Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge #29 Christmas

Hello crafty friends and welcome to another challenge at Scrapping4Fun Challenges.

 We have a wonderful inspiration picture (I love vintage Santas).  You'll have 2 weeks to create a Christmas project.  Can't wait to see the creations for this challenge!

I went to one of my favorite companies for a digi image of an old timey St. Nick.  I love the realistic images from this company, Just InkLined.  I used the digital image Letter From Santa.  The image was colored with my water color and regular color pencils. There are a couple of different pattern papers behind the image, one old time ornaments and an old script tissue paper.  The sentiment is from a rubber stamp set from Unity Stamp Co, called Entwined Poinsettia. 

I couldn't decided between ribbon or the snowflakes on the top corner. As you can see the snowflakes won.  Some stickles was added for the smoke from the candle and 3D accent to St. Nick's glasses.

Here's the inside.  I'll add a Christmas message before sending.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I'll like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• 4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments Challenges - #188 two or three word sentiments
• Crafty Catz - #253 Anything Goes
• Divas by Design - Anything Goes
• Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Bingo (Glitter, 2 DP, Die-Cut)
• Little Red Wagon - #261 Krafty! (must use kraft cardstock)

stamps used: Just InkLined Letter From Santa (digital), Unity Entwined Poinsettia (rubber, sentiment) 

paper used: the Paper Studio kraft, MFT paver red, Carta Bella Christmas Day, Recollections printed tissue, Bazzill, scraps

die-cuts used: all from MFT Fishtail Flag Stax, Oval Stax 1, Let It Snowflake, Wavy Edge

embellishments: stickles

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #40 - Seeing Dots

It's hard to believe we are half-way through October!  The leaves are finally changing here, so Fall Festivals are in full swing and so much fun to do.  I love the Autumn and everything about it.  I guess that's why I loved coloring this cutie from Lacy Sunshine for our challenge.  For the next 2 weeks at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog, we want to see some dots on your projects.  Remember there must be some stamping, being rubber/clear or digital.

We have 2 wonderful sponsors for the is challenge.  They both have some great images.

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps will give the winner 2 images of choice.

Lacy Sunshine Stamps will give the winner 3 images of choice.  Thanks you wonderful sponsors :o)

This is such a beautiful image and I loved coloring it.  I usually don't color hair black, because I still struggle with getting the right highlights, but I wanted black hair for my image.  Anyway, I used my water color and regular color pencils for this image, Rory Collecting Autumn Leaves from Lacy Sunshine.

I like when the leaves are bright, so I made sure she collected some vibrant leaves. There are some dots on the patches and sunflower centers.

Wanted to add a sunflower on the card to match the sunflowers in the image.  You can see there are lots of dots on the paper, flower center and the ribbon is dots.

Here's the inside...still more dots :o)

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge Blog - R for Round or Rectangle
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - #117 Anything Goes with a sentiment (2/5)
• Crafty Boots - Falling Leaves and Halloween (Autumn or Halloween)
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #57 Anything Goes with a twist..add some yellow
• Kitty Bee Designs - Aloha Friday #34 Dies and/or punches

stamps used: Lacy Sunshine Stamps Rory Collecting Leaves (digi), MFT DG Happy Harvest (sentiment, no longer for sell-clear stamp)
paper used: BoBunny Shadow dots, Bazzill, scraps, MFT Smooth White
die-cuts used: MFT Oval Stax 1 & Stax 2, Circle Stax 1 & Stax 2, Upsey Daisies, Momenta leaves
embellishments used: texture Bobbin Robbin.

Scrapping4fun - Anything Goes

Hello my crafty followers.  I thank each of you for your beautiful comments and thank you for following my journey through this crafty blog world, it really warms my heart.  

I know you are here for a challenge.  So...it's an easy one from Scrapping 4 Fun...Anything Goes.  For such an easy challenge, I struggled to come up with something.  Then, when I was making my oldest son some chocolate covered coffee beans, it hit me.  I had to take some into the grocery store where they are so kind to me and helped me pick out the beans (i don't drink coffee) and asked me if I would bring in some of the final product.  I knew I needed something special to bring them in.  Here's my project:

A cute little bag.  The bag is actually from our trip to Greece in 2010.  There was no writing on it, but it was such a heavy duty bag, I knew I had to keep it.  I got to use mainly scraps for this bag, thank goodness.  The blue dp was the only non scrap piece used.  

I finally inked up a stamp and die set I bought a couple of years ago from C.C. Designs called Coffee & Cocoa Logos.  The edge of the blue dp was inked and sponged.  Added some liquid pearls dots on the edges.  You can see part of a die-cut I used for steam, that was cut from vellum, then I added Stickles. 

The ribbon was from the wedding in Greece we went to celebrate and was added to one of the handles (i should have taken a better pic of the bow).  For some reason, I decided to add the tickets hanging from the side.  I found some fun cork ribbon and had to use it.  I also added the music paper and cork ribbon to the back of the bag, because I hated to leave it plain.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)  Check out the other DT inspiration creations

I would like to enter my bag into the following challenges:

• Aud Sentiments - #117 Anything Goes (with a senitment)
• Divas by Design - Texture
• Southern Girls Challenge - Getting Wordy On It
• CC Designs: Design Team Call

stamps used: C.C. Designs Rubber Stamps Coffee & Cocoa Logos, MFT Just The Ticket

paper used: brown, blue, red, & kraft scraps, music scrap was from Creative Imaginations, Colorbok antique paperie

die-cuts used: C.C. Designs Coffee & Cocoa, MFT Just The Ticket

embellishments used: Liquid pearls, Cork Ribbon, Stickles stardust, jute, recycle ribbon

Tha Male Room - Halloween

Good morning my crafty friends and welcome to another challenge at The Male Room.  Halloween is just around the corner and boy did it come up fast.  For the next 2 weeks, we want to see manly Halloween projects. Halloween seems like a manly holiday.

