Christmas Tags

Before I get to this week's challenge at Lollipop Crafts I want to let you all know that this will be my last challenge with the Lollipop Girls. The Lollipop team has been a wonderful group of ladies to work with during my time with the team. Due to just a lot of stuff going on in my life and family I decided to step down and try to focus on getting things back on track. My posting may be sparse for a while because my crafting has been too.

Now on to this week's challenge at Lollipop Crafts. It is CHRISTMAS TAGS.

The sponsor this week is Fairy Knoll. The winner of this week's challenge gets their choice of 5 digis from their store.

Head on over to Lollipop Crafts and see what the other Lollipop Girls did for their Christmas Tag creations.

Welcome Winter

I am hosting the challenge this week at Lollipop Crafts and the theme: WELCOME WINTER Create a card/project with a winter theme.



I chose to do a layout of some winter fun from a couple of years ago. In Oklahoma we get snow but maybe one a year were it is enough to go out and play in. This was one of those times.
I've done some simple LO's lately but these are my favorite. Adding bling and embellies wherever I can. I'm not one for blank space. To me a blank space is screaming for something to be put on it. All the writing on this is from rub ons.

We have MelJen's Designs again as a sponsor this week. She has some adorable digi's. The winner of this week's challenge will get their choice of 5 digi's.
Now it's time to hop on over to Lollipop Crafts and see what the Lollipop Girls did for their winter projects.


I am entering this project in the following challenges:
AiFactory - winter
Aly's Sunday Challenge - your favorite christmas movie (White Christmas)
Catch The Bug - anything goes
Creative Belli - "R" embellishments (ribbon)
Crafts and Me Challenge - Dreaming of a White Christmas
Crafty Pad - Anything goes
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Let It Snow
Flutter By Wednesdays - Open Challenge, must include a butterfly, fairy or angel (kids made a snow angel)
Lexi's Creations - blue and silver
Ooh La La Creations - inspired by a christmas song (Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow)
Order of the Opus Gluei - Let's Get Frosted
Paper Playtime - Snowflakes
Paper Romance - winter
Scrap-Creations - anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown - embellish it
Wags 'n Whiskers - snowflakes
Woodware USA - anything goes

Christmas Card

Even though this week is Thanksgiving at Lollipop Crafts our challenge is *Christmas*.

I made a vercy simple card and used some chipboard as an accent along with the flowers. The only stamping I did was the sentiment and I even embossed it.

Our sponsor this week is Limited Runs Digi's.

The winner receives 3 digis of choice. and the Top 3 receives 1 digi of choice.

Head on over to Lollipop Crafts and see and the other Lollipop Girls did for their Christmas creations.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
ABC Christmas - christmas cards, optional flowers
Crafty Pad - red and green
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes
Ellephantastic - christmas or butterfly
Hodge Podge Shop - anything goes
Kaboodle Doodles - 1 solid, 2 PP, 3 embellishments
Lexi's Creations - traditional christmas colors
One Stitch At A Time - a season or event
Our Daily Bread Designs - holiday cards
Scrappy Frogs - christmas
Stampin' Royalty - patterned paper

Calendar Girl

This week at Lollipop Crafts the challenge is to create a project that is "Very Girly".

This one is very easy for me because I love flowers, bling and anything that is girly. I did a LO of Kaitlyn. She was in the Down Syndrome Assocation of Tulsa calendar for 2009. She has been in them before but this was her first full page feature. I just love how her picture turned out and wanted to do it justice in the LO. The sponsor this week is Fairy Knoll. The winner of this week's challenge gets their choice of 5 digis from their store.

Head on over to Lollipop Crafts and see what the other Lollipop girls did for their girly creations.

