MPS Challenge #41 Anything Goes

Michelle Perkett and her new DT are having a challenge this week called "Anything Goes" .  I decided to get another card done for my Christmas card collection.  I used this beautiful image by Michelle Perkett called "Holly Fairy".  I think she is just gorgeous!  You can see Michelle's beautiful designs and inspiration for your crafting here.  Her new design team has done a wonderful job giving us some awesome samples of their work with Michelle's images.  You will be amazed!  Check it out.

Here's my card entry.

I colored Holly Fairy with Photoshop Elements.  Added glitter to her wings and her white fur and the snow on the branches.  The green paper is Wild Wasabi from Stampin Up. The white was embossed with the cuttlebug.  The punches used are from MS for the leaves in the upper right corner and for the little border near the bottom.  I used little red gems from my stash on the border and a square gem in the middle of the red flower from S.U.  The snowflake in the upper right is from my stash as is the red flower, which I added glitter to also.  The 1/8 inch ribbon is Offray from Michaels.

Here is a close up of the beautiful Fairy.  The starbursts in the glitter were added with Photoshop so you could see just how blingy it is.

Thanks for looking!  I'm glad to be building my Holiday card assortment this early in the year.  Usually I'm scrambling in November and December to get them all done!  Thanks to Michelle and the DT for this challenge to light a fire and inspire me to get crackin' on these.  I hope you like her! 

Glitterbabe's Challenge #6

Here's a card I made for the challenge over at Glitterbabe's here http://glitterbabeschallenge.blogspot.com/  Hop over to her blog to see some awesome inspiration and have a couple of giggles.  There's a Glitterbabe badge that I've added to my sidebar that will take you straight to her shop if you'd like to browse the adorable hand-drawn images that she has.  I promise you that they will spark your coloring/creative imagination!

This challenge is to use the colors black, purple, and pink.  The image is called "Bird on a Branch", and I chose her because she looks like she would love to wear pink and purple and glitter on her feathers.  She just has that "Miss Thang" look about her "teehee".   

Papers are S.U. for the black cs and pink dp.  DCWV for the purple dp used behind the image and on the inside of the card.  Flowers were cut out of the purple dp, shaped and stickles added to the centers.  The leaves are from a MS punch.  Butterfly is a MS punch (I cut the centers out of the wings) and put stickles on it.  The lattice is also a MS punch cut from white paper.  The sentiment was generated on PSE by me.(sorry I can't remember which font I used)  The image was colored with copics, gel pens, and stickles.  The ribbon was in my stash as well as the gems in the upper left corner.  This was a fun challenge!  The image is so quirky and cute (she was fun to dress up in glorious BLING)! 

Deedee's challenge "Very Vintage"

This challenge was to make a vintage style card. I used Deedee's "Bloom Where You're Planted" set of digis. It comes with this sweet image and 3 different sentiments: One of which I used here. Check out her blog to see lots of inspiration, and this will lead you to her store if you would like to order some images. http://craftingwithdeedeesdigis.blogspot.com I also have a link to her store on my side bar if you want to go straight to the store. I love Deedee's images and she's such a sweet lady to boot! DP is EK Sucess "Natural Bamboo" and a small piece of script paper from my collection. The beige paper is from stash and the black base is S.U. I used the cuttlebug to emboss the oval. The leaves around the flower is a MS punch. The pearls are from my stash. They are a very light lavendar color even though they look white. The flower and the antique brad are also from the stash as is the lace. The image was colored on PS Elements and I added some white gel pen and some glitter for the sand and inked around the edge with brown ink.

I used a MS punch on the inside with the same paper that was used on the outside of the card. Thanks for checking it out. Have a great day!

Color Challenge at CDAC

This card is for the color challenge over at CDAC. The colors to use are Green ,Yellow and Cream. Isn't this a beautiful sunflower? It was given to us by Priscilla Heaton to use for the challenge. You can go over to her blog-store here http://patriciastyles-store.blogspot.com to see her amazing designs and customizing kits. The sunflower image was printed in green for the background of the center element and then printed in black for the forground sunflower and colored with copics. Stickles are in the center and on some of the petals.

