Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog: #126: Witchy Heels

Hello crafty friends!   I'm here today with my project for LTSCB, this month is fun.  No cards this month.  Get crafty with your craft items.

We have a wonderful sponsor this month.

winner will receive $12 gift

I have falling in love with mixed media and made a canvas Halloween project using the image Heels Witches Shoes.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils. Using a stencil, distress sprays, alcohol sprays, glitter, gems, and mummy cloth, I can say this project was very simple to do.

Different view to see all that glitter.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Bugaboo: Heels Witch Shoe
embellishments: Tim Holtz: bity bats, mummy cloth,  Solid Oak: dragon eyes, Stickles, gems

Mix It Up! Challenge Blog #26: Meow

Hello crafty friends!  My 3rd post today is for Mix It Up! Challenge Blog

The challenge for this month's twist, if you choose to do so,  is Inlaid Die-Cut.

 For this challenge I used Bugaboo image Bug Kitty Blocks, colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I didn't actually do the twist...lol...I should have googled it.  The image is behind the open, but it not a die-cut inlaid.  Mission failed.  Anyway, I still got to use my new Cut n Scan to cut the opening and a few of the little dies :o)

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Bugaboo: Bug Kitty Blocks, Tim Holtz
paper: the Paper Studio: black, Recollections
die-cuts: cut n scan, Tim Holtz

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog: #122 No Rulz

Hello crafty friends and hellooooo June!  We are already half way through the year. 
Today I have 4 posts for you, all the sister blogs are live today.

Start off with Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog: #122 No Rulz

We have a wonderful sponsor and the winner will receive $12 gift code.

With sponsor image Kidz Bella Watermelon Peeker, I created this summer card.  Who doesn't love watermelon and ladybugs :o)   The image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I thought this image was just adorable. 

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Bugaboo: Kidz Bella Watermelon Peeker, MFT: Ticket die-namic stamp set
paper: Bazzill, Stampin Up, MME: alphabet soup girl
die-cuts: Craftin Desert Divas: Fancy Frames
embellishments: Stickles, Liquid Pearls, Wild Orchid: lace, dots

Love to Scrap Challenge Blog #120: Monster in the Pocket

Hello crafty friends!  Finally a new month, but a month for fools...Happy April Fool.  Hopefully you can join us this month at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog for our new challenge: Male Call.  Let's see some masculine projects.

This is 1 of 4 posts today, so get inspired.

We have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge.

Winner will receive $12 gift certificate.

I made this cute masculine card usually a sponsor image called Mpocket (I do not see it in their new store yet).   The image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  Just added some designer paper and a brad.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• A Perfect Time To Craft: #4 April Anything Goes
• Classic DT Open Challenge: #4 April Anything Goes
• We Love to Create: #4 Anything Goes

stamps: Bugaboo: mpocket
paper: Recollections, MFT, Heidi Swapp: designer paper
embellishments: twine, the Paper Studio: brad

Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #20: Monkey Birthday

Hello crafty friends!  It's hard to believe it's March already :o(  Where does all the time go??!!  It's a new month and that means I have 3 posts of inspiration for you today.   Have fun and enjoy.

This post is for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog where every month is Anything Goes.

This card was created for a cute little boy!  A friend of mine has 3 girls, since I have 4 boys, we are both like 2nd moms to each others kids.  This is for my grandson from my daughter from another mother...lol.  He loves monkeys, so this cute image from Bugaboo was perfect.  I colored these guys with my Prismacolor pencils.

Here's the inside.

Here's the card with the envelope.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies: #12 Anything Goes with a critter
• Always Happy Birthday: March Anything Goes
• Bugaboo Crafty Challenge: #14 Anything Goes with Bugaboo
• Classic Design Team: #23 Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday: #519 Anything Goes
• The Creative Crafters: #1 Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door: 27th Feb Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #2 February 15th: Anything Goes

stamps: Bugaboo: BugMonkeyBlocks Sock Monkey Blocks
paper: Recollections: brown, Monkey paper (didn't have a company name on it, but I'm sure I got it at Michael's)
die-cuts: Tim Holtz: celebration words & alphanumberic script

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog # 100: Kidz Rule

Hello crafty friends!  It's time for the mid-way inspiration at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  This month's challenge is all about the "Kidz Rule".  Can't wait to see what you create.