I am entering this LO in the following challenges:
Crafty Emma - think pink
Fairy Tale - anything goes
Freshly Brewed - 2 or more patterned paper
Iris's Spot - Anything Goes
Lili of the Valley - Anything Goes
Lil Red Wagon - Things in 3's
One Stitch at a Time - Fav Color
Our Daily Bread Designs - anything but a card
Paper Playtime - P.S. I Love You
Paper Romance - everything but the kitchen sink
Papers, Scissors, and Rocks - use a leaf on your project
Sassy Studio Designs - anything goes
Secret Crafter - sparkle and shine
Sketches In Thyme - Sketch

Birthday

The challenge for this week at Lollipop Crafts is a Birthday theme. Create a card or any project that is birthday realted.

I made this birthday card for one of my daughter's teacher. It was for his birthday so I made it into a gift card holder.
HERE are the tutorital instructions for making this card.
The sponsor for this week's challenge is Stamp and Create. The lucky winner of the challenge will receive a $25 gift certificate to the their store.


See what the other Lollipop Girls did for their birthday creations at Lollipop Crafts.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:
2 Sisters - birthday
City Crafter - 'Get your digi on' (Digi by Meljen Designs)
Crafty Catz - spots and stripes
Creative Card Crew - punches (SU notebook edge punch)
Creative Cottage - embossing (green paper embossed with dots)
Fairy Tale - anything goes
Paper Take Weekly - for boys / men

Stamp Insanity - punches (SU notebook edge punch)

C.R.A.F.T. - Dry Embossing (green paper embossed with dots)
One Stop Crafts - Embossing

Dude Time Doodles First Challenge

Today marks the first official Sketch Challenge for Dude Time Doodles. I am very excited to be helping Boni out with her new venture into digi stamps with these fun Dude Doodles.


I used Rodeo Randyl for my image and the Rootin Tootin sentiment for my card. Made it plain and simple for a dude.

Dude Time Doodles will also be holding a special Guest Spot Challenge each month. You get a Freebie, a Challenge and a Chance to win a Guest Designer Spot on Dude Time Doodles.

Check out DTD for the sketch challenge and see what the projects from the other DT. Be sure to get in on the challenge for your chance to win some digis and earn a DTD badge.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Cards For Men - MASCULINE and anything goes
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
Crafty Emma - chocolate caramel
Dutch Dare - clean and simple
Freshly Brewed - anything goes, optional sketch
Incy Wincy Designs - anything goes
Lexi's Creations - anything goes
Paper Players - anything goes
Paper Sundaes - for a boy or man
Paper Take Weekly - for boys / men
Party Time Tuesdays - birthday cards only
Stampavie and More - orange

A "Boo"rific Halloween

At The Sisterhood of Crafters this week the challenge is "Celebrate the Holidays". The holiday we are celebrating is Halloween. It's less than 2 weeks away.

For my Halloween project I decorated up these small plastic pumpkins and filled them with candy for my kid's teachers.
All I did was add some paper to the eyes and nose and colored in the teeth. I just stamped a tag and added ribbon. Very simple.

This was what the pumpkins looked like when I got them. I found them at the dollar spot in Target. There were 6 of these in a bag for a buck, I couldn't pass that up. They also had black witches caldrons and white skulls.

Now see what my Sisters did for their Halloween project at The Sisterhood of Crafters.

I am entering this project in the following challenges:
2 Sisters - halloween
Aly's Sunday Challenge - halloween
Baby Bud Designs - fall or halloween
Corrosive Challenges - no white paper

Craft Your Passion - orange, purple, black
Crafts and Me Challenge - Halloween
Creative Belli - pumpkins
Creative Cottage - halloween
Creative Craft Challenges - Trick or Treat
Creative Inspirations - Halloween/Fall
Dutch Dare - use a tag
Fab 'n' Funky - halloween

