Saturday, October 30, 2010

Birthday Adventure....Skydiving

Hi everyone-
***This is a scheduled post...I am still on vacation***


I just wanted to re-post my birthday adventure for you!!  I know that the first post was really long winded, but if you care to read how this adventure took place, click HERE.  If you jut want to watch the videos....here you go.




After you get done watching the video's, let me know:
1) If you would ever sky dive?
      *If you have, would you do it again?
      *Or why wouldn't you do it again or at all.
2) What is your next extreme adventure?


Have a great weekend everyone.

Hugs,
Calypso

Friday, October 29, 2010

Baby Bud Designs Challenge #2 and Freebie Friday!!!

Good morning everyone!!!!

***This message is a scheduled post...I'm still on vacation!!!!***

Welcome to another Friday Freebie here at Baby Bud Designs!!!!

Today's freebie is:

Make sure you click and save on him today and spread the word so you can all play along with us for our second challenge!!! ALSO, today marks the start of a brand new challenge!
AND, as a very special thankyou to all of the people who played along, Mary Anne has decided to release a 2nd freebie for you today!!!

Here's:
Now on to the challenge:

SCALLOPS, BUTTONS AND BLING!!!

The only rule we ask is that you use a Baby Bud Image!!!

To kick off our first challenge ever we wanted to offer our huge prize package to as many people as possible so we had some different rules. But from now on, we wanna see those Baby Buds! We will always have our freebie giveaway on the same day as our challenge so everyone should be able to play along. We are also members of CDAC (Crafters Digital Art Centre) where you can access some of our other freebies as well.

You have a whole month to play along again for our second challenge, the deadline for your cards and projects will be on November 24th at 12:00 noon E.S.T. The winner will be announced on November 25th 2010!!!

The Prize???? 2 digi images of your choice from our Etsy Store and a card kit full of goodies!!!

So with all that being said, here is my first card using Woof Doggie and the rules of this months challenge.
I made the card for my sister, who just got married and doesn't have kids yet, but is getting a new puppy.
Woof doggie was colored with Copic markes and then covered with Flower Soft.












Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creations with this months challenge.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
-2 Sketches 4 You: Bonus sketch by Rosemarie Diehl

Hugs,
Calypso

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

SPCC #71....I miss you.

Good day everyone-

****This is a scheduled message, as I am still on vacation!!!****

I really like these colors but didn't want to make them into a fall card, since that is what the color combo this week reminds me of. So I made a, I miss you card instead.
I think it came out really well and I didn't even use white!!!! Yeah for me!!!
So here is the card I made with this weeks SP Color challenge.



And here is this weeks color challenge combo:









Hope that you will consider joining us this week.
See you when u get back!!!!!

Hugs, 
Calypso

Monday, October 18, 2010

SPCC #70 and WMSC19

Good morning..
It's Monday!!!  Not my favorite day of the week at all!!!
My family and I are going to Puerto Rico!!! Since I won't be here next week I have to take 2 midterms early....So I have study EXTRA hard and LONG!!!
There is a lot going on this week!!

To jump start the morning creativity, I wanted to show you this weeks color challenge at Scrapmasters Paradise. Here is my card for this weeks challenge:


















And here are the color combination:












Now there are a lot of Halloween challenges going on and I think these colors are the perfect jump start to those projects.  Sorry I didn't make my rounds to your blogs last week, just so much going on right now and I'm apologizing now for those that I will miss next week too.

I really do hope that you will join us this week and I hope that I have given you some inspirational ideas.

I am submitting this card into the following challenges:
WaltzingMouse Sketch Challenge #19
Stamp Something: Halloween
Paper Cuts Challenge #63: Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #25: Black and White plus one!
Fancy and Fussy Friday Challenge #21: Halloween
Moving Along With the Times Challenge #68: Halloween
Stampin Royalty Challenge #41: Spooky Kooky aka Halloween

Thanks for visiting today.  See you soon.

Hugs,
Calypso

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Halloween Candy Winner!!!!

Winner!!!  Winner!!!!  We have a winner!!!!!

And it is:

True Random Number Generator  4Powered by RANDOM.ORG

Tanya said...
So cute, thanks for the chance, have a great weekend. :)



Yeah!!!  I am so happy for you!!!!  Thank for always coming by and leaving a smile on my blog. 

Email me:
calypsocandycrafts at gmail dot com.

Try to get me your address before Friday, because I will be leaving for Puerto Rico for 12 days....unless you want to wait till I get back!!! :)

Thanks again and to everyone who entered.

