Love to Scrap Challenge #16 - Play Some Blues

It's hard to believe October is half over.  My little guy turns 3 on the 30th of this month and he gets to celebrate at the happiest place on earth...Disney.  I wish I could keep him little forever, he is the sweetest.

I guess I better get on with the challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  For the next 2 weeks we want to see projects with only shades of blues.  Remember there must be a stamp and/or digital image on your project.  We are being sponsored by Delicious Doodles.  The winner will receive 4 images of their choice.  I hope you will join us for our challenge for the next 2 weeks.

Here's my card using Ivy Fairy image (the shading you see on the image will be on the image you purchase).  I thought she was rather sexy and even sexier as a red-head.  The red really stands out with the blue hues.

I colored the image with water colorpencils, then regular colorpencils.

 I used Star Dust Stickles on the wings to give the fairy her sparkle.  Layered some blue papers and a blue ribbon to finish off the blue challenge.

Of course, I always finish the inside of my cards.  

I hope you will join us at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog for our blue challenge!

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used: Digital Delicious Doodles - Ive Fairy

paper used: Bazzill, the Paper Studio-Paisley Blue Topal

die-cuts used: MFT Fancy Flourish, MFT photo corners

embellishments: Stickles-Star Dust & Waterfall, Recollections adhesive rhinestones, Ribbon Carousel ribbon.

Tuesday Teapotters - bling for Bella

It's been awhile again for the me to participate in a Tuesday Teapotters, but I couldn't stay away from this one.  I know I'm a little late.  We are traveling to MT for a 4 year old girl with cancer.  She will be recieving treatments for the next 2 years.  This might not be her only tea party.  The challenge for Bella's card was simple, girlie (lots of pink) and lots of bling.

Here's the inspiration teapot and cookies:

Here's my card for Isabella:

It's not too much bling, but lots of sparkle.  I used pink glitter paper to make sparkle.  Just a little bit of bling on the side.  Hopefully this is girlie and has the bling (sparkle) that was needed for the challenge.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used: MFT Cupcake Cutie, MFT Far Out (sentiment)

paper used: MFT Cotton Candy, SU DP, Recollections Pink Glitter Paper

die-cuts used: MFT Designer Lable Stax Set 2, MFT Oval Stax 1 & 2

embellishments: Recollections Bling on a Roll

Fall Sympathy

I love the fall colors and they are usually my favorite colors to use when creating a project.  When creating sympathy cards, I go with purple or blue colors, I guess they seem like calm colors.  I needed to make a sympathy card for my husband's co-worker who lost his father.  His father lived in Mississippi and had a beautiful southern style porch on some beautiful property.  I decided to use MFT IB the Front Porch-Fall for my image.

I didn't want to color in the image.  It's not suppose to be a bright happy card, but a humble card.  There was enough color with the paper choices and going with fall colors.

There are some fall, but not Halloween challenges going on, so I'm hoping this fall sympathy card is okay to enter into some challenges.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

challenges i like to enter:
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Challenge #50 Autumn - NOT Halloween
Lacy Sunshine Challenge - #19 Fall Colors
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Happy Halloween Hues (Colors associated with Autumn)
Tammy Scrapin Corner - Challenge #84 Theme Fall Colors



stamps used: MFT-IB the front porch-fall, Unity-heartfelt sympathy

paper used: MFT-Tangy Orange and Kraft , SU DP

die-cuts used: MFT Oval Stax 1 & 2

embellishments: Ribbon Imperial Topaz

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #15 Recipe

It's October and fall.....my favorite season.  I love summer, but it's something about the fall.  We have a new a challenge for you at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  It's a recipe; 3 papers (plain or pattern), 2 flowers and 1 die cut.  My image was picked out before I really looked at the challenge, so...it was a challenge with the flowers and a Halloween scene.

Scene it - Mummy Scene

We are being sponsored by Bugaboo Digi Stamps.  The winner of this challenge will receive 7 digis.  Bugaboo is another one of my favorite places to get digis.  Every Friday, they give you a free digi download.  Check out their website.

Once I realized I had to use flowers, a card wouldn't do.  This is what I came up with....a witch hat.  I was thinking about doing a mix media canvas, which I'm still doing to hang up on my wall, but I saw this hat at Michael's.  Paper mache hat turned into magical witch's hat with paint, paper, flowers, and a ribbon.  I painted the whole hat black, just because it needed to seem finished...completely.

To make sure the paper fit just right, a lot of measuring and tracing was done.  The bottom actually slipped right over the pointed top and fitted perfectly in place.  The cone took some time to get together.  Being paper mache, it's not perfectly shaped and lots of trimming needed to be done. 

The die-cut for the recipe is the patch work on the hat.  The image lays on top of the die-cut a little, but I  liked the look of it.  I picked out some metal flowers, but these satin flowers were a great touch instead. 

The ribbon is from Ribbon Carousel.  Where the ribbon met, I put some pearls to finish the look.  You may use ribbon, brads, and bling on the recipe challenge.  I used stickles on the tree and the stars.

Hope to see you in the Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog Recipe Challenge.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my hat in the following challenges:

Ribbon Carousel - RCC86 Fall and Halloween Creations

Really Reasonable Ribbon - RRR Challenge #81 Fall and Halloween and Ribbon Theme

Catch The Bug Challenge Blog - October Anything Goes

stamps used: Bugaboo digi - Scene it - Mummy Scene

paper used: Me & My Big Ideas-mambi&sheets, Echo Park Paper Co-the apothecary emporium

die-cut used: MFT-Mini album bracket stax

embellishments used: Jolee's Boutique-satin flowers, Stickles-Black Diamond & Blueberry Ice, Recollections pearl stickers, Ribbon on edge of hat Michaels, Ribbon Carousel