Papers are all S.U....Always Artichoke for the base and Wild Wasabi for the front panel which was embossed with cuttlebug "thank you" folder and the high spots were hit with green ink in my stash. The cream color is S.U. Very Vanilla. The paterned paper is from S.U. Prints Pack. The ribbon and the pearls are from my stash!

I printed the main sunflower twice and cut out parts of it to add a layer with dimensionals just to give it some extra depth. Talk to you all later.

1-2-3 Challenge at CDAC

New challenges up at CDAC! This one is for the Other Theme Challenge. The theme is 1-2-3. Use 1 border, 2 patterned papers, and 3 embellishments. This cute little dinosaur is a freebie from Stamping Dragon Designs. Love his face! You can check out all the other cute images and lots of scrapbooking and stamping needs and wants here at http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/ Papers used are...PTI Aqua mist for base.......S.U. Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, and prints pack....DCWV Retro Prints. White is from stash. Ribbon is PTI Summer Sunrise. The sentiment was created on Photoshop Elements. The Dino was colored with Photoshop Elements. The balloons are Making Memories Page Pebbles attached to paper that I doodled and shaded. The gold cord for the balloons is from S.U.

This shot would not come out very clear, but I wanted to show some of the inside also. I like to handwrite most of my sentiments inside my cards, so I wait until the card is needed. I can't believe that I have NO bling on this!! It's unusual for me! Hope you like it!

Deedee's Brown and Green challenge

This little Piggy is so cute, I just had to dress her as a girl. This image and the sentiment is from Deedee's digis http://craftingwithdeedeesdigis.blogspot.com. Just one of Deedee's many adorable images! The challenge was to use brown and green. I really had a tough time with this. Deciding on the shades of green and the patterned papers and embellies was really reeking havoc on the ole' noggin'! I decided (in my eye) that with these two colors, there definately needed to be a substantial amount of white or cream to go with these dark shades I have here. I think without the white and cream it would have looked like MUD! But then Piggies love mud....."but not on my card"! The Deets.....Paper is Basic Grey "Sublime" The plaid and dotted paper is from PTI chocolate remix. The very dark green is from my stash. I used cuttlebug on the oval and on the dark green horizontal strip. I doodled some faux stitching on the white edges. I used a sizzix die to cut the corner embelly. And I used SU. punch for the dark brown corner. The little "friends" on the horizontal piece is a MS punch (LOVE!). Punched in plaid and in dark brown....attached them offset to make it look like a shadow. I thought this punch was perfect for this sentiment.

Since this cutie pig had to be a girl, I tied a ribbon on her ear from my stash. I used a MS punch to make her bouquet. The big flower is the one from the digi. I cut it out and shaped it a little and added stickles in the center. The 2 white flowers are from my stash and yellow stickles were added to the center. I colored her with copic markers E00, E01, E02, YG91 and E55. Her snout is R01, R02, and RV32. Hope you like her......She wants to be your friend!

Pollycraft Challenge #54 Love and Marriage

FLUFFY LOVES LOVEBOT!......Can I just think on a normal level!? NO! This challenge over at Pollycraft was to do a card thinking along the lines of love and marriage. Well Monsters and Robots need love too! Mind you...this would not be a card for your most elegant, serious friends. This is more for your friends or family that sway a little more to the wild, and crazy fun side of the spectrum of personalities! We love them all anyway....don't we! This is for the couple who's marriage is going to be chock full of fun and laughs! I ended up using a lot of my paper scraps for this one! Love that!!....my scrap bin is really getting full! I used "Lovebot" and "Fluffy" from Pollycraft digi stamps and more. Check out the blog at http://pollycraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ to see the challenges. From there you can navigate around to see all the design inspiration and purchase some of the awesome images for yourself. You're going to love browsing here!