Fairy Fun Friday - Tickets or Tags
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Halloween
If the Shoe Fits - Holiday for the Holidays
Just Inspirational -Anything Goes
Let's Ink It Up - NO DIGI STAMPS and use halloween colors
Little Red Wagon - Something Old, Smething New (new pumpkins, old ribbon)
Lots to Do - Plain & Simple
Moving along with the Times - Halloween
One Stop Craft - halloween
One Stop Craft Challenge - Halloween
Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
Paper Playtime - pumpkins or spider webs
Pile it On - Kd Themed Halloween
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Halloween.
Stamp Something - halloween
Stamp With Fun - Halloween
Stampin' Royalty - halloween
Stampin' for the Weekend - halloween or fall
Stamptacular Sunday - anything but a card
Sweet Stampin - ribbon
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - No Cards Allowed (make anything but a card)
The Crazy Challenge - Halloween
The Paper Variety - project that incorporates treats
Wee Memories - Anything that is celebrated (Halloween)

Winter Wonderland

The challenge this week at Lollipop Crafts is called Winter Play. Just make any card or project that has to do with winter.

I used and image from Karber called Christmas Millie. Isn't she a cutie?! I colored the image with Copics. I do not like how the shading at the bottom came out at all. Looks like they are playing in dirty snow. : ( Oh well, other than that it's pretty cute.

Our sponsor this week is Karber Digital Images. The winner of this week's challenge, which is drawn at random will recieve a digital image of their choice from Karber.

Now see what the other Lollipop girls did at Lollipop Crafts.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
A Spoonful Of Sugar - winter wonderland
Anything Goes - ribbons
Craftalicious - anything goes
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - images with a person
Gingerloft - winter
I Did It Creations - for a girl
One Stitch At A Time - embellish it
Our Creative Corner - use at least 3 embellishments
Paper Take Weekly - 3 of a kind
Simon Says Stamp - 3 types of embellishments, 2 PP, 1 image
Simple Doodles - Winter
Sweet Stampin - ribbon
Tuesday Throwdown - 3 of something

1-2-3 Recipe - Lollipop Challenge

This week at Lollipop Crafts the challenge is a 1-2-3 Recipe and the recipe is:

1 - Designer Paper

2 - Images

3 - Embellishments

I made a flower shaped birthday card and yes I cut out the shape myself but I'm sure you could tell that. ; ) I actually embossed both images this time. I know, what a surprise. Don't usually pull out the embossing stuff but I did this time. I also used some Stickles in red and silver to decorate the cake and the edge of the flower.

Wags 'n Whiskers is our sponsor for this week's challenge. The winner of this challenge will recieve 4 new release stamps.

Now run on over to Lollipop Crafts and see what our Lollipop Girls cooked up with the recipe.

This project is being entered in the following challenges:
A Spoonful Of Sugar - sparkle and shine
AiFactory - embossing
Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge - girly cards
Craftalicious - anything goes
Crafty Calendar - birthdays
Crafty Cardmakers - Step Away From The Square
Crazy 4 Challenges - birthday
Creative Cottage - bling
Creative Inspirations - birthday cards
Gingerloft - glitter or bling
Mami Doodles - girls birthday card with sparkle
Paper Players - real red, basic black, whisper white
Party Time Tuesdays - BIRTHDAY and anything goes
Sweet Stampin - bling
Totally Gorjuss - anything but a square card

Design Team Call for Dude Time Doodles

Dude Time Doodles

**New**

Challenge Blog
and Design Team Call!

(hosted by Bonibleaux Designs Digis)

Check out all the details for the DT call HERE.

Color My World - Brown/Blue/Ivory

This week at The Sisterhood of Crafters is another one of our new challenges. This one is called Color My World, it's a color challenge and the colors are Dark Brown, Light Blue and Ivory.

