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

Stamp by Step - July Guest Designer

I am honored to be the Guest Designer for July at Stamp-by-Step. I have some fabulous products from their store to use for my designs. Throughout the month I will showing you all the items I made. You can go to Stamp-By-Step and click on the Guest Designer and see all my projects at once but I will be showing you a couple each week of this month.

The first 2 items I made were thank you cards that I can use for my kids teachers next year.I used the stamps Lilly & Billy Sweethearts on both cards. I know these are Valentine's stamps but I like to be able to use them for more than just Valentines so I just used some rub on sentiments and but the "thank" above the image and the "you" inside the heart. Both cards used paper from October Afternoon "Fly A Kite" . On this girl one I used a Dazzlers Florette and I love the way this flower sparkles.

Both cards have grosgrain ribbon on them and images were colored with Copic markers. I love that I already have 2 cards ready for the next school year. I'll be showing a couple of more items next week. Be sure to stop by Stamp-By-Step and check out all the cool products she has.

Stamp by Step - Spooky Circles challenge

Stamp by Step is having a fun Halloween challenge that I entered and here are the details.

September 14 - October 4
TAKE THE CHALLENGE
Spooky Circles
Looking for a fun design challenge? We've got one for you! All you need to do is include circles in your Halloween design and submit an electronic photo of your creation to: cheryl@stampbystep.com with the subject line: Spooky, by Sunday October 4th, 9:00pm for a chance to win this prize package.

The skull stamp is from Imaginisce and I stamped it in purple then covered it in purple glitter. The paper is also from Imaginisce called Hallowhimsy.

Rise and Shine

Here is Sketch #5 from Simply Scrapping card sketches. I used Cosmo Cricket "Early Bird" paper, 3 Bugs in a Rug "Blossom Brads". Rise and Shine sentiment is part of the "Early Bird" paper line. I liked the way the sketch worked better for me by turning it on it's side.

Simply Scrapping - Card Challenge

HERE IS THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE OVER AT SIMPLY SCRAPPING.

This week's card challenge is nothing too complicated...a sketch with a little extra! Use the following sketch to create a card!

Now for your little extra...Your card must also feature POLKA DOTS! Have fun...can't wait to see what everyone does. Don't forget all participants of the June Card challenges are in the running for a $15 grab bag compliments of Judy and Simply Scrapping!

Here is my take on the sketch. I used paper from Scribble Scrabble - Evelyn's collection. There were so many polka dots in the papers so I knew I had to use this line for it.

Color Challenge at SS

Over at Simply Scrapping there is a color challenge one for LO's and one for cards.
I found this was definitely a challenge because I really don't have a lot of blue paper. I used an acetate overlay that I attached to the blue polka dot paper. I just put glue dots behind the flower and leaf to hold it on. I really like the saying and have never heard it before. It says "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." It's kind of funny and true too.

MME Penny Lane Papers

Here is a LO I did from a sketch off Simply Scrapping. It's sketch #15 and you can find all the sketch from Simply Scrapping HERE. I used My Minds Eye - Penny Lane paper - just the patterned paper also the "our family" title and paper flower on top. I loved this paper and had plenty left over so I made cards using the rest of it. I think I used up just about every last little scrap of it.
The sentiments - thanks a bunch, hi there and happy birthday all came from a package I got on clearance at Target in their card dept. They already had pop dots on them. I just rounded the corners and inked them. The colors went great with this paper and I didn't have to use any stamps on them. The Thank you card above is a 4x4 card and the Hi There below is a 3x3 card.On the happy birthday one below the bird also is part of the MME Penny Lane series. It is a clear acrylic piece. I backed it with the green paper and adhered it with glue dots behind the eye and on the tail so you can't even see how it is attached.

I can't remember the size the the "hello" card below. I used Copics to color the image and sanded the heck out of all the paper and even over the image.

This last one is my favorite. I used Copics to color the image. I ended up totally screwing up the grass area. I still can't figure out out to make it look right. So I just put a big ole' flower on one side and the corner punch on the other. You would never now the icky mess that lies beneath. : ) The "thinking of you" was just a rub on that I had.

Black Friday Challenge from Stamp Something

I orginally heard about this challenge from Stamp Something over at Paper Craft Planet. This was a very easy card to put together but I think with the use of Stickles it makes it better. But of course Stickles ALWAYS makes things better! : )

Ad from Scrapbook Etc.

I'm really excited about this one! I'm the type of person/scrapper that saves everything to possibly use to scrap or create with later. I keep ribbons and cool tags from just about everything. Sooooooo when I saw this ad in Scrapbook Etc. (Aug/Sept 2008) magazine I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

This ad is for a new line of paper Sassafras is coming out with called "happy place". There is a small piece of the paper in the ad with a scalloped edge. I thought oh how cute. So I tore it out.

Now check out the cool card I made with it. All I did was trim it down some width wise, added a ribbon down it, stamped "Be Happy" then added a little bling. The funny thing is I didn't know the line of the paper was called "happy place" when I chose the stamp "Be Happy" (CMTH stamp). Since I can't leave things well enough alone I also got out my Twinkling H2O paints and colored in the blue around the clouds, also colored some green areas and the brown area. I took a couple of close up pics so you can see the sparkle.

I don't even think this paper is out in the stores yet! I think I was so excited about this because it made me feel so creative you know, thinking outside the box. You may not think this is a big deal but please don't tell me. I don't want my bubble to burst! ; )