We have 3 wonderful sponsors and that means the DT will choose 3 winners.

winner will receive 3 images of choice

winner will receive 7 images of choice

winner will receive 3 images of choice

My image is from the sponsor Bugaboo Digi Stamps called Kidz Bus.  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.  After the image was colored and I was looking through my stash of papers, I realized the school papers I had were soft colors.  This bright yellow bus just was too loud for them.  Searching Etsy....I found these papers that were a better match for my project.  Thank goodness for digi papers.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• City Crafter: wk 377 - You don't bring flowers
• Crafting With An Attitude: #30 Anything Goes

stamp: Bugaboo: Kidz Bus
paper: Bazzill, Old Market: Back to School Paper
die-cuts: MFT: jumbo banner fishtail stax
embellishments: Recollections: brads

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #93: Anything Goes

Hi there again crafty friends!  This is my last post for today and it's the mid-reminder for Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  We are now a monthly challenge, so you have a little longer to play along in the challenges.  This month is Anything Goes, just remember we want to see some stamping on your projects.

We have 3 wonderful sponsors and the DT will chose 3 winners.

14% off coupon to store

 7 images of choice

 2 images of choice

This card was created using sponsor provided image from Bugaboo Digi Stamps called Flower Tree.  I don't have a lot of sympathy cards in my stash, even though they are needed from time to time.  I colored the butterflies with my Prismacolor pencils and decided to have some fun with the background.  I used 4 different colors of Gelatos and a distress sponge to create the background.

Here's the inside with a stamped sentiment.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• A Bit More Time to Craft: #36 Anything Goes
• Allsorts Challenge: #398 Wings on Things
• Card Mania: #88 Layer It
• Crafty Gals Corner: #105 photo inspiration
• Creative Corner: Anything Goes
• Jo's Scrap Shack: #171 Anything Goes

stamps: Bugaboo Digi Stamps: Flower Tree, SU: thoughts & prayers
paper: Bazzill: blue & purple, the Paper Studio: black, white & cream, BoBunny: Sophie's Notebook

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - #85 Flower Power

Hello crafty friends!  It's time for another challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  For the next 2 weeks we challenge you to create a project with "Flower Power".  Remember, you must have some stamping, wither rubber and/or digital on your project.

We have 3 wonderful sponsors and that means the DT will pick 3 winners :o)

Winner will receive $10 gift certificate

Winner will receive 7 images of choice

Winner will receive $7 gift certificate

For this Flower Power challenge, I created a card using a Bugaboo image, Scene It -Cow Trio.  How cute and utterly funny is this image?  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils and sponged the background.  The sentiment is from Ranger, Quote Bubbles, just seem fitting with the look on their faces.  I had some bold flower background paper and added a flowery ribbon too.  Lots of flowers going on for this challenge.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Animal Friends Challenge: #42 Animal with fur
• Come and Get It: Flowers
• Craft-Dee BowZ : September-Anything Goes with a bow

stamps: Bugaboo: Scene It - Cow Trio, Ranger: Quote Bubbles
paper: MFT:  Limeade & Banana Split, Crate Paper: Oh Darling
die-cut: MFT: Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax
embellishment: Celebrate It: vintage blush

Scrapping4Fun - #68 Quotes/Sentiments

Hello crafty friends!  It's starting to get busy around this house.  Boys going here and there, plus trying to spend time with family that lives SO far away.  The older boys have their birthdays this month and they are only a week apart.  In fact, one was last Friday and one this Friday...busy, busy.

Even when it's busy, there's still time to craft up something.  We have a new challenge at Scrapping4fun and hopefully you can join us.  For the next 2 weeks, we want to see creations that have quotes/sentiments as the main focus.