Hugs,
Calypso

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Baby Bud Jack as a Pirate

Good morning everyone.

I just wanted to remind you that you still have a few more days to join in on the Fall/Halloween challenge that we have going on at the Baby Buds site.  If you weren't able to grab the freebie, you can visit the Baby Bud Etsy Store, to purchase one there.

I am so excited about showing you my card today.
Here is what I did:













I dressed the front of the transparency card with the pirate costume.
The treasure chest is a paper piecing template that I found here.  The treasure chest is sitting on pop dots,
so that I could pace a magnet behind it, to help keep the card close.



















This is a side view of what the front looks like, once it opens.
This is baby bud Jack without his costume.


















Is has really  been overcast here, so that is why the pictures are not so great!!!

I had so much fun putting this card together.  I know it looks really plain, but I didn't want to over do it with the wrong patterned paper and you can really never go wrong with craft!! LOL!!!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:
Aly's Sunday Sketch Challenge #27: Halloween
Bee Crafty Challenge #40: Halloween
Fussy and Fancy Challenge #21: Halloween
Stamp Something: Halloween
Sweet Stampin Challenge #48: Ribbons
Stampin Royalty Challenge #41: Halloween
The Creative  Cottage Challenge #25: Halloween
Going Grey with Scrap-Creations Challenge: Make It 3D  (Treasure Chest)
Occasion Oasis Challenge: Halloween
Inktegrity Designs Challenge #18: Halloween
The Sisterhood of Crafters: BLING
Karber Weekly Challenge #9: Halloween
One Stop Craft Challenge #102: Halloween
Crafts and Me Challenge #15: Halloween

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you soon.

Hugs,
Calypso

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Crafts by Rowena Sketch #50....FAMILY

Hello my dear bloggers.

I hope that you are having a great day.  It's really gloomy day and I have a Pigeon Pea Beef Soup in the crock pot that is giving off such a yummy aroma throughout the house.

Time for another sketch week.  I haven't told you already....I love Rowena's sketches and I enjoy being on her DT.  I have completed so many layouts because of her and these amazing sketches that she puts together.  So THANK YOU ROWENA!!!

Here is my layout for this weeks sketch:













This is my family....boys, all dressed up at my sister's wedding that took place in June.
I love these pictures and Rowena's sketch was perfect for them.

Here is the sketch:













I hope you will join us this week, I would really like to stop by and visit you.

I will be entering this layout in the following challenge:
Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge #29: My Peeps

Thank you for stopping in today and I hope to see you again.
DON'T forget to check out my surprise skydiving video here!!!!

Hugs,
Calypso

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

SPCC #69...Fall/Halloween Card

Hi again.

This is the card I made for Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Challenge #69.


















If you remember last weeks challenge, I did discovered the use of my alcohol inks.  So I created the background of this card using the alcohol inks.  I love this technique and you can do so much with it.

Here are this weeks colors:
I think that they are perfect for those Halloween projects you may be working on or thinking of creating.








I hope that you will join us this week.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Ellephantastic Challenge #15: Anything Goes
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays Challenge: Halloween or Fall
Stampin Royalty Challenge #41: Halloween
Craftilicious Challenge #10: Anything Goes
Papercraft Star Challenge #17: Halloween

Hugs,
Calypso

CANDY GIVEAWAYS.....

Good morning everyone,
I have so much to share with you, so I wanted to start things on a the sweet side.
I know that everyone loves candies and I have a list of them for you!!!
I think I will try to do this more often.....when and if time permits!!!!

So here we go:
Ends 10/15/2010
Chris's blog candy, is everything that ANY scrapbooker or card can/would dream of!!! There isn't just one giveaway....There's TWO!!! 










Ends 10/18/2010
I see Yellow Bicycle, Tim Holts, Thickers....This is a really fabulous candy!!!

Ends 10/21/2010
You have to visit her website and check out her stamps too...they are adorable!! Just check out Devil Max and Halloween Milly that are included in this candy.

Digital Delight 500 + Follower Giveaway
Ends 10/21/2010














Tiddly Ink Blog Candy
Ends 11/04/2010











Good luck to everyone.

Hugs,
Calypso

Friday, October 8, 2010

Baby Bud FAIRY ORLAGH

Hi everyone.
I wanted to take this opportunity and share another card I made with one of the Baby Bud images.
This is FAIRY ORLAGH.  


















I followed this months challenge which is Fall/Halloween.

I actually colored her dress in color pencil then used a q-tip and baby oil and went over the colored area.

So remember, you don't have to have a Baby Bud image to play...we ask that it follow the theme. You have until October 29th, so get those entries in!!!

