Paper Sundaes Challenge #55 - Sweet Tilda with Magnolia

For Paper Sundaes Challenge #55 we are asking you to create something using 2 or more images and our sponsor this week is My Creative Classroom.   I hope you will check it out and play along with us!

I chose to use two Magnolia stamps (Tilda with Magnolia & Stone Wall) and masked them.  The background was hand-drawn based on another Magnolia image that I have.  The images were coloured with copics and all DP is by Bo Bunny from my scraps.

Hope you are having a great weekend!

RELAX - It's Your Day!!

I'm so excited to officially post my first card since returning as a design team member for The Stamping Boutique!!  I'm really lucky to be joining such a great, talented group of ladies!  My official introduction should be posted over at The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog today too so be sure to check it out!

This TSB digital image is "Princess Jennifer Latte Bubble Bath" and I coloured her with Prismacolour pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits.  I love the Princess Jennifer Latte images and the newest one "Princess Jennifer Latte Heartbreaker" is perfect for Valentines!  I added Polar White Flower soft because I wanted to make it look like real bubbles and I really love the effect.  I took a close-up picture as well:

To be perfectly honest FLOWER SOFT scares me because I've only used it once before but I love how it looks like real bubbles!  I typed up the sentiment on my computer and cut out and mounted using nesties.  I embossed the cardstock with a cuttlebug embossing folder, added a punched border, ribbon, and brads & that's it!  I think it will be a perfect card to hold a gift card for a spa or something like that as a birthday gift.  

I'm going away this weekend however The Stamping Boutique is hosting a Digi Day on SATURDAY over at Paper Craft Planet:

What: The Stamping Boutique Digital Image Day
Theme: Falling in Love with digis
~Do you need to make a few Valentine projects or cards made for a few special people in your life? Well...join us for digi day on PCP and do a few challenges with us and bam...you'll have your stuff all ready for the day of love!
Where: Paper Craft Planet
When: February 5th 2pm-4pm EST
What to Bring: Your favorite coloring medium, your favorite CS and DP, your imagination, your typing fingers AND....acrylic...you don't need a lot of it (one sheet or even just a small piece) we will be using it for one of the challenges!
What's going to be offered: Challenges, freebie TSB images, fellow crafters, and prizes!

 Sounds like a lot of fun, hope you will join us and play along!

Paper Sundaes Challenge #54 - Love/Valentines with Pink Cat Studio

Happy Sunday!  This week's Paper Sundaes Challenge is so much fun!  We want to you show us some LOVE!  We would like to see your Valentines/Love cards and this week we are sponsored by:

 Pink Cat Studio

They have the cutest new release out and our DT was lucky enough to pick one of their images.  I LOVE mine it is simply too cute.  I chose to use this digi image:  Monkey Love!

I coloured them with copics and used spica glitter pens on the flowers & hearts.  All DP used was from Basic Grey's Bittersweet collection other than the Bazill Cardstock.  I ran the brown cardstock through my cuttlebug with the heart embossing folder.  The cool background heart was cut out using my Cricut Expression from the Wild Card Cartridge & the sentiment was something I typed up on my computer.  I'm so in love with this stamp, now if I only had someone to give this too!!

Be sure to check out the other DT creations over at the Paper Sundaes Blog, they are super adorable.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

A Spoonful of Sugar - Challenge #136 Valentines

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Challenge 20 Use a sentiment with a LOVE theme

Bunny Zoe's - Challenge #8 Love is in the Air

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Challenge #4 Valentines/Love

Copic Creations - Challenge #42 What's New (this cute digi image)

Delightful Challenges - Have a Heart

The Stamping Boutique DT Announcement

I am SUPER EXCITED to officially announce that I'm back designing for The Stamping Boutique!

I'm joining a group of very talented ladies who you can check out from the links on my side bar or by reading about it here on the TSB Challenge Blog!

Did you know that if you create a card using any image from The Stamping Boutique you can enter it into the monthly contest for a chance to win 5 free images, how cool is that?  Tracey has such a wide range of images there really is something for everyone!

