Butterfly Birgitta

I almost forgot to post this card!  I made it on Wednesday and then life got busy and I saw it as I was downloading the rest of my new card pictures.

This is digi Butterfly Birgitta from CC Designs. Isn't she adorable? I had her colored up for awhile and when I saw the Anything Goes challenge at All That Scraps and the cool sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday, it was a perfect time to make a card to put her on.

and here is the sketch~ loved all the layers! I had so much fun making this card!

TFL!

Supplies~
Stamps: Butterfly Birgitta digi (CC Designs)
Paper: PTI cardstock, So Sophie Clever (My Mind's Eye)
Other: copics, rhinestones (Queen & Co), butterfly punch (Martha Stewart), ticket corner punch (Stampin' Up), embossing folder (Sizzix), Labels Ten Nestabilities (Spellbinders), star dust stickles

Bday Sundaes #43

Good morning! I hope everyone is having a good weekend!

We have an inspiration challenge for you this week at Birthday Sundaes!


Create a birthday card using the following picture as inspiration - it must include a HEART and a birthday sentiment on your card front! Click {HERE} to enter your card!

Photo Credit: http://www.mysweetandsaucy.com/2011/02/valentines-day-treats/

Here is my take~ quite different than I imagined but I wasn't in the mood to color (well that and I still haven't cleared my desk of stuff that I need to sort and get rid of!) I did have fun making it though. Got to use a few new dies that I've been hoarding!

The layout was inspired by this week's Cards & Things sketch - love their sketches!

Supplies~

Stamps: Sweetest Cupcakes by My Pink Stamper

Paper: Basic Grey Nook & Pantry

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa

Other: Layered Hearts MFT Die-namics, Jumbo Monarch MFT Die-namics, Kaiser rhinestones, pop dots

PMS Release Day Blog Hop!

*Please scroll down for my Cooking It Up with Katie & Flutter By Wednesdays posts, or use the Quick Click links at the top*

If you came here from Jami's blog, you're on the right track. If you just happened to pop over (waving hi!), please join us for the PMS blog hop starting at the PMS blog.

Happy Release Day! Have you enjoyed the PMS sneak peeks? Are your shopping lists made?  Tonight starting at 9pm EST, join us for the September Release Party in the PMS Forum.

My card today features one of the new Color Kids - High Five. She is such a cutie and she comes with this fun sentiment!

Before you hop to the next stop on the hop - grab the letter below. Once you finish the hop, you'll have the code to save 15% off the new releases!

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Your next stop is Jenn!  

Happy Hopping!

Sketch Used - TE145

Supplies Used-

• Paper Makeup Stamps - Color Kids: High Five
• My Minds Eye -Vanity Fair
• Copic Xpress Blend It paper
• Memento Tuxedo Black ink
• Colorbox Aquamarine chalk ink
• Nestabilities Labels 8
• Kimbee's Designs crinkle ribbon

Paper Makeup Stamps - Sneak Peek Day #2

I am SOOOO glad today is finally here!! I've been keeping a secret :) :) :)

I'm a Guest Designer for Paper Makeup Stamps!!!!!!!  I have been a fan since the very beginning and am so excited to have this opportunity!

Today is the second day of sneak peeks. You can see the stamps previewed yesterday in {THIS POST}.

I have the pleasure of peeking Baby Boris today, isn't he a cutie?!  I saw a cute tote on Katie's blog the other day so I decided to get the template so I can create a little giftie with Boris.

I added a little tag and used the Little Moments stamp set. 

Be sure to check out the PMS blog to see who else is peeking images today! There will be more peeks in the upcoming days and the release party is on the 7th at 9pm EST at the PMS Forum.  You know you want to join us! Bring a friend too as the more friends you bring, the more chances you have to win!

Supply List~

• Paper Makeup Stamps Baby Boris stamp
• MTME Tricky Treat Tote template
• Papertrey Ink Summer Sunrise cardstock
• Crate Paper Sweet Branch designer paper
• Memento Tuxedo Black ink
• Chestnut Roan chalk ink
• Marvy scallop circle punches
• Nestabilities Labels Eight
• The Twinery twine 
• Copics - E41, G12, R20
• Crystal stickles on the dp 

Cooking It Up with Katie - Announcement & Card!

{Please scroll down to see my Flutter By Wednesdays card!}

Hi again!

I have some exciting news to share!! 

I'm a new Design Team Member 

for Cooking It Up with Katie!!

If you know me, you know I don't like cooking in the kitchen but crafting recipes are right up my alley!

Thank you to Katie for asking me and I'm looking forward to sharing these challenges with you all!

This week's challenge recipe is:

Wet (image or technique)

Brad

Border

The sponsor is Stamping Dragon and we were supplied with some fun images to use.