Are wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo.

I was given this beautiful image and quote to work with.  It's called Friend Flower Doodles.  I could have left the doodles alone, but I like to color.  A friend could use a little cheering up with some bright colors to go with the sentiment.  I kept this design very simple, since the quote is the main focus.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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



stamp: Bugaboo: Friend Flower Doodles
paper: Bazzill, Crate Paper: Oh, Darling
embellishments: Celebrate It: vintage blush ribbon, the Paper Studio: petite flowers

Lucky Birthday

Hi crafty friends!!  I'm here today with a commission card.  I was asked to create a festive card for someone's birthday that happens to be on St. Patrick's Day.  Yes, it had to be green.

I knew I wanted to make a shaker card, it allow me to play with the fuse-it tool again.  This time it went much easier with the correct weight of acetate paper.  Then I also found this great find of glitter paper.  Extra bling points for me :o)  With all that bling I had to keep the design very simple.  The image is from Bugaboo, which I colored with my color pencils.

Here's the inside, which the poem was written by the giver.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - #105 Use Ribbon
• Craft for the Craic - Luck of the Irish
• Crafting From the Heart - #104 Anything Goes
• Dream Valley - #127 All About Birthdays
• Get Creative Challenges - #35 Must Use Green
• Glitter N Sparkle - #180 Anything Goes
• Pattie's Creations - #120 Green

stamps used: Bugaboo: JJ Calendar Months-March, Stampin' Up: Something to Celebrate
paper used: Bazzill: patch, Recollections: glitter paper, Michelle R Designs kingdom green & gold
die-cut: MFT Oval stax 1
embellishments: Really Reasonable Ribbon, 3 Girl Jam ribbon, Treehouse sequins, Recollections glitter shapes, paint

Scrapping4fun - Anything Goes

Hello fellow crafters!  I can feel and see that Spring is finally here.  The Spring flowers are blooming, loving this time of new beginnings.  Hopefully you are ready for another challenge at Scrapping4fun.  For the next 2 weeks, it's Anything Goes.

Our wonderful sponsor is Bugaboo Digi Stamps.  They have a wide variety of fabulous digi stamps.

I'm using sponsor provided image Bugbdaybird2 - birthday bird 02.  Isn't it the cutest thing?  I colored the cute image with my Prismacolor pencils.  Just made a simple and cheerful birthday card :o)

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

Hope to see you in the challenge!

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

• 2 Creative Chicks - #8 Anything Goes
• Craft Rocket Challenges - #10 Feathers and/or Fur
• Crafting With An Attitude - #13 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore Challenges - #27 Make A Card
• Crafty Girls Creations - #15 Anything Goes
• Mod Squad Challenge Blog - Feature a Creature
• Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

stamps used: Bugaboo Digi Stamps: Bugbdaybird2, Unity: Party all Day
paper used: Recollections, scrap red
die-cut: MFT Fishtail Flag Stax

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - #69 New Beginnings

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone has enjoyed their holiday season and is ready to get back to the real world....that's not fun either.

Here at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog, we are ready to start another year of great and fun challenges.  For the next 2 weeks we want to see projects that have the meaning of a New Beginning.  Remember there must be stamping, either rubber/clear and/or digital on your project.

The winner will receive 2 images of choice.

The winner will receive 7 images of choice.

The winner will receive 2 images of choice.

Thank you wonderful sponsors :o)

For this challenge I got to work with the sponsor image from Bugaboo called Moon Baby night-night.  I decided to go with a baby image since a friend of mine's daughter is having a baby very soon.  The baby's room has lots of brown accents.  I colored this sweet image with my colored pencils.  Some metal accents and lace were added for that baby touch.

Here's the inside with a sentiment from Stampin 'Up.

thanks for looking and reading :o)  Hope to see you in the challenge!

