More Celebrate Cake ~ FBW #204

Happy Wednesday!

Just a few more days til the weekend, yes I'm already counting down LOL!

Today I'm sharing my card for this week's Flutter By Wednesdays challenge. This week we have a birthday themed challenge - just remember to include a butterfly or fairy on your project!  You can enter HERE and check out all the DTs card on the FBW blog too!

For my card I used another from the large pile of SCACD stamps I cut apart on Monday ~ More Celebrate Cake, isn't it cool? I love it!

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I used the JUGS sketch for my card layout~

TFL!

Supplies~
Stamps: More Celebrate Cake (Susana Loves Stamps), Hooray for Birthdays (Scrappy Moms Stamps)
Paper: Copic xpress cardstock, Glitz Yours Truly 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Other: mini flag die-namic (not sure which set it came from), Smooch Gold, brad & ribbon from stash, Martha Stewart butterfly punch 

It's a Fluttery Blog Hop!

Good morning and Happy Wednesday! Just a few more days til the weekend, yay!

It's the first Flutter By Wednesdays challenge of 2012 and it's also a blog hop! So if you are here from Leanne's blog, you're in the right place! If you just stopped by to visit, hello there. Our blog hop starts {HERE}. We are welcoming 4 new members to our team ~ Karen, Leanne, Lynette and Suzanne! Welcome ladies!

This week's challenge is an open one - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation! Please enter your creation {HERE} and check out this week's sponsor, Bugaboo Stamps and see how you can win! We'd also like to thank the ladies that played along with our month long December challenge! It was so nice to see some people getting crafty during one of the busiest months of the year.

This is my first creation of the year~

I dug deep into my printed Bugaboo Stamps stash and chose Ava Fairy to play with. She's colored with prismacolor pencils and I've highlighted a few areas with Smooch Illuminate. The layout is from SCS363.

It's time to flutter on to your next stop ~ Mary!


Card Details~
Bugaboo Stamps - Ava Fairy digital image
Echo Park Paper Co. - Life is Good 
prismacolor pencils
Smooch Illuminate
flower & button from my stash

Birthday Sundaes Blog Hop!!

Good morning!! I am so excited that today is finally here!  Are you ready to hop??

If you came here from the Birthday Sundaes blog then you are on the right track! If you just happened to stop by for a visit, please go check out the Birthday Sundaes blog to see all the details of our hop and this week's challenge.  There are a few prizes to be won and you won't want to miss your chance!

Our blog hop theme and challenge is 'Cakes and Cupcakes Birthday Cards' (and don't forget a birthday sentiment/greeting!) We are saying farewell to some members and welcoming some new members to our DT. You can enter your creation HERE.

Here is my card - I love cupcakes so I had to use one of my favorite Stamping Bella stamps - Cuppacakeabella.

I love how my card came out, especially the cupcake! It was fun to paper piece it, something I don't do often enough.  I also realized I miss my Bellas and need to get them inky more often!

and here is what I am offering for blog candy~

 

Some of my favorite birthday stamps from Paper Makeup Stamps!  They do come unmounted and I can include some EZ Mount if the winner needs it. The winner will be announced next Sunday, August 7th!

Now it's time to hop along to Michelle, one of our design team members who we are saying farewell to.  I will miss seeing your inspiration every week, Michelle!

Card Details~
Stamps: Stamping Bella Cuppacakeabella, Sweet N Sassy Stamps #1076 Birthday Greetings
Paper: Image was stamped on Cryogen cardstock, Papertrey Ink Kraft cardstock, My Minds Eye Lime Twist Life of the Party
Ink: Memento
Copics: E00 (skin), E25, E29 (hair, dots on dress), R43 (dress/shoes), BG11, B32, BG34 (cupcake top)
Other: Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Smooch, Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder

Thanks for hopping by!

A Color Challenge for PaperCutz!

TGIF!!

Today's challenge at PaperCutz is a fun one!  We'd like to see a card, layout or project using the colors Pink, Orange, and White ONLY, a small amount of black may be used. Click HERE to join in the fun and to check out the rest of the team's samples!

It took me forever to pick paper to use for this card LOL!  I finally decided to use KI Memories Paisley Parade when I found THIS sketch over at The Sweet Stop Sketches.

And here is my take! I used my Verve Blue Skies stamp set for the first time.  I love how everything just pops on this card - the quote panel & butterfly with pop dots and the layers pop with the black. 

