Lollipop Sponsor Spotlight

happy Thursday all!  I know I haven’t posted for a bit.  I’ve been busy trying to get stuff made for my craft fairs this year–I am doing 4 all in the month of November.  So I have been busy but I have some projects to share with you later

Today is the Sponsor Spotlight over on Lollipop Crafts!  This week we are sponsored by Di’s Digi Downloads

Our challenge this week is to use brads and/or eyelets on your project.  Pretty simple so everyone can enter and we have a great prize.  Everything you need to know can be found on the blog here.

Here’s what I have for you this week:

the DP is from a paper surprise pack I got from Hot Off The Press eons ago and have had forever.  I chalked the image after copic coloring and then did a little paper piercing on the scalloped circle.   It’s a little hard to see in the picture but the butterfly and the centers of the flowers all have stickles on them. A little of the baker’s twine from Whisker Graphics and a little charm and bling to finish it off.  I hope you enjoy.

Seeing Red with Craft Your Passion

Well here it is, my last week as a guest DT for Craft Your Passion.  A big thank you to CYP for having me. It has been a great honor and I have enjoyed every minute of it.  This week, another great challenge for you.  We are SEEING RED!  We would love to see it with your projects as well, so make sure that somewhere on there, it can be in your DP, an embellishment, some coloring in an image, there is some RED! Make sure you stop by the blog for all the details and prize information!

Here is my card for this week.  I loved this image from CocoDingo because I’ve had this Cinco De Mayo paper in my stash forever that I could finally use.  I added a little bit of jupe and a bit of ribbon and that’s it for this one.  The stamped sentiment was from an old stamp I found in my stash.  The image was colored with my copics. I just wanted to keep it really simple!

I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Catered Crop: follow the recipe on the site (I used red, yellow, green,orange; dimensionals & digital stamp)

The Crafty Pad: Bold & Bright (or pastels)

Dream Valley Challenges: Ribbon

Scrappy Frogs: Something Red

Challenge Up Your Life: Circles

Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog: Something Old (the stamp & the DP) with something new (the leather ribbon)

Everybody Art Challenge: Anything goes

Dutch Dare: Clean and Simple

Little Miss Muffet Challenges: Reds, Oranges, Yellows

Rainbowlady’s Challenge: Use a Digi

Dream Valley challenges: Ribbon

Inspire Me Fridays: Anything goes

Southern Girls Challenge: Anything Goes

Digi’s With Attitude: Anything Goes

Scrapbook Sisters: Anything Goes

Papercrafting Journey: Anything Goes (and blog hop)

A Fairy Hello

Hello! I hope that you moms out there had a lovely Mother’s Day yesterday.  There is nothing I am more proud of than being a mom to my little Riley.  I can’t believe he’ll be 2 in July!  Time does fly.

Today is a new challenge on the Lollipop Crafts blog.  We are being sponsored by Soft Pencil this week

and here is the link to their site and you can check out all the great digital images & all that Elizabeth has to offer.  Our challenge this week is a fancy folds one…so we’d like to see creations with more than one fold on them.  Here is mine for this week.

The image is from SoftPencil’s Tinytwinies which the DT got to play with.  So cute. This is the Charming Flowers image. How adorable is this!  I colored her using my Copics. I used some Sarah Hurley digital papers for this card. She has some great stuff so make sure you check the link! The main butterfly was cut using a scrap piece from the card and then the other accent butterflies I cut out using some scrap cardstock and then I doused them with versamark and applied some clear embossing powder to them to give them some shine and some texture.  I also added a little bit of bling to them.  The ribbon was part of a swap on Swap-bot that I received.  The sentiment is using my tiny type letters.  I haven’t used these for so long I practically had to blow the dust off. I also added some stickles to her wings and the fairy dust that she sprinkled.

I hope you like the card and I hope you’ll join in on our challenge this week. Sorry my picture is so dark, it’s been rainy here the last few days (which I guess is better than snowy right??)

This card is entered into the following challenges:

Card Cupids: flowers

Creative Cowgirls: anything goes

Creative Inspirations: Paint: inspired by your favorite color..anyone who knows me knows it’s GREEN all the way!

