Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential - Treats!

What gorgeous creations everyone came up with that participated in our Scene It Challenge last week over at Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential! Talk about being blown away! Head over and take a look at our spotlight cards.

This week we're all about options for treat containers and our sponsor is Firecracker Designs by Pamela. What great designs she has! Our ever talented leader, Vicki, presented us with the challenge of coming up with our favorite containers and I chose to try the tutorial she has for a cello-wrap. You can find it on our blog. Here's what I came up with:



This gorgeous image is one of Pamela's digi images she's trying out called Harvest Bowl from Firecracker Designs Digital. Don't you just love it? I know I do and it will see a lot of action this holiday season! I colored it with copics and added a bit of stickles to the pumpkin and some Atyou Spica Glitter pen to the leaves and wheat. This gorgeous paper is from the fall collections from My Mind's Eye and the ribbon is some brown and white gingham and some multicolored ribbon from American Crafts. The yummy fudge is from my good friend, Brandy!



This container was so easy and went together so quickly! I just love this Labels Eight set from Nestabilities. It fits so many looks!

So come on and show us your favorite treat containers! With the holidays coming up and all the baking that will be going on, I think we all could use some ideas on how to present our yummy gifts! And go take a look at my oh so talented designing team sister divas have to share with you. I'd sit back with a cup of coffee and take some notes!

Card ingredients:

Harvest Bowl from Firecracker Designs Digitals, copics, nestabilities, Stickles, Atyou Spica Glitter Pen, Cello Wrap bags, ribbon

Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential - Scene It!

We love all the participation we've been getting over at the Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential Challenge Blog! What great entries you've given us to all look at and inspire us! This week we challenge you to Scene It! Our sponsor this week si Squigglyfly so stop on over and leave them some love!

Mixing and matching stamps has always been a challenge for me. This week, I took two stamps from a brand new collection, Winter Wonderland from Victoria Case for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design and think it came out pretty well! Have a look:



This is my version of "Ice Time"! I like to think of it as a big sister taking her little sister out to skate and having a bit of hot cocoa while she watches her younger sister glide on the ice. This is a frequent happening up here in Maine and it seems like that just might happen a bit sooner than normal this year. It may snow this weekend!

I colored Coco Puff with her hot chocolate and Skater with copics and highlighted them with Stickles, Smooch, Diamond Glaze and Shimmerz. The papers are from the Eskimo Kisses pack from BasicGrey and I added some Kaisercraft pearls to the corners. I think they both came out pretty great!

Now run on over to the Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential Challenge Blog and take a look at the great scene cards my Sister Spotlight Diva's have come up with! I promise you you'll not be disappointed! You can see all their blogs on my sidebar so go give them some love. We'd love to see how you Scene It! So pull out some of those stamps that you know will go together and show your stuff off! I don't want you to miss out on the Squigglyfly prize when all you have to do is make a card! Have a great weekend!

Card Ingredients:

Coco Puff and Skater from the Winter Wonderland Collection from Victoria Case for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design, Diamond Glaze, Distressed stickles, Kaisercraft Pearls, Stickles, Shimmerz, Smooch, Eskimo Kisses paper pack from BasicGrey

Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential - Time for Trees!!!

I just have to thank all of you who participated in our first ever Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential Challenge!  All of the entries were just fabulous and we can't wait to see what this week brings!  This week were are challenging you to make time for trees!  DRS Designs is our sponsor and they have some absolutely fabulous designs!  This time of the year trees start to go through a great transformation and how exciting to share that beauty with them.  Here's my take on Time for Trees:

This gorgeous tree stamp is from DRS Stamps and it's called Summer's End and I have just been taken with it.  I changed it for all the seasons.  Since it's fall, here's my view on fall:

I used Autumn Flower Soft and some yellow stickles to pick up the sun that reflects off the falling leaves.  And now for winter:

I've used White Polar Flower Soft and Frosted Lace stickles to give it a glistening look that comes from snow and ice.  While snow is gorgeous to look at, I'm glad I'm heading away from this season!  And then comes spring:

Spring brings renewed life to the trees as well as us all.  I love that time of the year.  And now summer, that I can stand 365!

How gorgeous is all of the green and the bright colors.  Yes, I know most trees this large don't have pink and deep green flowers in them, but hey, with stamping you can make them whatever you want!

All of the papers are from the Indian Summer stack from DCWV and the crystals and some of the embellishments came from a very sweet, dear friend.  I had the best time working with this tree and believe it or not, these cards went together in less than two hours - all four of them!

Make sure you stop over at our Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential Blog and see what my other Design Team buddies have come up with.  I know you won't be disappointed!  So pull out those stamps and make some Time for Trees!  We love seeing what you come up with!

Card Ingredients:

Summer's End by DRS Designs, Indian Summer paper stack from DCWV, Flower Soft, Stickles, ribbon from stash, Rhinestones and Pearls from Michael's, hatpins, various cuttlebug folders, nestabilities

I'm a Diva - Saturday Spotlight Diva, that is!

The more I stamp, the more I love it. The more I do, the more I want to do. I can hardly believe it, but I’ve actually been able to put in time and work a bit ahead with my stamping so I’ve been able to try some different things. Heck, last week I made a card and was able to make a batch of home-made caramels to go along with it! So I’ve felt ready to take on another challenge. That challenge is in the form of being on the design team of Vicki Parson’s Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential! Yep, I’m a Saturday Spotlight Diva! I am so excited to have another challenge to bring to you and to participate in. I’m just thrilled to work with Vicki because I just love her work and there is a group of super talented group of ladies that I really admire that I get to work with and learn from and I’m so excited about that! So get ready because we’re going to be doing some challenging things on Saturdays! All the fun starts on October 3rd so be on the lookout!

You can see my talented Design Team cohorts on my sidebar. I hope you'll stop over and see their amazing work! Vicki and the others, thanks for taking a chance on me and I'll try not to disappoint!