I've made a card to celebrate but will wait until it's posted on The Stamping Boutique Blog before posting it here!  Hope everyone is having a great week!

Critter Sketch Challenge #48 - Distressing & Circles!!

Today marks Critter Sketch Challenge #48 and we are asking you to use a technique on your card:  DISTRESSING!  We are also asking to see a circle/circles somewhere on your creation.  This can be buttons, brads, your image anything you like as long as we can see it!   We are being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique for the whole month long so be sure you play along for your chance to win!  Not only can you enter our challenge but if you use a Stamping Boutique image you can enter their monthly contest here for a chance to win some free digi images!

Here's my card:

I used The Stamping Boutique Image Butterfly but I was searching their store & couldn't find the image to link to.  I hope it's still available for you, it's so pretty!  I coloured the image with copics and cut the image out using my circle nesties.  I inked the edges and mounted on a scallop circle nestie that I had cut from Coredinations cardstock and sanded the edges.  The DP on the card that is peeking out is by Basic Grey and the corners of the card have more coredinations cardstock embossed with my circle embossing folder on my cuttlebug and sanded down to show through.  I also roughed up the edges of the card with a distressing tool from my Making Memories kit.  Lastly I added some circle dew drops to the body of the butterfly.

Hope you have a great Monday!  Be sure to check out the Critter Sketch Blog to see more of the wonderful DT creations!

Paper Sundaes Challenge #53 DE-STRESSING & Blog Candy Winner

Thanks to everyone who took part in Paper Sundaes Birthday Celebration!  Hope you had a lot of fun and it was great to see what challenges everyone chose from last year to use in last week's challenge!  This week at Paper Sundaes the challenge is DE-STRESSING (distressing)!!  Who doesn't need to de-stress after the holidays?  We are being sponsored again by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp so you know there is a great prize up for grabs!  OK....so distressing is certainly not my strong point but I have seen so many fabulous projects out there & can't wait to see what everyone comes up with and learn some new tips!
Here's my card:

I used some of Basic Grey's Bittersweet collection that I've been hanging on to for awhile.  It's so pretty I  just didn't want to use it (silly huh?).  I bet that nobody else out there but me does this, right???  I used this fabulous Tilda with Tag by Magnolia and coloured her with copics.   I loved the sketch that my fellow Sundae Girl Wendy used on her Warm Winter Wishes card so I asked if I could copy the sketch and she said YES!  Thanks Wendy!!  I used my edge distressing tool from my Making Memories kit to scruff up the edges of the card & used some of my Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Spun Sugar & Walnut Brown ink up the edges of the image and scallop background which was cut out using my scallop nesties.  I added some pink pearls & ribbon to complete.  The XOXO sentiment was from an old Making Memories rub-on set that I have.

Oh....almost forgot that the winner to my Spesch Stamp Blog Candy chosen by random.org is:

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#25 DAWN

 dmbennett said...

Wonderful card. I love the fairy image. And all the sparkle. Thanks for sharing your card with us.
Dawn

Congrats!!  If you can send me an email with your address information Dawn I will get your candy off to you right away!  

Sweet Anya

I wanted to make a card specifically with two challenges in mind this week:

Anyone for Anya - Pretty Bows
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Bingo (I chose brads, flowers & ribbon)

This card turned out much differently then I had originally planned but I love the blue/brown combo:

The background striped paper is from Stampin up & the blue cardstock is coredinations cardstock that I ran through my cuttlebug with an embossing folder (sorry can't remember the name).  I received the flowers quite awhile back from Danielle in a secret sister swap & the ribbon & brads I used for the centres of the flowers I picked up from Michaels ages ago.  It's so nice to use up things you have on hand!!   Hope everyone is having a great week, I've been feeling horrible the past two weeks and am having some tests done to make sure everything is OK but am really looking forward to feeling better.  My son is off to another cub camping trip this weekend in unheated cabins....definitely not for me but he is super excited.  Be sure to check back on Sunday to see who is the winner for my blog candy and don't forget there is still time to take part in Paper Sundaes Birthday Celebration & Blog Hop.  Click here for more details!!