The image I chose is called Rupert's Bathtime. 

I had fun coloring him!

If you would like to play along, please enter your creation {HERE} and check out the DT samples while you are there too. Links to the team members are located on my left sidebar. 

Supply List~

Stamps: Stamping Dragon - Ruperts Bathtime 

Paper: Copic Xpress Blend it cardstock, Fancy Pants Beach Bum

Ink: Memento London Fog (each layer was inked with this)

Other: Making Memories brads, Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Nestabilities Labels Fifteen

It's All About the Brads for Birthday Sundaes #22

Birthday Sundaes has another fun challenge for you today!  One of my favorite embellishments to use since I started scrapping have been brads. So we'd like to see birthday cards with at least 3 brads on them ~ along with a birthday greeting/sentiment/wording. 

I used some scraps from {Friday's card} to make my card for today~

I thought the dots on the present were fun to fill in with the brads :)

Please click {HERE} to enter your birthday card and check out the wonderful samples from our Guest Designer, Laurie, and the rest of the design team!

Have a great day!

PaperCutz #104 - A Color Challenge!

TGIF!

This week PaperCutz is challenging you to use these colors on a card, layout or project:  Turquoise, Red, Black & White ONLY!  The theme is up to you.  Please click {HERE} to enter your creation and check out what the rest of the DT made!

I will admit that I first struggled with these colors since they are colors I don't use a whole lot but once I got started I ended up making 2 cards! You'll see the other card on Sunday.

I used one of my favorite wordart stamps from Paper Makeup Stamps - If I had a flower.  I stamped it with Memento Ink onto Papertrey Ink Stampers Select cardstock and then cut it out with Labels 11 Nestabilities. I popped it up to give it some dimension which you can see a bit better in the below photo.

Supply List~
If I had a flower wordart - Paper Makeup Stamps
Stampers Select white cardstock - PTI
True Black cardstock - PTI
Turquoise cardstock - The Paper Company
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
R29 copic for the wordart flowers
Stylized Flower Cuttlebug folder
Labels Eleven Nestabilities - Spellbinders
Red rhinestones - Queen & Company
Pop dots

Thanks for stopping by!

Flutter By Wednesday #161

It's the middle of the week already, yay! 

Time for another Flutter By Wednesdays Challenge! It's an open challenge, just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation. This week we are being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique and were provided with some images to play with. Please click HERE to check out the FBW blog to enter your creation and see what you can win!

Here is my card using Audrey at the Well~

I used last week's Sweet Sunday Sketch for the layout and made it into a square to accommodate the size of the image.

I am also entering these challenges:

Clear It Out Tuesday - Wing It Out

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

TFL!

Supply List~
Stamps: Audrey at the Well by The Stamping Boutique
Paper: Copic Xpress Blend It cardstock, Memory Box Minuet
Other: copics, nestabilities, bling from stash, Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Make A Wish

{Please click here for my PaperCutz Star Spangled Blop Hop post}

I'm back with another card for a few challenges!

I have grown to love silhouette images, they make such a striking impact on a card. My favorites are from Paper Makeup Stamps, this image and sentiment are from the Dandy Wishes set which I won in their summer blog hop last month. I heat embossed both the image and sentiment with Colorbox ink, love the result! I tried it in white...not so good lol. I need to buy Colorbox ink in white. While I was cleaning this week I found my old chalks and chalked the image with Pebbles Ink pearlescent chalk.  

I used the current sketch challenge at Taylored Expressions

and will enter my card in the following challenges:

Simply Create #47 - Silhouettes

Sentimental Sundays #62 - Anything Goes with a sentiment

TFL!

Supply List~

Stamps: Dandy Wishes ~ Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper: Memory Box Minuet, PTI Stampers Select White

Ink: Colorbox Black

Other: heat gun, Nestabilities Large Deckled Rectangles, PTI ribbon, Martha Stewart punches, pearls from stash, Pebbles Ink Pearlescent chalk

Catherine with Butterfly

Good morning and Happy 4th!  

I decided that I would take part of today to play for fun and for my first creation, I made a card for Challenge #13 at SCACD Friends with Heart Challenge - Clean & Simple.I searched through my SCACD stamps and decided to use Catherine with Butterfly from Anki's Sweethearts for SCACD. I used an older sketch for the layout - Cards & Things #76.

Here is a shot showing the sparkle :) 

Other Challenges Entered:

Allsorts Challenge #110 - Free & Easy July

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

TFL!