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

• Artistic Inspirations - #147 Anything Goes/twist winter blues
• Come and Get It Challenge - Something New
• Robyn's Fetish Challenge - #297 Anything Goes
• Simon Says - Monday Challenge - Something New
• The Crazy Challenge - #213 Celebrations
• The Paper Girls Challenge - #95 Home/Family
• The Pencil Case - J=January Colors

stamps used: Bugaboo-Moon Baby night-night, SU-Curvy Verses
paper used: the Paper Studio-kraft, Recollections-cape cod, MR Designs-men only
die-cuts used: MFT oval stax 1 & stax 2
embellishments: Simplicity lace, Straight 'N' Narrow lace (given to me from a friend), metal baby accents (making memories?)

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #65 Bling It, GF!

I can't believe it's November already!  

Hello fellow crafters :o)  Now that Halloween is over and everyone is on a sugar high and got an extra hour of sleep, let's use some of that energy for a new challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  For the next 2 weeks we want to see projects with lots of "BLING".

We have 3 wonderful sponsors and that means 3 wonderful winners will be chosen.

Winner will receive 3 images.

Winner will receive 7 images.

Winner will receive $12 gift certificate.

Thank you sponsors :o)

For this challenge I made an over-sized tag using Puppy Girl from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.  I knew I could bling this sassy girl and her puppy up.  I also was able to use some of my dp scraps, which is always a score.

Even though I don't like wearing pink too often, when I think of girlie girls, pink comes to mind. I colored this image with my colored pencils and sponged the sky with ink.  Stickles was added to ALL the bow polka dots. 

I used a bling brad to tie up the ribbon on top (which they have shimmer to them).

thanks for looking and reading :o)  Please check out the rest of the DT for inspiration.

I would like to enter this tag into the following challenges:

• Crafting with Friends - #9 Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - #299 Let's Tag It!
• Crafty Gals Corner - #43 Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday - #391 Sparkles
• Jo's Scrap Shack - #112 Anything Goes
• Polka Doodles - Wk 42/43 Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter

stamp used: Bugaboo Digi Stamps-Puppy Girl

paper used: Michele R Designs-shabby vintage, My Mind's Eye-graceful circles, MFT-grout gray, the Paper Studio-white

embellishments: Simplicity lace ribbon, Stickles-pink, the Paper Studio-ribbon scrap pack & flower brad, Recollections adhesive rhinestones, Really Reasonable Ribbon, 3 Girl Jam-halloween harvest ribbon, recycle ribbon from a gift

Scrapping4fun - #40 Anything Goes + Use Lace or Ribbon

Hello fellow crafters!  I hope everyone is enjoying their Spring.  I love watching the flowers sprout and bloom.  I also hope you are ready for another challenge at Scrapping4fun!  For the next 2 weeks, we want to see your projects for Anything Goes plus Use Lace or Ribbon.  It's easy as it sounds.

I thought this image would be easy to add lace or ribbon and I'll get a head start on my Mother's Day cards.  This cute image is from Bugaboo called Kidz Like Mom.  I colored the image with water color and regular color pencils.  For the lace or ribbon part of the challenge, I used an organza ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbons.  There is a strip behind the image and dp paper wrapping around.  Then using my heat gun, very carefully not to burn the ribbon, to give it some crinkles.  After I got the ribbon the way I wanted it, I squished some flowers and pearls into the ribbon.  (The flowers were white, so I took some Gelatos to color  them.)

Liquid Pearls was used for the necklace and earrings.  Yes, her little cheeks are dark, because she is playing dress up.  I hate to see what she does with the lipstick!

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #81 Anything Goes, twist add some pearls
• Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - #223 One for the Girls
• Scrap & Craft - #7 Tie It Up!!  Use ribbon or twine
• Whimsy Stamps - #82 Colour an Image

stamps used: Bugaboo - Kidz Like Mom, Stampin' Up - All Holidays (sentiment)

paper used: MFT grapesicle & grape jelly, Stampin' Up dp, the Paper Studio white

die-cut used: Spellbinders Marvelous Squares

embellishments: Liquid Pearls, Really Reasonable Ribbon, Recollections floral, the Paper Studio pearls, Gelatos