Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #215 Snow Much Fun!

Hello, crafters! Welcome to not only a new challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner Challenge, but a New Year! How about that?? It's already 2021! Anybody out there remember the "scare of 1999 and Y2K"? I sure do! 

So the theme for this challenge is: Snow Much Fun!

Our wonderful sponsors for this challenge are:

Crafty Sentiments Designs

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

Twinkle Lane Designs
£8.00 Gift Certificat

So here is the card I made, using the cutest little snow couple! I absolutely love this image! It was so fun to color! I used my Spectrum Noir markers to color it on paper from Paper Temptress. I also added some snow flake stickers that I had been gifted by an overseas friend. I then added my sentiment by Close to My Heart. And then of course I matted it using papers from CTMH (Close to My Heart)

Mr & Mrs Snow

Crafty Sentiment Designs

I hope that you will join us for this month's challenge! Prizes are always given! Besides that, we just love seeing your beautiful creations!

Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful and blessed New Year! 

Jeanie Ellis, Scrapbookingmamaw

NEW CHALLENGE - TAYLORMADECARDS4U!

  Hello everyone! I am excited to announce that a new monthly challenge site has started this month, January 2nd, 2021! And I am a part of that design team! (Yay, me!) This challenge, from TaylorMadeCards4U begins on the first Saturday of each month and end the last day of the month.

We as The Design Team will be inspiring you using the optional theme. You can choose to use the theme or participate with anything goes. It is completely up to you.

We will be using digital images from Taylormadecards4u and we will pick a winner at the end of each challenge.  The winner will be announced on the 5th of the following month on the TMC4U blog and will receive a $10 Gift Code to use on any digital item in the shop. 

To help you get started, feel free to use the January calendar posted on the TaylorMadeCards4U blog for your first project in January. Our theme will be Friendship. You can find a list of all the themes for the year on the challenge tab on the blog.

Here is a sample of what I did for my January project (Pocket with Tags)! I've also included a link to my video!

Before I forget, here is what the digital papers look like, that I used for my project. 

Thank you so much for stopping in! I hope that you will join us on the new challenge! And have fun! Be sure to spread the word! See ya there!

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Crafty Gals Corner 'Tis the Season December Challenge!

 Hello, fellow crafters! And welcome back for another Crafty Gals Corner Challenge! Brrr! Has it been cold! Ok, maybe not as much as it is in other parts, but certainly cold in my books! Anyway, this month we are doing cards using the theme: 'Tis the Season

Our sponsors for this challenge are:

The Paper Shelter

Prize: 3 Digital Stamps

We Are 3

Prize: Paper Pack and Image Pack used by the DT

I am using the digital kit called Christmas Fun Printables. And here are the papers I used (LOVE them): Victorian Christmas Papers What an easy way to get a lot of cards done, when you're short on time or time just got away! Here is what I did:

This was a fun card to make. I hope that you will join us for this month's challenge! And thank you for stopping by! 

Blessings,

Jeanie Ellis, Scrapbookingmamaw

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #213 - THANKFUL

 Hello, my fellow crafters! This week we start our monthly challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner!  The theme for this challenge is: Thankful

Our amazing sponsors for this challenge are:

(in alphabetical order)

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Prize ~ 2 Digital Images

Fred, She Said Digital Designs

Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate

I absolutely love the image I used! Mine is Teapot from Doctor Digi.  I did a fairly clean and simple card. I colored in the image after I had stamped a sentiment in the middle of the teapot. Then I mounted it on 2 sheets of cardstock, gave it a little gold trimming and a gold embellishment, added some wheat and acorn stamps, and it was done! It didn't take long at all, and I absolutely LOVE it! Here it is:

So there you have it! I hope that this will inspire you to create your own card for the challenge! And remember, it doesn't have to be full of embellishments to make it look good!

Thank you for stopping by! Please have a wonderful day and stay safe!

Many Blessings, 

Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Breast Cancer Awareness - My Experience

Last month (October) was Breast Cancer Awareness month. I normally go for my yearly mammogram in September of each year. I had one scheduled for the 19th, but my sister passed away on the 13th of that same month, so I rescheduled it for the 29th of September. Little did I know that it would be a turning point in my life. After all, things like this don't happen to you, right? That day I was told that I had a suspicious lump in my left breast. Of course, then I went for a 3D mammogram a couple of days later, then had a biopsy and as it turned out, it was cancer. Yes, it was in the early stages, but still, cancer.

My youngest sister, who had just passed away, had Hodgkin's Lymphoma (my dad had the same cancer and passed away from it). She also had COPD stage 4 and breast cancer, the latter being a "by-product" of the Hodgkin's Lymphoma. But what took her life was a heart attack brought on by her fear of lack of oxygen. She was unable to reach the oxygen. With her passing, there was a lot of work to be done in order to take care of arrangements and also to help her young adult son to relocate and set him up a household (my twin sister's apartment). So, I didn't think about checking myself for any lumps or anything, as I try to do monthly.

Needless to say, I was very surprised that the mammogram had found a lump in my left breast, rather than my right, because I've had 2 biopsies on the right side before. But what if I hadn't gone to my yearly exam? That thing would have grown rapidly, as I was told it was the fast growing kind. The next thing to do was the lumpectomy with a sentinel node biopsy.

Going through the process of the lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy scared me a lot more than the cancer itself. It was unknown territory, never before experienced. I've had "cancer scares" before. I was sure that I was told the incisions wouldn't be very big, but man! They sure aren't small! Anyway, I made it through the procedures just fine, and am now in the process of healing, waiting to find out if I need to have any kind of a treatment plan going. I'll find out next week.

What my point to this post, really, is to say how important a yearly exam is...because if I had just decided to do it later, or even skipped until the next year, that lump would have grown and it might have been too late to do anything about it. Only God knows. So, yeah, I hate mammograms...they hurt! But I'm so glad I did get it done, and the cancer was caught early enough to nip it in the bud.

I will keep you posted. Until then...

Blessings! Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

3 Cards 1 Die Cut Background Techniques

Hi, fellow crafters! Here is a new technique that I learned recently, in making 3 card backgrounds with 1 diecut, and cutting it one time! That's right...not 3 times, but once! I hope you will check it out! And if you haven't subscribed, I hope you will and hit that notification bell! Thank you! Hugs!

Crafty Gals Challenge #212 - Halloween Colors

 Hello everyone! And welcome to our October Challenge #212 over at Crafty Gals Corner Challenge Blog! This month, we are celebrating HALLOWEEN COLORS! While I don't celebrate Halloween, I do love the colors! 

Here are our amazing sponsors for this month:

Ike's Art

Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate

LeAnn's World 101

Prize ~ 2 Digital Images

Stamper's Delights

Prize ~ 3 Single Digital Images

For this challenge, I am using  Cornucopia from Ike’s Art. I love this image! It's a good way to use all of those fall colors! So of course, I started out by printing out the image, and deciding what colors I wanted to use and if I wanted markers or pencils. I decided to go along with the markers from Spectrum Noir for this, as there is a lot to the image.

With my leaves, I wanted them to look like they were turning fall colors, so I went ahead and put various colors down first, then a very light green, and then a brown tone on top of that. To get the depths of the shadowing on the fruit, I used a light brown for added shading. And with the cornucopia, I added some gray to it. Of course, I used darker colors for the first layers first, then the brown and gray for the depth of shadows.

I mounted my image on some red and black onto a white cardstock base, and then added my sentiment. Done!

I hope that this card will inspire you to join us in this month's challenge! And thank you so much for stopping in!

Blessings,

Jeanie Ellis, Scrapbookingmamaw