Bugaboo Birthday

Happy Wednesday Bloggers!  I hope you are all well.  I’ve had a sick household over this last week, which was kinda blech, as it was our long weekend and the official kickoff to camping season.

I haven’t done a lot of scrapping this weekend but I do have a cute card for you today!  It’s a new challenge week over at Penny’s and we have 2 fabulous sponsors for this week:

who is giving a luck winner 4 free images of choice

 and

who is offering a lucky winner a $12 gift certificate to their store!

Both companies have amazing digitals to use you can’t go wrong with either one!

This week I am using a digital stamp from Bugaboo!

This is a fabulous birthday cake stamp is handy to use for a quick birthday card and just some scraps from your basket.  This week I am pairing my anything goes theme at Penny’s with the Mojo Monday sketch.  Again, a really great sketch that you can use with scraps and just knock out a quick and fun card!

I just used some pieces from my scrap bucket (I even found some teal burlap in there to match my paper).  I colored the image just using my Sharpies this week and I added some stickles to every other layer, to bring in the sparkle from the chevron multi colored paper.  I also used my spellbinders to die cut.

I hope you like it and don’t forget to check out the blog for the other great projects from the DT and to play along with our anything goes challenge (it couldn’t be easier!).

 

Happy Easter!

Hello everyone!.  Can you believe it is Daylight Savings this weekend?  Then right around the corner is Spring! Weeeee!!  The DT at Sunsational Stamps is going to be highlighting some of our fun Easter and Spring Stamps for you over the next week or so, to get you into the mood for nicer weather and all the buds and flowers blooming…Saying goodbye to winter for yet another year.

Today I am using this cute little bunny and egg image.  He’s just so adorable!  He may not be in the store yet, but he’s definitely going to be made available asap for you to use!

 Lots of fun spring colors on this card and my favorite–layers 🙂  A little bit of stickles for the nose and the egg stripes 🙂 I colored him with my copics and then did some chalking in the background.   The DP is from Hot off the Press.  The flowers are $$ store and the sentiment is from Michaels.  My little bit of fringe is from CTMH.   Just because I’m really into them right now, a few little sequins to finish off the flowers. I hope you enjoy him and don’t forget to shop at the store to get started on your Easter and Spring cards!!

Lots of fun spring colors on this card and my favorite–layers 🙂  A little bit of stickles for the nose and the egg stripes 🙂 I colored him with my copics and then did some chalking in the background.   I hope you enjoy him and don’t forget to shop at the store to get started on your Easter and Spring cards!!

Naughty or Nice

Happy Weekend Crafters!  I am excited because I am off to the Scrapshotz crop tomorrow.  After the stressful week I’ve been having I am looking forward to some ME time!

Here’s our new challenge at Creative Corner Challenges this week.  It’s FEMME FATALE!  All about the girls/women!  So link up with your female projects for a chance to win some digis from our great new sponsor IKEsArt!

Here is my card this week.

 

Again, I apologize for the less than crisp image.  I’m trying to find a new cord for my camera that I usually use for uploading and not having much luck.

The DP is from MME 12 Days of Christmas.  I’m trying to use up my 6×6 packs in their entirety before I start a new one…ummm ya…slow process 🙂    The image is colored with my copics and I added just a bit of stickles to her hair as she is a Christmas Pixie 🙂  The flower just came out of my embellishment box.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will play along with us.

Owl Card

Yay! It’s Friday!  That doesn’t really mean that much to me, since I work weekends and shift work so I don’t have a weekend in the traditional sense, but hey! I’m excited for you if that’s how you roll 🙂

It’s a brand new challenge for you at Creative Corner Challenges this week.  Let’s think outside the box and come up with some unusually shaped cards..anything but square or the traditional rectangle.  The DT has some great inspiration for you on the blog this week.

Here’s mine!

I decided to break out my Wild Card Cartridge and one of my favorite ones on it is the Owl.  So I cut it out usual some Basic Grey Nook and Pantry paper.  I’ve had it forever in my stash!  I then added just some stickles for definition because that paper is pretty loud…LOL

It’s just a simple card because I am sending it out in the mail for an RAK so it can’t have a lot of embellishments on it.  I hope you like it.

Stay tuned because we’ve got some changes coming up in May on the blog.  Fun Fun Changes. 🙂

Cool Penguin

I have another challenge card for you today! We have a new challenge up at Penny’s Paper Crafty.  It’s a fancy fold challenge  (so you need more than the one fold, think front step, side step, gatefold etc )and we have lots of fun sponsors for you for this one.  All the details can be found on the blog here.

Here is my gatefold card.  I have to admit, fancy folds are not something I am good at.  I really should practice more because there are some great ones on the blog today.

I’m highlighting a Crafty Sentiments image.  Isn’t he cute!

I colored him with my copics and then added some chalk around.  The iceflow I used stickles for just to make it glitter a bit.  The DP was sent to me in a Christmas swap from the UK and I love it.  I added some flourishes from Sizzix and a button to keep the card closed.  I hope you like it and we look forward to seeing your project in this week’s challenge!

