Hugs4theHeart Designs

Hello again my lovely friends - this is part two of  my Tuesday Post.  It's also time for this weeks challenge at Tuesday Alchemy.  Once again our design team has made some great projects.  I hope you will check out their blogs as well as join in.  Listed below are the links to our sponsors for this week and each one is giving a $10.00 gift card voucher for one winner.  You can't be one of the winners if you don't join in the challenge so we hope you will jump in and show us what you got!!!  Think of how much fun it would be to do a little shopping.   Floppy Latte's Loves Rubberstamps   I made a small altered album this week.  Actually it was a special order for a young lady who wanted to give her hubby a little something something extra for their wedding anniversary.  She wanted it to be simple and with no fluff.  It was hard letting this one go - I really like it and wanted to keep it for myself.  Isn't that...

Happy happy Tuesday my lovely friends - It's a new challenge at Twist of Faith and our theme this week is "Blue Skies".  Our sponsor is Stamp Art Design by Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps.  Our random prize winner will receive their choice of 4 images from her collection.   Our design team has some great cards this week and we are just waiting for you to join us.  Here is the link to the challenge blog and we can't wait to see what you create to share with us.  All you need to do is create a card within our guidelines which is easy as 1.2.3. Twist of Faith Challenge #13 - Blue Skies It was a little challenging deciding which cute little bear to use from her new digital stamp set called New Little Bear Winter Fun .    I really love this background paper and just had to use it again with this card.  It makes a fun background and I can add glimmer and bling.  I colored the sweet little bear with Copics and created a snow bo...

Happy Happy Monday my dear sweet friends - I hope you had a great weekend.  For those of you in the U.S. hope you had a terrific Thanksgiving.   It's time for this week's challenge with Tammy's Scrappin Corner.  This weeks theme is - "Let it Snow."  The design team has made some wonderful cards and I hope you will visit each of their blogs and leave a little love too!!  You can find their links on my side bar.   Here is the link to  Tammy's Scrappin Corner Challenge Blog We have two great sponsors this week and they are: BugABoo Stamps Prize is 7 Free Images QKR Stampede  Prize is 5 Free Images I had "snow" much fun making this card.  It sure took a while to put it all together but I fell in love with this image from BugABoo the minute I saw it.  His name is "Eggbert" and Eggbert stole my heart.  My goal for this card was to create as many different textures as possible.  I used some pom poms to create ...

Hello dear sweet friends - Happy happy Tuesday!!   This week's challenge #41 at Tuesday Alchemy is "Anything but a Card".  Our design team has some great inspiration and you can peek at all their projects on their personal blogs.  Our amazing sponsors this week are: Sassy Studio Designs and Birdie Brown Etsy Shop I found  some old ceramic coasters at a thrift store a long time ago.  Thought this would be a great project for this weeks challenge and the perfect time to turn them into something new.   Altered Coasters All I did was cover the coasters in various cardstocks, stamped swirly images around the edges and fun sayings in the middle of each.  They were all sealed for extra protection. Old Coasters    It's a quick and easy project plus a dear friend of mine loves them and wants them for her office at work.  Makes me happy they have found a new happy home.   So please jump in and join us this week...

Hello my dear sweet friends - I sure hope you are doing well and ready for Thanksgiving and precious time with family and friends. It sure feels good to be back.  I have been down with bronchitis this past week and finally starting to feel a little bit better.  And I have so many things to share this week. First of all I am so excited to announce I am a new design team member with Twist of Faith Challenges.  I am delighted, excited and honored to be a part of this amazing group of talented women.  I hope you will join in our challenges each week.  I have a link on my sidebar that will take you to their website - please check them out!!  I hope you will check out the other design teams blogs as well.  Bugaboo Digi Stamp - "Girl and Cat". This week's challenge at Twist of Faith is all about children and I used this adorable little girl with her kitty from our sponsor - Bugaboo Digi Stamps.  I love their images and had so much fun c...

