NettieG Recipe Challenge

NettieG's Recipe Challenge

This week's challenge at NettieG's is a recipe challenge. 

The ingredients are:

1 image

2 flowers

3 flatback pearls

Add some love, MoJo, and creation

Post the results of your recipe to our challenge blog by November 13, 2011 and you are in the running for a free image.

Now you can use any image you wish, but if you use a NettieG image, you get 2 chances in the drawing for a free image. 

Here is the results of my recipe.  Everyone in the Design Team used this image.  It's so cute!! 

Hope to see the results of your recipe

Hugs, love and prayers,

Chris

Co-Owner

NettieG's Digital Gems

Digi Darla's Holiday Harvest Challenge

Digi Darla's Holiday Harvest Challenge

It's that time of the year.  Today is Halloween and you know what that means.  Thanksgiving in a bit more then 3 weeks.  Then it is Christmas time.  So the new challenge is fitting of the season.  Holiday Harvest...and Thanksgiving time.  Time for family, friends, feats, gratitude and fun. 

Here is how Digi Darla's challenge works.  You can use any image you wish as long as it fits the theme.  But if you use a Digi Darla image, you get 2 entries  in the drawing for prizes. 

I just love this image.  I paired it up with another Digi Darla image.  I think it makes the prettiest Thanksgiving card.  What?  You said you don't do Thanksgiving cards.  Why not?  I am sure you  have a family member or friend who won't be sitting down at your Thanksgiving dinner.  Let that person know you are glad to have them as a friend. 

Ok..here is my card.

Hope to see your project.

Hugs, love and prayers

Chris

Design Team

Digi Darla

CDAC Progressive Challenge 5-2

Crafter's Digital Art Center

(CDAC)

Progressive Challenge

Round 5

This is my second entry for Round 5 of CDAC's Progressive Challenge.  CDAC's Progressive Challenge is almost over.  But there is still time to get in.  The way a progressive challenge works goes like this... CDAC sent out a group of free digis.  If you made a project using any one of the free images before the deadline and link it the PC page, CDAC sent you new images.  Make a project using any of the new images, and they would send you more new images.  If you didn't get in the last round of the challenge, have no fear.  You can purchase the images for a really low cost...I think it's $1. 

So any-hoo Here is my second card.  This is a super cute image. 

Hope you are having a GREAT day.

Hugs, love and prayers.

Chris

Delightful Inspiration's Progressive Challenge and Saturday Challenge

Delightful Inspiration's

Progressive and Saturday Challenges

It's time for more Delightful Inspirations!!  In case you don't know what a progressive challenge is...let me explain.  Faith from DI has a free image the first Friday of the month.  You make a project with that image, and link it to the DI blog by the deadline, and the next Friday Faith will send you a free image.  Make a project with that image and link... you get the picture. 

Delightful Inspirations also has a Saturday challenge put on by the lovely ladies on DI's Design Team.  Some times the free progressive challenge image of the week will work and sometimes it won't.  Sometimes you can do what I did this week.  I combined 2 images and made the PC image work with the Saturday challenge. 

So here is my card which works for both challenges.  Lovely Tree is the PC image and the Saturdya challenge is Cute Critters

Hope all is well with you. 

Hugs, love and prayers

Chris

CDAC Progressive Challenge #5-1

CDAC Progressive Challenge

Round #5

It's time for round #5 in the CDAC (Crafter's Digital Art Center) Progressive Challenge.  It seems we just started this a little bit ago.  I am having a lot of fun with it. 

Now if you don't know how this works, CDAC give us a free set of images.  Make a project and link it do the Progressive Challenge page before the deadline (which is October 31, 2011 for this round) and CDAC will send you a new set of images.  Now if you haven't gotten in on this, no problem, you can purchase the images for a small fee. 

Here is my first project for this round.  I made it into ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) for an ATC Thanksgiving swap I am taking part in.  It was the prefect image for the swap. 

I hope to see your project

Hugs, love and prayers

Chris

Our Anniversary!!!

Our 10th anniversary is November 24th, 2011.  We never took a honeymoon...kids and work just prevented it.  Well I am so excited.  With the help of Beth from www.seeingpigeonforge.com we have a package for Pigeon Forge, TN!!!!  Hotel with fireplace for 3 nights, The Christmas Opry Spectacluar, admittance into ChristmasFest, Dollywood, and the Aquarium and seening Dixie Stampede. The first trip Larry and I have taken without it involving the kids.  So this is the honeymoon we never had.  I can't wait.  For the first time in 12 years, I am looking forward to the holidays!!   

Delighful Inspirations

Delightful Inspiration's

Progressive Challenge

and

Saturday Challenge

It's time for another Delightful Inspiration's Progressive Challenge and Saturday Challenge.

Here is how the Progressive Challenge works.  The first Friday of the month, Faith has a free image.  Make a project with that free image, link it to the Delightful Inspiration's by the deadline and Faith will email you a new image.  If you didn't get the freebie at the beginning of the month, no fear, you can purchase the current image, make a project, link to the DI blog and you will get a new image to work with.

This week's image is Pumpkins and Tags.  Here is my card...

On Saturday, Delightful Inspiration's Design Team posts a challenge.  Sometimes it will work  with the image of the week and sometimes it won't.  This week I decided to use a DI image from week's past.

Here is my card...

