Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - #44 When Nature Calls

Hello crafty friends and welcome to another challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  This will be the last challenge for the year.  For the next 2 weeks, we want to see things you would find out in nature, living or inanimate.  Remember we want to see some stamping with either rubber/clear or digital.

We have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge.

The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate.

I got to work with the beautiful image from Stitchy Bear called Winterville by Lil Diva Stamps.  It's a black and white image with lots of gray shading, so I did very little coloring.  Just enough that it didn't over power the beauty of it. 

I mainly tried to play with the papers. I believe the papers are from Hobby Lobby, all of them.  Added a little sentiment and it was done.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)  Merry Christmas!!

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

• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - #80 Christmas
• Completely Christmas - #42 Completely Christmas Anything Goes
• Craft a Scene - Craft a Scene Winter Theme
• Crafty Catz - #259 Last Minute Christmas
• Digi Design Challenge - Christmas
• Holly Jolly Christmas - Anything Goes Christmas
• That Craft Place - Christmas
• Wags'n Whiskers - #144 Merry Christmas

stamps used: Stitchy Bear Winterville, Unity Stamp Co Entwined Poinsettia & Believe in Miracles
paper used: Hobby Lobby, the Paper Studio blue & brown paisley
die-cut used: Spellbinders Ironworks Motifs
embellishment used: Momenta metal corners

Scrapping4Fun - #32 Winter/Summer

Hello and welcome to another challenge at Scrapping4fun.  Hopefully you are getting everything ready for Christmas, because it's coming up fast.  I love the family time and can't wait until we have our cookie decorating fun.  Every year I bake and most of it is given away.  I bake a bunch of sugar cookies and the kids and I see who can decorate the best, unique and funny cookies.  It's my favorite part of Christmas!

Back to the challenge.  We have an inspiration pic for you.

After seeing the kitty cat, I knew which stamp to use.  It's been sitting in the box for awhile and has never seen ink.

This little cutie from My Favorite Things, called Take the Plunge.  They no longer sell Doodle Garden stamps there and she closed her online shop because she had a busy schedule with new contacts with her Doodle Garden images.  You can still find some online through other companies.  I stamped her a few times, so I could layer the image.  This cutie was colored with my water color pencils and regular color pencils. The big dot paper behind the image reminded me of watermelon.

Here you can see the layers.  The flowers were a pain, I had to make sure I had the right flower laying on top before I glued it down.  I like how the 3D looks, but it can take some time fussy cutting all the pieces you want to layer.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)   Merry Christmas !

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

• Aurora Wings - #9 Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #207 Anything other than Christmas
• Stampotique Designers Challenge - SDC 176 Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Door - Anything Goes Dec 9th-15th

stamps used: MFT DG-Take the Plunge

paper used: the Paper Studio Bella Pink Large Dots, MFT Cotton Candy, SU the lime green paper, My Mind's Eye The sweetest thing-tangerine

die-cuts used: MFT Oval Stax Set1 & Set 2, Square Stax Set 1 

embellishments used: Really Reasonable Ribbon, Recollections Rhinestones, eyelets, Prima Flowers

The Male Room - #25 Christmas

Happy middle of the week to everyone!!  I know everyone is on the Christmas countdown and running around trying to finish last minute shopping.  Slow down, it's time for another challenge at The Male Room.  This will be the last challenge for the year.  For the next 2 weeks, we want to manly Christmas projects.

What man or boy doesn't like a good snowball fight?  I used this cute image from Unity Stamp Co called Worth the Fight.  What coloring there was to do, I used my water color pencils and regular pencils.  Of course some Stickles had to be used for the snow.  I had some snowflakes cutout, but it seemed too much for a manly card and went with the twine instead.

Here's the inside. I thought the sentiment was perfect for the manly man.  The sentiment is also from Unity.

thanks for looking and reading :o)  Merry Christmas!!

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

• Clear it Out! - Theme: Blue Stash:Ribbon/Twine 
• Creative Moments - #57 Anything Goes/Winter
• Fresh Brewed Challenges - December challenge - Anything Goes as long as it's Christmas
• Loves Rubberstamps - #130 Winter or Christmas Theme
• Ooh La La - #170 Christmas
• The Crafter's Cafe - #94 Christmas/Holiday Season

stamps used: Unity Stamp Co Worth the Fight & Freezin' My Snowballs
paper used: MFT gray grout & berrylicious, Colorbok Antique Paperie
die-cut used: MFT You Move Me
embellishments used: Timeless Twine, Stickles and Liquid Pearls

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #43 Shape Shift!

It's November and the Christmas countdown has begun!  Where has the year gone?  I know...too fast.

It's time for another challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  For the next 2 weeks we want to challenge you, not to make a square or rectangle card.  There are SO many fancy die-cuts out there and other fancy tools, I'm sure you can come up with something gorgeous.

 We have 2 fabulous sponsors for this challenge.

Lacy Sunshine will give the winner 3 images of choices.

A Day for Daisies will give the winner a $12 gift certificate

I created a card with the image from A Day for Daisies called To Grammy's House.  I was going to make a sled shape card, but I thought it would be too much.  This is what I ended up with .  I colored the image with my water color and regular color pencils.  Made sure there were some die-cuts and a little bling, since it's Christmas time.  The metal hardware, holding the ribbon, I painted white to go with the card.

To make the snow, I used some paint and thick glitter.  Stickles were used in the falling snow.

Here's the inside.  The sentiment is from Amy R Stamps called Frosty Sentiments.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• 4 Crafty Chicks - #222 Die-Cuts
• Clear it Out Challenge - Winter Wishes/ Stash: use a snowflake
• Craftin Desert Diva's - #45 Christmas
• Crafty Sentiments - Use Die-Cuts Challenge
• Creative Knockouts - All That Glitters
• Digi Choosday - wk 47 Xmas Celebration
• Glitter n Sparkle Challenge - #113 Use Some Snow
• Pile It On - #48 Sprinkle It

stamps used: A Day for Daisies: To Grammy's House, Amy R Stamps: Frosty Sentiments

paper used: MFT Wild Cherry, Jellybean Green and Smooth White

die cuts used: MFT Mini Album Bracket Stax, Sentimental Flourish and Let It Snowflake

embellishments used: Stickles, white paint, glitter, recycle ribbon, SU hodgepodge harware, recollections adhesive rhinestones