Have a great weekend.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Stamp Something: Something Punchy
Craftalicious Challenges #9: Harvest Festival/Autumn
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog: Celecrate all colors of Fall!
Fab'N' Funky Challenge #43: Use a digi image

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Skydiving Birthday surprise!!!

Hi everyone-

**** I'm still on vacation, but wanted to re-port my birthday adventure with you!!!****


I think this will be my last post for the night...I have class in a few hours and I still have to finish reading.

So October 7th, was my birthday!!!!!  YEAH!!!!  It was a normal day for me....or at least I thought, my Patrick brought me home dinner, from our favorite place to get seared tuna and a delicious ice cream cake from B & R.  It was s simple that it was perfect.  I think the older you get, the less birthday bashes don't seem that exciting.

My son had a game this weekend about one hour away from us and I had to take this opportunity to look up scrapbooking stores.  (I have nothing but Michael's...Ehh!!)  I asked Patrick if we could stop and without hesitation said OFCOURSE!!!!!  Not only did my son's team win.....but I got to go scrapbook shopping!!!!  OMG!!! I was in heaven....I got tons of Maya Road wrinkle ribbon, lace....new distressed ink, new Basic Grey collections, Cosmo Cricket, Flower Soft, flowers...The ones that everyone uses on their magnolia cards and so much more.  You have to understand....shopping was a big deal because I had to save for many months, since we only have one income and well money is tight.

So I shopped for an hour......and Patrick was very patient, even spoke with another man outside who was talking about his wife's paper crafting addiction!!!  LOL!!!

On our way home Patrick just seemed to get really quite and I asked him if he was ok....I he stated he was just really tired, since the night before he had a gall bladder attack..(these are no joke, they are painful.)
So I understood....He then told me that our friends had something for me and were meeting them at 2. 
We pulled up to a cafe and started talking....All of a sudden Patrick opens the gate entrance to enter the airport.  They wanted me to follow but I was against breaking the rules and getting caught!  Our friend Shari, said that I should come...so I went.  Once entering the gate, Patrick tells me that Shari and Albert got Me a helicopter ride for my birthday!!!  I was super excited.....so we started walking, with no idea of where the office was

I'm looking down towards the follow as I walk because I had sandals on and the floor was wet, lots of small little rocks and glass.  So I as I look up I see the sign that says Skydiving and everyone has already disappeared around the corner, when the gal comes from around the corner and asks, "So how many of you are jumping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  My stomach went the my throat and my heart to my stomach....I was crying and laughing at the same time, I just couldn't believe it.   Patrick and our friends have been planning this for 2 months and NEVER had an idea!!!

So for my birthday I was surprised with a skydiving trip....which is something that I have always wanted to do.I know that I have rambled way too long, so here are the video links to our jump! Enjoy!!!

Calypso's Jump Part 1
Calypso's Jump Part 2
Patrick's Jump Part 1
Patrick's Jump Part 2

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Hugs,
Calypso

Crafts by Rowena Sketch #49...New Haircut

Good afternoon bloggers.

Today I want to invite you to join our sketch challenge over at Crafts by Rowena.
I really enjoyed working with this sketch and even thought I have seen flags on many LO, this is my first time working with them .  I like the page, its simple and I still think it needs something, but not really sure what.

Here is my layout:











And this weeks sketch:












I hope that you can join us this week.

Hugs,
Calypso

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

SPCC #68.....Enjoy!

Hi everyone,
This was another difficult color challenge for me.  The colors look Halloweenish, but I just couldn't wrap my thought around a creation.  So I started browsing and found a tutorial by the famous and very talented Jennifer McGuire on using alcohol inks.  I had these but never got around to using them....so I did.

Here is what I came up with:












And here is this weeks color challenge:








I had a great time creating this card and learning a new technique, which I will be using again real soon!!

So I hope that you will join us this week over at Scrapmasters Paradise and I can't wait to see what you create.


Hugs,
Calypso

*Halloween Candy for YOU!!!!*

Hello again,

I just wanted to post a little something for my followers.
Please DO NOT advertise this on your blogs.  I want to keep this for those who are already my followers.
This is to thank those of you, who actually do come by and leave amazing comments.
I appreciate you and your time....I know that we do get overwhelmed with life, kids, school, husbands, boyfriends, stuff.....so thank you for stopping in when you do, it really does put a smile on my face.














This will only run for 2 weeks ending October 15th, 2010 and winner will be chosen randomly.


Thank you again.

HUGE hug,
Calypso