This is a very simple card that I made for my hubby's grandmother. Her birthday is next week. Not one of my favorite cards by any means maybe because it's so bland to me. Not sure that the ribbon really goes now either, looks more blue/green than light blue. Oh well, I know she'll still appreciate the handmade card. : )

You can see what the other Sisters did at The Sisterhood of Crafters. Hope you join us in this easy but fun challenge.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
A Spoonful Of Sugar - sparkle and shine
Creative Cottage - bling
Gingerloft - glitter or bling
Incy Wincy Designs - glitter, stickles, rhinestones, etc
Mami Doodles - girls birthday card with sparkle
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Clean and Simple
Paper Playtime - ribbons, buttons or rhinestones
Party Time Tuesdays - BIRTHDAY and anything goes
Polycraft Monday Challenge - Anything Goes
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays - Open Challenge
Stamp Something - celebrations
Sweet Stampin - punches (used border punch)

Thank You

Lollipop Crafts challenge this week is to do a "Thank You" project.

I took this opportunity to use one of MelJen's designs Apple which is a freebie on her blog. I made a teacher thank you card that I know I will use this year for one of the kid's teachers.


We have MelJen's Designs again as a sponsor this week. She has some adorable digi's. The winner of this week's challenge will get their choice of 5 digi's.
Now it's time to hop on over to Lollipop Crafts and see what the Lollipop Girls did for their projects.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
2 Sisters - animal fun (hope the worm counts)
Catch The Bug - anything goes
Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge - anything goes
Creative Belli Blog - (Old and forgotten) Numbers
Digital Tuesday - DIGI STAMP and giving thanks
Eat, Sleep, Stamp - Sketch (turned sideways)
Scrap and Stamp Saturday - anything goes
Sew Many Cards - DIGI STAMP and anything goes
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - anything goes
Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog - Punch it out (used scallop border punch)
Wee Memories - Fruit themed
The Crazy Challenge - No Ribbons or Buttons
Thoughtful Thursdays - Use anything with the letter "E" (earthworm)
Tuesday Throwdown - punches (used scallop border punch)

Glitter, Sparkle and Gems

The challenge this week at Lollipop Crafts is: GLITTER, SPARKLE, GEMS: Create a card/project with anything sparkly.

I created a Halloween card using Softpencil's Little Witch. Isn't she cute??!! I colored her with Copic markers and then added the sparkle by using Stickles on the pumpkins. I also added gems to the ribbon of her hat then 3 down along side the image. I LOVE adding bling to everything. : )

Softpencil is our sponsor this week. They have offered up some great prizes this week for those who participate in our challenge. One participant choosen at random will receive a $10 Gift Certificate to store. Plus the Top 3 will get to choose one digi from the Softpencil Etsy shop.Now click on over to Lollipop Crafts and see what the other Lollipop Girls did for their sparkly project.

I have entered this project in the following challenges:
A Spoonful Of Sugar - anything goes
AiFactory - anything goes
Anything Goes - cute
Baby Bud Designs - Fall or Halloween
Charisma Cardz - anything goes
Crazy 4 Challenges - bling
Creative Belli - embellishments starting with B (I used bling)
Delightful Challenges - make it sparkle
Fourth Friday Challenge - Halloween
Gingerloft - Halloween
Little Red Wagon - glitter
Marks Finest Paper - pumpkin
One Stitch At A Time - anything goes
Other Lovelies: Thoughtful Thursdays 27, Letter D - digi stamp
Pile It On - cute and charming
Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge - Use a pumpkin on your card
Stamps R Us - halloween
Sundays with Crissy - sparkly and shiny
Tellens Place - Bling
Tuesday Taggers - It Takes All Sorts

Birthday Fun - Pizza Party

This week at The Sisterhood of Crafters the challenge is Birthday Fun! Create a card, layout or project for a birthday.

I scrapped one of Kaitlyn's birthday parties. This was when she turned 7 and her theme was a pizza party. The girl loves pizza! Hey what can I say, so do I.
I found the invitations at a $1 store and then added some pizza stickers to them and just printed out the inside info and cut and pasted it over the text they had, I didn't want to fill out all the info by hand. I ordered a big cookie for the cake and then found these gummy pizza slices, also at the $1 store and added them on top the icing.