Happy Monday my dear friends - I hope your weekend was wonderful and relaxing.  It's time for this week's challenge at Tammy's Scrappin Corner.  This weeks theme is "Anything Goes - Fall".  We have two wonderful sponsor's: Sassy Studios  - a fabulous digi stamp company Eureka Stamps  - where you will find amazing rubber and digi stamps. I hope you will check out their websites and look at all the wonderful images they have.  The design team has created some amazing creations this week and it would be wonderful if you visited their individual blogs as well as joining in this weeks challenge.  You never know - you could be one of this weeks winners. Altered Wall Hook For this week's challenge I used an image from Eureka Stamps called "Heart Angel".  I absolutely love angels and hearts so this was the perfect digi for me to use.  I colored her with copic markers and was hoping I would be able to give her a type of glow...

Hello dear sweet friends - As some of you already know I had a different post here earlier today.  I have moved that post to my Life Lessons from Hercules Blog which I have been wanting to start for quite some time now.  And so, if you feel so inclined - you can check out my new blog and let me know what you think. (For this card I wanted to use my scraps of paper and other embellishments that are over six months old.  And I achieved that by using the brown lace and butterflies.  In fact, they are almost a year old and I have just been saving them for something special.   With hugs and smiles Laine I am also submitting this card to the following challenges: Twist of Faith Challenge #10 - A Sketch Challenge Craft Door Magazine - Challenge #43 Anything Goes Paper Take Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes Lady Anne's Challenges - Anything Goes Stampin Sisters in Christ - Challenge 164 Challenges for Everybody - #6 Sta...

Happy Monday my dear sweet friends - I hope your weekend was a relaxing one.  It's been busy busy for me and now I can finally sit down, relax a little and share some exciting news with you. I am so delighted, tickled, excited and honored to be part of Tammy's Scrappin Corner as a design team member.  If you haven't crossed the cyber path with Tammy's Scrappin Corner yet I hope you will check it out and join in our weekly challenges.  Here is a link to her website:    Tammy's Scrappin Corner .   They are also having a call for more DT members so if you are interested please check out the website for more information.  The information is located in the tab called DT Call and Committments. This weeks challenge is "Anything Fall" and we have two amazing sponsors: Digi Darlas  and  A Day for Daises.   This means there are two chances to win one of the prizes for this weeks challenge.  I really hope you will visit and ...

Hello my dear sweet friends - It's time to announce the winner of my blog candy give away - and the winner is..............   Anne-Marie Congratulations Anne-Marie.  Email me your address information and I will get your package mailed out next week. Thanks again ladies.   I am having another blog candy give away - just need to finishing getting the package together and take some photos so I can post all about it.   Be back Sunday evening! With hugs and smiles Laine

Hello my dear sweet friends - I will be making the big announcement of the winner of my Pink Blog Candy tomorrow morning.   WooHoo!!   I want to say a big huge THANK YOU  to all of you for your support of Breast Cancer awareness last month.   Your words of encouragement and thoughtful comments made me smile and touched my heart deeply.  And for those of you that shared your deeply personal battles with me - I am honored and I hope you know you are all in my prayers. I treasure each of you!! I am also going to have new blog candy giveaway starting tomorrow. Lots of last minute details to finish up tonight and I hope you will be back tomorrow to see who the winner is and to join in the next candy giveaway. With hugs and smiles always Laine

Hello again my dear sweet friends I have slowed down considerably in making cards this past year and have realized I miss making them.  I had some cardstock I have been wanting to use and so began the process of seeing what I could come up with.  I have been thinking a lot about gratitude lately and decided to have that as my theme.   My only goals were to keep it clean and simple, use fall colors, add some bling and use a sentiment rather than an image.  It was so much fun making this card and my passion for cardmaking has been reignited and I can't wait to make many many more. I am submitting this card into the following challenges: Challenges 4 Everybody #6        11/9 Totally Gorjuss #152    11/2 Twist of Faith - Challenge #9 Harvest Time/Thanksgiving   11/5 Can You Dig It - Give Thanks Challenge 11/5 As always - thanks for visiting me!! Hugs and smiles Laine

Hello again dear sweet friends - hope you are doing wonderfully.  It time for this weeks challenge at Tuesday Alchemy.  In all honesty I am not a big fan of Halloween (never have been) and so this challenge was a bit of a challenge for me.  I wanted to make something cute and adorable rather than scary and creepy.  I still hope you will join in the challenge and since we have two sponsors this week there will be two changes to win a prize.  The sponsors are: Floppy Latte - $10 Store Voucher Loves Rubber Stamps - $10 Store Voucher Can you believe it??  I actually made a card and it was so much fun.  I fell in love with this little Birdie Pirate and just had to create something with him.  (The adorable image is from 2 Cute Ink ).    I honestly can't say he is very spooky looking.  I am hoping with the bats hovering above him and the row of skulls he is standing on will add the spooky look to the card.  What do you...