Supplies Used~

Stamps: Catherine with Butterfly - Anki's Sweethearts for SCACD

Paper: PTI Stampers Select White, PTI Ripe Avocado, Echo Park Springtime

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Colorbox Chalk Olive Pastel

Copics: Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E18, E17, E15; Hat - E53, E50, RV34, RV32; Dress - Y35, Y32, Y21, RV34, RV32; Butterfly - V99, V95; Grass - YG97, YG95, G20

Other:  Nestabilities Labels Seventeen, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, decorative trim from Hobby Lobby, Smooch Illuminate, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, pearl from stash

Tools of the Trade with Shopping Our Stash!

Good morning!

I'm here to share another Guest Designer post for the Shopping Our Stash Challenge!  

For Challenge #5, let's use some of those tools we *had* to have but don't use often-could be your eyelet setter, circle cutter, decorative scissors, fastenator, tiny attacher, cropodile or maybe you have an embossing folder that has not yet been used, nestabilities that haven't been opened, or even your paper piercer can be called into use on your project! Use a tool that is rather neglected!

Well this proved to be a bit of a challenge for me LOL! So many tools, so little time...

I settled on using a stencil that has been in the package unused, a nestabilities set that hasn't seen much love and my poor Cropadile that has been collecting dust.

To create this card, I put my card base in a box and laid my Crafters Workshop Flurries template over it and sprayed the middle with Spring Violet Glimmer Mist and then sprayed the other two sections with Frost Glimmer Mist.  I removed the template and let the card dry, then sprayed the entire card with Glacier Glimmer Mist.  This was my first experience with Glimmer Mist and the first attempt didn't go well.  I used the Georgia Pacific cardstock and sprayed way too closely.  This is my second attempt with Papertrey Ink cardstock and sprayed a bit further away with a much better result. {click on the picture to see the shimmer even better}

I cut the sentiment panel with my Small Deckled Mega Rectangles and  then I stamped a sentiment from the Hero Arts Holiday Sayings set and inked the edges with Memento Paris Dusk.  I added the snowman eyelet using my Cropadile...the first attempt with that didn't go well either since I lost the directions and the poor snowman got stuck LOL.  I managed to save him.

What tools have you neglected lately?  Why not join us at Shopping Our Stash and show them off!

I am also linking this to Crafts & Me Challenge #39 - Bling it On.

TFL!!

A Bugaboo Birthday Sundaes!

Good morning!

Today's Birthday Sundaes Challenge is our popular Anything Goes Birthday Card Challenge - just remember to include birthday wording/greeting on your card front!

We are being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps and the winner will receive 7 free digis of their choice, how cool is that?! Jodie, the owner, generously provided our team with images to use. Check out the Birthday Sundaes blog to enter your card and to see all the neat samples from the team!

Here is my card using Stella Birthday - Eat More Cake ~

I was inspired by several entries last week using the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder so I just had to pull mine out and use it!  The designer paper is from one of the My Mind Eye's Stella Rose pads.  I cut Stella out with Nestabilities and colored her in with copics.  This was my first attempt at grey hair, I kinda like it!  I add Diamond Glaze to part of the balloon and ice cream. Pearls from my stash are around the oval.

Have a great day and we hope to see your entry this week at Birthday Sundaes!

Natalie's Cake

I spent some time Monday morning stamping images from a bunch of stamps that I got from Paper Makeup Stamps. One of my favorites from this order is Natalie's Cake because I LOVE cake LOL! I used one of my favorite birthday sentiment sets, also from PMS, called Birthday Cheer.

I used last Saturday's Sweet Stop Sketch for the layout - flipped to accommodate my image.

I used Labels Eight to cut my image and the ribbons are from my overflowing stash!

TFL!  Stop back shortly for my PaperCutz Challenge card!
 

FBW #157 with Paper Pretties!

It's time for Flutter By Wednesdays!  One of my favorite days of the week :D

It's the first Wednesday of the month - can you believe it is JUNE already?!

We have an open challenge for you today - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation!

This week we are sponsored by Paper Pretties and they were so nice to give the DT images to play with! Check out the FBW blog HERE to enter your creation and to see what you can win!

I just had to play with the Flutterby digi - she is so cute!  

I dug into some newer stash for my card. The paper and embellishments are all from the My Mind's Eye Gertie collection. The Flutterby image was cut using my new Labels Seventeen. I did add a little Smooch to the bracelets, necklace and butterfly but it's a bit hard to see in the photo. I also added a sentiment from one of my favorite sentiment sets - Little Moments from Paper Makeup Stamps. 

I hope you will join us this week - there is always so much inspiration to be found on the FBW blog!  

Teacher Appreciation for PaperCutz #92!

TGIF!!

Today's challenge at PaperCutz is to create a card, layout or project with the theme of Teacher Appreciation. I've had this Pure Innocence cutie for quite some time now and she was perfect for this card! If you'd like to play along with us and be inspired by the design team samples, click HERE!