Okay,....so I found some gray, and a dark bluish gray cardstock that I used for this. The cuttlebug embossing hearts folder was used on the gray panels, and I glittlered the raised hearts with Dazzling Diamonds from S.U. In my stash I found the pink flowers, lace, green cardstock, tiny pearls, white organdy ribbon, and a heart charm.

The Deets.....I printed these two cuties 3 times so I could layer this up. I colored them with copic markers. Stickles were used on the balloon and "Mrs. Fluffy's" accessories and gloves, and little antaenna. She has pieces of lace behind the top and second layer of her head with a few pearls to adorn the veil. Her sleeves are also those tiny pearls. Fluffy has kind of a scruffy coat today since he's a little nervous....but he's sporting a shiny black bow tie and a boutineer with a little bit of pink stickles in the center to match Lovebot's accessories. His eyes and teeth have crystal laquer on them to give him a shiny glowy look! I popped his teeth out to give him a little more dimension too. Yes.....they are the perfect match......and they're going to live "Happily ever after" which was generated on Photoshop. Thanks for taking a look!

Deedee's Challenge (card of Friendship & send it)

Hi everybody! Hope your weekend is going well! I am really getting in on this challenge at the last minute! The challenge is from Deedee's Digis. It is to make a card of friendship and send it. I will probably hand-deliver this to my sister for her birthday this week. The name of this image is "Shells from the Sea". I got it last week when I entered Deedee's challenge and I've been anxious to use it. I decided to make a "Tent Topper" card. I got this cool orange organza wire edged ribbon last year from Garden Ridge and finally got an opportunity to use it. I needed a nice wide ribbon for this. My card base is from S.U."Rich Razzleberry",and I used 2 DPs from S.U. Sweet Pea paper pack. Love that pad of paper! I used a Fiskars border punch on the bottom of the designer paper and added a few gems from my stash.

I printed the digi 3 times and cut it apart and layered it. I sandwiched torn sandpaper (I had to dig it out of my shed) in between the layers. I added dazzling diamond glitter in some of the sand areas to make it look like the sun was shimmering on it.

The star fish and the shell on the right were colored with copics. I put a tiny bit of white glitter on the star fish and I brushed on some crystal laquer to the shell on the right. I wanted the shell in the back to have some texture so I colored it with colored pencils and then brushed on some "Scribbles" irridescent white mist mixed with a little Pearl Ex. which made it thick enough to give it a decent amount of texture. It's hard to see the color because of the reflection of the light on the irridescent paint.

I printed a small version of this digi on the inside of the card with reduced opacity. It's on the same DP as what was used on the front bottom. This is the sentiment that came with this digi set. I love it! It's perfect to go with these sweet shells. I used the border punch again on each side of the sentiment. And now I am excited about getting Deedee's cute little set called "God's Way". The sentiment is awesome and it has the most adorable looking little piggy with such a sweet face to go with it. You can check out all of the awesome talent over at Deedee's here at http://craftingwithdeedeesdigis.blogspot.com/ I know you'll find yourself smiling as you look! Thanks for stopping by my blog! Talk to you later.

Magical Monday at Paper Cupcakes "Strawberries and Cream"

Hi! I was checking out the Paper Cupcakes blog and.....Wow! What a cute Party Cake image Nina May was offering as a freebie. It goes right along with the Strawberries and Cream challenge! The prize for the random drawn winner is the most adorable Watermelon embellies with ribbon and trim to go with it. I just had to get in on this! Love those embellies! This is the "Party Cake" I received as a freebie. Cute, Cute, Cute!! I printed it several times and layered it and blinged it up..... put the cake on a lacy tablecloth..... and put it on an Easel card! Close up below.

Paper is all S.U. as is the sentiment. Lace is from Joann's. Ribbon is from PTI. I dotted "very vanilla" cardstock with polka dots. Gems are from my good old stash. I frosted the cake with Copics, Stickles and I used iridescent white mist fabric writer by "Scribbles" for the icing on top of the 2 large layers. I cut out and layered the flowers on top and added some very thin wire that I spiraled around a toothpick and glued it into the top with crystal glaze between the flowers. It's the tiniest cake I've ever decorated at a whopping 2 1/2 inches tall from plate to the tippy top! I'm sure I'll be decorating this little cake many different ways on future projects.