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs, love and prayers

Chris

Digi Darla's Fall Fun Challenge

Digi Darla's

Fall Fun Challenge

It's Fall here in the United States and I love this time of the year.  The beautiful Fall colors, the cooler temperatures, the children are back in school, and all of the lovely Fall Festivals.  What better time to have a Fall Fun challenge.  Digi Darla is having just that...a Fall Fun Challenge.  And she has some great (free) images for this challenge. 

Now here is how things work for a Digi Darla challenge.  You can use any image you like, but if you use a Digi Darla's image, you get 2 entries in the prize drawing.  And why wouldn't you use a Digi Darla image..when they are free.

Here is my card for this challenge...

I hope to see your project at Digi Darla's

Hugs, love and prayers

Chris 

NettieG's Anything but Rectangle Challenge

NettieG's

Anything but Rectangle

Challenge

But don't shape challenges really challenge you??  I know they do me. 

First let's get the details for this challenge.  You can enter Anything but a Rectangle card you wish.  BUT if you use a NettieG image, you get 2 entries in the drawing for a free image.

Ok now about my card...I was scouring the internet looking for shape cards when I happened upon a site that said if you have a Cricut, it's easy to do a shape card.  Really??  It seems that a number of Cricut's cartridges have shape cards on them.  Well I own all of 6 carts.  But on Sentiments there is indeed a shape card.  So I decided why not.  So that is where my card started out.  Then I decided I needed to work on some Christmas cards, so I wasn't down to the wire and trying to get cards done.  So I used NettieG's Warm Welcome image.  I used what I thought would look like wallpaper as a background.  I then completely cut out the image.  Added some Glossy Accents to the lantern to make it look more real and then added letter to make it look like a swag...although I am not sure it really does.  But in the end I like it. 

Hope to see your project in this Anything but Rectangle Challenge.

Hugs, love and prayers
Chris

CDAC Progressive Challenge #4

CDAC Progressive Challenge #4

3rd Project

As you may know, I love Progressive Challenges.  CDAC (Crafter's Digital Art Center) is in the middle of one.  We were given free images.  All we had to do is make a project with any of the images and they would send us the next round of images...FREE!!  If you haven't been playing along, have no fear, you can purchase this rounds images and will get free images for Round #5. 

This is my 3rd project for this round.  One could do all of the images...3 times.  I wish I had time for that.  :)

This image is a Designed to Delight image.  Faith has the cutest images.  I am also entering this in Designed to Delight's Saturday Challenge which is Falling Leaves. 

Hope you enjoy.

Hugs, love and prayers

Chris



CDAC Progressive Challenge 4-1

Crafter's Digital Art Center

Progressive Challenge

Round 4

We are now in Round 4 of Progressive Challenge at Crafter's Digital Art Center. 

So how does this Progressive Challenge work??  Every 2 weeks a new round starts.  Create a project with any of the free images, link it to the Progressive Challenge page by the deadline, and you will be emailed new images for the next round.  If you didn't get into this round with free image, you can purchase the images and get new images. 

Here is one of my entries...

Hope to see your project.

Hugs, love and prayers

Chris



CDAC Progressive Challenge 4-2

Here is the second image for CDAC Progressive Challenge Round 4. 

Hope to see your project!!
Hugs, love and prayers
Chris

Delightful Inspirations Hope Butterfly

Delightful Inspirations

Hope Butterfly

I had missed a deadline on Delightful Inspirations and waited till the first Friday of October to get back in it.  Boy, have I missed it. 

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  And Faith has the cutest image, Hope Butterfly.  Such a lovely image on a card to remind a friend she needs to get her mammogram or showing support for someone dealing with breast cancer. 

My grandma died in 1970 of breast cancer.  She had 6 children, my dad and his siblings.  Uncle Dick, Uncle George, and Aunt Betty have died of lung cancer.  Uncle Jim died from cancer of unknown origin.  My dad has had prostrate cancer and with surgery is doing fine.  Only my Aunt Sally has been cancer free.  So cancer awareness is a priority for me.

So...how does a progressive challenge work?  It's easy.  The first Friday of the month, Faith gives away a lovely image (Hurry there is still time to get the free image).  Make a project with that images and link it to the Delightful Inspirations blog by Thursday 11:59 PM Eastern time, and you will be emailed a new image.  And that is what happens every week. 

Here is my card....

Hope to see your project. 
Hugs, love and prayers
Chris

NettieG's Fall Challenge

NettieG's Fall Challenge

This week's challenge is all about FALL.  Here in the States it is officially FALL.  So this week's challenge is a FALL challenge.  Use a FALL image and/or FALL colors. 

Now you can use any image you wish, BUT if you use a NettieG image you get 2 entries in the drawing. 

Here is my card.

I used Mr. ScareCrow with coffee and Mrs. ScareCrow with coffee.  How cute are they!!  Hope to see your project. 

Hugs, love, and prayers

Chris

Digi Darla's Brown and Blue Challenge

Digi Darla's Brown and Blue Challenge

This week's challenge is a color challenge. Brown and Blue.  I think brown and blue look so good together.  Even the paper company thought so...look at the great brown and blue paper I used. 

Now you can use any image you wish, BUT if you use a Digi Darla image, you get 2 entries in the drawing for free images. 

I just loved this image.  Here is my card...

Hope to see your card at the challenge.

Hugs, love and prayers

Chris