Wanna know something about this paper? It looks like it could be for school right? It's actually Beach Bum by Fancy Pants! I know I have some school paper from stacks but I couldn't find it so I started looking through my piles of 6x6 pads and found this one. Worked out perfectly! I used Labels 12 to cut out the image and panel beneath her. Bling and ribbon from my stash finished off the card nicely.

Here are the copics I used to color her: 

TFL and have a great day!

Happy Birthday Lilly

Happy Monday!

This is the last of the cards I'm sharing from my weekend crafting session.  Instead of copics, I colored this image with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol. This is the 2nd time I have tried it and I like the results better this time. I am going to keep practicing as I have tons of images stamped & printed on Georgia Pacific paper and I cannot use them to practice my copic coloring.  I certainly don't want all my cute images going to waste!

The image on this card is Lilly from Softpencil Digital Images. Isn't she sweet? :)

I used TECC64 for the layout and the image was cut out with Nestabilities Labels Eleven. The sentiment is from Hero Arts Birthday Messages. I used My Mind's Eye Stella Rose Mabel designer paper, it's so very pretty!

TFL!

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #7

Good morning and Happy May 1st!

Today's Birthday Sundaes challenge is the popular Anything Goes Birthday Card! Just remember to include birthday wording somewhere on your card front.

We also have a sponsor this week, Pattie's Creations Digital Images and she generously provided the design team a few images to work with.  I chose to use Tulips in Vase. I just love floral images :) If you play along, you will have the chance to win a $10.00 voucher to Pattie's store!

I really LOVE how this card turned out, especially since it's the first image I've colored since I took the copic classes a few weeks ago.  I colored another card using one of Pattie's images that I bought awhile ago and will share that tomorrow.

I opened one of my MME Stella & Rose 6x6 pads finally! Such pretty papers!! The cardstock is Ocean Tides from Papertrey Ink and I printed the image on Copic Xpress Blend It cardstock.

ETA: The layout of the card is from Papertake Weekly's sketch challenge from this past Tuesday.
Here is the sketch:

We hope to see you join us this week at Birthday Sundaes!

Birthday Sundaes #2

Good morning!

Time for the 2nd Birthday Sundaes challenge! I was so thrilled to see such an awesome response to our first challenge last week!

Today's challenge is to create a spring themed birthday card (don't forget a birthday greeting/sentiment!)  This is one of the cards from the batch I made last month. To 'birthday it up' I added the 'Happy Bird-day!' from the MFT 'You're So Tweet' stamp set. The fun image and chickadee sentiment are from the PTI Everyday Button Bits set. 

I used ESS118 for the layout, which you can see HERE.

To play along, please enter your card HERE and check out all the wonderful samples from my design team!

I'll be back in a jif with my Lasting Memories post!

Enjoy the Ride - PCC #84

TGIF!  I am a happy happy person today! It's Friday AND last night my husband booked our belated honeymoon/1 year anniversary trip to DISNEY for September!!!!!!!!! I went to Magic Kingdom once back in 2000 and he's never been at all so it will definitely be a magical trip!

Back to the reason you are here - PaperCutz Challenge #84!  We'd like to see your cards, layouts or projects using 3 patterned papers with any colors/themes you'd like!

Here is my take~

I've had this card done for almost a month now with the exception of the buttons on it...when I had the bright idea to make a bunch of cards using the PTI Everday Button Bits set, I forgot to pack buttons LOL! So I'm slowly finishing them up now that I found buttons to match (BG Jovial collection!)

All of the paper is from the TE July kit using KI Memories Paisley Parade paper.  The ribbon and pearls came from the TE store.  I used my Labels 9 nestabilities to cut/layer the image. I used the February Sketch for You to Try for the layout.

To play along with PaperCutz, please click HERE!

Also, I'm entering this into Clear It Out's challenge #2 - Buttons!

TFL!

Flutter By Wednesday #143

It's time to flutter!

This week's Flutter By Challenge is an open challenge - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your project. You can upload your creation HERE and check out the inspiration from the FBW DT using the links on my left sidebar!

I kept with my purple & Aurora theme from the other day since I had stuff still out of my desk.  She is another one that hadn't seen ink yet and I paired her up with some more old paper from my endless stash lol. This is Aurora - Out on the Town. She is the cutest thing!

Edited to add - I totally forgot to mention that I used the current Cardabilities sketch!

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Aurora - Out on the Town ~ Victoria Case for SCACD
Paper: Georgia Pacific cardstock, misc. cardstock, Colorbok & Remember When patterned paper
Ink: Memento
Copics: E00, E25, E29, YG23, BV11, BV25, RV17, RV19, Y32, Y35, R20
Other: labels 11 nestabilities, American Crafts ribbon, sassy pink smooch, Martha Stewart punches, Basic Grey pearls, mini pop dots

TFL!