Supply List-
Stamps: Blue Skies by Verve Stamps
Paper: KI Memories Paisley Parade, CTMH black cardstock
Ink: Memento
Other: Smooch (on the butterfly), Stampin Up Ticket Punch, Basic Grey Bling It rhinestones, pop dots

TFL!

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!  

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #4

I have a fun Birthday Sundaes challenge to share with you all today!

I found this inspiration picture for the design team to work with...I came across it on one of the many wedding blogs that I still follow.

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Here is my take~

I am so proud of myself! I used my Gypsy to cut out this sundae from the Birthday Bash cartridge.  The piecing isn't perfect but I'm so happy I was able to get it cut and together. I used to use my Cricut all the time but as the cuts got more involved, I shied away from using it..not that I stopped by cartridges LOL! So hopefully this will get me cutting more again. There are lots of Cricut challenges I would love to enter! I cut the banner using the banner dies from Papertrey Ink.  If I thought of it ahead of time, I would have run the pink pieces through the Cuttlebug but since I already glued them down, I went looking for teeny tiny stamps to use as a sentiment.  They are from a Stampendous cupcake set.

In this side view, you can see the Smooch I used to bling up the sprinkles. 

The paper is from the older than old stash!

To play along with Birthday Sundaes and to see the fantastic design team samples, please click HERE!

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!

Aurora with Butterfly

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! I had 3 days off and had fun each and every day!  I did manage to get one card done yesterday but then couldn't upload it since I got a new laptop (yay!!!) and it wouldn't recognize my SD card so we had to change my pics over to a different one this morning.

Back to the card...Danni and I like to challenge each other occasionally to make cards with various stamps/companies since we have a lot of the same things. This weekend we used The Aurora Collections by Victoria Case for SCACD and the color purple.  I have a lot of older stash and purple and never use it.  

This is Aurora with Butterfly from the first Aurora Collection. The paper is from my 'older than the hills stash' (a Danni expression lol). BTW, you can see Danni's cards HERE!

I used an older Card Patterns sketch.

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Aurora with butterfly ~ Victoria Case for SCACD

Paper: Georgia Pacific cardstock, misc. cardstock, dp from Provocraft

Ink: Memento

Copics: E00, E27, E29, RV11, RV19, V01, V15, Y15, YG03

Other: Moonlight & Sunshine Smooch, American Crafts ribbon, misc. flower & brad from stash, Martha Stewart punch

A Bookmark

I've been wanting to make myself a bookmark and so I did after finishing up a layout earlier.

I used the Melissa Fairy and the Read a Book word art from Paper Makeup Stamps. I'm so proud of myself for using all scraps for this!

Supplies~

Stamps: Melissa Fairy & Read a Book word art - Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper: Basic Grey Wisteria & Georgia Pacific cardstock

Ink: Memento

Copics: E30, R20, E35, E37, E39, YR20, YR23, YR24, BV20, BV23, BV25

Other: Smooch Moonlight, misc. ribbon & eyelet from stash

TFL!

The Unscripted Lollipop Sisters!

I love it when I can come up with fun post titles!

I really wanted to participate in Lollipop Crafts 'Sisters' challenges this week and finally got a chance to play tonight. I inked up PMS Hugging Fairies for the very first time *pats self on back* and used more of my BG Wisteria scraps. The buttons are from that collection as well.

I really enjoyed coloring these two lovely ladies. I tried to mimic my sister and I, she's the one on the right a little deeper skintone and lighter hair. She loves to wear grey, usually the darker the better lol. I liked this combo of light gray with the blue violet copic. I used Smooch Illuminate on their wings but it's not showing up.

I incorporated the Unscripted Sketch from last Saturday and rotated it to fit my image.

Copics Used:

Fairy 1

Hair - E25, E27, E29

Skin - R00, R20

Dress/Shoes - V12, V15, V17

Fairy 2

Hair - E35, E37, E39

Skin - R01, R20

Dress/Shoes - T1, T3, BV23

TFL! I'm hoping to have more time to create and share this weekend!

A Valentine with No Hearts!

TGIF!

This week's PaperCutz challenge is to create a valentine with NO hearts. Yes, it's possible LOL! You can enter your creation HERE and and while you are there check out the DT's work and see how they interpreted the challenge.

I used Rose Fairy from Paper Makeup Stamps, love the way she turned out!