One Stitch at a Time: Fancy Folds

Paper Sundaes: Magical & Mystical

Sentimental Sunday: Anything Goes

Sparkles Forum Challenge: 2Paper, 1Ribbon/Bow, 2 Embellishments

Secret Crafter: Dust off your Stash (remember those tiny alphas I was talking about?? )

Delicious Doodles: Fantasy/Mythical Beasties

Floweret: Spring & A green feeling

Joyful Stamper Inspire me Fridays: Anything Goes

Stamp Something: May Digi Day

If the Shoe Fits, Scrap it: Go Green

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Pear Tree Designs: Free for All

Flutterby Wednesday: Open

Busy Little Camper

So I joined a new site which I am just loving.. http://www.swapbot.com This is a great site for doing different kinds of swaps and not just cards..there’s everything on there. So I’ve joined in on a few card ones so I’ve made some Easter/spring cards to show you..but first…some challenge blog updates

Lollipop Crafts is featuring our sponsor Just Some Lines who’s offering a $15 Gift Card for this week’s anything but a square/rectangle challenge which is hosted by moi. You can get all the deets here...

Sarah Hurley has a new challenge this week and WOW! are the DT inspiration pieces ever gorgeous..the theme this week is MUM’s the word…so projects for your mom (It’s the UK mother’s day this weekend). You can find the details here

AiFactory has a new challenge this week…it’s Bright as Day so all your fun bright colored projects can be entered this week.  Check it out here

 

Now on to my cards…

the theme for the swap was to create a card with yellow as the primary color.  I love how this turned out..using inspiration from one of my magazines this month.  The DP is Basic Grey’s Nook and Pantry Lemon Meringue Pie…The Hello Kitty die was a Christmas present from a swap that I did and the stamp is from my stash.  The buttons are as well.  I did ink around the edges using some marigold ink but you can’t see it in the picture.  The ribbon is from my stash.

Entered Into These Challenges:

Crafts and Me: Yellow

Woodware USA: Clean and Simple

Creative Card Crew: for a child

CES Challenges: Die Cuts

Totally Papercrafts: Cute and Cuddly

Sentimental Sundays: Cute & Cuddly with a sentiment

Pile it On: Cutie Patootie

Gingerloft: Die cuts or punches

Stamping Vacation: Animals with Arms

Just a simple Easter card using some scraps and an image that was sent to me from the Image and Card swap group.  I added some chalking and also some flocking for the eggs on this one. Colored with the copics and some ribbon & bling from my stash

Entered into these Challenges:

Phindy’s Place: All about Animals

Crafty Creations: Bunnies

Let’s Create: Easter

Creative Craft World: Easter

Spoon Full of Sugar: Easter

Sweet Stamps: Easter

The Paper Variety: Create your own 1,2.3 (1 image, 2 DP, 3 embellies (bling, ribbon, flocking)

Mami Doodles: Spring

Polkadoodles: Spring

Tellen’s Place: Texture

 

Meet Little Miss Muffet Designs

Here’s what founder Barbara has to say about her new store:

“Little Miss Muffet Designs is the newest digital stamp source on the web created by Barbara from Forgotten Scraps .  This little shoppe was inspired by a house full of Little Miss Muffets and arachnophobes alike. It was opened with a bit of luck and loads of encouragement from friends and
fellow bloggers around the world.  Challenges and inspiration can be found
on my personal blog at Forgotten Scraps and the 2nd challenge opened this week!  Digital stamps, handmade cards & crafts and more can be found in the store… and who know what I’ll add
along the way.  I hope you join me in this new endeavor so come on over and
join as a Follower and watch it grow!”

To begin the celebration, the Lollipop girls were asked to create a card to help Barb celebrate her new store.  I love love love her little monsters digis and so I was very excited to use this one called Monster Love.

The DP is from an old Hot off the Press birthday pack that I had and it just has some great celebration papers in it! I love the purple and yellow combo together with the splash of green!  I colored of course with my Copics and then cut it out in a circle and added it to a scallop that I cut out with my cricut.  The buttons are from my stash!

Make sure you check out Barb’s store and get yourself some of these adorable monsters (she also has freebies!) and don’t forget to play in her challenges as well!