 

 

 

Eddie the Elf

Hey everyone!  Here is my card for this week’s inspiration post at Digital Delights.  Meet Eddie the Elf!

He is such a cute little Christmas image that you can find in the store here and comes in both colored and b&w.

This is my Christmas card for you this week.

The DP is some left over Echo Park and  Basic Grey that I had used for some other projects.  I colored him with my copics and then added some stickles for some shiny fun.  The swirly diecut is from sizzix and the bling and brads are from my stash.  I colored the die cut with Eddie using some chalk. The sentiment is one from the store called Circular Merry Christmas I hope you like him and please stop by the blog to see the rest of the great inspiration for you this week.

entered into these challenges:

ABC Christmas challenge: U is for up to you aka anything goes Christmas

Just Keep on Creating: anything goes

DigiHaven Forever Freebie Challenge

Hey Everyone!  Happy Friday!

Today is the first challenge for the DigiHaven Design Team and we are so excited to start creating with you.  Our theme this week is Forever Free. 

Use a forever freebie digital image for your project.   Limited time freebies or Freebies of the Month do not qualify.  If you need some help, make sure you stop by our Free Digi page to find a forever freebie for this challenge. Please be sure to link back to the original artist or website on your blog. We want to give credit where credit is due!

This Challenge ends on Thursday June 14th and the winners will be posted on Sunday June 17th.

Here’s my inaugural card for this new DT.  I am using a freebie from Slikje’s Digital Stamps entitled In the Rain. The sketch was taken from my PageMaps 2 book which I am just loving like you wouldn’t believe! 🙂

DP: Basic Grey (Olivia; Punches (Spellbinders, Stampin’ Up), Flower (Prima), Coloring (Copics);  Pearls (from my stash), Ribbon (SavvynSassy), Stickles (Ranger); Chalk (unknown); Sentiment (Stampendous!)

I hope you like it.  Please stop by the blog and see all the great projects the girls have for you using a variety of freebies! You are going to be so inspired.

Entered into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday: Water Water Everywhere

Paper Crafting Journey: Hand coloring

Pixie Dust Studio: 3 or More DP’s

Sassy Studio Designs: Use something wet on your project ie stickles, mist, smooch etc

Desert Island Craft Challenge: using from their list, something old (DP), something new (prima flowers), something free (digital image), something blue (water droplets)

Lia Stampz: things with wings

Really Reasonable Ribbon: Flowers and Ribbon

Celebrate the Occasion: thinking of you and a flower

Paper Take Weekly: anything goes

Bunny Zoe Crafts: anything goes

Make It Monday: Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring Fling Challenge

Happy Monday all! Welcome to a new challenge for Lollipop Crafts this week.  We’re being sponsored by Kitty Bee Designs which I will tell you more about on Wednesday when the blog has their sponsor spotlight.  In the meantime, our challenge this week is to create a spring themed card.  This is a pretty easy challenge and everyone should enter to win!

Here’s my card for this week…

 

Everything is from my stash.  Gotta use that stuff up!  The butterflies were cut using the Stamping Cartridge.  The image is a Stampin’ Up one and was sent to me in a swap ages ago.  Finally got a chance to use it.  For a change, I just colored it with some colored pencils instead of the usual copics.  I added a bit of stickle around the one butterfly for a little glitz.  I hope you enjoy it and don’t forget to stop by the blog to see the rest of the DT inspiration and to enter this week’s challenge.

 

 

And so the 12 days begin

Well scrappers, you know it’s ’tis the season when Tim Holtz starts his 12 Tags of Christmas! Here it  is Season 5 or is it 6..anyway…today is day 1.

So here is the tag that Tim came up with …I didn’t have a lot of what he did, but I was able to ‘improvise’ a lot and still come out with a great tag.  My only ugh is that I think I used a bit too much of the white paint/stickles on the greenery… My favorite part is the banner.  I didn’t have any music stamps so I found some vintage music sheets on the ‘net and printed it off onto some Kraft cardstock and then added some Vintage Photo DI to it.  A little distressing and voila!   Also didn’t have the pinecone die so I used one of my flower dies instead and I think it worked alright 🙂

Stay tuned tomorrow for the next one.  It goes live on Tim’s blog in a couple of hours but I’ll be asleep by then 🙂  Catch it in the morning…it’s like opening up my advent calendar each day 🙂

Tea for Two

It’s a new Poodles Parlour challenge this week and our theme is Tea Party…so anything that you would find at a tea party, mugs, teapots, cakes, sweets etc.  Our own Jacqui is sponsoring this week and all the details can be found on the blog.  Don’t forget to leave some love for the other DT members as well!

Here’s my card this week:

Just using some scraps to put this one together.  I cut the teapot using my cricut and the sentiment is printed out using the computer.  I added some bling and stickles for a little sparkle.  Happy Crafting!

I’ve entered into the following challenges:

By the Cute and Girly: Bright and Bold

Creatalicious Challenges: Anything Goes

Delightful Challenges: Girly Girl

Moving Along with the Times: Sparkle

Ruby’s Rainbow: For the Girls