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Rose Fairy - Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper: Georgia Pacific, PTI True Black, PTI Black & White Basics, Bo Bunny Crush

Ink: Memento

Copics: R01, R20, E15, E17, E18, YG17, RV34, R37, R39, N7

Other: Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type letters, misc. pearls from stash, Labels 4 Nestabilities, Smooch Illuminate

TFL!

White on White

White on White...that is this week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge! Your image may have color but the rest of your card/project must be ALL white! As always you must include a butterfly, fairy or angel!

I have to say this was TOUGH for me!!!! I procrastinated until the very last minute LOL! I settled on using Snowflake Lily weeks ago since I've had the digi printed out for a long time but then I just couldn't figure out what to do with her! I finally decided to create a little snow scene since here in the Northeast I've been dealing with a lot of snow, more to come later today!

I used my polka dots cuttlebug folder for the background and then added a few Martha Stewart punched snowflakes (punched from PTI shimmer cardstock) and some misc. clear gems from my stash. I wanted to keep the card on the lighter side so I colored Lily's hair blonde and her outfit with BV000 and BV11. Added some fun flock to her coat and lots of Smooch Illuminate to make everything sparkle (bummer...it's not showing up at all in the pic!).

You can link up your 'White on White' challenge HERE and for more inspiration, please visit the rest of the FBW team. Links are on my left sidebar!

Have a great day!

PMS Fan Blog Hop!

Welcome to my stop on the PMS Fan Blog Hop! I hope you are having a wonderful time hopping around seeing all the great holiday & winter creations! You should have arrived here from Maria's blog, if not, please start at the Paper Makeup Stamps blog to see what you've been missing out on!

My card uses an image from the new Christmas Cheer set, just love these ornaments! Now I bet that those who know me expected to see a fairy right? He he, have to switch it up once in awhile. The embossing is done with a new Sizzix folder and the dp is Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather. I think the gold accents are a nice touch.

Don't forget to leave comments during the hop, you could win a grab bag full of stamp goodies! Your next stop on the hop is Anita!

Lollipop Crafts meets Flutter By Wednesdays!

Yesterday I saw that Lollipop Crafts had a reading inspiration challenge and I just had to create a card using one of my PMS fairies so I could also enter Flutter By Wednesdays open challengethis week!

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Melissa Fairy, Read a Book word art ~ Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper: Cosmo Cricket Togetherness, image stamped on Georgia Pacific

Ink: Memento

Copics: N2, E00, E02, E15, E17, E18, E57, E41, R24, R27

Other: Smooch Illuminate (on her wings-kinda hard to see in pic!), MM brads

TFL!

Easel cards for PTT #21

Yay, I made a card for my challenge!

This week's Party Times Tuesdays challenge is to create an easel card ~ don't forget the birthday wording on the card front. I am so pleased with how this card turned out! I finally inked up my Lulu's Birthday Cake stamp from Stamping Bella.

To see the rest of the design team's samples and to enter your card, please click HERE!

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Lulu's Birthday Cake ~ Stamping Bella, sentiments from PMS Birthday Cheer set

Paper: SEI Moonrise, image stamped on TE Choice Snow White cardstock

Ink: Memento

Other: copics, misc. ribbon from stash, lacey squares nestabilities, sundance smooch, su corner rounder

Trick or Sweet!

Halfway through the week, YAY!

Here's a quick post today showing another Halloween card from my crop~

I used a Sweet Stop sketch from a few weeks ago~

and incorporated these challenges~

CRAFT Challenge #73 - Spooky

Dutch Dare #89 - Halloween

Twisted Thursdays - Spots & Dots and things that go bump in the night

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Trick or Sweet ~ Taylored Expressions

Paper: Echo Park Paper Company, Prism cardstock, image stamped on Georgia Pacific

Ink: Memento

Copics: YG17

Other: Smooch Illuminate & Green Apple, buttons from the TE Project Pantry kit, twine, big scalloped circles lg nestabilities

TFL!

I'm back (and have a card to share!)

I'm not quite 100% yet but I'm back! Still coughing up a storm but otherwise am feeling okay finally.

This is the first of 10 cards that I made yesterday at the crop and it's for this week's Paper Cutz Challenge! Create a LO, card or project for Halloween using stars, circles, diamonds or crescents. I've got some circle gems and I used my EK Success star border punch.

