Success!!!

Wow!!! Wasn't the blog hop fun??? I just want to give a great big "THANK YOU!" to all of you who participated in the hop. You made the time and effort we put into it well worth the effort! And I would do another hop with all of you anytime!!! :) Thanks for all the comments as well -- you made my day!!! And totally inspired me in my craftiness!!! Thanks you guys! :)

Also, welcome to all my new followers!

Orange Blog Hop

Hi there! I'm so glad you decided to join us on our first-ever Fiskateer blog hop!!! Get ready to see a lot of orange!!! :)

If you have come from Jen's blog, then you are in the right place. If you stumbled across our Fiskateer blog hop, go to http://fiskateers.com/blog to start the hop from the beginning.

If you get lost along the way, here's a complete list of everyone in the hop: (there are 44 of us!!!!!!)

Fiskateer Blog
Debby Lewis #2852
Kelly Skystar #6446
Colleen Flathers #2970
Donna # 6036
Genevieve Rodriguez #839
Gretchen #51
Tifany Degough #5942
Peg Rounds #3675
Angela Daniels #009
Robin Stewart #6505
Sudie Alexander #97
Jennie Kaderabek #414
Jen Macnick #3213
Divinity #6688  (me)
Lyn Dwyer #1110
Kelly Jo Massicotte #936
Debbie Buckland #352
Connie M #627
Johanna Peterson #2812
Groovy Deb #2644
Shannon White #6394
Julie Overby #725
Mary Gibson #1121
Judy #5798
Rachel H #667
Tami Byer #804
Kate Blue #4529
Regena #6124
Katherine Schmitt #6847
Amy Sotolongo #2568
Lisa Simpson #5095
Betsy Burnett #2572
Marianne #6701
CraftySuz #6135
Jennifer Priest #2074
Lisa Falduto #1983
Keely Yowler #6398
Laura Bray #1150
Jan J/Far North #7263
Patti Behan #3651
Stayce Dewid #2985
doverdi #1329

WHEW!!! That's a lot of fiskateers!!!! :)

As you might have noticed, everyone is into orange today! It is after all the official colour of the fiskateer world...and we're all into sharing our passion for crafting...so we thought, "Why not combine the two!"

I made this card for the occasion. Orange is usually not one of my stronger colours to work with -- I always find it a challenge to come up with something (I like) when orange is involved. But this card came together nicely! And the more I look at it, the more I like it! :)

Since this is a fiskateer blog hop, I tried using as many fiskar items on my card as possible. I started off with using a new (for me) fiskar border punch along the sides...

Then I dry embossed a little with the fiskar shape boss...

 And finally I punched two daisies with my large fiskar daisy punch, and stacked them up to give a little 3D effect. :)

So there you have the breakdown of my card. :) I love working with fiskar products -- they're awesome!

If you'd like to learn more about us (fiskateers), visit the main website -- http://www.fiskateers.com/. We are a community of crafters, and we love to have other crafters join in the fun! Share you passion for crafting...or get inspired by other crafters. Fiskateers is the one stop to it all!! :)

Now head on over to Lyn's blog to see what she came up with! Thanks for stopping by...have a fiska-fabulous day!!!!!!!! And happy hoppin'.

~Divinity (fiskateer #6688)

Working with Combos

You know sometimes when you know two colours look great together, but when you try creating something you begin to doubt? LOL That was me working with this layout. One of my biggest problems when I scrap is colour combinations. Do they work??? does it look good??? should I change it up???

I've made a lot of cards with brown and pink, and they always look good. I love working with that combination -- so I tried taking it to my layouts. I wasn't impressed with my paper choice here in the beginning -- even tried changing the brown paper for some other shade of pink, but then decided that that would defeat the purpose! So I went back it what I had originally planned on using. It wasn't until I added the deep brown ribbon that I saw how good it all looked...but now I'm hooked! I have a pile of similar ribbon from our sewing stash all ready to be added to my future layouts! I love this look!!! :)

I also used my new fiskar border punch. :) It's called "in stitches" and I thought it would fit very good with the pink paper. (the punched border is around the photo mattting). I'm gonna have fun with that one for sure! :) TFL

Material Girl

I've joined a card lifting group on Fiskateers. Once a week, we get a card to lift. It's interesting -- the two cards that have been chosen to lift are definitely not my type. So although it's fun, it's also making me go out of my comfort zone, as far as card making goes, and try new things. But that's kind of why I joined the group in the first place -- you get inspiration and you try to use your imagination and creativity as much as possible, so your card doesn't look like an exact replicate of the card we are lifting.

So anyway, here's one I made today. It's pretty simple (but then so was the card we lifted! LOL) but it actually did take me quite a long time to come up with anything! In fact, I had to try a second time, 'cause I wasn't impressed with my first version I came up with.

What do you think???

I've entered this card into a challenge at Cute Card Thursday. They're looking for Material added to a card -- I think the lace here counts! :) I won this lace at Reasonable Ribbon Ramblings awhile back, and have been trying to come up with ideas of how to use it on a card or layout. This is the first card where adding this lacey ribbon has worked! :)
also added it to the Paper Play Challenge -- In Stitches
TFL

Creative Edges

A friend of mine recently lost her brother in a tragic accident. I've been trying to come up with a card idea to make a sympathy card, but everytime I sit down at my craft table I'm stumped!!! I tried a few different ideas -- tried working with some "thinking of you" card ideas I've created in the past, but they never seemed good enough. Then I saw a few cards in the fiskateer gallery with some amazing sympathy messages on the front, and I was inspired to try out that idea.

Here's what I finally came up with:

I've worked with fiskars fancy edged scissors and used them on my cards in the past, but recently I moved on to other techniques. It was fun to come back to this look -- I love it -- and no matter how many or how few layers you add to the card, it always looks good!!! :)

Once I got started, I couldn't stop!!!! Here's another one I did with the same idea:

TFL :)

Craft Your Days Away -- With Wing
A Pocket Full of Posies -- Winged Things 

Busyness!!!

It's been such a busy week so far around here -- I haven't had a minute to sit down and craft! Too many other projects happening!!! Hopefully I'll get around to making a few somethings today! I'm participating in a Fiskateer blog hop on Sept 10-11...and I have to get my projects made already!!! I also joined a liftateer group...and I need to get my card for that created before the weekend!!! So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that some free time will appear in my busy schedule...hopefully today yet!!!

Have a blessed...and not so busy day!!! :)

Two Blue

This is the first two page layout I made of our blue berry picking trip this summer. I still want to find a few embellishments that having something to do with blueberries (if possible) to add  all over the pages. But for now, this is as good as it gets. :)

What do you think???