PurpleFuntastick Creations & Faith Verse Guest Designer - Jan 24, 2011

Hello Friends and Welcome to my Blog! :)

Today I am excited to introduce you to a new Guest Designer that recently joined my Purplies group! :) and she is so sweet and very talented Tina aka Crafty and Green! :) Make sure you give her some love and check out her blog. Now check out below what she did for us today! :)

Tina take it away...

I feel so Blessed to be able to be a Guest Designer for one of my crafty friends, Kari at Purple Funtastick Creations!! I also was supposed to do a Guest Design spot for her Faith Verse Group on Monday, so I decided to combine the two into one project for your viewing pleasure today!

The Theme for January's Purple Funtastick Guest Designers is New Year/Goals/Party/Invite/Party appetizer. As much as a yummy appetizer sounds so appetizing, I'm doing weight watchers and really trying to get healthy, hehe!! So I decided on Goals. One of my goals is to start writing in a prayer journal. I have attempted this many times, but really would like it to work this time. So I thought I'd make a cool Prayer Journal! That's where one of my Favorite Bible Verses come into play! 

 

 As Always, I craft as Green as I possibly can!! All of the papers I used for my project are from my scrap bins! The flower I used is from a flower swap I participated in a few months ago (The colors went perfectly!) 

Close up of the Bible Verse, Luke 1:46 --Just love this!!

Thank you Kari for Allowing me the Opportunity to Guest Design on your Blog!! I really love this project I did and I hope you enjoyed it as well!! Thanks Again!!

Many Blessings,

Tina

Thanks for joining us today and wasn't Tina's project awesome and thanks Tina for being my guest designer today and looking forward to more of you crafty projects in the future...and thanks friends for stopping by and have a wonderfully blessed week...I am so sorry I am a little behind but the shoulder is not help me at all...but I will be back more I promise!! :) hugs

In His Love,

Be Inspired,

Kari

NOTICE

I was originally suppose to be in "Show me your Craftroom" blog hop but I couldn't since I didn't finish my room due to my shoulder injury but I will show you my "craftroom" in the future so stop back and check it out! :)

Kari

I am a Guest Designer for Her Craftiness Today! :) Jan. 20, 2012

Hello Friends and Welcome to my blog! :)

Today I am a guest designer for my friend and sister Lynne Kirsch at Her Craftiness and today the theme is Winter! woohoo! and of course I have to have purple snow in my dreams...hehe...check out my project below...

I have done a winter card...not sure who I will send this too yet...but I am sure there is someone...

Here is the recipe: Took a beige card stock as my A2 size, then I stamped a Snowman (with one of my fave stamps) on a white cardstock...then I watercolored him...hehe...then cut him out and then popped dotted him on the card...I punched some snowflakes for the card but blinged it out with purple gems (the flakes are not showing up well in the pic)...then I stickled with my grape color for purple snow...so you know it is from me...hehe...I had a small double sided tape (didn't realize I was almost out...oye...sigh) on it originally for purple glitter I had but it didn't stay on too good so I had to re-do it...so this is it ...a simple card hope to get fancy again soon but with a painful shoulder currently it is going to have to be a wait yet...thanks for letting me show you some "purple" snow...and well it is better than "yellow" snow...ugh...

Thank you Lynne for letting me be your guest designer today! as always friends thanks for stopping by and be blessed! :)

In His Love,

Be Inspired,

Kari

Hello Friends and Welcome to my Blog! :) Welcome to my Blogaversary party! :)
 
Today my friends and I are having a hop to celebrate my one-year anniversary of my blog which is Jan 20th.  I can't believe how fast time has flown by!!  I am thrilled to say that it was an exciting and amazing year...I have met some of the most wonderful friends in the crafty world and there were many that helped me on my crafting journey...thanks to you all! and my followers who supported me and cheered me on as well! I am excited to continue the journey and share with you the amazing talent that is out there as well as my own creations...you are all a blessing! :)

If you came here you started in the right place, because I want you to have a chance to win some blog candy. Don't want to miss the fun either! :) So don't fly away and enjoy sitting on the flower and hopping along the way to some talented designers I know! :)

We have the best sponsors for our hop that will just blow your mind!!!
Shannon Keith Leffew has a gift certificate for flowers in her Etsy Shop Creative Kuts a $20 Gift Card at http://creativekuts.com/     2 birthday cards made by her, Stamp Set from www.gettingcricky.com PLUS $10 Gift Certificate for Little Scraps of Heaven 
Positive Thoughs Stamp Set
all that she is asking that you stop by her blog at http://www.scrappingmamma.net/, become a follower if you aren't already at her blog, and leave some bloggie love telling her that you are hopping with Butterfly Kisses Blogaversary.
So, make sure you give bloggy love to all my guest designers and of course me! ...hehe...and have fun hopping along the way.


In case you flew away and went in the wrong direction here is the line up in case you need to fly your way back! :)
 

Kari - http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
Ellen - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com
Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com
Susan - http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/
Kristen - http://huneebcreations.blogspot.com/
Christel - http://onescrappinsista.blogspot.com
Lynne - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Vicki W. - http://scrapbookingcreationsbyvicki.blogspot.com/
Janet S - http://www.ladyluvbug.blogspot.com
Linda - www.lindascreativity.blogspot.com
CallyAnn- http://callyanncraftycreations.blogspot.com
Shannon- http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com

So without further ado lets get ready to soar and get the party started.  The only requirement I made for this party was that everyone had to put a butterfly or butterflies in their creation.
 