While I was at the crop, I did shop LOL! Tim Holtz has some super neat embossing folders out and I got a Halloween set and a Christmas set. The one used above is called Halloween Words, thought it was so cool! The paper (Echo Park Paper Company) and cardstock are from the Taylored Expressions Halloween project pantry kit and the image is from the TE Trick or Sweet set, I was able to make 6 cards altogether using the images from the set. I'll be showing them all week!

I used this sketch from Taylored Expressions~

To play along with this week's Paper Cutz Challenge, please click HERE!

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Trick or Sweet ~Taylored Expressions

Paper: Echo Park Happy Halloween, prism cardstock, image stamped on Georgia Pacific

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black & Sweet Plum

Copics: C1, V09

Other: Tim Holtz Halloween Words embossing folder, EK Success star border punch, pumpkin smooch, gems from the TE Project Pantry Kit

TFL!

Flower Cupcake

I've managed another card, yay!

I found THIS sketch for World Card Making Day in the Scrapbook Challenges forum.

I got this cupcake from My Grafico sometime last fall...I can't provide an exact link as I can't find it on their site anymore. However, they have LOTS of cute cupcakes to buy!

Here is a close up of the sparkle~ I added Smooch Illuminate to the flowers on the cupcake and the prima flower.


Card Supplies~
Stamps: Cupcake ~ My Grafico; sentiment ~ Hero Arts
Paper: Basic Grey Two Scoops, image printed on Georgia Pacific
Ink: Memento Angel Pink
Copics: R11, Y11, G21, G24
Other: prima flower & brad from stash, Basic Grey Bling It, Marvy punches, Studio 18 rhinestones, EK Success scalloped scallop border punch

TFL!

Miss Island Pixie

Are you enjoying World Card Making Day? I'm trying to...this cold is slowing me down!

I did make a layout earlier, you'll see that tomorrow morning :)

Danni issued a challenge to me yesterday...to use some of the many digi stamps I have printed! She will have a few cards posted tomorrow, so be sure to check her out HERE.

This is the stack of digis I pulled out this morning...think I have enough to choose from? LOL


I decided to pick an image from the top of the stack, Island Pixie from Pixie Dust Studio - they have so many more cute images since the last time I visited, eek! I need to use, use, use and not buy, buy, buy!


Here is a close up of the sparkle, shine & paper piercing ~ another eek, it's not showing up too well, hopefully if you click on it, you can see it...


Knowing full well I couldn't go with a digi only challenge, I went to my challenge list and incorporated a few more~

ESS #102 ~ sketch
Flutter By Wednesday #124 ~ sparkle & shimmer plus butterfly, fairy or angel
Hanna & Friends #64 ~ So Dotty
365 Cards ~ The 3 P's ~ Polka dots, paper piercing (on the brown piece under the scalloped area), pop dots
Paper Sundaes #37 ~ Things with Wings
Alphabet Challenge - W is for Wings

Card Supplies~
Image: Island Pixie ~ Pixie Dust Studio
Paper: American Crafts ~ Everyday; PTI cardstock
Ink: SU Apricot Appeal
Copics: YG23, YG25, E00, R20, E17, E18, R85
Other: big scalloped ovals lg nestabilities, paper piercer, sundance smooch, fairy dust creative inspirations paint

Off to create some more!

Paper Cutz Challenge #57

TGIF!!!

This is my first challenge as a DT Member for Paper Cutz! So excited to share my card with you!

This week's challenge is to make a card, LO or craft project using 1 ribbon, 2 buttons and 3 colors on any theme you’d like.

I must admit the 3 colors thing got me hung up for awhile, I'm so used to incorporating lots of colors that to just pick 3? Torture LOL!! After debating with myself, I went with a Christmas theme. Can't go wrong with red, white & green!

{if you click on the picture, you should hopefully see the sparkly ornaments!}

Here is the sketch I used~

We'd love to see what you do with this recipe! Please link your challenge card to the Paper Cutz challenge blog and check out all the wonderful inspiration from my fellow DT members! Their links are also on my left sidebar.

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Fluffles Baubles ~ Stampendous; sentiment ~ Amuse Holiday Greetings
Paper: Basic Grey Wassail
Ink: Memento
Copics: R59, R89, E41, BG96, BG99
Other: Large Deckled Rectangles Nestabilities, misc. ribbon & buttons from stash, Smooch Illuminate

Have a great day! I'm excited for the long weekend, lots of wedding details to wrap up!