Oh my dear sweet friends - I am incredibly sorry for my partial blog post (earlier this morning) that caused confusion.  I am deeply touched by each of your emails to make sure I was okay.  Thank you so much for caring.   I want to reassure you I am doing fine and to explain what happened.   I was working on a blog post (a rough draft) and must have pushed the "publish" button instead of the "save".  Sometimes I do a lot of editing before I publish my posts and I had only begun to write my post this morning and I mentioned the word "goodbye". This morning (Sunday) I was feeling incredibly sad and heartbroken.  I was going to have to say goodbye to all my cyber -friends, close my Etsy store and stop posting on my blog due to losing internet access on Tuesday.  I just couldn't stand the thought of one more loss in my life - the friends and connections I have made through the world wide web is how I have started to rebuild my life these past 18 m...

  My blog candy giveaway is under post Challenge #35  Hello dear sweet friends -  I am taking a little detour today from my usual type of post to share something that is near and dear to my heart.  As you are already aware October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Well I want to do something to help spread the word about the importance of mammograms.  Believe it or not there are still a lot of women (and men) that we can reach together.   I am a breast cancer survivor and today September 18th  is my six year anniversary.   Six years ago I was driving to work listening to my favorite Christian radio station when there was an advertisement for the "Susan G. Komen 3 day/60 mile breast cancer awareness walk.  At that moment in my heart I knew without a doubt I needed to walk those 60 miles.  Now in all honesty - at the same time I was asking myself questions like - Why on earth do I feel so compelled to walk those 60 miles fo...

Happy Tuesday my dear sweet friends Sure hope you are doing wonderfully.  Boy, I can't believe how much the temperature has dropped here in Bakersfield.  Cool enough to wear a sweatshirt .  Wow - guess autumn is finally here!! It's time for another challenge and this week it's all about a bath, duct tape or sparrow.  Please keep in mind you do not have to use all three on your card or other creations.  You can use one, two or all three - it's totally up to you.  We have two sponsors this week and they are: Scrapper's Delights - 6 Single Digital Stamps Stitchy Bear Stamps - $10 Store Voucher One of my favorites things to do is to relax and oak in the bath tub.  Sometimes with a glass of wine and a magazines!!  So choosing which word to use was easy for me.  I also decided to make a card because I just love this image and thought she would be fun to play with.  I did some paper piecing on this card because the co...

Hello my dear sweet blogging friends - At this moment I am sitting on my bed, Hercules is cuddled up next to me, there is a cool breeze blowing through my window and the house is silent. It feels amazing.  So much has been going on and I have some wonderful news I just have to share. Wow, amazed, excited, happy, stunned, delighted and overjoyed are only a few of the words which describe how honored I am to be have been awarded the Liebster Award by Karon Hughes.   Karon - I am overflowing with so many feelings with your kindness and thoughtfulness in giving me this award.  Thank you, thank you and thank you!! I have always loved to create and write and with technology the way it is now I am able to meet so many amazing women from all over the world that I probably never would have crossed paths with otherwise.  There is so much creativity and talent and amazing women with tender hearts in cyber-world and I am so blessed you have chosen to be ...

Hello again dear ladies  I came across some photos of projects I made quite a while ago when The Angel Company asked me to make some projects using one their new stamp sets.  I must confess creating these samples was definitely out of my comfort zone. I love the "vintage" look - I just didn't have much experience under my belt when I made these.   Ironically - I fell in love with this stamp set and it's now one of my favorites. Once again I'm so glad I had the opportunity to stretch my creative muscle.   I thought it  would be a fun way to share something from my past. Hugs and smiles Laine