For my manly Halloween card, I couldn't pass up using this stamp I've had for awhile.  Actually, it was the sentiment that reminded me of a man, because men are kinda "corny".  It's from Unity perfectly titled Corney Friend, from their stamp of the week collection.  I colored the image with my trusty water color and regular color pencils.  Added a tape web to the corner and some ribbon to the bottom. The design paper is from Stampin'Up.

Here's the inside.  I need to find the perfect "corny" sentiment for the inside now.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter in the following challenges:




stamp used: Unity Corny Friend
paper used: Stampin'Up and MFT Smooth White
die-cuts used: MFT Oval stax 1 & stax 2, MFT Sentiment Strips
embellishments used: ribbon from Wal-Mart (i know this ribbon is old, because i haven't been to a Wal-Mart in at least 8 years or more), Martha Stewart paper tape

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - #39 Anything Goes

Hello October and good morning crafters!  We have an easy challenge for you at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog....Anything Goes.  We want to see your beautiful creations, just remember, stamping with rubber/clear stamps is a must.  Please NO digital work this challenge!

For this challenge Taylored Expressions is our sponsor.  The winner will receive a petite stamp set of their choice.  Some of the petites have die-cuts to go with them...awesome!!

For this challenge I got to work with the petite stamp set Life Saver.  It comes with 2 die-cuts, the anchor and life preserver.  How cute is this!  I decided to make a bookmark, since we needed some for school and thought the sentiment was perfect. The image is colored with watercolor and regular color pencils.  I die-cut the life preserver twice, once in red and once in white.  Then fussy cut the parts I wanted red to glue on the white piece.  Added some gauze, fish brads, and twine to finish up my bookmark.

Here's the back.

The petite stamp set I used.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter in the following challenges:

• 613 Avenue Create - #92 Anything Goes
• Anything Goes with a Twist - Challenge #1 Anything Goes
• Creative Corner Challenges - Anything But A Card
• Craftin Desert Divas - Anything But A Card

stamps used: Taylored Expressions Life Preserver , MFT Bookmark Duo & stamps (the circles around the sentiment)

paper used: MFT Wild Cherry and scraps

die-cut used: MFT Bookmark Duo & Stamps (retired)

embellishments: Recollections brads, Twine, gauze

Scrapping 4 Fun - #27 Seasons

Welcome to another great challenge at Scrapping4fun!  You have 2 weeks to create a project from this inspiration photo.  You can choose Spring or Autumn, maybe both.

I love watching the seasons, and they are all beautiful for their own reasons.  Spring and Fall are both my favorites, but I think Autumn is in my heart.  I love the colors and the smells.  So, I decided to create a card for Autumn.

I choose the stamp from MFT Inspired By called the Front Porch-Fall (looks like this stamp might be retired, but they still have the Front Porch-Spring).  You can image yourself on this front porch swing, enjoying the crisp Autumn air. I didn't want to color the whole image, just parts of it.  I decided watercolors would be the best choice.  I needed something between the image and sentiment, so I added a fiber ribbon and stamped some leaves to fussy cut out.  Just stuck the leaves on each side of the fiber.

Here's the inside.  

Have a great weekend!  thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

If you give a crafter a cookie

• Addicted to Stamps Challenge - #115 Photo inspiration
• Creative Moments - #52 Anything Goes/Use 3 layers
• Die Cut Divas - Change of Seasons Spring/Autumn
• If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - inspiration photo
• Moo-Mania - Autumnal Coloring
• Ruby's Rainbow - #89 Autumn Leaves

stamps used: MFT-IB the Front Porch-Fall, Unity Stamp Co Oct '12 KOM (leaves)

paper used: Bazzill, the Paper Studio Traditional Floral Paisley, SU old olive

die-cuts: Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles & Fleur Lis Square

embellishment: the Paper Studio fibers

The Male Room - Sketch

Good mid-week crafty friends!  For the next 2 weeks at The Male Room, we have a simple sketch challenge for you to follow.  Just remember, it has to be manly.

I have a few bachelors on my Christmas list and decided I better get a start on my Christmas cards.  I know I'm a little late, but at least it's a start. 

Since the sketch was simple, I kept my card simple.  One layer card and bare minimal on embellishments. 

The design paper I won and it was hard to really figure out how to use this non-traditional paper.  The colors are very deep browns, reds, greens, mustard yellows, almost grungy.  It turned out to be the best paper for a manly Christmas card.  The ribbon was from Really Reasonable Ribbon, it was part of a monthly club.  The sentiment and punch are from Stampin' Up.  I thought the ornament looked plain, so I added some die-cut snowflakes and frosted rhinestones.  Very simple and easy.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter in the following challenges:

• Crafting From the Heart - #38 Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - "BINGO" challenge (Designer Paper, Die Cut, Sentiment) or (Rubber Stamp, Die Cut, Ribbon) 
• Die Cuttin Divas - #185 Anything Goes
• Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes
• The ABC Challenge - "U is for Unique" Anything goes
• The Pink Elephant - TPE#270 Anything Goes

 Crafty Sentiments Designs

stamp used: SU short & sweet

paper used: MFT Primitive White & Paver Red, Carta Bella Christmas Day dp

die-cuts used: MFT Let It Snowflake, MFT Fishtail Flags Stax

punch used: SU ornament

embellishments used: RRR, Recollections adhesive rhinestones