Thursday, August 23, 2012

Back to School at CropStop

Hi everyone-
Can you believe it's that time already?
What am I talking about?
SCHOOL!!!
My oldest goes back after Labor Day weekend and I know he's excited!!

Which brings me to todays challenge over at CropStop:
BACK TO SCHOOL

Here is my card sample:
I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Hugs,
Calypso




Sunday, August 19, 2012

Watercoloring w/ SweetStamps


Good morning sweet stampers!!
Do you like to water color?  Or are you one to admire those that love to watercolor?
Well I fall into both of these categories. 
I love the look and effect that watercolors can give an image and I also admire those that color without effort. 

So this week at SweetStamps, we are challenging to:
Watercolor 

Here is my card for this weeks challenge:

You can watercolor with a variety of coloring media: watercolor pencils, watercolor crayons, reinkers and dye ink pads.  A nice thing about watercoloring is that it can be messy or outside of the lines and it still looks beautiful. 
Come join in the fun and share your creations with us, we'd love to see your artwork. Remember to use a SweetStamps image on your creation to get an extra chance at winning $20 of rubber stamps from SweetStamps.com.

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Join our weekly challenge
You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLink at the end of the post. Please do not link to your main blog, we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to the SweetStamps blog.
Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweetStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including SweetStamps). You must link back to SweetStamps to your blog post.

Next week's challenge #80 is:
Use your favorite technique
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I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
 (3 different patterned paper and 3 pearls)
Tweet tweet
3 pearls
Distress

Thanks for visiting today. 
Hugs,
Calypso 




For my gorgeous friend


Good afternoon-
Oooooh....I am running a whew bit late today!!
My best friend, husband and my god daughter were in town this weekend, so we spent some quality time together.  I can't believe how big our god daughter is getting, she's already 15 weeks and when I see her again she will 4 months!!! AHHH....stop growing I keep saying!! :) 

So let me get on with today's post before I start getting teary eyed!
Today is a new challenge over at Sentimental Sundays!!!
And I really...really...enjoyed working with this weeks sponsored image and BONUS sketch!!
It was in my eyes, a match made in heaven!! LOL!!

This weeks challenge is:
Banners/ Pennants
We are being sponsored by Tiddly Inks
Here is my sample card for this weeks challenge using Mystria
I loved how this all came together..the purple with the little bit  bling!
I am really trying to practice my pleats/folds and this was a great image to work with!!
Thank you Christy!!!

So make sure you swing by the Sentimental Sundays blog and check out the amazing creations they created for you this week and to check out what the BONUS sketch is...You are going to love it!!!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenge:
Kraftyhands: Bling It On
Charisma Cardz #32

Tah-tah for now!
Hugs,
Calypso



Thursday, August 16, 2012

CropStop Recipe Challenge

Good morning everyone-
Well it's Thursday and that means that it's time for another challenge over at CropStop.
This week we have a Recipe Challenge for you to try.
We want to see these 3 items on your project this week:
Flowers, Bling and Polka Dots

Now there is so much room for creativity with this challenge.
Here is what I came up with:CalypsoCS#85
I colored up, Amelie by Whimsy & Stars Studio which I won a few months back .
Is she not just the cutest thing.  

So there you have it....I hope that you will find sometime to join us at CropStop this week and stop by and see the amazing cards that rest of the team has created. 
Also....the CropStop Creative Team Call ends tomorrow, so make sure to click HERE to read all the details if you are interested in applying.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:



Monday, August 13, 2012

Exciting news


Hello everyone-
Today, I am happy and delighted to tell you that I am 33 weeks pregnant!!
Yes... very PREGNANT!!! LOL
I (we) are expecting a bouncing baby boy October 2nd, but I have a feeling he may be making an unexpected appearance sooner.  This pregnancy has been filled with lots of unexpected circumstances and I've been on a huge emotional roller coaster, but I've had an abundance of love, patience and support from my husband and my DT families.  They have been such a huge support group for me and I appreciate and LOVE them all so much.

So here is what our little guy looks like now:
Please say hello to: Tommy
This was a smile that the tech was able to capture!
 And here he is with his fingers in his mouth!
 And this is me...
This picture was taken last weekend, when hubby and I took a much needed vacay!

I am finishing up some of my DT assignments that I still have left, but after that I will be taking a blog break for at least a few months to be with my new bundle of joy and trying to get in the rhythm of things.

Thank you for stopping by today and allowing me to share this exciting news with you all.

Hugs.
Calypso

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Classic Chick


Hi everyone-
Long time no see huh?!?!
Well come back this afternoon and I will share a little secret with you!!  :) 

For now, I am here to share a card I made for this weeks challenge at Sentimental Sundays
This weeks challenge is:
Clean & Simple
I love the look of clean and simple cards and as you can see, it does not have to have tons of white space.
As long there is not lots of embellishments and other distraction....It can be considered a CAS card.

Here is my sample card:
As you can see, this weeks sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps and I used the beautiful sketch that was created by out very own DT member: Nicole.  Make sure you stop by the Sentimental Sundays blog and see the gorgeous CAS creations they created this week. 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Hugs,
Calypso

Saturday, August 4, 2012

GDT My Sheri Craft Challenge Blog

Hi everyone-
I hope you are having a beautiful Saturday. 
We had the strangest weather patterns here yesterday.  It was cloudy, thundering, raining and extremely humid.  The sun was trying to peek through, but there was just no chance of any sunshine.  
Anyways...today I am excited to share my Guest Design project that I created for this weeks challenge over at My Sheri Crafts Challenge.
7/21/2012
This weeks challenge is: 
"Back N' Forth"
Use an accordion/fan fold as one of your project's elements ...can be simply a strip, fan, rosette -- whatever you imagine!
So here is what I created for you:
MySheriCraftGDT
It's a Happy Birthday cupcake centerpiece. 
MySheriCraftGDT2
The topper was created using my Sihouette.  I colored the star in with my Copic and then added some glitter glue and bling. 
MySheriCraftGDT1
The cupcake wrapper is 2" tall and pleated at every 1/4". 
I used an array ribbon that I had in my stash box...embellished with some rhinestones and used my pearl pen white, to add more bling.  :)

I really hope that you have enjoyed my creation as much as I have enjoyed creating  for this weeks challenge. Come by My Sheri Crafts Challenge, see what the the rest of the team has created and join the fun.  You may be the next guest designer!! :)  

Thank you Sheri and team for having me this week.
Thanks for coming by, see you again soon.

I would like to enter this creation in the following challenges:
Delightful Challenges: Birthday

Hugs,
Calypso