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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Let's Get Caffeinated!

Hi crafty friends! I'm sharing a card I made with Angie Bloms Caffeinated Girls. 

Supplies:

*CaliArt Markers* Caffeinated Girls Image* Pattern Paper* We R Memory Keepers Card Dies* Smooth White Cardstock* 

                             Thank You for stopping in! 💙 Tee

Challenges:

      Simon Says Monday Challenge- Food and/ or Drink

 


             Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes

Monday, January 23, 2023

Oddleigh Poe ATC

 


Another ATC to share in celebration of LeighSBDesigns 8th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop! I used Leighs Oddleigh Edgar Allan Poe, colored him in marker and added a little sparkle to his necktie. White pen to some areas of his name. Background is a stencil from my stash. Thank you for coming by! 💚 Tee



Sunday, January 22, 2023

The Raven

 



In celebration of LeighSBDesigns 8th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop (Jan 19th-Jan23rd) I made a CAS card using Leighs Oddleigh The Raven
Thanks for stopping by. 💓 Tee

                                                       


Saturday, January 21, 2023

Today is all about you ATC



In celebration of LeighSBDesigns 8th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop! Jan 19th -Jan 23rd
 I made another artist trading card to share with you using Leighs Poe Gnome.
He was colored with markers and fussy cut. I adhered him to Dress My Craft pattern paper. I colored the flowers of the paper with yellow marker and stamped over with a messy writing stamp using black ink. I didn't have red or black acyclic paint to splatter/flicker with, so I ended up using purple paint... Finishing with Tims small talk sticker.

Friday, January 20, 2023

Just a State of Mind ATC




LeighSBDesigns is hosting her 8th annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop! I made a Poe artist trading card to share using Leighs Ode to Poe image. Hop is from Jan 19th - Jan. 23rd so there is time to play along with your Poe make! Thanks for stopping by! 💚 Tee

                                                 Supplies:

*ATC size Cardstock* Dress My Craft (My Gentleman) Pattern Paper* Prima Background Stamp* White Ink* Black Ink* Tims Small Talk Stickers* 

                                                               

                                                 Challenges:

  


LeighSBDesigns 8th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop


 


 

Time to Relax Z Fold Card

 

  

Today I'm sharing my first simple z-fold card. I used Time to Relax by All Dressed Up. Pattern paper is Holiday Romance by Recollections. I used Spellbinders circle dies, and We R Memory Keepers Card Dies. Embellished with a couple of pink rhinestones and lil pink heart.
Left inside circle blank for greeting/signature.
Thanks so much for dropping in! 💜 Tee






Challenges:








Crafty Catz Challenge Blog # 621 Anything Goes/ Option Add a Die Cut


Thursday, January 19, 2023

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary

 

Hi crafty friends! Today is Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday! LeighSBDesigns is hosting her 8th Annual Poe Blog Hop in celebration. Come join in!
                                           (Jan. 19th - Jan. 23rd)
I made a card for the hop using The Winter Raven 💙 Tee

Supplies:

*White Cardstock* The Winter Raven* Caliart Markers* Gold & Red Stickles* Blue Rhinestones*



LeighSBDesigns 8th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop



The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
            Only this and nothing more.”

    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
    Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
    From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
            Nameless here for evermore.

    And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
    So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
    “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—
            This it is and nothing more.”

    Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
“Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
    But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
    And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you”—here I opened wide the door;—
            Darkness there and nothing more.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
    But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
    And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”—
            Merely this and nothing more.

    Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
    “Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice;
      Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore—
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—
            ’Tis the wind and nothing more!”

    Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
    Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
    But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—
            Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore;
    For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
    Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door—
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
            With such name as “Nevermore.”

    But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
    Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—
    Till I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before—
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”
            Then the bird said “Nevermore.”

    Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
“Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store
    Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
    Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore—
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
            Of ‘Never—nevermore’.”

    But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
    Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
    Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
            Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”

    This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
    This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
    On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
            She shall press, ah, nevermore!

    Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
    “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
    Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
    Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
    On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—
    Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
    Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
    Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
    And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
    And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
            Shall be lifted—nevermore!

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Special Birthday




Hi crafty friends! Today I made a card to share using LeighSBDesigns Romeo Balleigh Monster.

I colored Romeo with markers and added stickles for sparkle. I put Nuvo crystal drops on his one tooth for dimension. And I added a few little stars and a birthday sentiment to finish.

Supplies:

Red Card Base* White Card Stock* Romeo Balleigh Monster Digi* Caliart Markers* Stickles* Heart Stamp* Sentiment Stamp* Red Ink* Nuvo Crystal Drop*

  Challenges:


 





Saturday, January 14, 2023

Time to Relax




Card created with Time to Relax by All Dressed Up digital stamps.
Thanks for coming by today! 💛 Tee

Supplies:

*White Card Base* Smooth White Card Stock* *Recollections Holiday Romance Pattern Paper* Time to Relax Digi* Caliart Markers* Snowflake Stamp* Pink Hybrid Ink* Spellbinders Card Dies* Tombow Glue*

Challenges:


              All Dressed Up Facebook Challenge Group -Make it Cute!

               

 


           Four Seasons January 2023 Anything Goes Winter Challenge

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Holiday Hot Chocolate



I made another cup of joy with Patti's Creations Digital Stamp using Holiday Hot Chocolate which was one of the freebies she offers at her challenge blog! I colored with markers and fussy cut. I cut the cups handle off, trimmed and reattached it so they would be no white showing. Outlined cup with black marker & added stickles for some pretty sparkle! Joy sentiment stamp is from Stamplorations. 
Thanks for dropping by! 💓 Tee


Supplies:

*Red Card Base* White Cardstock* Holiday Hot Chocolate Digital Stamp* Snowflake Stamps* Colbalt Blue Ink* Archival Black Ink* Joy Sentiment Stamp* We R Memory Keepers Card Dies* CaliArt Markers* Red & Green Stickles* Tombow liquid Glue* *Recollections Say Freeze Pattern Paper*

Challenges:








Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The Winter Raven



Hi Crafty Friends! Sharing The Winter Raven by LeighSBDesigns
Thank You for stopping by. 💙 Tee

Supplies:
*Red Cardstock* White Cardstock* The Winter Raven* Caliart & Bic Markers* We R Memory Keepers Card Dies* Silver Stickles* *Gems*
 


Challenges:




 Most Magical Time of the Year Challenge #4 Anything Goes Halloween or Christmas