This is the third page of the layout. I seem to always have enough pics of the birthday to make more than just a 2 page LO. On this one I used a circle stencil to mark the spots where to put the brads. I can say for certain this is the most brads I have ever used on a page before, but I really like how it turned out. The white writing on the pictures is from rub ons. Love adding them in the blank space of a picture. Check out what the other Sisters did for the birthday projects at The Sisterhood of Crafters and then join in our birthday fun challenge.

This project is being submitted to the following challenges:
Alphabet - U is for Unused stash (I've had the pizza die cut and label for years)
Aly's Sunday Challenge - sparkly and glittery (rhinestones on page 3)
Corrosive Challenges - use some of your unused craft stuff (lots of of old brads)
Creative Belli - embellishments starting with B (tons of brads on page 3)
I Did It! - Keep it Simple (Just pages 1 and 2)
Incy Wincy - Autumn Colors
Lasting Memories Layout Challenge - Circles, squares or scallops
Paper Sundaes - Fall or Halloween Colors
Raise The Bar - something yummy
Scrap Fit - Use green in your project
Secret Crafter - anything goes
Stacey's Stamping Stage - poppy parade, rich razzleberry, wild wasabi, peach parfait, very vanilla (page 3)
Stampin' B's - Use food on a card or project
Sundays with Crissy - sparkly and shiny (page 3)
The Crazy Challenge - Friends Forever (Kaitlyn and her friends at her bday party)
Thoughtful Thursdays - letter 'C'. It can be chalking, coloring, cardstock.
Twisted Thursdays - Happy Birthday to Our Favorite Critters (check out my party animal son on page 2 with a face full of icing)

It's a Boy Thing

This week at Lollipop Crafts the challenge is "It's a Boy Thing".

Since I have a boy this one was easy for me. I did this LO of Austin and one of his many Boo-Boo's. I think boys and boo-boo's go together. He's had scraps, bruises, fat lips, cuts and black eyes. Knock on wood he hasn't had a broken bone though. This is a clean and simple LO using only paper and brads. I cut the title using the Cricut and then used a bandaid punch from my local scrapbook store. I also used 2 different circle punches adding a brad in the middle of them. I thought the colors of the paper went well with what he was wearing. Austin was probably about 18-24 months old in these pictures, he is now 7 yrs old. Yes, I'm behind on scrapping. ; )

The sponsor for this week's challenge is Limited Runs. The winner will receive 3 digis of their choice.
Now run on over to Lollipop Crafts and see what our Lollipop Girls did for their boy themed project.


This project is being entered in the following challenges:
Alphabet - U is for Unused stash (I've had the paper for a long time)

Allsorts - at least 3 punches
Artful Inkables - color combos: Orange and Blue
Corrosive Challenge - Clean Up the Dust (use something that's been in your stash forever)
Crafty Emma - baby bonanza
I Did It Creations - keep it simple
Mami Doodles - boys and the color red
Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything baby
Scrapping-I Did It Creations - it's a guy thing
Secret Crafter - anything goes
Stampin' for the Weekend - tag it
Wild Flower Patch - stripes

Simply Handmade

This week at the The Sisterhood of Crafters the challenge is "Simply Handmade".


This is a small plaque that I made into a door hanging for my neice's baby's room or she can put on her front door when the baby is sleeeping. I used the same paper that the invitations to her baby shower were made from.
Check out what the other Sisters did for the Handmade projects at The Sisterhood of Crafters .