Here is my project which I changed to last minute due to some unfortunate happening that we can do without hearing about it...hehe...oye...hope you like that I made a tag! :)

Recipe:  I use this tag from a sizzix die cut from my friend Sis...then I outlined a printed paper to paste on it then I added some fringe, lace ribbon then tied it with a bit of pearl string...then I punched out a butterfly out of a dark pink card stock (not sure where it is from but from my stash) then I blinged it up with Sweet Pea glimmer mist (ty Donna! :) ) and also with some sparkles from CTMH then glued it down on the tag and then added some purple flowers (didn't think I would forget my purple did ya?)  and then I used one of the stamps from my Grunge Inspirations stamp set from Kinderstampo (I just love this set) and embossed the "SOAR" wtih silver embossing and then inked it up with some pink versa mark ink pad then popped dot it on the tag...and then finally pink ribbon in the hole of the tag...voila! pretty simple but pretty I think and it reminds me of spring instead of the winter blues...hehe

Thanks for stopping by as always...and don't forget to give some bloggy love and may you have a blessed day! :) Now your next stop is :  Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com


In His Love,
Be Inspired,
Kari

Come Baby Blog Hop - Jan. 17, 2012

Hello Friends and welcome to my blog!

Since there are two posts today one being my PurpleFuntastick designer and the hop make sure you go to the right post...the one below this hop is my guest designer for the day....thanks! :)

Today we are doing a  Baby Hop for Ashley Gray since she had a wonderful baby boy on January 12, 2012! Congratulations Ashley! :)  If you came from Jen's blog then you are in the right place but if you happened upon my blog please go to the beginning at Ashley's blog.  Don't want you missing a thing! :)

I wanted to do a card and check it out below:

Recipe: I am not a big fan of blue...hehe...so I decided to do something a little different and put a little green and yellow printed paper with blue on it to go with the blue color cardstock but still honor the baby blue! and I stamped the images with dark blue ink pad and the sentiment as well and then also use the stamp on a wht cardstock and inked the edges to give it a boy's touch...like he dirtied it up! hehe...sweet....and then I used my white gel marker pen and touched it up like I sewed it. 

Hope you like it and congrats again Ashley! :) hugs

Thanks for stopping by as always and your next stop is :  Indira  blog so don't forget to give the Love and congratulations to Ashley's new arrival! :) hugs and be blessed! :)

In His Love,

Be Inspired,

Kari

PurpleFuntastick Creations Guest Designer - Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012

Hello Friends and Welcome to my Blog! :) 

Today is PurpleFuntastick Guest Designer day! and today we have talented Carolyn Phillips....she has an awesome project and her blog is .....      ....so check it out! :)

Carolyn take it away....

I am really pleased to have the opportunity to be guest designer for my friend Kari today, pleased for so many reasons; I am excited at her plans for this coming year and thrilled at the opportunity to be part of them; I love her new year theme this month, it always excites me; I have plans of my own for the year and this project is another step towards them…lots of reasons.

I love New Year because of the thrill of the blank slate, new possibilities, plans and dreams. This time of year is full of hope and adventure. No matter what happened last year or the year before, this year, today, can be different. The rest of our life is waiting. My own plans for the year include pushing at my boundaries, doing new things or old things in new ways. I wanted my project to reflect that so I turned to my felting, and for design started with a sunburst, a symbol of a new day dawning. Then I added in some new things, I used small wool nepps in the background which I have had sitting waiting to be used for ages and never touched, and I experimented with ways to add some dimension to the foreground. As it developed, esp once it started to felt together, I decided it was more like a blooming flower than a sunburst, but the same symbolism can be read there so it doesn’t matter. (And I like projects that start one way and finish another, when they take a life of their own they always seem to come out better!)

I want to encourage you at the start of the New Year to push yourself. Whatever form your creativity takes, and I strongly believe we are ALL creative in some way, try something new. Take a step forward, and then another one. See where you can go. It doesn’t matter what the result it, the adventure is in the trying.

God bless,

Carolyn.

Wow...what an awesome project and thanks Carolyn for all your support! and you are correct sometimes when it starts it isn't what you always have in mind or mistakes are made and well you sometimes have to adapt and sometime it is for the better! :) as always friends thanks for stopping by and come back again and have a blessed day! :)

In His Love,

Be Inspired,

Kari

Faith Verse Guest Designer.... Jan. 16, 2012

Hello Friends and Welcome to my blog! :) 

We have Faith Verse Guest designer today! welcome talented and wonderful Tammy Garnett! :) she has an awesome testimony and project...check it out below! :)

Hey Scrappers

This is my first blog post of the year here at PurpleFuntastick and I am excited! I wanted to share with you my favorite bible verses! It is found in Philippians 4:4.."Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say Rejoice." In our daily walk we must learn to Rejoice in Lord always. The Message version of this scripture says Philippians 4:4 MSG
Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him!
Well all will encounter trials, heartache and heart break in our lives. But if we learn to celebrate God, He will ease the ache and in rejoicing he can make us whole. We have so much to thank God for. So much to be grateful for. So much to praise Him for. So my challenge to you is to celebrate in spite of! Rejoice in the Lord regardless of what the situation may seem like!

Here is a card with the scripture from Philippians I made to encourage a friend who recently lost her mom. I hope this card will help her to know even after the relatives have left, the flowers have wilted, the sympathy cards have stopped coming.....there are friends in the body of Christ that are still praying for her strength.

So do you have a REJOICE IN YOUR HEART TODAY! I DO!
TAMMY G
www.fromme2upapercrafting.blogspot.com

Thanks friends for always stopping by and I sure will have to remember the word "REJOICE" ...will you do that too! Thanks Tammy for a wonderful card and testimony and so true we have to rejoice in our Savior! :) hugs and thanks for all you and have a blessed week my friends! :)

In His Love,
Be Inspired,
Kari