Thanks for this adorable image Nina! Here's Nina's blog address if you'd love to take a look-see at all the wonderful talent... http://theresmagicintheair.blogspot.com/

CDAC Sketch Challenge #2 "Shelly's Images"

This card is for the Sketch challenge #2 over at CDAC. This cute little birds with the banner image was a freebie from Shelly Parker at "Shelly's Images". She has lots of cute images available here at www.shellysimages.com if you'd like to go over and browse. The birds in this image were copied and resized several times so I could have a bunch of birds flying around and sitting on the banner. The birds were colored on PS Elements. The banner was sponged around the edges and the Happy Birthday was colored with glitter pens. The papers are all S.U. The gems are from stash. Flowers were made and shaped from S.U. punch. Ribbon is from stash. Fiskars border punch and S.U. scallopped border punch were used. All the birds and the banner were cut out and attached with dimensionals. I just couldn't resist putting a little bling on their wings!

This is the Sketch we were to use for this challenge along with Shelly's Image. Thanks to Shelly for the adorable image and thanks to Scrappy for this sketch!

CDAC Color Challenge #2

I made this card for the color challenge over at CDAC. This challenge is hosted by Jeanette Walters from "Robyns Fetish Digital Stamps". This cute image is called "Katie Kitty". The challenge was to make a "Pretty in Pink" project. The papers used here are all "S.U." Cuttlebug embossing folder for cream color. Ribbon and bling are all from my stash. The sentiment is from Designer Digitals. The colors behind the sentiment are Rob and Bob. The images were colored on Photoshop Elements.

The Cockatiel was drawn by myself. And the flower is from my stash also.

Here is a png image of the Cockatiel if you would like to use it.

Thanks for looking!

CDAC Holiday Challenge

Hi bloggers! Here's a card I made for the Holiday/Special Occasion Challenge over at CDAC. It's being hosted by "Sew Many Cards". Angela Doescher has given us this cute little elephant freebie to use in the challenge. He is called "Eris Christmas Lights". Poor little guy. My take on this is that he's having a tough time putting lights on the tree. So my story with this card is that he's got this empty tree that he has to decorate .... all the ornaments are sitting out in a box ready to go, but poor Eris is just getting so frustrated with the tangled lights, as he looks on at this huge task he has to do before Christmas Eve. You can find tons of adorable images like this one here http://shop.somanycards.com/ This is a first for me.... Eris was colored on Photoshop Elements. I took some of the black out of his eyes and made them blue. I printed him out on glossy photopaper. I put a little stickles on his star to bling it up. Along with his tangled lights he's holding a couple ornaments (charms) that I tied to his trunk with SU silver cord. The bling around the circle and the rectangle frame are called "Dot Sparklers" by Stampendous. I got them at Michaels. They're very blingy and yet they are very flat (easier to mail). The ribbon is from PTI. "Joy" is a rubber stamp from S.U.

Close up of Eris....The charms say "Wish" and "Magic"

Another "First".....I needed an empty tree to go with my story for Eris. So I drew this one and the box of "waiting" ornaments. This was also colored on Photoshop. I cut it out and adhered it to my DP with dimensionals. I took the picture outside and the angle of the sun really gives my tree a great shadow! I do have some shading around the tree and box, but it's not that pronounced! My papers are Bazzil cardstock and S.U. Pink Pirouette. I used Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background, and put a little color on the sentiment heart with copics.

Here is my jpeg. If you want to use it, be my guest. I'm not sure if I've done this correctly. I guess you can click on the pic., then right click to save it on your computer.? I'm going to try it myself to see if it works. If it doesn't ... I'll ask somebody who knows. IT WORKS! IT WORKS! I DID IT!!

