor Fred She Said image called Bunneh





I love this cute image of the Easter Bunny.  To create my card I layered several paper from my stash that I embossed, I coloured the image with my Copics, Wink of Stella, Nuvo Crystal Drops and a white Gel Pen.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to stop by our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. Hope you will join us this month. 

I am entering this in my card the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
    A Bit More Time to Craft - Always Anything Goes
      A Perfect Time To Craft - Always Anything Goes
        Clever Dexter Challenge - Anything Goes

        Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
          World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

          Wednesday, March 10, 2021

          Make It Green

           Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner and the theme for this challenge is Make it Green.  Show us lots of green on your project.

          Our sponsor for this  challenge are


          Bugaboo Digital Stamps
          Prize ~ $12 gift certificate


          Prize ~ 3 Digital Images


          Prize ~ £8.50 Gift Certificate

          This is the card I made for this challenge using our a digital image from Bugaboo called St. Patrick’s Day Circle - Theodore


          I coloured my image with Copic markers and Nuvo, layered the image with gold paper and used a St Patrick's Day and acrylic paper to construct my card. 

          More views of the project





          Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Join us this moth in the Make it Green challenge. 

          Wednesday, February 10, 2021

          Add a Heart!

          Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner and the theme this week is "Add a Heart"  Perfect challenge for Valentine's day.  This is my card for the challenge


          The digital image I used for the challenge is called Bubble Love by Cute as a Button.

          Our sponsors for this challenge are:

          (in alphabetical order) 

           


          Pink Diamond Designz - Cute as a Button

          Prize ~ 2 Digital Images



          Prize ~ 3 Single Digital Images

           Remember to check out  or great sponsors, they both have a great selection of digis to get our creative juices going. 

          My card was coloured with Copics, Nuvo and pencil crayons.  I added a glitter wooden heart and a sentiment  to complete the card. 

          Thank you for stopping by.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.


          Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

          Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

          A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything Goes