This project is being submitted to the following challenges:
Crafty Calendar - blue and optional to use flowers
Just Inspirational - theme is Baby
Ooh La La Creations - stripes
Order of the Opus Gluei - Alphabet Soup (use letters)
Paper Pretties - brads or eyelets
Paper Sundaes - Use at least 3 types of embellishments
Shirley2Girls - (critters theme) spots and/or dots
Stamp Insanity - use elements in threes

1-2-3 Recipe Challenge

This week The Sisterhood of Crafters is continuing the new challenges and this one is a 1-2-3 Recipe. Thank goodness no real cooking is involved. Cooking isn't something I enjoy but I did enjoy cooking up this project for you. ; )

The 1-2-3- Recipe is 1- Ribbon, 2 -Patterned Papers and 3 Flowers. I made another bookmark for my project this week. Since I made a couple for my son last week, Kaitlyn wanted her own bookmark too. So this one is for her. The 2 patterned papers were from scrap and I stacked the 3 flowers.
I had a hard time getting a clear picture of this. If you click on the picture you can see more detail.
I hope you will go over and check out what the other sisters cooked up and join with us on this recipe challenge. : )

Monster of a Challenge

Lollipop Crafts has a Monster of a Challenge this week. It is to use a monster on your project. Now that monster could even be your little toddler.

I had this cute paper from Sassafrass with monsters on it that I knew I wanted to use. I just typed up the sentiment and printed it out. This birthday card is going to a little girl but it's coming from my son so I knew he wouldn't want to give her a "girly" card. Plus the girl's birthday party at a roller rink and one of the monsters is roller skating. How perfect is that.

Meljen's Designs is our wonderful sponsor for this week's challenge. Check out what the other Lollipop Girls did for their Monster project. Then enter your own in the challenge to win some digi's from Meljen's Designs.

Anything BUT a Card

After a small break and some changes in our challenges The Sisterhood of Crafters is ready to start challenging you again. This time we are focusing our challenges on trying to help you accomplish things that you need to get done. We want you to create something you need and will use. For the challenge this week you are to create anything BUT a card. So if you have a LO that needs to be done or gift that needs to be made go for it. Get R done!

I made a couple of bookmarks for my son, Austin. He is in 2nd grade this year and he is starting to read for enjoyment. He needed some bookmarks and I asked if he wanted to make him some. He said yes but make them something I like. I was going to make them boyish but then he said like "Tom and Jerry". He loves that on the Cartoon Network. So I went online and found these images and just printed them out. No coloring on this at all.
If you didn't notice the book that I'm using is "Shiver". I was told about this from another Twilight fan. They said I'd like this if I like Twilight that I would like this and I did. I have since bought "Linger" and started it but then loaned it out to my sister. Hopefully I'll get it back soon and can finish it.

The next is a corner bookmark. I found this spider image and just printed it off and did color it a little. Then I just glued it on on a corner bookmark that I made.

Now check out what the other DT's did at The Sisterhood of Crafters. They made some great projects this week.

Lollipop Crafts Challenge

Over at Lollipop Crafts this week the challenge is Sympathy. Now I consider this a real challenge. Making a sympathy card is definitely not one of my favorite things to do. But it is nice to have a card ready to send out when needed. Unfortunately it seems like when I do make a sympathy card I end up using within a short period of time. Hope that doesn't happen this time. : (

Inside of card:

We have another generous sponsor for this week's challeng and it is Fairy Knoll Magical Digi Stamps. If you participate in this challenge you will be in the drawing to win some of their images. You can check out their digi images right HERE. Now head on over to Lollipop Crafts and see what the other Lollipop Girls made for their project.

Ribbons and Buttons with Lollipop Crafts

The challenge this week at Lollipop Crafts is to use ribbon and buttons on your project.

I used Fresh Brewed Designs image called "Have a Tweet Christmas". I just typed the sentiment under the image before I printed it. It is colored with Copics and the fluff on the hat is made with Liquid Applique. The challenge is to use ribbon and buttons which I did but it ended up looking more like a "non-traditional" Christmas card. Maybe it's because the heat index was 111 degrees on Friday when I made the card. Not feeling very Christmasy around here right now.

Our sponsor this week is Fresh Brewed Designs, so one lucky challenge participant will win some images from them. You can check out their digi images at their Etsy shop HERE.

Now check out Lollipop Crafts and see what the other Lollipop Girls did for their ribbon and buttons project.