Michelle Perkett Sketch/color challenge#38

Hi ladies! I guess I'll start with the close-up since that's the order these came up in. This is for Michelle Perkett's Sketch/ color challenge. I've used this adorable image from Michelle called "Abby and Walter's Birthday Wishes". There's a link to Michelle's on my sidebar so you can visit her blog to see all the beautiful inspiration and artwork from Michelle and the fabulous DT. Okay...the whole picture! I cut Abby and Walter apart and resized them and the balloons for placement on the card. Walter is attached with dimensionals as he looks on at Abby's yummy cupcake. I used a big sequin behind the candle and blinged it up a bit with yellow stickles. She's having a "Bright Shiny Birthday"! I doodled two of the balloons with little flowers and polkadots just to change it up a bit. They are attached to SU gold cord which is glued behind Abby and tied to Walter's tail. The ballons themselves are attached with dimensionals. The coloring was done with copics and gel pens.

This is the sketch for the challenge. You could either do just the sketch "or" the colors (Turquoise, cream, sand,chocolate) or combine both. My entry is a combination of both.

DP...PTI.Chocolate Remix, S.U. Sweetpea Designer Series., and DCWV Retro Stack.

cardstock...S.U.

Two little gems...stash.

Deedee's Happy Monday Sketch Challenge

This is a card I made for Deedee's "Happy Monday Sketch Challenge" The "sweet" image I used is called "Little Miracles". Deedee's images are all so awesome that I have a really hard time choosing which ones to use. You can go over to her blog to see her wonderful work. Just click on the Deedee's Digis badge on my sidebar.

DP is from Papertrey Ink.....Cardstock is Stampin' Up.......Cuttlebug embossing folder was used on the green panel and I hit the high spots with Palette Clean Canvas. The large flower is handmade with S.U. scalloped circle punch w/half inch circle punch for the center. The sparkle is Dazzling Diamond glitter from S.U. The bling and charms are from my stash. The sentiment is from Designer Digitals. Image was colored with Copics and gel pens.

Deedee's Flamingo

This is a card I made for the Embellishment Challenge over at CDAC. I used this cute little Flamingo that was a freebie from Deedee's Digis. Please see the link to her adorable artwork on my sidebar. I have named 2 of my Flamingos. "Flossie" is strutting her stuff with a sequin and bling hat. She has a jump ring neclace and ankle bracelet with a bead on each. Her toe ring is a pearl. "Gertie" is puttin' on a show with her purple fiber had with a large sequin that was cut and folded into quarters. She has a long chain necklace with a diamond on it . Her bling ring (which she's showing off to Flossie) and her "Wing Bling" and her toe ring all match in a lovely aqua blue. She also has an ankle bracelet made from a square jump ring with a bead on it. All the blingy things are from my stash of blingy stuff.
The DP is from Paper Trey Ink and the cardstock is from Stampin' Up. The flower is handmade with wet cardstock and DP. I found the sentiment in my collection of fun designs from "Designer Digitals". This is a little on the silly side, but I had a lot of laughs dressing up these two "Girls"! Oh.......I should mention that the two Flamingos in the background are just shaking their heads and giggling when they see Flossie and Gertie. They know how different these two girls are.....but they love Flossie and Gertie anyway!
Thanks for the fun challenge and the Flamingo digi Deedee!

Magical Birthday

I made this card for "other/theme" challenge at CDAC. The images are all from Michelle Perkett Studios. They are a combination of Goldilocks, Flower Cupcake, and one of the fairy's from "Juniper and Cecelia". The paper is from DCWV glitter stack. The flowers from Joann's and the bling and ribbon is from my stash. I created the sentiment on Photoshop for this. See the close-up below for detail on the fairy.

This little fairy is mounted on a coil of very thin wire so she appears to be floating above the cupcake. She is blowing fairy dust on the cupcake in wishes for a "Magical Birthday". At least that's how it is in my head! I hope it appears that way! Check out Michelle's adorable and whimsical images on PCP and CDAC. There's a link on the sidebar which will take you right to her beautiful artwork.

Father's Day Cards with Deedee's Digis

This is the card I would like to enter in Deedee's Sketch Challenge this week. I used her cute set called "Under the Stars" for this. I colored this with Copics. Papers are from S.U. Since I'm a letter carrier, I've been wanting to use this stamp template from Splitcoast Stampers. It's a pdf file. I printed it, then scanned it to Adobe Elements and resized it to my liking for this. Check out Deedee's Digis at http://deedeesdigis.blogspot.com/ to see her adorable images and get some fantastic inspiration.

The inside was generated on Photoshop and papers added to match the front of the card.

I just had to keep using my new Stamp Template and more than one set of Deedee's all on one card, so I continued on. This card and the one below are using Deedee's sets called "Bloom where you're Planted"(frog and planter) and "Little Miracles" (dragonfly) and "Under the Stars" (the sweet bear and the Relax and enjoy sentiment). The Winners Cup and the Sweet little Bee are both freebies that she was so generous to offer. These images were colored with Copics. The round sentiments are old acrylics in my stash of stamps (sorry I can't remember who made these) cause I relocated them to CD folders. The papers are from DCWV and S.U. Oh of course I had to have some bling on the wings of my little bugs and the sand had to sparkle too!

Inside was generated with Photoshop and matching papers added.

And another Stamp template Deedee card! Same images were used as in blue card above. This time I colored them with watercolor pencil. The papers are from S.U. and Basic Grey. The little stars in the corner are made with a corner punch I just got from EK success. Fun Stuff! The ribbon is from Michaels and the screw brads are from my stash. The round sentiment is from my acrylic stamp stash also. I layered it on 3 stars that I punched out and rotated each layer a little.

Inside of card was done with Photoshop, and matching paper added. You can find the Stamp Template on Splitcoast Stampers in the resources section along with a tutorial about it .

Deedee's Challenge #3 Red-White- & Blue

This is a card I made for Deedee's challenge (Red White and Blue). This is a two pocket card. The coffee cup is from Deedee's digitals http://craftingwithdeedeesdigis.blogspot.com/. The name of the digi set is "Cuppa Love"(Very cute!) The cup was printed twice and colored with water color pencils/gamsol, then layered and shaped to give it a 3D effect. The coffee was done with copic E57 and colorless blender. I used crystal laquer on the coffee to make it look more like liquid (The photo doesn't show this very well). The roses on the cup are actually colored red, (the glitter kind of took the red down a couple tones). The papers used are from SU and DCWV summer stack.

This shows the two things that are in the pockets on the card front. The tag was cut and layered with the same papers from the front of the card. The flower and sentiment on the tag is a rub on from SU. I added glitter to the middle of the flower, and colored the petals with chalk and added red with a #R29 Copic marker. This can be used as a book mark for someone who loves to read. I found an image of the Starbucks card on one of their websites and printed it on Glossy Photo Paper. Too bad it can't be used....but it's the size of a regular gift card. When I give this card away I'll purchase the "Real Thing", or maybe Tim Horton's.

I carried the papers on to the inside of the card. The sentiment is also from Deedee's "Cuppa Love" digi set. There are several other sentiments to choose from in this set. Love the choices!

Deedee's Digis Challenge #2 Use Scripture of Praise

I made this card for challenge #2 over at http://deedeesdigis.blogspot.com/ This is a joy fold card. The Birdies are from Deedee's Happy Bird-Day digi set. They have been colored with copics. Their eyes have crystal laquer on them and they have a little bit of stickles on their wings. This is a closed view of the card.

This is the opened card. This paper is from S.U. I couldn't resist putting these birds on the inside of the card. The other papers used are S.U. "Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry". The brown is from my stash of scraps.

This is the card partially open. When it's closed the upper left corner tucks under the white flower at the top which is attached to the card with a dimensional. The ribbon is from P.T.I. Gems are from stash, and musical notes are rub-ons I've had forever from QVC. The Scripture is a verse I chose and printed on Photoshop. The paper it's printed on was also created on photoshop. I don't know if you can tell from the photo, but the paper has lyres of different sizes on it in a very faint grey. Thanks for taking a peek!